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| Japan's Pioneer to cut 10,000 jobs globally Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST Japanese electronics company Pioneer Corp. said Thursday it will cut 10,000 jobs globally to cope with sinking sales of car audio equipment and flat-screen TVs. It also said it will withdraw from its money-losing plasma display business.  |
| Mayor asks for police escort to the restroom of City Hall Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:40 PM CST Oberholtzer said he requested the police presence after he and Councilman Robert Jenkins "exchanged words" in the men's room a few months ago, although he couldn't recall the nature of the bathroom brouhaha.  |
| Call It A Come Back: 11 Athletes Who Ditched Retirement Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:20 PM CST OK, one's a dog. But it's still pretty funny.  |
| 10 First-Person Shooter Cliches Posted: 12 Feb 2009 08:00 PM CST Just because you've been from one end of the galaxy to the other and shot it out with Nazis, diseased space monkeys, robotic demons and demonic robots doesn't mean that you can't stand to hear this briefing one more time! We're going to tell you all the things you need to know about your next mission.  |
| $4 Billion Lawsuit Filed Against Miley Cyrus for Racist Pic Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:50 PM CST A Los Angeles woman has filed a class action suit against Miley Cyrus, claiming she mocked Asians in a recent photo by slanting her eyes. Lucie J. Kim claims to represent more than 1 million Asian Pacific Islanders who live in L.A. County and each Asian person is entitled to the minimum damages for a civil rights violation: $4,000.  |
| 5 Reasons Being Single Sucks Even More Than You Thought Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST Happy Valentine's Day... you're going to die pretty soon.  |
| Electronic cigarettes: A safe substitute? Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST I HAVE never been a smoker, so as I sit at the bar, chin resting on one hand, I try to remember how Audrey Hepburn did it. I take a gentle drag and exhale. A white mist wafts around my face as I wait for the rush of nicotine hitting my brain. People start to stare. Then the inevitable happens: "Hey, you can't smoke that in here."  |
| Update on Digg's Promotional Algo Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST Digg's made some tweaks to the promotional algorithm to ensure that all Diggers have a fair chance at getting their submitted stories promoted to the homepage.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST Spying, the invasion of the privacy snatchers is well documented throughout history. Perhaps, the most important rule in espionage is secrecy – so as to secure future gains, never let your Object know he is being followed  |
| Nadya Suleman's Octuplet Pregnant Belly (PHOTO) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST Nadya Suleman's octuplet pregnant belly...not for the squeamish.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST Skin Deep  |
| Shred or Die: Breaking Down Skateboarding Injuries (GRAPHIC) Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:40 PM CST No wonder this guy always gets hurt, he is just a skeleton.  |
| Cheech & Chong best buds again Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:30 PM CST After scoring a string of hit albums and film faves like Up in Smoke in the 1970s, the duo -- L.A.-born Cheech Marin, 62, and Edmonton native Tommy Chong, 70 -- suffered an acrimonious split in the late '80s.After pursuing solo career paths, the two have buried the hatchet, and are ready to -- ahem -- blaze another trail across North America.  |
| Photo Essay: The Long Shadow of Ayatollah Khomeini Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:20 PM CST A look back at the tumultuous events of February 1979, when the charismatic religious leader returned to Iran and singlehandedly reshaped the history of the Middle East — and the world.  |
| Judd Gregg Withdraws Commerce Secretary Nomination Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg has withdrawn his nomination to serve as President Obama's Commerce Secretary. Read his full statement.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST A billboard honouring the memory of Charles Darwin which has appeared in Grand Junction, Colorado. The billboard space was purchased by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born 200 years ago on February 12, 1809. (Picture AP)  |
| Gum disease feared to trigger full-blown AIDS Posted: 12 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST An acid produced in the mouth due to gum disease invigorates the virus that can lead to full-blown AIDS, a Japanese researcher said Thursday, billing the finding as a world first.  |
| FBI To Tackle Baffling Super Bowl Porn Case Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:50 PM CST Never fear America: The FBI is making sure that there will never again be an incident of Super Bowl TV porn. However, all anthrax letters will be delivered as usual.  |
| "See, there's lots of space for you in my 'swimming pool'!" Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:40 PM CST Photographer: Linh Dinh  |
| MacBook owners frustrated by new audio jacks Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:30 PM CST Owners of Apple's new unibody notebooks are experiencing backwards compatibility issues with the units' redesigned audio jacks, which offer a snug connection for the company's latest headphones with integrated microphones at the expense of legacy stereo headsets and speaker connectors.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST If we flew on the cheap and lived on the Red Planet's resources, we could be a two-world species within a generation.  |
