These guys, for all that stuff they've been telling us all these years about, 'Go capitalism! Free market! Free enterprise!' They don't believe in any of that. They don't believe in free enterprise or free market. They want socialism for themselves. They want a handout and a net for themselves. To hell with everybody else, but give it to t...p> Category: Business & Finance Votes: 151 Comments: 85
They don’t mention what they as a company have the power to do. Instead, they ask people to do things like take their golf clubs out of their trunk, replace light bulbs with CFLs, and “consider” buying a hybrid.p> Category: Environment Votes: 188 Comments: 6
A group of mobile manufacturers (LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson) has launched a common energy rating system for chargers, making it easier for consumers to compare and choose the one that saves the most energy.p> Category: Environment Votes: 212 Comments: 13
Drawing charts and graphs to illustrate pop songs is hugely popular on the internet, and now a British author has published a book packed with examples. Can you spot the hits hidden in these amazing diagrams?p> Category: Music Votes: 206 Comments: 35
Communicating your clients is a necessary evil of contract web development, design, programming, writing, or any other freelance art form. Our round up of ten must have web-based tools below will help you better communicate with clients, and and help you keep your sanity.p> Category: Software Votes: 237 Comments: 12
The latest milestone in the quest for a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak has been reached: a way of bending the geometry of space so that light from all directions travels around an object, rather than hitting it.p> Category: General Sciences Votes: 253 Comments: 47
In an important test of the Bush administration’s detention policies, a federal judge ruled that five Guantánamo Bay prisoners are not being lawfully held.p> Category: World News Votes: 242 Comments: 25
One of the gravest dangers facing future astronauts traveling to Mars will be radiation in space: If the long trip doesn't kill them, cancer eventually could.These threats can, however, be defeated. In Star Trek, a deflector shield surrounded the Starship Enterprise, and radiation bounced off it.p> Category: General Sciences Votes: 261 Comments: 36
After examining the tolls that riots take on society, we have to wonder whether this is an effective way to bring about change. Below are the accounts of the 25 worst riots of all time. These stories may shock and appall you.p> Category: World News Votes: 301 Comments: 75
As the American economy continues its impressive and chaotic downward spiral, there seems to be an increasing sentiment throughout the nation that the government and Wall Street executives are to blame for all this, and the average American consumer is just another hapless victimp> Category: Business & Finance Votes: 530 Comments: 146
I hate to break it to you all, but not all vampires are the hunky, suave guys (and girls) you see in movies today (i.e. the late Aaliyah and company in Queen of the Damned, Gerard Butler in Dracula 2000, etc.).In fact, I remember a time when vampires were not only ugly, but terrifying. Really, really terrifying.p> Category: Movies Votes: 245 Comments: 53
The beautiful game was given a touch of the circus when the finest freestyle footballers displayed their ball skills at the world championships in Brazil.p> Category: Soccer Votes: 181 Comments: 35
According to a new Natural Resources Defense Council analysis of the energy consumption of popular video game consoles, the Playstation 3 uses the most energy. More than 40% of American households have at least one video game console, and a staggering 50% of users leave them on all the time, even when not actively playing a game.p> Category: Gaming Industry News Votes: 309 Comments: 138
We’ve been spending some quality time with the folks at AMD today in sunny Austin, TX today. The team here has been giving us a run-down on their upcoming Phenom II processor along with the enthusiast platform they’re calling “Dragon”. In short, the Dragon platform is a combination of an AMD Phenom II X4 processor, Radeon 4800 Graphics cards...p> Category: Hardware Votes: 398 Comments: 78
We’re constantly being bombarded with different do's & don’ts for living longer and preventing cancer, heart disease and other ailments—which makes being healthy alot of hard work! But the truth is, a few simple habits can have a big impact. These 11 tips are something we all can do, without drastically changing our routine.p> Category: Health Votes: 240 Comments: 34
The Batman sequel The Dark Night was a smash hit at the box office, with $400 million in U.S. ticket sales in its first 18 days after release and more than $1 billion in sales globally so far. But the title achieved another significant milestone: It amassed over one million illegal downloads on BitTorrent in less than seven days.p> Category: Movies Votes: 433 Comments: 165
My 1984 Cadillac Eldorado had been broken into for the fourth time, and its interior had been stripped of pretty much everything except a few swaths of fine faux wood paneling. I had to take action. Immediately.p> Category: Comedy Votes: 581 Comments: 67
