Sunday, April 11, 2010

Blog Alert for digg.com: News / Popular, Apr 10, 2010

New Posts to 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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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Blog Alert for digg.com: News / Popular, Apr 9, 2010

New Posts to digg.com: News / Popular on Apr 9, 2010:

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1) KFC's Packaging Even Worse Than Its Food
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Q-hew21T9DA/KFC_s_Packaging_Even_Worse_Than_Its_Food

There are many reasons to avoid dining at Kentucky Fried Chicken for the food alone. A single Extra Crispy Chicken Breast contains 510 calories and 33 g of fat, and the company buys chickens from suppliers who mistreat the birds. But a new report reveals KFC's packaging is even worse, with the company supporting clear-cutting of virgin forests.

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2) Iran Unveils 'Faster' Uranium Centrifuges [wVideo]
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/NQPwpUsDoJs/Iran_Unveils_Faster_Uranium_Centrifuges_w_Video

Iran's president unveils new centrifuges that officials say can enrich uranium 6 times faster than the first generation.

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3) Broader unemployment metric still shows slack U.S. labor mar
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/AhPuxy949lE/Broader_unemployment_metric_still_shows_slack_U_S_labor_mar

In the U.S., 15 million Americans are classified as unemployed. Another 9.1 million are working on a part-time basis because they can't secure full-time employment. That's roughly 24 million Americans who do not have the full-time work circumstance they seek -- a gargantuan total, under any commercial condition.

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4) File-Sharers Safe Until Music Biz Change Laws
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/qAptdEOGySk/File_Sharers_Safe_Until_Music_Biz_Change_Laws

After failing in their case against The Pirate Bay, a music copyrights group has announced it will give up trying to get sites blocked and will leave file-sharers alone. Not forever though. They will instead put all their efforts into getting the law changed. The IFPI said yesterday that it wants to bring this same strategy to your country soon.

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5) 13-year-old Californian boy will attempt to climb Everest
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/tB0zukoBEws/13_year_old_Californian_boy_will_attempt_to_climb_Everest

If he succeeds, he'll be youngest person ever to climb the world's highest peak. He's already climbed five of the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on seven continents

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6) What's Wrong With School Lunches?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/6CZAgUbTZzg/What_s_Wrong_With_School_Lunches

If you eat breakfast and lunch at school, and get three squares a day, that means that only 360 of the 1,095 meals you'll eat per year are in the lunch ladies' hands. My guess is that the real culprits in American obesity are easier to find in the 735 nutritionally nonregulated meals kids eat elsewhere.

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7) US Mother Ships Adopted Boy, 7, Back to Russia
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/sGC2nCvNcgw/US_Mother_Ships_Adopted_Boy_7_Back_to_Russia

Russia's foreign minister said the country should freeze adoptions with U.S. families after an 7-year-old Russian boy was shipped back to Moscow on a one-way flight by his adoptive mother in Tennessee.

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8) Why Didn't Todd Bridges Star in 'Breakfast Club?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/dZUzOykRcZ8/Why_Didn_t_Todd_Bridges_Star_in_Breakfast_Club

Former Different Strokes star Todd Bridges discusses his new autobiography, Killing Willis. In this outtake, Todd tells the story of meeting John Hughes and the possibility of being cast in The Breakfast Club.

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9) iPhone 4.0 --Video Conferencing Coming?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/HIcpiCdxzgY/iPhone_4_0_Video_Conferencing_Coming

Apple didn't introduce any new iPhone hardware; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later this summer. Could one of those surprises be a front-facing camera with iChat support?

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10) Top 10 Most Anticipated XBLA Games
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/h8Lyy5Ew8x4/Top_10_Most_Anticipated_XBLA_Games

These are the downloadable games we're impatient for.

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11) Talk about a magical place
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/7yqACoA6UoM/Talk_about_a_magical_place

College de Valleyfield, this place looks amazing.

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12) Mega-Multitasking: Intel Sampling 48-Core Systems
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/PMM_Sra0u2s/Mega_Multitasking_Intel_Sampling_48_Core_Systems

Just when you thought your 6-core chip was the baddest processor on the planet, Intel goes and announces plans to ship PCs equipped with an experimental 48-core CPU to a handful of lucky researchers...

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13) Superstition and Baseball Go Hand-in-Hand
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/bhelWvEmHHw/Superstition_and_Baseball_Go_Hand_in_Hand

"I'm not superstitious. I am, however, a little stitious." -- Michael Scott, The Office

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14) 50 Things I'd Rather Do Than Watch Sex and the City 2
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/gEoGOJcwqhQ/50_Things_I_d_Rather_Do_Than_Watch_Sex_and_the_City_2

Sometimes you just know when something stinks. In fact, there are a million other things I would do before watching a frame of this garish, overextended twaddle. For starters...

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15) Real Life 'Lester the Molester' is REALLY Dumb
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/9S2L_WsUdu4/Real_Life_Lester_the_Molester_is_REALLY_Dumb

Police first noticed Tilden Lester when he picked perhaps the worst name possible as he reached out to an undercover detective in an incest chat group.

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