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June 25, 2008 Hot Trends

Pregnancy pact alarms officials at U.S. high school: reports (CBC)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:48:34 PDT
A pregnancy pact may be responsible for a dramatic rise in mothers-to-be at a Massachusetts high school, Time magazine reports.

Is Monster Cable feeling threatened by the little guy?

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:15:28 PDT
It was long since proven that high priced Audio/Video cables are a sham. This may be old news to some, but I just came across this while searching for low priced options to the exorbitant prices Monster and similar companies provide their cables for. For those that can stomach 'legalise' I highly recommend reading the linked PDF's, Great Read!

Is Your Daughter Grinding? (and I don't mean her teeth)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:01:50 PDT
Here is a news-worthy material that will never find its way into the mainstream media. Is your daughter grinding? First, what is “grinding.” According to Mariam’s Webster dictionary it is “to rotate the hips in an erotic manner.”

Lawyer of the Day: Stanford's Jeffrey Fisher - WSJ 6/25/08

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:55:35 PDT
This morning, Stanford law prof Jeff Fisher awoke to pretty exciting news - opinions from two Supreme Court cases he argued roll in. Fisher (Duke, Michigan Law) lost Exxon v. Baker, the punitive damages case, but scored a victory in Kennedy v. Louisiana, the child rape case.Fisher — a former Justice Stevens clerk who in 2004 was on the winning

Ralph Nader Stands By Obama Remarks

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:19:32 PDT
Ralph Nader stood by comments he made to the Rocky Mountain News on Wed. “There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He’s half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don’t know. I haven’t heard him crackdown on Payday loans, asbestos. What’s keeping him...?

Pop icon George Michael may retire to

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:05:15 PDT
MTV backs campaign to get young people be open about sexual health Young people are being encouraged to talk openly about their sexual experiences in an innovative scheme aimed at reducing the stigma that surrounds sexual health. Clapham street party will benefit GMFA Actress Michelle Collins and cabaret act Topping and Butch will be among the entertainers doing a turn at Clapham Street Party later this month. Brokeback: The Opera scheduled to premiere in 2013 Rumours that

World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...

FarPoint Media Technology Evolution

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:56:37 PDT
The FarPoint Media (FPM) technology evolution continues with the introduction of its own new media servers now ready and live. This new technology will allow for for faster uploads and downloads! The expanded bandwidth should give FPM the kind of hosting power to cover each and every program, website and other services provided from the fast growing net media company. The integrated servers will allow each member of FPM to monitor and have access to their private AWSTATS views for their log f

The Bernardo Interview: Why CBC won’t air it

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:01:42 PDT
As you might have read in recent days, an Ontario Superior Court judge has released copies of a videotaped interview between Toronto police and convicted murderer Paul Bernardo. Bernardo was interviewed at the Kingston penitentiary in June 2007 about whether he had any involvement in the disappearance of University of Toronto student Elizabeth Bain, who has not been seen since June 1990. Media, including the CBC, petitioned the court to permit the release of the tape (the tape doesn’t show any

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:34:42 PDT
At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later. For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to

anti-climatic

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:47:59 PDT
We made the local newspaper this morning: http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/06/25/5983031.html We knew about the knife but I had expected him to have done a lot more than just this for the number of cops who arrived in pursuit. And no mention of Drew’s tackling the guy…

Thought-provoking comparison of US vs UK health care

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:56 PDT
An excellent, non-partisan opinion piece in which one journalist gives an account of his wife's experiences of both the British and American health care systems following her suffering a sudden stroke while they were staying in the UK. Hard to believe this is from a Fox News anchor, no less!

Local dealers see changes in car-buying trends - The Leader Newspapers


The Leader Newspapers

Local dealers see changes in car-buying trends
The Leader Newspapers, NJ - 7 hours ago
By Alexis Tarrazi (June 26, 2008) — With gas prices steadily rising, it comes as no surprise that many are throwing in the keys to their gas-guzzling sport ...



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