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A lawyer recently threatened a blogger who merely linked to a post on DLS about the RIAA's coercive and unfairly litigious approach to copyright infringement. Grant Robertson, lead blogger for Download Squad, responds to this lawyer in an open letter that is elegant, to-the-point, and-- dare I say?-- dead-nuts accurate. GREAT read!

In this interview, Orson Scott Card reveals a progress update for the upcoming "Ender's Game" film. He also discusses brand-new information regarding plans for video games based on the beloved "Ender's Saga" series of novels, and his thoughts on a variety of other topics.

Watch out Microsoft and Nintendo. Sir Howard says that Sony is in deep contemplation on a price cut. Our crystal ball sees a $100 cut in time for Christmas, based on industry events and Stringer's comments.

Earlier this week, a Daycare Center in Buffalo was closed because six children at a local daycare center were given heroin by another student who thought it was candy. Teachers quickly learned the child was actually doling out heroin and called police immediately.

Olive oil also has plenty of uses around your home, outside of the sauté pan. There’s no need to waste your expensive Greek or Spanish Extra Virgin for these tasks, just grab a bottle of inexpensive, domestic olive oil for around-the-house use and start using it to shave, lubricate, and stop snoring.

Big Shot Bob!

Twenty common birds -- including the northern bobwhite, the field sparrow and the boreal chickadee -- have lost more than half their populations in the past 40 years, according to the Audobon's society's research. "The focus isn't really on what's happening to these 20 birds, but what's happening to their environment," said Greg Butcher, the societ

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Grant Collier and the team over at Infinity Ward are hard at work on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. At one point along the way they were contacted by Microsoft, who attempted to spur the inclusion of LIVE Anywhere support in the multi-platform title. Infinity Ward "actively rejected" this offer. Grant Collier tells the story:

The Bush administration on Thursday blasted a congressional proposal that would shield a broad swath of news gatherers, including some bloggers, from revealing their confidential sources.

When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favorite fishing haunt without adult supervision. Fast forward to 2007 and Mr Thomas's eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom.

DIGG, DIGG, DIGG. It's a circular world we are living in and what better way to show it off than with a Digg button that shows the Digg count of the Digg story you Digg on a giant Digg button display in the Digg offices by the cousin of Digg (Revision3's Systm) at diggthediggbutton.com.

An article about the most interesting prisons on earth - smallest, most valuable, strangest, most secure etc - with photos, videos, links.

No matter how meek they might appear, most people are endowed with the same self-confidence, new research reveals. For some, however, that confidence is buried deep inside. “A given person with high implicit [or inner] self-esteem may be outwardly self-promoting or may be outwardly very modest,” said study team member Anthony Greenwald

You’re feeling lazy right now, and reading blogs instead of doing what you’re supposed to be doing. That’s OK â€" we all do that. But let’s look at how to make that laziness work for us, and how to turn lazy into productive.

This is release 0.9.39 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new in this release: Many MSHTML improvements. Several improvements to the sound support. A number of Winsock fixes. Several new supported constructs in the IDL compiler. Many Direct3D threading fixes. Lots of bug fixes.

See title.

Another hilarious take: Stewart catches Tony Snow telling yet another series of lies about fired US attorneys. "Don't they know we're all recording this stuff?" he asked incredulously, before announcing a new segment on candidate websites, http.//.indecision.2008.net/clusterf@#k.html.

"Die Hard" was named the best action film ever by Entertainment Weekly magazine -- two weeks before the series' fourth installment, "Live Free or Die Hard," hits theaters. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was No. 3! Hmmmm...

An ID theft victim recognizes a woman walking down the street from the bank security camera footage of her account being stolen-and then chases her through the city for almost an hour.

Really cool.

All modern operating systems are able to run many programs at the same time. For example, a typical Linux server might include a Web server, an email server, and probably a database service. Each of these programs runs as a separate process. What do you do if one of your services stops working? Here are some handy command-line tools for managing pr

A 73-year-old man who failed his 10th grade high school exams for the 39th time vowed today to try again next year in the hopes that an education will improve his job and marriage prospects.

Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16×16px box. Designing favicons, it’s necessary to work with miniature images, and every extra pixel can be the wrong one. A good favicon is original, beautiful and - in best case - fits to the logotype and color schemes used in the web-site.

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!