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French Skiier Takes a Flagpole to the Nuts – Sports – Gawker.TV.

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If you’re going to unplug from the cable company, prepare to exercise some patience when it comes to watching your favorite shows as soon as they air—it can take anywhere from a day to a week for them to appear online. Also, be ready to do some digging around to find who’s streaming special events, [...]

ShareYesterday, the new Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure act went into effect—but not without controversy. And tonight on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart brilliantly laid out both what’s wrong with American consumers and with credit card companies.
via Jon Stewart Sums Up Everything That is Wrong with America in Under Four Minutes – Comedy Central [...]

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Have you ever accidently deleted a file, or removed a crucial part of a document only to realize it no longer makes sense?  Windows 7 is smart enough to protect you from yourself, and here we’ll see how you can restore files in any edition of Windows 7.
via Restore Previous Versions of Files in Every [...]

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The Case For Movie Piracy.

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It used to be so simple. You wanted to go to Paris, so you called a travel agency, gave them your dates and budget, and with any luck, you soon had in your hands a real paper ticket with a real dollar value. Even in the early days of the Internet, it was easier. You [...]

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Google Voice is a great service, one of the best things Google has released in a long time. Unfortunately, most casual web users have no idea what it is. Or more specifically, what it’s purpose is.
via Google Voice Launches A Series Of Videos To Explain Its “Awesomeness,” Gibberish.

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Pay attention to your shoes. Everyone else does. It’s hard for the non-fashion-maven to tell a more expensive suit from a less expensive one, a high-quality shirt from a medium-quality one, and so on. But everyone can tell cheap or poorly cared-for shoes. Buy the best ones you can afford, and take care of them.
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If you were waiting for the next huge online video event, this is it. Tiger Woods is set to break his silence on Friday morning with a press conference that will be broadcast live at 11 a.m. ET on Ustream, via the company’s partner CBS News.
via Tiger Woods Press Conference to Be Broadcast Live on [...]

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We are pleased to say that NBC covered Lindsey Vonns amazing downhill run live today…  on its blog. The network wont actually show the race until tonight, of course, when everyone knows the results which most people now do, because the NBC TV network may be the only news organization on the planet that hasnt reported [...]