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Mitt’s Millions Move the Web

by Claudine Zap News flash: Mitt Romney is way richer than you. How rich? A very cool — if incredibly maddening tool — can tell you exactly how long it takes for Richie Romney to make your salary (hint: not very long). Based on the presidential candidate’s 2010 tax return, the Slate calculator tells us: [...]

Martin Luther King Jr. Speeches Move the Web

by Claudine Zap Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader, is honored with a federal holiday on Monday, January 16. Along with working to integrate the country’s buses, schools, and lunch counters through nonviolent protest, the reverend inspired with his words. Searches on his most well-known speech, “I Have a Dream,” have surged [...]

Leica M9 Hermes pictures and hands-on

A snip at ?18,000 As well as the Leica M9 Monochrom, Pocket-Lint was also lucky enough to get a hands-on, well a “gloves-on”, with the latest Leica M9-P Edition Herm?s. Limited to just 300 products, each etched with its own unique number code, boxed with a book and a 50mm f/1.4 ASPH lens, the M9-P [...]

Miley Cyrus’ ‘LOL’: What Went Wrong?

A movie expert weighs in on why the teen dramedy was a box-office flop. By Jocelyn Vena <P>Last Friday, Miley Cyrus' soapy teen dramedy <a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/493415/moviemain.jhtml">"LOL"</a> opened to a limited release in nine states. The film, by all accounts, didn't perform the way a film starring Cyrus, "Twilight" star Ashley Greene and one-time screen siren [...]