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Challenges remain for Amazon digital music service

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 09:10 PM CST

After its first full year selling tracks from all four major labels, Amazon's digital music store has become the second-largest a la carte service, according to industry estimates. But it's a very distant second...

250 Most Important Tech Products, Events, and People of '08

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:50 PM CST

Years from now, when future geeks muse over the history of PC tech, what will they remember about 2008? That's the question we sought to answer when we compiled this comprehensive technology retrospective of the last year.

Oh Crap! They've got lasers!

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:40 PM CST

Protesters aim a laser pointer at a riot police officer during clashes in Athens, Greece

Free Wi-Fi spreading like a virus

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:40 PM CST

With the economy down and competition for scarce customers up, the trickle of free Wi-Fi hotspots is becoming a flood. Sandwich joints, coffee houses, gas stations, buses, trains -- even the entire city of Beijing -- are all getting free, no-login Wi-Fi. It's a wonderful time to be a cheapskate with a netbook.

Kid delivers sick roundhouse K.O.

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:30 PM CST

Fark Readers Conspire to Rickroll Texas Stadium

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:20 PM CST

The Dallas Cowboys have opened an online poll so fans can pick the last song played at Texas Stadium, which the team will leave after this year. Whoever thinks Rickrolls are still funny is waging a campaign for "Never Gonna Give You Up."

Can Open Source Help the Economy?

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:10 PM CST

In the last major economic downturn, Linux established itself as a widely-accepted enterprise operating system, benefiting a lively ecosystem of vendors such as Red Hat and Novell. The return of tough economic times puts the open source alternative again front and center, this time with focus on databases and higher-level software applications.

Google Slips From Most Trusted List

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 08:00 PM CST

The Internet search giant previously stood at the 10th ranking last year, but slipped off into the ether this year as the 6,500 people surveyed by the Ponemon Institute and Truste may have put Google into the "big company syndrom," the Chronicle story reported.

Supreme Court Allows Suits Over 'Light' Cigarettes

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 07:50 PM CST

The Supreme Court is allowing lawsuits to go forward against tobacco companies' allegedly deceptive marketing of "light" cigarettes.

Ideological clash of two jihadi titans shakes Al Qaeda

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 07:40 PM CST

A bitter, year-long feud that has shaken Al Qaeda's ideological pillars grew even sharper last month. A former associate of Ayman al-Zawahiri accused him of working for Sudanese intelligence, wearing "women's garments" to flee Afghanistan, and spreading an incorrect Islamic theory of jihad...

Top 10 All-Time NFL Defensive Teams

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 07:30 PM CST

Clearly the Steelers have the best defense in the NFL this season. But where do they rank all time? Here's a look at DJ Gallo's top 10.

Dolphin Stampede

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 07:20 PM CST

You think there a lot of dolphins at the beginning of this clip? Give it a few seconds.

High blood pressure lowers IQ

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 07:10 PM CST

If you have high blood pressure, on days when your blood pressure spikes higher than normal, cognitive ability is worse than normal. It's another reason to keep your blood pressure down, experts said. The report is published in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

The lizard roars: openSUSE 11.1 coming this week

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 06:58 PM CST

openSUSE 11.1, the next major version of the company's community-driven Linux distribution, is scheduled for release on December 17. The new version will include updated software and some important new features that enhance the quality of the distribution.

Shoe Attack On Bush Already Turned Into Flash Game

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 06:50 PM CST

As hilarious and .gif worthy the incident was yesterday that saw an Iraqi journalist chucking his shoes at President Bush, did we really need a flash game? Apparently so.

Officer Who Shoved Bicyclist Indicted Using YouTube Footage

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 06:40 PM CST

The police officer who seemingly randomly picked a bicyclist out of a critical mass crowd to tackle has been indicted for falsifying records and could also soon be charged with misdemeanor assault.

Beer Returns to Sudan After 25 Years of Islamic Rule

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 06:30 PM CST

Since the imposition of Islamic law 25 years ago, having a cool beer in Sudan meant running the risk of 40 lashes. Today SAB Miller is preparing to open a brewery in the south of the country. "We will not only be consuming but producing alcohol," Samson Kwaje, the Agriculture Minister of south Sudan, said at the launch.

