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I want everyone to be eaten by dinosaurs ->

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bowman9991
bowman9991 writes "A reviewer at Science Fiction World is decidedly unimpressed with Fox's expensive, time travelling dinosaur filled TV show Terra Nova. "After watching the pilot...I am praying that when I watch the next episode the entire cast gets eaten by dinosaurs. The entire cast's gruesome deaths at the hands of a frenzied T-Rex or a velociraptor having a bad day can't come soon enough. Should a prehistoric volcano erupt at the same time and spew molten lava over the human compound and all its occupants while they're being eaten alive by the dinosaurs, all the better. If I've given you the impression that I didn't enjoy the opening episodes, you may be onto something.""
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Microsoft

Ballmer: We're lucky Microsoft didn't buy Yahoo in->

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer feels intensely fortunate that his company's $44 billion bid for Yahoo back in 2008 never materialized. "Sometimes you're lucky," he said with a smile at Web 2.0 Summit, responding to a question from conference co-chair John Battelle. Careful not to offend his search market partner, Ballmer put his comment in context, saying that any CEO would feel grateful for not making a major acquisition in the months prior to the global financial collapse that started in the second half of 2008."
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Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases 397

Posted by Soulskill
from the and-don't-kill-off-patrick-stewart-at-the-beginning dept.
SSDNINJA writes "This editorial discusses the habit of Bethesda Softworks to release broken and buggy games with plans to just fix the problems later. Following a trend of similar issues coming up in their games, the author begs gamers to stop supporting buggy games and to spread the idea that games should be finished and quality controlled before release – not weeks after."
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Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools 650

Posted by samzenpus
from the eye-in-the-sky dept.
Officials in Riverhead, New York are using Google Earth to root out the owners of unlicensed pools. So far they've found 250 illegal pools and collected $75,000 in fines and fees. Of course not everyone thinks that a city should be spending time looking at aerial pictures of backyards. from the article: "Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC, said Google Earth was promoted as an aid to curious travelers but has become a tool for cash-hungry local governments. 'The technology is going so far ahead of what people think is possible, and there is too little discussion about community norms,' she said."
Idle

Man repairs crumbling walls with Legos->

Submitted by Lanxon
Lanxon writes "German-born artist Jan Vormann, 27, has spent the past three years travelling the world repairing crumbling walls and monuments with Lego, reports Wired. His “Dispatchwork” began in 2007 in the small village of Bocchignano, Italy, as part of the contemporary art festival 20 Eventi. Developing the work in situ, he became intrigued by the makeshift repairs that had been made to the crumbling walls. The approach favoured function over appearance, reminding Vormann of the haphazard Lego designs created by children."
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Storm kills a half-billion trees in Amazon jungle->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, according to a new study out of Tulane University, in New Orleans. Using a variety of techniques, including measuring the change in surface reflectivity on satellite images, researchers determined that between 441 and 663 million trees were destroyed across the whole Amazon basin, representing a loss equivalent to abut 23 percent of the estimated mean annual carbon accumulation of the Amazon forest."
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Prince Says Internet Is Over 450

Posted by samzenpus
from the it-was-fun-while-it-lasted dept.
the_arrow writes "According to the artist currently known as Prince, 'The internet's completely over.' At least that what he says in an interview with the British newspaper Mirror. Quoting Prince: 'The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.'"
The Internet

Wikipedia is offline

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "It appears as though wikipedia.org is offline. Just as it did on the 24th of March, it seems to have blinked out of existence. As a direct result, all of human kind is now slightly dumber."
Social Networks

"David After Dentist" Made $150k For Family 234

Posted by samzenpus
from the is-this-real-life? dept.
It turns out recording your drugged child pays pretty well. 7-year-old David DeVore became an overnight sensation when his father posted a video of his ramblings after dental surgery. To date that video has made the DeVore family around $150,000. Most of the money came from YouTube, but the family has made $50k from licensing and merchandise. From the article: "The one seemingly minor decision to make the video available all over the Internet set off a whirlwind of changes for the DeVore family. Within just four days, 'David After Dentist' received 3 million views on YouTube and the younger David quickly became an Internet celebrity. His father quit his job in residential real estate (did we mention they live in Florida?), and the family started selling T-shirts featuring cartoon drawings of their son post-dental surgery."

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