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| Santa Claus 2008: Five Sci-Fi Rebirths For Santa Claus Posted: 21 Dec 2008 08:40 PM CST Parents! Your child refusing to fall for the idea that Santa does everything he's supposed to by "magic"? We thought we'd help out and provide some scifi explanations for Ol' Saint Nick, just in case.  |
| 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today Posted: 21 Dec 2008 08:30 PM CST Are you using Google Desktop? This handy download combines the power of enhanced web and desktop search with the utility of Google Gadgets.  |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2008 08:20 PM CST Perfect ad placement  |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2008 08:00 PM CST Besides just decorating a tree with some lovely Mario ornaments, it looks like the whole cubicle was decked out to resemble a castle at the end of a Mario level.. complete.with a flag!  |
| Hybrid Blu-Ray / DVD Disc Announced Posted: 21 Dec 2008 07:40 PM CST Great news for those who have both Blu-ray and DVDs in the house; Infinity Storage Media has released the first hybrid Blu-ray and DVD disc in Japan. The new media has a total storage capacity of 33.5GB and is compatible with existing DVD and Blu-ray players. The biggest advantage of the new media is backward compatibility - you can play it on...  |
| Lost trailer with alot of new footage! Posted: 21 Dec 2008 07:30 PM CST This is yet another trailer for Season 5 of Lost. Lots of new footage with all your favourite characters are in it! Check it out!  |
| Xbox 360 Vs. PlayStation 3 Graphics Comparison: Now With PC! Posted: 21 Dec 2008 07:20 PM CST You asked for it. We went back and looked at several games from past Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 graphics comparison features to see how the graphics compare when we add the PC to the challenge.  |
| Introducing Ulteo: Virtual Linux desktop Posted: 21 Dec 2008 07:10 PM CST Thin client computing without the corporate shell.  |
| Saudi Arabia 'may allow' cinemas after three-decade ban Posted: 21 Dec 2008 07:00 PM CST The chief of Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police has said some movies may be acceptable in the kingdom, despite a three-decade ban on cinemas, local press reported on Sunday.  |
| Lions fall 42-7 to Saints, become first-ever 0-15 team Posted: 21 Dec 2008 06:50 PM CST The Detroit Lions own a dubious piece of NFL history — with perhaps more on the way.  |
| Holiday Smackdown: iPod Touch Vs. Zune Posted: 21 Dec 2008 06:40 PM CST Side-by-side comparisons produced some surprising results.  |
| Top 10 Open Source Stories Of 2008 Posted: 21 Dec 2008 06:30 PM CST The advent of Linux-powered netbooks, the launch of Google's Android and Chrome, and Nokia's move to snap up Symbian pushed open source further into the mainstream, despite ongoing legal wrangling.  |
| Boy Survives Near Decapitation Posted: 21 Dec 2008 06:20 PM CST A 9-year-old Hillsboro boy will walk out of the hospital Friday, and the feat is being called a medical miracle. Three months ago Jordan was in a car wreck that nearly took his head off. "There was no connection between the bones of the neck and the head," explained Cook Children's Dr. Richard Roberts.  |
| How Bush Sold the Lies for the War in Iraq. Posted: 21 Dec 2008 06:00 PM CST This is the full text of Bush's speech. Remember the one that took America to Iraq almost 6 years ago. It is a cleaver combination of propaganda and manufactured " evidence". The American people bought it; at the time 80% were in for the war.  |
| AP Study Finds $1.6B Went to Bailed-Out Bank Execs Posted: 21 Dec 2008 05:50 PM CST Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.  |
| Analemma Over the Porch of Maidens Posted: 21 Dec 2008 05:40 PM CST  |
| The process you deal with every day at your job Posted: 21 Dec 2008 05:30 PM CST  |
| Methane Bubbling Up From Undersea, Thawing Permafrost Posted: 21 Dec 2008 05:10 PM CST The East Siberian Sea is bubbling with methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, being released from underwater reserves, according to a recent expedition by a Russian team. Releasing methane that has been locked away for many thousands of years. If these methane emissions from the Arctic speed up, it could cause really serious climate consequences.  |
| 11 ways to create a successful Linux distro Posted: 21 Dec 2008 04:50 PM CST What can you do to stand out from the hundreds of other Linux distros that already exist?There are a number of angles you can explore for this – choose one, two or all of them if you want!  |
| 2008 Pictures of the Year: Peoples Choice Posted: 21 Dec 2008 04:50 PM CST This year-end "People's Choice" gallery presents the photos that got the most votes every week. The photos in this gallery are ordered chronologically from the beginning of 2008 to the end.  |
| NYPD: Cop 'fooling around' with gun shoots wife in groin Posted: 21 Dec 2008 04:50 PM CST Guess what he was doing with it....  |
| 1 nation voted against right to food in UN General Assembly Posted: 21 Dec 2008 04:40 PM CST "Draft resolution XX... approved on 24 November by a recorded vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States), with no abstentions, would have the Assembly reaffirm that hunger constitutes an outrage and a violation of human dignity, requiring the adoption of urgent measures at the national, regional and international level, for its elimination"  |
