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 | Investing 101: Portfolio Management Made Easy |
| The recession of 2007-2009 had a significant negative impact on your investments. Personal Investing: The Missing Manual gives you the tools and insight you need to evaluate and make investments designed to grow over the long term. | |
| Americans Confused By Smart Grid, Want it Anyway |
| Despite not fully understanding what the smart grid is, a recent survey found the majority of Americans actually support it. | |
| I Think You’re Going To Need A Bigger Bowl (PIC) |
| Raphael Biagini took ten minutes to reel in this monster during a fishing trip in France. | |
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| 10 Restaurants To Avoid At All Cost |
| I know about a dog named Monkey and now I know about a restaurant called “My Dung” as well. | |
| Rock Band 3: Keyboard Trailer |
| The new trailer shows off Rock Band 3 keyboard gameplay from tracks by Huey Lewis and The News, Ida Maria, Tears for Fears and Them Crooked Vultures. Rock Band 3 will be released on October 26th in North America and October 29th for the rest of the world for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and Nintendo DS. | |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab vs. Apple iPad: Specs! |
| See Samsung’s up-and-coming Android tablet measured up next to the reigning champ. | |
| The 50 Best Mario Video Games of All Time [Videos] |
| With (Super) Mario turning 25, here is a look back at our favorite plumber's 50 greatest adventures, with video evidence. Mario has more adventure than you'd expect. It could've been 200. | |
| The Beer Is Normal… [PIC] |
| Sometimes your roommate may have good intentions, but they also may be retarded. | |
| Harvard Gets Knocked Off the Top in University League |
| The University of Cambridge has knocked Harvard University off the top of the QS World University Rankings, as the U.K. establishment's number of academic citations rose. | |
| Message to FCC: Internet Not Broken |
| Is the Internet broken? It appears the FCC would like you to believe that it is. They're in the midst of pursuing an aggressive regulatory overhaul to “fix” the Internet that we all use and enjoy today. But remember the old adage: " If it ain't broke, don't fix it." | |
| Inventing to Survive in Cuba |
| In 1991, Cuba’s economy began to implode. “The Special Period in the Time of Peace” was the government’s euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for the Unites States, and continues in part today, under the longest trade embargo in modern history. When Ernesto Oroza, a Cuban-American designer and artist, began studying the technological innovations that have been made during this period, he uncovered a trove of homespun, Frankenstein-like machines that ordinary citizens made for their survival, out of day to day objects. | |
| The Capuchin Crypt: Human Bones As Far As the Eye Can See |
| Imagine you’re in a room filled with thousand year-old human bones from floor to ceiling, everywhere you turn. Sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel or a horrible nightmare, doesn’t it? Well, actually a place like this does exist | |
| A Look at 371 Recent High Profile Data Breaches |
| Security breaches happen every day to nearly everyone -- from banks to small businesses. Here are the Identity Theft Resource Center's findings from their 2010 report. | |
| Platform Wars: PC versus Consoles |
| The biggest dilemma for gamers all around the world is that which platforms they should consider for their games. With a ton of games going multiplatform, a video gamer is forced to think which platform he/she should pick the game for. The decision becomes even more difficult when a gamer has both: an amazing rig or an Xbox 360. | |
| Spectacular Examples of Cute and Colorful Photography (PICS) |
| A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts. | |
| MI5 Warns of Growing Threat From Former IRA Men and Plan for 'Spectacular' Attack |
| In the first eight months of 2010 there were 49 bombings in Northern Ireland. As the numbers of bomb attacks in Northern Ireland continues to rise the MI5, and security and military sources, have warned that former Provisional IRA bomb makers have joined dissident republicans. | |
| Yes It's A Kid Pillow (Pic) |
| 22 Common Southern Mispronunciations |
| I'm from the south, and don't mind making fun of it. The people are nice, usually polite and very laid-back for the most part. But... sometimes they get a little lazy while they're talking. | |
| The Crime of Giving Water to Thirsty People |
| Do humanitarian motives outweigh laws against littering? A court of appeals leaves the question open | |
| Google enters music war vs. Apple |
| The music industry is rejoicing about the Google vs. Apple music war. Both companies are competing for control of the mobile phone market and in the digital music realm. According to Reuters, Google is currently talking to music labels regarding plans of an online music store and the ability for mobile [...] | |
| Cerberus as a puppy |
| Toke of the Town - Pot Docu 'High' Now Available Free On Hulu... And Right Here |
| Director John Holowach's acclaimed marijuana documentary, High: The True Tale Of American Marijuana is now available, free of charge, on Hulu -- and right here. | |
| Calling all developers! FCC releases APIs for key databases |
| Perhaps you've been burning to build an online feature around some interesting government data source; if so, the Federal Communications Commission just made the task simpler. The agency has released the Application Programming Interface (API) specs for four of its big repositories of information: its consumer broadband test, broadband provider database, license owner storehouse, and latitude/longitude to county converter. "We want the FCC's Web presence to be larger than a single Web site," FCC Geographic Information Officer Michael Byrne posted on Tuesday. "We want the developer community to run with these APIs to make mash-ups and data calls connecting FCC data assets to other sources for creative and useful applications to the public." Although the Commission has done a fine job of making its public filings much more accessible, that's only the tip of the vast data iceberg which is the FCC. The biggest challenge is figuring out where this juicy stuff actually resides at fcc.gov. Read the comments on this post | |
| Building On Faith |
| Why, despite the controversy, plans will proceed for building an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan. | |
| Ghostface Shoes (Pic) |
| Holy Vadar (Pic) |
| City Council Meetings to Begin with Muslim Prayers |
| In the wake of the battle over a mosque at Ground Zero , a move by Hartford City Council is sure to have its critics. The Council announced Tuesday that it has invited local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council... | |
| Squirrel Caught In A Spinning Feeder (Video) |
| Drive-In ‘Sex-Boxes’ Thriving in Europe |
| Zurich’s new police chief is planning a police trip to Germany to check out a possible solution: ’sex-boxen’, or drive-in boxes where prostitutes can do their thing in relative privacy and safety. | |
| iPad Orchestra is the Symphony of The Future |
| The iPad Orchestra shared this video with us that shows off the sounds of Amidio's latest App, Seline HD. | |
| 2011 Toyota Avalon: Easier Homelink Lets You Forget About Remotes |
| The refreshed 2011 Toyota Avalon is the first Toyota vehicle—and one of the first from any brand—to offer a new, much easier-to-use version of Homelink. If you're not sure what we're talking about, it's the built-in universal garage-door opener system that's been quite widely available in luxury cars and some well-optioned family vehicles. | |
| Google’s September 8th Announcement Is About Search |
| Google has announced a press event for tomorrow, September 8th, to discuss searching. It seems obvious, except recently Google has been about almost everything except search, so it’s worth stating out in the open. | |
| Speed Bumps of the Future: Creepy Optical Illusion of Children |
| West Vancouver officials will roll out a new way to keep drivers alert and slow them down: a little girl speed bump. The girl’s elongated form appears to rise from the ground as cars approach, reaching 3D realism at around 100 feet, and then returning to 2D distortion once cars pass that ideal viewing distance. Its designers created the image to give drivers who travel at the street’s recommended 18 miles per hour (30 km per hour) enough time to stop before hitting Pavement Patty–acknowledging the spectacle before they continue to safely roll over her. | |
| 17 amazing Superhero bodypaint costumes (NSFW) |
| Superhero costumes in comic books are often drawn as so impossibly tight and form fitting that they basically look painted on. These 17 daring people have brought that concept into the real world by "wearing" superhero costumes made out of nothing but bodypaint. | |
| We sat through a parody movie marathon (& lived) |
| How bad are these movies? We recently decided to watch all of these movies back to back, and see if they were really as terrible as the critics warned. Spoiler warning: they are. In fact, they're worse than you've ever imagined. | |
| We sat through a parody movie marathon (& lived) |
| How bad are these movies? We recently decided to watch all of these movies back to back, and see if they were really as terrible as the critics warned. Spoiler warning: they are. In fact, they're worse than you've ever imagined. | |
| Google Scribe |
| Google launched a very interesting tool that offers suggestions as you type: Google Scribe. It's not exactly the service I anticipated 3 years ago, but Google Scribe works surprisingly well. For example, I started to type "This works sur" and Google suggested "This works surprisingly well", which is exactly what I wanted to type. Instead of typing 14 characters, I could only type "1" or press Enter to select the first suggestion. "Google Scribe provides text completion service. Using information from what you have already typed in a document, Google Scribe provides related word or phrase completion suggestions. In addition to saving keystrokes, Google Scribe's suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use," explains Google.The nice thing about this service is that you don't need to use Google's editor. You can add a bookmarklet to your browser and use Google Scribe in Gmail, Blogger, Google Docs or on any web page that includes text fields.Google Scribe only works for English right now, but I'm sure that Google will add many other languages in the future. If you don't like to see suggestions for all the words you type, enable the on-demand mode (Ctrl+Shift+J) and you'll only see suggestions when you press Tab. | |
| Dairy Chooses Cooling Over Cow Shit to Green Its Data Center |
| Müller Dairy has announced its new UK data center will green up by incorpating energy efficient APC InfraStruXure In-Row cooling systems, which focus on cooling specific hardware rather than the entire server room. The company is not yet ready to use food and animal waste to power its computing facilities, a move that Hewlett-Packard has suggested as a means to save energy. | |
| Retro Car Goes From Canada to Mexico On a Single Tank |
| Energy efficiency has only recently become a popular concern among vehicle owners, but some people have been thinking about it for a long, long time. Craig Henderson and Bill Green designed the Avion, a fuel-efficient sports car, in 1984. Two years later, the vehicle set the Guinness World Record for fuel economy, getting an average of 103.7 mpg all the way from the Mexico border to the British Columbia, Canada, border. Now Henderson has revived the Avion for another jaunt from Canada to Mexico.The latest iteration of the vehicle is just 1500 pounds and features an aluminum monocoque frame, a carbon fiber, kevlar and fiberglass body, and Goodyear "Fuel Max" tires. After receiving a sponsorship deal from Goodyear, Henderson decided to go from border to border once again--this time, on a single tank of gas. Jalopnik reports that Henderson began his latest journey on August 29th. He stopped only to go to the bathroom, grab food, and catch a night's rest. The result: Henderson burned only 12.4 gallons on his journey to the Mexican border for a fuel economy of 119.1 mpg, breaking his own Guinness World Record from 1986. (He drove at a pretty constant 55 mph.) Henderson is gearing up for limited commercial production of the Avion. If our fascination with fuel economy is any indication, he won't have any trouble selling it. Below, check out a video about the Avion from 1982.[youtube umDk0_01nmY] Ariel Schwartz can be reached on Twitter or by email. | |
| PAX 2010: The Ultimate Cosplay Gallery - gamrFeed |
| The only PAX cosplay gallery you'll need. Nearly 150 pictures! | |
| Video: Kevin Rose talks about the New Digg V4 on DiggNation TV | hewreck |
| First, this Diggnation Response was a Bad move in my opinion. Kevin doesn't realize that it's not about the bugs and issues he talks about. The problem is | |
| Tumblr’s soaring traffic brings growing pains to blogging platform |
| Tumblr, a social media network made up of millions of personal and business blogs, is seeing massive traffic growth, but is undergoing equally big growing pains. Activity on the network of Tumblr blogs skyrocketed over the first half of the year and reached about 1.7 billion page views in the month of August. | |
| Lady Gaga Stirs Controversy Over Raw Meat Photo |
| Lady Gaga's latest outfit is one you can sink your teeth into, literally. The pop superstar is wearing nothing but strategically-placed hunks of raw meat on the cover of September's Vogue | |
| Homeless man who lives under bridge wants his dog back |
| A homeless man whose dog was taken away by animal control officers is demanding its return. "I've got all my faculties about me. I'm not an idiot. I'm just homeless. I want my dog back." | |
| The Women of Surfing: A Gallery |
| These are some fine hineys! | |
| 10 Classic Horror Movie Match-Ups from Yesterday and Today |
| We all complain about them, but remakes are just as much a part of filmmaking as original ideas. And sometimes they even turn out better. | |
| The Bizarre, Unsatisfying Things Soldiers Receive in 'Care Packages' |
| Sometimes, a care package is perfect: a bottle of Skyy vodka. Other times, it is strange: a stack of AARP magazines and a box full of Sensodyne toothpaste tubes. | |
| The Best Jobs In America |
| Depending on your skillset, degree and what you want from a job, some of the best jobs in the country may be on your career path. | |
| Pirate Bay Sunk At Last After Europe-Wide Raids? |
| The Pirate Bay is down this morning after reports of raids across Europe. | |
| Dr Pepper truck takes a dive off a Houston highway ramp. Here's the aftermath [PIC] |
| Ditching Ethanol Subsidy Will Save US $6 Billion - Won't Hurt Domestic Production Either |
| Two new pieces in NRDC's Switchboard blog remind us that the debate over corn ethanol subsidies is alive and well; and illustrate, through two new reports, the benefits of ditching Federal support altogether. | |
| Late On Your Car Note? Don't Accept That New Facebook Friend Request |
| Facebook simplified its byzantine privacy policies, making it easier for users to hide most of their info from strangers, including status updates. In light of all that, creditors began to wonder how they could regain access to all your personal information. The answer? By friending you, of course. | |
| Super Mario Collection Confirmed as a Port of SNES Version |
| In Japan,Amazon has started taking pre-orders for Super Mario Collection Special Pack. The company posted a product description, which appears to have been removed from the listing within minutes. However, those few minutes were long enough for somebody to copy and paste the info into a story atGame Jouhou. According to the description: - The Wii game is a port of 1993s Super Mario Collection (Super Mario All-Stars) - No graphical overhaul - Will include a booklet that recaps the 25 year history of Mario - Booklet includes unseen development materials - Will also Include a soundtrack - Soundtrack has music from the original Super Mario Bros. through Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Limited time production- The game will probably come packed in a yellow box. | |
| PAX 2010 Hands-On: Drumskulls (with World-Exclusive Screens!) |
| Remember Evan's E3 preview of Rock of the Deadfrom a few months back? Where you could strum specific note patterns to shoot zombies? The problem with that, according to Andrew Laing, creator of the new, never-seen-before-PAX title Drumskulls, is that Rock of the Deaddidn't deviate far enough from the Rock Band/Guitar Heroformula. Despite having zombies as a backdrop, it's still very much in the "music game" genre. Drumskullsis not. It's all about shootin' some zombies... with your plastic drum set. I had a chance to try out Drumskullsat PAX, and I dug it. It's by a company that's so grassroots indie that they don't have a website yet. They don't even have a name. Andrew Laing is the man in charge, however, and you can expect some big things from him. So, the zombies marching toward you on the screen are four different colors. To shoot a zombie of a particular color, you hit that drum (it'll be compatible with any Rock Band/Guitar Herodrumset). Despite their slow zombie pace, when a dozendifferentlycolored zombies are coming toward you at the same time, it's gets really intense. Each drum hit is one shot, and each zombie takes multiple blasts to finish off. Hitting a drum pad to shoot a zombie is very visceral; it's quite a different experience than merely using a gamepad. The bass pedal will be implemented in the final product somehow, too, but it wasn't quite ready to be used in the version I tried out at PAX. The game is on-rails, but there are plenty of secrets to discover; one in particular I found was a red dumpster that you blow away to open a hidden path through the level. The game is still very early in development (they stayed up until 4 a.m. coding the last level, in fact - that's so indie!), and they don't even have a publisher or a platform to release the game on yet. It's situated to be a downloadable title, though, and it's looking good so far. Check out some gameplay footage from the show floor (and don't mind the dork on the drums - that's just me): I also got in tight with Mr. Laing and he sent me some WORLD-EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS that you won't see anywhere else, including this one of the never-before-seen Baron Samedi: Believe it or not, this is one of the good guys. Baron Samedi is your mentor in the game world, and the Commander of the Drumskulls. There weren't a lot of details regarding the storyline released, but Laing confirmed that the game would feature seven levels, as well as boss fights. Stay tuned here for more news on the game, and look for it on various downloadable services (XBLA? PSN? WiiWare?) if and when the game gets picked up by a publisher. Until then, enjoy some screenshots that you won't find anywhere else: | |
| Giz Explains: Why Everything Wireless is 2.4GHz |
| You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen. | |
| 2010 Fall TV Preview |
| From 'oldies' many have come to love, to brand new shows we're getting amped up for...this guide helps us flick through the channels purposefully this upcoming season. | |
| This Liquid-Cooled Xbox 360 PC Hybrid Costs More Than My Car |
| Origin PC introduces The Big O, a gaming PC with all the bells and whistles, including a liquid-cooled Xbox 360 Slim built right in, and it can be yours today for the price of a small used car. | |
| Avatar Porn and Other Hilarious Hollywood Porn Parodies [SFW] |
| The following is a list of films that have gone above and beyond the boring damsel in distress meets Mr. Fix-It porn plots. With actual budgets these productions use makeup, costumes, special effects and hilarious titles to recreate some of your favorite Hollywood films, porno style! | |
| Watch The Vampire Diaries Online Season 2 Episode 23 - The Return |
| Picking up on the same night as last season's finale, Elena arrives home to a nightmare as she discovers Uncle John's and Jeremy's fate. At the hospital, Sheriff Forbes is comforted by Matt, Bonnie and Damon while she waits to hear if Caroline will survive the car accident. After a confusing conversation with Elena about the night's events, Damon is the first to realize that Katherine has returned. Katherine's arrival sends Stefan and Damon on a path to find out what she wants, why she's back, and how much of a threat she is to the people they love. Meanwhile, still reeling from his father's death, Tyler is surprised when his charming and mysterious uncle, Mason Lockwood, arrives to console the family. | |
| Have We Lost The Plot On Social Networking? |
| I’m on Facebook. And I don’t want to be. But let’s face it. Anything Facebook does, another web service somewhere does better. But that’s not the point – the point is that Facebook is the default. Everyone is on Facebook because everyone is on Facebook. It’s a business model based on tautology. | |
| The Future of Ad Agencies and Social Media |
| We talked with five ad pros to find out what they predict for the future of social media marketing. | |
| Report: Reggie Bush to Be Stripped of His Heisman Trophy |
| A report on Yahoo Sports says the ex-USC running back will become the first Heisman Trophy winner to lose the award in the trophys 75-year history. The Heisman Trophy Trust has been investigating improper benefits Bush, now a member of the NFLs New Orleans Saints, allegedly received during his Heisman-Trophy season in 2005. Sources tell [...] | |
| Massachusetts woman stung 500 times - Boston.com |
| No, she's OK, really. Some busy bees, though! | |
| Top Ten Free Online Tools For Developers |
| In this collection I would like to show you very handy and useful online applications for developers. | |
| Google’s “Balls” Homepage Logo: What Does It Mean? |
| Apparently Google's graphic designers spent Labor Day weekend on the job because the search giant rolled out a funky new homepage logo today that's (wait for it) pretty baller. Visitors to Google.com today are greeted with a swarm of moving, brightly colored circles. | |
| How to Use Empty CD Spindles |
| Joaquin Phoenix Freak-Out 'Not a Hoax,' Affleck Says |
| A buzz preceded actor Casey Affleck's directorial debut, 'I'm Still Here': Was the movie about brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix's seemingly downward spiral?... | |
| 8 Diet Secrets from Around the World |
| Whatever happened to just enjoying good food, in moderation, without guilt? These global tricks reveal it's possible, and show you how. | |
| Biggest wastes of talent in sports |
| From boxing's Mike Tyson to golf's John Daly, these are the athletes who squandered their amazing talent, throwing away amazingly promising careers. | |
| A Year Later: Kanye West "I'm Sorry Taylor." |
| This past Saturday over the course of an hour and a half and 78 tweets, Kanye West finally apologized to Taylor Swift for interrupting her acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs. Read the whole tirade here. | |
| Film Franchises That Need More Danny Trejo |
| You may not know this, but the main character in Machete first appeared in the Spy Kids movies. It's true! Okay, so technically, it wasn't exactly the same character, but Danny Trejo played another guy named "Machete" who was the uncle to the titular child agents, and also a spy and inventor himself. | |
| Christine O'Donnell Takes Social Conservativsm To The Extreme |
| Just how far right is Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell? She thinks masturbation is wrong, and that looking at porn is the same as cheating on your spouse. Oh, and people are following her and hiding in the bushes. | |
| Donkey Kong Country Returns Gets Lovely Boxart |
| Perhaps it is not much to the average gamer, but to any gamer who has been longing for a new Donkey Kong Country since the last installment was released back in 1996, this will certainly bring tears to your eyes. Absence of Kremlings be damned, it looks fantastic to anyone whose been missing some good old jungle hijinks. | |
| 17 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped |
| We present the latest installment in our ongoing quest to show you every picture that has ever looked ridiculously fake, and isn't. | |
| How Cockroach Brains May One Day Save Your Life |
| They´re the insect that everyone loves to hate - but one day a cockroach just may save your life. Typically despised for being ugly, dirty, and icky, the hearty critters actually possess powerful antibiotic properties... | |
| 7 Excellent Website To Test And Compare Website Speed |
| If you are looking for these tools, then look no further. Here you will find best list of free online website testing tools. Read about each of the seven entries and determine yourself which one is most useful for you and bookmark-worthy. | |
| Star Trek 365 Book Sets Phasers on Stunning |
| Packed with beautiful images and behind-the-scenes details, this rich tribute to the classic '60s sci-fi show is a must-have for any Trekker. Get a first look at the book and enter to win a copy. | |
| Dinosaur Knowledge Vs. Age |
| This chart is that's wrong with the world, children shouldn't have to know about them . Sadly, at 26 years old, I'm bucking the trend - the downside of being a professional dinosaur hater. ViewImage | |
| Everything you need to know about recycling your cell phone |
| How many old mobile phones do you have lying around? One, two, three? A recent consumer survey found that 44% of the world’s phones are lying unused in drawers, yet only 3% of people recycle them. Want to make some extra cash and help save the planet? Here's how. | |
| Sifting thru fingerprints has led to 47,000 deportations |
| Records show that about 47,000 people have been removed or deported from the U.S. after the Homeland Security Department sifted through 3 million sets of fingerprints taken from bookings at local jails. | |
| Bentley To Reveal New Continental GT Online |
| Bentley will reveal the car next month with a unique Internet reveal at 1500 British Summer Time (7a PDT, 10a EDT) on Tuesday, September 7 . | |
| 10 Inspiring Website Designs |
| Collections of 10 Inspiring Website Designs | |
| PS3 3.42 software update reportedly patches jailbreak, hates fun |
| Sony just released its 3.42 software update for PlayStation 3 owners. As a mandatory update, owners other must accept it if they want to continue accessing the PlayStation Network or PlayStation Store. While Sony's American mouthpiece isn't saying much about the release, Sony Japan says that it fixes a "hardware security issue," and that's it. Sounds like a patch for PSJailbreak and its open-source variants to us.PS3 3.42 software update reportedly patches jailbreak, hates fun originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | PlayStation Japan [translated] | Email this | Comments | |
| Company of Heroes designer sacrifices life for wife and unborn child |
| The first thing Erin Wood wants her baby to know is that Dad, Brian, died to save their lives. “. . . In his final act he did the only thing that would save us,” said Wood, 31. With an out-of-control Chevy Blazer bearing down on him, the 33-year old North Vancouver man braked and swerved his Subaru wagon so that he would take the force of the head-on collision, saving his wife of five years, pregnant with their first baby.. | |
| Environmental approval granted for coal gas processor - Care2 News Network |
| The Federal Government has granted environmental approval for what's expected to be the world's biggest coal gasification and storage facility. | |
| Should children be forced to show affection? |
| Your little ones aren't big huggers, which some family members take as a slight. Should you force your kids to show affection? | |
| SF Homeless Protest McDonald's Dollar-Menu Price Increase |
| What would seemingly be an issue of capitalism and supply and demand in any other city, or any other neighborhood in San Francisco, has instead morphed into another battle between merchants and the homeless in the... | |
| BP May Be Preparing More Asset Sales |
| Several media have reported that BP will increase its target for asset sales to as high as $40 billion. This almost certainly mean disposing of its aging oil field holdings in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, which may be worth as much as $20 billion. Continue reading BP May Be Preparing More Asset Sales BP May Be Preparing More Asset Sales originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:30:00. Filed Under: Energy, Company News, Investing, BP, Stocks in the News Permalink | Tweet this! | Comments | |
| New SSC Supercar Leaked, Reveal Coming Later This Month |
| The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has once again put the Volkswagen Group's French marque back at the top of the fastest production car charts with its recent 268-mph record, but within days Shelby Supercars (SSC) announced it would be once again gunning to top Bugatti. We already know that SSC's new... | |
| 'Magic mushrooms' ingredient may ease end-of-life anxiety - CNN.com |
| Terminally ill cancer patients struggling with anxiety may get some relief from a guided "trip" on the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a new study suggests. | |
| Astronaut Douglas Wheelock’s 30 Coolest Twitpics of Earth from Space |
| Now THIS is how you use a twitter account. | |
| Alien architecture [PICS] |
| Some might be excused from believing in aliens if they saw these buildings. | |
| Nothing Weird Here... Move Along (Pic) |
| Mashable Readers Say Craigslist Should Not Be Censored |
| Over the weekend, we noticed Craiglist had replaced a certain notorious section of its site with a black bar reading censored.A longtime and well-known digital resource for prostitutes and the people who engage their services, Craigslist has come under fire many times over the past few years for its erotic/adult classified ads. Craigslist has stated it does everything it can to comply with government and legal stipulations and has an attorney manually screen all of its Adult Services ads. The company once said that 700,000 ads were manually rejected in just one year.Still, this hasnt stopped sex trafficking on the site, nor has it stopped the site from coming under harsh criticism for its business.In a recent poll, we asked if you thought Craigslists Adult Services section should be censored. Here are the results.Our readers are surprisingly liberal-minded about the Adult Services section. The vast majority of you (71.37%) said you thought the site should not be censored for a variety of reasons:Among our readers who thought the site should be censored, two-thirds found the Adult Services section objectionable because they felt it allowed Craigslist to profit indirectly from prostitution.Of those who thought the site and the adult sections should remain uncensored, almost half of you (46.15%) felt the censorship was unwarranted because prostitution should not be illegal in the first place. These broad-minded folks comprise almost 33% of everyone who voted in the poll.Others who were against the censorship in this case thought that Craigslists anti-prostitution policies were sufficient or stated another reason for opposing Adult Services censorship.As of this moment, were not sure if or when the sites adult section will be back online or why it was taken down in the first place. While prostitution isnt likely to become legal in the U.S. any time soon, well keep you posted on Craigslists dilemma as more details become available.More About: censorship, craigslist, prostitution, sexFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| Elephant attack in Kerala, India (Extremely Graphic) |
