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Dr Pepper Pays Up, For One Day Only
Starting Sunday at 12:01 a.m., Guns 'N' Roses fans finally get to collect earnings on Dr Pepper's bet that the tumultuous band would never finish Chinese Democracy -- for 24 hours. Coupons redeemable for a free 20-ounce soda are available...
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7-Eleven Permanently Joins Gaming Retailer Ranks
It's three in the morning and you're craving a Slurpee, a pack of Skittles and a copy of Halo 3. Luckily, 7-Eleven has you covered. The ubiquitous convenience store recently began offering big-budget videogames, a move many saw a temporary...
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How Biology and Technology Shape Sex and War
Humans and chimps, our closest relatives, share a curious trait: We organize to kill members of our own species. A new book, Sex and War, delves into how the most intelligent apes on Earth, essentially alone in the animal kingdom,...
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Fed Blotter: Murder-For-Hire Plot Unfolds In Text Messages
When Tonia Mullins decided to hire a hit man to kidnap and murder her lover's wife, she didn't scour the local underworld dives or run an ad in Soldier of Fortune. She texted. "Don't care who as long as they can in no way be...
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Drum Pedal Lawsuit Leveled at Harmonix
Rock Band creator Harmonix is staring down the barrel of a class action lawsuit claiming the company knew of flaws in the original Rock Band drum kit and attempted to defraud its customers, reports GameCyte. "Due to a design defect,...
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The Science of the Future of War
The new book by Malcom Potts and Thomas Hayden will be widely available December 1, and is currently available on Amazon. Hear more about the book from the authors in a Q&A with Wired.com. TODAY'S MOST BRUTAL WARS are also...
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Review: Left 4 Dead Delivers Definitive Team Zombie War
Two minutes left before rescue. We -- four of us -- have been fighting off the relentless, Infected zombie hordes for over an hour and a half, sharing painkillers and first aid, lending a helping hand or providing cover fire....
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Video: Ozzy, Silvio Advertise World of Warcraft
To herald the just-released Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack, Blizzard has released two new ads for World of Warcraft, featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Van Sandt's Silvio character from The Sopranos. The first clip features Osbourne facing off...
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New Longevity Drugs Poised to Tackle Diseases of Aging
Cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, heart disease: All have stubbornly resisted billions of dollars of research conducted by the world's finest minds. But they all may finally be defied by a single new class of drugs, a virtual cure for the...
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Jar Jar Binks Goes Jedi in Clone Wars
Let the reclamation of Lucasfilm's clumsiest character commence. On Friday's episode of Clone Wars, Jar Jar Binks becomes a Jedi. In an interstellar case of mistaken identity, the half-wit Naboo native dons the cloak, teams up with the first trilogy's...
11.21.08
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Ex-Hermaphroditic Strawberries Form Evolutionary 'Missing Link'
Insight into the mystery of sexual difference has come from a strange place: hermaphroditic strawberries that evolved the ability to spawn single-sex offspring. Researchers documented how members of Fragaria virginiana become male or female depending on the combination of genes...
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Judge Considers Throwing Out Lori Drew Case
LOS ANGELES -- The federal judge presiding over the Lori Drew trial said Friday he'd entertain a defense motion to throw out the case and acquit the defendant. Drew, 49, is charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of unauthorized computer access for...
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Far Cry 2 DLC Coming This Month
The first round of downloadable extra content for Ubisoft's underloved open-world action title Far Cry 2 will see release before the end of November, reports 1up. Included in the "Fortune's Pack" will be a handful of new weapons and vehicles...
11.21.08 -
MSI Unleashes Second Wind Netbook
The second version of the popular MSI Wind netbook is due to hit U.S. stores for the holiday season. The specifications are as follows: CPU: 1.6GHZ Intel Atom Graphics: Intel GMA950 Memory: 1GB DDR2 RAM Display: 10 inches (1,024 x...
