11th January 2010: The database is now tuned and tweaked to lower the response time. Before the the response time increased proportional to the number of new story entries in the db. Hopefully this tweak will keep the site quick and reponsive.
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106 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 18:01:46 by vtbarrera | 12 comments
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced Thursday that it's appealing a lawsuit it brought in an
effort to force Los Angeles County health officials to require condoms on porn sets in L.A.
186 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 07:05:24 by esdfmatt | 15 comments
10 very helpful tips to drastically improve your sniping.
95 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 17:36:01 by Luzo33 | 1 comments
Unite said its members will walk out for three days from March 20 and for four days from March 27
following the collapse of talks.
287 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 17:40:01 by CourageWulf | 18 comments
This guy has done more drugs in one night than you will in your whole life.
292 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 14:41:39 by kylescousin | 82 comments
This is a "king of herrings" fish (oarfish) - they can grow up to 17 meters in length...
133 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 16:26:59 by HALNINETHOUSAND | 60 comments
There is a new and troubling movie trend emerging…that of releasing multiple versions of a movie
both on DVD and in the theater.
300 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 20:42:25 by ArbiInc | 20 comments
Sweden's parliament approved a resolution recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey
as genocide.
215 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 23:12:12 by ChronicColonic | 33 comments
During almost 24 hours on the loose, a huge heifer repeatedly evaded capture. And it wasn't subdued
until after a four-hour pursuit involving cops, veterinarians and an animal-control officer that
didn't end until the fugitive was gunned down with two shots from a tranquilizer pistol.
302 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 19:52:41 by internetisscary | 32 comments
The 10 largest online publishers own a disproportionate amount of the world’s web traffic. They
account for billions of unique visitors per month. They also comprise the most sought-after ad space
in the world.
285 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 01:59:37 by smurfz | 101 comments
Activision announced today during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that the Call of
Duty: Modern Warfare 2 stimlulus package!
231 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 06:38:50 by mikek814 | 14 comments
Using a massive detector buried deep in the Japanese Alps, the T2K project will study the
oscillation pattern of neutrinos -- ghost-like particles that make up a large part of the bulk of
the universe.
221 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 16:03:44 by Slashered | 169 comments
Morocco expelled Christian missionaries who ran an orphanage for abandoned Moroccan children
signaling the government s tough new stance on foreign Christian evangelists
237 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 14:22:50 by MiaCulpa | 125 comments
Utah state House GOP leader Garn says he paid woman to keep silent about hot tub incident.
245 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 16:02:14 by Burento | 55 comments
Only in America ... it's St. Patrick's Day -- at least as we've come to know it. So much so that a
Dubliner like Declan Synnott couldn't it when he celebrated his first St. Patrick's Day in the US.
"It was a culture shock," says Synnott. "In Ireland, you go to church and spend the day with your
family. In America, it's a big party."
221 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 20:05:14 by kylevh | 37 comments
It's a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry--OK Go just ditched
EMI--and YouTube and BitTorrent have changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming
themselves to help musicians in the digital age.
313 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 13:02:57 by FI5HERMAN | 134 comments
A Chinese minister made the government's strongest statement yet on Google's future in the country,
warning that the U.S. Internet company will have to bear the consequences if it stops censoring its
Chinese search site.
310 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 19:46:40 by bettverboten | 46 comments
The House overwhelmingly backed a privileged resolution offered by GOP Leader John Boehner (Ohio).
The House voted Thursday to open an ethics investigation into what and when House Democratic leaders
knew of allegations of sexual harassment against former Rep. Massa