First Apple iPhone shipments arrive stateside

The first retail-bound volume shipments of Apple Inc.'s hotly anticipated iPhone device arrived successfully in the United States this past weekend, touching down quietly at a handful of drop locations just six days before the device is due to go on



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Linux becomes mature and achieves excellence (up 41%)

According to statistics from the China Open Source Software Promotion Union, Linux's sales in the Chinese market reached 218 million Yuan in 2006, up 41 percent, and higher than the international average.



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New anti-speeding ad tells speeders their small penis is why they speed

Young men who speed do so because they have a small penis - or so the new RTA road safety campaign implies. Ads from the $1.9 million campaign - which targets speeding among 17- to 25-year-olds - aired for the first time on TV last night. They show onlookers who see speeding male drivers wiggling their pinkie fingers.



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Video: Top 10 "Bird Moments" In Sports

Crazy blooper video! The top ten bird moments in sports history. Many of them were just in the wrong place at the wrong time...



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Analysis: Google's net neutrality position leaves unanswered questions

Google articulates its stance on network neutrality regulation on its new policy blog. The entry raises as many questions as it answers.



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Linuxsucks.org's "Best Operating System Of All Time": Linux

What is the best operating system of all time?POLL RESULTS: 724 votesPercent Votes Options41% 301 Linux14% 104 BSD4% 34 Mac OS X2% 17 Windows 9x/ME17% 125 Windows XP9% 71 Windows 2000/NT2% 16 BeOS3% 23 Amiga OS1% 11 VMS3% 22 More Cheesy Poofs!



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KDE's shiny new file manager.

Dolphin is a file manager for KDE focusing on usability. The main features of Dolphin are...



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Full map of Europe in year 1000 [PICTURE]

Title really says it all



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Ubuntu'd, you're getting a Dell

The perfect high school graduation gift â�;�" a new computer. It'll be a God-send for my daughter when her college starts up in the fall. But what to buy? Seeing that I've been running Linux systems for over…



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Smashing Pumpkins to Fans, Indie Stores: Fuck You

A little over dramatic, but hey - it's a Pitchfork article.Billy Corgan shits on indie record stores.



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'Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair' Coming to DVD

First, it will come out in less than five months -- on November 6th, so we know how long we have to wait. Secondly, it should be a hell of a lot better than the previous DVD offerings. It's run-time is listed at 247 minutes (4+ hours long) and that's probably why its rating is NC17. I can only imagine what this extra footage holds!



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Baseball Coach Fined for Trying to 'Pack Heat' on a Plane

St. Bonaventure baseball coach Larry Sudbrook was fined $1,000 Thursday after he pleaded guilty to trying to carry a .357 Magnum revolver onto a commercial airplane. "It was certainly a mistake that made for some dark days around my house for a while," Sudbrook said.



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Is the iPhone worth supporting the evil AT&T empire?

The iPhone is super-hyped, but is it worth getting if it means giving money to the privacy-hating, monopoly-having bastards at AT&T? Gizmodo examines why it might be worth skipping the iPhone to maintain a clear conscience.



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The F Scale

Find out your 'Authoritarian Personality' F score! Mine is only a wussy 3.83......what is yours?



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Ariz. Woman's Face Branded With 'Snitch'

Valdez, 21, told police the woman was smoking methamphetamine with him shortly before the attack. The police investigation later led to the removal of a child from the home because drug paraphernalia was found there.



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DrinkorDie warez leader jailed for 51 months

It took a while, but US Customs today got their man: Hew Raymond Griffiths, a ringleader of the infamous warez group DrinkorDie, was sentenced today to 51 months in a US prison.



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Best playground toy ever

The last we saw of little Billy was that he went inside the super fun giant inflatable monkey crotch and we haven’t seen him since. All that is left are his little shoes … Billy? Where are you? Are you safe?



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Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux

For the last few days, Microsoft has been distributing Unbuntu Desktop Linux from the Windows Marketplace Website. The page is gone now, but can still — as of this morning — be seen using Google cache.



