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| Undercover NYPD Officers Frame 4 On Drug Charges Posted: 29 Jun 2008 08:16 PM CDT Undercover police officers who arrested four men on drug charges are under investigation after surveillance video proved the men they arrested committed no crime. |
| Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage Posted: 29 Jun 2008 08:16 PM CDT Stubble is the way to win a woman's heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards |
| Amy Winehouse punches fan video Posted: 29 Jun 2008 07:29 PM CDT How is she famous again? |
| Google plugs YouTube into Playstation 3 Posted: 29 Jun 2008 07:27 PM CDT To the surprise of no one, Google is now offering software that streams video, photos, and music from your PC to your television. |
| Time-lapse video of Aurora Australis: The Southern Lights Posted: 29 Jun 2008 07:25 PM CDT This is the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights. Filmed during the Antarctic winter in the general vicinity of McMurdo Station and Scott Base, where the sun is below the horizon for 4 months of the year by Anthony Powell, a photographer based in Antarctica. |
| Valve: Why the PC is the future Posted: 29 Jun 2008 06:54 PM CDT Valve mastermind Gabe Newell and his cohorts had an ulterior motive for bringing reporters together, however, and unusually for an ulterior motive, it wasn't a wholly self-interested one. It was this: to evangelise the PC as the games platform of the future. |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 06:51 PM CDT Summer is a great opportunity to spend time in the garden. Sunny days provide nice weather and extra daylight. School is out so you've got extra potential workers. The ground is fertile from springtime rain. |
| I Can Instantly Tell Whether Someone Is African-American Wit Posted: 29 Jun 2008 06:50 PM CDT I have this amazing gift. It's called "blackdar," and it enables me to tell whether someone is African-American without even knowing anything about them. To be honest, I don't know where I got the skill. But wherever I did, I can pass somebody on the street and just instantly know.Shared with Flock - The Social Web Browserhttp://flock.com |
| The Bush Regime steps up its secret moves against Iran Posted: 29 Jun 2008 06:30 PM CDT "Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran" |
| Pixar's first short... unbelievably made in 1984 Posted: 29 Jun 2008 05:30 PM CDT Can you believe this was made 25 years ago? |
| Spain Crowned UEFA Euro 2008 Champions Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:52 PM CDT Twenty four years after blowing it in Paris in 1984, Spain won UEFA Euro 2008 championship. |
| Australian Crocs Hit by Cane Toad 'Wave of Death' Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:50 PM CDT Pit a cane toad against a freshwater crocodile and who wins? Although the croc eats the oversized amphibian, it seems the toad has the final laugh. |
| Researchers Re-Create Pre-Columbian Sounds Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:49 PM CDT cientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle. |
| 300 Internet Death Threats Since Tokyo Killing Spree Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:49 PM CDT As many as 300 Internet warnings of mass murder and other death threats have been posted online in Japan after a knifing rampage in Tokyo left seven people dead. |
| Sony granted patent for handheld with touchscreen Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:40 PM CDT Sony Computer Entertainment America was granted a patent on Friday for a "hand-held [sic] device with touchscreen and digital tactile pixels." It'd be a stretch to say any of this is explicitly indicative of a PSP 2.0 or PSP phone, but it is interesting to note that "game device" is listed as one of the potential applications, |
| The controversial JCPenny Commercial. Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:20 PM CDT This is the commercial everyone has been talking about. Did you also know that this spot was awarded a Cannes Lions 2008 Film Bronze award..? |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:10 PM CDT Kid gets slammed in the head by a playground equipment |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 04:00 PM CDT Jesse Alexander, the executive producer of the popular TV-shows 'Heroes' and 'Lost' and Matt Mason, author of 'The Pirate's Dilemma', are working on a new TV-show about piracy. The show will be based on Matt's book, and will show how important pirates are for today's society. |
| Russian Search Engine: Where Google Isn't Goliath Posted: 29 Jun 2008 03:28 PM CDT "Want to know the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the best place in town for borscht, or the weather in Novosibirsk? In most of the world you might Google the answer. But a Russian would more likely "Yandex" it. Russia's Yandex -- set to go public on Nasdaq -- is innovating in a hurry to hold off the US giant." |
| Mini-Laptops look like the Next Big Electronics Change Posted: 29 Jun 2008 03:27 PM CDT Will Mini Laptops push Dell and HP to the brink if the become the acceptable home and/or office computer? |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 03:25 PM CDT From WWI session: See what team Blizzard had to say about the newfound power of the Zerg Queen, the upgraded Protoss Mothership and the reason behind de-emphasizing heroic classes. |
