BlogPost: October 24, 2010 - October 30, 2010
Rally to Restore Sanity turns out the crowds and the comedy
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear descended on Washington, DC today.
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Melissa Bell
| October 30, 2010; 7:03 PM ET |
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Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Live Blogging
Stewart Colbert Rally Live blogging.
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| October 30, 2010; 10:21 AM ET |
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Jon Stewart rally, Metro security and the tea party: This week's top news tweets
Read the week's top news tweets
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| October 29, 2010; 7:27 PM ET |
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'Legalize It' Peter Tosh's family says it's in favor of Calif. Prop 19
Peter Tosh's family has come out in support of Prop 19 using "Legalize It" in a commercial advocating a vote.
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| October 29, 2010; 5:17 PM ET |
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Street signs and pixilated leaves: The art of Norm Magnusson
Norm Magnusson, a New York artist, places placards to get people to consider different points of views. He also paints leaves.
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| October 29, 2010; 4:41 PM ET |
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Halloween music to thrill and delight you
You can dance away to Monster Mash or learn how to walk like a zombie in Thriller, but if you really want to be creeped out for Halloween, I recommend my Scariest Song List of all time.
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| October 29, 2010; 2:21 PM ET |
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The mimic octopus, or my new favorite mollusk (Sorry, Paul!)
The mimic octopus cannot imitate the old Detroit Red Wings playoff mascot. (John C. Hillery/Reuters) Now that the tears have dried over poor Paul the psychic octopus's death, a new video has surfaced online to fill the hole Paul left...
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| October 29, 2010; 1:29 PM ET |
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'Thriller' video roundup: Best of the bunch
A collection of the best "Thriller" riffs.
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| October 29, 2010; 11:40 AM ET |
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The roll-less toilet paper roll. Best invention ever?
Kimberly-Clark plans to introduce a line of tube-free Scott toilet paper in the Northeast on Nov. 1 as part of its Naturals line.
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| October 29, 2010; 11:30 AM ET |
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3G mobile heads to Mount Everest; D.C. Metro still drops calls
A Nepalese telecom group Ncell, a subsidiary of Swedish phone giant TeliaSonera, says people can make video calls and surf the Internet on their mobile phones, thanks to a high-speed phone base station at an altitude of 17,000 feet near Gorakshep village in the Everest region. Ncell made the first video call Friday at 17,388 feet.
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| October 29, 2010; 10:14 AM ET |
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'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' can also hack
A Vanity Fair article notes that Lisbeth Salander does indeed hack like the best of the hackers. "The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" opens today.
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| October 29, 2010; 9:45 AM ET |
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♪♫ Happy Halloween! Poetry to set the mood
John De Lancie reads "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe just in time to creep us all out for Halloween.
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Melissa Bell
| October 29, 2010; 9:00 AM ET |
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Halloween inspiration from the past (Photos)
A new Tumblr blog offers a peek at Halloween costumes from your parents' generation.
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| October 28, 2010; 3:07 PM ET |
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There's a liberal gene? Cue the 'Where's the cure?' jokes.
Scientists have made a claim that two factors, having a DRD4 gene and having lots of friends in high school, are likely to contribute to a person leaning politically left.
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| October 28, 2010; 1:33 PM ET |
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The Metro bomb plot, the FBI and the question of terrorist threats
The Farooque Ahmed case raises questions: Is the FBI encouraging suspects' actions to further the basis for an arrest, or are officials successfully preventing terrorism?
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| October 28, 2010; 12:15 PM ET |
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Nokia phone film: 'The Commuter' merges moviemaking with advertisement
"The Commuter" is a new online film entirely shot on the Nokia N8 phone, further blurring the line between entertainment and advertisement.
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| October 28, 2010; 10:31 AM ET |
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How to carve a pumpkin... with a gun; Introducing the Glock-o-lantern!
Pumpkin carving by gun.
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Melissa Bell
| October 28, 2010; 9:36 AM ET |
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Supercomputer in China super fast: U.S. computers feel inadequate
A newly built supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, might be the fastest in the world.
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| October 28, 2010; 9:28 AM ET |
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♪♫ Johnny Cash sings from beyond the grave with the help of a few friends
The Johnny Cash Project sources crowd drawings from fans of the singer and pieces them together as a cohesive whole for Johnny Cash's last recorded song, "Ain't No Grave."
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| October 28, 2010; 8:29 AM ET |
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'Sneezing Monkey' species discovered in Myanmar
A new species of monkeys had been discovered in the jungles of Myanmar, and the monkey just happens to sneeze every time it rains.
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| October 27, 2010; 5:16 PM ET |
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Mike and Molly and Marie Claire: Do we need to ban the word 'fat' -- or just these writers?
A column in Marie Claire debates the merits of "Fatties." Should we ban the word fat?
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| October 27, 2010; 2:22 PM ET |
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'People are awesome.' (Video)
A compilation of awesome stunts.
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Melissa Bell
| October 27, 2010; 1:20 PM ET |
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James Bond's Aston Martin could be yours for only $4.6 million (Photos)
James Bond cars - the specially equipped Aston Martin first driven by Sean Connery in "Goldfinger" - will be auctioned off in London on Wednesday for an estimated $5.5 million.
