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20 Nov 09 visit Jason Segel Sings His Cell Number To The Ladies [with VID] Jason Segel Sings Cell # For Ladies Who NEED Him...
20 Nov 09 visit NFL tailgating policies won't affect "real" fans When the Philadelphia Eagles have an in-stadium jail, all 32 teams allow text messages about unruly fans, the NFL has adopted a Fan Code of Conduct, and some stadiums (including the Houston Texans and the famously rowdy Oakland Raiders) have adopted the...
20 Nov 09 visit Jabba the Rex With the Jets and Pats matching up again, can Luke SkyWelker save Princess Gisele from the clutches of Jabba the Rex (Ryan)?
20 Nov 09 visit The evolution of highly venomous box jellyfish Box jellies, also called sea wasps, stingers or fire jellies, live primarily in warm coastal waters around the world. Their toxicity varies among species and ranges from being completely harmless to humans to causing death within minutes after a sting
20 Nov 09 visit Medibots: The world's smallest surgeons The surgeons of tomorrow will include tiny robots that enter our bodies and do their work from the inside, with no need to open patients up or knock them out. While nanobots that swim through the blood are still in the realm of fantasy, several groups are...
20 Nov 09 visit So You're Locked In a Room With Your Clone: Fight or F#@k? Imagine you are locked in a room with your exact clone for an hour. How do you handle it?
20 Nov 09 visit Posted Vulgar Comment While You’re at Work? Lose Your Job. A single vulgar word cost a man his job on Friday.
20 Nov 09 visit Sarah Palin Flees Book Signing, Wingnuts Yell At Leaving Bus Angry crowd shouts at Sarah Palin at her book signing in Noblesville, Indiana on November 19, 2009 after Palin quits and refuses to sign books for around 300 families that spent about 3+ hours waiting in line.
20 Nov 09 visit Peru police: Gang killed people for fat Peruvian police say a gang has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists.
20 Nov 09 visit Cy&H: Nutrition Man [Comic] Cyanide and Happiness #1864 from Explosm.net
20 Nov 09 visit Gyromancer: Square-Enix and Popcap's addictive, $15 spawn PopCap and Square-Enix decided to make a baby, and you should be mighty happy about that decision. The two companies have come together on a product that may seem somewhat familiar, but will soon have you playing late into the night.
20 Nov 09 visit Future colliders: Beyond the LHC The Large Hadron Collider is by no means the last of the particle smashers. A group at CERN recently explored the various scenarios that might emerge from the atomic debris in Geneva – and how they would shape what colliders we build next. We draw out t...
20 Nov 09 visit Star of The Messenger Says "I Would Do Anything for Woody!" Ben Foster stars in Oren Moverman’s incredible film The Messenger along with Woody Harrelson (last seen in Zombieland). In the film, the two actors play Casualty Notification Officers. Foster delivers a spectacular performance (as does Woody) and here ...
20 Nov 09 visit Bishops Press Obama to Strike Provision on Abortion Funding A coalition of Christian leaders -- including New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan -- are putting heat on the White House to strike down any provision in the Senate's health care reform bill that allows abortion coverage in federally subsidized plans.
20 Nov 09 visit Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke...
20 Nov 09 visit Jerk Steals Little Girls Stick at NHL Game, Fight!! (Vid) After a 4-3 OT win Scott Niedermayer gives his stick to a little girl in the seats when some jerk steals the stick from the girl. A fight in the stands breaks out! Niedermayer comments afterwards.
20 Nov 09 visit Suspected supermarket thief caught with trousers down A man suspected of attempting to break in to a supermarket in a Portuguese town became stuck with his trousers down for 11 hours.
20 Nov 09 visit MTV Cuts "Obama Fried Chicken" From Rap Video MTV airs music video with the words "Obama Fried Chicken" removed from the Brooklyn restaurant's awning. Is that really necessary?
20 Nov 09 visit Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at Internet In 2009, it's better to be an Internet company that's taking slow, awkward first steps toward the PC, than a PC company that's still trying and failing to truly integrate with the Internet. Ars looks at what Chrome OS means for Google, Apple, Microsoft,...
20 Nov 09 visit Cyberattacks on U.S. military jump sharply in 2009 - Network The quantity of malicious computer activities against he United states increased in 2008 and is rising sharply in 2009," the report states. "Much of this activity appears to originate in China.
20 Nov 09 visit Apple Exec's Backyard Is Designed for Barfing When you think of backyards, the first things you probably think: Dogs woofing, July 4th grilling, swingsets. Then again, you're not a senior Apple exec by day, and an art collector on the weekends.
20 Nov 09 visit India PM heads to U.S. in test of ties with Obama By Krittivas Mukherjee NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's prime minister and U.S. President Barack Obama meet next week to strengthen ties, with the emerging Asian power increasingly playing a bigger role on global issues such as climate change and...
