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MouseWait connects Disneyland with popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed. The Apple application for iTouch and iPhone displays wait times for all of the rides in Disneyland and California Adventures and offers live Webcam updates from the parks, among other features created for those most devoted to the Magic Kingdom. “It’s really geared toward the annual pass holder,” said Kelly Johns, owner of App316.com, a small software and Web site design and support company in Riverside. “What we’ve found is that these people who are really fans of Disneyland like to see what’s going on there wherever they are.”

But Johns’ invention isn’t getting roaring approval from the corporate mouse. Far from it.

(via Check out Disneyland wait times on Riverside man’s new app | Inland News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California)

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In one of the most dramatic examples I’ve seen of the true reach of hunger in the United States, a new report released this week by Washington University in St. Louis researchers found that 90 percent of black children will be clients of the national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/Food Stamps) at least once by the time they turn 20. Although the percentage is less for white children (the only other ethnic group studied), the startling statistic here is that, at some point before their 20th birthday, 50 percent of all children in the United States will have received SNAP benefits.

(via 90% of Black Children on Food Stamps | Poverty in America | Change.org)

also known as why my political leanings tend to care much more about how we work for the poor than the middle class. — misterjt

Pastor Joel Osteen is one of the most popular preachers in the country, and the author of several best-selling books that help people achieve “their best life now.” Gay Rights blogger Michael Jones writes that while Pastor Osteen has made a name for himself selling a friendlier version of religion, there’s still a sour dose of homophobia that lies at the core of his sugar-coated message. It reared its ugly head this week, when Pastor Osteen boldly claimed that “homosexuality is not God’s best.” On the contrary, we humbly suggest to Pastor Osteen that homophobic preachers are not likely to be a loving God’s best.

(via Pastor Joel Osteen’s Sugar-Coated Homophobia | Gay Rights | Change.org)

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