free
Nats' Owner Cautious on Free Agency
Washington Post - 23 minutes ago Nationals owner Ted Lerner makes it clear that Washington will not adjust to what he considers outlandish spending by his fellow owners in the free agent market.
new york
New York City to boost tax revenues by $3 bln: sources
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to announce on Thursday that the city's strong economy will boost tax revenues by more than $3 billion over two years, sources familiar with his plans said on Wednesday.
passport
New passport rules cause few glitches
USA Today - Jan 24 4:24 AM A new rule requiring U.S. airline passengers to show a passport upon their return from Mexico, Canada or the Caribbean took effect Tuesday, with few reports of stranded travelers.
eragon
Sierra Entertainment Unleashes the Dragon in Eragon the Video Game
SYS-CON Media - Nov 14 10:57 AM Eragon is an unparalleled action-adventure fantasy experience.
love poems
Newman, Woodward, Kitt, Grodin to Read Love Poems at Westport
Playbill - Jan 22 1:00 PM The program will include poems by Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Dorothy Parker, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams and Noel Coward.
young
Twins' Santana wins AL Cy Young Award
AP via Yahoo! News - Nov 17 12:42 AM Johan Santana's second Cy Young Award is in the bag. Next week, he might have a chance to take home the AL MVP, too. Santana won the league's top pitching honor Thursday for the second time in three years, and the Minnesota Twins' ace was a unanimous choice once again.
free music
Ruckus Rolls Out Free Music to Students
NewsFactor via Yahoo! News - Jan 22 11:05 AM Got .edu? Get free music. Ruckus Networks, a company that distributes films and music online to about a hundred colleges in the United States, is expanding its service to anyone with an .edu e-mail address -- giving students free access to its library of 2.1 million music tracks.
dmx
'Gayngsta' Rapper Deadlee Headlines Homo Tour, Disses Eminem, DMX, 50 Cent By Roman Wolfe Date: 1/23/2007 10:30 am
allhiphop.com - Jan 23 7:48 AM Popular Los Angeles based gay rapper Deadlee has announced that he will headline what is being billed as the first ever organized regional tour of gay, lesbian and bisexual rap & Hip-Hop artists.
periodic table
UCLA chemist provides insights into science icon: Chemistry's periodic table
EurekAlert! - Nov 17 2:31 PM The periodic table of chemical elements hangs in front of chemistry classrooms and in science laboratories worldwide. Yet much was unknown about its history and evolution until now.
tyra banks
Tyra Banks says she doesn't have to 'live up to that model standard anymore'
CP via Yahoo! Canada News - Jan 24 4:06 PM NEW YORK (AP) - Tyra Banks, who has gained weight since her days strutting the catwalk, says she was upset when unflattering photos showing her in a one-piece bathing suit were mocked on the Internet.
delta airlines
Delta Airlines spurns bid from US Airways
EARTHtimes.org - Nov 16 7:34 AM American carrier Delta Airlines Inc. rejected the $8 billion hostile takeover bid by rival US Airways Inc. saying it is determined to remain an independent company after it emerges from bankruptcy protection.
godsmack
Godsmack Soiled
antiMUSIC - Nov 15 7:59 PM antiMUSIC.com news - Godsmack Soiled
george washington
George Washington 94, Dartmouth 49
SportingNews.com - Nov 14 8:03 PM WASHINGTON -- Carl Elliott scored 19 of his 29 points in the first half and George Washington coaste...
guns
Paul Helmke: Mandating Guns?
