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  • Bill Clinton on Obama: He might win. He is an impressive man
    Bill Clinton said Friday that Barack Obama's campaign was very impressive, and the Democratic presidential candidate "might win."


  • Do You Want A Sequel To Portal
    This was a triumph, but can a sequel.


  • Unmuzzling High School Journalists
    What happened at the Supreme Court 20 years ago tomorrow has been long forgotten by most Americans -- if they ever heard about it at all. Unlike the better-known decisions of the last century, the ruling handed down on Jan. 13, 1988, had nothing to do with race or abortion rights. It didn't become fodder for presidential candidates and hasn't...


  • Sony and Nintendo pegged with a lawsuit
    Copper Innovations Group has a bone to pick with Sony and Nintendo, and has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania seeking after some monies and an injunction against further infringement.The patent in question?


  • The 2007 Darwin Award Winners Announced
    Enjoy the stories of the winners... and be glad you're not one!


  • Use your iPhone as a webcam
    Mac developer Ecamm has posted a sneak peak of iPhoneCam, an application that uses your iPhone's camera as a wireless Mac webcam. You can stream video from your iPhone over its WiFi to any Mac video application, including iChat, Photo Booth, or Skype.


  • Draft Reinstatement Proposed by Congress in 2007
    Romney's call for 100,000 more troops would make any future presentations of such a bill passable!"The Universal National Service Act of 2007 was introduced to the United States House of Representatives on January 10, 2007 by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.). It proposed the requirement that all residents in the United States aged between 18"


  • Top Ten Most Ridiculous Diets
    While these diets are ridiculous, unsustainable, and often times dangerous...extreme caloric restriction, per the Three Day or Russian Air Force diet, seems to be a tried and true method of dropping pounds. And they'll stay off—at least until you come to your senses.


  • firefighters don't want to ride with Giuliani
    Rudy Giuliani's plan to ride in a Metro-Dade fire truck in Sunday's Three Kings parade has outraged some firefighters who say the presidential candidate has ''lied'' about his 9/11 record because he did too little to equip and protect emergency workers.


  • The Politics of American Debt
    This chart shows every American how the Republicans are bankrupting America (while cutting every program they can get away with) and passing their debts to your children and grandchildren, and their children and grandchildren. It is based on data from the Bureau of Public Debt up to September 29, 2006, the last day of fiscal 2006.


  • NBA calls for a rare do-over in Hawks-Heat game
    For the first time since 1982, the NBA is sending two teams back to the court for a do-over. The Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat must replay the final 51.9 seconds of their game last month because the official scorer ruled incorrectly that Shaquille O'Neal fouled out, the league said Friday. The Hawks won 117-111 at home in overtime Dec.


  • HD DVD Price Drops while Blu-ray Screws Early Adopters
    "Amazon now has an HD DVD player with seven movies for only $147. Blu-ray players, of course, are still well above $300... and Blu-ray players on the market are designed without "future-compatibility capabilities." This means that bonus features on titles released starting in October will not be playable on current Blu-ray players."


  • 1up Compiles The Best 101 Free Games of 2007
    I just downloaded fear combat, sumotari dreams, and crayon physics. Awesome list.


  • Russian Couple Reunited By Chance After 60 years Apart
    More than half a century later, they were reunited, an extraordinary coincidence leading them both to return to their home village on the very same day. Now 80 years old, Boris had returned to visit his parents' grave. As he got out of the car, he saw Anna standing by her old house, where they had lived for only a few days after the wedding...


  • Detroit Auto Show: 600+ HP Corvette ZR1 live reveal!
    It's got 600+ horses under the hood -- it's the 2009 Corvette ZR1 and it was just revealed live at the GM Style event...with Kid Rock?


  • Microsoft and The US Army Team Up To Offer Halo 3 Tournament
    , The Army has teamed up with Microsoft to offer all you scum suckin' maggots a chance to prove you aren't a worthless lump of dog excrement – by putting together a Halo 3 Tournament, exclusively on Xbox Live.


  • The Average American Owes Average Chinese $4000
    This is the real meaning of the vast trade surplus—$1.4 trillion and counting, going up by about $1 billion/day—that the Chinese government has mostly parked in U.S. Treasury notes. In effect, every person in the (rich) United States has over the past 10 years or so borrowed about $4,000 from someone in the (poor) People's Republic of China.


  • Audit: 308,000 barrels missing from Petroleum Reserve
    How do you not notice when 308,000 barrels of oil go missing? That's the question government auditors were asking after they looked into the Department of Energy's management of oil received for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.


  • Why Ubuntu 8.04 needs better marketing
    Ubuntu's goal is to be the most popular desktop OS for humans. But Ubuntu, like most Linux distros, is still marketed towards Linux geeks. They're concerned with technology, trumpeting version numbers and drowning out the actual things you can do with their software. Let's look at the 7.10 announcement, and see how we can fix it next time.


