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| Amazing Guitar Prodigy Sungha Jung Covers Andy Mckee Posted: 15 Feb 2009 08:30 PM CST After my digg submission of Kaki King, I started listening to a lot of Andy Mckee thanks to the comments of some diggers. During my youtubing, I came across Sungha Jung covering one of Mckee's pieces. Awesome.  |
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| Toys That Made Us Uncomfortable At NYCC Posted: 15 Feb 2009 08:30 PM CST NYCC has come and gone, but the thing that still haunts our dreams are the creepy and crazy toys. So we rounded them up in all their strange lactation bondage-y glory.  |
| The Scientifically Engineered 'Worst Song' in the World Posted: 15 Feb 2009 08:10 PM CST "The site gets very scientific and is hella confusing. The guys basically used the thought behind software that figures out the most desirable musical tones, and went the sadistic route by doing the opposite. The result is elevator music for schizophrenics and those enduring acid flashbacks."  |
| News from The Pirate Bay Press Conference Posted: 15 Feb 2009 08:00 PM CST Just hours ago The Pirate Bay and Piratbyrån held a joint press conference at the Museum of Technology in Stockholm. It was broadcasted live on the web and Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm spoke at length. Here is a breakdown of some of the key points.  |
| Do We Need a New Internet? - NYTimes.com Posted: 15 Feb 2009 07:50 PM CST Security and privacy have become so compromised that many experts believe it is time to start over.  |
| Obama Upholds Bush Religious Discrimination Policy Posted: 15 Feb 2009 07:40 PM CST Proving he's no amateur when it comes to tacking as far right or left as necessary to capture some vital constituency, President Barack Obama recently upheld a key Bush administration policy allowing groups receiving federal dollars to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion.  |
| Publicists for octuplets' mother quit over death threats Posted: 15 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST Two Brentwood publicists said they dropped octuplets mom Nadya Suleman as a client Saturday because they have received a slew of death threats. Suleman, 33, was unmarried, unemployed and already had six children using a sperm donor when she gave birth to eight children from the same donor Jan. 26 at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower.  |
| (Nearly) nothing to fear but fear itself Posted: 15 Feb 2009 07:12 PM CST IMF's chief economist Olivier Blanchard says that policymakers should focus on reducing uncertainty  |
| Down and out in NYC on $500,000 a year Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST So, how quickly would you burn through half a million?  |
| Facebook Hits 175 Million User Mark Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:30 PM CST A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users--the statistic the social-networking site prefers to use, rather than registered accounts overall.  |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:20 PM CST It's hard to imagine Valentine's Day without chocolate, but some scientists say that it's possible that chocolate could one day be in short supply. What would the world be like without this decadent, delectable and divine dessert?  |
| Woman's Airport Temper Tantrum Becomes Internet Hit Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST The three-minute clip of the furious woman had racked up close to 40,000 hits in three days on the video-sharing site. The video starts with the screaming woman running towards the departure gate and bouncing off a female security guard, after she learned that her flight has been closed. She then starts banging a desk before collapsing to the floor  |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST The most amazing Tetris player ever. Watch until the end.  |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2009 05:50 PM CST The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments.  |
| AP/NPR:Crude Oil is Getting Cheaper, so Why Isn't Gas? Posted: 15 Feb 2009 05:30 PM CST Crude oil is at a record low of $34 a barrel, yet gas prices are creeping up again. This AP report says that there is a lot more to gas price than crude price alone.Valid point, but somehow Americans feel that they are getting taken for a ride by the big oil companies and their greed....  |
| 5 (More!) of the Most Messed Up PETA Stunts Ever [w/Pics] Posted: 15 Feb 2009 05:20 PM CST Sea kittens? the KKK? Maybe someone should rename them PITA.  |
| Mumbai Terror suspect : Female FBI agent abused me Posted: 15 Feb 2009 05:00 PM CST An alleged terrorist captured in the aftermath of the Mumbai bombings has blamed a three-member FBI team from the U.S. of sexually harassing him during an interrogation...  |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2009 04:50 PM CST I Am Bored  |
| U.S. Teens Lead World In Pregnancy-Test Scores Posted: 15 Feb 2009 04:30 PM CST Many knew the U.S. teens would pick up the pace but no one knew that they would take the lead!  |
| '100 billion trillion' planets where alien life could exist Posted: 15 Feb 2009 04:10 PM CST There could be one hundred billion trillion Earth-like planets in space, making it "inevitable" that extraterrestrial life exists, according to a leading astronomer.  |
| Posted: 15 Feb 2009 04:10 PM CST Facts of life.  |
