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| SkySails 5X More Efficient Traditional Sails Posted: 19 Aug 2008 09:20 PM CDT Wind powered maritime travel isn't exactly a new idea. Actually it's a really freakin' old idea. So it's easy to make fun of the "breakthrough innovation" of SkySails. |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2008 09:20 PM CDT Some of the sexiest girls ever seen on screen have appeared in horror films. Here are the cream of the crop. |
| Motorist Discovers Dying Wife On Road Posted: 19 Aug 2008 09:05 PM CDT A motorist who stopped to help a woman who had been hit by a car was devastated to discover the dying pedestrian was his wife and mother to his three sons. |
| How the Discovery of Oil Transformed Iran Posted: 19 Aug 2008 08:50 PM CDT They call it "Well Number One". A sign proudly proclaims the spot where the first middle-eastern oil was discovered 100 years ago. The oil derrick is still there - it produced oil for 70 years. |
| Joe Lieberman is a "Prick" according to AP Posted: 19 Aug 2008 08:40 PM CDT "...and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000..." |
| The Truth About Coffee, Good For You? Bad For You? Posted: 19 Aug 2008 08:30 PM CDT ...research is leaning on the side of it being good for you. It lowers the risk of Parkinson's disease and Type 2 diabetes. It mediates depression. But the benefits are dose-related. Coffee does increase your blood pressure, but only for a few minutes. |
| How I Stole Someone's Identity Using the Internet Posted: 19 Aug 2008 08:20 PM CDT A little digging on social networks, blogs and Internet search engines lets you put together information about people like pieces of a puzzle—And it's not a pretty picture for security or privacy. I decided to conduct an experiment to see how vulnerable people's accounts are to mining the Web for information. |
| Apple's Secret "Back to My Mac" Push behind IPv6 Posted: 19 Aug 2008 08:00 PM CDT The Internet is running out of addresses.To get around this problem and a host of others not addressed in the existing Internet Protocol (IPv4),a new revision has been in development for years,called IPv6.Apple has a few tricks up its sleeve for pushing IPv6 adoption,and many Mac users are already chin deep in the technology without even knowing it |
| Got Gold? Try Pain: 10 Olympic Injuries Posted: 19 Aug 2008 07:50 PM CDT |
| Kite Surfer Picks Wrong Day To Go Out Posted: 19 Aug 2008 07:50 PM CDT Kite surfing during a tropical storm may seem like a good idea (not really), but don't try it. |
| "Functionally voluntary" music may lead to blanket licenses Posted: 19 Aug 2008 07:40 PM CDT Jim Griffin consults for Warner, one of the four major music labels, and he sees a disturbing sight when he looks around at the digital music landscape. Taking music without paying for it may not be "morally voluntary," Griffin says, but he admits it has become "functionally voluntary. |
| Border Patrol Officer Pleads Guilty To Jack Bauer Imitation Posted: 19 Aug 2008 07:31 PM CDT In an effort to scare and coerce the alien into incriminating himself, Perez drew his service pistol and repeated the questions. The alien continued to deny being a smuggler. Perez then pointed his weapon at the alien's head, touching the pistol to the alien's temple or forehead, and again asked for incriminating information. |
| Zimbabwe Inflation Hits 11,200,000 Percent Posted: 19 Aug 2008 07:20 PM CDT Zimbabwe's inflation rate has soared in the past three months and is now at 11.2 million percent, the highest in the world, according to the country's Central Statistical Office. Official figures dated Monday show inflation has surged from the rate of 2.2 million percent recorded in May, despite the government's price controls. The country's |
| 10 green home heating alternatives Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:55 PM CDT With the world going green, it seems like the perfect time to start thinking about eco-friendly ways to cut that heating bill. Don't be a slave to high heating costs: See 10 alternate ways to heat your home this winter. |
| Classic Apple Macintosh Commercial - "Internet" Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:40 PM CDT |
| The 10 Videogames Which Should Be Porn Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:30 PM CDT The day Ron Jeremy played Hornio in the 1993 Nintendo porn spoof Super Hornio Bros. was the day video games got a little bit sexier and a whole lot more weird. Since then, there have been a number of games adaptations turned into pornos, including Whorelore's Whorecraft and Rage of Bonan. |
| Does Bush believe McCain was tortured? Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:30 PM CDT No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects. |
| The Whole World’s Hopping on Electric Bikes Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:20 PM CDT As gas prices go up and green thinking expands, it seems electric bikes are seeing a huge surge in popularity. Sales in the US nearly doubled last year, reaching 10,000 in 2007. And Amazon reported a 6,000% increase this summer from last year. |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:20 PM CDT The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) appears to have ankled popular (but illegal) music-sharing site Muxtape. "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA," the site's homepage says. |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:10 PM CDT I checked out the bank of beat up Gateways with vagabond keyboards in the corner. I wiggle the mouse, and up pops the Ubuntu Heron! Wow!The neat part is that other people are actually using them. |
| Women Sues To Get Off The No Fly List Posted: 19 Aug 2008 06:00 PM CDT For those of you who've been nabbed coming home from Cuba, or have otherwise fallen into disrepute with U.S. travel authorities and found yourself on a no-fly list, there's some good news out of the Ninth Circuit: You can challenge your no-fly status in federal court. |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:50 PM CDT Watch your back |
