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BlackBerry: $US20, McCain-Palin’s Contacts: Priceless
11:49AM Andi Wang | In order to get back some of the money spent on the McCain-Palin campaign, items from the campaign were sold today at a yard sale, including a $US20 BlackBerry, fully loaded with confidential information. More »
Online
Palin Wins 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
3:59AM Jesus Diaz | Sure, President-elect Obama and vice-buddy Biden may have won the election, but Alaskan governor and animal rights activist Sarah Palin won the worldwide Google battle! In the US, however, things were different. More »
Toys
Lego Sarah Palin Winks, Says ‘Pew Pew’ to Lego Bridges to Nowhere, Just Like the Real One
8:45AM Matt Buchanan | The debates are over, and we’re in the home stretch to election day. Since campaign ads are obviously full of crap, that means the only ways left to decide who you should vote for are Photoshop and Lego. Built at what OJ calls “marionette scale,” Lego Sarah Palin is maverick enough to field interviews from Lego Katie Couric, debate Lego Joe Biden and say “no thanks” to Lego bridges to nowhere. [Ochre Jelly via Brothers Brick] More »
Press
Sarah Palin Email Hacker Faces 5 Year Prison Term
7:30AM Sean Fallon | If prosecutors have their way, David Kernell, the 20 year old son of a Tennessee state representative and prime suspect in the Sarah Palin email hack will make an inmate looking for a young, supple jailhouse bride very happy. He was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn for illegally accessing the account and faces up to 5 years in prison, a $US250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. A trial date has not been set, but it is safe to say that things don’t look good. [USDOJ via Crunchgear] More »
Gadgets
Democrats Still Most Tech Savvy, Rent Digital Billboard to Text Message Sarah Palin at Rally
10:20AM Matt Buchanan | Need more evidence that Democrats are more grassroots tech savvy than their elephantine counterparts? At a Sarah Palin rally in LA on Saturday, the California Democratic party rented a digital billboard across the street which displayed questions for the veep candiate sent by text message. Granted, even if Palin did read them, she wouldn’t be able to recall which ones she read specifically. But still, quite awesome—I hope both parties get creative with tech like this, it’s a fantastic way to reach voters. [CA Dems via Online Video Watch via Textually]
Online
Palin Email ‘Hack’ Was Hardly a Hack at All
9:00AM John Mahoney | The screamingly obvious trail of evidence left behind by the person who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail yesterday should have been the tip-off–this was not an elite job. According to postings on the troll-hive forum 4chan dug up by Threat Level, all the perp did was guess her password-resest security question correctly after a few seconds of Googling. More »
Online
Sarah Palin’s Email Hackers’ Sloppy Work Could Lead to Their Arrests
1:30AM Adam Frucci | By now you’ve probably heard about how the super-duper 1337 h4ck3r5 from anonymous busted into one of Sarah Palin’s private email accounts and posted the contents for the world to see. Well, it looks like those h4ck3r5 aren’t as 1337 as one might think, as they left themselves pretty wide open to get busted for what they did. More »
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