Nevada is a state that puts its money where its mouth is. They’re a state founded on gambling, and their main economic draw is gambling, so it’s only fitting that, under Nevada state law, when two candidates tie for an election, the state settles things by the drawing of lots. Specifically, you can cut a [...]
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Apple Hit With iPhone Class-Action Lawsuit
Posted 7/02/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganIf you’re Steve Jobs, you’re happy that the iPhone has sold so many millions of units. However, all is not roses and caviar in Cupertino, California, as Apple finds itself under a deluge of class-action lawsuits over the flawed engineering in the iPhone 4′s antenna. Not only are people crying discrimination, they’re also doing something [...]
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Andrew Garfield, Amazing Spider-Man
Posted 7/02/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganWhat’s the best way to move from unknown British stage actor to superstar? Well, if you’re Andrew Garfield, you get bitten by a radioactive spider and develop super powers by taking on the role of Peter Parker in Sony’s rebooted Spider-Man franchise. Garfield, best known for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Boy A, picks [...]
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Man Loses Eye In Vuvuzela Fight
Posted 7/02/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganAmerica is out of the World Cup, but that doesn’t mean the vuvuzela news is ending. Oh no, you can’t get away from them that easily. In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, a man has lost an eye after a group of teenagers, two 18-year-olds and a 16-year-old beat him up and tried to take his vuvuzela. Now [...]
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Donald Duck DUI
Posted 7/01/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganPolice in Massillion, Ohio, are familiar with the name Donald Duck, as in, “Donald Duck’s been arrested for drunk driving, again.” We’re not talking the famous Disney character Donald Fauntleroy Duck, but the 51-year-old Ohio man Donald Norman Duck, who was recently arrested for his staggering fifth DUI and is one of the most notorious “frequent [...]
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Twilight Makes $30 Million At Midnight Screenings Alone
Posted 7/01/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganTwilight smashed box office records yet again this week, thanks to a staggering $30-million-dollar take based on the midnight screenings of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse on Tuesday. It’s been said, many times and many ways, but Twilight is big business. However, have you ever really taken a good look at the psychology behind the dichotomy [...]
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Woot Bought By Amazon, Woot-Offs To Get Way Better
Posted 7/01/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganI’m a big fan of Woot. While I don’t always buy their deals, because usually they sell out by the time I wake up, I’m always a follower of their deals and generally am a fan of their liquidation practices and extra-cheap prices. So was Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, as his billion-dollar company just swept [...]
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Maggots Ground Plane In Atlanta
Posted 7/01/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganEmployees on a U.S. Airways flight from Atlanta, Georgia to North Carolina got a shock when, suddenly, a GWAR song broke out in the middle of the flight. No, nobody started singing about Techno Destructo, but maggots started to fall like rain from an overhead luggage storage bin as the plane was taking off. Thoroughly [...]
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Windows Kills Kin After 48 Days
Posted 7/01/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganAfter a very high profile launch, complete with TV advertising blitz, Microsoft has decided that it was time to kick the Kin out of the house. Not actual family guests, just the Kin line of social networking phones, which are being discontinued after only 48 days on the market. Biggest money-loser ever? Perhaps so. Disaster [...]
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“Little Miss Muffet” Science Study
Posted 7/01/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganAre you a girl between ages 8 and 13 who is deathly afraid of spiders? Do you like sitting on your tuffet? Are you willing to undergo something almost akin to torture in exchange for three therapy and curds and whey? If so, then the University of Graz has an arrangement for you. They’re looking [...]
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Wonder Woman Gets New Outfit For Her Anniversary
Posted 7/01/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganShe’s one of the few classic female superheroes to stand on her own two feet. She’s got a brilliant new writer in the person of J. Michael Straczynski, she’s just celebrating her 600th edition, and she’s nearly 70 years old, yet all we can talk about is her new outfit. You have to feel sorry [...]
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