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| Escapee Tells of Horrors in North Korean Prison Camp Posted: 11 Dec 2008 09:00 PM CST Shin Dong-hyuk is the only known person to have escaped to South Korea from a prison camp in the North. Shin says he was tortured, he saw his mother hanged, and he saw his brother shot to death. He is a thin, short, shy man, with quick, wary eyes, a baby face, and sinewy arms bowed from childhood labors. He bears numerous other scars from torture.  |
| Awesome Google Street View Prank Posted: 11 Dec 2008 09:00 PM CST Artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more...  |
| Ledger, 'Blood' get Golden Globe Noms! Dark Knight Snubbed?! Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:50 PM CST Hollywood Reporter- Gothic vampire tale earns 'outstanding series' nomination. On the film side, fans are likely to howl about the absence of "The Dark Knight" from the best drama category, though Heath Ledger was given a nod as expected for supporting actor. Plus entire list of nominations.  |
| Gene 'triggers unhealthy eating' Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:50 PM CST Those with the gene variant chose foods with more sugar and fat, suggesting they were instinctively drawn to them rather than healthy options. People who carry a gene variant linked to obesity eat an average of 100 extra calories per meal, research suggests. The key variant of the FTO gene is thought to be carried by 63% of people.  |
| Apple and AT&T Bring Back iPhone Home Activation Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:40 PM CST Online shoppers looking to spend the holiday season firmly planted on the couch can add the iPhone 3G back to their lists -- we've just confirmed that Apple and AT&T have quietly brought back in-home activation. Sure, it's been available in limited circumstances before, but now it's here and for real, just like with the first-gen unit.  |
| 23 Most Bizarre Sports Stories of the Year Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:30 PM CST With a Naked woman on the JumboTron at a Blue Jays game, Elliott Spizter Night at a Minor League ballpark, and Jason Giambi wearing thongs, 2008 proved to be VERY bizzarre!  |
| This is your chance to change marijuana laws Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:20 PM CST Ask this of Barack Obama: "The US "War on Drugs" wastes billions every year tracking down and incarcerating non-violent users. What is your position on the legalization of marijuana? How do you feel about treating rather than imprisoning users of harder, addictive drugs?"  |
| Clinic to Reveal Doctors' Ties to Drug Companies Posted: 11 Dec 2008 08:10 PM CST A top academic medical center in Cleveland is leading the way in disclosing on the Web its physicians' ties to the drug and medical-device industries.  |
| Google Chrome Comes Out of Beta Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:50 PM CST Yesterday at the Le Web 08 conference in Paris, Google VP Marissa Mayer told TechCrunch's Mike Arrington that the move would be happening, but she did not say when. Google representatives have confirmed the Thursday change of status for Chrome.  |
| Routes World Development Forum Plays Matchmaker for Airports Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:40 PM CST At the annual Routes World Development Forum in Kuala Lumpur, 700 airports and 500 airlines begin the mating dance that determines who flies where.  |
| Jerry Jones Probably Thinking About Signing Michael Vick Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:30 PM CST Dallas head coach Wade Phillips speculated Wednesday that if recent history is any indicator, Jerry Jones is "almost certainly" considering the option of signing former Falcons quarterback and current incarcerated felon Michael Vick to the Cowboys. "Mike Vick is a guy who not only holds the same values as Jerry, but epitomizes what the Cowboys mean  |
| 15 y/o Teen Charged As An Adult for Planning School Shooting Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:30 PM CST A Pennsylvania teen has been charged as an adult for allegedly planning to kill classmates he did not like before turning the gun on himself in a high school shooting spree. Richard Yanis, 15, allegedly stole three handguns from his father and told police he planned to "shoot students in the school and then himself" at Pottstown High School.  |
| The Entrepreneurial Generation: The Gen Y Spin on Startups Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:20 PM CST I've been interviewing young entrepreneurs for almost two years now and one of the re-emerging themes in the businesses they start is dissatisfaction with the status quo. Sure, that's pretty much true for all entrepreneurs, but this generation of upstarts has its own way of looking at existing products and services and judging them not quite...  |
| The Best Viral Videos Of 2008: A Retrospective Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:20 PM CST From the BarackRoll to Bill O'Reilly's meltdown, a captivating, thorough, and most of all HEARTBREAKING tribute to this year in internet.  |
| Is Baseball Free Agency Recession Proof? I think not Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:10 PM CST Despite the Yankees throwing money around like it grows on trees (we all know the Steinbrenner's have at least a dozen money trees growing out back), baseball is by no means out of the grasp of the shriveling economy.  |
| Visa CEO Loses His Credit Cards (Seriously) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 07:00 PM CST Imagine running the world's largest credit card network, and not having your own plastic. That's what happened to Visa Inc Chief Executive Joseph Saunders. "I'm supposed to start off, and say that I'm very happy to be here, and I guess I am. But it's 4:15 in the morning as far as I'm concerned, and I lost my wallet on the way here"  |
| "No chance' Roger Clemens gets into Hall Of Fame" Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:50 PM CST Roger Clemens will be eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2013. Brian McNamee, the trainer whom Clemens is suing for defamation as a result of allegations he made in the Mitchell report, says there's no chance the right-hander will be enshrined.  |
| Australian ISPs Reject Govt Plan to Censor the Internet Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:50 PM CST The Government's plan to censor the internet is in tatters, with Australia's largest ISP saying it will not take part in live trials of the system and the second largest committing only to a scaled-back trial. The Australian government plans to introduce a two-tiered censorship system of filtering from the ISPs' end.  |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:40 PM CST Is there a goal you want to accomplish, but just cannot find the time to start it? What is keeping you where you are instead of reaching your desired destination? Did you know that we will do more to avoid pain than we will to gain pleasure? Perhaps we feel that the pain of doing is greater than the pain of not doing.  |
