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Thursday, December 2, 2010

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Leslie Nielsen’s 10 Most Unforgettable Performances [VIDEOS]

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Let's spend some time laughing our asses off at the antics of one of these greatest comedians in motion picture history.

An Even More Inconvenient Truth [w/vid]

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t's called CAMM Worldwide. That stands for Connect A Million Minds. The project was started by Time Warner and it's based around a simple fact: The U.S. now ranks 35th in Math and 29th in Science worldwide.

Chrome Web Store Could Emerge Soon

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The upcoming Chrome 8 will support the Chrome Web Store, a mechanism to find Web apps that Google appears likely to launch soon.

Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox Modding Case Mid-Trial

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Federal authorities in the first-of-its-kind game console modding criminal trial abruptly dropped their prosecution here Thursday based on "based on fairness and justice."

Gingrich to Latinos: Hola!

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Newt Gingrich wants conservatives to hablar espanol, or at least show they care about Latinos

Google doodles go mobile at long last

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One of the greatest treats a human can know is to visit Google's home page only to discover that the company has decided to celebrate some obscure birthday, anniversary, or special event by dressing up its logo in a creative way.

Deficit commission: What ObamaCare needs is … death panels?

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There are even bigger changes in the proposal. Sarah Palin take note: For the first time, the government would set — and enforce — an overall budget for Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs that cover more than 100 million people, from Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes to premature babies in hospital intensive care.

Can You Get A DUI While Riding a Minibike in a Parking Lot?

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Cops put Evan Lafferty in jail for felony DUI and three other alleged crimes: driving without a headlight, a helmet or a license plate.

Banksters: Wall Street Executives Are Still Getting Outrageous Pay

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Despite the recession and the massive taxpayer funded TARP bailout, bank executives are still getting record compensations. The popular discontent with Wall Street during the financial crisis over how much money bankers were paying themselves has somehow faded, as if, once again general apathy replaced public rage. Wall Street's culture ...

The 5 Funniest Interviews With Wasted Celebrities (Video)

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Whether they're personally out of control, or just couldn't care less, interviews with these celebrities under the influence is some of the better guilty pleasure entertainment out there.

House Dems Finally Beat Back Republicans, Pass Middle Class Tax Cuts

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Using a wily procedural maneuver to tie Republican hands, House Democrats managed to pass, by a vote of 234-188, legislation that will allow the Bush tax cuts benefiting only the wealthiest Americans to expire.

Tackling Binge Drinking on Campus

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With alcohol abuse becoming more pervasive, do universities need to get tougher with existing policies, or do they simply need new ideas? The consensus is that schools are less effective at combating the problem if they go it alone.

Activision Blizzard CEO Not Worried About The Old Republic Competing with WoW

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Due to the commitment that the fanbase of World of Warcraft shows Kotick isn't overly worried about the kind of impact that Bioware's Star Wars: The old republic will have on those playing WOW.

iPhone, Android neck-and-neck as ‘most desired’ smartphone in U.S.

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Looks like the days of RIM ruling the U.S. smartphone roost are drawing to a close: A new survey finds that the iPhone has pulled even with BlackBerry among current smartphone owners.

Eminem, Bruno Mars Lead Grammy Nominations

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It's that time of year again: When musicians and bands get nominated for Grammys mostly because they've sold a bunch of records and, of course, a rare few who are actually extremely talented.

Inside Japan's indie game development scene

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While Western indie development has been all the rage as of late, their Japanese counterparts are rarely recognized outside of their homeland. Here's the story of a few developers who may change that.

Where is mathematics in Europe?

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Europe needs an Institute of Industrial Mathematics to tighten the link between maths and industry as an enabler of innovation -- putting maths at the heart of Europe's innovation, according to the European Science Foundation in a report launched today in Brussels at the "Maths and Industry" Conference.

The myth behind PETA's "vegetarians make better lovers" Meat Boy gag

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Animal rights activist group PETA launched a Super Meat Boy parody game today titled Super Tofu Boy. The game advocates that vegetarians make better lovers -- and here's where they get off saying that.

Obama White House pressured Spain to drop Bush torture prosecution, leaked cable shows

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The Obama administration went to the mat to defend its predecessors from a torture prosecution in Spain last year, a leaked State Department cable shows. The cable, released by WikiLeaks this week, shows that senior US diplomats teamed with Republican lawmakers -- including a former Republican Party chairman -- to put pressure on Spanish officials to drop a criminal investigation into the Bush administration's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Top 10 Best XBLA Games

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The Xbox Live Arcade is an attractive platform for indie game developers as well as big game studios. We've managed to separate the wheat from the chaff and come up with a list of the ten best games on the XBLA.

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