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• Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?
• Soap-sniffing Tech Can Reduce Hospital-acquired Infections
• Liz Cheney Thinks It's Unfair if Someone Fact Checks Her
• Hosting Provider Protests Against Anti-Piracy Threats
• Norm Coleman: GOP Needs To Compete On "The Ethernet"
• Secret Weapon Designed for D-Day Roars Back to Life (w/VID)
• Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler
• Art Through Vandalism [PICS]
• Judge Rules Enough Evidence To Hold Officer On Murder Charge
• Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis
• Roger Penske Buys Saturn from GM
• Why Nice Guys Should Finish First — but Don't
• Man Attempts To Mug Justice Department Firearms Instructor
• 'Hangover' - Chickens and Tigers and Strippers.. Oh My!
• Nostalgiac People Have Higher Self-Esteem, Less Depression
• Shark attacks plane. One of the most stupidest scenes ever
• Medical Bills Prompt More Than 60% of U.S. Bankruptcies
• Undersea Volcanic Eruptions Spotted in Action
• The Micro-Neighborhoods of the San Francisco Bay Area (PICS)
• Stephen Colbert Is In Iraq!
• 10 High-Quality Free Leaf Textures (PICS)
• Moving From Vista To Windows 7
• The Tiny Robot that Can Crawl Through Your Veins
• Elevator Video Proves Man Did Not Assault Ft Lauderdale Cops
• Students Arrested for Food Fight, Receive Standing Ovation
• Google: More Intelligent vs. Less Intelligent (PIC)
• Attack of the Hammer Pants!
• Homeopathy Kills -- Bad Astronomy
• Private Space to the U.S. Government: "Get Out of the Way!"
• What The ***** Happened to TV?
• Whale Fossil Found in Kitchen Counter
• Dealership has five days to sell entire inventory
• Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to wiretap whisteblower home
• 4 teens charged as adults in locker room sexual assault case
• Amazon Kindling
• Ethanol's Grocery Bill
• NBC, NHL set to extend broadcast deal
• 11 Affordable Fathers Day Gifts That Dads Will Want
• Report: Steve Jobs recovered, set for timely return to Apple
• Budget Core i7 Preview, Lynnfield Motherboard Sneak Peek

Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search? Posted: 05 Jun 2009 07:20 PM PDT Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing, Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.

Soap-sniffing Tech Can Reduce Hospital-acquired Infections Posted: 05 Jun 2009 07:00 PM PDT Using sensors capable of detecting drugs in breath, new technology developed at University of Florida monitors health-care workers' hand hygiene by detecting sanitizer given off from their hands. Name HyGreen, it's the first system that enables real-time monitoring of hand washing. It costs at least $30B/year to treat hospital-acquired infections.

Liz Cheney Thinks It's Unfair if Someone Fact Checks Her Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:40 PM PDT Break out the waaaambulance. Heaven forbid Cheney would want to allow something like a few facts to get in the way of her spin.

Hosting Provider Protests Against Anti-Piracy Threats Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:30 PM PDT With the Pirate Bay verdict in hand, the music industry lobby group IFPI are threatening the hosting providers of torrent sites to take down everything BitTorrent related, or else. While some have complied with these demands, the Swedish web host Portlane refuses to do so and uses commercial marketing legislation in its defense.

Norm Coleman: GOP Needs To Compete On "The Ethernet" Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:20 PM PDT Amazing this guy didn't win.

Secret Weapon Designed for D-Day Roars Back to Life (w/VID) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:10 PM PDT Amazing photographs and videos show how the most bizarre secret weapons ever devised by British boffins was wheeled out again today.

Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:00 PM PDT A set of photographs showing the private side of Adolf Hitler have been published for the first time. Quite interesting to see, the pictures are colored. To all history admireres.

Art Through Vandalism [PICS] Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:00 PM PDT Sometimes there's a fine line between art and vandalism. But I must admit it looks awesome...

