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| Marijuana advocates exhale after AG signals policy shift Posted: 21 Mar 2009 05:00 PM PDT LOS ANGELES – Medical marijuana users and dispensary owners in California have held their breath for years — fearful they would be targeted for prosecution by the federal government. |
| Ten Facebook Tips For Power Users Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:50 PM PDT Thought you knew everything about Facebook, didn't you? Here is how to take your Facebook account to the next level. |
| V for Vendetta style soliloquy (Pic) Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:50 PM PDT |
| Average Movie Costs Netflix $0.05 To Deliver Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PDT While Netflix is not yet giving out a lot of details on their costs associated with their streaming video service, they have given out enough data for us to have a pretty good idea of their costs |
| Rat Attack in India Set Off by Bamboo Flowering Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PDT In northeastern India's Mizoram state, there's one bamboo species, Melocanna baccifera, that causes dread. The plant flowers every 48 to 50 years, and its blooming brings tens of millions of hungry rats. After they devour the bamboo fruit, they consume crops, destroying entire fields—and local livelihoods—in a day or two.... |
| BioShock 2 Will Have A ‘Simultaneous’ Release Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PDT I attempt to divert from the ways of the first BioShock, a company spokesperson has revealed 2K Games plans to release the game 'simultaneous' on all platforms. |
| NIN Launches BitTorrent Tracker for New Release Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PDT Nine Inch Nails released their new tour sampler NIN/JA on their website a few hours ago. While the regular quality MP3s can be downloaded straight from their server, the band has set up their own BitTorrent tracker for the higher quality 'lossless' downloads. |
| Perfectly Sculpted Melon [SFW] Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:20 PM PDT |
| Beat the traffic: Take the Flying Car! Posted: 21 Mar 2009 04:00 PM PDT U.S. company has realized the longstanding fantasy of a flying car.Terrafugia Inc.'s "roadable aircraft," named Transition, completed its first flight at Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Wednesday, the company said. |
| Report: Apple leaks 17-inch iMac for $899? Posted: 21 Mar 2009 03:51 PM PDT An Italian blog site notices a mention of a $899 iMac on Apple's education site. Currently, Apple is offering only iMacs in 20- and 24-inch screen sizes, starting at $1,199. But it's unclear whether the 17-incher is really new or not. |
| 10 Great Singers Who Are Terrible Dancers Posted: 21 Mar 2009 03:40 PM PDT The ones who can dance know who they are. Michael Jackson, James Brown, Usher, Prince. They're the ones who often earn the moniker "entertainer." These are people who we'd want to see on a stage or on a dance floor. |
| How the iPhone 3.0 Will Create a New Mobile Economy Posted: 21 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PDT he iPhone 3.0 software includes the ability to copy-and-paste, a landscape keyboard, and push notifications. However, none of these updates were as revolutionary as the new features Apple offered to iPhone application developers. The one to watch however is the ability to purchase items within an application. |
| Smart People Really Do Think Faster Posted: 21 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT The smarter the person, the faster nerve impulses zip around the brain, a UCLA study of brain scans finds. And this ability to think quickly apparently is inherited..... |
| Obama's budget to produce record $9.3 trillion in deficits Posted: 21 Mar 2009 03:10 PM PDT President Barack Obama's budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush's presidency, congressional auditors said Friday. It's a prospect even the president's own budget director called unsustainable. |
| Women talk three times as much as men, says study Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:40 PM PDT It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men. In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man. |
| 30 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT Adding illustrative elements to a web design can take it to a whole new level. In this article, you'll be able to set your eyes on some of the best examples of websites that have chosen to use illustrated elements as part of the design. |
| Dog eats $400, but woman recovers some of it Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT Kelley Davis said she had an extra $400 in cash to deposit after working extra hours as a physical therapist. She had planned to deposit the money, but it wasn't in her pocket. She remembered leaving it in the bedroom and it occurred to her that the family's 2-year-old greater Swiss mountain dog, Augie, might have eaten it. |
