Heavy Marijuana Use Doesn't Damage Brain

"Grant's analysis, published in the July issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, comes as many states consider laws allowing marijuana to be used to treat certain medical conditions....

Trump To Rosie: You're Sued!

The Big D didn't go into details - sounds like Paris vs. Richie "she knows" type crap - apparently he didn't like Rosie's comments on 'the view' during which she called him a "Snake-oil salesman". Please Rosie, a...

Sex Toy of the Week: George Bush Butt Plug

just when I thought I'd seen it all... "one of our favorite anal stimulation devices we've ever had the pleasure of presenting on Fleshbot—but just in case they're not enough, the promo copy for this 4 inch (insertable length) silicone wonder should help, er, fill you in...

User-modifiable Linux phone ships

"Trolltech is shipping the Greephone, its open, user-modifiable Linux mobile phone aimed at helping developers write applications for or modify components in its Qtopia Phone Edition (QPE) software stack. Additionally, the company has quietly released a GPL-licensed...

PornoTube Breaks into Alexa Top 300 within 2 Months

"PornoTube, which is an adult version of YouTube, breaks into top 300 websites within two months. Since being introduced at TechCrunch, July 25 2006, Alexa now ranks PornoTube.com as the 253rd site on the Web (9/3/2006). PornoTube shares and rates X-rated images and video...

'Guerrilla artist' replaces Paris Hiltons' CDs in shops with doctored versions

"He has smuggled fake artwork into Tate Britain, and sprayed a vision of paradise on the Palestinian side of Israel's "security wall". Now, the "guerrilla graffiti" artist Banksy has taken aim at the cult of empty...

Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village the 80-acre property 110-Building Si...

The insurance companies are always lookin to screw the working class - my insurance rates jsut SKY ROCKETED to $600/month with out warning this month!! now this..."Metropolitan Life is putting Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village — a stretch of 110 apartment buildings...

Heinlein's Last Novel "Variable Star" Coming in September

"Robert Heinlein's last novel, Variable Star , will be released in September. Completed by Spider Robinson at the behest of Heinlein's estate, the novel is based on the notes and outline created by Heinlein for the novel over 50 years ago. It was set aside and forgotten when...

I'm A Genius, Too! The Murry Wilson Tapes

"January 8, 1965: The Beach Boys enter the studio to record what will become their second number one hit, Help Me Rhonda. Well into the session, a drunken Murry Wilson (Brian, Carl and Dennis' Dad) arrives and proceeds to commandeer the session with psychodrama, scat singing...

Alleged polygamist Warren Jeffs arrested

"Warren Steed Jeffs, the fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect and one of the FBI's 10 most wanted, was arrested in a traffic stop outside Las Vegas, the Nevada Highway Patrol said on Tuesday. Nevada Highway...

Are we Giving the Terrorists They Want?

"Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn't engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press...

What does JK Rowling do with her money?

"Indeed, the scale of her wealth is such that it is hard to comprehend. It has been said she is richer than the Queen. She earns around £1million every three days. It is the kind of fortune it would be impossible to spend even if she stayed in that luxury pad in the Hamptons...

Rough Day for Apple recalls 1.8 million laptop batteries, Settles for 100mm w...

Shocked the stock is where it's at with the 1.8mm recall and the 100 Million to settle the patent suit with Creative Technology..."the company recalling 1.8 million Sony-based, rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs for a number of its iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 notebook...

New Yorker arrested for broadcasting Hizbollah TV

So much for freedom of information... if i were to repost an Al Qaeda blog msg, would i be prosecuted?"U.S. authorities have arrested a New York man for broadcasting Hizbollah television station al-Manar, which has been designated a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury...

TV news channel screens porn in broadcast blunder

"Viewers of a 5-minute news update at midnight Saturday could see explicit scenes from a Czech porn movie on a TV screen behind Sweden's SVT news anchor Peter Dahlgren.... on a monitor - one of many on the wall of a control room visible behind the studio - normally shows...
 

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