| Command-Line-Fu To Become A Linux Guru Posted: 15 Feb 2009 04:00 PM CST It's like Kung-fu, but for nerds! And you don't even need to stand up!  |
| What The Internet Will Look Like in 2012 (PICS) Posted: 15 Feb 2009 03:50 PM CST Is it the apocalypse?  |
| Christian Bale wants Peter Griffin off the fucking set Posted: 15 Feb 2009 03:40 PM CST The meme continues to roll on as TMZ has obtained a clip from Sunday night's Family Guy, where Christian Bale tells Peter Griffin to get off the fucking set. I don't get why we need another Terminator, I just don't get it.  |
| NY Times: 2010 Honda Insight Sprouts in Shadow of Prius Posted: 15 Feb 2009 03:20 PM CST In designing the 2010 Insight, Honda's goal was to create a hybrid car that was not just practical, but would be priced within reach of eco-conscious buyers on a budget, providing a greener choice to customers who cannot afford a Civic Hybrid or a Toyota Prius. That may sound easy, but it was perhaps a more daunting challenge than it seems.  |
| Chemical Warfare Is Ancient History Posted: 15 Feb 2009 03:20 PM CST The prospect of chemical and biological warfare in this age of anthrax scares and WMD can feel like a uniquely modern terror. But a British archaeologist claims to have found the first physical evidence of chemical weaponry, dating from a battle fought in A.D. 256 at an ancient Roman fortress.  |
| World of Goo Linux Version is Ready! Posted: 15 Feb 2009 03:00 PM CST Lovers of both games and Free Open Source Software will be pleased to see that the popular indie puzzle game World of Goo has been released for Linux. It was designed by a small team of two ex-Electronic Arts developers, Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, who used their entire combined savings of $10,000.00 USD to create the gooey game  |
| Hospital let 80-year-old man walk home to his death - becaus Posted: 15 Feb 2009 02:40 PM CST A hospital has been censured by health watchdogs for letting an elderly man walk home unsupervised to his death after a blood transfusion.  |
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| A Torture Report Could Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers Posted: 15 Feb 2009 02:20 PM CST It looks like the Justice Department could have a lot of explaining to do. It's no surprise that the lawyers working for the Bush Administration made themselves unavailable to comment.  |
| Bloods, Crips, and... Solar Panel Installers? Posted: 15 Feb 2009 02:00 PM CST When Albert Ortega was released from prison four months ago, he was determined to turn his life around. So he went green. Drug trafficking kept him locked up for most of the past seven years, but after serving his last term, he heard about a solar-panel installation course. "I wanted a new way of life. Solar puts me on the cutting edge."  |
| Words give brain handle on feelings Posted: 15 Feb 2009 01:20 PM CST Brain scientists are starting to understand something poets, songwriters and diarists have long known: putting feelings into words helps ease the mind.  |
| See BitTorrent founder's uber geeky explanation of Unix time Posted: 15 Feb 2009 01:10 PM CST Yesterday, Unix time equalled 1234567890. There were parties everywhere, Revision3 went to document the big party in San Francisco and found BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen to help explain Unix time and the hype over 1234567890.  |
| Banker Gives $60 Million of His Own Money to His Employees Posted: 15 Feb 2009 01:00 PM CST After selling a majority stake in Miami-based City National Bancshares last November, $60 million of the proceeds, out of his own pocket, got handed out to his tellers, bookkeepers, clerks--everyone on the payroll. All 399 workers on the staff received bonuses, and he even tracked down 72 former employees to give them bonuses.  |
| Nate Robinson Wins 2009 Slam Dunk Contest Posted: 15 Feb 2009 12:40 PM CST Nate Robinson played the Kryptonite to Dwight Howard's Superman in the 2009 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest.  |
| Shopping Cart Hero: Insane flash game Posted: 15 Feb 2009 12:40 PM CST Many have tried. Many have failed. Are you good enough to be the hero?Strap rockets to your shopping cart and see how far you can make it.Awesome game.  |
| Global Warming Seen Worse than Predicted. Posted: 15 Feb 2009 12:30 PM CST By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The climate is heating up far faster than scientists had predicted, spurred by sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions from developing countries like China and India, a top climate scientist said on...  |
| KEEP: Emulator That Aims To Save Obsolete File Formats Posted: 15 Feb 2009 12:20 PM CST The emulator will also be regularly updated to ensure that formats that fall out of favour remain supported in the near and far future. Called Keeping Emulation Environments Portable (Keep), the project aims to create software that can recognise, play and open all types of computer file from the 1970s onwards.  |
| Hacker: Obama's 'spy-proof' blackberry can be breached Posted: 15 Feb 2009 11:50 AM CST While U.S. President Barack Obama's blackberry has been claimed to be a spy-proof device, the world's most famous hacker Kevin Mitnick says that it can still be breached.He said that Obama's super-secure BlackBerry only makes cracking into it more challenging, but it can still be done.  |
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