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| Obama naming Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-UT) ambassador to China Posted: 16 May 2009 06:00 PM PDT President Barack Obama plans to name Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a rapidly rising star in the Republican Party, as ambassador to China, a senior administration official said. The move is freighted with political intrigue. Huntsman, who speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, quickly emerged after November as one of the leading moderate GOP voices.
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| Linux : Avoiding The JavaScript Trap. Posted: 16 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT Hopefully by now you've already read Richard Stallman's article "The JavaScript Trap" - it's a subject we care a lot about here at TuxRadar HQ, so when people ask us questions about the problem of online freedom we do our best to answer as fully as we can.
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| Smart Memory Bra Lifts Bust When a Girl Fancies a Fella Posted: 16 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT The "smart memory bras" have heat-sensitive foam that pushes up boobs as sexual attraction causes body temperature to rise. As the body cools the foam relaxes and the bust appears normal again.
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| Guy Drops 187 Feet in a Kayak in Washington State. Posted: 16 May 2009 05:30 PM PDT Short video and definitely worth the watch... this f*cker's crazy...
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| Sexy mascot can stay if curves covered Posted: 16 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT READING, Ohio — A curvaceous, scantily clad mannequin can keep her spot outside a Cincinnati area barbecue joint, but local officials want her to cover up a bit.
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| SF Pig Roast Shows Bacon Evolve in Front of Your Eyes Posted: 16 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT Last night's pig roast at SOMA bar Bloodhound saw two superstars of the city's pig culture go head-to-head in a hack-off. Call it more a demonstration of competing butchery styles than an Iron Chef smackdown: Chicharrones king Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and Fatted Calf's mortadella meister Taylor Boetticher showed off different ways of dismembering.
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| Posted: 16 May 2009 05:00 PM PDT One piece of diet advice is not to snack until you're hungry enough to eat an apple. But what about consuming human flesh?
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| JJ Abrams Open to 'Star Trek' Sequel w/ Shatner or Khan Posted: 16 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT After last weekend's $76.5 million opening, three phrases keep getting tossed in the direction of "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams: sequel, Khan, and William Shatner. On Friday, as the filmmaker hoped to maintain momentum heading into his second weekend, Abrams told MTV News that he's open to all three.
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| How to deal with public breast feeding Posted: 16 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT Caress the red button for extra funnies
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| My Dad Ranks My 7 Most Embarrassing Athletic Failures Posted: 16 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT Like many men, I spent my prepubescence idolizing sports stars and envisioning myself in the major leagues. In the end
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| 11 Year Old Girl: Missing In 90 Seconds Posted: 16 May 2009 04:30 PM PDT Mikelle Biggs, 11, was alone for less than two minutes when she vanished on Jan. 2, 1999, waiting for an ice cream truck in a Mesa, Arizona neighborhood. It would become the largest investigation in the Arizona's history.
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| 66 Year Old Set to Become Britains Oldest Mother Posted: 16 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT Elizabeth Adeney - Britain's oldest mother-to-be. At 66, she is four years older than the previous record holder.
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| Posted: 16 May 2009 03:50 PM PDT Nancy Pelosi will come to regret her accusation on Thursday that CIA officials lied to her about their interrogation of terrorists. It took only a day for the agency to fire back, in the form of a statement from Director Leon Panetta, a Democrat, an Obama appointee and a long-time California Congressional colleague of the House Speaker.
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| World's fastest CPU clocked at 128 gigaflops Posted: 16 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT Reports from Japan say that a new supercomputer processor has taken the crown of world's fastest by not just beating, but obliterating the old record. Fujitsu's eight-core SPARC64 VIIIfx Venus CPU was clocked at 128 billion computations per second, which destroyed the previous Intel-held record by a factor of 2.5.
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| Final Firefox 3.5 update: a new logo Posted: 16 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT A few weeks ago, and despite the proximity of Firefox 3.5 final release, Mozilla announced its intention to revisit the logo for a subtle update that reflects the deep changes it has experimented in the last three major releases since its last retouch around Firefox 1.5 release.
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| Strangest Sights in Google Street Views Posted: 16 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT With the unblinking eye of Google's Street Views, anyone can be a virtual rubbernecker. And some of the things you can spot using the service are downright unexplainable.
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| 25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs Posted: 16 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT Using color gradients, or effects that transition two or more colors with one another, is one of the most popular design techniques in web design. They're easy to create yet hard to get right. In this showcase, you'll witness some of the best examples of using color gradients in the hopes of inspiring you in your own designs.
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| Posted: 16 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT *****
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| Protecting Human Rights with Flip Video, YouTube & "The Hub" Posted: 16 May 2009 02:40 PM PDT The primary weapons of today's human rights activists: give them all flip cams and access to YouTube.
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| Twitter message leads to arrest after 'financial panic' Posted: 16 May 2009 02:30 PM PDT A man has been arrested for inciting "financial panic" after he posted a Twitter message. Jean Ramses Anleu Fernandez urged people in Guatemala to boycott a bank in the aftermath of a political scandal. In his tweet under his twitter name '@jeanfer' he proposed that people "withdraw cash from Banrural and break the bank of the corrupt".
