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Randall Bennett is a former Netscape Anchor. After enduring the most turbulent time in his life, Randall left the site to concentrate on family issues. While he might have worked for traditional media bigwigs like ESPN, some of his favorite moments come from the Weblogs, Inc. network where he worked as lead blogger for DV Guru, podcast producer for Engadget, and "Preditor" (consultant/editor/producer)for the network.

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10 financial urban legends

Money – Writing checks in red ink won't prolong the float, and yes, you really do have to pay income tax. Here's a look at these and other lingering myths

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Sitestandings.com ranks the top Tech Sites

Gadgets & Tech – Visitors may vote once a day for their favorite technology sites. Blogs, review sites, and news sites can all be added to the rankings.

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Becks barfs but bullies Ecuador in England win

Sports – David Beckham scored England's only goal in the 60th minute. A few minutes later he was vomiting, then out of the game. England went on to win 1-0 to go to 3-1-0 in World Cup action. Beckham has scored a goal in three consecutive World Cups.

View Story Discuss (4) (sportsillustrated.cnn.com) 754 days ago by Andy

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Futurama back on Comedy Central

Television – Looks like Fox won't be airing the new episodes of Futurama, according to Reuters, Comedy Central gets that privilege. New and old episodes will hit the network in 2008.

View Story Discuss (6) (today.reuters.com) 754 days ago by Randall

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USA v Ghana

Sports – Today's matchup between the USA and Ghana will decide the USA's future. In order for them to advance to the next round, they have to win.

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Novell ejects CEO, CFO

Gadgets & Tech – Novell's board of directors fires both the CEO and the CFO and replaces the CEO with Jack Messman. Messman? Oh well, to get the full story, click on the link.

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Firefox to overtake Internet Explorer by Dec-2007

Gadgets & Tech – So it seems that not only has the percentage of Firefox users been increasing for the last 2.5 year but the rate of increase in the percentage of users has also been increasing.

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Next generation DVD war hots up

Gadgets & Tech – I felt very awkward posting that title, but now that we've gotten that out of the way... BBC News has just posted this article that takes a close look at the HD disk format war. I know, I know, we've been here before, but this time it's different, I promise. For the full article, click on the link.

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Have you gotten a letter with an unbranded CD in it from Microsoft?

Gadgets & Tech – A clever Microsoft Anti-Piracy campaign. They send a CD-R with a post-it saying "All the software you asked for. Serial Nos. Enclosed". See what happens nextâ€¦ (pic)

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South Park guys plan musical about - wait for it - Mormons

Television – As if these guys didn't already off one religious group enough already. Make that two. No three. Or is it four?

View Story Discuss (4) (lse.co.uk) 759 days ago by KeithMcDuffee

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Digital Camera

Gadgets & Tech – Applications include inhibiting theater film piracy and industrial espionage.

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NoBleach: T-Shirt Blog

Art & Design – One of the Netscape devs (Gavin, you awesome awesome guy) showed me this awesome awesome blog called NoBleach. It's a t-shirt blog with some snark, good entry choices, and will make t-shirt and jeans guys spend way too much money on regular ol' clothes.

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Heat win NBA title over Mavs

Sports – Unfortunately, sports racers, Mark Cuban's Mavs couldn't pull out an historic comeback, as Dwayne Wade and company went on to defeat the Mavs 95-92.

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$300K Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 destroyed

Autos – You can't even buy the exclusive Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 yet (even if you could afford the $300K), but two of the cars have already been destroyed on public streets. The most recent one burst into flames after striking a tree in St. Andrae, Austria. The car will be released as a 300 unit run in September. It's yet to be determined whether anyone can safely drive the 640hp car. Here are some pictures of the car when it was announced at the Geneva Motor Show. [via Autoblog]

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