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| 7 Routers Trim, Cut and Shape Woodworking : Lab Test Posted: 30 Jan 2009 08:30 PM CST We gathered seven trim routers and three testers devoted a day slaving over oak boards to find out which one comes out on top. After the sawdust was cleared and notes were recorded, here is how they fared.  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2009 08:20 PM CST Why has the Obama administration been silent about one of the key promises during the campaign — the promise of guaranteed health care for all Americans?  |
| Kid overcomes bullying thanks to video games Posted: 30 Jan 2009 08:10 PM CST Check out this very heartwarming story on how a kid overcame bullies and made new friends thanks to video games.  |
| Michael Steele Becomes First Black RNC Chair Posted: 30 Jan 2009 08:09 PM CST Former Maryland Lt. Gov Michael Steele will be the new chairman of the Republican National Committee."It's time for something completely different," Steele said following his victory. "And we're going to bring it to them."  |
| Why are the sun and moon the same size in the sky? Posted: 30 Jan 2009 08:00 PM CST It is one of the most glorious pieces of natural theatre. Assuming you spend your life on the same part of the Earth's surface, you might witness it once - if you are particularly lucky or very long-lived, perhaps twice. But a total solar eclipse is worth the wait. At the height of totality, the fit of sun and moon is so perfect .....  |
| Soldier Explains Why He Uses a Rifle Stock to Shoot Photos Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:40 PM CST I took my Bushhawk stock along for the ride out to Kajaki. The stock is of limited use as in remote regions such as this, the local population has never seen a DSLR so they limited trust when you're pointing a long lens at them. In operations where we were going patrols or at night with night vision I'd use it a lot.  |
| Japanese electronics giant NEC to cut 20,000 jobs worldwide Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:30 PM CST Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. says it plans to slash at least 20,000 jobs worldwide in an effort to cut 80 billion yen ($895 million) in costs over the next two years. It expects to report a loss for the full fiscal year through March.  |
| Boy Scouts conducting commercial logging on sensitive lands Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:20 PM CST Executives of the Boy Scouts of America in California have repeatedly conducted commercial logging on scout lands in environmentally sensitive areas, sometimes drawing sharp criticism from regulators and environmentalists.  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST Robots in movies has always been a fascinating subject. On the one hand Robots carry that machine like mystique that enables them to do things that we humans can't. And that factor alone leads us to curiosity and amazement. On the other, when we see human qualities in these robots, it makes them that much more interesting.  |
| 10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST Using the Web, you can learn how to do just about anything in Photoshop, and either become great at it or just get really good at faking it. Either way, you're doing cool stuff.Here are ten sites to get you Photoshopping like a champion  |
| The End Of Alternative Comic Strips Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:40 PM CST Earlier this week Village Voice Media suspended publication of all its comic strips across its entire chain of alternative weekly papers in a cost-cutting move. For those who don't know, Village Voice Media owns fifteen papers in key cities like New York and LA and is a huge component of the alternative comic strip lifeblood.  |
| Analysing golf shots 'makes you worse' Posted: 30 Jan 2009 06:23 PM CST Golfers who analyse their technique too much can end up playing worse.  |
| Exxon Mobil Sets Record with $45.2 Billion Profit. Nice! Posted: 30 Jan 2009 05:42 PM CST HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp. on Friday reported a profit of $45.2 billion for 2008, breaking its own record for a U.S. company, even as its fourth-quarter earnings fell 33 percent from a year ago. The previous record for annual profit was $40.6 billion, which the world's largest publicly traded oil company set in 2007..  |
| Quantify Everything: How Much Less Are Individuals Spending? Posted: 30 Jan 2009 05:31 PM CST As an engineer, and founder of a company where one of our core values is "quantify everything", lack of numbers bothers me. How bad are things really? Answers like "really bad" or "worst since the Great Depression" just don't do it for me. What does it mean in dollars and cents?  |
| Does Weather Really Affect Our Mood? Posted: 30 Jan 2009 05:21 PM CST That rain is gloom and sunshine happiness is metaphorical rather than scientific, though it rings true because we humans are inherently sympathetic to our environment. But we are not its victims. Barring a mood disorder, our emotions are not casualties of the weather. The rain can be guilty by association, but not causation.  |
| I've got the world's biggest boobs Posted: 30 Jan 2009 05:11 PM CST SHEYLA Hershey's massive 38KKK breasts have been declared the world's biggest boob job.  |
| "I believe I walk on air...sorta...kinda...in my own way." Posted: 30 Jan 2009 05:01 PM CST This is a beautiful and spectacular shot of Oreamnos americanus (mountain goat), that rupicaprid extraordinaire, going to another part of the mountain by leaping over a gap at Comeau Pass located in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Photographer: Robb Rice  |
| What Will Replace The Internet? Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST First it will become wireless and ubiquitous, crawling into the woodwork and perhaps even under our skin. Eventually, it will disappear.  |
