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| The Most Horrific Halloween Decorations Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:20 PM CDT We promise it won't scare you too much, unless you happen to be phobic about displays lacking any subtlety whatsoever. |
| The Daily Show's 10 Best Third Party Moments Posted: 08 Oct 2008 09:00 PM CDT Let's face it, the Democrats and Republicans are pretty much the same; that's why they always get along so great at debates and in Congress. And that's why God created third parties. And what God creates, The Daily Show cracks wise about. |
| Pirates 4 Directed by Tim Buron and co-starring Sacha Cohen! Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:50 PM CDT Most excitingly, there are talks of Captain Jack having a brother in the next movie, possibly to be played by Sacha Baron Cohen (perfect!) or Russell Brand (even more perfect!) |
| 5 Bizarre Ways the Weather Can Kill You Without Warning Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:40 PM CDT Hurricanes, floods and tsunamis are all nature's little way of letting us know that, deep down, it hates us. But sometimes nature is passive aggressive, and throws a horrifying curve ball out of the clear blue sky. Something that you could never see coming. Something that you probably didn't even know was possible. |
| 10 NFL Players Who Should Be Traded During the Season Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:30 PM CDT Though in-season NFL trades are a rarity, four team executives talked to Yahoo! Sports about players they believe should be dealt prior to the deadline next Tuesday ... 4 of which are on the Detroit Lions |
| New pain relief is eight times stronger than morphine Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:30 PM CDT A groundbreaking treatment for pain that is eight times stronger than morphine has been discovered by scientists. The revolutionary technique involves an injection that can combat serious discomfort for more than three days - 14 times as long as morphine. |
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| The 2008 Mustached American of the Year Award Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:10 PM CDT The American Mustache Institute (AMI) sponsors its annual Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American Award on October 25, in St. Louis (home to the world's largest mustache - the St. Louis Arch). Nothing builds a resume like sporting America's best lip-fur. |
| 8 Foo Fighters Songs McCain Should Use Instead of 'My Hero' Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:10 PM CDT Foo Fighters joined the ranks of Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart this morning by not-so-discreetly asking Sen. John McCain to stop using their music to rally his troops. We'd like to call on the McCain camp to do the right thing and pick a more appropriate Foo Fighters tune, such as "The Pretender" or these seven others... |
| TF2 - New update, but which class? Posted: 08 Oct 2008 08:00 PM CDT Work on the next class pack is gearing up, a little slower than we'd like. In the meantime, I thought I'd post some answers to the common email questions we receive. |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:50 PM CDT UFOs exist and have been here since 1947, according to a British expert. |
| Want to bypass DRM? Feds open to new DMCA exemptions Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:50 PM CDT What digital locks will users be allowed to pick for the next three years? |
| Digg Front Page Stories, Tweets Now Included in Wikia Search Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:40 PM CDT The link goes to Wikia Search's results for "Barack Obama". The third item? The last three Digg stories to mention Obama. The search results are part of Wikia's new application framework. Also included: News from the Washington Post, tweets from Twitter, Creative Commons licensed images. You can also build applications yourself. |
| McCain refers to Americans as 'my fellow prisoners' Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:20 PM CDT The last two years John McCain has spent on the presidential campaign trail seem to finally have transported the Republican candidate back to the Hanoi Hilton he called home for five and a half years. At a campaign stop in Pennsylvania Wednesday, McCain referred to his supporters as "fellow prisoners" in a botched attack on his Democratic opponent. |
| How Much Are You Paying For Being Apple? Posted: 08 Oct 2008 07:10 PM CDT We all think Apple products are a little overpriced, but hey, you're paying for the brand, quality and the tight integration.But considering you can install plain old vanilla OS X on a PC with similar hardware to the Mac, how much are you paying premium just for the Apple logo? |
| Top 10 Most Dangerous Geeks & Hackers of 2008 Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT A digital security reporter for the Washington Post weights in for Popular Mechanics -- with detailed profiles and interviews -- on the Internet's Top 10 Most Controversial Figures of 2008. From hackers to DNA decoders to copyright crackers, each of these elite members of the technorati have caused enough of a stir in the online community... |
| 5 Gmail Labs Features Everyone Should Try Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT To enable the Labs features, log-in to your Gmail account and click on "Settings". There you should see the Labs tab. Click on that for a list of all the available features. |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT Check out who Warner Bros. wants to play Hal Jordan in the upcoming Green Lantern movie. |
| Want to Look Like A Porcupine? Fashionistas In Japan Do Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT And they're starting with the eye lashes. Japanese designers are always on the cutting edge (no word yet on whether porcupine tails will follow)--& in this case, no joke, fluffed out, whiskery fake lashes are genuinely "hot." Perfect for the edgy new Tokyo club scene &, in desperate moments, for dusting, eye glass cleaning (even chimney sweeping?) |
| Top 10 Most Annoying Things About Facebook Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:40 PM CDT If your relationship is so damn complicated that you have to identify it as such on your Facebook profile, get the hell off Facebook and go fix your relationship... |
