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| Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:20 PM PST No carmaker is perfect. Each has best and worst sellers, hits and misses. And while plenty of cars are generally good values, there are a few that don't make as much sense when you work out the calculations over time. That's where our new list comes in: the Worst Cars for the Money.  |
| Warner, Cardinals reach two-year, $23M deal Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:10 PM PST Looks like Warner will remain with the Cardinals after all.  |
| Study Urges More Oversight of Dietary Items Posted: 04 Mar 2009 05:50 PM PST The steps the Food and Drug Administration has taken to more closely supervise the supplement industry do not go far enough, the report by the Government Accountability Office said.  |
| Family Guy to parody 'Return of the Jedi' Posted: 04 Mar 2009 05:10 PM PST Hollywood Reporter: It will be called "Episode VI: The Great Muppet Caper"; a parody of 'The New Hope'. (Video of the Family Guy's first Star Wars Parody included.)  |
| 7 Insane Military Attempts To Weaponize Animals Posted: 04 Mar 2009 04:40 PM PST From Hannibal's mighty elephants to Genghis Khan's swift horses, or even those hoversharks the British used in the Falklands, animals have always been used in warfare, fighting and dying right alongside us. But some animals go farther. We speak, of course, of those four-legged friends who trotted bravely into battle for the sole purpose of blowing  |
| What Music Do Your Favorite Bands Listen To? Posted: 04 Mar 2009 04:30 PM PST Amazon decided to get a whole ton of musicians and bands to answer questions about what they like to listen to and what it is exactly they like about the music. Questions asked included: "Which musicians have influenced you the most?" "What albums do you love and think your fans should hear?" "What CDs can't you live w/o?  |
| Professor pegs odds of an actual Depression at 20% Posted: 04 Mar 2009 04:10 PM PST Is this optimistic or pessimistic? FTA? "The bottom line is that there is ample reason to worry about slipping into a depression. There is a roughly one-in-five chance that U.S. GDP and consumption will fall by 10% or more, something not seen since the early 1930s."  |
| Trippy Cornstarch and Speaker experiment Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:50 PM PST Not 'Shopped, not timelapsed, no special effects, just good ol' non-Newtonian physics at work.  |
| MPAA Study Links Piracy to Gangs and Terrorists Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PST A new study by the RAND corporation has attempted to put the focus on 'movie piracy' squarely on the shoulders of terrorist groups and criminal gangs. The report, which claims to have been 'peer reviewed', seems to show that no matter which gang, thug, or terrorist – they all pirate movies.  |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:21 PM PST It's OK, you're in safe company. We know you didn't buy that gadget because it could interface seamlessly with the cloud, or because it offers the best range of features for Small to Medium Enterprises, or because it has the fastest processor this side of a supercomputer. You just like touching its rubbery buttons, and the fact that it goes 'ping.'  |
| Newsweek: Hillbilly No More? West Virginia's Image Makeover Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:10 PM PST West Virginia's governor is launching a massive campaign to liberate his state from ugly and unyielding stereotypes. He's got his work cut out for him.  |
| What Drives Brain Changes In Macular Degeneration? Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PST In macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness, patients progressively lose vision in the center of their visual field, thereby depriving the corresponding part of the visual cortex of input. Previously, researchers discovered that the deprived neurons begin responding to visual input from another spot on the retina ...  |
| Obese Teens as Likely to Die Prematurely as Heavy Smokers Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:50 PM PST Likening obesity's risks to those of smoking, a large European study spanning decades has found that young men who were overweight at age 18 were as likely to die by 60 as light smokers, while obese teens, like heavy smokers, were at double the risk of dying early.  |
| GM, Ford, Toyota Post Bleak February Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:40 PM PST GM's U.S. light-vehicle sales fell 53% last month, while Ford's dropped 48% and Toyota's declined 40%. Other auto makers will report later in the day.  |
| Why computer voices still don't sound human Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PST Modern text-to-speech systems are incredibly complex, and they're improving rapidly. But reading a book with anything near the expressiveness of an actual human voice is an enormously difficult computational task—the pinnacle of speech synthesis research.  |
| On the way up. On the way down. Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PST One's going up. One's going down. But the destination is the same, or so it seems...  |
| Headset will mimic all five senses and create virtual world Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:00 PM PST A headset that harnesses all five senses will create such a convincing virtual reality that it will be indistinguishable from real life, designers promised.  |
| Albany Takes Step to Repeal Rockefeller Drug Laws Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PST The New York State Assembly has agreed to pass legislation to repeal much of what remains of the state's 1970s-era drug laws.  |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PST CalTech grad student named Virgil Griffith has conducted a study relating music preferences with SAT scores.  |
| For Wealthy Tax Cheats, The Moment of Reckoning is Coming Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PST In the Bush years, the IRS became so lax in its enforcement that cheating became routine and hidden Swiss bank accounts almost as much a status symbol as private jets. That's ending under the Obama administration and it has many wealthy Americans sleeping only fitfully.  |