| Judge's ruling that WoW bot violates DMCA is troubling Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:30 PM CST Glider, a popular WoW bot, took another hit on Wednesday as a federal judge ruled that the product went beyond copyright infringement to being a circumvention device under the DMCA. The decision raises serious questions about the legal status of interoperability and competition in the software industry.  |
| 5 Super Bowl Weeks They'd Rather Forget. Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:20 PM CST Yes, getting to the Super Bowl is hard enough, but these five jocks take that notion to a whole new level. Also, Ronde Barber talks Tiki.  |
| Study Finds: Majority of HDTV owners not watching in HD! Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:02 PM CST Though the number of U.S. homes with HDTVs continues to rise, almost half of those homes aren't watching high definition programming, a new study found. 39 Million households in the US have an HDTV but only 43.6% of those homes are watching their shows in HD. This is actually and increase from 2005 when only 35.6% of HDTV owners watched in HD.  |
| Scientists discover ground-breaking material: Graphane Posted: 30 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene.  |
| 6 Inspiring Rags to Riches Stories (That Are Bullshit) Posted: 30 Jan 2009 03:40 PM CST 6 Inspiring Rags to Riches Stories (That Are Bullshit)  |
| World’s Most Powerful Electric Car Could Launch in 2009 Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:51 PM CST Shelby SuperCars (SSC), the company behind the world's fastest production car, has announced plans to launch an electric supercar that is four times as powerful as the Tesla Roadster later this year.  |
| CNN story helps surgeon perform 'lifesaving' operation Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:41 PM CST A brain surgeon performed what he called a "life-saving" surgery on a teenager by removing a large brain tumor using a method he read about on CNN.com just three days earlier.  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST You can't hide from Google Earth - some marijuana growers in Switzerland found that out. While using Google Earth, Swiss police just happened to find a two-acre marijuana plantation hidden inside a corn field.  |
| Lambo LP640 vs. Corvette ZR1 Bad Boys Review - Top Gear Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST Review of 2 of the latest bad boy supercars by Top Gear. Amazing power and cars.  |
| Stem Cells: Poised for a Breakthrough Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:00 PM CST Douglas Melton, the co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute is one of the leading figures in the search for cures for presently incurable diseases, and his breakthrough work is challenging many long-held beliefs about the ways biology and human development work. But it was a personal experience that brought Melton to stem cell research.  |
| comScore says U.S. online gaming audience grew 27 percent Posted: 30 Jan 2009 02:00 PM CST Free online games had a big surge in 2008, thanks to the ailing economy, market researcher comScore reported today.  |
| 10 cheap and easy upgrades for your old PC Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:40 PM CST Economical upgrades that will extend the useful life of your PC  |
| Women's Brains Respond to Manly Men Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:30 PM CST Women participating in the Kinsey study were shown 224 photos of men's faces, some of which had been "masculinized" or "feminized" using photo-morphing software. MRI scans revealed higher levels of brain response to the masculinized photos, particularly in women who were in the phase of their menstrual cycle immediately preceding ovulation.  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:30 PM CST A TV Shop themed demonstration of a Turing Machine made in LEGO Mindstorms. It was made as part of a project at computer science at Aarhus University.  |
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| Sen. McConnell: GOP risks becoming a regional minority party Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:30 PM CST Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a blunt warning to Republicans Thursday: Their party must regain lost supporters plus blacks, Hispanics and voters on both coasts — or risk becoming a permanent minority party with a limited power base.  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:20 PM CST A federal court has rejected a former student's First Amendment suit against school officials who punished her for calling them "douchebags" in a Live Journal post. Administrators are entitled to qualified immunity from suit unless they are clearly violating an established right, the court held; and the scope of student rights to online speech is a  |
| Beef Drives 80% of Amazon Destruction Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:10 PM CST Greenpeace Brazil has released a report at the World Social Forum in Belém showing that up to 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is due to an increase in raising cattle for human consumption.  |
| Apple pulls NVIDIA graphics update, reasons unclear Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:00 PM CST Apple has yanked a software update that was intended to fix graphics-related issues with its latest notebooks just two days after pushing the patch to users via its Software Update mechanism  |
| Posted: 30 Jan 2009 01:00 PM CST Compilation of extreme parkour moves...  |
| 15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:50 PM CST In today's post you will find 15 incredibly useful Mac Apps for freelance web designers to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before and help them manage their project efficiently to get their job done.  |
| Ghost Rider Sequel Gets a Green Light Posted: 30 Jan 2009 12:50 PM CST Bloody Disgusting has confirmed that Columbia Pictures is officially out to screenwriters for Ghost Rider 2, and star Nicolas Cage is already signed on to reprise the role as Johnny Blaze. This is shocking because nobody I know enjoyed the 2007 film when it was released.  |
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