| Elephant goes bonkers...kills a man... | |
| The 5 Dumbest Comic Story-lines |
| Comics are known to sometimes be nothing more than soap operas with thought bubbles, but sometimes the stories can get seriously dumb. | |
| ACLU: Obama Is Embracing Abusive Bush Policies |
| For disillusioned Obama supporters, the ACLU's July report "Establishing the New Normal" is not a heartening read. After being voted into office on promises that included undoing abuses carried out under the Bush administration - promises to protect privacy, to end government-sanctioned torture and rendition programs and to end the use of military commissions for non-enemy combatants - President Obama's administration is proving it is far easier to tow the line than buck a trend. | |
| Army Vet, 80, Busted In Pot Raid; Had Given Names To Plants |
| An 80-year-old Minnesota man is facing felony charges after a marijuana raid, with police claiming he is the leader of a what they called a "large-scale grow operation." Welcome to the world of American drug enforcement, where an old man tending a few plants -- at least some of which he had apparently given names -- passes through the Drug War looking glass and becomes magically transformed into a major grow-op. | |
| MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts |
| Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it'd take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to let researchers and scientists convert to Google's mobile OS, but if you aren't falling for that one, it's also designed to "let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field, and to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems." Of course, the models that are hosted on the phone do require a supercomputer to create, but once certain formulas are embedded, the app can then compute approximations in mere seconds rather than hours. Best of all, rbAPPmit is available for download as well speak in the source link below, but we'd probably wait for the (presumably thick) user guide to surface before diving in headfirst. [Thanks, Alasdair]MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | MIT, rbAPPmit download |Email this|Comments | |
| When Did Bureaucrats Become Legislators? |
| A memo surfaced from Homeland Security suggesting ways to circumvent existing law to allow several categories of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and, indeed, for some to be granted permanent residency. Regardless of your feelings on the issue, administrators administer the law, they don't change it. That's the legislators' job. | |
| TRENDING: Obama: They talk about me like a dog |
| Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they're not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true," he told a crowd largely consisting of union members choosing the 'victim card' this time over the usual 'race card' preferred by Mr. Obama in most cases. | |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses Mad That Atheists Won’t Keep Their Views to Themselves « SpeakEasy |
| Iran's rights activist goes on trial accused of 'waging war against God' |
| Iran has launched a fresh crackdown on human rights activists by arresting an outspoken Iranian lawyer and charging a young activist with "waging war against God", a crime punishable by death in Iranian law. | |
| Labor Day By The Numbers [Infographics] |
| Labor day is the 3rd most popular occasion to barbecue! | |
| Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas |
| NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Mexican authorities opened shelters and warned people to watch out for mudslides Monday as Tropical Storm Hermine approached the northeastern border with Texas, the second major storm to hit the area this season. | |
| iPhone 4 Korea debut and iOS 4.1 happening this week |
| iPhone 4 is now set to launch in South Korea, 270k preorders so far, and new iOS 4.1 expected this week with new features like HDR photography | |
| Princess of Persia is Gorgeous (pics) |
| Princess of Persia makes the Prince unforgettable after you see this goddess. | |
| 8 Incredible LEGO Mods |
| Building a LEGO model by following the directions is one thing, but it takes ingenuity and engineering ability to create an original LEGO composition. Here are eight of the most incredible LEGO mods ever constructed. | |
| 8 Incredible LEGO Mods |
| Building a LEGO model by following the directions is one thing, but it takes ingenuity and engineering ability to create an original LEGO composition. Here are eight of the most incredible LEGO mods ever constructed. | |
| Colombian named 'world's shortest man' |
| A Colombian has officially been declared the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records officials -- but his reign looks set to be short-lived. | |
| 15 Awful DIY Plumbing Disasters |
| There's no doubt that taking the lesser traveled DIY path usually saves a ton of money on household projects, whether they be small fixer-uppers or large retiling jobs. Sometimes, however, it's just better to call the damn plumber; they have the job for a reason. | |
| What if Luke Skywalker missed? |
| Luke snatches defeat from the jaws of victory in this re-edit of "A New Hope" | |
| 9 Websites Stuck in the 1990’s |
| In the past ten years, the Internet has changed so drastically – so completely – that it’s hard to remember what a vastly different place it was in the 1990’s. | |
| Colorful HDR Images of Old Trains |
| I like to see well created colorful HDR images and when those images are showcasing some super-cool old locomotives then you just have to love them. | |
| Schools ban bracelets promoting cancer awareness: I love boobies. |
| Cancer has ravaged several of Ann Aberson's relatives, so she doesn't have a problem with her two teenage daughters wearing bracelets to raise awareness of breast cancer. But their school principal does. | |
| Rare Designer Slams Activision Regarding Goldeneye Remake |
| Martin Hollis, the designer of the original GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, has spoken in a recent interview with Official Nintendo Magazine about his thoughts on the upcoming remake. What he has to say isn't particularly nice, however. | |
| 6 Terrible Ways To Spend Labor Day |
| Labor Day marks the official end of summer. Therefore, everyone secretly hates it. | |
| VIDEO: Tony Blair Castigates Progressives For Not Defending Obama |
| Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that the toughest part of being a progressive-leaning politician these days is dealing with progressives themselves. Ironically, Blair says, activists on the left often assist their right-wing opponents by piling on the pols. | |
| 17 Geeky Star Wars The Imperial March Theme Remakes |
| 17 Geeky Star Wars The Imperial March Theme Remakes that were created using Tesla Coils, Musical Instruments, Hand Farts and more. | |
| PAX 2010: Exclusive Portal 2 Co-op Gameplay Footage |
| Exclusive video of Portal 2 co-op gameplay | |
| Mattters.com Social Channel: Apple Photoshops One Icon Too Many on the New iPod Touch |
| The new iPod Touch with Facetime, multitasking, and the Retina display is so close to an iPhone that even Apple can sometimes get confused.Case in point: look at this image of iPod Touch from Apples site, and youll notice i... | |
| Why does Steve Jobs play fast and loose with iPod touch sales numbers? |
| "Part of the problem is that the statement, on the face of it, is absurd. As of January, Nintendo had sold 125 million DS systems. Sony (SNE), for its part, has sold more than 62 million PSPs. As of last week, according to Jobs, Apple has sold some 120 million iOS devices -- a number that covers not just the iPod touch, but tens of millions of iPhones and iPads as well. There's no way the iPod touch could be considered the world's most popular portable game player." | |
| Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants |
| A decline in bees and global warming are having a damaging effect on the pollination of plants, new research claims. | |
| Freak Twists Legs 180 Degrees At Party |
| Sometimes, there's a fine line between party trick and party foul, and sometimes you twist your legs right around that line. | |
| Found Footage: WNBC anchor shows Earl via iPad |
| Giant Metal Transmission Towers Designed to Look Like Humans |
| Boston-based architecture firm Choi + Shine designs giant electric transmission towers with lifelike features! Nothing spoils a peaceful drive or bike ride through nature more than passing by a series of ugly manmade transmission towers... | |
| xkcd: Showdown |
| Op-Ed Columnist - 1938 in 2010 - NYTimes.com |
| The inadequacy of the Obama administration’s initial economic stimulus has landed it — and the nation — in a political trap. | |
| Is Android Only Surging Because Apple Is Letting It? |
| This weekend, I've been catching up on some reading. One post that was of particular interest to me was David Beach's article from last week about developing for Android. Beach, who is a product manager at eBay Mobile and a co-founder of 12seconds, basically says that the experience sucks for a number of reasons (all of which Google can fix, but will take quite a bit of work and time). But one quote in particular stuck out to me: Android has succeeded despite Google. In fact it's safe to say that Android is successful for one primary reason. The iPhone is only available on AT&T. If the iPhone was on Verizon a year ago. Android would be no where near as popular. Obviously, Beach isn't the first person to bring this idea up. But he brings it up in a way that he's able to back-up his feelings from a developers' perspective, while at the same time roping in what isn't ideal from a consumer perspective about Android as well. | |
| Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections - Face The Nation - CBS News |
| Face The Nation on CBS: Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections - Say Dems Are Distancing Themselves From Obama, Angry Over Economy, Health Care Fallout | |
| Samsung suggests Galaxy Tab will cost between $200 and $400 -- also coming to Vodafone UK |
| Early reports indicate Europe will pay a pretty penny for Samsung's Galaxy Tab, but the 7-inch tablet may cost a good bit less when it comes to US shores -- the Wall Street Journal paraphrases a Samsung executive who claims it could run between $200 and $300 depending on the all-important carrier subsidies. The Korea Times, meanwhile, suggests a $300 to $400 retail price according to a different Samsung bigwig, who added that the Tab "will cost slightly more than the Galaxy S smartphone." As you're probably aware, Sammy's Galaxy S typically retails for about $200 in the US -- excepting Sprint's Epic 4G at $250 -- so if you held a bursting Li-ion battery to our head and forced us to guess, we'd say the latter range of dollar signs is far more likely. By the way, Vodafone UK shows the Galaxy Tab as "coming soon." Hit our more coverage link for details. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]Samsung suggests Galaxy Tab will cost between $200 and $400 -- also coming to Vodafone UK originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Wall Street Journal, Korea Times | Email this | Comments | |
| Research: Early Man 'Butchered & Ate the Brains of Children as Part of Everyday Diet' |
| Other than that, early man was fantastic... | |
| Top 9 Worst Employees in Video Game History |
| This Labor Day weekend, we take a look at the characters with the worst sense of work ethic in video games. These are characters that, despite their "occupation" spend all their time trying to save people or taking lavish vacations, or even just causing the end of the world. Think about it: when have you ever seen Mario do any plumbing? Here are the worst workers in video game history. | |
| Russian Drinkers and Smokers Urged to Consume More |
| The finance minister in Russia is asking that citizens drink and smoke more to support the economy and to help solve social problems. Funny how that would work, since in the US excessive drinking and smoking can definitely lead to more social and legal problems. | |
| You Know Who Likes WikiLeaks? Fidel Castro. |
| An editorial yesterday in the LA Times called Fidel Castro, Internet Junkie says the 84-year-old Cuban reads 200 to 300 online articles a day, and is fascinated by WikiLeaks. The LA Times article is based on an lengthy interview Castro did with the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, where he reportedly said that the Internet, has put an end to secrets. We are seeing a high level of investigative journalism, asthe New York Times calls it, that is within reach of the whole world. He also said that the Internet is, the most powerful weapon that has existed. Castro, however, isnt just an Internet consumer hes also apparently a prolific blogger (one of about 300 in Cuba). So now you know. (Note: Isolated Cuba does not have a fiber-optic connection to the rest of the world, and must rely on old underwater telephone lines and for satellite-based broadband to connect to the Internet. The LA Times editorial says that estimates put Cubas Internet penetration of between 2.6% -13% of the population depending on whether its based on international (the 2.6%) or Cuban government statistics (the 13%). Either way, Cuba has by far the lowest percentage of Internet users of any nation in the Western Hemisphere. Those that do have access face censorship and restriction as well.) Original title and link for this post: You Know Who Likes WikiLeaks? Fidel Castro. | |
| Monkey kisses cat |
| They are in love. Or maybe it's only about the monkey. | |
| Thousands Of Returning Soldiers Face A New Enemy |
| The legacy of one of America's longest combat missions will continue to affect the thousands of troops who came home suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. | |
| First-Ever Baby Seahorse Spotted in British Waters |
| The Dorset waters are Britain's largest known breeding colony for seahorses, according to the Telegraph, which writes that adult, pregnant male, and juvenile spiny seahorses have been spotted there since surveys of the area began in 1994. But this was the first time a baby has been spotted. | |
| Snakebot inspires dreams, haunts nightmares |
| Built by robotics students at Carnegie Mellon, Uncle Sam the Snakebot is simultaneously horribly awesome, and awesomely creepy. Uncle Sam is programmed with a variety of different "gaits", or types of movement patterns, which are based on the real-life behavior of real-life snakes. The goal is to create a modular—and, thus, relatively simple to produce and scale—robot that can get to and through places where people, and less-willies-inducing robots, can't maneuver. Via Switched The snakebots are coming Modular Snake Robot Robotic snake takes a swim | |
| Top Ten Best Songs About Cocaine |
| When they say Miami is a city built of snow, rest assured they aren't talking about the weather. | |
| The Truth About The Epic Beard Man Viral Video |
| Back in February, a fight took place on a public bus in Oakland. A week later, four million people had watched the video on YouTube. "AC Transit Bust Fight I Am a Motherfucker" featured all the key ingredients for a video to go viral: colorful characters, a silly catchphrase, and most importantly, someone getting badly injured. | |
| iPhone 5 Concept Design is Ultra Thin (and Ultra Fake) |
| Concept designs and rumors are something that go hand-in-hand with upcoming generations of anticipated gadgetry…. especially when it comes to our beloved mobile devices. Case-in-point this morning, a new iPhone 5 design concept I stumbled across. Yes, it’s September 2010, and I’ve already spotted a next-gen concept. Have mercy. :) | |
| Ghosts in the Hollow (Pics) |
| An incredible photo essay put to music documenting abandoned coal mining operations and towns in Appalachia. | |
| Why Didn't I Think of That? SwitchFlops, the $30 Million School Project |
| At 16, Lindsay Phillips came up with the idea for a flip-flop with interchangeable straps during art class. Today, she's running a $30 million company. | |
| 25 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed |
| Normally, we assume youve missed a few posts here and there because youve been outside enjoying the last days of summer. But given the impending Hurricane and crippling heatwave, we sincerely hope youve been inside this past week. So whats your excuse?If you still have catching up to do, were back with another list of resources from the past week or so.Our Social Media section can help you gear up for Fantasy Football season, Watch the US Open, or break down the news with some insightful infographics. Tech and Mobile offers a guide on making your own ringtones, using Gmails priority inbox, and a slew of iPhone tips and tricks. Business comes packed with SEO tips, response plans to social media attacks, and advice on incorporating your startup.Looking for even more social media resources? This guide appears every weekend, and you can check out all the lists-gone-by here any time.Social MediaTop 10 Fantasy Football Sites to Help You Win Here are 10 websites that might give you the winning edge over your fantasy football competition.10 Incredibly Inspirational Moments on YouTube [VIDEOS] YouTube isnt just for kittens, cute kids, and confabulating celebrities. Its also home to some of the most inspiring historical moments ever captured on camera.7 Services That Will Suggest Things You Like Unlimited choice (especially on the web) is not always a good thing. These 7 sites use can help narrow down the agonizing list of possibilities in a variety of areas.5 Fun FarmVille Accessories 80 million virtual farmers cant be wrong! Show off your social gaming addiction with these 5 hilarious accessories.HOW TO: Follow the US Open with Social Media Weve collected some easy, free and totally legal ways to watch and follow the US Open on the web and via social media.10 of the Webs Most Insightful News Infographics A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better.How Social Data Built a Better Health Care App Its not often that the U.S. government uses social media or open source data to solve a problem, but the NIHs recent project Pillbox is an exception with a lot of potential.HOW TO: Score the Best Fashion Deals on the Social Web Just because the economy is still depressed doesnt mean your wardrobe has to be. Check out all these great discount fashion destinations on the social web.Social Media Grammar: The Checkin Conundrum So you want to write about Foursquare, but is it check in, checkin, or check-in? We have the answers, which are sure to please even the sternest grammarian.For more social media news and resources, you can follow Mashables social media channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.Tech & MobileHOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones You dont need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into an iPhone ringtone. You can do it right in iTunes. Heres how.6 Job Search Tips for Aspiring Programmers 6 job search tips from the people who hire programmers about how you can land your dream job.8 Free BlackBerry Games Worth Downloading Need a break from the e-mail influx? Sneak away and grab one of these free and fun BlackBerry games.Gmail Priority Inbox: 5 Tips for Better Productivity Weve identified a few more complex tips for those of you looking to maximize productivity and use some of the less obvious features of Priority Inbox.10 Useful iPhone Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks Weve put the iPhone 4 through its paces and come up with some handy tips and tricks that will help you get more out of your Apple-flavored mobile.Why the Apple A4 is the iPod Touchs Killer Feature The most significant addition to Apples new iPod is the inclusion of the same chip capably powering the iPhone 4 and the iPad the Apple A4.HOW TO: Get Started with HTML5 Boilerplate HTML5 Boilerplate is one of the most interesting new projects aimed at giving designers and developers a template for integrating HTML5 into their sites.15 Essential Back to School Podcasts If you need some help getting back into learning mode, these podcasts will open your ears to a wealth of insight on science, history, economics, literature, math and more.HOW TO: Track Hurricane Earl Online Want to know how Earl will affect your Labor Day weekend plans? Check out these resources for tracking the hurricane.For more tech news and resources, you can follow Mashables tech channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.BusinessHOW TO: Respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand Here are three examples of companies that received negative attention on social media and how you can learn from their mistakes or successes.How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future Whether they use it for recruiting, scouting, public engagement or social CRM, CEOs will need to have a firm grasp on social media if they want to stay ahead of the curve.3 Winning Alternatives to Online Sweepstakes Many brands arent aware that running an actual sweepstakes promotion has many legal ramifications. These 3 alternatives can be just as engaging, but without the complications.HOW TO: Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time Once youve decided that incorporation is right for your business, whats the best time to do it? There are a number of paperwork and tax-related factors to consider.4 Tips for Writing SEO-Friendly Blog Posts Search rank can be a powerful way to drive readers and customers to your site. Check out this advice on how to make your business blog more Google-friendly.A World Without E-mail: One Mans Vision of a Social Workplace Luis Suarez has a dream: no more e-mail. He discusses working remotely from a paradise island and the benefits of keeping all his business correspondence social.8 Funding Contests to Kick Start Your Big Idea Does your startup need an investment to get off the ground? These competitions might prove a good source of VC if you can win.For more business news and resources, you can follow Mashables business channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.Reviews: Facebook, Foursquare, Gmail, Google, Mashable, Twitter, YouTube, iPhoneMore About: business, facebook, Features Week In Review, List, Lists, Mobile 2.0, small business, social media, tech, technology, trend, trending, twitter, youtubeFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| Samsung Galaxy Tab Rooted... A Month Before Release |
| Most new smartphones seem to get rooted within a week or two of their release, but four weeks before they go on sale? Hackers have cracked a prototype tablet from Samsung, the Galaxy Tab, a month before it hits shelves. | |
| Which Tennis Player Would You Punch in the Face? |
| Which tennis player deserves a good swat in the face for throwing temper tantrums and hissy fits? | |
| 20 Cosplay Babes of Dragon*Con 2010 [PICS] |
| Dragon*Con" an event with more costumed people per square yard than anywhere in the world that I know of, including Halloween | |
| Another Ex-Scientologist Publishes Damning Tell-All |
| Adding to Scientology's woes, some of the people who have been making defections in recent years are turning around and... | |
| Star Wars The Old Republic: Pax 2010: Mysteries of Knights of the Old Republic |
| The Jedi Civil War left many unanswered questions. In the difficult days following the showdown between Darth Revan and Darth Malak, the Jedi Order struggled to survive, leaving little time for investigations. Redeemed as a Jedi, Revan traveled into deep space in search of a mysterious evil. We now know that the source of this evil was the reconstituted Sith Empire, but that solves only a portion of the mystery… | |
| WTF: Your Weekly Dose of Asian Insanity (Video) |
| I don't know, people. I don't know what's happening here. I don't know which Asian country is responsible for this, I don't know what product this | |
| Android Phone Market Share On A Steady Rise |
| The Android mobile operating system—specifically, smartphones running it—is continuing a steady climb in mobile web market share versus Apple's iOS-based devices. | |
| Android Phone meets NES Controller At Last |
| I've long held that ROMs are the biggest selling point for Android phones that no one wants to talk about (or are at least neck and neck for those of you who absolutely need your porn on the go). If, after a few drinks, I start having a good natured debate about smartphones with an iPhone owning friend (which does indeed happen more often that I'd care to admit), I'll usually break out my Droid and start playing a round of Super Mario 3 | |
| A History of NBA Twitter Fails |
| Any pro athlete, celeb, or public figure on Twitter has to watch out for what they say. Twitter fails often lead to fines and PR disasters for the athletes, it’s provided nothing but comedy for us. With that in mind, peep this history of NBA Twitter fails. | |
| The 70′s: Home Of Groovy Skateboard Stickers |
| Check out this gallery of skateboard stickers, taken from 70′s trading cards. The front of the cards featured pro skaters in action and the back of the cards featured stickers. From the looks of it, there were a lot of gypsy skaters in the 70′s. Can you say groovy? | |
| Sports Phrases With The Best Double Meanings |
| The use of obscure sports lexicon has spiraled out of control. For cold hard proof, try speaking “sports talk” with a non-sports fan the next time you're at a party. Fortunately, several less ridiculous sports phrases have made their way into everyday vernacular. From frequently used business terms to one of several memorable episodes of “Seinfeld”, sports terms are popping up regularly in humorous yet useful ways. The best of the bunch are listed below: | |
| Can-Not-Unsee Cat [Pic] |
| Can-Not-Unsee Cat | |
| Ford Opts for Liquid Cooling to Maximize Battery Life |
| While air is sufficient to regulate battery temperatures in smaller battery systems, Ford says, liquid works better to meet the Focus' needs. The liquid system works by... | |
| 6 Things Movie Characters Always Seem to Forget |
| Granddad on "The Good Ol' Days" (PIC) |
| It's always nice to look back and reminisce about days past. | |
| House Rules (PIC) |
| If we all followed rules such as these I think we'd all lead happier lives. Especially rule #13! | |
| Stunning Digital PHOTOS That Look Like (Surprisingly) Real But Are Not |
| These are some of the beautiful digital artwork and illustration examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference. | |
| Meet--->Isa Blyth the 106-year-old virgin |
| Sprightly Isa Blyth will celebrate turning 106 today – and puts her amazing age down to being a virgin Isa has never even been KISSED and thinks staying single has made her stay strong. Last night her niece Sheena Campbell, 67, said: "I'm not sure if anyone ever tried it on - but they never got anywhere! She says she never felt the need for romance and never had time for a man. "She did like the odd sherry though." Isa, born in 1904, instead kept herself busy going to flower club and church, singing in the choir, and playing golf or gardening. | |
| Blurry shot allegedly shows camera-equipped iPad in testing |
| Purported picture of a future iPad in testing with a front camera capable of FaceTime video calls. | |
| Motorola Milestone 2 now official |
| After a teaser video briefly appeared on YouTube yesterday, Motorola has now unveiled the Milestone 2, a GSM version of the Droid 2. | |
| BBC News - New Zealand assesses quake damage |
| Officials assess the damage caused by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, as aftershocks continue. | |
| Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation |
| If I ever write another book it will probably be about one of three topics. The first is the truth about how the press and journalism really works the sausage making to show just how much of a beautiful, subjective and chaotic mess it all is. The second idea is to talk about how perfect blogging is, with its constant feedback loop, as a training ground for mass psychology and manipulation. The third idea Im keeping to myself for now, but its more startup focused. Its the second one thats been on my mind lately. Mostly because its become pretty clear to me that any blogger worth her salt could start, say, an extremely successful militant religious cult. Any blogger will tell you how frustrating the early days are. Getting someone, anyone, to link to you. Your first comment! etc. And as your audience grows you are introduced to the first rule of anonymous human behavior its dark and brutal, and reminds me how thin the veil of civilized behavior really is. If there is something nasty that can be said, someone will say it. Over and over. A big part of blogging is simply keeping the peace. You set rules on whether or not youll allow anonymous commenting, or commenting at all. You decide if/how to moderate comments. You decide if/how to respond to opposing arguments and (more often) personal attacks. And you, involuntarily for the most part, evolve your writing in response to the feedback loop. Those are the days of innocence, simple joys and simple sadnesses. But then you start to get really good at what you do. You write something and you get trashed. The next time you try it a little differently and it the commenters love you. You dont even do it consciously but over the years you just get better at it. To the point where you pretty much know exactly what the reaction will be to any given post, and how to tweak things to get the reaction you want. Zynga talks about constant A/B testing in its games to maximize revenue, a huge competitive advantage for them. Bloggers go through the same thing every time they write a post. Old media types dont have quite the same experience because they generally have an editorial agenda, certain writing rules, and editors to please. There are too many layers between them and the direct feedback loop. so they evolve much more slowly. Bloggers have a direct line to the collective mind. I imagine priests and rabbis and career politicians have much the same experience. Speaking publicly so frequently they learn exactly how to manipulate the audience, or the camera, to get the reaction they want. It doesnt work on every individual, but the masses as a group are easy to manipulate. and your audience tends to self reinforce over time, meaning the people who buy what youre selling tend to come back for more, and others wander away. In a post last weekend I wrote about women in tech. I feel like Im on pretty firm ground here, since more than half of our senior staff are women, including our CEO, and we cover female entrepreneurs whenever we find them. I know exactly the post I could have written to get a super big high five from our audience. Talk big about how the problem is so prevalent, talk quietly about what we do directly to help solve it (but note how much more we must do!), and then salute the ringleaders who are making a living out of pretending to care about the issue (without, of course, pointing out that they are frauds). Seriously, I could have had you as a collective group eating out of my hand on that one. I even pointed to a couple of posts by men that did exactly that (also very experienced bloggers who know how to write a crowd pleaser when they need to). I didnt do that though. I wrote a different post that I intended to question some of the basic assumptions that are being made about women in technology. And I knew exactly what the comments would be like. More FU than high five, for example. And thats ok with me. Id rather say what I really think than pander to the crowd. This is an issue thats too important to use for my own popularity. It would be so much better if we could stop a lot of the bullshit that we see in blogging. To do that we need a smarter audience one that sees through it because theyve been trained to, and demands a little more meat on the bone from the sites they frequent. Im telling you flat out that any decent blogger can manipulate the hell out of their audience. Dont let yourself be one of the manipulated. In a follow up post I may explain some of the common tricks to manipulate the crowd so you can see through them more easily in the future. And just for the record, we try to avoid manipulating readers here at TechCrunch. Or at least to abuse that power as little as possible. And most of my favorite blogs also play it straight. Remember this, though. When youre reading something here thats getting you really riled up, stop. It may be that you really should be thinking the exact opposite of what you are. And if you find yourself floating through a post agreeing with all the subtle pandering, wake up! And call us on it immediately. And yes, I know exactly what you as a group are going to say in the comments below. If I told you it would change the outcome, of course. But I think you know deep down that Im right. | |
