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| Posted: 07 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT Despite the fact that Windows 7 is almost cooked, a leaked Microsoft memo suggests that XP may live on past its May 30, 2009 retirement date.  |
| Portugal's drug decriminalizing 'bizarrely underappreciated' Posted: 07 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT Champions of harsh drug criminalization laws as the best solution to curbing drug use will be chagrined to find that Portugal's eight year history of decriminalization has led to lower drug usage rates.  |
| 20 Japanese Robots Probably Intent on Murdering You Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT Oh, come ON Japan!  |
| Colbert: NASA's Node 3 Is a Urine Recycling Room Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT I don't know about you, but I thought NASA's Node 3 was a lab where they clone asteroids or at least a gym where space warriors work out, but it turns out it's actually a room for recycling urine. Well, that's fine. It certainly doesn't change the fact that the node should be named "Colbert."  |
| Focus on the Family narrator arrested for soliciting teen Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT A Colorado man who works for Evangelical group Focus on the Family has been arrested after he solicited sex online from an investigator posing as a teenage girl, police have said.  |
| Tiny super-plant cleans animal waste, makes ethanol Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a tiny aquatic plant can be used to clean up animal waste at industrial hog farms and potentially be part of the answer for the global energy crisis. Their research shows that growing duckweed on hog wastewater can produce five to six times more starch per acre than corn ...  |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT He's always the last place you look. Up.  |
| Satellite Image of Maximum Sea Ice Extent for 2008 - 2009 Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:20 PM PDT Wonderful.  |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Juicy!  |
| Antarctic Meteorite Has Unique Chemical Composition Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Detailed analysis has shown that the sample, known as MM40, has a chemical composition unlike any other fragment of fallen space rock. This, say experts, raises questions about where it originated in the Solar System and how it was created. It also means that astrochemists must expand their list of the combinations of materials in planetary crust.  |
| 12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT Designers love all of those tutorials and design processes that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive artworks. Today, we are going to list down 12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials. We hope you all will like this collection.  |
| Want Google To Have Access to Your Prescription Records? Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT Google just got access to millions of prescription records, and most likely, so did you.  |
| 7 Awesome Music Resources for Audiophiles Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT I have always loved listening to music while I work. It makes even the most boring tasks seem enjoyable and I think a lot of people can relate to my music addiction. Here are seven awesome music resources for audiophiles like myself.  |
| Top 10 Athletes Who Never Won A Championship Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT Disney movies typically have happy endings, but sports careers often have more tragic conclusions. Just take a look at Patrick Ewing, Ryne Sandberg and Steve Largent; they all wished upon a star for a championship season and none of them were able to accomplish such a dream.  |
| Wheelchair racer conquers yet another challenge Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT With sweat-soaked gloves, Renzo Martinez tightly gripped his wheelchair rims for the hardest race finish he has ever had to endure. The Boca Raton wheelchair racer pushed himself through the sand backward for the final eight tenths of a mile to complete another challenge in his inspiring racing career Sunday at the Nautica South Beach Triathlon.  |
| How a Social Network Becomes the Heartbeat of Social Finance Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT Financial social network, Tip'd, is launching a new set of features that is potentially positioning the platform as the web's heartbeat of social finance. Tip'd 2.0 promises to offer a robust data set comprised of stock quotes, social resources profiling companies featured on Tip'd, and much much more.  |
| Video reveals G20 police assault on man who died Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT Extraordinary footage filmed at G20 protests in London of baton-wielding police attacking the man who died.  |
| Samsung confirms Android handsets as Google adapts to market Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT Handset maker Samsung has confirmed that it will launch three Android-based phones this year. The company cited mobile carrier concerns about Google's vision as one factor that contributed to the delays, but Google has been doing its best to court the carriers.  |
| 10 Animals on the Brink of Extinction Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT The Iberian (Spanish), Lynx lives in very small areas of central and southern Spain (Andalucia). It used to live throughout Spain and Portugal but its numbers have been drastically reduced to the point where it is now one of the most...  |
| U.S. Deficit Nearly $1 Trillion In First Half of FY2009 Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT The U.S. budget deficit almost hit $1 trillion during the first six months of this fiscal year which began on October 1, according to estimates released on Monday by the Congressional Budget Office. The government likely recorded $953 billion in red ink from October through March including $290 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TAR  |
