Jan
21
2009
A gym is offering its customers an unusual set of dumbbells to exercise with – including an overweight man and two dwarfs.


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Jan
21
2009
Season five of Lost premieres tonight after an eternally long wait, and I wanted to take a look back at the long road of WTF that it took to get to where we are. Some of these moments’ mysteries have been resolved, while others we might be waiting until the final episode for an answer. Here are the ten most Lost-ish moments in this history of Lost.


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Jan
21
2009
Yup. Somebody actually made it.


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Jan
21
2009
Here’s a look at 15 up-and-coming bands, predicted to gain major steam in ’09. I can’t believe Friendly Fires isn’t already considered huge?!


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Jan
21
2009
Microsoft Corp is expected to post a quarterly profit that misses its own target and announce thousands of job cuts this week as the global economic slump hurts even the technology industry’s biggest players. When the leading software maker reports fiscal second quarter results on Thursday, investors are likely to press for comments on its outlook.


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Jan
21
2009
How to make tiny devices that could one day cruise the human body.


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Jan
21
2009
Apple seems to be of two minds when it comes to policing the App Store, but in the end is it really worth it for Apple or iPhone users?


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Jan
21
2009
President Barack Obama announced on his first day in office Wednesday that he is freezing the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over 0,000 a year.


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Jan
21
2009
If newspapers were hoping that Google would be their savior, it looks like they will need to find another white knight. The company has announced that they are discontinuing their print ads product – which allowed advertisers to place ads in newspapers via AdWords – at the end of next month.


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Jan
21
2009
Turkey does not make your tired. Really. The British Medical Journal wants to set you straight in its second study of health-related myths.


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