| Women's voices go high pitch when most fertile, study finds Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:20 PM CDT Whisper it softly - if you don't want to send all the eligible bachelors running for the hills. Women speak in a higher tone of voice when at their most fertile, making them more attractive to the opposite sex, scientists have found. |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research division, now wants to ratchet that work up about ten notches, by developing a "neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore full motor and sensory capability to upper extremity amputee patients. |
| Florida Town Wants to Grow Coral Reefs with Electricity Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT As coral reefs around the world continue to disappear, one Florida town has taken the initiative by investing $60,000 to stimulate coral reef growth using electricity. While there is not yet peer-reviewed evidence to suggest that using a low powered electrical current works, scientists are not dismissing the idea. |
| We Must Stop Daylight Savings! Posted: 08 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT |
| James Earl Jones Recites The Alphabet...Seriously Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT Sesame Street- The alphabet has NEVER been so weird, funny, and James-Earl-cool. |
| TouchType Makes iPhone Email Better With Landscape Mode Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT For whatever reason, Apple decided not to allow "landscape mode" on iPhone email. If you want to turn the phone when the web browser is open and get the larger keyboard that makes two thumb typing realistic, no problem. But the email app is portrait only. |
| Microsoft Stake in Facebook Begins to Bear Fruit Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:50 PM CDT Almost exactly one year ago, Facebook and Microsoft were in the headlines when the Redmond, Washington-based software giant outlasted Google in a bidding war |
| Paris Hilton Gets Presidential with Martin Sheen Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:40 PM CDT Paris Hilton seeks the advice of the most respected fake president of our generation. She's not afraid to drop some of her FoPo knowledge. |
| 25 Fantastic Indie Gems Made for Less Than $1 Million Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT The following movies all had budgets under $1 million, some of them reaching as low as $7,000. Let this act as a reminder: you don't need to be backed by studio financing to make a great film. |
| Video - Biden: Palin Must Condemn Hateful Obama Attacks Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT Joe Biden lashed out at Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling her recent rhetoric "ugly" and "mildly dangerous," and expressing shock that she didn't interrupt recent rallies when supporters shouted hateful attacks about Barack Obama, including "treason!" and "kill him!" |
| Christmas Was Not Originally A Christian Holiday Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT Did you know that a pagan winter festival was traditionally the most popular festival of the year in many cultures long before Jesus ever came to this earth? Did you know that December 25th was celebrated as the "birthday" of pagan gods such as Mithras and Sol long before it became Christianized? |
| Ten Years Later, Yahoo Finally Updates Its Calendar Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT It's literally been ten years since Yahoo updated its online calendar. And it's been more than two years since Google launched its Web-based calendar. But tonight it will start rolling out a new drag-and-drop, Ajax calendar in a closed beta to Yahoo Mail users in the U.S., UK, India, Taiwan, and Brazil. |
| Why Did NBC Censor SNL on the Web? Posted: 08 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT It's an interesting case of what the future may look like as more media consolidation takes place, and power gets concentrated into the hands of just a few companies. This is the best example you'll find of silenced political speech on a wide scale. |
| 10 Underrated Bill Murray Roles Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT Everyone loves Bill Murray, but folks tend to forget these great performances in movies both good and horrible. |
| MacBook Pro 'Brick' Casing Photo? Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:40 PM CDT "What appears to be a MacBook Pro casing carved out of a single piece of aluminum which is consistent with rumors that the new Apple laptops would use a new manufacturing process." |
| iPhone gives Pandora twice as many new users daily Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:20 PM CDT The Pandora personalized radio streaming service was already a popular destination before Apple's App Store launched over the summer, but the launch of the Pandora iPhone application has apparently caused the site to really take off. Founder Tim Westergren spoke about the iPhone's effect on Pandora and a variety of other topics during his keynote a |
| The Chromium Browser On Ubuntu 8.04 With CrossOver Chromium Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:20 PM CDT Chromium is an open-source browser project that is the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Right now, Chromium doesn't support Linux natively, but Codeweavers has created a Linux port called CrossOver Chromium that can be installed free of charge. This guide shows how to install CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu 8.04. |
| 6 Menacing Towers Fit For a Supervillain Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT I thought I'd offer some assistance to any supervillains who may be looking for a menacing building to call headquarters. Admittedly they're quite noticeable, and as far as i know none or on the market at present so you may have to use underhand tactics to actually move in. |
| Retirement accounts have lost $2 trillion Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday. |
| Europe: Screw the Paulson Plan, we’re nationalizing ou Posted: 08 Oct 2008 04:00 PM CDT At least this plan makes some sense. |
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