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Current News for April 10, 2008
Ships made of Popsicle Sticks and The God Particle
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:45:07 PDT
Dream Big! Two odd news awards winning articles depict a man who dreamed of building a Viking Ship of Popsicle sticks and another whose life ambition has been to prove the existence of the so called "God Particle." Both are proof that the sky is the limit for dreamers that follow through.
Celebrity & Entertainment News
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:49:40 PDT
Entertainment News, Celebrity News, Movie News, Music News, TV News - AOL News,World News
News Corp HAcks Dish networks Sattellites
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:22:52 PDT
Dish Network Corp., the second biggest U.S. satellite television broadcaster accused News Corp.'s NDS Group of hacking the security code of Dish's access cards, causing damages worth $90 million.NDS, based in Middlesex, England, provides encryption technology for DirecTV Group Inc., Dish's largest U.S. rival.
A Viewer Speaks
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:05:29 PDT
WE GET A good group of commenters here in Sticksville. Lately, we've been hearing quite a bit from a young woman from the Prairies, who has an openminded attitude toward Canadian shows, and an engaged and passionate way of defending them. On the subject of all the changes going on at the CBC, I think she's expressed the necessary corrective point of view better than Richard Stursberg, Kirstine Leyfield, or anybody else at the public broadcaster has managed to do. So I'm bumping her comment here
How Food has Changed
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:16:44 PDT
As we become more and more aware of our diets, what is in them is sometimes overlooked by the caloric or fat content within a food. Perhaps what is even more interesting in the trends in our food over the past twenty years...
All Headline News Announces Free RSS News Reader
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:01 PDT
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The All Headline News has launched an RSS news feed reader to allow users of its website to be automatically informed of the latest news. In order to...
Iraqis Free Accused Photojournalist
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:21:56 PDT
A news photographer, detained two years by the US military on terrorism allegations, has been set free by an Iraqi judicial committee
Political Evolution
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:39:11 PDT
How close are you to your parents politically? In my family my dad who is 55 watches Fox News esepcially O'Reily and Hannity. Strangly enough he has no problem with Schumer which I find weird and he is a registered Independent but voted for Bush in 04, like I did....
Road Runner/Time Warner Unblocks Bad Cop News Website
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:10:59 PDT
Time Warner was blocking access to Bad Cop News in the southwest region after posts of Oceanside police cover up of San Diego police officer Franklin White's road rage shooting of mother and her 8 year old child. It effected all sites on the server. It was quickly "fixed" when TW was contacted by AP, with TW blaming Level 3 for blockage.
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:15:20 PDT
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour Here’s a bit of a post from the infamous Huffington Post web site, the web site which the state-owned CBC seems to use as a go-to place to secure folks to act as guest political experts for their Newsworld news channel. They ask questions of the Huffington Post experts in order to fully inform Canadians, CBC-style. Canadians, bereft of news otherwise, could, the CBC may well think, benefit from this kind of
Oil and Gas Prices Continue Upward Surge
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:56:24 PDT
The upward trend in energy prices showed no sign of abating Wednesday as gasoline set yet another record at the pump and crude oil topped $112 a barrel for the first time in the futures market. The national average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas rose 1.2 cents to a record $3.343 a gallon
Mirthala Salinas Is An Idiot
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:40:56 PDT
Mirthala Salinas, the former Telemundo KVEA-TV Channel 52 news reporter who was having an affair with the married Mayor of Los Angeles, Tony Villar, says she had no idea the experience would have such consequences. Your screwing the Mayor of Los Angeles, who you knew was married and had two children and your surprised by the blowback?
Some major anti-virus vendors fail VB100’s latest test
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:31:22 PDT
Security vendors such as McAfee, Sophos, Trend Micro, BitDefender and Avast have failed VB100’s anti-virus, anti-malware test on Vista SP1, while Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus, AVG, Kaspersky and, surprisingly, Microsoft’s OneCare, have passed the test with flying colours.
