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| 420 goes 24/7: Pot users share high times online Posted: 09 Sep 2008 09:20 PM CDT Once a largely invisible subculture, the pot community has harnessed online video and social networking to "come out of the grow closet" and into the open. Not to be left out of the Web 2.0 movement, like-minded users (that's "users" in both senses) are taking advantage of the Internet to connect and socialize semi-anonymously, and from a distance. |
| The Linux laptop goes to school Posted: 09 Sep 2008 09:00 PM CDT The best way to see how a Linux laptop really works is to let someone else try it out. |
| NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun Posted: 09 Sep 2008 08:40 PM CDT Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun. |
| Which College Football Teams are Bowl Bound this Season? Posted: 09 Sep 2008 08:30 PM CDT ESPN college football analyst and '91 Heisman winner Desmond Howard picks his big conference favorites. |
| James Bond is Back in Another Quantum of Solace Trailer Posted: 09 Sep 2008 08:10 PM CDT Quantum of Solace continues the high octane adventures of James Bond in Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr White who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex... |
| Secrets your doctor is keeping from you Posted: 09 Sep 2008 08:00 PM CDT A new book reveals the secrets many doctors don't want you to know. For example, Doctors know that many tests, drugs and procedures they order and prescribe either don't work or haven't been proved. Case in point: They keep prescribing antibiotics for colds and bronchitis. |
| Man Says He's Eaten 23,000 Big Macs Since 1972, Has Receipts Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:52 PM CDT A 54-year-old man says his obsessive-compulsive disorder drove him to eat 23,000 Big Macs in 36 years. Fifty-four-year-old Don Gorske says he hit the milestone last month, continuing a pleasurable obsession that began May 17, 1972 when he got his first car. |
| US is "More Communist than China" Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:40 PM CDT The nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shows that the U.S. is "more communist than China right now" but its brand of socialism is meant only for the rich, investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, told CNBC Europe on Monday."America is more communist than China is right now. You can see that this is welfare of the rich..." |
| Kevin Smith wants Seth Rogen as his superhero: Ranger Danger Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:20 PM CDT Smith says, "I'm going to do the science fiction superhero movie. It's going to be an original superhero that I've created. It's stewing right now. I want to do it, though, and, God willing, it will star Seth Rogen." |
| Lance Armstrong to Return for 2009 Tour de France Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:10 PM CDT Lance Armstrong will end his retirement and hopes to compete in the 2009 Tour de France, according to a cycling journal report. |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:00 PM CDT With the miss of Bangkok Dangerous we got an opportunity to reminiscence some of the best hitmen movies. |
| Hollywood's Most Overpaid Movie Stars Posted: 09 Sep 2008 06:40 PM CDT One of the most anticipated movies of the upcoming fall season is Australia, Baz Luhrmann's epic mash note to his home country, which stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman as Outback lovers. |
| The Politico: Koch backs Obama, calls Palin "Scary" Posted: 09 Sep 2008 06:30 PM CDT Blog: Former New York Mayor Ed Koch, who endorsed and worked for George W. Bush in 2004, is endorsing Obama today, NY1 first reported.I asked Koch just now what prompted the move."The designation of Palin to be vice president," he said. "She's scary." |
| The Flying Dutchman solves global warming Posted: 09 Sep 2008 06:20 PM CDT If mimicking a massive volcanic eruption by spraying sulfur dioxide into the air or flying thousands of mirrors into space to shade Earth to halt climate change doesn't cut it for you, how about this? |
| Abandoned Train Station in Gagra, Abkhazia Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:50 PM CDT |
| I knew it would come to this! (Comic) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT |
| 5 iPod Features Apple Won't (but Should) Unveil Today Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT This list isn't mere fanboy fantasy: Every single one of these upgrades is something that Apple is perfectly capable of delivering (or allowing another company to deliver through a piece of software or approved iPod accessory). Too bad the AT&T iPhone deal and Jobs' stubbornness won't ever let them become reality. |
| Jurors Regret Pot Verdict On Learning Of 20-Year Sentence Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:11 PM CDT Buyer's remorse from two of 12 jurors is not enough to toss out guilty verdicts that could send two men who ran a Modesto-based medical marijuana dispensary to prison for decades or even life. So attorneys who want to win a new trial for are taking a different approach, arguing that jurors were unduly influenced by a San Francisco Chronicle story. |
| 40 Stunning Vector Landscape Illustrations Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:00 PM CDT A common feature seen in all the examples is how the use of vector graphics results in a unique crisp and stylized image, ranging from colourful 'cartoon-like' designs to more abstract and geometric illustrative works. |
| 'Laser Comb' To Measure the Accelerating Universe Posted: 09 Sep 2008 05:00 PM CDT Back in April, UT published an article about using a device called a 'laser comb' to search for Earth-like planets. But astronomers also hope to use the device to search for dark energy in an ambitious project that would measure the velocities of distant galaxies and quasars over a 20-year period. |
