Will Muschamp was introduced as the new head football coach at the University of Florida on Tuesday. He replaces the retiring Urban Meyer. (Dec. 14)
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A serial killer may have abandoned four bodies, each apparently dumped from a vehicle, along a desolate, wind-swept stretch of highway not far from Long Island’s Jones Beach. (Dec. 14)
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A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan’s Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wasn’t an easy find, though. Seems shooting bullets at wind farms is nothing new. The Michigan incident is just the latest episode of upset people taking out their anger on defenseless nacelles, blades and, in this case, transformers. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A rare tornado struck a small town south of Portland on Tuesday, tearing roofs off buildings, hurling objects into vehicles and homes and uprooting trees. (Dec. 14)
Continue reading …iGrill meat thermometer for iPhone is the expensive, unholy marriage of the meat thermometer and iPhone
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OK, we didn’t see this one coming: iGrill is a Bluetooth-enabled meat thermometer. That’s right, this bad boy not only displays the temp of whatever you sink the probe into, it also takes that info and transmits it to your iOS device for remote monitoring. Hell, the app itself even features a kitchen timer, alerts for whatever temp you set it to, and more. Because really, you do everything else with your smartphone, so why not use it to free yourself from the tyranny of the kitchen once and for all? Oh, that’s right — because this thing costs $100. See for yourself by hitting up the source link. iGrill meat thermometer for iPhone is the expensive, unholy marriage of the meat thermometer and iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Scarlette Johansson and Ryan Reynolds Just Broke Up-Scarlette Johansson and Ryan Reynolds broke up after two years of marriage. According to reports, Johansson was the one who initiated the break up. The 26-year-old actress has been searching for an apartment in New York City but the actress is currently in Jamaica with her friends. On Scarlette Johansson and Ryan Reynolds Just Broke Up is a post from: Daily World Buzz
Continue reading …Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results, helps Google build another database to take over the world
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Google Voice Actions was the first step towards our Star Tre k dreams of lassoing the world with naught but vocal cords, and today Google’s taken a second hop towards that inevitable future by letting Android devices record our every utterance. Yes, if you’ve got a handset running Froyo or better, you can download an update for Google Voice Search right now, which will let your phone dynamically personalize its speech-to-text engine to better recognize your voice most every time you use it. Of course, by so doing you’re giving Google permission to record your sentences — anonymously, of course — to use in future products, but whether that’s a problem or just a happy coincidence depends on whether you take Google at its word . We hit the “yes” button, in case you’re curious. Find it on Android Market, or just use the handy-dandy QR code below. Continue reading Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results, helps Google build another database to take over the world Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results, helps Google build another database to take over the world originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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enlarge Credit: CNN Election 2000 – it all came down to that. Click here to view this media December 13, 2000 was the day the Presidential election was over . Hotly contested, even to this day, the election was finally decided by the Supreme Court, who overruled a lower court’s decision to recount ballots in Florida. But as Representative David Price from North Carolina put it: David Price (D-North Carolina): “I think the dissenting opinions are going to be treated much more kindly by history than the majority opinion. But we’ve got to move on.” And ten years on, those words keep coming back. Here are the concession and victory speeches by Al Gore and President-Elect Bush with a wide range of opinions on the days events by a whole host of pundits, politicos and just plain folk, as reported by NPR on the evening of December 13, 2000.
Continue reading …Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding Gown: Who’ll be the Designer?-Who will design Kate Middleton’s wedding gown? Many of us are excited to hear the answer to this question. Most of us are eagerly anticipating the first glimpse of Kate’s wedding gown. There were lots of top-designers that have been speculated to design Middleton’s gown. But it Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding Gown: Who’ll be the Designer? is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Photo via American Hunter Whether it be lurking through the brush with a bow in search of deer, or picking off wolves with a high-powered rifle from the comfort of a helicopter, Americans have a long history of hunting for sport — but this love-affair with killing animals has apparently been fizzling over the years. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 33 states across the country have seen a sharp drop in the number of hunting licenses sold in the past two decades. Experts suspect that… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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