HuffingtonPost - Jan 24 6:47 AM On an average day in this country, two or three people die and approximately 30 are injured from accidental firearms shootings; about fifty more die by suicide with a gun and nearly 40 are murdered with guns. These sobering statistics came back to me when I read Glenn Reynolds' disturbing op-ed encouraging government mandates that people have guns in their homes. I was angry and alarmed that ...
brazil
In pictures: Questions over Brazil violence
BBC News - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago Families say their relatives were innocent victims caught up in the violence that gripped Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, in May.
mercury
Pennsylvania passes plan to cut mercury
USA Today - Nov 16 5:29 PM A state regulatory board Thursday approved Gov. Ed Rendell's proposal to make deeper cuts in mercury emissions from Pennsylvania's coal-fired power plants, despite opposition from power plants and mining companies.
barnes and noble
Barnes and Noble hosts Holiday Book Drive
Daily Vidette - Nov 12 7:41 PM It is a time for giving, and Barnes and Noble is offering the public an opportunity to give the gift of literacy this holiday season. Until Jan. 1, Bloomington-Normal residents can purchase books from the world's largest bookseller and donate them to Book Showers for Literacy.
naturist
Naturist travel firm sold for £1.8m
ITV.com - Nov 07 4:27 AM A 70-year old naturist has sold his specialist tour operator business for £1.8 million. Peter Englert founded Peng Travel, based in Romford, in 1971. He has now sold it To AIM-listed Travelzest.
all american rejects
Seen & Heard | From Sundance
The Charlotte Observer - Jan 23 12:09 AM I wandered around a party at Harry O's, a nightspot on Main Street in Park City that becomes the place to be during the Sundance Film Festival, the nation's premier film festival. Just before The All-American Rejects came out late Sunday night for an hourlong set, including their hits "Move Along" and "Dirty Little Secret," here's what some of the celebs had to say:
target.com
How to Find Those Gifts in a Flash
New York Times - 1 hour, 16 minutes ago The latest shopping Web sites and a cellphone have become indispensable tools for holiday shoppers.
blue october
In Tomorrow's Paper
EdmontonSun.com - Jan 24 1:23 AM Blue October ... in April! The Houston hit-making rock band will be at the Edmonton Event Centre on April 9.
bleach
"The inmates throw pee, bleach, semen, doo-doo; wee-wees out everywhere"
Miami New Times - Nov 15 11:26 AM Risky Business Filed under: News When the corrections counselor tells what it's like to walk past the cell blocks at the Miami-Dade County Stockade, she could almost be describing Clarice Starling's walk down the corridor of a maximum-security prison in The Silence of the Lambs: "As a female, you ...
alyssa milano
A silver screen gem: Local jewelry maker creates for Hollywood
Town Online - Nov 09 10:12 PM For years, local jewelry maker and Malden native Jennifer Parrish has been selling her one-of-a-kind pieces here and there. Only recently, though, did she hit it big - after taking a chance that ultimately changed her life.
pictures
Africa in pictures: 11-17 November
BBC News - Nov 17 2:19 PM Pictures from around the continent this week.
angel
Girl plays angel for Halloween candy
The Natchez Democrat - Nov 16 10:18 PM VIDALIA — Six-year-old Micayla Buckley likes candy, but she’s not selfish. The world has enough candy to go around, so this year, she shared. The Vidalia Lower Elementary kindergarten student was a Chinese doll for Halloween, but for children at a local hospital, she was more like an angel.
sports
Syndicated "Sports Machine" ending run
Fox Sports - Nov 17 9:35 AM "Sports Machine," the syndicated sports highlight show that rose to popularity before ESPN dominated the airwaves, will go off the air after 23 years when host George Michael steps down in March. Michael, who began the show in 1980 as a late-night local feature on WRC TV channel 4 in Washington, also is retiring as the station's sports director and weeknight sports anchor. Michael said he made
paypal
EBay Profit Rises 24% on Sales Growth, PayPal Use (Update4)
Bloomberg.com - Jan 24 4:04 PM Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- EBay Inc., the world's largest online auctioneer, said fourth-quarter profit rose 24 percent, beating analysts' estimates, as holiday shoppers bought more goods using the company's PayPal online-payment service.
consumer reports
Consumer Reports Compares Online Dating Web Sites
Kansas City InfoZine - Nov 17 3:09 AM While looking to find that special someone to spend the upcoming holiday season with, many singles will turn to online dating. Consumer Reports December issue has the rundown on online dating sites with its story on the "Romance.coms."
tara reid
Dissed By Tara Reid, Embraced By Antonio Banderas: Sundance Diary
MTV Music Television - Jan 24 8:44 AM Tara Reid and Dakota Fanning cancel Sundance interviews with MTV News, but chats with Antonio Banderes and Sarah Polley save our fest first-timer's day.
rihanna
THE RAZZ: THE THIGH'S THE LIMIT FOR RIHANNA..
