| 2010-09-02 18:00 |
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Dietary supplements: The daycare snowflake silencing sleep-inducing so you can chill out medicine [Scary]
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| 2010-09-02 18:00 |
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US authorities indict eleven executives for smuggling illegal honey into the US. Oh bother [Silly]
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| 2010-09-02 17:50 |
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Pregnant woman stabs lover's wife in the head 8 times with a Sonic screwdriver [Strange]
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| 2010-09-02 17:44 |
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GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases
donniebaseball23 writes "EA's Medal of Honor reboot doesn't ship until October 12, but it's already seen a fair amount of controversy thanks to the publisher's decision to allow people to play as Taliban in multiplayer. The controversy just got escalated another notch, reports IndustryGamers, as the world's biggest games retailer GameStop has decided it won't sell the title at its stores located on US military bases. The new Medal of Honor won't be advertised at these stores either. GameStop noted that they came to this decision 'out of respect for our past and present men and women in uniform.'"...
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| 2010-09-02 17:31 |
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GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases
donniebaseball23 writes "EA's Medal of Honor reboot doesn't ship until October 12, but it's already seen a fair amount of controversy thanks to the publisher's decision to allow people to play as Taliban in multiplayer. The controversy just got escalated another notch, reports IndustryGamers, as the world's biggest games retailer GameStop has decided it won't sell the title at its stores located on US military bases. The new Medal of Honor won't be advertised at these stores either. GameStop noted that they came to this decision 'out of respect for our past and present men and women in uniform.'"...
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| 2010-09-02 16:30 |
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DNA-Less 'Red Rain' Cells Reproduce At 121 C
eldavojohn writes "A new paper up for prepublication from the controversial solid-state physicist Godfrey Louis claims that the cells Louis collected from a Keralan red rain incident divide and produce daughter cells at 121 degrees Celsius. While unusual, this is not unheard of as the paper recalls cells cultivated from hydrothermal vents are known to reproduce at 121 C as well. Of course, caution is exercised when dealing with the possible explanation surrounding the theory of panspermia but the MIT Technology Review says researchers 'examined the way these fluoresce when bombarded with light and say it is remarkably similar to various unexplained emission spectra seen in various parts of the galaxy. One such place is the Red Rectangle, a cloud of dust and gas around a young star in the Monocerous constellation.'"...
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| 2010-09-02 16:30 |
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Ohio tourists capture irrefutable proof that there be monsters off the shore of Clearwater [Florida]
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| 2010-09-02 15:40 |
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UN Telecom Chief Urges Blackberry Data Sharing
crimeandpunishment writes "The top man in telecommunications at the United Nations is weighing in on the Blackberry battle ... and he says share the data. The UN's telecom chief says governments have legitimate security concerns, and Research in Motion should give them access to its customer data. In an interview with the Associated Press, Hamadoun Toure said 'There is a need for cooperation between governments and the private sector on security issues.'"...
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| 2010-09-02 15:40 |
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There's a movement afoot on the internet to get Stephen Colbert to hold a "Restoring Truthiness" rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This could get epic [Cool]
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| 2010-09-02 15:00 |
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AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do
pickens writes "David Pogue writes in the NY Times that when you buy a new Windows PC, it comes festooned with stickers on the palm rests: one for Windows, one for Skype, one for Intel, one for the laptop company, maybe an Energy Star sticker and so on. 'It's like buying a new, luxury car — and discovering that it comes with non-removable bumper stickers that promote the motor oil, the floor mat maker, the windshield-fluid company and the pine tree air freshener you have no intention of ever using,' writes Pogue. But the worst thing is that when you peel them off, they shred, leaving adhesive crud behind. 'When you've just spent big bucks on a laptop, should you really be obligated to spend the first 20 minutes trying to dissolve away the sticker goop with WD40?' But AMD has a solution. Starting next year, AMD will switch to new stickers that peel off easily, leaving no residue; after that, it's considering eliminating the sticker program altogether."...
