Boy Who Hanged Self May Have Copied Saddam

Seeded on Thu Jan 4, 2007 10:51 PM EST (msnbc.com)

HOUSTON - A 10-year-old U.S. boy who hanged himself may have been inspired to do it by television coverage of Saddam Hussein's execution, police said Thursday.

saddam, boy, suicide, odd-news, copy, hanging

Girl Faces Charges For Wetting Pants

Seeded on Thu Jan 4, 2007 10:48 PM EST (msnbc.com)

DANVILLE, Pa. - A 12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.

girl, police, charges, odd-news, pants, wet

Top 5 Most Creative Uses for the Wiimote

Seeded on Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:42 PM EST (TechEBlog)

The most creative uses I have ever seen for the Nintendo Wii's Wiimote: from playing drums with the Wiimote to controlling an entire house.

technology, gaming, nintendo, video-games, wii, wiimote

Man Donates $286,800.00 to Wikipedia

Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:23 AM EST

On a day when Wikimedia donations were to be matched by Virgin Mobile's charity organization, Virgin Unite, an anonymous user pledged the equivalent of $286,800.00, approximately 1/3 of all other donations from all the users of the organization that controls one of the world's mo …

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technology, charity, donations, wikipedia, information, generosity, knowledge, wikimedia

Sex.com Thief Released From Prison

Seeded on Sat Dec 9, 2006 12:51 PM EST (The Register)

In yet another twist in the extraordinary tale of Sex.com, the con-man who stole the world's most valuable domain has been released from jail - in order to locate the millions of dollars he owes the original owner.

technology, sex, san-jose, san-diego, sex-com, stephen-cohen

The American Taliban

Seeded on Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:12 PM EST (adultthought.ucsd.edu)

Quotes from The American Taliban:

politics, george-bush, pat-robertson, jerry-falwell, culture-war, john-ashcroft, the-american-taliban, joseph-morecraft, bob-dornan

CompUSA to sell Wii at $1,119.06

Seeded on Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:34 PM EST (compusa.com)

At least according to their website. This makes the PS3 seem reasonable.

technology, nintendo, video-games, ps3, compusa, wii

Rush Limbaugh Fakes Stupidity

Seeded on Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:24 PM EST (Slate)

Many people have concluded, from Rush Limbaugh's recent disparaging comments about Michael J. Fox and Parkinson's disease, that Limbaugh must be an utter fool. But of course that's exactly what Rush wants you to think. Does the man's capacity for manipulation know no bounds?

politics, rush-limbaugh, stupidity, michael-j-fox, parkinsons-disease

The CD is Dead

Seeded on Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:21 PM EST (torrentfreak.com)

The CEO & chairman of EMI Music, Alain Levy told an audience at the London Business School on Friday that the CD as we know it is dead.

google, technology, music, emi, cd, youtube

Why the iPod Will Fail: 8 Comments from 2001

Seeded on Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:18 PM EST (listvine.com)

In October of 2001, at an event that was either "perfectly hyped," "waaaaaay overblown," or "barely announced," depending on who you ask, Apple took the wraps off of a new, secret product that had been the source of a great deal of speculation and rumor in the tech c …

technology, apple, ipod, pda, fail

1990-1995: Why the World Went Windows

Seeded on Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:09 PM EDT (roughlydrafted.com)

The reason Apple's Macintosh survived into the 90's--escaping the fate of a variety of other unique platforms that were slaughtered by commodity PCs--was largely because of the tight integration Apple could provide between its hardware and software. Apple wasn't primarily …

technology, computers, windows

John Kerry: "Iraq War Worsening Terrorism"

Seeded on Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:43 PM EDT (Reuters)

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry, a potential White House candidate in 2008, said on Friday the Iraq war had worsened terrorism and that the Bush administration had squandered the nation's moral authority.

iraq, terrorism, politics, war, john-kerry, george-bush

40+ Ways to Make Money on the Internet

Seeded on Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:28 PM EDT (dumblittleman.blogspot.com)

I did a little bookmark scrub this morning and thought I would share the remaining content of my "Online Money" folder. While some people are going to view this simply as a big list of ways to make money online, that's good - because it is.

google, technology, amazon, ads, site