- - In a unanimous vote, MLB owners today approved Hal Steinbrenner to assume control of the Yankees at the request of his father. “I realize it’s a great responsibility,” said Hal Steinbrenner, who turns 40 on Dec. 3. “My dad is, needless to say, a tough act to follow.”
- - The Lost Boys vampires are cooler than yours because… the idea of teen vampires was still original when it was done here; plus, we have Kiefer Sutherland, who kicks ass regardless of whether he’s undead or alive.
- - Making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. Unbelievable.
- - November is a good month to reconsider the cigarette. Not only is it National Lung Cancer and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness month, but November 20th is the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers are encouraged to put down the pack, if only for the day.
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- - “These guys, for all that stuff they’ve been telling us all these years about, ‘Go capitalism! Free market! Free enterprise!’ They don’t believe in any of that. They don’t believe in free enterprise or free market. They want socialism for themselves. They want a handout and a net for themselves. To hell with everybody else, but give it to t…
- - They don’t mention what they as a company have the power to do. Instead, they ask people to do things like take their golf clubs out of their trunk, replace light bulbs with CFLs, and “consider” buying a hybrid.
- - A group of mobile manufacturers (LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson) has launched a common energy rating system for chargers, making it easier for consumers to compare and choose the one that saves the most energy.
- - and had a 5′10″ high jump, and played basketball, and played football in college. They called him Sugarfoot.
- - Once again, science kicks magic’s ass.
- - Drawing charts and graphs to illustrate pop songs is hugely popular on the internet, and now a British author has published a book packed with examples. Can you spot the hits hidden in these amazing diagrams?
- - Communicating your clients is a necessary evil of contract web development, design, programming, writing, or any other freelance art form. Our round up of ten must have web-based tools below will help you better communicate with clients, and and help you keep your sanity.
- - The latest milestone in the quest for a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak has been reached: a way of bending the geometry of space so that light from all directions travels around an object, rather than hitting it.
- - See what happens from the DC heroes’ perspective
- - In an important test of the Bush administration’s detention policies, a federal judge ruled that five Guantánamo Bay prisoners are not being lawfully held.
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