| Top 5 Scary Technologies of 2008 Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:40 PM CST None of the technologies we included in our top 5 are guaranteed to rain death and destruction on our little planet. Some of them are a little weird, others are frustrating and a few have the potential to cause real harm. We may be OK for now, but read on to find out what weirdness may await in 2009 -- and beyond.  |
| In the old days, buying a Senate seat was not unusual Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:40 PM CST Reporting from Washington -- Reforms to end the buying of Senate seats by giving governors the power to fill vacant posts set the stage for the scandal involving Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich.The reforms nearly a century ago were sparked by another Illinois scandal and led to a change in the U.S. Constitution.  |
| New York businessman wears sandwich board pleading for job Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:40 PM CST A former businessman has taken to the streets of New York wearing a sandwich board pleading for a job opportunity as the financial crisis hits the middle classes. The image of desperate jobseekers on street corners is associated with the darkest days of the Great Depression.  |
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| Remember those graphic anti-meth ads? They don't work Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:30 PM CST They cost taxpayers millions, but after watching the ads teens are 4 times more likely to strongly approve of regular meth use. 50% think the ads are exaggerating.  |
| Uefa To Investigate Wayne Rooney Stamping Allegations Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:30 PM CST Wayne Rooney could miss the next round of the Champions League after Uefa said it would investigate a claim that the striker stamped on Aalborg's Kasper Risgard during last night's match at Old Trafford.  |
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| Should cybersecurity be managed from the White House? Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:10 PM CST Proposals for a coordinated government cybersecurity effort under a White House "czar" are gaining traction, but there are skeptical voices as well.  |
| Which Video Game Has the Best Co-op Mode? Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:10 PM CST Looking for a game you can play with your friends? We've dispatched our crack team of editors to sort through six of this holiday's top games and deliver a verdict on the season's best co-op offerings. For this feature we focused on high-profile shooters and action games. Let the showdown begin!  |
| Mouse hunting and group cards among Facebook rising stars Posted: 11 Dec 2008 06:00 PM CST Facebook on Wednesday threw its weight behind virtual mouse hunting and communal card crafting applications touted as rising stars at the hot social networking website.  |
| The Top 10 Beards in the NBA (w/Pictures) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:50 PM CST We only wish we could include more Mavs on this list, but we've yet to see Dirk, Damp, Terry or Barea rocking anything close to these ten entries in NBA beard-dom. Here's hoping one of them will put down the razor and give our new number one a run for his money.  |
| Saturn owners hope GM doesn't abandon them Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:50 PM CST Kat Koonce loves her Saturns. She owns three, and has pictures of them on Saturnfans.com, where she is one of almost 2,500 Saturn devotees who've posted photo albums of their vehicles.  |
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| Firefox Adds Multitouch Gestures for Macs Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:40 PM CST But one feature unique to the Mac build is support for Apple's multi-touch trackpad which has been shipping in notebooks since January of this year. While Apple's Safari supports multi-touch gestures for common web browsing tasks (back, forward, resize text), support had been absent from Firefox  |
| Ocean Worlds May be Dying Stars' Last Haven for Life Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:30 PM CST Large and distant ocean worlds could provide a last refuge for life around Sun-like stars, long after the heat of the stars' red giant phase sterilises closer-in, Earth-like planets, new calculations suggest. Far-sighted researchers have dreamed up outlandish schemes to allow future civilisations to move the Earth to a safe distance.  |
| Lawmaker proposing bill to end BCS system Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:10 PM CST Taking aim at a BCS system he said "consistently misfires," a member of Congress planned to introduce legislation Wednesday that would force college football to adopt a playoff to determine the national champion.  |
| Schoolboy archer survives after arrow fired into eye (PICS) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:10 PM CST A schoolboy archer cheated death after he was shot through the eye by a friend. The arrow went through 11-year-old Liu Cheong's eye socket, completely through his head and was only stopped by the back of his skull.  |
| Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:10 PM CST I'm not exactly sure what makes people want to mod their game systems. Maybe it's a creative spark, maybe it's complete and utter obsession with a game, or maybe it's just boredom. Whatever the case, there have been some truly amazing skins made specifically for the Xbox 360.  |
| Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface (images) Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:00 PM CST A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements.  |
| Scientists extract images directly from brain Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:00 PM CST Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. Further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people's dreams while they sleep.  |
| Video Shows Every Flight On Earth In 72 Seconds Posted: 11 Dec 2008 05:00 PM CST Aspiring scientists from the Zurich School of Applied Sciences have built a video simulation that displays the flight path of every commercial flight in the world over a 24 hour period. There isn't much of an application for it, but...  |
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