| New Fabric-Dyeing Technique Uses Fluid-State CO2, Not Water |
| A Dutch company has unveiled what it believes to be the first commercial dyeing machine to replace water with supercritical carbon dioxide—a pressurized form of the gas with unusual liquid-like properties. Heated up to 31 degrees Celsius (88 degrees Fahrenheit) and pressurized to 74 bar, CO2 takes on the characteristics of both a liquid and a gas, allowing for the dissolution of compounds such as dyes. | |
| Season 2 - Watch Jersey Shore Online |
| Watch Jersey Shore Season 2 Episode 5 The Letter – 26 August 2010 Watch Jersey Shore Season 2 Episode 4 Breaking Up –19 August 2010 Watch Jersey | |
| Six DEET-free Mosquito Repellants |
| Before you head for the hills or plan your next outdoor barbecue, thin... | |
| The "Send Back": How to Send Back Food at Restaurants |
| It's happened to us all. Each of us has ordered food at a restau... | |
| Cat recovering after passerby finds it shot, caged and tossed into bay |
| Early Wednesday, a passer-by heard gurgling and pulled from McKay Bay an appalling discovery — a cat that had been shot with pellets, put in a carrier marked "Kitty Penitentiary" and tossed in the water. What the hell is wrong with people? | |
| Luke Hines' Massive Crash At ALMS Mosport Race (video) |
| Fire may be the biggest worry of most racing drivers, but high-speed accidents are a lot more common. This accident is a testament to the safety of modern race car and track design. Driving down the fast, slightly curved back straight at Mosport during this weekend's American Le Mans Series race... | |
| Ford to pay $131M for 2001 Explorer rollover accident |
| A jury has ordered that Ford pay $131 million for a 2001 rollover accident that claimed the life of Mets prospect Brian Cole. | |
| Brawl at the US Open, from all angles |
| A foulmouthed New Yorker set off a brawl at the U.S. Open tennis tournament Thursday, as Novak Djokovic and Philipp Petzschner played nearby. Here is a composite of the incident from three different angles, as caught by nearby spectators, and the simultaneous feed from the Djokovic/Petzschner match, as seen on television. | |
| Global warming's silver lining? Northern countries will thrive and grow, researcher predicts |
| Move over, Sunbelt. The New North is coming through, a geographer predicts in a new book. As worldwide population increases by 40 percent over the next 40 years, sparsely populated Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and the northern United States will become formidable economic powers and migration magnets, Laurence C. Smith writes. | |
| Wikipedia Founder Says Apps, Not Paywalls, Could Save the News |
| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday that paid apps like those found on the iPhone, Android and iPad could help financially troubled news organizations, but he didnt have anything positive to say about charging for content on the web.On the other hand, hes not optimistic about other micropayment plans wherein publications would charge users to access individual articles because at present there is not a centralized and widespread payment system as there is with Apples services (iTunes, iBooks and the App Store) or the Android Market.If I just click on my iPad, and its billed on my normal bill, that micropayment model makes it possible for people to have an impulse purchase, he said. Apple already has his payment information from the get go, and the creator of each app can use Apples billing system for in-app purchases.Thats one of the reasons Wales believes app stores could be beneficial for the news industry. The apps model the iPad app, the Kindle does provide new and interesting opportunities for newspapers.Weve heard rumors in the past that Google has a unified micropayments system in the works that could do the same for desktop content, but it hasnt happened yet.Wikipedia is not a commercial enterprise, but Waless current venture Wikia is ad-supported.Image courtesy of iStockphoto, enot-poloskunMore About: amazon, android, apple, apps, interview, ipad, iphone, Jimmy Wales, journalism, Kindle, monetization, News, paywalls, Wikia, wikipediaFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| The iWatch Is Real: It's the New iPod Nano [PIC] |
| Apple makes computers, tablets, phones, TV set-top-boxes and a dozen other things, but to date it hasn’t made a wristwatch. Oh, wait, it has! It’s called “the new iPod nano.” | |
| Making phosphorus safer | R&D Mag |
| A MIT team has developed a new way to attach phosphorus to organic compounds by first splitting the phosphorus with ultraviolet light. Their method eliminates the need for chlorine, which is usually required for such reactions and poses health risks to workers handling the chemicals. | |
| Meme Team, Roll Out! (pic) |
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| The Real Social Network: Your Mobile Contacts |
| The term “social network” is of course synonymous with online networks like Facebook. But think about what you’re actual social life is like for a second. Are you really closest to the people whose items... | |
| 10 of the Most Homicidal Children in History |
| While serial killers are creepy enough, there is one thing more frightening -- children who kill. | |
| Penumbra fans rejoice! Amnesia: The Dark Descent is absolutely brilliant and absolutely terrifying! |
| submitted by leap2 to gaming [link] [56 comments] | |
| Chrome Turns 2, New Version Launches To Celebrate |
| In order to celebrate 2 years, Google is releasing a new stable version (Chrome 6) that's even faster and more streamlined than prior versions. Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance. | |
| Historic artifact for a holiday weekend |
| This is the world's first frozen margarita machine, invented and built by Mariano Martinez in 1971 from parts of a soft-serve ice cream maker. His inspiration: A 7-11 Slurpee. Today, it resides in the collection of the National Museum of American History, where a museum director once called it a, "classic example of the American entrepreneurial spirit." Smithsonian: Top 10 Inventions from the Collections of the National Museum of American History | |
| Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic, says Quantcast |
| It's terribly difficult to get reliable statistics, as numbers tend to vary drastically depending upon whom you ask, but if you're inclined to believe that Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS, though it's important to know that the iOS tallies apparently don't include the web-friendly iPad. You also might want to note that this is mobile web traffic here -- these days, we spend an increasing amount of our internet time in apps -- and since we're on a roll with the disclaimers, let's just add that these numbers have nothing to do with a company's financial success. Nokia can attest to that.Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic, says Quantcast originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink Apple Insider | Quantcast Blog | Email this | Comments | |
| Lindsay Lohan Hires Britney Spears’ Former Manager Larry Rudolph |
| Lindsay Lohan has hired the former manager of frenemy Britney Spears in a last ditch effort to salvage what's left of her once thriving career. | |
| For Muslims, a 9/11 anniversary like no other |
| American Muslims are boosting security at mosques, seeking help from leaders of other faiths and airing ads underscoring their loyalty to the United States. | |
| Saving the giant panda |
| Tragic accidents can befall animals in any setting at a zoo, in a forest. But there is a special responsibility due to animals when humans hold them in captivity. Highly endangered animal's best chance of long-term survival comes not from zoos but from extensive environmental stewardship. | |
| Freedom’s Just Another Word |
| President Obama’s bloodless speech on the “end” of the Iraq war showed how the whitewashing of our recent past is well under way. | |
| Social Media 5 Steps to Free Traffic |
| Social media marketing is a new, free and very powerful tool and it can serve you very well when you are searching for free internet marketing methods to promote your internet home business online. | |
| Christchurch Earthquake Pictures |
| Here's a collection of images from various people of the destruction caused by yesterday's Christchurch Earthquake . | |
| Sony shows off Google TV (or a video of it, anyway) at IFA 2010 -- Engadget |
| It's not the full-on demo you're probably hoping for, but Sony devoted a section of its sprawling, city-within-a-city of a booth at IFA 2010 to | |
| 10 Best Time Travel Movies and Shows |
| Time travel is by far one of the most popular subjects in science fiction and has almost always been found in the genre in books, movies, and TV shows | |
| 'Social Network' Trailer Parodies of other Social Networks |
| We’ve seen a month’s worth of parodies of ‘The Social Network’ trailer, and unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve probably seen most of them too. Turns out most internet stories benefit from a little choral Radiohead. | |
| Wink and Wave (PIC) |
| Monkeys took in a cat |
| They took in a cat and are treating it as one of their own.. | |
| iOS 4.1 to launch Sept. 8: Apple UK |
| While Apple CEO Steve Jobs said on Wednesday that iOS 4.1 would be coming to iPhones and iPod touches this coming week, he didn't give a date. It seems the Apple U.K. site's webmaster has put up some different info that in the U.S., with their site giving an exact date: Sept. 8. The U.S. site continues to say "Coming Soon," but we'll assume that rather than making two mistakes (posting a date, and posting a wrong date) that the Sept. 8 is correct. It also makes sense since the new iPod touches will ship on Sept. | |
| Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy suit |
| Google has settled a class-action lawsuit over Buzz, and has agreed to a $8.5 million payout which will help fund groups that focus on privacy issues. | |
| Kanye West and How Twitter Has Changed the Way We Communicate |
| If you needed any more proof that Twitter has transformed how we absorb information and communicate, look no further than Kanye West. Just a few hours ago, | |
| Whiskey from diabetics' urine |
| Gilpin Family whisky is a new single malt whisky made from the urine of diabetics. Creator James Gilpin doesn't sell the stuff, but rather gives away bottles as a public health statement. From the product page: Sugar heavy urine excreted by diabetic patients is now being utilized for the fermentation of high-end single malt whisky for export. The Whisky market is growing faster then any other alcoholic beverage worldwide. With a prevalent genetic weakness being exposed in the northern hemisphere leading to a sharp rise in type two diabetes, economists have found a new exportable commodity to exploit and are keen to capitalize on this resource quickly. Large amounts of sugar are excreted on a daily basis by type-two diabetic patients especially amongst the upper end of our aging population. As a result of this diabetic patients toilets often have unusual scale build up in the basin due and rapid mould growths as the sugar put into the system acts as nutrients for mould and bacteria growth. Is it plausible to suggest that we start utilizing our water purification systems in order to harvest the biological resources that our elderly already process in abundance? Gilpin Family Whiskey from urine (JamesGilpin.com) "Whizky, world's first bio whisky aged with granny whiz" (The Independent, thanks Carlo Longino!) | |
| Beating the Game - Ditching Pay TV | Techi.com |
| If you enjoy adrenaline-filled racing, bone-crushing tackles, mind-blowing saves, and earth-shattering home runs, chances are pretty good that you have a | |
| The Most Dangerous Places To Surf… The Web! |
| If you find yourself blogging about your trip or sending an email update to family and friends if you happen to be visiting these places, you may want to be a little more vigilant than normal. | |
| Montana Teen Accidentally Texts Sheriff To Buy Marijuana |
| Classic! "Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?" the text read. | |
| The Lingerie Football League will be coming to a TV set near you |
| Friday Night Lights has now taken on a whole new meaning. Beginning next Friday, the ever adventurous and wardrobe malfunction-laden Lingerie Football League... | |
| 600 Hanna-Barbera Characters Drawn In Chronological Order |
| Juan Pablo Bravo created an amazing illustration featuring 600 Hanna-Barbera characters dawn in chronological order. | |
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| Brewer Finally Backpedals: I Was Wrong About Headless Bodies |
| Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is finally backpedaling on her bogus claim that headless bodies have been found in the Arizona desert, the alleged product of illegal immigration. "That was an error, if I said that," Brewer told the Associated Press. | |
| Baby Formula Contaminated With Aluminum, 40 Times More Than Breast Milk |
| New research from the UK found that a range of well known brands of baby formula sold there contain too much aluminum. Even though it’s common knowledge that infant formulas have been contaminated with aluminum for decades, this new study published in the journal BMC Pediatrics, raises concern over children’s health risks, pointing out that levels are still too high. | |
| The Motion In The Ocean: How Waves Are Formed (Graphic) |
| There's motion in the ocean, but where does it coming from? Waves are a beloved part of nature, but few know how they're actually formed. Some are big some are small, some are short, some are tall. So, if you've been wondering how the waves at your local beach are formed, look no further | |
| The Motion In The Ocean: How Waves Are Formed (Graphic) |
| There's motion in the ocean, but where does it coming from? Waves are a beloved part of nature, but few know how they're actually formed. Some are big some are small, some are short, some are tall. So, if you've been wondering how the waves at your local beach are formed, look no further | |
| Obama's Moral Cowardice |
| The president refuses to stand up for immigration, gay rights, and religious freedom. | |
| Abusive parenting brought on by bad coffee: vintage Sanka ad |
| Sanka: because your old man beats you when he's got the jitters. Has his old man been hitting the coffee again? | |
| Awesome Interactive Super Mario Bros. Mural (PICS) |
| Mario and Luigi would certainly be proud to play around with this masterpiece created by a few talented Columbus College of Art & Design School students. | |
| Nikon wants to create a 'new market' with its new concept |
| We thought Nikon just wanted to join the burgeoning ranks of mirrorless interchangeable lens shooters that bridge the gap between full-fledged DSLR and pocket-friendly compact cameras. But oh no, as company president Makoto Kimura puts it, Nikon wants to create a whole "new market" with its next big idea. Noting that his lab lackeys have tested all sorts of eccentric possibilities, such as a head-mounted display, Kimura says it's time for digital cameras to move with the times and Nikon will be ready to take up its usual leadership position. When might that be, you ask? Well, in classic bigwig style, he keeps the roadmap tucked firmly inside the breast pocket of his smoking jacket, but at least we know that Nikon won't be sitting on the sidelines and letting whippersnappers like Sony's NEX-5 steal customers away.Nikon wants to create a 'new market' with its new concept originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.PermalinkElectronista | Reuters |Email this|Comments | |
| The Fundeds Adeo Ressi Arrested After Virgin America Incident |
| The Funded founder Adeo Ressi was arrested and briefly detained earlier this evening over an altercation with a flight attendant. The airline? Virgin America, which Ive been holding up as virtually the only airline that doesnt suck (See Virgin Airlines Fails To Commit Atrocities On Flight VX746 and Delta Flight 1843 From JFK To Hell). Ressis description of the incident is below, and he has sent this to Virgin, he tells me. Ive reached out to Virgin America for their position. I cant help but note the similarities with Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater, who has now been rewarded for his behavior with a reality tv show. The worse the flight attendant, the better the chance for fame and glory, I guess. You posted something nice about Virgin America a little over a week ago. I actually agreed until I was briefly and wrongly arrested as a result of a stressed out flight attendant today. I am horrified by the incident on VX22 today, after flying over 70,000 miles with the company. Here are the details. I was on flight VX22 in seat 2B, First Class, under the name Adeodato Gregory Ressi di Cervia. My company, the Founder Institute, is enrolling hundreds of entrepreneurs from eight cities into the incubator, so I was working before taking off. I shut everything down when the cabin door was shut, and started working again when the Internet was turned on at 10,000 feet, reviewing founder applications. The first class steward, the ITL, served some food, but otherwise ignored passengers. There was a young stewardess in the back of the plane that brought me two ginger ails, some nuts, and Pringles. It was strange that the steward ignored passengers, focusing his attention on a baby in the font row, but I didnt really notice much, since I was busy. As we started to descend, the captain came on and asked everyone to shut down computers and electronic devices. The ITL walked down the isle immediately following the captains announcement and tapped my computer to indicate that I should shut off my computer. I looked up, nodded and indicated that I needed a second to finish an email, and he walked past me into coach. By the time he returned, approximately 60 to 90 seconds later, I had finished the email at exactly 5:33 PM EST (according to email records), and I was closing the laptop lid. He stood above me, and the ITL said in a loud voice, I told you to close the computer. You need to listen to me. You need to obey my orders. I am in charge. I told you to close the computer. You need to listen. I am in charge. Not you. This went on for a while. It was awkward, uncalled for and embarrassing. Meanwhile, I was holding the closed computer up off the tray table for everyone to see, as it was being shut down even before he walked over. He then said, I can contact the authorities and have you arrested. I responded, I have done nothing wrong. Go ahead, if you like, I have done nothing wrong. Now, a few minutes after the original announcement by the captain, the ITL walks up to the bulkhead phone, and I presume he calls the captain. The captain then makes an announcement that everyone should have their devices off or the authorities will be contacted and meet us upon landing. My device was already off for a few minutes at this point, and I ask for the ITLs name, who now completely ignores me. As we continue to descend, I had a bag on the floor in First Class, which I know is not allowed on Virgin America First Class because I have flown over 70,000 miles on the airline. So, I ask the ITL to put the bag up, and he responds, get up, and put it away yourself. I get up, and then the ITL starts yelling at me again for standing up when the plane is below 10,000 feet. I toss the bag into the overhead, leaving it open, sit down quickly and he calls the captain again using the bulkhead phone. He then comes over to shut the overhead compartment. At this point, we did not speak again during the flight. We land at 5:49 PM, 16 minutes after I closed my computer down. We taxi to the gate, and there was a 15 minute delay while the authorities were called. Two NYC police men escorted me off the plane. Passengers are delayed even further as the police interrogated me in front of the exit door. Once I start moving up the platform, escorted by two police men, and the passengers are finally let out. Three First Class and Main Cabin Select passengers agree to be witnesses on my behalf to the police, taking more of their valuable time to say that I did nothing wrong. Meanwhile, I was detained for an hour at the gate by police, who eventually let me go, jokingly referring to this as an argument over a cell phone to the TSA. Meanwhile, the Virgin America captain lectured me twice on the importance of turning your computer off, without even listening to my side of the story. The ITL told the police a story that I had been disruptive at other points in the flight, and the police said that the Virgin America flight team were now defending each other. The police also clearly indicated that they thought the ITL was not telling the truth. The police and the TSA had no charges. You can get the police report for the names of two supportive First Class customers. I am extremely disturbed by this incident in First Class on Virgin America. I request that Virgin America (1) terminate the ITL in question and (2) refund my money for the whole trip, allowing me to purchase alternative travel home. I do not want to wind up with this ITL on my flight again, as I have recognized him from my 70,000+ hours of flight with the airline. I a law abiding citizen that has never gotten more than a mild speeding ticket, and I fly over 250,000 miles per year. I never raised my voice. I never cursed. I followed the captains instructions. Yet, I was removed from a Virgin America by police for doing absolutely nothing wrong. Thank you. Adeo Ressi | |
| Painted Hills, Oregon Sunrise |
| Sunrise on the Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Painted Hills, Oregon. I had to travel three hours on very rural winding country roads in the dark, with steep drop-offs to get there for this opening shot of the day! (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.) Oregon - United States - Rural area - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Shopping | |
| I'm not an Artist, but this is fucking cool |
| submitted by PolarCovalentBonds to reddit.com [link] [37 comments] | |
| Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down |
| Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the Erotic Services Adult Services section of their site. Its gone, replaced by a large black and white censored logo. Ive reached out to Craigslist for comment and await their reply. But the choice of words is significant the section wasnt simply removed, the censored word was used. The site has been embattled as old press and state attorneys general use any excuse to blame sex crimes on the site. From South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMasters failed crusade against them to a variety of press stories about sex and other crimes. If its just a sex crime it isnt a story. But if a listing on Craigslist was involved, its a big story. Craigslist has fought back using little more than their blog and logic. And theyre right. Having prostitution up front and regulated, as Craigslist does, means less crime is associated with it. Its not like prostitution, sometimes called the worlds oldest profession, was invented on the site. The fact that eBay and others do exactly the same thing, but without human review and moderation, doesnt seem to matter. Craigslist Sex is what scares the general population, and its what the press and the politicians will continue to use to get their hits and votes. So the Craigslist Adult Section was removed. Is the world now a safer place? [crunchbase url="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/craigslist" name="Craigslist"] | |
| 12 concept images from the new Dune movie you'll never see |
| Whoa! Coming Soon unearthed a trove of concept art by comic artist Jock and Andy Diggle for Peter Berg's Dune movie that will never be. Pierre Morel took over as director after Berg left the project, and Morel's going to do his own thing, so sadly this gorgeous art will go unused. | |
| I think my 6 year old daughter is being sexually abused... Help |
| My daughter just told me about a 'dream' she had regarding one of her caretakers at school pulling down her panties and then pulling down his pants and underwear... "and we were really close to each other...". She was acting really embarrassed about the whole thing and shy. I kept my cool and played for a while, then went back to her dream. More of the same. I don't know what to do. She's 6, so she's known for telling stories, but this is just too far out for my comfort. We've never talked about anything like this, and she's never seen anything of the sort. Any advice, my Reddit community? Do I call the police? Do I let her go back to school? Your assistance is appreciated.... Greatly.... submitted by shrike71 to AskReddit [link] [148 comments] | |
| S4 - Super Simple Storage Service |
| submitted by catamorphism to programming [link] [16 comments] | |
| Watch True Blood Online |
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| Turns out major Tea Party organizations are being backed by telecoms. Their opposition to net neutrality is suddenly less surprising. |
| submitted by redthrowaway to politics [link] [26 comments] | |
| Powerful 7.1 quake hits New Zealand |
| A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake damaged buildings, cut power and knocked fleeing residents off their feet on New Zealand's South Island early ... | |
| What are the Perils of Being a Lefty? |
| About 10% of the world is left-handed. That means, only 1 in every 10 people primarily use their left hand to perform tasks. Therefore, in a world where most people are right-handed, lefties often have difficulty performing day-to-day tasks with tools, appliances, and other equipment that have been designed for the right-handed majority. | |
| "Tool Man" Tim Allen Is The Voice Of Chevrolet, 2011 Cruze |
| Tim Allen, the voice of Michigan tourism, Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear, and Home Improvements Tim Taylor will soon be the voice of the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze, and the rest of the Chevrolet brand, GM announced today. The ads running Allen's voice will start September 7, the day before the official retail launch at GM's Lordstown plant. | |
| Texas Launches Antitrust Investigation of Google |
| It has been revealed that the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conduction an investigation of Google over complaints of antitrust and | |
| Blackwater Won Contracts via Web of Companies |
| Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to Congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials. | |
| Why This New Apple TV Makes Sense For Now |
| As a longtime Apple TV owner, Ill admit a dirty little secret: I really like the device. Sure, it has been one of the rare flops for Apple in recent years. And it could be so much more with say, a Blu-ray player or a web browser. But it is really good at its core functionality: bringing iTunes content into your living room. And thats why this new version of the Apple TV makes sense at least for now. When I first bought the Apple TV, there were two varieties: a 40 gigabyte version and a 160 gigabyte version. I was torn between which one to get, but I ultimately went with the 160 GB one thinking I could put most of my movies on it. Big mistake. I basically never use the hard drive on my Apple TV, so its a 160 GB hard drive sitting there doing nothing. Instead, I stream everything to the Apple TV. In fact, the only time I do use the hard drive on my current Apple TV is when I rent a movie on it. Currently, even when renting, you download a movie to your hard drive where it sits for up to 30 days (or 24 hours after you start playing it). But with the new iTunes rentals (both TV and movies) everything is streamed no hard drive is required (besides a small one for buffering purposes). Thanks to that, and undoubtedly the knowledge that most owners were using it for streaming, Apple removed the hard drive from the device, and cut it down in size and price. Now, at one-forth the size and less than half the price, its an even more attractive way to get your iTunes content into your living room. And it has a few very nice bonuses. The mixture of the new Netflix functionality with Apples new release rental movies makes this an excellent in-home movie machine for the masses. For those who pay $9 a month to Netflix, you get access to tens of thousands of older movies. For those interested in newer movies, theyre $4.99 a pop from Apple. Yes, Apple removed the option to buy movies on the Apple TV itself. But you can still do this through iTunes on your computer or on your iPad/iPhone/iPod touch. And guess what? With the forthcoming AirPlay feature, youll be able to stream any of those purchased movies right from any of those devices to the Apple TV. In a way, it sort of does make the Apple TV a $99 iPad accessory. Further, the removal of the option to buy (as well as the removal of the SD options) make Apple TV much less complicated for general consumers. Now there is no question about whether you should rent or buy. There is also no question about whether you should do rent or buy in HD or SD. I suspect most people were renting in HD on the device, which is why Apple made the move it did to eliminate the other unnecessary options. Theyre keeping it simple, stupid. Apple also removed the option to buy TV shows which never really made much sense to me. There are some shows that people would like to own, but most are definitely watch-once programs. Previously, there was no rental option, you had to buy. Worse, even if you did want to own a lot, the old Apple TV didnt have nearly enough storage to handle them all some HD TV show seasons take up 30 GB of space or more. The model just didnt make a lot of sense. Granted, Apples current $0.99 TV show rental option is pretty weak. They only have shows from ABC and Fox and only some shows from Fox. But obviously, just as happened with iTunes music and movies, Apple is hoping all the studios eventually get on board. And if they do relatively soon, the Apple TV will be a very interesting device to consumers as both a movie box and as a potential cable replacement. Sure, most people arent going to feel comfortable totally killing cable just yet but at $99, this will be a very interesting experiment for a lot of people. All that said, lets be clear: this Apple TV is not the killer device in the living room. This will be more popular than the current Apple TV, but it will not be iPod/iPhone/iPad-big. And Apple seems to know that, which is why theyre still talking cautiously about it. The problem Apple faces is the same problem that everyone faces: content agreements. Hollywood is proving much harder to convince than the music labels were. In a few years, if DVD sales keep falling and cable revenues start decreasing, theyll be more receptive to new options. The killer Apple TV would have TV network subscription packages. It would offer live events. It would have every movie ever made available on-demand. And on-demand is the big key to all of this. All of this content is going to move to the cloud. It has too for storage purposes and given how many devices we all have. Rentals just completely made the jump, but eventually purchases will too. At first, youll have the option to download certain movies youve bought to take on the go, but when youre at your home, even movies you own will be streamed theyll simply be streamed for free. And then one day, all of this stuff will be in the cloud entirely as mobile devices will always be connected by high-speed wireless. This is the future. Its Apples future along with everyone elses. This Apple TV is one small step in that direction, and at $99 it makes sense for now at $229, it never did. This is a stepping stone to the cloud age. Right now its a mixture of the internal cloud (streaming from within your house) with the external cloud (streaming rentals from the cloud). Soon it will all be external. If this half-step isnt your thing, if you want morefunctionality, buy a Mac mini. Theres a reason Apple just added a HDMI output to it. But that device is too complicated and way too expensive for most consumers to use as a set-top box. The Apple TV is simple. Oh, and one more thing: the true killer Apple TV device will have apps. Im still absolutely convinced (as many people are) that its only a question of when they make the jump to the living room. The fact that this new Apple TV is running iOS seems to be all the proof one should need that this will come eventually. When that happens, the Apple TV will become a hell of a lot more than a hobby. | |
