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| AT&T backs down, will allow video streaming! Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:50 PM PDT Looks like the uproar over AT&T's recently-tweaked wireless terms of service banning video streaming and p2p activity has caused some hasty rethinking in Dallas.  |
| Gary Sheffield to sign with the New York Mets Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:50 PM PDT Gary Sheffield has agreed to sign with theNew York Mets, SI.com has learned. An official announcement is expected this afternoon.  |
| Oklahoma Bill Lets Pregnant Women Kill To Save Baby Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature would allow pregnant women to use deadly force in order to save the lives of their babies.  |
| 10 Species on the Brink of Extinction [Pics] Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT Many of the planet's most endangered animals are also the most remarkable. Here are a few of nature's superstars from Asia, the Americas, the Pacific and elsewhere that may soon be no more  |
| China hi-tech exam cheats jailed Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT Eight parents and teachers who used hi-tech equipment to help children cheat in Chinese college entrance exams have been sent to prison.  |
| This Is What Happens When Twitter Writes a Book Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT On Twitter, I rounded up a little over 80 friends with the fairly enigmatic call to action of "Does anyone want to be part of a fairly ambitious Twitter project?" Our challenge: To cowrite a book over Twitter, one Tweet at a time, utilizing all 80 participants as authors.  |
| Vin Diesel's Best-Reviewed Movies...Which is Not Many Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT With the release of Fast & Furious this Friday, Vin Diesel joins the elite ranks of actors who have starred in franchises that have spun off more than two sequels. This puts Diesel in league with such lucky thesps as Robert Englund, Bill Shatner, and Kane Hodder. Here are the 10 best-reviewed movies of Mr. Diesel's career.  |
| CEO Gives Employees $1,000 From His Pay! (Video) Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT Jack Windolf gave $1,000 to all 434 workers at Bollinger Insurance Solutions and told them "let's jumpstart this economy." Windolf says the idea came to him a year ago when he received $500,000 in deferred compensation after he orchestrated the sale of 51 percent of the Short Hills-based company. Windolf included a provision that said he could..  |
| Five Best Image Editing Software Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT Image editing software has become ubiquitous in this digital age. Whether you're creating a web interface or simply cropping and enhancing your family photos – you'll need your favorite image editor to do it. In this article, you'll find the top image editing applications currently out in the market.  |
| Waking up during surgery fairly common Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT Waking up during surgery with subsequent recall is surprisingly common, affecting around 1-in-500 surgical cases, U.S. researchers conclude.  |
| Analysis of OnLive's claims on performance Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT Onlive has generated a lot of excitement due to its potential impact on the gaming industry. Here we take a close and slightly technical look at performance claims from the Onlive's founder and CEO.  |
| Huge Antarctic Ice Shelf Headed for Collapse Posted: 03 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT The Wilkins Ice Shelf has been cracking in new places recently and images released by the European Space Agency show that it will probably very soon break off entirely. A 62 square mile piece broke off in May 2008.  |
| Palin's Strange New Christianity - What The Media Missed Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT In May 2008, Bruce Wilson, co-founder of the blog Talk2Action, made a short video featuring a recording of Pastor John Hagee preaching about how God had sent Hitler to hunt the Jews and force them to Israel. The media picked it up. In the '08 election Sarah Palin - whose church emphasizes miracle healing and raising the dead, got a pass.  |
| AT&T tweaks wireless TOS to forbid streaming, filesharing.. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT Looks like AT&T's taking some aggressive steps to manage network traffic now that it's offering subsidized netbooks - the carrier updated its data plan terms of service last night to specifically single out and prohibit "downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals.  |
| Stop! Butterfly Crossing Ahead! Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT Taiwan has shut a highway lane to traffic, lowered the speed limit, and put up protective nets to help more than 10,000 butterflies cross the road during their annual migration. The milkweed butterflies are native to the island off China and have distinct white dots on purple brown wings. The butterflies fly north this time of year before mating.  |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT "Red Dwarf" follows the adventures of the spaceship of the title, a six-mile-long, five-miles-tall, four-miles-wide vessel adrift in deep space. Trapped aboard the ship, Scouser Dave Lister is the only human left in the universe after a radiation leak three million years earlier. The thrust of the early shows is Lister's desire to return home.  |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:20 PM PDT This video shows amazing people doing amazing things.It shows people doing many different tricks, such as parkour tricks, penspinning, yo yo tricks, etc.  |
| This Is The Best Year To Be A Terminator Fanatic Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT To many people, the Terminator franchise consists of two movies, and it ended in 1991. Those people are missing out. The Terminator universe will never be as complex, and crazy-making, as it is now.  |
| Sports drinks lead to tooth erosion Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Sipping on sports drinks can damage your teeth because of the high levels of acid in them, dentists have warned.  |
