Chalk one more up in the long line of Apple oppressive heavy handed corporate tactics. Apple wants sole domain of the term "pod". With ipod sales’ cooling it doesn’t surprise me.
"Weird Al" Yankovic's new song "White And Nerdy" is the first song on the "Straight Outta Lynwood" album to be released September 26th. It's a parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire.
Apple's lawyers say in court documents that Web scribes are not "legitimate members of the press" when they reveal details about forthcoming products that the company would prefer to keep confidential.
U.S. oil company executives went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend their companies' billions of dollars in record profits. Company executives told lawmakers that, if they want lower energy prices, they need to open restricted U.S. federal lands...
Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors."
President Bush is offering no encouragement to any U.S. automobile companies that might be thinking about turning to the federal government for a financial bailout.
Mount St. Helens releasing lava at astonishing pace
'US planning strike against Iran'
Nevada hit by worst flooding since 1997, mudslide shuts down I-80
Wildfires continue to rage in Texas, Oklahoma
Man am I glad the Spider-man villain is Sandman in the third movie. I just didn't want the guy to be Venom. This is such a relief. I love how they have him in his original trademark clothing as well.
NORMAN, Okla. - One person was killed in an explosion near a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday night in what authorities said appeared to be a suicide.
On Thursday the 22nd, Robert Braver, an Oklahoma ISP owner who is a long time activist against both spam and junk faxes, received a default judgment of over $10 million against high profile spammer Robert Soloway and his company Newport Internet Marketing. Soloway has frequently been cited as one of the ten largest spammers in the world.
I’m really fed up with Pat Robertson at this point. First he is calling for the assassination of a world leader on national television and now he is lying about it.
Donald Herbert sat unmoving in a wheelchair, drooling and barely aware. For the once robust firefighter, 10 minutes without oxygen had turned into nearly 10 years without seeing or speaking.
His wife refused to give up.
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Adobe buys Macromedia? I hadn’t expected this particular merger. I have always joked what a powerhouse it would be if Adobe did buy Macromedia but I was really hoping Microsoft would by Adobe and offer some massive competition to Macromedia.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Syrian troops might pull out of Lebanon in the next few months, as Lebanese protesters rallied in central Beirut on Tuesday demanding Syria get out of their country.
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An Associated Press photo by Karim Kadim of Iraqis demonstrating in condemnation of Monday's suicide bombing, in Hillah in Iraq on Tuesday, March 1, 2005.
It was also reported that hundreds of people visited the wounded at the hospital Tuesday, and inspected corpses trying to identify friends and family who died. The bombing killed at least 120 people.
I wish we could hear about and see more visible protests and outrage against these acts of terrorism.
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Modern liberalism, says Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel, has emptied the national narrative of its civic resources, putting religion outside the public square and creating a value-neutral "procedural republic." One of the old heroes of liberalism, John Dewey, said in 1897 that the practical problem of modern society is the maintenance of the spiritual values of civilization. Not much room in liberal thought for that now, or for what another liberal icon, Walter Lippmann, called the "public philosophy." The failure to perceive the importance of community has seriously wounded liberalism and undermined its core principles. So has the strong tendency to convert moral and social questions into issues of individual rights, usually constructed and then massaged by judges to place them beyond the reach of majorities and the normal democratic process.
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I came across this article on Reason.com by contributing editor Michael Young who is opinion editor at the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut. Its an interesting read so I thought I would share.
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This is a new Warner Brothers series called “Loonatics” which is set in 2772, features descendants of Bugs and his Looney Tunes pals. However they are “Endowed with individual super powers and unique abilities.” I think this idea must...
Michael Bates from the blog BatesLine which specializes in coverage of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, has received a letter from the Tulsa World demanding that he cease and desist from quoting "in whole or in part" any content, and even linking to material from the Tulsa world, the cities newspaper giant.
