Gimme some skin: Today, April 16, 2009, is National High Five Day. Yes, apparently there is such a holiday. National High Five Day falls on the third Thursday of April every year.
National High Five Day Origins
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Forget the strings and woodwinds: A futuristic orchestra is making music using only mobile phones as instruments.
The Stanford University group calls itself MoPho, or the Mobile Phone Orchestra. Led by Ge Wang (who previously created a "Laptop ...
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The use of a device called the Rodenator Pro is stirring up a controversy in the city of Spokane. The Spokane Parks and Recreation Department has started ">using the Rodenator to blast squirrels at its Finch Arboretum ...
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Here's a weird one for you: Russian surgeons say they found a fir tree growing inside a man's lung. The doctors thought the growth was a tumor and were performing surgery to remove it when they realized ...
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You may have to pay Uncle Sam today, but you can also get a little something back. Several businesses are offering free stuff for tax day, mainly in the form of free food. Ready to cash in ...
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Video metrics firm Visible Measures has scored a new deal with MySpace. The company will provide all online video measurement services for the social networking site, it announced this morning.
As MySpace's "official provider of digital video measurement ...
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Marriott is cutting out its automatic daily newspaper delivery to guest rooms, becoming the first major hotel chain to scale back its print paper service.
Marriott says it's seen a 25 percent drop in newspaper demand by ...
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General Motors is recalling about 1.5 million vehicles over a problem that could result in an engine fire. The GM recalls were announced Monday afternoon.
GM Recalls 2009: Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, & Pontiac
The GM recalls affect Buick, Chevrolet, ...
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Coupon site RetailMeNot has expanded its offerings to include printable coupons for free (or discounted) stuff in the real world. The site launched the changes this morning.
Previously, RetailMeNot focused only on coupons for online purchases. Now, you ...
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A study quoted in the Times Online this week suggests Facebook use is "damaging students' academic performance." The study, from the education department at Ohio State University, finds that students who report using Facebook on a daily ...
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Skype's founders are looking to buy back their creation from eBay, according to a recent report by The New York Times. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are trying to raise enough money to repurchase the service they ...
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With all the hoopla over the Conficker worm these days -- the virus is now said to be installing fake antivirus software, most recently infecting hundreds of computers at the University of Utah -- it's hard not ...
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In funny-that-this-is-major-news news, President Barack Obama's much-discussed dog is finally seeing his day in the spotlight. The Obama family's new pet is a Portuguese water dog named Bo.
Obama's Dog: A Portuguese Water Dog
Bo, a 6-month-old Portuguese water ...
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With CircuitCity.com shut down (at least for now), it appears Best Buy and Radio Shack are gaining a big boost to their online traffic -- and it looks like it's coming directly from their old competitor.
Metrics firm ...
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Low-character names may be all snatched up when it comes to domains, but nearly 18,000 three-character names are still unclaimed on Twitter, one monitoring service says.
Domain Pigeon says it's detected 17,855 available three-character names on Twitter as ...
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Some users of Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail were greeted with a strange message last night. A system error caused a message claiming there was no inbox to appear.
You Don't Have an Inbox...Yet
The message mysteriously stated: "You don't ...
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Gmail is finally getting more intuitive support for images within e-mails. The Google gang announced the addition of "Insert Image" functionality within Gmail Labs this morning.
The feature, quite simply, lets you click on an icon to upload ...
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Jennifer Lopez has won a cybersquatting case and secured the rights to jenniferlopez.net and jenniferlopez.org, both of which were registered by a third-party and used for commercial gain. Lopez filed a dispute against the owner via the ...
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A Colorado woman's calling foul play over the state's decision to reject her vanity license plate application. The woman applied to have "ILVTOFU" on her plate to express, she says, her love for bean curd. The state ...
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The last surviving creator of Dungeons & Dragons has died. Dave Arneson passed away after battling cancer, reports indicate.
Arneson and his colleague Gary Gynax released the first edition of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974. The two had ...
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The self-declared "king of all media" has decided to give social media a whirl. Howard Stern announced the launch of a Twitter profile on his show today. The Howard Stern Twitter account will provide behind-the-scenes details of ...
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TweetDeck has released v0.25 of its desktop Twitter client today. The update, now available here, incorporates the Facebook functionality introduced in the latest beta edition. The update will also formally introduce the 12seconds integration tested in the ...
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