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| Submersible airplane, another DARPA 'must have' Posted: 09 Oct 2008 09:00 PM CDT DARPA is soliciting concept proposals for a submersible aircraft. |
| Younger Military Families Quietly Closing Ranks Around Obama Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:50 PM CDT "Any assumption that the military vote is overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican Party -- based on demographics alone -- is suspect," said retired Navy Capt. Don Inbody. Enlisted personnel mirror the general population, which could result in a 2:1 advantage for Obama in military communities if his campaign isn't "tone deaf" to the potential. |
| The Behavior Modification Loop of Epic Fail (COMIC) Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:30 PM CDT I'm amazed how much money these bank bailout guys can burn through. |
| Barack Obama's $3 Million Overhead Projector Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:20 PM CDT I'm already tired of hearing these guys talk, but that caught my ear. A $3 million dollar projector? What does that even look like? Gearlog did some digging and found out that appropriation was requested by the planetarium to replace an awesome (but obsolete) 40-year old Zeiss Mark VI star projector with a newer model. . . |
| Ubuntu scores major Wikipedia win Posted: 09 Oct 2008 08:10 PM CDT Ubuntu's always been popular with users, but not so much with server managers. Now, with Wikipedia moving from a hodge-podge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that may be changing. |
| Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:40 PM CDT If the U.S. sinks into a depression, you might want to think about spending the next ten years elsewhere. Why suffer needlessly? Our new series will explain, Maher-style, where you might want to go next. |
| McCain Bailout Plan Would Have Taxpayers Foot the Bill Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:30 PM CDT At the debate Tuesday, John McCain was full of big promises and slick talk. He told us he could fix bad mortgages with a snap of his fingers, fix health care at no net cost, and maintain the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, all while cutting taxes. He tried to reassure us about Osama bin Laden, saying, "I know how to get him." Huh. So where's he been? |
| Inflammatory Republican rallies raise concerns Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:20 PM CDT Shouts of "terrorist" and even accusations of "treason" aimed at Barack Obama have echoed around Republican rallies, whipped up into alarming, hate-filled frenzies against the Democratic White House hopeful. One banner in the crowd declared: "Go ahead, let the dogs out." |
| 22 of the World's Most Creative Alphabets Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:10 PM CDT There are so many crazy ways to write the ABC's. It's a great creative exercise - it would do me well to try my own when I hit a creative slump. I'm amazed at the ingenuity of some of these. This collection of alphabets was gathered from the portfolios of artists, photographers and design students around the world. |
| 9 Ways You'll $ave in the New Depression Posted: 09 Oct 2008 07:00 PM CDT Don't worry about the banks, the crash, or the bailout. Yes, things will getworse. A lot worse. Worse than you ever imagined, probably. But you've been in tough spots before. Remember when you lost your job and went on unemployment for a while? This will be like that, only it will last for years. |
| Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we don't know about the secrets hidden in our genome and that of other animals. |
| McCainonomics: Freeze Spending! Spend Freely! Where Am I?? Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:40 PM CDT St. Petersburgh Times editorial, after the McCain/Palin hurricane blew through: McCain recklessly floats unfocused big ideas and leaves them hanging in the air without explanation. He repeated his pledge from the first debate to freeze federal spending ... but said he'd ask taxpayers to foot the bill for bad lending practices. Eh? |
| Magnetic Anomaly Map of the World Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:30 PM CDT This map shows areas on the globe where there are disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field. Here, red indicates a stronger magnetic tug, and blue a weaker one (white lines are the edges of tectonic plates). |
| National Debt Clock Runs out of Digits Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:20 PM CDT Just thought you should know... |
| Oh...So That's Why I Don't Drive in London [PIC] Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:10 PM CDT |
| Digg founder: tech is changing US election Posted: 09 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT Digg founder Kevin Rose has admitted he is hugely excited about the role technology is playing in the US presidential election race - telling TechRadar he can't wait to see how much more important it will be in four years time. |
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| Will America Watch The Watchmen? Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT Can an adaptation be too faithful to its source material? It's clear that fans of the graphic novel will likely love Snyder's adaption, but will a mainstream audience unfamiliar with the book get it?Here are 10 reasons I think mainstream audiences will ignore Watchmen. |
| Wasilla Band Proud to be Anti-Palin Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:40 PM CDT "When she came into office, they made this big deal out of her firing all the corrupt people. So who gets the jobs that were just all opened up? It ends up, it's all people from her church. They get the jobs at the hospital and they get abortion out of the hospital; [they] pretty much enforced their own rules." |
| Suspect indicted in murder of ex-Bronco Williams Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:30 PM CDT A 25-year-old man was indicted Wednesday on first-degree murder charges in the drive-by shooting death of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams on New Year's Day 2007. |
