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| New Cow Fat Motor Oil Biodegrades in Days Posted: 02 Jul 2008 09:10 PM CDT Green Earth Technologies, creator of organic engine products, has released their new automotive lubricant to its G-Oil line, a 10W-30 that has set a new biodegradability standard. The oil biodegraded over 90% in a speedy 9 days, blowing the 28-day rate of decomposition required by the American Society of Testing Materials out of the water. |
| ‘Heroes’ Producer Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent Posted: 02 Jul 2008 09:10 PM CDT Half of the people who use BitTorrent do so to download TV-shows. Some episodes of popular shows such as 'Heroes' and 'Lost' get up to 10 million downloads. We had a chat with Jesse Alexander, the co-producer of both 'Heroes' and 'Lost', and asked him what his thoughts are on BitTorrent, piracy and the future of TV. |
| Exposed! Minesweeper Caught Cheating Posted: 02 Jul 2008 09:00 PM CDT Hacker debugs good ol' Minesweeper and finds that it actually cheats. Apparently it only spawns about half the bombs, and moves bombs mid-game. |
| The Bond Dossier: What We Know About Quantum of Solace Posted: 02 Jul 2008 08:50 PM CDT Casino Royale pulled Bond out of fanboy hearts and made him relevant (and desirable) across all demographics. 500 bucks says you would've been hard-pressed to find more than five women in the opening night crowd for The World Is Not Enough. Here's what we know to date and our take on Quantum of Solace and what guys and gals will be lining up for. |
| Mozilla sets Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 launch Posted: 02 Jul 2008 08:50 PM CDT The launch of the open source Firefox 3 web browser has set the new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Mozilla's mirrors served 8,002,530 complete, individual downloads during the download day event following the official release of Firefox 3 last month. |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2008 08:40 PM CDT Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit fame stopped by Tom Greem Live and looks like he is 60! |
| Is Watermelon A Natural Viagra? Posted: 02 Jul 2008 08:30 PM CDT Watermelon may be a natural Viagra, says a researcher. That's because the popular summer fruit is richer than experts believed in an amino acid called citrulline, which relaxes and dilates blood vessels much like Viagra and other drugs meant to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) |
| Diggers do you want a girlfriend? Read this and learn how Posted: 02 Jul 2008 08:20 PM CDT Diggers have no fear The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The Internet is the real world as this geek learned how to master it, By the end of the year, he had six girlfriends simultaneously, all maintained through a complicated system of instant messenger, e-mail messages and heavily orchestrated dates. |
| HellBoy On Inside The Actor's Studio Posted: 02 Jul 2008 08:10 PM CDT Gotta love the Lipton! |
| Diablo III Producer: "Color Is Your Friend" Posted: 02 Jul 2008 08:00 PM CDT Yes, Diablo III is going to be much more vivid and vibrant than its predecessors, a fact that has some fans signing a petition against the shinier, happier art direction - now with over fifteen thousand signatures. |
| Fox has "fact writers" because.... Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:50 PM CDT Fox News Channel posts a job listing looking for a "freelance fact writer." |
| Americans: How Ignorant Are We? Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:40 PM CDT Ask the political scientists and you will be told that there is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they are. There is enough evidence that one could almost conclude that we are living in an Age of Ignorance. |
| Tumor Cells Can Be Reversed and Converted to Normal Cells Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:30 PM CDT By lowering the levels of a certain molecule, scientists have found a way to convert tumor cells into normal cells that reproduce and die like normal cells. |
| 8 Aesthetically Awesome Abandoned Theaters [w/PICS] Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:20 PM CDT Here's some of the coolest photos of abandoned theaters that haven't been razed or regenerated, yet. |
| A Breakdown of Internet Comments From 8 Sites [PICS] Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:10 PM CDT If you think Al Gore invented the internet so people could share information, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. Read the comments section of most sites and you'll see that the internet was made so people could say really dumb shit without facing the repercussions of saying the same things in person. |
| Why Canada Sucks For Gadget Lovers Posted: 02 Jul 2008 07:00 PM CDT Canada was always kind to me, providing cheap higher education, affordable healthcare and a government that didn't totally suck. I loved living there, and haven't ruled out moving back. Yet beneath its placid exterior, there is a deep, dark secret threatening the life and liberty of its people: It absolutely blows to be a gadget nerd in Canada |
| The 8 PG-Rated Movies That Should Not Have Been Rated PG Posted: 02 Jul 2008 06:50 PM CDT There's blood! Gore! Cursing! Sometimes even bare breasts and asses! The horror! |
| Christian Bale Rules Out Robin For Batman 3 (and beyond) Posted: 02 Jul 2008 06:40 PM CDT "If Robin crops up in one of the new Batman films, I'll be chaining myself up somewhere and refusing to go to work." - Christian Bale |
| Most Iconic Playboy Covers Ever Posted: 02 Jul 2008 06:30 PM CDT Vote for the most iconic Playboy covers of all time - Marilyn Monroe, Jenny McCarthey, Anna Nicole? |
| Plants That Eat Animals [PICS] (Here Kitty, Kitty...) Posted: 02 Jul 2008 06:20 PM CDT The plants eat moths, insects; some carnivorous plants also eat frogs, mice, other mammals.(Not sure about cats, really.) Big gallery, with lot of good pics, including of some pretty strange looking plants. Pics can be enlarged. (Gallery doesn't give detail on food eaten by each plant; but info is available elsewhere on site.) |
