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| Designer Vaginas: Safe or Sorry? Posted: 22 Nov 2008 09:00 PM CST "Say No to Designer Vaginas!" read a sign at the event, which included a protester dressed as a vulva before undergoing a labiaplasty (surgical reduction of the inner vaginal lips) and another who personified after.  |
| Children 'risking liver disease' Posted: 22 Nov 2008 09:00 PM CST Excessive drinking by children and teenagers is storing up a time bomb of health problems, a charity has warned.  |
| The Science of the Future of War Posted: 22 Nov 2008 08:40 PM CST TODAY'S MOST BRUTAL WARS are also the most primal. They are fought with machetes in West Africa, with fire and rape and fear in Darfur, and with suicide bombs and improvised explosive devices in Israel, Iraq, and elsewhere. But as horrifying as these conflicts are, they are not the greatest threat to our survival as a species. We humans are a frigh  |
| Say goodbye to the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk trophy Posted: 22 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST A 63-year-old tradition is ending Saturday.The Sweet Sioux Tomahawk, long a symbol of the Illinois-Northwestern football rivalry, is going the way of Chief Illiniwek.The NCAA directed Illinois to remove all Native American imagery from its athletic teams or lose the right to host postseason NCAA events.  |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST a wedding designed around pixelated flowers.  |
| Madonna's two-fingered salute for Guy Ritchie Posted: 22 Nov 2008 08:20 PM CST She is rarely lost for words. But the newly divorced Madonna prefers to let her fingers do the talking. The singer, on stage in the U.S., made her provocative two-fingered salute on the eve of the end of her seven-year marriage to Guy Ritchie. Yesterday, the couple were granted the first stage of their divorce following a 50- second hearing.  |
| Paterno says he'll 'run out of that tunnel next year' Posted: 22 Nov 2008 08:10 PM CST In 2009, Joe Paterno will be back as coach of Penn St.With rumors of his retirement swirling about campus and throughout the country for days, Penn State coach Joe Paterno told a pep rally Friday night at Rec Hall in State College, Pa., that he will return in 2009 "and run out of that tunnel next year."  |
| How Do Math And Intuition Help Us Understand Whole Systems? Posted: 22 Nov 2008 08:10 PM CST While the human brain may be the ultimate complex system, other examples appear everywhere. Take army ants. Despite their name, they have no general, and their queen sends out no instructions. No ant is aiming to get across that gully, and there is no blueprint or traffic light.  |
| Google Powered BitTorrent Seach Engines Posted: 22 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST Running a BitTorrent site can be quite costly. Most of the larger sites need over a dozen servers to keep everything running smoothly. There are some scalable alternatives for BitTorrent startups though. Two relatively unknown meta-search engines have taken a different route by using Google's App Engine, which provides optimal scalability.  |
| WTF: Men's bras are snapped up in Japan (Video) Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST An online shop in Japan has seen an extraordinary demand for its newest product: bras for men.  |
| Cy&H: The legend of William Tell Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST  |
| Notre Dame players pelted by snowballs Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:20 PM CST Notre Dame football players were pelted by snowballs from fans sitting in the student section during their game against Syracuse on Saturday.  |
| Linux Should Copy Amiga, Not Mac Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:10 PM CST Mark Shuttleworth made headlines not too long ago when he called for the Linux desktop to surpass Mac OS X in both beauty and functionality. While a lot of folks thought that was breathtaking and audacious, I think he's aiming too low. I think Linux should aspire to equal or better the AmigaOS.  |
| Bruce Lee Plays Ping Pong With Nunchuck Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:00 PM CST  |
| New vs. Old: Star Trek Fashion Smackdown! Posted: 22 Nov 2008 06:50 PM CST Who had better style? The old 1960s Star Trek crew members or the new 2009 Star Trek crew members? By "new" I mean "new version of the old." The movie drops next year. I know you're already in line. Here are some fashion-related things to think about while you're setting up camp on the sidewalk.  |
| 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Tdi: A High-Mileage Masterpiece Posted: 22 Nov 2008 06:40 PM CST Among a wave of diesel cars and trucks — whose advanced emissions systems let them meet pollution rules in all 50 states -- the Jetta is the people's choice, costing half as much as diesels from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. The VW is also the current champion of diesel economy.  |
| Google’s campus as seen from the “Google” satellite [PIC] Posted: 22 Nov 2008 06:00 PM CST Google recently hitched a ride up to space with the GeoEye-1, the new imagery satellite built by the company GeoEye. Today, the company sent us a picture (above) that the new satellite snapped of the Google's Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.  |
| Top 10 Things You Can Do with a DVD Posted: 22 Nov 2008 06:00 PM CST The proliferation of thumb drives and external hard drives has made optical media like DVDs seem a little less handy—but there are still plenty of ways to put DVDs to good use. These shiny, multi-gigabyte discs can run entire operating systems, put movies on your computer and vice-versa, host a robust copy of Wikipedia  |
| Explorers eye poles, Everest on climate mission Posted: 22 Nov 2008 05:20 PM CST The prospect of encountering polar bears, cracking ice and frostbite doesn't horrify Arctic explorer Eric Larsen.  |
