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| Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT Will WiFi's 802.11n finally replace WiMAX's 802.16e? Or a more appropriate question could be, is it proper to compare the two technologies? Though both offer wireless data connectivity, there are more differences than similarities. Check out the following comparisons:  |
| Brain Gain: The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT "A young man I'll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard. As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than 40 hours a week; when he wasn't on the job, he had classes. Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he couldn't finish during the day, and..."  |
| Malaria is fought in son's memory Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT Beyond the chaos and traffic jams of the capital Accra, the stunning deserted beaches of Cape Coast might look like a tropical paradise - but malaria is endemic.For Jo Yirrell this was not a sightseeing tour, it was a journey to the place where her son caught malaria, the disease that killed him.  |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT I hope this does not happen :)  |
| Oracle-Sun: Jonathan Schwartz's Email To Employees Posted: 20 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT "To me, this proposed acquisition totally redefines the industry," wrote Jonathan Schwartz this morning to Sun's employees in a company-wide email announcing the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.  |
| Scientists glimpse 'end of the world' in space dust study Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT Scientists have found what could be a glimpse of the end of the world during research into the make-up of dying stars.  |
| 10 Celebrities Caught on Tape with Drugs Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT When your out with your friends, in your new Mercedes Benz...  |
| What They Really Meant: The Billy Bob Thornton Tantrum Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT It's pretty easy to do–most celebrities are terrible people or incredibly screwed up–and after a while you just start feeling sad for them. That, and you realize you're spending many hundreds of hours of your life writing about people you wouldn't cross the street to spit on you.  |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:10 PM PDT *****  |
| New Innovation for Perverted PC Game with Webcam Posted: 20 Apr 2009 04:00 PM PDT Erotic game developers Tech48 based in Japan is using face tracking technology to let players interact with the game. The game will shift angle depending on which way the player is looking at the screen which means looking up at girl's skirts in this game.  |
| The New York Times Is Entering The URL Shortening Arena Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT Now Even The New York Times Is Entering The URL Shortening Arena … Kinda  |
| Why Is Ahmadinejad Helping Journalist Roxana Saberi? Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT Known more for being a regular sparring partner with the U.S., the Iranian President has made a rare intervention into an American journalist's case by declaring that she should have the legal right to defend herself  |
| Stuff Exploding! If Michael Bay's Career Was A Movie Trailer Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT ShoWest's tribute to Michael Bay is, well, explosive.  |
| Top 10 Movie Opening Credit Sequences Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT Great movies are a dime a dozen, but a truly amazing opening credit sequence is tough to come by.  |
| Arrgh! Cartman is Pirate for South Park Midseason Finale Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT In this week's mid-season finale, Fatbeard, Cartman wants to sail to Somalia in search of buried treasure.  |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT A new Fallout has been announced at an event in London.  |
| Shawshank in 2 Minutes, Comedic Rap Style Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:50 PM PDT In this hilarious music video Red and all your favorite characters from The Shawshank Redemption drop phat rhymes about one of the greatest movies ever made.  |
| 8.5 Percent of U.S. Youths Addicted to Video Games Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:40 PM PDT A new study concludes that children can become addicted to playing video games, with some skimping on homework, lying about how much they play and struggling, without success, when they try to cut back. In what is described as the first nationally representative study in the United States on the subject, researcher Douglas Gentile of Iowa State ...  |
| Scandal Erupts Involving Rep. Jane Harman, AGAG and AIPAC Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT CQ reports that a key member of Congress was caught on wiretaps agreeing to intervene in a criminal prosecution of AIPAC officials, but Bush's AG(Alberto Gonzales) protected her.  |
| Digg Ditches Microsoft To Sell Its Own Ads Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT Digg is putting an end to its exclusive ad selling relationship with Microsoft after two years, which is one year earlier than the deal was originally set to expire. Starting this Summer, the social news service will being to rely heavily on its own internal salesforce, which will be responsible for selling the majority of its ad inventory.  |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Why it is so hard stay focused these days -- and what to do about it.  |