| Botox: helping lives more than just looking good |
| "Most of the public doesn't realize Botox is used for medical purposes," said Dr. Paul Christo, an assistant professor of anesthesiology in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "Botox can have more than one effect. It can have a muscle and nerve benefit, and this allows people to do things they couldn't do before, like brush their hair or teeth." | |
| Ringtone creation disappears from iTunes 10 |
| The option of buying and creating ringtones has been removed from iTunes 10. | |
| Where Are America's Safest Drivers? Not In Philly Or Los Angeles... |
| Fort Collins, Colorado has again been named America's Safest Driving City, while drivers in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Dallas leave a lot to be desiredif you wish to avoid an accident, that is. | |
| Android gains on Apple iPhone in mobile web usage |
| It looks like Android may not be as far behind Apple iPhone (and iOS devices) as it may seem when it comes to mobile web usage, as new research from Quantcast shows the little green robot is gaining on iOS. | |
| 26 Geeky Car Mods |
| 26 Geeky Car Mods that are based on Geeky movies, video games or are just plain weird. | |
| How to get into 20 classic science fiction shows: The ultimate guide |
| Even if you're a massive science fiction fan, there are probably still some great shows you've yet to discover. But for massively long-running shows, where to begin? Here's our guide to how to start watching twenty classic science fiction shows. | |
| Ping Surpasses 1 Million Users |
| In less than two days, Apple's Ping music social network has surpassed the 1 million user milestone. Apple introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10 at | |
| BlackBerry Facts You'll Be Surprised To Know |
| BlackBerry’s and RIM’s history right up to the release of the new Blackberry Torch 9800, which just hit the scene a couple of weeks ago. Interesting stuff, but we’d hazard a guess that more than 53% of BlackBerry users check their phones while on the throne. | |
| Morbid Curiosity |
| The best sparrow is the little one in the front, who looks down first, when all the others watching the fight and when the 2 sparrows fall down he provacantly smoothly turns around and looks away. He's absolutely not impressed, the others gawk. | |
| Mary Roach: Death In Space |
| For some uplifting weekend reading, I suggest Mary Roach's excellent special Boing Boing feature "Death In Space." The U.S. has plans for a manned visit to Mars by the mid-2030s. The ESA and Russia have sketched out a similar joint mission, and it is claimed that China's space program has the same objective. Apart from their destination, all these plans share something in common: extraordinary danger for the explorers. What happens if someone dies out there, months away from Earth? Swedish ecologists Susanne Wiigh-Msak and Peter Msak are the inventors of an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation and burial, called Promession. The technique entails freezing a body, vibrating it into tiny pieces, and then freeze-drying the pieces, which can then be used as compost to grow a memorial shrub or tree. "Death In Space" | |
| Ping under fire from spammers, says security firm |
| Despite being active for just a few days, Apple's Ping social network is already being invaded by spammers, says a Sophos security analyst. | |
| Google Settles Buzz Privacy Lawsuit for $8.5 Million |
| Google has agreed to pay a hefty sum to make a class action lawsuit concerning Google Buzz disappear $8.5 million, to be exact.The lawsuit dates back to February, when lawyers filed a class action complaint against Google on behalf of Eva Hibnick, a 24-year-old Florida resident and Harvard Law School student. The complaint alleged that Buzz violated several communication privacy laws related to protecting user privacy.Google Buzz caught a lot of flak for its auto-follow and opt-in features, so much so that Google quickly made privacy fixes after launch. They werent enough to quell the criticism though, so Google launched a privacy reset for Buzz, giving users a new opportunity to adjust their privacy settings.According to the settlement, these changes addressed the key privacy issues surrounding Buzz. Google has made changes to the Google Buzz user interface that clarify Google Buzzs operation and users options regarding Google Buzz, it stated.Thats not all, though. While the settlement acknowledges that Google Buzzs privacy issues have been resolved, it says the company must do more to educate users about Google Buzzs potential impact on privacy. The $8.5 million from the settelement will go towards lawyer fees (30%) and the seven named plaintiffs (up to $2,500 each), with the remainder going towards organizations and non-profits focused on Internet privacy.Now that the privacy issues have been settled, Google can focus on a more important problem: actually producing a winner in the social media space.[via AFP]More About: Googl, google buzz, law, lawsuit, privacyFor more Tech coverage:Follow Mashable Tech on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Tech channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| Adult Dating Site Sued for Fraudulently Seducing Lonely Men |
| A class action lawsuit claims that a group of self-described "lonely and vulnerable" men were sent emails from women who don't actually exist. | |
| Ten Places to See Before You Die |
| Like it or not, you are going to die someday. Wait, don't panic!... | |
| Which New TV Shows Will Get Axed First This Fall? |
| Whether you like it or not, the new season of network shows is almost here. To help you decide what to watch, we’ve compiled a list of every new comedy and drama from the big four networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX). Because not every show will survive, we’ve included our bets for which shows will be canceled first. | |
| Do Not Mess with the Lion. Gorgeous...(Pic) |
| First impressions of Logitech’s Revue, the first set-top box featuring Google TV |
| Logitech Revue: Hands-On Impressions | |
| Acting selfish? Blame your mother |
| The fact that our female ancestors dispersed more than our male ancestors can lead to conflicts within the brain that influence our social behaviour, new research reveals. | |
| BREAKING: Facebook Now Displaying All Liked News Articles In Search Results |
| Another big upgrade from Facebook: the company is currently testing search results which display articles ranked by likes. Additionally, the results for searches now shows the results from all around the web based on two things: the number of likes and the number of friends who liked that object, m ... | |
| Steve Jobs: iTunes 10 Icon Does Not 'Suck' |
| The physics of breaking stuff with your fists |
| iO9 recently ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read an interesting counter-analysis by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break. The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes. P.S.: Rennie's blog, The Gleaming Retort, is part of a new family of science blogs, hosted by the Public Library of Science—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. Slow motion video of things being destroyed Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ... The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ... | |
| Burger King Finds New Palm Oil to Grease Its Whopper |
| Burger King has become the latest company to stop buying palm oil from an embattled Indonesian company its critics accuse of deforestation. | |
| Popular Mechanics List Best Cheats In NASCAR History |
| While the muscle car world may have focused on straight line performance, the factory’s influence on hot production cars reach other motorsports for that “Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday” publicity. NASCAR was one of them and with it brought some of the more memorable muscle cars of... | |
| Frosted Design: 10 Steampunk Cakes |
| Steampunk, the pseudo-Victorian mechanical aesthetic favored by alternate history and science fiction buffs seems like an unlikely source of inspiration... | |
| Prisons Lindsay and Paris Might End Up In (If They Don’t Straighten Up) |
| Some of the worst prisons in the world that Lilo and Paris certainly wouldn't want to end up in. | |
| Duke Nukem Forever Confirmed |
| It's official folks, Duke Nukem is back | |
| 10 Most Torturous Methods of Execution |
| Execution of criminals and political opponents has been used by nearly all societies—both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent. | |
| As You Get Older Your Standards Change (NSFWish PIC) |
| this is just a testament to that... | |
| BP Says Cost of Spill Hits $8 Billion |
| Oil major BP said it has spent around $8 billion to date in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling shortly. | |
| How Sheep Determined the Size of Your Gadgets |
| It's easy to figure out why e-readers and tablets are the size that they are: They're all about the size of paperback books. But why are paperbacks that size? It all has to do with the sheep. | |
| Bill Gates: The End of Textbooks as We Know Them |
| An Afternoon of Conversation engages big thinkers and doers in serious discussion about their work and the future.This conversation features Bill Gates and Walter Isaacson. | |
| Duke Nukem Forever Is Real And Playable At PAX |
| Dukem Forever is real! It is being developed by Gearbox Software and being published by 2K Games, and it's playable on the show floor at PAX this very second! | |
| Louis CK's Drunken Tweets |
| Louis CK's Drunken Tweets Louis CK got on a plane, got hammered, and went to town on Twitter. We get the sense he doesn't care for Sarah Palin. Submitted by: Fod Team Kinda Cute Keywords: louis ck twitter louis ck drunken tweets louis ck louis ck tweets louis ck drunk Views: 1 | |
| Gambling 101: know when to walk away, know when to run |
| Always remember that when you walk into a casino. Never risk more than you can afford to lose. Here is a primer to survive in the seductive world of gambling If you follow these tips, you should mitigate your losses and you might even win. | |
| Cock-touching forbidden in Kyoto |
| I didn't touch it. | |
| Steve Jobs set to win Vision Awards title |
| It is not known if Jobs will accept his award in person at the Beverly Hilton ceremony, as the CEO is selective about which events he attends. A number of other celebrities are being honored this year however, such as anchorman Dan Rather, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. | |
| Grunge…Again? 90s Music Coming Back, but is that a Good Thing? |
| For those of us suffering from a severe case of 90s nostalgia, in theory, it’s been a great couple of years. Not only are bands like Pearl Jam and Radiohead still going strong, but some of the defining acts from the era, such as Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden have reunited. But is this a good thing? | |
| 11 Must-Know Health Numbers |
| From the phone number for poison control to how many times your kid should poop each week, these are 11 numbers you should know to keep your family feeling well. | |
| Apple TV: Internet TV is Still a Hobby |
| The new Apple TV was probably the most interesting part of yesterday's Apple announcements. But while it's a step in the right direction for people who want to get video content on their TVs, it doesn't offer the right content or the right plans yet. | |
| 10 Back-to-School iPhone Apps | Wise Bread |
| 10 iPhone apps to help students manage their college life | |
| Group Attacks Google Privacy & Schmidt with Times Square Ad |
| Just in time for the holiday weekend, a California-based consumer group has purchased space on a Times Square jumbotron to display a video that attacks Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his company's privacy policies. | |
| Top Social Networks from the Top Internet Countries |
| Looking at the top 5 countries with the highest number of Internet users, we see China in the lead with ... | |
| How it's made |
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| 14 Types of People You Will See at a College Football Tailgate |
| College tailgating = Awesome. The sound of the marching band drums, the smell of meat cooking over an open flame, some jackass urinating on the car next to you... | |
| 13 of the Ugliest Animals on the Planet |
| Not every animal is as cuddly as a giant panda or as extravagant as a peacock, but every animal has its role to play. As they say, beauty is only skin deep. Let's hope — for the sake of these 13 unsightly animals — that the same can be said for ugliness. | |
| Diving in (PICS) |
| As summer begins to wind down, the temperature still remains high in some places (in the Northern hemisphere, of course). Cool waters call out to those who would leap in, momentarily letting gravity have its way with them, pulling them down as they flail, shout or twist. Collected here are a handful of photos of divers around the world, showing their professional artistry, daredevil bravado, or just simple joy as they take the plunge. | |
| When Presumably Prominent Characters in Movies Are Killed Quickly |
| There are plenty of scenes in movies where a character is killed seemingly out of nowhere, but it's not too often when one of those characters is played by | |
| Japan Women Longest Lived |
| For the 25th consecutive year statistics published by the Japanese government showed that women there had a longer life expectancy than any others on the planet. | |
| Finding Creative Publishing & Distribution Outlets, and 5 Colorful Indie Mags Who've Already Found One. |
| Traditional publishing methods might be going the way of the dodo (I really wish I could say junk mail or phone books by now) but since this gives way to a drastic increase in the number of creative projects finding there way into the screens, ears and hands of more and more people I wouldn't say that this is a bad thing at all. Sure, we might have to sort through a few bad apples to get to the juicy materials we crave, but i'll choose to sort through my own apples over a bunch of people who don't necessarily share my tastes any day. | |
| Cranberry juice shows promise blocking Staph infections |
| Expanding their scope of study on the mechanisms of bacterial infection, researchers have reported the surprise finding from a small clinical study that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus from beginning the process of infection. | |
| iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices |
| Ars goes hands-on with iTunes 10 and finds some performance improvements. Unfortunately, it takes a step back in the UI department. At least you can get rid of the annoying, vertically aligned window controls. | |
| Drunk Man Wonders Why He Was Naked |
| A West Virginia man who reportedly ran from police on foot and was later caught, said he had no idea why he was naked. Of course, he was drunk at the time. | |
| Chilean miners reenactment - o_O |
| http://www.nma.tv/ 33 Chilean miners are trapped deep underground and it may take NASA up to four months to rescue them. Spirits were raised this week when th... | |
| Jerry Lewis on Lindsay Lohan: 'I Would Smack Her in the Mouth!' (VIDEO) |
| We're not going to say this clip makes Jerry Lewis seem like an angry, half-crazed old man, because we're afraid he might hit us. On 'Inside | |
| Bunt! (GIF) |
| This is what myself and my friends would define as a "cheese move." Every sports video game had at least one. | |
| 5 Painful Current Gen Console Glitches |
| This generation while the most improved graphically and in many gameplay enhancements, it's also one with the most glitches. | |
| Complete Guide to Tailgating (Infographic) |
| Homer Simpson — the great animated prophet of beer drinking and sports fanatism — once got up on a soapbox and preached, “We’re not here for the game. The game is nothing. The game is crap. The real reason we Americans put up with sports is for this: Behold, the tailgate party." | |
| Qi wireless power now ready for BBerry and iPhone |
| The Wireless Power Consortium says its Qi format is ready to be built into hardware. | |
| iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices |
| By now, most iTunes users have already downloaded and installed iTunes 10. We've already given you the low-down on the biggest addition to the new version of iTunesthe Ping social networkbut we also wanted to give our impressions on two "improvements" promised in the release notes: look-and-feel and performance. While we agree that iTunes is "faster and more responsive," we're not sold on the revised user interface. Read the comments on this post | |
| Apple manufacturers churning out 2 million iPads per month |
| Manufacturing partners are now said to be delivering 2 million iPads per month, double recent levels. | |
| How to Stage a Hunger Strike |
| A lot of Miami girls starve themselves, but how many do it for a cause? | |
| Baseball's Greatest Stretch Runs of the Past 15 Years |
| The Red Sox may have been written off by every writer with a pen, but we’ve seen playoff pushes from teams in worse shape. Here's a list of the five best runs to the postseason of the last 15 years. | |
| Granola Munching Nutbag Suggests Vaccines Cause Zombification |
| "Natural medicine guru" Mike Adams is unveiling a boisterous rap music video effort to suggest that the right way to counter the flu could be vitamin D rather than vaccinations. To probably no one's surprise, the government isn't exactly thrilled. | |
| Turds or Curds: Which Fairground Droppings Best Convert to Energy? |
| Which waste is the best to convert to energy -- animal dung or leftover funnel cakes, corn dogs, cotton candy and other fairground favorites? That's what a Midwest scientist and a group of researchers are exploring at the Minnesota State Fair. | |
| 'Impossible' Soccer Kick Leads to New Physics Equation |
| A group of French scientists have come up with a new physics equation to help explain how Brazilian soccer star Roberto Carlos scored his "impossible" kick in 1998. | |
| Foursquare Among World Economic Forum’s ‘Tech Pioneers’ |
| The jury is still out whether Foursquare can figure out a way to monetize its hot location-based mobile service, but that hasn't stopped the World Economic Forum from including it among a class of 31 companies deemed pioneers in technology. | |
| Why are Apple & News Corp so buddy-buddy? |
| For two men who outwardly have little in common, save for spectacular wealth, Murdoch and Apple boss Steve Jobs are awfully simpatico these days. Murdoch has often gushed with admiration for the iPad, which he calls a "game-changer" that will revive the newspaper industry. And the Wall Street Journal is one of the only publications that already sells subscriptions to its iPad edition. | |
| LaCie intros ultra-compact MosKeyto USB thumbdrive |
| Offering capacities up to 16GB in a size that is only 0.7 inches long and 0.35 ounces, the device is short enough to lay flush against a notebook while being stored in a bag. | |
| The Ataris That Never Were |
| Time for some concept art! Not for upcoming games, though. Not for old games, either. These are for old systems. | |
| Increasing Your Intelligence |
| Have you ever felt as if you were not using the full brainpower that you have? Have you ever wished that you could be more intelligent, making smarter decisions in your life? There are certain things that you can do to increase your intelligence. Taking the following steps, including getting some sleep and slowing yourself down, will help you to increase your intelligence. This form of self-help will help you to make better decisions and to be more successful. | |
| LG's 31-inch OLED TV spotted, priced at IFA |
| The organic 1080p screen is characterized as large and vivid but is also detachable from its stand. Unlike the XEL-1 and some conventional TVs, where a thin screen is permanently fixed to the stand, the LG set can be removed or rotated in place. | |
| Honda’s next Civic caught desert testing (pics) |
| When Honda first planned to release its 9th generation Civic, it had planned on doing so in the summer of 2010 with a model year 2011 vehicle – until the Japanese automaker caught wind of the stiff competition and upcoming ever-more-strict CAFE standards. | |
| How To Dump Your Chick Off a Motorcycle (Video) |
| Stephen Hawkings Rules: Fear Aliens, 9/11 No Big Deal, Who Needs God? |
| Stephen Hawking is smarter than NewsFeed! So when he says things like theres no way God created the universe we should probably believe them. Here are the best of the physicists often-controversial opinions. Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is [...] | |
| How Barack Obama Is Like George Costanza |
| Forget Jimmy Carter | |
| Bearded Hippie Surfaces in J. Crew Catalogue |
| What on earth it this dirty hippy doing in this nice, upstanding bourgeois catalogue? | |
| Five Of The Best Bond Henchmen |
| They're at the beck and call of their masters, they have no problem doing wicked deeds and Bond faces each and every one of them. | |
| How Inception Should Have Ended |
| I Hate When This Happens |
| We made this to brighten up your day. | |
| Wake Up Call (PIC) |
| This is certainly one way to get your buddy who has dosed off to get up in a hurry. | |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops – Killstreaks Revealed |
| Dogs are back baby, they are just a little harder to attain this time around. These are also subject to change since the game doesn’t come out until November 9th for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. PC version will have dedicated servers as well as having full modding capabilities. | |
| 7 Famous Movie Flaws That Were Explained in Deleted Scenes |
| Infrared Nerf autocannon hunts predators, little sisters too (video) -- Engadget |
| When it comes to keeping unwanted personnel out of your property, whether that be an estate or an alcove, you can't be expected to hang | |
| Jan Brewer’s meltdown | Capitol Hill Blue |
| It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory. | |
| Scott Pilgrim: Why Geeks Can't Have Nice Things [CHART] |
| Take one part love story, two parts SNES references, six parts awesomeness, let it stew in the fridge for a few days, remember it, freak out and race back, and you'll find Scott Pilgrim waiting there. So why did the movie lose millions of dollars? | |
| Top Ten: Samus Aran Cosplays (pics) |
| See the Metroid heroine as you have never seen her before... | |
| Google Wave to Rise Again on Its Own |
| Google Wave was once one of Google's hottest projects, promising a new way of communication that might even replace email. Alas, it was not to be, and Google shut it down soon after public launch due to lack of user adoption - but not completely.Wave still draws interest from users, although it turned out to be more of a niche product than a massively disruptive tool. Recently, Google promised to keep Wave alive at least until the end of the year and to open source some parts of it.Now, Google has finally decided what to do with Wave. According to a recent blog post, Google will release most of the Wave code in the form of an (almost) complete application, which Google calls "Wave in a Box."For exact deatils on what this bundle will include go here, but it seem to be enough for developers to pick up where Wave left off and create their own, complete app based on the code.Yes, Wave was a failure in Google's hands, but we'll sure that developers will find a way to instill new life into the project. Who knows, maybe soon we'll see a better Wave, and maybe this new version will (finally) conquer the hearts of users.For more Tech coverage:Follow Mashable Tech on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Tech channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| Autopsy of an Atari 2600 |
| What went into one of the greatest games machines of all time... | |
| Important: Gmail Priority Inbox Should Now Be Available To All |
| Its hard to remember a product Ive become so dependent on quicker than Gmails new Priority Inbox. Im so addicted, that the few times Ive accidentally clicked on the old regular Inbox view in the past week have really annoyed me. So much so that I actually moved that view into my more drop down (you can drag any sidebar item in there). And now I have good news: you can all share in this addiction. While it began rolling out to users on Monday, Google is now saying that Priority Inbox should be available to all users (including Google Apps users) today. Look for the New! Priority Inbox message in red in the top right corner of your Gmail account to activate it. Theres a slight learning curve with it, so youll still probably want to watch Googles official video. But once you get started, its unlikely that youll go back. Overwhelmingly, the people Ive talked to since the feature started rolling out on Monday are also now addicted to the feature. But some seemdeadestagainst it,insteadpreferringto use their own filters to better tailor their mail consumption. Im a big filter user myself, but I simply could no longer keep up with the amount of message coming into my inbox I needed someone, or something to sort it for me. This isnt a longterm solution for the email problem, but it will work for now. Have you been using Priority Inbox this past week? If so, what do you think? Leave a comment or tweet about it. Tweet | |
| 15 Cancelled PlayStation 3 games that should have never been cancelled |
| It really hurts me that some of these games had so much potential and they got canned for a ton of different reasons. Here are 15 games on the PlayStation 3 that got canned. I am pretty much sure that you must have either forgotten many of these or have never heard about them. Check the list out. | |
| Could Connectivity And Smartphones Open Your Car Up To Hackers? |
| Is it time for firewalls and malware protection for your car? Almost, but not quite yet, say experts. Earlier this year we reported on research from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, that showed how researchers were able to... | |
| NASA Plans to Visit the Sun |
| If youve seen Danny Boyles movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASAs mission to visit the Earths Sun wont include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Suns atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch sometime before 2018.Four million miles doesnt sound very close, but its still very exciting, since this is a region no other spacecraft (created by us) has ever encountered. NASA plans for the project to unlock the suns biggest mysteries.Although the spacecraft will be relatively far from our stars surface, its carbon-composite heat shield will have to withstand intense radiation, as well as temperatures exceeding 2550 degrees Fahrenheit.The experiments selected for Solar Probe Plus are specifically designed to solve two key questions of solar physics why is the suns outer atmosphere so much hotter than the suns visible surface and what propels the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar system? said Dick Fisher, director of NASAs Heliophysics Division in Washington.Weve been struggling with these questions for decades and this mission should finally provide those answers, said Fisher.[Image credit: NASA]More About: mission, NASA, space, spacecraft, sun, SunshineFor more Tech coverage:Follow Mashable Tech on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Tech channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| Chicks Dig Guys That... (PIC) |
| Stephen Hawking: ten pearls of wisdom |
| After Professor Stephen Hawking apparently rubbished the idea of a God, claiming the Big Bang was an inevitable result of physics, here are ten of our favourite quotes. | |
| House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises |
| All images from Push House In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describes a new house in Asheville, North Carolina with references to Tommy Chong and describes the interior: "there's not a blacklight poster, hanging spider plant, or crumpled up Cheetos bag in sight." Discovery News says "Put aside old visions of burlap-like shirts that belong with hacky sacks." Even the owner tells CNN ""We heard that we could have a really great neighborhood party if it ever caught on fire." It's a shame that everyone is focusing on that, because it is just one interesting product in a fascinating house that is full of surprises.... Read the full story on TreeHugger | |
| Batman...and The Penguin (PIC) |
| Is it true that Batman is just a reflection of his arch-enemies? | |
| Are You Really an Entrepreneur? |
| Successful entrepreneurs have many things in common. They work hard, are born leaders and can smell a bad investment from a mile away. Do you have what it takes? | |
