Bush signing statement claims he can search our mail without a warrant

Today President Bush signed the H.R. 6407, the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. In doing so he added a few signing statements. One of them is particularly alarming, as it says that they can search our mail without a warrant.

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Most Important Science Stories of 2006 according to Scientific American

Brief listing: Pluto a Dwarf... new Fossil...Inconvenient Truth...Steve Irwin...Perelman Declines Fields Medal...Wine RNA...Saturn Pix...Stem Cells w/o Harming Embryos...Lucy's Baby..Overfishing.. H20 on Mars...Human Testing Gone Wrong...Dark Matter...Invisibility...Fewer Breast Cancers...Wireless Energy...Element 118...Cervical Cancer Vaccine

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2006 LifeHack Review: Best 50 hacks for your Life

"I ’ve selected the best 50 life hacks of the year, based on their popularity and contents in different categories. Invest your time - read them. Bookmark this page and mark reading them as one of your new year resolutions."

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The Universe's Dark Side: New Way To Form Black Hole Uncovered

Nature has again thrown astronomers for a loop. Just when they thought they understood how gamma-ray bursts formed, they have uncovered what appears to be evidence for a new kind of cosmic explosion. These seem to arise when a newly born black hole swallows most of the matter from its doomed parent star.

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Mac OS X start up sound volume control

I never knew how to change this or even mute it. Now I got this. It might be helpful to other Mac users.

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DIY Speech Recognition Security System

The function of this speech recognition security system is to have a system that will only unlock upon recognizing a voice password spoken by the administrator or password holder.

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Official Google Blog: How we came up with year-end Zeitgeist data

The Zeitgeist is "the spirit of time." This is why when we come up with the lists of top searches on Google.com for 2006, we do not simply retrieve the most frequently-searched terms for the period -- the truth is, they don't change that much from year to year.

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Wikipedia Page for Saddam Hussein's Execution

Confirmation of Saddam's hanging went out about 10 minutes ago and this Wikipedia page is growing as the information is made public. Nice living case study on the growth of a Wikipedia page.

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50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said. Wow.

This is the official list of the 50 dumbest things President George W. Bush every said.

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DREAD Weapon System: Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent

The gun looks like an angry flying saucer, and the ammo looks like golf balls. A flying saucer that shoots golf balls should be funny. But 120,000 rounds per minute at .50 caliber makes that not one bit funny.

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Gasoline Prices: Why $2.189 and not $2.19; Why The Third Decimal Place?

Something we see everyday but don't really care about - gasoline prices.

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VideoJug: The Online 'How To' Video Site

If you are trying to figure out 'how to' do something new you might want to search VideoJug for some visual directions.

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The NSFW Directive – An Update with Examples

An updated outline for using the REL attribute for marking content as inappropriate, with example code.

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Largest Grossing Tours of 2006

From extravagant light shows to flawless vocals, the top-grossing tours of 2006 boasted everything a fan could possibly want, from old favorites the Rolling Stones returning to the road, to friendly faces like Madonna, to other performers ranging from country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (on tour together) to the theatrical Cirque du Soleil.

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Unabomber's Secret Code Cracked

A decade after the feds tracked him down, CBS 5 Investigates has uncovered exclusive new information about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, including a secret code he developed, and the confessions revealed as the code was broken.

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