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| Pressure grows for action on US economy Posted: 02 Aug 2008 09:20 PM CDT Pressure for action to revive the economy grew on Friday as a new report showed the unemployment rate rose in July to 5.7 per cent – its highest for four years – and the number of jobs fell for a seventh straight month.The Labor Department data provided further evidence of deterioration in the economy as companies in a broad range of sectors |
| Stereoscopic Parking Garage [PICS] Posted: 02 Aug 2008 09:00 PM CDT Admittedly a pretty impressive design, I still picture at least 30% of the building's parking garage patrons going, "Dude, that is some serious chronic." |
| Biggest Military Hack of All Time Was Done With a 56k Modem Posted: 02 Aug 2008 08:50 PM CDT Gary McKinnon, a British computer expert, claims he's just fascinated with UFOs. Using his home computer and a modem — how WarGames! — he infiltrated military networks and accessed thousands of computers trying to find evidence of alien contact |
| Collection of Cool Coca-Cola Ads [PICS] Posted: 02 Aug 2008 08:50 PM CDT Collection of creative Coca-Cola print advertising ideas. |
| Prince Of Persia (Movie) Delayed To 2010 Posted: 02 Aug 2008 08:30 PM CDT The Mike Newell-directed, Jake Gyllenhaal-starring Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie won't make it to theaters next year as planned. According to a report from Coming Soon, Disney has delayed the Hollywood adaption of the Ubisoft game to May 28, 2010. |
| Greyhound Man Who Beheaded Passenger Has Been Charged Posted: 02 Aug 2008 08:20 PM CDT Vince Weiguang Li, the 40-year-old suspect in the gruesome stabbing and decapitation aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba, appeared in court Friday to face a second-degree murder charge. Shackled at the wrists and ankles, Li was led by police in and out of a courtroom on Friday morning. |
| Exqueeze Me? There's An Xbox 360 Shortage In Japan?! Posted: 02 Aug 2008 08:00 PM CDT Tales of Vesperia is launching in Japan soon. August 7th, actually. And some people seem pretty excited. It's the tenth entry in the Tales series. The Namco Bandai title is an Xbox 360 exclusive, so that just might mean that Microsoft will move more than it's standard 3,000 Xbox 360s a week in Japan. Or not. |
| SpaceX Falcon 1 Flight 3 Webcast Posted: 02 Aug 2008 07:56 PM CDT SpaceX has scheduled the launch of the Falcon 1 Flight 3 mission for Saturday, August 2nd. The launch window will open at 4:00 p.m. (PDT) / 7:00 p.m. (EDT) and remain open for five hours. |
| Bob Barr: Karl Rove is in Contempt Posted: 02 Aug 2008 07:40 PM CDT Bob Barr overviews the Karl Rove contempt situation. As a former Federal Prosecutor, Bob Barr feels that Karl Rove needs to show respect for the rule of law, just as any other American must. Being part of the Bush "family" does not make you immune to the Rule of Law. |
| Obama Opens the Door to Offshore Drilling Posted: 02 Aug 2008 07:30 PM CDT Sen. Barack Obama suggested he could accept an expansion of offshore oil drilling today if it is in a broader package of energy measures that would free the logjam on energy bills in Congress. |
| Don't streak, get drunk or sleep outside Posted: 02 Aug 2008 07:10 PM CDT Do not sleep outdoors to save money at the Olympics. It is banned to ''maintain public hygiene and the cultured image of cities.'' Do not let the stifling summer heat tempt you into streaking, do not get drunk nor... |
| Phoenix About to Announce "Potential For Life" on Mars Posted: 02 Aug 2008 06:50 PM CDT It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more "provocative" than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. This news comes just as the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) confirmed experimental evidence for the existence of water in the Mars regolith on Thursday |
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| Senate bill would restrict Bush from secret executive orders Posted: 02 Aug 2008 06:10 PM CDT The President will no longer be able to change published executive orders in secret if a bill introduced to the Senate Thursday becomes law. |
| Total Solar Eclipse Images From Around The World (PHOTOS) Posted: 02 Aug 2008 05:40 PM CDT |
| Yahoo lights up LinkedIn, Yelp in search results Posted: 02 Aug 2008 05:20 PM CDT Yahoo has begun using its SearchMonkey technology be default to give more prominence and potentially usefulness to search results involving LinkedIn contacts, Yelp reviews of businesses, and local companies. |
| MLB: Dodgers Big Winners Among Teams Trying to Make a Move Posted: 02 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT This could be a case of Manny being money. That's how the Dodgers look at the biggest move leading up to the non-waiver trading deadline and that why the Dodgers are this year's biggest winner.By acquiring slugging left fielder Manny Ramirez from the Boston Red Sox, it was enough to push Dodger to the top of this year's top trading season winners. |
| Awesome Game: Turn Any Site Online into a Crazy Battlefield! Posted: 02 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT This is a promo site for "The Last Guy", a PSN game. In this flash site, you can type in a URL and turn any website on the web into a battlefield. Your mouse movement controls a character which is kinda like a magnet. The Aim is to lead people to the 'escape zone' (top left corner). Clicking increases your speed, provided you still have stamina. |
| 10 Fascinating Facts About the Ancient Olympic Games Posted: 02 Aug 2008 04:40 PM CDT Most people know that the Olympics started out in Ancient Greece, but did you know that back then the athletes competed in the nude? (Though technically, they could wear penis restraints - yes, you read that right). Or that one of the games was an ancient form of mixed martial arts? Or that a chef won the very first Olympic games? |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2008 04:30 PM CDT A stop motion video of GTA created with Legos. |
| How 1 Guy Trumped the Greatest US, Chinese Minds on Climate Posted: 02 Aug 2008 04:20 PM CDT The man's point, as I took it, was that certainly, we should all take the initiative to push our local and state governments to support environmental sustainability. However, it's a two way street and the other side starts with individual action. |
