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| Posted: 28 Aug 2008 09:12 PM CDT Giant clams two feet long might have helped feed prehistoric humans as they first migrated out of Africa, new research reveals. The species, Tridacna costata, once accounted for more than 80 percent of giant clams in the Red Sea, researcher now say. |
| Study says eyes evolved for X-Ray vision Posted: 28 Aug 2008 09:02 PM CDT The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: our ability to see through things. |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2008 09:00 PM CDT If the press is to be believed, we're a dying breed, friends: the PC gamer is slowly slipping loose the surly bonds of expensive upgrades and Byzantine hardware requirements, and gently rising to grab onto the tray-and-play hem of console gaming. So here's a handy cheat sheet for how you can "save" PC gaming. |
| 75 Adobe Fireworks Extensions-It is better than Photoshop Posted: 28 Aug 2008 08:40 PM CDT We all know how powerful and how great Adobe Photoshop is, we know that all the best graphic designers use it, we also know that Photoshop when mastered lets you create amazing art.Sadly, we also know it is very, very expensive. What is the answer? Adobe Fireworks. Yes, it can be almost as powerful. I promise... |
| Man Heats 4,000 Sq. Ft Home for Just $2.50 Per Day Posted: 28 Aug 2008 08:40 PM CDT Why spend lots of money heating your house when nature can do it for you? |
| Apple details next-gen multi-touch techniques for tablet Mac Posted: 28 Aug 2008 08:19 PM CDT In a new company filing discovered by AppleInsider, iPhone maker Apple Inc. illustrates a number of techniques that would pave the way for tablet Macs that display a near full-sized multi-touch keyboard and run an undiluted version of the Mac OS X operating system. |
| 5 Former Music Badasses Who’ve Lost Their Way Posted: 28 Aug 2008 08:01 PM CDT Today, we look back on five musicians who once typified everything that was dangerous and threatening about music but eventually went on to be a sad, soft, shell of their former selves. Hey hey, my my. |
| Linux Jumps To 13.4 Percent Of The Stalling Server Market Posted: 28 Aug 2008 07:40 PM CDT According to IDC, Linux is booming. At just 9.4 percent of the overall server market in terms of revenue in 2007, Linux has now climbed to 13.4%of the overall server market, with Unix at 7.7% and Windows at 36.5%. If Linux server vendors want to continue to grow, at some point they're going to have to come to grips with Windows |
| McCain's Record of Blocking Veterans Health Funding Posted: 28 Aug 2008 07:20 PM CDT Yesterday, Sen. John McCain promoted his veterans private health care "plastic card" in a speech to the American Legion. Though he insisted the "card is not intended to either replace the VA or privatize veterans' health care," veterans groups aren't buying it. |
| It's official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1 Posted: 28 Aug 2008 07:10 PM CDT Comcast has finally announced that it will introduce 250GB per month bandwidth caps for all residential customers this fall. It insists that this is the same policy it always had, but with clearer limits. |
| Cindy McCain's Half-Sister & Her Son: We're Voting For Obama! Posted: 28 Aug 2008 07:00 PM CDT Cindy McCain's half-sister says she won't help put her famous sibling in the White House. She: "I'm not voting for McCain," Kathleen Hensley Portalski tells Us. "I'm voting for Obama..." He: "I wouldn't vote for McCain if he was a Democrat..I question whether Cindy is someone I'd want to see in the White House as first first lady." |
| In Recent Scifi, Intelligent Design Is Truth Posted: 28 Aug 2008 06:50 PM CDT A new crop of science fiction novels focus on what it would mean if Intelligent Design turned out to be the truth. Jay Lake's Escapement is a perfect example, as is Walter Jon Williams' Implied Spaces — both are novels about people in clockwork worlds designed by some kind of higher power associated with spiritual realms. |
| Does Apple Really Want To Be An Internet Censor? Posted: 28 Aug 2008 06:40 PM CDT The most recent incident of an application being pulled though is raising the specter of Apple censorship; or at least applying their own moral judgement of whether an application can be listed. Such is the case of Infurious Comics and their Comic Reader that was meant for easier distribution and reading of web comics on the iPhone. |
| The Most Amazing Snowboard Trick, so amazing it's funny. Posted: 28 Aug 2008 06:30 PM CDT |
| Judges consider whether FBI violated free speech in ISP case Posted: 28 Aug 2008 06:20 PM CDT A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret. |
| Facebook The Movie. The Shitty, Shitty Movie Posted: 28 Aug 2008 06:10 PM CDT It always amazes me how excited people get about social networking sites, and then at some point just decide that they are totally lame. Like do you kids remember Friendster? Back in 2002 I was all OVER that shit. Then Myspace came along and had more hot young girls. And at some point, people just all abandoned that ship and headed to facebook. |
| Dad, There's this Girl at School I Like.... [COMIC] Posted: 28 Aug 2008 06:00 PM CDT Bad parenting and dumb kids don't mix.. |
| Another Airline Joins Race for Alternative Jet Fuel Posted: 28 Aug 2008 05:50 PM CDT Add another contender to the alternative aviation fuel race: Swift Enterprises. The company, which is based in Indiana, has developed a renewable jet fuel made from landfill waste, sorghum, algae, woodchips, and other feedstocks. |
| McCain Campaign: There are no uninsured-Wow! Posted: 28 Aug 2008 05:30 PM CDT Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.) "Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to... |
