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| NBC Olympics video site snubs Linux, older Macs Posted: 13 Aug 2008 09:30 PM CDT Microsoft spokeswoman: "A limited number of older systems" aren't able to access the Olympics site, and the goal was to offer "the richest online viewing experience based on technologies broadly available today." Um, Linux boxes are OLD systems? |
| ‘Diablo III’ Rounds Out Trilogy, But Not The End Of ‘Diablo’ Posted: 13 Aug 2008 09:20 PM CDT Not much has been revealed about "Diablo III"'s storyline, but lead designer Jay Wilson did tell me that the game will round out the story arc set up by the previous two games. And while "Diablo III" ends the trilogy, fans needn't worry — it's not the final curtain. |
| The New Lara Croft is Ridiculously Sexy Posted: 13 Aug 2008 09:00 PM CDT In addition to being completely and utterly sexy, Carroll is flexible, personable, has eyes you could lose yourself in, and to top it all off, a British accent. |
| 7 Film Failures That Killed Studios Posted: 13 Aug 2008 09:00 PM CDT Here are seven film failures which killed studios. |
| Greatest Olympian of All Time: Phelps Wins 10th Career Gold Posted: 13 Aug 2008 08:40 PM CDT Michael Phelps has become the winningest Olympic athlete ever, earning his fourth gold medal of the Beijing Games with a world record in the 200-meter butterfly. The American touched in 1 minute, 52.03 seconds, breaking his old mark of 1:52.09 set at last year's world championships in Australia. It was Phelps' 10th career gold medal, breaking a... |
| Great Olympians: See How they've Aged [Pics] Posted: 13 Aug 2008 08:20 PM CDT They are among the greatest athletes ever to thrill us with Olympic victory. Greg Louganis, Mary Lou Retton, Bruce Jenner - the list goes on. Here's a look at them now. |
| Foreclosure Effect: House in Detroit Listed and Sold for $1 Posted: 13 Aug 2008 08:10 PM CDT One dollar can get you a large soda at McDonald's, a used VHS movie at 7-Eleven or a house in Detroit. The fact that a home on the city's east side was listed for $1 recently shows how depressed the real estate market has become in one of America's poorest big cities. And it still took 19 days to find a buyer. |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2008 08:10 PM CDT On August 1st, the Kingdom of Tonga crowned its newest ruler, King George Tupou V. In a ceremony that lasted for days, and cost over $2.5 million (US), the 60-year old King was crowned as one of the few remaing monarchs with true ruling power - but that is about to change. |
| Analyst Predicts September iPod 'Surprise' Posted: 13 Aug 2008 08:10 PM CDT Today the analyst in question is the venerable Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, and he is predicting a September refresh of the iPod lineup. From where did he pull this information? Well, perhaps he cheated and took a look at last years' calendar. And the year before that. And yes, the year before that. Predicting a September iPod event is akin to |
| Shell Oil Caught Red Handed at Greenwashing Posted: 13 Aug 2008 08:00 PM CDT Shell Oil has been rebuked for advertising the sustainability of its Canadian tar sands project as well as a scheme to build North America's largest oil refinery. Both projects will lead to more greenhouse gases and extracting oil from tar sands is a highly inefficient process that requires the destruction of massive tracks of virgin forest. |
| Spooky Physics: Signals Seem to Travel Faster Than Light Posted: 13 Aug 2008 07:50 PM CDT Strange events that Einstein himself called "spooky" might happen at least 10,000 times the speed of light, according to the latest attempt to understand them. Atoms, electrons, and the rest of the infinitesimally tiny building blocks of the universe can behave rather bizarrely, going completely against the way life as we normally experience it. |
| Jake Gyllenhaal As Prince Of Persia Posted: 13 Aug 2008 07:40 PM CDT Jake Gyllenhaal As Prince Of Persia, the worst pick for the roll |
| Will The White House Finally Comment On The Plame Leak? Posted: 13 Aug 2008 07:30 PM CDT Today, the D.C. Court of Appeals dismissed Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration for leaking her covert CIA status in 2003. Plame had hoped that the appeals court would overturn the ruling of U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, who had initially rejected her case. |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2008 07:20 PM CDT In what we hope turns out to be better than the Jenga video game for the Wii and Nintendo DS, board gamer USAopoly is merging the tower climbing fun of Donkey Kong with the tower disassembling kicks of Jenga with Donkey Kong Jenga. |
