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Don't Think Bad Thoughts

December 23, 2008 - 9:30am
More movement on the mind-reading front! Scientists in Japan developed a way to analyze brain scans to interpret people's thoughts. And you know who's probably most excited about this?

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Left 4k Dead - Excellent online game

December 23, 2008 - 9:20am
Left 4k Dead was made by Markus Persson, for the 2009 Java 4k Competition.The entire game is less than 4kb.

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HP Enables Photo Printing From The iPhone

December 23, 2008 - 9:20am
Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched an application that allows users to print pictures wirelessly from an iPhone.The free application, HP iPrint Photo (App Store link), allows pictures stored on an iPhone to be printed using certain HP's inkjet printers attached to a Wi-Fi network.

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Sun-Lit Laptop Display Released By LG

December 23, 2008 - 9:20am
LG’s panel features an adaptive backlight that switches from transmissive to transreflective mode with the click of a button. The panel’s transreflective display— made for outdoor use— reflects sunlight to illuminate itself from the inside.

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ONE MILLION Wiis sold last week in America!!

December 23, 2008 - 9:00am
An estimated one million Wiis were sold last week in America - the most games machines sold in one week ever... PS3 and Xbox360 nowhere to be seen!

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Pictures of the year: lions, tigers and bears (oh my!)

December 23, 2008 - 8:50am
In 2008, we saw many gregarious animals showing off for the cameras, which is why we must tip our hats to the more bashful wild animals, like this Hungarian owl...

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NASA to have atronauts on moon by 2020, plan permanant base

December 23, 2008 - 8:40am
NASA's long term plans are to build a permanent base on the moon that may one day be used as a launching pad for manned flights to Mars.

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Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'

December 23, 2008 - 8:20am
A water drop placed on a soap film that vibrates up and down may bounce as if on a trampoline -- but it's much more than that, according to MIT mathematicians who say the "fluid trampoline" is the simplest fluid example of chaos theory ever explored.

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Analyst expects Next Zelda game in 2009, GTA V in 2010

December 23, 2008 - 8:20am
Lazard Capital Markets' Colin Sebastian expects Link's next adventure to help push modest industry growth next year; GTAV potentially arriving in 2010.

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Quantum computers millions of years faster than regular PC's

December 23, 2008 - 8:20am
A quantum computer could solve problems in a few months that would take conventional computers millions of years. But how to build a super fast computer that uses the bizarre properties of quantum physics? Well, that is the aim of a five-year project supported by a grant of $3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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6 Open Letters That Changed the World

December 23, 2008 - 8:10am
Epistolary history is full of open letters, those that are written with the intent that they’ll be read by a wide audience. Here we’ve collected six of the best (or at least, most influential) open letters of all time.

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Cyberbullying cases picking up due to MySpace suicide law

December 23, 2008 - 8:10am
One of the highest-profile cyberbullying cases in Internet history has sent lawmakers scurrying to create and update laws to include electronic communications. In Missouri, the updated law has resulted in seven cases being filed since August, although critics feel that the updated state law won't do much to stop future cyberbullies.

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14 Crashes, 2 minutes, Same Rally Corner

December 23, 2008 - 8:00am

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100-Car Pileup On I-94 In Michigan Leaves One Dead

December 23, 2008 - 8:00am
A 100-car pileup on I-94 in western Michigan as a result of sustained whiteout blizzard conditions left one person dead and closed down an 11-mile section of the freeway for hours.

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Insuranceless Plaxico Burress Is Sued Over Car Crash

December 23, 2008 - 7:10am
A Florida woman, Alise Smith, 27, has sued Giants receiver Plaxico Burress for a car crash last May in Tamarac, Fla. The lawsuit, filed on Dec. 9 in Broward County, said Burress’s car collided with the rear of her vehicle.

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The Philosopher's Paradox (COMIC)

December 23, 2008 - 7:10am
That business major's not looking too bad right now.

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Google was my doctor: Says Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator

December 23, 2008 - 6:50am
.."about six months after I'd first lost my voice, I woke up wondering if my speech problem might be related in some way to my hand problem. So I typed “voice dystonia” into Google and up popped a link to a video of a person speaking in a damaged voice..I started using Google alerts to tell me whenever someone mentioned Dilbert, me, or anything

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10 Worst Shows of 2008

December 23, 2008 - 6:30am
The title is self-explanatory. And I could go on, but I have to stop somewhere, so let's make it 10. Your own nominations welcome in the comments.

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The Final Leap

December 23, 2008 - 6:00am

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The World's Hottest CEO Wives [PICS]

December 23, 2008 - 5:50am
Being a CEO has all kinds of perks, from a really good parking space to the company jet. Also you get to run the economy into the ground, and no one can stop you. But perhaps the best part of being the big boss (other than making millions in redundancy when everything goes tits up) is that many women look at you in a completely different way.

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