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| 19 Really Cool Gadgets for Your Office or Cubicle Posted: 16 Sep 2008 09:10 PM CDT The office can be a cold, hard, life-sucking place to spend your working days. For all the stigma surrounding "the office," you're getting unique opportunities to interact with people and your environment in between filing TPS reports. Here are 19 gadgets that will help to turn that day job prison into a techy heaven! |
| 30 Brilliant Vector Logo Designs, Deconstructed Posted: 16 Sep 2008 09:10 PM CDT In this post we look at 30 contemporary examples of great vector logo design and find out what makes them work. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2008 09:00 PM CDT Best Venn diagram ever!!!!! |
| Spectacular NASA Gallery of 'Deep Space' Pics Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:50 PM CDT Beautiful images from NASA of galaxies, nebula, star clusters, iridescent cloud formations, etc. Some extraordinary, inspired pics. [Most images can be enlarged, hi-res, full screen.] |
| Body exhumed by scientists to help fight against flu Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:45 PM CDT The body of an English aristocrat, who died nearly 90 years ago, has been exhumed in the hope that it will help scientists combat a future flu pandemic. |
| Stunning Pre and Post Storm Photo Comparisons of Ike's Wrath Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:30 PM CDT These images show a stretch of Bolivar Peninsula on Sept. 9, before Ike, and on Sept. 15, two days after landfall. The damage is just incredible. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:20 PM CDT Michael Phelps is just the most recent tip of a very un-funny iceberg worth of bad SNL hosts. Some of them are just plain unfunny and some of them were hosts at bad times. Some were both! Did you know Steve Forbes hosted SNL the same day Rage Against the Machine was the musical guest? |
| 'Upside Down Rainbow' Caused by Freak Weather Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:00 PM CDT Freak atmospheric conditions rarely seen outside the polar regions have been credited with causing the formation of an upside down rainbow. |
| Fight Over Natural Gas Has Bolivia on Brink of Collapse Posted: 16 Sep 2008 08:00 PM CDT After winning a recall election last month, Bolvia's President Evo Morales has proposed controversial changes to Bolivia's Constitution. He wants to redistribute wealth obtained from the sale of Bolivia's abundant natural gas resources in a more equitable way to help the poor.Violent protests have emerged that might lead to civil war. |
| If Wikipedia Was A College Professor Posted: 16 Sep 2008 07:55 PM CDT The funniest video on the internet. [Citation needed.] |
| The 'Porno' actress playing Laura Bush Posted: 16 Sep 2008 07:40 PM CDT Elizabeth Banks has what it takes to be a porn star or first lady. And she'll be strutting her stuff as both on the big-screen within a two-week span. |
| As Texas Stadium's time runs out, Dallas Cowboys fans' Posted: 16 Sep 2008 07:25 PM CDT As Texas Stadium's time runs out, Dallas Cowboys fans' affection for it does not.Texas Stadium has always been more than Irving's most famous feature, more than the home of sports heroes, more than the centerpiece of football fans' Sundays. |
| Scientists Post Data Online to Avoid Being Scooped Posted: 16 Sep 2008 07:10 PM CDT Risking being scooped and having patents refused, some scientists are posting their data online as they produce them. |
| APOD: W5: Pillars of Star Creation Posted: 16 Sep 2008 07:00 PM CDT A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. |
| Video: Barack Obama Saw it Coming! Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:50 PM CDT Obama this morning threw down the gauntlet on McCain, pointing out McCain's lack of leadership on the current economic crisis, using McCain's own words. |
| Court Squashes Bush Plan to Allow Snowmobiles in Yellowstone Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:40 PM CDT Controversial decision! A federal judge has banned snowmobiles from Yellowstone National Park. He said that a plan approved by the Bush Administration to allow 500 snowmobiles to travel daily through Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in the winter months would cause damaging noise pollution, air pollution, and would also stress wildlife. |
| Discovered: The Glowing-Red Fish Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:30 PM CDT Michiels discovered the glowing-red fish by chance during dives in Mangrove Bay in the Red Sea (the salt water inset between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula), where he was investigating how deep red light penetrates into the water |
| The Banking Collapse Will Propel Obama to Victory Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:20 PM CDT If he wants it to... The Obama Campaign should immediately release an ad that asks why McCain has been wasting his time talking about nonsense when we have real problems in our lives. If they do, they can successfully reframe the debate on the issues. |
| Bullet Ricochet Almost Kills Shooter Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:20 PM CDT The odds of being hit by a bullet ricochet are probably a billion to one, but I doubt that this incredibly lucky guy will think twice before putting a helmet on next time he picks up a rifle. |
| IKE AFTERMATH: The Worst Of The Worst (PICS) Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:10 PM CDT Ike did damage all over Texas. These pictures show some of the worst damage that the hurricane inflicted. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2008 06:00 PM CDT Before the over the top, logo heavy madness of today's next-gen masterpieces became the visual norm for video game cover art, there was the basic beauty of the Atari 2600's approach to package design. But what if the biggest games of now fell into the hands of a 2600-era artist? We'd have Atari Modern Classics, a vintage look at our fresh favorites |
