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Several weeks ago, a brave Computer Hacker proved to an anxious nation that at least one citizen still has an operating brain and can use it to crack difficult computer codes like “Where did you meet your spouse?” Authorities believe they have found the terrible miscreant who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account, and today he was indicted by a federal grand jury. Sounds fancy! MORE »

The FBI and Secret Service have launched a Special Investigation into the important matter of some “hacker” breaking into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail and taking a few benign screen shots. Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly et al. have been lambasting our friends at Gawker for posting the screen shots; O’Reilly even said that Gawker owner Nick Denton should be thrown in jail forever. (Maybe? But not for this.) In the meantime, the supposed hacker has released an account of his complicated crime. We should warn you that only advanced computer science-trained minds will be able to understand this, but here goes: the hacker correctly guessed Palin’s simple “Forgot Your Password?” question. Crafty! MORE »

• Yesterday Sen. Chuck Schumer “seemed to say that as long as Lieberman promised to caucus with Dems and vote for Harry Reid as majority leader, Lieberman would still be in Schumer’s good graces.” This made Howard Dean’s brother and chair of Democracy For America, Jim Dean, totally mad. He had no choice but to send “Dear Supporter” emails earlier today. [Hotline On Call]

• Don Imus and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow mocked President Jimmy Carter yesterday. “Imus called Carter a “dope” and claimed his presidency had ‘humiliat[ed] America,’ drawing laughter from Snow.” [Think Progress]
• Is it constitutional to prohibit pregnant women from smoking? [Hit and Run]
• Yahoo meaner to China than Google, according to Reporters Without Borders. [Winds of Change]
• Joe Wilson may bring civil suit against Karl Rove. [Wizbang]

Remember how we told you that the Gawker/Yahoo syndication agreement would not affect content? Not for the first time, we were wrong:

Thought, honestly, we never thought of his name as being short for “Richard” anyway. MORE »

Yes, it’s true: Yahoo! has added a slew of Gawker Media Empire content to its news/blog/blorg. What this means for you: Nada. Yahoo! will exert no editorial control or provide any content this way, except more exclamation points. What this means for us: Well, we don’t have a head for figures, so we asked the Gawker Media Empire Middle Manager.

10:51:43 AM wonkette: since i’ve gotten a lot of mail about it, please tell me so i can tell our readers: how much money am i getting out of the syndication deal? MORE »