| Interface Design Trends for 2009 Posted: 03 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT As time goes by, designers keep on improving interfaces for better user-experience. In this article, we try to single out some interface design trends going on in 2009.  |
| How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT On the surface, April 1 came and went without a peep from the dreaded Conficker megaworm. But security experts see a frightening reality, one where Conficker is now more powerful and more dangerous than ever.  |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT One of the more funny ones.  |
| Mad science and secret codes in the TV series Fringe Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT Ars obsesses over a variety of geek puzzles embedded into the new Fox TV series Fringe, in which Lost creator J.J. Abrams doubles down on weird.  |
| Introducing Digg’s IDDB Infrastructure Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT I've been hinting at a mysterious piece of infrastructure, called IDDB, for some time in various talks, blog posts and mailing list posts. Today, with the introduction of Digg's DiggBar and URL minifying service, IDDB is finally powering a significant feature.  |
| Sears to Sell Men's Suits Made of Recycled Plastic Bottles Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT The U.S. arm of Teijin Fibers Limited is partnering with Sears and the maker of the retailer's private label apparel to fashion men's suits from a blend of wool and polyester fibers that are produced from recycled PET bottles.  |
| The T. Boone Pickens Road Show Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT T. Boone Pickens looks tired. Standing in the sunken pit of a packed lecture hall at Rice University, he's hawking his Pickens Plan for energy independence, saying we need to use more wind power and natural gas. The 80-year-old, with flesh-colored hearing aids set deep inside his ears and tanned bags drooping under his eyes...  |
| Inside New York's Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (PICS) Posted: 03 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT It opened on December 3, 1844 and was finished by January 1, 1845, as an "open cut," a trench built into the bed of Atlantic Street (today's Atlantic Avenue). It was built to reduce the grade of the railroad line—prior to the opening of the original open cut, horse teams were required to assist steam locomotives in carrying trains up the steepest..  |
| High Speed Chase, Taser, Crazy Twist Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:51 PM PDT Suspect leads cops on a high speed chase, gets tased, and.... wait for it.  |
| Pill that can cure shoplifters Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT A drug commonly used to treat alcohol and drug addiction may help curb the urge to steal among prolific shoplifters, scientists have said.  |
| Technology cannot replace nature Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT U.S. psychologists say humans might be losers if technological nature -- such as robotic dogs or Web cams viewing nature scenes -- replaces the real thing.  |
| The Invasion of Privacy Through Your Mobile Phone Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT Forget Street View, there is a far more subtle - and pervasive - invasion of your private life being carried out - this time through your mobile phone. A week before, Google had, without any fanfare, released 11 software applications for mobile phones that spell a fundamental change in our lives.  |
| New York Giants Release Plaxico Burress Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT You might say Plaxico really shot himself in the leg this time.  |
| The Top 10 Nerf Guns of All Time Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT In many ways the Nerf gun is the go-to toy shooter. Here are our picks for the top 10 nerf guns of all time, from the classics to the contemporaries.  |
| Corn dog casserole (yes, there's bacon) Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT Hash brown patties, crumbled bacon, baked beans, corn, french fries topped by corn dog slices with mustard icing.  |
| Liquid Gold: The 10 Most Expensive Whiskies in the World Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT Grain, water, a wooden barrel and a some time. Whisky is a colorful character with an ever-changing spirit. The subject of literature, culture and folklore throughout the world, finicky booze-hounds have long paid a pretty penny for bottles of the most coveted casks. So if you've got the money, why not snag one of these and enjoy perfection?  |
| Want to Save Some Money? Shop Without Touching Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT Turns out "Don't Squeeze the Charmin" might have been the worst marketing message of all-time. According to a new study to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers who touch products in the aisles will pay more money for them than those who keep their hands off the merchandise.  |
| Girl Scout predicts big rig crash, nobody listens, 2 die Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Girl Scout Malia Mailes began a crusade last year after a truck carrying 78,000 pounds of onions careened into a parking lot. She gave a Power Point presentation to the La Cañada Flintridge City Council in early March citing a lack of signage and a lack of regulation for trucks using the local highway. Her safety warnings went unheeded. Now 2 dead.  |
| Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on Building Strong Company Culture Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT The Economist's Seventh Annual Marketing Forum convenes a select group of senior marketing executives for an interactive conference featuring robust dialogue, debate, discussion and shared learning.  |
| 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT Many people think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. But there is much more to achieving good typography.Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs.  |
| 10 Commericals that are Exercises in WTF Posted: 03 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT You know those ads you see that make stop and go "what the hell were they on when they made that?" Yeah, those are these ads. The ads that you think you could throw wet bread slices at notecards on a wall, and make an ad about whatever they stick to.  |
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