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50 Things That Changed Our Lives In The Aughts
NEW YORK (AP) ―
Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was, well, a color, and reality TV was that one show sandwiched between music videos on MTV?
There were, of course, huge political and social upheavals
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From Wii to Wikipedia, it was a decade of change
Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was, well, a color, and reality TV was that one show sandwiched between music videos on MTV?
There were, of course, huge political and social upheavals that roiled our world
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Babylon Reaches 60 Million Users Worldwide Leading the World of Languages
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon Ltd. (TASE: BBYL), the leading provider of single-click dictionary and translation software, today announced that it has proudly reached a momentous milestone: sixty million users and counting. Babylon went out
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Never so good
A review of the Noughties might suggest a line-up of unmitigated disaster. Not from where John Huxley stood, however.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of
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Decade in review
Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was, well, a color, and reality TV was that one show sandwiched between music videos on MTV?
There were, of course, huge political and social upheavals that roiled our world
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Curtain falling on 'Digital Decade'
Apple's iPod Touch. David Pogue, personal technology columnist for The New York Times, points to Apple's iPod, introduced in 2001, as among the most influential devices of the decade.
While it got off to a rocky start with the overhyped Y2K bug and
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Curtain Falling on 'Digital Decade'
WASHINGTON – While it got off to a rocky start with the overhyped Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" by Microsoft's Bill Gates has turned out to be a dizzying period of innovation.
"It's been an amazingly vibrant decade for
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Francis: I'm Not a 'Rapist'
You can call Joe Francis a "douche," but don't call him a rapist.
The "Girls Gone Wild" founder is vowing to sue Gawker.com for $10 million after the Web site labeled Francis "a rapist" while crowning him the winner of its "Douche of the Decade" poll.
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Francis Threatens Legal Action Over Rape Slur
The media mogul elaborated to the New York Post, They used Wikipedia as their source
Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis has threatened to sue a New York-based website for $10 million (£6.25 million) following a story labelling him
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World Cup Blog :: World Cup Moments: Zaire?s Ilunga Mwepu Deals With a Brazilian Free Kick in 1974
You might not know the name Ilunga Mwepu. But you’ve probably seen him in action. Mwepu is the famous Zaire right back who cleared a Brazilian free kick in a 1974 World Cup group game by lashing it up the field. Before the Brazilians had chance to take
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Wikipedia developer Jimmy Wales, a Huntsville native, named Alabamian of the Year by Anniston Star
View full size(Wikipedia.org)Jimmy Wales: Huntsville, Ala., native who is the co-creator of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia named the Anniston Star's Alabamian of the Year.ANNISTON, Ala. -- The Anniston Star newspaper has named Jimmy Wales,
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Works of WB Yeats, Sigmund Freud available online for free
London, Jan 2 (ANI): The poetry of WB Yeats and other works of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud will now be available to read on internet for free, as their copyrights have expired.
The list of writers and thinkers whose works will be available
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Wikipedia Uncertain Future
Defining the world through a free online encyclopedia has made Wikipedia a house hold name with over a hundred billion page views in 2009. Information on just about every conceivable topic can be easily located in Wikipedia, from the "theory of time"
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Firms Selling Apps for Simple Phones
Given the craze around the iPhone, Motorola Droid, Palm Pre and Nexus One, it might seem that nearly everyone has a smartphone.
But most consumers use simpler, much cheaper phones.
According to data from the Nielsen Company, roughly 82 percent of
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Sunlight Labs Augments White House Visitor Data to Make it Easier to Use
WASHINGTON, DC Jan. 5, 2010 - Acting on the latest online release of visitor data provided by the White House last week, the Sunlight Labs released a mashup designed to make it easier for anyone to conduct independent research on who is visiting the
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Wikipedia Annual Fundraiser Goal Supported by Record Number of Donors
Press Release – “In its most successful fundraiser ever, the Wikimedia Foundation today announced that it has met and exceeded its goal of $7.5 million USD to support Wikipedia for the 2009-10 fiscal year. The Foundation was able to raise just over $8
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Schoolchildren should avoid Wikipedia, says Brit exams watchdog
Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator), said Google and Yahoo could be "a good starting point for your research" and pupils should use search engine "advanced options" to maximise results.
It also said students need to be
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ExplainThis: Jay Rosen's user-centric approach to news
As conceived by Rosen, ExplainThis would have two parts. One would be
an open system through which users can ask and answer questions and
vote on them. The second part would involve "journalists standing by."
