April 2008
Oh Crap.. →
Title says it all.. Indeed.
March 2008
Circuit City Causes $12,119 Of Damage To New Honda →
Circuit City caused $12,119 worth of damage to a Honda Civic with 800 miles on the odometer while trying to install a Pioneer AVIC Z2 navigation system. Honda later declared the car a fire hazard and…
Nuclear Energy Breakthrough →
Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.
It's Official: Bit Torrents Caused 9/11. →
Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups.
Google Earth Hour →
We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn - Earth Hour.http://i32.tinypic.com/30vkwpc.jpg
7 Pains You Shouldn't Ignore →
Whoever coined the term “necessary evil” might have been thinking of pain. No one wants it, yet it’s the body’s way of getting your attention when something is wrong. WebMD consulted doctors in…
13.7 Billion Years: Most Exact Measurement of... →
NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has taken the best measurement of the age of the Universe to date. According to highly accurate observations, scientists now have the best estimate…
Original 007 Sean Connery wants to be a James Bond... →
It has been 25 years since he ordered a martini, shaken, not stirred.But Sean Connery, who played James Bond in seven of the classic spy movies, has a sudden taste for a comeback - as a…
The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases →
The Worldwide control of humanity’s economic, social and political activities is under the helm of US corporate and military power. Underlying this process are various schemes of direct and indirect…
Toys "R" Us Sells Lower Back Tattoo Stickers For... →
Got a trampy little kid that isn’t quite ready to get inked? No problem. Toys “R” Us has lower-back tattoo stickers for little miss thing.
MacBook Air Parody →
Dell’s response to the launch of Apple’s MacBook Air.
The 10 Most Mismatched Movie Couples →
The on-screen duos with an obvious lack of on-screen chemistry.
Pranks to pull on your Co-workers →
For anyone who wishes they were the “Jim” of their office. Just in time for April Fools. Actually, several of these pranks would probably get you fired…
Digg stories, 20 years later [pic] →
Have you ever wondered how Digg is going to look like in 20 years?
80 Excellent Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials →
80 excellent Adobe Photoshop video tutorials which you can use as a starting point to improve your skills or observe how other professional do their job. This posts present Photoshop video tutorials…
The 10 Most Prophetic Science Fiction Movies Ever →
When Arthur C. Clarke died last week at the age of 90, science fiction lost one of its greatest, most forward-looking masters. In his honor, we’ve analyzed the most eerily predictive, prescient films…
Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader -... →
Savetheinternet profiled in the Washington Post! Go net neutrality! :-D
Figure out why an application hangs →
Most of these mystery freezes are uncommon and specific to a particular PC configuration, such as the driver for a certain model printer conflicting with a recent Windows security update, causing…
Navy Has Five-Year Plan to Build Laser Blasters →
Long range laser weapons that do more than make little red dots show up on distant objects have long been a dream of science fiction creators and the military alike. Now it looks like a true,…
Obama Reveals Detailed Economic Plan For the First... →
In a major economic address at Cooper Union today, Senator Barack Obama called for immediate relief for homeowners hit by the housing crisis, modernization of our regulatory framework, and an…
An Extremely Compelling "LOST" Theory →
This guy may actually have it all figured out.
Help Azureus to Fight BitTorrent Throttling ISPs →
ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently this turned into a political issue. The BitTorrent client Azureus has now developed a plugin through which you can help…
Hillary or Nobody? →
“Some top Democrats are increasingly worried that the Clintons’ divide-and-conquer strategy is nihilistic: Hillary or no democrat. (Or, as one Democrat described it to ABC’s Jake Tapper: Hillary is…
The Sad Death of a Digg Comments Thread [cartoon] →
Too often true.
Wedding Photos We'll All Remember →
We’ve all been to weddings like these…
5 Ways to Synchronize Your Body’s Clock →
When you go to bed and when you get up are keystones to restful, refreshing sleep. Once you learn to synchronize your body’s biological clock, your body will know when to sleep and when to be alert….
