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• Bronx man pleads guilty in crash that killed woman in New Rochelle A Bronx man who struck and killed a 29-year-old woman in New Rochelle while driv...
• Motorcyclist Injured in Los Angeles Car Accident A motorcyclist sustained serious injuries in a Los Angeles car accident the afte...
• Nexus One also headed to Sprint, actual availability still unannounced The Nexus One was just announced for AT&T and Rogers yesterday , and today w...
• Central Texas Digest: Road rage leads to arrest; city lowers pet adoption rates Police have arrested and charged a man with aggravated assault with a motor vehi...
• Man killed in Laois crash A man was killed today when his car crashed into a ditch. The 27-year-old was ta...
• Americans suspected of terror-related activities Americans who have been charged or suspected of terror-related activities over t...
• It's Official: News Media Are Missing The Twitter Boat Less than 0.2 percent of people who use Twitter wind up going to news and media ...
• Alleged prostitute charged in double shooting at Schaumburg hotel, one victim dies Kristian Branch arrest photos today Last week's A woman arrested on prostitution...
• How Dare You Fire This Dallas Prison Guard For Telling Co-Workers... Since when were prison guards barred from telling colleagues about how homosexua...
• Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning Glam It Up In 'Runaways' The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily c...
• ABBA, Hollies, Genesis, Iggy Pop Inducted Into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame British rockers Genesis, The Stooges and ABBA have been inducted into the Rock a...
• Beckham's World Cup Dream Over HEARTBROKEN: David Beckham's World Cup dreams are over after he tore his Achille...
• British actress Kate Winslet splits from her husband British movie star Kate Winslet has separated from her film director husband Sam...
• Twitter Ceo Evan Williams Speaks at SXSW [Live Coverage] This afternoon at SXSW in Austin, Texas, Twitter CEO Evan Williams is expected t...
• Netflix prototyped for Windows Phone 7 Series We just got a quick at Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series, one of the third-part...
• IKEA Furnishes Parisian Subways IKEA have demonstrated originality and creativity in their guerrilla and experie...
• GOP boss: We'll kill health care The top House Republican says the GOP can defeat the Democratic health care bill...
• LeBron scores 30 as Cavs down Celtics LEBRON James scored 30 points, including 24 in the second half, as Cleveland wor...
• Google admits Buzz mistakes, tries again at SXSW A product manager from Google told attendees at the South by Southwest Interacti...
• Two Americans killed in Mexico shooting Two Americans associated with the US Consulate General in the Mexico's violence-...

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• Magazine: Sandra Bullock's husband cheating - MiamiHerald.com Telegraph.co.ukMagazine: Sandra Bullock's husband cheatingMiamiHerald.comSan...
• Gaza rocket kills man in southern Israel - Ha'aretz The GuardianGaza rocket kills man in southern IsraelHa'aretzA rocket fired by Pa...
• Annapolis priest is first openly lesbian bishop for Episcopalians - Baltimore Sun Los Angeles TimesAnnapolis priest is first openly lesbian bishop for Episcopalia...
• Kidnapped boy Sahil Saeed reunited with his father - BBC News ReutersKidnapped boy Sahil Saeed reunited with his fatherBBC NewsThe UK boy kidn...
• Some Fargo residents refuse to move despite floods - The Associated Press CBC.caSome Fargo residents refuse to move despite floodsThe Associated PressFARG...
• Nigeria: Impeachment - Intrigues That Swayed Senate in Favour of Yar'Adua - AllAfrica.com RTE.ieNigeria: Impeachment - Intrigues That Swayed Senate in Favour of Yar'A...
• In Russia, Clinton to Meet on Arms - New York Times ReutersIn Russia, Clinton to Meet on ArmsNew York TimesMOSCOW ? With the United ...
• Online postings warn of another Va. Tech attack - The Associated Press New York Daily NewsOnline postings warn of another Va. Tech attackThe Associated...
• Myanmar Frees Jailed American - New York Times The HinduMyanmar Frees Jailed AmericanNew York TimesBANGKOK ? A pro-democracy ac...

technology and culture, from the trenches

• kitten: The Text Adventure  Location: Party You are at a great party.  There are lots of people milli...
• Ogg Frog Magazine #6              ____    ________...
• The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose fo...
• Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have t...
• Hopeless romantic Chinese Ph.D candidate arrested He did it for love and he is a model employee with his employer The Rutgers Uni...
• The Jarmidor, Part 3 Having discovered that I'm not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see...
• 15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one anothe...
• Obama The First Year He's accomplished quite a lot his first year. Here's my list of the most talked ...
• Our Trip to Cuba It's next to impossible to get an objective opinion on Cuba. Most Americans can'...
• Applying the First Amendment to Corporations: Well established and a good idea There's been much hang-wringing about the recent Citizens United U.S. Supreme Co...

News for nerds, stuff that matters

• Can You Fight DRM With Patience? As modern DRM schemes get more annoying and invasive, the common wisdom is to vo...
• P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain Nieriko writes After three years of arduous litigation, Jesus Guerra Calderon, o...
• Devs Finally Finding Success With Xbox Indie Games McBacon writes with this excerpt from Wired.co.uk: "Often dismissed as a failed ...
• MIT Developing Self-Assembling Computer Chips An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Techno...
• Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics Kilrah_il writes "The linked article provides a short summary of the problems sc...
• Solar-Powered Augmented Reality Contact Lenses ByronScott writes "Want eyesight that could put your neighborhood cyborg to sham...
• Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars hansamurai writes "Over one hundred cars equipped with a Webtech Plus blackbox w...
• Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years Lanxon writes "The guy behind Ultima Online once bought an old Russian rover, de...
• Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice Chroniton writes "NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a po...
• Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs An anonymous reader writes "The Open Video Alliance is launching a campaign toda...
• Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal marklyon writes "HB 872, recently signed into law by Mississippi Governor Haley ...
• Japanese Researchers Develop World's Fastest Book Scanner An anonymous reader writes "IEEE Spectrum reports that Tokyo University research...
• Firmware Hack Allows Video Analysis On a Canon Camera An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the University of Liege in Belgium ...
• Android 2.1 Finally Makes It To Droid MrSmith0011000100110 writes "The lovely people over at AndroidCentral have broke...
• The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam An anonymous reader writes "There's a lot of things wrong with 3D movies. Avatar...

Explaining the Science of Everyday Life

• Will the U.S. Become the Next Ireland? Ireland is a cautionary tale, not a model, for Greece and other countries facing...
• What We're Reading ... Temporary marriages in Shiite Islam, and other links from around the Web....
• March (Money) Madness A March Madness bracket based on the earnings potential of each school's alumni....
• Do Jobless Benefits Discourage People From Finding Jobs? Some economists have gone too far by claiming that unemployment insurance is sti...
• The Future of the Deficit Spending on Medicare and Medicaid is on pace to account for more than half of th...
• More From Glaeser on America's Shrinking Cities The Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser talks about "right-sizing" America's dec...
• What We're Reading ... What happens to your credit score when you close a credit card, and other links ...
• Extended Monotony It has now been a year since the Fed began pledging to keep interest rates "exce...
• The Beer Belly of America Researchers unleash the Web's untapped data to map markets for beer, strip clubs...
• Does Universal Health Care Discourage Abortions? One writer, who has spent time investigating the health care systems of other ri...