All the latest news as well as highlights of oppositional outcry from Sacramento to Atlanta. There should be enough here to convince even the most skeptical on your list that S1959 is a waste of resources. It won't make us safer. As one writer points out, it sets up conditions that would have enabled Martin Luther King, Jr to be labeled a terrorist
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Though no direct evidence for wormholes has been observed, this could be because they are disguised as black holes. Now Alexander Shatskiy of the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, is suggesting a possible way to tell the two kinds of objects apart.
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"I was a nervous wreck by the end of that thing," he says. "We had to deal with death threats and bomb-sniffing dogs the whole time." The Atlanta concert is a pivotal scene in CSNY Déjà Vu, a documentary chronicling the tour, directed by Bernard Shakey (a.k.a. Young) which premiered at this year's Sundance.
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McCain during the 2000 campaign: "I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live." Now that China is rising to power, do we want a person who says things like this leading our country?Nice, but what about Ron Paul's statement about 'Jews'?
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The older generations are moving in on the hi-tech, online world and the under-30s are not impressed. Increasingly young people are feeling uncomfortable about their elders encroaching on what many young adults and teenagers consider their technological space.
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Yes, 400 grown men, women and children covered head to foot in blue paint wearing white trousers and floppy white hats is actually a serious record-breaking attempt.
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Umpires are livid that Major League Baseball has sent investigators to their hometowns, asking neighbors a series of questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Former President of Chicago NOW, Lorna Brett Howard, tells the story of why she switched from supporting Hillary Clinton to Obama.
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Four people involved in the running of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were indicted in Sweden on Thursday on charges of being accessories to breaking copyright law.
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Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites
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Well for all you stoners out there, it's finally here! Your dream come true! The world's first weed ATM! Well actually, AVM's: Anytime-Vending-Machines. Get the address and picture...
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This is the ultimate way to learn GNU/Linux. Each step of the process of building your own distribution from scratch is extremely well documented. Only basic Linux command line navigation skills are required sine this is a step-by-step process. You will very quickly go from being a Linux novice (or Linux-curious) to being a fairly advanced guru!
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If you're lucky enough to get published in BusinessWeek, don't link to the article - it's prohibited by their User Agreement and they'll ask you to stop. Most other traditional publications are nearly as bad. And they wonder why their businesses are failing?
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In a scathing critique of the war in Afghanistan, John Pilger argues that the tactical victory in Afghanistan in 2001 has become a strategic disaster in South Asia.
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PC Gaming is getting a lot of attention from console gamers right now. Mainly because features and ideals that have been native to PC Gaming for years are finding their way on consoles. Those PC Gaming features and ideals have pretty much reshaped console gaming. But to what avail? How strong is the PC Gaming market?
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Horses have been part of the Border Patrol since the agency was founded to secure the United States borders against liquor smugglers and unlawful immigrants in the 1920s, and now they are making a comeback. Agents dressed in leather chaps and broad-brimmed hats are increasingly being used to regain control over the most rugged southwest areas.
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Many of today’s TV shows omit an opening theme altogether and then use a credit squeeze over the ending credits just so they can cram in more commercials. (I hate that, by the way.) But quantity doesn’t always mean quality. Whatever happened to creative commercials that used catchy, original music that got stuck in your head for days on end?
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The monumental chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis will be preserved for at least five more years under a plan agreed Wednesday, the museum at the site said.
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Tech mavens love toasters enough that the first screensaver ever made was full of them (flying, of course). And while we don't see a lot of crazy original concepts for new washing machines, refrigerators or air conditioners, designers are always coming up with excellent, amusing and innovative toasters.
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The author of a bizarre virus which threatened to kill file-sharers has been arrested in Japan. Has he been arrested for making death threats? No! For writing the virus? No! This is the 21st century. He’s been arrested for copyright infringement, of course.
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QlikTech, named by IDC as the world's fastest growing Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, today announced the availability of "Dugg Analyzer," a free tool that analyzes traffic and postings on the popular Digg Web site, providing new transparency in determining how Web content is popularized and what sources feed the site.