| When did Earth's oxygen atmosphere appear? Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PDT ...the evolution of bacteria that were able to ingest the primitive atmosphere of the time, and excrete oxygen. To these little beasties, oxygen was a lethal poison, and when enough accumulated in the atmosphere, it killed off a lot of our planet's nascent life. They couldn't survive their own waste... |
| CBS Files Copyright Complaint To YouTube about Bloggers Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PDT CBS has lost their marbles if they think they can start somehow regulating the use of video clips from their broadcasts on the internet. |
| The Greatest Upsets in MMA History Posted: 21 Mar 2009 02:00 PM PDT A look back at some of the greatest upsets in MMA History, from Rashad Evans and Matt Serra pulling off upsets, and even Kimbo Slice getting whupped in less than 20 seconds. |
| Google De-indexes $5M ToysRUs Domain, Toys.com Posted: 21 Mar 2009 01:30 PM PDT What a waste! Now the value of Toys 'R' Us' $5.1M purchase of Toys.com has been relegated to type-in traffic and potentially some of the inbound links to Toys.com. |
| We Put Hedge Fund Interest Before Our Children's [Graffiti] Posted: 21 Mar 2009 01:30 PM PDT |
| Hackery (Politico) vs. Journalism (Reuters) Posted: 21 Mar 2009 01:20 PM PDT It's not often you come across such a stark contrast of hackery versus journalism - outside of a supermarket check-out line anyway, but yesterday's stories from Politico and Reuters offer a case study in the difference between sensationalizing talking points and reporting the facts. |
| 10 Worst Music Videos Ever Made Posted: 21 Mar 2009 01:11 PM PDT This was a hard one to do because there have been so many horrific videos made since bands started making videos. many of the worst ones were made in the 80's. Some of these are guaranteed to make everyone laugh. |
| How they would have aged (PIC) Posted: 21 Mar 2009 01:00 PM PDT |
| 6 Supervillains Who Were Actually OK Guys Posted: 21 Mar 2009 12:51 PM PDT Not every supervillain is a total asshole. In fact, some of them are downright sympathetic. |
| Administration's New Policy on Medical Cannabis is Right One Posted: 21 Mar 2009 12:32 PM PDT But not everyone is pleased with the administration's new 'hands-off' approach. Iowa Senator and longtime marijuana law reform opponent Charles Grassley immediately criticized Holder's announcement, stating, "The first rule of medicine, first do no harm, is being violated by the attorney general by his decision."Grassley's ideological... |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2009 12:10 PM PDT Pretty nice chart of EvE Online space ships..Phoenix looks like a big gun to me... |
| Jaguar, Buick dethrone Lexus in reliability study Posted: 21 Mar 2009 12:10 PM PDT Jaguar and Buick surged to the top of J.D. Power and Associates' closely watched vehicle dependability study this year, tying for the No. 1 spot and dethroning Lexus for the first time since the Japanese luxury brand has been a part of the survey. |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2009 11:52 AM PDT AIG Execs | Pakistan - Afganistan | AIG Bonus ........ |
| A Lot of Norwegian Walruses [PIC] Posted: 21 Mar 2009 11:30 AM PDT Near extinct, now recovering. Beautiful shot, enlargeable, wallpaper. |
| What we call 'reality' is just a state of mind Posted: 21 Mar 2009 11:10 AM PDT A lifetime studying quantum mechanics has convinced theoretical physicist Bernard d'Espagnat that the world we perceive is merely a shadow of the ultimate reality |
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| Economic Crisis: From CEO to Pizza Man Posted: 21 Mar 2009 10:30 AM PDT so sad... |
| First GM Human Embryo Could Dramatically Alter the Future Posted: 21 Mar 2009 10:00 AM PDT Cornell University researchers in New York revealed that they had produced what is believed to be the world's first genetically altered human embryo—an ironic twist considering all the criticism the US has heaped on South Korea over the past several years for going "too far" with its genetic research programs. |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2009 09:50 AM PDT Linda Frank of North Syracuse undergoes maggot therapy to treat a foot wound she suffered due to diabetes. Maggot therapy is when a doctor puts maggots on a wound and lets the larvae eat away the dead tissue. (Viewer discretion advised) |
| If You Sell Wine, Then Let Me Sell Cheese Posted: 21 Mar 2009 09:32 AM PDT In a slowing economy, allowing grocery stores to sell wine could hurt the little guy. But then again, it could actually be a good thing. Antiquated blue laws, dating back to Prohibition, should be lifted. Right now, in New York, an independent wine store can't sell any food. What's wrong with this picture? |
| Posted: 21 Mar 2009 09:10 AM PDT From TruTV/The Smoking Gun: This burglar falls through ceilings, breaks bottles and gets trapped. You will not believe it until you see it. |
| 5 Things We Wish We Could Undo on the Internet Posted: 21 Mar 2009 09:00 AM PDT Gmail has a new unsend feature — sort of like the broadcast delay in case Janet Jackson shows her nipple, but niftier because it's online! It made us think of other things people should undo. |
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