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| 2010-09-02 15:00 |
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See 'Miracle on the Hudson' - in Legos [Amusing]
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| 2010-09-02 14:40 |
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SAS searching for gay couple to join the mile high club [Interesting]
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| 2010-09-02 14:40 |
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Chinese officials are forcing families with the last name "Shan" to change it, because it requires a character that can't be typed in standard word-processing programs. In fact, you might say, the fit
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| 2010-09-02 14:30 |
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Police say gunman killed at Discovery Channel HQ yesterday was motivated by his hatred of shows like "Jon and Kate Plus Eight". So really, he wasn't all bad, then [Followup]
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| 2010-09-02 14:20 |
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New German Government ID Hacked By CCC
wiedzmin writes "Public broadcaster ARD's show 'Plusminus' teamed up with the known hacker organization 'Chaos Computer Club' (CCC) to find out how secure the controversial new radio-frequency (RFID) chips were. The report shows how they used the basic new home scanners that will go along with the cards (for use with home computers to process the personal data for official government business) to demonstrate that scammers would have few problems extracting personal information. This includes two fingerprint scans and a new six-digit PIN number meant to be used as a digital signature for official government business and beyond." That was quick. Earlier this year, CCC hackers demonstrated vulnerabilities in German airport IDs, too....
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| 2010-09-02 14:10 |
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Man holds intruder at bay with a grilling fork and steak knife until police arrives. Well done [Amusing]
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| 2010-09-02 14:00 |
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Walmart book section has something to (Jim) Crow about [Fail]
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| 2010-09-02 13:50 |
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Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework
eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five-page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was 'very sorry' and the judge chastised her, saying, 'You violated your oath. You had decided she was already guilty without hearing the other side.'"...
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| 2010-09-02 13:40 |
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UCLA fires a 36-year veteran professor for daring to posit that second-hand smoke effects are bunk. Teaching communism and income redistribution still A-OK [Stupid]
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| 2010-09-02 13:40 |
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Marjiuana's effect as a...umm...gateway drug are like..what's that word...overblown [Obvious]
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| 2010-09-02 13:40 |
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Woman whose car broke fall of 39th-floor jumper annoyed that she just had oil changed [Sad]
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| 2010-09-02 13:30 |
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In what must be viewed as nothing more than a strange coincidence, study finds that the highest-paid CEOS in 2009 were also the ones that fired the most employees [Sick]
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| 2010-09-02 13:20 |
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Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype
rexjoec writes "Cisco is making a bid for Skype. The deal, if successful, would derail a planned initial public offering from Skype and redraw the battle lines in the lucrative market of video communications." The rumored price is $5B....
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| 2010-09-02 13:00 |
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Being upset that your estranged wife is seeing a new man is understandable; flying to another country to stab her mother is not [Sick]
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| 2010-09-02 13:00 |
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Photoshop this bookworm [Photoshop]
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| 2010-09-02 12:35 |
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Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes
A few readers have noted that another gulf oil rig has exploded. This one is off the coast of Lousiana. So far all the workers are accounted for, but they are in immersion suits waiting for rescue....
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| 2010-09-02 12:35 |
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Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released
tlhIngan writes "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modder's hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40) development board by Atmel, and the requisite software is open-source. Get the Atmel code from GitHub and apply a small patch which will enable backup play (the code by itself only lets you run unsigned code, the patch allows for BD backups). The code is GPLv3. It would be highly ironic if someone ported this to Linux USB Gadgets, then you could use a Linux device to jailbreak your PS3, to which Sony removed Linux functionality. An Android phone would be suitable."...
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| 2010-09-02 12:00 |
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Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico just South of Lousiana explodes. This is not a repeat from April [NewsFlash]
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| 2010-09-02 11:50 |
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There's a new breed of patent troll out there [Interesting]
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| 2010-09-02 11:40 |
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Facebook Posting Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Homework
eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was 'very sorry' and the judge chastised her saying, 'You violated your oath. You had decided she was already guilty without hearing the other side.'"...
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| 2010-09-02 11:30 |
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Nose-diving hawk halts mail delivery. "The attacks got so bad that she was resorting to wearing a bicycle helmet" [Weird]
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| 2010-09-02 11:20 |
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Officer arrests man because he doesn't like his bagel with locks [Sick]
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| 2010-09-02 11:10 |
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Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret
beschra writes "BBC writes of 'terra-forming' Ascension Island, one of the islands Charles Darwin visited. He and a friend encouraged the Royal Navy to import boat loads of trees and plants in an attempt to capture the little bit of water that fell on the island. They were quite successful. The island even has a cloud forest now. From the article: '[British ecologist] Wilkinson thinks that the principles that emerge from that experiment could be used to transform future colonies on Mars. In other words, rather than trying to improve an environment by force, the best approach might be to work with life to help it "find its own way."'"...