Judge Rules Enough Evidence To Hold Officer On Murder Charge Posted: 05 Jun 2009 06:00 PM PDT Thanks to a video captured by a cell phone, a California judge ruled Thursday that enough evidence exists to hold over former transit police officer Johannes Mehserle on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man at an Oakland, California, transit station on New Year's Day.

Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis Posted: 05 Jun 2009 05:40 PM PDT APOD: 2009 June 5

Roger Penske Buys Saturn from GM Posted: 05 Jun 2009 05:20 PM PDT General Motors has agreed to sell its Saturn brand to Roger Penske, a major auto dealer, Mr. Penske and G.M. announced Friday.

Why Nice Guys Should Finish First — but Don't Posted: 05 Jun 2009 05:10 PM PDT Historian Barbara Taylor and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips examine the evolution of attitudes toward kindness to find out why no one's a good Samaritan anymore

Man Attempts To Mug Justice Department Firearms Instructor Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:50 PM PDT Let's just say it didn't end too well for the robber. | A would-be robber, Eddys Marte, (armed with a gun) made a terrible choice when he targeted a Waterbury man, who just happened to be weapons and self-defense expert. The intended victim, Robert Dwyer, is a federal Justice Department firearms instructor trained in how to disarm people.

'Hangover' - Chickens and Tigers and Strippers.. Oh My! Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:40 PM PDT The best nights are the one's you can't remember...and the best movies feature Heather Graham breast feeding.

Nostalgiac People Have Higher Self-Esteem, Less Depression Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT Recent study: People who naturally look back on good things in the past -- natural nostalgia -- tend to be healthier, have more confidence, are more upbeat and ultimately may lead fuller lives.

Shark attacks plane. One of the most stupidest scenes ever Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:20 PM PDT One of the most stupidest scenes i have ever seen. The full film is actually on youtube.

Medical Bills Prompt More Than 60% of U.S. Bankruptcies Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:10 PM PDT his year, an estimated 1.5 million Americans will declare bankruptcy. Many people may chalk up that misfortune to overspending or a lavish lifestyle, but a new study suggests that more than 60% of people who go bankrupt are actually capsized by medical bills....

Undersea Volcanic Eruptions Spotted in Action Posted: 05 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT A crack team of "rapid response" volcano experts scrambled to the South Pacific Ocean last month to find something rarely seen by human eyes: an underwater eruption exploding into the inky, cold depths and spewing lava onto the ocean floor.

The Micro-Neighborhoods of the San Francisco Bay Area (PICS) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:40 PM PDT From the photographer: I regularly shoot as a freelance photographer for San Francisco Magazine. The assignment I get most regularly is something called "Street Detail." Street Detail is a section of the magazine that each month explores a different San Francisco Bay area neighborhood.

Stephen Colbert Is In Iraq! Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:30 PM PDT The Colbert Report has deployed to Iraq on a USO tour entitled "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" and will tape and perform shows in front of the troops. "The Colbert Report" is the first TV show in USO history to produce a week of shows in a combat zone.

10 High-Quality Free Leaf Textures (PICS) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:30 PM PDT In this set, you'll find 10 free and high-resolution leaf textures which can be utilized in a wide range of ways. They have a very liberal Creative Commons license so you can use them in any manner you choose, whether it's personal or commercial.

Moving From Vista To Windows 7 Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:20 PM PDT Dare to upgrade from Vista To Windows 7. Don't experiment and risk data lose. This simple guide should help you avoid road blocks and other problems.

The Tiny Robot that Can Crawl Through Your Veins Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:10 PM PDT The next big step in cancer treatment might be small enough to balance on a grain of salt.

Elevator Video Proves Man Did Not Assault Ft Lauderdale Cops Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:10 PM PDT The 22-year-old Sunrise man was surprised and delighted to learn Wednesday that Broward prosecutors were dropping the case against him after reviewing an elevator surveillance video showing three officers aggressively rush and beat Ortiz to the ground.