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Tabula Rasa Closes in February
Only 15 months after launch, Tabula Rasa will be closing its virtual doors. "The fact is that the game hasn't performed as expected," reads a message posted on the game's official site. "The development team has worked hard to improve...
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Wired-o-Nomics: Breadlines? Not Yet.
Want two words to prove the U.S. economy hasn’t totally bottomed yet? BlackBerry Storm. On a day when shares of Citigroup fell 20 percent by lunchtime and U.S. automakers’ odds of survival were dwindling, New York filmmaker Adrian Richards stood...
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Video: Mega Man, the Fan Film
How can Hollywood get videogames so wrong, while a fan film like this gets them so right? Admittedly, the transition to real-time seems a bit jarring for the Mega Man universe, but everything from Roll's borderline annoying cheeriness to Dr....
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Eye Flicker Explains 'Enigma' Optical Illusion
Rapid, unconscious eye movements explain a famous optical illusion in which a still image appears to move. When the eye movements, called microsaccades, were suppressed, test subjects reported that the Enigma illusion — an illustration that seems to flicker and...
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Geek Music Trifecta: Wii, Theremin and Star Trek
Observe, as Ken Moore plays the theme to Star Trek on his homemade Wii Theremin, complete with accurate vocal intro. "The technology links a Wiimote controller, infrared LED gloves and a Roland JV-1080 synthesizer to create Theremin-like sounds (sine wave),"...
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Guitar Hero Robot Plays Videogame With Electronic Precision
Guitar Hero kicking your butt after one too many beers? Maybe it's time to automate your gameplay — with a robot guitar god, the Cythbot. The Cythbot combines a camera with a vision processing system and pneumatic fingers to create...
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HuffPo Fiddles With $15 Million as the Economy Burns
It may be hard out there for those pimping journalism right now, but not for The Huffington Post. Arianna Huffington has raised another $15 million for her website. The Huffington Post will confirm its third round of funding next week,...
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Wired-o-Nomics: Too Big to Succeed?
It seems like forever but it has actually been only been 52 days since Congress thought the better of providing any bailout money to financial institutions to stave off global economic ruin. They heard the arguments for and against, checked...
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Multi-Cam Video Feed Almost Steals Kevin Rose's Master Password for Digg
The video distribution and storage network BitGravity is launching a net-based UI today that allows fans of the popular tech show Diggnation to choose from five different, simultaneous video feeds. But in the process of setting up the system, a...
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Robots Pass Musical Turing Test
The Robotic Musicianship Group at Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology just blew our minds with some videos depicting robots playing music with real people. Great, you say. Some fake robot machine can, like, bang around on a drum or...
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Nerdy Instrument Creates Crazy Noise in a Beaker
The Bit Blob is a pretty bizarre digital noisemaker that creates sound when its contacts are connected together with control pins. Even cooler is you can also connect LEDs, more Bit Blobs, or other audio outputs to it. I like...
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Review: Colbert Christmas Defends Santa, Beheads Heretics
Hyper-real talking head Stephen Colbert fights back Sunday against the power-mad hordes who have declared war on Christmas. His secret weapon: a deliriously strange holiday special. How strange? Toby Keith sings about Santa dropping nukes from his sleigh on heretics...
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Nokia's Point and Find Phone Interface Moves Closer to Reality
For months Nokia has been working on Point & Find, a new technology that allows users to simply point their camera phones at a banner and get more information on their device. Now the company says it is ready to...
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Gadget Lab Video: A Samsung SLR and the BlackBerry Bold
The Samsung DX20 is a new digital SLR from ... wait, Samsung? Actually, this camera is a collaboration between Samsung and Pentax, and it accepts Pentax lenses -- so if you've got a lot of those, it's definitely worth taking...
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Poll: Internet, Fox News Are Most Trusted News Sources
The web is the most trusted news medium (over TV and print combined), and Fox News is the most trusted TV news source, according to results from a new Zogby poll commissioned by the Independent Film Channel. Fox ruled with...