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| 2010-09-02 11:10 |
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Showing the country is becoming more Americanized every day, Afghan government forced to bail out the country's largest bank to keep it from collapsing after it invested heavily in risky real estate v
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| 2010-09-02 11:10 |
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Your Fark-ready headline of the day: "Thieves Steal Man's Car, Money And Pants" [Strange]
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| 2010-09-02 11:00 |
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Washington hiker moves his handgun from a holster to his hip pocket to "see if it was more comfortable." It was not [Dumbass]
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| 2010-09-02 10:50 |
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Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?
rsmiller510 writes "Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apple's social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned." Of course it is....
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| 2010-09-02 10:40 |
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Allah Ackbear [Fail]
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| 2010-09-02 10:10 |
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Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance
cgriffin21 writes "Samsung is making no bones about it: Google Android is its future. And with the revealing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the company is showing that it's all in when it comes to Android. At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Samsung finally pulled the curtain of the long rumored and teased Galaxy Tab, the electronics maker's touch-screen tablet and answer to the Apple iPad."...
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| 2010-09-02 10:00 |
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Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved [Dumbass]
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| 2010-09-02 09:50 |
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Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website
An anonymous reader writes "It appears that Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones and her lawyer were so upset by a comment on the site TheDirty.com that they missed the 'y' at the end of the name. Instead, they sued the owner of TheDirt.com, whose owner didn't respond to the lawsuit. The end result was a judge awarding $11 million, in part because of the failure to respond. Now, both the owners of TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com are complaining that they're being wrongfully written about in the press — one for not having had any content about Sarah Jones but being told it needs to pay $11 million, and the other for having the content and having the press say it lost a lawsuit, even though no lawsuit was ever actually filed against it."...
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| 2010-09-02 09:10 |
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Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang
Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that in his new book, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes. "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." Hawking had previously appeared to accept the role of God in the creation of the universe. Writing in his bestseller A Brief History Of Time in 1988, Hawking wrote: "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God.""...
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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The editorial lessons taught by the now-dead gunman who took hostages at the Discovery Channel today.
Rarely in my long, sweet life as a press critic have I knocked a newspaper or a news channel or a magazine for "over-covering" a subject. Oh, I may have sighed and changed the channel when I had heard just about enough about the unsolved disappearance of Natalee Holloway or the swift-boat business or the birther stuff. But my instincts have long been to judge the quality of the work of my peers and worry less about its conciseness.[more ...]......
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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Google Sued Over Nexus One 3G Connectivity Problems, Misleading Claims
On Tuesday, Google was slapped with a breach of contract class action lawsuit alleging that its Nexus One smartphone failed to maintain 3G connectivity and that the Mountain View company not only made misleading claims about the products capabilities but also failed to adequately support customers in search of answers.Plaintiff Nathan Nabors of Florida is seeking damages and class action interest on behalf of residents of his home state as well as California who have bought the Nexus One since its January d......
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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New default view setting on Digg (My News or Top News)
New addition: You can set your default view of Digg to My News or Top News http://digg.com/settings/preferences......
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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New Apple TV The Most Popular Release Today For Jobs
At the 2,271 tweets per minute max rate recorded during a minute of pure Apple TV hype (we assume that that was the $99 moment), Apple was racking up some 38 tweets per second, or 136,260 per hour.......
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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The Geography of Sex (Infographic)
So Iceland is cold..Well guess what, they also have the highest frequency of sex per year. As for the U.S, it turns out that some cities are hotbeds for love-making, whilst others are less than lustful. Check out this infograhic about the geography of sex.......
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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St Jarnan footballers celebrate goal with 'human toilet'
Another creative goal celebration from the players of Icelandic club.......
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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Yes, iTunes 10 Is Finally Here. Get Downloading
If you're anything like me, you've been hitting refresh on the Apple iTunes website waiting for them to put iTunes 10 up for download. Sure, it has said it was available since this morning, but when you click through, it would still be iTunes 9.2.1 with a promise that iTunes 10 was......
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| 2010-09-02 09:00 |
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Apple Announces Music Social Media Service: Ping | Driven Far Off
Apple today, at their annual music event, announced new iPods and an updated version of iTunes that includes a new social media service called Ping. iTunes 10, which is available now, features Ping which add social media capabilities to iTunes where you can can join friends in discovering new music and even follow your favorite artist and see what .........
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