Submitted by badgergravling
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It’s an accepted fact that we love an underdog in this country. Overdogs don’t even get a look in. From “Eddie” The Eagle Edwards to his conjoined grandsons Jedward, we have a soft spot for the tryers, doomed to failure. We (Read More)
Engadget:
Shakespeare's plays have a long, long history of being modded to fit the times. We've seen Macbeths do the running man, and Cordelias dressed like Susie Sioux -- and we've also seen Forbidden Planet, so we know that Robby was (Read More)
Rivva Suche: Hamburg:
Von der Diskussionsveranstaltung am vergangenen Dienstag (17.11.) im Gängeviertel gibt es inzwischen einen Mitschnitt vom Radio FSK: [Podcast] „Die Stadt gehört ja eigentlich allen“. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I still don't know why the Omnia II's 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen is resistive, but the WinMo 6.5 phone will go head-to-head with Verizon's own Moto Droid. Leaked docs suggest it'll be $200 on contract after $100 mail-in reba (Read More)
CNN:
In the early 1990's, I was listening to the Rush Limbaugh radio show when a young man from Youngstown, Ohio, called in to complain about... well, life.
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TechCrunch:
Frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada, Vancouver-based Jeff Anderson set out to build a community-driven Internet radio service of his own along with other music fanatics, and (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Sir Hugh Orde, president of Acpo, says it is absolutely critical that forces stay free of political influenceChief constables could resign if a Tory government enacted plans to put police forces under the control of directly (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
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The latest HR Happy Hour is in the can and we've hit a cool milestone; It was our 20th show!! That's just nuts. Super cool for sure, but nuts! I guess you guys like us, you really like us! Our topic was Next Gen recruiting an (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I've seen "extreme weather warning" alerts beep-beep-beep across my TV during a show, but someone playing a video game might not. That's why NY state officials are intending to also send those Emergency Management Office issu (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Rasmussen Reports hits two of the biggest prizes in Election 2010, and in true Rasmussen fashion, find the Republican candidates doing better than any other pollsters in America. That, and a few other choice headlines from t (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There are loads of Apple haters out there (even some among our commenters), and they deserve great tech gifts just as much as that guy who thinks all PMPs are called iPods. Here are some very un-Apple gift ideas. BTW, if you (Read More)
Engadget:
While it hasn't exactly been a detriment to their widespread adoption, RFID tags have proven to be relatively easy to exploit in a number of cases. Some researchers at the University of Arkansas say they've now found a novel (Read More)
Scripting News:
Everyone's asking questions about the decade that's coming to a close, I'd like to ask what's the coolest software you used this decade? For me, it might be Dropbox. I keep thinking of new uses for it. For a guy with a huge n (Read More)
Gizmodo:
You can buy an HDTV, a nice big one, for six hundred bucks. Or you can pay six thousand. It's presumably somehow better. You're probably wondering, "What the hell makes it better?" Here's the breakdown: To be clear, we're onl (Read More)
Submitted by SquidLord
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The Cop Who Plays By All The RulesThe night pecked spotty rain against Officer Jack “Bulletproof” Bulletproof’s patrol-car windshield. Through the dappled glass, a Jeep sat idling on the highway shoulder, its blinker still fl (Read More)
paidContent:UK:
The BBC may have been barred, for now, from sharing its iPlayer with TV broadcasters - but it’s still offering to pump radio stations through the service.Tim Davie’s audio and music division, which has, for some time, been wa (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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US Navy investigators are pinning blame for the March collision between a nuclear-powered submarine and another Navy ship on lax atmosphere and “weak” command aboard the USS Hartford, where sailors slept while they were suppo (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Some of it I really do plan to use. Some of it I can't even identify. Hi. My name is Vin and I'm an addict. I can't stop buying electronic junk. I know it's only filling up bins in my shop and taking money I could be pouring (Read More)
io9:
This year is the 100th anniversary of the first story about the Internet going wrong. E.M. Forster (better known for A Passage To India) wrote "The Machine Stops" in 1909, and you can read it online. In "The Machine Stops," a (Read More)