| Another Bank Failure and Seizure - is your money safe? Posted: 02 Aug 2008 04:10 PM CDT Customers with accounts in excess of $100,000 should contact the FDIC toll free at 1-800-837-0215 to set up an appointment to discuss their deposits." |
| Reactions to FCC's Comcast decision come fast and furious Posted: 02 Aug 2008 04:10 PM CDT Ars sums up the reaction from around the Internet to the FCC's Order finding Comcast's past P2P throttling practices to be in violation of its Internet Policy Statement. |
| Behold! The best description of an iPhone game… ever Posted: 02 Aug 2008 03:50 PM CDT ...read the following description of the iPhone game Oxxo, and tell me if you are any clearer on the finer points of gameplay after you have read it. Wow. Every line is gold. |
| Top 10 Video Game Entries on Top 10 Lists Posted: 02 Aug 2008 03:20 PM CDT If you've been reading gaming lists - magazine, internet or bar napkin - for as long as we have, then you've probably noticed a number of inclusions that seem to always make it. You can't read a videogame feature without at least one of these. |
| An Introduction to Adobe Integrated Runtime Posted: 02 Aug 2008 03:00 PM CDT AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a wrapper around a set of technologies that enables developers to build rich Internet applications that deploy on the desktop. Applications are created using a mixture of JavaScript, HTML, and Flash. The resulting application is delivered to end users in a single package and rendered using the WebKit HTML engine. |
| Not Calvin and Hobbes.... but Calvin and Steve Jobs! [COMIC] Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:50 PM CDT Some friendly snark at the God known as Jobs. |
| Phoenix has Found Something More Compelling than Water Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:40 PM CDT On Thursday, NASA held a press conference to announce that the recent TEGA experiment on board Phoenix had confirmed the presence of water in the Martian soil. Whist exciting, Phoenix scientists were expecting that result. However, behind the scenes, something else was being discussed and it had little to do with melting water…. |
| Angel Falls: The World's Highest Waterfall [PICS] Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:40 PM CDT Angel Falls, Venezuela (also called Salto Angel) is the Earth's highest uninterrupted waterfall. It is 979 metres (3,230 feet) tall - think of it as 2.5 times as tall as the Empire State Building and full 15 times higher than Niagara Falls! |
| We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000 Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:30 PM CDT Ever since Amazon launched the Kindle last November, we've been wondering about just how successful it's been. The electronic book initially sold out and supplies have been tight. The Kindle is such a small part of Amazon's overall business that the company does not break out how many it's sold. But we found out anyway: 240,000 Kindles. |
| G.I. Joe stop motion re-enacting Carpenter's The Thing!! Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:20 PM CDT This. Is. Awesome.Quite possibly the greatest stop-motion video ever, Zombie Zombie pays homage to John Carpenter's The Thing. The movements are fluid and clean…very smooth and lifelike…The set design is incredible…the whole thing is just generally well done. And the lack of speech is awesome too… |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:20 PM CDT This is explosive. The mainstream media needs to pick this up. If Doug Thompson heard these things when he was a Republican insider from McCain there have to be others who did and who are willing to speak out now. |
| Lollapalooza 2008--Continuously updated band reviews/photos Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:20 PM CDT Check out this coverage of Lollapalooza happening right now in Chicago. It looks like a smashing good time...I can't wait to hear about Radiohead. |
| Judge Rules Nude Dancing Is An Art Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:10 PM CDT Nude dancing remains an art in Iowa.A judge Friday ruled in favor of a nude dancing club owner charged with violating Iowa's indecent exposure law. |
| Days With My Father: A Beautiful, Heart-breaking Photo Essay Posted: 02 Aug 2008 02:00 PM CDT Philip Toledano's mother recently passed away and so he created 'Days of My Father', a heart-breaking photo essay documenting the daily life of his 98 year old father who suffers from short-term memory loss. The images and commentary are sad.. and sometimes, full of bittersweet humor. Share this with everyone you know. Treasure your loved ones. |
| US Airways No Longer Serving Free Water...WTF? Posted: 02 Aug 2008 01:40 PM CDT I guess is sick, yet effective way to offset high fuel costs. |
| China using games as 'warfare' says says stadium designer Posted: 02 Aug 2008 01:30 PM CDT China is wasting international goodwill with an Olympic security operation that makes the country look like a police state, according to the artist behind Beijing's spectacular new stadium. Ai Weiwei, one of China's most influential intellectuals, says the government is using the "terrorist threat" as an excuse to strengthen its power. |
| Toyota Announces Winglet The Segway Killer Posted: 02 Aug 2008 01:10 PM CDT Called the Winglet because of its fleet nature, it is the first gadget to duplicate the celebrated, and often mocked, navigation system of Dean Kamen's Segway Transporter: self-balancing through gyroscopic sensors detecting the gentle directional tilts of a rider. |
| iPhone 3G Gets Hot and Melty, Cooks Dude's Leg Posted: 02 Aug 2008 12:50 PM CDT A MacRumors forum member says he fell asleep with his iPhone 3G in his pocket, and he woke up with a burned leg and a melted phone, you've gotta see it to believe it. |
| iPhone's AT&T exclusivity locked in until 2010 Posted: 02 Aug 2008 12:30 PM CDT Apple is bound to its exclusivity deal with AT&T until at least 2010, sources have revealed. The US cell carrier agreed to the large-scale subsidies on the iPhone 3G's pricing in exchange for a one-year extension on sole rights for the device line in the US past a 2009 expiry date. T-Mobile users will now have to wait at least two years. |
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