Deja vu all over again ? Not quite — this time it’s Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois and and Indiana feeling the pain of no Comcast internet, according to a bevy of tipsters and a series of official ComcastCares tweets. As before, the fix is fairly simple, assuming you know how to manually switch your DNS — just point your computer to a public domain name server (like Google’s at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, but there are plenty of others) and things should re-route themselves in seconds flat. Friends don’t let friends go without a connection, so if you know someone who’s likely affected but won’t find out what’s wrong until it’s too late, why not shoot them a text message or something to share the fix? [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Comcast internet down in the midwest, DNS servers to blame again originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Giants beat mistake-prone Redskins. Bears edge Lions. Kansas City tops Denver. Brees leads Saints to last-minute victory over the Bengals. Cowboys intercept Peyton Manning four times in overtime win. Jaguars beat Titans. (Dec. 5)
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Vulgarian Kathy Griffin on Friday called Bristol Palin fat during her opening monologue of the USO's Divas Salute to the Troops. “She's the only contestant in the history of ["Dancing with the Stars"] to actually gain weight,” said Griffin. “She's like the white Precious” (video follows courtesy MTV.com with commentary): read more
Continue reading …LimeWire the online store fades away, LimeWire the file-sharing service soldiers on
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In what will no doubt be held up as an shining example of irony in the months and years to come, it seems the RIAA has succeeded in shutting down LimeWire … but only the legal part. The LimeWire Store, which legitimately sold online music, will reportedly close on December 31st, and the site itself states that it won’t be taking new customers from now on. Where, oh where will folks get their digital tunes instead? Some might go right back to filching them using LimeWire’s peer-to-peer application, which hasn’t actually been squashed by the injunction . Yes, a rogue group released LimeWire Pirate Edition last month, a version of the original Gnutella P2P client with all the bloat stripped out and premium functionality turned on, which is apparently receiving so welcome a reception in the file-sharing community that the Lime Group felt the need to issue a cease-and-desist to those distributing the software. Yo ho, yo ho… LimeWire the online store fades away, LimeWire the file-sharing service soldiers on originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Floods continued to ravage Colombia where 170 people have died during the country’s rainy season. In neighbouring Venezuela, deadly floods and mudslides caused by torrential rains prompted authorities to evacuate hundreds from their homes. (Dec. 5)
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Hundreds of protesters, demanding the annulment of Haiti’s elections, have clashed with riot police in the Haitian capital, stoking tensions ahead of results expected on Tuesday. Haitian riot police fired tear gas to disperse more than 1,500 protesters when they tried to break through a barrier blocking access to the area in front of the white presidential palace, which was badly wrecked in the January 12 earthquake. Al Jazeera correspondent
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Photo: Will Burrard-Lucas In nature, some of the most incredible species come in the tinniest packages. While traveling in Madagascar recently, wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas happened upon this teensy-weensy Brookesia… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Giants beat mistake-prone Redskins. Bears edge Lions. Kansas City tops Denver. Brees leads Saints to last-minute victory over the Bengals. Jaguars beat Titans as Maurice Jones-Drew runs for 186 yards in the win. (Dec. 5)
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Here's a twist on the WikiLeaks document dump only a liberal media member could come up with: it shows the Obama administration is doing a good job. So said former long-time Chicago Tribuner recently turned New York Times columnist James Warren on this weekend's “McLaughlin Group” (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more
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