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Billionaires cough up some dough to fight smoking
FP Passport (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | US
They've tackled malaria and AIDS, but now two billionaire philanthropists are taking on another developing world health-scourge: smoking. Former Microsoft Chair Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg just pledged $500 million to the fight against tobacco use, most of which will go to developing countries. Check out their discussion with Charlie Rose here: Gates and Bloomberg have a tough... -
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Is DMX a Mental Case? Yes!
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | 53 minutes ago | Entertainment
DMX needs some serious psychiatric care! The arrest happy rapper went to court in Phoenix on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to a pair of felony theft charges. We're sure y'all aren't surprised to hear that DMX was in court again, or that he pleaded not guilty. It's the crazy which came out of DMX after [...] -
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Do You Worry About Your Cell Phone Being a Cancer Risk?
geeksugar (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | US
Every few months, it seems there's a new study saying that cell phones do or don't cause cancer. Today, they're saying it does. The new study is from a Pittsburgh doctor, warning folks to limit their use because of a possible link between cell phones and cancer. Dr. Ronald B. Herberman circulated a memo warning that not only are the electromagnetic fields a risk to the user, but cautions people when... -
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Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
Los Angeles Times (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | World
A hole the size of a small car in the underside of a Qantas jumbo jet carrying 346 passengers over the South China Sea forced the pilot to make an emergency landing today after a rapid descent. -
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I Told You So: Alien Visitations And UFOs Are Real, Confirmed By Apollo 14 Astronaut
Geekologie (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sciences
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, sixth man to walk on the moon (in a Hollywood studio, according to my grandmother), is claiming that aliens are real and have made human contact. 'I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,' Dr Mitchell said. 'It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but...
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BMI/ISP agreement; costs in the PCC
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Technology
What have the BMI and ISPs agreed? Yesterday the IPKat (in slightly sleepy state) was greeted with the news that British Music Rights (BMI) and the 6 leading UK ISPs (Tiscali, Virgin Media, BT, Orange, Carphone Warehouse and Sky) had reached an agreement on tackling illegal downloaders of copyright content. The IPKat thought it was a little odd that no one really seemed to be saying much on what the... -
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Motorsport boss sues German newspaper for damages
Boston Globe (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | World
Motor racing boss Max Mosley has sued the publisher of Germany's largest newspaper, contending that his sex play with several prostitutes did not have a Nazi theme. -
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Escaped 'Spam King' allegedly kills self, family
Cnet (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | US
Bodies of Eddie Davidson--who was serving prison time for a spam conviction--his wife, and their 3-year-old daughter are found in an SUV in Colorado. -
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Obama speaks to 200,000 in Germany
Philadelphia Inquirer (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Politics
Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago. -
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Argentine Dirty War Murderer Gets Life
Truthdig (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | World
Former Argentine army officer and current Argentine scumbag Luciano Benjamin Menendez finally got what should have happened to him 30 years ago: a life sentence in jail for the kidnap, torture and murder of anti-dictatorship activists in 1977. The decision comes after over 30 years of continued protest by human rights groups over the impunity given to torturers in Argentina. The Guardian: An Argentine... - see all breaking news
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Barack Hussein Obama:He ventured forth to bring light to the world
The Two Malcontents (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Politics
The anointed one’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers By Gerard Baker at Times Online U.K. And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian [...] -
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New Toolbar PageRanks coming
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Hey folks, I wanted to let you know that new toolbar PageRank values should become visible over the next few days. I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites. -
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John Edwards is Eff'd: More Damning Evidence!
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Election 2008
It's not getting any better for John Edwards! As most y'all know, the former Democratic Presidential hopeful was caught by the National Enquirer this week leaving a Beverly Hills hotel where his alleged mistress and bastard baby were staying and Johnny boy tried his best to ditch the surprise attack by the rag's reporters. We also mentioned [...] -
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Yahoo Music shutting down its DRM server, customers lose all their paid-for music the...
Boing Boing (subscribe) | 15 hours ago | Technology
Yahoo Music just announced that it's pulling the plug on its DRM server -- that means that as of September 30, everyone who bought Yahoo Music will lose the ability to recover it from backup or transfer it to a new PC. Like I said when MSN Music proposed to do the same thing: "All those years the music industry spent insisting that the only way they'd sell music is with crippling DRM attached managed... -
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OMG: Marty McFly's Hoverboard On eBay
Geekologie (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
After spotting the post about Marty McFly's Nike's on eBay last week, loyal Geekologie reader (and all around handsome devil) Dave was kind enough to inform me that THE FREAKING HOVERBOARD IS UP FOR SALE TOO! This is one of the hero Mattel Hoverboards used by Michael J. Fox in his most famous role as "Marty McFly" in the Robert Zemeckis classic 80s trilogy, Back to the Future. Two styles of Hoverboard... - see blog ranking see all discussions
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