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:45:07 PDT
Dream Big! Two odd news awards winning articles depict a man who dreamed of building a Viking Ship of Popsicle sticks and another whose life ambition has been to prove the existence of the so called "God Particle." Both are proof that the sky is the limit for dreamers that follow through.
Celebrity & Entertainment News
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:49:40 PDT
Entertainment News, Celebrity News, Movie News, Music News, TV News - AOL News,World News
News Corp HAcks Dish networks Sattellites
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:22:52 PDT
Dish Network Corp., the second biggest U.S. satellite television broadcaster accused News Corp.'s NDS Group of hacking the security code of Dish's access cards, causing damages worth $90 million.NDS, based in Middlesex, England, provides encryption technology for DirecTV Group Inc., Dish's largest U.S. rival.
A Viewer Speaks
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:05:29 PDT
WE GET A good group of commenters here in Sticksville. Lately, we've been hearing quite a bit from a young woman from the Prairies, who has an openminded attitude toward Canadian shows, and an engaged and passionate way of defending them. On the subject of all the changes going on at the CBC, I think she's expressed the necessary corrective point of view better than Richard Stursberg, Kirstine Leyfield, or anybody else at the public broadcaster has managed to do. So I'm bumping her comment here
How Food has Changed
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:16:44 PDT
As we become more and more aware of our diets, what is in them is sometimes overlooked by the caloric or fat content within a food. Perhaps what is even more interesting in the trends in our food over the past twenty years...
All Headline News Announces Free RSS News Reader
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:00:01 PDT
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The All Headline News has launched an RSS news feed reader to allow users of its website to be automatically informed of the latest news. In order to...
Iraqis Free Accused Photojournalist
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:21:56 PDT
A news photographer, detained two years by the US military on terrorism allegations, has been set free by an Iraqi judicial committee
Political Evolution
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:39:11 PDT
How close are you to your parents politically? In my family my dad who is 55 watches Fox News esepcially O'Reily and Hannity. Strangly enough he has no problem with Schumer which I find weird and he is a registered Independent but voted for Bush in 04, like I did....
Road Runner/Time Warner Unblocks Bad Cop News Website
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:10:59 PDT
Time Warner was blocking access to Bad Cop News in the southwest region after posts of Oceanside police cover up of San Diego police officer Franklin White's road rage shooting of mother and her 8 year old child. It effected all sites on the server. It was quickly "fixed" when TW was contacted by AP, with TW blaming Level 3 for blockage.
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:15:20 PDT
CBC’s oft-used source for political experts —the Huffington Post —in new hate du jour Here’s a bit of a post from the infamous Huffington Post web site, the web site which the state-owned CBC seems to use as a go-to place to secure folks to act as guest political experts for their Newsworld news channel. They ask questions of the Huffington Post experts in order to fully inform Canadians, CBC-style. Canadians, bereft of news otherwise, could, the CBC may well think, benefit from this kind of
Oil and Gas Prices Continue Upward Surge
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:56:24 PDT
The upward trend in energy prices showed no sign of abating Wednesday as gasoline set yet another record at the pump and crude oil topped $112 a barrel for the first time in the futures market. The national average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas rose 1.2 cents to a record $3.343 a gallon
Mirthala Salinas Is An Idiot
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:40:56 PDT
Mirthala Salinas, the former Telemundo KVEA-TV Channel 52 news reporter who was having an affair with the married Mayor of Los Angeles, Tony Villar, says she had no idea the experience would have such consequences. Your screwing the Mayor of Los Angeles, who you knew was married and had two children and your surprised by the blowback?
Some major anti-virus vendors fail VB100’s latest test
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:31:22 PDT
Security vendors such as McAfee, Sophos, Trend Micro, BitDefender and Avast have failed VB100’s anti-virus, anti-malware test on Vista SP1, while Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus, AVG, Kaspersky and, surprisingly, Microsoft’s OneCare, have passed the test with flying colours.