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New MacBooks Take Big Performance Hit With Battery Removed
Apple's new MacBooks are mighty speedy, but they suffer from a huge performance drop if you remove the battery and use the AC adapter as the sole source of power. Gearlog's Zach Honig discovered that the MacBook sees a 37-percent...
11.21.08
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Danger Room Debrief: How to do Defense, When the Money's Gone
This is the fifth of our Danger Room Debriefs, where we ask smart folks in the military, intelligence, and homeland defense fields to outline some under-the-radar security issues -- and point the way towards potential, often-unorthodox solutions. Today we hear...
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NASA Test-Fires Next-Gen Ejector Seat
Welcome to the next generation of "ABORT!" NASA test-fired the latest ejector seat for the Space Shuttle replacement this week, sending flames shooting into the Utah sky. To get the crew away from the launch rocket in case of an...
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Missile Defense Honcho Passes the Baton
A major change of command is underway today. Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, who headed the Missile Defense Agency since 2004, is passing the baton to his successor, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly. During his tenure at MDA, Obering...
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FedEx Delivers Some Fuel Efficiency
FedEx rang up sales of almost $39 billion last year by delivering more than three million packages each day. Making that happen requires big fleets of trucks and planes that burn a lot of fuel. Express package delivery isn't the...
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Mini WiiMote Shines Mario Kart In Your Face
Those keychain flashlights and laser pointers are more annoying than they are useful. But at least Nintendo's Wiimote projector would look kind of cool when your friends shine it in your eye. Resembling a Wiimote controller, the keychain measures 2.25...
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Telecom Amnesty Illegal, Rights Group Argues Ahead of Court Showdown
Congress had no right to pass a law intended to torpedo lawsuits accusing the nation’s telecoms of massive violating privacy laws when they helped the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans, a privacy group told a federal judge Thursday. The reply brief (.pdf) from the...
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Alt Text Video: Top 5 Most Guilt-Inducing Videogames
The first truly guilt-inducing videogame may have been Pac-Man. The sad spiral and quacking sound that accompanied Pac-Man's death was enough to make a generation of gamers dig deep in their pockets to find the shining quarters that would restore...
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American Centipede Threat, you're wanted on Verizon Line One
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/ (((What did they hope they would find there? Three big guesses: Monica Lewinsky; two Monica Lewinskies; three Monica Lewinskies in six kneepads and three thongs. How else can one little creep with some *&$^%# phone gizmo wreck a country...
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Pakistan's Army Practices Drone Shoot-Downs
The U.S. and Pakistan supposedly have a "don't ask, don't tell" agreement when it comes to killer drone strikes on militant camps inside the country: American officials stay mum about the attacks, and their counterparts in Islamabad only complain a...
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The Wall Street Journal Eats The Times' Advertising Lunch
As if dealing with crumbling revenues, stalled cash flow and slashed dividends weren't enough, The New York Times is now seeing a chunk of its print advertising stolen away by The Wall Street Journal. Milton Pedrazza, chief executive officer of...
11.21.08
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Wired Economic Indicators: Camcorder Sales
Forget about talking heads, financial analysts, lipstick and dry goods -- the most accurate bellwether for determining the near future of the American economy could be how many camcorders its citizens are buying. "When camcorders are affected, we've seen bad...
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Roundup: What We Know About iPhone 2.2
Now that iPhone 2.2 has had some time to simmer, we're taking the liberty to pour everything we know about the smartphone update into one pot. As we already reported, the major new features are the addition of remote podcast...
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GeekDad: We Need a Secret Handshake or Something
We met some friends and their kids at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey last weekend, which has been remodeled and expanded since we were last there a few years ago. Although we only got to spend a couple...
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This Guy Resents Participatory Web Culture
(((You know, it really isn't this easy... it may take me an entire book to attempt to explain why...))) http://gizmodo.com/5083371/a-call-for-revolution-against-beta-culture Link: Bad Technology: A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture. ....This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me....
