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| 'Dear Neighbor, you are not invited to my party...' Posted: 14 Dec 2008 09:10 PM CST A few weeks ago, a guy moved into the apartment across from me. My new neighbor had left me a note stating that he was having a party and to let him know if the noise was too loud. The problem I have with the note is that he stated he was having a party but didn't invite me...  |
| Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni rips old Phoenix bosses & Marion Posted: 14 Dec 2008 08:50 PM CST "It really burned that we had four straight years of competing at the highest level, yet, in the end, (management's) attitude was like we didn't win a championship so we didn't do nothing,"  |
| Mike Tyson's 10 Best 1 Punch KOs Posted: 14 Dec 2008 08:40 PM CST Before he was a punchline Tyson was a monster.  |
| Music stars' digital strategies still in flux Posted: 14 Dec 2008 08:23 PM CST It's been more than five years since Apple's iTunes store changed music retail by introducing single-track digital downloads. But it wasn't until 2008 that most musicians and labels started to wonder out loud...  |
| McCain Whacks RNC, Defends Obama Over Blagojevich Posted: 14 Dec 2008 07:50 PM CST John McCain sideswiped the Republican National Committee on Sunday for the intense focus it has placed on Barack Obama's relationship (however thin) to Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  |
| Avery to continue counseling, won't rejoin Stars Posted: 14 Dec 2008 07:40 PM CST Even with his six-game suspension being over, troubled Stars forward Sean Avery will not be returning to Dallas. The Stars said on Sunday that representatives for both Avery and the team said they would continue to work together in support of Avery during "this critical time" for the player.  |
| Indian Navy captures 23 Pirates Posted: 14 Dec 2008 07:20 PM CST The Indian navy captured 23 pirates who threatened a merchant vessel in the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden and a German naval helicopter thwarted another attack Saturday on a freighter being chased by speedboats off Yemen.  |
| The Wrong Guy to Send On a Beer Run Posted: 14 Dec 2008 07:00 PM CST Never send the guy with no control of his inner monologue.  |
| Old woman died during an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Posted: 14 Dec 2008 06:30 PM CST Connie Lucille Jones, 88, passed suddenly from this life at precisely midnight on November 26, 2008 in Lawton while watching Jimmy Kimmel Live....Or so you think!  |
| NYC: population boom but no increase in vehicle traffic Posted: 14 Dec 2008 06:10 PM CST Between 2003 and 2007, as New York City's population and economy boomed, there was virtually no increase in street and highway traffic. Instead, all of the increased mobility went to the city's public transit system.  |
| Sir Paul McCartney: 'I politicised the Beatles' Posted: 14 Dec 2008 06:00 PM CST In an interview, Sir Paul said that he persuaded Lennon to oppose the war in Vietnam. He claimed the group's politicisation began after he met the philosopher Bertrand Russell in London in the mid-1960s. But Sir Paul's critics see his comments as a further attempt to revise the history of the Beatles, casting himself in a better light.  |
| Bobby Charlton Given BBC Lifetime Award Posted: 14 Dec 2008 05:40 PM CST Sir Bobby Charlton will be honoured with the 2008 BBC Sports Personality's Lifetime Achievement award on Sunday. Charlton, 71, helped England to World Cup success in 1966 and then led Manchester United to European Cup glory in 1968, scoring twice in the final.  |
| 12 Of The Most Offensive Christmas Tunes Posted: 14 Dec 2008 05:30 PM CST Christmas is nearly upon us so what better than some of the most offensive christmas songs ever made to put you in the christmas spirit.  |
| Wireless Controller Helps Recover Stolen 360 Posted: 14 Dec 2008 05:10 PM CST A Missouri State student came back to his dorm to find his Xbox 360 stolen. Realizing the controller still connected when turned it on, he set out to find the console. And he did.  |
| How The Illuminati Influenced Beethoven Posted: 14 Dec 2008 05:00 PM CST In 1779, a composer, writer, teacher, and dreamer named Christian Neefe arrived in Bonn, Germany, to work for the Electoral Court. Neefe (pronounced nay-fuh) was the definition of what Germans call a Schwärmer, a person swarming with rapturous enthusiasms.  |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2008 04:50 PM CST Now that the bus specification is public, I can start pushing the patches for the USB core changes. They will need to be reviewed and possibly changed before they make it into the mainline kernel. Once the changes make it into the mainline kernel, they'll be picked up by Linux Operating System Vendors like RedHat, Novell, and Ubuntu.  |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2008 04:30 PM CST Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme ensnared some big-name investors, including New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and GMAC Chairman J. Ezra Merkin. International banks and hedge funds may also have placed significant funds in what could become one of the largest financial scams in history.  |
| Broccoli Compound Targets Key Enzyme In Late-stage Cancer Posted: 14 Dec 2008 04:10 PM CST An anti-cancer compound found in broccoli and cabbage works by lowering the activity of an enzyme associated with rapidly advancing breast cancer, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study appearing Dec 3 in the online early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  |
| Finding Baby Jesus is Easier With GPS Posted: 14 Dec 2008 03:50 PM CST Apparently, a fair number of purloined baby Jesuses and misappropriated menorahs make it onto police blotters every year. Some churches and synagogues are resorting to installing GPS chips inside nativity scenes and menorahs so that they can be quickly located if they are stolen.  |
| Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes at Bush (Video) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 03:40 PM CST An Iraqi man at Maliki's palace threw his shoes at Bush during the appearance.The shoes sailed right past the president's head. Displaying the soles of one's shoes is considered a deep insult in much of the Arab world. Bush joked about it, saying, "That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me." The man was grabbed and dragged out of the room screaming.  |
| Spirit Detains Burglar for 3 Days in Home Posted: 14 Dec 2008 03:30 PM CST The burglar told the Police that after he entered through the back door, he was blinded and felt as though he was in a cave. "Each time I wanted to flee, I felt a 'supernatural figure' shoving me to the ground."  |
| Teens Favor Painkillers, Alcohol and Marijuana Over Stimulan Posted: 14 Dec 2008 03:20 PM CST Many teens are still abusing prescription painkillers, even as the use of stimulant drugs declined, according to an annual study of teen drug and alcohol use released today.  |
| The 6 Deadliest Creatures (That Can Fit In Your Shoe) Posted: 14 Dec 2008 03:10 PM CST They say good things come in small packages. You know what else comes in small packages? Unrelenting pain and horror.  |
| Is clean coal technology fact or fiction? Posted: 14 Dec 2008 03:00 PM CST The Alliance for Climate Protection and several other prominent organizations—including the Sierra Club and National Resources Defense Council—launched a multipronged campaign to "debrand" the clean part of clean coal, pointing out that there's no conclusive evidence to confirm the entire process would work the way it's being marketed.  |
| Plaxico Burress appears at NYC charity event Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:50 PM CST The suspended Super Bowl hero refused to discuss the Nov. 29 shooting at the Latin Quarter nightclub that led to criminal possession of a weapon charges and his suspension for the rest of the regular season and the playoffs for conduct detrimental to the team.  |
| 16,000 Coconuts cover Rio beach in protest on violence Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:40 PM CST "The coconuts represent the 16,000 people that were assassinated in the state of Rio in the past two years." Rio is one of Brazil's most dangerous cities and suffers from frequent confrontations between drug gangs and the police in the city's notorious slums.  |
| Vatican condemns IVF in bio-ethics review Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:30 PM CST In its most authoritative declaration on bio-ethics for more than 20 years, the Vatican yesterday reinforced its hostility to a wide range of techniques and treatments that have become available in recent decades. They included IVF, embryonic stem cell research, the morning-after pill and the contraceptive drug mifepristone.  |
| Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:20 PM CST An unpublished federal history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts the effort as crippled by poor planning, waste and deception, leading to a $100 billion failure.  |
| Klitschko KOs Rahman In Seventh Posted: 14 Dec 2008 02:10 PM CST Wladimir Klitschko has defended his IBF heavyweight crown by stopping American Hasim Rahman in the seventh round at SAP Arena.  |
| How police shooting of a teenager rallied the €700Generation Posted: 14 Dec 2008 01:38 PM CST The teenagers and twenty-somethings who have come close to toppling the Greek government are not the marginalised: this is no replay of the riots that convulsed Paris in 2005. Many are sons and daughters of the middle classes, shocked at the killing of one of their own, disgusted with the government's incompetence and corruption  |
| ESPN-Atlanta End Lebron And Cav's 11 Game Win Streak Posted: 14 Dec 2008 01:30 PM CST LeBron James hits for 33 but Cav's 11 game win streak comes to an end.  |
| Briton 'sleepwalks' to his death off hotel balcony. Posted: 14 Dec 2008 01:20 PM CST A holidaymaker died after sleepwalking out of a second-floor bedroom window, an inquest heard.  |
| APOD Zodiacal Light Over New Mexico Posted: 14 Dec 2008 01:10 PM CST  |
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| Rooms - A Human Body Shop - Interactive Feature Posted: 14 Dec 2008 12:48 PM CST A 360-degree tour of Madame Tussauds' repair room, where waxed immortals go for tune-ups after being ravaged by the crowds.  |
| December's tally: 115,416 job cuts so far Posted: 14 Dec 2008 12:20 PM CST Including yours truly. And more every day.  |
| PC World: Dr. Libshitz Can't Get an E-Mail Address Posted: 14 Dec 2008 12:00 PM CST If there's a subset of letters in your name that looks vulgar, you could be denied an e-mail address or a domain name. In an age where amateur action may be more accessible than early American literature, some families are finding that Internet service providers have drawn the line on obscenity at a rather surprising place -- their own names.  |
| Report: Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail Posted: 14 Dec 2008 11:59 AM CST Eric Hand reports on the short life and hard times of the little Mars lander that sort-of-could.  |
| Diggnation makes it to the Washington Post Posted: 14 Dec 2008 11:58 AM CST The latest Diggnation show made it the Washington Post, showing that the podcast is becoming more mainstream everyday  |
| DIY Plastic Soda bottle lifesavers catch on with Coast Guard Posted: 14 Dec 2008 11:57 AM CST TAKAMATSU, Kagawa Pref. (Kyodo) Regional Japan Coast Guard offices have started introducing inexpensive lifesavers made with used plastic bottles instead of using expensive lifesaver vests... A brand-new lifesaver costs ¥5,000 to ¥20,000 depending on the size, but one made from plastic bottles only costs about ¥200.  |
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