| 17 Foods With The Most Caloric Bang For Your Buck Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT Have you ever wondered what foods have the highest Caloric counts? The following is a list of some of the worst foods in the world for you - in health terms - as well as a breakdown of exactly how you get what you are paying for. After reading this, you 'll mostly likely vow to never eat these menu items again.  |
| 17 Reasons Why Your Mac Runs Slower Than it Should Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT Day by day, bit by bit your Mac has gotten slower and slower. You don't really notice because you use it so often. Until one day you have a chance to use another machine, and that's when you realize that your beloved Mac has become, as slow as an asthmatic ant carrying some heavy shopping. Well, all is not lost.  |
| Man Fined $170 For Saying "*****" in Presence of 13 y/o Girl Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:30 PM PDT "Loflin, a former cop, says he's baffled and wasn't shouting during the exchange.The neighbor -- who happens to deliver papers for the News -- says Loflin kept using the word, even though the neighbor's 13-year-old daughter was present."  |
| Fresh from 0-16, Detroit adopts fiercer Lion logo Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:20 PM PDT My guess is this new "fierce" logo gets them to an improved 1-15 record.  |
| Why Tech Support Sucks: A Look Behind the Scenes Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT Calling tech support feels much like playing a game of *****-roulette that you have little chance of winning.  |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT Whatever you do, don't forget to click on the hidden comic.  |
| Is It Against the Law to Violate a Web Site's TOS? Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:50 PM PDT Website terms of service are the rules for using a Web site's services. Can you be convicted if you break them?  |
| 14 horses die just before polo match Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT I thought they all drowned but it wasn't a water polo match. State and local veterinary teams are trying to figure out what happened at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida, as team Lechuza Caracas prepared to compete in a U.S. Open match.  |
| U.S. bank claims national museum masterpiece Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:20 PM PDT The U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase is claiming a 17th-century painting from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum because it was used as collateral for a 50 million dollar loan.  |
| Exxon Mobil to Top Fortune 500 Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:20 PM PDT Exxon Mobil has unseated Wal-Mart Stores to top the 2009 Fortune 500 list after a year the magazine called the worst ever for the country's 500 largest publicly traded companies.  |
| Why Accidents (The Pregnant Kind) Happen Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:20 PM PDT The average American woman — if she wants only two children — has to spend a total of 30 years trying to avoid becoming pregnant.Millions of women find that hard to do; more than half the pregnancies in the United States are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute.  |
| Columbine 10 Years Later: The Evidence in Pictures (PICS) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:10 PM PDT Photographs from a public display of items related to the tragic 1999 school shooting.  |
| Dad Charged in Drowning of 5 Kids Posted: 20 Apr 2009 12:00 PM PDT Police have charged a Houston man with manslaughter in the deaths of five children who were in his car when he drove into a ditch filled with water.  |
| Please Don't Expose Yourself To The Comcast Guy Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT A [Howell, Michigan] man was ordered to stand trial on charges he exposed his genitals to a computer technician trying to fix his slow Internet service.  |
| Can You Believe She Lived With This for 20 Years? Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:30 AM PDT 17 centimeters of what the heck is wrong with you!  |
| Descendents: Clean Sheets (Live, 1987) Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:30 AM PDT "Clean sheets mean a lot, to a guy who sleeps on the floor. I wanted your love, and a shelf on your dresser drawer. You tucked me in, and you stopped my tossing and turning. But I turned back the covers, and I saw those sheets are dirty. Even though you'll never come clean, you know it's true: Those sheets are dirty, and so are you."  |
| Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:20 AM PDT *****  |
| 40 Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free Wordpress Themes Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:20 AM PDT What has happened to blogging, minimal design seems to be a forgotten style within blogging, everywhere you look the themes are graphically and content heavy and the basic premise of blogging is missing, a simple online diary.  |
| Attendance Strong at Coachella Despite the Economy Posted: 20 Apr 2009 11:10 AM PDT Even as the recorded music industry contracts, the live music business continues to flourish. Coachella, in the scorching but majestically beautiful desert east of Los Angeles, is the year's first major festival and a bellwether for the all-important summer touring season.  |
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