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According to police reports, two men and a woman are in custody this morning facing a number of serious charges in connection with an overnight incident at the Shangri-La condominiums in the 1100 block of Alberni Street.

via Vancouver Cops Rescue Kidnap Victim from Shangri-La | NowPublic News Coverage.

If Rupert Murdoch was hoping paywalls were going to save his newpapers he’s probably in for a let down.

Annual income per paywall subscriber on TheTimes.co.uk and WSJ.com is just a quarter that from subscribers to UK quality dailies’ print editions, Enders Analysis’ Benedict Evans observes in a new note.

Switching off the presses, after a hypothetical future print-to-digital tipping point, might save newspapers 25 percent of their total costs—but this is not enough to make up the gap from the smaller online income, Evans says.

via Analyst: Paywall Subscribers Worth A Quarter Of Print Readers | paidContent.

When you get bored of twitter, and you’ve got an iPad you should check out Longform.org.

If you don’t know who Merton is, check this out. Then come back and watch Ben Folds do chat roulette in front of 2,000 people.

The more you learn about Mexico, the worst it seems.

Sometimes war can be a beautiful thing.

The iPad is about to get some company.

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android slate, is set to debut this Thursday. While we’ve been hearing about the rush of Android tablets for some time now, the Galaxy Tab is arguably the first high-end Android tablet to hit the market and thus the first real contender to Apple’s “magical” device.

via Samsung Galaxy Tab vs. the iPad: The Tablet Battle Begins – Yahoo! News.

One of Wonkette’s best pieces to-date:

“Glenn Beck,” a longtime collaborative performance art project run by a team of situationist pranksters, has moved into its next phase! Not content with posting dadaist nonsense on the GlennBeck.com URL — so on the nose! — the team acquired TheBlaze.com (the name refers to the power of flame to cleanse away man’s attempt to impose rationality on the world) as a repository for their more experimental word-collage work. “Explicit Poetry GPS Phones Help Illegals!” the chief Glenn Beck creative directors shouted, as the writing staff snapped their fingers and rattled bongos.

via Glenn Beck Launches Beatnik Wordplay Site.

In the past, I have written that the Ipad is going to reinvigorate long form content.  Here is some more research from Ball State University that supports the idea.

“Some people were skeptical about how good the iPad would be for reading long form content like books or magazines,” said Mike Bloxham, director of insight and research for Ball State’s Center for Media Design. “Our findings indicate the opposite is true. People talked about curling up with the iPad; they enjoyed the screen and resolution and the portability of it — these things seem to be major selling points.”

via Design and ‘Wow’ Factor Woo iPad Users :: MinOnline.

You can imagine the terror that the two neighborhood raccoons felt when they saw this savage beast approach them at 1 am last night. The incident occurred when Petunia was let out for a midnight bathroom break and startled the dumpster diving duo. She is lucky she didn’t end up for breakfast.

P.S. Never attempt to intimidate a raccoon in your skivvies. Doesn’t work.