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| 11 Geeked-Out Movies we're Waiting For in 2009 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 09:00 PM CST The holiday movie season has come and gone without so much as a certified blockbuster. Thank goodness for 2009, which is chock-full of movies for every fanboy (or girl).  |
| Trent Lott: "Ambitious Obama Presidency May Impair Progress" Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:50 PM CST Trent Lott says Obama's "greatest danger" is his ambition to do too much. In order to not "overplay his hand," Lott advises the President-elect to prioritize the economic stimulus plan without neglecting infrastructure, labor and health care issues.  |
| Private, Government, or Military? Seeking Obama's Cyber Czar Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:30 PM CST Should the head of cybersecurity in the new administration come from private industry, government or the military?  |
| Laura Bush's Denial:"Bush Presidency Not a Failure". Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:20 PM CST Bush uses final 50 days left in office to tout his" legacy".Laura Bush stands by her man and disagrees with critics who call the presidency of Bush a failure. In an interview to be aired today she said:" I know it is not(a failure), and so I don't really feel that I need to respond to people that view it that way ".  |
| Exercise Improves Kids Academics Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:10 PM CST The end of 2008 brings some discouraging news about our kids' brains and brawn. Recent results from an international math and science test show United States students are performing near the middle of the pack compared to other countries, while their levels of obesity continue to climb.  |
| Open for Questions From Obama Transition Team: Round two Posted: 29 Dec 2008 08:00 PM CST Our first run of Open for Questions was one such feature, with nearly 1,000,000 votes cast on questions from the Change.gov community.In this round, you can still view all of the questions that have been submitted—or you can break down the questions by category for easier navigation.  |
| The Plain of Jars: Bombs & Mystery in Laos [PICS] Posted: 29 Dec 2008 07:50 PM CST Built by mysterious ancient people for mysterious purposes.  |
| 10 Years of the Euro - Is it Fullfilling its Promise? Posted: 29 Dec 2008 07:40 PM CST Jan. 1, 1999 was the arrival of the euro, economists say the new currency is finally fulfilling its promise as a way to lower borrowing costs, ease trade and tourism, boost growth and strengthen the European community. Even amid a global financial crisis that underlines the safety in numbers that comes from one big currency.  |
| Q&A: Somali Pirate Explains How To Steal Ships Posted: 29 Dec 2008 07:30 PM CST Young and desperate, Somali pirates aren't afraid to commit heinous acts of destruction, says one of their leaders.  |
| Dallas-area media rips Cowboys. Posted: 29 Dec 2008 07:20 PM CST As expected, the media in Dallas -- and nationwide -- has been none-too-kind to the Dallas Cowboys since the team's 44-6 loss to Philadelphia that left the Cowboys out of the NFL playoffs.  |
| Dear Steve Jobs: It's Time For An Apple Tablet/Netbook Posted: 29 Dec 2008 07:10 PM CST Apple's iPod touch is a hit, and PC makers like Dell and Asus are doing good business selling cheap, small "netbook" laptops. It's time for Steve Jobs to smash them together into a killer multi-touch tablet. We're calling ours the iPod touch HD for now, and we're hoping we can buy it before next Christmas.  |
| Okay one more time...remember to lead with your left paw! Posted: 29 Dec 2008 07:00 PM CST Photographer: Thai Ta  |
| 190 Million Houses Set to Have a Gaming Console By 2012 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 06:40 PM CST The Diffusion Group, a research and consulting firm, has released data showing that by 2012, at least 190 million households all over the world would have a current generation gaming console. Their main use will be playing games, but there will be a lot of people who will only use them for media consumption and for social activities.  |
| San Francisco 49ers hire Singletary fulltime Posted: 29 Dec 2008 06:30 PM CST Mike Singletary was given the 49ers' full-time coaching job on Sunday.  |
| Peyton Manning Breaks Record - 9th 4,000 Yard Passing Season Posted: 29 Dec 2008 06:20 PM CST Manning entered the game needing 93 yards to hit 4,000, achieving it on a 55-yard touchdown play to Joseph Addai. He has failed to hit 4,000 yards passing in only two of his 11 NFL seasons — 1998, his rookie year, and 2005, when he threw only 14 passes in the final two games and finished with 3,747 yards.  |
| Why the Wii and Xbox are killing Sony's PS3 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 06:00 PM CST Sony needs to step up the PS3 if it doesn't want to lose out to the Wii and Xbox.  |
| Everything old is new again: resurrecting classic games Posted: 29 Dec 2008 05:50 PM CST The art of remaking games is much harder than it looks. You have to upgrade the graphics, update the game play, avoid annoying old fans, and gain new ones. Ars explores the treacherous path of the classic-gaming update.  |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2008 05:34 PM CST The titles says it all  |
| WSJ.com - As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Posted: 29 Dec 2008 05:11 PM CST A Russian academic who has long predicted that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. has recently found an eager audience: Russian state media.  |
| Jets fire head coach Eric Mangini Posted: 29 Dec 2008 05:00 PM CST Eric Mangini is out as head coach of the New York Jets, 1050 ESPN Radio and various other New York media outlets are reporting. Mangini and the Jets missed out on the playoffs after losing to Miami on Sunday. The Jets lost four of their last five games to finish 9-7.  |