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The “Air Tree” pavilion is to be built from recycled materials and will be 100% energy self-sufficient. The “tree,” using photovoltaic cells, produces a substantial amount of energy, which is then sold back to the local electric companies, the profits being used for maintenance of the structure. The second byproduct is of course oxygen.
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Each 700-MHz cellular antenna can service a larger footprint, which means fewer cells will be required overall. That should, theoretically, make it cheaper to build a national wireless network. However..."the dirty little secret of cellular data is that two customers with Slingboxes can take down an entire EVDO cell”. Yikes!
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We benchmarked the MacBook Air against the MacBook and MacBook Pro to see how it held up comparatively. Predictably, the MacBook Pro outperformed its counterparts in the majority of our tests. But the MacBook Air (1.6 GHz Intel, 2 GB RAM) went toe-to-toe with the MacBook (2 GHz Intel, 1 GB RAM) in many of our tests, falling just short in most.
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Gizmodo is running an article about complete contract free bundles on AT&T. Any usual 2-year bundle is applicable, as long as you pay for the phone. If true, it's awesomely awesome news.
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Dugg Analyzer is a free tool that analyzes traffic and postings on the popular Digg Web site, providing new transparency in determining how Web content is popularized and what sources feed the site.
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If you’re a sports fan, nothing beats the thrill of going to a game. If you’re not a sports fan, nothing is quite as interminable as being dragged to a game. Simply eating a $12 plastic container of bland nachos isn’t going to kill three hours, so you’ll have to go out scouting for adventure. You might want to consider one of these fantasti
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Watch evolution unfold before you in this amazing video featuring fish, amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, mammals, and primates.
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Sky news of UK covers story. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
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Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. A must-see for anyone interested in design.
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Any idiot who would buy this let alone any thing made of animal skin is an idiot.
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Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.”Playing an audio clip of, “I wish I knew how to quit you” from Ledger’s Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, “Well, he found out how to quit you.”
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"This guy(a g**k sq**d member)...a kid by my standards...maybe 20; maybe less...he had never heard of Linux. If that is not bad enough, my concern was with his initial statement."
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Think of your favorite teddy bear. Now imagine it’s been ripped open, gutted, and turned inside-out. That’s what Kent Rogowski’s Bears series has done to the iconic stuffed animals of our childhoods.
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Come on best buy you can do better than that? But then again this is a capitalistic nation....
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After six months of silence, GTA IV is still king. "GTA IV is definitely not getting delayed again," a Rockstar representative boldly states before an hour long demo of Grand Theft Auto IV, the first footage shown to the gaming press in approximately six months. The first thing Rockstar wanted to show us was...
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"If abortions are made illegal, what should the punishment be for women who have illegal abortions?""... uhh.... ummmm.... errr....."Don't you think they should think about these things? A very telling video.
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The internet has had enough of scientology trying to sensor it and is fighting back!
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A hacking group calling itself "Anonymous" has posted a chilling video on the internet, announcing that it plans to "dismantle" the Church of Scientology.
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The US backed Government in Afghanistan has sentenced a 23 year old internet user to death in a secret trial based on a document he printed off the internet.
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Absolute genious. Compiled from the phishook forums. Let’s see how many you can figure out.
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Many top digg users helped push an article to the front page of digg tonight, that discussed the changes Digg made this week to the number of votes it takes for a story to be promoted to the front page.
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A 70-year-old Chinese man hand-carved over 6,000 stairs up a mountain for his 80-year-old wife passed away Wednesday morning in the cave which has been the couple's home for the last 50 years.
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If art school was in our future we might opt to study under, or on top of, the amazing green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes
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As a kid you probably enjoyed making sandcastles on the beach but did you ever think sandcastles could be so big, so elaborate or intricate? Some take it seriously, very seriously.
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If art school was in our future we might opt to study under, or on top of, the amazing green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes
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As a kid you probably enjoyed making sandcastles on the beach but did you ever think sandcastles could be so big, so elaborate or intricate? Some take it seriously, very seriously.
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PC Gamer's got a load of new info on the major changes coming to Team Fortress 2, which Valve teased us with earlier this month.
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NASA's current plan for manned space exploration focuses on establishing a base on the moon, as a stepping stone for a visit to Mars. The initiative has been trumpeted by the Bush administration. But trouble is brewing as a growing group of former mission managers, planetary scientists and astronauts argues against any manned moon mission at all.
