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3 Responses RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level

For those of that don't know the legal limit is .08. This guy had a few drinks.

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Posted 17 hours ago

Discuss Fail Whale is Hungry

Only 10 cents per click!

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Discuss Simplicity by Eric Burke

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1 Response Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”

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1 Response Golden Girls' 'Sophia' Dead at 84

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's The Golden Girls, has died

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2 Responses Baby's First Internet

A satirical look at the internets through the lens of children's storybooks.

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Discuss Robert Kirkman named a partner at Image Comics...

this is pretty cool. Kirkman is a great writer, and considering how much "Invincible" and "Walking Dead" have done for Image, he deserves the promotion/recognition.

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Discuss A-Rod Retains William Morris Agency. Good luck to you, William Morris.

Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees is banking on the William Morris Agency LLC to improve his image and boost sponsorship income from companies that are concerned about his off-field profile.

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Discuss Garage ordered to pay 11-year-old parking fine...

Garage manager, Terri Adam: "I would normally be the first person the finger would be pointed at - but I was only 15 at the time. No-one even recognises the registration."

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1 Response Novelty Bavarian Lederhosen With Yodeling Frankfurter Controls: Hurry!

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Discuss China's green monster could be a problem for the Olympics.

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Discuss How to get Apple MobileMe for free

Apple might be having big problems with its cloud computing iPhone contacts dooberry, but as this story points out that might be good news for the user.

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1 Response Wanted - owners of 1,500 stolen bicycles (Reuters)

Reuters - Toronto police are looking for the owners of some 1,500 bicycles they have recovered after raids on a shop, home and storage garages across Canada's biggest city.

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from Yahoo! News: Odd News

Discuss The Best, Weirdest, and Most Wonderful Gadget Designs of 2008

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Discuss Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan

Juan Cole in Salon : "Barack Obama's Afghanistan and Iraq policies are mirror images of each other. Obama wants to send 10,000 extra U.S. troops to Afghanistan, but wants to withdraw all American soldiers and Marines from Iraq on a short ...more

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Posted 5 hours ago

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Discuss LXer: Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours

Published at LXer: Django (for those of you who don't know and are just reading this out of sheer curiosity) is "an open source web application framework, written in Python, which loosely follows the...

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Posted 6 hours ago

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1 Response A Week of Car Shows, a Century of Transportation

By Keith Barry There may be no more appropriate commentary on the state of motoring these days than three recent car shows that represent the past, present and future of personal transportation. Ford is throwing a party in Richmond, Indiana,... ...more

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from Wired: Autopia

Discuss LXer: Ubuntu Netbook vs. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Devices: What's the Difference?

Published at LXer: Canonical is working on at least two mobile Linux projects. One called Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the other called Ubuntu for Mobile Internet Devices. So what's the difference between...

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Posted 8 hours ago

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Discuss Tight Jeans No Longer Root Password to Vagina

London Telegraph | Submitted by: PrizePubes "The Court of Cassation provoked international outrage in 1999 when it quashed the conviction of a previously convicted rapist, saying it would be impossible to forcibly remove a woman's tight jeans if she ...more

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Posted 10 hours ago

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1 Response New Hampshire passes new bike safety laws

"To celebrate Governor John Lynch's signing of a new bicycle safety bill - and to get about 55 miles worth of exercise - Gene and Judy Andersen hopped on their red Raleigh tandem bike and pedaled from their Lebanon home to the State House. ...more

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Discuss Video: Bills, Bills, Bills/Cater 2 U (live @ TBE Tour) - Beyonc [Beyonce Knowles Videos on YouTube]

Bills, Bills, Bills/ Cater 2 U (live @ TBE Tour) - Beyoncé Knowles Author: Zecchin19 Keywords: Beyoncé Beyonce Knowles Bills Cater Destiny's Child Medley live r&b pop Added: July 23, 2008 Strmz video ...more

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2 Responses hooray for reigning in the FCC!

a Federal appeals court threw out the half-million dollar fine against CBS for the Superbowl "wardrobe malfunction." it's about freaking time.

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Posted 2 days ago

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Discuss Advice for folks switching from commuting via car to bike

Ty Burr offers some useful advice in The Boston Globe's Sidekick for people considering ditching their cars in favor of biking to work.

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Discuss GLib 2.17.4 (Development branch)

GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0. License: GNU Lesser General Public ...more

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Posted 16 hours ago

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Discuss Dolphins trade Taylor to the Redskins

The defensive player of the year has been shipped to Washington.

