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| Beware of the Book: Seven Banned Classics Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:30 PM CST Of the Radcliffe Publishing list of the top 100 books of the past century, almost half have been challenged by schools, many are banned in whole countries. Here's a few banned titles that just may surprise you..  |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:30 PM CST 'Scuse me sir but this turdle smells a bit strange...  |
| 5 T-Shirts That People Regret Owning Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:20 PM CST Growing up we all have encountered fashion trends that we have been less than proud of for participating in. While it is easy to pick on leg warmers, jelly shoes, and other ill-conceived fashion trends the one that gets left alone are t-shirts. Today I want to look at five different types of t-shirts that people regret owning.  |
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| Ten Of The Weirdest Athlete Endorsments Ever Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:10 PM CST Companies are always looking for a superstar athlete to help push their product. Sometimes the pairing just leaves you wondering who exactly is calling the shots. Here are 10 of the weirdest and strangest. Make sure to check out the commercials at the end to relive a couple classics.  |
| The Surnameless: People So Cool They Have Two First Names Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:10 PM CST  |
| Mom Sues Scientology Over Suicide Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:00 PM CST A Florida woman charges in a lawsuit that the Church of Scientology contributed to her son's death by denying him access to antidepressants.  |
| Millions of Historic Photographs from the LIFE Archives Posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:00 PM CST Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.  |
| Salmonella Outbreak Pushes Gov to Engage in Social Media Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:50 PM CST The recent peanut-butter-borne Salmonella outbreak has prompted the US Dept. of Health and Human Services to engage in a heavy social media push to inform citizens about the health risks and product recalls. Among other channels employed the government agencies used MySpace, YouTube and Twitter.  |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:50 PM CST An epic battle between Mario and the Halo Spartans!  |
| Red Elite Xbox 360 Appears In Retail Listings Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:50 PM CST In January, rumours surfaced regarding a special, limited edition red Xbox 360 that would be released in conjunction with Resident Evil 5. Over the weekend, that Xbox 360 turned up in retail databases. A reader - an employee of Toys 'R' Us - sends us this pic, snapped from his store's database.  |
| Most People Believe Dreams Are Meaningful Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:40 PM CST "Psychologists' interpretations of the meaning of dreams vary widely," Morewedge said. "But our research shows that people believe their dreams provide meaningful insight into themselves and their world."  |
| The World's Oldest Emoticons (From 1881) Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:40 PM CST Emoticons printed in 1881 in the U.S. magazine Puck.  |
| Stumbleupon recruiting campaign on Facebook Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:40 PM CST Stumbleupon is advertising for new users on Facebook.  |
| British Government launches anti-cannabis campaign Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST A two million pound campaign to alert children and young people to the health risks posed by cannabis was launched by the government on Monday. Adverts will be run across TV, radio and the Internet, with the message that cannabis is not a safe drug and has links to mental health problems such as paranoia and schizophrenia...  |
| If you say 'Bang!', will people react to getting shot? Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST Perhaps if you're from Osaka, Japan they will.  |
| Booze improves a man's bedroom moves Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST Alcohol improves a man's performance in the bedroom.Despite the traditional views about the effects of booze on a man's sex life, a new study suggested moderate drinking protected against impotence in the long term.Australian researcher Kew-Kim Chew made the surprising discovery that alcohol improved rather than damaged men's sex life.  |
| The Part of the New Simpsons Open You Didn't See Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST "If you watched the HD debut of The Simpsons this weekend, then you probably noticed the super-fast scan during the open. I couldn't help but wonder what hilarious stuff was going on in that split second, so I put together a quick and dirty panorama."  |
| Rosy Lipped Batfish - Looks Like It's Wearing Lipstick [Pic] Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST  |
| My Mom to Public Relations People: Shut Up, You Bozos! Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:20 PM CST More than often, we get dumb press releases here in Gizmodo. This one starts with the following: "MAKE MOM THE ENVY OF THE BLOCK WITH STYLISH WESTINGHOUSE LCD HDTVs." It goes downhill from there.  |
| Obama Pens 'Real' Notes to Fallen Troops' Families Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST "This was real, it was personal, it was so important to us," said Thya Merz, whose son Marine Lance Cpl. Julian Brennan was killed Jan. 24 in Afghanistan.  |
| Apple Nixes 'Potentially Offensive' South Park App Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST Apple has made it clear that South Park must respect its authority.  |
