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‘Deadliest Catch’ captain Phil Harris dies after recent stroke
Harris, who was based out of Seattle, suffered the stroke during an offload of crab. He was found unconscious in a stateroom, was airlifted to Anchorage for 12 hours of surgery, then placed in a medically induced coma. He’d shown signs of improvement last week, squeezing hands and even telling his doctors and nurses, in his signature gruff style, to not screw things up. (latimes)

Hackers target PM’s website in protest
The government’s Cyber Security Operations Centre discovered the attack was coming on February 5 but was unable to stop the parliament house website going offline and Prime Minister Rudd’s site becoming home to “Operation Titstorm”. (smh)

14 Miserable Facts About St Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day traces its roots to an ancient pagan holiday called Lupercalia, in which men stripped naked, grabbed whips, and spanked young women in hopes of increasing their fertility. (listverse)

What Is Google Buzz?
So what exactly is Google Buzz? Used on a PC or mobile, Buzz reminds us of an RSS combined with all of your social networking—all within the existing Gmail and Google.com infrastructure. (gizmodo)

One in 20 women has NEVER had sex sober
Millions of women drink alcohol before having sex because they lack confidence in their bodies, a study has found. Almost half of those questioned said they preferred sex while under the influence of alcohol because it helped them to lose their inhibitions and be more adventurous. Researchers, who surveyed 3,000 women aged between 18 and 50, found the average woman has slept with eight men, but was drunk with at least five of them. (dailymail)

Mackenzie Phillips: I slept with my own father
In a tell-all book out Wednesday, the former childhood actress reveals that her dad, musician John Phillips of the ’60s band the Mamas and the Papas, engaged with her in a long-term incestuous relationship. (msnbc)

Forget the Men. Pick a Guy.
Guys are often in between things like jobs and houses, which means they’re more likely to stay up with you all night, drinking wine and playing gin rummy. They’ll rub your belly. They’ll lick chocolate off it. They’ll like your cute little dog. A guy is never going to shoot Old Yeller in the woods. (nyt)

You want me to put my thong where?
SFW. (gawker)

Japenese girls tell you what time it is
Every minute, a new pic of a girl holding a sign with the correct time. (bijint)

How Men and Women Argue
A flowchart. (dfg)

The Story Behind the Story
With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle. The collapse of journalism means that the quest for information has been superseded by the quest for ammunition. A case-study of our post-journalistic age. (theatlantic)

Terror suspects and torture: former CIA inspector general confirms Panorama findings
The former CIA inspector general, John Helgerson, has confirmed that the Bush administration authorised the CIA to use a harsh interrogation method on terror suspect Abu Zubaydah before written legal clearance was given. (bbc)

The Tortured Brain
While we wait for Dick Cheney, the Pentagon, or the CIA to release evidence that “enhanced interrogation techniques” produced useful, truthful intelligence that could not be obtained without torture, neuroscientists are weighing in on how likely torture is to elicit such information—and they are not impressed. (newsweek)

Video captures Polk officers playing Wii bowling during drug search
Members of a multi-agency Polk County drug task force are facing disciplinary action after they were videotaped playing a Wii bowling video game while they were executing a search warrant. (orlandosentinel)

For MacArthur Grants, Another Set of ‘Geniuses’
While many of the fellows are known mostly among their peers, others — especially those in the arts — have won renown. (nyt)

Cholesterol May Not Be the Cause Of Heart Disease
We have all been led to believe that cholesterol is bad and that lowering it is good. Because of extensive pharmaceutical marketing to both doctors and patients we think that using statin drugs is proven to work to lower the risk of heart attacks and death. But on what scientific evidence is this based, what does that evidence really show? (huffingtonpost)

Why chefs are evil
In a kitchen for 16 hours a day with sloppy, messy, smelly, delicate, always-on-the-verge-of-spoiling food will make some loathe it, especially if they were not all that fond of it to begin with. (whyitisevil)

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
It’s hard to believe now, but not long ago economists were congratulating themselves over the success of their field. Those successes — or so they believed — were both theoretical and practical, leading to a golden era for the profession. (nyt)

The unspoken truth about managing geeks
I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: “Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and business-challenged, victim-prone, bullheaded and credit-whoring. (computerworld)

Think Vietnam Vets Were Screwed? Wait Until You See How Many Veterans of Bush’s Wars End up in Jail
As all the other justifications for the U.S. invasion of Iraq have fallen by the wayside, it is ironic that the one that remains is “freedom,” because in the name of someone else’s freedom, we train our own soldiers to behave in ways that may very well cost them their own. (alternet)

Kids Didn’t Hear Obama, But Will be Bussed for Bush
The Arlington Independent School District, which passed on airing President Barack Obama’s live classroom address, has announced that some students will be bussed off campus to hear a message from former President George W. Bush on Sept. 21. (nbc)

Army Archerd Dead: Columnist Dies At 87
Army Archerd, whose breezy column for the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety kept tabs on various Hollywood doings for more than a half-century, has died. He was 87. (huffingtonpost)

Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber
Of course, it’s not that simple; but if you believe Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts when it comes to improve your “working memory“, which relates to “the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory.” (mashable)

Ocean crash won’t dent yacht girl’s resolve
The family of 16-year-old sailor Jessica Watson says she is still determined to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, despite hitting a bulk carrier after less than 24 hours at sea. (abc)

Complete roundup of everything Apple might announce tomorrow
You may have heard that Apple will be hosting a media event on September 9th (tomorrow) where it will likely make some big announcements and even launch a few new products. The event is focused around music, if its rock and roll theme is any indication. The Mac and iPhone maker usually holds an event around this time every year. (mashable)

