The tyranny of two-dimensional computer and TV displays could soon be over. A team of MIT researchers has proposed a way to make a holographic video system that works with computer hardware for consumers, such as PCs with graphics cards and gaming consoles. The display, the researchers say, will be small enough to add to an entertainment center, provide resolution as good as a standard analog television, and cost only a couple hundred dollars.

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An Egyptian living in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for leaving the Koran in a mosque restroom. He plead guilty to "renouncing Islam" and will now be killed by our friends the Saudis.

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Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.

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China's infamous movie pirates have done it again -- "Spider-Man 3" is already being sold on Beijing's streets almost two weeks ahead of its U.S. premier.

Costing just over $1 apiece, the pirated DVDs appear to be of the actual movie, complete with a picture of the hero in a new, black spider suit which he wears for some of the film.

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 A man who spent 25 years in prison for rape was exonerated Monday as a judge threw out his convictions because DNA evidence showed he couldn't have committed the attack. An advocacy group said it was the 200th such case.

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“I was pretty excited to have my picture taken with her,” said Cat Fancy’s David Lindsay. “I’m a huge fan. You know… ‘I’m leaving Las Vegas yeah!!’. Huge fan. So I stand behind her and I’m trying to snug up as close as I can get. It’s Sheryl Crow for Christ’s sake. The first thing I notice is the smell. I work with cats so I’m not easily put off, but there was a banch in the air that would choke Courtney Love. Long story short, my hand accidentally brushes against her backside, I don’t think much of it and I go eat my dinner. By the time I got home I was puking like a supermodel after a five course meal.”

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I just got an eyewitness account of the Karl Rove-Laurie David-Sheryl Crow encounter at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night, and it suggests that David and Crow were a bit more confrontational than they portrayed themselves in their own account of the incident, published in the Huffington Post.

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The diagram below shows how George Soros and other rich far-left Democrats funnel money to Media Matters, a well-financed left-wing “media watchdog” that, in the words of one reporter I know, “works the refs” by goading reporters into skewing their reporting to the left lest they attract Media Matters’ ire. (Hat tip to Hot Air)

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The Vatican's second-highest ranking doctrinal official on Monday forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of "terrorism with a human face."

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The leaders of the U.S. Border Patrol's rank-and-file agents have unanimously voted a no-confidence resolution against Chief David V. Aguilar, citing, among other things, his willingness to believe the "perjured allegations" of criminal aliens over his own agents.

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