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| Drunk Driving while 8 months pregnant Posted: 01 Apr 2009 06:00 PM PDT An eight-months pregnant Fort Wayne woman was arrested early Saturday morning for drinking and driving, her second such arrest in 2009, state police said in a news release today.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:50 PM PDT Michigan's governor says her state's future is battery-powered.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:50 PM PDT Greenpixels/IGN - From PS2's 'Stretch Panic' which is ostensibly about tugging on enormous breasts to Nintendo's 'Elite Beat Agent's' about male cheerleaders, IGN's team breaks down the strangest games out there.  |
| HHS nominee Kathleen Sebelius pays over $7,000 in back taxes Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:50 PM PDT Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has paid back taxes and interest of more than $7,800 stemming from "unintentional errors" revealed during her accountant's review of recent tax returns.  |
| Samsung introduces Mondi, first WiMax Mobile Internet Device Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT [PICS] Called the Mondi, the touchscreen, pocket-sized device is designed for use on the Clear mobile WiMax network from Clearwire, Samsung officials announced on Tuesday evening.  |
| Linux : Fedora: Chronicle of a Server Break-in. Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT In August 2008, the Fedora team noticed irregularities on its server. Project leader Paul W. Frields has now released a detailed report of the break-in. Paul Frields's Update and Report on Fedora August 2008 Intrusion on the fedora-announce-list reads like a detective novel. It all started on August 12, 2008, when a cron job on a Fedora host repo  |
| DoJ to Drop All Charges Against Former Sen. Ted Stevens Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT NPR has learned that the Justice Department will drop all charges against former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska. According to DoJ officials, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to drop the case against Stevens rather than continue to defend the conviction in the face of persistent problems stemming from the actions of prosecutors.  |
| Thailand: The Future Home of Stem Cell Research Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT In a skyscraper high above Bangkok, a fingerprint scanner bleeps, glass doors slide open and female technicians enter a humming lab. One unseals a cold storage tub marked "Thai StemLife," sending white vapors billowing upwards. Another worker palms a small container filled with purplish goo.  |
| id Software launches the World of Quake Live Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT Today id Software has unveiled the new Quake Live to the public in, The World of Quake Live, WoQL (Wokle). Changes include the addition of epic 4 weapon-slot Orbb mounts, and a new leveling system. Don't forget to read the fine print.  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT The Internet is a breeding ground for hoaxes. To celebrate April 1st, here are seven of my all-time favorite hoaxes.  |
| Microsoft's Negative Brand Image Gets Worse Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT Would you like the iPhone as much as you do if it came from Redmond instead of Cupertino?  |
| 10 stories that could be April Fools... but aren't Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT CheerleadersComing to a PE lesson near youIt's the day when some news stories are a little bit "out there", when jokers spring traps to make fools of the rest of us. But not every weird report is an April Fool. Here is a round-up of some of the day's seemingly hoax news stories which are actually true.  |
| Have the tobacco police gone too far? Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT I'VE been called a traitor," says Michael Siegel, a public-health doctor at Boston University in Massachusetts. "It's been a character assassination." This treatment seems surprising as, reading Siegel's CV, you'd think he was a poster boy for the anti-smoking movement.  |
| Can NBC Brand itself as the Green Network? Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT Would you watch a TV network just because it is somehow "greener" than the others? NBC Universal is betting on it. The company claims that polls show that its reputation as a green network is recognized among 82% of viewers. While this reputation hasn't translated into high ratings, NBC believes that advertisers are attracted to the idea  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT A nightclub leaflet showing the late Pope John Paul II holding a bottle of beer and dancing with a blonde woman has been banned.  |
| Microsoft announces single-version Windows 7 Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT Microsoft today announced that the forthcoming Windows 7 would come in just one single version, despite rumors that there would be five versions of the software. The operating system will simply be called "Windows 7." The decision was reached after customer surveys revealed that Vista's multiple versions confused customers.  |
| Flight 1549 Passenger Grateful for Life -- and Data Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT Moments after Paul Jorgensen realized the commercial jet he was aboard was about to land in the Hudson River, he turned to the passenger next to him, grabbed his arm and asked him, "Are we going to die?"  |
| Fox accuses White House of trying to impose Sharia law in US Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT No, this isn't an April Fool's joke. Fox is seriously accusing the Obama administration of seeking to impose Sharia law in the United States. Needless to say, the accusation totally false and just another example of the hate-filled paranoia and insanity of Foxaganda.  |
| Begin discussion on legalizing drugs - Leonard Pitts Jr. Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Maybe we should legalize drugs. I come neither eagerly nor easily to that maybe. Rather, I come by way of spiraling drug violence in Mexico that recently forced Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to acknowledge the role America's insatiable appetite for narcotics plays in the carnage. I come by way of watching Olympian Michael Phelps get busted.  |