Daily Record - Nov 15 9:55 PM RIHANNA doesn't need to send out an SOS with these two hunks around. The R&B songstress was in Paris for a sell-out gig at the city's Zenith concert hall.
hello
Hello Kitty, Hello DC500 digital camera
MobileMag - Nov 16 1:08 PM Now, we all know that when an electronic device comes plastered with an abundance of cartoony paraphernalia, it's more about marketing that it is technology. Hello Kitty is back again with her ultra cutesy-wootsy-ness, providing the backdrop for the DC500 digital camera.
city maps
News Briefs
Oldham Era - Jan 24 1:31 PM The City of Goshen commission conducted a first reading on an ordinance Monday to allow residents to apply for flood insurance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
salma hayek
'Ugly Betty' is sitting pretty
USA Today - Nov 15 2:55 PM The Ugly Betty scene calls for Betty Suarez to dress down a renowned photographer as she defends a baby girl from accusations she is "butt ugly." As the chastened photographer stomps from the room, he asks a top magazine editor, Sofia (Salma Hayek): "Who the hell is this woman?"
james brown
Hardworking James Brown founded funk
Billings Outpost - 57 minutes ago One of the most important and influential musicians of the past half-century, James Brown, died one month ago on Christmas Day. With all of the 2006 Montana CDs I was reviewing, I didn’t get a chance to mention it.
jessica
I gave some character to Jessica: Ram
Yahoo! India News - Nov 16 11:18 PM Jethmalani has denied that he deliberately maligned Jessica Lall s character, in an interview to Karan Thapar.
mudvayne
Local Spotlight: Sub*Vert
The Idaho Statesman - Nov 09 11:05 PM Sub*VERT CD release party, 8 p.m. today, Big Easy, $5 at the door. Opening: The Sprockets, Seven Cycles
mario
Mario Garcia Case Goes To Jury
KCRA TheKCRAChannel.com via Yahoo! News - Nov 16 3:55 PM The murder trial of Mario Garcia went to the jury Thursday afternoon, with the panel wrapping up its first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
mariah carey
Mariah Carey hits concert promoter with $1m lawsuit
Moldova.org - Nov 13 2:49 AM Mariah Carey is suing a concert promoter for $1m (£522,000), following the cancellation of a concert in Hong Kong last month, relates The Associated Press. The diva claims she was left out of pocket after paying expenses relating to the live date and says she is yet to be paid fees by the promoter. Mariah’s lawyers claim she was forced to pull out of the concert after One Group Investments
futurama
Science and fiction meet in new exhibit
AP via Yahoo! News - Nov 16 12:30 PM The museum's dim lights and otherworldly sounds let you know that something is different. A quick glance and you realize those surrounding you have inverted pear-shaped heads and egglike eyes of green.
abortion
Abortion foe to lead on family planning
Boston Globe - Nov 17 12:57 AM WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday appointed a Boston-area gynecologist known for his anti abortion work and advocacy for abstinence programs in Massachusetts to oversee the federal government's family planning efforts, sparking praise from conservatives and criticism from abortion-rights activists.
paris
"Rude" Paris P*sses Everyone Off
MTV UK - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago Subtitle One person labels her a piece of "sh*t", another wants to smack her in the chops. Poor Paris? Subject Matter Paris Hilton Body Paris Hilton has been publicly branded a "piece of sh*t" - the day after she provoked the wrath of British pop star Sharleen Spiteri . Tina Fey , star and writer of popular American show, Saturday Night Live , was talking on shock jock
music videos
Gotuit to Offer Free EMI Music Videos
DesignTechnica - Nov 17 10:02 AM Music label EMI has agreed to license music videos to Gotuit to fuel on-demand services from Time Warner and Comcast as well as an online video portal.
t.i.