| Shockingly, Blizzard has 'plans beyond' Diablo III Posted: 13 Aug 2008 07:10 PM CDT Game developer Blizzard remains unrepentant when delving into the rich fantasy world it has crafted for Diablo. While the upcoming, artistically controversial three-I'd installment brings the trilogy's story of demonic overlords and highly uncomfortable facial jewelry to an end, it'll leave the portal open for future games. |
| EA Choose BitTorrent for Warhammer Online Distribution Posted: 13 Aug 2008 07:01 PM CDT Electronic Arts, the publisher of the upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has chosen BitTorrent for the distribution of the closed Beta client. Included in the documentation is a recommendation to use a TorrentFreak 'speed up' guide. |
| 10 lip-synching hall of shamers [pics] Posted: 13 Aug 2008 06:50 PM CDT The recent revelation of lip-synching during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics bummed sports fans out. But little 9-year-old Lin Miaoke joins a hallowed group of mouth mimes -- from big boy Luciano Pavarotti to tough guy 50 Cent and acid reflux victim Ashlee Simpson -- to a surprise winner in the best performance category. |
| FOX News Calls Neo-Nazi Leader a "Free Speech Activist" Posted: 13 Aug 2008 06:40 PM CDT On Aug. 4, FOX News aired a segment about the Canadian prosecution of a conservative author for alleged anti-Muslim human rights violations. Fox chose to interview Paul Fromm, who was very identified as a "Free Speech Activist." Fromm is Canada's most notorious extremist: he's a white supremacist, a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite |
| Top 10 Most Dangerous Waves in the World [w/PICS] Posted: 13 Aug 2008 06:40 PM CDT These days, with super advanced equipment, tow in access, and internet swell tracking, a growing number of surfers are getting rides on incredibly powerful waves. |
| McCain's quick Georgia response crafted by Georgia lobbyist Posted: 13 Aug 2008 06:20 PM CDT "The question is, who is the client? Is the adviser loyal to income from a foreign client, or is he loyal to the candidate he is working for now?" said James Thurber, a lobbying expert at American University. "It's dangerous if you're getting advice from people who are very close to countries on one side or another of a conflict." |
| Posted: 13 Aug 2008 06:10 PM CDT We're starting to feel the heat of Star Wars fever once again. It's a feeling that never truly goes away, and yet there's plenty for Star Wars fans to be excited about in the coming months.This time, we're counting down from 25. There are just too many worthy characters to settle for anything less. |
| Cop, businessman deny posing as gynecologists Posted: 13 Aug 2008 05:50 PM CDT Criminal sex-abuse charges were leveled yesterday at a suspended Ramapo police officer and a Monsey businessman accused of masquerading as gynecologists. Both pleaded not guilty and were released without bail. |
| Bush Criticizes Congress’s Vacation After He Takes Time Off Posted: 13 Aug 2008 05:40 PM CDT Yesterday, after meeting with an oil industry front group, President Bush rebuked the congressional leadership for taking a "vacation" without holding a vote on offshore oil drilling. Bush's dig at Congress for being on vacation is ironic, as he rivals Ronald Reagan for the title of "presidential vacation-time record holder, |
| Bob Saget Roast: Bob's Donkey Punchline Posted: 13 Aug 2008 05:20 PM CDT Help Bob collect dirty jokes on his way to the Roast. With actual dirty punchlines. |
| Baseball wary of Cubs Sale structure Posted: 13 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT Tribune Co.'s desire to minimize its taxes when it unloads the Chicago Cubs sets the stage for a possible showdown with Major League Baseball. |
| Chinese "Women" Cheat their Way to Gymnastic Gold Posted: 13 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT Accusations of age falsification have swirled around the Chinese team and have intensified after news outlets found official documents stating alternate (and younger) birth dates for three athletes: He Kexin, Yang Yilin and Jiang Yuyuan. |
| Office OpenXML A Dead End, Microsoft Will Back ODF Posted: 13 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT During the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, I met with Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards. We discussed document standards and the implications of ISO's controversial decision to grant fast-track approval to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format. |