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Verizon Employees Snoop on Obama's Cellphone Records
An unspecified number of Verizon Wireless employees snooped into President-elect Barack Obama’s personal cellphone records, the company announced Friday. Verizon immediately suspended all employees who accessed the records and will take “appropriate disciplinary action” against employees found to have looked at them without authorization. Obama...
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The Gods of Computational Aesthetics
*Man, that is some lecture line-up. What the hell, that makes the hair stand up all over my head. *You'd surely have to be one of the coolest mofos in the world just to REALIZE that these characters are some...
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Autonomous VW says, "Look, Ma - No Hands"
Kick back, relax and let Volkswagen be your captain with the latest technology in driver assistance systems, the autonomous driving project, a forward-looking research concept that lets the car do the driving for you. This past week, a Volkswagen Passat...
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Special Forces Get Stealth Robocopter
This month, U.S. Special Forces Command is quietly taking delivery of a radical new drone: the Boeing A160T Hummingbird, which rewrites the rules for helicopters. Thanks to a remarkable piece of design, the Hummingbird can go further, longer, higher –...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Orb of Yazoom - Solution
A GeekDad salute to Simeon Bradshaw whose correct answer to this week's puzzle wins a $50 gift code to ThinkGeek! (And props to many others and their mad SketchUp skillz!) All readers who check out the solution after the jump...
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Biofuel-Powered Flying Car Cleared for Takeoff
The closest we've come to a flying car is the one sitting in the Jetsons' driveway. That doesn't keep the dreamers from trying. We've already seen Moller's Skycar, the Transition from Terrafugia, and the AirCar. Now a British company led...
11.21.08
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Tweak the Nostalgia Bone: 30 Years of Star Wars Treasures
Hurry! Woot.com is offering 30 years of memorabilia from the Lucasfilm Archives including some rare and some never-before-published items, including reproductions of Lucas’s own handwritten script pages. There are flip-though catalogs, posters, T-shirt transfers, stickers, blueprints, production notes, animation cells,...
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'Fox News has Learned' How to Rip off Danger Room (Updated)
Old school reporters crib from blogs all the time. It happens to Danger Room so often, I hardly even pay attention to it any more. But even my jaded eyes grew big when I read the opening sentence of this...
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Danger, NPR! (Updated)
I'll be on NPR's Day to Day later on, talking about the Human Terrain murder in Afghanistan. UPDATE: Here's the audio.
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Broke and Broken
That the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 kept falling Thursday, down to their lowest levels since when Britney Spears was svelte, is no longer news. The news is simply that the bag of tricks upon which...
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Album Premieres Crucial to Recorded Music's Financial Future
MySpace scored two high-profile album streams this week: Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses and Electric Arguments by The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth). MySpace playcount indicators show that many listeners are only sticking around on MySpace to play the...
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And now for some refreshing Revolutionary Anarcho-Leftism
*Guys who think BHO is some kinda Marxist need to cozy up to this screed. Rhetoric like this used to be common. Very common. EXTREMELY common. Last time guys were standing around in soup lines, you heard this all the...
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Traffic Light Hackers
*Man, that's pretty severe. I get it about labor solidarity, but gee whiz, fellas. What if there are labor union members in those cars? Cars aren't Lego blocks, they're like two-ton whizzing body-crushing juggernauts, especially in Los Angeles. ARRESTS, CHARGES,...
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Sounds like Hugo Chavez has centipede trouble.
*I lack the time to delve into this situation, but it sure sounds delvable. *From the FOREIGN POLICY blog. Ex-wife's mayoral campaign embarrasses Chavez (((Cherchez la femme, then Follow the Money -- who's financing the campaign?))) The world isn't lacking...
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10 Unconventional Winter Holiday Movies
Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, from older ones like It's a Wonderful Life to newer ones like A Christmas Story, to ones that get remade over and over again like A Christmas Carol. Whether or not you like...
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Facebook App Keeps Danish Cyclists Green and In Touch
Just in time for next year's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory has unveiled Smart Biking -- a project that will allow bike riders in the city of Hans Christian Andersen to log how many miles...
