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| Valve: Pirates Are Just Underserved Customers Posted: 17 Jan 2009 09:00 PM CST At the Game Business Law summit at SMU's law school today, Valve's Jason Holtman addressed the business models behind the company's popular Steam service. Valve talked about Steam, digital distribution and the PC market. Interestingly, Valve sees pirates as "tons of undiscovered customers."  |
| Young Pirates get Government Funding Posted: 17 Jan 2009 08:40 PM CST Ung Pirat, the youth organization of the Swedish Pirate Party received over 1.3 million Krona from the Swedish government yesterday. The money - government funding to political youth organizations - was heavily criticized by anti-piracy lobbyists.  |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST Well, those prudes in Tampa got their way, and the Lingerie Bowl won't be tainting their apparently pure city. Instead a nudist resort in Pasco County stepped in and saved the day. The joint is appropriately called the Caliente Clothing Optional Resort, which should fair well for the Miami Caliente team.  |
| How Captain Chesley Sullenberger's skill saved 155 lives Posted: 17 Jan 2009 07:50 PM CST As Flight 1549 hit the Hudson River yesterday, Captain Sullenburger managed to hold the aircraft steady. In the ensuing panic, he was then last to get off the plane after searching it twice for any remaining passengers.  |
| 8 Years Of Bush in 8 Minutes! -- Keith Olbermann Posted: 17 Jan 2009 07:30 PM CST A whirlwind of the last 8 years under George W. Bush that has left so much demolished.  |
| Caught: Belkin Pays 65 Cents For Fake Good Reviews on Amazon Posted: 17 Jan 2009 07:20 PM CST Users are paid 65 cents for every positive review they leave on an Amazon.com listing for a Belkin router which has consistently gotten bad reviews in the past from users who say that the product is "loaded with Bugs, goes on & off whenever it feels like, and comes at a hefty price."  |
| Dear Sir Obama - Presidential Advice Posted: 17 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST Children write letters to President-elect Barack Obama, expressing their thoughts and hopes and even giving advice. These are real letters, from children who attend programs at the various 826 programs nationwide.  |
| Crunch 'cost Arabs $2.5 trillion' Posted: 17 Jan 2009 07:00 PM CST The global economic crisis has cost Arab countries $2,500bn (£1,690bn) in the last four months alone, according to Kuwait's foreign minister.  |
| Hulu CEO on 'It's Always Sunny': We screwed up royally Posted: 17 Jan 2009 07:00 PM CST On the sudden removal of 3 seasons of full episodes of ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'': "We gave no notice to our users that these episodes would be coming off the service. We screwed up royally. We have just re-posted all of the episodes that we had previously removed."  |
| Cambodia: Where Sweatshops Are A Dream Posted: 17 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST Before Barack Obama and his team act on their talk about "labor standards," I'd like to offer them a tour of the vast garbage dump here in Phnom Penh.  |
| Humpback Special Ops dude...Maui, Hawaii, recon...Top Secret Posted: 17 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST Photographer: KenHeld  |
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| Online gamers in China must soon register with real names Posted: 17 Jan 2009 05:40 PM CST The Chinese Government will soon begin a mandatory program which will see all online video game players registering their real information for anti-addiction monitoring purposes.  |
| Did dark energy give us our cosmos? Posted: 17 Jan 2009 05:20 PM CST OUR universe may have arisen from seeds preserved in a universe that existed before the big bang - all thanks to dark energy.One of the models put forward to explain how the universe began proposes that it is just the latest phase in a never-ending cycle.  |
| Star of 'Notorious' Spotted at Movie Theatre Shooting Posted: 17 Jan 2009 05:10 PM CST Police evacuated The Grand 18 Four Seasons Station cinemas Friday just after 9 p.m. after a shooting. According to police, a gun went off in a theater hallway. Jamal Woolard, the star of "Notorious" a film about the life and death of rapper Christopher 'Biggie' Wallace, was at the theatre.  |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2009 05:00 PM CST I bet the fastest ones are extra crispy.  |
| Top Saudi cleric: OK for 10 year old girls to be wed [WTF?] Posted: 17 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST The debate over the controversial practice of child marriage in Saudi Arabia was pushed back into the spotlight this week, with the kingdom's top cleric saying that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed. "A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she's too young are wrong and they are being unfair to her."  |
| Historic Failure: Bush's Final Approval Rating is at 22% Posted: 17 Jan 2009 04:40 PM CST President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS news/NY Times poll showing Mr. Bush's final approval rating at 22 percent. His final approval rating is the lowest final rating for an outgoing president since Gallup began asking about presidential approval more than 70 years ago.  |
| Apple working on 15-inch MacBook Air, says blog Posted: 17 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST A Chinese-language blog with a debatable track record claims Apple is working on a 15-inch MacBook Air with more information to come in the "second half" of this year.  |