According to Rosen, journalists would
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What Did The Simpsons Ever Do For Video Games? [Legacies]
Since the Simpsons' TV showed launched in 1989, more video games have been made about them than just about any non-game franchise this side of Star Wars and Dragonball Z. Unfortunately, the medium doesn't have much to show for it.
On Sunday FOX TV will
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WaPo Blogger Wants Weather Served With a Side Order of 'Climate Science' -- Only When It's Hot or Stormy
The one good thing you can say about Andrew Freedman's "Cold weather in a hot climate" entry at the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang blog (HT James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web) is that he's at least not hiding his
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Hebrew Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles
Hebrew Wikipedia is celebrating posting 100,000 articles, six and a half years after the first article was put on-line on mathematics. Wikipedia worldwide has 14.5 million articles.
To mark the posting of the 100,000th article Wikipedia has designed a
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Frequently Asked Questions About Google Wave [Faq]
The Google Wave Preview has been available to one million+ people for over three months now, but questions about Wave still abound, even by the early adopters who have gotten in and taken it for a test drive.
Step inside to hear a two-word definition
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Google beefs up Gmail security amid fallout from computer hacking attack in China
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google is tightening the security of its free e-mail service to combat computer hackers like the ones that recently targeted it in China.
With the shift, Gmail accounts will automatically be set in an "https" mode, meaning
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Google's possible pullout a boost to China rival
BEIJING—A possible Google pullout from China could give a boost to its ambitious local rival Baidu Inc., which dominates the Chinese market and is expanding abroad.
Baidu, launched in 2000, is a standout in the global search industry -- a local
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Google agrees to take down racist indigenous Australian site
Sydney, jan.15 (ANI): Giant search engine Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians.
He tried to modify the entry on Encyclopedia Dramatica, a satirical and extremely racist version of
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The Sound Of Settled Science
Via Cjunk, a story I've been planning to feature for some time. "Disappeared" - The Case Of The Vanishing Thermometers
In Canada the number of stations dropped from 600 to 35 in 2009. The percentage of stations in the lower elevations (below 300 feet)
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WEB SKEPTIC CHALLENGES INTERNET EUPHORIA
In the first flowering of the Internet a decade and a half ago, the astronomer and computer expert Clifford Stoll wrote "Silicon Snake Oil," a vigorous assault on the overheated promises and dreamy utopianism of the new digital world.
design decisions
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The Best Games Of, Sort Of, The Decade [Feature]
The decade isn't over. It has a year left. Well, screw it: everyone else thinks the decade is over.
If I don't write this thing, right here, right now, I'm probably never going to write it; if I write it next year, everyone will call me a jerk-off
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China to Google: No Worries, We Were Planning to Clone Those Android Phones, Anyway [Digital Daily]
“The launch we have been working on with China Unicom has been postponed,” a Google spokesperson explained.
The company offered no reason for the postponement, though it’s obviously related to the current uncertainties around its presence in China.
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Jacobellis looking for better Olympic finish
TELLURIDE, Colo. - To the snowboardcross and X-Games world in which she resides, she is Lindsey Jacobellis, the most dominant figure in her sport, a multiple champion at almost every level.
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European OK Clears Way for Oracle-Sun Deal
(AP) The European Union on Thursday cleared Oracle Corp.'s proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., saying it would not significantly affect competition in the EU.
EU antitrust chief Neelie Kroes said one of the year's biggest
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Anyone Know Anything About Moot Court Competitions?
The Worldnutdaily has an article about Patrick Henry College winning the American Collegiate Moot Court Association national championship, defeating Harvard in the process, and it sounds like there's probably more to the story. It reminds me very much
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China Slams Clinton's Call For Internet Freedom
Google cited increasingly tough censorship and recent cyberattacks on the Gmail accounts of human rights activists for its decision, which it said might force it to close its offices in China altogether.
"and stop using the issue of so-called Internet
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VIDEO: Ghostbusters Caddy
Who you gonna’ call? The winner of this auction gets to ride around in a piece of ghost bustin' movie memorabilia – one of three originally authorized Ghostbusters cars approved by the moviemaker Sony Corporation. Three Ghostbusters cars were made for
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#DLD10: Skype, Wikipedia, Firefox - is the internet about disrupting markets?
Disruptive questions: Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, Niklas Zennström of Skype, and Mitchell Baker of the Mozilla Foundation
"Disruptive is not only about destruction. It is about technological changes, market changes, and changes in consumer reaction to
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Trust in U.S. Business Rebounds Significantly at Home and Around the World
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Trust in business and government in the United States has improved significantly, according to the 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer. Among informed publics(1), trust in U.S. business to do what is right jumped 18 points
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What Should We Make of Obama's "Spending Freeze"
Fiscal liberals say this cuts spending at the exact time that we most need to increase it.
