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| Police track down Stolen PS3's through Playstation Network Posted: 11 Aug 2008 09:20 PM CDT Dustin Waller was a happy guy with a loving fiancee who was kind enough to buy him a PlayStation 3. But one day police knocked on his door and informed Waller that they'd tracked his stolen Playstation 3 through the internet. That bitch! |
| Entire Olympic Basketball Team Make Racist Gesture Posted: 11 Aug 2008 09:01 PM CDT The Spanish Olympic Basketball teams, male and female, were photographed for a newspaper advert prior to the games, all making "slit-eyed" faces. |
| Sportscaster Bob Costas Does Kickass Bush Interview Posted: 11 Aug 2008 08:40 PM CDT The ten-minute sit down included sufficient Olympics content to suit the occasion, but centered mainly on probing foreign policy questions from a superbly prepared Costas. The result was an interview that was neither softball nor pointlessly antagonistic. |
| “Top Secret” Technology To Help U.S. Swimmers At Beijing Posted: 11 Aug 2008 08:21 PM CDT "Top Secret" Technology To Help U.S. Swimmers Trim Times at Beijing Olympics. Rensselaer researcher is using fluid mechanics to help athletes sharpen strokes |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2008 08:00 PM CDT Many Airstrikes and ground skirmishes have taken place since, with several parties calling for a cease-fire, but no agreement as yet. Those paying the highest price for the war are the South Ossetian civilians, which may have suffered (depending on who is reporting) between 100 and 2,000 deaths to date |
| Intel Officially Brands Nehalem as 'Core i7' Processor Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:50 PM CDT Intel has announced that the upcoming Nehalem processor will be officially known as the Core i7. Nehalem has been the code name for Intel's upcoming processors first due in Q4 2008. Nehalem represents a major overhaul of Intel's processor technology and introduces a number of improvements over... |
| Does the World Need Another List of Hot Olympic Athletes? Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:40 PM CDT Sure, why the hell not? |
| Britain's Oldest Bouncer Retires at 90 Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:30 PM CDT Britain's oldest bouncer, 90-year-old Bob Dudley, has retired after a quarter of a century keeping guard at a working man's club. |
| Rick Astley, Licensed To Rick Roll (Pic) Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:20 PM CDT |
| Scientists stop the ageing process Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:11 PM CDT Scientists have stopped the ageing process in an entire organ for the first time, a study released today says. |
| Russia Ignores ceasefire,Massive Assault Underway in Georgia Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:00 PM CDT Russian tanks and troops moved through the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and advanced on the city of Gori in central Georgia on Sunday night, for the first time directly assaulting a Georgian city with ground forces after three days of heavy fighting, Georgian officials said. |
| How to Watch Olympics Live under Linux Posted: 11 Aug 2008 07:00 PM CDT Here's a simple guide explaining how to watch the Olympics live under Linux. |
| New Stills From The Day the Earth Stood Still Posted: 11 Aug 2008 06:50 PM CDT Some incredible new stills from the day the earth stood still remake. |
| Prototype Anti-Piracy Tool Revealed and Taken Offline Posted: 11 Aug 2008 06:40 PM CDT The existence of a prototype management system for anti-piracy company 'Logistep' was revealed at the weekend. The online system called 'Logistep Data Management Tool', was located at eparken.com but since the revelations the site has been taken down. It is still available in limited form via Google's cache. |
| Philippines Offers $220K for Olympic Gold Posted: 11 Aug 2008 06:31 PM CDT The Philippine government and the private sector are offering 9.5 million pesos (US$220,000) to any athlete who brings home the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal. The gold has eluded the Philippines since 1924, when it first attended the Olympic games in Paris. The last medal it won was a silver in boxing in Atlanta in 1996. |
| Did McCain Plagiarize His Georgia Speech From Wikipedia? Posted: 11 Aug 2008 06:20 PM CDT A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. They appear similar enough that most people would consider parts of McCain's speech to be derived from Wikipedia. |
| You Looking at Me... Looking at You... Looking at Me Posted: 11 Aug 2008 06:10 PM CDT |
| China to Overtake U.S as Largest Manufacturer in the World Posted: 11 Aug 2008 06:00 PM CDT China is set to overtake the US next year as the world's largest producer of manufactured goods, four years earlier than expected, as a result of the rapidly weakening US economy. According to the estimates, next year China will account for 17 per cent of manufacturing value-added output of $11,783bn and the US will make 16 per cent. |
| Batman and Other Superheroes … Simpsonized! [ Pics ] Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:50 PM CDT Artist Dean T. Fraser draws superheroes and other comic characters in the style of The Simpsons cartoons. So far, he's done some characters from Batman, Spider-man, Star Trek TOS, etc. |
| Palestinian poet was a political, cultural icon passes away Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:50 PM CDT Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry helped make him one of the leading cultural voices for the Palestinian experience, died Saturday in Houston of complications from open heart surgery. He was 67. |