| Feds (finally) cracking down on H-1B abuses Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:10 PM CST It took a major recession with accelerating unemployment to make it happen, but the feds are finally getting serious about cracking down on abuses of the H-1B immigrant visa program. Still, Ars argues that we should "mend it, not end it," especially with American job loses mounting.  |
| Ubuntu Training Program Improved Throughout USA Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST One of Ubuntu's strategies for gaining a larger user base is providing quality, comprehensive training for everyone who desires. For that purpose, Canonical has recently included Fast Lane and Bridge Education.  |
| What Are Your Chances Of Getting A Tapeworm? Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST Take the quiz to find out if you are likely to get a tapeworm.  |
| iPhone forensics expert creates AMBER Alert app for iPhone Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:00 PM CST Jonathan Zdziarski, iPhone developer and data forensics expert, has teamed up with AMBER Alert to create an iPhone app for receiving detailed AMBER alerts via iPhone. Ars talked to Zdziarski about why he wrote the app and how it can also be used to report sightings in a faster and more reliable manner to law enforcement.  |
| Ubuntu partners with HP on Servers Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST For the first time, HP will soon be supporting Ubuntu Linux on one of its server lines.  |
| 6 companies Microsoft should buy Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST Microsoft isn't short of cash, and it recently - and unsuccessfully - offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion.The idea was to catch up with Google, but the big G isn't the only firm doing well in areas where Microsoft isn't.  |
| Feeling frazzled? 8 ways to lower stress Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST Relentless stress can keep this survival mechanism churning in high gear, subverting the hormone's good intentions....an antidote to the body's fight-or-flight mode has evolved: the relaxation response. Here are eight surprising ways to invoke it  |
| Darwin the Buddhist? Empathy Writings Reveal Parallels Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST The famed naturalist probably didn't know it, but he held views on human empathy that mirror Buddhist beliefs, says a pioneer in decoding facial expressions. Based on his interactions with foreign cultures, Darwin came to define empathy as a desire to end someone's suffering to assuage one's own discomfort.  |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:50 PM CST As the United States frets noisily about a recession, Japan is quietly enduring a far more fundamental economic slide, one that seems irreversible.  |
| Massive standing ovation at TED for crisis wisdom plea Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:45 PM CST Here's one of the big hits from this month's TED2009. Professor Barry Schwartz says the real crisis is a world gone mad with rules, procedures and complexity. His passionate call for a return to "practical wisdom" in business and public affairs brought the audience to their feet.  |
| The Shape of Alternative Powered Cars [Pics] Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:40 PM CST There are many new electric and gas-electric hybrids in the works. Some, like the Mini electric, are available in limited numbers, some are just months away and others are much further down the road.  |
| Apple absent from universal phone charger push Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:30 PM CST Although AT&T and several other iPhone partners joined an industry initiative to standardize mobile phone chargers over the next few years, Apple has yet to follow suit and may remain committed to its proprietary dock-connector interface .  |
| Madonna the Same Age as New Boyfriend's Grandma Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:20 PM CST The Material Girl is the same age as her new Brazilian lover's grandmother, an ex-girlfriend says. Jesus Pinto da Luz, the 22-year-old blue- eyed model Madonna met on a photo shoot, has a granny who is about 50. Madonna turns 51 in August.  |
| Police sieze weapons cache in Mass., turn over guns to feds Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:10 PM CST Police turned over the weapons removed from an Auburn, MA home on Thursday to federal authorities. Earlier this month, a Worcester man was arrested after investigators recovered about 101 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and C4 explosives and other devices.  |
| Researchers Crack the Code of the Common Cold Posted: 17 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have completed the genomic sequences of the viruses and assembled them into a "family tree," which shows how the viruses are related, with their commonalities and differences.  |
| Vodafone and Opera's new budget browser Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:50 PM CST Vodafone and Opera have announced they are teaming up to create a new version of the Opera Mini mobile browser, which is aimed at low-end handsets.  |
| Ex-major-league pitcher eyes comeback after 18 years Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:40 PM CST 49-year-old claims his fastball is in the low-90s and his changeup and curveball are as good as ever.  |
| Jarron Gilber is a freak....Jumps out of a pool Posted: 17 Feb 2009 05:30 PM CST 6'5" 287 lbs. DE Jarron Gilbert JUMPS out of a pool. This guy will be a force in the NFL  |
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