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Video Fun: Autotune The News

If you are not a fan of the standard network news delivery, maybe all you need is to have the newscast jazzed up a little bit.

Check out AUTOTUNE THE NEWS.

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10 Things News

100 Things Today’s Kids Will Never Know

Looking back over the past 40 years, the writers at WIRED magazine have compiled a list of 100 THINGS THAT TODAY’S KIDS WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE.

How many can you think of?  Here are a random assortment of 10 things from the list:

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10 Things News

10 Things People Have Trouble Throwing Away, and Other Clutter Statistics

Are you a pack rat?

You’re not alone.

We’ve grown into a nation full of, well… stuff.  With no place to put it, no way to organize it.  We mean to, but we just have trouble doing it.

Here are the TEN THINGS PEOPLE HAVE THE MOST TROUBLE THROWING AWAY:

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News

Some Parents Insist Their Children Wear Clothes (This is News?)

The New York Times, always looking for a story, decided to report on the seemingly GROWING TREND OF 3-to-5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN RUNNING AROUND NAKED.

Apparently, stripping off ones clothes and running around the house before bath time has expanded into more of an “anywhere, anytime” thing, especially in the pre-school set.

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News Travel

Check out this year’s Celebrity Mascot Games!

The 17th annual CELEBRITY MASCOT GAMES are taking place on July 16th at Stetson University, and July 17th and 18th at Amway Arena in central Florida.

Each year since 1992, mascots from colleges, universities, and professional sports organizations have gotten together to prove, once and for all, who is the best mascot.

Some of the events the mascots have had to compete in the past were the obstacle course, giant bowling, dodgeball and jousting.  If you haven’t seen the clips on ESPN SportsCenter, you will this week.

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How To News

How To Find Your Lost Wallet

Find? How about “get it returned”?

A study in England dropped 240 wallets around town to see which wallets would get returned.

The wallets didn’t contain any money or other useful items, just receipts or ticket stubs.

However, there was one key difference in each wallet, which is what the study was all about:  DOES THE PHOTO YOU CARRY IN YOUR WALLET INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE WALLET WOULD BE RETURNED?

The answer to that question, apparently, is “yes”.

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Gadgets Internet News

Are You An Extreme Techie? Here’s Proof…

Nielsen recently did a survey that revealed who the “Extreme Techies” are.

ARE YOU AN EXTREME TECHIE?

The study was conducted for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, and as such meant that the focus of the study was going to be all about online video – who watches it, and how.

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News

Women Hate Their Bad Breath More Than Their Mismatched Underwear


Researchers talked with 1000 women and have concluded that when dating, WOMEN ARE MOST CONCERNED WITH HOW BAD THEIR BREATH IS.

78 percent of the women surveyed for Macleans said that they were most concerned about their breath rather than what their partner thought about their clothes.