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Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fines/Music Track Posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:20 PM PDT The Obama administration for the first time is weighing in on a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit and is supporting hefty awards of as much as $150,000 per purloined music track.

Young Earth Creationist: Ignorance Of What You Dispute Posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:10 PM PDT Sickening at times, frustrating and maddening always.

Colbert Wins NASA's Node 3 Naming Contest Posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:00 PM PDT Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report" to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes.

Personal Supercomputer Is Coming Posted: 23 Mar 2009 06:00 PM PDT Advances in multicore processors will help morph PCs into Personal Supercomputers in the next few years, researchers say.

How Fox News Sued for the Right to Lie—and Won Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:50 PM PDT In 2004, Fox filed a US$1.7 million counter-suit against Akre and Wilson for trial fees and costs.

'Most wanted' - The hunt for the last Nazis Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:40 PM PDT

The 13 Coolest Things Made from Recycled Bottles Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:30 PM PDT From funky recycled art to Earthships, gifts, boats and an island, glass and plastic bottles can be recycled into a surprising range of objects.

Finally Found Him!! Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:30 PM PDT Thanks Googles!

City dwellers 'harm climate less' Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:20 PM PDT City lights may burn bright, but overall the greenhouse gas emissions of large cities are far below those of rural areas, a new report finds.

Amazing Places Every Man Should Visit Posted: 23 Mar 2009 05:10 PM PDT Being able to see Russia from your house doesn't count - 23 places you need to see before death- upload your own suggestions.

Lance Armstrong in hospital after race crash Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:50 PM PDT American cyclist Lance Armstrong, the only man to win the Tour de France seven times, crashed on the first stage of a five-day race in Spain on Monday and was taken to a hospital by ambulance.

I Think my Social Studies Teach is Spying on Me [WTF] Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:50 PM PDT "his # keeps coming up on the caller id and i see his car outside my house a lot and sometimes hes even talking to my mom inside but when he sees me he gets nervous and says hes there to drop off my homework even though i already took it home. im thinking about putting up secret cameras in my house cause my friend dave is a computer nerd."

Boat Made of Plastic Bottles Sails From CA to Down Under Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PDT 60-foot catamaran made from recycled plastic (except for the masts), will sail from San Francisco to Australia: an 11,000 mile voyage!

Glenn Beck and Penn Jillette on MIAC report Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PDT Glenn Beck and Penn Jillette talk about the MIAC report implicating libertarians as possible members of militias and domestic terrorists

Blockbuster Reports $360M Q1 Losses, Blames it On Bad Movies Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PDT "Shortly after Dallas-based Blockbuster reported a quarterly loss of $359.7 million yesterday, CEO Jim Keyes hopped on a conference call with analysts to reassure them that, look, all's not lost."

Today, 1,000 Kids Will Die from Drinking Unsafe Water Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PDT World Water Day is an opportunity to think about a commodity many of us take for granted. But access to safe drinking water is still the world's top health issue.

Targeting Bacterial Biofilm Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:20 PM PDT In the arms race between humans and bacteria, the ability to form "biofilms" — large aggregations of microbes embedded in a slimy matrix — has been one of the weapons the organisms use to defeat the immune system, antibiotic drugs and other threats. But scientists, who only recently recognized the role that biofilms play in antibiotic resistance...

Drug Tests for Unemployment Checks? Cheap Political Theater? Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:00 PM PDT As the money crunch punishes states coffers, legislators are callously pushing drug testing for welfare and unemployment recipients. With states across the country feeling the effects of the economic crisis gripping the land, some legislators are engaging in the cheap politics of resentment as a supposed budget-cutting move

Rock Paper Scissors: High Stakes Edition [PIC] Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:50 PM PDT

Treasury's toxic asset plan could cost $1 trillion Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:40 PM PDT The Obama administration is using a multi-pronged attack to get at the heart of the nation's financial crisis — a mountain of toxic assets weighing on banks' balance sheets.

Coen Brothers to Adapt 'True Grit' Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PDT Joel and Ethan Coen will put their spin on "True Grit," the iconic Western that won John Wayne an Oscar.The Paramount film will be more faithful to the Charles Portis book than the 1969 pic. Portis' novel is about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father's killer in hostile Indian territory.

20+ Way Increase Firefox Speed & Decrease Memory Usage Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PDT Since Firefox is one of the most important tools of Web designers and also other internet users, and because of big mount of Firefox memory usage, I decided to write this article and make it visual for all to be more interesting. Well, if you have a laptop and want to work with Firefox, Photoshop, Dream Weaver and

Are You a Militia Member? Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PDT If you're an anti-abortion activist, or if you display political paraphernalia supporting a third-party candidate or a certain Republican member of Congress, if you possess subversive literature, you very well might be a member of a domestic paramilitary group.

