Archive for December, 2007
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Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
Get to see Kasumi, the teen kunoichi, takes on Sasuke, the game’s star of the show! Never underestimate how smart the beginning generation can be!
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Brief Karate Blazers video
Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia Bits
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History of Video Games (1972-2007)
Submitted by videogame2play
Watch this timeline on video games spanning 35 years, from Pong all the way to our current generation of titles - it’s quite apparent that we’ve come a long way. How many of the games featured have you had the opportunity to play?
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Street Fighter IV: Capcom updates popular series to 3D
Submitted by videogame2play
The following video showcases Capcom’s Street Fighter IV in HD.
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2008 Console Preview
Submitted by Video Game Jocks
As 2007 comes to a close, many, including yours truly, are calling it the best year in gaming ever. Whether you agree of not, you have to admit that it will be a tough act for 2008 to follow.
In 2007, the console war was, other than a 1 month, Master Chief […]
Video Game Jocks Episode 70 - The First Annual Jocky Awards (Live)
Submitted by Video Game Jocks
In this special call-in spectacular we present the First Annual Jocky Awards, our 2008 Preview and Take Calls from Our Loyal Listeners!
[MP3] Direct Download
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Video Game Jocks Is The Newest Member of Platform Nation
Submitted by Video Game Jocks
We here at Video Game Jocks are proud to announce that we are the newest members of Platform Nation.
What is Platform Nation you ask?
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A partisan political pique about who kills most animals
Submitted by ANIMAL RIGHTS MALTA’S BLOG
It becomes interesting when pique between opposing political parties and the subsequent political propaganda provides us with statistics on the extent of the atrocities, objectification, and subsequent murder committed on non-human animals in Malta, all subsidized by the governing party through your taxes.
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Roscoe Finally Goes Home!
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
In October, Roscoe, a German Shepherd mix was seized from his family’s from yard under the guise that Animal Control claimed he looked like a pit bull.
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Website to Buy ‘Strays’ for Medical Research - Something Needs to be Done!
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
I got a email yesterday about a website called IBuyStrays.com that outright ask people to turn in strays and any unwanted cats and dogs including litters of puppies and kittens to be used for medical research.
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Mother Dog and 6 Puppies Thrown in the Trash
Submitted by For The Love of the Dog
Baldwin County, FL - Playing children heard whimpering coming from a dumpster on Upper Bryant’s Landing Road in Stockton. They alerted an animal control officer and when he investigated he found a MinPin-Chihuahua and her 6 puppies in a wooden box thrown inside the dumpster like trash.
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The burden of spending
Submitted by EconWeekly
Over the 12 months to October 2007, home prices in the 20 largest metropolitan areas declined by 6.1 percent. And they have fallen every month since January. With less equity to borrow from, homeowners could cut their spending. As a second whammy, a large volume of adjustable rate mortgages are scheduled to reset […]
Quote of the Day
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
“Easy credit made bad homeowners out of good renters.”
~Los Angeles manager of rental property, from an article in today’s Mpls.-St. Paul Star Tribune
Global Capitalism Comes to Southeast Asia
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Cheap Chinese products, like motorcycles that sell for only $440, are flooding China’s southern neighbors and consumers in Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia are laying out the welcome mat.
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Putting Subprime Mortgages in Perspective
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
According to Glenn Maguire, chief Asia economist for Societe Generale SA in Hong Kong:
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Target Clinics Open in Minnesota and Maryland
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
I have posted previously on low-cost, consumer-friendly, market-driven, walk-in retail health care clinics in retail stores like Walgreens, CVS and Wal-Mart, see here, here, here and here. Now Target has joined the market for retail clinics by opening Target Clinics in Minnesota (18 locations) and Maryland (5 locations).
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Really, We Just Can’t Have A President…..
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
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Only 2 Out of 54 Economists Expect ‘08 Recession
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
For 2008, the economic outlook is Topic No. 1 for almost all investors. Stock prices and bond yields already reflect recession worries, but an actual downturn would hit portfolios hard. To help get a handle on what to expect, BusinessWeek asked 54 forecasters for their views on everything from housing and the […]
Schedule of Postings…
Submitted by My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
The schedule of postings for the next few days will go something like this:
Monday (morning): Stock Picks and Trade Ideas for Monday
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UGTH: Commercial Production Begins to Heat Up
Submitted By Knobias ClipReport
A Wikipedia article on geothermal energy in the United States notes that 9 states in the western US have the potential to produce more than 20% of the electricity needs of the entire country, yet the current contribution from geothermal is less than 1%. Needless to say, geothermal energy is a sustainable […]
Bhutto’s Death Sounds More And More Like A Gangland Hit Job
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Media Claims Two Snipers, Five Bullets, One Suicide Bombing
Pakistan TV has aired footage which reportedly shows a gunman near Bhutto’s vehicle shooting her
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2007 : The Year The World’s Weather Got Really Freaky
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
According to this story from the Associated Press, 2007 will go down in history as the year of record-breaking, ‘normal’-shattering, totally bizarre weather events.
January 2007 was the hottest January worldwide since such record-keeping began.
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Mum, Dad, You Really Suck
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Have you ever had a baby look at you like you’re a complete idiot?
It might not be your imagination, after all. New research indicates that babies are more than capable of forming critical judgements of adults, particularly their parents :
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Aide Claims Bhutto Had Bullet Wound In Her Head
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
If the story of how Benazir Bhutto died was not already confusing enough, a close aide to the Pakistan opposition leader is claiming hospital staff and Pakistan government officials are lying when they claim she was not shot and that she died from a head injury resulting from her ducking back […]
Car-Human-Truck Sandwich
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
You think it’s going to be gruesome, and you think you just can’t stand to watch it any longer, because you think you know what the mess is going to look like. But keep watching, right to the end.
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