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When even one of the Nobu restaurants is caught up in a New York Times study of mercury in tuna in sushi, you just know that there will be freak-outs all over Manhattan today. But even for us regular peeps in other cities, what exactly is in that sushi we think is so healthy?
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Noca, a startup founded by ex-Visa employees, is attempting to virtually eliminate transaction feeds by bypassing the credit card companies altogether with its own online payment service.
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The man was stunned with a Taser gun and bitten by a police dog when he was arrested last week near his home. Police spokesman they were searching for an armed sex offender and Morris was wearing clothing that resembled the assailant. According to police, Morris ignored police commands. His mother says he didn't hear because he was listening to iPo
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controversial new study indicates that there are traces of vast cosmic strings left over in radiation from the early universe. If indeed confirmed to be real, these cosmic strings would offer an unprecedented window into the extreme physics of origins of the universe.
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More great documents from the inside.We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
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Silicon Valley is going green -- literally! The 44-square-mile parcel of rolling hills and oak woodlands is about the size of the city of San Francisco and will act as a wildlife corridor connecting several wilderness areas.
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From the guys behind Break.com comes an online resource seething with useless information about women. Chickipedia is enough to make any woman’s skin crawl. Think of it at a non-geeky take on Dig a Silicon Valley Girl, and just like Wikipedia, anyone can contribute to this online encyclopedia–for the guy that will never get laid
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A well-written, honest account of the experiences a former upper-level, inner-circle Scientologist who spent 20 years in what he describes as a "slavish" cult. He also gives the insider's scoop on the formation of Scientology.
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"Hundreds of Palestinians have surged into Egypt from the Gaza Strip after masked militants blew several holes in a border wall. The Gazans rushed to buy food, fuel and other supplies that have become scarce because of an Israeli blockade."
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Facebook and Google spend hours building up and maintaining friend lists and e-mail address books, but when it comes time to move such social information to another online service they frequently find it impossible to get their data back out. Instead, they must start re-entering their personal details from scratch.
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Chickipedia is what would happen if a library was only filled with mens magazines. Everything you could ever want to know about good looking women all in one nice little database.
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Ginger is the next release of Netvibes, your super-personalized startpage, that introduces loads of cool and essential new features. Netvibes Ginger is currently in private beta.
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Measuring almost 3,500 ft in length, The San Alfonso del Mar seawater pool in Algarrobo, Chile has been named the world's largest outdoor swimming pool by the Guiness Book of World Records.
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Exploring the origins of the dance move made famous by Michael Jackson that became an overnight sensation.
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Some amazing thoughts and funny insights from the man who is widely considered to be one of the most intelligent people living today.
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"Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States. I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people."
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People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
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A photo taken by one of the Mars rovers appears to show a strange figure walking on the surface. Is this just a rock, or is there more to it?
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The U.S. Department of Education released a study that states since 1986, textbook prices have risen almost 186 percent, or 6 percent a year. This is four times the amount of inflation. With college bookstores not doing much to fix problems, entrepreneurs and Web 2.0 companies are trying to revolutionize the textbook industry with easy solutions.
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PLease no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots
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This goth guy was told he couldn't travel on the bus because they "don't allow dogs". There is a hi-res pic of him "walking" his girlfriend in the article.
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There's a new craze going in United Kingdom - people take pictures of themselves partially covered with folded banknotes (mostly with queen Elizabeth) in the foreground. The result is a merged faces of people and queen Elizabeth on the banknotes. The mix looks surprisingly natural for some.
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Jerry O'Connell gives valuable insight on acting, the writer's strike, and um . . .
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Imagine one of your articles has been submitted to StumbleUpon. You’re getting a steady stream of visitors to your blog. With this Wordpress plugin those visitors will see a simple message when they arrive: "Hi, thanks for the visit! Wayne's on StumbleUpon, too!" with a link to your profile. It also works with Facebook, Digg, Pownce, Twitter, etc
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Imagine one of your articles has been submitted to StumbleUpon. You’re getting a steady stream of visitors to your blog. With this Wordpress plugin those visitors will see a simple message when they arrive: "Hi, thanks for the visit! Wayne's on StumbleUpon, too!" with a link to your profile. It also works with Facebook, Digg, Pownce, Twitter, etc
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A must see movie - a short while after Palestinian snipers shot dead a volunteer from Ecuador, the news team covering the incident became the next target. The camera caught it all - the fear, the uncertainty, knowing your life can end with the next bullet.
