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- A Scottsdale man inadvertently shot himself in the buttocks Thursday morning. Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said Daniel Leatherman, 26, heard a disturbance outside his apartment and saw a man he knew fighting with a cab driver. |
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- This card can be used at pharmacies nationwide. The card saves you money on prescription drugs up to 80-90%. Registering for the card online takes about one minute. Can be used with insurance,medicare,medicaid for additional discounts on copays. |
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- Upset that a stray rabid dog was fleeing with a duck from his compound, a man in southern India caught the animal, wrestled with it and bit it hard in the throat before it was beaten to death. |
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- A fire chief in Penobscot County has been charged with being drunk behind the wheel while driving a fire truck with its lights on and its sirens going. |
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- The 32-year-old man was arrested after he hooked his truck to the marked police vehicle while an officer was responding to a domestic disturbance call. |
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- Indicted former Mayor Sharpe James billed the city for adult movies and body lotions while on a business trip, prosecutors allege in documents filed in federal court. |
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- Dash Navigation, the Mountain View, Calif., company that has developed a network-connected global positioning system (GPS) device, is finally making it available for pre-order. The Dash Express will set you back a whopping $600 dollars plus related s... |
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- Two men attacked an 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy man in southern India and chopped off his right leg, apparently believing it had magical powers. |
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- SIXTEEN students from the Maharani Gyatari Devi Girls School in India are in Zimbabwe for a month long visit under an exchange programme with Westrid5 Vote(s) |
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- When Dutch police stopped a car for a broken headlight and noticed the driver was accompanied by a prostitute, they gave him a break - and let him pay the traffic fine in cash rather than sending the ticket to his home. |
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- Swiss chocolatiers, having long ago conquered markets in Europe and North America, are now aiming at the vast expanses of Russia, India and China.6 Vote(s) |
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- Ron Paul videos really are different. This one, Ron Paul Girl - Register Now, was apparently produced a couple of months ago, but it really is one of the odder videos of the year. And there’s many more by the “Ron Paul Girl”. |
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- When it comes to wiping out a bank account, forget holiday shopping. Just parking their cars cost some Norwegians between $37,000 and $148,000. |
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- newVideoPlayer("dashincar. flv", 475, 286);The big news today is that the eagerly anticipated Dash Express is available for pre-order for $599 with three months of free two-way GPRS information and traffic service. After that, the service will cost $10 to $13 monthly on top of that. Pricey to be sure, but the newly unveiled features solidify the Dash's reputation as a turn-by-turn GPS navigator unlike anything seen before: |
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- Men are not discriminated against by "ladies' nights" at Manhattan nightclubs, just as people in their 20s do not suffer because some restaurants let children eat for free or have "early bird" specials for older customers. |
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- A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned to get a C$85,000 $83,700 cell phone bill, has had the charges reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting them. |
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- A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas. |
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- A construction worker who fell about 40 feet down an elevator shaft is nearly unhurt, with no serious injuries. |
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- Predicting what Google may do in 2008 is about as accurate as predicting the future using a Magic 8 ball you can make educated guesses but it8217s nothing more than that. There are two certainties however Google will acquire many companies and they will also launch a range of new products and upgrades to existing |
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- The second in command of AlQaeda has asked for questions to be submitted to the terrorist network which he8217ll then answer in an online interview next month.Ayman alZawahri made the offer as part during a video release online where he mocks the British withdrawal of troops from Southern Iraq, claiming that the withdrawal shows that |
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- People who don8217t follow Loren Feldman are usually surprised when he takes aim at their startup and lets loose. He combines valid points with a highly confrontational approach he once called me a 8220pompous elitist asshole8221 and I still consider him a friend. The results are usually entertaining and combustive. |
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- Levels of bromate, a carcinogen, have become so high in the Silver Lake and Elysian reservoirs that authorities are having to drain over 600 millions of gallons of water. Bromate levels have risen due to combination high sunlight exposure, naturally present groundwater bromate, and chlorine. |
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- TOKYO Reuters Over half of influenza patients in Japan showing abnormal behavior had taken the drug Tamiflu, but it is not clear if there was a causal link between the drug and their actions, a government report showed on Monday. . |
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- RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas Reuters Mauro Morales has chickens in his yard, deer antlers hanging from the fence and a shed full of peyote behind his house. . |
