A car bomb ripped through a funeral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad today, killing at least 37 people, including four children and three women. The car, which exploded around 2pm, had been parked with the vehicles of other mourners, several yards away from the tent, so it…
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Second-seeded Roger Federer lost in the Australian Open semifinals Thursday to Novak Djokovic. The women’s No. 1 was also sent packing as Caroline Wozniacki lost to Li Na. (Jan. 27)
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Continue reading …Since his 2006 gay massage-and-meth scandal, Rev. Ted Haggard has been vague about his sexual orientation. But in a GQ profile, he admits for the first time that, “Probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.” But he doesn’t, because he’s not 21:…
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Alternet has an interesting roundup of four places where you should avoid purchasing seafood if you want it to be sustainable. Find out why Costco, Legal Seafood, Nobu and H.E.B. should be on your no-shop list. For what seafood you can buy guilt-free, check out our sustainable seafood selections and 10 tips on being a sustainable sushi addict . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Hitler’s last surviving bodyguard says he’s just too old to keep up with all the fan mail he receives. Rochus Misch, who is 93, says boxes of mail from admirers are piling up at his Berlin home—he’s no longer able to do what he once did: send his fans…
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Karl Chu knows he is a man way ahead of his time. It’s a time when, he posits, humans have transcended their bodies to exist on multiple planes, contribute to a global brain, and write apps with their genomes . But it’s the implications for architecture that are really exciting, says Chu. The founder of the innovative architectural firm metaxy , he imagines “genetic architects” creating buildings and othe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Facebook puts the kibosh on branded HTC phone rumors, still plans to sweep the Oscars
January 27, 2011 No Comment
“The rumor got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours?” “Thousand.” “I’m sorry?” “Twenty-two thousand.” “Wow.” And so it was. Once again , the powers that be at Facebook have been forced to come forward and deny yet another rumor that a FB-branded handset was on the horizon, this time crushing hopes and dreams of an HTC device . Dan Rose, head of business development at the company, came forward with the following statement: “This is really just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public APIs (application programming interfaces) and integrated them into their device in an interesting way. The rumours around there being something more to this HTC device are overblown.” When asked whether or not the handset in question would be Facebook-branded, he followed with this: “No. There’s no such thing as Harvard law. And there’s no such thing as a Facebook phone.”* *Liberties taken with the quote. Facebook puts the kibosh on branded HTC phone rumors, still plans to sweep the Oscars originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Click here to view this media From last night’s monologue, mostly about Olbermann’s sudden departure from MSNBC.
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