| 25 Pictures of Rockets Being Launched |
| The title is a little deceptive in that there are certainly other weapons being fired in some of these images. Nonetheless, I found these images stunning, and | |
| Star Wars Style Wars: The Empire Pimps Back |
| What, you thought they only wore the Star Wars gear and fought in space? View Full Album You do realize they all have a life beyond the Dark Side right? In case you disbelieve the illusion Darth Vader Band of Outsiders Scout Trooper Victor and Rolf Clone Trooper A.P.C. Strom Trooper Thom Brown New York Jar Jar Binks Maison Martin Margiela Boba Fett Supreme Visvim Jango Fett Comme des Garcons Come on now, honestly, with the level of technology the people had. Was there any doubt they would be a force in fashion as well? He Wears It Star Wars & Fashion artwork by: John Woo SciFAnime Tagged: art fashion scifi starwars Related articles by Zemanta Nobody Expects the Storm Trooper Inquisition (newmediapop.com) DIY Lightsaber: Build a Real Lightsaber and become a Jedi! (htdiy.com) Feet Eating Zombies of the Iron Fist (designsbest.com) 10 Incredibly Uncomfortable Madonna-Esque Lady Gaga Moments (designsbest.com) 8 Hot and Hard Hip Hop Videos: Star Wars Rap Mashup Edition (3rdcoasthiphop.com) | |
| Earth 'facing mass extinction' |
| The world is facing a mass extinction event that could be greater than that of the dinosaurs, new Australian research shows. | |
| The Brutal Damage Caused by Bull Goring [Pics+Vids] |
| Bullfighting is a commonplace spectacle. Often these animals are provoked or abused in order to get the animals to react violently and thus create a more dramatic scene. | |
| Eliminating Your Debt in Most Convenient and Creditworthy Way |
| Debt consolidation has always been beneficial over bankruptcy as far as creditor’s interest is concerned. Whereas in Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy, | |
| The High Cost of Eggs - NYTimes.com |
| Moving to cage-free eggs might add a penny to the cost of each egg, and would be more than worth the price in healthier consumers. | |
| Saturday Night Live May Finally Hire Another Black Person |
| If you're keeping score at home -- and you probably are -- it has been seven years since Saturday Night Live hired a new African American cast member, an unhappy distinction that proved to be quite the hindrance two years... | |
| 25 Awesome Animal Attack Videos |
| Is there anything better than adorable little animals getting cozy and loving with the humans that they're closest to? Yes, there is. Seeing animals attack the shit out of stuff is way better. | |
| Rikki Tikki Tavi! Real life cobra versus mongoose! |
| This epic showdown between mammal and reptile sees an Indian grey mongoose taking on one of the world's most poisonous snakes - a king cobra. | |
| Google Announces Wave In A Box |
| Google Wave is far from dead, and developers, early adopters and enterprises will be glad to hear it. Today Google announced it will expand on the code it has already open sourced, building Wave into a functional application that will allow users to run wave servers, host their own waves and build bigger and better applications with the real-time collaboration technology. "Since the beginning, it has been our vision that the Google Wave protocols could support a new generation of communication and collaboration tools," engineer Alex North wrote on the Google Wave developer blog. Sponsor Google had big plans for Wave - it was supposed to replace email and the killer app among Google Apps, but the company basically gave up on the project earlier this month (see Google Wave Is Dead). It still seems possible for the technology to do big things. But it sounds like Google plans to move on after the application is released. The future of the open source project will be defined by developers' contributions, North wrote. Wave In A Box will not have the "full functionality" of the Gmail-integrated Web app, but it will feature threaded conversations and support importing data from wave.google.com. The release of Wave as an application could be a big deal for developers, especially at businesses that want to take advantage of Wave for real-time collaboration and discussion (see our post, 5 Services That Leverage Google Wave). Wave was always intended for people to run on their own machines, but this release will make the process much easier. Developers and enterprise users that have been eyeing Wave will be more likely to take the technology into their own hands and build things like feature-rich Web forums, productivity tools and apps to facilitate collaborative projects. Google did not specify a timeline for the release of the new code, but it has said that wave.google.com will be available at least through the end of the year. Discuss | |
| Hidden Corporate Scandal: CEOs Who Laid Off the Most Workers Rake in the Most Treasure |
| CEOs are throwing workers onto the unemployment rolls and dodging taxes to boost short-term profits and fatten their own paychecks. | |
| 16 of the Best SciFi Cartoons |
| Science fiction and animation are a natural combination. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to draw an alien landscape covered in space ships than it is to create | |
| Mobile internet in emerging markets: The next billion geeks | The Economist |
| How the mobile internet will transform the BRICI countries | |
| The 14 Most Brutal College Hazing Rituals |
| From being sexually assaulted using knives, pens and household tools, to being forced to consume deadly amounts of controlled substances, to being locked in a room with excrement, here are the worst, most brutal college hazing rituals reported from all around the United States. | |
| Twitter Mobile Usage Skyrocketed With Official Apps [STATS] |
| Since Twitter acquired Tweetie and rolled out an official iPhone client, the company has focused more and more on improving the mobile experience across all smartphone platforms.Twitter CEO Ev Williams wrote just now on the company blog that mobile usage of the site is up 62% since in just over four months, and 16% of all new Twitter users are starting out on mobile devices as opposed to web signups (this number is up from just 5% earlier this year).In the days before Twitter started issuing official apps on a platform-by-platform basis, the company wasnt seeing the kind of mobile adoption it had hoped for. Williams wrote, Even though there was a plethora of third-party Twitter apps, people were having trouble finding and selecting one because none were called Twitter. This kept them from using Twitter at all.The company adopted a new strategy for mobile; rather than leaving all the mobile app development to third parties, Twitter decided to consolidate efforts. In the short term, this caused some consternation for third-party devs; however, looking at Twitters stats, its clear the company did the right thing for its shareholders and bottom line.Twitter acquired Tweetie in May this year; this was our first indication that Twitter would be creating and distributing its own mobile apps for a change. Tweetie was revamped and renamed Twitter for iPhone in May. A BlackBerry app was released in April, and the companys official Android Twitter app was released later the same month.Twitter is also seeing strong growth in its mobile site and SMS service, and Williams notes that third-party apps such as TweetDeck continue to be valuable and important parts of the Twitter mobile landscape.And as for the long tail, Williams writes, There are a tremendous number of other apps that people are using, not necessarily as their main Twitter client, but as an alternative way to create or view Tweets. The number of registered OAuth applications is now at almost 300,000 this number has nearly tripled since Chirp [Twitter's developer conference, which was held in April in San Francisco].While the above chart shows percentages of unique users per app, wed also love to see a breakdown by volume of tweets.Has your own mobile usage of Twitter changed or grown at all with Twitters releasing several official apps? Do you still use third-party applications for tweeting on the go? Let us know what you think about these stats in the comments.More About: apps, Mobile 2.0, twitterFor more Mobile coverage:Follow Mashable Mobile on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Mobile channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| Toshiba Recalls 41,000 Satellite Notebooks Due To Burn Hazard |
| Zing! Burn! Ouch! We know, it's too easy, but we just had to. Sony, HP and lots of others have dealt with burn-related recalls in the past, and now it's Toshiba's turn. Today, the company has issued a voluntary recall on their T Series notebook computers due to a | |
| Chrome reaches second birthday, version 6 goes stable |
| When Google launched its Chrome Web browser in 2008, it was clear that the product had considerable potential. Its emphasis on performance and a its intriguing minimalistic user interface attracted a lot of well-deserved attention. Today, exactly two years later, Chrome has over 80 million users, a 7.52 percent global market share (21.87 at Ars, making it the second most popular browser here behind Firefox), and is gradually creeping into the mainstream. It wasn't entirely clear at first if the browser would have real staying power or if it would be cast aside unfinished like so many of Google's other ambitious *cough*Wave*cough* experiments. But Google's commitment hasn't waned, and it's increasingly evident that the browser is an important part of Google's platform strategy and long-term aspirations for the future of the Web. To mark Chrome's second anniversary, Google has announced the official release of Chrome 6, a new major stable version of the browser. Read the comments on this post | |
| Video Artist Transforms YouTube’s TOS Into a Paranoid Nightmare |
| This extremely odd video, titled “Iterating My Way Into Oblivion,” features a guy listening to a computer voice reading YouTube’s terms of service. It slowly drives him insane. | |
| Another oil rig explosion, and the science of dispersants |
| Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded today. All crew members survived. Right now, nobody knows whether or not the explosion caused a leak in any of the seven wells that the rig collects from. There have been reports of an oil slick on the water near the fire, but that could just as easily be from the finite amount of oil stored on the rig—which would still a spill, but a significantly less problematic one. Other than that, there's not really much information out about this right now. If anybody's learned anything from Deepwater Horizon it seems to be that you're better off, PR-wise, if you don't have to correct everything you say two days later. To give you something to chew over in the meantime, though, Deep Sea News has been doing a really interesting series on the science (such as it is) of oil dispersants. It's interesting, not just because of the basic facts, but also because it gets into the details of why we don't know more. Dispersants must be applied successfully and have a high effectiveness once in ocean waters. This sounds easy, in principle--once you've perfected your Corexit formula in the lab, just spray it from a helicopter, and voila! Except there are a lot of factors which you also have to take into account: the composition of the oil spilled, sea energy, whether the oil has been subjected to weathering at all, exact type of dispersant used and the amount which you sprayed, and ocean temperature/salinity. Thank goodness for all those lab tests over the years which figured all this stuff out, you say. Um, well actually it seems like even designing simulation experiments is difficult, and different tests can report different effectiveness scores for the same dispersant. It is difficult to accurately scale up lab tests in order to predict dispersant action on real spills. Older studies used methods and analyses which have since been discredited. Wave-tank tests can probably provide upper limits on dispersant effectiveness, but there are SEVENTEEN (!!) critical factors that require strict control for accurate results (Fingas 2002). Field tests in open ecosystems are even worse for measuring the fate of oil and controlling variables. In terms of measuring dispersant effectiveness, tank tests, field tests, and lab tests all disagree. Awesome. Part 1: How effective are dispersants on real oil spills? Part 2: How toxic are dispersants? Part 3: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil? Image of a random oil rig: Some rights reserved by kenhodge13 | |
| NASA planning mission to visit the sun |
| Space agency hopes to send a spacecraft into the solar atmosphere by 2018. | |
| Ford readying Fiesta-based crossover, captured for the first time! |
| Although Ford has never made any mention of the future of a smaller crossover than the Kuga, our spies have just managed to capture shots of what appears to be a subcompact crossover mule that is wearing the latest Fiesta body. | |
| Double Skateboard FAIL |
| On Digg Today, Everything Went Better Than Expected |
| The implosion of Digg is happening. It is an unstoppable conclusion to events that have been in motion since last week and will continue until the full | |
| 7 Traits of Real Men | Mocha Dad |
| Men were made to be bold, strong, leaders. However, our society has attempted to repress these traits. If you look at the way men (especially dads) are portrayed on TV, you’d think we were all a bunch of irresponsible, befuddled, nincompoops, who can only function with the help of a “smart” female partner, friend, or spouse. Consequently, many boys are confused and have no idea what it takes to be a real man. They seek inappropriate role models and emulate the bad behavior that they see on a regular basis. It is our duty as men, fathers, and responsible citizens to counter these negative images and raise a new generation of men who are respectful, loving, and willing to contribute to society in a positive way. | |
| Arizona Senator Chokes During Opening Statement |
| "This is what she gets for hiring Basil Marceaux to write her speech." Uploaded 0 likes so far. Be the first! | |
| NASA Outdoes All Homemade Flamethrower Videos [Video] |
| Whoa. | |
| Internet Sensation Antoine Dodson and Auto-Tune the News Sell 'Bed Intruder' on iTunes |
| Yet another one for News of the Weird. In a savvy if not morally ambiguous move, the Auto-Tune the News people and their unlikely foil-turned-hero Antoine Dodson have released their song, ... | |
| Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD |
| It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about find friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network called According to sources familiar with Facebook's platform, the social networking giant essentially denied Apple's Ping access to application programming interfaces that would allow it to search for an iTunes user's friends on Facebook who also had signed up for Ping. So Apple shut the feature down. | |
| The Basic Guide to Troubleshooting Common Windows PC Problems |
| #troubleshooting Your Windows PC might be designed to make your life easier, but they often have a non-stop list of problems. Today we'll walk through some of the more common problems and how to troubleshoot them. More | |
| 4-year-old Brooklyn girl weighing only 15 pounds found dead |
| A 4-year-old Brooklyn girl who weighed only a shocking 15 pounds was found dead this morning, with her arms and legs tied to a crib with twine. | |
| Illegal Outrage: Why Machete May Be Booed In Border States |
| Robert Rodriguez tackles immigration issues by decapitating dissenters. | |
| This was the only thing keeping me on Digg :( |
| syntaxgs: An internet hero | |
| The Office Staff Wants Harvey Keitel To Replace Steve Carell |
| "He's probably the only guy who can do it, and he's doing TV now [ABC's Life on Mars]. That's what a very smart eager man once called a "win-win-win." | |
| Happy Birthday Chrome, You’re About To Overtake Firefox On TechCrunch |
| As we pointed out earlier, today is Google Chrome's second birthday. Since it launched in beta on September 2, 2008, it has come a long way (it's already 6 versions deep). Back then, it was Windows-only, with official Mac and Linux support only coming late last year. But now it's on the verge of another milestone: becoming the top browser coming to this site. I've checked out our logs over the past few years to see how well Chrome has been doing compared to its rival browsers. The numbers are shockingly strong for such a new entry -- particularly in the past year. Obviously, TechCrunch has a tech-centric audience, but I don't think it's off-base to say that you're also a leading audience of early adopters that often point to where the general public will be in the future. | |
| Drunken Bigot Tries to Commit Anti-Muslim Hate Crime, Gets His Ass Kicked Instead « SpeakEasy |
| Did BP Assassinate This Man? | Death and Taxes |
| On August 8th, 2010, sometime in the late evening, investment banker, oil industry insider and energy advisor to President George W. Bush, Matthew Simmons, put on a pair of swimming trunks, climbed into his hot tub at his Maine home and attempted to relax after a long day’s work. By 10:00pm Simmons had been found dead, floating in the hot tub of an apparent drowning. | |
| Fed Up Author Changes The Rules For Learning Spanish |
| Totally Different Learn Spanish Audio CD program | |
| Smoking baby reportedly has quit |
| The tubby Indonesian toddler who caused a sensation last spring by enthusiastically puffing on cigarettes in a widely viewed video has quit smoking, according to media reports. | |
| The crap we put up with getting on and off an airplane - The Oatmeal |
| Airports don't bother me - it's the people at airports that do. | |
| New Research Challenges Marijuana Gateway Theory |
| The widespread belief that marijuana users will eventually and inevitably move on to harder drugs has yet more evidence against it with the release of a new study. Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illegal drugs as young adults has a lot more to do with factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research. | |
| Sony Ericsson wants to be largest Android handset maker |
| Sony Ericsson is aiming high, as the company said it wants to be the world’s biggest supplier of Android phones. It has its work cut out for it. | |
| 19 upcoming superhero movies you need to know about |
| After Spider-Man came out in 2002 and set all kinds of records for making money, the movie industry has gone crazy for superheros. Eight years later they just keep on coming. We've gotten some great ones (Iron Man, The Dark Knight) along with some not so good ones (Wolverine, Fantastic Four). Over the next three years we're going to have the chance to see more than a dozen superhero films, mostly from Marvel and DC but also a few others. To help keep track of it all we've created this handy guide of the 19 most notable titles that are supposed to come out (some more tentatively than others) through 2013. | |
| Valve Promises A Trio Of Surprises This Year |
| We hang on every word Valve says. When you're the company behind Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and Portal, you earn that kind of attention. Well, in a recent interview, Valve head Gabe Newell said we can expect 3 big surprises over the next 12 months. | |
| Leaked Military Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global Energy Crisis |
| A study on energy supply conducted by a German military think tank reports on the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines. | |
| In Case of Zombies |
| In Case of Zombies, a classic Threadless t-shirt by Olly Moss. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Email, Twitter, Facebook & Tumblr. Here are a few other possibly related posts you might enjoy:-A T-Shirt For People Who Love Killing Zombies -Plants vs. Zombies -Warning: Zombies Returning To San Francisco -Zombies Invade San Francisco! -$0.99 Cardboard iPhone Recession Case | |
| The Scariest Bridges From Around The World [Pics] |
| An unbelievable list of sky high vehicular bridges, super high suspension bridges, and creepy rope bridges; there is surely something here to cause you some chills or thrills. | |
| Cat Fight!!! (Video) |
| The Women's NCAA soccer season is back in the swing of things, and you now what that means....Cat Fights! This time around it was the Oregon Ducks' Mercedes Walters doing the slapping, clawing, and hair pulling. As for her victim, that would be the lovely Kyndall Treadwell of Oklahoma State. | |
| WATCH: Dems Recreate Vitter-Prostitute Encounter In New Web Video | TPMDC |
| The Louisiana Democratic party has produced an extremely potent video recapping, and even re-enacting, the full history of David Vitter's prostitution scandals. Though the segment is web-only, it's easily the farthest the party has gone to highlight the indiscretions -- a task they usually leave to surrogates, but which they view as the key to unseating him. | |
| Palin an interested spectator in Alaska primary |
| (08/22/2010) After a string of her candidates fell short in recent election primaries, Sarah Palin takes a trackside seat in her own state Tuesday as her choice for Alaska's U.S. Senate post takes on the incumbent. Palin's pick, attorney and political unknown Joe Miller, seems to have gained little traction against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, according to political experts in the state. If Miller loses, it would be the latest setback for Palin's effort this year to propel candidates nationwide through her endorsements. | |
| Oval Office Redecoration (In Pictures) |
| One of the most famous parts of the White House, the president's Oval Office, is redecorated for Barack Obama. | |
| Gulf oil rig explodes off La. coast |
| Coast Guard: Offshore oil rig in Gulf of Mexico explodes; west of site of BP rig | |
| Mad modelers make 10-foot-tall 'Recycle Grade' Gundam model from disused parts trees |
| For model makers, parts trees are a necessary evil. They keep individual components from sliding around in the box and damaging each other, but often contain more plastic than the model itself. Plus, they offer plenty of sharp points just perfect for piercing blanched, sun-deprived skin. | |
| Hurricane Earl's eye on track to pass near Outer Banks late Thursday |
| Storm expected to weaken as it approaches New England on Friday Hurricane Earl Advisory No. 33 NWS TPC / National Hurricane Center Miami FL11:00 a.m. EDT Thu Sept. 02 2010 View full sizeNOAAHurricane Earl is shown southeast of the Carolina coast in this current infrared satellite image. Dangerous Hurricane Earl heading for the Outer Banks of North Carolina, hurricane warnings issued for portions of Massachusetts. At 11:00 a.m. EDT the eye of Hurricane Earl was located near latitude 30.9 north, longitude 74.8 west. Earl is now moving toward the north near 18 mph, 30 km/hr. A turn toward the north-northeast with an increase in forward speed is expected on Friday. On the forecast track, the center of Earl will pass near the North Carolina Outer Banks tonight, and approach southeastern New England Friday night. Maximum sustained winds are near 140 mph, 220 km/hr, with higher gusts. Earl is a category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. No significant change in strength is expected today, but gradual weakening should begin on Friday. Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 90 miles, 150 km, from the center, and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 230 miles, 370 km. Estimated minimum central pressure is 932 mb, 27.52 inches. Summary of 11:00 a.m. EDT information: Location: 30.9n 74.8w about 300 mi, 485 km s of Cape Hatteras North Carolina about 765 mi, 1230 km ssw of Nantucket Massachusetts Maximum Sustained Winds: 140 mph, 220 km/hr Present Movement: n or 355 degrees at 18 mph, 30 km/hr Minimum Central Pressure: 932 mb, 27.52 inches Summary of watches and warnings in effect: A hurricane warning is in effect for, * Bogue Inlet North Carolina northeastward to the North Carolina/Virginia border including the Pamlico and Albemarle sounds. * westport Massachusetts eastward around cape cod to hull including Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket Island A hurricane watch is in effect for, * north of the North Carolina/Virginia border to Cape Henlopen Delaware. A tropical storm warning is in effect for, * Cape Fear to west of Bogue Inlet North Carolina. * north of the North Carolina/Virginia border to Sandy Hook New Jersey, including Delaware bay south of Slaughter Beach and the Chesapeake Bay south of New Point Comfort. * the eastern portion of Long Island New York from Fire Island Inlet to Port Jefferson Harbor. * New Haven Connecticut to west of Westport Massachusetts, including Block Island. A tropical storm watch is in effect for, * north of hull Massachusetts to Eastport Maine. * the coast of Nova Scotia from Port Maitland to Medway Harbour. * the coast of Long Island west of Fire Island Inlet and Port Jefferson Harbor. Hazards affecting land:Winds: Tropical-storm-force winds are expected to reach the North Carolina coast within the warning area by this afternoon. Even if the center of Earl remains offshore, hurricane force winds are expected to occur in the Outer Banks by tonight. Tropical-storm- force winds will likely reach the coast from Virginia northward to New Jersey tonight or early Friday. Storm surge:A dangerous storm surge will raise water levels by as much as 3 to 5 feet above ground level within both hurricane warning areas and the lower Chesapeake Bay. Elsewhere within the tropical storm warning area, storm surge will raise water levels by as much as 1 to 3 feet above ground level. Near the coast, the surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves. Rainfall: Accumulations of 2 to 4 inches, with isolated maximum amounts of 6 inches, are expected over portions of eastern North Carolina including the Outer Banks. Accumulations of 1 to 2 inches are possible farther to the north along the immediate mid-Atlantic coast. Surf: Large swells from Earl will continue to affect the Bahamas and the east coast of the United States through Friday. These swells will likely cause dangerous surf conditions and rip currents. | |
| DGA Files Complaint Against Fox News For Illegal Contribution To GOP Candidate |
| Keeping up its war with Fox News, the Democratic Governors Association on Thursday filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission accusing the network of making an illegal in-kind contribution to gubernatorial candidate John Kasich (R-OH). The complaint, clocking in at seven pages and signed by the DGA's Executive Director Nathan Daschle, makes some far-reaching charges. | |
| The Comedy Movie Poster Trivia Quiz |
| Name the movie based on just one section of the Poster. | |
| FICO: A Look at Credit Reporting Agencies (Infographic) |
| Here's an in-depth look at credit reporting agencies and what the reports (and your score) entail. | |
| Your Library is Dying |
| The shape of information science is changing more radically and rapidly than ever, and our libraries can’t keep up. | |
| 10 Movie Robots That Left Their Mark On Today's Society |
| Robots have been appearing in movies for nearly 100 years. They can be cute, cool, scary or just plain annoying, but one things for sure, everyone seems to love them. | |
| Sexiest Eyes In Hollywood History - Female Edition! (PHOTOS) |
| Here it is. See if you can guess the stars by their eyes alone. And please let me know who I missed by leaving a comment below! | |
| Why Israelis Don't Care About Peace with Palestinians |
| Israelis feel prosperous, secure -- and disengaged from the peace process with the Palestinians. Is that wise? | |
| Do you ever feel bad about killing bugs or spiders? |
| There was a spider hanging out in an upper corner of my room. My bed is right up against this wall. I couldn't fall asleep with a fucking spider hanging right over me, so I got a shoe, stood there like an idiot for maybe eight seconds because my conscience was getting the best of me, then said "Sorry guy" and smashed that motherfucker. Am I a pussy? Tell me this is within normal, manly human behavior. I mean, the poor bastard wasn't doing anything to me besides existing. submitted by munnerlyng to AskReddit [link] [124 comments] | |
| Be honest Reddit, what do you *really* think about America? |
| and tell us which country you are from to make this even more interesting. Edit: It's great getting so many perspectives. Edit (2): Please stop saying 'you' and 'your' when talking about the US. Guys I'm Australian. Edit (3): Why the downvotes? This isn't a US vs the World thing. I just want to learn about how people view the US no matter how outrageous. submitted by nuttyalmond to AskReddit [link] [133 comments] | |
| Apple's Ping network linked to trademark agreement |
| Apple's new Ping social network -- introduced alongside iTunes 10 -- required a special trademark agreement to make happen, a press statement reveals. Karsten Manufacturing notes that it technically owns the Ping name for one of its sub-brands, which produces golf equipment. | |
| Chewbacca Illustrated as Winnie-the-Pooh |
| Cue the "awww" | |
| IBM Introduces World's Fastest Processor: 5.2GHz Enterprise Chip |
| Don't blink -- if you do, you may miss IBM's new processor. The company is boldly claiming that the chip within IBM's new zEnterprise clocks in at 5.2GHz, making it the world's fastest microprocessor. We're sure this claim could be challenged on multiple fronts, namely by hardcore overclockers who have seen their own chips operate at much... | |
| 10 Scene-Stealing Onscreen Pets |
| There’s no denying that adorable animals are often cast in big- and small-screen productions as a sidekick to warm the audience’s heart. However, there’s a special subset of animal actors that have become fan favorites. Whether they bark, meow, quack, scratch or dig, these 10 TV and movie pets stole the scene from their two-legged costars. | |
| Juror Expelled for Posting Verdict on Facebook |
| Social media and jurors do not mix. | |
| Why Does Every Store in Japan Have Orange Balls at the Counter? |
| Filed under: Videos, Busted!I'll tell you right away, not because I like you but so this post shows up in search results: These balls full of orange paint are anti-theft devices. When someone robs a store, the clerk can throw the ball at the perp (or at the perp's feet) so they're easily identified after they escape. According to the Japan Times, though they're only thrown in 7% of robberies, the balls mostly work as a deterrent, since stores prominently display them. They're so visible that foreigners in Japan often wonder what they're there for. And in the video below, the clerks act adorable as they awkwardly explain why the visiting American shouldn't try to buy those orange balls on the counter. via:// reddit Permalink|Email this|LinkingBlogs|Comments | |
| What Final Fantasy XII and Heavy Rain Have in Common |
| It stands within reason that Final Fantasy XIII and Heavy Rain should have a lot more on the classics of yesteryear. They should have evolved significantly in the overall quality of experience–from gameplay to graphics, each title has had more than enough time to improve itself. But for some reason, they fail to be as immersive as they should be. What went wrong? | |
| The 7 Most Irritating Characters From Otherwise Great Movies |
| Man Spends 62 Years Building Fleet Out of Matchsticks |
