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Wednesday, 24 December '08 - 12:42:22 AM -0400
A lighting strike that close would make anyone's butt hole pucker.
Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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The 11th Circuit has ruled that a defamation case brought by gun store owners against New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg should proceed in Georgia's Cobb County Superior Court, not in federal court. He also called the gun dealers "a group of bad apples who routinely ignore federal regulations."
In 2008, the wheels fell off the DAB digital radio platform. Last week, after a year of deliberation, the government's Digital Radio Working Group concluded that outdated DAB technology should be the sole broadcast platform for UK radio, irrespective of global market conditions or the impractical cost of its implementation. Whilst nobody would argue against a digital future for radio, the Group's particular and peculiar vision of that digital future is more contentious.
Kwanzaa, the celebration honoring African heritage, begins the day after Christmas and lasts through Jan. 1. In 2005, Melonyce McAfee explained that even though it's a made-up holiday, it helped her family. The original article is reprinted below.
The Huffington Post's news aggregation business drives enormous traffic to the third-party sites its editors link to (including, occasionally, this one). The Huffington Post also often excerpts liberally from third-party sites' stories and uses this content to drive significant traffic to itself. As the web journalism business model evolves, aggregation will become more important. The sense of what constitutes "fair use" here is-and should be-still evolving.
An insurance company with a potential $25 million liability from a 2007 Houston office fire is claiming smoke that killed three people was "pollution" and surviving families shouldn't be.
The California attorney general said that the measure that banned same-sex marriage was constitutionally indefensible and should be overturned.
Online penny auctions are like gambling and should be better regulated. Unlike other major auction sites, these auctions charge a fee for bidding and the minimum bid is nominative. The result is that people are paying money for only a possibility to get an item.
For many Web 2.0 start-ups, build-it-to-flip-it has been a mantra of sorts, with most hoping to get big payouts when Google, Yahoo or AOL cuts them a big check. Unfortunately, the credit crisis has turned those dreams into layaway plans. The 451 Group, a research firm, released an M&A report this morning that should.
A couple accused of letting their infant daughter die by relying on prayer, rather than medicine, say charges should be dropped as they infringe on their right to practice their religion.
Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman said Sunday that the beleaguered U.S. auto industry will likely disappear.
New video uncovered in which Barack Obama himself confirms he was not born in the U.S. This video was obtained secretly without his knowledge, and is proof positive that he should be disqualified as President Elect.
Charlie Nesson (of the Berkman Center and Harvard Law) and Joel Tennenbaum discuss (it's a podcast) their countersuit against the RIAA on Constitutional grounds. Charlie argues that the RIAA is a private agency enforcing a criminal statute and using the federal court as a collection agency.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed three exemption requests with the U.S. Copyright Office today aimed at protecting the important work of video remix artists, iPhone owners, and cell phone recyclers from legal threats under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA prohibits "circumventing" digital rights management (DRM) and "other technical protection measures" used to protect copyrighted works.