| Roger Friedman Officially Fired From Fox News For WOLVERINE Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT It's official, columnist Roger Friedman is out at FoxNews.com after reviewing an illegally downloaded copy of Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" last week.  |
| Congress Slams Defense Budget cuts Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday proposed killing weapons programs that are over budget, behind schedule and out-of-date, urging Congress to rise above parochial interests to support his plan.  |
| Bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT A bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover - by boosting the level of amines which clear the head, scientists have found.  |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT We all grew up with sayings that were intended to frighten us into being good or convince us to eat better. Looking back, some of these childhood proverbs don't even make much sense. (Ever hear the claim that swallowed gum stays in your stomach for seven years?)  |
| Recession Takes Bite Out of Organic Product Sales Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT Soil Association report shows premium goods in the UK were particularly hard hit in 2008 but there are promising signs that the market may be stabilizing.  |
| Study: Half of New Americans Hispanic Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT Hispanics made up nearly half of the more than 1 million people who became U.S. citizens last year, according to a Hispanic advocacy group. The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said the number of Latinos who became Americans in fiscal year 2008 more than doubled over the previous year, to 461,317.  |
| The 10 Greatest Movie Prisoners Ever Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT From the psycho serial killers, skinhead Nazis, wrongly convicted bankers, and the wacky, yet heroic WWII Captains. These are the greatest prisoners from movies.  |
| Priest curses female pirate statue for boobs Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT Some consider a statue of a female pirate scantily dressed in Schuylkill county inappropriate. It has treasure and boots, tight fitting pants and some say not enough clothing on the top. The pirate statue sits in front of a antique store in Girardville and it's ruffling some feathers, especially those of a Roman Catholic priest.  |
| Gran Turismo “to continue on as many platforms as possible,” Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT SCEA marketing head John Koller has dropped a heavy hint that Gran Turismo's future may not be limited to just PSP and PS3.  |
| Schizophrenics See Through Hollow-mask Illusion Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT "Telling the front from the back of a mask can be more difficult than it seems. Thanks to an effect called the hollow-mask illusion, the brain can have trouble deciding if the image is convex or concave....People with schizophrenia, which affects about 1 per cent of the population, are already known to be immune to certain visual illusions."  |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT The cast of the latest Star Trek film have been beamed into Sydney for tonight's world premiere amid an international fan furore over the decision to launch the movie in Australia a month ahead of its commercial roll-out.  |
| Man Finds an Actual Card Skimmer in the Wild, in the Flesh Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT What? No way. Something thought to be of an urban legend—or maybe just a story we'd only see on 20/20—a real, normal person has actually found proof of the the ever evasive credit-card skimmer.  |
| 10 Worst National Anthem Renditions Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Videos and descriptions of the worst attempts at the Star Spangled Banner  |
| Prepare for ludicrous speed: Ars reviews the 8-core Mac Pro Posted: 07 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT What has two "Nehalem" Xeon processors, eight cores, a non-workstation class graphics card(?!), and a positively stratospheric sticker price? The answer is, of course, Apple's new Mac Pro tower, an aluminum-clad whale of a machine that art director Dave Girard put through its media-creation paces in this massive review.  |
| Tiny Newfound Frog Fits on a Fingertip Posted: 07 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT A tiny frog that can fit on the tip of a finger — and previously only known by its croaking — has finally been found by researchers. The frog, dubbed Noble's Pygmy frog (Noblella pygmaea), is the smallest ever found in the Andes and one of the tiniest amphibians in the world.  |
| Vermont Legalizes Gay Marriage, Overrides Governor's Veto Posted: 07 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT The tide is turning...  |
| Missing the woman I fell in love with Posted: 07 Apr 2009 01:30 PM PDT My wife and I share a home and a bed. We kiss goodbye in the morning and hello in the evening with such ritualistic regularity that if one of them somehow gets missed, I worry it means bad luck.  |
| Dept of Interior: Offshore Wind Could Meet 100% of US Demand Posted: 07 Apr 2009 01:20 PM PDT According to a new report released by the Interior Dept, shallow-water offshore wind farms could supply as much as 20% of the electricity in most coastal states. The report, released last week by Interior Sec. Ken Salazar, said that the greatest offshore wind energy potential in the U.S. lies off the Atlantic Coast which holds 1,000 gW potential  |
| TED: 3 Math Predictions On The Future Of Iran Posted: 07 Apr 2009 12:50 PM PDT Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a consultant to the CIA and the Department of Defense, uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers three predictions on the future of Iran.  |
| 10 things that can get you in trouble around the globe Posted: 07 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT Feeding the pigeons in Venice is against the law, as the city doesn't appreciate the birds speckling beloved buildings with droppings. Fines can reach up to $600, but will probably be $50 or $60 if you pay quickly.  |
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