Watch Saturn's moonshadow dancing across the rings Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT Cassini probe shows *incredible* images and animation of the shadows of Saturn's moons dancing across the rings!

Court Rules Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Can Sue Contractor Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT A Virginia federal court ruled Wednesday that four former Abu Ghraib detainees who were tortured and later released without charge can sue U.S. military contractor CACI International Inc. (NYSE: CAI), according to their U.S. legal team.

Giving New Meaning to Freezing Your Ass Off Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT Cryolipolysis is a noninvasive procedure in which a doctor places a coffee-saucer-size suction-cup-like apparatus on the skin to gradually extract body heat until the subcutaneous levels of fat are frozen

Mystery woman looked after elephant in back yard Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT Belfast Zoo has launched a bid to identify a mystery woman who looked after one of its elephants in her backyard to save it from German bombs during the Second World War.

Goodbye BATTLESTAR, Hello 'Phantom' 'Riverworld' and 'Alice' Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT Hollywood Reporter - Sci-Fi wasted little time replacing 'Battlestar' by ordering new backdoor pilots based on "The Phantom" comic, "Riverworld" book series, and a mini based on "Alice in Wonderland"

Friendly fire: NYT hits Obama Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PDT The leading liberal voices of the New York Times editorial pages all criticized—and, in some cases, clobbered—President Obama on Sunday for his handling of the economy and national security.

The Five Best Office Pranks Of All Time Posted: 23 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PDT Just in time for April Fool's Day! These office pranks are some of the best that we have come across and although there were quite a few we wanted to include, we think 5 is more than enough. Below are the top 5 office pranks that the applicant team thinks are some of the best office pranks ever pulled.

Hey, Private Sector, Wanna Buy a Bridge? Posted: 23 Mar 2009 02:50 PM PDT If Florida transportation officials have their way, the state will soon lease a 78-mile toll road across the Everglades to a private firm for 50 years, in a deal that could make hundreds of millions of dollars for both sides. Advocates hail it as a windfall that the state can invest in other projects, but critics say no good will come from a shorts

Sweden Says No to Saving Saab, a National Icon Posted: 23 Mar 2009 02:50 PM PDT The beloved carmaker has fallen on hard times in a country where old-style Nordic socialism has fallen out of favor.

Max Payne 3 announced for Xbox360, PS3, PC Posted: 23 Mar 2009 02:23 PM PDT Max Payne 3 tells the story of a retired police detective embroiled in a world of corruption, turmoil and intense violence...

Screw Bailouts, Energy Efficiency Could Save Us $168 Billion Posted: 23 Mar 2009 02:23 PM PDT If a federal energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) were adopted, one that demanded a electricity reduction of 15-percent and a natural gas reduction of 10-percent, 262 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions could be prevented. That is the equivalent of taking 48 million cars off the road for one year.

Rejected: Amy Winehouse's new songs turned down Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PDT Amy Winehouse's new songs have been rejected by her record label, according to reports. The 25-year-old singer - who recently spent three months in the Caribbean on holiday and working on new material - has been told to return to the recording studio because label bosses don't like her new reggae sound.

10 March Madness Heroes Turned NBA Zeros Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:30 PM PDT These NCAA standouts became pro burnouts

An Honest Open Letter to Hulu Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:30 PM PDT Truth of the fact is; by restricting the material the networks are not only losing potential weekly watchers; they're also losing a stream of ex facto revenue potentially more reliable then DVD purchases.

Monster "HDMI Difference" scam still kickin' in Fry's... Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:20 PM PDT Man, this is just sad. Over a year after the internet was set ablaze with rage after seeing Monster's HDMI cable scam, we've just been notified that the tactic is still being used in at least one Fry's Electronics store. For those unaware, the rig works as such: two TVs are set beside each other along with a sign that says "See the Monster HDMI...

SexyBack vs. Legend of Zelda Theme on Two Tesla Coils Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:10 PM PDT ArcAttack "pumps music through a PA System while two specially designed Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt which put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers."

Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods Posted: 23 Mar 2009 01:10 PM PDT Nicholas Arthur Woodhams, a 23 year old from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was recently slapped upside the gord with federal charges of fraud and money laundering after he managed to con Apple into shipping him around 9,000 iPod shuffles.

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