Links for 2010-03-24 [Digg]

Links for 2010-03-24 [Digg]: "

• Disputed Bay of Bengal island 'vanishes' say scientists
  
  Global warming claims a tiny island disputed by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, scientists say.


• Nancy Pelosi: Hero or Villain?
  
  The Speaker of the House is either a hero or villain. As health-care reform becomes law, we hear from her friends and foes.


• Bush wipes hand on Clinton's shirt after shaking hands
  
  BBC aired video of Bush and Clinton’s visit, and Mediate noticed that at one point, Bush appeared to wipe his hand off on Clinton’s shirt after shaking hands with a crowd of Haitians


• Zero Punctuation : Battlefield: Bad Company 2
  
  This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Battlefield: Bad Company 2.


• Demetri Martin Is a Frustrated Web Designer (Video)
  
  Demetri Martin demonstrates that you never really know what's going on on the other end of your conference call.


• The 10 Most Ridiculous GOP-Proposed Health Care Amendments
  
  What do these 10 amendments have to do with health care reform? Very little, except to put Democrats between a rock and a hard place.


• Good-Bye IE 6
  
  I hereby officially proclaim Internet Explorer 6 to be a dead browser walking. Even though IE 6 still somehow manages to keep 19.8% of the Web browser market, IE 6 is a late Web browser! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!


• Happy 5th Anniversary PSP!
  
  It’s been exactly 5 years since Sony launched the PlayStation Portable. Since then, Sony’s hand held has seen many ups and downs. March 24th, 2005 was the day when the PSP was launched and since then it has sold close to 60 million units worldwide


• Is Fox Planning to Announce a New Conan O'Brien Show?
  
  Ever since Conan O'Brien reopened negotiations with Fox (which briefly led to a planned appearance at Idol Gives Back), rumors have flown fast and furious that the network is set to announce a deal with the funnyman on May 17....


• Feds Read Coed's Thesis, Seek Her Advice on Financial Crisis
  
  God help us: Officials from TARP and the Financial Crisis Commission have put in calls to a college student after reading her senior thesis on the financial crisis. P.S. She's kinda hot.


• Hoyer: GOP should condemn threats
  
  House Majority leader wants Republicans to speak out against threats to Democratic colleagues.


• 25 More of the Most Badass Boss Fights of All Time
  
  Another dose of the most intense, epic, or otherwise insane gaming bosses ever.


• This Is Why People Hate the Phone Company, AT&T
  
  A femtocell is a device whose sole purpose is to help fill gaps in wireless networks. Instead of using it as a way to turn unhappy customers into happy customers, AT&T is treating the femtocell as another way to squeeze their already victimized customer for even more $$


• Glenn Beck Responds To James Cameron (video)


• Weird worlds: The solar system's 10 strangest moons
  
  An icy inferno, a lively snowball, another Earth and two flying saucers; there's more to the sun's family than gas giants and potato-shaped rocks


• Women on Birth Control Pill may live longer
  
  Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says. British researchers observed more than 46,000 women for nearly four decades from 1968. They compared the number of deaths in women on the pill to those who never took it.


• 10 Signs You Just Might Be Obsessed With The Star Wars Saga
  
  Mania caught up with intergalactic comedian Jango Fettworthy at an open mic in front of a brick wall in a galaxy far, far away, to get his “hilarious” take in a routine he calls, “10 Signs You Just Might Be Obsessed With The Star Wars Saga.” Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jango Fettworthy…..


• Job market ready to bounce back
  
  State and federal officials issued two separate unemployment reports Friday that offered complex but similar signals that the job market has hit bottom and is poised to bounce back.


• Rare Photos of Wayne Gretzky (Gallery)
  
  SI takes us through the life of Gretzky via images.


• Pwn2Own Hack Topples Firefox on Windows
  
  The first day of the Pwn2Own hacker challenge wrapped up with a familiar face going after a familiar target. And, for the second year in a row, a German hacker known simply as “Nils” exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox to take complete control of a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.

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