Technology
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- Why Adam gets more spam than Eve
- Email addresses that begin with letters towards the end of the alphabet receive less spam than those starting with letters towards the end, says Richard Clayton at the University of Cambridge.
- Top 10 Jet Fighters: Military Channel [pics]
- Find out which jet fighters made the final cut.
- Google stretching underwater cable
- google admitted that it was partnering with five Far Eastern outfits to stretch a cable from the US to Japan.
- 10 "Really Cool" Icon Sets for Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop
- I’m going to share to you some of my favorite set of icons. These are specifically made for Ubuntu, as well as any other Linux distro with a GNOME desktop. So here they are:
- Apple Imperfect
- A botched launch of MobileMe — the company’s new data-syncing service — has led Apple to make repeated offers of free services to frustrated customers. And there have been teething problems for its generally well-received 3G iPhone, including flaky reception and weak battery life.
- Apple iPhone Ad Banned In UK Due To "Misleading" Claims
- The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it received complaints from two local viewers who took issue with a claim in the 30-second spot which stated that 'all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone.' That assertion was misleading, they said, because the iPhone does not support Flash or Java, two proprietary technologies that sometimes
- Repeat Tests Show iPhone 3G Has No Faulty Hardware
- After lab results demonstrated that the iPhone 3G's antenna actually functions normally, critics complained that the tests didn't represent their own experiences. So the tests were performed again on two phones that had been experiencing severe problems for some users; the verdict was the same: no hardware problems found.
- How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business
- It’s crucial to have simple web designs to allow the user to quickly find the information they need, especially if you are selling a product. If the page is cluttered with useless text, widgets or unrelated products, the site becomes meaningless.
- Space Cube - The World's Smallest Linux PC
- Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces into a tiny cube chassis measuring just two inches square. It runs a basic Linux front-end.
- Huge iPhone Security Flaw Opens All Private Information
- There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step trick is even simpler to the one used in the past to jailbreak and install unlock cards.
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- Huge iPhone Security Flaw Opens All Private Information
- There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step trick is even simpler to the one used in the past to jailbreak and install unlock cards.
- Space Cube - The World's Smallest Linux PC
- Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces into a tiny cube chassis measuring just two inches square. It runs a basic Linux front-end.
- RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive
- One of the most closely watched copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the RIAA appears to have come to a screeching halt, much to the music industry's delight.
- How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business
- It’s crucial to have simple web designs to allow the user to quickly find the information they need, especially if you are selling a product. If the page is cluttered with useless text, widgets or unrelated products, the site becomes meaningless.
- Official: First Google Android Phone Design Image
- The first design image of the HTC Dream AKA T-Mobile G1 better known as the first Google Android OS powered phone is out via the AndroidGuys. The phone seems inspired by HTC's Sidekick in its QWERTY keyboard, buttons layout and slide out screen. It also seems to have a slim form factor, which should help it compete with Apple's iPhone or the new Bl
- Apple iPhone Ad Banned In UK Due To "Misleading" Claims
- The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it received complaints from two local viewers who took issue with a claim in the 30-second spot which stated that 'all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone.' That assertion was misleading, they said, because the iPhone does not support Flash or Java, two proprietary technologies that sometimes
- Bank Details of 1 Million Customers Sold on eBay
- Personal details of more than 1 million customers of Royal Bank of Scotland, American Express and NatWest are found on a computer sold on auction site eBay.
- Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space
- New experiments using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle extend the range of quantum cryptography, an advanced method of communicating in unbreakable code. Finding a way to keep snoops from tapping into other people's information is a challenge that has gone to the subatomic level. First proposed in 1984, quantum cryptography (QC) promises to send
- ASCII: An Artful Way Around Spam Filters
- An old computer art form is making a comeback as a newer way to evade spam filters. For decades, computing fans have enjoyed a form of expression called ASCII art that shows pictures or messages as a low-resolution graphic, a grid made of numerous computer characters encoded with the venerable ASCII standard. With a photo digitized with ASCII art
- Repeat Tests Show iPhone 3G Has No Faulty Hardware
- After lab results demonstrated that the iPhone 3G's antenna actually functions normally, critics complained that the tests didn't represent their own experiences. So the tests were performed again on two phones that had been experiencing severe problems for some users; the verdict was the same: no hardware problems found.
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- Intel Develops Wireless POWER
- Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.
