Pin ItemailprintToday, the U.S. government will vote to have broad powers to block any website. SOPA would not only hurt free speech, it will choke off the internet workforce and its readers by taking down entire websites. Today is our last chance to have our voices heard. It’s time to pull all stops – please [...]
Joe Paterno‘s stint as football coach at Penn State will soon be over thanks to a sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the university, according to the New York Times. The board of trustees has yet to determine the exact timing of Paterno’s dismissal, but it’s exit, but it seems clear that he won’t survive [...]
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You were hoping for something profound, or perhaps something poetic? No such luck. How about something that revealed Steve Jobs‘ boyish fascination with life and all of its marvels, even at the end? In a eulogy published yesterday by the New York Times, sister Mona Simpson revealed that the Apple co-founder’s last words were, “OH [...]
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Ever wonder where all those catchy Occupy Wall Street headlines come from? Well, as it turns out, everyone interprets the news a little differently. Here’s how most of the OWS headlines are cooked up. Watch more Viral Videos here
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OK, the people at PETA have officially lost it. I can see that there is a point to some of things that they do and some of the things that upset them, but this is getting just plain stupid. The PETA folks are apparently upset over a story that ran on the New York Times [...]
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Infamous whistle-blowing organization Wikileaks, headed by Julian Assange, has released its full cache U.S. diplomatic cables in unredacted form. The cables contain, among other things, highly confidential, top secret state secrets, opinions, and views of U.S. diplomats around the world. It would seem, however, that Wikileaks lost control of the full 251,287 cables long before [...]
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While we’re on the subject of Hurricane Irene, let’s talk about how you can track the big storm using the web, mobile apps, Twitter & more. On the web, The Weather Channel’s Hurricane Tracker helps you map out and keep tabs on the hurricane’s path, trajectory, wind speed, etc. You can also download the Weather Channel mobile [...]
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In an extraordinary opinion piece in the New York Times, Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest men, says the government needs to start taxing the super-rich, including himself. The president of Berkshire Hathaway says that the U.S. must “stop coddling the super-rich.” “While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and [...]
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It looks like the pressure has finally gotten to Rep. Anthony Weiner. According to the New York Times, the Congressman has told friends that he plans to resign after coming under fire from colleagues in the wake of a lewd sexting and tweeting scandal. Initially, Democratic leaders has planned to hold a meeting today to [...]
Boy, those Pakistanis sure hate terrorism all right. In a mind-boggling move, Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested five CIA informants who gave detailed information to U.S. intelligence before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month. One of those arrested was said to be a Pakistani Army major who copied down license [...]
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The sons of Osama bin Laden have issued a statement blasting President Barack Obama and claiming that the U.S. violated international law in the killing of an unarmed man, shooting his family members, and dumping his dead body in the ocean. The statement, which was provided to the New York Times, said that the family [...]
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The shit could be about to hit the proverbial fan for Sony following that massive hack of the PlayStation 3 Network. The hackers in question now claim to be in possession of more that 2 million credit card numbers belonging to Sony customers. Security researchers saw the claims being made by the hackers in question [...]
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