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Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Reading Rainbow Ends
* XKCD, what have you done??
* U.S. Veterans demand apology from Conservatives / Republicans and FOX News for lies about VA
* Fuckabee: Kennedy Would Have Been Urged To Die Earlier Under ObamaCare
* 20 Food Innovations That We Could Have Done Without
* Noel Gallagher quits Oasis after Paris 'altercation'
* As Obama Golfs with UBS CEO Days After Firm Avoids Criminal Prosecution, UBS Whistleblower Given 40-Month Jail Term
* Microsoft's secret 'screw Google' meetings in D.C.
* Sony's Slimmed-Down PS3 [Review]
* IBM Study Finds Young "Gen Green" are Biggest Energy Wasters
* SWEET GIRL MAKE UP
* Penis fire led to death, court told
* This cannot be real.
* Why, that's a cat in a lake rolling a watermelon out of the water [pic]
* My Roomate's Creepy Microwave
* pills pills pills pills
* mental_floss Blog » Unsettling Old Photos of the “Living” Dead
* Now, that's just mean sir... [PIC]

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* The 6 Most Horrific Bosses of All Time
* Castro: People Think Obama Is A Socialist Because He's Black
* Oh My Lord: Banana Injector Fills a Banana with Ice Cream
* Bob Dylan To Voice GPS System
* There Are More Slaves Today Than Any Time in Human History
* WTF! ***** man throws puppy, causing vet to euthanize
* Diagram for the ultimate PB&J
* The Army is trying to activate me from IRR and send me to Iraq... help?
* Sudden Ominous Music Heard Across U.S., Nation Panicking
* A meeting of the minds (pic)
* Connecticut man consults Apple Genius and gets arrested
* The 6 Best British Comedies You May Not Have Seen
* Amazing New Way To Create / Regenerate Drinking Water
* EPIC Showdown [PIC]
* American Weapons in the Hands of the Taliban
* Cracking GSM Phone Crypto Via Distributed Computing
* Snow Leopard Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List
* Squirrel Fight [pic]
* Extrasolar Planets at Full Tilt!

