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| 70+ Cheat Sheet Resources for Web Designers Posted: 30 Oct 2008 09:00 PM CDT 70+ Cheat Sheet Resources for Web Designers  |
| New Signs That Ancient Mars Was Wet Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:50 PM CDT Mars may have been wet for a billion years longer than previously thought, new water-related opal evidence from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests. The findings have implications for the possibility that Mars once supported life.  |
| The Next Bailout: Helping Homeowners in Distress. Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:31 PM CDT The Bush Administration is working to create a program that would cut down on foreclosures by helping credit worthy borrowers make their monthly mortgage payments.  |
| Yahoo, AOL in due dilligence ahead of merger rumors Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:20 PM CDT Yahoo Inc and Time Warner Inc's AOL unit are looking at each other's books to figure out how much money they could make together and where costs can be saved, a person familiar with the talks said on Wednesday, indicating a merger may finally be on the way.  |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2008 08:00 PM CDT It pays to buy airtime only if you know what to do with it - and Barack Obama clearly does.  |
| Pirate Bay Talk: How To Dismantle a Billion Dollar Industry Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:50 PM CDT Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij gave a keynote speech at the Hack In The Box Security Conference 2008, entitled "How to dismantle a billion dollar industry - as a hobby." The two discuss how The Pirate Bay grew to be the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, and some of the challenges they face today.  |
| Turn Clock Back this Weekend: Protect against Heart Attack! Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:31 PM CDT Turning back the clock and getting an Extra Hour of Sleep protects people against having heart attacks the next working day.  |
| Metals in glass of wine linked to Parkinson's, study claims Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:20 PM CDT Having just one glass of wine a day could expose the drinker to potentially dangerous levels of metals linked to cancer, heart attacks and Parkinson's disease, scientists warn. A study claims that some wines contain dangerously high levels of naturally occurring metals such as copper, zinc and nickel.  |
| Red State Socialism: 84% Red States Take More Than They Give Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:10 PM CDT Of the 32 states that give more than they get in Federal Tax dollars 84% of them are Republican Red States. Sarah Palin's Alaska is ranked at #3 taking in $1.84 for every dollar it sends to Washington.  |
| Ibex design: user switching, presence and session Posted: 30 Oct 2008 07:00 PM CDT Mark Shuttleworth talks about design ideas and styling for Intrepid Ibex.  |
| CNN rejected Obama ad; Fox News not asked Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT CNN says the Barack Obama campaign tried to purchase airtime for tonight on the network to run its 30-minute primetime ad. The news network says it rejected the request. Fox News, sources say, was not approached by the Obama campaign.  |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:40 PM CDT Phils win. Somewhere around Broad and Walnut at 11p.  |
| Supersized Cruise Ship Is Longer, Larger, Plusher (PICS) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:30 PM CDT In September, Royal Caribbean took delivery on the next biggest thing: the Oasis of the Seas, a floating city for more than 5,400. It's nearly five times the weight of the Titanic and 89 feet longer than the supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan. Judging by history, this Caribbean queen's reign won't last long.  |
| Men Not So Macho Against the Flu Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:20 PM CDT There May Be Some Validity to Tease, Experts Say. Imagine for a moment that a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, hardened by four overseas deployments, has endured broken limbs and other serious injuries. Yet, at the first sign of a cold, this trained soldier collapses into a pathetic and helpless pile.  |
| MacBook (New) vs. MacBook (Old) vs. MacBook Air Posted: 30 Oct 2008 06:00 PM CDT Even though the latest MacBook uses the same size display as the last-gen MacBook Air, the displays are not quite the same. The Air, being a more premium product, uses a display that's more similar to the MacBook Pro than the MacBook.  |
| Fed handing out money to Foreign Banks Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:40 PM CDT "The Federal Reserve agreed to provide $30 billion each to the central banks of Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore..." And you thought money didn't grow on trees. Please tell me this is all a bad dream.  |
| 5 Curious Coincidences Between the Phillies’ WS Wins Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:30 PM CDT When my father and I stood in the right field nosebleed seats at the old Vet Stadium in 1980, watching closer Tug McGraw strike out the Royals' Willie Wilson to capture the Phillies first and, until last night, only World Series title, we had no idea it would be 28 years before the team would taste such victory again.  |
| Obama Spent $44.5K on In-Game Advertising Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:20 PM CDT For weeks now, Obama has been running in-game ads in games such as Burnout Paradise for the 360 across 10 battleground states. The full campaign started on October 6, runs through November 3, and spans a reported 18 games. According to the Obama campaign's pre-general-election filing with the Federal Election Commission, he spent $44,500 in games.  |
| 23andMe: Time Magazine's Invention of the Year, 2008 Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:10 PM CDT "We are at the beginning of a personal-genomics revolution that will transform not only how we take care of ourselves but also what we mean by personal information."  |
