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| Posted: 04 Feb 2009 08:20 PM CST Two young men — one of them a butcher — have been arrested on suspicion of killing and dismembering a 16-year-old girl and eating parts of her body, Russian prosecutors said Wednesday.  |
| What a Remote Town in Greenland Looks Like [PIC] Posted: 04 Feb 2009 08:10 PM CST Ittoqqortoormiit is a town in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland, near the mouth of the northern shore of the Kangertittivaq fjord. Population is 537. Ittoqqortoormiit is one of the most remote towns in Greenland. It is served by the Nerlerit Inaat Airport, reachable by helicopter or boat for a few months a year.  |
| EFF seeks mashup makers to fight YouTube filtering Posted: 04 Feb 2009 08:01 PM CST The combination of automatic content filtering and a legal spat between YouTube and Warner Music has led to thousands of videos being pulled from the video streaming site in recent weeks. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking a few good mashup makers willing to fight back.  |
| Top 10 Most Overlooked Doomsday Scenarios Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:50 PM CST From superflare Sunday to the vacuum metastability love triangle, this is pretty much an all-you-can eat buffet of morbid science.  |
| Mass. Lesbian Couple Who Led Gay Marriage Fight to Divorce Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:40 PM CST A lesbian couple who led the fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts has filed for divorce. Julie and Hillary Goodridge were among seven gay couples who filed a lawsuit that led to a court ruling making Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriages in 2004.  |
| How Oil Companies Destroyed the Electric Vehicle (video) Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST The EV1 has been a dream that ended up quickly and painfully for everyone to forget it. Although it's an oldie, this movie shows the facts that stood behind the decision of not only shutting down the EV1 production line, but also destroying all of them altogether. The same story went with the other electric vehicles from Toyota, Honda and Ford.  |
| HP releases netbook interface for Ubuntu Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST What makes the Mi Edition software stand out is the graphical user interface which looks nothing like Ubuntu or even Ubuntu Netbook Remix. When you first boot up the Mi Edition software you're greeted with a screen with a web search engine  |
| Australian Police Minister Urges People to Report WoW Sales Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST The New South Wales Police are asking people to contact them if they see retailers selling World of Warcraft or other massively multiplayer online games.  |
| 'Seuss-like' Sea Creatures Discovered Posted: 04 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST The deep-sea resident, along with two other marine species that are new to science, were discovered by an international team of scientists during a month-long voyage aboard the research vessel RV Thompson to a marine reserve near Tasmania. The findings were announced today.  |
| Why Digg's MrBabyMan is the king of all social media. - By F Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST a bit meta...  |
| Snow creations abound in the UK [PHOTOS] Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:40 PM CST Pretty good stuff, including an automotive stegosaur.  |
| Study Shows Body Language Can Indicate Socioeconomic Status Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:30 PM CST A new study in Psychological Science reveals that nonverbal cues can give away a person's socioeconomic status (SES).  |
| Gmail Adds New Move To and Labels Drop-Downs, Autocomplete [ Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:20 PM CST Today Gmail will begin rolling out a new feature to improve your email labeling workflow and mitigate folder-vs.-label confusion with two new drop-down menus: Move to and Labels. Even better: Keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete are baked in.  |
| Kiddie Gang Caught Roating Puppies Over Bonfire Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:01 PM CST A gang of children aged as young as 10 were caught trying to roast a pair puppies over a bonfire. Passerby Melanie Johnson spotted them kicking the pups and holding them over the fire on a canal bank. The youngsters fled, abandoning the dogs, when she challenged them.  |
| Eminem: The fall and rise of a superstar Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST In 2006, after the murder of his closest friend, hip-hop's most talented star became its most notorious recluse. As he returns with a new album, Guy Adams travels to Detroit to find the truth behind the tales of breakdown, paranoia and tortured genius.  |
| Injured man dies after rejection by 14 hospitals Posted: 04 Feb 2009 05:41 PM CST A 69-year-old Japanese man injured in a traffic accident died after paramedics spent more than an hour negotiating with 14 hospitals before one admitted him, a fire department official said Wednesday.  |
| Marijuana Porn: 12 Strains of Medical Pot and How They Heal Posted: 04 Feb 2009 05:21 PM CST Colorado Springs-based Cannabis Therapeutics, the state's largest medical marijuana dispensary, has lots of meds to suit your fancy – at least 35 varieties. To help patients pick their potent poison, here's a primer on some of the operation's top selections. Take three tokes and call us in the morning.  |
| What's the point of being warm-blooded? Posted: 04 Feb 2009 05:10 PM CST IF YOU stopped eating today, you wouldn't survive more than two months. A crocodile, on the other hand, might live for a year or more. Why the difference? You waste most of the food you eat generating heat.  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST The question is pretty short. What exactly is Grimace, the McDonald's character? I mean Ronald McDonald is a clown, that's pretty clear. And the majority of the remaining McDonald's characters seem to have at least a passing resemblance or relation to McDonald's food. Grimace is just a purple blob. So help me solve the mystery of Grimace  |
