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It looks as though Google has been guilty of several breaches of picking up a lot of personal and private data while driving around mapping streets. First off, they mapped all the wi-fi hotspots. Of course if they were open, the downloaded any...

This is the latest prediction of leading scientist Raymond Kurzweil, that within the next two decades you will be able to back and store all your thoughts and memories electronically. All your thoughts, dreams, experiences, everything that makes...

The Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupted at least three times today. It's very close to the city of Yogyakarta and thousands of people live near it. Indonesian media reported that 15 people were killed, including some journalists who were...

https://community.cblpi.org/calendar/supporters For six years, the Luce Policy Institute’s Great American Conservative Women Calendar has been an exceptional way to showcase America’s top conservative women leaders. Each year, thousands of...

After 30 years of production, Sony is finally calling time on the Sony Walkman. A piece of music history ends today. I must have gone through so many portable cassette players of so many different brands, but its a shame it is finally over. ...

It brings to mind the classic phrase. Designed by computers... Built by robots... Driven by morons!!! It's beached somewhere off the coast of Scotland near the Isle of Skye. :fail: More fail here.

It appears as part of the strategic review that the Coalition government is going to revive the plans to monitor all email, phone and website traffic and store said data for up to a year, for "security purposes". Effectively allowing the police...

This appears to be the fate for an unnamed pensioner in Coventry who is claiming she won the massive Euromillions rollover. She has one problem, her husband threw away the ticket. They have 180 days to turn the house upside down to find the...

No, that isn't my assertion. It's the claim of this Tea Partier blogger here. He breaks down the Tea Party's positions and then says that hippies during the height of their movement would have agreed with the same positions. These positions are:...

The EU has decided that the current countries around the Arctic Circle who are supposed to steward the area and keep it a natural habitat are failing in their role as custodians. This may have something to do with the deep water oil drilling that...

Today the British government will reveal their plans for the ubiquitous quangos which have grown and multiplied in the running of the country and cover everything from canals to company watchdogs to arts and media. Quangos are basically a...

Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization California's Prop. 19 would decriminalize small amounts of pot for personal use, but Mexico's President Felipe Calderon claims that this would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels....

Chilean president: Looking forward to imminent mine rescue Yes, the Chilean president is looking forward to it. I'm sure the guys in the mine are, too. Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne told reporters Monday outside the mine that...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101006-new-dinosaur-north-america-science/ They appear to have been herbivores, yet their powerful, clawed, human-like hands may have been doing something else. Scavenging? Bitch-slapping dinosaur...

We've discussed the concept here before, but now New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking federal permission to stop recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda. New York Times story here. The request, made to the United...

I've been reading all kinds of outrage on the internet over this story. A brief summation: Guy lives in a county where they have no fire service. A nearby municipality offers fire protection to individuals who live outside of their jurisdiction,...

Has been, is, and will likely remain, shitty. There have been a number of movements to get insurance plans to cover medication and therapy visits for insured members to the same degree as any other chronic condition, with mixed success. ...

..streak in front of Barack Obama in a place where you are not going to get arrested for indecency with a logo written across you stomach. British Billionaire Alki David has offered the prize to the first person to pull this prank for the...

For those who haven't seen it, this is how the latest ad from Tea Party member Christine O'Donnell starts. I'll be honest, though I don't have much time for the Tea Party, I recognise a good political advert when I see it. uxJyPsmEask So,...

http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Quebec+spammer+must+Facebook+billion/3627083/story.html The Quebec Superior Court issued a judgment last week upholding a ruling in a California court that ordered Montrealer Adam Guerbuez to pay...

This caught me by surprise, although its something that has outlasted it's original purpose. They are finally looking to get rid of BIOS and replace it with something that can handle the moden computers and all that goes with it called UEFI...

Both the USA and now Japan have started warning their citizens of terror threats when visiting Europe. Apparently the threat level has been raised from 'general' to 'heightened'. It looks like Al-Qaida have decided to pick on Europe as an easier...

Basically a couple of lads mooned the google street view camera. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1001/breaking42.html

From the reports, it looks as though Ian Duncan Smith is going to carry out one of the biggest shake-ups in British Social Welfare. He is going to scrap all the existing and separate benefits and replace it with a single Universal Credit. He is...

The underage girl was having an affair with her tae-kwon-do teacher, although it is unlikely they can be charged with anything. Her father put her into "protective custody" in an attempt to cure her "orientation". Apparently, the teacher found...