11.21.08
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Pirates, Terrorists, in Cahoots?
The last three months have seen a huge spike in pirate attacks off the Somali coast. This week alone, pirates wielding AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades seized four ships, including a tanker carrying $100 million in crude oil, bringing to around...
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The Autopia 2008 L.A. Auto Show WTF? Photo Caption Contest
LOS ANGELES -- Here at the L.A. Auto Show, all of the really, um, interesting stuff is downstairs in Ketia Hall, where the mongrels are kept away from the purebreds upstairs. That's where we found things like a Rolls Royce...
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GeekDad Pumpkin Contest Winners
At long last, we reveal the winners in the GeekDad Pumpkin Contest. We have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places, two honorable mentions, and a reader's choice winner. We've got some really talented readers when it comes to wondering what to...
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Kids & Engineering: Australia’s RACV Energy Breakthrough
In a small Australian country town each year, only a 20 minute drive from our (even smaller) country town is an event that celebrates engineering, design, sustainability and innovation whose participants are all aged 6 to 17 years. It began...
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Vintage Iron Rules the L.A. Auto Show
LOS ANGELES — The most coveted cars at the L.A. Auto Show were made before your were born. Take, for example, the 1948 Porsche 356 prototype parked between the new Cayman and the new Boxster. It wasn't just any Porsche,...
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Bay Area Stakes Claim as the "EV Capital of the U.S."
The Mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose got together Thursday afternoon to declare their intention to morph their collective communities into the “Electric Vehicle Capital of the US.” The mayors’ Nine-Point Plan was bolstered by Palo Alto start-up...
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The Crusade to End a Horrific Disease Costs 10 Cents Per Person
A public health campaign has saved more than 6 million people from filarial worms, which cause elephantiasis and other grotesque maladies, in just eight years. Massive donations from GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, made the victory possible according to a report this...
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Interrogation Drugs at Gitmo Alleged
President-elect Obama has re-affirmed his intention to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. This will come as a relief to many who have been concerned about some of the ethical issues involved and exactly what has been going...
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iPhone 2.2 Launches, Adds Podcast Downloader and Street View
Apple late Thursday night released a major software update for its iPhone operating system, introducing features such as remote podcast downloading and Google Street View. Remote podcast downloading enables users to download audio and video podcasts onto their iPhones with...
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Got Strange Wishes? You Might Win Christmas On Mars
To keep the spirit of the holidays somewhat bizarro, Listening Post has teamed up with the Flaming Lips to give away copies of the legendary band's finally completed midnight movie Christmas On Mars. And although we recommend you catch it...
11.20.08
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Black Friday TV Deals Come Early For Retailers
Judging by the significant drop in price of TVs across the country, it appears the faltering economy is forcing retailers to start their Black Friday deals early. Sony, Samsung, LG and other manufacturers have started bringing down the price of...
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Government's Star Witness Stumbles: MySpace Hoax Was Her Idea, Not Drew's
Megan Meier LOS ANGELES -- The young woman who typed the final, cruel message to 13-year-old Megan Meier the day she killed herself testified Thursday that it was she -- and not defendant Lori Drew -- who came up with the idea to create a...
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Teen Kills Self on Justin.tv -- Update
Justin.tv viewers comment as Florida authorities recover the body of a teen who committed suicide live on the internet. A 19-year-old Florida teen's suicide broadcast Wednesday on Justin.tv was a result of an overdose of opiates and benzodiazepine, the Broward County Medical Examiner & Trauma...
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State Can Ban Prescription Data Mining, Appeals Court Rules
Data-mining companies have no constitutional right to buy prescription data in order to help pharmaceutical companies lobby doctors to prescribe their brand-name drugs, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 3-0 decision by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals re-instates New Hampshire's 2006 ban...
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Fake Lunar Photos Sent Astronomers Over the Moon
If you wanted close-up photos of the moon in the late 1800s, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And...
