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Seth Green and the "Robot Chicken" Team Create New Series

Posted: 08 May 2009 06:20 PM PDT

Adult Swim to launch stop-motion 'Titan' in September.


Ten of the Biggest Sports Scandals

Posted: 08 May 2009 06:20 PM PDT

Danny Almonte... you lying bastard


The 10 Best Movies to Show Off Your Home Theater

Posted: 08 May 2009 06:20 PM PDT

These great movie scenes pinpoint exactly why your new HDTV, sound system, or Blu-ray player is worth the money.


Honest taxi driver reaps rewards

Posted: 08 May 2009 06:11 PM PDT

Two young advertising agency employees decided to set up a website to thank Mr Gori further for his exemplary behavior. He found a bag with $32,500 (£21,600) in cash in his taxi and returned it to its owners. Now thousands of people have accessed the site and have left hundreds of rewards and messages for Mr Gori.


25 Biggest Bank Failures in History

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:50 PM PDT

In celebration of this week's bank stress tests, here is a list of 25 banks that actually did kick the bucket, in rough order of failure size. At the top, when the FDIC seized Los Angeles-based IndyMac's assets and closed its doors it was for over $30 billion.


Electrospun fibers could be used for wearable power

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT

A small piece of fabric that at first glance resembles a Kleenex but this tissue-like material, softer than silk, is composed of fibers that are a thousand times thinner than a human hair and holds promise for a wide range of applications including protective clothing, drug delivery and tissue engineering.


School Pays $150k after a Boy is Stoned, Scalped by Bully

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:20 PM PDT

A FIVE-year-old Queensland boy was scalped, stoned, hit and taunted in an atrocious case of schoolyard bullying - and the main perpetrator was the "buddy" charged with protecting him.


Suit Filed to Prevent Minn. From Censoring the Internet

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:20 PM PDT

John Willems, a MN senior state law enforcement official, is being sued by Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association to stop his efforts to censor the Internet. Willems wants ISPs to block Minnesotans from accessing poker and casino gaming sites. In its suit, iMEGA contends that this violates constitutionally protected free speech.


The Six Most Expensive Alcohol That Ever Existed

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT

Cognac is usually referred to as one of the most expensive alcohol in the world. Although the habit of cognac can get pretty expensive, there are good affordable cognacs. When it comes to alcohol prices though, cognac isn't alone in the expensive category. As we were looking around on the web, we came across some alcohols that were priced pretty...


50 Drinking Games Guaranteed to Get You Hammered

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT

What's more fun than hanging out with your friends, getting plastered, and making an ass of yourself? Playing drinking games, hanging out with your friends, getting plastered, and making an ass of yourself. Here are some of your favorites and most likely some you've never seen.


Paint at Work and Properly Channel Your Blues

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT

There are millions of things to do when you're bored in your office cubicle these days. Most enable you to sublimate your inner despair and alienation as you distract yourself with cats, fantasy baseball, dancing babies or whatever else helps you get through the day.


First Nintendo Commercial

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT

*****


The Most Conservative States are the Most Locked Up States

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and within the United States, the top 7 states with the highest incarceration rates are all Southern states (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina).


Home hit by Russian space debris

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT

A part of a Russian booster rocket used to deliver a spacecraft into orbit has fallen on the roof of a two-storey home in Russia's Altai Region, in South Siberia.


Economic Indicators: Clowns Want To Get Paid Too!

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT

Whatever numbers the marketplace and government reports have been cranking out, Mandy Dalton found one economic indicator that matters to her recently in a newspaper story about the bankruptcy of General Growth Properties.


Google Currently Offering BitTorrent Trackers

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT

There have been many who compare Google to ThePirateBay. The technical front may be more of a grey area that can be debated back and forth, but the line that defines the differences between Google and ThePirateBay may be a little more blurry on that technical side after one observant user spotted Google's BitTorrent trackers.


Disney Beauty & the Beast pic with kids FAIL

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:20 PM PDT

Those are some mighty big paws you have there Mr. Beast.


Star Trek XI: Fanboy Approved

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Given how cynical I've become over the years at seeing the franchise abused it was quite rewarding to see what they did with this film. The first thing that I liked about this film is that they stayed true to the original series. Not to Next Generation, not to Deep Space Nine, not to Voyager — but to the original flavor, the real thing. [SPOILERS]


Why most web comics suck

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT

A great SMBC parody.


Cathedral to play Lennon's 'anti-religious' Imagine

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:00 PM PDT

The bells of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral are to ring out to John Lennon's anthem Imagine, whose lyrics contain the line: 'Imagine there's no Heaven, it's easy if you try, no Hell below us, above us only sky'.


