According to this article from the CBS news for San Jose, someone bombed the offices of Paypal on the night of Halloween.
It would be easy to joke about an Ebay transaction gone way, way wrong, but for the fact that some pretty heavy explosives were used to make the point:
“Whatever caused this (blast) was pretty […]

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The 2006 Golden Joystick Awards has been dominated by Oblivion, scooping PC Game of the Year, Xbox Game of the Year and Ultimate Game of the Year.
In other categories:

T3 Innovation Award - Xbox Live Marketplace 
Bliss Girl’s Game of the Year - Nintendogs
The Sun Family Game of the Year - Nintendogs
Handheld Game of the Year - […]

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Talk about getting a day off to a great start. This was one of the first posts I read in Google Reader this morning. From Leo’s article:
I had no idea what a storm my little sentence would generate. Hey, I was tired, dispirited, and trying to figure out how to do a show without any […]

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The news that TWiT may on it’s last legs has got the blogosphere buzzing - and rightly so.
Paul O’Flaherty and Rob Hyndman are among the scores who share their disbelief, while Jon Emmon quotes a great comment that he himself posted to the TWit.tv comments log.
A “Save TWit” blog has already appreared, and had a comment […]

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Let the games begin. Time Warner are the first in what could be a long line of copyright holders stepping up to see how deep Google’s pockets are following their acquisition of YouTube.
It was a sure bet that many copyright holders were waiting to see if YouTube would be snapped-up by a richer adoptive parent before […]

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Billion? I’ll say it again… BILLION.
Confirmed just a few minutes ago at Techcrunch, this will be the news lighting up the blogosphere for the next few hours. More than likely the fact that Google bought You Tube won’t be the big story. The cost of the deal - $1.65 billion - will be the talking […]

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