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100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 06:00 PM PDT

This is my parody of all the "100" list specials from the American Film Institute.

20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Time

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 06:00 PM PDT

The beginning, the end, and the funny habits of our favorite ticking force.

Giant sand worms lived in Torbay, scientists claim

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 05:50 PM PDT

Scientists have found evidence of a giant prehistoric sand worm in an English seaside resort.

100:1 Guy-Girl Ratio at a Phish Concert (PIC)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 05:30 PM PDT

Looks like a great place for a guy to find a wife.

Salmon-Eating Wolves Are Newest 'Marine Mammals'

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 05:20 PM PDT

Unique coastal wolves range from Southern Alaska to Vancouver Island. Their fur has a red tint and their diet includes salmon, beached whales, and seals. It has been estimated that there are perhaps several thousand of them, but no official count has been conducted.

Please, No More Dark Superhero Movies

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 05:00 PM PDT

The Dark Knight was a massive hit, and Watchmen got great buzz (if not great reviews). But when Fox floats the idea of a "dark" reboot for the Fantastic Four, it's gone too far.

Doom + Diablo = Doomablo

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:50 PM PDT

Some of us thought about it and others talked about it, just what if we mashed Doom and Diablo together. It's ingenius I tell you, but only one person actually went out and attempted to create it.

Hand-painted Super Mario Bros. shoes

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:50 PM PDT

Allison sez, "These are a pair of hand painted shoes I made one afternoon. I got the shoes for $5 at payless, and already had the paint. I free handed the shoes carefully by painting with a really tiny paint brush that I made. I sealed the shoes afterwards with spray acrylic, and voila!"

Scientists find a soup of suspects in milk’s link to cancer

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PDT

For more than a century, people thought that any beverage safe enough to serve to a weaning child couldn't hurt an adult. But test-tube studies and studies in adults over the past decade have linked cow's milk with an excess cancer risk in the prostate, and to a lesser extent in the breast and ovaries.

How To: Be A Good Sport

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PDT

From showboating to faking injuries, being a poor sport can ruin a good game between friends.

Study: Peanut Allergy May Be Reversible

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PDT

Scientists have the first evidence that life-threatening peanut allergies may be cured one day.

Findings - What Do Dreams Mean? Whatever Your Bias Says

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:20 PM PDT

Suppose last night you had two dreams. In one, God appears and commands you to take a year off and travel the world. In the other, God commands you to take a year off to go work in a leper colony.

Kevin Rose Dishes iPhone 3.0 Rumors: Cut and Paste and more

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Digg's Kevin Rose is again peddling his Apple rumors, this time in regards to the upcoming 3.0 preview scheduled for this Tuesday. He was dead on last time around—can he do it again?

Apple 'Wiimote' patent discovered in US (Apple vs Wii?)

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Could Apple be about to take aim at Nintendo's gaming market share by introducing a Wii-like games console of its own?

In Pictures: Stores That Are No More

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT

Photographer Brian Ulrich's images explore the haunted shells of America's devastated retail landscape

Take the Linux Filesystem Tour | TuxRadar

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:10 PM PDT

A newbie friendly (or minimal gek description of a Linux file sysem

Star Wars scientists use laser gun to kill mosquitoes

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Scientists who worked the Star Wars anti-missile programme in the United States are building a ray-gun than can kill mosquitoes in a bid to tackle the scourge of malaria.

Source says Pinto may be next Bond girl

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Mumbai-born actress Freida Pinto, star of "Slumdog Millionaire," could soon be the next female star of a James Bond movie, a source says.

Colorado Undermines Population's Right To Medical Marijuana

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PDT

"Among other things, the rules would limit each medical marijuana "caregiver" to a max of five patients -- a constraint that would seem to disallow the state's growing number of marijuana dispensaries."

Brodeur ties Roy's record with 551 Wins

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Martin Brodeur tied Patrick Roy's career regular-season mark of 551 wins when the New Jersey netminder led the Devils to a 3-1 victory over the hometown Canadiens on Saturday night.

Nobody listens to the real climate change experts

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Considering how the fear of global warming is inspiring the world's politicians to put forward the most costly and economically damaging package of measures ever imposed on mankind, it is obviously important that we can trust the basis on which all this is being proposed. Last week two international conferences addressed this issue.

