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Say It Ain't So, Bro: Tiger Tagged By Mrs Woods?
Riehl World View (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sports
There seems to be no such thing as privacy for popular figures these days. It looks as though TMZ got to someone at the hospital where Tiger Woods was taken after his car accident. If so and if this report... -
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Twitter Japan To Introduce Paid Premium Accounts Next January
TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
The news of the day in social media land: Twitter is apparently going to start experimenting with paid premium accounts through its Japanese subsidiary ( Twicco ), which has always been a bit separated from the rest of Twitter and in many ways a playground for the company ( Groups , Twitvideo.jp ). Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge... -
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President Obama Joins NFL Players In Thanksgiving Day Ad
NewsBusters (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Did you notice a television ad during Thanksgiving's NFL football games featuring President Barack Obama? Joined by children from the Washington, D.C. area, the President and players come together for a friendly game of touch football, reminding fans about the importance of being active as part of NFL PLAY 60, the league's youth health and fitness campaign. Filmed on the White House lawn earlier this... -
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Nissan's self-healing Scratch Shield paint to be applied to mobile phones
Autoblog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Filed under: Japan , Technology , Nissan A while back, Nissan scientists helped to develop a paint clearcoat called Scratch Shield that can self-repair light scratches overnight or over the course of a week. Now the Japanese automaker is spreading the love, licensing the technology to Japan's largest wireless company, NTT DoCoMo. The clearcoat uses a special top layer of highly elastic resin that... -
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Children who front Richard Dawkins’ atheist ads are evangelicals - London Times
In The Faith (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
I think it's very funny that they chose children from a Christian family. I don't know for sure if they actually are Christian, yet, only the children know. But I don't think it's okay to label them that way. It's not gonna hurt the child. If it is the truth it will show later. If they are really not Christian it will be revealed when they get older. Also I am Christian and if it really is the truth... -
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Nokia Gets Busted Showing Off N900 SNES Emulator [Nokia]
Gizmodo (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Technology
Alright, Nokia. We know you've ben hurting since N-Gage passed away , but apparently in your despair you forgot that Nintendo wouldn't take kindly to a promo video featuring emulated SNES games. Oops! The video has since been pulled from Youtube, but the screen grab above shows how Nokia went out of their way to demonstrate how well SNES emulators run on the N900. The rub here isn't the emulator itself;...
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Tiger’s Wife Changed Her Story
BennyHollywood (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Other
Filed under: Tiger Woods Tiger Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, changed the story she told the first officer on the scene, according to law enforcement sources. The Windemere Police Department says Tiger's wife went outside, saw that her husband had struck a fire hydrant and a ... -
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MobileTechRoundup 191 – Black Friday Edition
jkOnTheRun (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
MoTR 191 is 34:55 minutes long and is a 32.1 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Who said “smartbook?” Lenovo buys back the Lenovo Mobile group they sold in 2003. Amazon upgrades Kindles, some get better battery life [...] -
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LG IQ spotted in the wild, en route to Telus
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Technology
Back in September we got our hands on some official AT&T documents which indicated that the LG Monaco, now being called the IQ, would be hitting AT&T’s lineup sometime in late November. However, as November draws to a close, we… -
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MSI Wind12 U230 packs AMD Congo CPU for lengthy runtimes
SlashGear (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
MSI’s latest ultraportable has made its debut , based on AMD’s second-gen ultrathin platform . The MSI Wind12 U230 has a 12.1-inch 1,366 x 768 HD-ready display (as well as an HDMI port), dual-core AMD Congo MV40 processor and up to 4GB of DDR2 memory; it measures a slimline 297 x 190 x 24-31 mm and tips the scales at 1.3kg. Inside, MSI have squeezed up to 320GB of storage, ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics... -
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White House Party Crashers Met With Obama Too
Gateway Pundit (subscribe) | 19 hours ago | Sports
Figures… The White House party crashers met with Obama: The Virginia couple who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a “deeply concerned and embarrassed” Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list. They also posed with [...] -
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Psystar to investors: We’ll sell up to 12 million in 3 years
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | 18 hours ago | Technology
Back in 2008 after its legal woes with Apple began, Psystar, seller of Mac clones, was seeking out the support of investors in an effort to secure $24 million to continue development, expansion and “compete directly against Apple.” The reason… - see all discussions