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Friday, August 21, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices | How-To | Smashing Magazine
* Remember Fujitsu's crazy nested font tags? The secret reason revealed!
* Obama: We know where these lies are coming from. It isn't any secret. : If you just click channels, and stop on [Fox News].....
* Crosswalk Sign Hacks [PICS]
* New Poll: 77% of Americans support the PUBLIC OPTION
* Who's sniffing my ear? When I get hold of....HOLY CRAP IT'S A LION![gif]
* The Golden Hour Calculator | Sunrise and Sunset information for photographers
* 10 Best Performances from Quentin Tarantino's Films
* 5 Most Expensive U.S. Military Vehicles To Date
* 2girls1up
* Cigna whistle-blower unveils role of corporate bureaucrats
* Retired Auto Mechanic Builds Electric Car For Just $500
* The 10 Most Abysmal Superhero Videogames of All time
* What If Critics Ranked Brad Pitt's Movies?
* The 2nd Hearing on the Unconstitutionality of Prop 8 Begins
* Kin of victims: Release of terrorist 'sickening'
* I knew they were real!
* Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected.
* Ridge: I Was Pressured to Raise Terror Alert to Help Bush
* Mentally Challenged Man Beaten to Death [NSFW] Lets bring this criminal to justice!
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Saw this sticker on a car today
* Man wrongly convicted of molesting 6 kids in 1980s. Did 22 years, was repeatedly raped, beaten in prison. Prosecutor withheld key evidence pointing to his innocence, used homophobic terms like "faggot." Prosecutor not only wasn't punished, he was promoted to judge, where he's served for 20 years.
* Man, That Ain't Right... [PIC]
* I give our boy Glenn Beck until the end of the week. Walmart, GMAC Financial Services, Best Buy, CVS, Travelocity, Re-Bath, Broadview Security and Allergan have all backed out, bringing the list of former Glenn Beck advertisers to 20.
* 130 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen in Identity Theft
* Hackers Divert Anti-Piracy Website to Torrent Sites | Torren
* "Eeeeeexcellent."
* World's smallest laser cracks open the door to THz CPU race
* Starcraft 2 Getting DRM Protection
* AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin | CSS-Tricks
* Actor From Swine Flu Prevention Ad Catches Swine Flu (vid)
* The Folks At Adobe Have Lost Their Minds
* Cheeky Ontario residents protest U.S. surveillance balloon. "About 300 people dropped their drawers Saturday to give a balloon with a surveillance camera trolling the Canada-U.S. border a piece of their derriere."
* Gimp 2.8 will be licensed under GPLv3+
* 250+ Resources to Help You Become a CSS Expert | Webdesigner Depot
* Paul Krugman: "At this point, all that stands in the way of universal health care in America are the greed of the medical-industrial complex, the lies of the right-wing propaganda machine, and the gullibility of voters who believe those lies."
* 9 Examples of Sequels Ruining Great Franchises
* NYPD hand delivers my wallet to my doorstep 4 hours after I lose it in subway (bonus: my address was incorrect on my license)
* I don't know what the statistical odds are on this, especially in such close proximity. Nonetheless... good job, kid.
* A campaign to make the UK government officially apologize for castrating and driving to suicide Alan Turing - the man who helped break Nazi codes and revolutionize computing - just because he was a homosexual
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Friday, August 14, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Surprise!!! I'm cute ...
* For one thing, it plays only at night. The players have no choice. Even one minute of sunshine can kill them.
* State Farm Pulls Glenn Beck Support
* Radiohead: We're Not Making Any More Albums
* I read that Omegle Text Adventure and decided to make my own.
* Adam Savage Interview -- Have Mac, Will Bust Myths [w/ PICS]
* Why Pay for WOW? Check Out These Free MMORPGs
* Benjamin Franklin was a great man
* Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money
* Is this real or is someone blowing smoke up my ass?
* 25 Things I Learned About Business from "South Park"
* 6 Cheap Acting Tricks That Fool The Critics Every Time
* The Costumes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* Women Are Not Always More Selective in Mate Choice than Men
* How to Build a Web Site from Scratch with No Experience - Education - Lifehacker
* Boston, Seattle to test 4G network
* Americans pay 5 times more than Netherlanders for wireless
* Review: A Close Look at Windows 7 RTM
* State Trooper Runs 50 MPH to Catch a Drunk Driver.
* Is McDonalds actually selling this beast? I don't read Japanese...

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Monday, August 10, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* YouTube - How Differential Gear works (BEST Tutorial)
* The Definitive Guide to htaccess Techniques: Do’s and Don’ts | Noupe
* 47 passengers were forced to spend the night in small plane after it was diverted to an airport where the TSA screeners had gone home for the night. The airlines gave them one free beverage.
* Twitter is fucked. Good.
* 10 duras verdades del blogging corporativo
* 1 in 8 people in the City of Houston has a warrant out for their arrest
* Hard Electronic Music Fest Shut Down by LA County Fire Dept
* Apparently there is no money in URL shortening
* How To Create An Ubuntu Installation USB On The Mac
* Ninja Robot Zombies [PIC]
* Should You Worry About Data Rot?
* How the word "Fail " went from Verb to Interjection
* Make the most of large drives with GPT and Linux
* Dogs as Smart as 2-year-old Kids
* Awesomely versitile resume [pic]
* I Want To Love Firefox 3.5, But It Keeps Crashing On Me
* How much do stores jack up ambient lighting to sell you HDTV
* Mouse Builds Nest in Oregon ATM With $20 Bills
* Reuters Happy to Take Traffic the AP Doesn't want
* The 8 Most Insulting Attempts to Raise Money for a Cause

