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| Posted: 20 Nov 2008 09:20 PM CST My 1984 Cadillac Eldorado had been broken into for the fourth time, and its interior had been stripped of pretty much everything except a few swaths of fine faux wood paneling. I had to take action. Immediately.  |
| StumbleUpon Readies for Another Version Release Posted: 20 Nov 2008 09:20 PM CST Around 8:00 pm last night, November 19, 2008, StumbleUpon made an announcement in their Beta Group discussions area that they have rolled the majority of their users back to V2 "to prepare for upcoming changes that will add new features and optimize many existing ones."  |
| New Star Trek Will Be Younger, Faster, Louder Posted: 20 Nov 2008 09:10 PM CST LOS ANGELES, California -- Director J.J. Abrams continued the worldwide roll-out of his new Star Trek prequel Wednesday, showing four extended preview clips to a capacity crowd of stars, executives, press, crew, studio employees and their various entourages at the Paramount Pictures studio theater.  |
| Scientists find way to calculate people's 'real age' Posted: 20 Nov 2008 09:10 PM CST You are only as old as you feel, it is said. But soon scientists will be able to calculate your real "biological age". Researchers studying genes believe they can now detect exact "physical age" by looking at a number of clues - or biomarkers - in DNA. They believe that the tests will be the first time doctors can accurately predict someone's age.  |
| Maggot Therapy Gains in Popularity Posted: 20 Nov 2008 09:00 PM CST Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers.  |
| A Photojournalist's View of Mississippi A Year After Katrina Posted: 20 Nov 2008 09:00 PM CST A year after the storm the majority of these families were still living in this temporary housing. The storm eroded social differences-thousands of people were facing the same challenge of trying to get their lives together again.  |
| The Creatures That Ate Hollywood (PICs) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 08:50 PM CST When a giant sperm whale rammed a whaling vessel in 1820, the deadly encounter inspired Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick. Melville's story, inspired by real-life man-versus-beast mayhem from the 1800s, made it to movie screens in the 1950s. Here are some of the best beasties ever captured on celluloid.  |
| J.P. Hayes- Most Honest Man in Sports Posted: 20 Nov 2008 08:40 PM CST J.P. Hayes played a nonconforming ball for a single hole of the second stage of Q School last weekend. He realized it more than a day after the "violation," called it on himself, and thus disqualified himself from Q School ... with some severe, career-altering effects down the line.  |
| Unlocking the iPhone 3G With Proxy SIMs Posted: 20 Nov 2008 08:40 PM CST In the interests of all those readers who need to unlock their iPhone 3G's for use on different carriers andtested an iPhone 3G unlock that really seems to work. While the iPhone Dev Team plunder the secrets of the mysterious baseband in search of the ever elusive software unlock, some of us regular users just can't wait.  |
| LA Auto Show is Sad, Spooky WIthout GM and Chrysler Posted: 20 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST With their customary prime event slots handed over to foreign manufacturers, this year's LA Auto Show offered a grim glimpse of what our world might be like if the Big Three disappeared.  |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST Digg Meetup San Francisco -- The Photoboof at the Digg Meetup In San Francisco  |
| 20 Store Signs That You Just Can’t Make Up Posted: 20 Nov 2008 08:20 PM CST You gotta hand it to those people that have such a sense of humor about their business. On the other hand some of these places have you wondering what the hell goes on inside the store. And on occasion, there's just bad luck, like a busted light that screws up the wording. Whatever the case, here are 20 store signs that you just can't make up.  |
| Did Asteroid Cause Ancient New York Tsunami? Posted: 20 Nov 2008 08:10 PM CST A giant asteroid may have triggered a tsunami that struck New York more than 2,000 years ago. It was 2,300 years ago. The Palisades that frame the Hudson River were whisper-quiet, the sandy beaches of Long Island and New Jersey empty, and Manhattan was still just an unbroken sylvan carpet.  |
| Ecuadorean Dwarfs May Unlock Cancer, Diabetes Clues Posted: 20 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST Twenty years ago, when Dr. Guevara began treating and studying the dwarfs of southern Ecuador, it was because he wanted to help them. But an interesting and quirky pattern started to emerge. He realized that there has never been a single incidence of cancer or diabetes among them.  |
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| A Straight Man's Non-Ironic Love Affair with NKOTB Posted: 20 Nov 2008 07:40 PM CST The New Kids' music blew, plain and simple, but it didn't matter, because I was 'bout it 'bout it from the get-go. They had me at Hangin' Tough. I covered my walls in photos of the boys: ridiculous pics of the fab five torn from the pages of Tiger Beat, NKOTB by train tracks, NKOTB rocking hats and vests while feeding the elderly.  |
| Posted: 20 Nov 2008 07:40 PM CST A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.  |
| Verizon Wireless bets on Storm for holiday season Posted: 20 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T Inc.  |
| The Sexiest Vampires in Movie History Posted: 20 Nov 2008 07:10 PM CST In honor of "Twilight," the folks at Rotten Tomatoes have compiled a list of some of the hottest bloodsuckers in film.  |
| Japanese Are Irked by U.S. Interest in Pitcher Posted: 20 Nov 2008 07:00 PM CST As the first high-profile Japanese baseball prospect to spurn his nation's leagues to entertain offers from the U.S., Junichi Tazawa has strained relations between leagues on two continents.  |
