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- The Land Where Electric Bikes Rule
- No, You Titan Yours...
- Iran's president orders higher enrichment of uranium
- This is better than mud wrestling! This is a nerds dream.
- China Doesn't Care About America
- Taylor Lautner To 'Stretch' Into Latest Role
- How much you want to play your Video Games (graph)
- Live Webcast Goes Wrong (VID)
- Dicko Dickson Eliminated Drink & Dessert Now He Looks Diesel
- Fritz Lang: Behind the Scenes with a Master Sci-Fi Filmmaker
- Can Toyota Digg its way out of recall crisis?
- Mega Taco [PIC]
- Warren Sapp Arrested for Domestic Battery
- 12" Snowfall [Timelapse GIF]
- Snowpocalypse '10 Empties Grocery Stores [pics]
- Best Use of Mac Genie Effect. EVER [Pic]
- PayPal stops personal payments & bank withdrawals in India
- George Will: How to Get the Country to Solvency
- Super Mario Land Rap (Video)
- UN to discuss Air Traffic Control for outer space
- I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor
- NASA's Chief Backs Plan Privatizing Astronaut Travel
- In Search of the "Original Cougar"
- The world's most precise clock
- Battle of the Bulge Soldier finally receives Purple Hearts
- ChatRoulette: Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past?
- 10 Most Sinister Abandoned Mental Asylums [PICS]
- Sometimes an inability to read English is good for business
- Breaking News: Connecticut blast causes 'mass casualties
- 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Pete Rozelle
- Vintage Palin Moment: She Reads Answers Off Her Handprompter
- A Total Original, and the Best Speed Skater in the World
- G7 nations pledge to cancel debts with quake-hit Haiti
- Which Organs Aren't Vital, and How Much Can I Get For Them?
- Vladimir Putin Never Looked So Good [Pic]
- World's Biggest Snake Ate New Prehistoric Croc Species
- Manu Ginobili Goes Five-hole on Juwan Howard [Video]
- Rice, Smith Elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Smoke The Bigots Out Of The Closet
- Brazilian Commentator Faints On Live Television (Video)
| The Land Where Electric Bikes Rule Posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:30 PM PST China, the world's bicycle kingdom - one for every three inhabitants - is going electric. Workers weary of crammed public transport are upgrading to battery-powered bikes and scooters. Even some who can afford cars are ditching them to avoid traffic jams and expensive gasoline.
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| Posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:30 PM PST *****
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| Iran's president orders higher enrichment of uranium Posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:20 PM PST President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered Iran's atomic chief on Sunday to enrich the country's uranium to 20 percent. The move is seen as a fresh challenge to Western powers trying to rein in Tehran's galloping nuclear drive.
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| This is better than mud wrestling! This is a nerds dream. Posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:20 PM PST Every hetero male SW fan's dream
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| China Doesn't Care About America Posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:10 PM PST Beijing shows little interest in the United States, except to complain, threaten, or refuse to work together on global problems.
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| Taylor Lautner To 'Stretch' Into Latest Role Posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:10 PM PST Taylor Lautner has been cast in the title role of 'Stretch Armstrong,' Universal Pictures confirmed to Access Hollywood.
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| How much you want to play your Video Games (graph) Posted: 07 Feb 2010 05:10 PM PST
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| Posted: 07 Feb 2010 04:50 PM PST *****
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| Dicko Dickson Eliminated Drink & Dessert Now He Looks Diesel Posted: 07 Feb 2010 04:40 PM PST "I feel a bit stupid that I didn't do it sooner," said the new streamlined Dicko. The Australian Idol judge said "You look at yourself (in the mirror) and you realise the only reason I've got this big floppy gut and floppy man boobs is that I was just too lazy to do anything about it." Dicko looks divine.
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| Fritz Lang: Behind the Scenes with a Master Sci-Fi Filmmaker Posted: 07 Feb 2010 04:30 PM PST A behind the scenes look at the "Master Of Darkness", Fritz Lang.
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| Can Toyota Digg its way out of recall crisis? Posted: 07 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST At a hastily-called news conference in Nagoya on Feb. 5, Akio Toyoda — Toyota president and grandson of the company's legendary founder Kiichiro Toyoda — bowed deeply in remorse before a gaggle of Japanese photographers. He then, dutifully, uttered phrases like "personal responsibility," "deeply regretted," and "very sorry."
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| Posted: 07 Feb 2010 03:30 PM PST *****
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| Warren Sapp Arrested for Domestic Battery Posted: 07 Feb 2010 03:26 PM PST Former NFL star Warren Sapp was arrested by Miami Beach police this afternoon and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery.
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| Posted: 07 Feb 2010 02:40 PM PST *****
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| Snowpocalypse '10 Empties Grocery Stores [pics] Posted: 07 Feb 2010 02:10 PM PST Washington DC is forecast to get 20 to 28 inches of snow. Naturally, the capitol is preparing for the impending blizzard by hoarding Lunchables, half & half and Chunky Monkey.
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| Best Use of Mac Genie Effect. EVER [Pic] Posted: 07 Feb 2010 01:50 PM PST *****
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| PayPal stops personal payments & bank withdrawals in India Posted: 07 Feb 2010 01:40 PM PST PayPal is reversing personal payments to and from India, charging users reversal fees. PayPal won't allow balance to be transferred to banks. So typical of PayPal no reasons given.
