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Playing with the Boys
Shakespeare's Sister (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Sports
You go, girl: Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old girl with a mean, hard-to-hit, rare knuckleball has become the first female Japanese professional baseball player. Eri Yoshida was inspired to learn how to throw the knuckler after seeing a video of Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield. …Yoshida said she wants to emulate Wakefield, who has built a successful major league career throwing a knuckleball, which... -
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Zune Pass now includes 10 keeper songs per month
Gear Live (subscribe) | 51 minutes ago | Technology
Wow. The best deal in music just got a whole lot better, as Microsoft has announced that the $14.99 per month Zune Pass will now allow subscribers to download and keep 10 tracks per month, which is a $10 value. Those tracks are yours, permanently, even if your Zune Pass subscription comes to an end. Participating labels include EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music, Warner Music, and independents like... -
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Those Wacky Iranians Have Fuel For One Nuclear Bomb
Stop the ACLU (subscribe) | 35 minutes ago | World
Hmm, kinda makes the whole “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” thing sound pretty good, eh? Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors. The figures detailing [...] -
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Judge Orders Guantanamo To Release Five Terror Suspects In "Major Blow" To Bush Policy
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 59 minutes ago | Politics
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the continued detention of a sixth in a major blow to the Bush administration's strategy to keep terror suspects locked up without charges. In the first case of its kind, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said the government's evidence linking the five Algerians to al-Qaida was not credible... -
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Pakistani Prime Minister Says US Strikes Will Stop Once Obama Takes Office
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | World
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan summoned the U.S. ambassador Thursday to protest a suspected American missile strike deep inside its territory as militants threatened revenge attacks unless the cross-border raids stop. The angry response came as NATO forces in Afghanistan said Pakistan's military had responded to a request to attack insurgents on its side of the border, the latest example of what the... -
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Prop. 8 Gay Marriage Ban Heads To California Supreme Court
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules. The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that overruled the court's decision in May that legalized gay marriage....
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Napolitano Nominated To Homeland Security Department
Crooks and Liars (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
RawStory : "Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) has been chosen to serve as secretary of the vast and troubled Department of Homeland Security for President-elect Obama," Politico's Mike Allen reported late Wednesday night. "Napolitano is a border governor who will now be responsible for immigration policy and border security, which are part of Homeland Security's myriad functions." Napolitano has been... -
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Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales Indicted in Private Prison Case in Texas
Indybay newswire (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | US
Thursday, November 20, 2008 : A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for Friday for Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were indicted this week by a Texas grand jury on state charges accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a privately run federal jail. We speak with Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra. -
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Mandela group presses ahead with visit to Zimbabwe
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 16 minutes ago | World
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and others are pressing ahead with a humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe, though the state newspaper in the troubled southern African country has signaled they are unwelcome. -
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Jackson Flying To London After All
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Entertainment
Looks like Wacko's going to be taking a little trip to London after all. Michael Jackson's lawyer, Robert Englehart, is now saying that the Prince of Pop has been given the thumbs up from medical advisers and will be appearing in the High Court to testify. Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa of Bahrain is suing Michael [...] -
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Astronauts venture out for 2nd spacewalk
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Sciences
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts ventured back outside the international space station to perform more repair work on a jammed joint today and promised to keep a tight grip on all their tools so nothing would get away this time. -
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Waxman's in, Dingell's out
Crooks and Liars (subscribe) | 56 minutes ago | Politics
It's official: California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell, upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades. In a secret ballot vote in the Cannon Caucus Room, House Democrats ratified an earlier decision by the Steering and Policy Committee to replace the 82-year-old Dingell with his... - see all breaking news
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Spice up your inbox with colors and themes
Official Gmail Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Posted by Annie Chen, Gmail engineer Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes... - 3 Vote!
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Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition: the only thing tougher than Chuck Norris
Engadget (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Technology
OMG OMG OMG... sorry, but our inner japanese school-girl was just unleashed with the arrival of the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition. If Nokia had any sense, they'd expand the action-doll bundle to the world beyond Hong Kong. Even for 8,788 Chinese Yuan (about $1,286) we're seriously tempted. Watch Bruce clean up at ping pong in the Nokia video posted after the break -- no, really. [Via Unwired View ,... -
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Announcing the Search-based Keyword Tool
Inside AdWords (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Keyword targeting can sometimes feel like a guessing game. Potential customers are performing hundreds of millions of searches on Google, most of which you don't even know about. With so many searches, you have to guess which ones might be relevant for each of your landing pages , and hope you find the right audience for your AdWords campaigns. That's where the Search-based Keyword Tool (beta) comes... -
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An Obama Story
Raw Thought (from Aaron Swartz) (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
John Comaroff is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, where Barack Obama used to teach. Obama still lives in the neighborhood, Hyde Park. Recently, on the radio show Open Source , Comaroff told this story: We have a cleaner in our building -- 70-something-year-old African American guy; sweet, sweet guy. And every evening he comes into our office about six and takes our garbage... - + Vote!
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Google Kills Lively
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 17 hours ago | Technology
Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit. It just announced that it is killing Lively, its browser-baseed virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites. Lively launched just last July. The death notice on the site says it will shut down on December 31, so we are adding Lively to the deadpool . Lively just never took off, and was extremely far afield for Google. We should have... -
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James Bond’s Weird World of Inventions (Jan, 1966)
Modern Mechanix (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
view additional pages James Bond’s Weird World of Inventions 007 tangles with the trickiest assortment of supergadgets ever assembled for the screen in new James Bond movie, “Thunderball” By HERBERT SHULDINER Gadgetry is a smash hit in Hollywood. Dozens of new films and TV episodes are filled with zany gimmicks and pushbutton devices to entertain audiences. The thing that started [...] -
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Build a three penny radio that costs more than three pennies
MAKE: Blog (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Technology
Here's a simple project that uses three pennies as anchors for the various parts of a radio build. Check out the link below for instructions and parts list for building this device. Three Penny Radio Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! -
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Zune Spec Ad Is Gross and NSFW, But At Least It's Memorable [Clips]
Gizmodo (subscribe) | 11/18/2008 | Technology
See this ad right here? It's the Zune's latest TV spot, which debuted last night during Heroes. Needless to say, it has a generic look that could be for anyone. (Personally, I thought it was another... -
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MMS-capabilities coming soon to a Swedish iPhone?
Engadget (subscribe) | 11/18/2008 | Technology
Filed under: Cellphones The oft-bemoaned lack of certain, um... capabilities of the the iPhone is forcing individual companies to take desperate measures, it seems. It's not entirely clear, but MacWorld says it's confirmed with Telia that the Swedish-Finnish carrier's developing an MMS-enabling app for the iPhone. MacWorld says the app will hit the market in the next two months, which is great news... -
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Just A Thought
Balloon Juice (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
For those freaking out at the Kathleen Parker column, a couple quick thoughts: 1.) Justice (“Just Us”) Sunday 2.) Schiavo legislation 3.) Jesus is my philosopher. 4.) Michael J. Fox must be mocked for wanting stem cell research. 5.) The never-ending fake war on Christmas (Christmas keeps kicking ass, btw, and shows no sign of ending. Funny, that). 6.) Federal [...] - see blog ranking see all discussions
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