| New .tel domain names will create world's largest phonebook Posted: 04 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST The .tel domain names will be available from this afternoon. They differ from other website addresses because they are meant to host individual entries that together will make up a vast virtual directory.  |
| Why Don't More Animals Change Their Sex? Posted: 04 Feb 2009 04:40 PM CST Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes — they are born, live out their lives and reproduce as one sex or the other. However, some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch to the other sex, a phenomenon called sequential hermaphroditism.What remains a puzzle, according to Yale scientists...  |
| The Pirate Bay Maps Out its Tracker Connections Posted: 04 Feb 2009 04:30 PM CST The Pirate Bay has just released a Google powered map of the tracker connections per country. The map is only the start of a much larger project that will cover more detailed statistics on the trackers' users. However, it already reveals some interesting data.  |
| Deja vu all over again: Apple patent hints at tablet Posted: 04 Feb 2009 04:30 PM CST Speculation about a Mac tablet refuses to die as long as patents continue to surface showing that Apple is at least contemplating how to build one.  |
| Cheney warns of new terrorist attacks Posted: 04 Feb 2009 04:11 PM CST In an interview Tuesday with Politico, former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a "high probability" that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years. He said he fears the Obama administration's policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2009 04:00 PM CST Your've seen the pics, now watch the video, How To SleeveFace.  |
| Star Wars: Death Star Costs $15.6 Septillion Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:32 PM CST If you had $15.6 septillion and 94 cents in your account, would you save the world from the economic crisis or build a Death Star, destroy the world, and move on to invade the galaxy?  |
| Devs asked to test third party app support in Snow Leopard Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:30 PM CST Apple this week has tapped a handful of choice developers to test third party application support against a new build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in a sign the software is nearing a stage of refinement and optimization.  |
| How a Martin Guitar is Created (Interactive Graphic) Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:10 PM CST The C.F. Martin company has been creating prized acoustic guitars since 1833. This is an overview of how they do it.  |
| Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:10 PM CST Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea.  |
| Sen. Judd Gregg: Secretary of What? Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:10 PM CST Republican Senator Judd Gregg would rather work from within the Obama Administration. Whether he could do more as a strong voice in the Senate is up for debate, but he says you can't turn down a president's request.  |
| Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Spirit Resumes Driving Posted: 04 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit resumed driving Saturday after engineers gained confidence from diagnostic activities earlier in the week evaluating how well the rover senses its orientation.  |
| Christian Bale Gave That Guy What He Deserved Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:50 PM CST What, you've never gotten mad at your boss or a co-worker? Never yelled at the guy in the next cubicle over? It happens, people get on each others' nerves when they work in close quarters. And it's not like Bale was screaming at some guy for bringing him the wrong jelly donut.  |
| The Future of Humanity is Linked to the Fate of Our Cities Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:40 PM CST As cities began to dominate, their entropy production inevitably led to degradation of the environment, severe stresses on resources and energy, and the beginnings of the multiple "sustainability" problems we face in the 21st century. Cities have emerged as the source of the biggest challenges the planet has met since humans became social.  |
| The Top 7 Video Games that Should've Had Co-op Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:40 PM CST There are games that were seemingly supposed to contain a multiplayer campaign but bafflingly omitted the feature. Collected here are the seven most glaringly obvious cases of "wait, there's no co-op?" Because playing with yourself is only fun for so long.  |
| Obama To Cap Executive Pay At $500K For Bailout Recipients Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:40 PM CST As was reported today, Barack Obama is expected to announce Wednesday a series of new pay limits, including those for executive pay, for companies receiving significant amounts of bailout money. Obama is scheduled to make the announcement alongside Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at the White House.  |
| Nancy Pelosi: Dumber than Soap Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:40 PM CST Nancy claims that we lose 500 million American jobs each month we don't pass her $1 trillion pork barell spending boondoggle.Nancy Pelosi: Dumber than soap. Nancy claims that we lose 500 million American jobs each month we don't pass her $1 trillion pork barell spending boondoggle. - TheConservativePost  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:30 PM CST After years of blistering growth, installation of wind and solar power is plummeting due to the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn.  |
| Care to join me in my hot tub? Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:20 PM CST  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:20 PM CST In the water, Michael Phelps is without peer. On land, he's made splashes for the wrong reasons. Given the stratospheric heights to which he climbed during the Beijing Olympics last summer (8 gold medals, 8 races) Phelps' stock had nowhere to go but down.  |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2009 02:20 PM CST Breaking News!!!! Wow, this is pretty crazy news. Hopefully the two sites will help each other out.  |
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