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Instant Replay Used for First Time in MLB Posted: 04 Sep 2008 09:10 PM CDT Alex Rodriguez crushes a ball down the left field line and the umpires use instant replay for the first time in Major League Baseball history to determine whether or not it was home run.

Comcast sues FCC, wants P2P throttling order overturned Posted: 04 Sep 2008 09:00 PM CDT Comcast has done the utterly expected: asked the DC Court of Appeals to review the recent FCC decision against its P2P traffic-shaping solution.

Romney mocks Gore for non-existent private Posted: 04 Sep 2008 08:50 PM CDT And I have one more recommendation for energy conservation — let's keep Al Gore's private jet on the ground! ThinkProgress contacted Gore spokesperson Kalee Kreider, who replied, "Gore doesn't own a jet." Ooooopppps

Gamespot Gives 'Spore' an 8/10 Posted: 04 Sep 2008 08:50 PM CDT The Good - Intuitive and comprehensive customization tools, Oozes charm at every turn Impressively broad scope, Great audio and art design. The Bad - Individual gameplay elements are extremely simple Early stages aren't very engaging.

50 Billion Suns! What is the Size The Biggest Single Object? Posted: 04 Sep 2008 08:30 PM CDT Scientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe, and they don't appear in the Oprah studio audience. New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big. T

Nico Pitney: Obama Raises $8 Million After Palin Speech Posted: 04 Sep 2008 08:20 PM CDT Activists have frenetically picked apart Palin's record over the last week, and an Obama aide told the Huffington Post that the campaign has raised $8 million since her speech last night "from over 130,000 donors - on pace to hit $10 million by the time John McCain hits the stage tonight."

10 Promising JavaScript Frameworks Posted: 04 Sep 2008 08:10 PM CDT It's always good to consider all of your options before settling on a JavaScript framework that's right for you and/or your team. This article showcases 10 alternative and capable JavaScript frameworks/libraries to explore. Links to some of their demos (when available) are included in the entry so that you can see the framework in action.

FotC Make Comedy The New Rock And Roll Posted: 04 Sep 2008 07:55 PM CDT Comedy duo the Flight of the Conchords figure heavily in the nominations for the 2008 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. Now working stateside on the second season of their HBO sitcom, the Grammy-winning, Emmy-nominated musical comedy duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are vying with rock and hip-hop acts in this year's Tuis Music Awards.

Mythbuster issues mea culpa over 'censorship' claim Posted: 04 Sep 2008 07:40 PM CDT Adam Savage's widely circulated YouTube video account of a pack of credit card industry giants pummeling Discovery Channel into deep-sixing a Mythbusters investigation aimed at RFID is now taking more of a beating than Buster the dummy absorbs on a typical episode of the show. And the knockout blow of that beating is coming from Savage himself.

Barack Obama: I've been called worse on the Basketball Court Posted: 04 Sep 2008 07:30 PM CDT Good stuff. Obama talks to the press about the Republican convention

You Can Tell a Woman's Orgasmic Ability By the Way She Walks Posted: 04 Sep 2008 07:10 PM CDT A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health.

Play Soccer in a Urinal, No Way! Posted: 04 Sep 2008 07:00 PM CDT Ever walk up to a urinal during an average night and get crazy bored? The newspaper or TV on the wall not enough? How about an interactive soccer game IN the urinal. Use your efforts to push the ball to the goal and make sure you score at least once on that night out...

Breathtaking Cloud Formation Over Hawaii (pic) Posted: 04 Sep 2008 06:50 PM CDT

Road To Snow Leopard: Twice The RAM, Half The Price, 64-Bits Posted: 04 Sep 2008 06:50 PM CDT Snow Leopard's across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will do more than just make more memory available. It will also have a significant positive impact on performance system wide, even more than the same jump to 64-bits in Windows Vista. Here's why.

McCain-Palin is a more right-wing pick than Bush-Cheney Posted: 04 Sep 2008 06:40 PM CDT Never thought it could get worse? Think again.

Uncle Sam & 911 (SuperNews cartoon) Posted: 04 Sep 2008 06:20 PM CDT A heart to heart discussion between Uncle Sam and the fears of 9/11.

The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth [PICS] Posted: 04 Sep 2008 06:10 PM CDT Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it! We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, Bolvian Salt Lake, or The Richat structure), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered "normal" for a landscape on Earth.

Test Drive: Google's New Picasa 3 with Face Tagging Posted: 04 Sep 2008 06:00 PM CDT Google issued major upgrades to both Picasa 3, its photo management software, and Picasa Web Albums, its online sharing competitor to Flickr. Ars Technica takes the two new products for a spin around the studio.

You've been banned! Handling executions in a Digg democracy Posted: 04 Sep 2008 05:50 PM CDT For a website that prides itself on its democratic approach to news selection, Digg has a tricky line to walk when it comes to silencing and banning its users. As the number of Diggers increases -- the site says it had 29 million visitors last month -- its moderators are finding that banning rogue users is becoming a frequent occurrence.

