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Insane Office Worker - Audio Recovered

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 09:10 PM CDT

The above video of an office worker going completely insane surfaced redently, but there was no audio and no one knows what caused his wild outburst! I now present you with the audio that shows what caused this lunatic to flip out!I had a really fun time making ...

5 Diet Myths -- Set Straight

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 08:56 PM CDT

#3 - "Red wine, not white, prevents heart disease."

xkcd - Journal 5

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 08:42 PM CDT

Fast. Fiery. Feedbags. Eat More, Move Less.

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 08:28 PM CDT

"Sometimes I just don't feel like moving my arms. So this way you can just have it on your face....close to your mouth. So you don't have to pick anything up."

Wireless Social Networking To Generate $2.5 Trillion By 2020

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 08:14 PM CDT

Wireless social networking products, services, applications, components, and advertising will generate more than $2.5 trillion in revenue by 2020, according to iSuppli.

Dumb Things Baseball Fans Get Excited About

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 07:58 PM CDT

As a patron at any baseball outing you need to prepare yourself to sit with thousands of people who get charged up about the dumbest things. Allow us to play Scrooge on a trip to the old ball game.

5 Things You Didn't Know About DNA

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 07:45 PM CDT

Find out how DNA plays an important role in the caviar you eat and how genome-test shopping could appear in the very near future.

6th June1944: D-Day marks start of Europe invasion

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 07:30 PM CDT

May we never forget the thousands of Allied troops that landed on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans.

Spinning a MacBook Air on one finger! And Fire!

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 07:15 PM CDT

Guy spins a MacBook Air on one finger - and a Nintendo Wii, saw blade, board on fire...

Wine 1.0 RC4 Released!

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 07:00 PM CDT

The popular Windows implementation for Unix has reached a new milestone with their 1.0 RC4 release. This brings them even closer to the anticipated 1.0 release sometime this year.

Biggest Eyes on the Universe Get Makeover

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 06:59 PM CDT

In astronomy, size matters. And for decades radio astronomers have been able to boast that they had the largest telescopes on the planet.

Classic photographs done in LEGOs (PICS)

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 06:45 PM CDT

Flickr user Balakov has recreated 19 memorable moments from world events, photography and sports in LEGO blocks. Can you guess the source photos without looking?

NYT reports on McCain's reversal on warrantless spying

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 06:27 PM CDT

McCain's behavior on these vital issues completely negates the two attributes the media uses to define him -- his "moderate" ideology and principled independence. Whatever his BBQ buddies in the press claim, McCain is neither moderate, nor independent.

4 Reasons Early Adopters Don't Need a 3G iPhone Upgrade

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 06:10 PM CDT

The die-hards are already hawking their first-gen iPhones and preparing to line up for the new model. But fear not: Monday won't just be about the new iPhone, it'll be about what's new for your iPhone. Here's why you should keep your "old" phone (until it breaks, anyway).

CleanTech Biofuels to Turn Dirty Diapers Into Ethanol

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 06:00 PM CDT

CleanTech Biofuels is serious about turning garbage into fuel and sincerely hopes you'll ignore the fact that your car's fuel tank could be carrying what's left of little Timmy's soiled nappies.The company is investigating suitable sites for commercial garbage-to-ethanol facilities.

USA Today: "The federal government keeps two sets of books"

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 05:50 PM CDT

The federal government keeps two sets of books. The set the government promotes to the public has a "healthier" bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005.

Finally, Beer That's Made, Bottled, Transported Eco-Friendly

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 05:39 PM CDT

Adnams (a UK beer manufacturer for those dry readers) already has in place an eco-distribution center, an energy-efficient brew house, and a light-weight bottle that reduces transportation fuel requirements. But in their effort to be carbon neutral as a company, they've managed to get one of their beers in the zero zone.

Love Letters From U.S. Troops Increasingly Gruesome

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 05:30 PM CDT

I hope she gets her daddy back soon.

In Japan, Cellphones Have Become Too Complex to Use

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 05:19 PM CDT

Steve Jobs' new iPhone, expected to be unveiled Monday, is headed to Japan by the end of the year. But the device's famed ease of use may actually be a put off in Japan, where consumers want features, not simplicity.

Food Crisis Could Hit Pacific Hard

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 05:09 PM CDT

Across the Pacific, where so many already depend on aid to survive, governments are nervously planning how to best fight the looming threat of hunger.

