Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
- A list of the 7 worst fictional towns in America
if you lived in Cabot Cove from 1984-1996, there was a pretty good chance that someone was going to murder your ass. With a body count of up to eight per episode, Cabot Cove experienced an outbreak of no less than 800 murders during the time that Jessica Fletcher lived there.
- Boston’s Big Dig is finally over (until they find the problems they’ve missed and begin work correcting them, I’m sure). Sure, it was nearly 500% over budget, but what’s an extra $12.2 billion among friends?
- A simple test to see if your new tool is actually made of titanium or just labeled that way so you can be charged more
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
- Adopted man spends 4 years looking for his birthmother, finally notices he spelled her name wrong in every web search he did, and ends up finding her at the cash register of the store where he works
- Secret Santa tradition continues with a new face
Over about a quarter century, Stewart quietly gave out more than $1.3 million to people in laundromats, diners, bus stations, shelters and thrift stores, saying it was his way of giving back at Christmas for all the wealth and generosity he had received in his lifetime.
- Car thief changes his mind when he sees in the rear-view mirror what is in the back seat
“I’d love to have seen the look on his face when he saw Diesel. He must have got the shock of his life. There’s no alarm, but who needs one when you’ve got the Hound of the Baskervilles in your back seat?”
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
- The ongoing debate over President Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping from a few years back. How some on the right views Americans’ loss of rights:
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) countered that this summer, the Congress looked at the substance of the warrantless wiretapping and decided to legalize it.
“We ought to send President Bush a letter thanking him for the program and apologizing for accusing him of violating our Constitutional rights,” Sessions said.
- America - we work to break our tourism industry one visitor at a time. Yes, she screwed up 10 years ago - that doesn’t justify the treatment she suffered nor the harm we’re doing to our country by acting this way (via boingboing)
- Are you getting enough “Hello, Kitty” merchandise in your life?
- A guide for last-minute gift shopping, courtesy of Danger Room
- The EPA has mercury handling and disposal guidelines for all your hazmat needs
- Microsoft finally breaks the silence - talks about Internet Explorer 8 just a little bit in response to criticism from the web world over Microsoft’s failure to support web standards properly
IE8, the next upgrade to Microsoft’s browser, passes the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, the IE group’s general manager. “On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode,” Hachamovitch said in a post to Microsoft’s official IE blog yesterday.
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