Fiscal conservatives say this doesn't go nearly far enough.
But I think there's a bigger issue that deserves some inquiry: is America being turned into a third
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Proposal would rename Mount Diablo to Mount Ronald Reagan
Still upset over the devilish connotations of Mount Diablo, an Oakley man has yet again petitioned a federal agency to rename Contra Costa's signature peak. This time he wants to rename the 3,849-foot-high mountain after the 40th president of the
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Dig deep for Wikileaks | Emily Butselaar
The whistleblowers' website has been temporarily shut down as it appeals for donations, depriving us of a vital democratic tool
Its tremendous success has meant the site has often struggled under the volume of users. It has faced down governments,
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Mario Lemieux, Ron Burkle Make Offer Buy Pirates
So I don’t know too much of the intricacies of the game. But I do know that the Pens were consistently toward the bottom of the league in payroll before the lockout, prior to the salary cap. I’m sure people will still think Mario would come in and
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America Gone?: WHY WE BLOG
Scott Finch-Slater
From Wikipedia: A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are
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Walker goes to Gillingham
Walker gets another chance of showing what he can do, this time in Kent
Serial loanee James Walker, still only 22, has been inconsistancy personified since joining the Shrimpers and has never been able to hold down a regular spot in the first team.
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Out of money, Wikileaks shuts down
Shining a light in murky places ... Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Photo: Esther Dyson / Flickr
The anonymous whistleblower website Wikileaks, which has been a thorn in the side of governments and big business for three years, has shut down
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Edelman survey: Trust in all media plunges!
The finding that jumped out at me was this:
- Trust in information from friends and peers, “people like me,” dropped by 20 points, from 47 to 27 percent.
- Trust in information from digital media–blogs, social networks, and free content sources like
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Happy 6th Birthday, Facebook!
According to Wikipedia and their Info page, Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called “Thefacebook“, and it was originally located at thefacebook.com, but it’s definitely the same project.
Founded by Mark
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Late author of ‘Millennium’ trilogy under attack
STOCKHOLM - Former colleagues of best-selling crime fiction author Stieg Larsson have caused a furor in Sweden by questioning his talent as a writer and casting public doubt on whether he penned his books alone.
Larsson has gained mythical status since
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Blogging No Longer Cool
Did you see that new Pew study that came out yesterday? It put a big fat exclamation point on what a lot of us have come to realize recently: blogging is now the uncoolest thing you can do on the Internet. It’s even uncooler than editing Wikipedia
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Contested sheriff's race fuels unusual endorsement fight
the job.
Check out campaign finance totals in the races for the 11th Congressional District, Assembly District 15 and Contra Costa assessor, district attorney and sheriff.
Concord Councilwoman Helen Allen pulls out of the county supervisor race and
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FDA sees risks linked to the drug Tysabri
Washinton -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's determined the risk of developing a rare viral disease has been linked with Tysabri infusions.
The FDA said it has notified healthcare professionals the risk of developing progressive
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Openmoko brings improved keypad / scrolling and math equations to WikiReader
It sort of blows our mind that OpenMoko has managed to sell more than a smattering of its $99 WikiReaders (you know, considering just how limited in scope this thing is), but evidently there's a huge demand out there for improvements. The company has
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UN climate panel needs fix: scientists
The Nobel-winning UN panel that serves as the scientific bedrock for global climate negotiations needs a serious makeover, several of its most senior members said on Wednesday.
Their recommendations included scrapping the panel, which is run by
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Scientists seek better way to do climate report
softer science. The facts are not as good."
FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2001 file photo, Briton Robert Watson, right, then-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accompanied by James J. McCarthy, USA, IPCC's co-chairman, gestures
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Bizwiki.com Goes Live, Delivering Wiki-Power to Small Business
CHICAGO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The wiki-powered business website Bizwiki.com announced its American version went fully live today. Bizwiki was launched as an Alpha in the USA in December 2008, promising to change the way local search works by
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DELAWARE: On snowy streets, no unseating parking tradition
As far as Michael Toth is concerned, "you dig it, you own it."
While a snowstorm raged earlier this week, the Wilmington resident repeatedly ventured out to shovel snow away from his car and the surrounding pavement.
After that much time and effort,
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Z on TV: What do you think of NBC handling of luger's death video?
