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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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Intruder calls police when homeowner returns

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Portland police received dueling 9-1-1 calls when both an intruder and a rattled homeowner called to report the same thing: a strange man in a house.

Taking the temperature of the ancient earth

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A new technique has allowed scientists to pin down the timing of ancient glaciations, linking them more firmly to two bursts of extinction.

This Kid is 'Crying For America'

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Upset about the direction America is heading this kid decided to write a song about it. 'Crying For America' was written and produced by 14-yr old Kory Shore delivering a powerful performance in his first music video.

Man Shoves Chicken Into Pants In Walmart, Somehow Gets Caught

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We've all shoplifted a time or two in our lives. But there's a good chance none of us have attempted to cram cooked poultry in our pants. That's just what Georgia's own Joseph Lee Stringer did.

Data as Art: 10 Striking Science Maps

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Troves of science data in clever and digestible ways.

Why Men Shouldn't Wear 'Shape Up' Shoes | Cracked.com

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__new_line__If there's one question that we get asked time and time again at Cracked, it's

Millions of dead fish float to the surface at King Harbor in Redondo Beach, California

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Authorities in Redondo Beach are investigating what killed millions of fish over the last day at King Harbor Marina. Fish, including anchovies, sardines and mackerel were floating lifeless in Basins 1 and 2 of the north side of King Harbor...

Stephen Colbert Really Wants an iPad 2 [VIDEO]

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Colbert wants an iPad so bad he can taste it.

How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack

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Most search engines, including Google, continually run an army of computer programs that retrieve pages from the web, index the words in each document, and store this information in an efficient format. Each time a user asks for a web search using a search phrase, such as "search engine," the search engine determines all the pages on the web that contains the words in the search phrase

Ke$ha, and Four Other Faces You Wouldn't Want to See While Wrapping Your Tool

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Talk about curbing the birth rate, eh? In a partnership with LifeStyle condoms, the notoriously trashy party girl Ke$ha has recently emblazoned a bunch of condoms with her face, and she blasts them out of the infamous glitter cannon onstage during her shows. For an all-ages show that hosts an 8-foot-tall penis, blasting a bunch of rubbers at the crowd is a pretty rad move toward encouraging kids to have safe sex. On the other hand, though, Ke$ha's glittery, slimy face isn't the most enticing sight when you're getting ready to get it on.

5 Places Glenn Beck Could Go If He Leaves Fox News

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In the Monday edition of the New York Times, journalist extraordinaire David Carr reports that the relationship between Glenn Beck and Fox News is potentially reaching the end of its rope because of the ranting host's diminishing ratings.

APOD: 2011 March 8 - Titan, Rings, and Saturn from Cassini

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How thin are the rings of Saturn? Saturn's rings to be about one kilometer thick, making them many times thinner, in relative proportion, than a razor blade. This thinness sometimes appears in dramatic fashion during an image taken nearly along the ring plane. The robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn has now captured another shot that dramatically highlights the ring's thinness. The above image was taken in mid January in infrared and polarized light. Titan looms just over the thin rings, while dark ring shadows on Saturn show the Sun to be above the ring plane. Close inspection of the image will show the smaller moon Enceladus on the far right. Cassini, humanity's first mission to orbit Saturn, currently has operations planned until 2017

NPR Exec: tea party is ‘scary,’ ‘racist’...(Video)

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James O'Keefe, master of the video sting, targets NPR this time, in a pretty damaging interview with Ron Schiller, NPR's senior vice president for development, and Betsy Liley, senior director of institutional giving.

Stephen Colbert Uses 'Star Wars' to Blast Mike Huckabee's Natalie Portman Single Mom Dig (Video)

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What are you thinking, Governor? Look, I'm no fan of single mothers either, but it's Natalie Portman we're talking about," Colbert said of the 'Star Wars' Episode I, II and III actress. "That kid she's pregnant with, is Luke Skywalker! Think!

US Wants to Take Your Dollars -- and Replace Them With Coins

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The Government Accountability Office called on Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury to help yank dollar bills from circulation and replace them with coins.

Michele Bachmann's Health Care Funding Conspiracy Theory Debunked

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Rep. Michele Bachmann insisted over and over again on Sunday's Meet the Press and on Facebook that she was privy to a sinister plot by President Barack Obama to hide $105 billion worth of funding in the health care reform law. The story has about as much truth as the hogwash she peddled about the cost of the president's trip to India.

Dad, the Shiraz is okay but I prefer a nice Zin with bar-b-que

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Should parents allow their teenaged children to have wine or beer at home occasionally, hoping they'll be less likely to binge later?

America is bored with Glenn Beck

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Maybe his audience is dwindling because they won an election, and now they need a break from caring about politics

Charlie Sheen's Latest Web Show: Dead Man Ranting

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Just hours after being fired from Two and a Half Men, Charlie Sheen hit the airways again on Monday evening in another crazed rant that despite, being billed as live, had no mention of his sudden unemployment.

Wondering why the Wii has been lacking new games from Nintendo lately?

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Nintendo has explained why their console has been lacking new releases in 2011 so far.

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