A multi-millionaire mother was charged Saturday with murdering her 8-year-old son by feeding him an overdose of prescription pills, police said.

Bit.ly, the worlds most popular URL shortener announced a new service called Bit.ly pro in mid-December 2009. The service was designed to let bloggers set up custom URL shoreteners using Bit.ly’s well liked backend.
That service entered open beta a week ago. Bit.ly has just released something even better: self-service custom URL shortening with Bit.ly Pro.
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Did you know that the only game that’s acceptable to be looking forward to is Halo: Reach? We didn’t! Our list of 20 games we wanted to play in 2010 garnered a ton of readers, and a ton of controversy. StarCraft 2 didn’t make the list? We’re skeptical about a 2010 release date. Halo: Reach not our most anticipated game? It’s more Halo. If we left out your favorite game, it’s not too late to register your indignation.

We also took a look at Sony’s massive shooter MAG, which seems to have caught a good amount of our community in its grasp. We look at the challenges Heavy Rain faces… and why they’re all good problems to have in terms of quality. We also take Razer’s newest mouse for a test drive. This is the week in gaming.

Now that we’ve resigned the future of printed literature to picture books for adults, we might as well get some good ones: Hipster Puppies are exactly what they sound like. SnookiShop needs to be…

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Here are some highlights from this past week’s earnings coverage on BloggingStocks:

• Aol Inc. (AOL) reported a better-than-expected Q4 profit and said its revenue also topped estimates.
• Burger King Holdings Inc. (BKC) higher Q2 earnings topped analysts’ estimates but same-store sales fell.
• Clorox Co. (CLX) higher Q2 earnings beat expectations and it lifted its full-year earnings guidance.
• Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) Q4 earnings more than doubled and beat Wall Street expectations, but shares fell.
• Gap Inc. (GPS) shares jumped after it forecast earnings above analysts’ expectations, boosted by January sales.

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Apparently, Kim Kardashian’s days and nights aren’t entirely occupied with finding ways to sabotage the Super Bowl for her boyfriend Reggie Bush’s benefit.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star spent Friday night at the Paris Theater in Miami Beach, attending the Leather & Laces Super Bowl Party, which was presented by the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism. Kim was joined at the event by former Girl Next Door Holly Madison and Without a Trace’s Roselyn Sanchez.
You know, we’re just going to come out and say it: Being famous seems really freakin’ awesome. And we’re pretty confident that a thorough review…

LOLs!
Watch Carrie Underwood take a question at a Super Bowl press conference about Larry Platt’s now infamous Pants on the Ground.
Queen Latifah chimes in at the end and it’s pretty HIGHlarious!

Apparently, there are some things that Pauly D just won’t do. Who knew?
According to Radar Online, the Jersey Shore tune-spinner—real name Paul Delvecchio—has been swimming in personal-appearance offers lately, including one request to walk a woman down the aisle for her wedding, for $50,000. And he turned it down!
How’s that? Well, according to Pauly’s rep, CEG Talent’s Michael Schweiger, his client is intent on keeping it real, yo:
“Someone in California offered us $50,000 to have Pauly D walk them down the aisle at their wedding, to give them away. We rejected the offer, because Pauly is a serious DJ and…

The following is an excerpt from Chip and Dan Heath’s new book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, which will be released on February 16.

One of the most consistent findings in psychology is that people behave differently when their environment changes. When we’re in a place where people are quiet (church), we’re quiet. When we’re in a place where people are loud (stadiums), we’re loud. When we’re driving and the lanes narrow, we slow down. When they widen, we speed up again. This may seem obvious, but when we try to make change at work, we often make the mistake of obsessing about the people involved rather than their environment. Often the easiest way to drive change is to shape the environment.

This environment-shaping strategy was used in 2006 by Becky Richards, the Adult Clinical Services Director at Kaiser South San Francisco hospital, who was determined to drive down medication errors. On average, nurses commit roughly 1 error per 1000 medications administered. That’s an impressive record of accuracy. Still, given the huge volume of medications delivered at Kaiser South, that error rate led to about 250 errors annually, and a single error can be harmful or even deadly. For instance, if a patient received too much Heparin, a blood thinner, the patient’s blood would no longer clot and the patient could hemorrhage. If a patient got too little Heparin, he could develop a blood clot that could lead to a stroke.

Richards believed that most errors happened when nurses were distracted. And it was all too easy to get distracted—most traditional hospitals put the medication administration areas right in the middle of the nursing units, which tended to be noisiest places on the floor. Tess Pape, a professor at the University of Texas who has studied medication errors, said, “Today we admire people for multitasking, we celebrate people who can accomplish many things at once. But when you’re giving out medications is the last time you should be multitasking.”

Could a chick flick bump Avatar off its box office high horse this weekend??
If Friday’s numbers are any reflection of the days to come, YES!
Dear John, starring Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum opened to an impressive $13.8 million on Friday night, while Avatar only earned a little over $6 mil!
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