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10 minutes ago
Turkish journalists were caught in a war zone while on the job. The Turkish team was in between the
town of Gori and breakaway South Ossetia where Georgian and Russian forces have collided. The video
is from the inside of the car
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Engadget -
17 minutes ago
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals, Wearables
Remember a million years ago when Nintendo first introduced the " Revolution," later to be
known as the Wii? It wasn't white, and it seemed multiple colors were a shoe-in for the shiny
plastic console. Since then, Nintendo has sung a very white, supply-limited song with the Wii, and
we're ready for some change. This is not that change. But at least Nintendo is acknowledging that,
indeed, other colors do exist, and look just smashing when waved around in the air, in the form of
fancy new pastel-colored Wiimote straps for Japan. They cost a few bucks each, or you can get the
whole pack for $10. No word if they'll be heading Stateside.
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Cinematical -
22 minutes ago
Filed under: Drama, Images
It was a pretty big surprise when news broke
that Zac Efron was going to
star in Richard Linklater's new film, Me and
Orson Welles. The High School Musical star just didn't seem like the Linklater
sort. But the dancing shoes have been put away and Efron has gone back in time. Four pictures from
the film have been released over at
Twitch, and you can check out one of them above -- that is Efron as the young aspiring actor
Richard, and Christian McKay as the one and only
Welles.
Based on Robert Kaplow's coming-of-age novel, the film focuses on a 17-year-old aspiring actor who
is discovered by Orson Welles while walking past the Mercury Theater. He scores a bit part in
Julius Caesar, and is thrust into that world we call show. Now if only we could get a
glimpse of Ben Chaplin's George Coulouris and Claire Danes' Sonja Jones...
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TimesOnline: Britain -
23 minutes ago
A law student who stabbed his guardian 56 times because she had pressured him to resit his failed
exams was jailed for life yesterday.
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TimesOnline: Britain -
24 minutes ago
Just one letter separates the insulting but otherwise harmless word “twit” from one
that is equally insulting but cut from a distinctly coarser cloth. But that letter has led to a
supermarket chain removing a book from its shelves, the publisher agreeing to remove the offending
word from the next edition and one of Britain's bestselling authors being made to look rather
foolish.
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TimesOnline: Britain -
24 minutes ago
A series of interviews with the likes of Peter Cook, Sean Connery and Enoch Powell are to
be broadcast for the first time.
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TimesOnline: Britain -
24 minutes ago
Pensioners outnumber children for the first time as more and more people live longer, new figures
show.
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MAKE Magazine -
24 minutes ago
Another milestone for the largest
refrigerator ever made...
The first particles have been injected into the biggest atom smasher on the planet, marking the
start of the countdown to probing the secrets of the universe. Scientists are pushing ahead with
powering up the machine, shrugging off speculative fears that it could destroy all life on Earth by
sucking it into a black hole. Starting up the biggest scientific experiment ever built is not as
simple as flipping a switch.
Earlier this month, the successful injection of the first particles - protons - into part of the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research, took
place.
This weekend, scientists are hoping to complete testing of another part of the machine, which
sits in a 17 mile circular tunnel approximately 100 metres underneath the Franco-Swiss border,
with the aim of seeing particles travel the whole way around for the first time.
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25 minutes ago
DreamWorks Animation has yet to announce it, but early retailer reports are pegging an
early-November Blu-ray bow for the box office smash 'Kung Fu Panda.' Featuring the voices of Jack
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TimesOnline: Britain -
25 minutes ago
Seven months ago a report by a Commons select committee gave warning that there was more bad news
to come on the loss of sensitive data. And so it has proved. The latest loss, of prisoners’
details, follows a similar one involving details of thousands of seasonal agricultural workers.
Unlike the disappearance last year of 25 million child benefit records – which went missing
from HM Revenue & Customs after being put in the post – both the latest incidents involve
private firms that had been entrusted with personal data by the Home Office.
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TimesOnline: Britain -
25 minutes ago
Confidential records and sensitive intelligence on tens of thousands of the country’s most
prolific criminals have been lost in a major breach of data security at the heart of Whitehall.
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MAKE Magazine -
25 minutes ago
Designed to fit on a breadboard, Ikalogic's frequency meter uses "only 3 components and 8
resistors" including an ATmega16 -This article shows how to build a small, cheap and simple
frequency meter, without any fancy, out of reach components. The simple proposed design can
measure frequencies up to 40 Mhz with errors below 1%! This degree of precision will be more than
enough to debug most of your analog and digital circuits, and will give you the ability to
analyze many aspects that you were unable to see before. - Build your 40 MHz Frequency meter!
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FOXNews.com -
26 minutes ago
An investigation has been launched by the International Olympic Committee into allegations that
Chinese authorities covered up the true age of gold-medal gymnastics star He Kexin because she was
too old to compete, the London Times reports.
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memeorandum -
30 minutes ago
 David Freddoso / New York Post:
BARACK'S FAVORS FOR CORRUPT CRONY — Barack Obama has ad mitted it
was “boneheaded” to get involved in a land deal with Tony Rezko, his friend and
fund-raiser. But the media's focus on that deal has distracted from the bigger question:
Why would Obama become involved in any deal with a man like Rezko …
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FOXNews.com -
34 minutes ago
A Kentucky death row inmate's plea to die for the slayings of two children cleared its last
mandatory hurdle Thursday, potentially setting the state on course for its first execution in nine
years.
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