Regenerative Power Grows Back A Man's Finger →
Through use of a new regenerative powder, a man’s severed finger is regrown. Incredible…
People mysteriously disappear in front of other... →
On the Kenyan Rudolf Lake there is Envaitenet Island, which translates as “no-return” from the language of the local tribe. The island is just several kilometers wide and long. Local people do not…
MacBook Touch Concept BasedTransparent Displays... →
This concept, based on one of Apple’s latest patents, which uses a transparent touch screen that can work as control surfaces on two sides, while the device is open and close.
Gamma-Ray Burst Visible to the Naked Eye! →
Yesterday, a gamma-ray burst went off that was so bright that had you been looking at the right spot in the sky you could have seen it with just your own eyes! GRBs are monumental explosions, the…
The World's Weirdest Engineering Disaster... →
Didn’t anyone ever tell you that salt mines, shallow lakes and deep-earth drills shouldn’t mix? What started as a seemingly minor miscalculation resulted in a billion-gallon flood, unbelievable…
World’s Best Office Prank →
Nice prank - requires patience.
10 Cleanest Cities of America →
Want life in the big city without all the pollution? Among major metropolitan areas (minimum population: 1 million), these 10 lead the pack. We ranked the big metropolitan statistical areas according…
Is This President F*cking Crazy?! →
“War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq, so now they argue the war costs too much.” President Bush March 19, 2008. Read that again. He’s saying it today, the fifth…
What is the matter with the universe? →
By the standard picture of creation, we should not exist at all because equal quantities of matter and “antimatter” were created in the Big Bang some 13.7 billion years ago…”new physics may be…
Obama wrote the whole thing... Himself?!?! →
The speech given today that has been generally considered to be one of the pinnacles of political honesty and rhetorical brilliance was the work of Obama alone, not his political team.
It's over! 700MHz spectrum auction tops $19.5... →
The FCC’s 700MHz spectrum auction has wrapped up, with bids totaling over $19.5 billion. The Commission has yet to reveal the identities of the winning bidders, but Block C with its open-access…
The Science Of Sleep →
Human beings spend on average one third of their lives asleep. We know we need to sleep but most of us have never really given a whole lot of thought to why.
Smash Bros. Brawl sells 1.4 million in first week! →
Record-breaking, at a rate of 120 units per minute
Acer Plans to Join the Console Market →
The Taiwanese Notebook manufacturer Acer plans to enter into the console market. This communicated the senior Vice President, James T. Wong, on a press conference. Most current consoles are closed…
The way kids grow, age by age →
There are few issues that preoccupy new parents more than this: Is my baby growing normally? When the percentiles seem off-kilter, we worry — but experts say there’s rarely reason for concern. For…
The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography →
You’re sure you haven’t done anything wrong, but you don’t know whose side the law is on. Fret no more
Micromachines: Bugs on Tiny Devices →
Cool Image gallery of spider mites crawling on tiny little gear assemblies! Courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories
Anonymous Comments To Be made Illegal →
If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand…
Simple (And Easy) Money Saving Tips For Frugal... →
We all know that scrimping and saving is a pain and too dull for words but the fact is that making a few tiny changes to the way we shop, save and invest could mean the difference between ending our…
The BitTorrent Legend Returns: I Am aXXo →
During November last year we reported that the popular DVD ripper aXXo had decided to take a break and stop releasing new material for a while. It now seems that he is back in business. A few hours…
Revealed at last: Scotland Yard's Jack the Ripper... →
Numerous documents relating to the Victorian killer which, after more than a century in the archives, are to go on public display for the first time, includinghandwritten accounts from the scenes of…
A Complete Timeline of the Futurama Universe →
I’ve seen a bundle of Futurama timelines around the place and I found them all to be inadequate, because they don’t, by a long shot, include every conceivable dated event from the show. So I went…
Bioshock 2 Fan Art Catches Eye of 2K Games →
Here’s some good news: Gaming site Ripten.com received an email from the 2K Games community manager responsible for Bioshock, asking how to reach the artist behind the amazing Bioshock 2 fan art they…