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| George Will: How to Get the Country to Solvency Posted: 07 Feb 2010 01:20 PM PST Some calamities -- the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 11 -- have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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| Posted: 07 Feb 2010 01:00 PM PST 8-Bit Duane drops a phat beat in honor of Super Mario Land, the original Game Boy Mario game from 1989.
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| UN to discuss Air Traffic Control for outer space Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:40 PM PST An international air traffic control for outer space should be set up to prevent damage to satellites and spacecraft orbiting the Earth, according to proposal to be discussed at the United Nations next week.
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| I thought of killing myself, says climate scandal professor Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:20 PM PST THE scientist at the centre of the climategate email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.
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| NASA's Chief Backs Plan Privatizing Astronaut Travel Posted: 07 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST About 50 years ago, NASA introduced its first seven astronauts — the famous Mercury Seven. On Tuesday, the head of NASA introduced another seven people he called "space pioneers."
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| In Search of the "Original Cougar" Posted: 07 Feb 2010 11:50 AM PST Demi may have popularized it, but did Canadian Patricia Mumford inadvertently spark the cougar trend?
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| The world's most precise clock Posted: 07 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single aluminum atom that is now the world's most precise clock, more than twice as precise as the previous pacesetter. The new aluminum clock would neither gain nor lose one second in about 3.7 billion years.
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| Battle of the Bulge Soldier finally receives Purple Hearts Posted: 07 Feb 2010 11:40 AM PST A decorated Houston soldier who survived the Battle of the Bulge in World War II is now receiving more recognition - a Purple Heart with three oak clusters. He was wounded four times and held by Nazis, but his fight to set things right isn't over."He is proof that they are truly the greatest generation," said Congressman Ted Poe
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| ChatRoulette: Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past? Posted: 07 Feb 2010 11:10 AM PST The first time I entered ChatRoulette—a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world—I was primed for a full-on Walt Whitman experience: an ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind.
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| 10 Most Sinister Abandoned Mental Asylums [PICS] Posted: 07 Feb 2010 11:00 AM PST Abandoned buildings of all descriptions seem haunted by the ghosts of their past – but when the ghosts are the souls of those declared clinically insane and sectioned, the place is likely to hold more bad memories than most.
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| Sometimes an inability to read English is good for business Posted: 07 Feb 2010 10:30 AM PST *****
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| Breaking News: Connecticut blast causes 'mass casualties Posted: 07 Feb 2010 10:18 AM PST The blast happened about 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the Kleen Power Plant in Middletown, a suburb of Hartford.
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| 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Pete Rozelle Posted: 07 Feb 2010 10:00 AM PST You know the stories of the great players who have shaped the Super Bowl, but how well do you know the man who made the big game possible? Pete Rozelle spent 29 years as the NFL's commissioner, so in honor of the Super Bowl, let's take a look at a few things you might not know about him.
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| Vintage Palin Moment: She Reads Answers Off Her Handprompter Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:40 AM PST The Vintage Palin moment occurred when she sat down to answer questions from the Tea Partiers at the convention in Nashville, which apparently had been pre-screened. So, she had a chance to study up prior to this moment. And yet, she actually consulted notes scrawled in her hand while fishing around for the answer.
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| A Total Original, and the Best Speed Skater in the World Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:20 AM PST Shani Davis. He won't train with his teammates. He cultivates slights more than his public image. He doesn't care about money. And that may be why he's the best speed skater in the world.
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| G7 nations pledge to cancel debts with quake-hit Haiti Posted: 07 Feb 2010 09:00 AM PST The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following a devastating earthquake last month.
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| Which Organs Aren't Vital, and How Much Can I Get For Them? Posted: 07 Feb 2010 08:40 AM PST Now, black-market organ dealers don't do a great job of filing taxes, but here are some prices based on rumored deals and reports from the World Heath Organization. In India, a kidney fetches around $20,000. In China, buyers will pay $40,000 or more. A good, healthy kidney from Israel goes for $160,000.
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| Vladimir Putin Never Looked So Good [Pic] Posted: 07 Feb 2010 08:30 AM PST *****
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| World's Biggest Snake Ate New Prehistoric Croc Species Posted: 07 Feb 2010 08:10 AM PST A new, unusually small species of ancient croc found in Colombia was likely no match for the largest snake ever to slither across the Earth, a new study says.
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| Manu Ginobili Goes Five-hole on Juwan Howard [Video] Posted: 07 Feb 2010 07:40 AM PST Manu Ginobili is one crafty veteran. And by using that craftiness he embarrasses his fellow NBA'ers on the court from time to time. Latest victim: Juwan Howard of the Blazers...
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| Rice, Smith Elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame Posted: 07 Feb 2010 07:10 AM PST Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, Russ Grimm, Rickey Jackson, Dick LeBeau, Floyd Little and John Randle were selected Saturday to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
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| Smoke The Bigots Out Of The Closet Posted: 07 Feb 2010 06:50 AM PST After Adm. Mike Mullen called for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military, a curious silence befell the right.
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| Brazilian Commentator Faints On Live Television (Video) Posted: 07 Feb 2010 06:20 AM PST It is no secret that at times the job of a commentator may be even more difficult than it looks.
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