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- Extreme Pizza Chewing Montage
- Holiday Inn Opens NYC Hotel Made Entirely of Key Cards
- How Halo ODST Creators Built a Blockbuster Game in 14 Months
- Facebook Beacon shines for last time as part of settlement
- The Most Expensive Movies Of The Past Decade
- The Return Of McCarthyism: Hysteria In Action On The Right
- DOJ Urges Court to Reject Google Books Settlement
- The 15 Most Embarrassing Cakes
- Jack White Pulls A Kanye
- Google Maps Earth's Carbon Cycle
- New Drake Equation To Quantify Habitability?
- Pastor gets life term for abusing 5 adopted daughters
- 49ers Wide Receiver Great Jerry Rice Disses Holdout Crabtree
- CHART OF THE DAY: Digg Crushes The Competition
- Healthcare around the world
- District 9 Banned in Nigeria | TakePart Social Action Networ
- Epic StarGate PC Case Mod
- H.G. WELLS: 10 Predictions That Have, And Haven't, Come True
- Jedi Thrown Out of Grocery Store
- The 7 Creepiest Simpsons Fan Tributes
- MIT develops initial step toward carbon sequestration
- Will San Francisco State Cultivate Vegan Venus Flytraps?
- 10 Ways the Zune Could Beat the iPod touch
- One Queen and 11 Presidents (Pics)
- How To Become...WTF (PIC)
- Terrible Beauty: Atomic Bomb Tests (PICS)
- The 10 Biggest Moments in IT History
- Woman Impresses With Looks, Gator Hunting, & Crossbow Skills
- Hunting Space Invaders (PIC)
- The Funniest Protest Signs Of 2009
- Hillary's Honduras Obsession
- Even Skeletor Needs A Pet
- Lawsuit: Copyright Filtering Technology Infringes
- US proposes net neutrality rules
- Marvel and Disney Served Notice by Estate of Jack Kirby
- NYTimes Execs Are Overpaid Even By Their Own Standards
- ‘Smoking kills’, doctors warned in 1606
- File-Sharing Heroine Lilly Allen is a Copyright Hypocrite
- Terrell Owens Tweets: Cowboys Have a Tony Romo Problem
- Sony Changes Ad After Complaints from Nigerian Government
| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 06:50 PM PDT These guys used to High-Five, but that can make you hungry. The kind of hunger only pizza can cure.
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| Holiday Inn Opens NYC Hotel Made Entirely of Key Cards Posted: 21 Sep 2009 06:40 PM PDT "As part of an effort to build buzz around the relaunch of 1200 Holiday Inn hotels this month, the lodging chain has opened a very special hotel in New York. It's not your average hotel though. It's made entirely of hotel key cards. "
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| How Halo ODST Creators Built a Blockbuster Game in 14 Months Posted: 21 Sep 2009 06:30 PM PDT Even if it doesn't break any sales records, ODST will be a success. The real question is whether Bungie's latest experiment -- a first-person shooter designed, coded and released in just 14 months -- can change the industry, showing that major studios can move more quickly, spinning pulp tales worth $60 a pop in just a year's time.
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| Facebook Beacon shines for last time as part of settlement Posted: 21 Sep 2009 06:20 PM PDT Facebook's Beacon has been nothing but trouble since it launched in 2007, spurring numerous user complaints and a class-action privacy suit. The company has apparently learned its lesson, as it has now proposed a lawsuit settlement that involves shutting down Beacon and paying out $9.5 million to a settlement fund.
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| The Most Expensive Movies Of The Past Decade Posted: 21 Sep 2009 06:10 PM PDT The 2009 summer movie season ended, with a record-breaking box office. But 2009 will also go down as the year with the most movies that cost $200 million or more. We've compiled the most expensive movies of the past decade.
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| The Return Of McCarthyism: Hysteria In Action On The Right Posted: 21 Sep 2009 06:00 PM PDT Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are paving the way for a return of McCarthyism with their hysterical and shrill denunciations of President Obama and his administration as secret Communists and Marxists and Fascists who actually hate America and are trying to destroy it from the inside. This video illustrates it nicely!
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| DOJ Urges Court to Reject Google Books Settlement Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:50 PM PDT Google's book-scanning project was dealt another blow Friday when the Department of Justice urged a district court to reject the search engine giant's $125 million class-action settlement in its current form.
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| The 15 Most Embarrassing Cakes Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:40 PM PDT *****
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:40 PM PDT Jack White Mocks Kanye West at a premiere for a documentary on The White Stripes at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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| Google Maps Earth's Carbon Cycle Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:30 PM PDT Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth's atmosphere.
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| New Drake Equation To Quantify Habitability? Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT Researchers are laying the groundwork for a new equation that could mathematically quantify a habitat's potential for hosting life, in a similar way to how the Drake equation estimates the number of intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way.
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| Pastor gets life term for abusing 5 adopted daughters Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:20 PM PDT The pastor of a church in a California strip mall was sentenced to life in state prison Friday for abusing her five adopted daughters, who were beaten daily, fed spoiled food and hidden in a garage.
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| 49ers Wide Receiver Great Jerry Rice Disses Holdout Crabtree Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:00 PM PDT Jerry Rice questions what kind of impact Michael Crabtree could have this season with San Francisco if the No. 10 draft pick even shows up to the 49ers at all.
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| CHART OF THE DAY: Digg Crushes The Competition Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:50 PM PDT Unique visitors [U.S. only] to Digg.com reached 17.4 million in August, according to comScore. That kind of traffic crushes Digg's competition, including Yahoo's Buzz and AOL's Propeller.
