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Queen Rania's Fabulous Floral Dress (PHOTO)

Queen Rania of Jordan attends the 'Women In The World: Stories and Solutions' global summit at Hudson Theatre on March 12, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Private Spies: DOD Investigating Use Of Contractors To Track, Kill Militant

Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military offic

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin: What's Next From Lady Gaga, A Snuff Fil

The extent to which Lady Gaga has the media wrapped around her finger is mystifying. Unable to unpack her exact message, critics laud her flashy stage show as avant-garde, dub her the most important innovator in rock music in 20 years, and

Doug Bandow: Battling the Bipartisan Consensus for War

The U.S. is rarely at peace. It doesn't matter which party or which politician is in power: American military forces will be on the move, invading a Third World nation here and threatening an emerging power there. In January 2009 Republ

Steve Clemons: The AIPAC Statement We Need But Have Not Gotten (Yet)

I have written the mock press release below partly as farce and partly as hope for the kind of statement that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) might eventually issue in response to the provocative and disconcerting post

MoveOn Fundraising Against Anti-Health Care Dems

In a warning shot to wavering Democrats, the progressive action group MoveOn.org is making a major push to raise money on behalf of primary challengers to those House lawmakers who vote against health care reform. The group is set to blast

Robert Kuttner: The End of an Illusion

Are we at a turning point in the Obama presidency? It took far too long, but the president has belatedly grasped that when the other party is out to destroy you, the search for common ground is a fool's errand. For over a year, Obama believ

Shelly Palmer: Is Your iPad Battery Already Dead?

Today's most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: After selling 120,000 iPads on the first day of pre-orders, Apple announced that it will give iPad owners who need to replace the battery a new iPad. The shift in warr

Auren Hoffman: To Grow a Company, You Need to Be Good at Killing Things

To Grow a Company, You Need to Be Good at Killing Things The hardest thing to do at a company is to kill things Companies are all about building things, not destroying them. When your company is growing, you add lots of things to build the

Advanced Style: Street Style Website Celebrates Seniors

Infantilism may be a fashion perennial, but if the blogger Ari Seth Cohen had his druthers, every season would be a senior moment. As the founder and editor of Advanced Style, a Sartorialist for the superannuated set, he chronicles the styli

Lisa Mirza Grotts: Minding Other People's Manners: When and How Is It Okay?

Anyone who takes it upon him- or herself to correct the manners of others in public makes me nervous. It seems that people have taken to correcting the mistakes of others into their own hands. The question is: Why are so many people anxious

Emma Watson Dating Brown Student?

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has ended her two-year relationship with financier Jay Barrymore. And, say pals, the 19-year-old has been spending time with Spanish musician and fellow student Rafael Cebrian since the split.

Wayne Winston: NCAA Predictions via Simulation

Using the well-known and highly respected Sagarin Ratings (found at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkt0910.htm) I have 'simulated' the NCAA Men's tourney 5000 times. For each team, the table below gives the chance of the team winnin

Terry Krepel: Cliff Kincaid's International Gay-Bashing

Accuracy in Media in general, and AIM editor Cliff Kincaid in particular, have never much liked gay people: AIM president Don Irvine wrote in a blog post about 'the first ever Pride month celebration at the White House,' which he claimed wa

Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast V1:E

It's a genre light week, with no new horror, fantasy, or science fiction titles released in cinemas, so Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski take this opportunity to shine a little much-deserved light on some overlooked and/or

As HCR Comes Down to Arm-Twisting Finish, Check Out that Sexist Framing of

About to deliver her imprint on the biggest and most controversial piece of legislation of her life, get ready for a steady stream of pictures of Pelosi this week (already started: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) making her look like an incredible goof. (N

Vancouver Paralympic Torch Relay by Land , Sea & Air

Canadian Paralympian Gold Medallist , Paul Gauthier lights the 2010 Paralympic Cauldron at Robson Square here in Vancouver , He is the first torchbearer of many in this sweet but short video filmed at...read more

Alex Ovechkin-Brian Campbell Hit Video: Will Ovie Get Suspended?

