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| The Top 10 Most Infamous Tax Dodgers in American History Posted: 15 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT A who's who of celebs/crooks who tried to skimp on their taxes.  |
| What We Knew All Along! Piracy May Actually Help Wolverine Posted: 15 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT The recent online leak of an almost-finished X-Men Origins: Wolverine will NOT hurt the box office, according to industry insiders.  |
| History Lesson: The Story of Beer (Infographic) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT A really cool history lesson for all you beerhounds.  |
| 10 Superfoods You Should Be Eating Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT Some you know - like avocados, pumpkins and beets - but what about kamut and tempeh? Here's what you need to know - and what these foods can do for you.  |
| Woman Jailed For Adult Magazines Sent To Neighbor Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT An Ohio woman is serving 60 days in jail because police said she ordered adult magazines in a neighbor's name during a feud. Police said the 47-year-old told authorities she wanted payback after being charged with a misdemeanor because of a complaint made by the other woman, who was billed hundreds of dollars for magazines such as Playboy & Hustler  |
| Taliban Execute Eloping Young Lovers In Afghanistan Posted: 15 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT A young couple who tried to elope in one of the most lawless and conservative parts of Afghanistan have been publicly executed by Taliban gunmen after their parents handed them over to be tried by insurgents.  |
| 100 Beautiful Night Scene Photos Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT Today we will delight you with another beautiful image collection. Night scenes. 100 photographs of gorgeous urban and rural landscapes and views. A mixture of darkness and lights, a real static show of contrasts and beauty.  |
| Mad Libs For Famous Filmmakers Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT A lot of directors seem to have similar threads running through their movies. So, through the fun of Mad Libs, you can make your own movies from your favorite directors. Enjoy.  |
| Amazonian ants become world's first all-female species Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT An Amazonian ant has evolved into the world's first all-female species, new research has revealed. Instead of traditional intercourse, the ants reproduce by cloning; a colony's queen ant will reproduce genetically identical daughters.  |
| Iran in the 1970s before the Islamic Revolution Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT *****  |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT This is Michael Fremer. He's listening to "Avalon" by Roxy Music on his $350,000 stereo system. It sounds excellent. He's a bit crazy, but if you love music, you need him. Here's why.  |
| 15 Film Production Credits Explained Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT Ever wonder what all those strange credits are when they roll by at the end of a film? I used to, until I moved to LA, where I started meeting Best Boys and Dolly Grips with their kids when I took my son to the playground—yes, Hollywood, where you meet Gaffers and Armourers at your average Saturday night house party.  |
| Which Summer Movie Trailers Have the Best Explosions? Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT Audiences like to complain that a trailer gives all the movie's best jokes away, but we think the same could be said about its explosions being spoiled. We took a look at five of the most combustible summer movie trailers to see what impressions we could extract (using a pincer-equipped bomb squad robot, of course).  |
| Paulo Coelho Supports The Pirate Bay Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT If anti-piracy lobbyists are to be believed, all content creators hate The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites. The truth is obviously more balanced. In fact, some of the most creative minds are BitTorrent users themselves, including best selling author Paulo Coelho, who offered to travel to Sweden to testify in favor of The Pirate Bay.  |
| If Every Wish Backfired Horribly Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT If you're Jim Carey, or the star of a coming of age comedy this happens to you all the time.  |
| Shocking Cruelty Case Finds 177 Horses Mistreated at NY Farm Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT 177 horses serve as evidence against prominent breeder Ernie Paragallo who is charged with 22 counts of cruelty to animals. Stall after stall at Center Brook Farm was filled with one horse after another, one in more horrifying condition than the next.  |
| American Apparel Disses Woody Allen's Sex Life Posted: 15 Apr 2009 03:00 PM PDT [American Apparel] says that it can't have damaged Allen's reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined it himself. The company plans to make Allen's relationships to actress Mia Farrow and her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn the focus of a May 18 trial , according to the company's lawyer, Stuart Slotnick.  |
| Why Evolution is True | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT As an astronomer, my familiarity with the details of biological evolution are about on par with that of an interested layman. I'm familiar with the concepts of descent with modification, genetic mutations, natural pressures for adaptations, and the like. I'm less familiar with other aspects, like allele frequencies, how specifically pressures...  |
| Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into "excessive use" warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there's little to complain about on that front.  |
| The carbon footprint of spam? Even Al Gore wouldn't care Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:31 PM PDT McAfee, in a 12-page report out this morning, says the carbon footprint of spam is big enough to power 2.4 million homes and produces the emissions of 3.1 million passenger cars. Who cares, you ask. … You don't work in marketing.  |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT This week, Zero Punctuation reviews MadWorld.  |
