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Friday, July 31, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Wilt Chamberlain and Andre the Giant -- holding up Arnold Schwarzenegger (on the set of Conan)! [PIC]
* California Cops Are Trained 'Marijuana Is Not A Medicine'
* Remember that "JK Wedding Entrance" dance video? Instead of taking it down for the song, the artist took money for the video ads. See the result.
* Darwinian M&M's.
* Fed Audit Supported By 75% Of Americans: Survey
* 11 Cool iPhone Keypad Codes
* 6 Things That Shouldn't Explode (But Did Anyway)
* [PICS] Incredible watercolour paintings by boy aged just SIX
* Digg Commenters To Get At Least 10,000 Times More Annoying
* DC Lawyer arrested for disorderly conduct after repeatedly saying "I hate the police" while walking down the street
* No, this is the hardest logic problem ever.
* Is Emo Really Just Goth, But For Pussies?
* Why, if I break the law, am I subject to criminal prosecution, while law enforcement officers are generally only subject to an "internal department investigation?"
* Curb Your Enthusiasm returns to HBO this September!
* David Pogue launches all-out war on canned voicemail message
* Still Got It? Older Than 40 Celebrity Bikini Bodies
* Shatner Returns to Conan to Read Sarah Palin's Tweets
* Crocs: The Rise and Fall of the Ugliest Shoes in the World
* Math > Boobs [PIC]
* Received this laptop for repair this morning. Still unsure if the note is for us, or for the user.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Bye bye Yahoo!
* Mum drags daughter onto faux “lie detector test” on live radio, to ask her if she has skipped school/had sex. She reveals to Australia previous rape experience at 12 years old.
* Top 7 Places to Watch Great Minds in Action
* Create an iPhone Document Scanner from Cardboard
* Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Customers
* City renter hit with $50K suit over Twitter comments
* Don't Tailgate
* Blame The Suit! A Valid Reason Why Phelps Was Beaten
* Solar Blimp to Fly from NYC to Paris, Rests on Land or Water
* How to Turn Bike Parts Into an Awesome Table
* Mom of dead girl: Sickness was test of faith
* Awesome. Just Awesome.
* What is programming in the real world actually like?
* Going to the Movies, Alone: A Practical Guide
* Weird Vodka Infusions to Drink
* Kid Learns a Lesson about Diet Coke and Mentos
* Oh My God! What the hell is this bird doing under the hood? OOPS, This isn't a bird! What to do now?
* 35 Inspirational Shopping Cart Page Designs | Noupe
* 7 High Tech Products And Their Cheap Ass Ingredients

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Monday, July 27, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Mike Rowe: America Is Engaged In A Civil War Against Work : Mike Rowe, host of the tv show, "Dirty Jobs" addresses a group in the tech industry and gets into a very insightful talk about whether conventional wisdom is "right" and what the problem is with America.
* Oh...Sorry!
* 3 spelling mistakes, 1 road sign
* You don't understand! YOU WEREN'T THERE! [animated pic]
* How to use physics to guess the number of M&M's in a jar
* Palin for Prez. 2012-2013½ [pic]
* Asshole:0, Garbage Collectors:1
* Fizzy Milk - The new real thing from Coke
* Kid on Barney really likes brushing his teeth [video]
* AT&T Reportedly Blocks 4chan. This Is Going To Get Ugly.
* Grandma's desktop.
* 16-Year-Old Overdoses on Erectile Dysfunction Drug
* Speed Kills ... But Does Speeding Still Kill?
* To fool the parents of the victims, the children were taken away on "school trips" and their parents were later told the x-rays were a treatment for the scourge of scalpal ringworm. 6,000 of the children died shortly after...?
* DIY wearable computer with head-up display
* United Airlines Shows How Not To Run Your Business - Forbes.
* Five Firms Hold 80% of ($296 Trillion) Derivatives Risk
* Transparent metal hints at nature of planets' cores
* Top 5 Free Websites for Quality Stock Photographs