‘Ain’t I a Woman!’ at ASU-Beebe
The Searcy Daily Citizen - Jan 23 11:31 PM BEEBE — The Community Bank Concert Series at Arkansas State University-Beebe will host Ain’t I a Woman! on Friday, Feb. 2.
daddy yankee
Uganda: Daddy Yankee, Boyz II Men coming
AllAfrica.com - Nov 16 2:59 PM Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee whose song Gasolina has rocked nightclubs and radio stations is coming to town this December. The Puerto Rican singer born as Ramon "Raymond" Ayala will be part of the line-up of entertainers for the end of the year show at Sheraton Hotel.
boys
Hero in missing boys case gets truck
MSNBC - 2 hours, 48 minutes ago The Missouri teenager who helped authorities find missing boys Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck got a surprise reward Wednesday: a new Dodge Ram pickup.
emma watson
Emma Watson at Oxford University
Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator - Nov 13 7:19 AM Emma Watson, Hermione Granger from the "Harry Potter" movies, spoke yesterday at Oxford Union at Oxford University. Emma discussed what the directors taught her and how she's scared of the end of "Harry Potter." She also mentions Evanna Lynch, finding the sets exciting, not being happy with blue screen filming and how she fell down the stairs while rehearsing the Yule Ball entrance for "Goblet of
cheerleader
Cheerleader gains fame from game
Charleston Daily Mail - Nov 17 7:19 AM In the past three months, Marshall University cheerleader Hali Eplin has gone from a small town West Virginia girl to a renowned face seen in living rooms across America.
nfl
NFL, Union Beef Up Drug Program
Washington Post - 27 minutes ago The NFL expand the sport's drug-testing program by increasing the number of random tests during the season and adding EPO to the banned list.
tool
Ivana Trump calls The Donald, Rosie O'Donnell feud "marketing tool"
Reality TV World - Jan 24 3:22 PM Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell have received some relationship advice from an unlikely source -- The Donald's ex-wife Ivana, who despite her ex-husband's denials, also considers The Apprentice star and The View co-host's recent feud to be a "marketing tool."
dogpile.com
Searching for the Search Engine
RedNova - Oct 31 11:17 PM By Jeff Ooi DOES the fact that Vint Cerf, the lauded one of the `Fathers of Internet', has been a Google employee since 2004 convince you that you are in safe hands using Google applications in your daily life? I am in two minds.
baseball
Baseball's money business on the upswing
USA Today - Nov 17 12:18 AM Baseball is awash in cash. There's so much money in the sport these days it took in $5.2 billion in 2006 I'm not sure my computer has enough dollar signs.
harriet tubman
Facing society's pressures in 'Bubbly' journey
Boston Globe - Nov 17 12:51 AM Kirsten Childs's autobiographical musical, "The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin," may be about one specific black woman's journey to self-acceptance, but the issues that Childs raises are not hers alone. The pressures that African-American women feel to meet societal norms of beauty and behavior are also familiar to director Jacqui Parker and Stephanie Umoh , who plays the ...
wife
Wife attack police officer jailed
BBC News - Jan 24 7:58 AM A police officer is jailed for attacking his wife and told violence in marriage will not be tolerated.
venus
At age 74, Peter O'Toole is still in the game with his 8th Oscar nomination, for 'Venus'
Canada.com - Jan 24 4:41 PM This portrait of actor Peter O'Toole, made in London on Sept. 21, 2006, was provided by Miramax Films. O'Toole is up for an Oscar for his role as an aging romantic in the film "Venus."
short haircut
Tenant Fights For His Rights In Sunnyside
Queens Chronicle - Nov 16 11:11 PM Sunnyside resident Chris Duckett believes the eviction notice he received last month is illegal and a retaliation for his efforts to organize tenants after a summer fire.
sean paul
Riffs: An online music column
Nashville City Paper - 11 minutes ago George Jones and Merle Haggard have helped shape and define the modern country sound while maintaining a strong friendship for over 40 years. They’ve won every conceivable award in the business while also riding out various changes and trends within the industry.