| Medical marijuana requests climb sky high Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT The number of ailing people turning to medical marijuana to ease their symptoms has spiked this year, say dispensary owners in some of the 13 states where it's legal. Requests have jumped anywhere from 50 to 300 percent, they say, since President Barack Obama took office and signaled that he won't use federal marijuana laws to override state laws..  |
| 10 Green Projects That Just Might Save The World Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT Faced with massive population growth, melting ice caps and the need to own an ever-increasing number of gadgets, the world needs to find sustainable solutions.  |
| VOLCANO LIGHTNING PHOTOS: Alaska's Redoubt Goes Electric Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:10 PM PDT Lightning crackled through an Alaska volcano's giant ash cloud, and an amateur photographer caught its fleeting fury. Lightning Facts, Pictures, Videos, More.  |
| More people affected by Chinese drywall! Posted: 15 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Shipping records reviewed by The Associated Press indicate that imports of potentially tainted Chinese building materials exceeded 500 million pounds during a four-year period of soaring home prices. The drywall may have been used in more than 100,000 homes, according to some estimates, including houses rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina.  |
| Firefox 3.5 beta 4 due next week Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Yup, let's see this baby.  |
| 20 Disturbing Facts on US Healthcare Everybody Should Know Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT In the current economic climate, rising health care costs are scarier than ever. This list sheds light on the 20 most disturbing facts about US health care that everyone should know and most people probably don't.  |
| Brown Fat: Magic Fat That Burns Calories (& Everyone Has) Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:30 PM PDT What if you had a special kind of fat in your body that burned calories instead of storing them—and it could be activated simply by spending time in the cold? According to three preliminary studies published this month, you probably do.  |
| Lyme Disease... The Hidden Epidemia In The United States Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:20 PM PDT It is considered to be The Perfect Storm of diseases because once you are infected, it can go undetected to the point that when it is discovered, It's too late. It is a difficult disease for doctors to treat because it is not only a political disease but an economical disease as much as it is a bacterial infection.  |
| North Korea says it will boycott six-party nuclear talks Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:20 PM PDT North Korea said Tuesday it was restarting its rogue nuclear program, booting U.N. inspectors and pulling out of disarmament talks in an angry reaction to U.N. Security Council condemnation of its April 5 rocket launch.  |
| Forget Drilling! San Fran Mayor Pushes Clean Ocean Energy Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT Gavin Newsom lays out the case for clean ocean power.  |
| Google is building a social network under our very noses Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT Google's first attempts at a social network with Orkut have not proved fruitfulLittle did we know however that whilst we thought Google had made a conscious decision to take steps away from the "social networking" arena, they were building one right under our noses and have the capabilities to grow larger and more useful than any competitor  |
| Controllers Can See Your Naked Full-Body w/New Airport X-Ray Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT "The machines use millimeter wave scanning technology to map out a rough image of a person's naked body to make sure they have no contraband on their person. We're not talking Playboy-quality images here, but the results can be embarrassing enough."  |
| Time Warner Cable Tells FCC to Shut Up About Net Neutrality Posted: 15 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT "Now is not the time... to engage in a debate about the need for net neutrality obligations," Time Warner Cable tells the FCC. But why not, other than the fact that TWC is taking a beating over bandwidth caps?  |
| Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:50 PM PDT Maggie is at it again! Here are cute sackboy renditions of King Leonidas from 300, Reno from FF7 and Teen Wolf. Each Sackboy is meticulously crafted and even have their own removable costumed parts.  |
| Cast of Star Trek Beamed to Kuwait [PICS] Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:50 PM PDT J.J. Abrams and the crew of the Starship Enterprise spent Easter weekend with U.S. forces stationed in Kuwait. It was by all accounts a brilliant launch to Paramount's PR ground assault—even if it managed to skirt the boundaries of good taste with a videotaped message from Osama bin Klingon...  |
| Is Picking a Mate Just Genetics? Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT So after looking for years you finally found your perfect mate. Was it good judgment on your part, helped along by a lot of romance, or was it just a case of cold genetics? It may well be that your genes, not your superior taste when it comes to the opposite sex, made the choice for you. But even your genes can get it wrong.  |
| Real-Time Object Recognition on a Mobile Device Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT Cool demo video of iVisit SeeScan mobile object recognition technology running on an HTC TyTN II. The project is currently in development under NIH grants.  |
| Top 10 Summer Movies Guaranteed to Bomb Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:30 PM PDT By now, it's easy to know that there are always awesome blockbuster movies in the summer. But then there are other movies. Movies that somehow find themselves in the summer season amidst all these blockbusters that just don't jive with the summer spirit. They're too serious, too treacly, or too completely, horribly awful.  |
| Cheer Coach Fired for Posing for Playboy Posted: 15 Apr 2009 12:20 PM PDT Carlie Christine was the cheerleader coach at Orangevale (CA) Casa Robles High School, but was then fired after school officials were informed that Christine had posed for Playboy and appeared on their site as Cyber Girl of the Week  |
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