Comcast Using Malicious Hacker Technique Against Own Customers, New Report Says | Threat Level from Wired.com
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MacDailyNews - PC Mag FUD-slinger tries to equate Mac OS X Leopard with Microsoft’s Windows Vista
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An armed man took people hostage at a New Hampshire campaign office for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton on Friday, New Hampshire's WMUR-TV reported.
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Thanks to the new cover flow feature and a little Photoshop you can now read the text sitting on top of the Keynote podium among others.
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FOOTAGE of a pregnant woman being held down on her stomach while being Tasered by a police officer has emerged in the middle of a US federal investigation. Shocking CCTV footage of the incident, which occurred nearly two weeks ago outside of a police station in Trotwood, Ohio, is being distributed online.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: The jackass who runs AT&T keeps blurting out our secret plans
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Is it always illegal to kill a woman? Outrageous Politically Incorrect Ads
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In a politically correct age, they seem like outrageous anachronisms.And there is no doubt these adverts - many taken from the first half of the last century - reveal just how much women used to be caricatured as downtrodden housewives or hair-brained office girls.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Confession: Sometimes I get baked and play with Time Machine
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MacDailyNews - Channel checks show iPod nano outselling iPod touch, iPhones selling well
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Just because a woman knows her way around a computer, it doesn’t make her ugly. These 10 gorgeous geeks excite our hard drives.
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Bad Consumer: Woman Forced Off Flight For Refusing To Move A Huge Stuffed Crocodile
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Vista Capable: "Vista Capable" Stickers Causing All Kinds Of Problems For Microsoft
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AT&T removes on-line iPhone plan customization - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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The head of the federal agency investigating Karl Rove's White House political operation is facing allegations that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe, using a private computer-help company, Geeks on Call.
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Of course the 3G iPhone is coming, that's clearly in the evolution plan. As Jobs said himself, it's only a matter of time until improved batteries allow for it. Still, when AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson says, "You'll have it next year,"
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Rumors On The Internets: EMI To Cut Funding To RIAA And Other Trade Groups?
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Another Microsoft billboard crash
Published Wednesday, November 28, 2007 by Stangrunner.
MacDailyNews - Microsoft’s Windows Vista dog slow; even outperformed by ancient XP
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Owners of Apple's 13-inch notebooks are reporting that their Wi-Fi access is much less reliable after installing Mac OS X Leopard or more recent updates to Mac OS X Tiger, especially when the systems switch to battery power.
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Your Government: Homeowners Fined $347,000 For Trimming Trees Without A Permit
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: OLPC exec to Third World customers: Grow some balls and buy our machines
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LAist: LAist Asks: Is this the Worst Job in LA?
Published Tuesday, November 27, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The driver (and owner?) of the car in the video above was apparently too foolish to do that, and embarked on a quest to set the "world speed record" for an LP640 on Arizona public highways.
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In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile. In it, Mnookin paints the 68-year old Morris as a crotchety executive who's upset that he can't focus more on simple product and artist development because he's too busy worrying about iPods, MP3s, etc
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Filesharing: RIAA Told To Provide Breakdown Of Expenses Per Each Downloaded Song
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CNet has named what they claim are the worst technology products in history. Probably the most controversial is the inclusion of Windows Vista which sits alongside the Sinclair C5, the Gizmondo and the Tamagotchi.
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MacDailyNews - Piper Jaffray finds ‘gravitational pull’ at Apple Retail Stores
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Bad Consumer: Please Do Not Pleasure Yourself In Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Or Dillards
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Instant karma, or, two hearts bleed as one
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"You Are Being Feminized and You Don't Even Know It." It's an ad for one of those fake 'natural male enhancement' products, but it has an interesting premise: that your impotency problems are not your fault, but a consequence of the flood of estrogen entering our drinking water. You need Estro-Blaster to blast the estrogen out of your system.
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I doubt this this is going to stop a train.......
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: How to Dismantle an Atomic Blog
Published Friday, November 23, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: A message of thanks
Published Thursday, November 22, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Apple's retail stores are bringing out the Christmas store front decorations.....
Apple Store: Merry Xmas : MyMac
Apple Store: Merry Xmas : MyMac
Warning - Don't Drink From Hotel Room Glasses
Published Wednesday, November 21, 2007 by Stangrunner.
