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A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories: proof that you don't need a lot of money to make a go of it, but you do have to be smart about how you invest your energy.

More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.

Justin Verlander pitched the first no-hitter in Comerica Park history, mixing 99 mph heat with crazy curveballs to lead the Detroit Tigers over the Milwaukee Brewers 4-0 on Tuesday night.

Why wait for a movie adaptation? Here are five novels that deserve the video game treatment.

At the time, the Soviet news agency TASS called Reagan's visit to the Wall "openly provocative, war-mongering." But listen closely to a recording of it today: the speech sounds as much like an invitation as it does a challenge. In the speech, Reagan would call on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, but that language was opposed strongly

Mr. Wizard, the man who taught science to millions of geeks when we were kids, died today of cancer.

AMERICAN Alexis Thompson became the youngest player to qualify for the US Women's Open when the 12-year-old earned a spot in a sectional qualifier today.

These days it's pretty easy to put together your own Windows PC, but which parts should you get for the most performance for your money? This article tells you.

More details included in the link but here are some of the details thus far:- New slimmer PSP is indeed in the works. Hardware is essentially the same, and will NOT have any big speed increases.- There’s no longer a UMD Tray, but a slot loader instead. Design is supposed to have an even “cleaner” look, much like the DS Lite.

The [API-Based] Digg Noise Filter lets you filter through the last 500 stories based on minimum # of Diggs so that you can catch the hot stories before they hit the front page. Easily find those stories that are already getting a digg-a-minute or faster!

The Internet auction giant eBay has announced that it is opening up the programming interfaces for eBay, PayPal, and Skype to third-party developers. The company also demonstrated a rich client bidding application. No word yet on whether or not it will make bid sniping easier.

"In this post, I provide an overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched."

Steam is constantly growing, and has now reached its first Japanese publisher. Capcom will be the first from the land of the rising sun to deliver content via Valve's online service.

A web-based shopping list app optimized for the iPhone.

it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.”

From the emergence of Tiger Woods to the end of the Jordan era, from steroids in baseball to subterfuge in skating, USA TODAY has chronicled the biggest stories and scandals in the sports world over the last 25 years. A look back at some of the headline stars and most controversial issues dominating the sports pages in the last quarter century...

Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he's developing a third series with a working title Stargate Universe, but remained mum on details. (The project has not yet been picked up by any network, including SCI FI Channel.)

Apparently the torment suffered by every kid at the hands of schoolyard bullies doesn't end on the playground. Or in childhood. It seems 46% of grown men point to the wedgie as their "most uncomfortable underwear situation." Though not the Atomic variety administered by drunken members of the JV football team, this self-inflicted wedgie

Physicists are constructing materials that bend light the “wrong” way, an optical trick that could lead to sharper-than-ever lenses or even make objects disappear.

has been taking a lot of heat in the past few days over its privacy policies. Today the search giant decreased the amount of time that it ties users search records to their IP to 18 months in response to a letter from the Working Party, a group of national officials that advises the European Union on privacy policy. From the Official Google Blog

"This table ranks the 47 largest hub and nonhub airports according to a combination of on-time performance and average load factor. The airports with the highest Airport Misery Index have the worst combination of late and crowded flights." Damn, NY metro has 2 in the top 5!

National Lampoon's 72 Virgins. Two idiot college students unwittingly join an Al Qaeda cell in order to get the 72 virgins promised to terrorists when they die. What do you think, should they release this movie? Vote now at NationalLampoons.com

Gmail users who get Microsoft PowerPoint attachments in their in-boxes can now view them without having PowerPoint installed on their machines. Google appears to have flipped the switch to allow this feature as of last night. We originally reported on this last month, although at that time it appeared that only a handful of accounts had access. Thi

In lieu of an iPhone SDK, we can emulate the interface with JavaScript... this is my one-night proof of concept. If its popular, I'll develop the interface into a class or template. It works best in Safari, of course. Source code is available for download.

"The CSS Zengarden is a great project and helped the web standards cause. Today I’m going to be taking a look back over the hundreds of submissions and choose some of my favorites."

Rockstar Games sent out an e-mail teasing the second Grand Theft Auto IV trailer with the words "Looking for that special someone" at the top. Below the words "Coming June 28th, 2007" was an image, which leads to the future page of trailer 2.

While the Leopard improvements to come in October do indeed look cool, OS X still lacks functionality provided by third party applications. oday's special Leopard top 10 lists software applications we wish Apple would buy, build or bundle to improve Mac OS X even more.

Taking parts from over one dozen cars ranging from 80's BMW's to a 1990 Toyota Tercel, Jalopnik has a two-part series on how they created a fully-functional boombox with an 8-track player, FM, AM, aux-in, retractable bunny-ear antenna, a cup holder, plug-in battery and yes, even brake lights. They've even got instructions for how you can do it too!

A "near-zero" carbon emission-certified home is the first eco-friendly family home to be mass-produced in Britain. With many green features, this home is designed to cut energy bills by 80%, it has solar panels and wind turbines on its roof, and an efficient insulation envelope. See a detailed photo of the house!

While hugging and grasping at the adulating crowds in Albania, our feeble minded President gets ripped off. Keep your eyes on the watch, and see if you can figure out who takes it.

Gionee is launching a handset specifically targeted toward purveyors of NES roms. The phone is a pretty ordinary slider, except for the NES-style B/A buttons.

With the number of people living on earth growing exponential (6 billion in the last 100 years), there's no room for cities to expand on the ground, especially in the big overcrowded areas, and that's why architects are planning many ways of expanding through the air. So here's how the top 10 highest structures top will look by 2010

Good way to get inspired to go to the beach...

Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we’ve also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. To install and use the script, it’s often enough to include the JavaScript library in the source code and provide the hint as plain text within the “title”-attribute. Sometimes you can also insert URLs, images, tables...

Yes, yes it is.

Deep sea thingies

The technology, developed by engineers at YouTube-owner Google Inc., will help content owners such as movie and TV studios identify videos uploaded to the site without the copyright owner's permission. The so-called video fingerprinting tools will be available for testing in about a month, a YouTube executive said.

Fears the U.S. government will try to confiscate it after part of it was filmed during an unauthorized trip to Cuba.

There it is, right on the table!

Children should be allowed to play dangerous games and risk minor injuries as part of a wider lesson in life, the organisation responsible for avoiding accidents has said. By scraping knees, grazing elbows and getting bruises, children learn “valuable lifelong lessons” that will help them to avoid more serious injuries in later life.