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Eric Zorn, in the Chicago Trib: "Hmm. I see no reason to stop short. Bill and Hillary Clinton have lied brazenly about Obama's recent statement about Ronald Reagan."
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Picture of Perito Moreno Glacieris, a glacier located in the Los Glaciares National Park in the south west of Santa Cruz province, Argentina. It is one of the most important tourist attractions in the Argentine Patagonia and has a front of 5 km long and a height of over 60 meters above the level of the water.
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"The Arab world, by the Arab peace initiative, has crossed the Rubicon from hostility and has extended the hand of peace to Israel, and we await the Israelis picking up our hand and joining us in what inevitably will be beneficial for Israel and for the Arab world."It's up to Israel now..but Israel's economy depends heavily on weapons industry so they'll ensure that violence continues. Unfortunate for the Israeli citizens, very fortunate for the politicians (who can continue to scapegoat) and the Weapon Research Industry (who continue to profit at the expense of Israeli and Palestinian lives).
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"I left the conversation thinking I'd cleared up the misconception that I thought the entire release of "niggytardust" was a failure. Well, it appears the story was written before I was involved, and I woke up the next day to find out I'm a supporter of an ISP tax. Thanks, CNET."
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Dear Bill,We loved Bill Clinton as president.I know you want your wife to win. A lot of us want a Democrat in 2008. But you're getting mean Bill. That twinkle in your eye is starting to look more like crazy eye.You're making accusations that Karl Rove & Co. will eat up and spit back out at us come time for the general election...
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On the day before the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Senator Barack Obama delivers a speech to the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
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OMG he really did it! Amarok lead developer Mark Kretschmann got the Amarok logo tattooed on his arm! The latest issue of the 'Amarok Insider' features photos of his tattoo stunt as well as new info about Amarok2.
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A spoiler-filled look at this weekend's box office hit, Cloverfield, and all there is to know about the monster flick and the viral marketing campaign that has made J.J. Abrams Hollywood's new golden boy.
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CenterNetworks, Due to the Crunchy awards, feel that Digg is a UGC aggregator, not a UGC site.
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After a careful analysis of nearly 20,000 film, they discovered who has the best chances, and apparently the odds are strongly in favor of dramas, female performers, and big distributors.
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I can't wait to let my kids raise giant frogs while dad and I work the road kill into fashionable lamps and ashtrays. Wow!
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If you were in the White House and you were pushing a radical agenda of blind war and the extra-harsh measures that go along with it, including citizen surveillance, wouldn't you want to know, about the opposition party, that not everyone was against you?
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Not only do the editors here at Lifehacker feed your head with a feast of posts every day, every once in awhile we put our programming chops to good use and build custom software for our readers. If you've missed any of the Lifehacker Code line of applications, scripts, and plug-ins, here's your chance to get caught up.
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US President George W. Bush (C) leans over to talk with a girl (R) after Bush participated in a lesson for young children on the importance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day...
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Jean Merola, a grandmother of eight, was arrested for disorderly conduct after she refused an officer's orders to move her car while she waited for the coffee and fries she ordered at the drive-through window. Merola said the McDonald's employees told her to wait there for her food....thats what happens when you get between a cop and a big mac
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As Canada braces for a new copyright law, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has issued a warning against granting anticircumvention protection to any DRM that collects personal information. Does her letter mention the infamous Sony BMG rootkit? You betcha.
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As the world’s population continues to boom, there is a corresponding increase in density in the world as an influx of people move to the cities in search of the promise of a better life. This leaves the world’s major cities with a conundrum: how do you accommodate more people in the same space? Here are some futuristic sky cities solutions
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Courtesy of the BBC, this experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one. Watch these 20 smiles (on video), and see if you can spot the fakes. You can only play each smile once.