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- Lonnie Denison faces five years in prison and a 250,000 fine after admitting to breaking a glass cover and hitting the emergency off switch in a state data center. . |
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- SEOUL Reuters South Korean voters head to the polls on Wednesday, ready to end 10 years of liberal presidents by picking a former businessman who promises run the worlds 13th largest economy like a CEO. . |
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- PARIS Reuters More than 60 countries meet in Paris on Monday to underwrite renewed Middle East peace talks with pledges of aid for the Palestinian government, locked in a power struggle with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip. . |
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- jschauma writes Yahoo published a press release announcing that it has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. In their company blog, Yahoo points out their particular interest in the Apache projects Lucene and Hadoop, and that they have hired Doug Cutting, creator of both projects and VP at Apache. Lucene powers the search on Wikipedia Yahoo also provides hosting capacity to Wikimedia.Read more of this story at Slashdot.. |
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- TOKYO Reuters Japan plans to postpone buying nextgeneration fighter aircraft to replace part of its ageing air force fleet because the United States is unwilling to export its stateoftheart F22 stealth fighter, a newspaper said on Monday. . |
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- An anonymous reader writes to let us know that users of Trixbox, a PBX based on Asterisk, recently discovered that the software has been phoning home with statistics about their installations. Its easy enough to disable, and not particularly steathy beyond encrypting the data sent back, but customers in the forum are annoyed at not having been informed of the reporting. Trixbox is owned by Fonality, which makes customized PBXs again based on Asterisk for paying customers.Read more of this story at Slashdot.. |
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- NEW YORK Billboard More than 26 years after his death, Bob Marley continues to sell records, topping Billboards yearend Top Reggae Albums chart. . |
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- LOS ANGELES Reuters The heads of Hollywoods film and TV studios signed a statement of unity on Sunday, a day after striking screenwriters signaled they would try a divide and conquer strategy in an increasingly bitter strike that is paralyzing the industry. . |
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- BOSTON Reuters The undefeated New England Patriots stayed on course for a perfect season by beating the New York Jets 2010 on Sunday, while Miami snapped a 13game losing streak after a dramatic overtime win over Baltimore. . |
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- DoT is unlikely to increase the spectrum fee beyond the prescribed Rs 1,651 crore for an all-India licence.4 Vote(s) |
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- Mit arabischen Gr ssen – ein kultureller Ann herungsversuch Mit arabischen Gr ssen Ein kultureller Ann herungsversuch Dies ist der Titel des neuen Buches von Amor Ben Hamida. In seinem zweiten Buch wendet er sich wieder sowohl an bikulturelle Paare, als auch an Touristen, die arabische L [...] |
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- Neues aus dem Sunshine State 2008 – Mit Homer, Marge und Bart in die Achterbahn Die Simpsons sind ab Fr hjahr 2008 die Stars der gleichnamigen neuen Attraktion im Universal Studios Resort am Lake Buena Vista nahe Orlando. Es geht auf eine turbulente Fahrt durchs n chtliche Springfield und Homer, Marge und [...] |
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- ADAC-Urteil: Zell am See ist ‘Aufsteiger des Jahres 2008’ Einmal im Jahr erscheint mit dem ‘ADAC reisemagazin Ski’ |
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- St. Anton am Arlberg: RIESENtorlauf f r alle zum Saisonauftakt am 1. Dezember Winterstart mit Superlativen: Zu Beginn der neuen Saison am 30. |
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- FineArtReisen – die Reisezeitung im Internet im neuen Gewand FineArtReisen die Reisezeitung im Internet pr sentiert sich seit dem 1. November im neuen Gewand. Das neue barrierefreie Layout der beliebten Online-Reisezeitung unterstreicht dabei durch die Verwendung eines im Zeitungsdruck [...] |
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- W chentlicher Direktflug nach Calgary/Vancouver Kanada und Alaska bleiben auch 2008 im Trend. F r den n chsten Reisesommer pr sentiert Kuoni Schweiz das neue Kanada Alaska Programm. Neben einem umfassenden Linienflugangebot bietet Kuoni erneut den direkten Flug ab Z rich nach Calgary und Vancouver. F [...] |
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- Hamburg Gans(z) weihnachtlich Unter dem Motto Hamburg Gans(z) weihnachtlich veranstalten der Tourismusverband Hamburg e.V. (TVH) und 32 Top-Gastronomen der Hansestadt vom 11. November bis 23. Dezember 2007 die wahrscheinlich leckerste Vorweihnachtszeit seit der Martinsgans. |
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- SWISS am New Yorker Flughafen JFK neu im Terminal 4 Am 20. Dezember 2007 wechselt SWISS am Flughafen John F. Kennedy in New York ins Terminal 4. SWISS und die Verantwortlichen vom Terminal 1 haben sich geeinigt, dass SWISS ins Terminal 4 zieht, um die gegenw rtige Situation f r SWISS zu [...] |
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- St. Anton am Arlberg: RIESENtorlauf f r alle zum Saisonauftakt am 1. Dezember Winterstart mit Superlativen: Zu Beginn der neuen Saison am 30. |
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- Ruchlose Piraten f r Singapur-Trip gesucht! M nchen, 28. November 2007 Endlich ist es soweit: mit Disney’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN AM ENDE DER WELT erscheint der dritte Teil der Piraten-Saga auf DVD und Blu-ray Disc ! |
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- Why is China's economy and trade booming? What is really inside Chinese society, banking, management, outsourcing, education, politics, individual li2 Vote(s) |
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- Let's face it no matter how many plastic surgeries or anti-aging creams we applied to our bodies, we are all going to get old and gray eventually, so why not have a laugh about it. |
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