Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood has taken to his company’s internal email system to slam The Weekend Australian for questioning his corporate strategy.
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Inside Palin’s new manifesto
Get the scoop on Sarah Palin’s latest memoir/manifesto America By Heart, a week before it’s officially made public. It includes her laughing about misspelt Tea Party signs, talking about Australian Idol and her thoughts on her daughter Bristol’s teen pregnancy.
100 naked airport body scans made public
With all the controversy currently in the States about airport security and strip searches, Gizmodo releases 100 photos of the body scans of ordinary citizens. They were taken from 35,000 images kept by US Marshals, although all ‘naked’ photos were promised to never be made public.
Nazi war criminals given a CIA-sponsored safe haven
New evidence has emerged from a 600 page report written in 2006 that the CIA collaborated with Nazi war criminals and granted them a safe haven in America, writes Toby Harnden.
The Google blacklist
Type a word into Google and watch the Google instant search immediately start filtering items letter by letter. But some words — think swear words, porn or anything possibly insulting — doesn’t show any autocomplete options. Check out which words get censored…
Get ready for WikiLeaks to start gushing
The combat part of the Iraq War may be over, but WikiLeaks is expected to soon reveal secret reports and data from a whopping 500,000 events in the Iraq War, making it the WikiLeaks biggest document dump so far. Media outlets including Newsweek will investigate and publish the leaks.
Bombshell UN report: ‘crimes of genocide’ against Hutus
A massive UN report, detailing war crimes in the Congo between 1993-2003, has finally been leaked to the press. The most controversial claim: that the massacres and attacks by Rwandan and Congolese troops against Hutus were an act of genocide.
Behind the Afghanistan war: insurgents set the pace
An archive of leaked military documents uploaded onto Wikileaks on the weekend paint a picture of an American war effort starved for resources and attention, with US soldiers battling highly coordinated and deadly insurgents.
Dick Smith attacks ATSB over inaction on near miss of two jets
Dick Smith has made a politically sensitive attack on the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for avoiding its responsibilities in its inquiry into a close encounter between a Virgin Blue 737 and a Jetstar A320 over a fog-bound Launceston Airport two years ago.
Steve Jobs denies the iPhone 4 problems
Steve Jobs continues his bizarre email exchanges with angry Apple customers, this time over one customer’s complaint about the iPhone 4 and its known reception issues, which Jobs calls “rumours” before telling the customer to “calm down”.
Microsoft plans for Windows 8 surface online
A leaked Power-Point presentation detailing plans for Windows 8 reveals Microsoft are taking a leaf out of Apple’s book, developing improvements such as faster boot up times and a Windows app store.
Al Gore: “a crazed sex poodle”?
Alright, so the Al Gore sexual harassment story is all a bit ghastly and tabloid. But The Smoking Gun has the full police report of the allegations, and it certaintly makes for fascinating reading.
Worst case BP spill scenario actually far worse than BP admits
BP’s actions on the oil spill are looking even more dodgy, with an internal BP memo revealing that crude oil may be pouring out of the Gulf spill at the rate of 100,000 barrels per day.
The new-look Digg
A new version of Digg/ is available, but right now only a few special people have access to it. Luckily The Next Web has revealed photos of the new Alpha version.
“Tweets” banned at the NY Times
It’s official: the word “tweet” has been banned by the standards editor at the NY Times. Instead, journalists are to say “writes on Twitter” or “a Twitter message”.
Putting a steak through the heart of US-UK relations
The US and British Ambassadors are putting a wager on their World Cup match. “You should know that the Ambassador takes his steak like American soccer victories — somewhat rare,” warns the Brits. Game on.
Madoff on the inside
Disgraced former stockbroker Bernie Madoff is now sitting in a gaol cell in North Carolina, angrily insulting the investors that made him rich, blaming them rather than taking any personal responsibility.
BP’s secret memo: a history of corner cutting
BP is taking its time mopping up the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In 2005, an explosion at a BP refinery killed 15 workers and revealed documentation that BP knew workers were at risk. Are there parallels between the two disasters?
The Pentagon’s 26-page brownie recipe
Document MIL-C-44072C, a highly important Pentagon manual has been leaked online. It’s contents? Twenty-six pages on how to make military standard cookies and brownies. They must not exceed 3.5”x2.5”x5/8”. Download the entire recipe here.
Snap, it’s the new iPod touch with camera
More leaking of Apple products, with a test version of an iPod touch with camera being unveiled by a Vietnamese website. Or is it one of those eBay prototypes?
Shit My Dad Says: the pilot script
Twitter phenom Shit My Dad Says is being made into a sitcom, and Gawker has a copy of the pilot script. It’s a tired mix of racism, cliches and old man nudity — but on the upside, it involves William Shatner.
Nine memo: we “owned” Jessica Watson
TV Tonight has a leaked internal memo from Channel Nine’s Director of News and Current Affairs, Mark Calvert, bragging: “we absolutely owned a massive news event we didn’t, officially, own!”
UK election: The secret memo threatening a Torie-Lib Dem deal
The draft of a letter revealing Torie leader David Cameron’s strong anti-EU sentiments has been leaked to the Guardian’s Observer. Nick Clegg isn’t going to like this…
A sneak peak at ABC News 24
A leaked photo of the set for the ABC’s new 24-hour news channel has been doing the rounds of Twitter and Facebook. It’s all very “cold-dystopian future”, says Dan Barrett.
Read Sarah Palin’s speaking contract: private jets and bendy straws [PDF]
Oops: Sarah Palin’s public speaking contract has been dug out of a dumpster. Among her demands: big jets, SUVs… and “bendable straws”.