Sting Ray Migration - Key West Florida

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 04:59 PM CDT

Tampa Bay Devil Rays- Boston Red Sox Brawl

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 04:50 PM CDT

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays douchebag pitcher beans the Boston Red Sox batter intentionally and a bench clearing brawl ensues.

Bikers stage fuel price protest - This is just the beginning

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 04:40 PM CDT

Scores of bikers have caused rush-hour disruption in a protest against rising fuel prices.

Horrific Nightmare: Woman Experiences 19 Hour Rape Ordeal

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 04:30 PM CDT

The time crept by so slowly and painfully that the 23-year-old Columbia University journalism student had decided it was time to end her life. Over many torturous hours, she had been repeatedly raped, sodomized and forced to perform oral sex, a prosecutor told a jury on Thursday.

The Fascist Plot to Seize Washington

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 04:19 PM CDT

Around the beginning of July 1933, the first overt move was made in one of the most fantastic plots in American history. A representative of a group of conspirators opened negotiations with a noted military man to head a 500,000-man army, seize the Government of the United States, put an end to American democracy and supplant it with a dictatorship

Bush, Cheney Knowingly Lied about Iraq Threat

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 04:10 PM CDT

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney knowingly lied to Congress and the public about the threat that Iraq posed to the United States in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion, according to a long-awaited report from the Senate Intelligence Committee.

How To Launch an Apple Product in 5 Easy Steps

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 03:59 PM CDT

Ladies and gentlemen, after hours of studious dissection of Apple keynotes, we've figured out how Apple does it.

Investigator Controversy Surfaces over Pirate Bay Case

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 03:49 PM CDT

It turns out that police officer that led the investigation leading up to the Pirate Bay raid was working for the lead plaintiff in the case, Warner Bros., at the same time he was working for the police. This news is sure to stir things up as everyone waits for the case to go to court.

Futurama All Cast [ Pic ]

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 03:40 PM CDT

Click to see them all!

FactCheck.org on McCain's Katrina Kerfuffle

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 03:29 PM CDT

McCain claims he "supported every investigation" into the government's role regarding the hurricane, when in fact he twice voted against an independent commission. The McCain campaign accused the Obama campaign of "tired negative attacks" for pointing out and documenting McCain's gaffe.

35 New Images to Prove that Wanted Will Kick Ass

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 03:20 PM CDT

In the photos below you will see all of the aforementioned participants, as well as supporting cast members Morgan Freeman, Common and Thomas Kretschmann. This highly-stylized action thriller, based on the work of comic legend Mark Millar, hits theaters later this month. Stay tuned for more coverage as the release gets closer.

Why Athletes Go Broke

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 03:10 PM CDT

Sixty Percent of NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement

AMD has an ace up its sleeve

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 03:00 PM CDT

Sometimes you just have to work with what you have and AMD quite apparently has mastered this art. Buy a 2.8 GHz processor, that can, if you want to, run at 3.2 GHz. (Almost) no overclocking experience required.

The 50 Best Pun Stores

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 02:49 PM CDT

Pun stores. Stores with puns in the title. Bet you didn't think we could rank the 50 best ones. But you didn't even think there were 50. Well guess again. BWE.tv has scoured the internet and pulled together the 50 Best Pun Establishments.

Identity of New Transformers Robot in Transformers 2?

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 02:39 PM CDT

Yesterday the Hasbro website gave an update about the sequel to Transformers. It Mentions that the title for part 2 is Revenge of the Fallen…which can only mean one thing. All signs seem to indicate that Jazz may return in part 2... Could it have to do with the title of the sequel and the name of a Transformer robot we haven't seen?

Can Scam School swindle the #1 spot away from Oprah?

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 02:30 PM CDT

At DiggNation Live in NYC, Brian Brushwood announced "operation iScam," an attempt for Scam School to HACK it's way to the #1 slot on iTunes by coordinating an army of people all subscribing via iTunes at the exact same time... Take that, NPR!The "Subscription Bomb" drops on 6/6 at 6pm EDT, for updates follow @shwood on twitter.

Amazon's down!!! What's going on?

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 02:20 PM CDT

Error message is: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. Major update? Technical difficulties? What's the deal?

The Incredible Hulk: Early Positive Reviews Hit the Net

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 02:10 PM CDT

Early reviews are hitting the Net and it appears that the latest Marvel tale, from director Louis Leterrier and star Ed Norton, is a worthy contender and then some. I've compiled excerpts from what's currently being said on the Net

The Ultimate Guide to Motivation - How to Achieve Any Goal

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 02:00 PM CDT

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

$45 trillion needed to combat warming

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 01:50 PM CDT

The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.

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