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| Captains arrested in alleged plot to overthrow Hugo Chavez Posted: 06 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that two National Guard captains have been arrested for allegedly conspiring against his government with aid from Venezuela's opposition and former military officers living in the United States.  |
| The Move To Linux, Stymied By Hardware. Posted: 06 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST With news today of Windows 7 being made available in no less than six different versions, it is getting harder and harder to not move lock, stock, and PGP key to Linux on a full time basis. Except…For decades, I have listened to my father gripe about the computer industry and their inability to standardize on hardware.  |
| Cap mania spreads to Charter: 100GB/month for 15Mbps tier Posted: 06 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST Add another ISP to the growing list of US telcos that are capping monthly usage. Those on the lower service tiers face caps once they exceed 100GB of aggregate downloads.  |
| CEOs, Bankers Used Corporate Credit Cards for 2k/h Hookers Posted: 06 Feb 2009 08:40 PM CST Wall street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives often used corporate credit cards to pay for $2,000 an hour prostitutes, according to the madam who ran one of New York's biggest and most expensive escort services until it was busted last year.  |
| Will Carling’s Ten Rugby Players To Watch In The 6 Nations Posted: 06 Feb 2009 08:30 PM CST Will Carling, the former captain of England from 1988 to 1996, has put together the top 10 rugby players to watch in the 6 Nations.  |
| Europe's 'Asian crisis' will run till 2010 Posted: 06 Feb 2009 08:10 PM CST After the boom of the good years, European markets are falling sharply, with uncomfortable similarities to Asia in the 1990s. Caught in the global downturn, European economies have been hit hard and some countries have been forced to beg the IMF for a bailout - but IMF aid will only make their problems worse.  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:51 PM CST Tennessee women's basketball Coach Pat Summitt recorded her 1,000th career victory Thursday night in a 73-43 rout of SEC foe Georgia.  |
| Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST As more capable mobile devices become available, the market for reading on cellphones could grow.  |
| Athletic Pot Scandal Goes Pot Belly, Sumo Wrestlers Busted Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST In the past six months, four wrestlers have been kicked out of the ancient sport for allegedly smoking marijuana, creating the biggest drugs-in-sports scandal that Japan has ever seen.  |
| Call To Block Anti-Whaling Ship Refuelling In NZ & Australia Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST A collision between a Japanese whaler and an anti-whaling protest ship in frigid Antarctic waters has sparked renewed calls for the New Zealand and Australian governments to block the Steve Irwin from refuelling in the two countries.  |
| Exotic animals trapped in net of Mexican drug trade Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST Additional profits by sharing routes with animal traffickers who cram humming birds into cigarette packs and baby monkeys into car air conditioning ducts to be sold to underground pet traders in the United States.  |
| Officials say tentative stimulus deal reached Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:09 PM CST WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid stunning new job losses and yet another bank failure, key senators and the White House reached tentative agreement Friday night on an economic stimulus measure at the heart of President Barack Obama's recovery plan.  |
| Your Breath Could Be Recycled into Fuel Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST The Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in Liverpool, U.K., will soon become the world's first to try a revolutionary piece of technology that will recycle the breath of passengers into biofuel. The Eco-box will capture the CO2 exhaled by airport travelers and convert it to fuel to be used in the airport's diesel vehicles and heating system.  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST Use of texture in Web design is extremely common. Part of the reason textures are so useful to designers is the relative ease of the integrating one into a design if a high-quality textured image already exists, not to mention the endless possibilities. Fortunately, plenty of photographers and designers are willing to share their work.....  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST This is the album cover for 'The Man from Utopia', a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. It is meant to show the events at a disastrous concert in Palermo, Italy. Fans kept trying to rush the stage, and security began firing tear-gas canisters into the crowd. Zappa continued to perform, but stopped as the gas became unbearable and guns were being fired.  |
| Steve Jobs meets the Kindle | Fully Equipped Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:40 PM CST Publicly, Apple's CEO hasn't been too kind to Amazon.com's e-book reader. Imagine what he told Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the eve of the original Kindle's 2007 launch. Read this blog post by David Carnoy on Fully Equipped.  |
| Sharp to Cut 1,500 Jobs, Forecasts Annual Loss Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:30 PM CST TOKYO – Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. said Friday it will cut 1,500 contract workers in Japan by the end of March, and is headed for a billion dollar annual loss, its first in nearly 60 years..  |
| Police create wanted poster on Nintendo Wii Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST Japanese police have used a Nintendo Wii to generate a wanted poster of a hit-and-run suspect.  |
| Campaigners for NYC's Bloomberg Taste High Life Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST Perks await those who join Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's re-election campaign, from luxury hotels to jet rides. Bloomberg, defying country's mood of austerity, plans to spend $80 million on his reelection campaign this fall, even as he rolls out a battery of regressive sales taxes that hurt those who can least afford it.  |
