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| Posted: 17 Nov 2008 09:10 PM CST That did not take long to update (just 8 years). USB will get an update to 5 Gbps.  |
| 'Jelly balls' may slow global warming Posted: 17 Nov 2008 09:10 PM CST VAST numbers of marine "jelly balls" now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming.  |
| The 20 Healthiest Places In America Posted: 17 Nov 2008 09:00 PM CST The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a massive report that assesses the health of the U.S. population according to a number of measures-- from leisure time, physical activity, to smoking rates and incidence of heart disease.  |
| Yahoo Chief Plans to Step Down Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:50 PM CST Yahoo said Monday evening that Jerry Yang, its chief executive, would step down from that role after the company finds a replacement.  |
| MLB.com drops Silverlight for Adobe Flash Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:40 PM CST Adobe's Flash technology will help deliver streaming video of Major League Baseball games. MLB.com exec said Flash gave service more flexibility.  |
| SEC Employee Accused Cuban Of Being Unpatriotic Over Movie Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST S.E.C. employee had sent Mr. Cuban e-mails several times over the past year or so, accusing him of being unpatriotic. The bone of contention was Mr. Cuban's involvement with "Loose Change," a documentary that accuses the Bush administration of engineering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a pretext for the Iraq war.  |
| DO NOT Post Pictures of This Sign on the Internet Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST  |
| New Way to Stop Global Warming: Turn CO2 to Rock Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:20 PM CST A breaking study indicates that 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year could be locked up in rock formations that cover half of Oman—finally putting a dent in global greenhouse gases.  |
| Race on to build world's first space elevator Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST AUSTRALIA could play a key role in the 21st century space race, with competition heating up between Japan and the US to build the world's first "space elevator".  |
| Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST A year ago at the annual Adobe MAX conference, the company demoed an application codenamed "Thermo" that drew plenty of praise for its ability to take static images and convert them to working RIA user interfaces with just a couple of clicks. This year, the app is official as Flash Catalyst.  |
| Michael Jackson sued by Prince (of Bahrain) for $7M Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST Michael Jackson is facing a $7,000,000 law suit brought by Sheikh Abdulla Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, left, who alleges the singer reneged on a recording and entertainment project  |
| Brock Lesnar Leads the UFC’s Next Generation Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST "It's getting stronger and stronger," former champ Randy Couture said. "Brock is a great indicator of where the heavyweight division is going. We're seeing guys who aren't just big guys, they're also very, very good athletes. Brock, obviously, is walking around with the title now, but more importantly, he's on the right path to completing his game"  |
| 10 Great Schoolgirl Appearances in Pop Culture Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST "These girls are students in a secret spy paramilitary academy. Amy (Sara Foster) gets it on with criminal mastermind Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster, who has never looked better. It's worth seeing this movie just to admire her hair). Lesbian spy schoolgirls. Enough said."  |
| APOD: Discovery of a Multi-planet Star System Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST How common are planetary systems like our own Solar System? In the twelve years previous to 2008, over 300 candidate planetary systems have been found orbiting nearby stars. None, however, were directly imaged, few showed evidence for multiple planets, and many had a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting inside the orbit of Mercury.  |
| Law professor fires back at song-swapping lawsuits Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST A Harvard Law School professor has launched a constitutional assault against a federal copyright law at the heart of the industry's aggressive strategy, which has wrung payments from thousands of song-swappers since 2003.  |
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| Five essential Xmas gifts for Apple iPhone lovers Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:40 PM CST Stuck for Christmas presents? Your iPhone-loving friends will love these  |
| Cloverfield 2: Coming Soon, Unless It Isn't. WTF? Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST Never has a green-lit "go" movie been so...inert? Funny, irreverent look at the uncertainty surrounding the non-start of Cloverfield 2 -- w/some suggested plot scenarios to help kick-start things.  |
| 10 Most Accessible Foreign Films of the Last Ten Years Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST In the hopes that Slumdog Millionaire could help open the door to further foreign film consumption, we present this guide to the most accessible world cinema titles from the past ten years. For every entry-level film on the list, we name a couple of more intermediate titled in the same vein — just in case you get hooked.  |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:20 PM CST [PICS]  |
| Next Digg Meetup this Wednesday 11/19 in San Francisco Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:10 PM CST The Digg team is heading back to Mighty in San Francisco for our last Digg Meetup of the year this Weds, 11/19. We're also excited to announce some more dates and cities for future Meetups. In the first few months of 2009, we're heading to LA, Austin, and Seattle - details on the venues and other 2009 events coming soon. -Kevin  |
