The head football coach at Louisiana State University, Les Miles, has discovered Twitter.
The usually vocal coach has decided that, in addition to shouting at players and refs during LSU games, he might as well Twitter too.  Coach Miles now plans to tweet before and after games – and during half-time too.
The Coach thinks this will [...]

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Dutch reports say that at least two people are dead and several others injured after a speeding car raced toward an open bus carrying Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family.
The incident occurred during a holiday parade on Thursday.
A 38-year-old man who had recently lost his job and was being evicted from his home apparently decided [...]

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It had to happen sooner or later.
IntuApps has created the Swine Flu Tracker, which is currently waiting for approval from Apple.
With this iPhone application, you can track the current threat level, view a map pinpointing confirmed cases as well as suspected ones, review a “symptoms” area, and check an news page for breaking Swine Flu [...]

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Facebook.  It’s both a blessing and a curse.  When it comes to bachelor parties…it’s a curse.
Antonio M. is an Italian with a romantic streak.  Antonio also likes to party…perhaps a little too much.
You see, Antonio posted a picture on his Facebook page of himself, with two naked breasts on top of his head.  Unfortunately, the [...]

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Here we go again.  First it was FBaction.net, then Kromked.net, and our next contestant is FBstarter.com.
Facebook users are receiving a message that links to a site called FBstarter.com.
This site is another phishing attempt, similar to the one we saw yesterday.  Once again, this will attempt to steal your Facebook login credentials and then send the [...]

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One of our crack web researchers just spotted a site called Joonas.net.
Joonas.net tells the story of a depressed and miserable web server mulling over its own existence after failing to deliver a document that was requested of it…

Below is the melancholy tale Joonas.net:
“The requested document is totally fake.”,
“Even tried multi.”,
“Nothing helped.”,
“I’m really depressed about this.”,
“You [...]

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Sources indicate that a fresh round of 700 layoffs have begun over at Yahoo.
New CEO Carol Bartz had indicated this round of layoffs was coming.  In fact, the actual number seems to be around 600 people affected.
Many of those who were laid off were informed during the day today.  Others that were traveling received notice [...]

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Microsoft has officially finished Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 R2.
It is not yet known when SP2 will be made available for public download. Originally, it was thought that it would be ready by the end of this month, and that could still be the case if Microsoft posts the [...]

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On April 29, 2009, Matt Giraud was sent home on American Idol.
On the results show, we saw guest performances from Natalie Cole, Taylor Hicks, and Jamie Foxx.
Simon says after watching last night’s show again, he thinks that everyone did a great job and says that it possibly was the best Top 5 show in Idol [...]

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Yesterday it was Fbaction.net, today it’s Kromked.net.
Some Facebook users are receiving random messages on their Facebook account to visit www.kromked.net.
The site loads an anti-google bot capcha which then redirects the user to sabl.ru. Once the code is entered, nothing seems to happen.  This could be a site that loads malicious code or [...]

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