| 13 Lessons to Teach Your Child About Digital Photography Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:30 PM CDT Note - before I start I should say that you can probably teach a child too much about photography and 'kill' some of the playfulness that I think makes the images that a child can take special. My main advice would be to instill in your child the first lesson below - of experimenting and having fun |
| eBay founder factchecks John McCain Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT Pierre Omidyar, the one-and-only founder of eBay, didn't much appreciate John McCain's tip of the hat in last night's debate to Meg Whitman, eBay's former CEO. "Meg Whitman was CEO of a company which started with 12 people," McCain said, which rather riled Omidyar. Omidyar started the company by himself in September 1995; Whitman joined in March 19 |
| Dow industrials fall over 600 points, below 9,000 Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT Stocks have stepped up their selling in the final hour of trading. The Dow Jones industrial average is off more than 600 points, dropping below the 9,000 mark for the first time in five years. |
| Serious games: Ars looks at games that tackle the big issues Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:10 PM CDT Video games may still be seen as a hobby for the young or the young at heart, but what happens when games try to tackle truly mature subjects? Ars digs into the games that try to say something, and finds that not every princess can be saved. |
| Man Doing Well After Double Arm Transplant [VIDEO] Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:10 PM CDT A German farmer who received the world's first complete double arm transplant is recovering well and able to perform some basic tasks, though doctors said Wednesday it still could take up to two years before he relearns how to use his hands. |
| Google reads XKCD - decides to impliment the feature Posted: 09 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT After reading an XKCD cartoon about a youtube "virus", Google actually decided to impliment it for real. |
| France Invests $550M to Kickstart Electric Car Revolution Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT The French government today earmarked a massive €400 million ($549 million) in state support for the development of electric and hybrid cars. The news comes hot on the heels of electric car committments from Renault and Peugeot-Citroen that signal a major shift in green transport policy across the country. |
| Nick Nolte escapes burning home in Malibu Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:40 PM CDT The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says the actor slightly cut his hand when he broke a window and fled the home shortly after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. |
| Green Day working with Nirvana producer on next album. Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:30 PM CDT Green Day are working on new material with former Nirvana producer and Garbage drummer Butch Vig, according to Vig's bandmate Shirley Manson. |
| States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:20 PM CDT Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law. |
| Santa Cruz University Fights Back at RIAA Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT The RIAA sends out pre-settlement letters and lawsuits to all manner of students accused of file-sharing across the US. Some schools, as we've covered in our Tackling College Piracy series, have capitulated. Others, like University of California Santa Cruz, have fought back. |
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Alaskan Independence Party: The Last Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT Palin connection to Alaska Independence Party - Radical hypocrit |
| The ad ABC won’t let you see — and what you can do about it Posted: 09 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT So ABC will take millions of dollars from oil companies to run misleading energy ads, but they refuse to run one truthful ad from the Alliance for Climate Protection's Repower America: |
| 1 Photo every day for 8 years = 1min 43 seconds video Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:50 PM CDT |
| RIMM Finally Realizes BlackBerry Users Might Own a Mac Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:40 PM CDT The BlackBerry syncing situation on Macs is, to put it lightly, abysmal (from RIM anyway). But it looks they're finally realizing people who own Blackberrys might just use a Mac too! Boy Genius brings us the first look at their BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac, a clean, appropriately Mactastic version of their standard PC program that'll sync music, p |
| Rio Ferdinand Condemns Fifa On Racism Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT England vice-captain Rio Ferdinand has hit out at Fifa's approach to racist behaviour among fans, accusing world football's governing body of weakness. |
| Netflix Move-Watching Marathon Ends After Record 123 Hours Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT After 123 hours and 10 minutes of continuous movie watching (yes, that means zero hours of sleep), the Netflix Movie Watching World Championship in NYC's Time Square has come to a close. |
| America’s Five Fattest (and Getting Fatter) States Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:50 PM CDT The obesity epidemic in America has gotten worse in the last year, despite the many public service campaigns promoting physical activity and warning about the health risks posed by being overweight, according to a new study. |
| Why eBay Should Open-Source Skype Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:40 PM CDT eBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people %u2013 10% of its workforce %u2013 redundant, it has had to own up to a serious breach of trust with its Internet telephony program, Skype. |
| Weird Al Yankovic - Whatever You Like Posted: 09 Oct 2008 02:40 PM CDT Weird Al Yankovic has just released a hilarious parody of T.I.'s chart-topping single, "Whatever You Like." |
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