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Watch Tiger Woods Conference Live on Ustream and Youtube (Friday 11am ET)

Tiger Woods has been out of news for a while after the scandalous fiasco late last year and even faced sponsors ditching Woods. The pro golfer is scheduled to break his silence on Friday 11 AM ET at a press conference. Thanks to UStream, you can catch up the conference live (via their partner CBS).
The [...]

[Saudi Arabia] 13 year old Girl gets 90 lashes for carrying Cellphone to School

A recent story which classifies as WTF in the modern world is about a 13 year old girl who was lashed 90 times for the crime of carrying a cellphone to her classroom.The punishment doesn’t end with the lashing, she will also be required to serve 2 months in prison.
She had assaulted her headmistress after [...]

[Privacy] China Will Scan all Text Messages

As part of its campaign against pornography, piracy and other law-breaking activities,Chinese Government has asked all cellular companies in China to scan all text messages for particular “keywords”. As per the spokesman ,text service will be disabled for cellphones from where SMS messages containing “illegal or unhealthy content,” are sent.
Although China has quietly monitored text [...]

Don’t miss ‘once in a blue moon’ this New Year’s Eve

If you have sometime this Thursday, do look at the Sky while you are enjoying the New Year’s Eve. Blue Moon as the term goes, doesnt have anything to do with the color, rather it is the applied to the second full Moon in a calendar month. Blue Moon occurs every two and a half [...]

Free Wi-fi at McDonald’s starting January 2010 (US Only)

In an effort to give more to the customers, McDonald’s has decided to whack off the $2.95 fees for Wi-Fi. The move to free Wi-fi is expected by mid January, as told by McDonald’s USA Chief Information Officer David Grooms to WSJ.
McDonald’s plans to introduce and sell frappes and smoothies by mid of 2010 and [...]