A hidden camera investigation shows that water glasses in your hotel room may never reach a dishwasher or even water.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An oil painting by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo that was plucked from a sidewalk trash heap several years ago sold for more than $1 million on Tuesday at Sotheby's auction of Latin American art. The oil-and-sand canvas was rescued from oblivion when a New York woman, Elizabeth Gibson, spotted it in a pile of trash at a curbside
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LAist: Jan Adams Walks Off Larry King Live After They Flew Him Out to LA to Be on The Show
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This is what you get when you hire clueless people for the service desk. Xbox 360 returned for refund - well, at least the shell of the console is there. And of course nobody admits authorizing the return. Can you say "owned"?
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LAS VEGAS -- A plane headed for Las Vegas from Seattle was diverted to Portland on Thursday afternoon after at least one passenger said a couple tried to join the "mile high club."
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Tony, a solider returning from Iraq after a year of active duty, found out that his wife couldn't wait for some lovin' while he was gone by checking his Wii. When he confronted her with his friends' accusations, she claimed that she only kissed another man once. However, after checking his Mii channel for war buddies he discovered a Mii he didn't create.....
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Famous Quotes: "You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither." --Steve Martin "Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." --Woody Allen "Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night." --Rodney Dangerfield
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An indigenous language in southern Mexico is in danger of disappearing because its last two speakers have stopped talking to one another. The two elderly men in the village of Ayapan, Tabasco, have drifted apart, said Fernando Nava, head of the Mexican Institute for Indigenous Languages.The men are the only fluent speakers of their native language.
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Go to the Windows Vista page on CNET and watch this ad. One of the best online ad's I have ever run across.
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Lowly stock clerk is hit by 18-wheeler on her day off. Brain-damaged and in a nursing home, stock clerk's family sue the trucking company and is awarded $800K (net about $450K). Walmart now says it's their money under the terms of the employment agreement!
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Excerpt: "Let's hope Walmart made a list (of sex offenders) and checked it twice."
Holidays: Free Photos With Santa At Walmart Starting November 24
Holidays: Free Photos With Santa At Walmart Starting November 24
A great tip to hack a soda can for the cheapest and easiest wifi signal booster around!
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PlaneBuzz: We Knew This Was Going To Happen: iPhone Equipped Passenger Takes On Flight Crew Over Weather
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Kindle: Cool features, but let's be honest -- this thing looks like ass
Published Monday, November 19, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: First spy shots of Amazon's new portable PC
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MacDailyNews - Apple launches new ‘Get a Mac’ Web ad: ‘Give Up On Vista’ (with video)
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Martin County is exploring the idea of installing "talking" cameras at several of the public beaches to ward off or catch people engaged in public sex. After being activated, the cameras issue a pre-recorded verbal warning to let people know they are under surveillance, Graham said. Sixty seconds later, they start recording.
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Haven't you always wanted to know how close you were to being decapitated? I thought the railings were a lot closer when riding in the dark.
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Ferrari hesitated for a long time but has now decided to develop the world's fastest SUV, or so says our Italian contact with insider info. The project has been coded the "Ferrari FS 599 Fuoristrada" and its supposed world debut target date is the Geneva Auto Show 2010.
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Best Headline Ever.A hero cabbie who took on Glasgow Airport terror suspects told how he booted one of them in the privates. Alex McIlveen, 45, kicked the man, whose body was in flames, so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot. But he said: "He didn't even flinch. I couldn't believe he didn't go down.
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So it begins! Our old pal Mahmoud says OPEC is seeking to ditch the dollar, given the US dollar's recent mimicking of Canada's.
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Children's Television: Early Sesame Street DVDs Have "Adults Only" Warnings
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When men meet fair-haired women they really do have a “blonde moment”. Scientists have found that their mental performance drops, apparently because they believe they are dealing with someone less intelligent. Academics found that men’s (test) scores fell after they were shown pictures of blondes.
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"If I see a child or a pre-teen crying on the beach I change my direction"
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I am a (male) high school teacher and I have a daughter. If I see a child or (worse) a pre-teen crying on the beach I change my direction and put as much distance as possible between us. It ’s too dangerous even to take a picture, imagine TOUCHING them
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Perhaps you noticed that United States dimes, quarters, half-dollars, and silver dollars have ridges, or grooves, around their edges. They were not put there for decoration, but had a very important purpose at one time in history.
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Amazing to see such detail, considering the photo's over 100 years old. I'd love to see the same shot today.
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Slashdot | MIT Students Show How the Inca Leapt Canyons
Published Saturday, November 17, 2007 by Stangrunner.
This ain't your papa's flight helmet. Designed for pilots of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the helm you see above will allow pilots to virtually see through the aircraft around them, giving them a wide field of view ahead and superimposing an Infrared image of the world below onto their visors at night.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Scoble goes berserk, blames Apple for his failures
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MacDailyNews - McAfee’s Top 10 Security Threats for 2008: Windows Vista threats to rise; Apple Mac not on list
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MacDailyNews - Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard successfully installed and running on Asus Eee PC
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During engine testing of a new Airbus 340-600, it escaped its chocks and flew into a wall. Where the hell has the cockpit gone? :( Astonishing photo.
