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Winona port hit by floods, bridge close, late thaw

Seeded on Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:32 AM EDT (Minnesota Public Radio)

Winona, Minn. (AP) — More than 100 barges are stranded in Winona's commercial harbor as they wait for the reopening of Mississippi River locks and dams that have been closed due to flooding in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.

flooding, minnesota, mississippi-river, us-news, barges, winona

Ron Paul finishes 2nd in Nevada

Seeded on Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:12 PM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Ron Paul finished 2nd today in the Nevada caucuses, behind Mitt Romney.

politics, nevada, mitt-romney, ron-paul

Where are the Democrats?

Tue Jan 1, 2008 7:50 PM EST

We're always hearing about what the Republicans are doing wrong. Just today on the front page of digg.com, I read this article title "Huckabee on Gays and women's rights: it's not pretty." It's at least the fifth article I've seen criticizing Huckabee in the past week on Digg.

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politics

Hudson, WI man sentenced in drunk driving murder

Seeded on Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:03 PM EDT (KSTP)

A Wisconsin man's sentencing on Monday seems too light to the victim's family. Geoffrey Baker, of Hudson, has been convicted of driving drunk three times. The fourth time, Baker took a young woman's life.

us-news, melissa-speich, adam-doyle, drunk-dirivng

Bush should not be blamed for Iraq War

Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:51 PM EDT

The title should say it all. Bush should not be blamed for the war, and sending the troops to Iraq.

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bush, iraq, war, world-news, iraq-war, hillary-clinton, no-blame-bush

Microsoft Released IE7 RC1

Seeded on Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:42 PM EDT (FT.com)

Another release of a piece of software that is a big liability to your computer system.

technology, tech, 7, microsoft, internet-explorer, ie7, release-candidate

Matt Garza Will Be the AL's Next Young Phenom

Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:00 PM EDT

Matt Garza was the Twins' first round pick in 2005. He started out in the minors, just like every person that is drafted by the Twins. We didn't even hear his name in 2005.

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mlb, sports, twins, minnesota-twins, johan-santana, ron-gardenhire, francisco-liriano, matt-garza, rochester-red-wings, terry-ryan

Awesome Flash Creation of OS X

Seeded on Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:20 PM EDT (iFizzle)

Amazing Flash creation of Mac OS X, uses iLife applications to run website, completely genious!

flash, technology, apple, itunes, mac-os-x, iphoto, ical, ifizzle

Rookie Liriano Replaces Contreras on All-Star Team

Seeded on Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:07 PM EDT (Yahoo! Sports)

Rookie sensation Francisco Liriano is headed to the All-Star Game after all. The lefthander of the Minnesota Twins was named to replace righthander Jose Contreras of the Chicago White Sox on the American League All-Star team.

mlb, sports, baseball, minnesota-twins, jose-contreras, francisco-liriano, liriano

2006 AL Cy Young Award: Only One Obvious Choice

Sun Jul 9, 2006 2:06 PM EDT

2006 has been a year of ups and downs for the Minnesota Twins. The Twins this off-season went away from their minor league roots and went out to get Tony Batista, Rondell White, and Ruben Sierra. Although these three players have storied pasts, they are all old.

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mlb, sports, major-league-baseball, minnesota-twins, cy-young-award, francisco-liriano

iTunes + MySpace x Music Geeks = Mog

Seeded on Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:10 PM EDT (MTV News)

If you categorize your albums by geographic location, original release date or instrumental make-up, you're a music geek. If the Beck playlist on your iPod is named after a lyric fragment like "Drive-by Body-pierce," you're a total music geek.

technology, music, mtv, itunes, myspace, websites, mog, music-geeks

Screenshots of new Tony Hawk game

Seeded on Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:48 PM EDT (Xbox Hardcore)

This game is set to debut on next-gen and current gen consoles.

technology, games, xbox, skating, videogames, tony-hawk

Rumor: Apple Eyeing Nintendo for Possible Merger?

Seeded on Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:55 PM EDT (MacRumors)

Also talk of possible connection between Wii and Mac mini.

technology, mergers, apple, computers, nintendo, mac-mini, wii

Wetpaint offers wiki hosting service with no need to know HTML or PHP

Seeded on Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:59 PM EDT (TechCrunch)

Seattle based Wetpaint has been in private beta since March. On Sunday night they launched to the world, allowing anyone to create a free wiki on any topic.

technology, wikipedia, wiki, wikia, editable-encyclopedias

Wii to include messaging service.

Seeded on Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:46 PM EDT (onNintendo.com)

According to the fairly credible German website, gamefront.de, Nintendo has registered three new names that pertain to the Wii. The names are: WiiPointer, WiiCulture, and surprisingly, !!M.

technology, m, nintendo, messaging, instant-messaging, videogaming, wii, nintendo-wii

Wii Creates a "Revolution" in Videogaming World

Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:25 AM EDT

The situation must repeat itself again, and again. Think back to the year 2000. Sony came out a year early with the PlayStation 2, making it the first "next gen" system of its time. One year later, and Xbox and GameCube came out.

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technology, sony, microsoft, xbox, nintendo, xbox-360, ps3, next-gen, videogaming, nextgen

Windows Clone ReactOS uses WINE to run Windows Programs

Seeded on Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:04 PM EDT (ReactOS)

The ReactOS® project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.

technology, wine, windows, linux, clone

NFL Mock Draft - April 27

Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:20 PM EDT

The draft is only two days away, but I have made my own picks for the Top Five. They will not be what you think, but they are what I believe they will be. Here we go!

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nfl, texans, sports, reggie-bush, draft, april-29

Where Windows Vista Fails

Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:51 PM EDT (Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows)

I still remember the day very clearly. It was Monday, October 27, 2003.

technology, microsoft, bill-gates, failure, windows, vista

Reasons to Switch to the Mac

Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:10 PM EST

The following is a persuasion speech that I wrote. Please Enjoy!

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technology, apple, computers, mac, windows, os-x, switch, security-mac, stability-mac, price-point-mac

Schools have taken MySpace too far.

Thu Mar 2, 2006 9:51 PM EST

MySpace has many positive uses, while the security and privacy issue is a factor. Many teenage children have created MySpace accounts as just websites, because they don't know how to make a website from scratch.

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technology, schools, my-space

Reasons of the Success of Mozilla Firefox

Wed Feb 8, 2006 9:37 PM EST

Mozilla Firefox, most commonly just called Firefox, is the newest hit on the Internet.

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technology, internet, firefox, mozilla

Reasons of the Steelers' Success

Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:30 PM EST

I love both teams in this year's Super Bowl. These teams both have great skill, speed, and agility. But the Steelers have something else that the Seahawks don't have, and that is aggression. The Steelers have controlled both sides of the ball this year, especially on defense.

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nfl, sports, super-bowl