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| Bernie Madoff should be the Secretary of the Treasury Dept. Posted: 03 May 2009 07:20 PM PDT Let's put somebody in Treasury who really knows how to run a Ponzi scheme!
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| Seriously, I thought that was metaphorical... [PIC] Posted: 03 May 2009 07:10 PM PDT
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| Kittens Face Surgery After Having Paws Hacked Off Posted: 03 May 2009 07:10 PM PDT Two tiny kittens are slowly recovering after having their paws cut off - believed to be by children using a knife or scissors. The kittens survived their "horrendous" injuries, but are now facing major surgery to have a hind leg and part of a hip amputated.
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| Top 10 Highest-Paid CEOs For 2008 Posted: 03 May 2009 07:00 PM PDT The 10 highest-paid CEOs for 2008 at Standard & Poor's 500 companies based on calculations by The Associated Press.
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| Posted: 03 May 2009 06:50 PM PDT A hapless would-be burglar has been been charged after he became stuck on a factory roof and had to be rescued by police and fire crews in a three-hour operation.
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| Bag Borrow or Steal: Do people really want to rent fashion? Posted: 03 May 2009 06:40 PM PDT The origins of Bag Borrow or Steal, a surprisingly successful idea for online shopping. What do you think of this business: could we see more like this in the future? Would *you* rent clothes or other products online so you can have the highest-priced brands?
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| Posted: 03 May 2009 06:20 PM PDT Probably - for now. The internet is a disparate mix of interconnected computers, many of them on large networks run by universities, businesses and so on. What unites this network of networks are the communication languages known as the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, collectively TCP/IP.
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| Great Tiger And Piston Honda Return In Punch-Out!! Posted: 03 May 2009 06:10 PM PDT Two more familiar faces join Punch-Out!! for the Wii, with Great Tiger and Piston Honda making welcome comebacks in the update
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| Posted: 03 May 2009 05:50 PM PDT The Jonas Brothers are a flagship weapon in the culture wars. They feign conservative social values while romping around the bizarre hypersexual Disney meta-verse where young kids dress like Madonna and Mick Jagger and live the rock n' roll lifestyle, promising to America's young, malleable minds a life of glamor and cool that can never be obtained
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| I've been doing it wrong all these years!! Posted: 03 May 2009 05:50 PM PDT *****
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| How to Defend Yourself Against a Vicious Ninja Attack Posted: 03 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT *****
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| 'Green' Lightbulbs Poison Factory Workers Posted: 03 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT Large numbers of Chinese workers have been poisoned by mercury, which forms part of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs. A surge in foreign demand, set off by a European Union directive making these bulbs compulsory within three years, has also led to the reopening of mercury mines that have ruined the environment.
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| Ubuntu 9.04 and Intel graphics Posted: 03 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT For Linux users who don't need absolute top-notch 3D performance, Intel is considered the preferred graphics solution, not least because the company develops its drivers as open source within the framework of the X.org project. However Intel's drivers are currently in a state of some disarray.
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| Linux : Solving The ext3 Latency Problem. Posted: 03 May 2009 05:30 PM PDT One might think that the ext3 filesystem, by virtue of being standard on almost all installed Linux systems for some years now, would be reasonably well tuned for performance. Recent events have shown, though, that some performance problems remain in ext3, especially in places where the fsync() system call is used.
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| Why I Left Microsoft for Google Posted: 03 May 2009 05:20 PM PDT *****
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| Posted: 03 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT "Die Hard" by Guyz Nite is a brilliant tribute to one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) action films of all time. As a bonus, it not only covers the first DIE HARD but the entire series as well.
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| Hot Or Not? '80s Teen Queens - Then & Now Posted: 03 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT Check out how these '80s ladies have aged
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| Google's power-hungry data centers Posted: 03 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT Once at full capacity, one Google data plant in Oregon could use the same power as every home in Newcastle put together.
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| Posted: 03 May 2009 04:20 PM PDT The final blowout went to Atlanta, so it's the Hawks who'll get a shot at LeBron James and the Cavaliers. Joe Johnson scored 27 points to make up for a mostly disappointing series and the Hawks won the first Game 7 ever played in Atlanta, beating Dwayne Wade and the Miami Heat 91-78 Sunday to advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs.
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| Polar Bear Leaps Across Drifting Ice (PIC) Posted: 03 May 2009 04:00 PM PDT A young male polar bear jumps between patches of ice in the Barents Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. (Photo: Paul Nicklen)
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| Speaker Pelosi Blocks Investigations of Corrupt Democrats Posted: 03 May 2009 03:50 PM PDT House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is working to buffer lawmakers from federal investigators.Special legal protections for politicians encourage unethical conduct.
