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• Death toll rises to 15 in Yunnan landslide Rescuers try to move a block of mud and rocks at Wama Village of Longyang Distri...
• Prosecutor to Seek Execution of Man Accused in Seattle Cop's Slaying "Prosecutor to seek execution of man accused in Seattle cop's slaying" By LEVI P...
• Rock of the Dead Slaying Zombies on Your Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PS3 Welly well well, there's a new shooter coming to Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and PS3...
• Lawyer: Ford, Mets prospect family settle in player crash death JACKSON, Miss. -- Ford Motor Co. on Thursday settled a Mississippi lawsuit over ...
• NJ Woman Upset that Her Car Saved Suicide Jumpera s Life Poor Maria McCormack. It was her Dodge Charger that was crushed by an inconsider...
• Vehicular homicide charged in May crash that killed Liverpool High School senior The driver of a vehicle involved in a crash that killed Liverpool High School se...
• Genomics in target and drug discovery. To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select yo...
• PlayStation3 to come loaded with Blu-ray in 3D next month PlayStation3 from Sony is all set to be rolled out with 3D playback this October...
• Four dead, 44 missing in Yunnan landslide Rescue work is under way as mudslides hit a village in southwest China's Yunnan ...
• Sensitive Brits Upset Over Dead Princess Lingerie Tribute To tastefully honor the late Princess Diana on the anniversary of her death, a C...
• E-mail this page NOTE: We only request your e-mail address so that the person you are forwarding ...
• Have You Considered A 15 Year Mortgage? With 15 year interest rates in theA mid 3% range, it might be a once in a lifeti...
• Today In History September 1,1752;The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia. The Bell arrived in Philadelphia on September 1,1752, but was not hung until Mar...
• Back-In-Time 2.0 Today's SuperMaX hackintosh review from Robert Mohns examines this custom-built ...
• ESB confirms electricity price rise It has been confrimed that electricity prices will rise at the beginning of next...
• Mobile police arrest suspect in June slaying of Zoa White Mobile police late Tuesday arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the kil...
• Hamas Terror Attack Unmasks Fatal Weakness of Peace Talks Israeli police examine car attacked by Hamas gunmen There have been so many misc...
• Samantha Ronson's Dog Attacks and Kills Another Dog Gossip Cop has confirmed that Samantha Ronson's bulldog, Cadillac, killed a smal...
• It's wearing thin Most phasmids strive for invisibility, assuming the drab forms of twigs , leaves...
• Mobile man charged with murder in Prichard shooting Edgar Dailey, 28, was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail on Aug. 31, 2010 on a...

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• Unemployment rises slightly in August to 9.6% - Los Angeles Times New York TimesUnemployment rises slightly in August to 9.6%Los Angeles TimesThe ...
• Hurricane Earl Swings Up East Coast - Wall Street Journal ReutersHurricane Earl Swings Up East CoastWall Street JournalAP A television new...
• Suicide bomb blast kills 42 in Pakistan - Los Angeles Times The HinduSuicide bomb blast kills 42 in PakistanLos Angeles TimesThe attack on a...
• Obama Promises New Economic Proposals Next Week - CBS News msnbc.comObama Promises New Economic Proposals Next WeekCBS NewsPresident Barack...
• Obama Pledges New Measures Next Week to Boost US Economic Growth, Hiring - Bloomberg Washington PostObama Pledges New Measures Next Week to Boost US Economic Growth,...
• Police question scientist in Miami airport scare - The Associated Press Globe and MailPolice question scientist in Miami airport scareThe Associated Pre...
• Middle East peace talks are 'doomed to fail', says Ahamdinejad - The Guardian Aljazeera.netMiddle East peace talks are 'doomed to fail', says Ahamdine...
• Kirk Calls For Federal Spending Controls - MyStateline.com WLSKirk Calls For Federal Spending ControlsMyStateline.com(Springfield) -- Repub...
• US government probing Mariner platform fire - Reuters The HinduUS government probing Mariner platform fireReutersHOUSTON, Sept 3 (Reut...
• Samsung Galaxy Tab Faces Challenges - PC World The HinduSamsung Galaxy Tab Faces ChallengesPC WorldThe Samsung Galaxy Tab--offi...

technology and culture, from the trenches

• Cocoa Memory Management: the 7 Step Program Cocoa memory management is fairly straightforward, so I shouldn't have to post t...
• BANANA CARAMEL PIE BANANA CARAMEL PIE IS NOT THAT HARD IF YOU THINK IT IS HARD THERE IS SOMETHIN...
• Games People Play: A Book Review Welcome to the K5 Book Club! Discussions on K5 have brought up this book. In a...
• To Save The Gulf, Send The Enterprise The real Planet Earth has an ongoing situation that could use a ship of superher...
• Salaryman's Bank Performance Report Salaryman arrived to the car-park just as Boss's chauffeur was stamping on his c...
• Booting Up with Salaryman Salaryman set his coffee mug on his desk. On a coaster, of course. Salaryman res...
• Why I Almost Gave OpenBSD $100,000--But Didn't It is never a happy occasion to realize that a not-for-profit group, no matter h...
• Murder the Chinese People!...with Red Dawn (2010) Like many of my childhood friends, I was deeply moved by the 1984 B survival mov...
• Why I Left OpenBSD I was a long-time OpenBSD user since the 3.1 days, and cut my teeth on Unix deve...