| Hulu Begins Encrypting Content to Thwart Non-Browser Apps Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT It looks like Hulu's trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxxee -- TunerFreeMCE's Martin Millmore says Hulu's HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on the client...  |
| Woman calls 911: I'm locked inside my car Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT "My car will not start. I'm locked inside my car,"  |
| Facebook Takes a Dive: Why Social Networks Are Bad Business Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT There has been turmoil at Facebook and MySpace.That may be because neither one of them will ever make a cent of profit.  |
| The Definitive Sexy Pikachu Picture Gallery Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT "I never in any way, shape or form have wondered what Pikachu would look like as a hot girl. But lo and behold, one day while researching something else, I stumbled upon an usual amount of sexy Pikachu pictures, a phrase that I was pretty sure couldn't even exist. Oh, but it can."  |
| Dallas Cop Who Kept NFL's Ryan Moats From Dying Kin RESIGNS Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT After issuing a public apology last week, Robert Powell has resigned from his position with the Dallas Police Department. The announcement was made just before noon on Wednesday.  |
| 60 Minutes's Russian Cybercriminal Goof Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT The 60 Minutes segment on the Conficker Worm that aired Sunday showed villains in a group of Russian teens bent on stealing your identity and your bank account number.The Russian cyber gang was in fact a innocent Finnish youngster group. The picture has been widely circulated on the Net. "Lesley Stahl, can you PLEASE do some background work?"  |
| 6 Historical Villains Who Were Actually OK Guys Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT Sometimes in our haste to find a villain in every situation, we wind up painting some people as cackling cartoon villains when they were really just random guys, or even pretty awesome. Here are a few names you might want to give a second chance:  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT They've tried gassing it, freezing it, running over it in cars, whacking it with golf clubs and turning it into compost. But the cane toad, a horrid invasive species introduced to Australia nearly three-quarters of a century ago, has refused to croak.  |
| Texas Officially Makes The Universe Ageless Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT How old is the universe? Scientists agree that the answer is somewhere around 14 billion years... unless you happen to be a student in the state of Texas. The Texas Board of Education voted on Friday to remove the universe's age from the state's educational standards, used as source material for the state's school textbooks.  |
| Jon Stewart Nails Cable News Fear Mongers Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT What are the cable news networks doing? Find out after these words from our sponsors.  |
| Judge freezes assets of Madoff sons, executives Posted: 01 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT * Judge freezes assets of Madoff sons, execs for 1st time * Judge acts on lawsuit filed by town of Fairfield * Madoff brother fails to get assets unfrozen By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Grant McCool BOSTON/NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - A judge...  |
| Gas station owners rebel against pollution rules Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT Operators balk at having to comply with a California requirement to install costly nozzles and hoses to capture fumes. The governor calls on the Legislature to delay enforcement by a year. "enforcement flexibility is an absolute necessity to ensure against the job and financial losses that could come from stations being shut down for non-compliance  |
| Why Are We Obsessed with Happy Endings? Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT We're always being warned not to expect happy endings to the ecological, economic and political crises that beset the world, and yet when times are grim, these upbeat conclusions abound in the stories we seek out. Why are we obsessed with happy endings?  |
| Smokers, drinkers make run on stores Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Clerks at the Cox's Smokers Outlet in Old Louisville were busy last night ringing up a steady stream of customers stocking up on cigarettes before tax increases bumped up prices at midnight, with some customers buying hundreds of dollars' worth.  |
| Congress Launches Opening Gambits on Global Warming Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT The House produced a bill to regulate 85% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, anteing up for what promises to be long, high-stakes negotiations with the Senate  |
| Linux Foundation says it's time to ditch Microsoft's FAT Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:30 PM PDT Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says that Microsoft is hostile to open technologies and that product makers should ditch the company's patent-encumbered FAT filesystem.  |
| Super Talent's 2TB PCIe RAIDDrive Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:20 PM PDT These PCIe SSD drives can't arrive fast enough for our needs... ok, wants considering the thousands they cost. The latest announcement comes by way of Super Talent Technology with its new 2TB RAIDDrive. The card slips into a PCIe x8 slot and ships in Enterprise (battery backed), Workstation, and Gamer (I hope this isn't an april fools post)  |
| Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT WTF? The chomp and drown effect.  |
| My painfully poky week with IE 8 Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT There are plenty of good things about the new version of Microsoft's browser. But I found its interface sluggish.  |
| New NINE INCH NAILS album STROBE LIGHT produced by Timbalan Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT To download NIN's new full-length album Strobe Light, PRODUCED BY TIMBALAND, enter a valid email address in the fields below. A download link will be sent to you immediately.  |
| Sweet Dreams Are Made of Geomagnetic Activity Posted: 01 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT Looking for an explanation for recurring nightmares of leaving the house without your trousers on or losing your teeth? New research suggests you can blame the Earth's magnetic field, rather than a repressed childhood.  |
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