Girl, 17, run over by her own SUV during 'ghost ride' stunt

Posted: 08 May 2009 03:40 PM PDT

A 17-year-old girl had to be airlifted to a local hospital Tuesday evening after she was run over by her own car while trying to "ghost ride," a car stunt popularized in the East Bay, police said.


Sony's 53 Year Product Timeline

Posted: 08 May 2009 03:40 PM PDT

They have been in comma lately but, through 53 years of history, Sony has created some of the most amazing gadget in history. Some of them changed the world forever. Here you have them all.


Should You Walk Away From Your Student Loans?

Posted: 08 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT

It's not surprising that you didn't realize what you were getting into with your student loan. You were just barely out of your teen years when you signed the paperwork. If you're like most people, you probably had little understanding of what it means to incur debt and were lulled into a false sense of security.


Ron Artest discussing Kobe's Dirty Play Against Rockets

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:50 PM PDT

"My team, we're not like that... we're gonna win fair and square or lose fair and square. We're not gonna fight or initiate anything"


Giant Spiders Could Be a Result of Global Warming

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:40 PM PDT

Scientists studying northeastern Greenland's hairy, meat-eating wolf spiders have discovered every arachnophobe's worst nightmare.


Why You Don't Want James Bond Working For You (Pie Chart)

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:30 PM PDT

*****


New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:20 PM PDT

rime numbers have intrigued curious thinkers for centuries. On one hand, prime numbers seem to be randomly distributed among the natural numbers with no other law than that of chance. But on the other hand, the global distribution of primes reveals a remarkably smooth regularity.


‘New’ Anti-Piracy Lawyers Chase UK File-Sharers

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:20 PM PDT

Over the last couple of years everyone has got used to hearing about UK lawyers Davenport Lyons and their campaigns against those it accuses of illicit file-sharing. Now everyone will have to get used to a new player - they're called ACS Law and the similarities to Davenport are raising more than a few eyebrows.


Microsoft CEO: "We're Like a Startup in the Search Market"

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT

"The number one player is a lot bigger than us… Google is a very big company in search, and therefore, we're more like a startup... We can't invest in everything the market leader can. We're not gonna be able to out-do, and out-spend somebody who's revenue is many times bigger than us."


LIVE FROM SPACE: Astronaut to Tweet, take YouTube questions

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT

NASA astronaut Mark Polansky is planning to take social media out of this world during his space shuttle mission in June.


US soldiers being injected with WHAT?!

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Looks like the US military is using their soldiers as guinea pigs again. At a time when people die in Iraq and Afghanistan, why is the destroying the lives of servicemen through medical experiments?


Specter Gets A Chairmanship Afterall

Posted: 08 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT

Thanks to Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) the new Democrat Arlen Specter will get the chairmanship of chairmanship of the Crime and Drugs Subcommittee of the Judiciary committee.


Facebook urged to remove Holocaust-denial groups

Posted: 08 May 2009 01:30 PM PDT

Part of the power of social networking is the ability to form communities with like-minded individuals. But what happens when those communities are offensive to others? That issue is at the heart of attempts by a Dallas, Texas, attorney to have social-networking site Facebook remove pages for Holocaust deniers.


Mega Man Box Artist Commissioned to Remake Halo 3 Cover

Posted: 08 May 2009 01:10 PM PDT

That was horrific. I want more.


House Dems Reach Agreement on "Cash for Clunkers" Subsidy

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:50 PM PDT

The "cash for clunkers" subsidy is intended to increase vehicle sales, prop up the American auto industry and make the nation's car and truck fleet more efficient.


NC woman returns Roman artifact 25 years later

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:40 PM PDT

A North Carolina woman who returned a chunk of ancient Rome to Italian authorities 25 years after her husband pocketed it said Thursday she never felt comfortable keeping the terra cotta fragment, but her eldest son's death prompted her to set things right.


Manny Joins the Lost Generation

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:40 PM PDT

With his suspension, Manny Ramirez joins the top level of stars that has been wiped out by the drug revelations of recent years.


Torres kisses Jupiter

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:40 PM PDT

Ana Julia Torres kisses Jupiter, a lion that was rescued from a circus ten years ago, in Cali, April 18, 2009. Torres is a teacher whom for the last 16 years has been adopting and helping injured animals.


Tarantino's WWII Film is Something Completely Different

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:40 PM PDT

"This isn't antiwar misery," famed director Quentin Tarantino said of his new movie, "Inglorious Basterds," starring Brad Pitt. Which means that it's -- what, exactly?


Will All Solid State Drives Eventually Slow Down?

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:20 PM PDT

The answer appears to be, yes. But the better ones will level out.


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