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Rafael Nadal left a lasting impression on the clay at Roland Garros. Using his typical master strokes, the Spaniard dismantled top-seeded Roger Federer 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to claim his third straight French Open title. Nadal leads 8-4 in the head-to-head battle with the Swiss star.

With a 4-inch gap in the space shuttle Atlantis' heat-protecting blanket not appearing to be an urgent problem, the crew readied itself yesterday for what NASA called a delicate ballet with the International Space Station.

Most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles. One possible explanation for this is that it may be easier for people to get along if they don't always know what others are really feeling.

"What follows is a basic curriculum in life that a child should know before reaching adulthood. There will probably be other skills you can add to this list, but at least it’s a starting point."

This year iPhone Alley has something special in store for you all. We will be streaming audio from this year's WWDC keynote for all of you. The keynote will begin at 10AM Pacific, 12PM Central on Monday the 11th. The audio stream will start very shortly before the keynote does, so sit tight in the meantime. Enjoy the show!

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch smoking ban will come into force in July next year for all restaurants and cafes -- including coffee shops where cannabis is the top attraction, the government decided on Friday.

"I think we have to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq," he said. "To me that would include a strike into, over the border into Iran where we have good evidence that they have a base at which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our soldiers"

Intel introduced the "Donley" UMPC concept at Computex 2007, Taipei. It comes in a 5 inches form-factor, features 5" LCD display, Bluetooth, WiFi, integrated GPS, wireless WAN, rotary display (landscape and portrait formats), QWERTY keyboard, touch screen with stylus and runs on Windows Vista. Detailed hardware specs are not revealed yet. See pic

How'd the iPhone do? 157K/second (1262 kbps) to download a 1024 kilobyte file. The iPhone gave up an apple.com domain address, so it was apparently on Apple's local Wifi network, rather than AT&T's cellular network.

Born minutes apart and with almost identical looks, there seems little to set Lauren and Hannah Bernaba apart from any other pair of newborn twins. But the girls are the world's first twins to be born on the same day to two different women.

When you think of social networks you probably think of MySpace. But recently, Facebook has been gaining popularity - since it opened up beyond college users, it has enjoyed a flood of new users, boosted further by the launch of Facebook apps. It’s time these two social networks fought it out.

"Ocean's 13" bumps “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” out of first place.

The aim of the game is to fall down the stairs! WOOO!

A GOP Congressman noted that just recently 'several former Members of Congress who were already convicted and sent to jail, cashed in their taxpayer-funded retirement checks. After indictment and conviction, they are still paid each month by the very taxpayers they betrayed. that's right. You and I are paying the pensions of criminals.'

How can you promote equality without killing off the genie of American prosperity? Is it impossible to help raise up the poor without having a mixed economy?Could libertarians method of ignoring them and hoping the poor will go away work?

In every mammalian species, immediately upon reaching puberty, animals function as adults, often having offspring. We call our offspring "children" well past puberty. The trend started a hundred years ago and now extends childhood well into the 20s. The age at which Americans reach adulthood is increasingâ€"30 is the new 20.

Polish Formula 1 BMW driver - Robert Kubica crashes during GP race in Montreal Canada.Kubica’s (read: qu-bi-tza) car went wide & was launched into the air, then crashed into the barrier & rolled couple of times … we’re happy to report that Robert is stable condition & was able to speak with his BMW Sauber manager.

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

There are a ton of free cheatsheets, quick references, and downloadable resources for programming languages and related technologies online -- in this post I've tried to organize and list some of the best for web development.

Lewis Hamilton wins the Canadian Grand Prix, taking his maiden victory in only his sixth race. Amazing race!

A complete list of the top 25 most popular blogs ranked by a combination of Inbound Links (Yahoo Site Explorer), RSS Subscribers (Feedburner), Alexa Rank and Compete and Quantcast traffic data. The data gives you a real insight into these blogs success which will allow you to judge the relative success of your own blog.

I placed a comment with a link to CSSeasy.com in another story and you're all digging it up so I thought it would be good to write a story about this simple site for people who want to start a css-driven website quick or for those people who want to start learning CSS by trial and error.

Tata motors, the Indian company which is bringing us the air car in partnership with the French MDI, spent three years conducting all sorts of tests on it before signing an agreement. The sales manager of MDI recounts how they ran out of money in 2003 until it was saved by the 5.5 billion Tata group who first came to check if the car real!

M-rated games coming to the Wii are expected to be criticized and contested. Manhunt 2, in particular, is receiving much word from anti-game lawyers. In an interview by Fox News, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum talked about the game's Wii version requiring players to slash and stab using the Wiimote.

As tuition has soared past the limits on federal aid, more students are relying on barely regulated private loans.

Why can't I stop smiling?

Mitt Romney 1042 (80.46%) | Ron Paul 70 (5.41%) | Rudy Giuliani 57 (4.40%) | John McCain 54 (4.17%) The only reason Romney is ahead, is because Utah is Mormon country.

Time Warner today implemented a network management tool to improve the operation of the network for all subscribers. As a result, a small minority of users may experience slower speeds during peak hours when using certain applications that consume lots of bandwidth. You can address this situation by reducing your use of bandwidth-intensive ...

Maybe you should cross the finish line before you start the celebration...

This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Gen. Colin Powell strongly condemned the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, calling it “a major problem for America’s perception” and charging, “if it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo â€" not tomorrow, this afternoon.”

"I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently!Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!" -Poster in a 2001 MacRumors thread.

What we have here are the opening screens to every single Famicom game ever made in Japan. 1252 of them in chronological order from 1981 to 1994. It’s interesting to see how little the basic template changed over the years.

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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies

Rumors of another sequel to “Re-Animator” and even an entire new trilogy have been buzzing around for quite some time now. First Stuart Gordon said he had cast William H. Macy as the dead president that Dr. Herbert West is brought in to resurrect.

This is completely hilarious. I have never listened to something so satisfying. Listen to this kid cry over World of Warcraft because his parents are telling him to get off but he doesn't want to. He CRIES and yells back at them yet his parents are still speaking so softly and kindly with him. I would never get away with this sort of backtalk.

The Full Page Test loads a given HTML page, including images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes. In this way, the Pingdom tool mimics the way a page is loaded in your browser.

Bill Gates wrote, “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.” Mr. Gates worried that “some large company will patent some obvious thing” and use the patent to “take as much of our profits as they want.”

Scans of all the maps that were included in the original editions of Jules Verne’s novels.

Fatima had been a brilliant student and she thought her marriage to Shaikh Salary, her husband, would mean an end to her dreams of becoming an engineer. Her husband is illiterate, earning his money as a street food hawker. He makes about two dollars a day.