| 5 Reasons Why Your Company Should Generate Its Own Energy Posted: 22 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST Is this really the best time for your company to be thinking about generating renewable energy on-site? Yes!  |
| 25 Worst-Selling #1 Albums (aka picked a good week to debut) Posted: 22 Nov 2008 04:50 PM CST For one week (tellingly, none managed a second week on top) each of these albums was the best-seller in America. But they didn't sustain over the long haul. None of these 25 albums has sold more than 830,000 copies over the course of its entire run.  |
| Porter on Vick: 'All it was was dogs' Posted: 22 Nov 2008 04:40 PM CST Miami Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter commented on the possible reinstatement of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and, as usual, Porter shot right from the lip."All it was was dogs. They act like they don't even like pit bulls anyway.  |
| Top 100 films of all time according to Les Cahiers du Cinema Posted: 22 Nov 2008 04:40 PM CST Not one British-made film has made it on to the French cinema magazine Les Cahiers du Cinema's list of the 100 best films of all time. But here are the hundred German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, not to mention American and French films, that did make the cut.  |
| 5 Things You Might Not Have Known About the NFL Posted: 22 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST The NFL is always held under a microscope for its actions, and here are 5 things you didn't know about the league.  |
| Complete Guide to Playing Video Files On PS3, Xbox 360, Wii Posted: 22 Nov 2008 04:10 PM CST If you're here reading Gizmodo, there's a good chance you have a hard drive full of video somewhere. And you also probably have a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. If those two things aren't working together for you in beautiful symbiosis, allowing you to watch all of your downloaded or ripped video on your TV instead of hunched over a laptop screen, well, thi  |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2008 04:00 PM CST Superman Returns  |
| Texas Tech kicker taking an unlikely road to stardom Posted: 22 Nov 2008 03:40 PM CST Texas Tech Kicker gets starting job by winning "kick for free rent" contest. He is now a local hero.!  |
| Bargin Hunt on iPhone by Taking Pictures of Products Posted: 22 Nov 2008 03:30 PM CST SnapTell's premise is simple: take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and the application will automatically identify the product and find ratings and pricing information online. Especially useful since the iPhone has a hard time scanning barcodes, and upon initial testing looks to identify most common and obscure objects.  |
| Having a big brother 'cuts your chances of children' Posted: 22 Nov 2008 03:21 PM CST Whether you idolise or resent him, there's no doubt a big brother can really shape your childhood. But it seems an elder sibling's influence can have a much more profound effect in later life.  |
| Adults excited to see Twilight are idiots Posted: 22 Nov 2008 03:00 PM CST A crappy tween book is converted to a movie that has the look that is was made by a low grade snuff film producer. If you are an adult and still excited to see this pile of crap than you are an idiot  |
| South Park Clip: "It's all Clammy and Tomato-y" Posted: 22 Nov 2008 02:50 PM CST Featured clip from last night's episode of South Park.  |
| The Science of Memory: An Infinite Loop in the Brain Posted: 22 Nov 2008 02:40 PM CST Wouldn't it be great to be able to remember everything? To see all our most important moments, all the priceless encounters, adventures and triumphs? What if memory never faded, but instead could be retrieved at any time, as reliably as films in a video store?  |
| Blame Time Travel For Kirk's Scarred Psyche Posted: 22 Nov 2008 02:30 PM CST By now, you might have noticed that James Tiberius Kirk is, well... kind of a dirtbag in the new Star Trek movie. He trashes a gorgeous Corvette at age 11, and just gets more obnoxious from there on out. He's not just cocky like ShatnerKirk, he's actually irresponsible, where Shatner was sort of uptight. Is it just because he's young and immature?  |
| 'War criminal' Bush blamed for global crisis Posted: 22 Nov 2008 02:30 PM CST PROTESTERS have demanded that US President George W Bush get out of Peru where he is attending an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, blaming him for the world economic crisis.  |
| Vince Carter Slams Game-Winning Reverse Dunk in OT Posted: 22 Nov 2008 02:20 PM CST Vince Carter poured in a season-high 39 points, buried a 3-pointer at the end of regulation to send the game to OT, then added this game-winning dunk with 1.7 seconds left to give the Nets a 129-127 win over the Toronto Raptors.  |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2008 01:50 PM CST Orbiter radar reveals glaciers concealed under mid-latitude debris flows on Mars.  |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2008 01:50 PM CST Have you ever wanted to write award-winning television, don't own a computer, typewriter, or pen? Well, you're in luck! Just follow this simple guide, selecting scenes at random from within each section and rearranging them on a big board.  |
| Posted: 22 Nov 2008 01:50 PM CST I recently walked down Northern Blvd., the center of auto sales in the New York City borough of Queens. There I found varying degrees of fear, hope and anger among dealers whose livelihood depends on selling people cars. The problem is - no one's buying them.  |
| Two Great Basketball Shots, A 3 Pointer & One At The Buzzer Posted: 22 Nov 2008 01:30 PM CST  |
| Cancer Survival Affects Online Support Posted: 22 Nov 2008 01:30 PM CST Online support sites for high survival rate cancers have more emotional support content than sites for low survival rate cancers. Researchers assessed differences in emotional and informational social support content in online communities for cancers with high and low survival rates.  |
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