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| 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts to Boost Your Site Design Posted: 11 May 2009 06:40 PM PDT Every now and again we take a look around, select "fresh" high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don't have to.
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| Firebug & a bad Web Developer >>> Customer Service Posted: 11 May 2009 06:30 PM PDT ....
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| Engineered Moss Can Produce Human Proteins Posted: 11 May 2009 06:20 PM PDT ETH Zurich researchers carried out tests to see what happens when unmodified human or mammalian genes are inserted into the moss genome. They transferred the foreign, unmodified genes into the moss and discovered that the moss was easily able to manufacture the proteins encoded therein.
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| 'World's oldest woman' dies at 130... after slipping in bath Posted: 11 May 2009 06:10 PM PDT A woman in Kazakhstan who officials said was the oldest in the world at 130 has died after slipping on the bathroom floor of a new flat she was awarded by the state because of her great age.
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| Punch-Out!! Mockumentary Hits Online Posted: 11 May 2009 06:10 PM PDT Nintendo releases a comedic mockumentary to help celebrate the upcoming 'return' of champion Little Mac in Punch-Out!! for the Wii. And yes, it's real!
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| Posted: 11 May 2009 06:00 PM PDT Looking back over the past half century of a British design icon.
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| Van Halen Coming to Guitar Hero Posted: 11 May 2009 06:00 PM PDT Fans of the best-selling Guitar Hero video game series will have even more songs to fuel their fantasies of pop glory. Activision Blizzard has confirmed that Guitar Hero: Van Halen is in the works according to video-game blog Joystiq.
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| New lifeforms discovered in the ocean depths w/video Posted: 11 May 2009 05:50 PM PDT British scientists' exploration of the ocean depths has revealed an amazing array of new lifeforms, at depths where life was once thought impossible.
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| GM says open to moving from Detroit headquarters Posted: 11 May 2009 05:50 PM PDT General Motors Corp is open to considering moving its headquarters from Detroit, selling off U.S. plants and even renegotiating parts of its restructuring plan with its major union, the new chief executive said on Monday.
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| Could There Be a LeBron vs Melo NBA Finals Matchup? Posted: 11 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT Together, they shared the stage as they led the United States back to the top of the international basketball world when they captured the Gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Now, perhaps they might square off in a couple weeks, with the game's ultimate prize on the line – the NBA championship trophy – and bragging rights over the other.
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| Singlehandedly open a CASE of beer Posted: 11 May 2009 05:30 PM PDT *****
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| Iran to free U.S. journalist, father says Posted: 11 May 2009 05:30 PM PDT Iran will release imprisoned Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, her father said Monday. Reza Saberi told CNN before 4 p.m. local time (7:30 a.m. ET) that his daughter will be released within a couple of hours. He was waiting for her in front of the jail.
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| Curtis Roads Makes Intelligent Dance Music Intelligent VIDEO Posted: 11 May 2009 05:20 PM PDT Are you familiar with granular and pulsar sound synthesis? Neither am I. Curtis Roads, electronic music pioneer explains in this short documentary. He's pretty much the forefather of what has become the IDM genre.
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| An Even Worse Memo from Torture Advocate Bybee Posted: 11 May 2009 05:20 PM PDT A 2002 memo written by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee titled "Authority of the President Under Domestic and International Law to Use Military Force in Iraq" has emerged. The memo from Bybee- the man who wrote papers justifying the use of torture- justifies the invasion of Iraq...a full five months before it actually happened.
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| Man in underpants smashes windshield with an axe Posted: 11 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT According to a police report, the man stated that he likes to walk around in his underwear and that he does so often.
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| Chysler-Fiat: The Expected Lineup for 2012 Posted: 11 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT If all goes as planned, the hallmark moneymakers at Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep will be joined by new small cars engineered by Fiat and built in the U.S. or abroad. Among them: sporty hatchbacks, cute city cars and maybe a convertible or two. A few models on the bubble may survive, too, though their future's a little more hazy.
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| Mozilla Prism 1.0 Beta Launches With New Website Posted: 11 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT "With the release of Prism 1.0 beta we are ready to start fostering an ecosystem that makes it easier for developers to create and distribute compelling web app bundles"
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| How 4chans /b/ Board Got Crippled Posted: 11 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT Recently, 4chan pwnd Time Magazine's poll to identify the World's Most Influential Person. The online community dominated that poll and made the founder of 4chan, moot A.K.A. Christopher Poole the winner. That's not surprising. 4chan is known for pwning everything it can get its hands on.
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| Job Loss Causes Higher Risks of Heart Disease and Diabetes Posted: 11 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT But what impact does losing a job have on your health? Could a layoff send a perfectly healthy person into a downward spiral of sickness?
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| Posted: 11 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT "Google knows more about you than your mother." Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently made that statement to this reporter.
