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Friday, January 28, 2011

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Chad Vader’s 2011 Superbowl Picks (Video)

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Vader goes for the Packers because of their big guy who will catch the ball, and Madden…well let's just say that Madden was being the Madden that we all remember and Vader handles him in a very typical Vader way. We're still hoping the series ends with a Force choke though.

Momentum: Hyundai posts record Q4 numbers

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Hyundai announced on Friday that its fourth quarter earnings jumped to $1.3 billion, besting earnings of $849.5 million during the same period a year earlier.

Cagefighter gives car thief a butt-whupping

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Though he was outweighed by more than 50 pounds, it took just 10 seconds for our hero to render the bad guy unconscious after he tried to steal a woman's Jeep.

Designer drugs: 'Bath salts' stimulants raise alarms

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The synthetic 'bath salts' are designed to be comparable to cocaine or methamphetamine, officials say, and are legal in most of the U.S. for now. In Louisiana, they've been linked to 160 poison-control cases and at least three deaths.

Facebook Makes Us All Sad Because Everyone Is Happy But Us

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The January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin includes a study by a PhD student at Stanford who investigated a two-fold phenomenon. First of all, we hand-pick our Facebook statuses and pictures to make us into the best versions of ourselves. (Duh.) Second, looking at the similarly idealized spread of our friends' lives can make us depressed, simply because we tend to think that everyone is more happy than us.

TNT apologizes for Tracy Morgan's suggestive comments on Sarah Palin - Game On!: Covering the Latest Sports News

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TNT apologizes for Tracy Morgan's suggestive comments on Sarah Palin - Game On!: Covering the Latest Sports News

GOP Mantra: For Me, but Not for Thee

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Republican congresspeople are keeping their taxpayer subsidized health insurance while voting to deny it to other Americans. Because, you know, government health care is great for Republican politicians, but too lavish for the Rest of Us.

A Collection of Awesome Stretched Cars

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Have you ever been inside a limousine?  It's pretty cool right?  How about being inside a car that was stretched just for the sake of stretching it?

New Vu1 Light Bulb Technology Tries to Supplant CFLs, LEDs and Incandescents

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Vu1's upstart boasts "Electron Stimulated Luminescence" (ESL) bulbs. But do they really compete?

KFC's 11 Herbs and Spices — Cracking the Colonel's Secret Code

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At long last, the recipe is out. Curiously missing from the list of ingredients is the sweat of obese children.

The Worst Celebrity Food Products

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So Flavor Flav is opening a fried chicken joint in Iowa, well here are seven other celebrity food ventures destined to be forgotten.

Birth Year Inflation Rates [Infographic]

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Do you know how much an average house sold for in the year you were born? What about the price of a pound of steak? Use this interactive Infographic to find out.

Marriage is good for physical and mental health

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The 'smug marrieds' may have good reason to feel pleased with themselves as experts today confirm that long-term committed relationships are good for mental and physical health and this benefit increases over time.

Nestlé Experimenting With Food That Makes You Full Faster & Longer

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A month ago, there was news about research that suggests you could imagine eating to eat less. This month brings another news story about how scientists are trying to break our tendency to be relentless eating machines.

Mars' Apollo 1 Hills

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An image taken from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's PanCam at the spacecraft's landing site shows the nearby hills named after the crew of Apollo 1--Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

Mountain Goats are unbelievable

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Are you brave enough to climb a wall like that? Below is another example of an impossible climb by a mountain goat. The question is – how does the goat get up there?

7 of Hollywood's Bluntest Sharpshooters

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While nine times out of ten we actually want the hero to evade a smattering of bullets, it's often rather galling to see shot after shot fail to make an impression.

How Hulu Lost Its Place In a Netflix World

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Hulu is a terrific service. Who could argue with free, current episodes of primetime TV on your computer? But for months now, Netflix has been eating Hulu's lunch. And Hulu's plan to fight back sounds more like a swan song.

25 Most Wanted Albums Of 2011

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From Van Halen to Kanye, Red Hot Chili Peppers to Beastie Boys, we take a look at the year's biggest upcoming releases.

Scientists unlock the 'gates' on sudden cardiac death (w/ Video)

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Australian researchers have come one step closer to understanding how the rhythm of the heartbeat is controlled and why many common drugs, including some antibiotics, antihistamines and anti-psychotics, can cause a potentially fatal abnormal heart rhythm.

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