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Players have been steadily leaving WoW since the release of the expansion.

Mother stopped and harassed for no good reason.....sippy cup water...

Skitch goes invite-beta!!

Destructoid looks at the pros and cons of living life in a world with video game rules.

Last week, Jim reported on the announcement that SimCity Societies is to take a greater interest in the lives of its virtual citizens than previous installments have, and today EA went further into exactly how that's going to work.

The most notable features of interest to Linux users: Fullscreen mode works on Linux, and the entire thing has been reworked as a native GTK app that communicates with the hosting web browser using the XEmbed protocol. Hopefully, your favorite Linux web browser also holds up its end of the bargain by hosting XEmbed applications.

Dont Trust the Police in Mexico. Story of an American Traveler and the Mexican Law!

In a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting Thursday morning, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) revealed that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales once again used an interim appointment authority at the heart of the US Attorneys controversy that Congress banned in a bill sent to the President for signature on June 4.

An audit has found the agency violated rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data on domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions.

Apparently, U.S. forces have not only aligned themselves with dozens of Sunni militiamen, we’re now cooperating with sectarian militias, working outside the Iraqi security forces, that include insurgents that have attacked Americans in the past.

While the two giants fight over antitrust allegations, Steve Jobs moves forward.

Froot Loops’ days on Saturday morning television may be numbered. Susan Linn, the co-founder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said Kellogg’s decision to stop using licensed characters on sugary food was particularly significant. “Until now the industry has absolutely dug in their heels,” Ms. Linn said.

The Jesus Christ lizards are more properly known as basilisksâ€"a colorful name referring to the legendary monsters whose breath and glances were fatal to those unfortunate enough to encounter them.

Google unexpectedly canceled the party after its officials apparently determined they had gone too far.

Researchers are turning cars into nodes that 'talk' to each other, forming a new type of wireless network. As cars enter the mobile network, drivers can download multimedia - including movies, images and songs - or get real-time information about traffic.

Geeks need a break too, and from the National Computer Museum to a Star Trek bar in Vegas to Space Camp and Geek Cruises, the tech obsessed have plenty of geeky vacation options. Now if they could only learn how to relax.

First, Washington State banned indoor public smoking. Now, the City of Seattle may ban employees from making microwave popcorn. No kidding.

As we're all aware by now, Safari is now available for Windows. So the question is, is there any compelling reason you might want to switch from the venerable Firefox to Safari? To its credit, though, Safari does have several enviable features. Rather than suggesting anyone move, here's a list of it's best features and the matching FF extensions

In his latest fantasy novel Darkness of the Lightâ€"the first in a planned trilogy titled The Hidden Earthâ€"Peter David creates the Damned World, formerly Earth, where the Twelve Races, the lowest of which is the near-extinct and enslaved humans, ruthlessly vie for power using any means possible. [Hi KRose, can we get a book topic? Diggers read too!]

Could this be the first true and proper iPhone sighting in public? Like, for really reals this time? check out the link for the picture....

He claims that the film's distributor, 20th Century Fox, was behind the decision when they discovered he panned their movie on the Web site Ain't It Cool News.

'Conspiracy theorists will be disappointed,' says Microsoft. Three images embedded in the surface of Windows Vista's installation DVDs may be too small to see with the naked eye, but they're no big mystery, according to Microsoft Corp. They're part of the company's anti-piracy efforts.

After his entertaining appearance on MSNBC last week, Tommy Chong comes on “The Report” to tell Stephen how he would like to punish Paris Hilton.

Need I say more...?

If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. Here's a picture of it take over the course of a year.

A man was cited for drunken driving twice in the same day, by the same officer, and jailed after authorities said he showed up drunk for his arraignment.

Over the last 2 years I've spent a decent amount of time (and money) putting together a home media system that covers most of these topics. Hopefully this (somewhat lengthy) article can help give others in the MacTalk community an idea of how to build what I consider a pretty good stab at the ultimate home media system.

They never saw it coming. I'd love to see the picture taken a second after this one.

It's the largest tidal turbine in the world -- it will generate 1.2 megawatts.

A new mom in Palatine, IL turned her baby monitor on and, rather than her baby, she saw two men floating in space. She was viewing images of astronauts in the international space station. She also saw mission control and a map of the station's trajectory.

Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert was interviewed by Wired News in May 2007 with the assistance of his son in law. The transcript was not published till now. Herbert stresses that teachers should keep a hands on approach to teaching science and always keep the student involved.

New digital camera technology that nearly eliminates the need for flash photography.

Ron Paul explains liberty to the people.

Pretty good list. Some obvious but some really good ones like: (6) A will. And prearrange a really, really, really inexpensive funeral, too. Rule: Money is best spent on people who are alive. and (11) Stories of your screwups. In the interest of less pedestal, more human, be sure they've heard tell of your greatest misses.

Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer, in a reversal of a campaign position, said Tuesday he could support legislation legalizing the use of marijuana for certain medicinal purposes.

Users of sites like SpoofTel and SpoofCard know this (including, apparently, Paris Hilton, who was blacklisted by SpoofCard for unauthorized activity related to this kind of thing) , and will use your number to call and listen to your voice mail.

I hope the church doesn't hear about this. "Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies as a way of building up cultural ties." Holy crap, I want to be a cave man!

Since 1991, planetary scientists have floated the idea that Mars once harbored vast oceans that covered roughly one-third of the planet. Two long shore-like lips of rock in the planet's northern hemisphere were thought to be the best evidence, but experts argued that they were too "hilly" to describe the smooth edges of ancient oceans.

Linspire Inc. tomorrow will announce an agreement to license instant messaging and digital media technology from Microsoft for use in its Linspire Linux distribution. Additionally, the deal includes protection for Linspire customers against possible violations of Microsoft patents by Linux, and other cooperative measures.

Dick Pole! J.J. Putz! Spooneybarger! And 21 other equally bad and bizarre names.