| Mastering the art of the all-you-can-eat buffet Posted: 29 Dec 2008 04:42 PM CST If you're a Buffet Amateur like me, your pupils dilate and your mouth starts watering as soon as you spot the long table full of steam trays and criss-crossed table cloths. Since then I've been tutored on the art of mastering the all-you-can-eat buffet. Everybody's got their own techniques, but here's what I've learned over the years.  |
| Shock! Scientists say video games feed male need to dominate Posted: 29 Dec 2008 04:31 PM CST I always thought video games were a modern day artform.But Professor Allan Reiss of the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research at Stanford University has proved such an elevated idea to be mere liberal tripe.His research shows that video games stimulate the parts of men that so many  |
| The Music Fades When Shilling Is The Motive Posted: 29 Dec 2008 04:22 PM CST What happens to the music itself when the way to build a career shifts from recording songs that ordinary listeners want to buy to making music that marketers can use? That creates pressure, subtle but genuine, for music to recede: to embrace the element of vacancy that makes a good soundtrack so unobtrusive, to edit a lyric to be less specific.  |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2008 04:00 PM CST US president elect Barack Obama has topped a list of 'History Makers of 2008'. Find out who else made it to the top.  |
| How the average Digg user gets fucked Posted: 29 Dec 2008 04:00 PM CST  |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2008 03:42 PM CST Winter Wonderland just isn't complete without the scream of a 200-plus horsepower snowmobile engine. What people did for fun in the dead of winter before they could tear up the countryside Artic Cats, Yamahas, Polarises (Polarisi?), and Ski-Doos remains a mystery.  |
| Man Spent Days Unnoticed In Family's Attic Posted: 29 Dec 2008 03:02 PM CST A family did not realize they had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes.  |
| The place where millions of friends do not come out to play Posted: 29 Dec 2008 03:02 PM CST A new generation of designers and developers is putting the social element back into video games, using online networks such as Facebook as platforms to reach people from across the world. These new games give people the ability to play with their friends rather than strangers, which has sent usage through the roof.  |
| Video game physiques can affect self-esteem Posted: 29 Dec 2008 02:30 PM CST Feeling a little down on yourself? Think a video game will lift your spirits?  |
| Hey that's a nice worm... oh wait WTF! Posted: 29 Dec 2008 02:30 PM CST Can you identify this worm?  |
| Spitzer Space Telescope: Amazing Star Formation Region Posted: 29 Dec 2008 02:00 PM CST I was trying to think of some irony here and I'm sure there is a good Eliot Spitzer joke somewhere but I am too groggy to do it myself.  |
| Rock songwriter Delaney Bramlett dies at 69 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 02:00 PM CST Singer-songwriter-producer Delaney Bramlett, who penned such classic rock songs as "Let it Rain" and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, has died. He was 69.  |
| Gas prices: Five-year low and falling! Posted: 29 Dec 2008 01:10 PM CST Gas prices fell for the ninth consecutive day, according to a survey of credit card swipes at service stations across the nation released on Sunday. Prices are down 60% from the record high of $4.114 a gallon touched on July 17.  |
| Israel Mounts Third Day of Gaza Raids, 307 Killed Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:50 PM CST Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for a third consecutive day on Monday and the Jewish state prepared to launch a possible invasion after killing 307 Palestinians in the air raids.  |
| NY Times: Jets Reject Is One Headed to the Playoffs Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:40 PM CST Chad Pennington is going to the playoffs at the expense of the Jets, the luckless franchise that sent him away five months ago and lived to regret it. Pennington jogged off the field today, followed by a horde of cameras, to a chant of "M.V.P., M.V.P.," and then at the locker-room entrance fell into the embrace of a Dolphins teammate.  |
| Study: Teenage 'virginity pledges' are ineffective Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:30 PM CST Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.  |
| Study: Facial Expressions of Emotion are Innate, Not Learned Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:20 PM CST Facial expressions of emotion are hardwired into our genes, according to a study published today in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  |
| Sen. Craig Restroom Tanking As Tourist Destination Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:10 PM CST Tourist interest stalls In Minnesota bathroom where Idaho Senator was arrested in sex sting...I'm kind of shocked there ever WAS interest.  |
| 70+ Resources for Adobe Fireworks Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:10 PM CST Resources for Adobe Fireworks seem to be few and far between, what is happening? Has Fireworks ran its course, or is it simply not cool any more? Was it ever cool? Photoshop was always the better and more powerful (definitely, harder to use), it seems to have totally taken over.  |
| Posted: 29 Dec 2008 12:10 PM CST Some obvious ones, not sure if I had chosen Elon Musk, though. However, running SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity at age 37 is rather impressive. Looks like I have wasted a lot of time in my life.  |
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