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The 46 pages of e-mails show that Miers and others -- including her deputy, William Kelley, and the White House political affairs director at the time, Sara M. Taylor -- were involved in spirited and sometimes angry e-mail exchanges as the secretive firings operation began to unravel in public.

ICHC junkies rejoice. Now ICHC has debuted "The Cheezburger Factory," a do-it-yourself picture builder, as part of the site's new functionality, and Download Squad talked to one of the enigmatic site owners, known only to visitors as "cheezburger," to get the inside scoop

Here for your amusement are the 13 stupidest non-Mexican TV shows.

Telling apart relatives from strangers is crucial in many animal species, helping them to share precious resources or avoid inbreeding. Now it seems that plants can perform the same trick.

The next reality show? "Thailand's first female boxing world champion was released from jail Wednesday as reward for winning the world light-flyweight title. Siriporn Thaweesuk was released on parole from the women's prison in Pathum Thani province, 20 miles north of Bangkok, 3 years before the end of her 7-year sentence..."

4 of BBC's very interesting billboards.

Apparently between A.D. 950 and 1150, dozens of children between 5 to 15 years of age were ritualistically sacrificed in an apparent offering to the Toltec rain god Tlaloc. And we that global warming was bad.

For all of the complaining that has tripped down the wire about Apple's total lack of an SDK for the iPhone, a couple of entrepreneurial developers have already created iPhone apps to try out in Safari.

WASHINGTON -- A new political group recently asked Mitt Romney to promise not to wiretap Americans without a judge's approval or to imprison US citizens without a trial as "enemy combatants." When Romney declined to sign their pledge, the group denounced him as "unfit to serve as president."

The video game industry seems to constantly be striving to inject more realism into games. It appears that the focus, however, is primarily on the visual and aural recreation of what is "real." Conceptually, realism and authenticity are all too often cast in a secondary light, playing second fiddle to the moneymakers - eye and ear candy.

The problem with dual-booting Windows is the inconvenience of having to restart your Mac entirely. The problem with virtualizing Windows is that it can be unreasonably slow for a prolonged session. Now that Boot Camp and Parallels work together, you can choose between virtualizing or booting into your Windows depending on what you have to do.

Very nice reliability features, but still quite simple and flexible. IMHO very nice.

Flickr users in Germany must now abide by a more restrictive Yahoo! terms of service (TOS) which does not permit them to view filtered content set to "moderate" or "restricted". The same is also true for Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea. [Article in German]

Yahoo is testing a new blue browser embedded search toolbar in its search engine results to challenge the Google, Ask and MSN interfaces. Screenshots included.

Only took 'em a couple of years, but Microsoft is finally taking a bit more of a proactive approach to its perennial "ring of death" problems of overheating 360s. Yeah, that means instead just doing the towel trick to get your 360 up and running again, you can send your Xbox off to Microsoft, and they'll actually improve the cooling internals

A civil liberties group suing telecom giant AT&T for allegedly installing illegal secret surveillance rooms in its internet facilities at the behest of the National Security Agency published substantial portions of long-sealed case documents Tuesday.

An incident that raised new complaints that the heiress is receiving special treatment.

You’re probably accustomed to using image-handling CSS classes (like left, right, and center) on your own site, but at this time, the associated styles will not carry over into feed readers.

Former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, the White House political director who resigned last month, have been issued subpoenas over their connections to the U.S. attorney scandal.

A brief look into SE's problem of economics vs. tradition. Should SE keep FF single-console in the name of some vague tradition? Or risk alienating part of its fanbase by making its most popular franchise multi-platform? How imortant is the divide between Japanese and Western gamers? I'm hedging my bets.

The system listens for a particular pattern of knocks speakeasy style and triggers a decidedly low-tech unlock mechanism when you enter the right knock-code -- it winds a rubber band around the lock handle.

In an astounding development that has completely failed to register any attention amongst mainstream U.S. media, China promised to escalate preparations for war in advance of a potential conflict, after President Bush shook hands with a Taiwanese government official yesterday.

A woman was vomiting blood and dying on the ER waiting room floor, nurses refuse to help. Her boyfriend calls 911, as does a bystander, asking for an ambulance to take her somewhere that will help, and get told it isn't an emergency. The woman is now dead

"Like to comment a lot? Ok, then find your last 20 comments and the replies they received. "

Unless you work in information technology, you probably don't think about how much money a web site costs to operate, but it can be expensive.

It's a survival shooter, a turret defense game, it's so generic it's unique!This bad-boy gives you 8 different games in one, with a ton of options to deliver a unique experience every time you play.

Our brother site Gizmodo just clarified their Digg policy, so we thought it was high time we do the same.

Here is some useful news you can use. Morning "big gulp" coffee drinkers are misusing the power of caffeine.

"The White House's former political director was furious at Justice Department officials for disclosing to Congress that the administration had forced out the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., to make way for a protege of Karl Rove, President Bush's political adviser, according to documents released late Tuesday."

The water was polluted with tetrachloroethylene, also known as PCE, a dry cleaning solvent that has been linked with cancer, the CDC said.

he FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.

Pretty cool to see this guy blogging. On June 28th, he's going to be worth about $100 million. Wonder if he will still blog?

All the info behind the coolest mapping application to date.

U.S. News has sifted through trends in the economy and the workplace and has identified 25 professions that will be in growing demand as baby boomers age, the Internet becomes ubiquitous, and Americans seek richer, simpler lives.

Over the past three decades black culture has grown so conflated with hip-hop culture that for most Americans under the age of 45, hip-hop culture is black culture. Except that it's not.

This is nuts. Pennsylvania wants to add 10% to all sports, concerts and theatre tickets.

So much for privacy.

Pain, Tedium, Danger, Disgust, Humiliationâ€"It's all just part of the average workday for the (often proud, more often smelly) members of our third annual honor roll of the Worst Jobs in Science.

How dare they really. I mean... I think I do well...

"Cassie Hindry was thrilled with her new bed, a gift from her father when they moved house. But five weeks of blissful sleep later she woke in the middle of the night to hear an ominous scratching sound in her room. Fearing the worst, the family called in pest exterminators who discovered her new bed was teeming with termites."