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| Man Accused of Dealing Drugs at Police Station Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:40 PM CST Everett police said a 24-year-old man picked the wrong place to try to deal drugs — a stall in the police station restroom. Police Sgt. Robert Goetz said the man was overheard Wednesday using a cellular telephone to try to sell Oxycodone, a prescription painkiller, and other drugs.  |
| Caterpillar Layoffs: How They're Playing in Peoria Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:20 PM CST The biggest employer in the Illinois city announced massive global job cuts, shaking its Midwestern residents to their core  |
| The Superbowl is NOT Recession-Proof Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST One of the most watched and biggest moneymakers in the world of sports and entertainment is taking a major hit due to the economic crisis  |
| Former GNR Bassist Lands Gig With Playboy Posted: 29 Jan 2009 08:00 PM CST Who wouldn't read a financial column from the man behind Appetite for Destruction?  |
| Roger Federer reaches Aussie Open Final. Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:59 PM CST Roger Federer moved within one victory of his 14th Grand Slam title with another dominating victory, ousting Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-5, 7-5 Thursday to reach the Australian Open final.  |
| Google Launches Its ISP Throttling Detector, aka M-Lab Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:40 PM CST With its partners on this project, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium. M-Lab is designed to be "an open platform that researchers can use to deploy Internet measurement tools. Google will work with researchers to help them develop relevant Internet measurement tools.  |
| First Gene Discovered For Most Common Form Of Epilepsy Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:30 PM CST An international team of researchers, led by investigators at Columbia University Medical Center, has uncovered the first gene linked to the most common type of epilepsy, called Rolandic epilepsy. One out of every five children with epilepsy is diagnosed with this form, which is associated with seizures starting in one part of the brain.  |
| 16 Wild Materials You May Find in Future Products Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST The Technology hunters at Inventables collect and sift through thousands of unique materials every year. Then they drop details about the best ones into an enormous database with suggestions for how they could be incorporated into new products. Here are their coolest and quirkiest new technologies.  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST During a live action RPG, someone casts lightning bold. I'm having a geekgasm!  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 07:00 PM CST Click on the guy's pants in the third panel for a hidden comic.  |
| Anti-Piracy Measures Don’t Work, Report Shows Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST Traffic management company Ipoque has just released a whitepaper, detailing pros and cons of different methods of dealing with piracy on P2P networks. Surprisingly, the conclusions in the paper are not straight adverts for their own products and services. We will highlight some of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly conclusions.  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST If it's 'shopped, it's hilarious. If it's real, that's amazing.  |
| Seven lessons from Mozilla on community building Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:40 PM CST During a talk at Heise in Nuremberg, Germany, Mozilla CEO John Lilly helps us understand how to create successful open-source projects, with some significant caveats.  |
| Irish ISP Agrees to Disconnect Repeat P2P Users Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:40 PM CST "Three strikes" rules have come to Ireland in a sudden and unexpected way, as the country's largest ISP settles a court case brought by the music industry and agrees to take action on file-swappers. Repeat offenders will be disconnected from the 'Net.  |
| CD Sales Plunge 54.6% in 2008 From Peak Year in 2000 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:30 PM CST "As if the news from Wall Street, Detroit, and Starbucks was not bad enough, DigitalMusicNews.com is reporting that CD sales have now fallen to less than half the number of CDs sold in their peak year, 2000. In 2008, CD sales were down 54.6 percent from 2000, or a giant 514.6 million units less."  |
| Colors In Corporate Branding And Design | How-To | Smashing Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:30 PM CST In this article, we'll take a look at the impact that website color schemes have on the overall branding of a company, and we'll also look at plenty of examples. We won't be going into the subjects of color choices for branding or the psychology of colors.  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST The Wall Street Journal's excellent columnist Daniel Henninger argues that Timothy Geithner, despite howls from Republicans, deserved to be confirmed as Treasury Secretary. Henninger deplores the witch-hunts that have defined Washington since the Watergate era, a slash and burn effort from both parties to discredit men and women.  |
| The 12 Players Who Made The NBA What It Is Today Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST The NBA, and basketball in general, is still relatively young. The league evolves with each generation. While it has had its share of legends, these 12 have impacted the sport on and off the court the most.  |
| The World's 10 Wealthiest CEOs Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:10 PM CST While some chief executives' jobs may be in peril, these 10 have stuck it out long enough to partake in what's left of the global economy. These have made our annual list of the world's wealthiest CEOs.  |
