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| 10 Clips of Video Games Acted Out in Real Life Posted: 04 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT Last year, I posted a clip of live action Mario Kart, but little did I know that there are dozens of clips of video game fans acting out there favorite video games. Playing video games isn't enough for these people; they are so immersed in the gaming experience that they feel the need to act the game out in real life.  |
| 2 gay men killed in Iraq after Shiite cleric condemns gays Posted: 04 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) - The bodies of two gay men have been found in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City after a leading cleric repeatedly condemned homosexuality, an Iraqi police official said Saturday. The killings come after Shiite cleric Sattar al-Battat repeatedly condemned homosexuality during recent Friday prayers, saying Islam prohibits homosexuality  |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT Current's Supernews takes on Glenn Beck  |
| Man Paid $2500 To Impregnate Neighbors Wife - Fails 72 Times Posted: 04 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT *****  |
| New Palm Pre apps underscore Apple's iPhone limitations Posted: 04 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT While third-party apps are being trumpeted as the iPhone's strength, key Palm Pre demos this week were designed to highlight their restrictions by taking advantage of those precise things that Apple won't allow.  |
| New cosmic map reveals colossal structures Posted: 04 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT Enormous cosmic voids and giant concentrations of matter have been observed in a new galaxy survey, one of the biggest completed so far. One of the voids is so large that it is difficult to explain where it came from.  |
| Beautiful But Mysterious Galaxies Litter the Sky Posted: 04 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT This group of three galaxies together are called Arp 274; Halton Arp cataloged quite a few oddly shaped galaxies, suspecting that they were more interesting than you might suppose at first glance. He was right; almost all the galaxies in his catalogue are interacting with one another, their mutual gravity distorting their shapes, their massive...  |
| Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA Posted: 04 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT Radiohead, the band that made millions of dollars by giving away their music for free, has very little to complain about when it comes to piracy. On the contrary, in a landmark file-sharing case, Radiohead has responded positively to a request to testify against the RIAA.  |
| Danridge Wins NCAA Dunk Contest with Double Reverse Windmill Posted: 04 Apr 2009 04:20 PM PDT Danridge beat Coley in dunk off at the NCAA College Basketball Dunk Contest by doing this double reverse windmill. Coley jumped over a seated Jalen Rose for his dunk off attempt.  |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT I love comedy and there have been many great comedians over the years but there are a few that you will always remember. Everyone has their favorites and this is my opinion, but I think these are the 5 best comedians that are no longer with us.  |
| Meat Ants Lead Australia's Charge Against Hated Cane Toads Posted: 04 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT Scientists enlist insects in latest attempt at biological management of country's numerous eco-system disasters.  |
| Anders Fogh Rasmussen to be new secretary-general of Nato Posted: 04 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark's prime minister, will be appointed Nato's secretary general despite Turkish fears that he will alienate Muslims at a critical time for the alliance's operations in Afghanistan.  |
| The Eight Levels of Programmers Posted: 04 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT Have you ever gotten that classic job interview question, "where do you see yourself in five years?" When asked, I'm always mentally transported back to a certain Twisted Sister video from 1984.  |
| Narrow-Minded Architecture Sure Can Be Brilliant (w/PICS) Posted: 04 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT If you looked closely at high-res photographs of Tokyo in our recent article, you may have noticed a few buildings that are apparently functional, housing either a business or a residence, but are extremely slim - sometimes not more than a meter in width. We got intrigued with this way of squeezing the most use out of every square foot...  |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT My-my-my-my music hits me so hard...  |
| Why goofing off boosts productivity Posted: 04 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT Researchers believe Internet slacking helps concentration. Here are 8 more reasons: 1) The subconscious mind keeps working; 2) it clears your mind; 3) it builds work relationships; 4) it makes interactions asynchronous; 5) it makes work enjoyable; 6) it reduces "bad slacking"; 7) it's educational; and 8) the mind will not be contained anyway.  |
| Peru farmer hospitalized with eight-day erection Posted: 04 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT A Peruvian farmer underwent an operation after complaining of severe pain from an eight-day erection, a doctor at a hospital in the northern city of Sullana said.  |
| Viral Voltage: How Germs May Power the World Posted: 04 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT For millenniums, microbes have been a staunch technological ally. They have leavened our bread and cured our cheeses. Now, engineers are asking them to convert carbon dioxide into fuel and to build a new generation of batteries. Some of the smallest life forms on the planet are helping us cope with the energy challenges of the 21st century.  |
| Bull Market in Government: The Only Job Sector That's Hiring Posted: 04 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT FTA: But all of that money for government spending has to come from somewhere, and that means it is either taxed or borrowed from the private businesses and risk-takers who are ultimately the only source of new wealth and job creation. The longer we ignore that lesson, the longer the jobs recession will last.  |
