Blog Alert for digg.com: News / Popular, Mar 7, 2010

New Posts to digg.com: News / Popular on Mar 7, 2010:

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1) Ritalin Boosts Learning by Increasing brain Plasticity
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/C0qfEcJwxII/Ritalin_Boosts_Learning_by_Increasing_brain_Plasticity

Doctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to focus on tasks, but scientists now report that Ritalin also directly enhances the speed of learning.

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2) Baked Goods Outlawed at Bake Sales
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/g6IXdJAnJmA/Baked_Goods_Outlawed_at_Bake_Sales

New York City schools say no to zucchini bread but yes to Doritos for fundraising.

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3) M-rated Video: The ESRB and Video Game Trailers
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/HFE_m2ZiaWw/M_rated_Video_The_ESRB_and_Video_Game_Trailers

What are the ESRB's responsibilities when it comes to game trailers? How does the ratings body handle marketing materials? Why are some videos put behind age gates? Ars Technica looks how the industry self-regulates its marketing...

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4) Stephen Hawking: Future of Space- Manned vs Robotic Missions
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/H8zZ5pjo8EM/Stephen_Hawking_Future_of_Space_Manned_vs_Robotic_Missions

Will unmanned robotic missions be able to detect weird microscopic life-forms they are not programmed to recognize that might be lurking below the surface of Saturn's Titan, or beneath the murky seas of Jupiter's jumbo moon, Europa?

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5) Why Super Nintendos Lose Their Color
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/yQNkCGMt8Bk/Why_Super_Nintendos_Lose_Their_Color

Why Super Nintendos Lose Their Color: Plastic Discoloration in Classic Machines

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6) Botnet Blueprint: Build Your Own ZeuS Botnet for $2,753.50
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/u-IQxtXUsA8/Botnet_Blueprint_Build_Your_Own_ZeuS_Botnet_for_2_753_50

Researchers dissected ZeuS botnet blueprint - a little knowledge and a few thousand dollars is all it takes to build a fully functional botnet. Cisco researchers told delegates at the 2010 RSA conference in San Francisco that a botnet running the infamous ZeuS malware could be built for $2,753.50.

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7) Nickelback Less Popular Than Pickles
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/YSas2mAg-G8/Nickelback_Less_Popular_Than_Pickles

There are a lot of things more popular than pickles. Canadian rock band Nickelback is not one of them.

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8) Sega: Give Sonic to Nintendo
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/8uPXYfuseuY/Sega_Give_Sonic_to_Nintendo

Sega isn?t the kind of company that strives for innovation in their games, there is only one hope left for Sonic. Sega needs to give Sonic to Nintendo.

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9) Ubisoft DRM Servers Go Down
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/toTnbSrfEm0/Ubisoft_DRM_Servers_Go_Down

Ubisoft's DRM authentication has been a huge concern since their announcement and now one of those issues have derived. It turns out, Assassin's Creed 2 players are unable to connect at around 8am GMT and 10 hours has past and yet, the issue still has not been fixed.

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Blog Alert for digg.com: News / Popular, Mar 6, 2010

New Posts to digg.com: News / Popular on Mar 6, 2010:

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1) Former Homeless Man Scratches & Wins $250K
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/WwxMoqL7F2c/Former_Homeless_Man_Scratches_Wins_250K

Castro was shot in the head at the age of nineteen. He also witnessed the September 11 attacks and used to be homeless. Castro said now it is his turn to give back to those who have helped him get back on his feet.

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2) HVP Salmonella Recall Is Expanding
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/PPtYqyTJA2w/HVP_Salmonella_Recall_Is_Expanding

An unfolding recall of products containing a commonly used food-flavoring ingredient because of potential contamination with salmonella could ripple through the entire food industry.

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3) AT&T Announces Slew of Network Investments for 2010
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/oqNAs0pxbKk/AT_T_Announces_Slew_of_Network_Investments_for_2010

AT&T's preaching about the mucho dinero it's dropping into renovating its network to pretty much anyone who'll listen these days, and a veritable cornucopia of press releases this week start to go into detail on some of the upgrades we'll be seeing over the course of 2010.

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4) Pope John Pauls Sainthood Delayed by Botched Miracle Attempt
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Na-ntmEHljY/Pope_John_Pauls_Sainthood_Delayed_by_Botched_Miracle_Attempt

Hopes that the former pope's canonization would be fast-tracked by Sister Marie Simon-Pierre's recovery from Parkinson's disease have been set back by reports that the French nun has fallen ill again.

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5) 'Alice in Wonderland' on track to break all March records
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Y8hM4362v38/Alice_in_Wonderland_on_track_to_break_all_March_records

Disney Studios sure chose the right date with its March premiere of Alice in Wonderland. The Tim Burton-Johnny Depp collaboration debuted Friday to close to $40 million, putting its 3-day cume in the range of $110-$120 million.