| Ancestor of scorpions is one badass freak show Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:50 PM CST "Research is now underway in the US to seek FDA approval for an artificial liver. The Extracorporeal Liver Assist Device (ELAD) filters blood through a cartridge containing immortalized human liver cells with fiber tubes running through that allow the patients blood to interact with them.  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:50 PM CST TED Talks Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world  |
| Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:40 PM CST A blogger stumbled into Phelps at the grocery store, and has acquired his shopping list. What was he looking to buy?  |
| The world's first operational stealth ship! Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:40 PM CST The spectacular Swedish Visby-Class corvette is the first operational stealth ship in the world, powered with waterjets, made with non-magnetic composite hull, and hopefully staffed with semi-naked blonde valkyries. It's electronically undetectable at more than 8 miles in rough seas and at more than 13.5 miles in calm seas.  |
| The 5 Most Notorious Multiplayer Gaming Glitches Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:40 PM CST No other game has made me so enraged, so filled with hate, and yet, kept me coming back for more, as a little game called "Counter-Strike". When "Counter-Strike" first came out, it was a haven for the cheaters using aimbots (which guided their bullets right into my skull), glitchers doing the bunny hop (which allowed them to fly over my head), and  |
| Coraline Brings Back The Scary Fairy Tale Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:40 PM CST Great review of the upcoming Neil Gaiman-inspired flick Coraline.  |
| Linuxtracker - Moving 180 Terabytes of Linux a Year Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:30 PM CST Nearly three years ago, we mentioned Linuxtracker in a short post on BitTorrent sites that list 'legal' software downloads. Now, the site is celebrating its 4th anniversary, and with over 1400 torrents it is one of the best places to get your Linux fix.  |
| StumbleUpon Hits 7 Million Users, 50% Bigger Than Twitter Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST What's got a button to push, knows how to make money while changing the world and is read all over? StumbleUpon! The social discovery network, like Pandora for webpages and videos, just passed 7 million users according to the site. That's about 50% bigger than Twitter, though Stumble is rarely talked about and never promoted.  |
| First Look: Sony Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST The Lifestyle is a truly beautiful device — a worthy highlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The cooler part about the netbook is it ships with a built-in GPS device, a 3G modem and Wi-Fi, meaning you'll be able to connect to the internet practically anywhere.  |
| Digg Community Sings Bohemian Rhapsody [video] Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:10 PM CST When David questioned real life after visiting the dentist, the DIGG community broke out in song. Put to video, watch them sing Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen  |
| Countdown w/KeithO: Cheney doing the work of terrorists Posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST "The former V.P. is using fear mongering and lies to manipulate Americans"...KeithO at his finest.  |
| Jon Stewart to Cheney: "Why Are You Such a Dick?" Posted: 06 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST The Daily Show has officially renamed their "You Don't Know Dick" segment about Dick Cheney to "Why Are You Such a Dick?" after his latest post-Bush administration antics. Not only is he still trying to scare the hell out of us, it looks like he's trying to pawn off the inevitable aftermath of Bush's foreign policy on President Obama.  |
| Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up Posted: 06 Feb 2009 04:30 PM CST Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could ignore the call of the motherboard no longer. He is going back to work — this time at Fusion-io, a start-up company that tweaks computers to let them tap vast amounts of storage at very quick rates.  |
| Nanoparticle system scans opaque objects Posted: 06 Feb 2009 04:20 PM CST U.S. scientists say they've developed a nanoparticle system that allows microscopes to view the internal structure of nearly opaque biological materials.  |
| Scientists search for genes that see sounds Posted: 06 Feb 2009 03:50 PM CST A new study identifies specific chromosomal regions linked to auditory visual synaesthesia, a neurological condition characterized by seeing colors in response to sounds.  |
| I was wrong about Amazon.com. They really do have vision. Posted: 06 Feb 2009 03:31 PM CST In an article that made it to the front page of Digg (http://digg.com/gadgets/How_Amazon_com_could_screw_up_eBooks), I wrote about four ways Amazon.com could "screw up" their "running start" with dominating the future of electronic books. Yesterday they proved me wrong with one of them.  |
| IBM teams up with Google on health software Posted: 06 Feb 2009 03:30 PM CST IBM is teaming up with Google Inc on a new software to move data from remote personal medical devices into Google Health and other personal health records (PHRs). Patients will be able to exchange vital health information with their...  |
| Group Fights For Medical Marijuana In Alabama Posted: 06 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST All Loretta Nall and the Alabamians for Compassionate Care want to do is persuade our monumentally intractable legislature, on the cusp of an election year, to disregard 70 years of social taboos and a federal pharmaceutical jihad to ordain that the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes shall be legal throughout the state.  |
| India shocked as ‘moral police’ beat girls out of pub Posted: 06 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST A protest has taken place in the Indian capital Delhi over the release of a group of men who beat up young women in a pub. The case of so-called moral policing has shocked the country.  |
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