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| Dredging of Pollutants Begins in New York's Hudson River Posted: 16 May 2009 02:21 PM PDT Twenty-five years after the federal government declared a long stretch of the Hudson River to be a contaminated Superfund site, the cleanup of its chief remaining source of pollution began here Friday with a single scoop of mud extracted by a computer-guided dredge.
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| Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time Posted: 16 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT We've combed through the Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age and Modern Age to gather the best of the worst for our Top 100 comic book villains of all time. Who will reign supreme? Read on...
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| Meet Real-Life Supervillain Society ROACH Posted: 16 May 2009 01:50 PM PDT Ever since the real-life Allegiance of Heroes of Cincinnati crawled out into the light, we've been patiently waiting eventual rise of real-life Supervillains, and today is that day. ROACH, which stands for the Ruthless Organization Against Citizen Heroes was founded by an evil genius, The Potentate.
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| Posted: 16 May 2009 01:50 PM PDT Who's got the hotter pics?
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| Redesigning the Hospital Gown, a Fashion Malady Posted: 16 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT The traditional American hospital gown — flimsy in front, open to the breeze in the back has been around about as long as the Band-Aid. The one-size-fits-none garment remains one of the least loved aspects of American medicine. "Nobody is happy with it," says Blanton Godfrey "It is amazing -- we have created a product nobody likes."
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| Forbes: Audit the Federal Reserve, by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) Posted: 16 May 2009 01:30 PM PDT The Federal Reserve's recent and unprecedented actions in the realm of monetary policy have provoked a backlash among the American people. Trillions of dollars worth of loans and guarantees have been provided to Wall Street firms, while Main Street Americans suffocate. It's time to audit the Fed.
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| Dog chases protects its mother who was hit by car Posted: 16 May 2009 01:20 PM PDT Awesome proof of why dogs are awesome. Video of a young dog chases cars, and police officers away from its hurt mother who was hit by a car.
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| Posted: 16 May 2009 01:10 PM PDT Keiichl Hirano of the Orix Buffaloes dives, makes the catch, stuns the crowd, earns a Japeneese TV #2 Highlight Spot, and breaks his neck.
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| USB display technology heading for Linux Posted: 16 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT Linux users should soon be able to use USB-connected monitors that incorporate DisplayLink's chips. DisplayLink has released Linux versions of its USB monitor source code under LGPL, and has partnered with Novell and the Linux Driver Project to develop drivers for desktops and mobile devices.
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| The Garofa-Gate Ambush: Raw and Uncut Footage Posted: 16 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT Amazing how different something looks when you can see the full picture.
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| Posted: 16 May 2009 12:30 PM PDT Just in time for the total depletion of your 401(k), Lotus makes its greatest case yet for a momentary lapse of reason...
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| World's oldest Tweeter talks cuppas and casserole Posted: 16 May 2009 12:10 PM PDT Her first posts have included "Looking forward to Deal or No Deal later," "just having a cuppa," and "chicken casserole was lovely, going to have a nod now."
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| The Search for Drinking Water in Nicaragua Posted: 16 May 2009 11:50 AM PDT Boaco, like many communities around the world, has serious water supply and quality problems. A holding tank in the motel courtyard would fill up and provide water for the business and guests during the long intervals of time when the water was off. To conserve the small water stash, the two motel showers were pilas, troughs from which you dip.....
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| Astronauts Watch ‘Star Trek’ From Space Posted: 16 May 2009 11:50 AM PDT Right about now in outer space, three men are crouched in a node of the International Space Station, watching J.J. Abrams' reboot of "Star Trek" on a laptop.
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| Magnetic Termites Are Architects of These Giant Monoliths Posted: 16 May 2009 11:30 AM PDT The image above doesn't show slabs of stone, neatly aligned, or mud sculptures – well, at least not human-made mud sculptures. What look like prehistoric menhirs are actually magnetic termite mounds, incredible, climate-controlled marvels of architecture.
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| Leonard Nimoy on the Origin of the Vulcan Salute Posted: 16 May 2009 11:20 AM PDT Leonard Nimoy discusses the birth of Mr. Spock's Vulcan salute, and the episode "City on the Edge of Forever".
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| 11 of the Coolest Android Prototype Gadgets Posted: 16 May 2009 11:10 AM PDT The Android mobile operating system is invading not only new handhelds but a host of new portable gadgets, including laptops and media tablets.
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| One of the Craziest Tiger Attacks Caught on Tape (Video) Posted: 16 May 2009 11:00 AM PDT An angry tigress lunges at a man on an elephant.
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| Linux : KDE 4.3 Beta 1 - looking pretty. Posted: 16 May 2009 11:00 AM PDT PolicyKit integration is the most notable back-end change: this framework lets application developers request privileges from the OS without needing the all-or-nothing 'su'. On the user-visible side, 4.3 Beta 1 sports a new tree view option for System Settings, a fading desktop switcher, and new window animations. Here's the full changelog --
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| Posted: 16 May 2009 10:40 AM PDT Same logo ,What do you think
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