| 'Fuzzy logic' reveals cells' inner workings Posted: 04 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT Living cells are bombarded with messages from the outside world -- hormones and other chemicals tell them to grow, migrate, die or do nothing. Inside the cell, complex signaling networks interpret these cues and make life-and-death decisions.  |
| There is hope for Marijuana Legalization Posted: 04 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says "we have co-responsibility" for the cartel-driven carnage plaguing our southern border. These are signs that key people have a clue about the madness that is our drug policy. Through pot legalization, we can bring the marijuana trade out of the shadows and into the safety of the regulated economy.  |
| Can Yahoo Out-Google Google in Image Search? Posted: 04 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Okay, not a lot of difference above. But Yahoo's new preview page is superior to Google's.  |
| Nokia E71x struts its stuff on video Posted: 04 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Engadget confirms that S60 is pretty much untouched by at&t - and at least their crapware can be hidden. But the real point is summed up with these words - ...let's not forget -- you're getting one of the sexiest smartphones ever made for a penny shy of a hundie, so really, what do ya got to complain about?  |
| Barack Obama's new offensive against nuclear weapons Posted: 04 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT Barack Obama yesterday announced a radical drive aimed at ridding the world of nuclear weapons, as the focus of his European visit switched from financial to geopolitical security.  |
| Top 5 Greatest Wrestler Acting Performances of All Time Posted: 04 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT Wrestlers have delivered some fantastic - and some fantastically hokey performances over the years. The top 5 includes the man who said, "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum."  |
| Poker skills could sway gaming laws Posted: 04 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT IS POKER a game of skill or luck? For regular players that's a no-brainer, but showing that skill wins out has proven surprisingly difficult for mathematicians. Now two studies that tapped the vast amounts of data available from online casinos have provided some of the best evidence yet that poker is skill-based.  |
| Eagles worker fired for Facebook status, Brian Dawkins helps Posted: 04 Apr 2009 12:30 PM PDT A former Eagles employee who lost his job over a Facebook post will get two game tickets to an Eagles game from the player whose departure sparked the incident.  |
| Nintendo's Fils-Aime Talks DSi, Wii and Everything Posted: 04 Apr 2009 12:20 PM PDT As Nintendo gets ready to launch its Wi-Fi-enabled DSi, the company is taking a cue from popular websites like Flickr and Facebook that offer flexible platforms for personalization and self-expression.  |
| Is YouTube a Massive Money Loser? Posted: 04 Apr 2009 12:20 PM PDT International financial services company Credit Suisse has burst Google's bubble: Its analysts report that YouTube could be on track to lose $470 million this year due to outrageously high operating costs and a poor business plan.  |
| Little Red Riding Hood For Engineers Posted: 04 Apr 2009 12:10 PM PDT This is more a blueprint for Little Red Riding Hood than it is the actual story, but it gets the point across. It's little red riding hood for engineers.  |
| GNOME 3.0 To Get GNOME Shell, Zeitgeist Posted: 04 Apr 2009 11:50 AM PDT Only a few days ago, we ran an article on the future of KDE and GNOME, and which of the two had the brighter future based on their developmental processes. Barely has that discussion ended, or the GNOME engineering team comes with a pretty daunting plan to introduce a fairly massive reworking of the GNOME interface for GNOME 3.0 (2.30).  |
| 40 Excellent Free WordPress Themes Posted: 04 Apr 2009 11:50 AM PDT WordPress - the popular open source publishing platform - allows you to easily customize your installation with WordPress themes. In this collection, you'll find 40 high-quality and free WordPress themes handpicked from the vast amount of free themes out there on the web.  |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT An ***** travels through time.  |
| A Trillion Dollar Ad Campaign (PICS) Posted: 04 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT Billboards and wallpaper for 'The Zimbabwean Newspaper' made entirely of worthless Zimbabwean bank notes. What more proof do you need of a country's total economic collapse than being able to paste trillions and trillions and trillions of dollar notes onto a billboard and it is still cheaper than if you had used paper?  |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2009 11:00 AM PDT *****  |
| 26 Gorgeous Aurora and Colour Spectrum Wallpapers Posted: 04 Apr 2009 10:50 AM PDT A combination of colourful spectrum wallpapers with some awesome mixtures of auroras. Here's 26 Gorgeous Aurora and Colour Spectrum Wallpapers, full list after jump.  |
| 10 Gory Surgical Triumphs on YouTube (Not Safe For Stomach) Posted: 04 Apr 2009 10:40 AM PDT Who needs medical school, anymore? Now, you can watch the world's surgeons do their thing from the comfort of your parents' basement. From open heart surgery to amputations, sex change operations to autopsies, the operating rooms of the world have gone online. One website, OR-Live, regularly broadcasts live from the O.R. For example, tune in next  |
| Bait Ball Feeding Frenzy Ends in One Gulp [HD VID] Posted: 04 Apr 2009 10:30 AM PDT Nature's Great Events HD Web Extra: In late summer the plankton bloom is at its height. Vast shoals of herring gather to feed on it, diving birds round the fish up into a bait ball and then a humpback whale roars in to scoop up the entire ball of herring in one huge mouthful. It must suck being a bait fish!  |
| Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows Posted: 04 Apr 2009 10:10 AM PDT Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren't cool enough, it's portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive  |
| Wikia Death Proves Google Is Search-Startup Killer Posted: 04 Apr 2009 09:40 AM PDT Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' open source, human-powered Google killer died a quiet death Tuesday, making Wikia.com the latest object lesson in the futility of trying to unseat Google as the king of search engines.  |
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