Students Arrested for Food Fight, Receive Standing Ovation Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:10 PM PDT It's officially not fun to be a stupid teen anymore. Five students were arrested and given $172 tickets at a Wisconsin high school this week for starting and participating in a food fight. As police carted the food-tossing kids out of the school in handcuffs, they received a standing ovation from their peers.

Google: More Intelligent vs. Less Intelligent (PIC) Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:00 PM PDT *****

Attack of the Hammer Pants! Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:40 PM PDT Watch out skinny jeans! Hammer pants have officially put you on notice..

Homeopathy Kills -- Bad Astronomy Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:30 PM PDT Homeopathy is the antiscientific belief that infinitely diluted medicine in water can cure various ailments. It's perhaps the most ridiculous of all "alternative" medicines, since it clearly cannot work, does not work, and has been tested repeatedly and shown to be useless. [...]

Private Space to the U.S. Government: "Get Out of the Way!" Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:20 PM PDT "I'd say the role of government [in the space industry] is too high," says Heidi Wood, the senior equity analyst for aerospace for Morgan Stanley. "There are far too many hands on it."

What The ***** Happened to TV? Posted: 05 Jun 2009 02:10 PM PDT The finales of hottest shows on TV, reviewed by someone who has never watched them before.

Whale Fossil Found in Kitchen Counter Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:50 PM PDT After a factory had found a 40-million-year-old whale fossil in a limestone kitchen counter, researchers investigated the stone's fossil-packed Egyptian quarry, which could shed light on the origins of African wildlife.

Dealership has five days to sell entire inventory Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:40 PM PDT The soon to be terminated 789 Chrysler dealerships have all of five days to sell thousands of Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep models, or else the damned dealers may have to eat their remaining inventory. When the termination letters went out on May 14, the pink-slipped dealers had 44,000 new cars and trucks on their lots.

Bush FBI sent 18 armored agents to wiretap whisteblower home Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:30 PM PDT The Bush Administration's FBI sent 18 agents in body armor to the home of a man who revealed details of the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, according to a little-noticed account of the whistleblower published Thursday.

4 teens charged as adults in locker room sexual assault case Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:30 PM PDT Four teenage boys in Tampa, Florida, were charged as adults Wednesday on allegations of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy.

Amazon Kindling Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:30 PM PDT *****

Ethanol's Grocery Bill Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:20 PM PDT The Obama Administration is pushing a big expansion in ethanol, including a mandate to increase the share of the corn-based fuel required in gasoline to 15% from 10%. Apparently no one in the Administration has read a pair of new studies, one from its own EPA, that expose ethanol as a bad deal for consumers with little environmental benefit.

NBC, NHL set to extend broadcast deal Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:10 PM PDT After a profitable playoffs for the NHL and NBC they are set to extend their deal with the league.

11 Affordable Fathers Day Gifts That Dads Will Want Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:10 PM PDT Even though many claim Father's Day is just a "Hallmark Holiday," we could probably all agree that dads deserve at least one day of recognition. But with the recession continually on the minds of consumers, finding the ideal and affordable gift can prove difficult.

Report: Steve Jobs recovered, set for timely return to Apple Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:00 PM PDT It appears as if Steve Jobs will indeed return to Apple by the end of June after taking a six-month leave from the company. The world is watching to see whether he'll make a surprise appearance at WWDC next week, though many believe he's saving that surprise for another time.

Budget Core i7 Preview, Lynnfield Motherboard Sneak Peek Posted: 05 Jun 2009 01:00 PM PDT What you see pictured is the Asus P7P55 Pro motherboard based on the Intel P55 PCH (platform controller hub). Lynnfield processors will connect only to the P55 PCH, eliminating the need for the second chip. Lynnfield processors will also have fewer pads than current Core i7s and require a new socket.

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