10 Lazy Gadgets To Help You Automate Your Weekend

The end of the week is nigh. You have worked hard and now its time to relax. That is the spirit behind the new "Thank Giz It's Friday" roundup. This week it is all about gadgets that will help you breeze through the weekend with as little physical effort as possible—a guide to the ultimate in laziness.

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Five Best DVD Ripping Tools

On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite DVD ripping tools; today we've sifted through hundreds of comments to bring you the five most popular answers. Hit the jump for a closer look at five of the best and most popular DVD ripping tools, then cast your vote to determine the best ripper of the bunch.

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How to fix the internet (according to South Park)

In the fantastic South Park episode last night most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma? Face the giant Linksys router that controls all traffic in the country. And do This (see the video.)

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Drug errors hurt 1 out of 15 hospitalized children

Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method.

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ABC News: 61-Year-Old Man Has Baby With Daughter

See above!

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Muslim "commuting between wives" escapes speeding penalty

When it comes to avoiding a ban for speeding, the courts hear every excuse in the book.

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NYC Cabbie Who Runs Anti-American Islamic Web Site Mocks GI

A New York City cabbie who operates an extremist Islamic anti-American Web site that features violent images - including mocking the deaths of GIs in Iraq - says he's doing the country a service by "exposing the truth."

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Turbine technology is turning the tides into power

The world’s first deep-water device to generate electricity from the tides on a commercial scale is due to start operating within weeks. A seagoing crane barge has lowered the 1,000-tonne double turbine into place and an operation to fix it to the seabed with 12 metre (40 ft) pins begins today.

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2nd-graders recite Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish

The Tucson Unified School District has found itself tangled in a web of online discontent, following outrage over the way a second-grade class recites the Pledge of Allegiance.For years, Gale Elementary School teacher Anne Lee has had her students recite the pledge in three languages — English, Spanish and American Sign Language. . .

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2nd-graders recite Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish

The Tucson Unified School District has found itself tangled in a web of online discontent, following outrage over the way a second-grade class recites the Pledge of Allegiance.For years, Gale Elementary School teacher Anne Lee has had her students recite the pledge in three languages — English, Spanish and American Sign Language. . .

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240,000 USA Jobs Reduced in Last 3 Months.

Total number of jobs in the US economy in March fell by 80,000.BUT! Number of jobs JUST in manufacturing and construction fell by 100,000.Very strange stats, isn't it? Lets see why...

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Hillary's $296 million in earmarks

A government-watchdog group says the Democrat-led Congress last year broke a promise to slash pork spending and doled out $17.2 billion for pet projects, including $296 million in earmarks by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton — the top spender of the three presidential contenders.

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Absolut redraws USA - Mexico border

Laura Martínez found the ad in the print edition of Quién magazine in Mexico City and it’s going viral. Jim Hoft has picked it up, calling it an “Absolut-ly Outrageous Ad,” Pierre Legrand profanely calls for a boycott, and Brian Ledbetter goes with “Absolut-ly Insulting.” Michelle Malkin cranks it up a notch, with “Absolut Reconquista.”

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Radio Show Funds Masculinists/PWNS Pitzer Feminist. Victory!

The Kevin & Bean Show, the morning show on LA based KROQ 106.7 fm, invited me on their show yesterday to discuss the Masculinist Coalition. Ralph Garman (a regular on Family Guy) offered to directly sponsor us! The President of Pitzer's feminist coalition calls in and gets shut down. Hard. Victory!

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Maybe This is the Real Meaning of Life All Along..

A brilliant video showcasing Alan Watt's ideas. Watts was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. Remember to sing and dance, people!

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Firefox Gains On Internet Explorer In Businesses

Even if IT shops aren't formally pushing employees to Firefox, they are moving to support the browser in their enterprise Web apps, according to Forrester Research.

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Google: responsible for ‘gang rape’ posting on YouTube

Google came under fire from MPs today after admitting it was to blame for a video apparently showing a gang rape being watched hundreds of times on the internet.

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SIMPLICITY

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Dead Man’s Family Sues Over Two-Day Erection

An unemployed pipefitter from Canton, Ohio died after experiencing an erection lasting a full 48 hours. Now his family is suing.

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CAR DEALER MAKES WOMAN SIGN ON HER DEATH BED

In a lawsuit filed in Nevada District Court, Reno Dodge is being accused of a macabre sales method--getting a woman to sign a car purchase contract while she was groggy and incapacitated in a hospital bed, at the behest of the woman's daughter.

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