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Facebook Instant Personalization Protested by EFF, MoveOn.org

May 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

MoveOn.org added a Facebook group petition page to protest Facebook’s instant personalization tool. The Electronic Frontier Foundation put up a timeline showing the social network company’s regression in privacy practices. The protests by the EFF and MoveOn.org come just days after U.S. Senators Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Al Franken and Mark Begich sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking the company to revisit instant personalization.
– Facebook continues to take heat for its quot;instant personalization quot;
feature, which the company launched earlier this month to enable the social
network to share users’ profile data with third-party partner Websites.
To protest instant personalization, MoveOn.org has, in no small amount o…

Senator Al Franken U.S. Map VIDEO

September 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Minnesota senator Al Franken sure knows his geography. This footage of the former SNL comic drawing a map of all 50 states from memory during an appearance at the Minnesota State Fair is one of the hottest viral vids on the web this Tuesday.

David Doody: Watch: Franken and Klobuchar Speak Out at Senate Judiciary Committee Vote (Video)

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Al Franken Bitten By A Baby (IMAGES)

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Waiting at DC’s Reagan National Airport yesterday evening for a flight to Minneapolis, we caught a photo of this baby biting Al Franken’s nose:

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Daniel Krotz: On The Collecting of Books

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

The single piece of advice I give to a prospective collector is that if a book makes you cry, collect it. I suppose that’s why I own nine copies of The Sun Also Rises.

Heather Robinson: Al Franken Flashback: Controversial Heeb Magazine Interview

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Back in 2003, I had the opportunity to sit down with then-author, now Minnesota Senator Al Franken. At the time I found his take on…

Chris Weigant: I’m Sick Of Hearing About The Poor, Poor Millionaires

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Conservatives and corporate-owned Democrats are in a tizzy. The House is moving its version of healthcare reform forward, and it (gasp!) raises money by (double-gasp!)…

Franken’s First Time Around: Comedian-Turned-Senator Questioned “Clarence Thomas” In 1991 SNL Sketch (VIDEO)

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

This isn’t Al Franken’s first Supreme Court confirmation hearing. In 1991 he appeared in an opening sketch on “Saturday Night Live” that mocked Clarence Thomas’s hearing and those involved. It featured Tim Meadows as Thomas and Dana Carvey, Ph…

White Men Can’t Judge: Stewart Takes On Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearings (VIDEO)

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Jon Stewart managed to make Sonia Sotomayor’s fairly dry confirmation hearings hilarious last night by calling out her questioners on issues of race, self-aggrandizement, and general ridiculousness. The only person who didn’t look like a caric…

Huff Radio: Democrats in Control in DC

July 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Al Franken in the Senate and the Democrats’ now-60 seat majority, we thought we’d take this opportunity to sort through the differences between Democratic factions as the Obama revolution gets underway.