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Windows 8 Details Leaked To The Public, Two Years Early

Posted 6/30/2010 11:00 am by

The operating system won’t be released for another two years (at least), but Microsoft is already hard at work on making Windows 8 a significantly better user experience than even Windows 7 has been.  At least, that’s according to a top-secret slide-show from Microsoft to vendors that’s emerged on an Italian Windows fan website.  There […]

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School District Fails Spelling Test

Posted 6/30/2010 10:30 am by

Seldom is the question asked, “Is our children learning?” but for one school district, that’s just the kind of grammar you might expect in one of their district-wide spelling tests.  In Springfield, Massachusetts, school officials administered some 2,600 eleventh and twelfth-grade students a pair of spelling tests that, between them, had over 100 errors, including numerous […]

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Russian Engineer Successfully Builds His Own Death Trap

Posted 6/30/2010 10:00 am by

During his life, 47-year-old Albert Repin must have been a great engineer.  According to his parents, with whom he lived in Moscow, Russia, he was always building something.  Unfortunately for his friends and loved ones, the engineer’s last project would prove to be both his most inventive and his most fatal, as Repin built a […]

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10 Most Brutal Injuries Ever Caught On X-Ray

Posted 6/30/2010 9:30 am by

Not all x-rays are as uneventful as Marilyn Monroe’s, even if most of them aren’t worth as much at auction.  After all, x-rays are primarily used to diagnose problems, and I can’t think of many problems more troublesome than a knife stuck into your flesh.  Environmental Graffiti has an awesome image gallery of the 10 […]

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Larry King To Retire After 25 Years

Posted 6/30/2010 9:00 am by

Larry King Live has been on the air for as long as I can remember, and for most of my life, Larry King’s particular brand of television interview has been on the air.  The show’s been going on for 25 years, which means Larry’s gone through a whole lot of pairs of suspenders in that […]

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iPhone Finally Coming To Verizon

Posted 6/30/2010 8:30 am by

Thanks to some less-than-stellar engineering and the growing popularity of Google’s Android phone OS, I’m not so sure I could be tempted to the dark side, but the rumor is out there (for the second time):  the iPhone might be coming to Verizon for real, as reported by multiple sources to Bloomberg.  Could Apple be […]

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Solutions To The iPhone 4G Antenna Problem

Posted 6/30/2010 8:00 am by

If you’re looking for a way to use your iPhone in your left hand, despite the continued Apple discrimination against southpaws, you’re in lucky.  Gadget bloggers Gizmodo have scoured the Internet for the best solutions for Apple’s terrible design flaws in the iPhone 4, and they’re as simple and inexpensive as a rubber band wrapped […]

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Russian Suburban Spy Ring Busted

Posted 6/30/2010 7:30 am by

Anna Chapman is, by any account, an absolutely gorgeous 28-year-old woman.  A divorcee, this Russian emigrant claimed she ran an online real-estate sales company worth $2 million dollars, but according to federal officials in New York, she was part of an 11-person-strong Russian spy ring of old-school infiltrators.  Her role, as well as the role […]

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Hulu Debuts $10-Per-Month Hulu Plus Service

Posted 6/30/2010 7:00 am by

Hulu, the streaming television website, is an office worker’s best friend.  How else can you stare intently at your computer and occasionally smash buttons on your keyboard while still catching up with the latest episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy?  Well, if you’re like me and you enjoy Hulu, but hate the fact that […]

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More Paranormal Activity In Movie Theaters

Posted 6/30/2010 6:30 am by

I’ve heard a lot of people badmouthing Paranormal Activity.  I’ve also heard a lot of people praising the same movie.  I’ve still not seen it, so I can’t tell you what I think, but I can tell you that the trailer is creepy.  Even creepier is the trailer for Paranormal Activity 2, which hit theaters […]

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New Crop Circles At Britain’s UFO Capital

Posted 6/29/2010 9:30 am by

Of all the weird supposed-UFO phenomenon out there, my favorite has to be the crop circle.  Not because of any real UFO connection, but just because they’re always really visually appealing.  Take, for example, the most recent crop circles to appear outside the village of Mere near the UK’s UFO capital, Warminster in Wiltshire.  These […]

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Stroke Victim Learns To Read With His Tongue

Posted 6/29/2010 9:00 am by

One morning, mystery writer Howard Engel woke up, got out of bed, and sat down to read the paper when he discovered that he could no longer read.  Weirdly, he could read the night before.  Also, in spite of his inability to read, he could also write and think as normal.  Words weren’t the problem, […]

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Chinese Soldiers Banned From Online Dating

Posted 6/29/2010 8:30 am by

If you’re a member of China’s People’s Liberation Army, good luck finding love.  China already has a shortage of women, and in the male-centric military world, it’s even harder to date.  However, thanks to the military’s need for secrecy and the fact that loose lips sink ships, online dating is banned by the Chinese military.  […]

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Google To Go After Facebook With Google Me?

