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“Candidates, no matter how important or influential they perceive themselves to be, do not have and should not have the power to determine who is allowed to speak to the American public and who is not,” Kucinich said in a statement released by his campaign.

“The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq,” he said, “were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, and that’s why what happens in Iraq matters to the security here at home.”

Inconceivable!

You got too used to Yahoo and MSN smilies and want them back in Pidgin? Well, it is as easy as dragging and dropping a file

The One laptop Per Child Project and Intel have put their differences aside, at least for now, as Intel agrees to take a seat on the OLPC Board of Directors. The new "peace" between Intel and OLPC will also involve the project receiving some funding from Intel, and according to a statement, "Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving ...

Easy and fast tutorial to create an absolutely gorgeous icon for your website/web 2.0 app.

The comments were typical of banter on Internet message boards for stocks, but the writer's identity was anything but. Rahodeb was an online pseudonym of John Mackey, co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc. Earlier this year, his company agreed to buy Wild Oats for $565 million, or $18.50 a share.

Dave Karraker of Sony Computer Entertainment of America has contacted Joystiq to give us claification on the story that would have made us believe Sony had truly lost it's mind once and for all. The fun never ends, does it?

Democrats John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton consider themselves among the top presidential candidates. They were caught by Fox News microphones discussing their desire to limit future joint appearances to exclude some lower rivals after a forum in Detroit Thursday.

Next time you call up Google, you could encounter the consumer watchdog's logo and a sternly worded Federal Court order telling you the internet giant has broken the law. They want Google to display a website notice, saying it has breached the Trade Practices Act, and to implement a compliance program, likely to cost millions of dollars worldwide

In this article I will describe a very useful program: GNU Screen. Usually this program is used by people who have a shell account on a Unix server. But it can be also helpful to people who haven’t yet started to use a terminal or even Linux/Unix at all.

The money is from a mother and her two sons who are regular customers, but don't want to be named.

One of the world's largest optical telescopes is set to peer into space for the first time. Installed on a 2,400m-high (7,900ft) peak on the Canary Island of La Palma, the huge telescope consists of a mirror measuring 10.4m (34.1ft) in diameter.

One of the biggest complaints about the Gran Turismo series may be corrected when a mini version of the next game, called Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, hits store shelves later this year. The game will include Ferraris for the first time in its history.

If I tried, I couldn’t make up a story like this. First, there was the problem, then, there was the solution, and now comes the comedy. I hope you’re wearing your laughing pants.

Due to a regression in the PSD loader that was introduced with the 2.2.16 release, we had to roll out another release in the stable 2.2 series. The source code for version 2.2.17 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is available from ftp.gimp.org.

Before the graphics, there was the word, and everyone knows words have power. Except in gaming, where graphics have all the power. Nowadays, it seems that if your game hasn’t either licensed the latest graphics engine or created one from the ground up, then it had better have some damned good features to make up for it. Things were not always so.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) revealed on Friday afternoon that the White House and Pentagon were holding up a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigation into the friendly fire death of former professional football player and Army Corporal Patrick Tillman.

In an interview with Major Nelson/Larry Hryb that was just posted on Xbox.com, Microsoft Vice President of Global Marketing, Jeff Bell, was being interviewed about his thoughts on the Xbox 360. It’s a great interview, and right at the end of it, he is talking about how co-op with his son was the reason he loved Halo and Halo 2, he then says...

Fewer high school students are having sex these days, and more are using condoms. The teen birth rate has hit a record low.

Title says it all...

Current Defense Secretary Robert Gates has scrapped an institution established by his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld to rapidly counter messages in the press that the Pentagon considered negative, according to a report in Friday's Washington Times.

What's new in this release: - A number of gdiplus functions. - More complete pdh.dll implementation. - Support for MSI remote calls. - Messaging support in crypt32.dll. - Lots of bug fixes.

Science generally pushes forward with all the alacrity of tectonic plates, painstakingly testing and disproving theories until new laws emerge. But sometimes, very rarely, science really does take a great leap forward. Here are the seven most exciting and important moments in the entire history of science.

Can fans own a sports team? This is an interview with William Brooks. He is 36 years old, a passionate Fulham fan and started MyFootballClub. The project is about finding 50,000 people interested in running a soccer club. "The irony is, if the fans decide who plays and who is bought, the coach can blame failure on the fans!"

"A growing number of studies confirm that just by eating slower, you’ll consume fewer calories â€" in fact, enough to lose 20 pounds a year without doing anything different or eating anything different."

Following these simple instructions, you can now add your own custom ringtones to your iPhone. (Mac only, for the time being ...)

You ain't lyin' Michael. As Michael says, the country is "befuddled". Angry too; disillusioned, sick of the power-hungriness.

The image Rudy Giuliani would like voters to have is of Giuliani vs. the terrorists, but ... for tonight anyway the story is Giuliani vs. the firefighters."

When it comes to online backup of your data, there’s probably more options than in any other web 2.0 space. However, many of these don’t work as advertised. I’ve gone through this mess and chosen 5 simple online backup services that just work.

Sony explains the truth behind the 60GB PS3 price cut-- they're not making 'em anymore.

The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open sta

"A computer running Linux can outperform the same computer running Windows XP or Vista. Even so, you may be able to make your Linux system even faster. Here are three optimizations, at different levels, that can make your Linux system perform better."

You may remember a video that we showed on Autoblog where someone poked a hole in a tennis ball, lined up the hole in the ball with the key-hole of a car, pressed really hard, and the door unlocked. After reading your comments from that post, we decided that it was definitely worth testing...

While Republicans abandon him at home, the rest of the world is preparing for the era beyond Bush. What the next president should do to repair the breach between Washington and the world.

On the unluckiest day of the year, celebrate the killer who made us love Friday the 13th.

As I awoke this morning, put on my clothes, and walked out to the subway it struck me that I would make a terrible female. If twenty three years and nine months ago a XX sperm hadn’t been boxed out by the winning XY squad then I would be Meghan and be living a completely different life no doubt.

Watch where different riders are at the very moment. Both the actual stage and the exact positions are displayed on a interactive map. Heart beat, speed, distance, cadence, altitude, power and current position are tracked. They also have profiles of all stages and a sweet little TdF blog Twitter ticker. Be sure to check it right on time! AWESOME!

The biggest changes were full Vista support and the removal of the 65,536 piece limit for torrents.Also added was support for finding local peers (peers on the same LAN) and optionally not having any upload restrictions for them.It is also possible to turn on automatic updating for betas now, found in the "Other" section of the preferences.

In a recent patent application by Microsoft, the company proposes paying Zune users a percentage of revenue from sales generated through tracks they've shared. Currently, shared tracks expire after three plays, after which users are offered the chance to make a purchase via Zune Marketplace.