22 Mar 09 Earth Hour: Power down for 60 minutes on March 28
On March 28, if the lights go off in your Cape Town hotel or, close to home, a Seattle hotel restaurant switches to candles, do not be alarmed. It’s not an electrical-grid meltdown but a global show of support.
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22 Mar 09 Man and his 2 sons beat daughter/sister to death because…
she wore make up and talked to a stranger!!!
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22 Mar 09 17 dead in a plane crash in Montana, FAA reports
BUTTE, Mont. — A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says 17 people are dead in a plane crash in Montana.
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20 Mar 09 Green is mean
12:41 PM – ګṐṀḴḜN: and the cow jumped over the moon
12:41 PM – GreenGamer: I don’t think Computer can jump that high
17 Mar 09 The Case for Letting AIG Fail
Just because the government already owns nearly 80% of AIG does not necessarily mean it should keep AIG afloat
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17 Mar 09 Moving Digg
Most Digg users probably don’t think about the technology it takes to keep Digg up and running. That’s a good thing. That means hopefully the site always loads when you want to use it and the pages load fast enough so you don’t give up and go somewhere else.
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17 Mar 09 Apple lets unfortunate logo slip
AN UNFORTUNATE LOGO which has somehow made it onto the Apple App Store appears to be a Freudian slip.
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17 Mar 09 2,670 = Drunk Driving Deaths So Far In 2009
Check out the death clock in this article, it seems to change every couple minutes or so which represents another life lost to drunk driving. If you are driving drunk you are not driving towards your destination. You are chasing death and it is right around the corner.
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17 Mar 09 MI cops shoot unarmed, 20-year-old marijuana activist
Coming through an apartment’s back door, an Ottawa County deputy allegedly shined a flashlight into the student’s face, causing him to raise his right hand in front of his eyes. The officer, whose name was not released, fired a single bullet into Derek Copp’s chest. The 20-year-old said he had no idea the man was an officer. -=W/ VIDEOS=-
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17 Mar 09 6 Year Old Boy with 176 IQ
“Pranav Veera, 6, can recite the names of the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office. He can say the alphabet backward. Give him a date back to 2000, and he’ll tell you the day of the week . . .”
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17 Mar 09 Tear of Grief: Russia’s 9/11 Memorial Gift to the USA [PIC]
10-story high sculpture given to the US by the Russian government. Located at the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor as a memorial to those that died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The large polished titanium teardrop to represent the tears in Moscow shed for the 9/11 victims. A constant flowing of water which causes the sculpture to appear to weep.
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17 Mar 09 Fuck AIG
Expressions of outrage across the political spectrum reached a new crescendo Tuesday when Sen. Charles Grassley suggested in an Iowa City radio interview that AIG executives should take a Japanese approach toward accepting responsibility for the collapse of the insurance giant by resigning or killing themselves.
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- President Obama Discusses Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law March 11, 2010Hollywood lobbyists are trying to launch an assault on Internet providers and fast track tougher anti-piracy legislation in the United States. Ari Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, says the industry has been discussing these plans with President Obama outside of the public's eye. […]
- Pirate Bay Court Appeal Set For Just After General Election March 11, 2010The four individuals convicted in The Pirate Bay trial have a preliminary date for their appeals. Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom will head to the Court of Appeal on 28 September. This date is already being claimed as politically motivated, falling as it does just after Sweden's parliamentary elections. […]
- Six BitTorrent Admins Arrested, Interpol Chase Two More March 10, 2010Following raids against a large file-sharing site in December 2009, police in Greece are engaged in an ongoing operation to close down the country's largest BitTorrent site and arrest its operators. Thus far there have been six arrests, with Interpol chasing two further admins believed to be located in The Netherlands. […]
- Comcast Funds BitStalker Anti-Piracy Research March 10, 2010Together with Cox and Warner Cable, Comcast has aided in the development of a new piracy tracking tool. Named BitStalker, researchers claim it can effectively collect evidence on millions of file-sharers with relative ease. Operators of large BitTorrent trackers have their doubts. […]
- Music Group Gets Court Injunction Against UseNeXT March 9, 2010Performing rights group GEMA has won an injunction against newsgroup outfit, UseNeXT. A court has forbidden the Usenet company from offering around 100 musical works from the GEMA repertoire and says that in the future, Usenet operators will have to take a greater responsibility for the environments and services they offer. […]
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- Karl Rove: I'm Darth Vader, Cheney Is a Sith MasterRepublican strategist Karl Rove acknowledged last night that he isn't the most popular guy in politics these days -- but he's not the only one. […]
- It's Shamrock Shake Time!Now that we’re well into March, Shamrock shakes are popping up all over the country. A little history of the delightful shake, plus a graphic showing the full spectrum of all McDonald's milkshakes. […]
- Super Stealth Plane Breaks Through Cost BarrierThe Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing today on the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and things are not looking pretty for the next-generation stealth aircraft. It now appears likely the Air Force will have to declare the program has soared past a key cost-containment barrier, in addition to being over 2 years behind schedule. […]
- The Scandalous Lawsuit Against Scott BrownScott Brown--the new star Republican Senator--was accused of harassing a female campaign worker in 1998. Did the Democrats blow an opportunity to keep their 60th Senate seat? […]
- The case for graphic images of war (SFW)Some say showing grisly photos and videos of servicemen in distress -- or dying -- violates an unwritten code. But the fact is, those people are serving in our name. […]