Elsie McLean, 102, became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course. She used a driver on a par 3 hole to break the age record of 101 set by Harold Stilson in 2001 at Deerfield Country Club in Florida.
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Poland and Ukraine have been chosen to host the 2012 European football Championships.
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A member of SA’s 16 year old, half Japanese brother, Joshua, was just expelled from high school in a small Arkansas town.
Apparently, someone took offense to a shirt he wore before the VT killings with “4 out of the 5 voices in my head tell me to go for it” on the front, and complained to the office about him being “asian and quiet”. Exact words.
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It’s no secret that the record industry is in trouble. They have moved from selling music as their main source of income to creating revenue through lawsuits against their customers. Here are a few concepts every musician today should understand in order to thrive in the new music economy.
In the q&a before the April 11th taping of The Colbert Report the discussion of Google bombing came up and Colbert told the audience he would like to be known as the “greatest living American” and asked everyone in the audience to link to him using that text. Will he be able to shakeup Google like he did with the Wikipedia?
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To make it simpler for us to write Mac software that interacts with Google services, I created a framework to use Google data APIs directly in Objective-C programs. We are using the framework for our application development, and today we are making the framework available to all developers.
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BitTorrent Inc. is experimenting with alternatives to paid downloads on their Entertainment Network, and is now experimenting with advertising supported downloads. Instead of paying for a download, BitTorrent
’s customers now see ads before and after watching an episode.
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After Adult Swim promised last week that the new Aqua Teen Movie would play tonight I was skeptical as to what they would show. I have to hand it to them for an awesome April Fools prank.
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The space rock, dubbed 2006 VV2, will come within 2.1million miles of hitting us — which is a near miss in space terms, even though that’s about nine times farther away than the moon. The asteroid was flying past Earth on Friday night, at 11 p.m. (PDT), and on Saturday 7 a.m. GMT for Europe. There was no danger of collision. And that’s a really goo
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Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Thrift was developed at Facebook, and they are now releasing it as open source.
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