| Crank 2 Is Most Offensive Script Statham's Ever Read Posted: 28 Aug 2008 05:10 PM CDT Crank 2: High Voltage is one of those ratshit insane movies that makes me proud to be alive. "High voltage is an understatement," he said about the movie. "They locked themselves in a room for three days with five bottles of tequila and wrote the most offensive, outrageous script I've ever read." |
| My Boobs Aren't Squeeze Toys: 8 Tips For More Bedroom Action Posted: 28 Aug 2008 05:00 PM CDT What is one food that can make a woman's sex drive disappear? |
| Hack Turns iPhone into Macro Camera Posted: 28 Aug 2008 04:50 PM CDT Forget about buying cheap, tacky plastic add-ons to mod the iPhone's camera. Flickr-er Daniel Forsythe instead used his knowledge of cellphone camera lenses to make this quick-and-dirty manual focus hack for the iPhone. |
| Microsoft Pulls on Firefox's Tail Posted: 28 Aug 2008 04:40 PM CDT Microsoft fired the latest volley in the new browser wars on Wednesday, releasing the latest version of Internet Explorer to the public. Our quick take: Microsoft wouldn't need an ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld if it came out with more products like this. |
| Halliburton sued for human trafficking Posted: 28 Aug 2008 04:20 PM CDT Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court... |
| Putin accuses U.S. of orchestrating Georgian war Posted: 28 Aug 2008 04:10 PM CDT Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. Guess which one?!? |
| Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward Posted: 28 Aug 2008 04:00 PM CDT Thanks Fox News! |
| New Geothermal Technology Could Tap 120,000MW of Energy Posted: 28 Aug 2008 03:50 PM CDT On August 22nd, Raser Technologies and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson broke ground on New Mexico's first geothermal power plant. Situated at Lightning Dock near Animas, the new plant will incorporate an innovative binary liquid technology that allows it to make use of the site's low levels of geothermal energy. |
| Digg Dialogue Questions get answered by Nancy Pelosi on CNN! Posted: 28 Aug 2008 03:40 PM CDT Digg CEO Jay Adelson asks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi questions sent by iReporters and selected by the Digg community. The questions you guys posed got answered, it seems like she did her best job to really answer them and take them as serious as any questions. |
| 10 Things You Won't Hear from Millionaires Posted: 28 Aug 2008 03:30 PM CDT They might drive fancy cars, but they also hunt for discounts and worry about retirement. |
| How Newegg Stopped Collecting New York State Tax Posted: 28 Aug 2008 03:20 PM CDT eader Chris Schiffner pinged Newegg to see why and how they stopped collecting New York State tax. They sent him an answer, posted after the jump, but here's the short story: A new New York law would have required internet retailers using affiliate marketing to collect sales tax, so Newegg "restructured its affiliate marketing program." |
| Bloomberg Accidentally Publishes Steve Jobs Obituary Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:50 PM CDT The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today -- and inadvertently published it in the process. |
| Ron Paul: Obama and McCain have the same foreign policy! Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:50 PM CDT Ron Paul appears on CNN's American Morning and points out the lies we are being told about economics and foreign policy. |
| 5 Diseases that are Thriving Thanks to Global Warming Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:40 PM CDT Global climate change is extending the reach of diseases once found only in tropical regions. |
| 4chan hacker holds rapper Soulja Boy MySpace account ransom Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:30 PM CDT A miscreant from the sordid 4chan message-board community sent rapper and social media whiz-kid Soulja Boy a text message the other day, telling him to fork over $2,500 if he wanted control over his MySpace account back. |
| More Transformers 2 Long Beach Set Photos (PICS) Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:20 PM CDT /Film reader Ricky C snapped some photos of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen shoot in Long Beach today: |
| Amazing photoblog of the protests outside the DNC Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:10 PM CDT Detailed and vivid images from the protests outside the DNC, at the Freedom Cage. Amazing work! |
| Mac Designer Andy Hertzfeld Looks Back at 25 Years of Mac Posted: 28 Aug 2008 02:00 PM CDT "Steve made zero technical contributions. He's not a technical person, so sort of his main contribution was setting the goal, setting a very high goal, and then being really passionate about exceeding the expectations, you know just trying to make every single conceivable aspect of the product as brilliant and creative and wonderful as possible." |
| Green Gym Uses Human-Powered Energy Posted: 28 Aug 2008 01:40 PM CDT Adam Boesel, the gym's owner, doctored up spin bikes with weed whacker motors and truck alternators so that patrons can create energy to help power the 2,800 foot space. |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2008 01:40 PM CDT The latest installment in the LEGO Thing franchise — LEGO Batman — could be heading to the iPhone, reports Pocket Gamer.There have been earlier Java midlet versions of LEGO games - notably Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, but it would be nice to think that theiPhone would get a proper conversion.. |
| The Case for an Apple iNetwork: Welcome to the Social Posted: 28 Aug 2008 01:20 PM CDT There has been a lot of speculation recently about an impending update to iTunes. Version 8.0 is supposed to finally bring a recommendation engine to the digital media player application. While that's interesting from a music discovery perspective, it is even more interesting to consider what this could mean in terms of an iTunes+iPhone experience. |
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