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Friday, July 24, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Artificial brain '10 years away'
* This Is Why I Love Digg
* 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About | GeekDad | Wired.com
* Michael J. Fox recommends food at a restaurant [pic]
* Earth and a Terraformed Mars, Side by Side Comparison
* Obama's Drug Czar Lies About Medical Marijuana
* Insulting an officer of the law is not a crime. Telling an officer he or she is breaking the law is not a crime. Demanding that an officer identify him or herself is not a crime. And saying you are going to file a complaint against the officer is not a crime.
* Are you fucking kidding me?! This is why I use adblock
* Palm webOS 1.1 now available, fixes iTunes 8.2.1 syncing
* Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"
* Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide
* Pentagon furious over call for execution of captured soldier
* SHARK TENT [pic]
* EFF: Don't Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy
* North Korea in bizarre Hillary Clinton attack
* Play 3D Movies On YouTube
* Microsoft opened Linux-driver code after 'violating' GPL
* HowPack
* Halo Legends Anime Project Revealed [pics]
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Michael Moore's "Sicko" was Public Enemy #1 of the healthcare industry; and now there's proof
* Editors on Wikipedia are engaged in an epic battle over the 10 inkblot images that are the classic Rorschach test. They have fallen into the public domain, so including them on Wikipedia would seem to be a simple choice. Some folks want to keep them secret.
* While Sanford 'hiked,' right-wing press kissed staff's ass
* Do you drink too much?
* 25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs
* 5 Business Models for Social Media Startups
* Scientists Find 'Worlds Oldest Willy'
* Physicists Propose Scheme For Teleporting Light Beams
* Swine flu takes turn for the worse
* Capcom admits to overpowered bosses in Street Fighter IV
* Unalden Swallow (Python branch) reaches Quarter 2 milestone, can now compile all Python code to native code using LLVM
* Hey Reddit, thought you might like this story - How I won $46,000 in Vegas (by losing). (self.reddit.com)
* This is the cake my son wanted for his 16th birthday
* Soldier: Obama not U.S. born, can't send me to Afghanistan
* Scooter, the tea cup terrier | The Daily Telegraph
* Pot-Smoking Afghan Cops Challenge Marines
* Twitter Ruins Jonah Hill's Chances of Starring in Iron Man 3
* Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but my future is secure. [pic]
* WHO says new flu ''unstoppable'', calls for vaccine
* App Store: 1.5 billion downloads in 1 year

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Monday, July 13, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Dennis Kucinich Demolishes Wingnut Doc on Healthcare
* UK vs. USA
* Nudity Does Us All Good
* Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options | Noupe
* "Questions for Evolutionists" by a Creationist - I'm interested in hearing the responses to the science-based questions, as it's implied that they can't be answered (heh)
* PublicBT Tracker Set To Patch BitTorrent’s Achilles
* Obama orders probe of alleged mass grave
* CIGNA Chief Admits: Michael Moore's SICKO "Hit The Nail On The Head"
* North Korea Dictator Kim Jong Il 'has pancreatic cancer'
* Becoming a War Hero in Iraq was the Easy Part....
* You say unauthorized hyperlinks are a violation of copyright? Then take your f***ing content off the web!
* LA 'ripped off' over Jackson gig
* Screen Capture Tools and Techniques
* Mario Marathon Fundraiser Blows Past 2008 Totals - Charity -
* China overtakes US to become world's largest auto market
* What is the proper condom etiquette for threesomes?
* George Will: Higher Taxes, Anyone?
* Leopard takes a dip in spa hot tub
* Play Street Fighter 2 in your browser
* Boston's Josh Beckett Blanks Royals for 100th Career Win

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Friday, July 10, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Best shirt for a graduation [PIC]
* Fifty racist Black teens attack White family while yelling it's a black world. Cops refuse to call it a hate crime!
* Looking for a new car for your kid?
* The implications are staggering: it seems that physics can assemble the organic jigsaw all by itself, thank you very much, and has probably done so throughout space since the beginning of everything.
* The USB Powered Chainsaw: Best. USB Peripheral. Ever.
* Nikola Tesla's Google Logo
* Girl Takes Dog on Subway; Cop Writes Ticket, Abuses, and Arrests Girl; Girl Responds Via Internet; Cop Lies to NYPost Smearing Girl As Anti-Semite; Girl Gets Fired From Job.
* Outrage: 7-yo boy asks 'Am I too black to go into the pool?'
* Hey Reddit. My girlfriend left this as her status: Ω≈ I asked her what ohms were approximately equal to. She said no, no, no, it's a person eating bacon. Just thought I would share.
* Obama daughter wears t-shirt, Freepers call her ghetto trash
* Ghostbusters: Our Parallel Dimension's Most Quotable Movie
* 20 Totally Overused Words in Game Names
* ADN Confirms: Palin's Story Doesn't Hold Up
* Lost in Translation; Why Sarah Palin really quit us.
* "Is that a real program or is that something somebody wrote?"
* Think soy is the ultimate health food? Not so fast.
* Training Lesson [PIC]
* Redneck WTF [PIC]
* Come on guys, play it coo.... heeeelllooo! [PIC]
* Photos Where Black People Were Photoshopped In Or Out

