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Michael Phelps Named ‘Sportsman Of The Year’
Pink Is The New Blog (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sports
Michael Phelps is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Sports Illustrated magazine which named the famed Olympic athlete as their Sportsman of the Year for 2008. This is the first time the mag has ever named a swimmer as their Sportsman of the Year. While I [...] -
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Harry Moroz: Governors Against State Bailouts, for Ideological Purity
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
While around 40 governors met with President-elect Obama in Philadelphia to discuss states' growing budget woes, two governors took to the Wall Street Journal's op-ed... -
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Cruise passengers describe "cheeky" pirate attack
Examiner (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | World
Ordered to get inside and stay down, Oregon tourist Clyde Thornburg heard the pirates' rifle shots hit the side of the luxury cruise liner - "Pop! Pop! Pop!" - then felt the ship speed up to escape. -
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Giants Suspend Super Bowl Hero Burress
Tampa Bay Online (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Sports
The New York Giants expect Antonio Pierce to play in Sunday's game against Philadelphia while the team gathers information on the linebacker's involvement in a shooting that led to the season-ending suspension of star receiver Plaxico Burress. -
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Avery to have NHL hearing over sexual remark
Fox News (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sports
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has summoned Sean Avery to New York for a hearing Thursday on remarks that resulted in the indefinite suspension of the Dallas Stars' instigator. Bettman disciplined Avery on Tuesday for making "inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game." The punishment came down only hours after Avery used a crude term about his former girlfriends now dating other hockey...
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'Chemical Ali' Sentenced To Death
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Russian Warship To Cross Panama Canal In Symbolic Message To US
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | World
MOSCOW — The Russian navy said Wednesday one of its warships would sail this week through Panama Canal _ a symbolic projection of Moscow's power to the U.S. zone of influence. It will be the first time since World War II that a Soviet or Russian military vessel crosses the canal, Russian navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said. The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko will arrive Friday at the Rodman naval base... -
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Polanski Wants Sex Crime Charges Dropped, But Doesn't Deny Effing a 13-year Old
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | yesterday | Entertainment
Back in 1978, famed director Roman Polanski fled Hollywood after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year old girl and has been since living in self-imposed exile in France ever since. Well, on Tuesday, lawyers for Polanski filed a request to dismiss the charge against him because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. The filing claims that [...] -
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UPDATE: Jonathan Miller Seeks Funds for His VC Firm, Not Yahoo
Search Engine Watch Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
It turns out yesterday's news about former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller trying to gather money to buy Yahoo was false. Miller has been raising money , but it's for his own venture capital firm, not for buying Yahoo. Miller's firm is Velocity Interactive Group and it does invest in digital media. This is the second false rumor in a week regarding a purchase of Yahoo. Over the weekend, media reported that... -
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Health Buzz: Sleep Breaks for Medical Residents and Other Health News
US News (subscribe) | yesterday | Health
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Illinois Flunks College Affordability Study
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | US
An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability _ an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts. The biennial study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, which evaluates how well higher education is serving the public, handed out Fs for affordability to 49 states, up from 43 two years... - see all breaking news
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Announcing the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Customer Preview...
Windows Vista Blog (subscribe) | 12/02/2008 | Technology
Hi, Mike Nash here. In late October I announced the Beta of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 - beginning with a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers. This week we're opening up the beta to a broader audience. Starting today, MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have access to the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta to begin testing. Beginning... -
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The Gays Doing What They Do Best
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | yesterday | Entertainment
Fighting inequality and homophobia with….song and dance! Click here to watch Prop 8, The Musical!, featuring an all-star cast that includes Margaret Cho, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Kathy Najimy, Rashida Jones, Sarah Chalke, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris and Marc Shaiman. -
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Everything you always wanted to know about Google…
TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
...But were afraid to ask. This is the title of this 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel , a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down ) or acquired. -
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How to Watch YouTube Videos While Working on other Tasks
Digital Inspiration (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
You plan to watch a lengthy video clip on YouTube but the problem is that you have lot of other stuff to do and therefore can't focus all the attention to just one video. How do you watch videos while multi-tasking? -
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The Mac continues its increase on the Web
HardMac.com (subscribe) | 12/02/2008 | Technology
New figures of the market share of the computers on the American Web have been announced. Mac, as always, increases a bit, passing from 8,21% in October to 8,87% in November. Even though the difference is only 0,66 points, it represents an enormous gain for the Mac. The iPhone also continues to progress, passing from 0,33% to 0,37%. It should be noted that Windows regressed in a significant way, going... -
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Monster Beats by Dr. Dre Tour In-Ears outed
CrunchGear (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
I’m not really sure how I feel about these in-ear Beats by Dr. Dre from Monster Cable. The Turbines that were announced last month were so-so compared to other in-ears at the same price point and for $150 I’d probably recommend a pair of Shures, Etymotics or Ultimate Ears over these ones. But the over-the-ear [...]
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Pointless Easterbrook-baiting
The Poor Man Institute (subscribe) | yesterday | Other
Dear God make it stop: Creepy Cosmic Thought: A running mystery of cosmology is gamma-ray bursts, extremely strong energy blasts from deep space that cannot be explained by any known mechanism, including supernova explosions and neutron stars. Astronomers assume gamma-ray bursts must be natural in origin: TMQ [Old Gregg] asks, what if they are the muzzle flashes [...] -
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Jeb Bush Considers Senate Bid
Political Wire (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Marc Ambinder says two sources close to Jeb Bush, "including one who has spoken to the former Florida governor within the past few hours, say he is seriously considering a run for Senate now that incumbent Republican Mel Martinez has retired ." "If he decides to run, Republicans expect the field to clear for him. Maybe. Gov. Charlie Crist, with whom Bush has not had the warmest of relations, is said... -
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I know where you can get Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD's... shhhhh
Keith Combs (subscribe) | 12/02/2008 | Technology
Remember that post I did a couple of days ago about the Microsoft Developer Conference (MDC)? You might want to consider going more seriously now. See http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2008/11/24/did-you-miss-the-pdc-this-year-here-s-another-chance.aspx for the details around the conference. Looks like Bob Familiar at http://blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar/archive/2008/12/02/windows-7-beta-1-for-mdc-attendees.aspx... -
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Nokia’s ‘Smart Home’ Solution
Freshome (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Technology
Nokia is putting themselves on the “smart home” scene with their latest solution. Their Linux-based platform dubbed Home Control Center plans on managing the power needs of your home appliances, electronics, entertainment, security, the climate control system. And plans on doing it all, from your mobile phone. What’s really impressive is that Nokia’s platform is [...] -
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Still Stupid After All Of These Years
Balloon Juice (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
Dear Ed, He could duplicate the poll 100 times, continue to get similar results, and it doesn’t confirm anything, because the problem is the QUESTIONS ARE BAD. Additionally, the questions don’t even address what you think they address- how does asking people to discern between Palin’s nonsensical gibberish and Tina Fey’s impression of Palin prove [...] -
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Microsoft confirms 256MB internal storage in Xbox 360 Arcade units
Xbox 360 Fanboy (subscribe) | 12/02/2008 | Video Games
Filed under: News As if all the images and videos weren't enough evidence, we've now received official confirmation from Microsoft that new Xbox 360 Arcade units do come with 256MB of internal storage. Speaking with us, a Microsoft spokesperson said quite simply, "We are constantly updating the console's more than 1700 internal components. We can confirm that we are moving to internal memory for the... - see all discussions
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