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| Golfers' Hearing At Risk From 'Sonic Boom' Of New Clubs Posted: 04 Jan 2009 09:00 PM CST Golfers face going deaf from the "sonic boom" created when their clubs strike the ball, doctors have warned.  |
| Green Algae Bloom Process Could Stop Global Warming Posted: 04 Jan 2009 08:50 PM CST A team of UK scientists have discovered a natural process that could delay, or even end, the threat of global warming.  |
| Atlanta Falcons' Mike Smith named AP's coach of year Posted: 04 Jan 2009 08:40 PM CST Mike Smith of the Atlanta Falcons has edged Tony Sparano of the Miami Dolphins by one vote Sunday for The Associated Press 2008 NFL Coach of the Year award.  |
| Replica: Only person who can beat you is.. you Posted: 04 Jan 2009 08:30 PM CST Ever tried playing yourself in a flash game? Well this is what this game is all about. It's an addictive game that makes you plan your movements in advanced to stay alive!  |
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| When Tech Support Goes Horribly Wrong Posted: 04 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST Hilarious video from Cracked.com  |
| New treatment could prove instant hangover cure Posted: 04 Jan 2009 08:00 PM CST A bloodstream 'cleaner' which could save thousands of lives a year by quickly disabling poisons has been invented by British scientists, and and may even provide an instant hangover cure.  |
| What Your Cat Does When You Sleep Posted: 04 Jan 2009 07:40 PM CST Ever wonder what cats do while we're asleep? This guy did, so he set up a time lapse camera to find out. Turns out cats spend the night climbing on us.  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST Made in...  |
| Infamous Abu Ghraib Soldier: "I Wouldn't Change Anything" Posted: 04 Jan 2009 07:00 PM CST Pfc. Lynndie England became a focal point of the Abu Ghraib scandal when she was pictured in graphic photos, including one that showed her smiling and posing with nude prisoners stacked in a pyramid. "I wouldn't want to go back and change anything," she says. "We thought it was unusual, weird and wrong, but the example was already set."  |
| Why We Take Risks? It's the Dopamine Dummy Posted: 04 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST If risk-taking behavior looks like addiction, there may be a biological reason for that: both behaviors involve the brain's feel-good chemical, dopamine.  |
| Music sales boom, but albums fizzle for '08 Posted: 04 Jan 2009 06:40 PM CST Is anyone surprised that album sales - the music industry's main source of revenue - dropped for a fourth year?  |
| Trojan Blocks The Pirate Bay and Mininova Posted: 04 Jan 2009 06:30 PM CST A new trojan popped up at several torrent sites a few weeks ago, one that blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, while informing its victims that "downloading is wrong." The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.  |
| Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue' Posted: 04 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST A university professor who is an expert in sound and a part-time DJ believes Stonehenge was created as a dance arena for listening to "trance-style" music.  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST 25 years on from the birth of GNU, we pick the brains of three Linux luminaries.  |
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| California Plans to Crack Down on Power-Hungry Flat Screens Posted: 04 Jan 2009 05:40 PM CST Starting in 2011, state regulators want retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient models of power hungry LCD and plasma sets. The industry opposes the new rules and warns of higher prices.  |
| Israeli forces bisect Gaza, surround biggest city (AP) Posted: 04 Jan 2009 05:30 PM CST Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas gained momentum.  |
| Awesome Flickr Mashup - Click country to see amazing pics Posted: 04 Jan 2009 05:20 PM CST earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a month!  |
| Did Palin abuse power yet again for future son-in-law Posted: 04 Jan 2009 05:10 PM CST tic of Gov. Sarah Palin claimed the Alaska politician may have once again abused her power to obtain an apprenticeship for her soon-to-be son-in-law Levi Johnston.  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2009 05:00 PM CST If your family is like most, everyone is seriously sleep deprived. A study from the CDC found that only 1 out of 3 Americans gets enough sleep all month long. And 16 percent of adults get less than six hours per night, says the National Sleep Foundation. That's well short of the seven to eight hours needed to ward off obesity, high blood pressure,  |
| Freshman Girl Earns Right to Try Out for Baseball Team Posted: 04 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST An Indiana girl would be allowed to try out for the high school baseball team under an agreement reached after her family filed a federal lawsuit over an Indiana High School Athletic Association rule that barred her from trying out.  |
