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digg.com: News / Popular on Oct 24, 2009:
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1) Yahoo GeoCities closes on Oct. 26
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/GqKnn6jFOwg/Yahoo_GeoCities_closes_on_Oct_26
Founded in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, what is now Yahoo GeoCities was one of the first services to offer an easy way for early Internet surfers to publish their own Web pages. Once the Internet's third most visited domain, it will be shutting down on Monday, Oct. 26.
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2) 5 year old with a "Sixpack " enters Guinness Book
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/g9tYhfGNDf0/5_year_old_with_a_Sixpack_enters_Guinness_Book
Romanian Giuliano Stroe, five, has been training since the age of two - and now the hard work has finally paid off after landing a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
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3) 10 Really scary Phobias
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/HYi7zURibS0/10_Really_scary_Phobias
About 19.2 million American adults ages 18 and over, or some 8.7 percent of people in this age group in a given year, have some type of specific phobia, or extreme fear. Here are some of the worst.
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4) Austria offers trip to Space in supermarket
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/psz9ZF2ZsiI/Austria_offers_trip_to_Space_in_supermarket
A discount supermarket where Austrians might usually pick up a bargain bag of frozen Wiener schnitzel has a new offering: sub-orbital space flights. The price: 210,000 euros ($314,000) a head. The store's customary promise to reimburse any savings found elsewhere applies, should there be any quibbles.
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5) Cleanliness May Foster Morality
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/djfPIWNqvzs/Cleanliness_May_Foster_Morality
A simple spritz of a fresh-smelling window cleaner made people more fair and generous in a new study.
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6) Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/UWIGYRejowo/Astronomy_Picture_of_the_Day_33
Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. Since the ga
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7) 7-Step Financial Recovery Plan
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/OHBOYg-qKwI/7_Step_Financial_Recovery_Plan
If you?re among those whose savings and investments were ravaged by the economic downturn, don?t despair. To lose your assets in such a manner is a traumatic experience, to be sure, but you can bounce back.
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8) Landlord donates kidney to her tenant
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/QAn0kGSdOts/Landlord_donates_kidney_to_her_tenant
Barbara Thomas donates a kidney to tenant James Love. 'God showed me I was the one who is supposed to give you this kidney,' she told him.
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9) Yosemite Bears Targeting Minivans as Favorite Snack Wagons
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/8kpTa_rYFvg/Yosemite_Bears_Targeting_Minivans_as_Favorite_Snack_Wagons
The rebellious bears of Yosemite Valley have developed a taste for that old standard of the suburban family life, the minivan. The kid-friendly vehicles are quickly becoming a bear necessity for hungry bears in search of easy pickings.
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10) Should you use Comic Sans?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/7Ikgoz_eVFQ/Should_you_use_Comic_Sans_2
Great typographic advice in a simple flowchart.
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11) Why don't we read anymore?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/g0zEdbTH-ig/Why_don_t_we_read_anymore
The relentless cacophony that is life in the 21st century can make settling in with a book difficult even for lifelong readers and those who are paid to do it.
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12) Bankers party like it's still 2006 - with your money
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/ZFFQaJV5qwY/Bankers_party_like_it_s_still_2006_with_your_money
The American Bankers Association, a trade group and powerful lobbying organization representing the banking industry, is having a conference this weekend. Because so many of its members received bailout money, it's fair to say that U.S. taxpayers are paying for this party.
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13) Obama Presses Banks On Small Business Loans
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/PfAGLYrd10k/Obama_Presses_Banks_On_Small_Business_Loans
President Barack Obama urged banks on Saturday to make more loans to small businesses and said his administration would do everything it can to push them to do so. ''It's time for those banks to fulfill. their responsibility to help ensure a wider recovery, a more secure system, and more broadly shared prosperity."
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14) Apple Applies for Patent on OS With Embedded Advertising
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/QYVriZLRt-I/Apple_Applies_for_Patent_on_OS_With_Embedded_Advertising
"Want to launch Microsoft Office? Sure, but first a word from our sponsor." That somewhat surreal scenario could become a reality, based on a patent application filed by Apple, which was published today by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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15) When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/r3FW8LWu5mg/When_Ancient_Artifacts_Become_Political_Pawns_2
Egypt has requested the return of a bust of Nefertiti and other artifacts from European museums, a move motivated as much by politics as by culture.
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16) Forget the Taser... Introducing the Shockwave!!
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/KVCTqI6PA_U/Forget_the_Taser_Introducing_the_Shockwave
The Shockwave, a big Taser device that can incapacitate five or six people at a time, which company representatives told us is designed for crowd-control situations and can be triggered remotely via a 100-foot firing wire.
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17) Week 7 NFL Power Rankings
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/3sVQXYURvgQ/Week_7_NFL_Power_Rankings_2
A weekly peek at the NFL from top to bottom.
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18) What a Wet Moon Might Mean
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Om8aAl7D_bA/What_a_Wet_Moon_Might_Mean
The planetary scientist explores the implications of the recent discovery of water on the lunar surface.
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19) Megan: Men don't approach me for intellectual conversation
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Lpikx0QUuD0/Megan_Men_don_t_approach_me_for_intellectual_conversation
Megan Fox: ?I didn?t decide I?m going to be an actress because I want to be respected for how I play chess. I don?t think men approach me for intellectual conversation. I?m definitely labelled in the pin-up category and I haven?t given people a reason to take my work seriously yet.?
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20) A Black Hat Loses Control and Demands Ransom From Kaspersky
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/hnF7fZIEuXM/A_Black_Hat_Loses_Control_and_Demands_Ransom_From_Kaspersky
White hat turned black hat demands money from Kaspersky.
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21) The Prophet of World Civilization
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/wlMQu1GXZS4/The_Prophet_of_World_Civilization
Samuel P. Huntington, who died late last year, spotted trends and made predictions too. But he did so not with a wet finger to the air but with his nose in the books, his hands on the facts and his eyes fixated on the big picture.
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22) 'Scaffold' May Help Humans Replace Lost Or Missing Bone
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/dM1vgStSF0g/Scaffold_May_Help_Humans_Replace_Lost_Or_Missing_Bone
Mother Nature has provided the lizard with a unique ability to regrow body tissue that is damaged or torn ? if its tail is pulled off, it grows right back. She has not been quite so generous with human beings. But we might be able to come close, thanks to new research from Tel Aviv University.
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23) OMG! UBUNTU!: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala - A Guided Tour
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/u22ilcxjh_w/OMG_UBUNTU_Ubuntu_9_10_Karmic_Koala_A_Guided_Tour
"It's set to be the biggest and best release of Ubuntu so far and it impresses right from the get-go with an impressive installer, fast boot times, new artwork and a whole lot more.Meet quite possibly the best operating system on the planet - Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala!"
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