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Heterosexual Menace: Straight Married Couple Tortures Teen
Box Turtle Bulletin (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | US
Can you imagine the blood-curdling headlines from some people if this had been a same-sex couple? A Girl Scout leader and her husband were arrested after an emaciated, terrified and nearly naked 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, saying he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday… The [...] -
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NFL ROUNDUP: NFL suspends 6 for doping
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sports
NEW YORK -- Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy. All were punished for using a diuretic, which can serve as a masking agent for steroids. -
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Roman Polanski Seeks Dismissal of 30 Year Old Case
TalkLeft (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Entertainment
Director Roman Polanski, now age 75, has filed a new motion to have the sex assault charges against him dismissed. His motion alleges prosecutorial and judicial misconduct , revealed in a recent HBO documentary on the case. The statements were made by the deputy DA on the case and a judge. The victim in the case, then 13, now 43, has wanted the charges dropped for years, and still does. In a legal... -
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Chambliss Wins Georgia Runoff
Wake Up America (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | Politics
In the runoff for the Senate seat for Georgia, Chambliss had 57.5 percent of the vote, and his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, 42.5 percent. From NYT : Saxby Chambliss, a first-term Republican senator, was re-elected by Georgia voters on Tuesday in a substantial victory, ending Democratic hopes for a 60-vote majority in the Senate that would make it difficult for Republicans to filibuster the Obama... -
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Obama promises governors: 'Action now'
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | 59 minutes ago | Politics
ALTHOUGH President-elect Barack Obama came to Philly yesterday to talk about states' financial woes with their governors, Mayor Nutter made sure to remind him that cities are hurting, too. -
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American folk music legend Odetta dies at 77
Arizona Republic (subscribe) | 42 minutes ago | Entertainment
NEW YORK (AP) -- Odetta, the folk singer with the powerful voice who moved audiences and influenced fellow musicians for a half-century, has died. She was 77....
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Thai leader quits; airport protests end
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | 59 minutes ago | World
BANGKOK, Thailand - The prime minister of Thailand resigned yesterday after the nation's Constitutional Court banned him from politics and dissolved three political parties in his ruling coalition, concluding that the government was involved in vote-buying and other irregularities in last year's elections. -
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NHL ROUNDUP: NHL suspends Avery indefinitely
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Sports
NEW YORK -- The NHL suspended Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery indefinitely Tuesday for making a crude reference to former girlfriends while talking with reporters. -
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Martinez Won't Seek Re-Election To Senate
Tampa Bay Online (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Politics
Florida's Republican U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez announced Tuesday that he won't run for re-election when his first term ends in 2010, setting off what's likely to be a political donnybrook to replace him. -
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U.N. faults Iraq for rights abuses
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | 59 minutes ago | World
BAGHDAD - The United Nations expressed concern yesterday about overcrowding and "grave human rights violations" of detainees in Iraqi custody - in one case, 123 men crammed into a single cell. -
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Man Faces Jail For Trashing Ex On Craigslist
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | US
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A man accused of making unflattering online comments about his former lover and her attorney on Craigslist has been charged with two counts of criminal libel. "It's not a charge you see a lot of," Larimer County District Attorney Larry Abrahamson said of the 1800s-era state law that can put people in jail for the content of their speech or writing. Abrahamson charged J.P. Weichel,... -
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"Impeach Bush" Christmas ornament will hang from White House tree
Crooks and Liars (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Politics
Something about this just feels so right . Wapo : Laura Bush asked members of Congress to pick local painters to decorate ornaments for this year's 20-foot Fraser fir in the Blue Room. The globes (to be unveiled by the first lady tomorrow) are supposed to showcase something special about each congressional district. Washington state's Rep. Jim McDermott contacted a local arts organization, which asked... - see all breaking news
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Microsoft confirms 256MB internal storage in Xbox 360 Arcade units
Xbox 360 Fanboy (subscribe) | yesterday | 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... -
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The Simpsons Gets 20 Years of Apple Jokes Out of the Way at Once [The Simpsons]
Gizmodo (subscribe) | 12/01/2008 | Technology
Even though The Simpsons has a history of satirizing tech culture, and even Apple specifically, last night's episode felt like it was making up for a bit of lost time. It's not just iPods and iMacs... -
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Acekard produces first DSi flash cart
DS Fanboy (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Filed under: Homebrew , Imports Well, that was a scary month. Acekard Team has released a new version of their excellent flash cart that works on the Nintendo DSi. The Acekard 2i retains all the functionality of earlier flash carts, including the ability to run homebrew and backups, as well as store save files and use Action Replay codes. The new card is even compatible with earlier versions of the... -
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Saxby Chambliss pulls away to win in Georgia
Crooks and Liars (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | US
Download | Play Download | Play Well, there goes Democrats' chances of getting 60 seats: ATLANTA - Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss won re-election Tuesday in a runoff, dashing Democrats' hopes of capturing enough seats in the U.S. Senate to thwart Republican filibusters. Chambliss' election to a second term gives the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington.... -
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How-to Tuesday: Fun with the Arduino Starter Kit
MAKE: Blog (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
This week I made a project with parts from the Arduino Starter Kit. I skipped over building the Proto Shield from the kit, since I made a how-to a while back . Otherwise, it's a simple build that doesn't require any soldering. Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. It's an open-source physical computing platform based... -
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GA-Sen: Runoff Results Thread
MyDD (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Politics
Polls in Georgia are closing at 7pm Eastern. Some last minute potentially good news from Sean Quinn on the ground: We're hearing that there are lines in Athens (home of the University of Georgia) in Democratic counties. We also hear DeKalb has been doing particularly well. The staff here is dialing voters in the last-minute push. Results will be coming in HERE . Tags: ga-sen ( all tags )
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Bypass AT&T’s SMS-based WiFi login with free iPhone app
tech news feeds (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Devicescape provides a free iPhone app to avoid AT&T's crazy SMS-based login procedure for using the telecom's hotspot network. Read More... -
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Apple patent for liquid cooled portable computer submitted
CrunchGear (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
What do we have here, kiddies. Was Apple trying to slip one past us by submitting this tasty patent for a liquid cooled portable on Thanksgiving? This patent that may, or may not, see production describes two separate cooling processes involving liquid. The first is an active, two-stage system that allegedly employs a gas and liquid to cool the vitals. The second transfers the [...] -
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More Nixon Tapes Released
Political Wire (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
NBC News : "Richard Nixon's reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today's opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is no exception." -
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White House will hang ‘impeach Bush’ ornament on its Christmas tree.
Think Progress (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
When Laura Bush asked members of Congress to pick local artists to decorate the White House Christmas tree, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) turned to a local arts organization who assigned the task to Deborah Lawrence. The Seattle-based artist said, “I was at first nauseated, then realized it was an opportunity to highlight Jim McDermott because [...] -
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Crunchvision is Crunchbase on a map. Are you on it?
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 12/01/2008 | Technology
When Crunchbase, our free database of startup and people information, released an API we started to observe some really i nteresting applications being built on it . But one of the most interesting could just be Crunchvision which puts on a map the startups indexed in Crunchbase. This service has been created in a couple of days by Mapeed , a french startup who provides tools for creating and serving... -
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Now Anti-Christian Atheists Want to Join Holiday Displays
Stop the ACLU (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Politics
I wrote about this story earlier today, now here is the video: Hat tip: Hot Air - see all discussions
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