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| High School Football Player Continues Game With Broken Neck Posted: 20 Sep 2008 09:01 PM CDT A Superior, Nebraska High School athlete is thankful to be alive today. 18 year old Spencer Trapp broke his neck while playing football last Friday night. |
| MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users Posted: 20 Sep 2008 08:40 PM CDT MediaDefender is widely known for their anti-piracy operations, spoofing and decoying on file-sharing networks for the entertainment industry. The company is doing more than that though, as we recently found out that adult affiliate programs were a significant source of income for them too. |
| Report: Ethnic cleansing, not surge, reduced Iraq violence Posted: 20 Sep 2008 08:20 PM CDT A study of the Pentagon's satellite imagery concludes that ethnic cleansing -- not last year's surge of U.S. military forces -- is the main factor in the reduction of violence in Iraq. |
| 87 Million Year-Old Praying Mantis Found Posted: 20 Sep 2008 08:10 PM CDT Discovered in January of this year by Kazuhisa Sasaki, director of the Kuji Amber Museum, the fossil mantis measures 0.5 inch (1.4 centimeters) from its antennae to the tip of its abdomen. |
| A Stunning, Eye-Popping "Starfish" In Hurricane Isabel's Eye Posted: 20 Sep 2008 08:00 PM CDT Über-cool animation of mesovortices working the eye of Hurricane Isabel. The SRSO visible images were taken by the GOES-12 spacecraft on 12 September 2003 at 1245-1445 UTC. |
| Ban unfeasibly large breasts from ads, say plastic surgeons Posted: 20 Sep 2008 07:50 PM CDT Models with "anatomically impossible" breasts are being used to seduce female clients to undergo cosmetic surgery that creates "unrealistic expectations", senior plastic surgeons said yesterday. |
| Stardust evidence points to planet collision Posted: 20 Sep 2008 07:30 PM CDT "If any life was present on either planet, the massive collision would have wiped out everything in a matter of minutes: the ultimate extinction event," said Gregory Henry of Tennessee State University. |
| Robert Plant Given Ultimatum by Bandmates Posted: 20 Sep 2008 07:12 PM CDT "They will be finalising plans for shows over the next couple of months and will tell Robert that if he doesn't want to be involved they will go ahead without him."...If he does not take part it remains unclear whether the group will be allowed to use the name Led Zeppelin |
| Breaking:South African President Mbeki 'to quit' Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:50 PM CDT South Africa's ruling party on Saturday called on the country's president, Thabo Mbeki, to resign from office -- several months ahead of next year's elections. |
| TAKE MY NUTS OUT OF YOUR MOUTH [PIC] Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:30 PM CDT The mighty Ewok Fighter, with his sword in his right hand; yelled : " TAKE MY NUTS! OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!! |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:30 PM CDT This is where I went to middle school. Seriously. Not a photoshop. |
| This better not be false advertising! Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:20 PM CDT |
| Steve Ballmer Goes Nuts (Again) To Sell Windows Posted: 20 Sep 2008 06:00 PM CDT Microsoft's latest "I'm a PC" advertising campaign kicked off pretty well, but someone, somewhere, thought it was missing something. And by "something" we mean the lunacy of Steve Ballmer shouting at the top of his lungs. |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT it's a good chance to take a look back at some of this year's redesigns and talk about what was changed and/or fixed. |
| Confirmed: Online Gamers 'Are Not Unhealthy' Posted: 20 Sep 2008 05:20 PM CDT More than 7,000 players of the online game EverQuest II were quizzed about their health by scientists. They found gamers' body mass index (BMI) tended to be lower than the US average - with many taking "proper" exercise more than once a week. But New Scientist magazine reports that depression was more common in gamers. |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 05:00 PM CDT Donnie Hoyle maps his current predicament and merges toward a solution. |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 04:51 PM CDT All 15-59 year olds in some areas of England should be offered a HIV test by their GP, new recommendations say. Around 20% of the population would fall under the universal testing policy. |
| How to Catch Linux System Intruders Posted: 20 Sep 2008 04:34 PM CDT There's no doubt that Linux is a secure operating system. However, nothing is perfect. Millions of lines of code are churned through the kernel every second and it only takes a single programming mistake |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 04:10 PM CDT Mike Mitchell: I wanted to do my own version of the SNES classic, Super Mario World. I've always hated the Yoshi design, but thought that he was a great gameplay element, and Mario get more family friendly by the year, I felt it was time for some grittiness. |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT Ever. |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 03:42 PM CDT "There has been a shock at the prevalence of this kind of variation and a desire to characterize it more fully and to integrate it into genome-wide studies of disease" |