Around 8:00 pm last night, November 19, 2008, StumbleUpon made an announcement in their Beta Group discussions area that they have rolled the majority of their users back to V2 “to prepare for upcoming changes that will add new features and optimize many existing ones.”p> Category: Tech Industry News Votes: 276 Comments: 29
LOS ANGELES, California -- Director J.J. Abrams continued the worldwide roll-out of his new Star Trek prequel Wednesday, showing four extended preview clips to a capacity crowd of stars, executives, press, crew, studio employees and their various entourages at the Paramount Pictures studio theater.p> Category: Movies Votes: 350 Comments: 121
You are only as old as you feel, it is said. But soon scientists will be able to calculate your real biological age. Researchers studying genes believe they can now detect exact physical age by looking at a number of clues - or biomarkers - in DNA. They believe that the tests will be the first time doctors can accurately predict someone's age.p> Category: General Sciences Votes: 327 Comments: 60
Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers.p> Category: Health Votes: 250 Comments: 46
A year after the storm the majority of these families were still living in this temporary housing. The storm eroded social differences-thousands of people were facing the same challenge of trying to get their lives together again.p> Category: People Votes: 297 Comments: 29
When a giant sperm whale rammed a whaling vessel in 1820, the deadly encounter inspired Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick. Melville's story, inspired by real-life man-versus-beast mayhem from the 1800s, made it to movie screens in the 1950s. Here are some of the best beasties ever captured on celluloid.p> Category: Movies Votes: 269 Comments: 29
J.P. Hayes played a nonconforming ball for a single hole of the second stage of Q School last weekend. He realized it more than a day after the violation, called it on himself, and thus disqualified himself from Q School ... with some severe, career-altering effects down the line.p> Category: Golf Votes: 276 Comments: 25
In the interests of all those readers who need to unlock their iPhone 3G’s for use on different carriers andtested an iPhone 3G unlock that really seems to work. While the iPhone Dev Team plunder the secrets of the mysterious baseband in search of the ever elusive software unlock, some of us regular users just can’t wait.p> Category: Apple Votes: 317 Comments: 26
With their customary prime event slots handed over to foreign manufacturers, this year's LA Auto Show offered a grim glimpse of what our world might be like if the Big Three disappeared.p> Category: Autos Votes: 307 Comments: 98
You gotta hand it to those people that have such a sense of humor about their business. On the other hand some of these places have you wondering what the hell goes on inside the store. And on occasion, there’s just bad luck, like a busted light that screws up the wording. Whatever the case, here are 20 store signs that you just can’t make up.p> Category: Odd Stuff Votes: 640 Comments: 64
A giant asteroid may have triggered a tsunami that struck New York more than 2,000 years ago. It was 2,300 years ago. The Palisades that frame the Hudson River were whisper-quiet, the sandy beaches of Long Island and New Jersey empty, and Manhattan was still just an unbroken sylvan carpet.p> Category: General Sciences Votes: 287 Comments: 30
Twenty years ago, when Dr. Guevara began treating and studying the dwarfs of southern Ecuador, it was because he wanted to help them. But an interesting and quirky pattern started to emerge. He realized that there has never been a single incidence of cancer or diabetes among them.p> Category: Health Votes: 341 Comments: 59
The New Kids' music blew, plain and simple, but it didn't matter, because I was 'bout it 'bout it from the get-go. They had me at Hangin' Tough. I covered my walls in photos of the boys: ridiculous pics of the fab five torn from the pages of Tiger Beat, NKOTB by train tracks, NKOTB rocking hats and vests while feeding the elderly.p> Category: Music Votes: 195 Comments: 54
tracheopterix writes Oblong Industries, a startup based in LA has unveiled g-speak, an operational version of the notable interface from Minority Report. One of Oblong's founders served as science and technology adviser for the film; the interface was an extension of his doctoral work at the MIT Media Lab. Oblong calls g-speak a 'spatial operating environment' and adds that 'the SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984.' The video shown on Oblong's front page is an impressive demo. Category: tech Comments: 5 Department: staged-mock-up-or-real-time-control?
Kozar_The_Malignant writes Scientific American is reporting that 'data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.' Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of solid water ice. One is about three times the size of the City of Los Angeles. This certainly makes the idea of establishing a station on Mars far more plausible. Category: science Comments: 97 Department: could-be-a-trick
