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| Posted: 31 Oct 2008 09:10 PM CDT WaPo calls out John McCain for his stupid, racist campaigning. |
| Universal Health Care: The Diagnosis Posted: 31 Oct 2008 09:00 PM CDT Massachusetts put into practice the health care solution everyone is arguing about. Here's how it works and what it means for the rest of us.... |
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| "I already got threatening messages!" Posted: 31 Oct 2008 08:40 PM CDT A few weeks ago a story got popular on Digg after a student made an award-winning movie with only $180, about the Nigerian Scam. In an interview published today the guy revealed a few interesting things about the movie but that he got threatening messages as well. Also, he wrote a note about Digg on the movie's page... |
| How to Use Twitter to Report Voting Conditions & Problems Posted: 31 Oct 2008 08:20 PM CDT On election day, there are bound to be problems. A grass-roots, non-partisan initiative to call them out via the Internet has been launched - The Twitter Vote Report is urging those with Twitter accounts to report voting issues by adding #votereport. The resulting tweets flow to the site's home page, and will also be plotted on a Google map. |
| Octopus shoots out light, juggles crabs and trashes aquarium Posted: 31 Oct 2008 08:00 PM CDT A octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp. |
| Top 10 Scariest Players in NBA History Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:50 PM CDT They may be great ballers, but some of the nastiest on the court would be pretty scary in a dark alley, too. |
| Will Ferrell Plays Halloween Prank On USC Football Team Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:30 PM CDT If Gary didn't tell me beforehand, I may have reacted with the same terrified look as some other onlookers. |
| How Google Protects Itself From Zombies [PIC] Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:30 PM CDT Hey, the company's got a lot of brains to protect... |
| McCain Supported Group Accused Of Terrorist Activities Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:30 PM CDT During the late 1990s, the Senator supported and reportedly helped arm an organization that, while eventually tolerated by the U.S. foreign policy establishment, was accused of terrorist activities and allegedly had ties to al Qaeda. |
| Churches should be turned into gyms in UK Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:10 PM CDT Andy Burnham, the UK Culture Sceretary, has suggested churches with low attendance could be turned into gyms, restaurants and multi-faith centres. |
| The Tesla's Lightning Competition Posted: 31 Oct 2008 07:00 PM CDT Americans have the Tesla Roadster, the electric car which does zero to sixty in four seconds. The British now have the Lightning, the electric car which does…you guessed it, zero to sixty in four seconds. |
| Palin speaks on First Amendment: This is so dumb it hurts. Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT John McCain's running mate thinks that the Constitution protects political candidates from being criticized by the press. |
| Futurama’s Anti-Piracy Message, Just Do It Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT The latest Futurama movie, Bender's Game, is released in a few days and as usual it's already on BitTorrent. However, Matt Groening has included a nice extra on the DVD - a pretty amusing parody on one of the classic anti-piracy messages. |
| Florida GOP email: "Blacks are Voting! Blacks are Voting!" Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:40 PM CDT The Hillsborough GOP Chair, David Storck, distributed an email saying the early voters are a threat. That's because "car loads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes for Obama. After all he is black- no experience or or accomplishments but he is black." It also contains all the McCain lies and smears about Obama. |
| Phoenicians Left Deep Genetic Mark, Study Shows Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:40 PM CDT New research suggests that as many as 1 in 17 men living today on the coasts of North Africa and southern Europe may have a Phoenician direct male-line ancestor. |
| Andrew Bynum agrees to 4-year $58 mill.extension with Lakers Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:30 PM CDT The Lakers have reached a four-year contract extension with center Andrew Bynum worth about $58 million. |
| Bear Stearns Execs Sued For Lying About Health Of Company Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:30 PM CDT Ralph Cioffi and Matt Tannin have become household names in the Am Law 100 world since June, after the feds indicted them for fraud for allegedly lying to investors about the state of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that collapsed in June 2007. |
| U.S. Attacks Syria & Pakistan & "Refuses to Comment..." Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:20 PM CDT How 2 recruit & produce new terrorists by angering every single country in the Middle East. Contributions to the eternal "War on Terrorism" brought to you by the Homeland Corporation. Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq & Al-Qaeda have joined forces for 1st time in history to rise up + fight against "infidels" that create war with the entire Middle East |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:20 PM CDT A helpful reminder from Nedroid and friends. |
| Wired.com Readers' Best Geeky Halloween Costumes Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:10 PM CDT It can be scary soliciting photos from Wired.com readers and not knowing what to expect, let alone Halloween costume photos. Sure, some were creepy in all the wrong ways, but our favorite 10 submissions put our fears to rest. Click through the gallery to see the best geeky costumes our readers have to offer, from Predator to iPod silhouette girl. |
