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| HP Breaks the 24-Hour Notebook Battery Life Barrie Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:30 PM CDT Holy moly, talk about being charged up! HP claims its new EliteBook 6930p can deliver up to 24 hours of battery runtime, or 5 hours longer than Dell's Latitude E6400, provided it comes equipped with an optional ultra-capacity battery.All-day computing has been the holy grail of notebook computing,but now you don't have to worry. |
| EA Sticking With DRM For Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:20 PM CDT Thousands of complaints surfacing the web the past two days about Spore's DRM issues won't stop EA from continuing it's use. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 will also have DRM, but users will be allowed five installs instead of the usual three. Err, yay? |
| Is There a Dark Knight/Hancock Crossover I Didn't Know Of? Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:10 PM CDT Maybe you just need to see the first task through to completion, then start on the next item on the agenda. |
| London Restaurant's Tables Turn Into Computer Screens - FTW! Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:00 PM CDT With a few clicks, diners can order from an illustrated menu, pay their bill, summon a taxi, play interactive games with fellow diners and even change the look of the table itself. |
| Hallucinogen’s Popularity May Thwart Medical Use Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:00 PM CDT Until a decade ago, the use of salvia was largely limited to those seeking revelation under the tutelage of Mazatec shamans in its native Oaxaca, Mexico. Today, this mind-altering member of the mint family is broadly available for lawful sale online and in head shops across the United States. |
| Matt Damon on Palin: It's like a really bad Disney movie Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:00 PM CDT ...the hockey mom from Alaska who could be President if McCain doesn't survive his first term. |
| Living Chucky Dolls Invade Times Square Posted: 10 Sep 2008 08:50 PM CDT This is what my nightmares once looked like. |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2008 08:40 PM CDT Yesterday we watched "Berlin am Meer" - not a world-changing, but nice movie which plays in Berlin. I was pleased to see they used Ubuntu in a short scene. (The supposed best friend of the leading character copies files from his laptop without him knowing.) |
| The Dark Knight Meets Mr. Freeze Posted: 10 Sep 2008 08:20 PM CDT Thoughts? You guys excited about Arnold in T4? |
| The Saddest Male Models In The World (PICS) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 08:00 PM CDT |
| McCain refers to Hilary's Plan as "Putting Lipstick on a Pig Posted: 10 Sep 2008 07:50 PM CDT John McCain in Iowa on 10/11/2007 referring to Hillary Clinton's health care plan as putting "lipstick on the pig, but it's still a pig" |
| Large Hadron Collider comes online, world fails to end Posted: 10 Sep 2008 07:40 PM CDT The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's massive particle accelerator, became fully operational this morning. |
| I think he wants his digg back... Posted: 10 Sep 2008 07:30 PM CDT "SAD :(" ...At least there's no comment limits though, right? |
| Bill O'Reilly gets his ass kicked by Phil Donahue Posted: 10 Sep 2008 07:20 PM CDT Phil Donahue is the MAN. I have a whole new respect for Donahue. |
| 5 Legal Drugs The News Is Afraid Of Posted: 10 Sep 2008 07:10 PM CDT Every few years, the mainstream media gets pissed about the kids getting high. Even after all the dangerous drugs (and even some healthy ones) were outlawed, resourceful teens always seem to find new ways to achieve those mind-altering experiences. |
| Thai State Official Beheaded By Separatists Posted: 10 Sep 2008 07:00 PM CDT Police found 29 spent M-16 bullets around the pickup truck of the victim, identified as 26-year-old Attapong Gonlom. "After the attack, the gunmen dragged his body out of the truck and chopped his head off, to the horror of students and teachers," ...the latest death in 57 months of insurgency in which more than 3,100 people have died. |
| OiNK Admin Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:50 PM CDT During October 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. Today, OiNK admin Alan Ellis has been charged with conspiracy to defraud. Charges against four OiNK uploaders will follow later today. |
| Are Grandma and Grandpa bad for the environment? Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:44 PM CDT Everyone's always talking about how an aging population, with more retirees, is going to wreak havoc on Social Security and the federal budget. Here's my question: What impact will that have on the planet? After all, my grandparents don't seem to care much about global warming, their refrigerator is from the 1970s. |
| Hands-on: iTunes 8 rethinks features and rocks new ones Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:32 PM CDT We have spent some time with iTunes 8 and its many new features, so it's time to lay them out for you. It has been two years since iTunes 7 landed, and Apple has finally brought some new library management features, as well as some rethinking of old features, to the table. |
| 7 Years of iPod: What You Paid and What You Got Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:18 PM CDT With yesterday's refresh to Apple's iPod line, it was hard not to feel at least a little deja vu. I've been following new iPod announcements—which often come more than once a year—since 2001, when the first iPod showed up in stores for an astronomical $399. |
| Huge Ancient Lake Discovered in Russia Posted: 10 Sep 2008 06:00 PM CDT A huge ancient lake once dammed up by the vast ice sheets of the last Ice Age has been found by geologists in Russia. Large glacial lakes were known to cover parts of Russia and North America during the Ice Age. One of the most well-known is Lake Agassiz, which covered portions of Canada and northern Minnesota more than 10,000 years ago. |