| Philip Warren spent the past 62 years faithfully recreating an armada of 432 Royal Navy warships out of matchsticks and wooden matchboxes. Over the last six decades, he has painstakingly crafted every naval warship afloat, in service or to have come in since the second World War. 79-year-old Philip, a retired company director from Blandford, Dorset, England, began creating his first ship in 1948 when he was just 17. He uses a razor blade, tweezers and sandpaper to carve the matches and boxes before piecing them together using PVA and balsa wood glue. In total he has utilized more than 650,000 to create his incredibly detailed 1:300 scale models. Very impressive, sir. If it weren't for professional sports and video games, we'd probably be in a basement gluing stuff together, too. Keep reading for a closer peek at some of Philip's work. ... | |
| Twitter’s iPad App: All the Bells and Whistles |
| Twitter has just announced the service's official iPad app. It's free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is | |
| Bring Fido or Fluffy on vacation: Pet-friendly hotels with pets on staff |
| There's a new breed of hotel staffers—the pets on the payroll. Although these animals-in-residence are fairly pampered and often enjoy celebritylike status, they have a job to do: amping up guest relations and rolling out a new kind of (stain-resistant) red carpet. | |
| 60% Of Apps In Android Market Are Free (Vs. 30% Or Less In Other App Stores) |
| App store analytics provider Distimo yesterday published its latest report, once again zooming in on the pricing of mobile applications across a variety of platforms. Consistent with its previous findings, Googles Android Market has by far the largest share of free applications available compared to other mobile app store, but the gap is also widening. In July 2010, 60% of all applications on Android Market were free of charge, representing an increase of 3% since May 2010 when it was 57%. As you can tell from the graph below, that share is more than double the share of free apps on other mobile app stores, with the exception of Palms App Catalog (albeit barely). The share of free applications is smallest on Windows Marketplace for Mobile (22%), followed by the Apple App Store for iPad (26%) and BlackBerry App World (26%). (click image for full size) Lets take a closer look at the prices of paid apps across mobile application stores. Distimo posits that the average price of the 100 most popular apps in Android Market and Palms App Catalog is higher than the average price of the entire catalogue of applications. While the average price of all applications is only 16% higher in the Apple App Store for iPad than in the App Store for iPhone, the average price of the 100 most popular applications is nearly three times as high in the former. More than 60% of applications are priced below or equal to $2.00 in the App Store for iPhone, Android Market, Nokias Ovi Store and Palms App Catalog. The proportion of applications priced below or equal to $2.00 is much lower in the App Store for iPad and Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Notably, it seems prices of apps for iOS devices are on the rise. The proportion of paid applications priced below $1 on the Apple App Store for iPad and Apple App Store for iPhone has decreased in both in July 2010, from 30% to 25% and from 49% to 45%, respectively. (click image for full size) (click image for full size) [crunchbase url="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/distimo" name="Distimo"] | |
| The Geography of Sex (Infographic) |
| So Iceland is cold..Well guess what, they also have the highest frequency of sex per year. As for the U.S, it turns out that some cities are hotbeds for love-making, whilst others are less than lustful. Check out this infograhic about the geography of sex. | |
| One man's desperate attempt to stop illegal rhino poaching; does anyone think this is ethical? |
| submitted by Ryguythescienceguy to science [link] [105 comments] | |
| Seven Stonehenges Made from Recycled Materials [Pics] |
| Given the amount of Stonehenge replicas springing up around the world, one can safely say there is a Stonehenge craze. | |
| MarketOnTwitr.com » Give your Twitter experience a new direction... |
| Marketontwitr(MOT) is an amazing twitter app offering amazing features for twitter marketing and enhancing your twitter business. With this twitter software you can follow lots of twitter followers, manage your twitter accounts, schedule tweets, schedule rss feeds and much more automatically. | |
| Twitter To Roll Out URL Shortener To All By End Of Year |
| Twitter's link shortener, available to all by year's end, hopes to boost security, but is bad for th | |
| Apple Announces Music Social Media Service: Ping | Driven Far Off |
| Apple today, at their annual music event, announced new iPods and an updated version of iTunes that includes a new social media service called Ping. iTunes 10, which is available now, features Ping which add social media capabilities to iTunes where you can can join friends in discovering new music and even follow your favorite artist and see what ... | |
| Russia's seed bank under threat - One of the biggest and most important seed banks in the world is at risk of being replaced by a private housing development. The facility near St Petersburg houses thousands of varieties of plants, not found anywhere else |
| submitted by pyth to science [link] [7 comments] | |
| Russia's seed bank under threat - One of the biggest and most important seed banks in the world is at risk of being replaced by a private housing development. The facility near St Petersburg houses thousands of varieties of plants, not found anywhere else |
| submitted by pyth to science [link] [7 comments] | |
| Russia's seed bank under threat - One of the biggest and most important seed banks in the world is at risk of being replaced by a private housing development. The facility near St Petersburg houses thousands of varieties of plants, not found anywhere else |
| submitted by pyth to science [link] [7 comments] | |
| Russia's seed bank under threat - One of the biggest and most important seed banks in the world is at risk of being replaced by a private housing development. The facility near St Petersburg houses thousands of varieties of plants, not found anywhere else |
| submitted by pyth to science [link] [7 comments] | |
| 35 Logos with hidden messages in 2010 |
| Here are 35 exceptionally creative logos that have a hidden message within them. FedEx logo design is an old example now, check new brilliant hidden logos here. Few logo designers are capable of creating negative space logo design. | |
| Brett Dickins Wall Sculptures |
| MySpace Now Offers Sync with Facebook Profiles, Pages |
| When you can’t defeat the enemy, befriend him. This is the new strategy apparently adopted by the much struggling social networking site, MySpace. | |
| Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. |
| Are you addicted to Twitter? Do you have an iPad? Even if the answer to both is no right now, after you see Twitter for iPad, those answers are going to change quickly. Yes, the wait is over. Launching tonight in the App Store is Twitter for iPad the first official native iPad app from the company. We all knew it was coming (Twitter even said so a few months ago), but it has been a long wait. It was definitely worth it. Like most people, I wander into hyperbole from time to time. But it has now been a few days since I first played with Twitter for iPad, and I still think it is hands-down the best iPad app out there. Its that good. With all due respect to Reeder, Instapaper, Flipboard, and Pulse, this is now going to be my go-to app for just about everything related to reading news. Its simply such a great experience for reading tweets and more importantly, reading the links your friends share. What Twitter (and developer Loren Brichter specifically) has done is create an amazing user experience for reading information. This is thanks to an intuitive user interface that layers on top of itself. So, for example, if I click on a link in my tweet stream, Ill have a new layer that rolls over to show that webpage in a customized browser window. If youve used Flipboard, its somewhat similar, but better because its much easier to go back to where ever you previously were before you clicked the link. You simply swipe something to the side to move it temporarily or swipe it again to get it off the screen (in portrait mode anyway, where theres less space). Something else thats awesome: when you highlight a tweet by clicking on it, its now pinned to the top or bottom of the screen as you scroll through your stream. This is great if its something you want to reference. A lot of thought has been put into these type of saving state actions within this app. Its simple to save a draft and go back to it, for example (much easier than with Twitter for iPhone). Or to reference one of these pinned tweets in your own tweet. There are also some great new gestures that Twitter came up with for this app. For example, if you pinch-outward on a tweet, it will unfold to show you more information about the Twitter user. Better may be the way you can swipe down with two fingers on any tweet to see a full conversation in context. Its the little things like this that make the app great Apple-like, even. Overall, the app looks and feels quite a bit different from Twitter for iPhone (which Twitter built from Tweetie Brichters client that they acquired earlier this year). But Twitters Leland Rechis assures me its using all the same stuff on the backend. In fact, Twitter is now a universal app meaning its one app that will work on both the iPhone and iPad, it will just look different depending on which device youre using it on. Rechis also says Twitter started experimenting with some newer things on the iPad version that havent yet been brought to the iPhone version, butundoubtedlywill. A great example here is that when you click through to a users profile page, youll see at the bottom a list of users similar to that user that you may like to follow. Rechis also notes the importance of the logged-out view something Twitter worked on before the iPhone version launch. Twitter wants to make the service as useful as possible to people even if they dont have an account. The idea, of course, is that theyll hopefully sign up for one and this app may give them the most reason to yet. When logged out, youll be able to see tweet streams based on hot topics. Tweets in general are not just what Im doing, they have an incredible amount of metadata, Rechis says speaking to why they created this layering idea for the app. Almost 25 percent of all tweets now have a link in them, he says. This app is perfect for those tweets, and content consumption and exploration in general. Rechis notes that one of his favorite things about tablets is how they eliminate window management. At the same time, you need some way to manage all this information. He notes that Brichters original concept was stacks of sheets of paper that you quickly shuffle through. Other members of Twitter including Rechis refined that idea and the end result is Twitter for iPad. Thats 750 words about the app but you really just need to see it, and use it. It will definitely be my go-to way to browse Twitter from now on. Its that good. | |
| Reddit ‘excited’ about chance to eat Digg’s lunch |
| For a long time now, Digg has been the king of technology news aggregation. Tech fans liked the way they could rate their favorite tech stories highly, and see links to those rise to the top of the site’s home page. | |
| Confirmed: T-Mobile G2 will have Android 2.2, Flash and 800MHz CPU |
| T-Mobile is calling it "the fastest smartphone experience in America," but as it turns out, its Qualcomm Scorpion CPU is actually relatively slow -- the cellular carrier's insider newsletter T-Mobile Scoop says the phone's MSM7x30 chip will be clocked at 800MHz, rather than the 1GHz we'd hoped for. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that T-Mobile lying about speed, as anyone who's upgraded from Droid to Droid 2 very well knows -- bloatware can easily clog the pipes even on phones running Froyo, and we've heard that this particular HTC device is running a pure vanilla Android build. Speaking of delectable operating system revisions, T-Mobile confirms you'll indeed find Android 2.2 under the hood accompanied by Flash Player 10.1, as well as "one-touch quick keys" the carrier claims provide Speedy Gonzales-like access to apps and shortcuts. Still waiting to be confirmed: a $200 subsidized price, and the day we'll see it in stores. [Thanks, james_of_the_jungle]Confirmed: T-Mobile G2 will have Android 2.2, Flash and 800MHz CPU originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | T-Mobile Scoop |Email this|Comments | |
| Jobs suggests that competitors' device activation tallies may be inflated, Google quickly responds |
| Not satisfied to simply trump Google's daily device activation numbers, Steve Jobs added insult to injury at the Apple press conference this afternoon, claiming that unspecified "friends" have been counting handset upgrades in their statistical totals and not just newly activated phones. As you might imagine, Google was not terribly pleased at this turn of events, and issued the following retort: "The Android activation numbers do not include upgrades and are, in fact, only a portion of the Android devices in the market since we only include devices that have Google services." Now, we don't honestly know who's telling the truth here and we'd like to be able to take both companies at their word, but this isn't the first time even during this particular Apple shindig that questionable claims were thrown out as fact. [Thanks, Kamal]Jobs suggests that competitors' device activation tallies may be inflated, Google quickly responds originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Fortune |Email this|Comments | |
| Brain exercises may slow cognitive decline initially, but speed up dementia later |
| New research shows that mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may, at first, slow the decline of thinking skills but speed up dementia later in old age. | |
| If Vegas Escort Ads Were Accurate |
| Most of these ads seem grossly misleading. The idea that I'm going to get a girl that looks like a Playboy centerfold to come to my room for a mere $69 is insulting. In order to rectify the situation, we've mocked up these accurate Vegas escort ads. | |
| 5 big-budget sci-fi films that actually got their science right |
| I always yell at the screen when a movie spaceship make a "whooshing" noise when it flies past. Such is the life of an evil-hearted nerd scientist critic of science fiction movies. Still, it's not all bad. As rare as good stuff in movies can be, maybe it's time to recognize it. I love a challenge, so let's take a look: What movies got their science right? | |
| Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down |
| For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz "AWS-3" band. The service would pay for itself via advertisements and by selling commercial access to various portions of the license area. The company that proposed the plan, M2Z Networks, would commit to building out the project in a decade, and pay five percent of its annual revenue to the United States Treasury. But on Wednesday M2Z informed the press that the FCC has told the company and its backers that the Commission is dropping the concept, and that is so: "We gave careful and thorough consideration to the proposal, butultimately determined that this was not the best policy outcome," Ruth Milkman, chief of the FCC's Wireless Bureau told us. "We remain vigilant in our efforts to facilitate the universal deployment and adoption of broadband, especially through the much-needed reform to the Universal Service Fund." Read the comments on this post | |
| Yes, iTunes 10 Is Finally Here. Get Downloading |
| If you're anything like me, you've been hitting refresh on the Apple iTunes website waiting for them to put iTunes 10 up for download. Sure, it has said it was available since this morning, but when you click through, it would still be iTunes 9.2.1 with a promise that iTunes 10 was | |
| FCC Questions Key Aspects of Google and Verizon’s Net Neutrality Proposal |
| The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is diving deeper into Google and Verizon's proposed net neutrality framework with a public notice and inquiry into | |
| "Fingers Cross Upcoming Goes Live Tomorrow" - @KevinRose |
| From the man himself "digg update: coders found a big bug in the promotion algo, fix going live soon. fingers cross upcoming goes live tomorrow" | |
| Fidel Castro regrets discrimination against gays in Cuba |
| Fidel Castro has acknowledge discrimination against homosexuals during his rule in the 1960s and 70s, regretting that he did not pay enough attention to the “great injustice” suffered. | |
| Ten TV Shows You Never Knew Existed | Gunaxin Media |
| Ten blasts from the past that you probably never heard of. | |
| Awesome Mass Effect 2 Cosplay of Miranda Lawson |
| While she may not be as hot as the voice actress of the original Miranda Lawson, Yvonne Strahovski, she is still indeed pulling it off with that nice ass. | |
| Old Digg Crushes New Digg in Reader Vote |
| In the debate between the old version of Digg and the new Digg, the readers have spoken.Last week, Digg launched version 4.0 of the popular social news website. Its been a rocky road pre-launch, so why would it be any different post-launch?Since the launch of the New Digg, which introduced the ability to follow friends, a faster architecture and personalized news, users have been in revolt, mostly over the types of stories reaching the front page. Digg has since addressed some of these issues, but the debate rages on.Last week we asked you, the Mashable readers, for your opinion on Digg. Which did you prefer: The new digg or the old one?The old version of Digg was clearly your choice. With a full 78% of the vote (4,808 votes), the classic version bested the new versions 12% (747 votes). Four percent of you (230 votes) said it was a tie, while 6% of you (348 votes) said you werent a fan of Digg.In the comments, the debate surrounded features that were available in the old version that werent in the new one, including the ability to bury stories and the ability to check upcoming stories. Many of you were also quick to point out that the new Digg is designed to broaden the appeal of the social news website, rather than limit it to its current niche of tech-savvy users.Were going to revisit this debate in the future, when weve had time to reflect on the changes happening at Digg. In the meantime though, we want to hear your thoughts on this debate in the comments. New Digg vs. Old Digg: Which one do you prefer?online surveys Follow Mashable on DiggReviews: Digg, MashableMore About: digg, New Digg, poll, web faceoffFor more Battles coverage:Follow Mashable Battles on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Battles channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad | |
| Report: Kinect Will Only Understand Americans, Brits, Japanese & Mexicans |
| #xbox360 Oh dear. It's not just Spaniards who won't be able to control Kinect with their voices when the peripheral launches. It's everyone who doesn't live in the US, Mexico or United Kingdom. More | |
| Apple's Answer To Xbox Live Launches Next Week |
| #apple Friends lists, matchmaking, and a unified multiplayer gaming experience come to the iPhone in next week with the release of Apple's Game Center in iOS 4.1. More | |
| Project Sword Is Epic's First Unreal Engine iPhone Game |
| #iphone Gears of War and Unreal Tournament creators Epic Games will bring competitive multiplayer sword-based combat, powered by its Unreal Engine, to the iPhone later this year with slash-em-up Project Sword. More | |
| Theres Some Spotify In My Sonos |
| Great news for Europeans and those few U.S. users of music streaming service Spotify. Sonos, creator of the super cool (my descripton) S5 music player, is announcing today that users will soon be able to listen to streaming Spotify music through their Sonos devices. That means users will now be able to listen to music files stored on any computer in their home as well as Spotify, Rhapsody, Napster, Deezer, Pandora and other services. U.S. users still have to wait for Spotify to launch here, of course, or find another way to access the service. On the upside, Sonos says their iPad controller app will be hitting iTunes sometime soon. So theyve got that going for them, which is nice. | |
| 5 Reasons Why Apple TV Is (Still) Boring |
| We know the new Apple TV is really small, and cheap and easy-to-use. That's all good, but still not knocking our socks off despite being the ripest area for expansion by a company that has already firmly established itself on the computer, phone, portable media player and tablet. Here are five reasons Apple TV is still boring. | |
| Sports Car Breaks Suicide Jumper's Fall |
| In a city with so many skyscrapers, we can understand the allure of jumping off the top of one to end it all. It's faster than pills and cheaper than buying a gun. Unless you happen to land on somebody's parked sports car. And live. And that's exactly what happened to New York resident Todd Magill, who jumped 40 floors to what probably should have been certain death, only to wind up with only a broken leg, collapsed lung and shattered ankle. Oh, and he freaking totaled Guy McCormack's 2008 red Dodge Charger (above). Well, technically it belonged to McCormack's wife. Hopefully he's not in trouble with the missus. Magill jumped off the rooftop of the West End Towers on 52nd Street, where he lived a year ago (apparently security's a little lax), and reached a drop speed of 126 miles per hour before crashing McCormack's car. He's expected to make a full recovery. Aside from the embarrassment, that is. That's probably going to stick around for a while. ... | |
| Windows Phone 7 goes gold master, begins rolling out to partners for final launch preparations |
| If you've been holding yourself back during these early rounds of the smartphone wars in anticipation of Windows Phone 7, your wait just got a tiny bit shorter. Today Microsoft is announcing that its fancy new mobile operating system has been released to manufacturing, making the idea of you holding an actual WP7 device in your hands that much closer to reality. The finished product is now rolling out to partners around the world where it will be getting carrier and manufacturer tweaks and additions, and going through the kind of pre-launch testing you would expect for a release of this scale. If you had any doubt that the Windows Phone 7 onslaught was close at hand, feel free to abandon them now. Furthermore, the folks on the 7 team have managed to cram a few last minute goodies into the OS, one of which we're particularly excited about. As you probably know from our in-depth preview of an early version of the software, we had a lot of issues with overflowing Facebook contacts in our phone. Microsoft has now solved that problem by enabling a contact filter system which looks for pre-existing matches to your Facebook contacts. If it doesn't find a match, it doesn't pull that contact into your address book (kind of like how Android filters Facebook friends). It's a welcome addition and should make the Facebook / Windows Phone 7 combo a lot more palatable to to a lot of people. Furthermore, Microsoft has added functionality into the People Hub which will allow you to "like" someone's posts, and you'll be able to comment directly onto someone's Wall right in the hub. The company has also made tweaks and fixes focusing on feature discoverability (another issue we pointed out in the early look), along with the expected set of polishing and finish you'd expect from a product that's gone gold master.Windows Phone 7 goes gold master, begins rolling out to partners for final launch preparations originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | |Email this|Comments | |
| Epic's spectacular Unreal Engine 3 tech demo free at iTunes App Store |
| Did you oooh and ahh at the fantastic gaming graphics that accompanied today's Apple keynote? You won't have to wait for next week's iOS 4.1 to get a taste of those textures for yourself. Though the full-on gladiator dueling of Epic's "Project Sword" may be a while off, you can get your hot little hands on "Epic Citadel" right now, a 82.2 megabyte download that explores a beautiful medieval castle town. Oh, and did we mention it's free? Even id Software's mindblowing 60FPS Rage demo must be quaking in its boots right about now.Epic's spectacular Unreal Engine 3 tech demo free at iTunes App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.PermalinkTouch Arcade | Epic Citadel (iTunes) |Email this|Comments | |
| St Jarnan footballers celebrate goal with 'human toilet' |
| Another creative goal celebration from the players of Icelandic club. | |
| All the Cool New Stuff From Apple Today |
| Apple's music event was so full of shiny gadgets and awesome news that your head might still be spinning. In case you struggled to keep up with everything or want a review, here are all the highlights: | |
| Young Ian McKellen |
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| 10 Sure-Fire Money Moves That Will Always Pay Off Or Not? |
| The Wall Street Journal is very confident! Using the word guaranteed in the financial world is like telling a pitcher hes got a no-no going in the 6th inning. But apparently the WSJ doesnt care. They have found 10 money moves that will always, always pay off guaranteed! Aside from the catchy title luring me in, I had to see what financial advice they were talking about, and of course, I wanted to weigh in on it too. So, here are their 10 sure-fire money ideas and financial advicewith my side commentary. 1. Max that 401(k) Heres what WSJ says: This is a slam dunk for you. Every dollar you invest saves you money on taxes because it comes off your taxable income. So Uncle Sam is effectively chipping in. I agree with the concept max your savings and youll have more for retirement. You also get a tax-break now, which is great financial advice. But, tax rates are going up next year and although we dont know where tax rates will be in the future, theres a pretty good chance that theyll be much higher than they are now. Tax rates are at a historical low. You may be creating a tax time-bomb that is just waiting to go off! In my opinion, dont fall in love with your 401k!! Anything beyond the company match is up for debate in terms of contributions and really, you should be looking to diversify yourself from a tax perspective any way. 2. Give up the vacation home What WSJ says: Most of the time we use them for a few weeks or months of the year. They cost money to buy. There are annual upkeep, maintenance, condo fees and taxes. Ok, this makes sense. Get rid of excess, trim the fat, reduce expenses. All smart things. But, what if you could buy a vacation home at or near the bottom of the market and you can use it to build True Wealth? That is, of course, you can afford it! 3. Put $5,000 into an IRA account or Roth IRA tax shelter WSJ says: If youre over 50, put in $6,000. And make sure your spouse does too. IRAs are a great deal. There is a big difference between putting into a Roth or a Traditional IRA and that has to do with IRA withdrawals! Again, the idea of saving money is great financial advice! Not everyone is eligible for a Traditional IRA or a Roth for that matter. So make a careful decision when figuring out which retirement account is right for you. 4. Pay off your credit-card debt WSJ: Eat macaroni and cheese for three months if you have to, but pay off those balances. Youre probably paying at least 15% interest. You may be paying a lot more. Youd have to earn maybe 17% before tax on an investment just to keep pace. Boring? Nobodys making 17% these days. So pay off your credit-card debt and brag to all your friends that you just beat Wall Street. Amen!! Paying off credit-card debt is possibly the greatest sure-fire money move you can make. Of course, you knew that piece of financial advice already, but its time to do it! Heres a good tool to knowyour credit-card payoff amount . 5. Fire your banker Heres what WSJ says: If youre like most people, youre probably paying hundreds of dollars a year in account service fees, ATM charges for access to your own money and the like. Im actually not paying account service fees or ATM charges because I dont overdraft and I dont use outside ATMs! 6. Get your tax refund early WSJ: How? By not overpaying your taxes in the first place. Every year, millions of people cheer when they get a check back from Uncle Sam. But that just means they paid too much withholding tax during the year. So Uncle Sam got an interest-free loan. I do like this point, unless of course, you need a tax refund because you simply wont save that extra money! 7. Buy inflation-protected bonds According to WSJ: Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, arent sexy. They wont make you rich. But theyre guaranteed twice over. Theyre issued by the U.S. government, so they are guaranteed against default. And they are protected against inflation because coupons and principal will adjust to reflect it. Really? Hmm. It seems like everyone has jumped on the TIPS bandwagon and those things are completely oversold leaving an opportunity for a TIPS bubble to burst. So theyre guaranteed by the U.S. government, but it doesnt mean they wont drop in value. Im not saying you dont want some exposure here, but to make it sound like its a no-lose proposition is a little scary. 8. Buy a bread machine WSJ says: If a $50 breadmaker saves you, say, $7 a week on buying bread, thats $350 year. The easiest dough youll make. Modern breadmakers are, well, a piece of cake to operate. The return on investment: 600% in year one and 700% after that. Wow, they are stretching for financial advice now!! Id bet that once the novelty wears off after four or five times using it, youll be right back to buying bread once a week at the grocery store.and youll be out $50 for the bread machine! My wife and I always talk about making bread and then we go buy some at the store. 9. Play hardball with your insurance company WSJ says: Call competitors and ask them to quote you prices for your current house and auto policies. Amen!! Heres how to negotiate your home and auto insurance. 10. Get a freebie from a bank WSJ says: Sign up for a credit card with a big bonus like a free air ticket or weekend hotel stay. Use the card enough to qualify. Then cancel the card. I know its a free airline ticket, but I have never done this mainly because it sounds like such a hassle. I hate calling customer service lines. Id almost rather pay for the ticket than deal with the headache. What Are Your Thoughts onThese Sure-Fire Money Moves? Let me know in the comments below! | |
| Augen planning its next generation of tablets, not giving up without a fight |