Alexander Ovechkin Was Ejected From Sunday's Game Against Chicago For His Hit on Brian Campbell. Should Ovechkin Have Been Ejected and Should He Be Suspended? Another week, another NHL controversy. During Sunday's...read more

US Presses Netanyahu To Cancel East Jerusalem Settlement Plan

The Jewish Press is reporting that it is widely believed that the US Obama administration is pressing Binyamin Netanyahu for the cancellation of the entire housing-unit project in Ramat Shlomo and to free...read more

Andre Agassi-Pete Sampras Video: Tennis Stars Get Talk Trash

Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras Got In a Little Friendly Trash Talk During a Charity Tennis Match. Here's the Video If you like tennis and you like awkward trash talk, then you have to check out the exchange between...read more

Georgia O'Keefe Impressions of Living Artifacts

I visited the Phillips Collection today to see Georgia O'Keefe whose art I always appreciate. Every time that you see an artist of this quality, you have the opportunity to learn more and to enrich your...read more

Greenpeace Activists Junichi and Toru: Whale Meat Scandal

Greenpeace activists Junichi and Toru, also known as the Tokyo Two, are on trial for the embezzlement of whale meat valued at about $500. This is a criminal trial which has involved raids on the Greenpeace...read more

15,000 Bikers honour our Troops in Afghanistan

Around 15,000 bikers roared through Wootton Bassett today to honour troops serving in Afghanistan. Spectators lined the streets as the riders made their way through the market town that has come to represent the...read more

THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS

Not so long ago in a galaxy we all live in, George Lucas introduced the world to Star Wars. It was May 25, 1977 to be exact. Prior to its release, everyone except for Lucas thought they were making a dumb kids...read more

Erin Andrews-Dick Vitale Dance Video: Dancing at Duke-Miami Game

Erin Andrews and Dick Vitale Had a Little Dance Before the Duke-Miami Game As we all know, ESPN reporter Erin Andrews will be cutting a rug on Dancing With the Stars. Well, Erin Andrews got a little practice for...read more

The Obesity-Hunger Paradox

According to FAST FOOD Experts the bridge between hunger and obesity is to do with the scarcity of healthful options. This may have been true 15 years ago, but farmers' markets have become very popular and can easily be found in most cities now-a-da

2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket: 64 March Madness Teams

Selection Sunday is Over. Sixty-four teams are on Their Way to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Check Out the List of March Madness 2010 Teams and an Updated March Madness Bracket.Well, Selection Sunday 2010 has come and gone and all 64 teams ha

Extremly vulnarable Internaly Dispalced Family from Wazirestan

DI Khan - A humanitarian team consisted of Gomal University students and FIDA organization protection officer visited IDPs of Waziristan in District DI Khan in southern Pakistan. More than 80000 IDPs families now living in DI Khan, who wer

EYEBALL STORY From Treetop Films Announced

Treetop Films has signed two veteran character actors Steven Bauer (Scarface, Traffic) and Vinny Vella (Casino, The Sopranos) to showcase performances in a bizarre tale depicting an explosive confrontation in a storefront social club in South Brookly

Pi Day Jokes 2010: List of Jokes For 3/14

Happy Pi Day 2010! What Better Way To Celebrate 3/14 Than With a Bunch of Pi Day Jokes. So What If They're Not That Funny As any number lover will tell you, March 14, 2010 is Pi Day. Pi, as your high school algebra...read more

Manny Pacquiao 'Bang Bang Bang' Video: Lampley Says Bang 16 Times

Jim Lampley Said 'Bang!' 16 Times in 30 Seconds During the Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottley Fight. Will the Jim Lampley-Manny Pacquiao 'Bang' Video Be the Birth of an Internet Meme? Words couldn't describe Manny...read more

Orwell Rolls In His Grave

Orwell Rolls In His Grave [trailer, Google Video 1h43m] is a 2003 documentary exploring the Fourth Estate, corporate ownership, and the power to control public perception. Variety review. TurnOffYourTv.com synopsis and review. Complete on YouTube

Mr. Ecker rolled up a sleeve to reveal a horrifying tattoo of old bites.

Man's best friend, bedbugs' worst enemy?

Do it again!

The Heavy performing on Late Night, with 'an unprecedented encore by request from Dave.' (second video courtesy CBS, including off-air encore) Here's the official video. Ah, that's why it's so familiar. Bored with them, but looking for more like it

Olympic art

Pierre de Coubertin is well-known as the father of the modern Olympics. What is less well-known is that he pseudonymously won an Olympic medal - in poetry (PDF) Although now superseded by the Cultural Olympiad, some of the early modern Olympic Game

'Even heroes face battles they cannot fight alone'

'In the safety of The Sanctum, where they depend on each other for anonymity, superheroes unveil the personal circumstances that have led them to a life of addiction and loneliness.' Episode 1: Jason's Story. Episode 2: Richard's Story, Episode 3: S

Shut up! Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without

Beheaded Vikings found at Olympic site. Last year workmen for the 2012 Olympics sailing venue in southern England came upon a grisly discovery: fifty-one men had been severely injured, most of them beheaded, and tossed into a mass grave. The burial

Rhetorical Militancy for a Rhetorical Mass Movement? If Only We Could Make

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Open Letter to US Attorney from Tarek Mehanna Support Committee

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'Crude: The Real Price of Oil'

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Lunar Mirror Mystery Solved

Reflectors placed on the moon during Apollo missions practically stop working during a full moon. Now we may know why.

iPhone 3.2 SDK mentions multitasking...