| Google on How they Use Data to fight Web Spam Posted: 29 Jun 2008 03:18 PM CDT As the head of the webspam team at Google, I'm in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible. Webspam, in case you've never heard of it, is the junk you see in search results when websites successfully cheat their way into higher positions in search results or otherwise violate search engine quality .... |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 03:11 PM CDT By proceeding with his one-candidate election on Friday, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has thumbed his nose at the international community. So what is the international community going to do to ensure compliance with democratic norms by the leader of a landlocked country whose economy is in free fall... |
| 9,000 Canadians petition Steve Jobs for iPhone rate relief Posted: 29 Jun 2008 03:10 PM CDT iPhone rate plans in Canada are EXPENSIVE. |
| The Books That Changed Your Lives Posted: 29 Jun 2008 03:09 PM CDT On Thursday we asked you what books have changed your life, and over 250 thoughtful comments later, it's clear you all have book shelves stuffed with meaningful tomes. Now it's time to share the love. Today we've compiled some of the titles that you mentioned the most, with summaries so you can check 'em out further—and get a glimpse into the minds |
| Sexes split over one night stands Posted: 29 Jun 2008 02:50 PM CDT Many women are left unhappy in the aftermath of casual sexual encounters. Four out of five men, in contrast, said they were happy with a brief fling. |
| Massage, not work, on the Kibutz in Israel Posted: 29 Jun 2008 02:49 PM CDT Here is an oxymoron - the socialist Kibutz movement is finding great capitalist success in its growing hotel network. Ecology is one of the biggest focal points with organic farms and recycled playgrounds. |
| User-Generated Content Makes Web the New Sweatshop Posted: 29 Jun 2008 02:49 PM CDT Whether they're creating content for sites like YouTube and Wikipedia, viewer-submitted news services like CNN's iReport or videogames like Spore and LittleBigPlanet, today's most valuable employees will most likely never set foot inside the building—or collect a paycheck. |
| Channel 4 pays £150,000 to free film maker from terrorists Posted: 29 Jun 2008 02:48 PM CDT Channel 4 paid a £150,000 ransom to secure the release of a documentary film maker who was held hostage for three months after trying to make contact with Al-Qaeda's second in command. Sean Langan, 43, was held by criminals linked to the Taliban at a terrorist training camp in a lawless border region of Pakistan. His kidnappers threatened to sh |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 01:48 PM CDT Explosions. Bunsen burners. Adoring crowds in evening dress - or school uniform - eyes wide with wonderment. Can we recapture the excitement of science, asks historian Lisa Jardine. |
| Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule Posted: 29 Jun 2008 01:48 PM CDT "This development may not bring us a quantum computer 10 years faster, but our dreams about these machines are now more realistic." |
| Managing the PlayStation 3 Wi-Fi network Posted: 29 Jun 2008 01:28 PM CDT Terra Soft shows you how to configure, encrypt, and maintain the built-in PS3 Wi-Fi network |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 01:08 PM CDT SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve gave gold the fuel it needed to restart its engine and the precious metal has already driven through the trading range barrier it's been stuck in for the past month. 'Buy gold! Buy silver! Buy them because they're the only defense against what's happening in all the other markets!!' |
| It's True Your Brain Lies To You Posted: 29 Jun 2008 01:04 PM CDT False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2008 01:03 PM CDT Business week James Cooper provides a good overview. |
| The dying art of the knuckleball Posted: 29 Jun 2008 01:02 PM CDT Behind the disappearing art of the knuckleballers in MLB. |
| Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star! Posted: 29 Jun 2008 12:12 PM CDT Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star. |
| First commercially produced, electric aircraft coming soon Posted: 29 Jun 2008 12:12 PM CDT The idea of personal planes may conjure up dark visions of "Blade Runner," but the first batch of two-seater aircraft to fly on electricity rather than fossil fuels could reach more than a dozen buyers by year's end. |
| Supermodel Ruslana Korshunova Commits Suicide Posted: 29 Jun 2008 11:47 AM CDT Striking Ruslana Korshunova, 22, jumped from her ninth floor apartment in her Water Street building, in the Financial District, just before 2:30 p.m. |
| Brussels to sign away your private details to US Posted: 29 Jun 2008 11:47 AM CDT American authorities will be able to obtain greater access to private information such as credit card transactions, internet browsing habits and travel histories of people in Britain under a deal being finalised by European Union officials. |
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