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No, certainly not. And I think we need to be aware that it’s enemies. I mean, America doesn’t face just one opponent in this country, but a whole multitude, many of whom are becoming stronger, the longer the U.S. occupation here, or presence here in Iraq continues. So unfortunately, I’m afraid that Sen Lieberman has taken an excursion into fantasy

In this funny skill game you have to help Homer to bounce the police bus with the wrecking ball. Use the arrow keys to control.

In the next few days, a slew of folks will begin the dissection of what went wrong for John McCain. Was it immigration? Was it his fundraising? Was it his energy level? The role Bush played in stopping McCain's rise in 2000 is obvious and has been chronicled with great detail.

Last week, I blogged about how the Electronic Frontier Foundation had prised 1,000+ pages' worth of FBI docs loose with a Freedom of Information Act request. These docs document the FBI's abuse of power after the PATRIOT Act. Now, 1,000+ pages is a LOT of material, and EFF needs your help.

Two people are sitting in a room together: an experimenter and a subject. The experimenter gets up and closes the door, and the room becomes quieter. The subject is likely to believe that the experimenter's purpose in closing the door was to make the room quieter.

The Ubuntu project has announced the availability of daily CD builds for Gobuntu, an Ubuntu derivative that aims to provide no proprietary software or drivers. Canonical has also started releasing the source code of the web-based Launchpad project management system.

Days Before She Died In A Car Crash.

Clips from these episodes have been frontpaged on Digg before, but this is the first time that the full episodes have ever been released online. They're free to watch and download (iPod/iPhone and wmv formats) for the rest of July. Now everyone can see just what it takes for puppet speech to kill a TV station (hint: episode 5).

Gotta Love Rednecks.

The baby required reconstructive surgery and was rushed to Women and Children's Hospital in Buffalo. The dog is being held at the Niagara County SPCA for evaluation by an animal behavior specialist next week.

When a stranger asks for the time, be sure to whip out your iPhone, hold it high, and wave it around so everyone can see its impressive “clock” function. Then shout, "Anyone else need to know the time?!!! Because I…HAVE… AN iPHONE!!!"

BREAKING: Bush blocks Miers from appearing before House Judiciary Committee, contempt charges possible - After the Senate Judiciary Committee heard from former top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, the House Judiciary Committee announced that the White House has asked former Counsel Harriet Miers to not even appear before a similar hearing

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.

With generic domains appreciating at 94% per year by some estimates, it is little wonder that domaining is the new ‘hot’ industry in the internet world. But there is surprisingly little consensus as to what industry best practices are, or even what laws apply to domaining. Here are 10 laws every domain name registrant should be aware of.

A couple of high-profile PlayStation 3 titles will soon be available via the PlayStation Network.

In every part of your house, everyday items â€" from clothespins to cotton swabs â€" are simply waiting to do surprising new things.

Future releases of Linux may provide more responsive desktop performance, thanks to a new "completely fair scheduler" that is being incorporated into the mainline Linux kernel.

I never thought a kids movie would actually tackle Stalinism before I saw THIS one. 'Order of the Phoenix' marks the time when author JK Rowling and the folks at Warner Brothers stopped f*cking around with being cute and started taking it as seriously as the fans do.

Scientists report the first conclusive discovery of the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System.

Eddie Cheever's 2000 Dallara Indy Car has been converted for road use, and it's now 100% street-legal - and for sale. It sports its original paint scheme, has all the required lights, runs on pump gas, has electric start. a leather cockpit surround, and does 0-60 in 2.5 seconds. Running late for work? Who cares! You can make up the time on the way.

"The tools and services we’ve collected below aren’t validators. They format and beautify the code; some of them can remove redundant elements. Using them, you have to make sure you have a backup, so your data can always be restored.Let’s take a look at code beautifier and formatter which can save you a lot of time...."

MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. (with video)

An early version of this was used to create the iPhone version of Digg. It takes basic HTML and adds the CSS and Javascript needed to make your web app feel like a native iPhone app. Thanks Joe!

A born romantic.

There were some problems with sound in the latest OS X update that have been addressed, but a lot of people are having problems with their Wi-Fi crapping out randomly.

"We got to check out Sony's new PSP, and what can we say? It's certainly a bit thinner and lighter, but it's not really blowing our minds without any significant hardware changes. Still, we want one. Go figure."

Here are some comparison shots of the Killzone 2 trailer showed back at E3 2005 with the new trailer shown at Sony's press conference.

92% of Americans want to know which country their food comes from

Give people an API and they start inventing crazy stuff all of a sudden. Case in point: Flickr. There are so many ways to browse through Flickr photos that it's hard to keep track; since there aren't many that are actually useful, we've chosen another route and brought you 11 very, very weird ones.

It seems that the Japanese people are tired of television and would rather be playing their Nintendo Wii game systems. Ratings for once popular shows are now hurting, and television execs are left scratching their heads.

Mario in a bee outfit! Flying around as a ghost! Hanging onto a Thwomp! New Super Mario Galaxy trailer and screenshots from Nintendo's E3 press conference this afternoon.

Finally, E3 has a purpose: bringing us new screens of the incredible Contra 4.

Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime: "Wii is poised to become the No. 1 worldwide in this generation very soon," he said. "Nintendo is not a fad."

A man on Long Beach Island has erected a windmill in his backyard to cut down on electricity bills (saving him $3966 a year). But in the process he has really pissed off his neighbours who are saying the sound, equivenlent to a noisy refrigerator, is too noisy and the structure itself is too big.

Larry Flynt, the porn-industry magnate who first linked Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) to the escort service of the “D.C. Madam,” said Wednesday that his investigators are tracking more than 20 leads on alleged congressional sex scandals.

"My friends made me a pixel-esque Mario cake out of little squares of cupcake for my Groom's cake."

Florida state Rep. Robert "Bob" Allen, R-Merritt Island, was arrested Wednesday and charged with soliciting an undercover male officer for sex at a park in Central Florida, according to police.Investigators said Allen was acting suspicious and went in and out of the men's restroom at Veteran's Memorial Park, located on East Broad Street.

This powerful video made by firefighters and the IAFF is their effort to begin to educate the rest of America about the fallacy that both Giuliani and the media has created known as “America’s Mayor.” This is just the beginning….AFLCIO:

Dr. Timothy Wallace, the oral surgeon performing the extraction, said the tragedy that occurred in his office is "once in a lifetime." It was certainly once in the teen's lifetime.

Amazon uses Linux. eBay uses Windows. But what OSs and webservers run Web 2.0? We tested 17 of our favorites and found out. The script is included below to check for yourself.