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| Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:40 PM CDT All Hallows Eve is right around the corner, so we asked Nick DiFonzo - album-cover connoisseur and author of "Seriously Bad Album Covers" - to pull some of his collection's most ghoulish examples. |
| The NFL has a Steroid Hotline, but is too Cheap to Staff It Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:30 PM CDT The NFL provides a hotline for players to contact if they want to find out if supplements contain ingredients banned by the league. However, Minnesota Vikings receiver Bernard Berrian said sometimes there's nobody at the other end of the line. |
| T.rex 'followed its nose' while hunting ! Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:20 PM CDT Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now. |
| Ford's LCD Gauges Bring Futuristic Look To Hybrids [w/PICS] Posted: 29 Oct 2008 08:00 PM CDT Billed as a way for drivers to maximize fuel economy, SmartGauge with "EcoGuide" uses an all-digital, LCD screen instrument cluster with lively animations to prompt drivers on good driving habits by displaying a heavily stylized greenery for good behavior. The gauges can be customized to display whatever real time data the driver wishes to see. |
| Grand, Rare Aerial View of Sunrise Lightning Over Singapore! Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:50 PM CDT Photographer: Necip Perver |
| 11,538 Shots in 9h: Univ. of Minn. Breaks Flu Shot Record Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:40 PM CDT More than 60 trained personnel dispensed 11,538 flu shots during a nine-hour period Tuesday at four locations around the campus in Minneapolis and St. Paul. |
| Is That Sexy Halloween Costume Really Sexy? Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:40 PM CDT Not-So-Sexy Sexy Halloween Costumes. Not that Halloween is supposed to be sexy. But these chicks tried. Hard. |
| Steve Forbes calls for massive downsizing of Federal Reserve Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:40 PM CDT excerpt: "The Fed is politically unaccountable. Yes, its chairman makes periodic appearances before Congress, but the Fed is not dependent on congressional appropriations. It literally prints its own budget. It pays for its operations out of the interest it receives on all the securities it holds and then remits the rest to Uncle Sam." |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:30 PM CDT There aren't even words to define this... Just... WTF |
| 1 in 7 female US Veterans violated: Study Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:30 PM CDT New report: 2,600+ Iraq/Afghanistan soldiers showed sexual trauma. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:20 PM CDT When Yahoo Buzz launched back in February of 2008, it was thought by many to be the next big player in the social news community space. The question still remains… Is Yahoo's Buzz really just a Buzz-kill? |
| "Amateur" astronomers capture Jupiter, Charon [PIC] Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:10 PM CDT The definition of a professional astronomer is one who gets paid to do it. But the difference between that and an amateur, who technically does it for fun, is getting hard to tell. Take this image of Pluto and its moon Charon taken by so-called amateur astronomers Antonello Medugno and Daniele Gasparri from Italy... |
| Dean Kamen Q&A: Robots Can Save America from Britney Spears Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT Dean Kamen is famous for inventing the AutoSyringe, the portable dialysis machine, the iBOT self-balancing wheelchair, and, of course, the Segway human transporter. |
| Travel Strategies: Getting The Best Deals For The Holidays Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:40 PM CDT The holiday season is approaching quickly with family and friends eagerly awaiting your arrival. Get rid of those Wall Street blues and begin your travel planning the smart way. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:20 PM CDT Publicly, Zuckerberg has talked about the company making growth its priority. But a $400 million a year ship can sink fast, especially if the advertising market faces a hard contraction and media buyers cut back on their more experimental ad buys. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:20 PM CDT The universe is trying to kill us. Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 1035 years before all matter decays anyway. |
| Nanoparticles Target Multiple Cancer Genes, Shrinks Tumors Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:10 PM CDT The nanoparticles, administered in conjuction with ultrasound irradiation, exerted their effects only on malignant tissue, leaving healthy tissue alone. |
| Top 10 e-mail blunders of 2008 Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:10 PM CDT With Halloween lurking around the corner, messaging security and data loss prevention company Proofpoint has compiled some of the scariest e-mail blunders of the year |
| Scientists Say Grapes May Aid A Bunch Of Heart Risk Factors Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT Could eating grapes help fight high blood pressure related to a salty diet? And could grapes calm other factors that are also related to heart diseases such as heart failure? A new University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center study suggests so. |
| Facebook Pictures Show U2's Bono Partying With Bikini Teens Posted: 29 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT Recently posted Facebook pictures show 48-year-old married U2 rocker Bono, with his arm around two bikini-clad teenagers in St Tropez, complete with diary details. |
