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New releases for week of 7/13
www.examiner.com/examiner/x-16738-Tampa-Console-... - Details
the-vampkitty: This could've been easy if only retail releases were of interest. But, let's complicate this unnecessarily, shall we? In terms of retail releases, only a smattering of games drop this week for your favorite console. NCAA Football '10, Science...
How Mike Judge got screwed by Fox on "Idiocracy"
www.esquire.com/cgi-bin/printtool/print.cgi?page... - Details
ignat-tundra65: Once photography was finished, the real problems began: So-and-so executive hasn't had a chance to see it, so everything was put on hold. Then Fox started nickel-and-diming him over a few special-effects costs. "I've never experienced anything...
Inauguration Music Actually Recorde Days Ago,Not Played Live
www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/music/23band.htm... - Details
grechkin43: The somber, elegiac tones before President Obamas oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the National Mall and watching on television heard...
New Germ Busters Outwit Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-06/st_g... - Details
inno-a-satana: Infectious bacteria have evolved through loopholes in almost every drug we've created, thanks to our own misuse and overuse. Researchers are testing new bug-killers that bypass the molecular pathways used by old-school antibiotics, and maybe...
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The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq
http://www.salon.com/news/2007/03/11/fort_benning - Details
listumnizza: At Fort Benning, soldiers who were classified as medically unfit to fight are now being sent to war. Can it get any worse?
Your Brain On Music: Survival of the Harmonious
www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/09... - Details
battle-realms: Mounting evidence suggests that human beings are hard-wired to appreciate music. What researchers want to know now is why our distant ancestors evolved music in the first place. As evidence mounts that we're somehow hard-wired to be musical,...
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Homes in Finland get 100 Mbps internet connection
www.teliasonera.com/externalarticlenm/?hier=1281... - Details
urban-terorrist: TeliaSonera Finland and Vuosaaren Kiinteistt have agreed that Vuosaaris all approximately 3,000 rental flats will be provided with fibre optic based broadband connections enabling transmission rates of up to 100 Mbps. The connections will be...
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Video Games Make Better Surgeons
www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_... - Details
guenpanther: Video games have been linked to problems like bad grades and violent behavior. But as this ScienCentral News article and video reports, a new study suggests that video games might also make surgeons better at their jobs.
Giant Dinosaurs Get Downsized
www.livescience.com/animals/090621-dinosaur-size... - Details
celestial-rain: Some dinosaurs were the largest creatures ever to walk on land, including the classic long-necked, whip-tailed Diplodicus, but a new study suggests it and its many extinct brethren weighed as little as half as much as previously thought.
Leet Speak On The News - Very Dangerous Online Code
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1cyNigny8 - Details
phatjew: Warning to parents: You child may be using a very complicated and dangerous language called "Leet".
Key to blood clotting discovered
www.newspaperstoday.com/health/key-to-blood-clot... - Details
cat-in-net: Scientists have discovered a molecular mechanism that is key to regulating the way blood clots.
NFL Draft Review - Tight Ends
http://lesterslegends.com/?p=10675 - Details
cat-in-net: A look at the top incoming NFL Rookie Tight Ends.
Exclusive 100 MPG Hummer H3 Plug-In Test Drive
www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/automotive_news/4... - Details
phatmike: What it's like to slide behind the wheel of Raser's plug-in prototype on real roads. Is the 100-mpg Hummer ready for prime time?
House votes to block police from seizing legal guns in disasters
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5196532 - Details
lifelovehopex3: The House voted Tuesday to prevent law enforcement officers from confiscating legally owned guns during a national disaster or emergency.
Battle of the Multi-Column Twitter Clients
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10214750-2.html - Details
cat-in-net: Seesmic Desktop takes on TweetDeck, AlertThingy, Nambu, and Twhirl Read this blog post by Rafe Needleman on Webware.
Fish with Dec Hogan, Get a Free Rod
deneki.blogspot.com/2009/02/fish-with-dec-get-fr... - Details
cat-in-net: Dec Hogan will be teaching a spey casting seminar at Alaska West on the Kanektok River - home of chrome bright king salmon that love to eat swung flies. Guests who fish with Dec in his week will receive a fly rod of their choice (single- or...
Volvo Reveals Pricing for New XC60 3.2 in U.S.
www.automagazined.com/2009/06/volvo-reveals-pric... - Details
grebenkowa: According to popular wisdom, Crosssovers are the new wagons, but at Volvo the heritage is clearly visible. In U.S., its wagon-like crossovers in the XC line have met with great success, together with the various wagon lines accounting for about...
[video]:Mark Shuttleworth Announces Ubuntu 10.04: Lucid Lynx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l02bhwofEqw - Details
jackalak8: Mark Shuttleworth Announces Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, at Atlanta Linux Fest 2009.
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