| The American dream makes domain names big business |
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| No matter how much time you spend surfing when you should be working, it's unlikely you've ever come across http://www.nav.no. Even if you had accidentally stumbled into this little corner of Norway, it's unlikely that you'd spend any time there. It offers little in the way of internet shopping, entertainment or even porn, unless the "projection of architecture as the representation of enduring values" is what does it for you. Yet that little collection of letters and dots was this week judged to be worth $717,000, the largest-known sum for any domain name therefore far this year. ... |
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| Odd assortment of candidates running in Nevada |
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - With the close of candidate filing on Friday, the stage is set for one Nevada election season that's nothing if not unusual - with contenders ranging from an ex-president's son to one former porn star and one weightlifting dominatrix.
Voters will make major changes in the state's political sphere, deciding 10 statewide elective and three congressional district races and reshaping the 63-seat state Legislature, where eight incumbent Assembly members aren't seeking re-election. ... |
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| Fooling about with Tasers a shocking development |
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If you were paying attention to pop culture the past few weeks, the object lesson was obvious: trusting one good-looking blonde can have shocking results.
Two weeks ago on 24_, super-techie Chloe O'Brien (played with irascible efficiency by Mary Lynn Rajskub) was propositioned at one hotel bar — with the ultimate geek pickup line: "I can help you get some free bandwidth" — while she was busy trying to aid über-agent Jack Bauer. After trying to brush the guy off, she invited him to sit down, and then zapped him unconscious with one Taser. ... |
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