The Breast Machine

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 02:50 PM PDT

Watchmen Discussion Topics [Graph - Pic]

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 02:40 PM PDT

what people are talking about after they have seen the movie, Watchmen

Legal Pot: Are Hard Times Leading to Higher Times?

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT

"There is momentum of the sort I haven't seen since I've been involved in this," says Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance, which supports easing marijuana laws.

Top Five Web Design Tools

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PDT

There are many applications available to our disposal, but there are some that just stand out from the crowd. The tools in this article are what's regarded as the most popular tools used for web design.

BASE Jumping off the Burj Dubai - 650 Meters up!

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 02:10 PM PDT

Oh, wow. A Brit and a Frenchman snuck on to the under-construction Burj Dubai and BASE jumped from it at 650 meters up. Now, there's video available of their infiltration, jump and subsequent escape. The footage from up top and the jump is just incredible stuff. Although my favorite part of the video may be the footnote at the end.

6 Movie Remakes that Missed the Point

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 02:00 PM PDT

It'll be like the original. Only the opposite.

24 Science Fiction Archaeologists

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 02:00 PM PDT

What's the best part about living in the distant future? There's so much more past for you to explore! We take a look at some of science fiction's most illustrious antiquarians.

Scientists See God on the Brain - Why humans believe in god

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PDT

Researches found out certain areas in the brains respond to religion and god, they found those areas evolved along with other belief and social cognitive abilities. The studies will wind up comparing different belief systems to see if they also activate the same brain areas, If they do, we can better define why those brain areas evolved in humans.

Fantastic Four is Already Getting Remade?

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PDT

20th Century Fox, which is developing reboots of Marvel's Daredevil and their Planet of the Apes franchise, now also has plans to reboot Fantastic Four completely from scratch.

Avoid disasters risking your electronic information

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PDT

So what if? Your computer crashes. If you have not backed up, all is lost.

The most badass wall clock you will see today

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:40 PM PDT

Batman Returns with Batbus Ad Campaign [PICS]

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:30 PM PDT

Creative advertising campaign for ZDF television channel utilizes tour buses in Hamburg, Germany. With increasing speed, the airstream lifts Batman right up to the level of the passenger window.

Grand Extermination: Scientists Ridding Whole Island of Rats

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:20 PM PDT

Centuries ago, Rat Island was believed to be a virtual paradise for seabirds -- a spongy redoubt for tufted puffins, whiskered auklets, and storm petrels. But then came the rats, brought by a sailing ship, which turned the fecund habitat into a near-dead zone. Now scientists are trying to return the uninhabited island to its original splendor.

12 Absurd Inventions Only a Dude Would Come Up With [PICS]

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 01:00 PM PDT

There are over 7 million patents registered in the United States, a great number of which describe practical inventions designed for use by everyday, ordinary human beings. Then there's the "guy" stuff, ideas so lunkheaded and irrational they could only have come from that tiny portion of a guy's brain not dedicated to scratching himself.

Ten Films That Shouldn't Be Remade

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 12:50 PM PDT

A small list of movies that we absolutely do not want, ever, to see remade, or rebooted, or re-imagined.

How Battlestar Galactica May Have Changed Science Fiction

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 12:40 PM PDT

As Battlestar Galactica hurtles towards next week's two-hour finale, it's time for showrunner Ronald D. Moore to look back at the legacy of the show, and how it's changed science fiction... well, kind of.

First Review of Monsters vs Aliens: The Audience Doesn't Win

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 12:30 PM PDT

MvA is a return to DreamWorks' 'look how many pop-culture gags we can stuff into this thing' philosophy. I can't blame the filmmakers if they're as big a bunch of fanboys as I am but the poke-in-the-ribs 'you know what we're quoting' routine gets tiresome after a while. Not every movie can be a Panda but to me it felt like they weren't even trying.

In Soviet Russia, Animals ...

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 12:00 PM PDT

Africa constructor.

The Worst Part of the Industrial Revolution

Posted: 15 Mar 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Long-time forum member Ben Driscoll has been posting his webcomic Daisy Owl in the forum since July. Today, a little boy learns a harsh lesson about history.It only gets stranger from th...

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