Billable, a simple invoicing application for Mac OS X 10.5 and up, has been given a makeover by the folks at Clickable Bliss. In addit ...

China Already Has A 4G iPhone (Kind Of)

Is there anything those crazy Chinese hackers can't do? Pictures and details have surfaced about a new iPhone clone that runs on a next-generation mobile network.

The World's First Solar-Powered iPhone Charger

Apple for the first time has given its certification to a solar-powered iPhone power unit. The product, developed by Novothink, is available now.

Animation of this week's earthquakes

EFF exposes iPhone dev agreement, 'feudal' SDK terms

The license agreement for the iPhone Developer Program contains some draconian terms, says the Electonic Frontier Foundation. The group recently used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the license from NASA, a government body which li

Apple's New iPhones May Offer Multitasking

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Xbox 360 Games on iPhone? Sure -- But Not From Microsoft

On Monday, Novell will demonstrate new technology that will allow Microsoft Xbox 360 games to be translated into iPhone apps. It also has the capability to be used to create Android games, potentially taking some Xbox games to the mobile masses.

Cosmology expert and student of universe reached for stars

Geoffrey Burbidge co-authored the most seminal astrophysical paper of the past 60 years, made significant contributions to the study of radio galaxies, and steadfastly criticised the prevailing paradigm of big bang cosmology.

Samsung adds new sound bars, iPhone dock

Samsung on Tuesday announced it will soon release the HW-C450 sound bar for simple home theater setups. The 2.1-channel system comes in black, while the HW-C451 will be available in silver. Apart from the color, the systems have an identical 280W pow

Is AT&T Enough for the iPhone?

As we approach the 3rd anniversary of the iPhone and AT&T marriage, iPhone users can agree on one thing and that is, AT&T is missing the mark. So why would iPhone users feel this way?

Smartphones put the moves on social networking

BlackBerry 9930 QWERTY Slider Coming to Sprint

Sprint may be the first carrier to offer a version of the upcoming BlackBerry QWERTY slider, the BlackBerry 9930 to be exact.

How to make your own iPhone RFID reader

Imagine if you could open your front door using your mobile phone. It might sound like a futuristic idea but Apple has patented a system which allows the iPhone to communicate with external devices such as locks. Behind this magical door-opening conc

Science 'foes' dilute education process

Oh, the irony. A headline on the front page of The New York Times 10 days ago read 'Darwin Foes Add Warming To Target List.' The state legislators mentioned in the article are also targeting 'human

Briefly: WindowFlow Beta released, DRO's new iPhone case

Sources call Apple vs. Google battle 'incendiary' Review: Avaak's Vue Personal Video Network Dev Center returns with $99 Mac license, new agreement iWebThemesPark launches 10 themes for iWeb, offers 11th free

My Type: Welcome to the Wide, Wide World of the BlackBerry Bold 9700

Smartphones put the moves on social networking

AUSTIN: Mobile social networking ruled on Saturday as the techno-hip at South By South West (SXSW) used location-based services on smartphones to track down everything from panels to parties.

Call of Duty 7 - Five Things We Want To See

While the Activision vs ex-Infinity Ward chiefs legal battle rumbles on, there's another Call of Duty title being cooked up behind the scenes.

Early Sample of Animated Arcee Pictures

While some would think of photos of this Arcee as Takara's prototype, these are actually an early sample of Hasbro's Arcee.

Take a Look at New CG Shots and Artwork for FFXIV

While Final Fantasy XIII has been getting the bulk of the attention since its release, Square Enix wants to make sure you know its not the only Final Fantasy in production right now. With that in mind, Square Enix has provided new CG Screens and Art

Stimulus Package Modern Warfare 2 DLC Contents Confirmed

The contents of the 'Stimulus Package' have been confirmed by a listing on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Last week The Tech Game released a video containing the contents of the Stimulus Package: Infinity Ward's first DLC for Call of Duty Modern Warfare

Physicists Unlock the Mysteries of Crack Formation

In research published in the March 4 issue of the journal Nature, Northeastern University physicists have pioneered the development of large-scale computer simulations to assess how cracks form and proliferate in materials ranging from steel and glas

If people couldn't die... how will our society change?

