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The Things That Make Me Cry

Hi. Hey, hello. USA? Yeah, I'm talking to you. It's me. Your pal. Faruk? We met… a couple times, actually. Yeah so, okay, the first time was 15 years ago and I was twelve, and you were two hundred and sixteen… I know, I know, age don't matter.

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Dear Gay People: You're Doing it Wrong

The election of Barack Obama to be the 44th President of the United States of America was a joy of joys for millions, both here in the U.S. as well as all around the world.

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Multiple Oil Company Executives Gave Huge Contributions To Electing McCain Just Days After Offshore Drilling Reversal

Looks like McCain netted himself a nice $285,000 in contributions after changing his position on the Federal oil ban:

Introducing Disagreement Hierarchy Flags

The ever-enlightening Paul Graham introduced to us all his proposal of a "disagreement hierarchy" in How to Disagree, which — in a nutshell — lists six levels of disagreeing; ranging from the absolutely worthless name-calling to actually refuting an author's central point.

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The Inner Conflict of Ownership

Those who have seen me around on Newsvine since the early days, back when I was a prolific writer of content and an active participant in comments around the site, may recall a later article I wrote about returning to the Vine and attempting to write regularly again.

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Uproar Over Anti-Islam Film Falls Flat

ABC News investigates the Quran verses presented in Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders' film "Fitna" to see if they accurately present the Quran. Spoiler: they don't.

Newsvine Poll: what's on Your gift list?

My previous seed to the 'Vine is about a poll the Wall Street Journal is doing right now about your electronics gift list for this holiday season.

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Electronics: What's on Your Gift List?

Consumer gift list poll by the Wall Street Journal; 31.000+ votes and counting, and the iPhone (now adjusted to read "iPhone or iPod") is leading with a mindblowing 71% of all votes.

'Don't Give Up on Vista' Web Ad

This is just crazy clever — and a first, as far as I can tell. I've never seen a web ad use two totally independent (ad) spaces in perfect sync to deliver one greater message. Fantastic.

In an iPhone-enlightened world, Kindle has an obvious flaw

Amazon's Kindle reading device looks to hold a lot of promise. Though the media format and rights are being debated quite of bit, I think it's a lot more interesting to talk about the hardware.

Apple Working With Salesforce on iPhone Applications

SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Apple's iPhone cellphone appears to be gaining more interest from businesses, which could end up being a blow to Palm and Research in Motion.

The start of a column

Hello dear Newsvine readers,

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Apple is outsmarting the iPhone's competition

Fantastic dissection of why the iPhone's competitors should be really, really worried right now.

The Newsvine iPhone Poll

Okay Viners, let's have it: today is iDay, the launch of what has effectively become the most anticipated technology product ever.

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Hottest men & women on Newsvine: Results!

You've all been waiting for it — quite anxiously so, it would seem — and here they finally are: the Newsvine Hottest Men & Women!

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Hottest men and women of Newsvine: Final round!

Okay, to start off I must apologize for the near-week delay between the ending of the previous round and me finding the time to collect all (valid) entries and compile a list of the nominees for the Final Round in the Hottest Men and Women of Newsvine contest!

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Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo

SEOUL, South Korea - They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety.

Who profited from the Yahoo/Microsoft merger hoax?

Interesting speculation by Howe about who profited from that crazy MS/Y! merger rumor of last week.

Smear or Slam? Greenpeace Bites Apple

This is about a month old, but I'm seeding it for two reasons: 1) Newsvine seems to not have it yet 2) This may be one of the finest pieces of journalism I've seen in recent times, perhaps years.

Hottest men and women of Newsvine: Entry round!

Alright boys and girls, it's time to dust off that old picture you love and dig up your proudest seed or article on the Vine, for this is the Newsvine Hottest People Contest 2007!

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The hottest men and women of Newsvine

It's no big secret that the Vine has a bunch of real hotties among its ranks, but so far we've never really covered the subject – let alone create a contest for it. Is it time to fess up that, yes, your latest seed got me so hot?

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Apple reinvents consumer electronics

Apple just added a whole lot of value to those required two-year Cingular contracts. What Apple just said is that unlike most phone handset makers, this isn't going to be device you re-buy every nine months or so to get the latest model.

BREAKING: MacBook Vuln In Quicktime, Affects Win32 Apple Code

Any Java-enabled browser is a viable attack vector, if QuickTime is installed. Be it on Mac OS X or Windows, apparently. Not an OS-vulnerability, but a Java-Quicktime vulnerability. Interesting.

Web 2.0 broadens its appeal

Although the term itself is too geeky to strike a chord with average Internet cruisers, the key concepts of Web 2.0 are starting to take hold.

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Member Since: 12/2005Last Seen: 11/11/2009

Faruk Ateş is a creative design & web development consultant living in San Francisco.

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