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Israeli space program marks another successful launch, as TECSAR joins other Israeli intelligence, observation and commercial satellites hovering in orbit. The satellite – TECSAR – is a commercial intelligence satellite, designed for collecting intelligence and footage from space. The 772lbs satellite was sent into orbit atop an Indian missile.
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Why does the Digg story sell so well? Here's a look at 9 elements that make a good story - one that people embrace and propagate through their networks - and how Digg has taken those principles to heart.
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Mass Attack has a simple concept: you are presented with a scale that has weights on one side. You then create up to three new weights that you can drop on either side, with the goal of getting both sides to balance.
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OMG CONFLICT. Hillary just lied about what Obama said about Reagan. I don't know why Obama has to characterize this as "statements that are not factually accurate," probably because that has more syllables and he's kinda very off his game tonight.
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LONDON (AP) -- Stocks fell sharply worldwide Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.
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Elephants Evolve Smaller Tusks Due to Poaching - In the last 150 years, the world’s elephant population has evolved much smaller tusks.
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Available for download at www.battlefield-heroes.com this summer, Battlefield Heroes is EA’s first title that is offered completely for free, and features a built-in matchmaking system to ensure that players of equal skill are paired together for fair play.
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I've know idea what it does or why it needs to be that large... perhaps it's protecting us from scientologist triffids?
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So, you got your domain name registered, your hosting plan set up, and you've configured your brand new WordPress weblog. Or maybe you've had WordPress set up for a while and you're wondering what you can do to spice things up a little bit?
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Its inventor, Stephan Wrage, a 34-year-old German engineer, claims the kite will significantly reduce carbon emissions, cutting diesel consumption by up to 20 per cent and saving £800 a day in fuel costs.
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Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
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Barack Obama is heading into the January 26 South Carolina Democratic primary powered by a solid lead in each of the most recent 11 polls taken here, with African American voters and a slice of the white electorate set to put him over the top next Saturday.
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Holy crap, these are priceless! Not much else I can really say here other than click, look, and laugh your ass off.
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Pizza Hut has joined rivals Domino's and Papa John's in implementing a nationwide order-by-text service, giving customers even easier access to its tasty-but-greasy fare.
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For about a year, I worked as a host in an Olive Garden restaurant. During that time, I made the following strips. Each strip is completely true, except for people's names, which have been changed so that they don't get mad at me. This comic is not endorsed in any way by The Olive Garden. In fact, they don't even know it exists.
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First of three parts, other two are in the related videos. It's an interesting documentary about Scientology in the UK.
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While Clinton did edge out Obama in the popular vote by 6%, she only did so by capturing the populous Las Vegas area. Obama won broader support statewide, especially in the more rural areas that Democrats usually flounder in, and thus earned more state delegates than Clinton. Obama is now two delegates ahead of Clinton, and closest to nomination.
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Rapidshare was recently sued by a German anti-Piracy group and lost, and since has been court ruled to monitor all downloads for GEMA copyrighted files. The company claims it's unable to regulate copyright content, and as such is liable for an pirated material found on its servers. The site is going to be investing in new hardware to help catch such piracy, but will surely have to raise its rates and users will get angry at the increased prices and surely stop buying premium accounts making their business model all the more unviable. In the next few years, or even months - Rapidshare is going to steadily decline in traffic and files hosted as a result and users who are paranoid about anti-piracy organizations having free range over Rapidshare's user logs will go elsewhere for hosting.
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Millions of lives could be at risk because the plants which provide the basis of more than half of all prescription drugs face extinction, a new report warns.
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scientology spies on and fair game's john sweeney bbc reporter.EXPOSE THE TRUTH FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
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The US has abandoned plans to create a recovery program for the endangered jaguar, allegedly due to concerns that it would create a roadblock to their construction of a fence along the Mexican border.
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What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest?
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If you have ever wondered what exactly inflation is, and how it's created, then this informative video, by Edward Griffin, done back in 1969 will explain it to you. "Attempts by governments to manipulate the amount of money in circulation have always been disastrous."
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My sister's 24th birthday cake with a Portal reference. Luckily, it did not lead to a death trap and was in fact delicious and moist.
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Some topics make us queasy. And for that reason, we try not to think about them. Like: what happens to all of the waste that a cruise ship generates?
