California teen beats friend to death with bat
A 13-year-old boy beat a 15-year-old to death with a bat at a Little League concession stand after being teased. Parents today rock!
I'm sure Jack Thompson will be all over this one.
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Florida mom sells daughters for car, prostitution
One of the creepier news stories I've read in a while.
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TJ Ford cleared to resume workouts
Good news for TJ Ford, he's been cleared to resume standard basketball activities, including running, shooting, and light weight work.
Hope he comes back next year better than ever.
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UT ranks first as source for new Fortune 1000 CEOs
Four Texas graduates were named CEO's of Fortune 1,000 companies this year. Three of those four were McCombs School of Business grads.
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More on freelance design rates
Good info about how much freelance designers are charging per job and per hour. Looks like I'm definitely on the low end, but that's understandable since I'm still just starting out.
All the rates are in British pounds, so keep in mind £1 is roughly $1.89 US right now.
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86 things we hate about you
86 funny reasons to hate the Boston Red Sox.
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Windows Longhorn Live?
The screenshot appears to show MSN Messenger, DVR features, and Quickbooks all integrated into the bar on the right side.
I really like the sidebar concept, in fact I'm using Desktop Sidebar right now to try to mimic the functionality in XP.
(via sixfoot6)
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Jermaine O'Neal thinks NBA age limit is racist
How is that racism? Almost all college basketball players are black too. That makes no sense. Agree or disagree with an age limit in the NBA, the idea that it's racist is moronic.
For every Amare Stoudemire and LeBron James, there's 10 Leon Smith's.
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Why can't anyone throw a baseball faster than 100 mph?
Good article on why major league pitchers aren't throwing a baseball faster than 100 MPH even as they're getting bigger and stronger.
(via Kottke)
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Norton Internet Security 2005 - Free after rebates!
Norton is my preferred antivirus software, eventhough I'm running ZoneAlarm at home these days. (I needed a new firewall and AV and it was cheaper at the time.)
Anyways, the entire Norton Internet Security suite is only $30 for new users or free for upgraders at Buy.com right now. Hell of a bargain to get antivirus, firewall, antispam, etc all in one package.
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RonMexico.com
Michael Vick is being sued by a woman who claims he knowingly gave her an STD. He allegedly uses the name Ron Mexico
for the purpose of his testing and treatments.
Berg tried to buy the RonMexico.com domain but was one day too late. Now whoever beat him too it has a site up with nothing but a link to a CafePress store. My favorite item is the thong.
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Forgent Networks is the devil
Our good friends from the JPEG patent, Forgent Networks, are now going after TiVo because they have a patent that addresses recording television signals to a computer.
These people seriously need to be stopped.
(via TVPredictions.com)
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Storm the House
Really fun Flash game, it gets incredibly hectic on Day 3.
Make sure to actually read the instructions.
(via Business2Blog)
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Orangebloods.com 2006 football recruiting board
The Longhorns now have 17 commits for the 2006 season, 4 or 5 of them are considered the best in the state at their positions. At this time last year we had maybe one or two, and even on Signing Day only 14. Not too shabby.
This is one of the few free articles from Orangebloods, a pay site that I try to quit but can't.
Update: Want more info on Texas Longhorn recruiting? Check out BevoSports.com!
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ColorCombos.com
A web color combinations tool and library for web designers. Very cool resource for coming up with color schemes.
(via SimpleBits)
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Sony 1GB Memory Stick Pro Duo $96
Been looking to get either a 512 MB or 1GB stick so I can put video on my PSP, this is by far the cheapest price I've seen. These go for like $200 on Amazon. I cancelled my order from BestBuy.com and ordered one.
(via SlickDeals)
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Head football coach shot in Canton, TX
A parent shot the head coach/athletic director in Canton, TX this morning. There's no word on his condition, but I'm fearing for the worst. At this time of day, he was probably sitting in his office alone working, and since the gunmen got away....
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Google Maps at maximum zoom
The zoom level available for New Braunfels sucks, apparently Matt ad defective yeti doesn't have that problem.
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More Nifty Corners
Very cool, add rounded corners to objects without any images, just CSS and Javascript.
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Discs Are So Dead
Wired writer claims neither Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will win because the future of content distribution is via the Web. I don't know if I agree because I have my doubts about Hollywood's willingness to distribute content right to your hard drive. I don't really think that makes it any easier to pirate than optical media, but Hollywood is dumb.
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