The storied site, originally owned by Match.com founder Gary Kremen, got picked up by Clover Holdings in November 2010 for $13 million. Escom LLC, the address's previous owner, went bankrupt early last year and was forced to ditch the domain.

Since the sale, not much has changed at Sex.com. It's still a parking page for links to other salacious sites, like live webcams, sex personals and swinger cruises.

Read more about the Sex.com domain acquisition at Global Post

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In the effort to get 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, the a lack of industry standards for fast-charging stations -- which allow motorists to pull in and power up in about 30 minutes -- could be a major glitch. The fast-charge stations in Chicago, for instance, are designed for Japanese model plugs, not for American cars like the Ford Focus or Chevy Volt. 

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Researchers at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine devised a tool to cut recovery time drastically and save lives. Their sci-fi-sounding "skin cell gun" trounces the traditional technique of grafting healthy skin onto a burn victim's damaged body -- a process that can take weeks and months -- by spraying healthy stem cell tissue through an airbrush-type nozzle.

Doctors harvest the stem cells from the victim's body, add them to a water solution and spray them onto burned areas. Rather than weeks or months, the healing process takes hours and days. One man with second-degree burns came in for treatment on a Friday and left completely healed by Monday.

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Not all are fans of the governor turned vice-presidential candidate, most notably Reagan's son, Ron Reagan. He told the Associated Press that he sees nothing in common between his father and Palin.

Sarah Palin is a soap opera, basically. She's doing mostly what she does to make money and keep her name in the news. She is not a serious candidate for president and never has been.

Reagan's former speechwriter, Kenneth Khachigian, praised the choice of Palin to honor the 40th president, saying Palin's philosophy and political fortunes were shaped by the Reagan presidency. "She can reflect on that as well as anyone could," he said.

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Gingrich -- who is (yet again) mulling over a 2012 run for the Republican party nomination, something we -- calls his proposed entity the "Environmental Solution Agency." The organization would specifically pursue the development of clean coal and rewrite regulations governming the development of small nuclear plants, but its primary objective would be to streamline regulation and integrate the causes of the environment and business, he says.

He lays out a pretty detailed explanation on his website. Could Newt be on to something?

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He'll likely have a line or two about the welfare of the troops, how we must support them when they come home and rebuild the morale shattered by broken withdrawal deadline after broken withdrawal deadline (he probably won't use those words, exactly).

However, he won't tell the whole story about how the troops are faring.

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The plan to kill Clean Air goes back to December, when the Environmental Protection Agency released plans to draw up new efficiency standards in order to cut greenhouse gases produced by refineries and coal-fired power plants. The EPA has yet to lay out any specifics, but opponents of the regulations -- which would only affect new or upgraded facilities -- haven't wasted any time attacking the standards that would reduce emissions by an estimated 3 percent.

House Republicans have fallen back on their favorite obstructionist sticking point: jobs.

Fred Upton, R-Mich., the new chairman of the powerful House Engery and Commerce Committee, swears he will "stand up for American workers" and address the EPA's "regulatory chokehold." His plan is to rework the Clean Air Act so that the EPA is powerless to regulate emissions.

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However, news of the company's monster success, accredited largely to holiday sales of the iPhone4, iPad and Macs, was overshadowed by the disclosure that the company's CEO, Steve Jobs, is taking medical leave.

Jobs has suffered pancreatic cancer in the past and took six months off in 2009 when he underwent a liver transplant. He has provided no timeline of when he'll be back to Apple, if at all. Apple's COO Tim Cook will take over the day-to-day operations of the company.

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He served as the director of the Peace Corps and was George McGovern's running mate in the 1972 presidential elections.

USA Today has published an obituary of Shriver's life, highlighting his record of public service despite never winning an election to political office. 

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He's referring of course to Jared Lee Loughner and his murderous spree in Arizona over the weekend. Phelps wants you to know that "God sent the shooter" and that his devout/brainwashed followers, true to form, will picket the funerals of the six victims who died, including the service for 9-year-old Christina Green.

Sorry for making your blood boil so early in the week, but below is Phelp's taped message to the nation:

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The 13-year-old murder of the rotund rapper, aka Christopher Wallace, has fostered conspiracy for as long as it's remained unsolved. Now, CNN reports, the cold case has been "reinvigorated" and reopened.

Enough fresh evidence has surfaced to entice the LAPD, L.A.'s District Attorney's office and the FBI to assemble a task force and ask once again: Who killed Biggie Smalls?

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In an interview with Platts Energy Weekly, John Hofmeister, ex-head honcho of Shell Oil, said that the moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and global demand will lead to a surge in gas prices over the next two years.