You hit me with your Prius
Me – Bicyclist, heading to jury duty on 10th Street, Friday at 8:50am. You – Prius driver, crossing over two lanes, hitting me with your car and speeding away. (bestofcraigsllist)

Is ‘Friending’ in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First
State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to professional profiles to financial boasts. (wsj)

Boaters saved after 8 days in Gulf
Three Texas boaters missing for a week were reunited with their families early Sunday after local car dealer Yaklin found them alive, sitting on top of their capsized catamaran 180 miles from land, the Coast Guard said. (ct)

Kidnap victim key worker, suspect’s clients say
Jaycee Lee Dugard was not only a kidnapped captive of Phillip Craig Garrido, living for 18 years in his backyard in unincorporated Antioch, but also the creative force behind his specialty printing business, according to the firm’s customers. (sfgate)

A ‘Little Judge’ Who Rejects Foreclosures, Brooklyn Style
Every week, the nation’s mightiest banks come to his court seeking to take the homes of New Yorkers who cannot pay their mortgages. And nearly as often, the judge says, they file foreclosure papers speckled with errors. (nyt)

DJ AM’s Death — Not a Suicide
Our sources say DJ AM, a recovering addict, developed a dependency to Xanax and other benzodiazepines (a group of drugs used to treat anxiety) as a direct result of the plane crash a year ago. (tmz)

No known suspects’ in 8 Georgia deaths
Authorities believe at least one person not in custody may have information about the deaths of eight people in a Georgia mobile home, Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said Sunday. (cnn)

U.S. Makes $4 Billion From Bailout Banks
The profits, collected from eight of the biggest banks that have fully repaid their obligations to the government, come to about $4 billion, or the equivalent of about 15 percent annually. (nyt)

Hurricane Jimena takes aim at Baja California
Packing winds of 140 mph, Hurricane Jimena was approaching Baja California on Sunday as a Category 4 storm, forecasters said. (cnn)

$3.1B set aside for jobless unclaimed
More than $3.1 billion in stimulus money for state unemployment insurance programs is sitting in a federal trust fund because 23 states haven’t expanded their jobless benefits, Labor Department records show. (usatoday)

Jenna Bush joins ‘Today’ show
The daughter of former President George W. Bush said she has always wanted to be a teacher and a writer, and has already authored two books. But she was intrigued by the idea of getting into television when Bell contacted her. (thr)

Snow Leopard: Which Apps Won’t Run?
As the new OS is installed on more and more Macs tales of incompatibilities are starting to emerge. (pcworld)

Guitarist death to be re-examined
The death of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones is to be reviewed following new evidence, it has been revealed. (bbc)

45% Employers use Facebook-Twitter to screen job candidates
As social networking grows increasingly pervasive, more employers are utilizing these sites to screen potential employees. (obr)

Playboy model murder suspect found dead
Murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead at a motel in Canada. Jenkins had been sought by Orange County police from California in the United States for first-degree murder following the discovery of his former wife Jasmine Fiore who was found stuffed into a suitcase in a suburban Los Angeles garbage bin. (xinhuanet)

High winds drive on Greek wildfires
Firefighters spent a third day battling a spate of blazes on the suburbs around the Greek capital Sunday amid gale-force winds that whipped on the fires. (cnn)

Glenn Beck loses more advertisers
A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck’s show, according to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That’s more than a dozen more than were identified a week ago. (huffingtonpost)

Calley apologizes for My Lai massacre
For more than 40 years, William Calley refused to talk about his role in the notorious My Lai Massacre, which led to the deaths of up to 500 Vietnamese civilians and his conviction as an American war criminal. But on Wednesday, Calley talked — and apologized. To the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus. And just as suddenly as he appeared, he vanished. Attempts to contact him at his Atlanta home Friday were unsuccessful; his closest friends stressed his desire to resume his silence. (ajc)

Apple Highest Grossing Retailer on Fifth Avenue as Crowds Swell
Apple, based in Cupertino, California, increased revenue at its stores by 2.5 percent in the first six months of the year to $3 billion as the rest of the retail industry suffered. During the same period, sales at all U.S. retailers fell 9.2 percent compared with the first half of 2008, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.(bloomberg)

25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives
pirate Bay is one of the best torrent tracker —–> but here i want to share some of the alternatives for piratebay. The end of the Pirate Bay is nearing. (bukisa)

The world’s first cocaine bar
Route 36 has turned La Paz, Bolivia into a hotspot for drug tourism, tempting backpackers from all over the world. “We had some Australians; they stayed here for four days. They would take turns sleeping and the only time they left was to go to the ATM,” says Roberto, who has worked at Route 36 (in its various locations) for the last six months. Behind the bar, he goes back to casually slicing straws into neat 8cm lengths. (guardian)

Tarantino strikes box office gold
Quentin Tarantino’s World War II movie Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, has entered the North American box office chart at number one. The film took $37.6m (£22.2m) in its opening weekend, replacing low-budget alien saga District 9 at the top. It gives Tarantino the best opening weekend of his career, beating the mark set by Kill Bill: Vol 2 in 2004. (bbc)

Gillian Anderson Says X-Files 3 May Happen
Gillian Anderson is giving hope to The X-Files fanatics everywhere that she and David Duchnovy may reunite for a third installment in the film series. (radaronline)

KISS’ new LP “Sonic Boom” out October
The album will feature 11 new songs, and the first single will be “Modern Day Delilah”, a lo fi excerpt can be heard here. Don’t forget that the month before, Ace Frehley’s new album “Anomaly” will be out, preceded by its first single “Outer Space”. (blacknorthernbeat)