Posted 6/29/2010 8:00 am by

In less than 140 characters, a firestorm erupted.  Could it be that Google just might be turning its attention to social networking officially?  Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the website owner’s best friend, says that they are.  You can see a screencap of the Tweet above!  If anyone has his ear to the […]

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81-Year-Old Machete Vigilante

Posted 6/29/2010 7:30 am by

It’s grandfathers gone wild in Salem, Oregon!  That’s where police say an 81-year-old man, Manuel Meza, chased another man around a taco stand with a machete during a disagreement.  Meza claims that the other man stole his drill, which apparently drove the older man nuts enough to take the law into his own, err, bladed […]

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Eat Every 15 Minutes Or Die

Posted 6/29/2010 7:00 am by

Lizzie Velasquez, in a lot of ways, is one of the luckiest people.  Born at 2 pounds 10 ounces, the 21-year-old from Austin, Texas, wasn’t expected to even make it past birth, yet obviously she’s still here.  Unfortunately, she suffers from a medical condition so unusual that doctors have struggled to classify it:  she has […]

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Marilyn Monroe’s Chest X-Ray Sold For $45K

Posted 6/29/2010 6:30 am by

While I don’t believe it was at the same auction as where Michael Jackson’s glove sold for $190,000, it was another great auction from Julien Auctions.  It was also in Las Vegas, this time at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.  The unusual keepsake this time wasn’t even something worn by a star, just a […]

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Michael Jackson’s Old Laundry Sells For $190K

Posted 6/28/2010 11:00 am by

Over the weekend in Las Vegas, Michael Jackson fanatics from around the world gathered to pick over the remains of the departed singer’s legacy at an auction organized by Julien Auctions.  Among the many things sold was the iconic sequined glove (that one in the picture) the singer wore on the 1984 Victory tour he […]

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Singer Shot Dead Hours After Denying Reports Of His Death

Posted 6/28/2010 10:30 am by

Just a few hours before his death, Mexican singer Sergio Vega, AKA El Shaka, was denying reports of his death.  As he told Mexican entertainment website El Oreja:  “It’s happened to me for years now, someone tells a radio station or a newspaper I’ve been killed, or suffered an accident.  And then I have to […]

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Left-Handers Dub iPhone 4G Discriminatory

Posted 6/28/2010 10:00 am by

The iPhone 4G must have had a lot of prerelease testing, given the many prototypes that were leaked to various press groups or just found out randomly, but apparently those testers were the 90 percent of the population that favors their right hand.  As for lefties, they apparently can’t use the iPhone because their hand […]

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Vuvuzelas Drive All Species Nuts

Posted 6/28/2010 9:30 am by

Oh, vuvuzelas.  What can’t you do?  For starters, what the vuvuzela can’t do is not annoy everyone who ever comes across it (except for South Africans, apparently).  They’re invading US sports, they’re ruining the World Cup, and now the invention of Neil Van Schalkwyk is driving people mad.  At least, that’s the reasoning as to […]

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Mountain Lion Becomes Golf Hazard

Posted 6/28/2010 9:00 am by

Golf is a game of avoiding problems.  Sand traps, rough, bunkers, trees, lakes and streams, cart paths, and sometimes mountain lions are all present on the course to serve as a detriment to your playing ability.  Well, okay, not every course has mountain lions, just Valley View Golf Club in Bozeman, Montana, where golfers teeing […]

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Male Birth Control Pill Developed

Posted 6/28/2010 8:30 am by

It’s the golden goose of reproductive health.  For years, oral birth control was in the hands (or mouths) of women in the form of the Pill.  One of the most important discoveries in the history of human reproduction, the pill has changed the way humans live and socialize, but a male version of the pill […]

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Drunk Man Floats A Mile Out To Sea In A Raft

Posted 6/28/2010 8:00 am by

It’s one of the most wonderful things in the world.  On a hot summer day, there’s nothing like hitting the beach.  One man headed to Tampa, Florida, to soak up the sun and have a couple of drinks while lazing about in a raft.  However, after a few drinks, thing got strange and the man […]

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6-Year-Old Makes No Fly List

Posted 6/28/2010 7:30 am by

Nobody’s sure how or why, but the name of a 6-year-old girl, Alyssa Thomas from Westlake, Ohio, has ended up on the infamous no-fly list distributed by the Department of Homeland Security to airports everywhere.  While traveling with her family from Cleveland to Minneapolis, Alyssa’s name was flagged by the DHS.  However, in a rare […]

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Teen Photoshopped Onto Bestiality Fliers For Revenge

Posted 6/28/2010 7:00 am by

It’s one of the classic schemes for getting revenge.  Throughout history, people have been writing up vengeful fliers, but never before have they had the tools to so effectively defame someone’s character like they do now.  Thanks to Photoshop, you can pretty much cheat and put anyone’s face anywhere you want, which is what 37-year-old […]

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New World’s Ugliest Dog Crowned

Posted 6/28/2010 6:30 am by

All it took for Princess Abby to win the World’s Ugliest Dog contest was her DNA.  After all, her ugliness was bred into her.  Princess Abby, a four-year-old Chihuahua owned by Kathleen Francis, was adopted less than 6 months ago, and already she’s proven herself to be a worthwhile addition to the Francis family after […]

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Bruce Campbell’s Soup Is Mmm-Mmm Groovy

Posted 6/24/2010 11:00 am by

June 22 was the 52nd birthday of actor, writer, director, and all-around B-movie horror icon Bruce Campbell.  Campbell was the star of the steampunk western comedy/action TV series The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., played Autolycus the king of thieves on Hercules:  The Legendary Journeys and Xena:  Warrior Princess, but he’ll forever be known as […]

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Man On Mower Leads Low-Speed Lawn Chase

Posted 6/24/2010 10:30 am by

When you’ve got to get away from the cops, we can’t all be as brazen and resourceful as the naked chick who stole a cop car.  Sometimes, you have to make due with what’s available, and a 31-year-old Washington man figured anything was better than nothing and attempted to lead police on a low-speed chase […]

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Carp Invasion, USA

Posted 6/24/2010 10:16 am by

There is a war taking place along the Mississippi River, and we’re losing.  Illinois state wildlife officials have gone to great expense in an attempt to keep the bighead carp, a native of Asia that is one of the most invasive species of fish on the planet, out of the waters of the Great Lakes. […]

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