| Military See Presidential Race Through Own Lens Posted: 02 Jul 2008 06:11 PM CDT Military giving more donations to Obama. |
| Jonathan Ive takes home MDA award for iconic iPhone design Posted: 02 Jul 2008 06:11 PM CDT Apple's SVP of design is recognized by the Mobile Data Association for his work on the industry-redefining iPhone. |
| New Research Shows Magic Mushrooms Good for You Posted: 02 Jul 2008 06:00 PM CDT The report showed that most subjects who took the mushrooms were still behaving and feeling better 14 months after ingestion. About 66% also noted that the drug caused one of the 5 most spiritual experiences of their life. |
| Guy shoots himself in the head Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:50 PM CDT This guy is quite lucky this round only connected with his earmuff. |
| So You Want To Be a Video Game Artist Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:50 PM CDT To strive, succeed, and rise above in the incredibly competitive field of design essentially means becoming a professional. Art in its many varied forms has, and always will be, a staple of every human culture that has ever walked the Earth. Learn how to shape, sell, and flaunt your existing talent. |
| AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:50 PM CDT Today is basic math day at CrunchGear where we discovered that if 160 bytes of SMS data costs twenty cents then 1MB (1,048,576 bytes) of data would cost 131,072 cents, or $1,310.72. |
| Seven Reasons to Move to Linux Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:50 PM CDT Common reasons cited for not moving to the open-source operating system include system complexity, lack of in-house IT skills and a shortage of business applications. Both the open-source software community and the vendor world have done a lot to address these shortcomings, and the inroads gained are plain for all to see. |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:40 PM CDT Old dudes scrap it out. This video is short but hilarious |
| Judd Apatow To Produce Sacha Baron Cohen/Will Ferrell Comedy Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:40 PM CDT Columbia Pictures has set an untitled comedy that will star Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner... Um, yeah... this is going to be awesome. |
| 40% of surfers don't bother with browser security updates Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:30 PM CDT A new collaborative study between Google, IBM, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology suggests that users are slower to move between product updates than they should be—especially those using Internet Explorer. The researchers believe that browsers could learn from the food industry, of all things. |
| The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:30 PM CDT In a lot of ways, choosing the Bush administration's 10 greatest moments -- disastrous failures, all -- is about as pointless as picking out your 10 least favorite hemorrhoids: There are entirely too many of them, and taken together they all add up to a throbbing mass of pain |
| Sony Pulls PS3 3 2.40 Firmware Update After Hardware Issues Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:20 PM CDT The release of PlayStation 3 firmware 2.40 seems to have caused a wide number of issues for those who updated to the new release, as reported earlier. It now appears that Sony has since pulled the new update, reverting back to firmware 2.36 as the most recent updated. This may be a temporary move to prevent further reliability issues. |
| Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:12 PM CDT During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," Fox News aired photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered to add yellowed teeth and exaggerated features. |
| Gizmodo's Ultimate Water Gun Battlemodo Royale Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:10 PM CDT There are few things more enjoyable on a hot summer's day than an epic water gun battle with some friends. In the end, everybody wins, because everybody gets soaked and cools down. But you don't want to be caught with a crappy gun; then you'll just be the guy that everyone else gangs up on. We don't want that to happen to you; we're here to help. |
| Where Should You Buy an iPhone 3G, Apple or AT&T? Posted: 02 Jul 2008 05:00 PM CDT When the iPhone 3G hits, it will be available at both AT&T and Apple stores. So is there anything different between them? What if you need to start a new plan or transfer a number? Will both work? Actually, AT&T has told us that there will be no limiting difference between the two stores, except for one thing. |
| Microsoft Tactics Push India Toward Linux Posted: 02 Jul 2008 04:51 PM CDT One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users. |
| 50 Movie Remakes and Sequels Even Hollywood Won't Touch Posted: 02 Jul 2008 04:50 PM CDT Live-action Akira starring Haley-Joel Osment? R Kelly as Robin Hood? Ryan Seacrest as the new Terminator? Let's hope Hollywood stays as far away from these remake and sequel ideas as humanly possible |
| 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud Posted: 02 Jul 2008 04:42 PM CDT Many entrepreneurs today have their heads in the clouds. They're either outsourcing most of their network infrastructure to a provider such as Amazon Web Services or are building out such infrastructures to capitalize on the incredible momentum around cloud computing. |
| Why Heathrow IS 'the worst performing airport in Europe' Posted: 02 Jul 2008 04:41 PM CDT Almost half of flights to and from Heathrow are delayed by 15 minutes or more making it the worst performing airport in Europe, new figures reveal. |
| To Sing Like Shakira, Press '1' Now Posted: 02 Jul 2008 04:41 PM CDT Vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- is an important aspect of a singer's expression, used extensively by both classical opera singers and pop stars like Shakira. Usually, the quality of a vibrato can only be judged subjectively by voice experts. |
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