| Zero Punctuation: Spiderman: Web of Shadows Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:40 PM PST ...  |
| Moderate Dems feel sticker shock Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:40 PM PST 14 Senate Democrats and one independent huddled behind closed doors on Tuesday, discussing how centrists in that chamber can assert more leverage on the major policy debates that will dominate this Congress. Afterward, some in attendance made plain that they are getting jitters over the cost and expansive reach of Obama's $3.6 trillion budget.  |
| 5 Great Microsoft Web Services You Probably Don't Use Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:30 PM PST Microsoft is so often the behemoth everyone loves to hate that people overlook the stuff it does right. Here are five free hidden gems. #1 Windows Live SkyDrive - Get 25GB of online storage, at no cost, with no strings attached.  |
| Justice Department Alleges EMC Paid Kickbacks, Gouged Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:20 PM PST EMC became the latest IT vendor to be indicated in a case involving perhaps a dozen or more technology companies where the government is alleging that it that paid kickbacks to federal consultants as well as overcharging for hardware, software and services.  |
| 50 Things Every Mac Geek Should Know Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:10 PM PST Like a champion cyclist knows bike parts,a car buff knows model years, and a sports fan knows win-loss records, all Mac geeks worth the title must know these things.  |
| Bionic eye gives blind man sight Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:10 PM PST A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.  |
| Nasa set to launch first mission to find Earth-like worlds Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:00 PM PST Nasa is set to launch a £428million space mission to hunt for Earth-like worlds that may harbour alien life.Scientists believe that the three-and-a-half year voyage of the Kepler telescope, considered one of the agency's most exciting unmanned spacecraft, will help answer the centuries-old question: 'Are we alone?'  |
| Gadgets and Designs Inspired by Guns Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:00 PM PST Collection of creative gun shaped gadgets and unusual product designs.  |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:50 PM PST Did you really think you could get away that easily Mr. Freeman?  |
| 5 Huge Green Tech Projects in the Developing World Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:50 PM PST Here we present five of the largest green tech projects that have broken ground or plan to in 2009. Each one of them is slated to be as big as a large coal plant and among the largest green tech projects in the world.  |
| US Government Unveils Plan to Spur Lending Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:40 PM PST U.S. stock markets teetered between positive and negative territory on Tuesday as the federal government unveiled yet another effort to loosen tight credit and promote lending. The day brought more unwelcome news about America's troubled housing and automobile sectors.  |
| Reboundfinder: New Twitter tool finds the recently dumped Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:40 PM PST In what has to be one of the most amusing (and slightly sinister) uses of Twitter's API, Box UK has created reboundfinder to search for specific tweets from people who post that they have either dumped their loved ones, or been dumped by them, and then to RT, or retweet, their posts via its feed.  |
| Internet Telescope to Provide Movie-Like Window on Universe Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:30 PM PST The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, partially funded by Microsoft founders Bill gates and Charles Simyoni, is projected for 'first light' in 2014, in Chile's Atacama Desert. The 8.4-meter telescope will be able to survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3-billion pixel digital camera.  |
| WSJ.com - President Tells Unions Organizing Act Will Pass Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:30 PM PST Obama signaled support for a law that would make union organizing easier, in a speech to the AFL-CIO.  |
| Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:20 PM PST From 1980's Boy, to their rise to superstardom with Joshua Tree, through their '90s-era experimentation on Achtung Baby, and subsequent rock-oriented reboot at the onset of the 21st century... Here's how we rank 'em.  |
| Jon Stewart: Limbaugh Is the Very Picture of Restraint Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:20 PM PST I like how, after tearing apart Rush like a hilarious wolf devouring a pit-stained retarded sheep with a pituitary problem, Jon has some Bill O'Reilly for dessert. But that's definitely going to give him the runs.  |
| Bigg Digg Shindigg and More: Your Guide to SXSW Interactive Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:00 PM PST With the biggest conference presence of the entire SXSW festival, SXSW Interactive is more than just a place where, as ace SXSW Interactive Press and Publicity coordinator Tammy Lynn Gilmore put it, "you get to meet all those people you follow on Twitter." Unlike music and film, it's difficult to maintain an "I'm too cool" attitude when you're surr  |
| So You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collect Posted: 04 Mar 2009 11:50 AM PST Next of kin often have no legal obligation to assume the debt of the deceased, but they often respond to the gentle touch of a growing breed of debt collectors.  |
| We are friendlier to people who resemble us, scientists find Posted: 04 Mar 2009 11:40 AM PST The more someone looks like us the more likely we are to help them, scientist find.  |
| 5 Memorable Instances of NBA Insubordination Posted: 04 Mar 2009 11:30 AM PST Carmelo Anthony just got suspended a game for defying his coach. He's not the first player to take a shot at his authority figures.  |
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