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Cellphones: 25 Anniversary of the First Commercial Cellphone Call Timeline view story
41 votes- Submitted by RippinKitten
- 1 day ago
- (http://gizmodo.com/5061790/25-ann...)
- Became popular 30 minutes ago
Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the first commercial cellphone call in history. On October 13th 1983, Ameritech executive Bob Barnett called the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell using the now legendary and bricktastic Motorola DynaTAC 8000X.
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Rays pack power, rout Red Sox in Game 3 of ALCS - USATODAY.com view story
43 votes- Submitted by BennyGreenberg
- about 13 hours ago
- (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ba...)
- Became popular about 2 hours ago
B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria and the rest of the Tampa Bay Rays are bashing their way through their first trip to the playoffs.
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Date or Dump Web 2.0 Style view story
44 votes- Submitted by Avinio
- 1 day ago
- (http://www.briancuban.com/date-or...)
- Became popular about 3 hours ago
Scanning the wall posts of my Facebook friends can be a pretty good gauge of what people are doing for fun. It is also a daily soap opera of “Days Of Our Lives” proportions. People expose their personal lives and inner most secrets to a level that..
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5 Sizzling Tips to Fire Up Your Marketing | Words For Hire view story
48 votes- Submitted by alina.popescu
- 1 day ago
- (http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/i...)
- Became popular about 3 hours ago
5 great tips on how adding a little sizzle can help you better sell your steak.
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Court: Google Image thumbnails infringe on copyright view story
58 votes- Submitted by insaincain02
- about 13 hours ago
- (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/p...)
- Became popular about 4 hours ago
A German court has ruled that Google's image searches aren't allowed to display thumbnails of copyrighted images, and says that it's Google's job to figure out what's copyrighted.
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Paul Krugman Wins Economics Nobel view story
48 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 23 hours ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14...)
- Became popular about 4 hours ago
Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed page columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday.
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Manic Monday: Dow roars back from worst week ever - Yahoo! News view story
55 votes- Submitted by BennyGreenberg
- about 14 hours ago
- (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200810...)
- Became popular about 5 hours ago
Wall Street stormed back after its worst week ever and staged the biggest single-day stock rally since the Great Depression on Monday, catapulting the Dow Jones industrials to a 936-point gain and finally offering relief from eight consecutive days of sto
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Obama calls for 90-day moratorium on foreclosures - Yahoo! News view story
53 votes- Submitted by cmcgill
- about 14 hours ago
- (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200810...)
- Became popular about 6 hours ago
Democrat Barack Obama proposed more immediate steps Monday to heal the nation's ailing economy including a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs.
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Study: Too Much Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain view story
53 votes- Submitted by pleeker
- about 12 hours ago
- (http://inventorspot.com/articles/...)
- Became popular about 6 hours ago
The brain will normally shrink with age, but researchers have found that drinking more than 14 alcoholic drinks per week will speed up this process of brain shrinkage.
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A Personal Plea: NO on Prop 8 view story
50 votes- Submitted by The_Plagiarist
- about 17 hours ago
- (http://calinazaret.net/no-on-prop-8)
- Became popular about 6 hours ago
As with Calinazaret's many other blog posts, most of her articles add a personal spin to things that make them worth reading even if you're not interested/affected by the topic. Worth a read and she did say this was her most important post thus far.