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Infinity Ward's community manager muses, "they wonder why people don't make PC games any more."
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The real authentic one of a kind orentation video for the Church of Scientology. This is the real deal, folks.Download it, watch it, share it, spread the word, Scientology is a dangerous cult that must be stopped. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=...
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Come on...the storm drain can't handle the smoke. Think about what you're doing to your HUMAN body. Last time I checked concrete is tougher than flesh and tissue.
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Seriously, this stuff is so realistic feeling when you play. The first time I saw a shark I was SHOCKED because I didn't even know they were in the game. My heart started pounding...that's how immersive this game is... In this video, I would say 3/4 of the experience is lost, if not more, due to the poor quality. Oh well...
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The voodoo economics the Bushies have sold America obscure their systematic fleecing of the nation's public wealth.
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The Internet is in its infancy. Electronic information still travels along copper wires left over from the industrial revolution, but the information age is about to hit puberty. Fiber optic cables are sprouting in unexpected places. The piracy and chaos we are collectively experiencing is growing pains.
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Researcher presents first evidence that microbes are key to Hot Springs mineralization.
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It's a good thing that Capcom finally got around to announcing Street Fighter IV, because if they hadn't, today's revelation of Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation may have sent some fighting fans over the edge, never to return. It's played entirely with mouse controls, with left-clicks for punches, right-clicks for kicks and special attacks...
posted by Expert @ 6:02 AM
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Dubai Skyscraper with Rotating Floors...amazing wonder of future architechure!
posted by Expert @ 11:49 PM
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Time Warner wants to charge customers by bandwidth, meaning it could cost up to $30 download an HD movie over Apple TV.
posted by Expert @ 11:48 PM
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have used a monkey's brain activity to control a robot on the other side of the globe. In what researchers tout as a first-of-its-kind experiment, monkeys' thoughts controlled the walking patterns of a robot in Japan. DISGUSTING!
posted by Expert @ 11:48 PM
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And before you claim, whether single or married, that you never flirt, bear in mind that it's not just talk we're dealing with here. It's gestures, stance, eye movement. We're biologically and culturally programmed to flirt.
posted by Expert @ 11:48 PM
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well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. The extent of Huckabee's interaction with the racist group is unclear, but this much is known: he accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in 1993.
posted by Expert @ 11:47 PM
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This new ad that takes up a good portion of the nytimes.com home page, is one of the best rich media banner ads in a while. [via nickpapageorgia.blogspot.com]
posted by Expert @ 11:46 PM
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When my daughter Alison was born, in the tradition of a new parent, I began to photograph her, initially in a separate and private body of work. However, in the process of documenting Alison's growth, I developed a passionate interest in human relationships and capturing intimate moments in the lives of family and friends.
posted by Expert @ 11:45 PM
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The history of vibrators is a strange tale that provides insights into both the history of sex toys, and cultural notions about women's sexuality.....
posted by Expert @ 11:43 PM
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Wikimedia is partnering with the collaborative video service Kaltura to start rolling out video to Wikimedia sites. Right now, the feature is available on the WikiEducator demo site, which is not affiliated with Wikimedia. But eventually we'll start to see collaborative video hitting Wikipedia as well.
posted by Expert @ 11:42 PM
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Hackers from the /i/nsurgency, a splinter group of anonymous raided scientology's secret, even sacred documents this morning. Documents were leaked. Splongcat, after raiding replied with "For the /i/nsurgency! Oh and, we did it for lulz." www.xanga.com/lordxenu
posted by Expert @ 11:42 PM
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A 47-year-old nudist is accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl and drinking her urine denied the charges in court Friday morning. Mother of the Year candidate who let 8-year-old daughter sleep over with a nudist admits the peeing incidents are "weird" but that it was not hurting anyone and she knows other people who drink urine.
posted by Expert @ 11:42 PM
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In a remarkable paper posted by the Federal Reserve of St. Louis, and authored by a Boston University teacher named Prof Kotlikoff, it is revealed in blunt, powerful language that the era of borrowing and spending without consequence may soon come to a close. The paper, entitled, Is the United States Bankrupt?, may not remain posted for very long..