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6) A passage to world power
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/rLFWSGXv1zU/A_passage_to_world_power

The reality of India I saw was often grim. Yet the country still confounds those who write it off

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7) How To Create Hangover-Free Alcohol: Add Oxygen
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/29zN9au7QYU/How_To_Create_Hangover_Free_Alcohol_Add_Oxygen

While traditional fizzy tipples contain carbon dioxide, research shows that infusing the alcohol with oxygen instead allows drinkers to sober up more quickly.

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8) "ALL" Google Logos up until March 2010 (PICS)
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/UhNv_0G7FfU/ALL_Google_Logos_up_until_March_2010_PICS

Holiday Logos and Events - Google style! A collection of "ALL" Google logos commemorating holidays and events around the world.Year: * 1998 * 1999 * 2000 * 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 * 2010....January - March.....and more to come......

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9) Is the internet making us stupid?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/oV4UGmtoSwQ/Is_the_internet_making_us_stupid_5

How we seek breadth of information, and sacrifice depth

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10) Wave of Ransom Malware Hits Internet
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Udz4pqm4qqQ/Wave_of_Ransom_Malware_Hits_Internet

Aged malware returns in a new wave of ransom-style online scams.

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11) Ten Jobs You Absolutely Should Not 'Take Your Child to Work
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Jn2Y182StWg/Ten_Jobs_You_Absolutely_Should_Not_Take_Your_Child_to_Work

Take Your Daughter Child to Work Day is fast approaching April 22 will be upon us before you know it. Chances are your place of employment is already making plans to host and entertain more than the usual number of immature people who show up for work every day.

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12) Seriously? Chef Creates Cheese from His Wife's Breast Milk
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/KED2kKeN5LU/Seriously_Chef_Creates_Cheese_from_His_Wife_s_Breast_Milk

This is possibly where locavore enthusiasm, a preference for humane dairy products, and the blurry mind state that too many sleepless nights as a new parent intersect ? but who am I to judge? The chef calls his creation Mommy?s Milk Cheese. WTF...

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13) Bomb disposal expert due to be sent to Afghanistan is quizzed
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/QbqoxUTOhio/Bomb_disposal_expert_due_to_be_sent_to_Afghanistan_is_quizzed

Nicholas Fabian, 32, an Army bomb disposal expert who is reportedly due to be posted to Afghanistan, was held after wife Victoria, also 32, suffered serious leg injuries in the blast in a communal car park in the village of Vigo, near Meopham, Kent, just after 1pm yesterday.

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14) Daughter's tribute to dying mother is a YouTube sensation
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/qRUM4slY1L0/Daughter_s_tribute_to_dying_mother_is_a_YouTube_sensation

A YouTube clip of 16-year-old Sarah Phillips' emotional tribute to her dying mother is set to become an internet sensation after getting thousands of hits online.

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15) MIT's Media Lab moves into $90m building
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/ZwQIHYOzOQ4/MIT_s_Media_Lab_moves_into_90m_building

It took more than 10 years, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?s famed Media Lab has finally moved into its new digs.

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16) GM Plans to Reinstate 580 Dealerships
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/_EipPmWnVNI/GM_Plans_to_Reinstate_580_Dealerships

General Motors Co. will reinstate more than half the dealerships it targeted to drop from its network.

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Blog Alert for digg.com: News / Popular, Feb 28, 2010

New Posts to digg.com: News / Popular on Feb 28, 2010:

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1) HSBC CEO to give bonus to charity: reports
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/K5eJIJ-pjWs/HSBC_CEO_to_give_bonus_to_charity_reports

Michael Geoghegan, the chief executive of Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings (HSBA.L), is set to give his bonus to charity, newspapers have reported, following a high-profile row over the sums paid to bankers.||Three British...

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2) At Least 45 Die In Europe Storms
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/F9CHiM-8DRQ/At_Least_45_Die_In_Europe_Storms

At least 45 people are killed, most of them in France, as powerful storms cause chaos across western Europe.

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3) Little did I know, She was Only 16 years old.
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/dlnSHVCfa7Q/Little_did_I_know_She_was_Only_16_years_old

Can you imagine if every murderer - including vehicular manslaughter and accidental were all of a sudden made to register as murderers and violent offenders? Or if everyone convicted of a drug offense - pot smokers, and those that gave their relative their prescription meds, were classifed into one big group and made to register as drug abusers?...

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4) The deadliest, most awe-inspiring of the plagues
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/SXPZPxZhT78/The_deadliest_most_awe_inspiring_of_the_plagues

Yellow fever was a terrifying plague until Finlay and Reed showed a way to combat it by demonstrating that it's transmitted by mosquitoes

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5) Obama yet to kick smoking habit, should eat better
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/4Xc684HE7rs/Obama_yet_to_kick_smoking_habit_should_eat_better

President Barack Obama hasn't kicked the smoking habit, takes anti-inflammatory medication to relieve chronic tendinitis in his left knee and should eat better to lower his cholesterol, his team of doctors concluded Sunday after the 48-year-old's first medical checkup as commander in chief.

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6) So movies shouldn't break the laws of physics?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/oJoxZLiNcb4/So_movies_shouldn_t_break_the_laws_of_physics

How typical of a scientist to try to reduce film-making to a formula

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