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Dear Oprah: I'd like to be on the cover of O too

Dear Oprah:

I saw that cover of the December issue of O magazine that was revealed today. Congrats to Ellen DeGeneres. She's been campaigning to get on the cover since last March, and it's good to see her goal become a reality. It proves that even regular folks with a daily daytime talk show a...

Nasty Gmail Bug Erroneously Marks Unread E-mails As Read

I haven't noticed this myself today, but it appears at least a subset of Gmail users are inadvertently drawing closer to an inbox with zero unread e-mails thanks to a nasty bug that marks messages as read even before the user opens them. Former TechCrunch writer Ouriel Ohayon was one of the first...

How to Download Leverage Episodes in HD Quality

There is an enormous positive response from the followers of Leverage, with viewers ranging from America to as far as Asia. Clearly due to this, avid viewers are patiently scouring the web for any sites offering installments in the most compatible formats. ...

Scientology = Fraud [Pharyngula]

At least, that's the outcome of a court decision in France, where Scientology was guilty of fraud and got slapped with a few fines, which they'll scrape out of the pockets of their gullible followers.

It's nice, I'm not going to complain, but I'll be more impressed when they apply the same rea...

Scientology fined for organised fraud

The Church of Scientology has been fined 600,000 euros ($972,000) by a French court for preying financially on its followers in the 1990s. ...