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After An Exhausting Bailout, AIG Execs Needed A Break!: So they spent $400,000 of that $85 billion Treasury loan on pampering themselves

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 23:41:24 by unknown user
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Avoid the Unemployment Line: 100 Resources for Interviewers and Candidates

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 23:31:26 by unknown user
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Icelandic Bank Prevent Savers from Drawing Their Own Money

  

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Sprint Took $3000 Mistaken Payment From Elderly Mother - Refuses to Refund it

  

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Garage chemistry used to be a rite of passage for geeky kids. But in their search for terrorist cells and meth labs, authorities are making a federal case out of DIY science.

  

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Olympic failure [PIC]

  

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Brazil and Argentina, two biggest economies in South America, Monday launched a new payment system of bilateral transaction with their local currencies, aimed at eliminating the U.S. dollar

  

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Scale and zoom around presentations with ZuiPrezi

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 22:16:00 by unknown user
ZuiPrezi is a next generation online presentation tool that lets you zoom and fly around online presentations. It's not out yet, but it sure looks neat.

Hooking Young Readers...Using Video Games

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 22:10:57 by SpillReviews
?I think we have to ask ourselves, ?What exactly is reading?? ? said Jack Martin, assistant director for young adult programs at the New York Public Library. ?Reading is no longer just in the traditional sense of reading words in English or another language on a paper.?

Search-ad revenues grow amid market malaise

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 22:06:00 by unknown user
Growth in the market is apparent through the third quarter, despite the financial meltdown, according to an industry report and a Wall Street analyst.

Canada dropped from F1 calendar

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 22:00:03 by starskii
The Canadian Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2009 Formula One calendar and replaced with the inaugural race in Abu Dhabi.

Wall Street Executives Collectively Took Home More Than $1 Billion in Pay!!

  

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Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:52:00 by unknown user
NASA's Messenger spacecraft makes second pass by Mercury as part of effort to slow down enough to orbit the barren planet in March 2011.

Is there a link between creativity and mood disorders?

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:50:36 by hantata
Certain characteristics of his prose -- hypersensitivity and constant rumination, or persistent contemplation -- reflect a pattern of temperament that some psychology researchers say connects mental illness.

A Million Plastic Balls to Halt Carcinogens

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:50:15 by sungoddess808
Plastic spheres block sunlight and cancer. If you make a mess, just cover it up. That?s the theory behind the Department of Water and Power?s latest project in Los Angeles, which aims to prevent the formation of a carcinogen in two drinking-water sources, the Ivanhoe [pictured] and Elysian reservoirs.

Google contributes more code to WINE

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:50:02 by garysims
With the recent release of Picasa 3 Beta for Linux, Google has contributed more code to the WINE project. Google have supported WINE with patches to get Picasa and PhotoShop working since 2006. Read more about their contributions.

Iran says it forced down Western plane. U.S. denies initial Iranian reports that aircraft was American

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:47:13 by unknown user
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Boss just fowarded NY Time's oped re McCain & healthcare to the entire company (mostly GOP here) as if to say, 'Elect McCain, & I won't be able to afford your healthcare anymore.'

  

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The Farewell Dossier: a few lines of code had been inserted just for them.

  

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Red Sox Beat Angels!!

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:43:01 by cport11
Red Sox beat Angels 3-2, move on to ALCS against Rays

Apple Sues School For Using The Same Fruit In a Logo

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:40:04 by Tychee
The Victoria School of Business and Technology in Canada could have probably taken a more original approach when designing their logo, but I doubt Apple is protecting themselves from much by suing the hell out of them.

Disneyland shut down for Miley Cyrus celebrating birthday

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:40:02 by tanjuska
Cyrus celebrated the hallmark birthday at an over-the-top Disneyland celebration Sunday ? even though she doesn't actually turn 16 until Nov. 23. The theme park was closed for the supersized soiree, which included a four-song performance by the teen queen and a fireworks display above Sleeping Beauty Castle and 16 giant inflatable candles.

At last Google invents something truly brilliant

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:25:00 by unknown user
GMail Goggles stop you from drunkenly sending an email you might regret.

Senator worries Google ad money will be like crack for Yahoo

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:20:02 by insaincain02
Senator Herb Kohl is worried about the impact of Yahoo's deal with Google, which will see the latter place ads on the search results pages of the former. The two companies have decided to delay the deal's implementation until Justice finishes its investigation.

I just wanted to point out to young/new voters that, in some states, you cannot wear your Obama shirt to the polling place, you will be turned away. Tell your friends.

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:18:39 by unknown user
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday announced it would create a special-purpose facility, with the Treasury Department's blessing, to begin buying commercial paper in yet another emergency move

  

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7 Movies That Need Scientific Inaccuracy To Even Make Sense

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:10:04 by skored
FTA: We accepted that Hamlet spoke to the ghost of his dead father, and we accept that Demi Moore's life was saved by the ghost of her dead husband. You could watch Lord Of The Rings and understand that it's fantasy. But sometimes, you're like "That would NEVER happen" no matter how much disbelief you're willing to suspend...

Listening to classical music 'can relieve pregnancy stress'

  

added 2008 Tue Oct 7 21:10:02 by digits12
Mothers-to-be who listen to lullabies, classical music and sounds of nature are less likely to feel stressed about their pregnancy, a study has shown.

When world's biggest asshole controls a Homeowner's Association

  

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"I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live" -McCain on Asians

  

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