news.bbc.co.uk — Breakfast really could be the most important meal of the day when it comes to losing weight, claims a researcher.
blogs.chron.com — The goal was for a Guinness World Record for the most-downloaded software in a 24-hour period. All FireFox needed was 5 million copies downloaded. Not only did they meet that goal, they exceeded it by over 1 million downloads!
guidespot.com — We ALL know a few Douchebags. It may be your brother, coworker, buddy or even yourself. Here's a handy guide to tell what type of Douchebag people are, and what you can do to avoid them.
rd.com — "Before we take off, I would like to apologize on behalf of this and every airline for the hassle you just endured at the security checkpoint. As is patently obvious to any reasonable person, the humiliating shoe removals, liquids ban, and pointy-object confiscations do little to make us safer...."
telegraph.co.uk — The most complex, "mind-boggling" crop circle ever to be seen in Britain has been discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire.
APEX PICTURES
The circle is a coded representation of pi to the 10th significant figure
Learn how to draw at 5min.com
IMAGE — flickr.com
timesonline.co.uk — Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide renewable petroleum. ..the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.
IMAGE — images.salon.com
waspknife.com — This weapon injects a frozen ball of compressed gas approximately the size of a basketball at 850psi nearly instantly. The effects of this injection will drop many of the world's largest land predators. Pure awesome, as long as you're not on the business end
arstechnica.com — In honor of today's Firefox 3 release, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla. The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE's blue "e" icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View
Even crazier: All of these similar highlights occurred on the same date, exactly ten years apart!
See more funny videos at CollegeHumor
firstshowing.net — The very first trailer for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has finally debuted online! This first played in front of showings of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, so I'm sure most people have at least seen it once, but you must watch it again.
guardian.co.uk — The New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has hit back, after his plans for a congestion charge for the city were rebuffed, with a modest but eye-catching scheme to carve a seven-mile path through the center of Manhattan and turn it over ever so briefly to pedestrians.
www.stuff.co.nz - A man who laughed too hard at a comedian on TV ended up being pepper sprayed at his home by UK police and spending the night naked in a cell.
blog.wired.com - A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors.
afterdowningstreet.org — Please Join Us in Demanding the Resignation of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson Johnson punishes whistleblowers, stonewalls Congress, and devastates the environment. A coalition has formed to demand his resignation that includes the No Fear Coalition, AfterDowningStreet.org, Democrats.com, Friends of the Earth, the Black Leadership Roundtabl
mcclatchydc.com — An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.
huffingtonpost.com — "He Said It First" has quickly become a YouTube hit. As of this writing, it was #1 today on YouTube comedy and #3 on Digg.com. Effectively criticizing how the media bailed on covering one of this year's stories from the trail because it involved the most vulgar and misogynist word in our vocabulary, the video may not be for the purest of heart.
telegraph.co.uk — The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over the next three months as inflation paralyzes the major central banks. "A very nasty period is soon to be upon us - be prepared," said Bob Janjuah, the bank's credit strategist.
afterdowningstreet.org — A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.
wegame.com — Onnox combines a rube goldberg masterpiece with superior video editing to create possibly the most epic Garry's Mod rube goldberg video you'll ever see!
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