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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was indicted late Tuesday afternoon by a Federal Grand Jury in Richmond, Va., for conspiracy to transport dogs across state lines for the purpose of dog fighting.

Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed the assault, said, "Jon picked Andy up by the head and smashed him into the bar four or five times, and blood started pouring out of his nose." Lovitz told Page Six, "All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is a [bleep]hole."

Title says it all.

Ever had to run a huge copy or archiving job in the background while using your computer? Noticed that your background task seemed to make everything else that needed disk access REALLY lag? Learn how to tell Linux to prioritize disk access with ionice.

It is the rare gas giant planet that inhabits the outskirts of its solar system. Most are like our own Jupiter and prefer to stick close to their stars, a new study suggests. The finding, to be detailed in an upcoming issue of Astrophysical Journal, helps give astronomers a better sense of how planets are arranged in the universe at large.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, who oversaw the degeneration of conditions at the Walter Reed military hospital has resigned. Nicholson’s primary qualification for the VA job was serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1997 to 2000, “raising close to $380 million for the 2000 cycle.”

Several sources suggest announcement happening today.

When it comes to rooting for Barry Bonds to become the home run champion, one factor stands out: race. An AP-Ipsos poll released Monday showed 55 percent of minority baseball fans want Bonds to set the record, while only 34 percent of non-Hispanic white baseball fans hope he passes Hank Aaron's record.

The internet and mobile phones have undermined attempts by China’s secretive rulers to control the news, a senior Communist party official admitted today. He accused local governments of being “too naive” by continuing to suppress damaging information about corruption or about disasters, and urged party members to be more open with members of the

I think the funniest is: Cherrapunji, India : Wettest place on the Earth. What makes it funny is the sign for the post, it's holiday resort? WTF.

All the dangling plot threads left over from the previous six books had better friggin' be answered in this one. Here's Cracked's take.

Steorn's CEO Sean McCarthy, discusses his belief about the potential of Steorn's Orbo technology, his feelings about the scientific community and skeptics at large, and what happens next for the supposed free energy company.

Since no page is equally important as the start page, it’s interesting to know, which approaches designers come up with, developing an innovative design for start pages. Let’s take a look. Unusual, remarkable and outstanding start pages - in a brief overview.

This tutorial shows how you can enable Beryl on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With Beryl you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube.

The presence of spite in humanity could shed light on why people can cooperate so well with each other. "Spite is a bit nasty, but it reflects how much you care what actually happens to the other guy," Jensen told LiveScience. "The fact that humans are sensitive to fairness has a dark side, but also a good side." Chimps were put one at a time in

Since the site is legal under Russian law, Visa told it must resume accepting its credit and debit card payment operations.

A Sunday afternoon of video game goodness turned deadly this past Sunday as a thirteen year-old boy fatally stabbed his sixteen year-old brother in the chest during an alleged dispute over who got next.

Appearing alongside his wife Wendy, Vitter seemed to lay blame on the media and appeared to be trying to come off as a victim, when he talked about how hard the media scrutiny had been on his family. MSNBC HardBall host Chris Matthews characterized Vitter as "contemptuous" and "angry."

Epic has confirmed that the Xbox 360 mega-hit Gears of War as well as the highly anticipated Unreal Tournament 3 are both coming to the Mac.

Heath Ledger has been spotted in the concrete jungle, fully decked out in his Joker garb. Check out up close pictures of The Joker...and some video of his joker truck...whaaat?!

An employment tribunal ordered Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, on Tuesday to pay a former chef $51,000 in compensation after she won a sexual-discrimination claim against them.

It takes a little time to become familiar with rsync, but once you are, you should be able to handle most of your backup needs with just a short script.

HandBrake is a GPL'd multi-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter - it's super easy to rip the DVDs you have and put them on the new iPhone - they look great and are about 1 GB each, here's how...

An Australian rugby player's eye infection and headaches were solved when a doctor found an opponent's tooth embedded in the man's forehead.

In a recent patent application, Microsoft describes a multi-faceted, robust ad-delivery framework that would root around your computer in an attempt to deliver targeted ads.

We've all heard Al Gore's suggestions on sustainable alternatives to fossil-based energy. Here's a few alternatives that somehow missed his list.

A great resource for free fonts.

One of the things I was most impressed with was that I saw many more good games than I saw bad ones; I walked away with a huge list of games I want to continue to cover. I loved Bioshock, but we only got to play a little bit. I loved the Wii Zapper

the defendant was BLACK. GUILTY!!!Oh yeah and there was NO Physical evidence or a weapon found! What the hell? How can anyone stand by and watch this guy die on such little evidence. Man, what have we become, the kill & torture country. God forgive us.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Check your publicist at the boardroom doorâ€"NBC is inviting celebrities to try to wow Donald Trump in the next version of "The Apprentice." And while it would make for a marquee matchup, don't expect Rosie O'Donnell to be among them. The network announced Monday that the game show will be back in the middle of next..

Part two of a two part series examining Microsoft's Internet TV offerings. (Part one was featured on digg last week). "With computers, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, home servers, and perhaps even mobile devices and “cloud services”, Microsoft is poised to provide an end-to-end entertainment ecosystem like no other."

In yet another installment of our "Real Men Love" movie series, we examine The Fifth Element, the sci-fi action-adventure that celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. What makes this film so memorable? So entertaining? So balls-out awesome? Read on to find out.

I've never seen something quite like this," said American Pop Corn [maker of Jolly Time] president Garrett Smith, who's been in the business for three decades. He had to pay farmers almost 70 per cent more this spring than last year to grow his popcorn and has had to boost prices for movie theatre popcorn and jars of unpopped corn.

Amazing story of a reporter who joined the crazy cruisers from the right wing nuts of "National Review". She starts with : "Is he your only child?" I ask. "Yes," she says. "Do you have a child back in England?" she asks. No, I say. Her face darkens. "You'd better start," she says. "The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they'll have the whole of Europe."

As you can see from the timed results, the Avivo driver with ShadowFB enabled had sharply outperformed the 8.39 fglrx driver. It is important to keep in mind that the Avivo driver is still deemed experimental and lacks a number of critical elements; however, the Avivo driver is now fast enough for using basic desktop applications.

Apparently a bug in the iPhone floods access points with ARP requests which knocks out Duke University's Cisco commercial-grade wireless routers. During the summer months, only 150 Apple devices are roaming campus but the effects are devastating. Apple has not responded to a support ticket opened by the university.

I was shopping in the Jo-Ann Fabrics store in Logansport, Indiana. While shopping I suddenly experienced unexpected and intense diarrhea. I approached an employee and asked her if I could use the rest room. She said she was not allowed to let me use it..."It gets worse...much worse

Apple has filed for a patent that could be used to illuminate the touchpad in its line of notebook computers. But instead of what seems like an attempt from Apple to prevent people from falling asleep on their notebook keyboards by casting light directly into their eyes, the patent is stating otherwise.

A clean home run king we can all root for.

Windows Home Server has been christened 1.0, and the code has been released to manufacturing. System Builder versions as well as initial products from several ISVs are expected this September.