Category: Headlines
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Osama bin Laden claims credit for Detroit terror attack You just know the real terrorists behind the Detroit bombing are all “psssh, why’s Bin Laden always gotta be claiming our jobs as his, man? That’s messed up.”
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Congrats to USC’s Reggie Bush, Austin’s own Drew Brees (pictured) and the rest of the New Orleans Saints on their confirmed trip to Miami. Set the over/under on number of times you hear ‘WHO DAT’ over the next two weeks at 237. And sadly, I’m still taking the over.
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Conan O’Brien’s final “Tonight Show” episode scored a booming 7 household rating, almost triple the number he had been averaging for months.
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Lafayette & Great Jones Street in the 1970’s. Great visual aid when you’re finishing up DeLillo’s book named for and set on the latter. This photo and tons of other great 1970’s New York images over at Wired New York.
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‘Space diver’ to attempt first supersonic freefall New Scientist’s Charles Q Choi reports: On 16 August 1960, US Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger made history by jumping out of a balloon at an altitude of some 31,333 metres. “I stood up and said a prayer and stepped off,” he recalled (see Space diving: The ultimate…
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Telethon For Haiti Raises Preliminary $57M
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Will Amazon Be the New Wal-Mart?
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Andreas M. WieseThe white Car (Das weisse Auto) [via]
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Pope to Priests: Get Blogging!
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About 60% of the price of a bottle of bourbon bought in Kentucky is some form of state, federal, or local tax. Lexington Herald Leader [v:ia]
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Jez BurrowsWe Are The Friction
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Christopher Corbett travels to the top of the Burj Khalifa (formerly the Burj Dubai). If Jeff hadn’t insisted that he’s been there, I’d still be standing by my assertion that every image you see of Dubai is actually CGI from Industrial Light & Magic.
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