BBC
A referee ordered a penalty to be retaken in a Sunday league football game when an opposition player broke wind as the ball was kicked. (Read More)
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digg.com: Stories / Environment / Popular
The current rate of extinction is 100 to 1000 times higher than the average, or background rate, making our current period the 6th major mass extinction in the planet’s history.
Thus, what follows is a list of 11 extinct animals that were photographed while still alive. (Read More)
digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular
Stockart.com sent artist Jon Engle a bill for $18,000. Other than the price, the unusual thing was that the bill was for images from several of his own designed logos.
Now, the company is threatening to sue and even destroying the artists reputation by contacting his clients and informing them their logo may be stolen work. (Read More)
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TorrentFreak
With the recent trial out of the way, it seems The Pirate Bay team have had more time for development of the site. Just last week they announced the addition of personal RSS feeds. This week we revealed that they will also offer a new IPRED-busting VPN service.That’s not all though, the team has recently rolled out a new fe (Read More)
Mashable!
You’re unbelievably good at using Facebook and Twitter, but no one is taking you seriously because you don’t have papers to prove it? University of Birmingham can solve your problems; as of next year, it’ll offer a course in social networking sites as communications and marketing tools. The one year course will earn you a m (Read More)
: Yes, but it seems the majority of marketers and pr people tend to broadcast their message leaving out the "social" part of social media because they skip listening to their audience....
: This is a solution in search of a problem. The cost of tuition is ridiculously disproportionate to the described result. I would probably penalize a prospective employee who cited this "degree" as qualification for a position.
ReadWriteWeb
People have been whispering about a new web application in development called Hunch. Today, Flickr co-founder and Hunch head honcho Caterina Fake divulged some more details about the new project on her blog. The new project aims to become a site that can help anyone make a decision about anything. The way it will do this is (Read More)
Lifehacker
It's easy to forget these days that the internet started out as a place for academics and researchers to trade data and knowledge. Recapture the web's brain-expanding potential with these free resources for educating yourself online. Photo by Sailor Coruscant. 10. Teach yourself programming Coding, whether on the web or on (Read More)
Lifehacker
It's probably the most important and debated piece of software on the modern computer. See how your fellow readers get around the net, and vote for your favorite web browser, in this week's Hive Five. (Read More)
Mixx: Science
Concerned that an ex-boyfriend had used her laptop to search for child pornography, an Indiana woman asked police to search the computer for illegal images, but had her plan backfire when cops discovered two videos of her engaged in illicit acts with a dog. (Read More)
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Lifehacker: Downloads
A new build of Windows 7 appears to have shown up on the BitTorrent scene—build 7057. From first impressions over at Neowin, the build features some UAC fixes, improved superbar resizing, and some nice user interface updates like new user icons, wallpapers, and a snazzy new logon and shutdown dialog. Apparently the ev (Read More)
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Smart Diary™ Suite will help you organize your life!
More than a diary or a PIM, Smart Diary Suite is instead a completely customizable, yet easy to use, Personal Information Solution. It can be as simple or as complex as you wish it to be. (Read More)
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Daily DIY
You want to be the supreme ruler of your own virtual cutting room? Better break out the checkbook—your film-chopping powers aren't going to come cheaply. Photo by FaceMePLS. Earlier this week we asked you what video editing software you thought was best. You responded in force, and we're back to share the top six tool (Read More)