| Message to the Religious Right Posted: 20 Nov 2008 06:50 PM CST GLBT blogger speaks on all of this nonsense about lgbts attacking people, about them using intimidation and violence to oppress people, about us somehow being ugly aggressors...and is angry. Rightfully so.  |
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| Emails Between Mark Cuban and SEC Attorney Jeffrey Norris Posted: 20 Nov 2008 06:30 PM CST Now comes the strange tale of Jeffrey Norris, trial counsel for the SEC in Fort Worth, Texas. His emails to Cuban critical over Cuban's involvement with Loose Change are at the center of Cuban's claim of bias.  |
| Ultra-wideband radio rides a beam of light Posted: 20 Nov 2008 06:10 PM CST Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European researchers.  |
| New Quantum Weirdness: Balls That Don't Roll Off Cliffs Posted: 20 Nov 2008 06:00 PM CST A good working definition of quantum mechanics is that things are the exact opposite of what you thought they were. Empty space is full, particles are waves, and cats can be both alive and dead at the same time. Recently a group of physicists studied another quantum head spinner.  |
| Backpack saves the life of 11 yr old schoolgirl Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:50 PM CST Ayse Kinsman was walking home from school with her twin sister, Jasmine, when she was hit by a blue Peugeot 206 estate.It struck her on the hip, throwing her over the bonnet. She escaped with cuts and bruises because the bag took the full impact.  |
| Well: News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:40 PM CST Study after study has failed to show that regular vitamin use prevents heart disease and cancer.  |
| Crude Oil Tumbles to Lowest Since May 2005 as Consumption Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:31 PM CST Crude oil fell below $49 a barrel in New York for the first time since May 2005 as a recession in the U.S., Europe and Japan cut global energy demand.  |
| WSJ.com - Opinion: The Obama Health Plan Emerges Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:30 PM CST "Universal" government-run health care proved too ambitious even for FDR, who stripped it out of the Social Security Act of 1935." With Obama, Baucus, Clinton and Daschle, it may be just around the corner for the 47 million uninsured Americans.  |
| The Seven Most Surprising Things About This NFL Season Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:20 PM CST We're only two-thirds of the way into the regular season and this has already been one of the most bizarre, most ludicrous seasons on record. Read why.  |
| 28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:10 PM CST There is something about beautiful lights that can mesmerize an audience. Take a fireworks show for example. It's been around for thousands of years, yet still has the power to put looks of amazement on faces of all ages. That's why lighting effects make such powerful design elements. They are a great way to grab.  |
| Italian Boy Diagnosed With ‘PlayStation Addiction’ Posted: 20 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST An Italian boy has been diagnosed with "PlayStation addiction" following a marathon gaming session. The boy, 13, was rushed to a hospital where doctors thought he had suffered a stroke or some other serious condition.......  |
| Man with brain hemorrhage dead after 25 hr. lock-up Posted: 20 Nov 2008 04:40 PM CST Mark Camm, 43, was unsteady on his feet and could barely talk because of his neurological condition. But instead of taking him to the nearest hospital, officers assumed he was drunk and disorderly and arrested him. Not once did the officers enter his cell to carry out a routine examination, preferring instead to look through the grate of the door.  |
| Apple developing always-on iPhone status indicators Posted: 20 Nov 2008 04:30 PM CST Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone's displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows.  |
| Silverlight ready to Moonlight on Linux Posted: 20 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight - a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs.  |
| Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done Posted: 20 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we've seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and you must try it out.  |
| Monty Python finally does something with this YouTube stuff Posted: 20 Nov 2008 04:10 PM CST That's right, the group has finally jumped on the YouTube bandwagon and started uploading high quality videos of various sketches and movie clips to their own Monty Python channel. There are only 24 videos right now, but the channel is barely five days old and there's plenty of room to grow. [VIDEOS]  |
| New project aims to unite science and Hollywood Posted: 20 Nov 2008 04:10 PM CST Scientists may have less to cringe about when they go to the movies, if a new initiative designed to foster cooperation between scientists and the entertainment industry is successful.  |
| On second thought, Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' ads are still bad Posted: 20 Nov 2008 04:00 PM CST Some marketing genius decided it would be a splendid idea to plaster the subway station I arrive at in the morning with posters promoting Microsoft's "I'm a PC" campaign. So twice a day, five days a week, I'm face to face with one of the worst advertising spots in Madison Avenue's history.  |
| It's Not a Tumor, Doctors Find Worm In Woman's Brain Instead Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:40 PM CST Doctors in Arizona thought a Phoenix-area woman had a possible brain tumor, but it turned out there was something else penetrating her brain – a worm.  |
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