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| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT Baseball is America's pastime and the game is filled with more than a century's worth of history and tradition. It's a game that both men and women enjoy playing during the summer and to attend while indulging in some peanuts and Cracker Jacks. If you haven't paid it much attention before, here are some tips on how to get into baseball. |
| Paris liberation made 'whites only' Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT Papers unearthed by the BBC reveal that British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a "whites only" victory. |
| What's Going on in Elmhurst, Illinois? Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT In the immortal words of Bob Dylan. |
| Plaxico Burress answers EVERY police question with "F-Bomb" Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT At least this time Plaxico Burress was only shooting from the lip. The pistol-packing punk fired a string of profanities at a deputy sheriff two weeks ago after he was stopped for erratic driving in Florida, police said. |
| Konami announces Six Days in Fallujah Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT There have been books, movies, poetry and even rap songscoming out of the war in Iraq. Now, there's going to be a video game, one based on the November 2004 battle in the Iraqi town of Fallouja that left dead 38 U.S. soldiers and an estimated 1,200 insurgents. |
| Shots fired at model Gisele Bündchen's wedding Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT Paparazzi dodge bullets after being caught taking unauthorised pictures of newlyweds Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady. |
| KDE Strides Ahead While Gnome Stagnates Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT KDE4 is a radical rewrite, and it lays the groundwork for a long and sustainable future.The long-term vision for Gnome is conservative and careful. While radical changes are upsetting, Gnome's conservatism could lead to an increasingly crufty and un-sustainable code base.Bruce Byfield gazes into his crystal ball and predicts what the future holds |
| MTV's "The State" DVD hitting stores this Summer Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Actor, writer, State cast member and recent Reno 911! addition Joe Lo Truglio announced that the complete series DVD of The State has a summer release date or failing that, a release this summer. He also released two never-before-seen images of the DVD box set's inner sleeves. |
| Tesla Secures Over 500 Customers in First Week Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Less than a week after unveiling its new Model S electric sedan, Tesla Motors revealed that it has already received 520 orders for the all-electric car despite the fact the company is still waiting on the $350 million federal loan required to build the Model S assembly plant. |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Growing concern that the world's reserve currency will be debased by U.S. deficit spending is leading some countries to call for an end to the greenback's dominance. But is there a realistic alternative? |
| Tour of Astronaut Mike Fincke's living space aboard the ISS Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT ***** |
| APOD: The International Space Station Ex Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance again. In a recently completed mission, the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery visited the ISS and added components that included a new truss and new solar panels. |
| 4-years-old calls the police for math problems Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT Operator: 911 emergencies.Boy: Yeah I need some help.Operator: What's the matter?Boy: With my math.Operator: With your mouth?Boy: No with my math. I have to do it. Will you help me? |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT Game theory study in yeast shows how cooperative behavior meshes with evolutionary theory. One of the perplexing questions raised by evolutionary theory is how cooperative behavior, which benefits other members of a species at a cost to the individual, came to exist. |
| There Are No Excuses For Ongoing Concealment of Torture Memo Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT New claims from the Obama DOJ about why key OLC memos remain concealed are irrelevant even if true. |
| IBM, Sun Talks Are Near Collapse Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT Talks between International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. were on the brink of collapse Sunday, threatening to undermine a potential $7 billion acquisition that would have placed one of Silicon Valley's iconic companies under the Big Blue umbrella. |
| Science IS imagination | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Posted: 06 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT People don't understand science. And I don't mean that your average person doesn't understand how relativity works, or quantum mechanics, or biochemistry. Like any advanced study, it's hard to understand them, and it takes a lifetime of work to become familiar with them. No, what I mean is that people don't understand the process of science. [...] |
| Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population |
| X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT The unfinished workprint of 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' that leaked just a few days ago has already made its way to the computers of more than a million BitTorrent users. Unsurprisingly, the film leads our weekly chart of the ten most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. |
| Tesla CEO Elon Musk Pwns the Chevy Volt Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT The Chevy Volt "is neither fish nor fowl and ends up being worse (in our opinion) than either a gasoline or pure electric vehicle," said Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors. "Plus you still have to deal with all the environmental issues of a gasoline engine." |
