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Friday 11 January

  • It Could Be Worse (14:33) - This was Tuesday's sports section cover in Ohio State University's student run newspaper, The Lantern. What does it make you think of? The Editor in Chief defends the image in today's opinion section with a defense you could only read... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 15 May

  • Opie and Anthony Suspended for 30 days (17:14) - Gregg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia have been forced to suspend broadcast of their XM radio show for 30 days effective immediately. The suspension comes after a frequent guest of the show made comments about having violent sex with Secretary... | 11 Comments

Wednesday 18 April


Tuesday 17 April

  • Plays written by VT Killer Cho Seung Hui (19:10) - A former classmate of Cho Seung-Hui has come forward with the scripts to two plays written by Seung-Hui for a creative writing class at Virgina Tech. Both are very juvenile in nature, but with violent and sexual themes. Both plays... | 0 Comments

Thursday 12 April

  • Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84 (00:29) - Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He... | 0 Comments

Monday 20 November

  • OJ Simpson Book and TV Show cancelled (18:14) - The previously reported "If I did it, here's how it happened" TV special and book have both been pulled by Newscorp (Fox's parent company). The show was to air during sweeps week. ... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 15 November

  • If I did it, here's how it happened (09:51) - LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- In a new TV interview and book, O.J. Simpson discusses how he would have committed the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend "if I did it." The two-part television interview, titled "O.J. Simpson: If... | 0 Comments

Thursday 1 September

  • If you don't look out the window, it's not really happening (13:21) - Is anyone else disgusted by the lack of network media coverage in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf states? Millions of our citizens are facing an unparalled disaster right now that is all but being ignored by the likes of... | 8 Comments

Wednesday 31 August

  • katrina (15:25) - Katrina Photo Pool on Flickr. Lost Casinos: Mississippi has a number of riverboat casinos, many of which have been obliterated by the hurricane, cast ashore, flipped over, you name it. ... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 27 July

  • 20 cows + 40 goats = chelsea lovin' (22:51) - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Kenyan says he offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago -- and is still waiting for an answer. Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor told the East Africa... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 5 April

  • $105 a barrel oil (21:34) - Goldman Sachs says oil could spike to $105/b Is it time to revisit peak oil? In short, we're running out of energy rapidly and like it or not we're going to have to revert our worst mistake ever, vast suburban... | 3 Comments

Tuesday 22 February

  • 10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time (16:24) - Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about...

Saturday 15 January

  • Tsunami Ghosts (18:17) - A second surge of tsunami terror is hitting southern Thailand, but this time it is a wave of foreign ghosts terrifying locals in what health experts described as an outpouring of delayed mass trauma.Tales of ghost sightings in the six...

Saturday 8 January

  • Sorry, all I've got is change (23:43) - A truck driver has disappeared with the 3.6 million nickels he was hauling to the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans, police said Friday....

Thursday 23 September

  • Rathergate (16:25) - Yeah.. a whole website dedicated to ol' Dan and the national guard report fiasco. http://www.rathergate.com/...

Saturday 18 September

  • Don't Forget.... (20:27) - Tommorow is national Talk Like a Pirate Day. arrrr....

Wednesday 8 September

  • News from the Wired (00:51) - An alternative to Lasik, an implantable, yet removeable, contact lens that takes only eight minutes (!) and some anaesthetic eye drops to install.. from STAAR Surgical. Does having this qualify one as a cyborg? -- Europeans should be aware of...

Monday 6 September

  • Wacky News (10:13) - There are times when I can easily confuse CNN.com with The Onion. Today is one of those days: Two Muppets Named Top Scientists Record crowds for Burning Man Festival...

Wednesday 1 September


Tuesday 31 August

  • Air America Ann Arbor (23:56) - Something interesting for those within 500 watts of Ann Arbor: Air America is now broadcasting on 1290 AM (WLBY), representing the Midwest in liberal talk radio alongside the Twin Cities since Chicago is MIA. And, yes, I hear it's owned...
  • Blackwell indicted on 48 criminal charges (17:12) - My (and Polamex & Tomo's) college graduation commencement speaker, Ohio State University marketing professor Roger Blackwell, was indicted today on 48 criminal charges stemming from an insider trading deal in 1999. Blackwell, four individuals and a business partnership were indicted...

Thursday 19 August

  • The big day is finally here. (11:25) - GOOG is due to hit the market in the next hour or so. The initial price has been set at $85. Any estimates as to where it will close for the day?...

Monday 16 August

  • Most Viewed Images (18:13) - Yahoo! News's most viewed photos right now have a common theme, for the most part. Ok, not the one of the pope digging for gold. ...

Tuesday 10 August


Friday 23 July

  • What really happened on Flight 93 (12:18) - The 9/11 commission report reveals who was at the controls before Flight 93 crashed. "Is that it? Shall we finish it off?" "No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish it off." "In the cockpit. If we don"t, we"ll...

Saturday 17 July


Friday 16 July

  • Martha Stewart gets five months (15:02) - Martha Stewart picked up the minimum jail time for the charges she faced. 5 months in prison followed by 5 months of house arrest and 2 years of probation. She was also fined $30,000....
  • Finding Bobby Fischer (12:01) - Infamous chess recluse Bobby Fischer has been detained in Japan after trying to use an invalid US Passport. Fischer has been wanted since 1992 for playing chess in Yugoslavia during a period of UN Sanctions against the country....

Wednesday 30 June

  • Free Porn via Fox News (22:03) - I was watching Fox News, during Greta Van Susteren, during which a promo for Your World with Neil Cavuto came on about protecting kids from porn. Well this is what I saw, a poor attempt to censor porn!! ...

Tuesday 29 June

  • Scans uncover secrets of the womb (19:36) - Ok Ryan, this is not showing dismembered babies...but something even better. Professor Campbell has perfected a technique which not only produces detailed 3D images, but records foetal movement in real time. He says his work has been able to show...

Friday 25 June

  • Accent Neutralization (11:06) - With so many call center jobs going overseas to India, many Texans are getting upset when they call customer service and they can't understand the accents. The solution? Send the call center employees to accent neutralization classes where they can...

Tuesday 8 June

  • Rampage in Granby (00:10) - "He's put armored plates all around it and it's impenetrable," said business owner Terri Hertel, her voice trembling as gunfire rattled in the background. "Armor- piercing bullets won't go through it. He's destroying the town of Granby." "I saw the...

Thursday 20 May

  • Talk about a massive "dump" (15:23) - MMSD stands for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. They have a "deep tunnel" That carries the city sewage into the seepage beds, however when there is alot of rain...there is some run-off into lake Michigan. This is usually not significant...

Friday 12 March

  • Mason inductee killed during ceremony. (14:08) - "The induction ceremony in the basement of the Masonic lodge on Monday in Patchogue began as it had hundreds of times before for decades. All the old props were in place. Bear traps. Rat traps. A guillotine. The wooden plank....

Wednesday 10 March

  • Bad News (03:16) - A Georgia woman tried to pass off a million dollar bill (fake) at a Walmart. Apparently, clerks in North Carolina are more gullible, at least when it comes to $200 Dubya bills. Extend voting to 14-year olds in California? Sounds...

Tuesday 28 October

  • Only in Dayton Ohio... (13:56) - A 20-year-old man burglarizing an apartment pried open a tackle box and found nude photos of young girls, including his little sister. The man turned himself and the pictures into police, who later arrested the apartment's tenant, a registered sex...