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Police: Sons struck with hatchet before fatal blaze
Two boys killed with their father in an apparent murder-suicide suffered hatchet wounds before a fire in their Washington state home, police say.

GOP race: Tuesday about momentum
Seventy delegates and a whole lot of momentum: That's what's at stake Tuesday when three states hold contests in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Politics buried in Eastwood's ad?
Moments after the energetic Madonna entertained fans during the halftime show at Sunday's Super Bowl, millions of television viewers got an emotional jolt back into reality. Amid the close-up shots of factory workers and Midwest families, were there political undertones in Chrysler's Super Bowl ad?

Former intern details affair with JFK
The author of a new tell-all book claims she lost her virginity to President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19-year-old White House intern, and that the affair lasted 18 months.

Lawyer: Pardoned killer to skip hearing
An attorney for a convicted murderer pardoned by Mississippi's outgoing governor says his client will not attend a hearing on the constitutionality of his and 200 other pardons.

CNET Download.com 25 Newest Windows Titles

EmEditor Professional 8.0
Create macros and edit text in a scripting-oriented editor.

Iris Browser beta
Explore the Web on the go with your handheld device.

BFilter 1.1.4
Detect and block banner ads during Web surfing.

MySpeed Plug-In for YouTube Beta 2.11
Speed up or slow down the playback rate of any YouTube or other streaming flash video.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Surf the Web, block pop-ups, and keep spyware at bay with this lean and fast open-source browser.

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Canonical Pulls Kubuntu Personnel Funding

LinuxScribe writes "An announcement on the Kubuntu-devel mailing list tells the sad story: Canonical is pulling funding for in-house developers to work on the KDE-based Kubuntu flavor. Canonical now seems committed to its single vision of a GNOME-based Unity as a desktop and other Ubuntu flavors will now have to rely on community support and some infrastructure from Canonical."

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Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password

wiedzmin writes "A Colorado woman that was ordered by a federal judge to decrypt her laptop hard-drive for police last month, appears to have forgotten her password. If she does not remember the password by month's end, as ordered, she could be held in contempt and jailed until she complies. It appears that bad memory is now a federal offense." The article clarifies that her lawyer stated she may have forgotten the password; they haven't offered that as a defense in court yet.

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Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS

Hugh Pickens writes "Joshua Phillips writes that something was lost when videos went from magnetic tape and plastic, to plastic discs, and now to digital streams as browsing isles is no more and the once-great video shops slowly board up their windows across the country. Future generations may know little of the days when buying a movie meant you owned it even if the Internet went down and when getting a movie meant you had to scour aisles of boxes in search of one whose cover art called back a story that echoed your interests. Josh Johnson, one of the filmmakers behind the upcoming documentary 'Rewind This!' hopes to tell the story of how and why home video came about, and how it changed our culture giving B movies and films that didn't make the silver screen their own chance to shine. 'Essentially, the rental market expanded, because of voracious consumer demand, into non-blockbuster, off-Hollywood video content which would never have had a theatrical life otherwise,' says Palmer. While researching the documentary Palmer found something interesting: there is a resurgence taking place of people going back to VHS because a massive number of films are 'trapped on VHS' with 30 and 40 percent of films released on VHS never to be seen again on any other format. 'Most of the true VHS fanatics are children of the 1980s,' says Palmer. 'Whether they are motivated by a sense of nostalgia or prefer the format for the grainy aesthetic qualities of magnetic tape or some other reason entirely unknown, each tapehead is unique like a snowflake.'"

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Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun

vikingpower writes "The Little Ice Age, lasting from the end of the Middle Age into the 17th century, may very likely have been caused by the combined effects of four major volcanic eruptions and increased sunlight reflection by increasing sea ice, the so-called Albedo effect. ... The University of Boulder has a press release with maps and photographs. Bette Otto-Bliesner, one of the scientists behind the 'volcano + sea ice' thesis, fields an earnest warning against drawing conclusions too quickly from this research: 'I think people might look at the Little Ice Age and think that all we need to save us from rising temperatures are some volcanic eruptions or the geo-engineering equivalent [...] But when you see what happened when global temperatures dropped by just one degree and you look at current predictions of six or seven degree increases for the future, you realize how precarious things are for life as we know it.'"

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Hacking the NES With Lisp

Andy Hefner has a detailed blog post covering his quest to program an NES with the assistance of Common Lisp. He developed a new 6502 assembler, a mini-language for composing musical sequences, and a neat demo (rom image).

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Lawmakers in 9 states target own pension perks
Lawmakers in nine states are looking to scale back their own pensions by closing loopholes and lucrative retirement plans.

Obama campaign urges fundraisers to back super PAC
President Obama is urging his top fundraisers to support a Democratic super political action committee which can spend unlimited amounts of cash ...

Syrian dissidents say more needs to be done to stop killings
As U.S. and Britain pull diplomats from Syria, dissidents say more needs to be done to end the killings.

Maldives president quits amid protest
Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed announced his resignation Tuesday.

Prop 8 appeal ruling expected today
The judge who overturned California's ban on gay marriage told believers, 'It's not about you.' The appellate court may rule differently.