Get your Pope on..."VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to set aside time in their lives for God and the needy, as he ushered in Christmas early Tuesday by celebrating Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
Echoing a theme he has raised about an increasingly...
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"Move Over Editors, The Readers Want Your Jobs
It's not only the language that's changing, but also the editorial process. Dave Winer, the one who brought us RSS and, arguably, blogging, has been tinkering with...
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"He's called "the hedgehog'' because he's short, fat and hairy. But Ron Jeremy, the veteran of an estimated 1,600 porn flicks, is the most successful and durable figure in the X-rated film industry.
Gifted with...
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Soon they'll be watching us on the streets of Chicago:"CHICAGO (AP) — A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that...
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"Driving on Chicago's Wacker Drive, you can get a wireless Internet connection that fills a laptop's screen with full-size, full-motion, television-quality video, but only if you have a WiMax chipset plugged into your computer.
In a preview of the WiMax wireless broadband...
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More shenanigans:"If you thought Tom DeLay's Texas gerrymandering scam in 2003 was bad, just wait. Now partisans are seeking to steal the 2008 presidential election.
It's that serious. Taking advantage of the frustration their supporters understandably feel about their...
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"In their Citation, the Pritzker Prize Jury described Rem Koolhaas as a visionary and a philosopher. Critics have argued that Koolhaas ignores all consideration for beauty and taste. And, in our discussion forum,...
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"OSLO (AFP) - No longer content to offer consumers Swedish meatballs and self-assembly shelves, Ikea in Norway is now offering weary shoppers the chance to sleep over in one of its Oslo showrooms free of charge."
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"KRAKOW, Poland — There is a curious thing happening in this old country, scarred by Nazi death camps, raked by pogroms and blanketed by numbing Soviet sterility: Jewish culture is beginning to flourish again."
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Frederick Lee (Ted) Morton, PhD. (born March 28, 1949, Los Angeles, California) is a former university professor, an Albertan politician and currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is currently the Minister of Sustainable resource development. Morton...
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More On Dichloroacetate, Potential Cancer CureDonklephant - 14 May 2007We’ve written about dichloroacetate before, but I thought I’d point it out again because it’sa wonder why we’re not hearing about...
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This sounds like this was a huge deal. Any photos out there?"India has held celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of a landmark revolt against British rule. From New Delhi, Anjana Pasricha reports,...
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Citizen Ziggy asks some interesting questions about facebook. My view on Facebook is always treat everything you disclose as though you were screaming it to a packed auditorium. It's 6-degrees redux.
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ooops..."MIDDLETOWN, N.J. - Children here got more than they bargained for when they tuned in to "Handy Manny" on the Disney Channel this week — hard-core pornography.
Cable giant Comcast is investigating how...
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Truemors
Real portrait funny, sad in 'Porn Star'