  • Elijah Wood Confirms Dual Hobbit Movie Details
    "I haven't spoken to [Peter Jackson] directly about it [but] I've e-mailed him, and as far as I know the two films that they're doing, one will be 'The Hobbit' and another will take place between the 60 years that happened between 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings,'"


  • Newsflash: Time May Not Exist
    Physicists are confounded about how time actually fits into the universe. One theory is that "time may be an approximate concept that emerges at large scales—a bit like the concept of 'surface of the water,' which makes sense macroscopically but which loses a precise sense at the level of the atoms."


  • Reason to Skip SuperBowl Halftime - Paula Abdul's Performing
    The Grammy-winning artist turned 'American Idol' judge is in talks to perform at the Super Bowl XLII this February. Joining the 'Forever Your Girl' singer for the football festivities is Tom Petty, who will headline the halftime show.


  • Bush Quipped He Might Stay in Power Much Like Putin
    At a press briefing that touched on issues like the White House's extrajudicial wiretapping program and torture policies, the president was asked a question about Vladimir Putin's plan to hold on to power when his term as Russian president runs out. Said Bush: I've been planning that myself.


  • Photos From Early Mt Everest Expeditions. [Nat Geo]
    Photos starting with 1924 expedition. A few of Sir Edmund Hillary. Great pic of 1924 climbers shortly before ascent -- 2 would die (including team leader, Mallory); their clothing looks more suitable to an easy spring hike. Post also includes related galleries with striking pics of other expeditions & Everest.


  • 2009 Mercedes GLK unveiled
    Revealed at a 1920's brass band extravaganza at the Detroit Auto Show, the GLK is Mercedes' new mini SUV. It's already a favorit of Kim Catrall, who drives on in the Sex and the City movie.


  • Xbox 360, DRM, and Why I Can't Play What I Paid For
    Microsoft STILL has yet to fix their awful DRM licensing issues for Xbox Live Marketplace downloads, locking many people out of the content they've paid for. So when your 360 gets the RRoD, they will fix it, but in the process break everything you've downloaded from XBLM, leaving it to you to spend months on the phone with XBL Support.


  • NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle
    On January 4, a reversed-polarity sunspot appeared, signalling the start of Solar Cycle 24. Solar activity waxes and wanes in 11-year cycles and the previous solar cycle, Solar Cycle 23, peaked in 2000-2002 with many furious solar storms.


  • Iraq/Afghan veterans have killed 121 after coming home
    The NY Times found 121 cases in which veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan committed a killing in this country, or were charged with one, after their return from war. In many of those cases, combat trauma and the stress of deployment along with alcohol abuse, family discord and other attendant problems — appear to have set the stage for a tragedy


  • People Aged 1 to 100 Banging a Drum (in Order)
    People in Order's Age is part of a series of short films that assembles the people of Britain in a given order. In just 3 minutes, we meet 100 different people who are arranged according to their age, starting from age 1.


  • AZ Gov Janet Napolitano Endorses Barack Obama
    Saying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama represents the best chance to break through partisan gridlock in Washington, Gov. Janet Napolitano endorsed his campaign Friday and immediately hit the campaign trail in his behalf.


  • Waterboarding would be torture if it were me, Mike McConnell
    US national intelligence chief Mike McConnell has said the interrogation technique of water-boarding "would be torture" if he was subjected to it.


  • Secrets In Websites II
    Funny comments in famous websites! You'll laugh :)


  • Wil Wheaton ("Wesley Crusher") Comes Back To Star Trek
    Wil Wheaton made a visit to a familiar set to film a new Star Trek segment. He appears in his cleaned and pressed Starfleet uniform as the USS Titan's Assistant Chief Engineer with the rank of Lieutenant Commander. The Titan is the Federation Starship commanded by Captain William Riker of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."


  • Scotland Yard: You'll Never Guess Who Killed Benazir Bhutto
    They might have washed the scene after it was blown up but the boys in blue have only gone and worked it out!!! Go on, guess who. Experts have already begun to distance themselves from the Yard's findings which they describe as being based "for strategic reasons" and nothing to do with the reality on the ground.


  • Sick of T.G.I.Fridays? Try I.F.H.Mondays! [nick swardson]
    A commercial for the newest chain restaurant in town!


  • Fedora Project Hires New Leader
    The Fedora Project has hired a new leader from the community. Having not worked at Red Hat hiring Paul Frields shows, once again, how committed Red Hat is to fostering community and Open Source.


  • How to Survive a Sinking Car
    When you are in a car sinking below waterquickly, you only have a few minutes to freeyourself and get above water. Watch thesesurvival techniques - they may save your life!


  • Computer Chronicles, Retro Tech-TV Available on BitTorrent
    Software piracy in the 80s, the early days of the Internet, the war between Netscape Communicator 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0, it was all covered by the Computer Chronicles. Invaluable, and most of the time hilarious historical documents, are now available for free on BitTorrent.


  • 80 Arrested Outside Supreme Court
    Eighty people were arrested at the Supreme Court in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.


  • Blackwater Destroys Critical Evidence
    WASHINGTON - Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack, according to people familiar with the government's investigation of the incident.





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