The 7 Worst Yankees Transactions Over The Last 10 Years

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 06:20 PM CST

Sure, other baseball teams have made some bad movies, but they aren't the Yankees. They haven't won the Series since 2000, and with the blockbuster signings of Sabathia and Burnett this list looks back at the recent superstar signings that ended poorly...

For Chicago's Second City, Scandal Is A Gift

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 06:10 PM CST

The Blagojevich scandal was embarrassing to most people in Illinois — but for Chicago comedy institution Second City, it was an embarrassment of riches.

Thousands Demand Release of Shoe Throwing Journalist

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 05:30 PM CST

Thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George Bush.

Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 05:20 PM CST

In October, Fermilab scientists joined a growing number of physicists around the world in warning that the Very Large Earth Collider—a $117 billion...

Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:50 PM CST

Below are the Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos, is it Better than jQuery?Quite, possibly.

First-Ever Photo of Liquid on an Extraterrestrial World

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:40 PM CST

A spacecraft has captured an image of what may be the first drop of liquid ever observed on an extraterrestrial surface. Among the pictures snapped by the Huygens probe after

Best (luckiest) Driver Ever [video]

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:30 PM CST

wow!

Wine64 hello world app runs!

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:30 PM CST

I can finally report success on the first ever win64 program running on wine. The program was a textbook classic, but to make it work gcc had to be changed a lot.

Boy killed mother, Shot father because they took Halo 3 away

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:20 PM CST

Daniel Petric was so angry that his father would not allow him to play the violent video game Halo 3 that he killed his mother and shot his father, then tried to make it appear to be a murder-suicide, prosecutors told a Lorain County jury this morning in the boy's murder trial.

Figure Skating Piledriver

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:20 PM CST

The Russian judge gave her a 9.8.

Web 2.0 Tactics for Successful Job-Hunting

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:10 PM CST

When you update your resume, don't overlook these Internet twists on longstanding job-seeking practices.

Aggregate Your Social Networks with EventBox

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:10 PM CST

Dealing with social media and networking is a chore. There's so much going on in too many different places, and keeping track of all that information is hard enough; managing your own is another story.

Ten of the Baddest Fictional Movie Weapons

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 04:00 PM CST

Movies often provide us with the chance to escape reality for a couple of hours, so in a violent movie, normal, regular weapons won't always do. To take on imaginary armies and beasts, you're going to need imaginary weapons. Fictional movie weapons may be alien in origin or just plain overpowering, but for whatever the reason, they tend to be pre

Change.gov iPhone App Now Available

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 03:50 PM CST

According to Christopher Carfi, co-founder of Cerado, the company behind the creation of the widgets, the fact that Change.gov is now iPhone, mobile and widget-enabled is largely due to Change.gov opening up its content with the Creative Commons license.

Ebay bans man from selling his soul.

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 03:33 PM CST

A musician fed up with his life was today barred from selling his soul to the highest bidder.

Lucky Jets: Late fumble return completes comeback vs. Bills

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 03:10 PM CST

It was a hectic scene as bodies flew everywhere near the end zone, with even referee Jeff Triplette getting knocked to the turf and appearing to take a bloody nose. He worked the rest of the game wiping his face with a towel.

Close-Up of Elephants Playing.If It Looks like Art, It's Art

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 02:32 PM CST

Beautiful, unusual pic of 2 elephants. Focus is on their heads, faces. Enlargeable, wallpaper.

How the robots will take over the world

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 02:20 PM CST

What will happen if the robots are not working?A lot worse than when they are planning to take over the world.

Stupid TV! Be more helpful!

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 02:10 PM CST

The Flag of Equal Marriage Rights

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 02:10 PM CST

In 1902, when the Women's Suffrage movement was just getting warmed up, the American flag had 45 stars. In protest, the Suffragists created their own flag with only four stars, one for each state that allowed women to vote. This new flag is a protest flag for equal marriage rights. The flag only has two stars, for Connecticut and Massachusetts.

70-year-old Man Shoots 5 at Hip Hop Concert

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 02:00 PM CST

A Senegalese man in his 70s opened fire on a rap group, injuring four of them, during a live show because he thought they were making fun of him in their song titled "Angry Old Man."