Speaking to reporters after failing to agree with Republicans on a deal to avoid the "sequester" budget cuts, Obama mixed his sci-fi metaphors, saying he can't do a "Jedi mind meld" on his opponents. 
Twitter flips over Obama's 'Jedi mind meld' mix-up
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Speaking to reporters after failing to agree with Republicans on a deal to avoid the "sequester" budget cuts, Obama mixed his sci-fi metaphors, saying he can't do a "Jedi mind meld" on his opponents. Fired Groupon CEO compares career to Battletoads game
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Yesterday, the online coupon website Groupon announced yesterday that it had fired founder and CEO Andrew Mason. His letter to employees included an arcane reference to the notoriously difficult 1991 Nintendo game Battletoads.
Organizations with ties to former Harper senior adviser Tom Flanagan, including Alberta's Wildrose Alliance Party and the CBC, are distancing themselves from the politics professor after his comments on child pornography last night. 
A post on Pope Benedict XVI's personal Twitter account @Pontifex today read, "If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian." In reply, many Catholics thanked Benedict for his service, but others disagreed with the tweet's message.
Oscar night beams with Canadian content
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From skits involving Canadian actors to Life of Pi's many Oscar wins to Ben Affleck's acceptance speech for Argo, Canada was a big player at last night's Academy Awards. Will Google Glass ever be stylish?
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Yesterday, Google released a new video again touting its Google Glass
head-mounted display and speech recognition system, which is now out of
its "project" phase and ready to be released as a beta product. 
Last week, we told you about the online poll that astronomers are having to pick names for two of Pluto's most recently discovered moons. But William Shatner wanted to celebrate his Star Trek roots by naming one of the moons after a fictional planet in the science fiction series: Vulcan.
Gamers share PlayStation memories ahead of Sony launch event
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Sony is expected to launch its next generation of the PlayStation gaming console at a glitzy media event tonight in New York City. To mark the day, gamers have been sharing their memories of PlayStations past.
Banksy graffiti ripped off London wall, put on auction in U.S.
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A piece of street art attributed to the mysterious Banksy was recently removed from the side of a North London store and put up for auction in Miami, leaving local residents to try to figure out what happened to a piece of their neighbourhood. 
As you've probably heard, Irish bookies are laying odds on who will be chosen to be the next Pope. Twitter, too, is talking true papal contenders, such as Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, and some real long shots, such as Bono.
Roman Catholics around the world were surprised at the news that Pope Benedict XVI, ordained just shy of eight years ago, would be resigning at the end of the month. Many of them heard the news just as they were waking up.
Anne of Green Gables goes blonde in unauthorized new edition
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A new edition of Anne of Green Gables, that classic Canadian novel about a skinny, red-headed orphan who finds a new home on Prince Edward Island, shows an Anne Shirley that is hardly recognizable.
Tim Hortons creates doughnut imagined on How I Met Your Mother
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Tim Hortons has capitalized on its exposure on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother by creating the doughnut described by Jason Priestley in Monday's episode: a Timbit crammed into a strawberry vanilla doughnut. 
In the third quarter of Sunday's Super Bowl, the lights went out in New Orleans. And Twitter lit up because, for about 35 minutes, there was no football to tweet about. 
Starting Monday, the Royal Canadian Mint will no longer distribute Canada's one-cent coin to bank and retailers. The penny will still be legal currency, but Canadian retailers might not have them to give out in change. Will you miss it?
Gaming community rallies around man fired from Revenue Canada
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Gamer developers are showing their support for fired Revenue Canada call centre employee David S. Gallant and are calling for the freedom to hate your job. Gallant made a game, called I Get This Call Every Day, about his tedious work.
Fired HMV employees take over Twitter account
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Employees laid off from British music retailer HMV commandeered the company's Twitter feed Thursday morning to inform the world about the "mass execution" affecting 190 head office employees. World reacts to new Blackberry phones, Alicia Keys hire
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BlackBerry unveiled its newest phones today: the touchscreen Z10, and the Q10 with a familiar physical keyboard. Tech bloggers from all over the globe were watching today's announcement carefully. And new company executive Alicia Keys may have to give up her iPhone habit.
Actual Facebook Graph Searches blog highlights creepy results
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When Facebook introduced its Graph Search at a much-hyped staged event in California last week, tech observers predicted that the results would reach into Facebook users' information in unexpected ways and would be, well, just creepy. A new Tumblr blog, Actual Facebook Graph Searches, is proving that prediction true.
Canadians do love to talk about and complain about the weather,
and Canadians on Twitter are no exception. From coast to coast (well,
not in Vancouver, where it was a balmy 3 C this morning), Canadians were
tweeting and posting their photos of the true north, strong and freeze.
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