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Conan O'Brien Reveals Promo Poster For His New Comedy Tour
The poster for O'Brien's self-proclaimed "half-assed comedy and music tour" was revealed today. Official name? "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour" sponsored by American Express (get that money, honey!).

Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd'
Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd', MyFoxNY Fox 5 News WNYW:More Liberal big brother control proposed. What's next, National ID cards? Oh wait.

Alcohol Sold to Children Through Facebook
A 28 yr old man was caught using the social networking website to sell alcohol to a number of under-age drinkers since 2008. The Facebook page had the tagline: ''Beer delivered to your door ... Friday and Saturday 11pm til 4am.''

Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas Exec Found Dead of Clear Suicide
"News that Randy Kwasniewski died from an apparent self-inflicted gun wound to the head."

CNET: Android phones get Opera Mini 5 beta
All those Android smartphone owners who have been wondering when they can ditch the outmoded Opera Mini 4.2 browser in favor of the latest beta can now unfold their pouts, stop that kicking, and remove their pounding fists from the floor. Opera Mini 5 beta has arrived.

17-year-old Notorious BIG Raps On The Streets Of NY [video]
Biggie On Fulton Avenue in Brooklyn spittin fire as a young'n!

Crane Collapses With Deafening Crash (Video)
If a huge crane collapses and there's a camera to film it, does it make a horrendous sound? Yeah, it does.

Japan opens '98th' national airport in Ibaraki!
Japan's 98th airport has begun operations - offering just one flight a day.Ibaraki airport cost 22bn Yen ($220m, £147m) to build and is being seen in Japan as a prime example of wasteful public expenditure.

Definition Of A Bad Day- Burning Funeral Car
This cremation can't wait!

Half-Hen/Half-Rooster Shows Cells Can Decide Sex
In mammals, a flood of hormones tells cells to develop male or female features. But a new study of gender-bending chickens reveals that birds may be different. They have an additional way of determining whether they appear male or female: Individual cells may be able to do it.

Russian magnate wins libel case over poisoning report
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has won his libel case against a Russian broadcaster in a London court, his spokeswoman told CNN Wednesday.

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Pro Football Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen dies
Olsen was a Pro Bowler 14 times in a 15-year career. The Rams announced the sad news on Twitter.

I Need YouTube To Come and Film Me [PIC]
I have been calling, calling, and calling YouTube like crazy to come film some videos for me but they won't come. I do not understand how other people get there videos on YouTube. YouTube needs to come film me cuz i have some funny things to show the internet...

Play Corey Haim Off, Keyboard Cat
RIP Corey Haim

Should Rush Limbaugh Leave America?
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners this week that hewould "go to Costa Rica" if the Democratic health-care reform plan ispassed and enacted. Liberal bloggers greeted the threat with frenzieddelight ? urging Limbaugh to make good on his promise ? while theirexasperated conservative counterparts came to Limbaugh's defense.

The NBA's 5 Underappreciated Stars
Kevin Durant, Tyreke Evans, Russell Westbrook and Brandon Jennings have all been called the NBA's up-and-coming stars. But what about the guys who have been impressive without all the fanfare? This is for the NBA's underappreciated stars -- the ones who put in the work, put up the numbers and deserve more credit.

The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse
In the past decade, recorded music has gotten louder and has deteriorated from a sound-quality standpoint. A recording engineer discusses "The Loudness Wars" and a psychology professor explains why the ubiquity of MP3s has changed what we hear.

Physicists Build Basic Quantum Computing Circuit
Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.

10 Taste-Tested Irish Breakfasts for St.Patrick's Day [PICS]
Kiss me om nom nom Irish!

What's Worse: Stingy Banks or Thrifty Consumers?
There have been a lot of people blabbing on for the past few months about the new found thriftiness of the American consumer. The savings rate is up, and credit card balances are down. Well it appears, that that later piece of news does not fit as neatly into the thriftier American thesis as it appears.

Trampoline Tragedy-The Very Best Bouncing YouTube Fails-VIDS
Great news! There are more videos on the Internet of people falling off and/or onto trampolines than there are hats in Canada. (That's completely untr

What The Mario Brothers Do When Not Saving The Princess
This is a real picture from Google Street View, and I can't believe that the two owners here didn't plan this....

9 Reasons Why On Demand is the Greatest Invention Ever
Since the dawn of man, various technological advancements have altered the course of human civilization. The wheel, the light bulb, and the Craigslist ?Causal Encounters? section, just to name a few. However, the advent of On Demand television is clearly the most important breakthrough the world has ever known.

10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer
For many years, the Internet was the ?final frontier,? operating largely unregulated ? in part because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws. That was then; this is now. Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels.

Woman to Become Only Female Head Football Coach in the U.S.
On Friday, Natalie Randolph is scheduled to be formally named the head football coach at Coolidge High School in Northwest Washington. The appointment, which Randolph confirmed in a brief telephone conversation Tuesday, was applauded by some of her peers in the coaching profession.

Ultimate laptop buying guide: 6 types of laptops to consider
Whether you're looking for an uber-powerful desktop replacement or a super-portable netbook, here is what you need to consider before buying a laptop.

Miss. School Prom off After Lesbian's Date Request
A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

Thicker Than Water? Antarctica's Amazing Ecosecret
Blood Falls is a waterfall in Antarctica that spews blood-red water from five stories up. It was first discovered in 1911, but it wasn?t until recently that scientists have begun to dig into just how significant the location really is ? both for understanding life on Earth and for speculating about life on other planets.

So you think your pet is Badass!
Does it get you dinner?

Supermarkets begin to charge for both plastic and paper bags
Paper or plastic?" is no longer the question most often on store clerks' lips in the nation's capital these days when shoppers are buying food. Instead, cashiers here routinely ask customers if they want a bag at all, since they have to pay a nickel for each disposable sack they use to hold their groceries, snacks or takeout meals.

Here is a picture of Andre the Giant on a Honda ATV.
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Does Going Green Make You Less Virtuous
A new study shows that people are more likely to cheat and steal after buying green products.

Top 10 Political Memoirs
Sarah Palin's new memoir is hardly the first to stir controversy ...

Breaking: 7.2 magnitude quake reported in Chile
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has struck south of Santiago, Chile, the United States Geological Survey reports.The quake struck near Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile, the USGS reported.

RIP: The Novel
A book that defends plagiarism, champions faked memoirs and declares fiction dead has the literary world up in arms.

For Iran, Enriching Uranium Only Gets Easier
In the Iranian desert, a shift in the enrichment of uranium is producing global jitters because it could shorten Iran?s path to nuclear weapons. The tricky process accelerates as it moves ahead - The higher the concentration, the easier it gets. Diplomacy is moving slowly but Iran is moving quickly towards nuclear weapons.

New MySpace Chiefs Plan Major Relaunch
In their first interview since the shock departure of Owen Van Natta, MySpace?s former chief executive, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschorn, the company?s new co-presidents, say they will be ready to ?win back old users? by the end of this year.

All-black penguin discovered | Yahoo! Green
An extremely rare sight in Antarctica makes one bird appear underdressed.

New Rendering Method Claims Unlimited Detail, Kills Polygons
This technology may be the future of computer graphics, and while this video may not look up to par with the most recent of games, remember it was designed by engineers, not artists. Can someone more technical elaborate on this?