I saw the initial images. I think it was okay to show it once. I don't think it needs to be repeated and repeated. It was very scary.
I would rather not see it here either.
My symapthy goes out to Nodar Kumaritashvili family, friends and teammates.
I
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Fighting pandemics like swine flu in digital age
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A tap on the HealthMap iPhone application brings up a cluster of red pins on a map, representing nearby cases of swine flu. Another tap brings up a form for ordinary Americans to add to the collection by reporting bouts they have
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Fighting pandemics like swine flu in digital age
A
tap on the HealthMap iPhone application brings up a cluster of red pins on a
map, representing nearby cases of swine flu.
Another tap
brings up a form for ordinary Americans to add to the collection by reporting
bouts they have or know about.
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Google donates $2 million to support Wikipedia
SAN FRANCISCO Google, the Internet's most profitable company, is giving $2 million to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web's most-read sites.
The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant
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Google donates $2 million to Wikipedia
Google Inc., the Internet's most profitable company, is giving $2 million to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web's most-read sites.
The donation announced Wednesday matches the largest grant made so
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The Internet will make you smarter say experts
Most of the respondents also said the Internet would improve reading and writing by 2020, according to the study, conducted by the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University in North Carolina and the Pew Internet and American Life project.
"Three
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Internet Will Make You Smarter, Improve Reading And Writing By 2020
An online survey of 895 Web users and experts found more than three-quarters believe the Internet will make people smarter in the next 10 years. Most of the respondents also said the Internet would improve reading and writing by 2020, according to the
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What's in a name? That which we shall call Lacey Green
Alverno College student Lacey Green will visit the British village of Lacey Green as a distinguished guest.
Alverno College student Lacey Green will visit the British village of Lacey Green as a distinguished guest.
Periodically, columnist Jim Stingl
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Wife's expecting, so son-in-law's drinking worrisome
Published online 2/22/2010 11:02 PM
Dear Annie: My son-in-law drinks too much. Over the years, I've seen "Ted" overindulge at weddings, and I notice he consumes a tremendous amount of beer. Lately, my worry has turned from concern to
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Trainer killed by whale at SeaWorld
A KILLER whale has launched a deadly attack on a trainer at SeaWorld's Shamu stadium in Orlando.
THE veteran trainer had just finished telling the audience about the show they were about to witness in the Killer Whale tank when it struck, a witness
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Stale 'Cop Out' rubs in genre best forgotten
"It's not stealing," protests NYPD detective Paul Hodges as he readies for his "performance" interrogating a suspect. "It's called homage."
Since he's played by comic Tracy Morgan (TV's "30 Rock"), homage is mispronounced. Since the movie is "Cop Out,"
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REVIEW: 'Cop Out' falls shy of its inspirations
For better and worse, "Cop Out" is his film. Morgan rattles off movie quotes (everything from "Training Day" to "The Color Purple"), disguises himself in a cell phone costume, wildly vacillates emotionally, uses cute words like "nincompoop"
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Branding and the 'Me' Economy
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS -- For Benjamin Franklin, it was "early to bed and early to rise." For Dale Carnegie, it was the dictate "to do and dare." For Stephen Covey, it was seven simple habits.
The gospel of self-improvement has taken varied forms
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Cops crash car while chasing alleged robbers
Three police officers crashed their vehicle on Sunday in pursuit of alleged robbers near Nelspruit, said Netcare 911 paramedics.
"The police vehicle overturned on the N4 about 20km outside Nelspruit while pursuing a suspect vehicle," spokesman Chris
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The 10 All-Time Greatest Free Downloads and Services
In our 15 years of choosing the best free stuff, we’ve spotlighted the superstars: Adobe Reader, Craigslist, Flickr, Gmail, Google, Mozilla Firefox, and Wikipedia.
Here are ten other classics you might not use--but should.
(For more of our favorite
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Greenlight: Casino Encroaches on Poker and Bingo's Share of Play
LONDON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Casino has encroached on Bingo and Poker's popularity in the UK's online gaming sector, reveals the latest independent report by Greenlight, the UK's leading and award winning search marketing agency.
The report 'Gaming
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CeBIT: Researchers develop 3D graphics capability for Firefox
A group of researchers plans to release a version of the Firefox browser that includes the built-in ability to view 3D graphics, a capability that could open the door for more interactive Web pages from developers.