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Mythbuster Tweets His Way Out of $11k Phone Bill
* Dear software developers: if you automatically configure your program to run on startup without asking for my permission during installation, you are the devil, and you suck.
* Man jailed for sex act with his unconscious sister in park
* Suggestion: If you want to submit an article that is obnoxiously split into multiple pages, and there is an option to view as a single page, please link to the single page.
* Pandora to Limit Listeners to 40 Hours of Music per Month! Damnit!!!
* Iran: 34 people hanged in less than a week
* Top 10 Johnny Depp Movie Moments
* With regards to 24 hour cable news at 5PM Eastern time, I have a choice of Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Glenn Beck. Basically, I am not being served. Anyone else in my demographic?
* Whoa. Watch Fox News contributor Liz Trotta totally say some things about Sarah Palin that Fox News Live 's Eric Shawn was not expecting. (VIDEO)
* U.S. Department of Defense to Use Hummingbirds as Spies
* Things that I want to see more of in the NSFW subreddit
* FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson
* Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
* VLC 1.0 is out.
* I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? '
* Google Apps is out of beta, includes: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk (yes, really)
* 350 year-old picture of the dodo before it was extinct
* Limbaugh Goes Over Edge, Calls for Overthrow of U.S. Gov
* Toyota Employees Taped Watching Porn In Customers Truck
* Musician witnesses United Airlines baggage handlers throwing his guitar. Guitar is wrecked. United won't help. Singer writes a song and makes a video "United Breaks Guitars."

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Sarah Palin Threatens To Sue Entire Internet, Via Twitter
* Bride wants divorce for taking too much time to take a dump
* What’s been happening in Iran since everyone stopped paying attention? A first hand account, Vice Magazine style.
* No Deal! Jammie Thomas to Appeal $1.92 Million Fine
* young hedgehogs (5 pics)
* P2P Collection Costs Man Huge Fine, Suspended Sentence
* An unfortunate acronym for a church [PIC]
* Hey Reddit, I found this in my local Dollarama today. I present to you... ToyPedo (PIC)
* How to bake cheeseburger cupcakes
* 40 Fresh Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs | Fonts | instantShift
* If Aliens are watching our TV signals, this is what they are seeing [PIC]
* Sarah Palin Threatens To Sue Entire Internet, Via Twitter
* Hey Reddit, can we get a new feature called "Spam" where if 100 people click it, you know it's a spam ad and you take it down? Cause the "new" homepage is getting ridiculous with BS.
* Did I do that? (Pic)
* Palin threatens defamation suits against Huffpo, Washington Post, the NY Times and MSNBC for discussing claims that Palin's resignation is tied to investigations of the Wasilla Sports Complex
* 7 Things That Will Happen at Your Family 4th of July BBQ
* Defending their bloated crapware, Symantec in panic attack against free AV
* Compuserve shuts down
* What Your Gadget Really Costs
* Washington Post: Car Dealers Should Yield to Buyers Now

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Friday, July 03, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* The Cheapest Places To Live In The World For $500 A Month
* NSeinfeldFW
* xkcd - A Webcomic - Extrapolating
* Adobe Flash Manager: “We do have some memory leak issues, and we’re working on some solutions.” David Pogue: “Uh—any timeline for a fix?” Adobe: “No.”
* Colbert Tells Viewers To Deny Rep. Cynthia Davis Food w/vid
* Pirate Bay 2.0: Pay Pirates to Become Consumers
* MacBook Pro Only Displays Thousands of Colors
* Wolf Shirt - It Gets You Laid! (PIC)
* Plane crash survivor tells story. Story is crazy. Very crazy.
* Inexpensive Thin Printable Batteries Developed
* 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter
* 10 Cutting Edge Robots That Live Among Us
* Vote on the scent for reddit soap, determine the smell of thousands of redditors
* Johnny Depp Avoids Watching His Own Films
* The XHTML 2 Working Group is shutting down at the end of this year to focus on HTML 5
* Midget Wreslers Killed By Female Gang In Mexico Jail
* Inflatable Tower Promises Easy Access to Outer Space
* The tcc man page actually starts with examples. Genius!
* MIT Solves the Mystery of the 1918 "Spanish Flu" Pandemic
* A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by Creation Museum
* Lose-lose. Download Internet Explorer 8 get a Nickelback mp3.
* Result of Encounter between 72-Yr old Former Boxer VS 23-yr old Burglar. [PICS]
* 20 Promising Open Source PHP Content Management Systems(CMS)
* 3 Apps to check your username availability across all sites
* Possibly the best first page of the first chapter of any book ever written? [pic]
* Holy Sh!t...Bagelheads: The Latest Body Manipulation Trend
* Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know - good coders code, great reuse
* Nasa Satellite Map Reveals 99% Of Earth's Land Surface !
* Michael Jackson Fans are Committing Suicide
* xkcd - A Webcomic - Qwertial Aphasia
* Steve Carell to play Pitchman Billy Mays in Movie?
* Man arrested for calling 9-1-1 over hamburger order
* In just one week, Jenny Sanford has shifted the paradigm of the political wife. Faced with infidelity, she did not stand by her man. She did not try to soft-pedal the reality of his behavior. In other words, she did not make his life any easier. Instead, she told the truth.
* So the US actually killed over 100 detainees in custody by torturing them.
* Repestect Yourself [pic]
* 5 Alternatives to The Pirate Bay
* Cop Arrests A Woman, Punches & Violates Her For Carrying Pug
* Dupe Detection Updates Are Here
* First look: Firefox 3.5 released, ready to "upgrade" the Web

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