Monthly Archives: November 2005

Don’t Try This at Home Video

Ever want to drive a really cool car really, really fast? Ever want to break every traffic law in the book, risk your own life and that of others, and force frantic Frenchmen and women flee your passage? Who hasn’t? … Continue reading

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Bad Vibes – Search for the World’s Worst Sounds

For some, it is the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard. For others, a crying baby, the trill of a mobile phone or the sound of someone retching. Now British scientists have launched the BadVibes project, a quest to … Continue reading

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Everything You Google Can and Will Be Held Against You

DURHAM, N.C. — Robert Petrick searched for the words "neck," "snap," "break" and "hold" on an Internet search engine before his wife died, according to prosecutors Wednesday. More than two years after Janine Sutphen’s body was discovered floating in a … Continue reading

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We Do Not Torture…..Much

By LEONARD PITTS Well, I guess that settles that. “We do not torture,” President Bush said on Monday. Never mind all those torture pictures from Abu Ghraib. Never mind all those torture stories from Guantanamo Bay. Never mind the 2002 … Continue reading

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Godzilla Croc Found in Argentina, Che

BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhuanet) — In the Jurassic era when dinosaurs ruled the earth, a 13-foot monster crocodile nicknamed "Godzilla" might be the king of sea, described scientists Thursday. Totally unique among marine crocodiles, "it is one of the most … Continue reading

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Latest from the Ministry of Truth

WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee will look into a possible leak of classified information about secret CIA prisons but will not reopen its 2003 inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq. As calls for intelligence-related reviews grow on Capitol Hill, … Continue reading

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Password Crackers Utilize Hash

A trio of entrepreneurial hackers hope to do for the business of password cracking what Google did for search and, in the process, may remove the last vestiges of security from many password systems. Over the past two years, three … Continue reading

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Lesbian Cheerleader Toilet Sex Video

We couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried……  

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A World Awash in Oil

Top executives from the oil industry are expected to stand their ground when they testify on Wednesday before Congress on the politically charged issue of high energy prices. The hearing, called to investigate whether oil majors are "profiteering" at the … Continue reading

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Democracy in Action

The Dowbrigade loves Election Day, even in an off-off year like the present. The air of infinite possibility mingled with the quiet desperation of the direct participants is intoxicating.   In part, we simply like the fact that we are … Continue reading

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Democracy in Action

The Dowbrigade loves Election Day, even in an off-off year like the present. The air of infinite possibility mingled with the quiet desperation of the direct participants is intoxicating.   In part, we simply like the fact that we are … Continue reading

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French Teen Bloggers Accused of Fomenting Riots

Paris prosecutors opened an inquiry Tuesday into two young bloggers who urged French youths to riot and revolt against the police, a judicial official said. The youths, a 16-year-old French teen and an 18-year-old with Ghanian nationality, were detained Monday … Continue reading

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