| Pirates Seize Massive Oil Tanker Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:00 PM CST The U.S. Navy said Monday that pirates had seized control of a Saudi-owned oil tanker off the coast of Kenya. "The total number of naval attacks off Somalia now stands at 84 for this year, with 33 ships hijacked and 12 still in pirates' hands, most notably a Ukrainian freighter." ... with more than 250 crew being held hostage!  |
| 10 Crazy Celebrity Websites With Good/Bad Design Elements Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:50 PM CST Most major celebrities have websites and they should, since well being a celebrity is a lot about branding. Many celebs spend millions on publicists and stylists and a website is a fundamental part of branding for any celebrity trying to make it big! So I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the websites of 10 people celebs known to be  |
| Open Radar: using social networking to squash Apple bugs Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:40 PM CST This weekend Open Radar introduced open source bug tracking for Apple software. Ars looks at this new site.  |
| The Top 7 Game bad guys you didn't want to kill Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:30 PM CST The gaming murders that left a bad taste in our mouth  |
| Turkey for Dummies: Thanksgiving Dinner in 24 Easy Steps Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:20 PM CST Not everyone (and certainly not every guy) is Julia Child on the ultimate food holiday. So why complicate things? Here's to roast the turkey and make the gravy in very basic, easy-to-follow steps.  |
| MySpace hoax jury to hear about suicide Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:01 PM CST Evidence from the suicide of a Missouri girl can be used by prosecutors against a woman charged with helping to create a false Internet identity that was used to harass the teenager, a federal judge has ruled. Meier, 13, who was being treated for depression, hanged herself after receiving messages saying the world would be better off without her.  |
| 8 Great Alternative Desktop Managers For Linux Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:50 PM CST Most of the Linux users should be familiar with Gnome and KDE since both of them are the most commonly used desktop managers in the various Linux distros. Now, if you are using an old PC with low hardware specs, you might find that the above two desktop environments are too heavy for your computer to handle.  |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:30 PM CST There's no doubt that comic book movies have included some of the hottest actresses around. So much so, that crunching them down into just 26 was one of the hardest tasks we have ever done. But it was worth every minute. Enjoy.  |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:30 PM CST Mmmmm....sacrilicious!  |
| Adobe answers cries for 64-bit Flash on Linux Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:20 PM CST Starting to answer the clamorous demand from open-source fans, Adobe Systems plans to release an alpha version of its Flash Player technology on Monday for those using 64-bit Linux software.  |
| 99% of Texas Science Professors Discredit Intelligent Design Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:10 PM CST Of the 1,019 faculty members to whom the surveys were sent, 464 responded -- and fewer than 1 percent checked off the box marked, "Modern evolutionary biology is mostly wrong. Life arose through multiple creation events by an intelligent designer, although evolution by natural selection played a limited role."  |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models of anything: your house, killer robots, furniture, trees, abstract art — anything. Architects and engineers use it to design buildings and other structures. Woodworkers use it to plan their projects. And lots of people use it to figure out where to put their furniture.  |
| 25+ Images That Might Give Geeks a Hard On Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST We like to be called geeks ourselves but contrary to the popular belief, geeks are not nerds. Geeks are good looking and nerds are well, nerdy.  |
| Wilpena Pound Aerial, Australia Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST Home to a variety of animals, including kangaroos and wallabies, the rock basin known as Wilpena Pound was carved from ancient mountains by erosion. The high walls of rock are made of weather-resistant quartzite.  |
| 6 Ways Pushing Daisies Made Your Inner Nerd Cry Tears of Joy Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST Nerds are renowned the world over for our extensive knowledge of possibly useless trivia, our obsessive devotion to our favorite books and films, and our resulting difficulties communicating with non-nerds. Thanks to modern internet culture, however, these days everyone is a nerd. And nowhere is that more evident than in Pushing Daisies.  |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:30 PM CST It's finally here!!  |
| Battlefields and bikes: blogging from the edge Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:30 PM CST Meet the people who post from near-impossible locations "Get yourself set up with a Twitter account. It's a nice, low-cost way of letting people know if you get into trouble or are kidnapped. You can agree on a keyword with friends to use if they need to start mobilising help for you and then you can just text that word when you are in such a ...  |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST Good and bad news on urban snarls and smog in Asia. Lee Schipper, a specialist on cities, transportation and pollution diving time between Stanford and Berkeley, is a frequent presence on Dot Earth and a source for me when pondering how the world heads toward nine billion mainly-urban humans with the fewest traffic jams and smog alerts.  |
| GOP Sen says Paulson may have given bailout $ to his friends Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday that Congress was not told the truth about the bailout of the nation's financial system and should take back what is left of the $700 billion "blank check'' it gave the Bush administration.  |
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