So what if Death decided to retire and human's couldn't die anymore? Well, they can die, but only if they REALLY want to. No matter how many times people get shot, fall of of buildings, or even fall into lava, there body will simply regenerate and th

Nefarious #1 Preview

The official comic sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is about to hit comic stores, and here's your first look at Transformers: Nefarious! See what Soundwave has been up to, what the Autobots will do to stop him and someone who is just pre

John Lundberg: Poetry Helps Some Cope With An Earthquake's Aftermath

Two hundred years of words, I will need to describe the destruction my eyes have seen. Those are the words Jean-Dany Joachim used to describe a visit to his home country of Haiti after the quake, which looked, as he put it, like a country

IRS Agents Visit Sacramento Car Wash To Demand 4 Cents

It was every businessperson's nightmare. Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. 'They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,'

Andy Borowitz: Massa Welcomes Probe

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - Facing a possible Congressional ethics investigation, embattled former Rep. Eric Massa was upbeat today, telling reporters, 'I welcome a good probe.' Mr. Massa's remark surprised reporters because the eth

Hamdan Azhar: 21 Shots and the Pursuit of Justice: An Imam Dies in Michigan

DETROIT -- It is a cold Sunday afternoon in February and asr prayer is being held at Masjid Al-Haqq. Children run outside, playing in the snow, rambunctious and full of life while their mothers serve the last of the stragglers who have come

US To Roll Out Major Broadband Policy

U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead o

Lindsey Graham On Obama Health Care 'Spin': Americans Are 'Tired Of This Cr

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) -- energized and animated on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday -- announced that the American public was tiring of the 'crap' and 'spin' offered by the Obama administration in an effort to get health care passed. The

Dave Zirin: Reclaiming a Legacy: The Death of Fatima Meer and the World Cup

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/540777/reclaiming_a_legacy_the_death_of_fatima_meer_and_the_world_cup I journeyed to South Africa to celebrate the life of the late poet, anti-apartheid fighter, and sports activist Dennis Brutus. Durin

Dr. Irene S. Levine: Making friends at 60: 'I don't want to die alone...'

QUESTION: Dear Irene, How does one get over being so alone? I do have a few very good friends, but too few! I am dying of loneliness! I don't know what's wrong with me that I can't seem to 'connect' and make new friends. I don't want to d

Kari Henley: Time to Spring Ahead! Daylight Savings Drama

If you are reading this on Sunday and haven't set your clock ahead, you're probably late for something. At 1:59 a.m. March 14th, the clocks moved ahead to 3:00 a.m. Daylight savings has arrived, and the phrase, 'Spring Ahead' means we lose

David Axelrod: Health Care Lobbyists Descending Like 'Locusts' On Congress

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod warned on Sunday that health care industry lobbyists were descending on skeptical Democratic lawmakers 'like locusts' in an effort to scuttle the final vote on a reform bill. Appearing on ABC's 'This

James Clyburn: We Don't Have The Votes To Pass Health Care, But We Will

Perhaps the most critical lawmaker at this juncture of heath care reform is Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the man entrusted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ill.) to produce the votes for the bill's passage. As Majority Whip, the South Carolina D

Cari Shane Parven: Cheating SAT-style (Part II)

The month of March means different things to different people. For college basketball fans, March may mean March Madness; for those seeking more daylight, March can mean 'springing forward' as we change our clocks for daylight savings time (

Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal

Mr. Jobs, Mr. Schmidt and their companies are now engaged in a gritty battle royale over the future and shape of mobile computing and cellphones, with implications that are reverberating across the digital landscape. In the last six months,

China Defends Trade Policy, Blames U.S. For Tensions

BEIJING — China sought Sunday to deflate rising pressure from the U.S. and other powers over Chinese economic policies and growing assertiveness in world affairs, with its prime minister promising cooperation to bolster the global reco

John Mackey: Creating a High Trust Organization

American society appears to be undergoing a crisis in trust. Most of the major organizations that we depend upon, including governments of all types, corporations, our health care system, our financial institutions, and our schools all seem

In which we remember why US troops will never leave Iraq and Afghanistan

Looking forward to the day when America’s interminable wars finally grind to a halt? Don’t. There are any number of reasons to be way less than confident that our armies are ever leaving Iraq or Afghanistan, not least among which is that

Navigating the Middle of Your Post - Without Getting Lost

A Guest Post from Ali Hale from The Blogger's Guide to Effective Writing' - normally priced at $29, ProBlogger readers can get a $5 discount by entering the code 'ProBlogger' Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Navigating the Middle of Your Post -

Three 6.6 magnitude earthquakes hit Japan today.

