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GLAD

SAD

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NBC Ends Rule Barring Gay Weddings on 'Today'

After a meeting with gay and lesbian activists on Thursday, NBC's 'Today' show said it is changing the rules for its annual wedding contest to allow same-sex couples to apply for a ceremony conducted on morning TV.
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AWESOME

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YouTube - National Mustache Champion

click then vote
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AWESOME

STUPID

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BP (Logo Redesign Contest)

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this is a real sponsored logo contest. click then vote.
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SMART

DUMB

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U.S. Government to crowdsource challenges across all agencies

The United States General Services Administration, or GSA, will run government-wide contests on a new prizes-for-solutions platform, in an attempt to spur efficiency while motivating the public to participate in government in a real, concrete way. New York startup ChallengePost beat out seven unnamed competitors for the right to power prize-based crowdsourcing contests for government agencies.
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COOL

BORING

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Best illusion contest winner- wooden balls defying gravity

In this video, wooden balls roll up the slopes just as if they are pulled by a magnet. The behavior of the balls seems impossible, because it is against the gravity. The video is not a computer graphic, but a real scene.
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FAIR

FRIVOLOUS

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Netflix sued for privacy breach, seeks $2500 for each subscriber

So it wasn’t surprising that just weeks after the contest began, two University of Texas researchers — Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov — identified several NetFlix users by comparing their “anonymous” reviews in the Netflix data to ones posted on the Internet Movie Database website. Revelations included identifying their political leanings and sexual orientation.
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COOL

LAME

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The winner of the Google Android Apps Contest- Sweet Dreams

The top winner overall was SweetDreams, an app that helps you send late night calls straight to voicemail and automatically conserves battery power by turning off features like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi at night.
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COOL

LAME

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'Captain America' wins rock-paper-scissors title

A Michigan man has won the world Rock Paper Scissors championship in Toronto. Tim Conrad clinched the title after five hours of play and nine matches at the Steam Whistle Brewery on Saturday night.
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TWITTER

MADOFF

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If you have to Pikk one- who is 2009 Person of the year?

these are two candidates that are floating around, please don't be a snob and say twitter isn't a person.
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BELIEVE

DOUBT

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Kids made these Play-Doh sculptures

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These kids are competing for a $5,000 prize. Pay attention to the 3 year olds sculptures particular. Do you think they really made these?
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COOL

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Man bets he can eat pizza and only pizza for 1 month

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Craig Scharoff's dream food is sausage pizza. And he has no doubt that he can eat it all day, every day. In fact, Scharoff is so confident that he is putting his money where his pizza-loving mouth is. Near the end of September, one of Scharoff's co-workers at Greenwood Associates in Highland Park posted a notice on LTHForum.com, a Chicago-based culinary chat site, announcing a wager he'd entered into with Scharoff.
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WOW!

MEH

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The best hospital food contest, and the chefs who made it happen

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"Chefs in health care are the most misunderstood people," says Eric Eisenberg, who was a chef in French restaurants and a country club before becoming executive chef at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. He is a past gold-medal winner of the National Society for Healthcare Foodservice Management's cooking competition, and helped run the contest this year. "People think we slop gruel on trays."
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