- Kevin Rose Tells Us About the New iPod Rumors
- With picture and a video. He starts with 'here's what I know' - this sounds more like advanced knowledge than idle talk. 'Revamp of entire iPod line,' and a price drop below the new iPhone.
- Your Printer is lying to you, and what you can do about it.
- Out of ink? Already? When Farhad Manjoo's Brother printer abruptly stopped zipping out prints, he began to wonder if the printer wasn't simply lying that it was out of toner in order to trick him into buying more before he needed it. The prints hadn't been fading at all, but the printer simply refused to go on without a new cartridge.
- The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites
- These sites let you crunch the numbers, analyze the data, or just look up who that one guy is in that one movie.
- 24 Core, 48GB Linux Render Cluster built inside IKEA Cabinet
- This amazing Linux Cluster consists of 6 Intel Core 2 Quad(2.4GHZ) Processors, 48GB of RAM spread across 6 GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R Micro ATX motherboards and put inside an IKEA Helmer cabinet, WHY YOU ASK? 3D computer rendering is very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers
- Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1
- Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it's also become the
- Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost
- Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update of the open-source web browser.
- Mozilla Labs: Introducing Ubiquity
- Today we’re announcing the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
- That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain't Protected
- It's one of the simplest hacks we've seen in a long time, and the more elite computer users have known about it for a while, but it's still kinda cool and just a little bit unnerving: A hacker has revealed a way to use Google and other search engines to gain unauthorized access to password-protected content on a dizzying number of websites.
- iPhone developers beat Apple's NDA with $1 bills
- iPhone developers still bound by an Apple gag order are paying each other $1 to share coding tips. That way, if challenged by Apple's legal department, they can argue that they are subcontractors and therefore free to discuss the software.
Science
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- How MythBusters Will Shut Up Moon Conspiracy Theorists 2nite
- On the eve of one of their biggest busts yet, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage take us behind the scenes to explain how they made their own fake photos, built a moon set in an hour—and even went weightless themselves. No, they didn't build a rocket ship and actually go ... yet.
- Why is Greenland covered in ice?
- There have been many reports in the media about the effects of global warming on the Greenland ice-sheet, but there is still great uncertainty as to why there is an ice-sheet there at all.
- NASA Images Show Gamma Ray Bursts Across Milky Way - washing
- NASA researchers yesterday released images collected by a new telescope studying high-energy gamma rays. A combined image from 95 hours of the telescope's initial observations showed bursts of gamma rays glowing across the plane of the Milky Way.
- Yellowstone's Ancient Supervolcano: Only Lukewarm?
- The geysers of Yellowstone National Park owe their existence to the 'Yellowstone hotspot'--a region of molten rock buried deep beneath Yellowstone, geologists have found. But how hot is this 'hotspot,' and what's causing it?
- Arctic Sea Ice Melts Nears Record Low: 2.05 Million Sq Miles
- The National Snow and Ice Data Center, based at the University of Colorado, reported the ice Monday melted below the 2005 minimum of 2.05 million square miles set on Sept. 21 that year. Exact figures will be released Wednesday.
- Why are 'Mommy' and 'Daddy' a Baby's First Words?
- Many babies delight their parents with recognition upon uttering their first words. Now scientists think they know why.
- MIT Says U.S. Could Cut Fuel Use 50% by 2035
- A new report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative predicts that a 30-50% reduction in fuel consumption is possible in the US over the next 25-30 years.
- Japanese Physicists Aim to Unlock Universe's Mysteries
- The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC Center) -- a 150 billion yen (1.36 billion dollar) project almost entirely funded by the government -- will open in December as one of the world's three hubs of atomic science. The gigantic complex in the nuclear research hub in Tokai, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Tokyo
- Arctic Sea Ice Drops to 2nd Lowest Level on Record
- Arctic Ocean sea ice has melted to the second lowest minimum since satellite observations began, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Sea ice melt recorded on Monday exceeded the low recorded in 2005, which had held second place.
- Scientists Search for an Answer to Why do We Sleep?
- For many of us, sleep is a precious gift, akin to coffee, that was gifted to us early on in our evolution. But scientists have long been completely baffled as to just why we sleep, and just what constitutes sleep anyway. A new study attempts to address just why we sleep.
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- TV's 'Mythbusters' Tackle Moon Landing Hoax Claim
- Three years later, the Mythbusters are ready to share the results of their 'trip' as they devote their next show, airing on Wednesday, to the moon landing hoax claims.
