Hot dogs? Check. Fireworks? Check. Big Ben? Wait a minute...

Thousands of fans are expected in Los Angeles on Tuesday to mourn Michael Jackson and some are predicting it could be one of the most-viewed events of all time. "This will obviously be a huge media event," said Toni Fitzgerald of Media Life.

Top 10 celebrity golfers The AT&T National, hosted by Tiger Woods, pairs stars with pro's, so CNN looks at the 10 best celebrity golfers.

After a six-year hiatus in which many bands have emerged, such as the Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs, copying their blend of melodic, intelligent songs and cheeky blokeishness, Blur return to show them who is best.

Thousands are expected to swamp Los Angeles, California, to mourn him Tuesday at the Staples Center, and the accompanying media crush will be enormous. Indeed, given the feverish interest in all things Jackson, the Los Angeles memorial could be one of the most-viewed events of all time.

How many barrels of oil do you think you could steal in a month, y'know, if you were into that sort of thing? Ten people in West Texas have been arrested recently for stealing about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate, and a local sheriff said that the thieves were able to steal 8,000 barrels of oil during a single month. That's good for a lot of trips to the grocery store. Actually, the thieves were not stealing the fuel to use themselves
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Filed under: Podcasts, Etc., Opinion/Editorial Click above for the Autoblog Podcast in iTunes, RSS or listen now! Just in time for the July 4th holiday roadtrip, it's Episode #134 of the Autoblog Podcast! We've had a couple delays this week getting together to chat about recent events, but hopefully we're hitting your media player before you depart for this weekend's festivities. Once seated around our digital roundtable, Chris, Sam, and Dan take
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This girl gives us two more resons for drinking Red Bull

What is this strange country where cops have to work according to the law?

Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks payments on their websites (example), it likely means millions are being lost during its downtime. PayPal and Google Checkout are still up and running. It's unc
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Does embattled music streaming site imeem think it can take on iTunes? For the most part, nearly every streaming song on the site has a download button which links to both iTunes and the Amazon MP3 store. But it is quietly testing its own music download store which bypasses iTunes and Amazon and sells MP3s directly. For instance, this is the case with some Sub Pop artists, such as Iron and Wine and The Shins. When you hit the download butto
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Cricket games are never all that great, let's be honest. Graham Gooch World Class Cricket on the Amiga was okay but the batsmen would run without prompting causing numerous, unnecessary, run-outs and many a smashed joystick. But if there was ever a games console designed for a cricket simulator then surely it's the Wii? Ashes Cricket 2009 by Codemasters will put that theory to the test when it is released next month. The gameplay has the potentia
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When I wrote my piece yesterday on O2 snapping up all the smartphones, it was initially from the point of view of pricing and monopoly. With both the Pre and the iPhone exclusively on board it rather limits the consumer's options in terms of getting the very best smartphones they can at a reasonable market price. Of course, the flip side of this is that O2 spends money on these exclusive deals that they could be investing to improve the quality o
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MORE than one in four young people cannot find a job or work for enough hours because the downturn is inflicting a particularly hefty toll on casual and part-time work, figures show.

AS new tax breaks for small business push sales of cars, buses, trucks and utilities towards a record high, the Treasury has suggested more widespread congestion charges.

ONGOING problems with the Commonwealth Bank's internet banking system, NetBank, which prevented customers from seeing their transaction histories this week, have raised questions about the stability of the bank's IT infrastructure.

blackbearnh writes with this excerpt from O'Reilly Radar "Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, that's just what Patrick Collison's Encyclopedia iPhone application does. App Store purchasers of Collison's open source application can browse and search the full text of Wikipedia when
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.