| Never break up with your girlfriend in a lab (PIC) Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:40 PM CDT Warning...groaners ahead |
| McCain's Abramoff Linked Fundraiser Nets $1.75 Million Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:30 PM CDT John McCain raised more than $1.75 million for Republicans Monday at a fundraiser that became high profile after a political operative connected to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff promoted it. |
| Kobe Bryant Talks About Cheering For/Meeting Michael Phelps Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:20 PM CDT Redeem Team" captain Kobe Bryant and LeBron James took a break from basketball over the weekend to watch Michael Phelps swim towards his historic 8th gold medal in the 4 x 100 Medley realy. While NBC showed footage of LeBron and Kobe cheering the race, Kobe gushed, "Me and LeBron both just felt like fans for a while. It was incredible." |
| Britain Threatens to Take Fattest Children Away from Parents Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT Dangerously overweight children will have to be taken from their parents and put into care because of Britain's worsening "obesity epidemic", council leaders have warned. One million children will be clinically obese within four years on current trends, storing up future problems from heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes. |
| Olbermann chastises McCain: Grow up! (Special Comment) Posted: 19 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT Despite how you have whined, Sen. McCain, you have no entitlement to only sycophantic, deceptive, air-brushed coverage in the media. And despite how you have strutted, you have no God-given right to the Presidency. Let's have an adult campaign here, in other words and I am embarrassed to have to say this to a man who turns 72 - GROW UP |
| Dell's Eee-killer to ship with Ubuntu preinstalled Posted: 19 Aug 2008 04:50 PM CDT Leaked specifications indicate that Dell's upcoming subnotebook product will be available with Ubuntu 8.04. The product could be available as early as this week. |
| Lawsuit Won't Stop The Watchmen Posted: 19 Aug 2008 04:30 PM CDT It's looking bad for the Watchmen movie, now that a judge is allowing a lawsuit by Fox over the film rights to the famous graphic novel to go forward. It's even worse when you realize that the same judge ruled against Warner Bros. in a case involving the rights to a Dukes Of Hazzard movie 2 years ago. |
| LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface Posted: 19 Aug 2008 04:30 PM CDT We've known that Nike+ has long been in development for the iPhone. Now we're finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface. From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone (before this stuff was available on the web only). But the biggest improvement may be Goggle Maps support |
| Keith Olbermann On McCain's War With NBC: Grow Up (VIDEO) Posted: 19 Aug 2008 04:20 PM CDT On MSNBC's "Countdown" last night, Keith Olbermann tore into John McCain for complaining about NBC election coverage -- and for his attacks on Barack Obama. Watch: |
| RIAA, KaZaA user settle 3-year-old lawsuit Posted: 19 Aug 2008 04:20 PM CDT One of the longest running file-sharing lawsuits has come to a close, as Denise Barker and the RIAA have mutually agreed to settle a three-year-old lawsuit for $6,050. Barker has been represented by Ray Beckerman, known for his Recording Industry vs The People blog, who used the case as a platform to attack the foundations upon which the RIAA |
| 10 Interesting Things You Didn’t Know About Oil Posted: 19 Aug 2008 04:00 PM CDT Add yours below. Don't hesitate to be smart. |
| Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed Posted: 19 Aug 2008 03:50 PM CDT The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. To celebrate it, David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air which give an exact impression of the breathtaking, massive scale of this building. Inside, it looks like a set from Blade Runner or the interior of the Death Star |
| After 8 Phelps Golds, 8 Questions on Beijing Super Pool Posted: 19 Aug 2008 03:30 PM CDT With 20 world-best marks falling in Bejing, what's the scientific secret weapon? And while Olympians crushed 28 records in 1972, what makes Phelps and co. so much better than past swimmers? We crunch the numbers with the experts to answer these and other high-tech questions—and debunk some of the myths that have cropped up around them. |
| JUST ASKING: Is Michael Phelps A Douche? Posted: 19 Aug 2008 03:20 PM CDT After carefully reviewing extensive photographic evidence of what he looks like when he's wearing street clothes instead of Speedos, I have to at least ask the question: "Is Michael Phelps a douche?" Before expressing your outrage over this seemingly premature Blagglash, at least allow me to present the following evidence for your consideration |
| Argentine Girls Soccer Team Slant-Eyes Pic Uncovered Posted: 19 Aug 2008 03:20 PM CDT A photo has emerged of the Olympic Argentine Girls Soccer Team Slanting Their Eyes For The Argentine Newspaper Ole. Seems like its pretty common for those Spanish-speaking countries to make fun of the Chinese, isn't it? |
| How to win a fight against twenty children Posted: 19 Aug 2008 03:10 PM CDT I'm not going to ask why you're fighting twenty children. That's your own business, although most reasons are as old as time itself: |
| The World’s 19 Most Spectacular Skylines Posted: 19 Aug 2008 03:10 PM CDT Some of the best instances in which humanity attempts to reach for the heavens. |
| 5 Reasons to Write Down Everything You Eat For a Week Posted: 19 Aug 2008 03:00 PM CDT Quick, what did you eat for lunch on Monday? Ok, stop, you have no idea and neither would I. That's a problem if you are trying to lose or maintain your weight. How do you know what is causing gains and losses if you aren't tracking things? If you need to be coerced,consider these reasons why writing down everything you eat for a week will help. |
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