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• CHART OF THE DAY: Yahoo’s Engagement Falls Off A Cliff (YHOO)
• UPDATED: How To Put Facebook On A Privacy Lockdown
• Carol Bartz Promises A Redesigned Yahoo Search For October (YHOO)
• Sony Creates New Flexible OLED Screens
• Facebook’s Richest App, FarmVille, Goes To Yahoo (YHOO)
• “Yahoo Has Its Pride Back,” Says Bartz (YHOO)
• BBC News: EuroZone in Crisis
• Apple iPad-Maker Foxconn Makes Employees Promise Not To Kill Themselves (AAPL)
• Times: UK ‘must raise interest rate this year’
• MoneyWeek: In real money, British house prices are down by 70%
• Nothing else to do
• It’s Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft* (AAPL, MSFT)
• “The Real Reason Microsoft’s Robbie Bach Was Fired”
• UK PUBLIC SPENDING: UK National Debt As Percent Of GDP
• Fake Nipples Aim To Destroy You, Boys [Boobs]
• Canon Rebel T2i/550 Live View Time Lapse Playback Spoof.
• IcePics iPhone App Helps You Catch Perverts and Party Girls [IPhone Apps]
• MyPhoneDesktop Links Your Computer and iDevice the Way Apple Should Have [Apps]

FullForce on a jailbroken iPad for the win

• FT: On the brink of a new age of rage
• CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft Spends Eight Times As Much On R&D As Apple (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
• Air Display: Use Your iPad as a Second Monitor, Without the Pain [IPad Apps]
• Debt-crisis explained through tearful laughter – Boing Boing
• The Nokia Facebook Phone: Complete integration of Facebook into the OS
• Getting an iPad? 3UK’s micro-sim is £15 for 10GB/month
• Nokia and Yahoo? Why don’t you f*** off!
• How God Makes Cheetos [Food]
• Facebook To Roll Out Simplified Privacy Settings Tomorrow
• Hollywood Considering $20-$30 Movie Theater Sidestep [Movies]
• Murdoch Finally Puts Money Where Mouth Is — Blocks Google From Indexing London Times Articles! (NWS)
• BitTorrent Open-Sources uTP Protocol [BitTorrent]
• ETVComskip and PyeTV are great add-ons for EyeTV
• Foxconn’s CEO Talks For First Time About Suicides, As 11th Employee Jumps [Suicides]
• Yahoo Acquires Geolocation Service Koprol (Which Translates to Foursquare of Indonesia) [BoomTown]
• To Top Off A Busy Day, Yahoo Acquires Foursquare — Well, The Asian Foursquare
• New Canon EOS 5D Mark II firmware 2.0.7 released
• Google Pac-Man Might’ve Cost Us $120,483,800 [Google]
• Facebook and Twitter Coming to Kindle–In Glorious Black and White [Digital Daily]
• Your Sunscreen May Give You Cancer: Study

iPad has arrived (don’t get excited UK pre-order people, it came from the US). So far Guardian Eyewitness app is the best thing about it

• Dear Steve, Has Google Leapfrogged Apple? [Apple]
• The Telegraph: David Cameron's 500 day programme to change Britain
• FT: Prepare for age of austerity, says Laws

• Introduce Some Koi To Your iPad’s App Ecosystem [Ipadapps]
• LittleDog Learns Several Terrifying New Tricks [Robots]
• How To: Try Android Froyo On Your Computer [How To]
• Your Mortgage (and remortgage): Rush to sell buy-to-let property
• The iPad and Velcro, a Match Made in Heaven [Ipad]

• Google TV Preview: The Mom Test and the Nerd Test
• Telegraph: Selling houses: How to survive election fallout
• 16 Reasons You Need to Jailbreak Your iPad [Jailbreak]
• Internet Commenters Save Two Russian Girls From Possible Sex Slavery [Commenters]
• “Congratulations, Apple, you’ve made it. You are the number one target/foe/enemy/strawman of every tech company and m…
• Apple Wins Ground in Fight Over Flash [Voices]
• Minimalism on my Mac: Not just for the sake of it
• Nokia & Yahoo: The tired and the very tired?
• Google-AdMob Deal Approved By Feds (GOOG, AAPL)
• Why Will Google TV Be Any Different From WebTV? Or AOL TV? Or MSNTV? Or… [Digital Daily]
• Yahoo and Nokia’s Project Nike Partnership Seeks World Domination, Apple Rivary
• Apple Sold Out Of 3G iPads Across The Country (AAPL)
• QOTD [Digital Daily]
• Sky News: Public Borrowing Hits Another Record High
• Fulham Cronicle: Cost of home in Hammersmith and Fulham falls £30,000 in one month
• Rubbish Truck Drivers Outfitted With BlackBerrys In UK [BlackBerry]
• Another Foxconn Worker Kills Himself [Suicides]
• Yahoo To Throw A Hail Mary To Nokia — But The Football Will Be Tied To A Brick
• Plastic Bullet
• New 30 f/1.8 Type Prime? [CR1]