For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special “hotline” included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through […]
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French Special Forces could have killed Osama bin Laden in 2003 and 2004 in Afghanistan, but the order to kill never came from the US commanders in charge according to a French Documentary.
The documentary which is certain to create controversy is called Ben Laden, les ratés d’une traque (Bin Laden, the Failures of a Manhunt).
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Check out this link for a cool flash game/tutorial, which will teach you more than just how to play poker. Warning this is NSFW!
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Skype is adding lie detection capabilities to its VoIP telephony service. The software which was developed in Israel and is used by the US military, scrutinizes stress levels in the callers voice to determine if the the caller is telling a lie.
The ‘KishKish’ software attempts to determine whether the caller is telling a whopper by […]
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Obviously a perfect X-mas gift for the serious beer drinkers out there.. I just hope they don’t come out with the “arse-crack” as their new product.
Made up of an insulated neoprene sling and a polyurethane bladder connected to a drinking tube, the Beerbelly holds up to 2.3 Litres (over four pints) of amber nectar and […]
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Want to write your own news stories? Then you might like this site where you can create your own little snippets of news articles. The result looks just like a scanned article from a newspaper, there are also other generators such as one for cigarette pack warning labels, hours of fun here :)
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Mozilla have released a patch for Firefox 2.0. The patch fixes a number of issues for all platforms, adresses some security problems and includes better support for Vista.
You can download Firefox 2.0.0.1 from here.
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How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? This map shows a brief history of the world’s most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? Ready, Set, Go!
It’s […]
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Lawn darts were massive weighted spears. You threw them. They stuck where they landed. If they happened to land in your skull, well, then you should have moved.
Awesome list…there is even a mini atomic energy lab thingy so that kids could have a go at changing their DNA.
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Cardinal Bertone has again fuelled speculation that the Vatican may one day have a football team of their own.
“I do not preclude the possibility that the Vatican, in the future, could put together a football team of great value, that could play on the same level as Roma, Inter Milan and Sampdoria,” said Cardinal Bertone […]
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Everyone starts with the best intentions. Then things start to get cramped. Then you notice your neighbour has more oil than you. Before long, war is waged, nukes are dropped, revolutions are fought and terrorists are doing your dirty work, before turning on you…
I love the secret messages :)
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Ok this game is really simple but highly addictive. The aim is to avoid the objects chasing you, move around using the arrow keys. My highest score atm is 3000. I’m finding it a little difficult to get beyond that.
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