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Thanks to the "war on terror" after the Iraqi elections a Shiite coalition, that happens to have close links to Iran, is set to take power in Iraq. Now American officials have begun grilling top Iraqi Shiite politicians to try to gauge the extent of their relationship with neighboring Iran, a predominantly Shiite nation ruled by its clergy.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - As a brand-new police officer, Chris Holden wanted to do everything he could to protect himself, especially after he heard about a highway patrolman who was shot to death in a struggle over his gun.
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This is a great thing for Oklahoma. zdnet.com article- In another example of U.S. tech companies seeking to offer low-cost alternatives to offshoring, systems integrator Ciber has opened a facility in Oklahoma City. Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Ciber said the Oklahoma...
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U.S. District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet ruled on Monday that Lee is entitled to a 10 percent share of profits earned by Marvel for the success of the Spider-Man franchise and other Marvel Comics-based films over the past seven years.
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I’ve installed and tried out the new spam fighting tool “Windows AntiSpyware” recently released by Microsoft. They purchased a company called Giant and have retooled their spyware detection and removal tool. I am really liking this app. I recommend people to give it a try.
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It's easy to focus on all the bad things that have happened this year and in previous years because bad news is just about all the media likes to report on. Bad news is dramatic and sensational and much easier a manipulation tool than good uplifting news.
Christmas is the Holiday in which we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus the Christ. We don't know the exact day of his birth, but this is the time in which we celebrate, and acknowledge publicly, this miraculous event in history.
An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said.
GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. -- Just before her afternoon run, school bus driver Julianne Thompson was reading an interview with Mel Gibson, in which the actor spoke out against stem cell research. When her elementary school passengers hopped aboard for the ride home, Thompson decided to share what was still fresh in her mind.
AOL released a prototype version of their new Netscape browser (0.5.6+) based on firefox 0.9.3. It appears to be available for a limited time download. I’ve installed it in order to give it a once over and I’m not at all impressed or wowed in any real way.
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BOSTON - Harvard University enhanced the reputation of the Nazi regime when it sanctioned events in the 1930s attended by Nazis, a historian claimed Sunday....administrators welcomed one of Adolf Hitler's closest deputies to a reunion, hosted a reception for German naval officials and sent delegates to a celebration at a German university that had expelled Jews.
An insurgent commander said fighters who had escaped Fallujah were regrouping, re-arming and attacking elsewhere in the country to show Iraq's insurgency will continue despite the heavy losses in their former stronghold.
OKC Zoo has been selected as a semi-finalist in Microsoft's America's favorite zoo contest.
Winner will receive a $25,000 grant and will be chosen by internet voting. I think it would be great if our zoo could get this money.
Bryan Singer who is set to direct the next “Superman” movie franchise has (not officially) picked to play Clark Kent/Superman the relatively unknown actor Brandon Routh.
Think you have the Flu? STAY HOME! Facing a severe shortage of influenza vaccine, the state Health Department urged Oklahomans who think they have the flu to stay home from work or school until symptoms subside. The flu season...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma tourism officials have recalled about 200,000 brochures with images of activities that may have seemed uninviting to some travelers, such as cow manure tossing and re-enacting Confederate battles, officials said on Wednesday.
Newly redesigned $50 notes, featuring subtle background colors of blue and red, images of a waving American flag and a small metallic silver-blue star, were issued Tuesday.
If you have a Stack-on brand gun cabinet please read this! Earlier I reported to you about how a Kryptonite bicycle lock can be picked with a simple Bic ballpoint pen? Well it just so happens that someone noticed that...
To hear some press experts tell it, CBS's admission Monday that it was duped into using questionable documents about President Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War was a watershed moment brought on by a small army of Internet-based...
Macaulay Culkin Arrested on Drug Charges OKLAHOMA CITY - Former child star Macaulay Culkin was arrested on drug charges Friday during a traffic stop, authorities said....
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Associated Press Reports U-shaped Kryptonite-brand Bike Lock Can Be Picked With a Pen "You don't have to be the Man of Steel to open a Kryptonite bike lock. Faster than a speeding bullet, word is spreading across the Internet, through...
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