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digg.com: News / Popular on Apr 10, 2010:
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1) Fireman Sentenced To 25 Years To Life For Arson
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/pBZE6a4VC_k/Fireman_Sentenced_To_25_Years_To_Life_For_Arson
A rookie volunteer firefighter convicted of setting a blaze that killed a mother and three of her children in what prosecutors said was a twisted bid to become a hero again protested his innocence Friday as he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Caleb Lacey, who was convicted of four counts each of murder and manslaughter plus arson...
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2) Quasars don't show time dilation - mystifies astronomers
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/twIkHn4Oa9E/Quasars_don_t_show_time_dilation_mystifies_astronomers
The phenomenon of time dilation is a strange yet experimentally confirmed effect of relativity theory. One of its implications is that events occurring in distant parts of the universe should appear to occur more slowly than events located closer to us. For example, when observing supernovae, scientists have found that distant explosions seem to...
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3) Postal workers boycott house over cat attacks
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/vUnG-2xqqDY/Postal_workers_boycott_house_over_cat_attacks
Royal Mail stops deliveries to a house in Leeds after postal workers are attacked by an elderly cat called Tiger.
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4) Google Company Files Patent on Promo Tweets & FB Messages...
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/coYPq8tsLwY/Google_Company_Files_Patent_on_Promo_Tweets_FB_Messages
Aardvark, the Q&A service that was recently acquired by Google, has filed a patent for ?promotional status messages?. You know when you sign up for a service and it lets you post a message to your friends on Twitter or Facebook inviting them to join? Yup, Aardark is somehow claiming that this was the company?s own invention..
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5) Pope Previously Postponed Punishing Pedophile Priest
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/b1uUUs5BY2E/Pope_Previously_Postponed_Punishing_Pedophile_Priest
The priest, convicted of tying up and abusing two young boys in a church rectory, wanted to leave the ministry. But in 1985, four years after the priest and his bishop first asked that he be defrocked, the future Pope Benedict XVI signed a letter saying that the case needed more time and that ?the good of the Universal Church? had to be considered.
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6) 24 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/s9Q9WE9jlAw/24_Essential_Social_Media_Resources_You_May_Have_Missed
Another week down, and another chance to gather all the social media wisdom from the experts and put it to good use for your personal brand, your business, or for plain old fun.Check out these indispensable resources which include an exclusive peek inside YouTube?s inner sanctum, a swath of in-depth iPad coverage, and some essential soc
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7) Organs Removed Without Consent After IT Blunder
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/HPa968F52g0/Organs_Removed_Without_Consent_After_IT_Blunder
The records of 800,000 people were affected by an error that meant their wishes about the use of their organs after death were wrongly recorded. An investigation has found that 45 of those for whom wrong records were stored have since died ? and in approximately 20 cases organs were taken where consent had not been given.
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8) Animal Kaleidoscope [Vid]
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/QD7ENDt-UuE/Animal_Kaleidoscope_Vid
Are you not entertained?!
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9) WTF? Typo Costs Man 3 Years In Jail
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/T9vWN_4aRB4/WTF_Typo_Costs_Man_3_Years_In_Jail
We used to get a lot of red ink in school, but we never did hard time for it.
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10) Holistic Web Browsing: Trends Of The Future
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/OZmFHNancbQ/Holistic_Web_Browsing_Trends_Of_The_Future
The future of the Web is everywhere. The future of the Web is not at your desk. It?s not necessarily in your pocket, either. It?s everywhere. With each new technological innovation, we continue to become more and more immersed in the Web, connecting the ever-growing layer of information in the virtual world to the real one around us.
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11) Amazingly new Screenshots for Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow:
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/ZPQjojd40rU/Amazingly_new_Screenshots_for_Castlevania_Lords_Of_Shadow
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow will be released in 2010 for PS3 and Xbox 360 and will open a new form of gameplay for the saga.
