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Police brutality backfires, cops attack man on soccer field and disgusted fans (and even a soccer player) retaliate

Ummmm ... This doesn't look good.

The White House scored a win Thursday on Capitol Hill after a moderate Senate Democrat broke with his party to restore funding for Vice President Dick Cheney’s office.

"This is a set of free foliage vectors I made in Illustrator. They are available in AI, EPS and SVG formats, so hopefully they will be useful to a good many of you. Add them to your toolbox and show us what you make (if you want) at the Bittbox user showcase on Flickr. I hope you like them, enjoy."

The recipe is 6 to 4 - 60% cardboard, 40% fatty meat

Konami has let out some more info and screens on the upcoming Silent Hill V, after the skimpy teaser trailer they showed at E3.

I'll take two.

So, you want to learn the Python programming language but can't find a concise and yet full-featured tutorial. This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes.

The infamous anti-piracy organization Media Defender recently bought the P2P.net domain. Currently P2Pnet redirects to Google and at this point it is still unclear what their plans are for the domain. However, it is likely that they will use it for one of their pirate traps such as the fake video download service Miivi or..

Bush is the first president to go into billion dollar spending for his executive offices... I'm not exactly sure what sort of staplers cost x10 what previous presidents used... but It better have frickin lasers on it. (Historical Spending Chart)

In Houston, $225,000 will buy a three-bedroom house with a game room, den, in-ground pool and hot tub. In Manhattan, it will buy a parking space. No windows, no view. No walls. Spaces are in such demand that there are waiting lists of buyers. Eight people are hoping for the chance to buy one of five private parking spaces for $225,000.

AP breaks the news that "the relatively quick-and-easy answer to foreign oil dependence and automotive greenhouse gas emissions is circling the grounds every day at Orlando

Bizarre searches include: My English teacher lost my essay, my husband wears my clothes, cow seeds, husband doesn’t shower or wear deodorant...

Web sales pitches are getting better, thanks to new programs designed to sell you stuff you didn't even know you wanted, reports Business 2.0 Magazine.

If you didn't know this before, shame on you. If you suspected it to be true, here is why Christian Bale is a total, utter, and complete badass.

If we get hit again, it is going to be the fault of George Bush and everyone who continued to support this wasteful war while ignoring the Al Qaeda threat at home and abroad.

You know, we could understand a few months of Wii shortages, and perhaps we'd let Nintendo slip by the seven month mark with a mild slap on the wrist, but this recent announcement of shortages through the 2007 holidays is just plain annoying. "There is no guarantee that we are not going to have 'out-of-stocks' this holiday season,"..

The pictures include one showing what Polumbo said was her boyfriend apparently biting her breast through her shirt, another of Polumbo in a limousine wearing jeans with her legs spread in the air, and another of her in what appears to be a Halloween costume dress holding two small pumpkins up to her breasts.

The 10-time All-Star takes over. Too bad they didn't make him the Outfield coach to teach Mets players how to do his famous snap-catch.

Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona’s testimony has once again highlighted the extent to which the Bush administration suppresses and manipulates science to fit their narrow ideological view.

SFW, even cute..

The chief executive of Whole Foods Market posted messages on a Yahoo chat forum under an alias for years, talking up his own company while predicting a bleak future for Wild Oats Markets, the rival it has since sought to acquire. Company CEO John Mackey posted messages on a Yahoo financial forum under the user name "rahodeb."

The partnership allows people using the imeem community site to create and share play lists, video channels, photo slideshows, and blogs.

University of Colorado police are investigating a series of threatening messages and documents e-mailed to and slipped under the door of evolutionary biology labs on the Boulder campus.

All the development going on with the free Nouveau has paid off. Today the free driver has outperformed the existing nv driver by 64%. The GtkPerf benchmark was used.

Sony has played some very strong cards from their hand this week, announcing new titles yesterday and and a price cut for their flagship console on Monday, but as Sony shaves off $100 from the PlayStation 3's price, Microsoft shrugs its shoulders and calmly goes about their business... or so they say.

Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.

Carey has a hot new Ted Stevens bon mot, gleaned from his liveblogging of the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability, almost in the same echelon as his "series of tubes" comment:

Competition is fierce, and eateries work every angle to capture your dining dollars. Here are some angles for you to work.

This ancient and intriguing book is known as the Voynich Manuscript. The textual content of this mysterious illustrated book is unknown because it is written in an unknown alphabet and unintelligible language, and despite the efforts of expert cryptographers over many decades, not a single word has been deciphered

Title says it all.

In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network.

"Yeah. I mean, you left out a bunch of things â€" spying on citizens without a warrant, going around FISA, on and on. Look, I have always said it should be on the table."

Via Citizens for Legitimate Government: The phone number for GOP political operative/conservative pundit, John (Jack) M. Burkman Jr. - Principal J.M. Burkman & Associates, Arlington, VA - appears in the database of phone records of the ‘DC Madam.’

MIT researchers are designing a "Digital Water Pavillion" for next year's Expo Zaragoza in Spain. The walls of the structure are sheets of water sprayed from suspended pipes. Software-controlled valves enable the valves to be opened and closed with high accuracy to create gaps at very specific locations, forming something like liquid pixels.

Mea culpa. Dell confesses it made a mistake with its pricing and is now offering the Inspiron 1420 laptop with Ubuntu and a full 2 gigabytes of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive for $50 less than the same system with Windows Vista and not $225 more as had been the case last week.

The team presented a proof-of-concept program for Unix-based systemsâ€"although it could theoretically be adopted for any modern multitasking operating systemâ€"that allows a specified task to "cheat" and take more CPU cycles than the OS would normally allow it to have.

Why Apple should include many of the non-phone features in the next gen iPod.

Francisco Rodriguez owes more than $10,000 in back child support payments in a paternity case involving a 15-year-old girl who, according to DNA results and the girl's mother, is not his daughter. Huh??