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22 Nov 09
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Hi-Def DSLRs May Be Cheap, But Talent Is Priceless It seemed that a few big Hollywood studios would no longer dominate our viewing agenda, that an indie revolution was imminent and that the dam on a reservoir of creativity had been destroyed. But that has not been the case. |
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22 Nov 09
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Newspaper Decides to Contact Mothers of Bathroom Sex Couple Lois Feldman and Ross Walsh had apparently never met, but decided to have sex in a male handicap stall at the Metrodome. Their story blew up on the Internet, made headlines in newspapers and on television. That was a year ago. Today, in a new low for... |
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22 Nov 09
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Zelda: Spirit Tracks Snow Temple Preview Two of the major selling points for The Legend of Zelda: Spirits Tracks have been the train and the addition of Zelda to Link as a companion character. But what can you expect from the rest of the game? |
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22 Nov 09
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Missouri Billboard Calls for Revolution: War Against America Look, I'm all for reasonable and rational criticism of our government as the representatives of the people - but at a certain point you have to pull over the crazy train before it goes completely off the tracks. |
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22 Nov 09
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What doggy heaven looks like "Taken on a foggy morning in Bon Echo Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, the dogs were having a joyous morning chasing sticks in the shallow near the shore area of Mazinaw Lake." Photo by Mark Muschett. |
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22 Nov 09
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WTF? 'New Moon' breaks Dark Knight's Boxoffice Record $72.7 million haul tops first-day mark set by "Dark Knight" |
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22 Nov 09
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Water mission returns first data A European satellite launched to study the Earth's water cycle returns its first data, confirming its novel instrument is working well. Smos was launched earlier this month. |
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22 Nov 09
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Traffic cameras used to stalk peaceful protestors Any police officer can add any license number to the database of "people of interest" and every time that license plate passes a camera, the local police force will receive an urgent alert, and can pull over the car, detain the driver, and search the car... |
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22 Nov 09
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Top 10 Ergonomic Upgrades for Your Workspace It's easy to forget about your body's needs when you're deep into your work or the net—until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customizable ergonomic workspace upgrades. |
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22 Nov 09
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One in a Million, Split Second OMG's Near misses, once in a lifetime events and a few OMG moments make this a great video! |
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22 Nov 09
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The Amazing Spinning Sign Samurai Wows Fourth Street Dude takes his sign holding job to a higher realm -- a freakin' signage samurai. |
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22 Nov 09
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Vintage Video of Mailman vs. Clyde the Glide Vintage Video of Karl Malone vs. Clyde Drexler from back when....well the shorts were really really short. |
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22 Nov 09
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Landrieu Says She'll Back Democrats on Key Health Democrat Landrieu said she would vote to move forward with debate on health-care legislation, as the chamber moved toward an evening vote on whether to bring the bill to the floor. The support of at least one other centrist Democrat remained in doubt. |
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22 Nov 09
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Lcpl Shawn P. Hefner - Bringing Home a Hero Nov. 19, 2009 - Shawn Patrick Hefner, 22, of Hico, Texas; assigned to 2nd Amphibious Assault Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Nov. 13 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province,... |
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22 Nov 09
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TEN alcoholic drinks a day slashes heart disease risk in men New findings suggest drinking can cut the overall risk of heart problems by almost a third in men. Those who drank the most - four to ten drinks a day - had an even bigger reduction, down by half. |
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22 Nov 09
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Who leaked the Hadley CRU files and why The anonymous tipster, whom many people initially assumed had "hacked" into the computers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (repeatedly called the "Hadley Centre" by mistake), was probably an insider, seeking to expose... |
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22 Nov 09
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Several 2009 MLB Awards Clearly Thought Up On The Spot A number of players suggested to reporters Monday that, with accolades such as the AL Platinum Baseman Award and the Best Lead Off of the Year Trophy, the Baseball Writers' Association of America was almost certainly making up its year-end honors on the... |
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22 Nov 09
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Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta -- holy crap, it's finally here! Believe it or not, almost 7 years after its initial release, the Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta is finally out, and with it comes a large list of changes. Most of them are much-needed interface fixes, but there is the welcome addition of built-in support for the... |
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22 Nov 09
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Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit-a city in despair The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe, lie one above the other on steel racks inside a giant freezer in Detroit’s central mortuary, like discarded shoes in the back of a wardrobe.Some have lain here for years, but ... |
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22 Nov 09
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Apparently these People Don't Agree w/Term, 'Travel Light' [VID] Some serious packing & stacking skill here... |
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22 Nov 09
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Wall-E in Real Life: Euro-Trashbot Cleans up Italian Streets Sort of like a real-life Wall-E, the bot gathers rubbish and sorts it into recyclable, organic (hopefully to be composted), and waste. Then it whisks it off to a waste management facility, finding its way using pre-loaded maps and sensors to avoid... |
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22 Nov 09
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Is the Android OS Growing Too Quickly? After getting off to a slow start, Android phones have gone gangbusters. As of last July, there was only one Android-powered device available in the U.S., but that number has since exploded. Now, there are eight Android phones available stateside, with... |
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21 Nov 09
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Britain's new Internet law as bad as everyone's been saying Mandlesons plans for the internet in the UK, the future of internet freedom looks grim |
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21 Nov 09
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CAVE PICTURES: Mineral Crusts, Ooze Found to Be Poop Butterscotch ooze, pink crusts, and blue-green goo are just some of the multicolored mineral deposits being excreted by cave-dwelling microbes, researchers have announced. |
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21 Nov 09
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Microsoft Releases Games for Windows Update Microsoft has released an update for their Games for Windows Live PC client, the upgrade brings with it many cosmetic changes. The redesigned marketplace and more detailed game pages will make browsing the marketplace easier. |