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iPhone Developer May Be Bribing Reviewers
An iPhone developer appears to have paid people to give its application glowing reviews in an effort to boost sales. The developer of Santa Live, a jokey iPhone app for kids, appears to have posted a listing on Amazon's Mechanical...
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Put Your Hands in the Fire (Or Not) With a Special Ops Glove
A protective glove system that is currently being used in Iraq by the military is now being made available to civilians. Expect plenty of gear heads, wannabe heroes, and disaster preparedness aficionados to add them to their must-get Christmas wish...
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Coupon Hacker Defeats DMCA Suit
A California online coupon generating company is dropping its Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuit against a man sued for posting commands allowing users to print an unlimited number of valid coupons. John Stottlemire was sued last year after posting the commands to his tenbucks.net and...
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Army 'Human Terrain' Contractor Charged with Murder (Updated Again)
A member of the Army's controversial Human Terrain project has been charged with second degree murder, for an alleged revenge killing in Afghanistan. Don Ayala supposedly shot Kandahar native Abdul Salam in the head, after Salam set one of Ayala's...
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Bush Admin Rejects NYPD Spying Proposals as Illegal
If you are New York's police commissioner, what does it take to figure out when your city's anti-terrorism squad has gone rogue? Well, if building files on political protesters with high-tech bicycles didn't clue you in, having the Bush administration reject the units' wiretapping plans...
11.20.08
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Apple Developing Always-On Backlight for iPhone
Apple is devising a method for the iPhone to display status icons even when the handset's screen is turned off. The company this week published a 24-page patent detailing a dual-backlight system, so that in addition to the primary backlight,...
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The Beatles: The Biggest Bastards on Earth?
Before you reach for your Revolver, let us explain. The title of "Biggest Bastards on Earth" was bestowed on The Beatles by none other than John Lennon in an interview conducted months after the legendary band's 1969 breakup. It has...
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Artist Wants Nuke Waste Dump to Make New Universes
The nuclear waste buried beneath Yucca Mountain will be there for millennia, untouchable and lethal. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats would put that time and radioactivity to use by turning the dump into a generator of new universes. His plan is...
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Watchmen Legal War Escalates From Film to Franchise
The Watchmen trailers, posters and webisodes keep rolling out of Warner Bros., but none of that means you're any closer to seeing the movie in theaters next spring. As the legal war between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. creeps...
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Movies: In Theaters This Week (Nov. 21)
Opening This Weekend Twilight Synopsis: Teenage misfit Bella (Kristen Stewart) moves to her father's house in rainy Washington state, where she falls in love with vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson). The unlikely romance triggers a showdown with a rival band of...
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Marines' Swimming Tank: Adapt or Die
It's no secret that the incoming Obama administration will be taking a hard look at big-ticket weapons programs, with the goal of cutting back under-performing or less-relevant programs. The Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle is one system likely to face...
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Five for Fighting 11/20/08
* The coming Middle East missile war * Arms control art * Drones = cell towers * Mortar launches UAVs * "Shoe-print database sees the soles of criminals" (High five: Sullivan)
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Hairdresser: Drew Thought MySpace Hoax Made a 'Funny Story'
LOS ANGELES -- Shortly after 13-year-old Megan Meier began corresponding with a new MySpace friend called "Josh Evans," Lori Drew walked into a hair salon with a "funny story" about the unfolding hoax, Drew's hair dresser testified Thursday. In the first full day of testimony...
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NASA's Robot Smarts Give Wall-E a Ration of Realism
To give trash-compacting hero Wall-E a more realistic feel, Pixar Animation Studios turned to real NASA robots for inspiration. Early on, director Andrew Stanton and his team wanted insight into how robots move, think and learn. To get the info,...
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Easyjet Bans Stem Cell Research
In a bizarre story that combines two of the most controversial topics of the modern era -- stem cell research and airport security guidelines -- the BBC reports that a pioneering trachea transplant nearly didn't take place because of some...
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