| New NASA Capsule Orion Resembles Apollo Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:10 PM CDT NASA rolled out its next-generation space capsule here Wednesday, revealing a bulbous module that is scheduled to carry humans back to the moon in 2020 and eventually onward to Mars. Unlike the space-plane shape of the shuttles, the new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle looks strikingly similar to the old Apollo space capsule from 1969. |
| Apple recruits top chip designer, IBM responds with suit Posted: 31 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT Apple recently recruited a top chip designer from IBM, resulting in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the executive from taking his knowledge as "IBM's top expert in Power architecture and technology" to the Mac maker. |
| New Book Reveals How Comic-Con Destroyed One Man's Life Posted: 31 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT The gigantic, annual pop culture convention Comic-Con can be many things: amazing, exciting, insane, overhyped, controversial . . . and heartbreaking. As Clive Young's terrific new book Homemade Hollywood reveals, a controversy over fan films at the Con almost destroyed aspiring filmmaker Sandy Collora's career. |
| Microsoft parks "I'm a PC" booth outside Apple Store Posted: 31 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT AppleInsider reader Tom submits the following photo, which shows a large Microsoft-branded kiosk parked outside a shopping-center-based Apple retail store. |
| IRS wrongly paid out $1 billion in 2007 refunds Posted: 31 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT The government sent out more than $1 billion in fraudulent refunds last year and offered this explanation Thursday for the bad checks in the mail: The Internal Revenue Service has too few resources to pursue every tax fraud case. |
| Barack Obama on The Daily Show (Full Interview) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT Senator Barack Obama is the guest on The Daily Show and doe a great interview with Jon Stewart via satellite. He doesn't think white voters have gotten the memo about the Bradley effect. |
| The 10 Supposed "Next Michael Jordans" Posted: 31 Oct 2008 04:30 PM CDT None of MJ´s one-time successors have been able to fill his sweatshop sneakers, but ESPN TrueHoop´s Henry Abbott tells us which have come closest. |
| Natural Remedies for 12 Winter Aches and Ills Posted: 31 Oct 2008 04:20 PM CDT Together with its partners, The Daily Green offers natural cures for everything from dry skin and sore throats to low energy and anxiety |
| Apple fanboys vs. Microsofties: A scientist's verdict Posted: 31 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT Love and hate apparently use the same circuits in the brain, which might help explain the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft devotees. |
| Ron Artest Gets Technical For Protecting Yao Ming (VIDEO) Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:40 PM CDT Dallas Mavericks waste Josh Howard has a history of cheap shots on Yao Ming, and he puts on a hard foul to the Houston Rockets big man. Ron Artest runs in to separate and strangely gets called for a technical. |
| Best Head on Lawn NOT a Halloween Decoration You'll SeeToday Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:30 PM CDT A stone head and a lawn. Guess they ran out of gnomes? Actually, pretty cool. Would like to see the rest of the body. |
| Brilliant! Watch 2 Different Shows On TV At The Same Time Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:30 PM CDT Texas Instruments, the maker of the DLP Cinema chip, is developing technology that might reduce the common problem by allowing two people to simultaneously view two different programs -- on the same TV. |
| Colbert Destroys His iPhone to Fight Gay Marriage Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:20 PM CDT Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen wagged his finger at Apple for their opposition to California's Prop. 2. And then he drove the point home by wagging a mallet at his beloved iPhone. |
| The Office - Joker Halloween Costume Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:10 PM CDT Dwight, Creed, and Kevin all dress up as the Joker. |
| Reducing Roads Could Boost Bear Population Posted: 31 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT The study, conducted in a 9,800 sq km area of west-central Alberta that includes parts of Jasper National Park, compared current harvesting practices that use small clearcuts in a checkerboard pattern, with one that would mimic a naturally-occurring disturbance like a wildfire, resulting in large clear-cut areas. |
| Lewis Hamilton subject of racist abuse ahead of the Brazili Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:50 PM CDT The ugly head of Spanish racism has returned to blight Lewis Hamilton's world championship challenge in Brazil. Thousands have targeted Hamilton on a voodoo style website, taunting him about the colour of his skin in a vile campaign that reprised the abuse he received at the start of the year in Barcelona. |
| The Ghoulish Truth Behind Popular Horror Stories Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:40 PM CDT But is there any truth to these scary stories? What really goes bump in the night? |
| URGENT: GA gives green light to racial targeting at polls Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:40 PM CDT Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel (R) is sending letters to 4,770 registered voters that they may have to cast "challenge" ballots that won't be counted on election day. She also declared that regular citizens can contest the citizenship of fellow voters at the polls -- forcing them to also cast challenged ballots that won't be counted on ele |
| The 50 Scariest Moments In Science Fiction Posted: 31 Oct 2008 02:30 PM CDT A list of some of the most terrifying scenes from the most horrific scifi movies. |
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