| Former EMI Boss: Fight Against Illicit P2P is “Useless” Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:10 PM CST At least on the surface, most in the mainstream music industry agree: illicit file-sharing is evil. However, when you aren't getting paid to have a certain opinion, things can change. No longer taking a salary from his former company, Ex-IFPI chairman and EMI director Per Eirik Johansen speaks freely.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST Photographer: Paul Parsons  |
| Green Fail. Eco Packaging Used More Resources, Cost More Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST What appeared to be an innovative package design ended up costing more money, using more resources and taking up more space than typical boxes.  |
| Another Reason to Upgrade to First Class Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST Coach goes down first.  |
| Make your Ubuntu distro look like the Mini Mi Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST The HP Mini MI netbook provides one of the slickest available Ubuntu GUIs. Hobbyists have now figured out how to install that pretty GUI on non-Mi platforms.  |
| Dutch Company One Step Closer to Private Moon Mission Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:40 PM CST A spectrometer meant to fly to Mars on a European mission in 2016 will get to the Moon first. The Dutch team that is building the instrument last week announced it would send a scaled-up version, dubbed MoonShot, to the lunar surface by 2011.  |
| Oil Industry Says it is Ready to Tackle Global Warming Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:30 PM CST Confronted with a change of priorities in Washington, international oil executives are expressing an eagerness to work with President Obama to tackle global warming.  |
| Paid Downloads are Coming to YouTube Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:30 PM CST Alex Chitu spotted a new 'purchases' section in his YouTube account today and YouTube just made it official: YouTube's partners can now offer their videos for paid downloads. While Google has always given its partners the option to offer downloads of their videos under the Creative Commons  |
| The Top 15 Funniest Halo Deaths Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:20 PM CST There have been an infinite number of times where I've suddenly died in Halo and yelled "How the **** did that happen?" Usually, I'm too lazy to go into the replay just to see what actually went down, but fortunately for us, there are tons of people who do just that.  |
| The World's Best Piano Playing Cat [VIDEO] Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:10 PM CST This is Nora, but her owner calls her Meowzart. See why.  |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:00 PM CST You've been caught playing Professor Layton on the DS. Or you accidentally left your copy of Carnival Games out on the coffee table. Your hardcore gamer reputation is now hanging by a thread. Your next words could be crucial. Memorize these 10 smug gaming assertions & arguments and drop them like bombs when your hardcore bonafides are on the line.  |
| Ferrari FXX Under Some Seriously Hard Braking [PIC] Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:00 PM CST  |
| 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis Posted: 12 Feb 2009 03:50 PM CST Who's at Fault? The good intentions, bad managers and greed behind the meltdown.  |
| No network management amendment in final stimulus package Posted: 12 Feb 2009 03:20 PM CST Sources report that the final version of a broadband subsidy provision in the fiscal stimulus bill will not include "network management" language that would have opened the door to filtering of copyrighted content by ISPs.  |
| "I will break your f---ing face" Posted: 12 Feb 2009 03:10 PM CST After John Needham was diagnosed with PTSD in 2007, he was sent to Fort Carson. An advocate advised him to keep notes on how he was treated while at Fort Carson. In the document below, Needham describes what happened when his medications caused him to fall asleep on a desk. On the next page are photos of Needham in Iraq, as well as a photo of his..  |
| Favorite Passwords: "1234" And "Password" Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:40 PM CST Better think twice before choosing a password for emails, online bank accounts and airline tickets.  |
| How Darwinian: The evolution of 6 indispensible technologies Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:30 PM CST In honor of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, this series of slideshows looks at how the Internet, the PC, the cell phone, the Mac, Windows and the router evolved over the years.  |
| Beer and the president: A new political reality? Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:20 PM CST Just as the nation had begun to black out memories of the overused campaign term "Joe Six-Pack," an Indiana woman this week suggested to President Obama that he sit down for a beer with conservative talk show host Sean Hannity. The president, knowing the importance of presidential beer liking, wisely replied that he's "always up for a beer."  |
| Sources: Windows 7 moving toward 2009 release Posted: 12 Feb 2009 02:00 PM CST Program offering free or low-cost upgrades from Vista could kick off in July, sources say. While it won't say so publicly, Microsoft is pushing to have PCs with the new OS for the holidays.  |
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