The web's most interesting stories on Mon 28th Jan 2008
These are the web's most talked about, buzziest URLs on Mon 28th Jan 2008 . The current winner is Think Illegal Downloading is Free? - check back in a hour to see what's top and what's dropped. To get the permanent listing for the day you can use this permalink.
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- Think Illegal Downloading is Free?
- Think Illegal Downloading is Free? Click on…
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- NO2RealID.org
- REAL ID killed in 17 states. 33 more to go! No2RealID.org
• A $23 Billion Deception.Homeland Security’s estimate of $23 billion dollars to create this national ID system is probably off by $5 billion dollars…
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- 404 Not Found
- Holy crap, these are priceless! Not much else I can really say here other than click, look, and laugh your ass off.
The requested URL /only-in-russia/ was not found on this server.
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- To My Hofstra University Smoking Buddy
- When Florida attorney Norm Kent received a form letter from Sen. Norm Coleman condemning marijuana, Kent fired off this note to his former Hofstra University smoking buddy.
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- Skin colour map (indigenous people) - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
- The twin role played by the skin ? protection from excessive UV radiation and absorption of enough sunlight to trigger the production of vitamin D ? means that people living in the lower latitudes, close to the Equator, with intense UV radiation, have developed darker skin to protect them from the damaging effects of UV radiation.
Here are some suggestions for the the proper citation, in a number of styles that can just be copied and pasted into any documents. This is based on the template provided by Wikipedia. For reference to any printed material, please see the details of the collection or…
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- Chavez: Pull Reserves From US: Financial News - Yahoo!Finance
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his Latin American allies on Saturday to begin withdrawing billions of dollars in international reserves from U.S. banks, warning of a looming U.S. economic crisis.
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- YouTube - Call to Action
- A call to action.
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- Fuck Planet Earth from maxgoldberg
- It’s like we can finally understand what these majestic creatures are saying.
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- CSS Reference
- CSS reference site
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- JPG Magazine: Photos: "Cats" by Ivan Capraro
- A spooky picture of black cats with glowing eyes. What do they have planned?
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- YouTube - Scientology Raid In Orlando
- Anon pwn Scientology in Orlando raid.
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- A Quick Fundraising Spike Online | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
- The Obama campaign measures online donations every 15 minutes, and the source said that online money was pouring in at the rate of more than $500,000 per hour.
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- Cover Story: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power - TIME
- The disturbing truth about the cult that is sweeping the nation; started by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard.
The Church of Scientology, started by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard to “clear” people of unhappiness, portrays itself as a religion. In reality the church is a hugely profitable global racket that survives by intimidating members and critics in a Mafia-like m…
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- YouTube - Montel turns the tables on a Fox Morning Television show
- Montel Williams berates Fox “News” for speculating about Heath Ledger’s death while ignoring troop deaths in Iraq.
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- YouTube - Rudy Guiliani thinks you should have REAL ID to get online
- Video clip from the FL Republican debate voicing Rudy’s position on a national ID card.
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- Mass Effect: Jack Thompson Defends Mass Effect
- Famous anti-gaming crusader Jack Thompson calls the Fox News vs Mass Effect story contrived and self-help author Cooper Lawrence. In other news Hell freezes over.
I mean, at this point it’s really too late to actually compliment him, but not unlike Hal Turner, he may make the most ridiculous claims, but one-on-one he usually articulates them rather well and whenever he gets side-tracked from his political crusade and talks abo…
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- Qtrax
- Qtrax is NOT just another P2P network, it provides a complete system for finding and downloading music. The player provides access a web site filled with artist content, including Videos, Ringtones, Lyrics, Album Art, up to the minute artist news! Try finding THAT on any other P2P network. Even better ? its FREE AND LEGAL on Qtrax.
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- Charisma as Natural as Gravity | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com
- Christopher Nolan, director of the upcoming ‘Batman Begins’ sequel, reflects on working with Heath Ledger. “There aren’t many actors who can make you feel ashamed of how often you complain about doing the best job in the world.”
When you get into the edit suite after shooting a movie, you feel a responsibility to an actor who has trusted you, and Heath gave us everything. As we started my cut, I would wonder about each take we chose, each trim we made. I would visualize the screening where w…
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- Don't treat the old and unhealthy, say doctors - Telegraph
- Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone.
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- Australian govt draft says piracy stats are made up | TorrentFreak
- A private draft prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology for the Attorney-Generals Department says that piracy stats arent backed up by fact and that copyright holders failed to explain? how they came up with financial loss figures.
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- YouTube - Potassium Chlorate and Gummy Bear
- Molten potassium chlorate is a strong oxidizing agent that reacts violently with sugar. Gummy bears have lots of sugar in them.