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:40 PM PDT Comparison of healthcare systems in the US, UK, France and Singapore.
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| District 9 Banned in Nigeria | TakePart Social Action Networ Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:40 PM PDT Nigeria has banned the film "District 9" from its movie theaters because of what it considers a poor portrayal of Nigerians. The country's information minister,
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:30 PM PDT We have all heard about the pyramid inspired spaceship in the movie StarGate. Now this inspiration is being used to create one of the best themed PC cases out there.
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| H.G. WELLS: 10 Predictions That Have, And Haven't, Come True Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:30 PM PDT H.G. Wells, one of the founders of modern science fiction landed on Earth 143 years ago today. His predictions range from the Time Machine in his 1895 novella to the deadly heat ray, used by invading Martians in 1898's The War of the Worlds. Here are his top 10 predictions, some have and some haven't come true....yet.
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| Jedi Thrown Out of Grocery Store Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:20 PM PDT You know how a bunch of people went and made "Jedi" an official religion in England? I never could decide if those guys were just fun-loving nerds or out of their goddamn minds.
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| The 7 Creepiest Simpsons Fan Tributes Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:10 PM PDT As the old saying goes, if you love something you must set it free, or create terrifying fan art.
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| MIT develops initial step toward carbon sequestration Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:00 PM PDT Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions at coal-burning power plants. Their system, called pressurized oxy-fuel combustion, provides a way of separating all of the carbon-dioxide emissions produced by the burning of coal, in the form of a concentrated, pressurized liquid stream.
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| Will San Francisco State Cultivate Vegan Venus Flytraps? Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:00 PM PDT Or will they be carnivorous like usual, feasting on live prey by asphyxiating them in their lethal vise grip before digesting them alive in a slow and agonizing ordeal?
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| 10 Ways the Zune Could Beat the iPod touch Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:00 PM PDT The Zune HD is the best media player not on iTunes, but can it ever beat the iPod?
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| One Queen and 11 Presidents (Pics) Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT From the most recent picture of her with Barack Obama (and the one that stirred controversy with Michelle Obama) all the way back to the days of Mr. Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth has had her share of presidential men.
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT It's not wrong, but let's be honest, this represents at least 10 reasons why we're doomed before Twilight even enters the picture. For instance, the number two goal behind vampire is model. Additionally, it seems a lot of people are really curious about becoming anorexic. Relax, fatty, there's no entrance exam.
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| Terrible Beauty: Atomic Bomb Tests (PICS) Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:40 PM PDT When Robert Oppenheimer witnessed the incredible violence of the first atomic bomb test, it recalled to him lines from Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
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| The 10 Biggest Moments in IT History Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT 10 IT moments that had a major impact in shaping modern computing present today. While some of the milestones on this list are debatable (depending upon where you are looking from), most likely are not.
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| Woman Impresses With Looks, Gator Hunting, & Crossbow Skills Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT Some may refer to it as animal cruelty. Others as the circle of life. Which ever way you put it, Arianne Prevost is one hot gator hunter, and she has the kill to prove it.
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT "I'm gonna shoot you right between the eyes."
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| The Funniest Protest Signs Of 2009 Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:31 PM PDT A while back we collected the funniest protest signs from town halls, but we realized that wouldn't do it--there have been so many protests since then! We set to work to find the best of the year, but we need your help!
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT The U.S. is trying to force the country to violate its constitution.
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT *****
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| Lawsuit: Copyright Filtering Technology Infringes Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT Copyright filtering technology is a form of copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit against document service Scribd. The lawsuit, lodged in a Texas federal court, broaches a novel legal theory in which the U.S. courts have never squarely decided...
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| US proposes net neutrality rules Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:40 PM PDT The US communications regulator proposes new rules that would require ISPs to respect the principle of "network neutrality".
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| Marvel and Disney Served Notice by Estate of Jack Kirby Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:40 PM PDT The estate of Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, The Avengers, Iron Man, Hulk, The Silver Surfer and Thor, has sent notices terminating copyright to publishers Marvel and Disney, as well as film studios that have made movies and TV shows based on characters he created.
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| NYTimes Execs Are Overpaid Even By Their Own Standards Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:40 PM PDT The New York Times, which six months ago forced staffers to take a 5% paycut, has been overpaying its publisher and CEO for nearly two years in violation of its own compensation rules.
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| ‘Smoking kills’, doctors warned in 1606 Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:30 PM PDT A doctor's letter written more than 400 years ago has revealed medics then were concerned about the dangers of young people smoking.
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| File-Sharing Heroine Lilly Allen is a Copyright Hypocrite Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:30 PM PDT The war against file-sharing has found a new figure-head. After she wrote an interesting post on MySpace, singer Lilly Allen's words have been relayed around the world – she has even started a new blog where many artists are supporting her. But what if the new face of anti-piracy was just as bad as those she criticizes?
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| Terrell Owens Tweets: Cowboys Have a Tony Romo Problem Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:20 PM PDT Terrell Owens' new team, the Buffalo Bills, won on Sunday afternoon. His old team, the Dallas Cowboys, lost on Sunday night. And Owens made it home in time not just to watch the Cowboys lose, but to go on Twitter to take a shot at his old quarterback, Tony Romo. He said, "Dallas just found out they had a T.R. problem not a T.O problem !!"
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| Sony Changes Ad After Complaints from Nigerian Government Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:20 PM PDT The Nigerian federal government has criticized Sony for a PlayStation 3 advert in which it implied that Nigerians are fraudsters.
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