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Say It Ain't So, Bro: Tiger Tagged By Mrs Woods?
Riehl World View (subscribe) | 6 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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Tiger’s Wife Changed Her Story
BennyHollywood (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sports
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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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) | 6 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 Alleged Mistress: I Never Saw His Putter
BennyHollywood (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Celebrity
Filed under: Tiger Woods The woman accused of having an affair with Tiger Woods says she has never slept with him and calls the entire story "bulls**t."TMZ spoke with Rachel Uchitel, the woman the National Enquirer named as Woods' mistress. She said she has met Tiger before, .. -
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ObamaCare Cost Will Be Closer To 6 Trillion Dollars
Flopping Aces (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Politics
Michael F. Cannon from The Cato Institute writes about the trickery involved by Democrats in estimating how much the behemoth known as ObamaCare will cost and what the real cost of the Socialism will be: One gimmick makes the new entitlement spending appear smaller by not opening the spigot until late in the official 10-year budget [...] -
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Much less ice for polar bears, expert says (same "experts" who manufactured false data...
Chicagoray (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Sciences
Some stuff on ClimateGate this morning as the media goes into full damage control and we pushback.... Much less ice for polar bears, expert says Climate Change- msnbc.com: "updated 5:56 p.m. CT, Fri., Nov . 27, 2009 Arctic sea ice conditions are even worse than feared after a survey found that ice detected as older and thicker by satellites is actually thin and fragile, a prominent Canadian researcher... -
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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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Psystar to investors: We’ll sell up to 12 million in 3 years
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | 19 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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Paul Merhige Wanted: Man Accused Of Gunning Down Family, Executing Girl During...
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
JUPITER, Fla. -- 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. There had been "ongoing resentment" in the family, but investigators weren't sure what specifically prompted the shooting, officials said. Police were looking... -
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Ben Roethlisberger Concussion: Injury Sidelines Steelers QB
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 4 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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Tiger Woods To Discuss Car Accident With Police
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Sports
There are plenty of vivid details from the car crash that sent Tiger Woods to the hospital: His SUV hit a fire hydrant and a tree; his lips were cut and he had blood in his mouth; his wife smashed a rear window with a golf club to get him out; he briefly lost consciousness. There are also plenty of questions, among them: Where was he going at 2:25 a.m. Friday? Why was there no word from the Woods'... -
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Leaders say momentum building on climate change
Boston Globe (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | World
Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poorer countries meet its mandates. -
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Recession sends older Americans to food pantries
Tampa Bay Online (subscribe) | 7 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) | 3 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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Body of trapped spelunker won't be recovered
MSNBC.com (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | US
The popular Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed, state and county officials said Friday. -
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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) | 8 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) | 12 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









