United States Arms-Control Specialist Charles Norton Van Doren Dies

United States arms-control specialist Charles Norton Van Doren, whose life's work was to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, died August 23 at Sibley Memorial Hospital."After the United States dropped...

Blogger Arrested Over Leaked Guns N' Roses Songs

It's a criminally tough being a music blogger, isn't it? Always on the hunt for the latest remix, always digging for the dopest download, and ever searching for the most exclusive of mp3s...the leaked album in...

Dead baby thrown out with the trash

A recycling plant in Fengate, UK came across a gruesome discovery yesterday, finding a dead newborn baby coming down the trash-sorting conveyor belt. The baby has not yet been identified, so far they can't even tell if it's a boy or a girl."A newborn baby girl's body was...

FEMA refuses to help local PBS affiliate rebuild

"On the air, WYES-Channel 12 looks fine. Everywhere else, the local PBS affiliate's headquarters near City Park, devastated by 5 feet of Hurricane Katrina levee-failure floodwaters, remains a literal shell of its...

Bloggers play key role at Denver convention

"DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- The age of mom-and-pop pundit shops has arrived at the Democratic convention. ...

Hoffspace: David Hasselhoff Launches Own Social Network

This is pretty incredible, if a little terrifying: Hoffspace "Cancel your Myspace account and forget about Facebook, because David Hasselhoff has started his own social-networking site called Hoffspace. When you are...

John Edwards Dropped from DNC Schedule

"DENVER - The Democratic National Convention, where Senator Barack Obama will be accepting the nomination as he runs for President of the United States, starts today and runs through Thursday night. North Carolina...

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Digg Crowdsources Convention Interviews

Citizen engagement with political processes has never been as diffuse and 'technified' as it is today. Although crowdsourcing interview questions for politicians isn't a particularly radical or new concept of civic...

Russia to recognize Georgia rebel regions

Russia is planning to recognize the breakaway regions which are at the center of the Georgia conflict, it has been revealed."Russian lawmakers approved on Monday a resolution recognizing the independence of two rebel regions of Georgia, a move likely to worsen relations with...

YouTube Producers Milk Fatal Toronto Explosion For Fun And Profit

"The fiery mushroom cloud that rose over downtown Toronto last week must have been pretty scary to everyone who saw it. The explosion of a propane storage facility killed two people and forced 12,000 people to...

'Hustle & Flow' Director Creates New Web Series

Craig Brewer, the director of Hustle & Flow, is set to take on the internet with a new pseudo-doc, web-only music series that will focus on the lives of "real-life local musicians" in Memphis, Tennessee. $5...

60 Dead in Bombings Near Pakistani Capital

"WAH, Pakistan, Aug. 21 -- At least 60 people were killed and 100 were injured in coordinated suicide bombings Thursday at Pakistan's largest army munitions factory, the latest in a series of Taliban attacks against government targets. "

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"Do we really need another news aggregator to follow in the footsteps of Google News, Digg, Reddit, Netvibes and the rest? Well, the founders of NewsCred have decided we do - and they reckon they've got two killer angles which will make their service, launched today, into a...

Muxtape Shut Down by RIAA Issues

Muxtape, our favourite office music mixtape source here at NP (and Wired's too apparently), has been shut down by the RIAA. UPDATE | 16:44 PST - The RIAA responds and states that Muxtape is Hosting "Illegal...

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