| Welcome to my party -- NOW PAY UP! Posted: 10 Sep 2008 05:50 PM CDT "When the bill came,"...the birthday girl "smiled and made a big production by way of a toast, saying, 'Thank you all so much for my lovely birthday dinner. I really do appreciate it. You guys are great. Here's to you!' Then she just sat there, waiting for us to decide how to split the bill." The bill for Birthday Girl and the 7 Guests? USD $3,450! |
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| Ron Paul urges voters to skip McCain, Obama - CNN.com Posted: 10 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas called on supporters to back a third-party candidate for president Wednesday, rejecting his party's nominee and offering equally harsh words for the Democratic candidate. |
| Mark Hamill Voices The Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum Game Posted: 10 Sep 2008 05:30 PM CDT Fresh word from the GameStop expo in Las Vegas is that Mark Hamill, voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and face of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, will have a starring role in the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. The role? The Joker, naturally. Also developers are offering the chance for a lucky fan to appear in the game. |
| 11 Ways to Calm Down an Angry Woman Posted: 10 Sep 2008 05:15 PM CDT Dealing with an angry woman. This article from Men's Health magazine explains what to do when a woman is angry and advice about whether or not to seek help if the relationship is potentially abusive. |
| Samuel L Jackson Titanic Screen Test Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:54 PM CDT This is the lost footage from a screen test for the movie Titanic. |
| Philip Seymr Hoffman: I Don’t Know If I’d Be A Good Penguin Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:40 PM CDT When further pressed for his level of interest in the role if Warner Bros. approached him about the role, Hoffman said, "I don't know. I think I'm more interested in seeing someone else do it. I don't know if I'd be a good Penguin to be quite honest. [laughs]" |
| Solar Updraft Towers to Generate Food and Energy Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:31 PM CDT A new breed of solar tower may soon be sprouting up in Namibia, providing the nation with a carbon-free source of electricity and food during the day or night. |
| Top pollsters caught fudging with Presidential Race numbers Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:20 PM CDT CBS, Gallup, and USAToday were caught tinkering with the outcomes of their early September polls. They've been over sampling the number of Republican respondents at the expense of Democrats and Independents. The media is trying to make a "horse race" out of this election by rigging poll results to support the "fairy tale" narratives they create. |
| Farmers See 'Mark of the Beast' in RFID Livestock Tags Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:20 PM CDT A group of community farmers, some of them Amish, are challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are a "mark of the beast." Michigan and federal authorities say the radio frequency identification devices (RFID) will help monitor the travels of bovine and other livestock diseases. |
| XR-3: World's 1st Build-it-yourself Hybrid Car Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:20 PM CDT Robert Riley's XR3 is an incredible machine that is able to achieve over 125mpg on biodiesel and a whoping 225mpg in hybrid mode. With its sleek composite shell and ultra-efficient engine we were expecting to see a stratospheric price tag, however we were stunned to hear that the you can build it yourself for around $25,000! |
| Reduced Dominance Is Predicted for U.S. Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:01 PM CDT An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages of food, water and energy. |
| Group: States should raise driving age Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT Taking aim at a longstanding rite of passage for 16-year-olds, an influential auto safety group is calling on states to raise the age for getting a driver's license to 17 or even 18. |
| Jurassic Undertakers Feasted on Dead Dinosaurs Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:43 PM CDT Dermestid beetles are well known in forensic circles: They congregate on corpses to feed and breed, and their presence and life stage can help establish when the victim died. Now,new evidence shows that dermestids were recycling carcasses as far back as the Jurassic. |
| Bill O'Reilly Slams Jon Stewart on Teen Pregnancy Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:22 PM CDT Bill O'Reilly is not a shameless hypocrite, because Bill O'Reilly says so. |
| What's Wrong with Letting Nursing Home Patients Have Sex? Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:20 PM CDT As lawsuits become harder to win, families will have less of a say in how their relatives are treated—and that could give administrators the freedom to reverse overcautious policies on intimate contact between residents. If that happens, elderly patients could reap the rewards of more sex. |
| Mark Cuban: “When I die, I want to come back as me” Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:00 PM CDT To round out the day's schedule at TechCrunch50, Jason Calacanis interviewed Mark Cuban, the founder Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. He has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare, Goowy, RedSwoosh, Box.net, Calacanis' own Weblogs, Inc and Mahalo. |
| Countrywide Fraud Alert: "We May Have Sold Your Information" Posted: 10 Sep 2008 02:51 PM CDT A Countrywide customer emailed to tell us he received a unpleasant surprise in the mail today |
| Explained: 9 useful Linux commands everyone should use! Posted: 10 Sep 2008 02:41 PM CDT Just switched from Windows or still a bit scared about the command line? You shouldn't be! The command line is a very powerful, fast and intuitive tool to get things done without clicking buttons and navigating through windows.In this article we're going over 9 must know linux terminal commands. |
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