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In statements made this week, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) has staked out several radical positions on abortion rights and reproductive health issues, positions that are far more conservative than even those of President Bush.

We have all seen, heard, and read no end of press that focuses on the negative aspects of video games. Personally I'm a little tired of it, especially when my own experience has been exactly the opposite. If anything, killing people online with my dad has improved our relationship.

A great 1 minute ad on the iPhone based around NYC.

Funny!

I guess this is what you have to do when your family only has a motorcycle for transportation and there is no room for a child seat..

A very good article on ways to invest money and becoming moderately wealthy.

Officials with the contractor that runs Los Alamos National Laboratory sent top-secret data regarding nuclear weapons through open e-mail networks, the latest potentially dangerous security breach to come to light at the birthplace of the atomic bomb, two congressmen said.

Wow, just, wow, I thought they couldn't top themselves with these Transformers posters so far, but they just did. Soak it up in all its glory. There are only 20 days left till this thing finally hits theaters, and boy is it going to make one hell of an impact.

BioWare’s promising new space opera Mass Effect is shaping up to be one of the years must-have exclusives for the Xbox 360. Myarcadeplanet.com talks about some of the innovative features that will cause this title to stand out.

Here's my second app for the iPhone... instant messaging. Its still a little rough, but check it out. Its server intensive, so I'm limiting sessions to 10 minutes for now. Source is available, though its a little tricky to configure.

Two New Jersey housemates got a bit of a surprise late in the night last Friday when they discovered a burglar, naked except for socks and sneakers, surfing pornography on their computer. (As shocked as they were, imagine how shocked they would have been if he had been surfing DIGG ;-)

It happens.

"Here’s a tip for those of you that stay in Marriot hotels. Marriot has installed a PPV system nationwide called “On Command”. As far as I can tell, there is a radio frequency module attached to the TV that signals some master hotel unit to order movies and add charges to your hotel bill." An interesting proof of exploit... ahhheemmmm

Pretty incredible detail of the galaxy far, far away...

A London tube driver took a train in the wrong direction through a tunnel and nearly ran head-on into another one on the same line. The driver has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.

For the true TV Junkie, DirecTV had worked out a deal with WNBC in NY that is allowing certain zip codes in LA the ability to get the east coast channel for just $6 a month. A violation of the "must carry" law? Ehhhhh. Let's go watch SNL 3 hours early!

If your clunky old Windows Mobile phone is just sitting around collecting iPhone jealousy dust, you can either scrounge together 500 leafy Sacagaweas, or you can customize your Windows Mobile phone to emulate several of the iPhone's more interesting features, like the iPhone's home screen, flick-scroll contacts, and the fancy slide-to-unlock.

NEW YORK--At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written "I NEED AN APP" in thick black marker on his name tag.

The new up-to-725 HP and $70,000-plus Shelby-upgraded GT500 "Super Snake" was caught getting ready for its first showing at the Mid-America Ford Performance and Shelby Meet in Tulsa, OK this weekend. This crimson serpent gives more HP for your buck than probably anything else on the market. The Cobra Commander helmet's extra.

Andrew Dubber, who is on faculty at the University of Central England, blogged a link to a story critical of RIAA lawsuits. Paul Birch, a British record exec wrote him an angry letter, telling him that he wasn't allowed to post that kind of thing to his personal blog, because he works for a university that is funded by the government.

NewsWeeks N'gai reports that MS's rampage of exclusives continues, with Beautiful Katamari now in the mix.

It appears that Nintendo have withrdawn the game so they can concentrate on more "mainstream" titles. The website at http://wii.nintendo.com/games_hammer.htm has also been taken down.

This document describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes that have been made to the language.

What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible are snow peaked mountains, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt. Everest stands 8.85 kilometers above sea level. Locals call it "Sagarmatha" meaning "forehead of the sky".

On LinkedIn, people don’t chat about music or what they did on Saturday night, but instead focus on opportunities and how the network can help you. And that’s a winning formula. Here are just some of the most common and productive uses of LinkedIn.

Last night, Valve representatives confirmed to Shacknews that the studio's upcoming trio of Source-powered games will ship for all announced platforms on October 9, 2007. The suite, sold at retail and through Valve's Steam download service, will consist of the shooter sequel Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the team-based multiplayer game Team Fortress

Wired News has obtained a preview copy of the new Mac OS X 10.5 operating system. We installed Leopard on our test machine (a quad-core Xeon Mac Pro), and the installation was accomplished very quickly with zero difficulty. We checked the option to keep all of our personal settings and preferences, and those were preserved when Leopard booted...

An interview with several anonymous doctors who tell of mistakes they've made and deaths that they have caused.

This is the way around a guilty conscience for file sharing.

Do you have iTunes? Do you have an iPod? I have iTunes, I don’t have an iPod, but I wanted to be able to sync my MP3 player with iTunes, regardless of what brand it was… and so iTunes Sync was born. In just a few easy steps you can synchronize any iTunes playlist with any MP3 Player. It's like iTunes Agent on Steroids!

Analyst group Screen Digest has issued a report plotting the hardware futures of the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP into the next decade. The group predicts, in their report republished at Gamasutra, that the Nintendo DS will reach sales of 112 million by 2011.

That's right -- it's the Jokermobile. The Joker has evidently chosen a hastily-painted purple 30's truck to cruise around in and it looks pretty damn cool, all things considered.

When Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., spoke at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the Googleplex, he didn't talk about Ubuntu, patents, or hardware vendor partnerships. Instead he devoted his keynote speech to the importance of collaboration in fixing bugs and getting timely patches out to Linux users.

Pity poor Pluto, the puny former planet is facing yet another indignity. Demoted from planethood a year ago into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that it isn't even the biggest one of those.

Back on April 19, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified, under oath, that he had not spoken with “witnesses” in the U.S. Attorney scandal about the events surrounding the purge because it would have been inappropriate.

Given the recent rhetoric in Republican circles about immigration policy, I found this story spectacularly amusing.

GM is moving full speed ahead with bringing hydrogen fuel cell technology to the street by moving 500 of their engineers from research and development to production engineering. The engineers and scientists will be working on integrating fuel cells into future vehicles.

Farming up the side of a skyscraper.

There are a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices in the world -- cell phones, headsets, cameras, keyboards, printers. Another 13 million of them are being sold every week. But that's chump change compared with the growth that analysts expect to see once a new version of the short-range wireless technology makes its way into products later this year

Another corporation trying to silence the watchdogs.