Some gaming companies have created
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Aussie scientist wins Twitter award
AN Australian scientist is among the users of the micro-blogging service Twitter honoured at a ceremony in New York. Australian cell biologist Rachael Dunlop was the winner in the health category for her twitter feed drrachie at the second annual Shorty
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Angry anti-gov't writing linked to Pentagon gunman
WASHINGTON – A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived outside the military headquarters armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said Friday. The shooter apparently left behind angry,
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When the sports world goes Hollywood
The beautiful people will gather in Los Angeles on Sunday night and hand out their version of the Stanley Cup at the 82nd Academy Awards.
This annual event, in which self-absorbed millionaires vie for a trophy, is strangely similar to the NBA and NHL
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Daylight Savings Time 2010 and Time Change
Daylight Savings Time 2010 and the time change can't happen soon enough for me! I'm ready for Daylight Saving Time 2010 and the time change to longer days and shorter nights.
2010 will happen on Sunday, March 14 at 2 AM.
The time change means we lose
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Sensible People See Through Keynesian Economics, But Not Economists
Four images provide the conceptual tools to refute Keynesian economics: the gun, the wallet, the IOU, and the printing press. Recall them every time you read a Keynesian promotion of the latest government-spending plan. Let me explain.
Think of
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Skater's gaffe highlights politics of China sports
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010 file photo, China's Zhou Yang reacts after winning the gold medal for the women's 1500m short track skating competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was a political gaffe for
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The White Stripes' 'Under Great White Northern Lights': Jack White Invades Canada, Because He Can!
In any other lifetime, Jack White would have been a woodblock printer, a pirate, a missionary, a wheelwright, a buckskin-clad frontiersman, a statesman, a Union soldier, a sharecropping bluesman, a cigar-chomping newsman, an oil baron, an electrical
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Who does what on Wikipedia?
The quality of entries in the world's largest open-access online encyclopedia depends on how authors collaborate, University of Arizona Professor Sudha Ram finds.
The patterns of collaboration between Wikipedia contributors have a direct effect on the
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News: Apple Fills in the iPad’s iBooks Blanks
First, the iBooks app won’t be shipping with the iPad. Instead, users will have to download the free app from Apple’s iTunes-based App Store.
Since the iBooks supports the ePub electronic book standard, users can sync free titles with their iPad via
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ALIPAC Calls for John McCain to Apologize To Minorities
The multi-racial political action committee called Americans for Legal Immigration PAC or ALIPAC rebuked Senator John McCain's latest smear attempt and calls on candidate McCain to apologize to the group's minority supporters. "McCain's campaign is
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One Guy's Opinion: Why Zoe Saldana Rules and Angelina Jolie Drools
Have you ever wondered why a certain guy is attracted to certain actress? I get asked my opinion on this subject quite often, actually. Especially since I attend a plethora of film press junkets and have the opportunity to sit down with many actresses
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Wikipedia Breathes New Life Into Seminal Scientology Expose
Over the weekend, prominent placement on Wikipedia's main page launched a nearly twenty-year-old Time magazine article about Scientology onto the Time site's "most-read" list. The jump in traffic reveals both the continued popularity of
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Encyclopedia Dramatica Owner May Face Charges Down Under... Despite Not Being In Australia
You would think after all these years on the internet we would have figured out how to deal with basic jurisdictional issues, but there are still plenty of countries who think that the laws in their country can reach over borders and be applied to
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Sickipedia: bid to shut offensive site
The Australian Human Rights Commission has threatened legal action against a widely read but controversial US-based website over an article that encourages racial hatred against Aborigines.
But online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia
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Google executives called YouTube a 'pirate' site
counsel Zahavah Levine wrote in a YouTube blog post. "The DMCA (and common sense) recognizes that content owners, not service providers like YouTube, are in the best position to know whether a specific video is authorized to be on an Internet hosting
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Gold and Hyperinflation, Watch the Bond Market Not Bank Lending or Velocity
A few weeks ago we wrote about the true cause of hyperinflation, which is a major break or failure in the bond market. It has nothing to do with demand, bank lending or the velocity of money as many have suggested. It is a confidence issue. It is not a
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Anat Kam, Self-Censorship and the Israeli Left
This blog was the first English-language source which reported that Israeli journalist Anat Kam was secretly arrested by the Israeli police for allegedly leaking top secret IDF memos describing the army’s flagrant disregard for an Israeli Supreme Court
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ReadWriteWeb: Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source : Martin Stabe
"Moka Pantages, the communications officer for the WikiMedia Foundation ... discuss[ed] how the Wikipedia community addressed the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. ... by the end of the first day of the Wikipedia article's life, it had been edited more
