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Yesterday, Apple’s Mac App Store officially opened for users of OSX 10.6.6, AKA Snow Leopard.  Not 24 hours later, hackers have already found a way around the DRM at the heart of the Mac App Store.  Apparently, all you have to do to bypass Apple’s DRM is to copy three digital receipts from a free […]

Ryan Tharp, like most Oregon Ducks fans, is confident his team will win the 2011 BCS National Championship game versus the Auburn Tigers.  Tharp is so confident, he’s got a bet out, just waiting for someone to take him up on the offer.  Oregon Ducks fan Ryan Tharp wants to marry a female Auburn Tigers […]

Just when you think John Edwards couldn’t possibly be any more sleazy, then the rumors start.  His wife, who initiated the divorce process until her cancer got the best of her, is still warm in her grave yet the talk is of marriage.  John Edwards is believed to be engaged to Rielle Hunter, his former […]

Think twice before you crack open that morning egg if you live in Europe.  Across the EU, consumers are being warned against contaminated eggs after 4709 German farms were closed and egg production halted.  Officials from Germany’s agriculture ministry fear that up to 150,000 tons of animal feed have been contaminated by dioxin, a fatty acid […]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back onto the water, you were wrong.  If you’re a fish, you’re at risk for a killing in the wake of the Arkansas fish kill.  For humans, the danger is boat-attacking sharks.  Adding itself to the list of global trouble spots is Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay.  An […]

All Guadalupe Cruz-Vasquez wanted to do was go back home.  To that end, he walked into the office of the Jerome County Sheriff’s Department and asked officers to deport him back to his homeland for being an illegal immigrant.  The police refused to take him into custody, despite his demands.  So he did something to […]

In order to get any piece of software to run on a modern computing system, it has to be verified as being legitimate.  To do this, you need some kind of key.  Well, when Sony was designing the PS3, they put the master key on the hardware of the PlayStation itself, which means that hackers were able […]

For the company’s 40th anniversary, Starbucks is celebrating throughout the country.  Among the many things they’ll be doing is apparently having a midlife crisis.  Why else would the company go out and get corporate plastic surgery and drop the coffee from their logo?  That’s right, Starbucks has a new logo, and they are dropping coffee […]

Apparently, people still love Eminem.  That’s the gist of the music section of last night’s People’s Choice Awards, where Em was the dominant figure.  The Detroit-area rapper picked up multiple wins last night, including Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Hip Hop Artist, Favorite Music Video, and Favorite Song.  Entertainment Weekly has the full line-up of People’s […]

The Chinese military is getting more and more advanced by the day, according to sources in the intelligence industry.  See, for example, China’s new cutting-edge J-20 fighter, a stealth fighter plane that combines Russian engine technology with the F-22 stealth fighter’s body design.  If the pictured plane is the J-20, then the Chinese air force […]

Raw milk producer Our Cows Dairy in Chilliwack, British Columbia, has been running into trouble.  Under BC’s Public Health Act, raw milk sold for human consumption is a health hazard and thus, the dairy was ordered to stop producing raw milk.  Rather than investing in a Pasteurization system, Our Cows and their 22-head herd have simply changed […]

I know cows look cute and cuddly and innocent, but cows are a lot tougher than you think.  After all, any animal that size, when put in a life or death situation, can easily take out a human being and cows are very dangerous when cornered.  A 70-year-old farmer from Fort Pierce, Florida, named Oscar […]