20 Nov 09 visit Water found in lunar impact likely came from comets The mystery of where the moon's water came from may soon be solved. Evidence from NASA's LCROSS mission suggests much of it was delivered by comets rather than forming on the surface through an interaction with the solar wind.
20 Nov 09 visit Every Part of the Buffalo [Comic] O_O
20 Nov 09 visit Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and email The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre appears to have suffered a security breach earlier today, when an unknown hacker apparently downloaded 1079 e-mails and 72 documents of various types and published them to an anonymous FTP...
20 Nov 09 visit Lollipop[Comic] 관리자가 직접 수동으로
20 Nov 09 visit Beer on the Thanksgiving Table How to win the argument of placing beer on the Thanksgiving Table.
20 Nov 09 visit Best and Worst Light Beers on the Market A comparison of many of the mainstream light beers on the market. Check out the results to see how your favorite light brew did.
20 Nov 09 visit Hockey Goal of The Year, I'm Calling It (Video) Steven Stamkos proved that you don't need to be on your skates to score. If the 2010 Winter Olympics see a goal this amazing, then the Games will be truly blessed.
20 Nov 09 visit Deep fried bull testicles? Chew on this... It might take balls to eat them, but deep fried bull testicles have a niche market in parts of Montana. This north-western US state even hosts its own Testicle Festival every year.
20 Nov 09 visit Giant Snail Pies to Feed Malnourished in Africa Malnutrition and iron deficiency are rampant problems in the developing nations across Africa. More nutritious than beef, and far more abundant, giant snails could be the key ingredient to a healthier Africa. Oh yeah, and evidently they taste great.
20 Nov 09 visit Go Ho Ho a No No! Gap Gets Boycott for Christmas It's almost time for the Holidays, which means it's time to cover your house in lights, find a present for your weird uncle Adolpho, and, oh right, the annual "War on Christmas."Gap Ad Causes Boycott for Christmas — for Saying Christmas!
20 Nov 09 visit Dark Energy Search Could Aid Planet Hunters In Europe, the Euclid mission is a proposed space telescope for characterizing dark energy, but some believe that it might be more attractive to funding agencies if it included an exoplanet survey. A similar collaboration is being considered in the United...
20 Nov 09 visit Zap! Light Used to Paralyze Tiny Creatures Set your ultraviolet rays to stun. A new technology can temporarily disable life forms.
20 Nov 09 visit YouTube to get Automatic Subtitles Automatic captions for YouTube videos are to roll out across its channels, says parent company Google.
20 Nov 09 visit Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills 13 At least 13 people were killed in a suicide bombing Friday morning in Afghanistan's western Farah province, police said.
20 Nov 09 visit Cat Declawing: LA Tackles Monumental Issue! Despite regulating retail drug dealers, or bursting water-system pipes across the city, LA has a new priority. Cat declawing! That's right folks. The council unanimously approved this historic measure to ensure that the felines of Angel City get a proper...
20 Nov 09 visit Lawmakers Call Ft. Hood Shootings ‘Terrorism’ At hearings on Thursday, some Senators characterized the suspect as a homegrown extremist who slipped past law enforcement and military authorities.
20 Nov 09 visit Feds Charge 3 With Comcast.net Hijacking Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a
20 Nov 09 visit YouTube to get Automatic Subtitles Automatic captions for YouTube videos are to roll out across its channels, says parent company Google.
20 Nov 09 visit Steve Jobs is a man of a few words Steve Jobs doesn't email Apple customers often, but when he does, his responses are always short and to the point
20 Nov 09 visit The Simpsons' Moe Szyslak's Most Quotable Moments Springfield's pug fugliest bartender is also one of its most eloquent citizens.
20 Nov 09 visit New apps said to make iPod touch prominent in Apple stores In addition to the the EasyPay iPod touch application used for checkouts, numerous Apple-created, task-specific applications are allegedly coming to Apple retail employees, AppleInsider has been told.
20 Nov 09 visit Apartment Haunting "Finding a new apartment is easy; finding one not haunted by evil spirits is hard."
20 Nov 09 visit Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7 Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced on Wednesday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system.
20 Nov 09 visit Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows.
20 Nov 09 visit Three of a kind - English, Japanese & Bantu MIT linguist Shigeru Miyagawa explains how the hidden similarities of English, Japanese, and some forms of Bantu reveal language’s universal essence.
20 Nov 09 visit US Army responsible for New Orleans floods A US judge has ruled that the negligence of army engineers led to the severe flooding in parts of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
20 Nov 09 visit The $100 Million Health Care Vote? - The Note The health care bill includes a $100 million section for increasing medicaid subsidies to the state of Louisiana. The Note, authored by ABC News' Rick Klein, covers politics, the White House, Congress, Democrats, Republicans, and all latest political...
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