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Bush's Secret Campaign To Deny Global Warming Revealed

Earlier this year, the world's top climate scientists released a definitive report on global warming. It is now "unequivocal," they concluded, that the planet is heating up. Bush no likey.



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House votes to ban aid to Saudi Arabia

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to prohibit any aid to Saudi Arabia as lawmakers accused the close ally of religious intolerance and bankrolling



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Lawmaker urges condoms for border control

A congressman is pushing a not-so-quick fix in the debate over illegal immigrants from Mexico: free contraceptives.



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'A' List Film Producer Dana Brunetti's Smackdown for "On the Lot"

"Compared to 'On The Lot,' Project Greenlight was Emmy material. On the other hand, the production of 'On The Lot' itself is like watching a train wreck..."



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How not to do a print screen

Hilarious way of doing a print screen. This guy completely looses it!



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Guy blogs about bad company, company adds him to gay dating sites.

The best bit is they didn't realise their IP was traceable



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Video - Snow: Increased Violence In Iraq is 'Sign Of Success'

During his press briefing yesterday, White House spokesman Tony Snow said the increasing chaos was a positive sign. The new levels of attacks "fit a pattern that we see throughout the region," he said, "which is that when you see things moving towards success, or when you see signs of success, that there are acts of violence."



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End Looms for Iraq Arms Inspection Unit

The search for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction appears close to an official conclusion, several years after their absence became a foregone one. The United States and Britain have circulated a new proposal to the members of the United Nations Security Council to "terminate immediately the mandates" of the weapons inspectors.



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Olbermann: OVP: Our Fourth Branch of Government?

On Countdown, Keith Olbermann talks about the startling and deeply disturbing assertions that the Office of the Vice President is making regarding oversight. Video at site.



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A 62yr old strangles bobcat with bare hands!

Rippy, 62, endured the bobcat's slashes and bites until it clawed into a position where he could grab it by the throat.Then he strangled it.



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5 Facebook Application Gotchas

Everyone and their uncle is writing Facebook applications for the new Facebook Platform. I, too, have my own offering, written by myself and the other OpenHive guys: Bookshelf. Even though the platform was released almost a month ago there are still plenty of tricks, gotchas, and other undocumented oddities that deserve to be brought to light.



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O'Reilly cuts off a mic again...

From the "LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU" department, when Ms. Swanson won't give the answer O'Reilly wants about Hillary Clinton he just cuts her off.



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Yahoo Declines to Honor Human Rights.

When Yahoo's shareholder's voting board was recently faced with the question of maintaining a database of identifiable personal information on people using its site in countries where such information could be used against political dissidents, Yahoo replied, "Not our Problem!" ..disgusting!



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The Machine is (Using) Us

Incredible video explaining the new world of Web2.0, XML, and the Websites and people who power this technology. Check it out and be amazed at what you're part of!



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Microsoft Office fails maths compatibility test

Microsoft's decision to dump compatibility with Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) in favor of its own Office MathML (OMML) in Office 2007 is unlikely to win any support.



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US Homeland Security can't even configure a firewall!

844 security-related "incidents" on its computer systems in 2005 and 2006. Including unauthorised users hooking up personal computers to government networks, unauthorised software installations, classified e-mails traveling over unclassified networks, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections, classified data spillages!



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Ubuntu, Red Hat reject Microsoft patent deal

Red Hat, the largest Linux vendor, and Ubuntu-maker Canonical have both rejected calls from Microsoft to forge a deal similar to the one the Redmond giant signed with Linux distributors Novell, Xandros, and Linspire.



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Bad, Bad Reasons Not to Buy Open Source Software

A response to "10 reasons not to buy open source." This should be taken to every IT department.



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Linux computer fits in USB key

A start-up in the French Alps is readying a tiny Linux computer that fits inside a USB key form-factor. (No cheesy jokes, please!)



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Absolutely identify plants before using them as food. A great guide.

At times you may find yourself in a situation for which you could not plan. In this instance you may not have had the chance to learn the plant life of the region in which you must survive. In this case you can use the Universal Edibility Test to determine which plants you can eat and those to avoid.



