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Short Version: Yes, this is that scale that Tweets your weight. And yes, it’s actually pretty cool. Review So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. Anyway, now I’m going to depend on the Internet to make me skinny again and I think the Withings WiFi scale is just the thing to get me back in Abraham Lincoln mode. This glass scale features a body mass sensor complete with invisible electrodes as well as a backlit OLED readout. To start, you connect the scale to your computer via USB and assign your wireless hotspot. Then each time you hop on the scale you wait for the electrodes to sense your body fat (or if they can’t it just transmits your weight) and then you check your progress online. New users are “added” when they weigh themselves and show up as unknown users until you assign their measurements to an account. Because folks usually float among a few data points, your wife’s numbers won’t get mixed up with yours and the dog’s numbers will definitely not get mixed up wi...

Costa Rica election win for Chinchilla shows women's rise in Latin America Laura Chinchilla won the Costa Rica election Sunday. She'll be the country's first woman president, echoing a trend across Latin America where women are being voted into high-level political office in record numbers. By Sara Miller Llana Staff writer posted February 8, 2010 at 1:41 pm EST Rio de Janeiro — Jacqueline Campos, a lifelong resident of Rio de Janeiro, says she is not inspired by the ideas being floated ahead of presidential elections here later this year. But she still views the 2010 race as a landmark one: a woman has more than an outside chance of becoming president of Brazil. "We women were always expected to take care of the house, and that alone," she says. "Now we have much more to offer. We might lead the country." The election, slated for October, could see at least two women on the ballot. Dilma Rousseff, of the governing Workers' Party (PT), ...

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February 8, 2010 Pass Wasn’t the First Thing Porter Cut Off By JOE LAPOINTE MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Without a helmet, Tracy Porter’s artwork could be seen by all. On the left side of his almost-shaved head his remaining hair said “SB 44” in honor of Super Bowl XLIV. On the right side of his head was the outline of the Lombardi Trophy, which Porter’s New Orleans Saints won Sunday night with a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts. And on the back of his skull, his remaining hair was shaped into the outline of the Superdome, the home stadium of the Saints and the refuge for suffering residents ousted from their homes in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Porter said he got the artwork done on his head hours before the game, which was decided when he returned an interception 74 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter. He said that he paid his barber $40 and an undisclosed tip at the team hotel in the afternoon and that it took so long to do it, Porte...

Look who stopped by Marilyn Monroe is shown in New York in December 1961 in a photo released on Friday, Feb. 5. Photographer Len Steckler shot the black-and-white images of the actress when she unexpectedly arrived at his apartment to visit his friend, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Carl Sandburg. Steckler is offering them for a sale as a limited edition series called "Marilyn Monroe: The Visit." from msnbc.com

Ukraine Tymoshenko's team cries foul before polls close Reuters Sunday, February 7, 2010; 12:20 PM KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian presidential contender Yulia Tymoshenko's campaign team cried foul as voting was under way in Sunday's election, saying it would contest results in the region which is the base of her rival Viktor Yanukovich. Prime Minister Tymoshenko, who led the 2004 street protests which propelled her to prominence and humiliated Yanukovich by denying him victory in a rigged poll, has vowed to call people onto the streets again if the current poll is falsified. "(Actions) by Yanukovich supporters spread from blocking the work of our election observers in the Donetsk region to open banditry and terrorism in some western Ukrainian regions," Deputy Prime Minister and Tymoshenko campaign chief Oleksander Turchynov told a news briefing. "This criminal approach to organizing an election cannot help holding it in an honest and transpare...