| You're good boy, but please don't do it again! Posted: 04 Jan 2009 04:40 PM CST  |
| More bedbugs are biting in Cincinnati Posted: 04 Jan 2009 04:30 PM CST Reporting from Cincinnati -- In this Ohio city, it seems, it really is tough to stop the bedbugs from biting. When complaints about the bloodsucking insects first trickled in to Cincinnati's public health department three years ago, officials assumed it was an anomaly -- or perhaps the overactive imagination of a bug-phobic public.  |
| Rhys Millen's Truck Backflip - New Year's Eve 2008 (VIDEO) Posted: 04 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.  |
| Where You Sit On A Bus Can Define Your Personality Posted: 04 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Where you sit on a bus can define your personality, according to a psychologist. Forward-minded people tend to sit at the front of the top deck, according to Dr Tom Fawcett of Salford University, the independent-minded in the middle and those with a rebellious streak at the rear.  |
| Pakistan suicide bombing kills six Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:50 PM CST A small explosion struck a cafe in northwestern Pakistan Sunday evening and, as police gathered to investigate, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, killing six people, according to local police and the town's mayor.  |
| Coffee Beans As The Next Great Auto Fuel? Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:40 PM CST Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno, researching the prospect of extracting oil from used coffee grounds report that the process is not that difficult.  |
| Bullies Exist in The Animal Kingdom Too (Poor Fella) Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:30 PM CST  |
| Frugality is cool in the cash-strapped US Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST In the grip of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, America has undergone radical changes. Greed is no longer good and luxury is a shameful word. Paul Harris in New York analyzes the tests facing the new president of a shattered nation.  |
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| British couple has 'black-and-white twins' twice Posted: 04 Jan 2009 03:00 PM CST A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds — twice — by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and the other white. Dean Durrant's newborn daughter Miya has dark skin like him. Twin sister Leah has fair skin like her blue-eyed, red-haired mother, Alison Spooner.  |
| Soulja Boy's House Robbed at Gunpoint Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:50 PM CST Remember the Soulja Boy video where he was hanging out at his house, and six thugs armed with pistols and AK-47s busted in and robbed the place? Wait...that really happened. The incident took place at Soulja Boy's home Dec. 30. No one was injured. In a video released the next day, two masked dudes took credit and said there was only one weapon.  |
| Beautiful Moon Photography from Russia (PICS) Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:40 PM CST Back in 2005, two Russian artists, Leonid Tishkov and Boris Bendikov, created their own "Private Moon" and used it to take these breathtaking photographs.  |
| Franken Leaps to lead of 223 on Strength of Absentee Ballots Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:30 PM CST As expected, Al Franken's lead over Norm Coleman in the Minnesota recount has grown to 223, after absentee ballots that both campaigns and the office of Secretary of State agreed were improperly rejected on election night were opened and counted. The former SNL star and presumable victor in the recount led Coleman by nearly 20% among the ballots.  |
| Alien Landscape? Nope, Aurora Borealis in Greenland. Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST Stunning. Absolutely stunning.  |
| Man Can **FLY** If you watch one video in 2009, be it this. Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST This speaks for itself...Turn up your speakers. ;)  |
| Panasonic to launch world’s first fully paperless fax Posted: 04 Jan 2009 02:00 PM CST Yes, it's true that people (and especially businesses) still use fax machines, even in Japan. The market seems to be big enough to make Panasonic Japan develop what's reportedly the world's first fax machine that enables users to both send and receive messages without having to use paper.  |
| Richardson to withdraw as Commerce secretary Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:52 PM CST New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state.  |
| Huge Sonic Fan gets Ban on Hedgehogs overturned Posted: 04 Jan 2009 01:10 PM CST 11 year-old Judson King became so enamored with the blue video game character Sonic the Hedgehog, he decided he needed a real one.  |
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