house plans
Photo Theme House plans Nov. 28 event
Billings Gazette - Nov 14 11:44 PM POWELL - The Northwest College Photo Theme House invites the public to an unveiling of its 2007 "Touch of the West" calendar and silent auction at 7 p.m. Nov. 28 at Parlor News Coffeehouse.
skateboarding
8 Year Old Sponsored Skater Twins
About.com - Nov 15 4:06 PM Tristan and Nic Puehse are 8 year old fraternal twins blessed with a fearless attitude, and a tough athleticism. This led naturally to them taking up skateboarding right after their...
jesse jane
Corruption, Virtual Sex with Jana Cova and Aphrodisiac
DVD Talk - Oct 27 7:59 AM Reviewer Don Houston found one of the rarest commodities in porn with Corruption : "a feature porno designed to show the rise and fall of a demagogue seeking to move into higher political office reminiscent of many mainstream offerings of the past.
bob marley
Hip Hop Lives In Monterey
Radio & Records - Nov 16 2:11 AM At the stroke of high noon Wedneday, Buckley CHR/top 40 KYZZ (Z-979)/Monterey flushed the format, appropriately, with the sounds of 'NSync's "Bye Bye Bye." After five hours of stunting with Bob Marley's "Jammin,'" the station flipped to -- surprise! "The New Jammin' 97.9, Where Hip-Hop Lives."
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free
- This article is about the word meaning "liberated". For English rock band, see Free (band).
Look up Free in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The transitive verb to free may mean to emancipate, to release from a constriction, or to confer freedom — but as an adjective free appears in a great many phrases, generally with the meaning of either "without cost", or "unconstrained, not imprisoned".
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Contents
- 1 Economics
- 2 Intellectual property
- 3 Mathematics
- 4 Philosophy
- 5 Popular music
- 6 Literature
- 7 Computer science
- 8 Other
- 9 References
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Economics
- Gratis - Latin for "free of charge"
Intellectual property
- Public domain
- Copyleft
- Free content
Mathematics
- Free object
- Free group
- Free abelian group
- Free module
- Free semigroup
- Free algebra
- Free variable
Philosophy
- Freedom - see Philosophy disambiguation.
The phrase "...free as in free speech, not as in free beer..." is sometimes used in informal debate and philosophy to separate different uses of 'free' when discussing the subjects of freedoms, esp. as regards information and/or rights to services.
Popular music
- Free[1], a song by Prince from his 1982 album, 1999.
- Free, a song by Cat Power from her album You Are Free
- Free, a song by Phish from their album Billy Breathes
- Free (Free album), an eponymous music album by the musical group "Free"
- Free (For Real album), a music album by the musical group "For Real"
- Free (Negativland album), a music album by the rock band Negativland
- Free (rapper)
- Free (band)
- Free jazz
Literature
Free, a pseudonym for the activist and writer Abbie Hoffman
Computer science
- Free software
- Freeware
- free (programming) is a function in C programming language which deallocates or unloads a certain part of the memory for use.
- freefont, a font
- "...free as in free speech, not as in free beer..."
Other
- FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment) is a neologism coined by Yu Suzuki to describe his Shenmue game series.
- FREE (Fight Repression of Erotic Expression) was a University of Minnesota - Twin Cities student group founded in May 1969. It was the first gay and lesbian student-run group in the United States, and the first GLBT organization established in the state of Minnesota. It is now the Queer Student Cultural Center.
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Nats' Owner Cautious on Free Agency
Washington Post - 23 minutes ago Nationals owner Ted Lerner makes it clear that Washington will not adjust to what he considers outlandish spending by his fellow owners in the free agent market.
Debate Renewed: Did Moscow Free Estonia or Occupy It?
New York Times - 14 minutes ago The issue over a monument?s fate has become part of Estonia?s unfinished effort not only to sever the legacy of its Soviet past but to break free of Russia?s influence today.
China may expand visa-free policy for 2008
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 25 minutes ago China may expand its current limited visa-free policy for foreign visitors next year when Beijing hosts the Olympic Games, a senior immigration official said on Thursday, to deal with an expected influx of tourists. "We will positively consider anything that is beneficial for the Olympics," Li Changyou, deputy director of the Exit and Entry Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, told ...
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