- GOBLIN shark caught on video
- The creature featured is a Mitsukurina owstoni, or goblin shark, which lives between 100 metres and 1000 metres beneath the waves.
- This Pill Will Change Your Life
- In the not-so-distant future, these six drugs--already in the works--will change how we live, and even how we die
- Scientists: Hydrogen Could Be “Easily” Produced From Water
- Hydrogen shapes up to become one of the most important fuels for the future.Scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia and Princeton University in the U.S., however,believe they can completely circumvent fossil fuels by applying photolysis,a method o split water using the energy contained in light
- MIT Says U.S. Could Cut Fuel Use 50% by 2035
- A new report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Initiative predicts that a 30-50% reduction in fuel consumption is possible in the US over the next 25-30 years.
- Almost Half of Australia Untouched by Humans
- More than 40 percent of Australia, an area the size of India, remains untouched by humans, making the country as critical to the world's environment as the Amazon rainforests, a study said on Wednesday.
- Scientists Search for an Answer to Why do We Sleep?
- For many of us, sleep is a precious gift, akin to coffee, that was gifted to us early on in our evolution. But scientists have long been completely baffled as to just why we sleep, and just what constitutes sleep anyway. A new study attempts to address just why we sleep.
- Environmental heroes who went down swinging
- President George W. Bush's appointees to the EPA and the Interior Department have fired or forced out hundreds of dedicated career employees. The Sierra Club honors a few of these heroic civil servants who stood up for public health and lands at the expense of their own careers.
- Earthrace Boat Crosses Globe in 60 days to Break Record!
- we’ve seen green transportation records set on the ground and in the sky, so naturally we are taking the next step and bringing you to the sea with the Earthrace, a 78 ft tri-hull “wavepiercer”. The biodiesel boat completed a carbon-neutral tour of the globe in an incredible 60 days and 23 hours, besting the previous world record by 14 days!
- Japanese Physicists Aim to Unlock Universe's Mysteries
- The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC Center) -- a 150 billion yen (1.36 billion dollar) project almost entirely funded by the government -- will open in December as one of the world's three hubs of atomic science. The gigantic complex in the nuclear research hub in Tokai, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Tokyo
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- 101 Atheist Quotes
- The title says it all.
- TV's 'Mythbusters' Tackle Moon Landing Hoax Claim
- Three years later, the Mythbusters are ready to share the results of their 'trip' as they devote their next show, airing on Wednesday, to the moon landing hoax claims.
- 5 Really Weird Things About Water
- Water, good ol' H2O, seems like a pretty simple substance to you and me. But in reality, water - the foundation of life and most common of liquid - is really weird and scientists actually don't completely understand how water works.
- Portal to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico?
- A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves—some underwater—have been uncovered on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
- Is the Earth Quarantined???
- Why haven't we met aliens yet? And why aren't we sending rockets all over the solar system? There is only one plausible explanation. Earth is being quarantined! A combination of higher alien civilizations and our own Earth-based military forces are working together to keep the Earth contained and neutralized.
- GOBLIN shark caught on video
- The creature featured is a Mitsukurina owstoni, or goblin shark, which lives between 100 metres and 1000 metres beneath the waves.
- AP: Drinking Water of 41 Million Americans Contaminated
- A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
- Seeing in Four Dimensions
- Mathematicians create videos that help in visualizing four-dimensional objects.
- Israel to Put Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet
- Scientists embarked this week on an historic undertaking: digitally photographing every fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls to make them available to all on the Internet.
- Ziggurat: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will House 1 Million
- The Mayans and Egyptians constructed incredible feats of architecture able to weather the test of time, but they had no idea their pyramids would inspire the shape of the latest carbon-neutral super-structure to hit Dubai.
World & Business
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- Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world
- If there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it. On Monday, President Bush demanded that Russia's leaders reject their parliament's appeal to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Within 24 hours, Bush had his response.
- Russia: Military help for Georgia is a 'declaration of war'
- Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a 'declaration of war' by Russia.
- Help bloggers speak truth to the Associated Press
- A diary on DailyKos reprinting the text of a diary that prompted the AP to out a blogger to his employer for no good reason except to harass him, in an attempt to silence criticism from bloggers everywhere.