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Lightning kills man beneath cloudless sky

A Dade landscaper died after being struck by an unusual type of lightning that's stronger, hotter, lasts longer and strikes from clear skies.



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Christians Cause Ban On Alcohol Inhalers Because They Prevent Hangover

Alcohol inhalers, which have been banned in 22 states since they were introduced to American consumers in 2004, will soon be illegal in North Carolina, home of Spirit Partners, the U.S. distributor of AWOL (Alcohol Without Liquid) machines.



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'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands. An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine. Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as a cigar-shaped brilliant white light



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Can you see the hidden image part 2!

Each digg this story receives will add a moving ball which will eventually reveal (another) hidden image! Based of code by Gary Carstensen.



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$175 Fee If You Cancel iPhone, Even Though You Paid Full Price

You better frickin' like your full-price iPhone because if you don't, AT&T plans on charging you the full $175 early termination fee, even though the phone's cost isn't at all subsidized under a long-term-agreement.



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BREAKING: Major New Habeas Legislation Introduced In The House

Powerful House chairmen Ike Skelton (D-MS) of the Armed Services Committee and John Conyers (D-MI) of the Judiciary Committee announced legislation today that would finally restore habeas corpus rights to U.S. detainees being imprisoned indefinitely without trial.



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iTunes now 3rd largest music retailer in US

Title says all.....



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Bloxorz

fun new game!



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KDE Gets Prettier and Lighter

Plasma is less resource-intensive than its KDE 3 counterparts. Though this is in part due to general performance improvements in the foundation of KDE 4 and the higher efficiency of newer versions of Qt, there is a resource-friendly ideology at play in the development of Plasma.



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Ron Paul Goes On The Offensive In Austin

During a campaign stop in Austin Texas this weekend, Presidential candidate Ron Paul called for bringing home U.S. troops and an end to a welfare state that benefits only big business at the expense of the poor and the middle class, while attacking his rival candidates as establishment shills who are out of touch with the sentiment of the American



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Huge Paris by Night Panoramic Image (15,000 X 520 Pixels)

Truly Beautiful. I'm a sucker for these kinds of Photos. It's like you're really there...okay, not really but still pretty cool nonetheless. This utterly stunning panorama of Paris by night (WARNING! 15000x520 image, 1.8mb) is almost too good to be true. You can see so many landmarks it's ridiculous



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Why did the sherrif release Paris Hilton from jail? Money.

Paris Hilton's billionaire grandfather donated money to the election campaign of the sheriff who released the 26-year-old from jail, it was revealed yesterday.



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Hilton Ordered Back to Jail

hey hey good by



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Paris free = Justice fails

Three days total. You or I would be rotting right now.



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Perez Hilton Shut Down

Perez Hilton's popular Blog was shut down after his hosting service received complaints about him posting copyrighted photos. Hilton says he refuses to pay license fees claiming because he is a "journalist" he has the right to use the images for free.



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The 5 Most Embarrassing Ways to die in a First-Person Shooter

Five ways you absolutely don't want to die in any First-Person Shooters. I'm sure you've experienced one of these in your gaming lives one time or another!



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The Youtube Money Machine

What the Possibility of Revenue Sharing Means for Video Creators



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iPhone with YouTube Parody Ad

YouTube user BoredDanMan released a parody iPhone ad which states his despise for Verizon. The video moved him to one of the most viewed comedians overnight.



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iPhone with YouTube Parody Ad

YouTube user BoredDanMan released a parody iPhone ad which states his despise for Verizon. The video moved him to one of the most viewed comedians overnight.



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White House contempt

House Judiciary Committee Democrats warned yesterday they would pursue a contempt of Congress motion if the White House fails respond to subpoenas for testimony and documents related to the firings of U.S. attorneys last year. The deadline for a response is Thursday, June 28.



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Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?

The growth of Youtube and it’s subsequent $1.65 billion buyout left behind a bevy of competing video sites. Since then competitors have been seeking to differentiate themselves by focusing on longer videos, higher (bitrate) quality videos, professional content, and paying their users.



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