newslarious.com: November 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

New study said physical excercise makes you less anxious.

A group of researchers at Princeton University have released the results of a study showing that rats that exercise, are less anxious than the one who don't.
This may be another reason for couch potato to start exercising, but wait: Before you got too excited, none of those rats who exercised, was looking for a job.

For more see NYTimes.com

Labels: anxiety and exercise, depression, exercise and rats study, less anxious rats, Princeton University, rats and exercise study, rats study, Society for Neuroscience.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Three charged with hijacking of Comcast.net Web page.

Last week, a Federal Court in Pennsylvania indicted three alleged members of a hacker gang for conspiracy for hijacking Comcast.net homepage last year and replacing it with their own shout-out message to other hackers. The indictment also stated that the three were able to pull off their prank by hacking a Comcast e-mail account which allowed them to contact the company domain name registrar and gain control of the said domain.
That should inspire confidence to all Comcast subscribers that their personal information is in good hands.

For more, see Digg.com

Labels: Comcast homepage hijacking, Comcast subscribers, Comcast.net, domain name hijacking, domain name registrar, hackers, homepage hijacking, Internet hackers.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

To graduate, some obese students at one University, are required to lose weight.

At Lincoln University, a historically black university in Pennsylvania, some two dozen students who entered college with a body mass index over 30, are in danger of not receiving their degrees next spring unless they prove that they have lost the weight, or take a one-semester class called "Fitness for Life."
This makes you feel like the University got it wrong: They should have made "STD Free", the graduation requirement.

For more, see Digg.com

Labels: and recreation, body mass index, Fitness for Life, historically black university, Lincoln University, loose weight college seniors., Oxford Pennsylvania, physical education

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Monday, November 23, 2009

O.J. Simpson was originally sought to be cast as the Terminator in the first movie.

In an interview on 60 minutes over the week end, director James Cameron revealed that he had to persuade the boss at the studio behind the first Terminator movie, not to cast O.J. Simpson in the role.
As it turned out, the guy who played the Terminator went on to become just another politician, while the guy who was turned down for the role, went on to be a Terminator in real life.

For more, see backporch.fanhouse.com

Labels: 60 minutes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, CBS News, director James Cameron, O.J. Simpson, Orion studio, Terminator, Terminator the movie

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Blockbuster video rental to begin SD cards download service.

Blockbuster videos announced this week that is testing a new SD cards rental service that for $2, will let you download a movie. They say that if it is successful, the program will be expanded nationally.
I already know that Blockbuster was in an archaic business, but it seems like they are embarking in the torture business as well now.

For more, see Digg.com

Labels: Blockbuster videos, downloadable movie, movies rental, movies rental kiosks, netflix., SD cards, SD cards rental service

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

A new WI-FI scale will tweet your body weight.

One of the lattest products trying to cashing in Twitter popularity, is a WI-FI scale called Withings Wifi Body Scale that will automatically tweet your weight to all your followers.
It is safe to say that people owning that scale have as friends, mainly all the fast food chains of America.

For more, see Digg.com

Labels: followers, Twitter, Twitter followers., weight loss, Wi-Fi, Withings Wifi Body Scale

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Drunken pilot arrested at London airport before flight.

An United Airlines pilot was arrested for intoxication in London Heathrow airport, minutes before he was to fly the plane to Chicago.
It is scary to think that with more than a month to go before the Holidays, pilots are in the spirit already.

For more, see Digg.com

Labels: arrested pilot, drunken airline pilot, drunken United Airlines pilot, Heathrow airport, London Heathrow, London pilot arrest., United Airlines, United Airlines pilot

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Fake Viagra sold in the streets of Southeast Asia.

According to a report by Global Post.com, counterfeit goods namely drugs, including Viagra , the most knock-offs drug in the world, are rampant in Thailand and most of Southeast Asia.
As surprising as it may sound, Viagra may be the only drug in the market for which it does not take long for guys to tell the difference between the real deal and a placebo.

Labels: counterfeit drugs, counterfeit goods, global post, knock-offs drugs, knock-offs goods., placebo, SoutheastAsia, Viagra

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