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| Posted: 03 May 2009 03:40 PM PDT This commercial demonstrates the unbearable trauma, sexual abused children suffer from.
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| UAE "Torture" Scandal & Cover-Up Sparks Outrage in the U.S. Posted: 03 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT How primitive and uncivilized must a country be to allow its leading officials to inflict torture with no accountability?
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| KFC witness protection program (Pic) Posted: 03 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT *****
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| Bosnia lurches into a new crisis Posted: 03 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT The nationalist passions that brought war to the Balkan state in 1992 are re-emerging. Peter Beaumont travels from Sarajevo to Banja Luka to find embittered communities struggling with corruption and economic collapse - and increasingly turning against each other
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| How to get 100 miles per gallon Posted: 03 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT # Adjusting the way you drive can save you money on gas# Expert: Anticipate traffic stops, take foot off accelerator and coast when possible# It takes a lot more energy (gas) to 75 mph than 65 mph# Don't accelerate too slowly in hybrid and keep batteries charged
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| Study: Microwaving Beats Boiling for Cooking Most Veggies Posted: 03 May 2009 02:55 PM PDT The best way to cook vegetables while preserving their antioxidant powers depends on the veggie, new research from Spain shows.
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| The Denver Post: The Truth About Poker Posted: 03 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT Poker is not gambling. Gambling is games of chance played against a fixed statistical disadvantage. Any accomplished poker player knows that knowledge, skill and ability have much greater weight, in the long run, than simple luck.
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| The Seven Must-Listen "This American Life" Episodes Posted: 03 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT No one tells a story quite like Glass and his crew, and over the past fourteen years they've spun nearly four hundred of them. We present these seven prime entry points for your imminent This American Life devotion.
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| People Mag: Susan Boyle at 22 - Early Performance Revealed Posted: 03 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT If there was ever any question, she's always had talent. In a 25-year-old video that recently surfaced, a fresh-faced Susan Boyle – just 22 at the time – takes the stage at a local Scottish club looking trim and youthful.
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| 23 Stunning Examples Of Digital Art & Manipulation Posted: 03 May 2009 01:50 PM PDT There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photo manipulation. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 23 Stunning Examples Of Digital Art & Manipulation.
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| 11 Tiny and Useful Free Menubar Applications for Mac Posted: 03 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT Not every application needs to always shows itself to be functional. Some just do their job quietly in the background while some hide themselves until they are needed. This is the perfect explanation of what menubar application do.
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| Tahiti Coral Reefs Unlock Clue to 'Vanishing' IceAge Glacier Posted: 03 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT In the case of deglaciation after the penultimate ice age, before 137k years ago, ice sheets that covered most of the USA and Canada and were up to five kilometers thick – simply vanishing. Researchers have found that fossilized corals from tropical Tahiti show that ice sheets are much more volatile and dynamic than previously thought..
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| Sugar Stacks -- How Much Sugar Is In That? Posted: 03 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT "We've used regular sugar cubes (4 grams of sugar each) to show how the sugars in your favorite foods literally stack up, gram for gram. Compare foods, find out where sugar is hiding, and see how much of the sweet stuff you're really eating."
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| 6 People With Amazing Abilities (That Are Totally Useless) Posted: 03 May 2009 01:20 PM PDT There are countless stories of humans challenging themselves to achieve the extraordinary and inspire us all. These are none of those.
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| Posted: 03 May 2009 01:10 PM PDT Fat Princess is one of the most highly anticipated PSN games coming out in 2009, and many PS3 fans are looking forward to this combination of cutesy cartoon characters and blood and gore. It is quite the interesting mix, and I was lucky enough to get a chance to try it out...
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| Four Ways Ruby on Rails Can Help You Posted: 03 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT Ruby on Rails, an open source web development framework, has revolutionized the way we create web applications. In this article, we discuss some of the ways Rails can help you in rapidly building fully-featured web-based applications.
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| The Ultimate Fan-Made Hobbit Movie Coming Out Today Posted: 03 May 2009 12:50 PM PDT A group of incredibly proactive dork- er, Lord of the Rings enthusiasts, recently shot a 40-minute, high-definition film in North Wales with an all-volunteer crew of 150.Called The Hunt for Gollum, the film is the work of 150 volunteers, says director Chris Bouchard. "We're essentially a bunch of fans and enthusiast filmmakers," says Bouchard.
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