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Discuss Enhancing Lifespan or Healthspan

Yesterday's NYT science section had an article about Sirtris Pharmaceuticals (recently purchased by GlaxoSmithKline). Sirtris has been working to develop resveratrol-related compounds to treat diseases like diabetes, using methods that generated ...more

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Posted 21 hours ago

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Discuss Lesbos climax as lesbians lick Lesbians

Hot Athens court action backs girl-on-girl Lesbian activists from the sun-kissed Sapphic luuurv island of Lesbos have been roundly licked in their battle to prevent gay gals dubbing themselves lesbians, the Beeb reports._

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Posted 22 hours ago

from The Register

Discuss Gordon in the morning: Where the wild things aren't

You've fallen off the wagon You've made yourself look a bit of knob by chasing a model younger than most of the whiskeys you drink You've let down your wife Your humiliation is public But the worst thing of all

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Discuss How to Become A Clickbank Super Affiliate! Posted By : Johanna Piittala

The easiest ways to succeed in affiliate programs with excellent results explained.

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from Article Submission Directory - Easy Article Submit: Internet Marketing | Affiliate Programs

Discuss Bone marrow donation: deciding to donate and being thankful someone did

In May, the radio show Weekend America featured a piece by Marc Sanchez about his struggle with deciding whether to donate bone marrow after being contacted a few years after registering via the ...more

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Discuss Power, politics and the Olympics

The Public Radio International show America Abroad provides a history of the Olympics as a political forum, the impact the games have had on host countries, and some of the past controversies.

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Discuss Re: UEXPECTF is gone: any way to write "portable" tests?

Felix De Vliegher

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Discuss Autochromes from the George Eastman House

Beautiful examples of the earliest color photos.

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Discuss Space Elevator: Japanese Team Creates Working Space Elevator... Made of Lego Blocks

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Discuss Intacct: Intacct Names Andrew Marks as Vice President of Client Services

SAN JOSE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Intacct, a leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications, today announced the appointment of Andrew Marks as vice president of client services Responsible for both professional services and customer ...more

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1 Response Nemesis Now s Lobotomy Coaster Set: The Gift that Keeps On Giving!

Are you tired of looking for that one-of–a-kind gift for that weird, hard-to-please soul who has everything under the sun? Well, look no more. The Lobotomy Coaster Set from Nemesis Now has arrived. Technorati Tags: Food and Drink Fun Funny ...more

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from Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us

2 Responses Belkin GoStudio Recorder review

Belkin's new GoStudio recorder is an iPod accessory that boasts a full-featured recording dock that is compatible with the iPod 5G, iPod classic, as well as both second and third generations of iPod nano.

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Discuss Bulgaria and Europe

Funny little cartoon contrasting BG and the (rest of the) EU :)

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Discuss Improve your fashion style online!

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3 Responses Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief - Part I

Jonathan Miller's 'Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief' explores the development of atheism as a singular mode of being, clarifying quite spectacularly the emergence of secular thought over the past 500 years.

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1 Response This Artist Loves His Toy Bricks - Amazing Lego Art

Brick Artist Nathan Sawaya creates amazing sculptures out of_LEGO bricks. Technorati Tags: Art and Design Entertainment Fun Funny Miscellaneous Weird or Wacky

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2 Responses Law Blog - WSJ.com : Covington Partner Demonstrates Treatment of Detainees

Remes continued: “At the press conference in Yemen — this is a society where the rule of morality is so strict — I wanted to drive home the degree of humiliation that these searches cause by illustrating a typical body search. The physical abuse they ...more

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Discuss Lake Bluff man declares his home a church, gets tax break -- chicagotribune.com

Michael told state officials last month that he began his North Shore congregation more than a year ago after he got a pastor's degree from an online religious site. While only a handful of close friends and family attend the church, Michael opened ...more

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Discuss How Strong Is the U.S. Consumer?

A resident of Paris, Hong Kong, or Riyadh can make a purchase on a U.S. e-commerce site (say, Amazon.com or Apple.com) and it may show up in the U.S. retail sales data. Consider Blue Nile, the Seattle-based online jewelry retailer. Its ...more

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Discuss Some ladies of Jell-o wrestling

Anna Boiko-Weyrauch introduces us to some women who wrestle in Jell-o in this Weekend America segment. I don't think "'Cause there's always room for Jell-o" is one of the reasons they gave ...more

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1 Response Here is the ‘WATCHMAN’ TRAILER! - GeekTyrant

I found The New ‘Watchman’ Trailer on youtube! Holy crap this movie is going to be amazing! I honestly can’t belive how amazing this movie is going to be! The Geek blood is really pumping now! My head is spinning! The greatest Graphic Novel ever is ...more

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Posted 6 days ago

3 Responses Yankee Stadium: For Sale, Bit By Bit

The team will sell pieces of Yankee Stadium before the 85- year-old ballpark is torn down. The blue plastic seats alone could generate more than $20 million, according to sports memorabilia experts.

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Discuss Decapitation by chainsaw is not a suspicious death?

Since when is a decapitation by chainsaw not suspicious? The BBC reports that an inquest concerning the death of a man decapitated by a chainsaw found the death not to be suspicious. What the article fails to note is whether the fellow decapitated ...more

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