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…If I was slightly smaller. Seriously, some of these are nicer than my flat. soon dogs will be driving cars.
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Lindsay Gets 84 Minutes for Cocaine, Others Get Mandatory 10+ Years
Published Friday, November 16, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Actress Lindsay Lohan checked in and out of jail on Thursday, spending just 84 minutes behind bars for a drunken driving and cocaine-possession conviction, Los Angeles police said. Others, at the same time, get mandatory 10+ years. Are celebrity ***** above the law now?
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A great little video that shows a tried and true method used by commercial Passive Solar Heater manufacturers to build your own Solar Heater that can cut your heating bills quite a bit! The best part? You can build one for under $10!
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When he died, his wife commissioned a sculpture, an expression of love-NSFW
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: This is why we hate public events
Published Thursday, November 15, 2007 by Stangrunner.
MacDailyNews - Baltimore Sun: 10.5 Leopard is most significant upgrade to Mac OS X since 10.2 Jaguar
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Infestations: "$25,000 Dessert" Restaurant Closed Due To Cockroaches, Sewage, Mouse Droppings, Fly Infestations
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An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which as received rave reviews from scientists.
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Mario is back in a Wii game that was promised as the "sequel to Super Mario 64." That's a high bar to shoot for, but Super Mario Galaxy is nothing if not ambitious. Let's see if Nintendo delivered on its promise.
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STLtoday - News - Law & Order: "Boy, 15, gets 60 years for StL County sex attack of girl, 6"
A bit more than a year after going gold, Microsoft is already assessing and discussing some lessons learned from Vista's underwhelming debut. ZDNet quotes Microsoft VP Mike Nash about the problems associated with the Vista launch and steps the company plans to take to prevent those kind of problems in the future.
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AT&T takes another step towards filtered network with investment in Vobile
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"Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid's face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning."
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If this is real I would have to be paid alot of money to be working for I.T. there.
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Neowin.net - Vista's Biggest Problem Remains Windows XP, Survey Says
Published Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: I am so sick of this griping about Leopard
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Be careful of that "virus laden" mouse....... Real Windows Vista Security Advice : MyMac
MacDailyNews - Long lines form as Apple’s newest Retail Store opens in Las Vegas (with photo)
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This dog has a close brush with some lightning during this storm. Amazing no one got hurt.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: My book is so much better than Colbert's, I swear to God
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New vending machine can identify minors : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
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Unexplained Blue Cloud Floats, Darts Around Customers At Gas Station - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando
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Consumer Alert: Baby Poisoned By Lead-Tainted Walmart Plates
Published Tuesday, November 13, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Improve your Stacks with some drawers - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Britons snap up 'tens of thousands' of iPhones - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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I touched a UFO: ex-air force pilot - Unusual Tales - Specials - smh.com.au
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I love exploded diagrams of objects where you see every piece of the thing. I had the idea to try and make a real life version of one, and picked my iPod to be the victim. The catch was, I wanted it to work even in its exploded form.
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First Weekend Leopard Sales on Par with Initial Vista sales - Seeking Alpha
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O2 CEO denies poor UK sales: iPhone ‘fastest-selling device ever seen’ - MY iTablet
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Porsche Had World's First Hybrid 100 Years Ago | EcoGeek | Porsche, November, Written, Hybrid, Electric
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Kevin Colvin told his boss at the bank where he was interning that he had a "family emergency." Turns out the "emergency" was a Halloween party back home. His boss found a photo of Colvin dressed up as a fairy princess on Facebook and sent it to the whole office. Busted! The email exchange is now going around the Web.
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RIAA tells Universities to stop P2P downloads or "lose all federal funding"
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Why am I angry? The new Higher Education Bill (HEA §494) requires that the Universities stop all P2P downloads that RIAA doesn’t like AND buy Napster or Rhapsody subscriptions for every student on the campus or lose all federal financial aid.
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Attention AT&T: Don't Lie About "Massive Outages," Reporters Have Phones Too
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A First Look at the Google Phone - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
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Reader Survey: Leopard the (good) little things - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Published Monday, November 12, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Reader Survey: Leopard the (bad) little things - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: I'm totally siding with the writers on this Hollywood strike
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"Stacks" was Leopard's only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy. However the way stacks are represented on the Dock (by top icon) completely ruins it. Here is the damn fine-looking solution (although this is how it should have been from the beginning).