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| October 27, 2010; 12:41 PM ET |
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Sterling's Gold: 'Mad Men' book for sale?
Roger Sterling will release a new book called Sterling's Gold, hopefully.
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Melissa Bell
| October 27, 2010; 11:33 AM ET |
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The Halloween High Heel Race of D.C. and its storied history (Videos)
Sky-high orange bouffants and glittered red heels took took over the city streets last night in honor of the 25th annual Halloween High Heel Race.
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| October 27, 2010; 11:15 AM ET |
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Soros and Men's Wearhouse founder donate to Calif. pot legalization
In the final days before the election, the push to legalize marijuana has been getting some high-profile support in California, in the form of a $1 million donation from George Soros and a $50,000 donation from George Zimmer, the founder of Men's Warehouse.
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| October 27, 2010; 10:36 AM ET |
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Limewire shuts down, another file-sharing site rises up to take its place
The biggest music file-trading company online, LimeWire, has received a court injunction closing it down after a legal battle with the Recording Industry Association of America.
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| October 27, 2010; 8:31 AM ET |
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♪♫ Robert Smith is not in love
The band Crystal Castles put out a new single with Robert Smith from the Cure singing lead vocals.
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| October 27, 2010; 8:15 AM ET |
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Alex Sink and the great debate blunders (Videos)
Alex Sink, the candidate for Florida governor, is in hot water over breaking a rule during a debate. We look back on some of our other past favorite debate missteps.
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Melissa Bell
| October 26, 2010; 1:57 PM ET |
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Book dominoes, a.k.a. what you should totally do if you own a book store
Since we're already on a literary bent today at BlogPost (go here!), I couldn't pass up posting this from the Arizona used-book store chain Bookmans. It took only 14 hours to set up. Just go ahead and try to be...
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Melissa Bell
| October 26, 2010; 1:48 PM ET |
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Mumbai's $1 billion home to host housewarming party -- did you get your invite yet?
At long last a select guest list of about 200 people will reportedly get to enter the gilded gate of the $1 billion home of Mukesh Ambani on Nov. 28.
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| October 26, 2010; 1:32 PM ET |
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When zombies attack Maryland (Video)
Zombies attack downtown Silver Spring.
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| October 26, 2010; 12:15 PM ET |
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Halloween reading: What's the freakiest book of them all?
As Halloween approaches, we want to know: Which books freaked you out?
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| October 26, 2010; 12:00 PM ET |
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Four Loko fears run rampant across college campuses
"Blackout in a Can," "Liquid Cocaine," "Alcopop:" Four Loko has gone from college drink du jour to national headline after reports that the caffeinated, malted beverage hospitalized nine freshman in Washington state this month.
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| October 26, 2010; 10:20 AM ET |
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Paul the great predicting octopus heads to that ocean in the sky
Paul the Octopus, who correctly predicted the winner of the World Cup, died today in Germany.
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| October 26, 2010; 9:32 AM ET |
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Warren Buffett taps Todd Combs as leading candidate to succeed him
Warren Buffett has named Todd Combs of Castle Point Capital as a potential heir to the investment throne.
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| October 26, 2010; 9:13 AM ET |
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♪♫ Sound of Music in a train station
Over 200 people took over a Belgium train station to dance to the Sound of Music's Do-Re-Me.
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| October 26, 2010; 7:38 AM ET |
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Trash strikes from Naples to Marseilles (Photos)
Strikes have left the streets of Naples and Marseilles filled with thousands of tons of trash.
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| October 25, 2010; 3:31 PM ET |
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Firesheep: The cute, new computer hacking program
Firesheep was released by Seattle-based developer Eric Butler and is a Firefox program that works on Wi-Fi networks to capture users' cookies. It exposes the inherently unsafe Wi-Fi networks.
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| October 25, 2010; 1:00 PM ET |
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Georgetown students never take 'hard drugs' (wink, wink), Facebook moms annoy people, and more
Here's the best reads from the weekend.
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| October 25, 2010; 12:29 PM ET |
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Bomb squad defuses kitten bomb of cuteness
A bomb squad in Orlando finds kittens instead of an explosive device in a suspicious package.
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| October 25, 2010; 10:22 AM ET |
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Karzai's bags of cash a conundrum for the U.S.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai shrugged off accusations on Monday that his Chief of Staff, Umar Daudzai, received "bags of money" from Iran.
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| October 25, 2010; 9:47 AM ET |
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Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, walks out of CNN interview (Video)
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been accused of being an imperious and self-absorbed boss, putting the WikiLeaks mission in danger. In an interview with CNN, he walks off the set. Does this justify his detractors?
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| October 25, 2010; 8:35 AM ET |
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'The Hiccup Girl' back in the national news, this time for murder
Jennifer Mee, 19, known as the "Hiccup Girl" has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
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| October 25, 2010; 7:40 AM ET |
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♪♫ Gregory Isaacs dies
Reggae legend Gregory Isaacs died of cancer in London Monday morning, BBC Caribbean confirms. He succumbed to cancer of the liver at the age of 59.
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| October 25, 2010; 7:23 AM ET |
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