Some think Hofmeister is being a bit too sensational in his prediction and that gas will cost a five-spot in a decade, not in two years. One dubious analyst at a local Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C., says Hofmeister might be crying wolf because he runs a grass-roots group called Citizens for Affordable Energy. He just wrote a book called "Why We Hate Oil Companies."

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With its telling subtitle: "Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing A Slower Path To Adulthood, And Why It’s Good for Everyone," Settersten and Ray's book gathers eight years of MacArthur Foundation research and hundreds of personal interviews  to take the pulse of America’s young adults. Yes, more of them are living at home, delaying other big-person milestones like marriage and child-rearing. But while they sleep in their childhood bedrooms, they are also paying off debt, experimenting with careers and preparing for the time when they are ready to leave the nest and enter a hyper-competitive economy that doesn’t take kindly to failings and missteps.

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The bill passed the House earlier this year but has been subsequently blocked by Republicans in the Senate who vowed not to consider any other bills until the Senate dealt with funding the government and extending tax cuts.

"I would like to see one of these senators have the balls to explain why somehow getting a tax cut extension for wealthy Americans is more important than suffering Ground Zero workers," Stewart said.

Four first responders to the Twin Towers joined Stewart onstage. All four suffer from the toxins they were exposed to on Sept. 11. One has Stage 4, inoperable throat cancer. Kenny Speck, a New York firefighter also diagnosed with cancer, said first responders are "disgusted and disappointed" by the GOP's actions.

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HuffPo reports that Timothy Ray Brown, an American dubbed the "Berlin Patient," underwent a stem cell transplant in 2007 to treat leukemia. The stem cell donor, chosen after careful vetting by Brown's medical team, also had a natural resistance to HIV. Those cells regenerated more HIV-resistant cells and, his doctors say, there is now no sign of the infection.

The doctors' findings will be published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed journal Blood, but the Web is aflutter with the implications of their research. This, one source reports, paves the way for an HIV cure using genetically engineered stem cells.

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The Westboro Baptist Church, known for their attendance at the funerals of dead soldiers, holding signs that read, "God Hates Fags," "God Hates Dead Soldiers," and "Thank God for Breast Cancer," plan to do the same outside of Edwards' funeral. Their gripe with Edwards? Her advocacy for gay rights and her propensity to "spew blasphemy." According to their website, she "split hell wide open on Dec. 7, 2010." The church also believes God smote Edwards by killing her 16-year-old son in a car accident and by giving her breast cancer. Yeah, these people exist.

Some concerned citizens/decent human beings aren't going to stand for this behavior, however. One Raleigh resident, Ben Requena, started a Facebook event asking people to gather outside the church where the service will be held to create a "human buffer," shielding the mourners from the WBC's hateful messages.

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"Virgin shut its legs, I shut my wallet," K Smith wrote on SilentBobSpeaks.com.

Kevin Smith, writer and director of "Clerks," "Mallrats," and "Jay and Silent Bob", wrote that in response to Virgin Airlines employees who prevented him and others from boarding their plane and causing them to miss their flight out of JFK.

Smith, his wife and Jason Mewes, aka Jay got to the gate eight minutes before depature, first class tickets in hand and luggage already on-board, only to be blocked by the red-vested guardian of the gate from rushing up the jetway to get on the still-idling plane.

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Two researchers at Yale University tracked 15,170 youths over the course of seven years, speaking to them in 1994-95 when they were in the seventh to 12th grade and again in 2001-02 when they were aged 18-26. Participants were asked about their sexual orientation, sexual behavior, criminal record and if they were ever expelled from school.

The results, the researchers believe, reinforce the disturbing trend of violence and discrimination against gay American youth.

“We found that virtually all types of punishment — including school expulsions, arrests, juvenile convictions, adult convictions and especially police stops — were more frequently meted out to LGBT youth,” lead author Kathryn Himmelstein, who initiated the study while she was a Yale undergraduate, said.

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An undisclosed source wrote to the website, saying that when soldiers search for any information regarding WikiLeaks on an unclassified network, they are met with a one-page warning that they are about to break the law.

Claims that sites such as huffingtonpost.com, cnn.com and foxnews.com are completely blocked from soldiers on NIRPNet, the network the military uses to share sensitive but unclassified materials, were denied by a spokesperson for U.S. forces in Iraq. The spokesperson did confirm that the warning page does exist, however.

The page "simply warns the user that the website ... may contain classified documents and that such documents should not be viewed, downloaded or distributed on NIPR computers," the spokesperson said.

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