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HTC Hero comes with Adobe Flash (The Register)
Desktop multimedia on mobile phone Adobe has confirmed that the latest Android handset from HTC, the Hero, will come with a proper Flash client: version 9 with support for ActionScript 2, with version 10 to follow some time next year.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Gaming News Tidbits: Ridiculous (Geek.com)
It’s certainly been a topsy-turvy week in the world of gaming. id Software, the big dog among independent studios, sold out. And the beloved founder of Mythic Entertainment has mysteriously vanished following his company’s new subservience to BioWare. But that was just the beginning. All week long, a steady flow of surprises, shockers, and otherwise borderline nonsense [...]

Streamlined Sony Ericsson Phone Is Smooth Operator (Wired News)
The w995s has some advantages the iPhone doesn't: an 8.1-MP camera, a physical keypad, it's unlocked. If it weren't for a high price and lackluster video capture, it might be a contender for the iPhone-killer title.

Free films, special screenings (The Kansas City Star)
FREE FILMS “CADDYSHACK” The cult comedy at a country club golf course plays at dusk tonight at the City Market.

Mini reviews of movies currently in theaters (Denver Post)
Now showing Here are selected minireviews of films in theaters, listed alphabetically.

In Defense of Slow Reading (Metro Santa Cruz)
Has the relentless cacophony of Google culture made us dumb? An Internet junkie picks up a book and finds out. TO PARAPHRASE Rick James via Dave Chappelle, "Internet's a hell of a drug." Like James' storied cocaine habit, it's addictive and alluring, its benefits debatable.

LOYALKASPAR HELPS A&E PROMOTE 'TATTOO HIGHWAY' (Post Magazine)
NEW YORK, NY - Design/creative production studio Loyalkaspar (www.loyalkaspar.com) recently completed work on an image spot promoting A&E Network's Tattoo Highway . The reality series is a road trip with master tattoo artist Thomas Pendelton and his wife Monica, who have transformed a 1970s tour bus into a tattoo parlor on wheels.

Squirts slug their way to July provincials on Mainland (Sooke News Mirror)
The manager and assistant coach were maybe only slightly less animated on Monday morning than they had probably been the day before, but there was plenty of enthusiasm left over as the pair paid a visit to the Sooke News Mirror.

Note: Obama Aims to Make Health Care Sale (ABC News)
The president speaks broadly on health care, but details still loom.