| Everyone deserves a second chance, right? In the world of cheapo tablets, sure! Or at least that's our attitude when it comes to a company like Augen. Sure, it was just about a month ago that it released its $150 GenTouch78 at Kmart, but it's planning some future tablet products and hoping to right all those previous wrongs. According to the statement put out by the company, this new set of "Espresso" tablets will be unveiled at CES 2011 and will span from 7 to 10 inches diagonally. They'll still be aggressively priced and range from $200 to $400, but at least this time around it's planning for some with capacitive touchscreens. Other specs are of the fairly cookie cutter mold: WiFi, an accelerometer and more storage space. No word on what version of Android they'll run, but there's mention of a new "human friendly input." That all sounds much better than the previous GenTouch products we've seen, but by the time January rolls around there's no telling what the tablet landscape could look like. We'll be following this one to see if Augen can keep the caffeine in its system, but hit the break for the full statement and one more render.Continue reading Augen planning its next generation of tablets, not giving up without a fightAugen planning its next generation of tablets, not giving up without a fight originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | |Email this|Comments | |
| Foursquare offers reward for checking in after STD checkups - Yahoo! News |
| Foursquare, the social network that allows members to broadcast their location and activities, has joined forces with MTV in an effort to remove the stigma attached with getting screened for sexually transmitted diseases. Members who "check in" for an STD test during the month of September will receive a special virtual "badge." | |
| HP Mini 210 and Mini 5103 officially announced with dual-core Atom power |
| Netbook makers like Lenovo, Gigabyte and ASUS have been quietly releasing new systems with Intel's new mobile, dual-core N550 processor, but HP's not keeping its use of the fresh chip in 10-inch netbooks a secret... anymore. Just as we've previously heard, the professional-aimed $399 Mini 5103 will be getting a dual-core 1.8GHz processor option, which HP tells us can improve benchmark performance by up to 20 percent without a significant impact on battery life. It's also been updated with a new "espresso" color and will have HP's Day Starter instant-on OS -- no WebOS buried in there yet. On the consumer end, the HP Mini 210 has also been refreshed -- actually, more like gutted -- with a new design. The 10.1-inch netbook is now available in a bunch of cleverly named colors, including crimson red and ocean drive, and has been revamped with a new back that integrates the battery into the bottom of the chassis. Don't worry: the battery is still swappable and you can open the bottom cover to replace the RAM and hard drive. It still has that chiclet keyboard we like so much, the rather hit-or-miss ClickPad touchpad and a Broadcom Crystal Accelerator option for 1080p playback. The Mini 210 will start at $330 with a single core Atom CPU and six-cell battery, but will be available with the N550 processor for a bit more (we're guessing around $75). The full release is after the break and some snazzy hands-on pics are below. Gallery: HP Mini 210 and Mini 5103 press shots Gallery: HP Mini 210 and HP Mini 5103 hands-onContinue reading HP Mini 210 and Mini 5103 officially announced with dual-core Atom powerHP Mini 210 and Mini 5103 officially announced with dual-core Atom power originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | |Email this|Comments | |
| New Digg CEO, take note: How social media companies respond to irate users |
| Days after launching a major revision to its social-news website, Digg has appointed Matt Williams, a former Amazon.com manager, as its new chief executive. And man, does he have some work ahead of him. The overhaul of Digg, which shifts the focus from a page edited by the masses to a personalized news feed, has angered some of its most loyal users. Many Diggers have been very vocal about staging an exodus to rival news site Reddit. Of course, these types of rumblings seem to happen just about any time a large site has its formula tinkered with. Twitter saw backlash recently when it released a feature called Retweet. A loud group that included the service's creator, Jack Dorsey, criticized Retweet for not letting users add a short note to those messages. The small music website TheSixtyOne heard angry chants when it unleashed a simpler version of the service. And such revolts make up practically a bimonthly tradition for Facebook. So how should social media website owners, who find the cries are loudest on their own pages, deal with the attacks? The Times talked to some of those administrators and looked to examples from the past for clues as to how Williams might want to handle the indignation he's inherited. Twitter has millions of passionate and observant users who will notice every time a new button is added or a new "promoted" thing shows up on the site.The San Francisco company provides guidelines for businesses using its social network, and when prompted for Twitter's own philosophy, a spokeswoman highlighted a line from that Best Practices page: "Listen regularly for comments about your company, brand and products -- and be prepared to address concerns, offer customer service or thank people for praise," she quoted. In other words, don't ignore the negativity. Facebook, with 500 million active members, knows push-back perhaps better than anyone. Sometimes the Palo Alto, Calif., developers lose (see: Beacon). Sometimes they win (News Feed).But judging by Facebook's reactions in the past, these issues are usually handled as such: The company lets things stew for a bit and eventually finds either a mountain or a molehill. Molehills disappear rather quickly. Mountains normally get addressed through company blog posts, often by Chief Mark Zuckerberg. Those messages have offered an excuse, some reasoning or an unusual alternative. (To ease privacy concerns, Facebook said users could vote on a sort of Bill of Rights. Few opted to participate, and so the program mostly fell by the wayside.) Beacon, a veritable Everest,resulted in a $9.5-million settlement. Reddit may have benefited the most from Digg users' revolt this week, but the small company has had to deal with tantrums of its own in the past. Though, comparedwith Digg's,"We've never had anything quite like that,"Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian said in an interview with The Times. But Ohanian seems to think Digg is scaling its mountain reasonably well. "It's important to remember that you're still running the site, and you're responsible for doing what's best for it," said Ohanian, who is no longer involved in Reddit's daily operations. "It's impossible to please everyone. And it's important to be wary of the silent majority, who will never let you know how they feel." Digg's response aligns with Ohanian's advice and that of Facebook. Founder Kevin Rose, who was filling in as interim CEO until Tuesday, wrote a blog postaddressing many complaints and offering fixes in the future. A Digg spokeswoman declined to comment for this story. While Rose maintains a great deal of influence at Digg, those decisions may ultimately fall on the shoulders of the new chief. "Introducing change is never easy, and bringing something as radically different as Digg version 4 was bound to generate a strong reaction," Rose wrote in a statementannouncing the hiring of Williams. "We are absolutely listening and really value everyone's feedback as we take Digg in new directions." So Williams will have plenty to mull over as he reshapes the fast-changing company. Rose offered some thoughts in an interview with AllThingsD about Williams' new role: "It's a pain in the ass and something I would never wish on my worst enemy." Have fun, Matt! -- Mark Miliantwitter.com/markmilian Photo: From left to right, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp, Digg founder Kevin Rose. Credit: Tony Pierce / Los Angeles Times | |
| Google Chrome Is The New Down For Everyone Or Just Me |
| You hit a site; its down. You immediately reload; its still down. You start to freak out. How the hell are they down again!? Is anyone in charge over there?! WTF?! But quite often, its just you. And you look like an ass for your rant that you just spewed on Twitter (or on Facebook when its Twitter that is down). Thankfully, it looks like Chrome can now potentially save you from thatembarrassment. Tech geeks are very familiar with sites like Down For Everyone Or Just Me (which was incidentally created by a then-Twitter employee and sold earlier this year). You go there, enter a URL and see if others people around the world are having trouble accessing the site as well. But the latest version of Chrome appears to do the same thing for you now, as the blog Rudefox pointed out today. While trying to load Chatroutlette today (like the rest of us) only to find that it was down, the author got a fairly typical browser note that Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to chatroulette.com. But whats interesting is that below that, it reads Other users are also experiencing difficulties connecting to this site, so you may have to wait a few minutes. See, there are some benefits to Google watching us. They can now save us a trip to Down For Everyone Or Just Me. [thanks Tom] | |
| What Is Facebook's CEO Trying To Hide? |
| #lawsuits Mark Zuckerberg said society has loosened up about privacy. But the Facebook CEO was talking about his users; now that he's a defendant in a New York lawsuit, Zuckerberg is calling for stronger privacy protections. More | |
| Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works |
| Notorious file sharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million. | |
| Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works |
| Notorious file sharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million. | |
| Bank of America reaches new low. Charges customers to use parking lot. [pic] |
| submitted by voyetra8 to WTF [link] [48 comments] | |
| Why? |
| submitted by moby323 to reddit.com [link] [51 comments] | |
| seriously. slow down. |
| submitted by JimKB to funny [link] [26 comments] | |
| Digg Update: A List of Upcoming Changes |
| Hi all, Just wanted to give you an update on the changes we have coming out this week, and what you can expect going forward. Fixed: read more | |
| Disqus Analytics Will Give Us More Insight Into Our Audience Even The Trolls |
| No matter the size of your website, commenters tend to be a smaller subset of your audience. But theyre also often among your most loyal readers who are the most engaged. Wouldnt it be great to know something about those people? Thats what Disqus is trying to nail with a new Analytics offering. While its still in its early stages, the key to Disqus Analytics is that its very simple to use and pull meaningful data from. Youll not only be able to see who your most loyal commenters are, youll be able to see the topics that are clearly the most important when it comes to engagement with your audience. And you can get data about which posts or people are most often liked and which login method your commenters are using to leave comments on various types of posts. As some of you have noticed, we just turned on Disqus comments a few days ago. So far, the system is working excellent. That on top of more community management should hopefully keep the trolls at bay. Well see. With these analytics though, at the very least well know something about the trolls. There are four key areas to the service right now: Snapshot, Activity, People, and Network. From Disqus: The Snapshot page is a quick glance at your communitys pulse. Youll see interesting facts, helpful numbers, and current activity trends. The Activity page serves as the detailed view for all the activity being generated in your community. Under People, youll learn more about your audience than just from looking at numbers and percentages. Finally, the Network page is meant to show how your community benefits from being connected to the largest platform of its kind on the web. The Network area is particularly interesting because of Disqus massive and growing usage. There are nearly 150 million people around the world now that use Disqus on a monthly basis. Disqus notes that theyre currently in the process of testing this Analytics package with a few of their communities, and theyll be slowly rolling it out more over time. Theyre looking for alpha testers, so visit here if youre interested. | |
| Monsanto Uprooted :: Germany Bans Cultivation of GM Corn |
| submitted by y2quest to worldnews [link] [4 comments] | |
| Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science | Magazine |
| Singh spent more than two years and well over $200,000 of his own money battling the case in court, and this past April he finally prevailed. In the process, he became a hero to those challenging the pseudoscience surrounding everything from global warming to vaccines to evolution. Its not necessarily a role he sought for himself, but its one he has embracedhes currently touring the world, talking about his case, libel reform, and how important it is to make sure scientists can speak truthfully and openly.Dont come up with a view, find everybody who agrees with it, and then say, Look at this, I must be right. Start off by saying, Who do I trust? On global warming, for example, I happen to trust climate experts, world academies of science, Nobel laureates, and certain science journalists. You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe. | |
| Computer Chips Seem Poised to Shrink Again - NYTimes.com |
| These chips store only 1,000 bits of data, but if the new technology fulfills the promise its inventors see, single chips that store as much as todays highest capacity disk drives could be possible in five years. | |
| Microsoft shows off new controller, with transforming D-pad |
| The D-pad on the existing 360 controllers is, to put it mildly, utter garbage. If you want to play any games relying on precise movements, such as fighting games, buying a third-party controller is a requirement. Microsoft hopes it has this problem licked, however, and is releasing a controller with a new, updated D-pad on November 9. The catch? You won't be able to buy the controller alone; you'll need to grab the Play and Charge Kit to get it, and the final cost will be $64.99. Read the comments on this post | |
| Kitten Sucks at Duck Hunt |
| ""No, not your paws! Use the zapper! Ugh, I'm taking you back to the shelter."" Uploaded 10 likes | |
| Rock and rooooollllll! |
| submitted by yeyonet to pics [link] [90 comments] | |
| This is funny, but when you're actually a developer, this isn't funny at all. One can spend hundreds of hours writing great software only to have the user want it free. Devs do need food too! |
| submitted by MackDaddy1 to programming [link] [17 comments] | |
| TweetDeck Warns Of Fake Update, Trojan |
| As we mentioned earlier today, some third-party Twitter applications may stop working because Twitter has made some big changes this morning regarding how other applications and websites gain access to your Twitter account. Unfortunately, some unfriendly types out there have tried to take advantage of the situation with a fake Tweetdeck update that is actually a trojan horse virus. Tweetdeck posted a warning on its blog yesterday about the fake update, but today will be the real test, as many of us go searching for the real update. Sponsor If you're seeing what I'm seeing this morning (see above), the only place to go is to the official Tweetdeck website. According to Tweetdeck, there are a number of tweets getting passed around urging users to update to the latest version of Tweetdeck. While many do need to update, the only place users should go to download this update is http://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop/. The tweets about the fake update link to a file named "tweetdeck-08302010-update.exe" and often are from the URL http://alturl.com. The Tweetdeck blog warns that many of the suspect tweets include the following: TweetDeck will work until tomorrow, udate now! 1.Download TweetDeck udate ASAP! 2.Update TweetDeck! 3.Hurry up for tweetdeck update! 4.Sorry for offtopic, but it is a critical TweetDeck update. It won't work tomorrow! Trend Micro researcher Paul Ferguson told Network World that the file is "a generic Trojan horse program that is not detected by most antivirus products", so installing the fake update could be harmful and go completely unnoticed. Discuss | |
| Immature |
| submitted by solomonar to funny [link] [24 comments] | |
| Arcade Fire, Google Create First HTML5-Powered Music Video |
| Alternative band Arcade Fire has collaborated with Google to make an interactive music video using HTML5 through Google Chrome. | |
| The zombie game you've been waiting for: Dead State, a zombie RPG by DoubleBear |
| submitted by BJ_Blazkowicz to gaming [link] [17 comments] | |
| Biden To Cool His Heels In Mexico For A While |
| JUREZ, MEXICO"I need to steer clear of D.C. until some shit blows over," said Biden, sitting in the far corner of a Mexican cantina with his back to the wall and taking a long swig from a bottle of Tecate Light. | |
| Hannspree pairs Android 2.2 with Tegra 2 for a 10.1-inch multitouch tablet |
| Yearning for a bit of dual-core action on the move? Who isn't. Hannspree will soon try to quell that 1080p-sized hunger in all of us with its freshly announced 399 ($507) Froyo tablet. There's no lack of spec sheet ambition here: a 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC is surrounded by 16GB of internal storage (expandable via MicroSD), an accelerometer, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, a 1,024 x 600-pixel capacitive touchscreen, and mini versions of HDMI and USB ports. Flash 10.1 is also proudly supported, while the 3,500mAh battery is said to last up to 8 hours when playing 1080p movies. We'd be getting real excited right about now, but we've learnt to be cautious with such lofty promises -- remember the Gemini?Continue reading Hannspree pairs Android 2.2 with Tegra 2 for a 10.1-inch multitouch tabletHannspree pairs Android 2.2 with Tegra 2 for a 10.1-inch multitouch tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Tblt.de |Email this|Comments | |
| As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? |
| submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments] | |
| As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? |
| submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments] | |
| As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? |
| submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments] | |
| As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? |
| submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments] | |
| As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? |
| submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments] | |
| As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? |
| submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments] | |
| As a black man, it bothers me when white people avert their gaze too quickly or give some other indication that they're nervous, but not in the way you'd think. I feel GUILTY for making them nervous, like it was my fault, or something. Any advice? |
| submitted by ruledindexcards to AskReddit [link] [153 comments] | |
| BREAKING The bloodiest fist of one of the biggest drug cartels in Mexico just fell. |
| submitted by memop3 to worldnews [link] [35 comments] | |
| Gmail Priority Inbox Finds and Sorts Important Messages Automatically |
| #gmail Google's new Priority Inbox feature not only sorts your inbox, but it also figures out what's important based on what messages you reply to and read. More | |
| OK. Enough is enough. Keep the digg news in /r/digg. I haven't cared, I don't care, and I won't care and many share my sentiments. |
| submitted by Lostinservice to reddit.com [link] [35 comments] | |
| Et tu, Israel? "A singer who performed in front of a 'mixed audience' of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him 'repent', after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday." |
| submitted by Upscale_Dirigible to worldnews [link] [25 comments] | |
| An Old Digg User Returns After Being Gone for a Week (Comic) |
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| Google Rolling Out 'Priority Inbox' for Gmail |
| Days after introducing voice calling within Gmail, Google on Tuesday unveiled a "priority inbox" feature within Gmail intended to highlight important messages. | |
| Gmail's "Priority Inbox" sorts important e-mail for you |
| You know the feeling: opening up your e-mail to find hundreds of messages of varying importance. Some are automated reminders from your favorite sites, some are newsletters you have subscribed to, some are actually from real people trying to contact you, and so on. Separating the wheat from the chaff can be overwhelming much of the time, and even the most carefully crafted filters don't keep up with the ever-changing nature of what's important to you. Google is hoping to address that problem with a new feature in Gmail called Priority Inbox. Aimed at providing users a way to get through their inboxes as efficiently as possible, Priority Inbox tries to learn your e-mail habits in order to decide which messages are important to you, and move them up to the top where you can see them first. Read the comments on this post | |
| The Rise of the Anti-Facebooks |
| Facebook is dominating social media in almost every country where it hasn't been banned, and the six-year old site shows no signs of slowing down. It's creeping across generations, replacing things like the phone book and introducing tools the masses had no idea they needed. It's also indoctrinating the world into adopting the Mark Zuckerberg Values of "openness," "sharing" and "living your whole life on the Internet." Those values have lead to a cultural movement. But here comes the resistance: a wave of social networking sites that define themselves in opposition to Facebook. Sponsor Privacy Fiends The most prominent example is Diaspora, the distributed, open-source social network all about privacy and control of your data. Diaspora doesn't cite Facebook by name on its Kickstarter page, where its four founders raised 20 times more money than they asked for. But its founders do refer to "large corporate networks who want to tell you that sharing and privacy are mutually exclusive." Diaspora's Kickstarter funding page reflects the demand for a Facebook alternative. The site will launch September 15. Diaspora's founders are followers of Eben Moglen, a professor at Columbia and fierce privacy advocate. Facebook is teaching us to sacrifice privacy for convenience, they argue, giving up our information to advertisers who can then "spy on us for free." They resent Facebook's "flipping of switches" that in the past has made user data public without asking permission. Another site, folkdirect.com, launched in January with a similarly lofty view of privacy: "Your details will never become fodder for targeted advertising campaigns and there are no third party apps to phish your data." Exclusiveness Facebook started as a social networking site for college students. Then high schoolers joined, then our parents and our bosses, then our grandparents. Many of its collegiate members were not pleased. CollegeOnly founder Josh Weinstein remembers how he and his friends were just as anxious to join Facebook as they were for freshman orientation. CollegeOnly launched a social network for "connecting student bodies" last week. When you graduate, you're out. In the promo video, Weinstein turns to the camera and asks, "Don't you wish your social network were college only?" Yet-to-launch mobile startup Scoop has a similar idea. Maybe age or school-affiliation isn't important, but exclusiveness still is. ASMALLWORLD is an invitation-only social network for "sophisticated" and "influential" people. "Trusted and loyal ASW members who meet certain criteria have the privilege of inviting a limited number of their friends to the network. If you know someone with this privilege, you can ask them to invite you. If not, please be patient and continue to ask around in your own personal and professional circles," the site says. Multiple personalities Facebook does let you target what you upload to specific friends. But Facebook doesn't want you to splinter your identity. Throughout its history, Facebook has encouraged users to use their real names, upload their real birthdays and use their real identities to log on to other sites. Hibe is a yet-to-launch social network based around controlling which personality you project to whom, a concept its creator calls "Social Web 3.0." "We are opening the way for a new social networking experience that goes beyond Facebook," the site says. Social Networking After FacebookA presentation about forthcoming social network Hibe.com, which emphasizes privacy and fractured online identities. Just last week we wrote about Facebook competitor Orkut introducing a similar feature with friend groups. The blog post announcing the feature was titled, "You're not always the same person. Why should it be any different on the Web?" And all the other things that annoy you about Facebook "Don't you wish your social network were college only?"-CollegeOnly founder Josh Weinstein Wish Facebook were simpler? Twitter. More professional? LinkedIn. None of these services has achieved a user base anywhere near the size of Facebook's alleged 500 million. But Twitter and LinkedIn each have a sizable following, and many of the just-launched or soon-to-launch anti-Facebooks are tapping into real demand. There is no single alternative to Facebook. But maybe there could be two. or three. Or hundreds. What do you think - could any of these sites (or a combination of them) ever replace Facebook? Discuss | |
| Throw Another Faggot On The Fire [Video] |
| Andy Griffith, you foul-mouthed man. Kudos to you if you lived in the 80s (like us) and watched a great movie staring Tom Berenger and Andy Griffith called Rustlers Rhapsody. Its a classic 80s flick that pokes fun at the old western movies with the good guys (who wear white) and the bad guys (who always wear black). I remember this quirky comedy for a few reasons. First, it also stared Marilu Henner as a prostitute trying to break down the walls of cowboy Rex OHerlihan (Berenger) which is a good thing for a kid Second, it featured Andy Griffith as a mean cattle baron who muttered the phrase Throw Another Faggot on the Fire. Thats not something you usually hear from Sheriff Andy Taylor. | |
| If Youve Got Social Media Fatigue, UR DOIN IT WRONG |
| Just as I was reading Paul Carrs latest column about quitting social media, my husband looked at his phone and broke into a huge smile. He is a graphic designer and has long been a fan of Chank Fonts. Earlier that day, hed taken a picture of a retro-looking podiatrist office, posting it on Twitter with the word Font-o-licious. It didnt go viral. It didnt become a trending topic. It didnt get him 1,000 new followers or even attract much attention at all. But it was noticed by Chank Diesel of Chank Fonts who Tweeted Im gonna dedicate my next font to that type-savvy podiatrist and started following my husband. Here in front of me was one of those serendipitous moments of social media collapsing space-and-time. These moments dont change the world, but theyre exactly what made social media so addictive in the first place. Imagine an industry hero of yours who seemed untouchable creating a product just because of a random picture you posted on an ever-moving stream of colliding information that he happened to see. Here, in the guise of my beaming husband, was the perfect articulation for why I think peopleeven my close friends who declare dramatic social media bankruptcy were just doing it wrong. What made social media a phenomenon were moments like these. Passively connecting in-and-out of a persistent conversation with people you know and see everyday, people you know but have lost touch with, and people you dont know but share interests with. People who in a more efficient world, you might have known. Its about making relationships more efficient. My parents know what Ive been up to by reading my Twitter feed, so when I call home I dont have to answer a vague question like What have you been up to? I answer a specific question like What country are you traveling to now? If a friend is looking for a job at a given company, I cant always remember who I know who works there, but with LinkedIn, I dont have to. And seeing what an old flame looks like on Facebook never gets old. If these selling points sound horribly clich its because they are commonplace reasons most everyday people use these sites, and indeed, the same reasons why the founders of most social media companies started these sites. But the sites worked too well at amassing fans, friends and followers, creating micro-economies where people sought to cash in on their would-be fame and influence. And that is when the problemsand inevitably the fatigue started. People competed for how many friends and followers they could rack up and how many RTs they could get in a day, seeing it as evidence of how cool or smart or influential they were. Thats when social media got mercenary and soulless. Heres a clue: If you find yourself saying (Fill-in-the-blank-social-media-site) used to be soooooo much better before everyone was on it you are using the site wrong. You are following too many people, you are using it too much, you are strangling the pretty, little bunny. The beauty of these sites is you control how many friends you see, and how many of them see you. So if you used to love it and now hate it, well, you know what they say about when you point a finger. Three are pointing back at you. Sometimes metrics can be a bad thing and beware of any so-called social media consultant who tells you otherwise. Whats the value of a Retweet or a Like? Its roughly the equivalent to sitting next to someone during a keynote who nods his head at a salient point. Someone hitting a button in front of them is hardly a heady endorsementnowhere near the impact of someone calling you to tell you about a story he read. That actually takes more than one-second of attention and work. Everyone touts stats showing that recommendations are the most trusted form of advertising. Thats because in the old world recommendations were inefficient. I had to be so moved by, say, the service at a restaurant, that I proactively called people to tell them about it, or it stuck in the front of my mind solidly enough that when someone asked Where should we go to dinner? it came flying out. The power of personal recommendation doesnt carry over in a world where its as easy as clicking a button because the caliber of that recommendation is necessarily lowered by taking out barriers. Of course not everyone becoming fatigued with social media whored themselves out to anyone who would follow or friend them, bartering likes and retweeting anyone who said something nice about them. Indeed, Mr. Carr locked his account and only followed a core group of friends. His biggest complaint was simply that he used it too muchupdating any thought in his head so that he didnt take time to mull and form that idea or joke until it was perfect, and that he was distracted. This is where the flood of apps may be making the problem worse, not better. After some early security glitches when Twitter desktop apps published direct messages, I decided to only use Twitter.com and update by text message to interact with the service. Thats downright luddite in my TechCrunch/iPhone world, but by going to Twitter, rather than Twitter always flooding to me, I forced myself to keep my Twitter feed as manageable to keep up with as email. Whats more, when I travel to places like China or have a big deadline, I dont log onto Twitter for weeks. When I come back its still here. Both Twitter and I continue to go about our lives without one another just fine. I dont think changing an avatar to green saves Iran. But I wouldnt say Twitter is making us all more detached and stupid either. I just like life with social media better than life without it, for silly little moments like the one my husband had with Chank Fonts. Same thing Id say about email or a mobile phone or TiVo or a Blackberry. I realize that doesnt make gripping blog copy like Twitter-democratizing-the-world or Twitter-totally-sucking, but I think for most of the average users out there, thats the Twitter they know and the Twitter that will continue to steadily grow, all this hype and backlash aside. | |
