Archive for January, 2008
Olbermann slams O’Reilly for downplaying homeless veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that about 195,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. But this official statistic is not good enough for Bill O’Reilly, who recently mocked presidential candidate John Edwards for making it an issue in his campaign, saying, “”We’re still looking for all the veterans sleeping under the bridges.”
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Lego Master Completes 30-Pound Star Wars Starship Model
After a mammoth building session, Lego master Mark Kelso has just recently put the last brick on his model of the Invisible Hand, General Grevious’ ship from Star Wars Episode III.
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Amazon: $129 Toshiba HD-A3 with 7 HD DVDs and free shipping
Desperate, maybe. But still a good deal.
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iPhone speaker too quiet? Stab it with needles
According to daring “modders,” it’s possible to get a 40-percent increase in volume via this simple-yet-destructive trick of perforating the thin plastic which covers the speaker.
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Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds
Mahalo Daily cuts out the fluff.
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Click Video Drop and skip the jump to another site
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Vista successor rumored to be on track for 2009 release
Several “industry sources” are now saying that the a very early version of the so-called “Windows 7″ OS has already shipped to “key partners,” and that Microsoft is now eying the second half of 2009 for a release of the real deal. That’s a slight revision from the most recent rumors, which had pegged the […]
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473 days of White House email missing
There are 16 days of no archived e-mails from Sept. 12, 2003, to May 23, 2005, for the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to Waxman’s letter announcing the hearing. There are a dozen days of no archived e-mails for the White House Office inside the EOP, starting Dec. 17, 2003, and ending on […]
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Bush’s contempt for the law
Add the “Presidential Records Act” to the list of laws the Bush Administration has broken.
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