(then split the profits) WeBook just raised $5M. A bunch of writers get together online and write a book together, when and if the book sells, they get 50% of the profit, WeBook gets the other half. "Since its April 2008 launch, WEbook has added tho [more]
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In March, a town in Florida banned saggy pants where the wearers underwear was exposed. Somebody sued for some reason, and won. Today, the court ruled that that law is unconstitutional. "A 17-year-old spent a night in jail last week after police ar [more]
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we've all heard about caylee's mom - the pretty but crazy mother of the adorable missing child. she was in jail, then bailed out by an attorney who didn't know her who then retracted her bond, so she returned to jail and now, apparently, she has retu [more]
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(click [more] for pic) "The scientists used DNA samples from its front leg to establish its likely age....Researchers from Karlsruhe's Natural History Museum found the 0.118 inch insect in the Amazon rainforest in 2007, and hope it will shed light on [more]
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Bonus: she works for the McCain campaign (well, not anymore). Is she a truth-teller (hero) or an egomaniac asshat (jerk). "the former Hewlett-Packard CEO told two separate interviewers that neither member of the Republican ticket would be capable of [more]
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...A $250 million manufacturing plant. "The San Jose operation will house a factory, research, and development center, and become Tesla corporate headquarters, the representative said...The plant will be capable of turning out 15,000 Model S sedans a [more]
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"'A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!' will air Nov. 23 as a one-hour special...It will be a musical special featuring John Legend, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, Feist _ and "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who's slated to si [more]
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We will loan them $85 billion, funded by Treasury bills, and we will now all be stockholders of AIG (that's not a misprint, our country will own 80% of the company). After refusing to bail out Meryl Lynch and Lehman Brothers, U.S. Treasury secretary [more]
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Out of nowhere, according to the article, the powers that be declared that you may not smoke anywhere, inside, outside, anywhere on any state campus area. "The action has sparked protests around the state by some of the 110,000 students in the State S [more]
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([more] for pic) Matching up visual cues such as buildings with a stored map, as well as robotic actuators, this car drove itself around San Francisco. "More precisely, the 'bot relied on a combination of GPS, inertial guidance, and a pair of infrare [more]
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