Fukushima Ken Oki in Japan was the epicentre of three consecutive earthquakes today of a magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter scale. The first earthquake was at 17:08 followed by another at 17:13 and a third one at...read more

Indian church declares war on gays

Aizawl, March 13, 2010: The Baptish Church of Mizoram is having problems with its members being 'gay'. The church formally declared 'war' against any of its members indulging in homosexual activities.The decision was announced in a sta

Pollen allergy hits Pakistan capital in big way

The life of pollen allergy patients in Pakistan capital has become difficult with the advent of spring season and the number of patients visiting hospitals is growing with the passage of every day.'ISLAMABAD: With the advent of spring season in feder

Multimillion-dollar marijuana grow op found in Okanagan

Marijuana grow ops and harder drugs, long a mainstay in the British Columbia (BC) economy for the criminal element has suffered a minor setback in the Okanagan as RCMP discovered a large scale multimillion...read more

Independent Review?

When someone or some entity desires an 'independent' review, one would assume that the 'independent' reviewers would be 'independent' with no ties to the source whatsoever. However you know what they say about assuming. In a New York Times article wr

Employers Rapidly Shifting Health Care Costs to Workers

With congress poised for a final vote on health care this week, recent reports indicate that employers are increasingly shifting cost to employees. Among the measures being considered for cost shifting by employers...read more

CNN: Sri Lanka's War Survivors - future holds nothing for Tamils.

The CNN coverage on what is left for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka after the war, which ended on May, 2009.read more

Happy Mothers Day to mums all over the world

Happy mothers day. My lovely mother is 85yrs young and is blessed with good health, family love wraps around her, like Angel wings. Keeping her safe and warm. My mother has been my saving grace in many sad or...read more

Mild intensity quake shakes Pakistan's terror-stricken city

An earthquake of mild intensity shook Lahore, cultural capital of Pakistan, and adjacent areas on Sunday, reports said.Already frightened by the massive suicide bombings in the city a couple of days that left 57 people dead, the residents of city cam

What 'Not to Do' in the Music Business

My sister knows a lady who has suffered dearly for her dream to work in the music business and she wants everyone who wants to have a career in music to follow some simple rules: ' What 'Not to Do' in the music...read more

Caravan fire kills two people

A man (65) and women (59) have died in a caravan fire in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. A call to fire crews been made at about 06:15 GMT and by 07:00 GMT ten firefighters had extinguished the blaze at a static...read more

Michael Fomkin details Apple iPad's Battery Replacement Plan

Michael Fomkin details Apple iPad's Battery Replacement Plan When one thinks of Apple, a single word often comes to mind: battery. It's no secret that the Cupertino-based developer has inched the totality of its product lines toward non-rep

Top 10 Google Apps Marketplace Apps

Written by Kevin Purdy Google’s Apps suite for domain owners and businesses has finally received some star treatment with the launch of the Apps Marketplace. Which Google-friendly apps are free, worth the cost, and entirely useful? The

25 cents, same as in town

The Joydick (NSFW) is a wearable haptic device for controlling video gameplay based on realtime male masturbation. Construction photographs.

Release early, often and with rap music.

The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media. You may know them from such projects as How to build a fake Google Street Vi

Wagon Train in space

A one-hour dramatic television series. Action - Adventure - Science Fiction. The first such concept with strong central leas characters plus other continuing regulars. Gene Roddenberry's original pitchfor Star Trek (.pdf) - featuring Robert M. April,

Federal panel concludes Brooklyn principal was discriminated against

Debbie Almontaser, who was set to be the principal of a new dual language Arab-English school in 2007, was instead pushed out and forced to resign after she answered the question 'What is the root word of 'intifada'?' She answered 'shaking off' and m

The Way The Future Blogs

For the last year or so, Frederik Pohl has been quietly blogging. A behind-the-scenes look at the beginnings of the Golden Age of Sci-Fi, and some of the famous (and not so famous) writers, editors, and magazines he has known. With a side-order of p