posted by Expert @ 11:41 PM
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The Obama Campaign is now pushing hard to promote their delegate victory. The campaign is convening a post-caucus conference call for reporters -- something that only winning campaigns usually do -- and circulating numerous Clinton quotes about how delegates are "the only thing that matter."
posted by Expert @ 11:41 PM
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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's foreign ministry, responding to pressure from close allies, said on Saturday it would remove the United States and Israel from a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured. Both...
posted by Expert @ 11:35 PM
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An Israeli missile strike destroyed Hamas's Interior Ministry in Gaza City on Friday, but the building was empty at the time, Hamas security sources and local witnesses said.
posted by Expert @ 11:28 PM
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If a turret bitches about its job and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? You bet it does. “A Day in the Life of a Turret” catches two turrets on the job during a typical day at the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, and the monotony that lies within. Made by Smooth Few Films, creators of The Leet World.
posted by Expert @ 11:27 PM
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Some nights, after a rough day at the office, you just want to come home, switch on the TV and curl up in the fetal position inside a vagina-shaped pink sofa.
posted by Expert @ 11:26 PM
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. Here's where he got his ideas from.
posted by Expert @ 11:26 PM
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President Bush proposed an series of short-term tax cuts that he said would provide a shot in the arm for the struggling U.S. economy.
posted by Expert @ 11:24 PM
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After being ordered not to destroy video footage of school officials shocking students, the school destroyed them anyways.
posted by Expert @ 11:23 PM
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Yes, it's true! I finally managed to close my Facebook account. It was a long, arduous road - the hardest part was slaying the Gorgon on level 16 - and I'm glad it's finally over.
posted by Expert @ 10:54 PM
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Frickin' hilarious pairing of game characters and their real world look-alikes. My favorite is Carrot Top.
posted by Expert @ 10:49 PM
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Something that you don’t often see a lot written about in new media is the strong trend by startups to outsource a lot of their work. Digg for example was originally designed by Kevin Rose outsourcing the job on elance... "doubtsourcing" is a webcomic exploring the lighter side of "Outsourcing 2.0"
posted by Expert @ 3:07 AM
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ISRAELI security officials are to brief President George W Bush on their latest intelligence about Iran’s nuclear programme - and how it could be destroyed - when he begins a tour of the Middle East in Jerusalem this week.
posted by Expert @ 10:21 PM
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Academy member: Sign this legal document. By breaking this seal you agree to our terms. If any unauthorized copies are traced back to you, you risk civil and criminal penalties. FBI. Prison. Interpol. A 17 year veteran of the Academy has had enough of being treated like a criminal. Enough is enough - he resigns.
posted by Expert @ 11:23 AM
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MSNBC reports that a facebook poll "chose" Huckabee... when in fact the article itself reports that Ron Paul leads the poll at 43% . Disgusting.
posted by Expert @ 2:27 AM
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If the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner is any bell weather – Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner’s last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!” Hillary Clinton, by contrast, was booed by the crowd twice.
posted by Expert @ 1:52 PM
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Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was a rapist. His steadfastness was vindicated Thursday, when a judge released him because of new DNA evidence showing he indeed was not.
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Trent Reznor produced the new Saul Williams rap record, then offered it online for 1) free or 2) five dollars. 18 percent of the downloaders paid. Success?
posted by Expert @ 1:23 AM
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Children cannot benefit from the readily-available medical treatments that might save their lives, or at least mitigate their suffering. Because the tenets of their parents’ religious faiths mandate it, their ailments are treated by prayer rather than medical science. The results are tragic.
posted by Expert @ 1:21 AM
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In this clip, you'll see a classic Super Mario Bros. level recreated in 3D, using the Doom engine.
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A free service that lets you communicate through your forum or profile signature image
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Planet of the Arabs is a powerful 9 minute collage of racist stereotyping of Arabs in movies.Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000)12 were positive depictions, 52 were even handed and the rest of the 900 and so were negative. A montage of Hollywood's relentless dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
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Argument against NH & Iowa kicking off Presidential primary-caucus season -- including a (mostly tongue-in-cheek) suggested alternative, which is really no more senseless than the current Iowa-NH "first" process.
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