| NASA Wants You to Decide Where It Should Look Next Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:10 PM CST NASA wants the public to determine where in the universe it will next aim the powerful Hubble Space Telescope. The space agency is encouraging Internet surfers to log onto the Hubble Web site and vote for one of a six astronomical objects for the renowned telescope to examine for the first time.  |
| Fighters to Watch: The Ten Best Pound-for-Pound MMA Fighters Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST Cable TV channels, pay-per-view shows and over-the-air broadcast networks deliver fights to millions of viewers each month. Many of these new viewers are still learning about the sport and the fighters. We've created a list of the best fighters to watch regardless of weight class, nationality or promotion.  |
| Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich ousted Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been ousted from office after being found guilty of abusing his powers.  |
| One Cake To Fill Them All: LOTR Desserts [PICS] Posted: 29 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST That's right folks, that's a freaking cake right there -- the city of Minas Tirith in all it's fondant-y glory. Wow. Now I'm confident I speak for all of us when I say 'my God would I lay siege to that city -- with a fork!' Am I right? "Thou shall not pass....on seconds!" Thanks Gandalf, I'll have another. Oh, uh-oh -- whip-cream fight!  |
| Very Efficient Vertical Wind Turbine Once Thought Impossible Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:50 PM CST As wind industry claimed that vertical turbines are ineffective, inventor Adam Fuller developed a project to prove this theory wrong.  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:40 PM CST Life goes on around body found in vacant Detroit warehouse.  |
| Visualizing Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Tracks of 2008 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:30 PM CST Genre was determined by the first style listed for the track's artist at allmusic.com. Where that was not available genre was determined by pitchforkmedia.com and/or the artist's myspace page.  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:30 PM CST poor deer  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:20 PM CST At least they look for advice first.  |
| AT&T and Apple Discussing 3G-Ready MacBooks Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:10 PM CST AT&T is hoping to make 3G-enabled notebooks a staple of its cellular business, and in an executive interview hints that it may be chatting with Apple to extend its reach into MacBooks or other non-iPhone devices.  |
| Obama May Hit Snags in Banning Space Weapons Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:00 PM CST President Obama's pledge to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy while posing the tricky issue of defining whether a satellite can be a weapon.  |
| Google Gobbled Up 90 Percent Of U.S. Search Growth In 2008 Posted: 29 Jan 2009 05:00 PM CST Google ended the year with 63.5 percent market share of all search queries performed in the U.S., estimates comScore. And that market share has inched up steadily from 58.5 percent in January, 2008. But the market share numbers mask the absolute growth in searches and how Google has ben able to Gobble up all of that growth.  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST Speechless  |
| Ford Loses $5.9B in 4Q, Says Still Won't Seek Aid. WoW! Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:40 PM CST DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford Motor Co. says it lost $5.9 billion in the fourth quarter but it has no plans to seek federal aid unless economic conditions worsen.The second-largest U.S. automaker says it burned through $5.5 billion in cash during the quarter. The company said Thursday it lost $2.46 per share, compared with a loss of $2.8 billion..  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:40 PM CST Sketch loans, financial blunders, and a string of bad bets have left America's banks nearly insolvent. How an industry collapsed — and why only nationalization might solve it  |
| Man imitates electric guitar using just voice (w/Video) Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:30 PM CST Jamal Reed of 'vocal play' group, Naturally 7 demonstrates his amazing ability to mimic the sound of an electric guitar using only his voice.  |
| Facebook: 276% Growth in 35-54 Year Old Users Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST The biggest surprise (perhaps it shouldn't be surprising) was that Facebook's 35-54 year old demographic segment not only continued to grow the fastest, but it excelerated to a 276.% growth rate over the past 6 months.  |
| Scars Reveal How Triceratops Fought Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:10 PM CST It's the iconic dinosaur battle, seared into imagination from picture books and cartoons: Tyrannosaurus rex lunges, mouth agape, and Triceratops parries with its horns and bony neck frill. This scene probably did unfold in North American forests 65 mln years ago, but research suggests Triceratops used its headgear in fights against its own species.  |
| Greatest Snack Food Stadium Ever! Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:10 PM CST The guys at holy taco have really outdone themselves this time. It's...get ready for this...a football stadium made entirely out of delicious snack foods! Just in time for the Super Bowl!  |
| Firefox Mobile Coming For Windows Mobile Within a Week Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Adorably-mascotted Firefox Mobile 'Fennec' is on its way to an early February release for the Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch Pro, according to a post on the project's developer wiki.  |
| O'Brien: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs still thinking big Posted: 29 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Over the course of the past 40 years, Silicon Valley has experienced regular cycles of economic ups and downs that come with being one of the world's leading centers of innovation. And during those down cycles, it's become routine for folks to do some hand-wringing about whether the valley has lost its way.  |
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