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Gas industry attempted to block ‘Gasland’ from Oscars
By admin on February 27, 2011 | Comments Off
Pro-drilling group contested the film’s eligibility in a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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EFF: What Congress Can Learn from the Recent ICE SeizuresBy admin on February 15, 2011 | Comments Off
As a reminder, COICA would give the government dramatic new copyright enforcement powers, most notably the ability to meddle with the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) and make entire websites effectively disappear, along with noninfringing content and lawful speech.
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10 Storylines and Surprises From College Football’s National Signing DayBy admin on February 3, 2011 | Comments Off
The dust is beginning to settle on College Football’s annual recruiting bukkake-fest National Signing Day, giving us a clearer picture on who’s going where in the freshman class of 2011.
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Android Wrests Smartphone OS Title From SymbianBy admin on February 1, 2011 | Comments Off
2010 was the year of Android. That’s according to research firm Canalys, which reports that Google’s operating system eclipsed Symbian in the fourth quarter to become the top smartphone OS in the world by shipments. It caps a huge year of growth for Android.
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Twiblings? Siblings Born Days Apart From Different WombsBy admin on January 6, 2011 | Comments Off
Melanie Thernstrom, who didn’t meet her husband Michael Callahan until she was 41. The two appeared on the “Today” show Monday to talk about their so-called “twiblings.”The couple are parents to a son and daughter conceived with Callahan’s sperm and donor eggs and placed in two different surrogate mothers. The children were born only days apart.
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Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To SchoolBy admin on November 24, 2010 | Comments Off
mernilio writes “According to UPI: ‘A Massachusetts school district superintendent said a memo banning sixth graders from carrying pencils was written without district approval. North Brookfield School District interim Superintendent Gordon Noseworthy said Wendy Scott, one of two sixth-grade teachers at North Brookfield Elementary School, did not get approval from administrators before sending the memo to all sixth-grade parents, the Worcester Telegram (more…)
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Glentoran player faces competition from Lionel Messi on shortlist for Fifa goal awardBy admin on November 17, 2010 | Comments Off
Glentoran’s Matty Burrows will go head-to-head with Lionel Messi and eight other candidates for Fifa’s coveted goal of the year prize.
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Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From NetBy admin on November 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Trailrunner7 writes “The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks. The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have targeted the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (or PTT), the main conduit for Internet traffic in and out of the authoritarian (more…)
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Countdown to Extinction: Brown bats may soon vanish from NortheastBy admin on November 4, 2010 | Comments Off
Little brown bats, an ecologically essential eaters of pestilent insects, may be extinct in the Northeast within 16 years, researchers predict. The bats, found throughout North America, are dying from the mysterious white-nose syndrome, which has been annihilating bat populations in the northeastern United States since 2006, when it first appeared in New York state.
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Erin Andrews Fighting Site ‘The Dirty’ Over Pictures From Nude VideoBy admin on October 29, 2010 | Comments Off
Erin Andrews’ lawyer has sent a letter to TheDirty.com demanding they take down images from the illegally-filmed nude video of Andrews that surfaced last year.
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