| Fannie.Freddy Bailout = Socialism for the Rich Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:50 PM CDT Socialism has taken over in Washington. Ben Franklin was right, we couldn't keep it. |
| In lesbian relationships, is one partner dominant in bed? Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:50 PM CDT Our sexpert tackles your bedroom conundrums. |
| The Hadron Collider Will Not Destroy the World Tomorrow Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:50 PM CDT You'd better read this today, because it's possible the world will end tomorrow. Strictly speaking, the probability of doomsday isn't any higher than it is on any normal Wednesday, but there's been a fair bit of kerfuffle and hullabaloo over the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and whether it will create a black hole that will destroy the entire pl |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:20 PM CDT The candidate says she's a tough fiscal reformer. But Alaska leads the nation in leeching off Washington |
| Apple rocks out, announces new iPods, iTunes 8 Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:10 PM CDT At the highly-anticipated "Let's Rock" event today in San Francisco, Apple updated the venerable iPod. |
| Former UFC CHAMP Tanner dead at 37 Posted: 09 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT Former Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight champion Evan Tanner was found dead near Palo Verde, Calif. on Monday. He was 37. |
| Burglary Victims Awake to Spice Rub and Sausage Attack Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:51 PM CDT Something I thought only the big bad wolf did in Cartoons... Definitely worth checking out. |
| No Matter What Apple Says Today, It'll Disappoint Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:41 PM CDT As today's Apple event gets underway and journalists from all over the world are waiting on bated breath to see what Steve Jobs has to say, it's abundantly clear that the vast majority of people going and those that read the news, will be disappointed.No, it's not because Apple will waste time or that all those people are Windows fanboys |
| 10 Essential Principles of the PHP Masters Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:21 PM CDT We need PHP masters to show us the best principles to follow for high-grade PHP programming. |
| Engadget Editor Admits to Creating "Boycott Gizmodo" Site Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:02 PM CDT Former Engadget editor Ryan Block has put it into practice by tapping former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam — now the site's editorial director — to help advise them on their new gadget startup gdgt. In doing so, Block has ended — or at least set aside — a long-term gadget-blog rivalry which frothed with animosity. |
| The iPhone App Experience is About to be Destroyed... By Ads Posted: 09 Sep 2008 03:02 PM CDT "Ads on the iPhone deliver strong engagement for advertisers with triple, on average, the already high click-through-rates seen on mobile," the company claimed in a press release. If that is indeed turns out to be a sustainable metric, advertisers are likely to view as iPhone as platform worth supporting. |
| Night of the Living Dead (1968) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 02:33 PM CDT Watch the original Night of the Living dead in your browser. |
| B.S. (Before Steroidgate): Mark McGwire's Summer of Love Posted: 09 Sep 2008 02:23 PM CDT The duality will forever exist when looking back on 1998, the happiest time in recent baseball history. It was baseball's Summer of Love, wondrous and carefree, where drug use was ignored and life celebrated. Everyone, from baseball neophytes to lifers, got caught up in the back-and-forth home run duel between McGwire and Sammy Sosa as they chased |
| Mars Phoenix Will Twitter until its last electronic breath Posted: 09 Sep 2008 02:10 PM CDT The Mars Phoenix Lander has been Twittering away its mission details since landing on Mars in May. But lately, you can see a sense of impending doom starting to creep in, slowly. |
| 10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World Posted: 09 Sep 2008 02:00 PM CDT #1 - Energy in a Bucket of Dirt |
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| 6 Real-Life Vigilantes Crazier Than Batman Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:50 PM CDT Yesterday's story about real-life super-villains left a bad taste in our mouth. Surely those flamboyantly evil criminals have counterparts on the right side of the law: Men of great courage and strength of conviction willing to plunge alone into the criminal underworld, handing out justice like some kind of a man-shaped justice dispenser. |
| Obama to Palin: 'Don't Mock the Constitution' Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:40 PM CDT Obama calls out Palin and the GOP for mocking the constitution; "Don't mock the Constitution. Don't make fun of it. Don't suggest that it's not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up. It's worked pretty well for over 200 years." |
| Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:40 PM CDT Since WiiWare hit the console earlier this year, the factory-installed 512MB of internal storage just isn't cutting it. Nintendo is essentially shooting itself in the foot: here we have all these new games to download and play, but only the capacity to store a limited number of them. |
| The 28 Best Wii Games Everyone Should Play Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:20 PM CDT Nintendo's fifth video game console, the Wii, has only been on store shelves for less than two years (and that's not counting the months after its release where it was impossible to find in stores), but the its already building an extensive library of excellent games. Read on as GamePro names the 28 games every Wii owner should play! |
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