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12) Almost Half Of Americans Are Now On Social Networks
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/xm_P0cf_QVw/Almost_Half_Of_Americans_Are_Now_On_Social_Networks
According to a recent survey from Arbitron and Edison Research, nearly half of Americans age 12 and older have a profile on one or more social networking Web sites and nearly two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 have personal profile pages. Digg on!
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13) Beautiful Time-Lapse Music Video.
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Q8bI5fqpPCc/Beautiful_Time_Lapse_Music_Video
If you haven?t yet seen the lovely music video for Stomacher ? Untitled/Dark Divider by Sean Stiegemeier, take the 4 minutes from your day to do so. Over a year?s worth of gorgeous time-lapse video taken on his travels to Prague, Japan, Banff, Utah, Oregon, California, and more...
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14) Is organic worth it? Here are the facts you need to decide
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/NpbuZ2e14Zs/Is_organic_worth_it_Here_are_the_facts_you_need_to_decide
There is a dispute about organic food. The big question: Are organic products any healthier than traditional food? That often leaves people wondering whether it's worth it to go organic. So let's start with the basics. Here are a few things to know about organic food...
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15) Microsoft glitches Vouchers for California's Unemployed
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/dftCogVRENo/Microsoft_glitches_Vouchers_for_California_s_Unemployed
Microsoft announced that they would hand out more than 70,000 training vouchers through CA's One-Stop Career Centers. The idea was to give Californians - whether unemployed or working - a chance to take online computer courses and get free tests to certify their skills. But all did not go as planned.
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16) Music Hack Day Is Coming To San Francisco
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/XgOBZPIGUrA/Music_Hack_Day_Is_Coming_To_San_Francisco
What do you get when you combine music with frantic, all night hour coding sessions? An event called Music Hack Day, where developers have 24 hours to hack together a new music-related app, which they then show off to their peers at event's conclusion. Music Hack Day has previously been held in London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Boston, and...
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17) Skin Cell Spraying Bio Printer Heals Burn Victims in 3 Weeks
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/PCtUtumMJ-s/Skin_Cell_Spraying_Bio_Printer_Heals_Burn_Victims_in_3_Weeks
Recently we showcased a 3D printer that creates human body parts ready for transplant, and now our frankenstinean fascination with making body parts has unearthed another amazing device. This new bio-printer sprays skin cells on burn victim?s wounds, promoting healthy recovery.
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18) The 3 words some leaders can't say
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/cMju636K_IQ/The_3_words_some_leaders_can_t_say
How many Massas and Ashburns, James Wests, Ted Haggards, Mark Foleys and Larry Craigs do we have to see, how many shocked spouses and embarrassed children do we have to endure, before we accept the obvious: Gay is not a choice, not a sin, not a shame. Gay simply is.
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19) Parody Asks:What is the iPad Revolutionizing? [VIDEO] Comedy
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/5WKmsWpr7IA/Parody_Asks_What_is_the_iPad_Revolutionizing_VIDEO_Comedy
Do you want an iPad with every wretched fiber of your being, but you can't quite articulate why? Well, College Humor's Jake and Amir feel your pain.....................
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20) Bill O'Reilly: Cardinal Should be Jailed for Pedo Cover-Up
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/t2gErQnN-FI/Bill_O_Reilly_Cardinal_Should_be_Jailed_for_Pedo_Cover_Up
Bill O'Reilly has weighed in on the Catholic Church crisis, saying former Boston Cardinal Bernard Law should be in jail for his role in covering up pedophile priests, but that he himself remains a staunch Catholic despite the crisis.
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21) Meinhardt Raabe, Wizard of Oz's Munchkin coroner, dies @ 94
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/NO_jMUwjB84/Meinhardt_Raabe_Wizard_of_Oz_s_Munchkin_coroner_dies_94
Raabe was one of the 124 Munchkins in the film classic and one of only nine who had speaking parts. He died on Friday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Florida.
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