| Nvidia bids to dislodge Intel as rivalry gets ugly Posted: 21 Dec 2008 04:20 PM CST Intel and Nvidia are entering into a new, nasty phase of competition. What's at stake? Only the future of the personal computer. Though the Santa Clara, Calif., neighbors (only a couple of miles from each other) have never really been on speaking terms, the rivalry is intensifying with the  |
| New Deadly Weapon Being used by Insurgents in Iraq [PIC] Posted: 21 Dec 2008 04:00 PM CST New Insurgent weapon spotted in Iraq........  |
| Google Image Search Adds Search-by-Style Options Posted: 21 Dec 2008 03:40 PM CST Today Google adds clip art and line drawings to their image search criteria, in addition to photos and faces.  |
| Mac Giving Tree rewards you with free applications Posted: 21 Dec 2008 03:00 PM CST As the holidays quickly move through it would seem that everyone is in the spirit of giving. MacHeist, a site that has mainly been known to sell application bundles, is offering something very special this holiday season. Grab Enigmo 2 and Synergy for Mac for free, and pick up more on Christmas day!  |
| Awesome RFID-enabled Poker Table [video] Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:40 PM CST Hoping to find a way to enjoy his hobby even more, this IT geek placed wireless RFID chips at the bottom of a table, fit RFID tags on a few deck of cards, and fired up quality HD cameras to accurately track every move in a game.  |
| Best Places to Find Multi-Monitor Wallpaper Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:20 PM CST Last week we asked you where you found wallpaper to customize multiple monitor setups. Most popular by a landslide, was Mandolux. The site has an extremely simple design, lacking even a search function. The newest wallpaper is displayed on the main page, all previous ones are available on the archive pages.  |
| NFL's Worst Teams Mirror the US Economic Issues at Large Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:10 PM CST One plagued by scandal and the other need of a bail-out, the football teams in Dallas and Detroit reflect America's current woes. Interesting commentary and parallels drawn between two NFL franchises, their ownership and the problems faced in the US economy.  |
| Dell Comments on Apple's Green Commitment, TUAW Translates Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:00 PM CST Dell executive Bob Pearson decided to comment on Apple's "green" ad campaign. It was hard to understand. We were confused. Fortunately, The Unofficial Apple Weblog was nice enough to translate.  |
| 10 Things You Should Never Say to Twins Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:00 PM CST But before they had their own show, they were just regular old smoking-hot identical twins, and they've heard every dumb twin joke and misguided pickup line in the book, which they've kindly agreed to share with us here so that you don't make the same mistakes in your quest to multiply your love.  |
| Dallas leaves Texas Stadium a loser. Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:50 PM CST Baltimore preserves a 33-24 victory with two long touchdown runs in the fourth quarter.  |
| New York City to Roll Out LED Street Lighting Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:50 PM CST New York City's Department of Transportation has tapped the Office for Visual Interaction for testing LED street lighting around the Big Apple. If successful, all of the city's 300,000 street lamps could one day be made up of LEDs.  |
| Top 10 downloaded PSN games of 2008 Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:50 PM CST PlayStation.com's Pulse program has revealed* PSN's "overall" most downloaded games of 2008.  |
| Video Games May Do the Aging Brain Good Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:40 PM CST Older adults might want to take an interest in their grandchildren's' video games, if early research on the brain benefits of gaming is correct. In a study of 40 adults in their 60s and 70s, researchers found that those who learned to play a strategy-heavy video game improved their scores on a number of tests of cognitive function.  |
| Beer Goggles Last Longer For Women, Study Reveals Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:30 PM CST For men, "beer goggles" wear off as quickly as the alcohol. But in women, the effect lasts much longer, a new study has revealed. Researchers found that women who drink even moderately develop a reduced ability to rate attractiveness in male faces, even when they are sober.  |
| Adam West on the 'Batman' Set in 1966 (PIC) Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:30 PM CST A robed Adam West holds a pen and looks over the script of the latest episode of Batman while on the set. Photographed in 1966 by Yale Jones.  |
| Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:20 PM CST Here's the thing about movies: They can't all be good.But do so many have to be terrible?OK, that's an overstatement. But there were plenty of stinkers in 2008. Republic film critic Bill Goodykoontz makes his picks of the 10 worst.  |
| Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:20 PM CST Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role in boosting embedded graphics and video acceleration on the company's future handheld products.  |
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