| New Xbox Experience (NXE) Review: It's Pure Improvement Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT Functionally, it's hiding at least one killer app. Visually, it's a bigger jump than Windows XP to Windows Vista. Given that NXE is a mandatory update for anyone on Xbox Live, it's a good thing we really, really liked it. |
| 15 Free High Res Rough Textures Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:40 PM CDT With grunge/textured designs being popular, I thought it would be worthwhile to provide some free textures that you can use in your designs. This set consists of 15 free, high resolution rough textures (2,500px x 1,950px dimensions). I took them from rock and stone formations on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. |
| 4 Charged in Deadly Ark. Campus Shooting. Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:40 PM CDT Four men were charged Tuesday with capital murder for the fatal shootings of two students and wounding of a third near a University of Central Arkansas dormitory. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT From the comments: "And somewhere else in the world, somebody asked ChaCha "What is an Eiffel Tower sex position" and got a door-opening time for a Randy Newman show." |
| Kobe Leads Lakers to Victory, Oden Injured in NBA Debut Posted: 29 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT Kobe Bryant had 23 points, 11 rebounds and five assists Tuesday night, leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 96-76 season-opening victory over the Portland Trail Blazers and spoiling rookie Greg Oden's debut, which was cut short by another injury. Bryant orchestrated a well-balanced offense for the Lakers, who also played tenacious defense. |
| Yoga And Trumpets Put Eyes At Risk Posted: 29 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT Rubbing the eyes has been proven to contribute to conditions like glaucoma and short-sightedness, but eye specialists have discovered many other basic behaviours also increase risk. Every day activities like swimming, doing a gym workout or playing a musical instrument could be making pressure-related eye diseases worse, Australian research says. |
| Commentary: Obama breaks promise Posted: 29 Oct 2008 04:40 PM CDT You'll dismiss this as old news and find some way to excuse it as repothug whinning but it is a clear example of what we can expect January 20 when he officially becomes KING.Wednesday night Barack Obama will be on five different TV networks speaking directly to the American people and spend millions simply because he can. |
| Posted: 29 Oct 2008 04:40 PM CDT Amidst just announced 10Billion profits, BP announced that the Prudhoe Bay pipeline burst due to corrosion. |
| Brand New '24' Season 7 Trailer Leaked Posted: 29 Oct 2008 04:40 PM CDT The Hollywood Reporter Blog - Gun action, car action, helicopter action, plane action, explosions, falling, etc. This is the new seventh season "24" trailer that's going to air at the conclusion of Fox's upcoming "Redemption" movie, which premieres Nov. 23. |
| Why the Rich Are Losing Their Share of the Nation's Wealth Posted: 29 Oct 2008 04:30 PM CDT Economic populism is back, with attacks against inequality and the "greedy rich" back in style. But at the very moment that the public is outraged over the rich getting richer, the rich might actually be losing their share of the nation's wealth. |
| Why 'Spore' Sucks: We Found Who to Blame Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:50 PM CDT While Will Wright headed the movement for science to take a primary role, one man apparently thought that would be too complex for the wider audience... |
| 15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:40 PM CDT Memristor circuits lead to ultrasmall PCs. Intel and AMD unleash massively multicore CPUs. Samsung TVs respond to your every gesture. These and other developing technologies will fundamentally change the way you think about--and use--technology. |
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| Netflix on Xbox 360 Confirmed to be in HD! Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:20 PM CDT Thanks for trying Bluray, you gave it your best shot. |
| Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally) Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:10 PM CDT Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. |
| 15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT There are a lot of details to consider when designing and developing a web site. In reality, it can seem like an endless list — but if you look carefully you'll see that there are certain elements that are more important than others, elements that are used consistently among the most successful sites. |
| Faces behind Popular Linux Distros Posted: 29 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT Have you ever wondered who are the people behind Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware,..? Stop wondering and have a look at faces behind popular Linux Distros. |
| Microsoft promises Windows 7 beta for early 2009 Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:50 PM CDT Microsoft today showed off Windows 7 in a comprehensive demonstration, highlighted new key features such as a more extensively deployed ribbon interface, a cleaned up taskbar, new search capabilities, multi-touch and DirectX 2D acceleration. |
| Programming: How We Made Our Face Recognizer 25x Faster Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:50 PM CDT This is a war story from my real day job. I work at a start-up company in Pittsburgh that does face detection, tracking, and recognition software. This particular problem involved optimization of the face recognizer. |
| 40 Beautiful Grunge Photoshop Tutorials Posted: 29 Oct 2008 02:40 PM CDT In this collection, we present to you 40 excellent, high-quality grunge Photoshop tutorials. So fire up Photoshop and get ready to get your hands… dirty! |
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