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| Jeff Kent Retires & Rails Against Steroids Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST Whatever you may think of him -- and few think he's a nice guy -- Kent has been consistent in his attack on PEDs from the start.  |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST The Apple TV has had some time to mature since hitting the scene years ago, and while its functionality has certainly grown, it's still one of the most low-key products to ever emerge from Cupertino...  |
| Linus Torvalds has switched to GNOME Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:00 PM CST I used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else.  |
| Public Concern Over Environment, Global Warming Drops Hugely Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:00 PM CST In new poll, global warming came in last among 20 voter priorities, as Americans faced more imminent threats to their jobs and homes.  |
| Apple Mac Computers Through The Ages (Pics) Posted: 24 Jan 2009 08:00 PM CST Designed and hand-built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the Apple I was Apple's first product, and went on sale in July 1976 at the distinctly unsettling price of $666.66. Only 200 units were produced, and unlike many other computers of the day, the Apple I came as a fully assembled circuit board containing around 30 chips.  |
| Police hired actors to rob bank Posted: 24 Jan 2009 07:50 PM CST Police chiefs in China have been slammed for hiring actors to rob a bank as a training exercise - without telling anyone else. Only the director and the deputy director of the Zhenzhou police department knew it was a drill - everyone else, including the bank, thought it was a real raid.  |
| Weapons-Grade Plutonium Made in 1946 Found in Dump Posted: 24 Jan 2009 07:30 PM CST The clean-up of a decommissioned US nuclear weapons plant has unearthed one of the oldest known samples of man-made plutonium.  |
| Text messages could be used to stop stolen cars Posted: 24 Jan 2009 07:20 PM CST Police could use text messages to switch off the engines of getaway cars.  |
| Wal-Mart Worker Accused Of Rolling Back Prices Themselves Posted: 24 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST A Wal-Mart employee has been charged with embezzlement after allegedly ringing up a sale of $5.25 for more than $500 worth of merchandise.  |
| Levi Lavallee Double Backflip On Snowmobile X Games 13 Posted: 24 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST  |
| Why some people can't put two and two together Posted: 24 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST Dyscalculics fail to see the connection between a set of objects and the numerical symbol that represents it  |
| Neo-Nazis join Adopt-A-Highway trash cleanup Posted: 24 Jan 2009 06:40 PM CST The Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, has joined Missouri's "Adopt-A-Highway" volunteer litter pickup program. "It's a First Amendment thing, and we can't discriminate as long as they pick up the trash," said Bob Edwards, a spokesman for the transportation department.  |
| Got a Macquarium? Photos, home museums pay tribute to Macs Posted: 24 Jan 2009 06:30 PM CST Ben Cahan wishes he hadn't damaged his old snapshot of a person in a prosthetic alien suit sitting with his Macintosh. Luckily, he still has a late-1980s picture of actor Kurt Russell with his boxy Mac desktop.  |
| Surprise! The New F1 Cars Aren't Ugly Posted: 24 Jan 2009 06:10 PM CST Grand Prix auto racing is the pinnacle of motorsports. Nowhere are the cars so technologically advanced or success so dependent upon talent, bravery and money. Lots and lots of money. So here we stand at the cusp of a Formula 1 season that has seen some huge changes in the rules. What does it mean for the cars we'll see on the grid?  |
| The Problem with Extending Copyright on Music Posted: 24 Jan 2009 06:10 PM CST Several studies have shown that an extension of copyright on sound recordings is a bad idea. It will lead to less competition and higher prices while only the record labels benefit from it. Next Tuesday, the Open Rights Group will be hosting a round-table event to discuss performance copyright extension in the EU.  |
| Lawyer loses $182,500 in e-mail scam Posted: 24 Jan 2009 05:50 PM CST "I'm a capital 'D' Dumbass," says Howell, who has practiced law for 23 years.  |
| 54 MPG Diesel Engine? Hell Yeah! Posted: 24 Jan 2009 05:30 PM CST It's sleek. It's beautiful. And VW's latest roadster saves you $$$ on fuel. Oh, did I mention it has a 177HP diesel engine?  |
| Suse Studio: Linux customization for the masses Posted: 24 Jan 2009 05:30 PM CST One of the great promises of software is its infinite malleability: software can be whatever you want, so long as you have the skills necessary (and legal rights) to modify it.  |
| Women Delayed While in Emergency Care Posted: 24 Jan 2009 05:20 PM CST Women with symptoms of heart trouble are more likely to be delayed while in the care of emergency medical personnel, reaching hospitals later than men, according to a new study.  |
| Escaping Cape Fear: 9 Ways To Not Let Fear Stop You Posted: 24 Jan 2009 05:10 PM CST On the other side of these fears is everything we desire; from our dream job to immense success to happiness. So how do we get to the other side? We need to escape! Here are 9 ways to go about it and not let fear stop you.  |