Democrats say Palin mimics Bush divisiveness Posted: 04 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT "The speech that [Alaska] Gov. Palin made was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last eight years," said Bill Burton, the campaign spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama.

Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State Posted: 04 Sep 2008 05:30 PM CDT In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community.

10 Movies Needing a Muppet Remake Posted: 04 Sep 2008 05:20 PM CDT Have you ever considered just how funny a lot of movies could be, if only the producers had cast Muppets instead of humans? I mean, if you think the Terminator movies couldn't get any more awesome, imagine them with Animal playing Schwarzenegger's role. Hear Animal saying "Come with me if you want to live" in your head, and try not to laugh.

GOP Congressman Calls Obama Uppity Posted: 04 Sep 2008 05:00 PM CDT When asked to compare Michelle Obama with Sarah Palin,GOP Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said:"Just from what little I've seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity."

"Disaster Movie" Scores A 0% On Rotten Tomatoes Posted: 04 Sep 2008 05:00 PM CDT Congratulations, Disaster Movie! You've finally brought the "Movie" movies into the elite company of Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

John McCain Cancels Habitat For Humanity Event Posted: 04 Sep 2008 04:30 PM CDT U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that the McCain family's appearance at the Twin Cities Habitat For Humanity build site on Thursday has been canceled. How anti-press is the McCain campaign? They just canceled a Habitat for Humanity PHOTO OP because it has to do with "houses"? Go figure!

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Available Now: $349 With Linux Posted: 04 Sep 2008 04:20 PM CDT The long rumored, long awaited "Eee PC Killer" from Dell, now called the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, is now shipping! The Windows XP version, available now, costs $399. The Ubuntu Linux version, available in "a few weeks," will cost just $349! These prices are actually much lower than ASUS's for comparable systems.

How To Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming Posted: 04 Sep 2008 04:10 PM CDT If you want to turn your lady friend into a gaming fan, here's some advice from Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips: Don't be a jerk and don't make her play "Halo".

Best South Park License Plate Ever (PIC) Posted: 04 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT Our hats are off to you, sir or madam, as you have struck comedic gold with your handicapped vanity plate.

The 10 People Who Have Stayed Dead in Superhero Comics Posted: 04 Sep 2008 03:50 PM CDT o, this list ranks ten superhero comic book characters that died those stupid, needless, or simply ill-advised deaths.

Why we were falsely arrested Posted: 04 Sep 2008 03:40 PM CDT I was arrested with my two colleagues, Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, while reporting on the first day of the RNC. I have been wrongly charged with a misdemeanor. My co-workers, who were simply reporting, may be charged with felony riot.

8 Poorly Disguised Secret Identities Posted: 04 Sep 2008 03:30 PM CDT As a superhero, maintaining your secret identity is paramount to a happy and healthy crime fighting career, and the same can be said for other vocations that utilize alter-egos. Unfortunately, all too often this clandestine identity isn't taken serious enough, and the people employing its use don't go far enough to shore up their secrets.

Obama Responds to Palin Speech Posted: 04 Sep 2008 03:20 PM CDT Says that it sounded the same as Bush speeches, because it was written by a Bush speechwriter.

Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Tops 8 Million Users Posted: 04 Sep 2008 03:10 PM CDT Sure, Windows is expected to run on 1 billion devices by 2010. But a loud minority is making its voice heard by moving to Ubuntu Linux. In fact, Canonical's marketing materials state that Ubuntu now has more than 8 million users.

WWII Posters: Free Speech Doesn't Mean Careless Talk (PICS) Posted: 04 Sep 2008 03:00 PM CDT Careless words can liquidate ships, so better button up those blabber lips.

Cyclist who pedalled world, killed by hit-and-run driver Posted: 04 Sep 2008 02:50 PM CDT A cyclist who pedalled the world for more than 40 years, braving raging rivers, soldier ants, a lion and enjoying the hospitality of an Eskimo princess, has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in Greece.

13 High Speed Photography Images Posted: 04 Sep 2008 02:50 PM CDT 13 high speed photography images for your viewing pleasure (we've included a few high speed photography books on the topic at the end of this post).

Skaters Collide in Midair Posted: 04 Sep 2008 02:40 PM CDT Skaters usually learn lessons the hard way. After learning his lesson in this video, maybe the little skater should consider wearing a chest pad to the skate park.

Why Disasters are Getting Worse Posted: 04 Sep 2008 02:40 PM CDT If it seems like disasters are getting more common, it's because they are. But some disasters do seem to be affecting us worse — and not for the reasons you may think.

Seth Colter Walls: Sebelius Accuses Palin Of Deceiving Voter Posted: 04 Sep 2008 02:30 PM CDT In a Thursday morning conference call for reporters organized by the Democratic National Committee, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius pushed back against the idea that Republicans have cornered the market on small-town America.

Future Dystopias Where The Liberals Have Won Posted: 04 Sep 2008 02:20 PM CDT The Republican Party is gathering in St. Paul, to put forth its vision of the future. And over the next few days, you'll be hearing a lot about the horrendous futures that could take shape if gormless liberals were allowed to run the show. Which makes us wonder: what does science fiction, the literature of the future, have to say about liberal-run

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