| gOS's New Linux OS Embraces Google Applications Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:40 PM CDT gOS--a company known for its debut in the US$199 Wal-Mart gPC and Netbooks--announced the details of gOS 3 Gadgets, the newest version of its Linux OS for consumers.The main feature of gOS 3 Gadgets is its ability to instantly launch Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, allowing users access to more than 100,000 Google Gadgets applications. |
| Top 20 "WHAT THE FUCK" Movie Moments Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:30 PM CDT Scenes that have the capability of making you scream, puke, laugh uncomfortably, shit yourself..or all of the above |
| Danielsville man w/ homemade vibrator arrested drug charges! Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:20 PM CDT This is a must read. Unbelievable.LMAO! |
| The First-Timer’s Guide to Participating at Burning Man Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:20 PM CDT As my fellow burner Merv Swankerton always says, trying to explain Burning Man to someone who has never been, is like trying to explain color to a blind person. |
| 29 Terrific Instrumentals By Bands That Usually Sing Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT Who knows—besides the members of the Scottish band themselves—what Teenage Fanclub were referring to with the title of the final song on the classic Bandwagonesque. Perhaps they didn't think it was music if it didn't have lyrics, or maybe it was just too cheerful and simple. |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT We celebrate the world of weird inventions by picking ten of our favourite well-intentioned, yet painfully dismal, patents. Whether you want to learn to dance or just collect your own farts, someone, somewhere will have tried to help. If only they hadn't bothered. |
| Rare Syndrome: Women Born With Male Chromosomes & No Uterus Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT There are probably about seven-and-a-half thousand people, women, in the U.S. with the condition with AIS, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. "They have a vagina, like anybody else's..but it's basically just a pouch, it's not connected to a uterus. There is no uterus. But what they have internally is testes that you would typically find in a male." |
| McCain's Bury Brigade: 28 Digg stories in 30 days Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT In the last 30 days, at least 28 stories critical of John McCain have been mysteriously "buried," leaving bloggers to wonder: Is there an organized McCain bury brigade? Many of the killed stories have more than 200 diggs. |
| A Guided Tour of the $1,000 'I Am Rich' iPhone App Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT Are you curious as to what, exactly, you got if you purchased the infamous "I Am Rich" iPhone application for $999.99? Well, here's a video guided tour of it. As I suspected, it's not worth the money. But hey, judge for yourself. |
| Abstruse Goose: The Most Popular Girl in School Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT -Ha Ha. One little rumor and suddenly I'm the most popular girl in grad school.- |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT ...By Republican Miss Cellania. It's old, but brain-dead hilarious. |
| Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? Posted: 11 Aug 2008 04:50 PM CDT A Wikipedia editor notices some similarities between Sen. John McCain's speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. They appear similar enough that most people would consider parts of McCain's speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia. |
| India wins first ever individual gold medal at the Olympics Posted: 11 Aug 2008 04:40 PM CDT World champion Abhinav Bindra clinched India's first ever individual gold medal at the Olympics, winning 10m air rifle event at the Beijing Games here on Monday. |
| Linux everywhere: mobile Internet devices and the cloud Posted: 11 Aug 2008 04:40 PM CDT During the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, I met with Linux Foundation president Jim Zemlin to talk about the future of the open-source Linux operating system and the impact it will have on emerging mobile and embedded technologies. |
| Magnificent Waterfall “Discovered” in Peru Posted: 11 Aug 2008 04:10 PM CDT Magnificent Waterfall "Discovered" in Peru– Perhaps One of World's Tallest. The big environmental news coming out of Peru this past week was that a huge waterfall previously unknown to the greater world was "discovered" in the country's Amazon Rainforest region. |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2008 04:00 PM CDT If I had this lunchbox, right after I made my PB&J I would hold it up, edge-on, and blow along it hard before putting it inside. I'd also punch the Konami code into my cheese & crackers to get unlimited Capri Sun. |
| Posted: 11 Aug 2008 04:00 PM CDT A hip-hop tribute to life's most uncomfortable moments. |
| George Orwell: Politics And The English Language Posted: 11 Aug 2008 03:59 PM CDT Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation.. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers |
| 8 Opening Ceremony Moments That Made Me Crap My Pants (PICS) Posted: 11 Aug 2008 03:50 PM CDT During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies, we witnessed the sheer power and brilliance of what it looks like when thousands of individuals come together for one purpose: to blow your f*cking mind. |
| Heaviest Man Finally Moves Out Using Specially Designed Bed Posted: 11 Aug 2008 03:40 PM CDT Manuel Uribe, better known as "Meme", who weights around 310 kilograms (700 pounds), left his house with his girlfriend Claudia Solis in his specially designed bed on a trip to a lake in Monterrey, northern Mexico. Uribe, 43, who once weighed half a ton, has been largely confined to his home for the last 6 years. |
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