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The disgraced criminal defense attorney facing prison for leaking grand jury testimony in the BALCO steroids investigation blamed alcohol, drugs and depression for his downfall, according to court documents filed by prosecutors Wednesday.

Finland is attracting species better-acquainted with warmer climes, including a moth (Calyptra thalictri) that binges on human blood. The bloodsucker is the first moth species in the world with the proven ability to fill its stomach with human blood; a puncture by a vampire moth can cause your skin to swell, turn reddish, and ache for several hours

… The Origins of the Illustrious Judge Dredd! I will forewarn you now and say that this is NOT a spoiler. Moreover, an opinion on what is potentially the story that fans have been waiting a long while for.

"From a journalistic point of view, news junkies should feel reassured by the success of ABC's less-is-more style. There has been too much clamor over "fake-news" shows like "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," and the trend favoring in-your-face hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and Keith Olbermann."

This is really cool â€" astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and Hubble have discovered the most massive star ever found… and it’s a bruiser, weighing in at 114 times the mass of the Sun. This blows away the previously most massive known star, which had a mere 83 solar masses. Cripes. That’s a whopping huge star!

Take the test -- You may be surprised.

I feel that if you sit under this table and rub your legs against this the wrong way, you're going to get stabbed.

It's a little scary to think of how games may have developed if this product had been successful. Instead of the 3D boom, would we all be playing FMV games now? Or 2D platformers with really good music?

Those are some pretty good reasons. This is looking to be a damn good movie.

Imagine this: You take a drug test. Six months later, the lab gets back to you and says that your urine contains trace amounts of a club and date rape drug even though you prefer to spend weekends with your Xbox.

Puts the nuts and bolts of the most popular video codecs under the microscope; then pits the codecs against eachother.

"Cable subscribers will soon have the option of buying their own TV set-top box rather than renting one. That new freedom may soon trigger an old question: Is it better to own or rent?" When I got DirecTV the only way I could get an HD box with DVR (which sucks BTW) was to buy it....

Along side the "Worlds Fastest Talking Female", "The Numa Numa Guy", "The Red Paperclip Guy", and other Internet Stars, MyBowlAd is seemingly signing up everyone to act in their ad not scheduled to air for Months...

In a dramatic case of microbial sleuthing, US scientists said they have discovered a new, potentially deadly strain of bacteria previously unknown to medicine.

The ESRB's online database reveals that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is destined for not only the Wii's Virtual Console service -- no big surprise there -- but the Xbox 360 as well.

It may be perfectly normal for a parent to give a child a piggyback ride, but for Lindsay Lohan and her mother that practice is inverted -- the child is doing the heavy lifting while the mother appears happy to go along for the ride.

Creative advertising put dripping paint on the walls of buildings. But wait, are the cars below it part of the ad?

WTF! This has got to be the weirdest story ever. The wheel chair of a 21-year-old man became lodged in the grill of a semi truck as the vehicle pulled out of a gas station. The semi then began driving down Red Arrow Highway, with its new and unusual hood ornament still attached. Speeds of 50 mph were reached, picture included.

"The result looks and feels like paper but has electronic, interactive features," says Gulliksson. Changing a display is as simple as removing the two outer paper layers, and adding new ones that also connect to the power supply and electronics." You can even add printed speakers, too cool.

"If money could buy happiness, how much would it take to bring it back after the death of a partner, child or spouse? Most of us would be loathe to assign such a value, if not offended by the question, but two economists have attached such dollar values to deaths by comparing the way that lost loved ones lower scores on happiness surveys.."

This little kid will kick your butt in Halo 2.

The Walt Disney Studios has entered into an exclusive multi-year first look deal with "Spider-Man" creator and producer Stan Lee and his production company POW! Entertainment, it was announced by Dick Cook, chairman, The Walt Disney Studios.

By releasing a development platform, Facebook's enabled developers to create some amazing applications riding off their social network. It's not too hard to get an application of your own up and running, but it's nice to have some help, as the documentation's not complete. Here are a few tips to help you get started!

The adult industry has grown alongside the Internet for so many years, it may come as a surprise that it has suddenly hit a wall... at the whim of the Internet itself. Now, the industry is fighting to maintain growth.

•"It does have email and it is already setup for AOL/GMAIL/HOTMAIL etc.. and you can use your own POP email address." more..

Looks like the Orlando Magic have gotten over Billy Donovan pretty quickly.

The pics caption tells it all

Ten years in prison for receiving oral sex. That is Genarlow Wilson’s sentence. When he was 17 years old and a high school senior, he received consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old, 10th-grade girl. Everyone agreed, including the prosecutor and the girl herself, that she initiated the act. And yet....

Interesting but at the same time so simple. It seams like we are just helping the earth to help us which isn't bad. Anyways check it out hella cool

Jake von Slatt creates a Steampunk Monitor to go with his shiny brass keyboard.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Giving away one more car to an ecstatic contestant, TV host Bob Barker taped his last round of "The Price Is Right" on Wednesday, ending 35 years as host of America's longest-running game show and five decades on network television. "I thank you for inviting me into your homes for more than 50 years," Barker said.

Scientists working in Germany and the US say they have found a "fidget" molecule and if you have it in your genes you are less likely to be fat. Fidgeters of the world say, "well, duh, all that moving around is good exercise".

A London 2012 Olympic logo created by BBC website reader Richard Voysey has been chosen as readers' favourite in an online poll. Over 22,000 votes were cast on a shortlist of six readers' designs The BBC has received over 600 alternative logos and more than 10,000 messages about the controversial new Olympic logo, which was unveiled on Monday.

“Joost is a piece of software and it can reside on a variety of platforms… It could be on a television set-top box. Or potentially it could be imbedded in a TV set with an Ethernet connection, or on a mobile phone, or in some alternative device that might come out in the future. The flexibility is really high.”

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached a new record of $4.9 billion for the first quarter of 2007. The 2007 first quarter revenues represent a 26 percent increase over Q1 2006 at $3.8 billion and a 2 percent increase over Q4 2006 at $4.8 billion.

"On Stephens Island in New Zealand's storm-wracked Cook Strait, the tuataraâ€"one of the most ancient reptile species on Earthâ€"is getting a hand from distinctly 21st-century science. Researchers have placed in the wild a very special male that, like its wild cousins, can put on physical displays to establish its dominance."

When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately. Then he remembered his new Wii. "The variant in this patient can be labelled more specifically as 'Wiiitis,'" Bonis, a family practice physician,

Wil continues his visit to the Star Trek TNG set: "...I shook hands with everyone and said goodbye. When I got out of the stage, and walked past the Hart building I stopped and looked at Gene's old office window one last time. Though I'd said goodbye to Gene at his funeral in 1991, I said goodbye to him again â€" and to so many other things"

A Cairo-based reporter writes about her frequent trips to Saudi Arabia: "I spent my days in Saudi Arabia struggling unhappily between a lifetime of being taught to respect foreign cultures and the realization that this culture judged me a lesser being."

Three days total. You or I would be rotting right now.