TV Converter Program Runs Out of Funding

Is anyone surprised? Give the government something to manage and they will manage to mess it up. Hey, why don't we have the government fix our economy that had been sent into a tailspin through the...

Space Shuttle Discovery Lands at Kennedy Space Center

UPDATE:Space Shuttle Discovery and her crew are safely back on earth following a beautiful landing in Florida.Hitching a ride home: astronaut Garrett E. Reisman, who flew to the International Space Station...

Big lab installed on international space station

"With astronauts hustling inside and out, the international space station got its biggest live-in addition yet, a Japanese lab stretching 37 feet that opens for business Wednesday.Japanese astronaut Akihiko...

Google, others take 14.5-billion-dollar bet on wireless broadband

"Google has teamed up with a pack of US cable and mobile phone companies in an alliance to invest 14.5 billion dollars in a WiMax network for wireless broadband internet across the country, the companies announced Wednesday.The new venture builds on a collaboration between...

Revealing Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise

A very interesting article about the Miley Cyrus nude photograph controversy, showing the difficulty for a company like Disney to keep control of a lucrative franchise with pre-teen fans."Fifteen years old,...

XMAS: China's billion-dollar toy story

The age old Christmas song all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, may be a children's wish come true as toxic toys from China are taken off the market.  With all the toxins found in chinese...

Scotland: Farmer tell's Donald Trump "Piss Off"!

I saw a brief interview on this, and found it in the news, where a Scottish Farmer in his scottish brogue basically tell the Donald to "Piss off" his farmland is not for sale. This dashing Donald Trumps dream to...

Russia to extend billion-dollar credit to Indonesia for arms spend

""Indonesia is a solvent country that produces oil, and Russia grants credit to such countries, if the possibility arises," he said. Indonesia is a major arms buying client for Russia. In August it bought six...

Entertainer and Entrepreneur Merv Griffin Dies at 82

RIP."LOS ANGELES — Merv Griffin, who went from big-band era crooner to fabulously successful TV talk show host before making a fortune as the creator of two of television's most popular game shows and then...

Don't ruin Harry Potter, you bunch of wraiths!

You can't keep Potter spoilers down anymore than you can keep Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Gryffindor common room when a mysterious doing is afoot. But good on Rowling and the Leaky Cauldron folks for trying--it...

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