| Exclusive: First Look At Bizarro Superman Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT Robert Gordon, the writer of such movies like Men In Black 2 & Galaxy Quest decided to create Bizarro world on spec for shiz & giggles. Reader Dr. Strangefist took a look at the spec script for us. |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT Kenny reads from "You're ***** Out, I'm ***** In" while riding in his truck and lifting heavy *****. |
| Google's interest in Twitter: consciousness search Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT Why would Google want to buy Twitter? They have yet to properly monetize Youtube, another company they've purchased for what some think was way over value. It is all about the consciousness search. |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT In this article we'll see another example about the FTPMicro and Microchip TCP/IP stack use. In particular the TCP client will be used to visualize in a LCD display the latest news, directly from the BBC site. |
| Xbox Live: 2,500,000,000 Achievements Unlocked Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT Xbox 360, PC, Wii, doesn't matter, everybody loves online user statistics. Especially when, they get into the billions, as was revealed by Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg last week. |
| Beyond Good & Evil Sequel Inspired By 9/11 Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT To make a great game you'll need inspiration, and the ideas that come with it. So here's a question, what was the inspiration behind the sequel to Beyond Good & Evil? When speaking to French gaming website All-Gamers, Beyond Good & Evil creator Michel Ancel candidly revealed the his inspiration for the game's sequel. |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT 32 Steps in ticking people off1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.2. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors."3. Specify that your drive-through order is "TO-GO."4. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others. |
| The Future of Journalism Will Be Radically Different Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Is the web really killing journalism? Or is it allowing an entirely new type of journalism to emerge? David Cohn (DigiDave on Digg) would probably argue it's the latter. For 5 months now, his crowd-funded journalism project, Spot.us has been providing local reporters with ways to get paid while researching the stories the community wants to read. |
| Multiple Car Bombs Kill Over 40 People Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT A series of car bombs exploded Monday in and around Baghdad, killing more than 40 people and injuring dozens more, police and Iraqi officials said. |
| Broken bones to be healed by simple stem cell injections Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Doctors may soon be able to patch up broken bones with a simple shot in the arm.British scientists are testing injectable stem cells that can be guided around the body with a magnet.Once they reach the diseased or damaged bone, they turn into new bone and cartilage. |
| Bankers' average pay slashed by 62% in the last year Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Bankers' average pay and bonus packages have been slashed by 62pc over the past year to leave them the lowest paid in the major financial centres for the first time. |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT There is nothing worse than being sober in a room full of drunk people. But put drunks in a movie and suddenly you start to see the joke; suddenly cease to be annoying and become quit charming and very funny. But which movie drunks were the best? Hecklerspray plumbs the depths. Cheers! |
| Transformers 2 out of gas, GM yanks promo bucks, Bay pissed! Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT GM's troubles deprive 'Transformers 2' of crucial horsepower. The financially strapped carmaker, which was a key promotional partner in the original film, is downshifting its contribution to the ad campaign tied to the sequel's release. |
| Novel needle could cut medical complications Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:30 PM PDT Device borrows from oil industry to keep jabs on target. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer medical complications from hypodermic needles that penetrate too far under their skin. A new device developed by MIT engineers and colleagues aims to prevent this from happening by keeping needles on target. |
| Rally Car Driver Falls Off Mountain And Lives Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:30 PM PDT Total Pro Sports - During a race on April 3rd, 2009 rally Car driver Jari-Matti Latvala, is lucky to be alive, following a frightening crash in Portugal a couple of days ago. Not only did this guy almost die, but now his team wants to fire him, and I thought North American sports were cut-throat. |
| Google Chrome on Linux is Coming! (Screenshots!) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT Screenshots of the pre-alpha builds of Google Chrome |
| Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT As Twitter-mania reaches new levels, Slate V presents a mockumentary about a company that wants to take microblogging to the next level. |
| Uh... Ah.. Uh.. Dance dude Dance Uh... Ah... Uh.... Posted: 06 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT Uh................. |
| The 19 worst drive-thru foods in America Posted: 06 Apr 2009 12:50 PM PDT Time and money are two things Americans can't afford to waste. So it's not surprising (though slightly disappointing) that the drive-thru is considered one of the great inventions of all time. |
| Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program Posted: 06 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT Following a practice embraced by the Bush Administration, President Barack Obama has invoked "state secrets" to prevent a court from reviewing the legality of the NSA's warantless wiretapping program and moved late Friday to have a lawsuit challenging the program dismissed. |
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