| Best. Script. Ever. |
| submitted by Lonadar to funny [link] [25 comments] | |
| Motorola says leaked Droid X Android 2.2 build won't be updated to the official release |
| Can't say this is a surprise, but Motorola posted a note on its support forums today warning users Droid X users against upgrading to that leaked Android 2.2 build or any of those custom ROMS that're out there -- they'll be cut off from the official upgrade when it hits in early September and potentially "stuck on the leaked version." Ouch. Of course, that's the risk you take when you start flashing your phone with unofficial firmware, but between this, eFUSE, and those cease and desist letters, it certainly feels like Motorola is decidedly unhappy that anyone would have the gall to hack or tweak one of its handsets, even if the phone in question is the size of a small tank and marketed by aggressive murderous robot hands insisting that it "does" everything one can think of with no restrictions. Contrast that with HTC, which is not only at peace with the hacking community, but even takes the initiative to resolve similar problems. Of course, no one would care about any of this if Motorola would just release stock Android builds for its devices as soon as they're ready, but why learn that lesson when it's possible to waste money developing Blur and adopting painfully annoying staggered OTA rollout schedules at the behest of carriers? That would just be silly. [Thanks, Matthew]Motorola says leaked Droid X Android 2.2 build won't be updated to the official release originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.PermalinkDroid-Life | Motorola Support |Email this|Comments | |
| English Motherfucker, How to Speak It |
| submitted by EthicalReasoning to funny [link] [36 comments] | |
| Roku cuts price ahead of possible $99 Apple TV upgrade |
| Roku announced today that it is dropping the prices of its line-up of set-top boxes. The pricing changes come just days before Apple is rumored to be unveiling a major revision to its Apple TV set-top box based on streaming content. Roku currently sells three models of its digital video player: the basic Roku SD, the mid-range Roku HD, and the top-end Roku XR. The Roku SD is now priced $20 less at $59.99, and the Roku HD and Roku XR are priced $30 less at $69.99 and $99.99 respectively. The Roku SD only streams in standard definition and is limited to analog output. The Roku HD is the original device, and includes both analog as well as HDMI and digital audio output for streaming up to 720p content. The Roku XR adds 802.11n WiFi and a USB port, and will be able to output 1080p with a firmware update scheduled for later this year. The company noted that most content providers will still be streaming at 720p, but the increased resolution should come in handy for a new USB streaming "channel" currently in testing. Apple is holding its annual music-related media event this Wednesday (don't miss our live coverage of the announcements), and persistent rumors have suggested that Apple will announcealong with new iPodsa major update to the Apple TV. The device is said to be built around Apple's A4 processor and will run a variation of iOS. The new device also expected to ditch the included hard drive in favor of sufficient flash storage to stream video directly from iTunes. Apple may change the name to "iTV" (the original name before the product launched in 2007), and rumors have pegged the price of the new device at $99. Read the comments on this post | |
| Tech News Today 64: Side Effects May Include Death |
| We get jet packs, Digg gets punked, and your house is in a movie. Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/tnt. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Darren Kitchen, and Erik Lanigan Running time: 41:23 | |
| Twitter Moves to OAuth: The OAuthcalypse Is Nigh |
| Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authentication. | |
| 7 Things Digg.com Drove Into the Ground |
| Digg, as we knew it, is dead. To make matters worse, Digg v4 is in complete chaos. Angry power users who were stripped of their adjective are attempting to fight back by rallying people to Digg articles from rival sites. At one point today, 12 of the 16 links on Diggs front page were pointing to Reddit.com or related stories. The inmates are running the asylum (dot com). As whats left of the Digg community struggles in vain to find funny pictures of cats and articles from Gawker.com, fear and panic are sure to set in. During this period of turmoil, many will long for a simpler time. But their nostalgia for Old Digg will be misplaced. While New Digg may or may not prove worthless, Old Digg had to die. The site had too much power, and was responsible for taking some of the greatest topics on the Internet and running them straight into the ground. Here are seven examples. read more | |
| 6ft 9 teenager who cannot fit on the school bus |
| A 14-year-old girl who stands at 6ft 9in has been forced to quit school because she cannot fit on the school bus. | |
| Chrome 7 shows off hardware acceleration, "Tabpose" |
| Google's Chrome web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphicsthe latest trend for web browsers that has already shown up in early builds of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. Hardware acceleration allows the browser to offload intensive tasks like image scaling, rendering complex text or displaying scripted animations to your PC's graphics card. It has the benefit of freeing up the PC's main processor and speeding up page load times. Read the comments on this post | |
| Crazy Puppy-Throwing Girl |
| Today's horror: a girl throwing a bucket of puppies into the river one by one. Not for the weak of heart. See the 4chan and Reddit thread for more insight into the matter. The Best Links: The Revenge Of Bin Cat [VIDEO] Crazy Cat Bin Lady Caught on Camera [VIDEO] WatchVideo | |
| Turn that frown upside down! [SA] |
| submitted by YuriBotWar to pics [link] [55 comments] | |
| Putin on a Ritz 2.0 (pic) |
| submitted by EthicalReasoning to pics [link] [44 comments] | |
| Custom Droid X ROMs starting to break loose, eFuse be damned |
| Despite Motorola's best intentions to the contrary, the Droid X has been making steady progress toward viable custom ROMs, first with root access, then with a recovery method... and now, at long last, we're starting to get the first few glimpses at legit cooked firmware. The two options we're seeing so far are Sapphire -- originally designed for the Droid of old -- and a so-called "FlyX" ROM from longtime contributor Birdman. In both cases, the benefits of eschewing Motorola's standard builds are pretty obvious: you get Froyo, root, and a host of apps and capabilities preferred by the superuser crowd like surcharge-free mobile hotspot access. The process is a little involved to get these bad boys installed at this point, but with time, we're willing to bet it becomes a pretty painless endeavor. Follow the break for a quick video of Sapphire booting into stock Froyo on the X -- a tantalizing sight, indeed. [Thanks, Clift]Continue reading Custom Droid X ROMs starting to break loose, eFuse be damnedCustom Droid X ROMs starting to break loose, eFuse be damned originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.PermalinkBGR, Droid Life | Android Central, Steven Bird |Email this|Comments | |
| What movie did you expect to hate, but now watch whenever it's on? |
| For me, Million Dollar Baby. It seemed predictable. Boxing movie...whatever. Besides, I rarely watch a movie twice. For some reason, Million Dollar Baby entertains me whenever it is on. I had it on Tivo for a while and watched it over and over. submitted by General_Specific to AskReddit [link] [233 comments] | |
| Your smartphone suddenly gets wikpedia from 50 years in the future but only for 1 hour. |
| What do you look up? submitted by neolduser to AskReddit [link] [201 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| I woke up with the cutest girl in my bed this morning... |
| submitted by boatz_of_oatz to pics [link] [133 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been 3 years old was acquitted on all charges by an Israeli military court yesterday |
| submitted by wq678 to politics [link] [55 comments] | |
| Toy Story 3 Made A Billion Dollars How Many Other Films Have? |
| Disney has been touting the fact that Toy Story 3 passed the $1 billion mark at the box office this weekend. Is it that big of a deal? Well, looking in absolute dollar terms, yes. Sort of. The film is the first animated film to break the threshold and only the seventh overall. And, with [...] | |
| Who'd Make the Best Fighting-Game Drinking Buddies? |
| Drinking buddies. Wing men. Boozin' brothers. We've all got them -- those guys whose entire friendship is entirely based on a shared passion for the pub. We at Asylum have given plenty of thought to drinking buddies in the past, taking the time to consider who'd make the best animal and the pro-wrestling drinking buddies. The next logical step, of course, was to compile a list of the ultimate fighting-game drinking buddies. Game: "Street Fighter II Turbo" Character: Zangief Role in the group: The lovable Russian Drink of choice: Vodka neat "Street Fighter" is full of awesome characters. Everymen Ken, Guile and Ryu are a bit dull; Blanka is liable to electrocute you; and the less said about M. Bison and Dhalsim the better. In our eyes, we'd choose between Chun-Li, E. Honda and Zangief. Well, Chun-Li isn't old enough to get into a pub and E. Honda is just too fat to sit on a bar stool. We had to go for the massive Russian. Keep reading for six more characters we'd like to do shots with. ... Game: "Tekken" Character: King Role in the group: The one with the animal head Drink of choice: Rum and Diet Coke Geeks among you will point out that King is in fact dead, and therefore won't reply to our Facebook invite to join us down at the bar. Well, this is all hypothetical, so just let us fantasize about drinking with an orphaned Mexican street fighter who becomes a monk and fights to get the cash to build an orphanage. Game: "Killer Instinct" Character: Chief Thunder Role in the group: The wise one Drink of choice: A Corona with lime? We've never met a Native American chief before, let alone a Native American chief who's fought in the "Killer Instinct" tournament, let alone a Native American chief who's fought in the "Killer Instinct" tournament and can do a reverse triplax. This was an easy decision. The thing is, would he want us to call him "Chief Thunder" all the time, or would just "Chief" be okay? Game: "Super Smash Bros." Character: Fox McCloud Role in the group: The one with military service Drink of choice: Erdinger, for some reason Fox McCloud is one of every young boy's childhood heroes, and thankfully his appearance in the fantastic "Super Smash Bros" made him eligible for our next bender. A consummate professional, Fox would make a great drinking buddy, telling his tales of intergalactic warfare. Game: "Mortal Kombat" Character: Sonya Blade Role in the group: The female friend Drink of choice: Scotch on the rocks Up to now our table is surrounded by an anthropomorphic fox, a Native American chief, a man with a leopard head and a massive Russian in a Speedo. Suffice it to say, we could use a woman's touch. That's where Sonya comes in. The original fighting-game hottie, Sonya is a special-forces agent who we reckon would be delightful company. Game: "Star Wars: Masters of Teras Karsi" Character: Chewbacca Role in the group: The hairy one Drink of choice: Chewie is a beer guy, surely OK, so "Masters of Teras Karsi" isn't exactly a classic. In fact, it was a much-maligned part of Lucasfilm's continuing merchandise onslaught, but that doesn't matter. It was a fighting game and Chewie was in it, so he's here in the pub with us. Game: "Double Dragon V: The Shadow Fall" Character: Billy Lee Role in the group: The normal(ish) guy Drink of choice: Lager We're talking about the cult-classic fighting game on the SNES. Billy seems like an average kind of guy, and every group of buddies needs a level-headed one. Who did we leave off our list? Let us know in the comments. | |
| 60% of Americans don't think Sarah Palin is qualified to be President. What the hell is the other 40% smoking ? |
| submitted by dougmataconis to politics [link] [370 comments] | |
| Reddit, Digg Rivalry Heats Up With #DiggRevolt |
| The brand new Digg is under fire on its first ever Monday from both its most loyal users and the competition at Reddit. Launched last Wednesday, Digg power users have launched a Digg Revolt today, some calling it "Quit Digg Day," and the Reddit community has embraced the feud. Reddit links have been dominating the Digg.com Top News feed throughout this morning. At one time, six of the top seven stories were from Reddit. On top of that, Digg's traffic has plummeted 33 percent overnight, according to Alexa.com. Said one Digg power user, @0boy, "Since @Digg and @kevinrose haven't listened to their core users, I hate to say it but they deserve this mess." Reddit is taking advantage of the controversy. It posted a "self-announcement" on its homepage for those "new around here" and even altered its logo to include a shovel (see below), an apparent shot at Digg. Many of Digg's power users have been offended by the redesign SocialBlade reported after its launch: This hardworking detailed Digg community feels as though they have been short-handed with the new launch of Digg v4 since its decision to allow auto-feeds, the demise of power Digger's and the obliteration of their history on Digg, almost nullifying their existence. Some Digg power users have taken to Twitter to share their disgust with the new site, and the #diggrevolt hashtag is going strong. In addition to the above, @0boy also tweeted, "The saddest part: hundreds of avid @digg users saw this coming, clear as day. @mrbabyman @msaleem @thenextweb @ltgenpanda 100+ more." Digg CEO Kevin Rose was silent for much of this morning, as Reddit began flooding Digg, but finally tweeted this afternoon, "Digg update: As mentioned on TWiT yesterday, we're working hard to fix the source diversity part of the digg algorithm, more news soon." | |
| Digg Users Lash Out At New Format, Join Forces with Reddit |
| Social news site Digg is in a bit of trouble with its users. The link-aggregating site recently unveiled a long-awaited redesign, and left fans fuming. The new design favors personalization, allowing you to follow certain publishers, in a form similar to Twitter. However, many are now complaining that the new Digg gives too much power [...] | |
| Reddit Game the New Digg by Pushing 7 Stories on Digg FrontPage |
| Earlier making Digg FrontPage used to be a big deal and specially when this new Digg layout and system is under controversy, Reddit another rivalry social bookmarking site, gamed the system and made 7 of its stories on Digg FrontPage. Here is image proof of Reddit hitting Digg homepage: Its going to be interesting to see Kevin reaction with this new buzz which made every loyal digg users stunned. Meanwhile here are some comments from Digg user on those Reddit stories which are promoted to Digg FP: Right now, I am digging all reddit submissions as fast as I can. Kevin Rose killed Digg, now WE WILL BURY IT! Digg didnt deserve this, but Kevin Rose sure does. He will pay through his website. The only reason I stayed around since V4 started was so I could bury anything self-submitted and promote anything bashing V4. Now Im getting so many errors its not even worth sticking around to do that. Im leaving. How do I delete my account? No, seriously. Is it under settings? I looked but couldnt really find anything. One thing which every digger is hating the auto submission from RSS feeds. As with this feature digg is no more a user generated community and becoming more like Twitter and Facebook, more followers more popularity. Whats your take about new Digg? Reddit Game the New Digg by Pushing 7 Stories on Digg FrontPage is a post from: CallingAllGeeks Blog Network Shoutmeloud | CallingAllGeeks | WordPress Hosting review | WordPress Premium Themes Services Blogspot to WordPress Migration | WordPress SEO | Thesis Theme Customization Related posts:New Digg Added Known Issues page Share Your Stories with Twitter Tales Digg iPhone Application Review Apple iTV to launch in September Social Networking, Sounds familiar? How about some Social Bookmarking WordPress plugin for DiggBar haters Facebook Redesigned Shared Feed link Stories WordPress iPhone Application got Geotagging Feature | |
| Xbox Live Gold price increasing November 1 in US, UK, Canada, and Mexico |
| Well, this is sad and unexpected: Microsoft's Major Nelson just announced that Xbox Live Gold will be getting more expensive in the US, UK, Canada, and Mexico starting November 1. A single month will go from $7.99 to $9.99, three months will go from $19.99 to $24.99, and the yearly sub will now be $59.99, up from $49.99. Yes, it's super lame, but to make up for it Microsoft's offering a discounted $40 one-year Gold sub starting November 1 -- a nice deal if your subscription is set to expire around then, we suppose. We're definitely wondering on why Microsoft is jacking Live prices right before launching Kinect and the gaming-focused Windows Phone 7, though -- we've heard theories ranging from an attempt to increase Entertainment and Devices revenue to a simple inflation adjustment. We'll poke around -- and we're guessing there's about to be a run on Gold upgrade cards. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]Xbox Live Gold price increasing November 1 in US, UK, Canada, and Mexico originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Major Nelson, Xbox Live Price Lock |Email this|Comments | |
| Are You a Financial Nerd, Geek, Dweeb or Dork? |
| Are you financially-savvy or utterly hopeless? Take a look at this Venn Diagram to find out which category you fall into: Financial nerd, geek, dweeb or dork. | |
| Price change for Xbox LIVE Gold subscription |
| I wanted to let you know that as of November 1, 2010 we are increasing the price of an Xbox LIVE for some members. This price increase only affects Xbox LIVE Members in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom or the United States. US Current 1M Gold: $7.99 3M Gold: $19.99 12M Gold: $49.99 Starting Nov 1, 2010 1M Gold: $9.99 3M Gold: $24.99 12M Gold: $59.99 UK Current 1M Gold: 4.99 GBP Starting Nov 1, 2010 1M Gold: 5.99 GBP Canada Current 1M Gold: $8.99 CAD Starting Nov 1, 2010 1M Gold: $9.99 CAD Mexico Current 12M Gold: 499 Pesos Starting Nov 1, 2010 12M Gold: 599 Pesos Unless listed above, there is no change in any other subscription packages. Since launching Xbox LIVE in 2002 we have continually added more content and entertainment experiences for our members, while keeping the price the same. Were confident that when the new pricing takes effect, an Xbox LIVE Gold membership will continue to offer the best value in the industry. However, we do want to thank our loyal members and give you the opportunity to lock in your current price with an additional discount, so now would be a good time to renew your subscription. | |
| Google Chrome Shows Off What HTML5 Can Do With Arcade Fire Video |
| Google is a big proponent of HTML5, especially for video and rich graphics in the browser. To show off what HTML5 can do, Google Chrome teamed up with the Arcade Fire and director Chris Milk to create a custom interactive video for their song, We Used To Wait. The experience is called The Wilderness Downtown and is best viewed in Chrome or other HTML5-compliant browser. You start by typing in the address of the house you grew up in, then it loads a video of a guy in a hoodie running through the streets. Different windows pop open on your screen, some with graphics, some with videos. Google Maps and Street View images of your old neighborhood are incorporated into the video. All the video is in HTML5, different windows open up triggered by the music, and you even see a fly-over of your neighborhood based on Google Maps routing API. The graphics are pretty impressive too. Shadows of birds are superimposed over the Google Maps birds-eye view of your neighborhood, and animated trees are plopped into the street using the Street View image and some boundary detection software. You can also write a note to your former self in a beautiful tree-root font or draw a picture, all using HTML5 font and drawing tools. These notes and drawing will be used in future Arcade Fire concerts. The video is almost as cool as playing Quake in your browser. [crunchbase url="http://www.crunchbase.com/product/chrome" name="Google Chrome"] | |
| Digg User Rebellion Continues: Reddit Now Rules the Front Page |
| Reddit has taken over the front page of Digg. If Kevin Rose and the rest of the Digg team thought that a long weekend would be enough to calm the furor over the latest changes to the popular site, they were clearly mistaken. Not only did Digg's users declare today "quit Digg day," but in order to protest Digg's new auto-submission system, users are now upvoting every Reddit story on the site. These stories are being submitted to Digg by Reddit itself through the auto-submission system. Sponsor A sample of current Digg comments: Digg is dead long live Reddit AWESOME! MORE REDDIT ARTICLES IN TOP NEWS! Kevin, why don't you just redirect the whole site to Reddit? Suicide is an understatement. Digg committed DIGGICIDE! Long live reddit. It's not unusual for a site to experience a significant user backlash after a major redesign. By announcing the redesign during the big Digg party at SXSW in Austin earlier this year, the company tried to soften the blow. Over the last few weeks, Digg also opened up the beta version of the new site to a very large number of testers. By the time the site finally went live for everybody last week, though, the backlash was almost immediate. When we talked to Digg's then-CEO Jay Adelson at SXSW, he noted that Digg was quite aware that some of its users would not be too happy with the new submission system. Not only does this new system take away power from Digg's most active users, but in the eyes of many of them, it also currently favors big publishers like the BBC, Engadget, Wired and College Humor. Digg invited a number of well-known publishers (including ReadWriteWeb and most of our direct competitors) to submit their feeds early on during the beta test. For years now, Digg's unofficial etiquette stated that users should never submit their own content. The new submission system, however, now encourages publishers to submit their own stories and many are doing so. The fact that a link to Leo Laporte's Google Buzz stream appeared on the Digg front page earlier this weekend was apparently the last straw for many. It remains to be seen what the Digg team can do to turn things around. While many users are unhappy about the site simply not working properly, the main reasons for the current backlash involve the fundamentals of the Digg v4 redesign. For now, the one site that is definitely profiting from Digg's troubles is Reddit. Image used courtesy of Media Caffeine. Discuss | |
| I give you...The World's Most Badass Gun Case |
| submitted by CakeSmack to pics [link] [48 comments] | |
| Angry Digg users flood homepage with Reddit links |
| Frustrated with the dramatic changes that have hit the social news site, longtime users are expressing their dissatisfaction by attempting to carpet-bomb the front page with links to rival site Reddit. | |
| Who else loves the classic style? |
| submitted by cadence82 to pics [link] [67 comments] | |
| What you don't know about WiFi channels can hurt performance |
| Being aware of the channels used by wireless networks can be crucial for getting the best possible performance. Windows, and a least some Linux distros, fail to report on WiFi channels. A great, free, open source program called inSSIDer can do this and more. read more | |
| Crowds enjoy Notting Hill Carnival |
| Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of west London as the Notting Hill Carnival gets under way. | |
| What. The. Fuck. " An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week." |
| submitted by ntou45 to worldnews [link] [22 comments] | |
| HP's Phil McKinney teases three mystery prototypes on Twitter |
| Well, this is certainly interesting -- that's HP CTO Phil McKinney pictured above in a pair of redacted shots that were posted to Twitter by HP's Mark Budgell. Described only as "early protos" by McKinney himself, the pictures show what appears to be phone-sized device, a tablet-sized device and, perhaps most curiously, something on McKinney's wrist (all mysteriously blacked out). Before you get your hopes up too much about a new wave of webOS devices, however, you might want to take a look at the second part of Budgell's tweet, which encourages folks to vote for McKinney's SXSW 2011 panel -- a panel in which McKinney promises to make some "bold predictions for the future - backed up with a number of breakthrough prototypes," and specifically talk about what the future will look like in "5 to 10 years." Now, we can't be certain of course, but that doesn't exactly suggest these are right around the corner. Head on past the break for a slightly bigger image.Continue reading HP's Phil McKinney teases three mystery prototypes on TwitterHP's Phil McKinney teases three mystery prototypes on Twitter originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | @philmckinney, @MarkatHP (Twitter) |Email this|Comments | |
| Graduates in the UK warned of a record 70 applicants for every job, some sectors have over 200 applicants for every available job |
| submitted by EthicalReasoning to worldnews [link] [21 comments] | |
| Behind The Bidding War: The Real Reasons Why HP And Dell are So Desperate For 3Par |
| As I was writing this, news of the HP / Dell bidding war for 3PAR broke on the front page of Yahoo. This made me laugh, as it typified just how crazy this story has becomefew things outside of a bidding war will make a storage acquisition sexy enough to make mainstream news. At $30, HPs current offer is the sixth bid, a 200 percent premium over 3PARs previous $10 share price. Not only is this insane, but its also nearly unprecedented in M&A history. And since 3PAR is trading above $32 the market thinks Dell will bid even higher. First Off, Is 3PAR Really THAT Unique? Yes and no. 3PAR is a classic disruption play, its value proposition based on the premise that unused storage is wastefuloften times just 10% to 25% of allocated disk space is actually used. 3PARs thin provisioning technology enables disk space to be allocated only when applications need capacity, greatly reducing IT management costs. Think of it as storage on a just-enough and just-in-time basis. In the cloud era, pre-allocation of storage is especially wasteful, because on-demand storage and computing services delivered via the internet have wide variability and less deterministic usage patterns. This makes 3PAR a great fit for data centers, and its partly why the technology is suddenly perceived as very valuable. Not surprisingly large storage vendors have been slow to adopt technologies like 3PARs for a simple reason: making storage more efficient ultimately means selling less gear and is essentially akin to committing commercial suicide. EMC CEO Joe Tucci actually once went on record admitting as much saying If I only have hardware and I just keep helping to make you more and more efficient at less and less cost, eventually Im going to hit a wall and its going to be tough for me to make money. HPs Vanishing R&D Budget and The Mark Hurd Effect This classic Innovators dilemma definitely applies to HP. But something else has hamstrung its ability to innovate in high-end storage, a market HP has been a leader in for many years. And its correlated to former CEO Mark Hurds recent firing. Word on the street is Hurd wasnt let go for his affair or even for his embellishment of trivial expense reports. Instead the board kicked him out because his employee approval rating was absolutely atrocious. And the reason employees hated him is because he traded short-run profits for long-term innovation by laying off entire design teams and killing HPs R&D budgettake a look at this chart and compare HP to Cisco and IBM, both storage leaders. In this way, I believe acquiring 3PAR is actually the beginning of a secular trend for HP in using M&A to make good on the companys lack of organic innovation. Yes thats right, believe it or not, the real reason why HPs board is obsessed with 3PAR is closely correlated to Hurds departuredivisions like HPs storage group simply havent kept pace with peers. I used to sell to HPs storage groups (as well as Dell and 3PAR) and have plenty of friends who tell me that projects have been canned and innovation has languished. Dell is Desperate for Similar Reasons Innovation within Dell is even more of an oxymoron. If you thought HPs R&D allotment was low, compare it to Dells. Dell is not an engineering driven company. They are a system integrator desperate for growth outside of the personal computing market. And storage consolidation threatens Dell for another reason. Storage has traditionally been like a cross selling catalog, with vendors filling in their product portfolios by OEMing equipment from othersDell actually resells EMCs high-end storage gear today. But these cross-sell deals are becoming more tenuous to defend as vendors build out more complete portfolios. This is because cloud computing requires complex virtualized resource allocation, management and provisioning. Vendors are increasingly moving up the stack in providing services beyond hardware, which is all but a commodity. Owning 3PAR would give Dell a chance to stay in the game and complement the low end storage solutions it acquired from EqualLogic in 2007. And the Dell board is prepared to break the bank since there is a scarcity of other good high end storage virtualization plays (Pillar Data and Compellent are two of the largest, but dont have 3PARs traction). Why HP Will Probably End Up with 3PAR So there you have it. With its DNA as a system integrator, Dell doesnt have a hope in hell of organically growing complex ASICs and software like 3PAR has, and is desperate to move up the food chain and stop reselling EMCs portfolio. And the HP board is tacitly admitting it needs to rectify the fact that Mark Hurd sort of killed the HP. Invent culture. 3PAR would give HP several hundred R&D focused engineers and a talented ASIC team. The interesting thing about this bidding war is that it conveys a larger lesson about why M&A often fails. Its easy to listen to investment bankers and overpay on acquisitions. But its much harder to actually handle post-merger integration. Dell is the perfect example. They have essentially no precedent for running an ASIC team, and would take a company like 3PAR that spent 25% of | |