| Servers at Sea: Google Ships Could Soon Set Sail Posted: 16 Sep 2008 05:50 PM CDT A Google patent application filed two years ago but published this fall is getting some new attention because it's just too interesting to ignore. The patent is for putting data centers on ships at sea and harvesting the energy in waves for power. The biggest benefit for the company, though, could come from changed legal and tax status. |
| Will the Internet Evolve into a Lifeform? Posted: 16 Sep 2008 05:40 PM CDT Some think that sentience could emerge from any sufficiently complicated system. By the way, you're reading this on a massively-crosslinked network built from millions of routers, allowing any of a billion individual units to access, modify and reply to the others. Interested? |
| 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI Posted: 16 Sep 2008 05:30 PM CDT here are many clever and useful ways to improve a site from the user interface perspective. A developer can find nearly any snippet of Javascript to achieve what he or she wants to accomplish. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2008 05:20 PM CDT Amazing |
| How modern gaming has made us into wimpy gamers Posted: 16 Sep 2008 05:10 PM CDT Think you're hardcore? By current standards you might be. But you're still a noob. Once, we were a proud warrior people, adept in every skill, discipline and combat technique required to earn mastery over our every digital domain. |
| Palin's popularity already declining Posted: 16 Sep 2008 05:00 PM CDT This didn't take long: Palin now has the lowest favorability rating of the four presidential / VP contenders. |
| Our 10 Favorite Actors from Geeky Movies & TV Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:50 PM CDT Our criteria are simple: to make this list, an actor must have been in two or more classic geeky movies or TV shows, be they science fiction, fantasy, super-hero, horror/monster, or whatever. They must have made an indelible impression with their work. And it helps if their characters spouted some really quotable lines, as well. It helps if at l |
| McCain Campaign Claims Credit for Creating Blackberry Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:40 PM CDT Holding up his BlackBerry, they said "you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did" |
| Palin Changes Position on Global Warming - Then Denies It Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:30 PM CDT Now says she believes human actions are partly to blame - and that she never changed her position |
| I Have This Thing I Do to Unwind After Sex Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:20 PM CDT really nice... |
| Source code requests force breathalyzer maker to sober up Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:10 PM CDT The Intoxilyzer 5000EN, a breathalyzer machine used by Minnesota law enforcement, runs on a pair of Z80 processors and uses 50,000 lines of assembly code. The accuracy of that code base is now under nationwide scrutiny as defense attorneys around the country now frequently claim |
| Former FCC Chairman Blasts Claim That McCain Invented The Bl Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:00 PM CDT Speaking to reporters today, McCain campaign adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin claimed that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is responsible for the "miracle" of PDAs. |
| Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:50 PM CDT Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner. |
| MediaDefender, One Year After the Email Leak Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:40 PM CDT Exactly a year ago, the anti-piracy company MediaDefender was put to shame after a hacker gained access to their systems. Many of the deepest secrets of the company were published online, and now, twelve months on, the company is walking the plank to bankruptcy as its shares are worth less than one cent each. |
| It's Never Too Early To Feed Your Baby Cola (Pic) Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:20 PM CDT |
| Pickens Overlooks Existing Natural Gas Cars in Energy Plan Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:10 PM CDT As part of his viral video-powered campaign, Pickens wants to put $160 million behind his case for natural gas-powered vehicles and the so-called Standard Taxi, which looks sort of like a London taxi made from Lego blocks. But, yo, T. Boone! Wake up and smell the coffee. There's little need to spend on developing an all-new CNG vehicle, because the |
| Amazon + IMDB = 6,000 Free Films Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:00 PM CDT Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has finally done what many have been asking it since the time the company bought IMDB: it has enabled video on the film and TV database/info site. The company says users can now watch 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes for free on IMDb.com's video section. |
| Ars puts Spore DRM to the test—with a surprising result Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:00 PM CDT EA and Maxis released Spore to the world last week, and while we still don't have sales information for the title, the big news wasn't the game play. In fact, we found the game itself rather lackluster in most ways. |
| Fired Commissioner: Palin Lied To ABC Posted: 16 Sep 2008 02:50 PM CDT Troopergate - Palin lied to ABC |
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