• May
  • 07

GT competition to put GT5 Prologue player in real race

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, and Nissan are joining forces to host a competition that could place a really good gamer behind the seat of a real Nissan 350Z at a very real 24-hour endurance race in Dubai.

A friend of mine got very good at Gt3 and GT4, playing night and day until he got his (real) driver's license. I, instead, autocrossed and tracked for 3 years. I let him co-drive my car and he beat my time (and I'm really…

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  • May
  • 01

Regrown finger is ‘junk science’: "It’s a ridiculous story – absurd and over-egged in the extreme,"

Regrown finger is 'junk science': “It's a ridiculous story ? absurd and over-egged in the extreme,”

The Healing Foundation Centre aims to unravel the genetic quirks that allow certain amphibians, such as frogs and salamanders, to recover from severe injuries by generating fresh body tissue. By identifying the genetic mechanisms involved, the…

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  • Apr
  • 28

9,000 “XXX” License Plates Recalled

More than 9,000 North Carolina license plates have been recalled because they begin with “XXX” ? a common symbol for sexually explicit material.

How about we invest some of these radical Bible belt actions into activities that will help keep our kids entertained in Pitt county. Lets us the money and effort for youth centers and mentoring. If you think everything is fine in Pitt county…

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  • Apr
  • 16

Google Confuses Racists

[From third item on page] Much embarrassment at the Green Arrow Forum, the bloggers’ website that supports the BNP. At the top of the site is an advertisement for singlemuslim.com, the UK’s leading Muslim marriage service. This has caused much consternation to the perplexed BNP bloggers.

· Mention of medical acronyms may remind readers of one doctor who had written the initials TTFO (which can be translated as Told To - oh, quieten down at the back of the class) - on a patient's notes. In a subsequent…

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  • Apr
  • 16

Council uses criminal law to spy on school place applicants

A council yesterday admitted using laws designed to track serious criminals to spy on a family for nearly three weeks to find out if they were lying about living in a school catchment area.
The surveillance took place because the family put their house up for sale but lived in it until the end of January to ensure their daughter would qualify…

The mother, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I have had nothing to say how long the information will be kept for, who holds it and what the implications of having an RIPA order executed against you are. I'm absolutely incensed. To be…

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  • Apr
  • 08

Girl with two faces just fine as she is, say parents

The family of an Indian girl born with two faces, who has been venerated as a “gift from God” by local villagers, will not consult doctors to see if their daughter needs to receive treatment or corrective surgery.

“The chances of survival are not very bright in such cases,” Mukul Verma, a neurologist at the Apollo hospital, Delhi. “It is a developmental defect where two different things have been partially formed. It would require plastic…

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  • Apr
  • 03

How did Bush go from being an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?

How different the world might look now if President Bush and his advisers had sat around his desk in the Oval Office and settled on the phrase: “Axis of Unbearably Odious” or “Axis of Hatred”. But they rejected those and instead plumped for “Axis of Evil”. And the rest is history.

Stone, a vocal critic of the Iraq war, applies cod psychology to the president's motivations for the invasion, according to ABC's account of the screenplay. After the elder Bush's defeat in 1992 at the hands of Bill Clinton, his son…

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  • Mar
  • 25

Vanity Plates: Annoying but Funny [Pics]

Normal drives wont know what these plates mean, but other nerds will ? as if they needed a secret language on the road…

I used to recruit physicians and I am thinking about getting back into it. I always wanted, and might soon get one that says, “DR PIMP” But really that’s what I do…pimp doctors. My alltime favorite was in…

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  • Feb
  • 17

$14.3M License Plate: Auction Sets World Record

ABU DHABI - No, it’s not made of solid gold — just ordinary materials. But it does come with the swagger of being labeled no. “1.” And that’s evidently worth a record $14.3 million.

“From 1 to 10, these are the most expensive numbers,” said Abdulla al Mannaie, managing director of Emirates Auctions. “Ten to 99 are the second category. On the other side, you look to numbers which is like 11, 22, 23 they are…

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  • Feb
  • 09

Suffragettes: 90th Anniversary of Womens Right to Vote

Suffragette were members of the women’s suffrage movement, originally in the United Kingdom headed by Emmeline Pankhurst. The term comes from the word suffrage, which means the right to vote.

Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at a protest outside Buckingham Palace. Her tactics for drawing attention to the suffragette cause led her to jail several times

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