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Friday, August 07, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Car Problems Linked To Snake In Engine
* Rachel Maddow does an AMAZING job exposing the PR firms (and big money) behind the recent health care town hall Republican tantrums! [VIDEO]
* Health insurance CEOs are getting richer than you can imagine by denying treatment to people desperately in need. (remember vote up to counter the paid insurance lobbyists minions paid to bury health reform stories!)
* If you pay for insurance for 20 years, then get cancer, and your claims are denied; shouldn't you receive a FULL refund for your insurance payments?
* How Did Hackers Cripple Twitter?
* Spotify Is the Best Desktop Music Player We've Ever Used
* The Top 10 Most Disturbing Video Game Bosses
* Don't You Forget About Me: 10 Reasons I'll Miss John Hughes
* 25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins | Vandelay Design Blog
* Sea snake fools predators by making tail look like head
* Saudi King: Palestinian Split more damaging than Israel
* San Francisco Luxury Real Estate: Frisco's 10 Priciest Homes
* Christopher Walken stays classy
* ColorSuckr
* Just got asked this question in a programming interview. Took WAY longer than I should have!
* 'Family Guy' abortion episode details [Spoiler]
* 30 Tutorials Combining Both Wordpress and jQuery
* Dear Reddit: I'm getting married in 2 days. My fiancee wants my root password. Is it safe to give it to him?
* How Many people started off reading Digg then moved to Reddit and don't even look at Digg anymore?
* Scribblenaughts Video - Ok... Interesting... Cool... Huh.... What... HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!

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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Kick It Kid [GIF]
* Student faces 10 year prison term for freeing console
* Google gives 'Voice' to military personnel
* Palm and Apple Squabble Over iTunes Access on the Pre - NYTi
* M.P.A.A. Admits It Overstated Piracy on Campus
* The Movie Watcher's Guide to August 2009
* Kidnapped Boys 'Brainwashed' to Die as Suicide Bombers
* Chromium bug report: "What is the expected result?" "an X button" "What happens instead?" "Some guys head"
* Sexting >> craze on the rise among British children
* StumbleUpon's Stumbling PR: Banning Loyal Users
* 25 Things We Miss About Football
* 15 Companies Whose IPOs Were Complete Flops
* 10 Movie Drunks We Want to Share a Pint With
* LCROSS detects life on Earth!
* Very Impressive! HTML5 demo using Canvas and Audio.
* The 7 Greatest Butlers in Nerd-Dom
* Duty Cycle Generator - NES Music by Neil Baldwin
* Ok Wikipedia, most encyclopedias have drawings... at least that's how I remember them. (NSFW)
* Pregnant mother tasered at baptism party
* Keith Olbermann exposes the money behind the resistance to health care reform...this is sweet!

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Monday, August 03, 2009

The Best Articles from the Top Sites

* Social Cord: Charge for Content Via Twitter
* Blog Love: Who influences the influencers?
* Firefox 3.5.2 due today, but some already have it | TechBlog | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
* Are You Happy? Your iPhone Wants to Know
* Hot days and Hot3D in New Orleans | Speeds and feeds - CNET News
* Report: Analyst has seen Apple tablet, predicts September launch | Crave - CNET
* Happy Cog Studios: News: Happy Cog merges with Airbag Industries
* Trends: Twitter Changes Language Much Like the Telegraph Did - The Steve Rubel Lifestream
* Tweeting, texting render avid users 'present yet absent' - USATODAY.com
* The Wink Glasses: As good as caffeine? | Health Tech - CNET News
* DIY home surveillance with a Webcam | Web Crawler - CNET News
* Brice Jones, founder of Sonoma-Cutrer – Episode #712
* Op-Ed Guest Columnist - Twittergraphy - NYTimes.com
* Seth's Blog: Bear shaving
* SEOmoz | 10 things you must check when you re-launch your website
* Michael Jackson was allegedly killed by an aide while his doctor slept
* gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": wake me up
* Damn. I really like Posterous. NOW what? - ihnatko's posterous
* Hot: Milla Jovovich collects weapons
* Sydney August 09 meetup - Thirty Day Challenge Forums
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