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01/06/2009 04:40 PM
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CNN's Sanjay Gupta to be named Surgeon General
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President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.
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01/06/2009 04:30 PM
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Lottery 'misprints' cost man $135,000
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A Toronto-area man who won $135,000 on four scratch-off lottery tickets has been told they were printing mistakes, and he won't be given the prizes.
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01/06/2009 04:20 PM
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Macworld 2009: Macworld through the years
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From iPhone to iMac, we look back over the innovations Apple has announced at previous Macworlds.
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01/06/2009 04:10 PM
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Democrats' Factions Could Stall Grand Plans
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Democrats are touting grand plans as the new Congress sweeps into town. But they face serious obstacles, starting with the party itself, which is hardly unified.
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01/06/2009 04:01 PM
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Australia Destroying Life On Earth Says NASA
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Australia's use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama. In the letter he says: "Australia exports coal and sets atmospheric carbon dioxide goals so large as to guarantee destruction of much of the life on the planet"
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01/06/2009 03:50 PM
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Asian Designers Are Schooling American Architects
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Renowned Asian designers now helm two of the U.S.'s traditionally Eurocentric architecture schools. Here's what they're teaching the new generation of American architects.
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01/06/2009 03:40 PM
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Survey Says U.S. Marine Corps Full of Drunk and Horny Teens
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UCSF scientists tested and surveyed 2,157 female U.S. Marine recruits with an average age of 19. Researchers found that the young women were more than twice as likely as non-military young women to be infected with venereal diseases. And the recruits were prone to engage in behaviors likely to get them sick again...
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01/06/2009 03:31 PM
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Skier Hangs Upside Down..Naked...for 15 minutes (SFW)
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JANUARY 6--In a bizarre incident that will surely lead to litigation (or an out-of-court settlement), a skier at Colorado's ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Friday morning. The January 2 mishap apparently occurred after the male skier and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin.
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01/06/2009 03:31 PM
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The Top 7... Biggest drunks in games
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To celebrate the wonder of liquid refreshment of an alcoholic nature, here's a list of gaming’s biggest drunks and the perils and pitfalls each have faced thanks to their passion for hops, spirits and wines.
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01/06/2009 03:12 PM
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Tourist Slips From Paragliding Harness, Plunges 200ft
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A British man plunged to his death in a paragliding accident in Argentina when he slipped loose from his harness.
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01/06/2009 03:02 PM
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Skype 2.8 for Mac to Launch Tuesday... with Screen-Sharing!
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Available only for Mac OS X at first, the new version will add screen-sharing capabilities to the app's voice, video, and chat communications features.
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01/06/2009 02:50 PM
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Five Ways the World Can End
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Five Ways the World Can End, Asteroid impact? Massive volcanoes? How about a passing black hole? There's lots of ways to destroy the Earth.
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01/06/2009 02:40 PM
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The Best and Worst Jobs in the U.S.
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Mathematicians landed the top spot in a new study ranking the best and worst jobs in the U.S. A look at how other occupations fared.
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01/06/2009 02:30 PM
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Seven Foods to Power Your Libido
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Healthy blood flow is the key to a strong erection, so it's natural that what prevents diabetes and stroke will also prevent erectile dysfunction. You know the drill: Fill up on fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains... and lay off the stuff that clogs your arteries. Beyond these basics, the foods below will help keep you going strong.
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01/06/2009 02:22 PM
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Mars Orbiter, Offers a Peak at Mars' Wrinkles
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Last month, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter wrapped up its two-year primary science phase, and Mars geologists are wallowing in a bounty of data.Images taken by the camera, able to see features down to about a yard in size, have revealed details like rippled textures in what had looked like bland dusty regions.
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01/06/2009 02:10 PM
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Senator Al Franken PWNS Ann Coulter
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01/06/2009 02:00 PM
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Mystery of the "Yellow Line": First Down TV Marker Explained
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If you have ever wondered how they make the digital yellow line that marks the first down on college and NFL football games, then this is the video for you. The process is broken down from the camera to the software.
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01/06/2009 01:50 PM
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Strange,Weird And Mysterious Sounds That Come From The Earth
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The earth is full of sounds ... Here is a list of weird “sonic mysteries” that come from our Earth.(includes some audio)
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01/06/2009 01:40 PM
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NEW: StarCraft 2 Screens [PICS]
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We're posting these new StarCraft II screens with much reservation. After all, someone out there woke up this morning with no intention to die. But, having seen these new depictions of war-waging micro machines, this someone has triggered an inescapable obsession....
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01/06/2009 01:31 PM
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Is It Possible For DNA To Have Telepathic Properties?
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Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA.
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01/06/2009 01:30 PM
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What’s Behind Phil Schiller keynote? Joy of Tech Fills us in
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Check out this great piece of satire by the talented folks over at JoyOfTech which gives us a sneak peek at what’s going on behind the scenes in preparation for Phil Schiller’s upcoming keynote. You gotta love Jobs sitting on a thrown below the mainstage as lions circle around.
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01/06/2009 01:20 PM
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Pink Iguana That Darwin Missed Holds Evolutionary Surprise
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For iguanas, it turns out that it's not easy being pink, either.Biologists report that a rare type of pink iguana found on a single volcano in the Galapagos Islands is a genetically-distinct species from its green cousins — and that it's probably critically endangered.