| Five Concept Cars That Shook Detroit (w/PICS & VIDEO) Posted: 17 Jan 2009 04:10 PM CST With so much riding on the survival of the Detroit-based manufacturers in the short term, you would think that the North American International Auto Show, which has a long history of concept-heavy debuts, would see a dearth of dream cars. While this may not be a banner year for show cars, there were still plenty of significant forward-thinking....  |
| Man Survives After 12cm Knife Thrust Deep Into Head Posted: 17 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST A MAN who walked into a hospital emergency room with a 12cm blade buried in his head says he was stabbed by his father. This amazing x-ray picture, obtained by Central European News, shows the blade plunged deep into his skull.  |
| Peanut Butter Probe Expands,Salmonella Contaminant Confirmed Posted: 17 Jan 2009 03:50 PM CST The latest national food safety investigation took on new urgency Friday as federal officials confirmed salmonella contamination at a Georgia facility that ships peanut products to 85 food companies. On Capitol Hill, the House Energy and Commerce Committee requested records as it opened its own inquiry.  |
| Genetic testing: Do you really want to know? Posted: 17 Jan 2009 03:30 PM CST An individual's genetic code is becoming an open book thanks to kits that scan for genes linked to traits and diseases, from cancer and baldness to infertility and memory loss.  |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST A Lithuanian debt collector has hired a witch to hunt down companies and individuals who are failing to pay their debts amid the credit crunch.  |
| Japanese Father Arrested for Impersonating Son During Exam Posted: 17 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST A 54-year-old Japanese father was arrested after he tried to help his son pass an exam by impersonating the young man and taking the test for him, police said Thursday. The father, who was not named, put on glasses and straightened his hair to look more like the picture on his son's identity card, said Masaaki Nakamori, a police official said.  |
| Laws of Attraction: Why Him? Why Her? Posted: 17 Jan 2009 03:00 PM CST After sifting through an enormous pile of research literature, she concludes that four chemicals play leading roles in determining who we are and who we're drawn to: two sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen; and two neurotransmitters, dopamine and serotonin.  |
| How to create your own Firefox theme Posted: 17 Jan 2009 02:50 PM CST With a seemingly endless collection of add-ons, extensions and extras, Firefox is one of the most customisable browsers. But you can take your customisations even further by changing the graphics and adding your own add-ons and extensions.  |
| NYC adds man's cancer death to 9/11 victims' toll Posted: 17 Jan 2009 02:40 PM CST NEW YORK (AP) -- A man who died of lymphoma and lung disease more than seven years after he was exposed to toxic dust from the World Trade Center collapse was added to the Sept. 11 death toll, the New York City medical examiner said Friday.  |
| Lance Armstrong "Nervous" Before Staging Comeback Down Under Posted: 17 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST Lance Armstrong talks about his comeback and expectations for the Tour Down Under.  |
| KKK Asshats Call for Boycott of Hallmark Posted: 17 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST In a move that's sure to cost Hallmark tens of dollars, members of the Ku Klux Klan are asking white Americans to boycott all purchases from the greeting card company for "trying to corrupt the morality of Americans by offering gay/lesbian wedding and greeting cards."  |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST They have the oomph to set the track on fire. Take a look at these gorgeous girls having fun on the F1 race circuit.  |
| Sources: Obama ready to end harsh interrogations Posted: 17 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans.  |
| 17 Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential. Posted: 17 Jan 2009 01:50 PM CST There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it's totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.  |
| Barack Obama gets his own...cognac? Posted: 17 Jan 2009 01:30 PM CST This is interesting, to say the least.  |
| Will Nintendo shoot down Duck Hunt for the iPhone? Posted: 17 Jan 2009 01:10 PM CST I vividly remember my first video game system, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and the games that came with it: Super Mario Brother and Duck Hunt. Now I can recapture my youth on my iPhone because some developers have made a port of Duck Hunt for the device.  |
| Silicon Valley comes up with Animated 3-D movie. Posted: 17 Jan 2009 01:00 PM CST Soon, a new animated movie will hit theaters with big ties to Silicon Valley. It's not your traditional 3-D.  |
| Intel profits down 90% despite Atom boost Posted: 17 Jan 2009 01:00 PM CST Intel may be powering a new generation of netbooks with its low-cost, low-power Atom processor, but it's not getting rich as a result.  |
| 5 Ways the Cellphone Will Change How You Listen to Music Posted: 17 Jan 2009 12:40 PM CST The portable music revolution has only been with us for a few years, but we may already be on the cusp of the another paradigm shift: With smartphones becoming commoditized -- and with so many excellent music apps being designed for them -- it's becoming viable to leave your MP3 player at home and tune into the cloud.  |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2009 12:20 PM CST Photographer: Paul Tuttle  |
| Designer Valentino hit with the record of all fines: $43 mil Posted: 17 Jan 2009 12:10 PM CST Italy tax office has fined fashion designer Valentino 33 million euros (aprox $43 million US), rejecting his claim that he had transferred residence to London 10 years ago, the weekly Diva reported.  |
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