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They say spring is the season of rebirth. How come everyone is trying to stage comebacks right now, then? So many high profile turnarounds are in the works: Mel Gibson , Michael Vick , butt rashes and more. Who will succeed? Comebacks, like many of our favorite snack foods, come in clusters. Take 1994: We had John Travolta 's comeback in Pulp ...
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Mel Gibson to Reporter: "Asshole."
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Mel Gibson is trying to make a come back. We do not want him to . Case in point, his weird interview with a WGN reporter. He calls him an "asshole"—not the best way to promote your new movie! Alright, it was actually pretty funny in a drunken uncle sort of way. At least, not racist. But still, we are not going to see Edge of Darkness . ...
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Freefall survival tips orig. from Jun 06, 2008 Aerial map of NYC from 1924 orig. from Feb 01, 2010 First two minutes of Lost season six orig. from Feb 01, 2010 The elements of the incendiary blog post orig. from Feb 02, 2010 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find ...
Cottage Health System is holding a neighborhood meeting regarding the status of the construction that is about to begin at the former St. Francis Hospital.
The laundromats have become intolerably expensive, dirty and crowded, and I am looking for the best price on fluff and fold.
Experts say there's enough oil around Lake Albert to make Uganda a top producer in Africa. And if all goes well, Uganda will begin commercial production in the next year or two. But a lot can happen between striking oil and striking it rich. The people in the region are just hoping to be treated fairly.
U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan rely on a crucial supply line from the Pakistani port of Karachi. Pakistani truck drivers take enormous risks to ferry fuel and other goods to the troops along the route, where the threat of a Taliban ambush is ever-present.
Today on the Dish we primarily focused on the DADT hearings. Reax here. Andrew's take here. Notable quotes here and here. The GOP's exhausted arguments were pointed out by Paul Waldman, Gautham Nagesh, and Steve Benen. Bill Kristol and John McCain stood out in their cynicism. Dan Savage took stock of the overall situation.
IBM Developerworks: "Use gnuplot to dynamically generate Web pages from your system using raw data to provide graphic images. This raw data typically contains MIS-related information, on system performance, storage, or database growth."
Ben Romo tells the school's side of the story regarding the incident at El Puente School and the gift from the medical marijuana dispensary.
An ill-wisher sends me a link to Steven Horwitz, who I last saw carrying water for Republican stimulus opponents with badly-reasoned and fallacious arguments that were past their sell-by date at least seventy years ago. He is still doing it. At PBS. Shame on PBS--get someone half-competent, please: Slapping the Obama Administration Upside the ...
 
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Hweimer writes "A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine ...
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Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and ...
Today we're making one of the most important—and overdue—changes to Slate in many years: We're adding in-page comments to Slate articles and blog posts. We've always known that Slate's intelligent, engaged readers—yes, I'm talking to you—are an extraordinary group, but we haven't done a very good job involving you in the site. Whenever ...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Tuesday it took pressure from the government to get Toyota to take action over its sticking gas pedals.
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You know how the Supreme Court ruled the Prop 8 trial couldn't be filmed ? A pair of Los Angeles filmmakers have pledged to create filmed reenactments of all 60 hours of the trial based on firsthand reports and transcripts. [ marriagetrial.com ]
Pretty much everything you need to know about President Obama and the budget deficit is contained within this chart: The chart, which is based on Congressional Budget Office figures, shows something which is both incontrovertible yet known by very few people: Obama's budget does not increase the long-term, or even the medium-term, budget deficit. ...
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Vendors shipping products based on Chromium might wish to rate the severity of security issues in the products they release. This document contains guidelines for how to rate these issues. We recommend vendors rate security vulnerabilities using one of four severity levels: critical, high, medium, and low.
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Thelasko writes "I'm sure many here have been the victim of bullying at some point in their lives. A new study suggests why. '...now researchers have found at least three factors in a child's behavior that can lead to social rejection. The factors involve a child's inability to pick up on and respond to nonverbal cues from their pals.' The ...
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) The Central Intelligence Agency has intercepted communications from Osama bin Laden indicating that the al-Qaeda mastermind is "furious" that John Edwards' sex tape is scarier than any terror tape he has ever produced.
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As has been noted by virtually everyone now, John McCain in 2010 is not the John McCain of 2006. And that might be the reason for his white-hot rage at the Defense Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of whom endorsed an end to the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy today. Long-time McCain aides couldn't point me to a specific ...
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