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28 Apr 2010 00:43

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Music: One-word album reviews: Courtney Love is the female Billy Corgan

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14 Jul 2009 10:32

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U.S.: Phrase you don’t want to hear when flying: Football-sized hole

  • The cabin depressurized, but everyone’s OK. A Southwest Airlines plane headed from Nashville to Baltimore had to make an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia yesterday after a giant hole opened up above the cabin 34,000 feet in the air, causing the plane’s oxygen masks to come down. Despite how !#(&@*& scary that sounds, nobody was hurt. Whew. source
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11 Apr 2009 22:47

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Tech: How an ugly worm named StalkDaily grabbed Twitter by the throat

  • Some evil person who hates you figured out that you can run Javascript code in Twitter bio fields. source
  • When an infected Twitter user’s profile is viewed on the Web, that Javascript executes. source
  • The code propagates quickly, causing lots of scary things to happen to Twitter users. source
  • Panic, fear and crying by Tweeters everywhere takes over the Interweb. PANIC! AHH! source
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