| McCain's Tactics Diminish the Role of the Presidency Posted: 13 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT Bruce Lunsford, one of the Democratic Party's would-be new Senators, derided John McCain last week for running ads that "diminished the role of the presidency and his campaign," and pursuing a foreign policy dangerous to American security. |
| FIRE Breaks Out At Apple Campus Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:50 PM CDT A fire breaks out in a building on Valley Green Drive on the Apple campus in Cupertino. Firefighters early this morning have contained a three-alarm fire that started Tuesday night at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, according to the Santa Clara County Fire Department. |
| How far is too far? Politically incorrect comedies--PHOTOS Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:40 PM CDT A line up of just plain wrong and so-wrong-it's-right movies throughout the years. "The Jerk" anyone? |
| Airlines' rising fees confuse and anger their passengers Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:30 PM CDT An explanation of rising fees and a chart that breaks them all down by airline and type of fee. |
| Olympic Weightlifter Turns His Elbow Back To Front [PICS] Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:20 PM CDT This is the moment Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai's first Olympics ended in agony when he dislocated his right elbow in the ugliest moment yet of the Olympic weightlifting competition. |
| Top 10 Cell Phone Etiquette Rules People Still Break Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:20 PM CDT Do we really still need to talk about this? You'd think with over a decade of experience under our belts along with our inherent delusions of hyper sophistication that we'd have figured things out by now. But the sad truth remains: cell-phone douche-baggery is worse than ever! |
| 10 Video Games that need the Mega Man 9 treatment Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:20 PM CDT Instead of dragging our boyhood hero through any more tired Star Forces or Battle Networks, those understanding folks at Capcom are giving us the Mega Man game we've always wanted. Yet, we couldn't help but figure that a few franchises, even if not altogether broken, could benefit by taking one more dip in the nostalgic quarry of yester-year. |
| Joe Sakic is closer to making a decision Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:10 PM CDT While no firm date has been set, future hall of famer Joe Sakic says he's getting closer to making a decision on whether to play another season or retire.Check out the latest scoop with him here. |
| Untamed: Amazing Shots of Animals in the Wild (PICS) Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:00 PM CDT Photographer Steve Bloom has captured some most incredible shots of native wildlife: "I am humbled by the opportunities I have had to witness the diversity of life in so many places...There remains the ongoing challenge to portray life in all its manifestations, and create images that reveal the very essence of what it is to be a living being." |
| The 56 Faces of the Democratic National Convention Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:00 PM CDT For the past year, cartoonist Kenny Be has studied the 56 delegations headed to Denver for the Democratic National Convention, and shared his research results in a weekly cartoon, "Delegating Denver." Click through to find your delegation's cartoon, and follow the links to read his trusty field guides for each group. |
| Digg sweatshirt on BART homepage Posted: 13 Aug 2008 04:00 PM CDT Person wearing Digg sweatshirt shown on the Bay area rapid transits home page! |
| The 10 Most Delicious Extinct Candies from the '80s Posted: 13 Aug 2008 03:50 PM CDT While plebian crap like Dum Dum Suckers and Candy Corn continue to fill up many a sad Trick-or-Treater pumpkin-shaped pail, so many innovative and satisfying candies have died premature deaths, from Abba Zabbas and Fresh Mint Skittles, to hap pappy Uncle Buck. Here are ten of the most delicious extinct candies from the '80s. |
| Don't Fuck With U.S. Gymnast Alicia Sacramone (VIDEO) Posted: 13 Aug 2008 03:50 PM CDT Alicia Sacramone, the American gymnast who helped earn a silver medal last night can throw a left hook, so her competitors really might want to watch out, I think a secret US lab may have created this video to scare the competition |
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