It looks like the design of a Las Vegas hotel is such that it is concentrating the sunlight falling on it to the area by the swimming pool. Several guests have experienced burning from it and it is capable of melting plastic bags. Sounds like the...

I begin with the impression that airport security has been made more onerous without significantly improved the effectiveness of the security measures. So, when I see a story like this one, it tends to confirm my impressions. "White had the...

This isn't really serious news, but I found it cool even so. Story. The app, developed by scientists at Penn State University in the USA, includes an image of the "Tree of Life" - a circular image showing the route life has taken from its single...

See! If you throw a zucchini at an attacking bear, it will run off!

Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast that can lay claim to the dubious title of the horniest animal ever to walk the Earth. Kosmoceratops, a relative of the more familiar Triceratops, had one horn over its nose, one over...

Why is 'food security' sparking unrest? "The most urgent issue confronting humanity in the next 50 years is not climate change or the financial crisis, it is whether we can achieve and sustain such a harvest," said Julian Cribb, scientist and...

The Largest offshore windfarm has just opened off the coast of Kent. It's still being built, but the 100 turbines there will start generating electricity, with the expectation that there will be 341 turbines in total.Apparently, the 100 turbines...

Mm, pissky. The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, including Gilpin's own grandmother. The urine is purified in the same way as mains water is purified, with the sugar molecules removed and added to the mash stock to accelerate...

According to newly released footage it appears that Tea Party Winner Christine O'Donnell has a more chequered past that some would give her credit for. Apparantly she dabbled a little in witchcraft, although never joined a coven. But she did once...

Story here. Okay, love, we get it; you don't like cats. But does that mean you should go out of your way to deliberately try and harm somebody else's cat? Well, thanks to the internet, you fucking witch, your life is going to be made as miserable...

Scumsucker DA starts harassing a victim of domestic violence during the trial for her abuser. She reports him to the authorities, and he gets a private reprimand. This sort of BS is why I hate the idea of allowing any profession to conduct...

France has now officialy voted in the ban on the wearing of the face covering veils. Barring a left-field challenge it will become law next spring. This goes further than just the original idea which was to ban them in places of public service. This...

Artificial ovary developed.Researchers at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital have invented the first artificial human ovary, an advance that provides a potentially powerful new means for conducting fertility research and could also yield...

Operation Dark Heart is the expose of how the USA could have won the war aganist the Taliban and didn't due to interference from the top brass in the military. It has already been passed by the DoD and was due to be printed. However, once the...

In today's news, someone decides to inflame religious tensions. An athiest lawyer in Australia decided to make two roll ups made from the pages of a Bible and a Koran. The video, of course, was uploaded to Youtube and has since been deleted. ...

After a 50+ years period of mostly Mayor Daleys Chicago's mayor announced he will step down shortly after breaking his father's record for longest serving Mayor of Chicago. I don't even remember the period between the two Daleys. I suspect it might...

Arrested isn't perhaps the right word , but the 350-tonne 50 foot high blowout preventer has been raised and siezed by the US authorities in the ongoing search to apportion blame for the oil disaster. Given that it is the key component in...

Except for, you know, cheerleader's skirts on game days. There's really not much more to say about this. Either your male students are so testosterone poisoned that they can't think or learn when there are short skirts around. Or they can...

Despite being the government department for setting and collecting tax from normal people, it seems that they couldn't get it right. It seems that over 5.7 million people have been paying the wrong amount of tax either. 4.3 million are due a...

Does your man only feign interest in his spiritual life? Does he go out of his way to keep company with young men? Is he just too clean? Don't deny you haven't suspected, ladies. Well, live in secret shame no more because help is on its way! ...

On Monday afternoon, this video was posted to a thread on /b/ with the words, "Find this dumb little bitch and throw her into a river." This is a much worse situation than the lady tossing the cat in the garbage can for a couple of reasons. The...

Salt of the Earth, people. Salt of the Earth. That's what people in Orleans County, NY generally are. Friendly and caring among their own. Relatively poor, compared to many other areas. (Monroe County especially.) Mostly agrarian, with the...

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014332,00.html Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk for cirrhosis and several types of cancer (particularly cancers in the mouth and esophagus), heavy drinkers are less likely...

In these difficult economic times, we're all looking to get a little extra money coming in. Those of us who are lucky enough to have a job still want to be making the most of it. We want to be sure our bosses know that we are good, valuable...

This is sparked by the recent news of the McMinnville High School Football team's experience with rhabdomyolysis in the wake of an intense pre-season workout/training camp. In short, 24 members of the team had to seek emergency medical attention...