News for nerds, stuff that matters

• Major Battle Brewing Between French Gov't and ISPs Dangerous_Minds writes "Drew Wilson has been following HADOPI (France's three st...
• Hurt Locker File-Sharing Subpoenas Begin In May we discussed news that producers of the film The Hurt Locker filed a laws...
• HP Backs Memristor Mass Production neo12 writes with news that Hewlett-Packard is teaming with Hynix Semiconductor,...
• Wireless Power Group Has 'Qi' Prototypes judgecorp writes "Steady progress on inductive wireless charging. There are now ...
• New Calculations May Lead To a Test For String Theory dexmachina writes "A team of theoreticians, led by a group from Imperial College...
• Facebook To Add Remote Logout angry tapir writes "Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers...
• Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties Trailrunner7 writes "Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and...
• Harvard Ditching Final Exams? itwbennett writes "According to Harvard magazine, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and ...
• Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad' Hugh Pickens writes "Ryan Lawler writes on GigaOm that although many have touted...
• Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance cgriffin21 writes "Samsung is making no bones about it: Google Android is its fu...
• Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network? devjj writes "For the past year or so I have been trying (and failing) to figure...
• Canon Develops 8 X 8 Inch Digital CMOS Sensor dh003i writes "Canon has developed a 8 x 8 inch CMOS digital sensor. It will be ...
• GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases donniebaseball23 writes "EA's Medal of Honor reboot doesn't ship until October 1...
• GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases donniebaseball23 writes "EA's Medal of Honor reboot doesn't ship until October 1...
• DNA-Less 'Red Rain' Cells Reproduce At 121 C eldavojohn writes "A new paper up for prepublication from the controversial soli...
• Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that in his new book, The Grand Design...
• UN Telecom Chief Urges Blackberry Data Sharing crimeandpunishment writes "The top man in telecommunications at the United Natio...
• Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? rsmiller510 writes "Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social ...
• AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do pickens writes "David Pogue writes in the NY Times that when you buy a new Windo...
• New German Government ID Hacked By CCC wiedzmin writes "Public broadcaster ARD's show 'Plusminus' teamed up with the kn...
• Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and...
• Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype rexjoec writes "Cisco is making a bid for Skype. The deal, if successful, would ...
• Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes A few readers have noted that another gulf oil rig has exploded. This one is off...
• Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released tlhIngan writes "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS...
• Facebook Posting Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Homework eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and...

List of forum threads

• Does NoSQL Mean No-ACID? Well, Yes...Yes it Does... ACID is hard to scale. But isn't NoSQL/NoACID the lazy way around the problem? W...
• Is Android Evil? Insight from Andreas Constantinou Is Android really open? Research Director Andreas Constantinou uncovers the many...
• Klaros-Testmanagement 3.1 released ? including Mantis integration Klaros-Testmanagement is an Ajax-based web application to support test managers ...
• Have You Ever Seen a Cloud in a Box? VMWare Delivers with vFabric Okay, maybe it's not a 'cloud in a box.' And maybe they don't even want us to re...
• IBM WebSphere SIB & Cloud Computing: Leveraging the Power High performance, availability and scalability with messaging solutions, and the...
• How To Pick the Right Web Framework In praise of the single page interface. In this little presentation, the author ...
• Java development 2.0: Sharding with Hibernate Shards Horizontal scalability for relational databases with Hibernate Shards ...
• Troubleshoot Java in production Short description about the challenges of troubleshooting highly distributed and...
• Build Android apps using XML and JavaScript Object Notation Explore the benefits of JSON and XML in Android applications J...
• QuickBuild 3 - Integrated View of Builds, Issues and SCM Changes QuickBuild 3 is released to work tightly with issue tracking systems to provide ...
• Mule 3 RC2 Released Mule ESB 3.0, the popular open source enterprise service bus, is one step closer...
• Ajax + Mobile with ZK: Version 5.0.4 Released Today ZK is the most proven Ajax + Mobile framework available, designed to maximize an...
• Google backs out of JavaOne conference Company cites Oracle's litigation over Android as a lawsuit 'against open source...
• Atlassian-Bamboo integration with Maven 3 (beta) and Ivy - new Artifactory plug-in JFrog announces the new Bamboo-Artifactory plugin with added support for Maven 3...
• Openfire server installation - Infrastructure for Instant Messaging This tutorial is the first part of the ?Setting up an infrastructure for Instant...

Explaining the Science of Everyday Life

• On Health Care, the Devil's in the Details How various health-care costs are allotted to which categories is a subject of f...
• A Push on Tax Cuts? It's probably good news. But why has it taken the White House so long?...
• How a Financial Market Is Like a Child Playing in the Snow A creative metaphor from Bill Thomas, the vice chairman of the Financial Crisis ...
• What We're Reading: Double-Dip Odds Links from around the Web. ...
• In Ireland, Dangers Still Loom Ireland's financial stability remains highly uncertain, and its problems could r...
• Romer's Final Washington Dispatch: More Stimulus Today is Christina Romer's last day as a member of the White House economic team...
• What We're Reading: Help the Poor, Patronize a Sweatshop Links from around the Web. ...
• How Baby Fever Spreads Through Offices A new study out of Sweden finds that women workers are more likely to have babi...
• Immigrants' Babies Taking Over? Over the last two decades, the number of young children of foreign-born parents ...
• The Costs of War, Continued As the Afghanistan conflict drags on, the costs of expected veterans' benefits b...