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| 'Urinating on police car' case not very hard to solve Posted: 11 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT While many people may have felt the temptation, while under the influence of drink, to empty their bladders on a police car in an effort to 'stick it to the man', most people don't actually go through with it.
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| Posted: 11 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT Almost a third of internet users are too frightened to hand over their credit details while shopping online, a report published today found.
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| EU poised to hit Intel with mega fine Posted: 11 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT By Andrew Thomas Brussels, Belgium - Intel is bracing itself as the EU Commission prepares to announce its punishment on the chip giant for alleged anti-competitive behavior.
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| Rupert Murdoch in a snit over iPhone loophole Posted: 11 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT The WSJ simply had to release an app for the iPhone if it was going to remain relevant. Unfortunately for the Journal, Apple hasn't yet figured out a safe or easy way to charge iPhone users for the things they do within apps. So anything from the Journal that you can read on an iPhone (or an iPod Touch) is not charged.
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| Your Blood Cells Are Crawling Inside You Posted: 11 May 2009 04:01 PM PDT White blood cells, the immune system's "soldiers" for your body, actually crawl along your blood vessels to find their way to infection and injury sites, new research shows.
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| Top 5 Most Gratuitous Death Scenes in Film History Posted: 11 May 2009 03:50 PM PDT Punching guys heads off? Punching guys into SPACE? Preppy Blackwater types throwing Frisbees with razor blades at each other? Does it GET any better than this?
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| Linux : Login Graphically to A Computer in Remote Location. Posted: 11 May 2009 03:50 PM PDT The ability to login graphically into any computer from a remote location has a number of uses. In my case it allows me to create a setup were students in my school can easily login graphically into the universities computer lab and use many of the applications which are installed there (like Matlab which is only licensed to run on our lab computer
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| 33 creative and humorous Guinness print advertisements Posted: 11 May 2009 03:40 PM PDT Guinness, the world-famous dry Irish stout, owes its fame not only to its distinctive taste or simple, old fashioned black-and-white logo, but also to its modern, creative, humorous and almost always surreal advertising.
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| The Best Reviewed Movies of All Time Posted: 11 May 2009 03:40 PM PDT When you get a bunch of pundits in a room together, it's tough to come to any kind of consensus. But once in a while, you'll find them in perfect concert. Thus, here are the best reviewed movies of all time, a compendium of films that have achieved the height of critical blessing.
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| Seahorses tagged in Britain for the first time Posted: 11 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT Seahorses in Britain have been tagged for the first time in an effort to find out more about the elusive creatures.
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| Can a Golf Ball Covering Shed MPGs? Posted: 11 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT The mounting pressure from legislators to improve fuel economy means automakers are sweating the details to eke out all the miles per gallon they can get. Every system on a new vehicle is optimized to return the best fuel economy, given the available technology and that vehicle's specific mission.
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| Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting The Milky Way Nix Newton Posted: 11 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT It turns out that we don't know everything about the universe. Shocking, we know, but you'd be surprised how often science writers, politicians, or intelligent design idiots confuse "non-omniscience" with "everything is WRONG!" Now some are saying that Newton screwed up, but at least their evidence is awesome:dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.
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| Android to grow faster than iPhone in 2009 Posted: 11 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT The number of phones shipped using Google's Android platform is set to grow much faster than the iPhone this year, estimates from Strategy Analytics maintain today. Devices like the T-Mobile G1 have just a small fraction of shipments today but are expected to grow 900 percent in 2009; iPhones will grow only by 79 percent.
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| Posted: 11 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT He looks like he's having a ball!
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| Quite possibly the best looking destroyed book ever Posted: 11 May 2009 02:40 PM PDT Artist Brian Dettmer dissects books to expose the beauty of their anatomy. Using an X-acto knife and tweezers, Dettmer pulls away carefully selected layers of books, revealing a complex view of their internal organization.
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| Army's Prescription to Combat Solider Suicides: Christianity Posted: 11 May 2009 02:30 PM PDT A recent edition of the U.S. Army's suicide prevention manual advises military chaplains to promote "religiosity," specifically Christianity, as a way to deter distraught soldiers from taking their own lives, which in recent months, according to one veterans advocacy group, has reached epidemic proportions.
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| Futuristic Honda F-uzo Hover Concept Car [PICS] Posted: 11 May 2009 02:20 PM PDT We have always heard and fantasized that we will have flying cars in future which will take us to the skies. Now, it appears that time is quite near. Designer John Mahieddine has build a concept design for Honda which is a hover car.
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| Apple freezes Snow Leopard APIs as software nears release Posted: 11 May 2009 02:20 PM PDT Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release.
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| Report: Mavericks owner Mark Cuban confronted K-Mart's mom Posted: 11 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT The NBA is reviewing a postgame confrontation between Mark Cuban and the mother of Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin during which the Mavericks owner referred to Martin as a thug or a punk, according to a report in The Denver Post.
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| Posted: 11 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT Scientists found unusually high levels of flame retardant in dolphins.
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