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| Obama Not A Socialist, McCain Admits (VIDEO) Posted: 30 Oct 2008 05:00 PM CDT In an interview with Larry King that aired last night, John McCain admitted that he doesn't think Barack Obama is a socialist  |
| Zombie music: Top 10 songs from beyond the grave Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT In the spirit of Halloween here are 10 Frankensteined/posthumous songs (ie, songs based on a dead artist's recorded tracks, like all the posthumous 2pactracks).  |
| 109-Year-Old Daughter of a Slave Casts Vote for Obama Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee.  |
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| Tina Fey Returns to Her Thursday Night Not-So-Live Show Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:30 PM CDT '30 Rock' returns for its third season, most likely with an increased viewership due to Fey's Palin Impressions  |
| 7 Incredible Bugs With Man Faces [Pics] Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:20 PM CDT The insect world never ceases to amaze. These colorful bugs boast familiar patterns like faces or tribal masks on their shields. While potential predators waste prescious time wondering whether it's food, enemy or prey, the masked creatures plot their protection tactics or escape.  |
| What Went Into Pepsi's New Logo? Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:10 PM CDT How long does it take to remake an icon? Try five months.  |
| Greenpeace Activists Invade and Occupy UK Power Plant Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:00 PM CDT The crown jewel of Greenpeace's naval arm, the Rainbow Warrior, pulled in to the harbor alongside the Kingsnorth coal-fired power plant today before six activists stormed the facility to prepare to project video of impacts of global warming onto the plant's giant smokestack.  |
| Pictured: The 6ft giant lego man who washed up on the beach Posted: 30 Oct 2008 04:00 PM CDT Mystery today surrounded a giant Lego man which has washed up on a beach after apparently floating all the way from the Netherlands.  |
| Tell the FCC: Open White Spaces for Everyone Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:50 PM CDT This Halloween, the powerful lobbyists at the National Association of Broadcasters are trying to scare Washington with horror stories about "white spaces" -- vacant TV channels that can be used to bring high-speed Internet connections to rural and low-income Americans across the country.  |
| 7 Mind-Blowing Projects From Microsoft Research Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:50 PM CDT Everyone knows Microsoft never invents anything. Everything is bought in, copied from Apple or built by the PC manufacturer. Right? Not so, according to Rick Rashid, who's been running Microsoft Research for 17 years. He coined the term NUMA - non-uniform memory access for handling cache in multi-processor systems - and popularized the idea of a...  |
| Eight Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:40 PM CDT One of the great things about the iPhone is the regular software updates. Free and automatic improvements are piped, hot and steaming, to your pocket computer.  |
| 10 Songs That Resemble Other Songs Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:40 PM CDT They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Musicians are notorious for taking this old adage to heart, liberally "borrowing" (either intentionally or subconsciously) chords, melodies and/or lyrics from each other. Some say that it's, in fact, the essence of all forms of music, especially modern popular music.  |
| Apple Radically More Undervalued Than Other Tech Heavyweight Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:30 PM CDT As the U.S. equity markets continue the long process of making a bottom in what is now consider to be one of the worst bear markets in history, tech investors should begin to shift their focus on a comparative valuation analysis of the leaders in the tech industry.  |
| 13 Horror Scenes That Will Really Terrify You Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:30 PM CDT Halloween rules. Not because of the candy or the parties or the fact that it allows full-grown men to act like preschoolers or women to dress like brazen sluts. No, Halloween rules because of the movies. This is the only time of year when Hollywood calls attention to all the bloodiest, grisliest, nastiest things in life and makes them... fun.  |
| The 8 Most Ridiculous Viral Videos of the 08 Election Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:20 PM CDT Thanks to the internet, now anyone can stand up in support of their candidate, and have their voice heard by millions... no matter how totally insane they are.  |
| The Windows 7 GUI from a Linux user's perspective Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:10 PM CDT Not many Linux users were impressed. The only significant feature Linux doesn't already include natively in its many free versions is multi-touch. But will these nifty new Windows 7 features be enough to keep Microsoft's user base happy? Or is it finally time for a change?  |
| Investigation: Hundreds accused wrongly of videogame piracy Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:10 PM CDT Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed.  |
| Gene Scan of Alzheimer's Families Identifies Four New Genes Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT The first family-based genome-wide association study in Alzheimer's disease has identified the sites of four novel genes that may significantly influence risk for the most common late-onset form of the devastating neurological disorder. In their report in the November 7 American Journal of Human Genetics, being released online today.  |
| Firefox Themes: Ten Firefox Themes as Dark as Your Soul Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:00 PM CDT With Halloween coming up, now's a fine time to dress up your copy of Firefox.  |
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