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The Raw Story | Stocks fall after Bush announces stimulus plan

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:32 PM EST (Raw Story)

politics, stock-market, taxes, economy

Nintendo tops '07 sales numbers in industry's best year ever

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:46 AM EST (Ars Technica)

The nintendo Wii is doing pretty well it seems, even if I still can't find one!

entertainment, video-games, nintendo

DirecTV To Raise Rates - Packages jump from $3-$5 - dslreports.com

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:45 AM EST (dslreports.com)

Directv is raising rates a little bit.

entertainment, directv

Friday Morning Links - dslreports.com

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:43 AM EST (dslreports.com)

Friday morning links, some good stuff in there.

technology, internet, broadband

Bush spares Libby from prison term - Politics - MSNBC.com

Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 5:54 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

politics, white-house, scooter-libby, bush

Were video games to blame for massacre? - Games - MSNBC.com

Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:41 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

NBC Seems to have done an about face w/ this article, I notice in the first few lines they say Jack was on Fox News, but I seen him say the same thing on MSNBC in the morning, it Imus' old time slot.

entertainment, video-games, phil-mcgraw, fox-news, cho-seung-hui, virginia-tech, shooting

VA Tech Shooting and Video Games

Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:01 AM EDT

This morning I seen Jack-ass Thompson on MSNBC attacking video games and blaming them for the shooting at VA Tech, while Jack should hardly be consider news, the fact that MSNBC labeled him as a school shooting expert is troubling at best.

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us-news, video-games, virginia-tech, shooting, team-fortress-classic, videogamevoters

DreamHost Status » Blog Archive » Major DNS DOS attack

Seeded on Sun Apr 8, 2007 7:09 AM EDT (dreamhoststatus.com)

My website wouldn't work this morning, seems my host is under a DoS attack. Happy Easter man!

technology, dreamhost, dos-attack, denial-of-service-attack, internet

News » Vonage V-Access - Call Worldwide Vonage customers w/o long distance fees

Seeded on Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:27 PM EST (dslreports.com)

Seems like a pretty cool thing to do.

technology, vonage-v-access, vonage, voip

The View From a Jets' Fan

Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:00 AM EST

Well well well, looks like Tom Brady is human after all, the Indianapolis Colts beat the New England Patriots 38 – 34 when Tom Brady of the Patriots threw a interception on what should have been the game winning drive.

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sports, nfl, new-york-jets, indianapolis-colts, new-england-patriots, tom-brady, peyton-manning

Windows Vista not Ready for Primetime

Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:11 AM EST

I remember making the move from 98 to XP, it wasn't all that long ago, I don't recall having as many problems as I did testing out Windows Vista.

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technology, microsoft, windows, windows-vista

Lawmaker won't apologize for 'Islamophobic' letter - CNN.com

Seeded on Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:36 AM EST (CNN)

Spokesman Linwood Duncan said Goode's letter was written in response to complaints his office received about Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith Ellison's request to be sworn in using the Quran. IF I ever get elected to office, I want to be sworn in on a stack of playboys.

politics, virgil-goode, republican, islamophobic

Divided FCC Approves New Cable Rules, Divided FCC Approves New Cable Rules - CBS News

Seeded on Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:56 PM EST (CBS News)

Title says it all

technology, federal-communications-commission, commerce-committee, verizon-communications, fcc-chairman-kevin-martin, fcc

Dr. Phil Lays the Smackdown - TMZ.com

Seeded on Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:24 PM EST (tmz.com)

This is why I don't like Dr Phil, he's a Jack Ass and I don't mean a democrat.

entertainment, dr-phil, bumfights, ty-beeson

Harvard drops religion course requirement | US News | Reuters.com

Seeded on Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:32 PM EST (Reuters)

education, havard, politics, us-news

Dvorak Uncensored » BREAKING NEWS: Sony Recalling 650,000 PS3's.Or Not…

Seeded on Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:20 PM EST (Dvorak Uncensored)

I can't find this anywhere else, so take it w/ a salt shaker or two.

technology, video-games, ps3, sony, playstation-3, recall

Vista is "Released"

Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:19 PM EST

Not too long ago there was a small debate on Newsvine about Vista being cracked and how long it would take, as far as I can tell, it took less then 24 hours.

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technology, windows, vista, windows-vista, release, cracked, microsoft

The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte

Seeded on Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:44 PM EDT (twit.tv)

It looks as if the flagship podcast of the twit.tv line of podcasts may be done for, just when it was getting good to, Jerry Pournelle is great on twit. The "In side the Net" podcast is the reason I ended up on newsvine, late in it's beta.

entertainment, podcast, twit, twit-tv, leo-laporte

A special comment about lying - Countdown with Keith Olbermann - MSNBC.com

Seeded on Thu Oct 5, 2006 9:20 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, "177 of the opposition party said, 'You know, we don't think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists.'" The hell they did.

politics, keith-olbermann, olbermann, bush, republicans, democrats

Sensational Headlines

Wed Oct 4, 2006 7:18 PM EDT

In regards to the post I made on the Maf54 account being active, Vas wrote "Seems like a significant number of Newsviners have a tendency toward sensationalism.

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politics, newsvine, mark-foley, foley, opinion

The Raw Story | Fox had Foley emails, chose not to run

Seeded on Tue Oct 3, 2006 3:23 PM EDT (Raw Story)

This is of course from The Raw Story, some newspapers had the story 1 year ago but didn't run it, along with Fox News.

politics, congress, mark-foley, foley, fox-news, pedofile

Mark Foley Still using AOL account

Tue Oct 3, 2006 12:15 PM EDT

Like a lot of people out there after reading about the Foley scandal and seeing that the screen name he used was now public, I added it to my AIM list, just for fun. Well, this morning at 8:53AM Foley logged on.

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politics, scandal, foley, pedofile, congress, mark-foley

Goodbye fries? NYC may ban trans fats - Diet & Nutrition - MSNBC.com

Seeded on Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:40 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Big Government at it's finest.

health, new-york, health-officials, trans-fats, ban

Fantasy Football: Ben Roethlisberger

Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:03 PM EDT

So, I deiced to try out ESPN Fantasy Football last year, so this is my 2nd year playing Fantasy Football. This year in the draft I got Ben Roethlisberger and Chad Pennington as a backup at QB.

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sports, fantasy-football, ben-roethlisberger, chad-pennington, nfl