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Contents Under Pressure: Does tapping the top of a soda can stop it from foaming? - CHOW
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Robbers carrying flowers steal couple's life savings - CNN.com
Published Sunday, November 11, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Michael's Mac - Create a Custom Environment for Leopard's New Guest User
Published Saturday, November 10, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' - CNN.com
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waiterrant.net - Blog Archive - The First Cold Day
Published Friday, November 09, 2007 by Stangrunner.
MacDailyNews - T-Mobile: over 10,000 Apple iPhones sold in under a day in Germany; Brits create long lines
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Hierakonpolis claims the title to the earliest recorded zombie attack in history. In 1892, a British dig there unearthed a tomb containing a decomposed body, whose brain had been infected with the 'zombie' virus, Solanum. In addition, thousands of scratch marks adorned every surface of the tomb as if the corpse had tried to claw it's way out.
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Crooks and Liars � Countdown: AT&T Whistleblower Speaks Out Against Immunity For Telcoms
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Gas Hits Five Dollars a Gallon In California, The End Times Draw Ever More
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Near. Although AAA of California is reporting some drivers are now paying $4 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, local Cali station KSBW found gas stations in Gorda, south of Big Sur, currently charging $5 per gallon for gas. While that's obviously an isolated occurrence, the average price is getting pretty high up the cost meter.
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Sad: Taco Bell Fires 64 Year Old Grandmother Who Once Took A Bullet In A Robbery
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1.1.2 iPod touch Jailbroken--before its official release! - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Dude, you're getting a drink: Dell dude now a waiter - Engadget
Published Thursday, November 08, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Further evidence for iTunes video rentals - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Politics | AT&T gave feds access to all Web, phone traffic, ex-tech says | Seattle Times Newspaper
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Sen. Chuck Hagel is pushing for coerced military service in order to maintain King George's great empire.
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MacDailyNews - Mac trojan makers churn out slightly modified versions to evade anti-malware detection
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Confession: Sometimes I listen to 107.7 The Bone
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Monopolies: Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Tells People To Cancel Comcast, Time Warner
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MacDailyNews - Apple’s new ‘Santa Rosa’ MacBooks significantly faster than previous MacBooks
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LAist: This Makes Great Business Sense to Us: Prince Threatens to Sue his Fans
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Reports are coming in that Best Buy is selling Super Mario Galaxy early. You might want to hit up your local store.
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Secret Camera Investigation: Every Single Hotel Failed To Wash Your Cups And Glasses
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MacDailyNews - Computerworld: Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard spanks Microsoft’s Windows Vista
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Princess Leia on “Chuck” « The Official Star Wars Blog
Published Tuesday, November 06, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Report: Scoble pissed because he didn't get a Google Phone
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: More Leopard hate from the Borg-owned media
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Comcast Filtering-For-Profit: A Three-Phase Plan to 'Right-Size' Consumer Bandwidth - willsmith - Maximum PC
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From CNet, confirmed by Asus (Apple's manufacturer): an Apple Tablet PC is in the works.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: It's not a phone, it's an alliance
Published Monday, November 05, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.
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Terminal Tip: Use Quick Look from the Leopard command line - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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waiterrant.net » Blog Archive » The Most Interesting Waiter in the World
Published Sunday, November 04, 2007 by Stangrunner.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: This Hollywood writers strike cracks me up
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Mactropolis.com » Blog Archive » Apple Disabling 3rd Party iPhone Apps Again
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The "Empire Strikes Back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"..........................
Mactropolis.com » Blog Archive » Apple Disabling 3rd Party iPhone Apps Again
Mactropolis.com » Blog Archive » Apple Disabling 3rd Party iPhone Apps Again
Dan Lyons, the faux Apple CEO blogger, is introduced by the real Steve Wozniak. Check Woz's manic but funny patter about Kathy Griffin, Fake Steve, and Apple.
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Alive and safe, the brutal Japanese soldiers who butchered 20,000 Allied seamen in cold blood | the Daily Mail
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: First they copy our phone. Now Google is copying our slogans.
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We're twinseparable! Happy with his brother, the boy who refused to die | the Daily Mail
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Explorers relive 'nightmare' of being ringed by Arctic wolf pack - Times Online
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Explorers relive 'nightmare' of being ringed by Arctic wolf pack - Times Online
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This morning in a speech in Dallas, a reporter asked Vice President Cheney about his views on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Cheney responded that the people of Peru “deserve better” leadership.
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waiterrant.net » Blog Archive » National Security
Published Friday, November 02, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Wired lists 15 dumbest Apple Predictions of all times - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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