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MySpace: “You're the Kind of Boy a Girl Would Kill Herself Over”
Law Blog (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
A couple big revelations in the MySpace suicide trial, about to head into its fourth day in Los Angeles federal court: Prosecutors have charged Lori Drew, a Missouri mother accused of taking part in a hoax that allegedly led to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier, of violating the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. Yesterday, Ashley Grills, who was testifying under a grant of immunity, said Drew was directly... -
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Somali Pirates Make $150M A Year, Kenya Says
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year, Kenya's foreign affairs minister said Friday, calling on ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked. In the past two weeks Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates have seized eight vessels including a huge Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil. Several hundred crew... -
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Could an Undecided Coleman-Franken Race in Minnesota Help Chambliss in Georgia?
US News (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | US
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"Seven Years Is Enough."
Lawyers, Guns and Money (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Judge Richard Leon -- an appointee of George W. Bush -- issued a major ruling following the wake of the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision yesterday, ordering five Guantanamo detainees released "forthwith." He also added comments that echoed Souter's Boumediene concurrence : The judge, in an unusual added comment, suggested to senior government leaders that they forgo an appeal of his ruling on freeing... -
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Tsvangirai to Meet Carter, Annan on Eve of Their Zimbabwe Visit
Daniel Molokele (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | World
Berlin/Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai said he would meet Friday in South Africa with former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and ex-US president Jimmy Carter on the eve of their high-profile visit to Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai confirmed the meeting during an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in Berlin Thursday. Annan, Carter and Mozambican social activist Graca... -
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New Report: CIA Lied About Missionary Plane Shot Down Over Peru
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
In 2001 , the Peruvian Air Force shot down a plane flying over the Amazon after receiving information from the CIA that the plane was trafficking in narcotics. It wasn't. It was filled with Christian missionaries. The attack resulted in the death of 35-year-old Veronica Bowers and her infant daughter Charity. The CIA was working with the government of Peru as part of a program to intercept drug planes...
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Mukasey Remains Hospitalized After Collapse
Washington Wire (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Politics
Evan Perez reports on the Justice Department. Attorney General Michael Mukasey is hospitalized and due to undergo tests after collapsing while giving a speech Thursday night. The Justice Department said the episode appeared to be a fainting spell and that initial medical tests didn't show signs that the 67-year-old attorney general suffered heart problems or a stroke. Mukasey was delivering a defense... -
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Diaze-Pram [Strollers]
Jezebel (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Celebrity
Strollers in which babies face away from their parents may hurt their development Researchers in Scotland found that when children were seated facing their parents their heart rates fell, they were... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
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Bronx Wentz: Ashlee Simpson’s New Son!
Just Jared (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Entertainment
Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and husband Pete Wentz welcomed a son Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Bronx Mowgli Wentz weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz., and measured 20 1/2 inches long. A spokesperson tells People, “Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes!” Congratulations, Ashlee and Pete!!! [...] -
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Man Saved From Lethal Shot By Cell Phone In His Shirt Pocket
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Argentina's Nalbandian wins opener in Davis Cup
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David Nalbandian has defeated Spain's David Ferrer 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in the opening singles match of the Davis Cup final. -
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Online advertising still on the rise in Q3
TechConnect Magazine (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Technology
Although affected to some extent by the financial crisis, the online advertising market has managed to grow in Q3. As reported by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, in Q3 internet ad revenues reached almost $5.9 billion. up 11% compared to the same period of last year and also up 2% sequentially. "The growth of interactive advertising that we've been experiencing over the... - see all breaking news
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Snow Leopard, she is coming in Q1 2009
CrunchGear (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Technology
Can’t wait for the next iteration of OS X? Well, it’s coming in Q1 2009 which means you still have about 2 more months to sit on your hands and think happy thoughts. Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard said that the OS would launch Q1 2009 which places it in the [...] -
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How Much Traffic Can A Link on Google.com Drive? The Case of the G1
ReadWriteWeb (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Technology
Can you imagine getting a link to your website highlighted just below the search box on Google.com? How much traffic do you think that would drive? According to one estimate published today by traffic analysts Compete.com, the link on Google for the G1 Android phone by T-Mobile delivered an estimated 800,000 unique visitors who clicked that link in the 7 days it was on the site. Compete estimates... -
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19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv
NewTeeVee (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged on by commenters on Justin.tv and fellow forum users on bodybuilding.com. Biggs overdosed on pills while on [...] Related Posts GigaOM: Bored Teen’s Palin Prank... -
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Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 13 hours ago | Technology
We'd noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for months - adding a Digg-like voting feature to search results (which also changes the ranking) as well as user comments. Tonight, Google apparently said "what the hell" and turned it on for everyone. The changes are called... -
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Hooray for Holder
The Plank (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Politics
Eric Holder looks like Obama's pick for attorney general. I've been impressed by him ever since interviewing him in the '90s, when he was U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and identified the phenomenon of the single "unreachable" D.C. juror--often an African American woman--who refused to deliberate and hung the jury 8-1. He'll be good for the Justice department in at least two ways: Nixon... -
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Burn Your Life
English Russia (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
With this calendar from Ukrainian designers one can literary burn the candle of their life each day. read more.. ..
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40 Stories on the Greenpoint Waterfront?
brownstoner (subscribe) | yesterday | US
That's what Dean Palin, developer of the Oro on Gold Street, is hoping he can create at 155 West Street, between Huron and India Streets. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the 2005 upzoning of the area allows for 30... -
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Jane Hamsher: Waxman Defeats Dingall, Blue Dogs Get Spanked
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
This week the Senate voted to remain an exclusive club of self-protection and entitlement by letting the corrupt Bush enabler Joe Lieberman keep his gavel, but the House has voted for progress. -
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Hand over that Weather Bell, Missouri!
Daily Kos (subscribe) | 11/19/2008 | Politics
Okay, so I know it has nothing to do with weather (for those into strange etymology, the "wether" part of the word "bellwether" actually comes from a term for a castrated sheep). In any case, Missouri's streak as the state most accurate in predicting the outcome of a presidential election appears to have ended . More than two weeks after Election Day, the Associated Press today declared John McCain... -
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Combination camera and multitool from 1930s - this is the greatest thing I have ever seen...
CrunchGear (subscribe) | 18 hours ago | Technology
So… beautiful… Should have sent… a blogger… This was the iPhone of the ’30s. Popular among spies, this amazing device was in development for years by my new hero, Noel Pemberton Billing — aviator, inventor, and British Lord. It’s made out of about a billion interlocking bits of aluminum and has a fully functional camera [...] -
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Must Watch: Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler Trailer!
FirstShowing.net (subscribe) | 16 hours ago | Entertainment
Fox Searchlight has unveiled the trailer for Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler . Drop what you're doing and watch this trailer now. The Wrestler may go on to win some Oscars and you'll want to see it as soon as you can. Every quote in this trailer is accurate . It is certainly "tender, gripping" and "remarkable" and unquestionably a phenomenal achievement for both Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky.... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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