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21 Nov 09
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APOD: 2009 November 21 - NGC 253: Dusty Island Universe A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. |
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21 Nov 09
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12 Guerilla Marketing Stunts That Actually Worked It doesn’t take much to get a reaction from people when it comes to guerrilla marketing.Cleverly placed prop-replicas from V For Vendetta caused thought-provoking pause in the step of passers-by, and coffee-giant Folgers had the bright idea to use... |
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21 Nov 09
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Earth's Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. |
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21 Nov 09
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Vampires Attack Oprah and Sarah Palin, Run For Your Lives What a surreal, epic week in mass media. On Monday, Sarah Palin appeared on "Oprah," then on Thursday Oprah announced she's quitting her talk show. Meanwhile, vampires rule the Earth. |
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21 Nov 09
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A Universe of Universes, the Megaverse theory Imagine if you will that each point of light is a universe, each universe containing hundreds of billions, if not trillions of galaxies and all of them orbiting a universal core |
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21 Nov 09
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2009 MLB Least Valuable Players And Other Anti-Award Winners It's baseball awards time, which means it's also time for Joe Posnanski's Least Valuable Player, Anti-Cy Young Award and the not-so-great Manager of the Year Award. |
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21 Nov 09
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'Random' Shooting Rampage On Resort Island Kills Five A gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan Friday, first at a shooting range and then at a World War II historical site, killing four people and wounding six others before fatally shooting himself, officials said. |
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21 Nov 09
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Yamaha Wants You To Hear The Lexus LFA One of the world's foremost musical instrument manufacturers helped design the Lexus LFA's cabin. Why? Because Toyota wanted its supercar to crawl inside your ears and invade your soul. |
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21 Nov 09
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World’s Fastest Computer Working on Solving Climate Change The insanely powerful Jaguar XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was recently named the fastest supercomputer in the world. With a speed of 1.759 petaflops , this swift machine is currently being used by the forces of good to... |
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21 Nov 09
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Wired’s Concept iTablet App [Video] Pretty cool eh. |
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21 Nov 09
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Beta Adobe Flash Shows Big Gains On GPU-Accelerated HD Video Streaming High Def flash video clips to your PC, netbook or notebook just got much less taxing on your machine thanks to Adobe's upcoming release that will offload to your graphics chip. In fact, CPU resource savings are pretty huge in some cases. |
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21 Nov 09
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Microsoft to offer 24k free training vouchers in N. Carolina Microsoft Corp. is giving away nearly 24,000 vouchers to North Carolina residents who want to improve their computer skills so they can improve their lot in the work force. The vouchers will be distributed over the next 90 days and will provide free... |
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21 Nov 09
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Twitter Geotagging Now Officially Available Location, location, location. The API provides developers with the ability to geotag tweets. |
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21 Nov 09
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Women attempted murder of transvestite over missing handbag Brazilian Gabryela Passos, 29, of west London, set Ricardo da Silva 25, alight with petrol at his flat in Digbeth, Birmingham Crown Court heard. |
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21 Nov 09
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New Moon Has $70 M Opening Day, Breaks Dark Knight's Record "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" raked in over $70 million on Friday, the best single-day haul a film has ever enjoyed at the box office. The previous record for single-day domestic ticket sales was $67.2 million, set by "The Dark Knight" in 2008. |
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21 Nov 09
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Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android Twitter service Seesmic expands from the desktop with two new apps for Google Android and BlackBerry phones. |
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21 Nov 09
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Rare Dune Concept Art Artist Chris Foss is known for his visionary presentation of future technology and weird vistas. His cool vision of the future led him to be asked to work on production designs for Alejandro Jodorowsky's uncompleted Dune movie, in the mid 1970s, and later... |
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21 Nov 09
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Mick Foley & Jon Stewart Don't Appreciate Your ***** Hating If you want to call William Phillips a gaywad, you'll have to get through Mick Foley first. |
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21 Nov 09
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Criminals Beware: Abu Dhabi Unveils Police-Issue Nissan GT-R The Abu Dhabi police department took the wraps of its latest cruiser on Monday at the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix — a 2010 Nissan GT-R carrying a price tag of over $83,000. |
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21 Nov 09
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Man visits every country on earth in record time An Indian businessman has visited all 194 countries on earth in a record six years, 10 months and seven days. But the holiday snaps to show for it are less than gripping... |
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21 Nov 09
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Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit to play former Indian PM Indira Former Bollywood queen Madhuri Dixit will play Indira Gandhi, India's first and only female prime minister, in a biopic, according to reports in the Indian media. |
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21 Nov 09
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How to Run Chrome OS as a Virtual Machine Itching for some Chrome OS? Well, we all are, but you might be a bit disappointed at the fact that while Google has open-sourced its progress on the OS so far, the version that is currently available for download seems eons behind what Google showed off... |
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21 Nov 09
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Arrests made in massive, $390/hour Video Relay Service scam A public service meant to help the hearing disabled has been exploited for "tens of millions of dollars," according to the FCC. Arrests were made across the US this week and the FCC vowed to improve the service to better protect against fraud. |
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21 Nov 09
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Beautiful winners of Darwin photographic competition (PICS) A collection of the stunning entries which won places in the photographic competition celebrating the birth of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. |
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21 Nov 09
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Even Iraqi Prisoners Hate Packers Fans Detainees at a camp in Baghdad, Iraq have found a way to annoy their guards from Wisconsin. Despite the language barrier, they've have picked up a few English words that touch on a sore spot. Two words in particular: Brett Favre. |
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