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Relative sought in 4 Fla. Thanksgiving killings
Tampa Bay Online (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | US
Authorities in Florida were searching Saturday for a man police said opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner and killed four people, including his pregnant sister and a 6-year-old cousin who was sleeping in her bed. -
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Ben Roethlisberger Concussion: Injury Sidelines Steelers QB
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Sports
PITTSBURGH — Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is expected to sit out Sunday night's game at Baltimore because of a concussion, an unexpected development that apparently means inexperienced Dennis Dixon would make his first NFL start. Roethlisberger practiced all week despite sustaining his fourth concussion since 2006 during a 27-24 overtime loss in Kansas City on Sunday. During his only interview... -
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Police to talk to Woods about accident
ajc.com (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sports
Top golfer was in and out of consciousness when officers arrived at scene Friday morning. -
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Recession sends older Americans to food pantries
Tampa Bay Online (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | US
Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in greater numbers for the first time after seeing retirement funds, second jobs and nest eggs wiped out by recession. -
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China Cargo Plane Crash: 3 Americans Killed
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | World
SHANGHAI — A cargo plane crashed as it took off from Shanghai's main airport Saturday, killing three American crew members and injuring four other employees after it veered off the runway and burst into flames. Three Americans on the seven-member crew died and a fourth American was injured, U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Buangan told The Associated Press. He did not know the injured person's condition.... -
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Lenovo to buy back mobile phone business
AfterDawn.com (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Technology
Lenovo , the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, has announced today that it will be purchasing back its recently sold mobile phone business, in an effort to push into the smartphone market. The company had sold the unit last year for $100 million USD to focus more on PCs but now that the "technologies are now converging," says the AP , the mobile business area is creating a "significant growth...
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Government Delays New Ban On Internet Gambling
Click World News (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Technology
The Installer writes with this quote from the Associated Press: "The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving US financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling. ... The delayed rules would curb online gambling by prohibiting financial institutions from accepting payments from credit cards, checks or electronic fund transfers... -
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U.S. Military Divorce Rate Rises As War Stress Frays Marriages
War News Updates (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | US
From The L.A. Times: The divorce rate in the armed forces increased slightly again in the last year as military marriages continued to bear the stress of the nation’s ninth year at war. In the 2009 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, there were an estimated 27,312 divorces among the nearly 765,000 married members of the active-duty Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, according to figures provided... -
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Golden Horse Awards: Maggie Cheung, Ang Lee, Leon Dai
Film Experience Blog (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Entertainment
Refresh screen periodically for updates. A nd thank you to reader Tony for sending me the news Maggie Cheung alert! She walked the carpet earlier in this white number to your left. She was presenting Best Picture at the Golden Horse Awards . The Golden Horse is Taiwanese in origin but it's for Chinese language films regardless of country of origin so it's very competitive now. Warlords and Lust, Caution... -
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Obama challenge: keep Hispanic support
Kansas City Star (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Politics
Barack Obama has erased George W. Bush's inroads among Hispanics, with these influential voters consistently giving the president exceptionally strong marks and the White House employing an aggressive strategy to keep it that way. -
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Clock is ticking on 2010 health care plan choices
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | yesterday | Health
The holidays may be starting to crowd your to-do list, but one thing you shouldn't let get buried under the tinsel is your health insurance coverage. -
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Spice Girls Musical In The Works
Splash News Online (subscribe) | 11 hours ago | Celebrity
Plans for a Spice Girls musical are reportedly under way. Geri Halliwell will be the executive producer of the show, which will tell the story of the five girls' journey and include 14 of their biggest hits. The musical, which will be called Viva Forever, will debut at London's West End Nov. 5 of next year. Related Links: The Beckham's Get A Posh Pig - see all breaking news