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01/06/2009 01:10 PM
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Windows 7 Beta: First Impressions
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It's probably not an exaggeration to say that Windows 7 is Microsoft's most important release of its operating system in a decade. That's not necessarily because of its advances, or what it does for Windows users, but rather because of what it means for Microsoft as a company.
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01/06/2009 01:10 PM
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Macworld 2009 Keynote Live Coverage at Macrumours HACKED
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OMG, pwned!
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01/06/2009 01:00 PM
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Popping Smart Pills: the Case for Cognitive Enhancement
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Using Adderall, Ritalin, modafinil, and other performance-raising medications has become commonplace enough that a group of seven leading bioethicists and neuroscientists published an editorial in the scientific journal Nature last month advocating the use of performance-boosting drugs.
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01/06/2009 01:00 PM
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Debian 5 release approaches... binary blobs included
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The developers behind the Debian Linux distribution have voted to proceed with the release of the next major version despite ongoing controversy over the inclusion of binary firmware in the kernel.
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01/06/2009 12:50 PM
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Eyewitness in Gaza: 'People Are Being Killed in Their Homes'
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Gaza's hospitals are said to be at a breaking point, with medical supplies running low and paramedics among the many attacked. Western media have not been allowed into Gaza so far to witness and report on the situation there. Here is an eyewitness account of conditions on the ground in Gaza.
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01/06/2009 12:40 PM
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Atheist buses denying God's existence take to streets
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Atheist adverts declaring that "there's probably no God" have been placed on 800 buses around Britain after an unprecedented fundraising campaign.
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01/06/2009 12:30 PM
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Clever and Creative Billboard Advertising (PICS)
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Creative uses of billboards in advertising campaigns by various companies.
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01/06/2009 12:20 PM
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Ass Kicked, Ann Coulter's "Today" Show Appearance Canceled
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NBC had come under fire for booking Coulter to promote her new smear-book, _Guilty_, on the "Today" show. Coulter, long suspected of being a penis-retaining transvestite, is now pouting, but lied and smeared from her blog, saying "I guess this ends the 'they just want to get ratings' argument about liberal media bias."
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01/06/2009 12:10 PM
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Hyundai: Lost Your Job? Return Your Car, No Additional Cost
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Dubbed the Hyundai Assurance Program, the South Korean automaker said that people who finance or lease a new Hyundai during the next 12 months can return the car if they “experience an involuntary loss of income” within one year of the purchase date.
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01/06/2009 12:10 PM
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Twitter Phishers Also Targeting Facebook
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The phishing site that was set up to hoodwink Twitter's users has a second front door that looks exactly like Facebook. The address of the fake Twitter site was twitter.access-login.com/login, but take out the "/login" part and you arrive at the dead-ringer for the Facebook homepage.
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01/06/2009 12:00 PM
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Toyota Shuts Down Plants in Japan
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Toyota reeling from its worst U.S. sales decline in more than a quarter of a century, will shut all its factories in Japan for 11 days as the global economic slump hits demand and company profits.
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01/06/2009 11:51 AM
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Apple intros 17" MacBook Pro
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17" MBP!?
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01/06/2009 11:41 AM
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Steelers’ James Harrison is AP Defensive Player of Year
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The linebacker who had a career-high 16 sacks, setting a team record, and led the NFL with a career-high seven forced fumbles, beat Dallas’ DeMarcus Ware in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters announced Monday. Pittsburgh defense was the league’s stingiest in total defense, pass defense and points allowed.
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01/06/2009 11:30 AM
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5 Celebrity Wikipedia Entries They Clearly Wrote Themselves
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What's great, and terrible, about Wikipedia is that anyone can edit it. Anyone--including the person the Wikipedia entry is about. This becomes obvious when looking at the pages of certain washed-up celebrities, and the results are equal parts hilarious and sad.
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01/06/2009 11:21 AM
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Twitter Hack Trail Leads To 'DigitalGangster'
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It all seems to point back to one person that goes by “Gmz” on a hacker site called Digital Gangster (this site was also where Miley Cyrus photos were posted after they were taken from her hacked Gmail account). Gmz obtained the account credentials and then posted them on DigitalGanster.
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01/06/2009 11:10 AM
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Kid Given Winter Classic Hockey Stick, "Security" Steals It
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As the Red Wings left the field, one of them, Henrik Zetterberg, made eye contact with the 14-year-old. "He kind of winked," Plew said. "Then he gave me his stick."What happened next is just sick.
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01/06/2009 10:51 AM
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iTunes goes DRM free
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While Phil hasn't mentioned it in the keynote just yet, it looks like iTunes might be getting a big catalog overhaul, with most major labels finally offering up DRM free tunes. Previously purchased songs are now upgradable for the same old price of $0.30 a song.
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01/06/2009 10:40 AM
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Faster than the Speed of Light? A New Theory Says, "Yes"
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Magueijo, a 40-year old native of Portugal, puts forth the heretical idea that in the very early days of the universe light traveled faster—an idea that if proven could dethrone Einstein and forever change our understanding of the universe.
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