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• Suspected chemical weapons found at U.N. office: Workers found vials believed to contain the poison gas phosgene at a U.N. office building in New York, U.N. officials said Thursday.


• Edwards On Track in Iowa


• Thompson to Announce Run for President with Online Video Followed by Three-State Campaign Tour


• Thompson to Tell Supporters He's In Today


• Porter ties U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gasoline


• Polk judge rules against gay marriage ban: A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa's law banning gay marriage. The ruling by Judge Robert Hanson concluded that the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and he ordered the Polk County recorder to issue marriage licenses to six gay couples.


• S.F. citywide Wi-Fi plan fizzles as provider backs off


• Union: Mexican Trucks Begin Crossing Border Saturday


• Report faults Virginia Tech response in shootings


• Marine testifies against accused Haditha ringleader: Lance Cpl. Humberto Mendoza told a military hearing at Camp Pendleton Marine base in Southern California that he helped squad members "clear" nearby Iraqi houses after Lance Cpl. Miguel "T.J." Terrazas died in the bombing. Mendoza was the first witness to testify against Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, accused of being the ringleader of troops who prosecutors say massacred two dozen unarmed men, women and children in Haditha in retaliation for the death of Terrazas on November 19, 2005.


• Royals remember Diana 10 years after her death


• Toys "R" Us recalls China-made wooden art sets: Recalling 27,000 wooden coloring cases that were made in China and sold under its Imaginarium brand because lead was found


• Teenage driver held over 140 mph YouTube video


• Ang Lee tackles forbidden love in steamy new film: "Lust, Caution" is based on a short story by Eileen Chang, and follows a group of revolutionary students who hatch a plot to assassinate a powerful political figure who is collaborating with occupying forces during the Sino-Japanese war.


• Bob Marley family says to sue Universal, Verizon


• Small Fry - the smallest stun gun in the world


• Beersheba's Chaswe Nsofwa dies after training match


• Chaswe Nsofwa dies of a heart attack


• wikirage: This site lists the pages in Wikipedia which are receiving the most edits per unique editor over various periods of time.


• Clowns KKKick KKK ass!: the VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK group attempted to host a hate rally to try to take advantage of the brutal murder of a white couple for media and recruitment purposes. Unfortunately for them the 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came and handed them their asses by making them appear like the asses they were.


• Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men


• BlogDay 2007


• The Next-Gen iPod Touch Mock-Up


• First Zune 2 and Zune Flash Shots


• Seam Carving: Image resizer


• Bloggers battered by viral storm


• Colo. School Bans Tag on Its Playground: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.


• Art of Office: The Mac Office Commons


• Announcing Art of Office


• Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!


• One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's


• One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another's


• Priest offers festival-goers the chance to confess their green sins: Dom Anthony Sutch, the Benedictine monk who resigned as head of Downside School to become a parish priest in Suffolk, will be at the county’s Waveney Greenpeace festival this weekend to hear eco-confessions in what is thought to be the first dedicated confessional booth of its kind.


• Monster spider web spun in Texas


• The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time


• Britney Loaded -- Documents Reveal: TMZ has obtained documents from the Britney/K-Fed hearing last Monday, where it was revealed the popwreck rakes in an average of $737,868 a month.


• Harvard Develops P2P Client that uses Bandwidth as “Currency”


• Peek You


• Office 2008 Coming January 2008


• Twitter Adds Gmail Import Feature


• An open letter to friends and colleagues on keyword popovers


• Dark Lunar Eclipse


• Digg to Add Sports, Swarm & Stack


• Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog


• Design My Room


• Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future: Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States -- and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.


• How to advertise men's underwear? (NSFW)


• Marine to sue Murtha over irresponsible Haditha accusations


• Lightning Bolt Hitting Plane Taking Off Osaka


• Google Gadgets that Talk to Each Other


• Major German synagogue reopened: Germany's biggest synagogue has reopened in a special ceremony attended by political leaders and Holocaust survivors from around the world.


• Opera Mini 4 beta 2 released


• Flying saucer 'nears US take-off': It has been called the vehicle of the future and the ultimate way to beat the rush hour commute. It is the M 200G, otherwise known as a "flying saucer", which is being built by a company in Davis, California called Moller International.