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Tiger Woods mistresses want him to apologize to them :: Maybe if they hadn’t sold their stories to the tabloids and are all now writing books about it I would have more sympathy.   Tiger was a cad but they knew what they were getting into, in some cases, they were paid to be available. Alexander [...]

"The idea that China was one day going to be a lucrative market for foreign companies was just an illusion." China orders retreat from risky investments :: "When the world’s biggest investor turns risk-averse, that is something you take notice of. We think this could become the new theme for the markets in the medium-term” [...]

The federal Tories take control of Anders’ riding association :: Apparently the federal Tories are trying to support Rob Anders, the MP who once called Nelson Mandela a terrorist.  I have never understood the loyalty that Conservatives have towards Anders who doesn’t even have a following on his own riding executive.  Calgary Grit has more. [...]

Jim Kelly joking around about his four Super Bowl losses 10 Products that BOOMED during the recession :: Hyundai, Coleman camping products, and universal remotes all make the list. Flickr is quietly becoming home to the web’s largest collection of historical images.  The U.S. National Archives just joined the Commons. The van makes a comeback  [...]

Learning from Katrina, White House’s Haiti PR effort includes an effective “ticktock.” Geithner’s influence in the White House may have slipped during the rise of Volcker Bob Rae, King of proroguing Op: Haiti was already everybody’s favorite tragedy, but what marks Haitians is heroism and pride SS-N-22 Sunburn is the NATO designation for a Russian-made [...]

Fifteen of history’s worst disasters Top 10 places you can’t visit Chart of rising and declining freedom worldwide Twitter shows an incredible ability to misinform the masses (my own account back this up, it’s all garbage) Conan O’Brien’s barbs from the Tonight Show last night. Banks gave out $145 billion in bonuses in 2009 :: [...]

1/3 of Union Square’s portfolio is under attack from patent trolls Thousands possibly killed by Haiti’s earthquake; “country destroyed,” says Haitian president The Big Picture has devastating photos of the earthquake in Haiti Conan O’Brien: Standard Bearer of Temperance and Dignity Interactive map of where different languages are spoken in the States Photos of compelling [...]

The AMP3 MP3 Player :: Supposedly quite a bit better than the iPod according to many audiophiles. Roger Ebert can no longer eat or drink, but what he misses most is dining Summary of the angry state of research around chronic fatigue: a false battle between viral and mental New U.C.L.A. study says that even [...]

Mozilla exec encourages Firefox users switch to Bing :: Apparently Google’s Chrome is upsetting some over at Mozilla’s HQ.  Is Google becoming the new Microsoft? A one year alternative to the MBA The Copenhagen Summit is in trouble already Rich Reilly has some advice for Tiger Woods on improving his image.  I have read a [...]

10 Mistakes to Avoid in the Mobile Office – Entrepreneur.com (tags: productivity work business) Free Online OCR – Convert JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PDF to Text NewOCR is a free online OCR service that allows to convert scanned images and multi-page PDF documents to text, can process 29 languages and supports layout analysis [...]

After Going 1-59, N.J.I.T. Basketball Team Expects to Win Yet another article about a team moving from Division II to Division I for no apparent reason and it turning out disastrously. We'll see how it turns out but I don't have a lot of high expectations. (tags: NCAA basketball) State Finance Directors Warn of More [...]

The future of the Saskatoon Health Region In the end it will involve a lot of bureaucrats making plans. (tags: Saskatoon healthcare) 2nd Opinion: Emerging church: Threat or ally? A good summary of the how the emerging church see's Biblical inerrancy. (tags: Bible emergingchurch) Got a spare $6 million? Run a NASCAR race in your [...]

Tauntaun Sleeping Bag Is this not the best sleeping back ever made? (tags: StarWars)

Is Wikipedia dying? The low hanging fruit is taken care of which means that the number of new articles being submitted is decreasing. (tags: wikipedia) Destroying al Qaeda Is Not an Option (Yet) Like it or not, keeping a battered al Qaeda intact (if weak) is the world's best hope of funneling Islamist fanatics into [...]