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- Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move
- Facebook announced Friday a new JavaScript client library that will allow Facebook apps to be displayed on any website.
Im not sure anyone saw this move coming, but Facebook may have just changed the game again
Theoretically, an entire website could be built as a Facebook app served up at it’s own address. So Facebook could become what Zuckerberg has always said it would be: the center of everything on the web, a huge identity repository that provides universal login…
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- The Art of Verbal Intimidation : Learn it and fight back!
- Often, the blows from a verbal intimidator can be just as punishing as those from a fist fight. With all matters of survival, if you don’t learn to fight, you will lose. Never instigate intimidation, but learn to fight back when somebody tries to intimidate you.
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- Web Design Timeline
- Unfortunately this is very true.
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- » Clinton Heads to Florida, Hopes to Undo DNC Penalty on State Delegates You Decide 08!
- Hillary Clinton said she will go to Florida to assure Democrats that their voices are heard? and to underscore her pledge to seat the states delegation at the convention. Though Democratic candidates largely have heeded the DNCs request that they not campaign publicly in Florida, Clinton said its time to pay attention to FL voters.
on b e t enterament tv obama said i won iowa where most people white and not many people do not look like me ………we should do well in south carolina when the black people realize their vote will not be wasted………and we can win the …
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- Could you pass the US citizenship test? - Boston.com
- Here are 14 questions among 100 currently used in a US citizenship test.
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- Ten myths about nuclear power
- Those opposing nuclear power muddle every issue from terrorism to uranium supplies, in order to besmirch the only proven safe and cost-effective way to generate large amounts of electricity that wont produce large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. These are some of the myths from those debating nuclear power.
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- New Scientist Environment Blog
- The suggestion that the overtaking of planet Earth by one species ? humans ? kicked off a new geological age was first made by Paul Crutzen in 2002. Crutzen, a Nobel prize-winning chemist, said we should now consider that we are living in the Anthropocene, an age dominated by human activities.
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- Christmas Island Red Crabs
- A swarm of 150,000,000 crabs invades an island in Northwestern Australia to mate. Each female crab lays around 100,000 eggs in the sand. They hatch at around the same time, so there might be as many as 75 trillion crabs on that island at once!
They’ve underestimated the population in the title of this post… Basically; 120,000,000 millions crabs divided by females = 60,000,000 and each one lays 100,000 eggs, so the net numer of crabs is around 6 quadrillion (i.e. 6,000,000, 000,000,000 or rather 6*10 to t…
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- Gartner: Blu-ray to win in 2008, HD DVD price cuts are "useless resistance" - Engadget
- Gartner, the fat lady of research firms, is singing HD DVD’s swan song this morning. Hiroyuki Shimizu, Principal Research Analyst in Japan, says in Gartner’s Semiconductor DQ Monday Report that, “Gartner believes that Toshiba’s price-cutting may prolong HD DVD’s life a little, but the limited line-up of film titles will inflict fatal damage…
@minimalist,i’m another guy who hates Sony’s tactics. i view it as proprietary because they seem to be the only one at the forefront of this war, bumping heads with Toshiba. Sony pimps the Blu-ray format so hard and furiously, yet, i’ve never seen any other company…
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- 100 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Beautiful Art
- This page represents the last 4 years of our team amassing a collection of 100 Photoshop tutorials to create beautiful art. Here at 3dtotal.com we are well known for our 3d tutorials but few people know about our huge library of 2d ones. This sure is a page to bookmark!
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- YouTube - Re: Puppy Vs. Robot: Evil Robot Overlord Hates You All.
- Hi there. I made the “puppy vs. robot” video that’s been on Digg today. Its popularity over on YouTube has been a sobering reminder of what absolute dipshits YouTube commenters are. So, Evil Robot Overlord has posted a video response weighing in with his thoughts on the matter. He’s not pleased.
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- YouTube - Google Maps
- “Two young men take a turn down the wrong street view.”
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- Light Still Shines On The Fair en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos!
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Crea una cuenta gratuita, o inicia sesi?n (si ya eres miembro).
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- The 12 Most Awesomely Ridiculous eBay Auctions | Cracked.com
- Look long enough on eBay and you’ll find an item that the mere knowledge of its existence brings shock and dismay. Then, you must cope with the fact that the seller thought we would be willing to pay good money for it, and then come to terms with the fact that usually they’re right.
This is an auction for some girl’s old used breast implants. You see, Janine apparently wants to upgrade her boobs from what she has now to… convex, we guess. This is probably one of the grossest auctions on eBay, considering this object was (for more than several…
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