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| Government asks Congress for $700B for bailout - USATODAY.co Posted: 20 Sep 2008 03:15 PM CDT The Bush administration is asking Congress to let the government buy $700 billion in bad mortgages as part of the largest financial bailout since the Great Depression.The plan would give the government broad power to buy the bad debt of any U.S. financial institutions for the next two years. It also would raise the statutory |
| Warez Scene Member Sentenced to 18 Months Jail Posted: 20 Sep 2008 02:50 PM CDT A member of the pioneering warez group aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC) has been jailed for 18 months. Barry Gitarts, also known as 'Dextro', was sentenced after he was convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Copyright Infringement. Thus far, there have been 15 convictions of aPC members. |
| 5 Signs You're Watching a Wes Anderson Movie Posted: 20 Sep 2008 02:31 PM CDT He's one of indie filmmaking's biggest names. If you ever find yourself watching a film you're not sure who directed... here's a checklist of signs to know you're watching one of Anderson's films. |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 02:30 PM CDT very funny video ... men die for girl, girl dies for money |
| Pizza Hut Accuses Customer Of "Making The Coupon Up" Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:49 PM CDT Pizza Hut called Danielle a liar for trying to redeem a promotional coupon they emailed to her and displayed prominently on their website. In exchange for completing an offer from TrialPay, Danielle should have received two free medium pizzas, one with toppings, plus breadsticks. Instead, her favorite pizza place told her, "M'am, you're lying about |
| Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars first screens!!! Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:28 PM CDT Wow, not quite what we were expecting!!! |
| Mavs owner Cuban uses blog to show inflammatory e-mai Posted: 20 Sep 2008 01:10 PM CDT Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says forward Josh Howard realizes his comments about the national anthem were wrong and the player has apologized. |
| Blink 182' Travis Barker hurt in plane crash Posted: 20 Sep 2008 12:50 PM CDT 4 killed, 2 hurt as rock star's jet crashes |
| Bought My House Day Of Market Crash. I Am (With?) Stupid. Posted: 20 Sep 2008 12:33 PM CDT Smart, entertaining, simultaneously nutty & thought-provoking piece. Personal piece by author (former journalist, screenwriter) who just closed on a house--& who muses on bad market timing, taking responsibility for our own mistakes, greed, Alan Greenspan, borrowers getting screwed &, oh yea, the merits of wearing shorts & T-shirts to closings. |
| Posted: 20 Sep 2008 12:10 PM CDT Nick & Danielle's very creative entry was the winner of the Cupcake Decorating Championships, 2008. |
| Major Problems Stall Action for Large Hadron Collider Posted: 20 Sep 2008 12:00 PM CDT The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is still struggling to take its next big step. |
| Maybe the Best Anti-McCain Ad Ever Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:50 AM CDT Perfect. It puts it all in perspective. This needs to get on the air. |
| Robot wheelchair finds its own way (MIT) Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:30 AM CDT MIT researchers are developing a new kind of autonomous wheelchair that can learn all about the locations in a given building, and then take its occupant to a given place in response to a verbal command. |
| 'Oktapodi': Impressive CG French Student Film Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:10 AM CDT The students of Paris' Gobelins School of Image produced this impressive, funny short about two lovelorn octopi torn apart, and the lengths they'll go to to be reunited. Pixar, are you watching? |
| Important Twist in Supercapacitor Research Posted: 20 Sep 2008 10:51 AM CDT Car batteries as we know them today may soon be relics. Storing energy in clunky containers with limited shelf lives has plagued car makers and military engineers who need lightweight, powerful and reliable means to crank engines into life, enliven radios and operate other electronic appliances. |
| Economists Support Obama Over McCain By More Than 2 to 1 Posted: 20 Sep 2008 10:30 AM CDT Discussed McCain's Poor Decision to Rely on his Advisors and the Truth on Taxes:• 95% of working families would get a tax cut from Obama• 100 million Americans would get NO tax cut from McCain• Most would get a larger tax cut from Obama |
| Driving While Texting Worse Than Drinking, Drugs Posted: 20 Sep 2008 10:20 AM CDT Texting while driving is more dangerous than being under the influence of alcohol or marijuana. |
| Abdication by Palin: Opinion | adn.com Posted: 20 Sep 2008 09:50 AM CDT Opinion piece by the Anchorage Daily News. Sarah Palin needs to speak for Sarah Palin and remove the Washingtonians from the process. |
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