| No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Ask the residents of Titty Ho, North Piddle, Spanker Lane or Penistone.  |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:40 PM CST Guys like Tom Friedman and Bill Kristol get paid tens of millions of dollars to fail at what Stewart does on a comedy show, and they don't even have to do it with their hands up a puppet's ass.  |
| New Fanboys Movie Clip - Burn It! Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST IGN - Stand back or Yoda gets it  |
| White House Twitter Account Is a Phony Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Microblog account name is changed, and bio now indicates that the account is "unaffiliated with the white house."  |
| Property in New York: Bling’s still king in Manhattan Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Property in New York: Bling's still king in Manhattan  |
| China says 90 percent of families take toxic milk deal Posted: 24 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Over 90 percent of Chinese families with children stricken by toxic milk have taken a state-backed compensation deal, a dairy industry association said, days after a court gave death sentences in the scandal.  |
| The World's First Non-Smoking Nation Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:50 PM CST Bhutan banned tobacco. Could the rest of the world follow?  |
| 'Man boob' reduction surgery increases by nearly half Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:40 PM CST The number of men seeking corrective surgery for "man boobs", or "moobs" is expected to hit a record high, according to a new report.  |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:30 PM CST Palm, whose new Pre handset, though built around a different paradigm than the iPhone, boasts some remarkably iPhone-like features. Palm, a company who's reinvention is being stewarded by Jon Rubinstein, once Apple's head of hardware engineering and a guy with an undoubtedly deep knowledge of Cupertino's R&D process.  |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST Move over, Atlanta. Seattle, Microsoft and Amazon.com's home base, is now the country's most wired city.  |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST General Electric Co reported a 44 percent drop in quarterly profit on weakness at GE Capital and its lighting and appliance units, as the U.S. conglomerate and economic bellwether closed out one of the toughest...  |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST Given the popularity of RPG music outside the realm of the games themselves, we decided to acknowledge the best of the best with a Top 10 list celebrating the works of the core composers of the genre.  |
| Human Hair & 5 Things You Did Not Know About It Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST Human hair is a simple thing made of keratin and dead skin cells. Its function is to prevent heat loss from a person's head, yet it also causes women to weep, men to buy Porsches and people to spend billions each year on its upkeep. So check out these 5 things you didn't know about human hair.  |
| How Do You Predict An Avalanche? This Guy's Finding Out Posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:00 PM CST "Snow seems simple, but it's extraordinarily complex," Dr. Adams said. "If I set a box of snow in the refrigerator and come back in an hour, it's changed significantly. It's almost always in a constant state of motion, and studying it is a moving target."  |
| Europe to Ask Wealthy Nations to Adopt Carbon Trading System Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:41 PM CST The European Commission was preparing an appeal on Friday to wealthy countries — and to the United States in particular — to adopt carbon trading to curb greenhouse gas emissions.  |
| Russia ready to cooperate with US on Afghanistan Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:31 PM CST President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Moscow is ready to help stabilize the situation in Afghanistan by allowing the United States and others to allow cargo for coalition forces there to be shipped across Russia.  |
| Official Prequel STAR TREK comic offers movie spoilers! Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST Major new clues regarding J.J. Abrams's new "Star Trek" movie emerged Wednesday with the publication of Star Trek: Countdown's first issue, an IDW funnybook (billed as an official prequel to the Abrams movie) which swells my withered Trekkie heart.  |
| Europe's Sexy New Gravity Satellite Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST A sleek new European Space Agency satellite set to launch this year, perhaps as early as February, aims to map out the planet's gravitational field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will gather data useful for research in oceanography, solid Earth physics, and climate change.  |
| No, mobile computing is NOT killing the desktop PC Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:00 PM CST GigaOM writer Stacey Higginbotham blogged yesterday that "Mobile Computing Is Killing the Desktop PC." But that's not what's happening. Not exactly. If anything, the "mobile computing" concept itself is likely to be killed off as we move to everywhere and anywhere computing.  |
| The Top 30 Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians Posted: 24 Jan 2009 01:30 PM CST Take a man. Add eye work (unisex glasses if eye wear is needed) and Botox. Mix in a bad haircut or unfashionably long hair--if possible a dye job. And there you have it: The winning formula to become a man who looks like an old lesbian.  |
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