- McCain’s Tax Cuts Benefit the Rich Even More Than Bush
- Examining McCain’s shifts on taxes today, the Wall Street Journal’s Martin Vaughan writes that “an apt description” for McCain’s tax proposals would be to say “that the wealthy would benefit most.” In fact, as the Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards points out, McCain’s proposals are aimed at the wealthy “even more so than Bush’s”
- 'Moscow Has Maneuvered Itself into a Dead End'
- Russian President dismayed Western leaders on Tuesday when he recognized the independence of the two Georgian provinces Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Many German commentators argue that Moscow may look strong now, but in reality it is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
- ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Tracing the Money Trail
- DNC and their lobbyist circumvent the 'People's right to Know' who is giving what favors to whom?
- Two-Headed Boy Born in Bangladesh
- A baby boy born with two heads in Bangladesh has been placed under police protection because of the curiosity his birth has caused among thousands of locals.
- Target: Save 10% By Opening A Target Visa? Just Kidding!
- Reader Nancy says that Target rejected the 10% coupon she received for being a Target Visa card holder.
- Bill Clinton Democratic Convention Speech: Text
- America can do better than that. And Barack Obama will.
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- ObamaTaxCut.com - What's your Obama Tax Cut?
- 53% of Americans think Barack Obama will raise their taxes, which means at least 52% of Americans don't know anything about his tax policies. In fact, 95% of Americans will see a tax cut from Obama, and 80% of Americans will get a bigger cut than they'd get from McCain. Calculate your Obama Tax Cut at ObamaTaxCut.com!
- Men Confess on Assassination Plot: "Because Obama Is Black"
- The U.S. Attorney's office in Colorado filed felony weapon and drug charges today against Tharin Gartrell, Nathan Johnson, and Shawn Adolf, three idiots involved in a plot to kill Barack Obama. They admitted that the group's desire to assassinate him was not political, but 'because Obama is black.'
- BREAKING: Harriet Miers Must Testify, Judge Says
- A federal judge denied the White House's last-ditch attempt block a former aide from testifying before Congress as part of the investigation into the U.S. Attorney scandal. 'If the government is trying to run out the clock on the 110th Congress, today's decision suggests that Judge Bates won't let them,' said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at
- America - The Newest Third World Nation
- Currently we have an economy that is being held together with bailing wire and glue until after the November election. Even CNBC’s Cramer, a capitalist if there ever was one, now says that the American stock market is so rigged that the average person needs to get out NOW.
- [Insert any BS here] sending oil prices soaring!
- Hurricane Gustav is the latest excuse to send oil prices soaring.
- ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Tracing the Money Trail
- DNC and their lobbyist circumvent the 'People's right to Know' who is giving what favors to whom?
- McCain’s Tax Cuts Benefit the Rich Even More Than Bush
- Examining McCain’s shifts on taxes today, the Wall Street Journal’s Martin Vaughan writes that “an apt description” for McCain’s tax proposals would be to say “that the wealthy would benefit most.” In fact, as the Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards points out, McCain’s proposals are aimed at the wealthy “even more so than Bush’s”
- FDIC may borrow money from Treasury: report
- (Reuters) - Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) might have to borrow money from the Treasury Department to see it through an expected wave of bank failures, the Wall Street Journal reported. The borrowing could be needed to cover short-term...
- Russia: Military help for Georgia is a 'declaration of war'
- Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a 'declaration of war' by Russia.
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- Obama Picks Joe Biden as Vice President
- Sen. Barack Obama has picked Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate. He announced this early Saturday Morning, confirmed by CNN and CBS News
- Biden dislikes File Sharing, Net Neutrality and Encryption!!
- Maybe you don't care about the doings in Washington, but you may want to know that Biden considers a lot of what you do care about criminal activity.
- ObamaTaxCut.com - What's your Obama Tax Cut?
- 53% of Americans think Barack Obama will raise their taxes, which means at least 52% of Americans don't know anything about his tax policies. In fact, 95% of Americans will see a tax cut from Obama, and 80% of Americans will get a bigger cut than they'd get from McCain. Calculate your Obama Tax Cut at ObamaTaxCut.com!
- Official Net Worth: McCain $36.4 Million, Obama $799,000
- Despite a clumsy by the McCain campaign today to argue that Barack Obama was also a rich guy and had no standing to complain that McCain lost track of how many homes he and Cindy own, according to their own Personal Financial Disclosure forms filed with the US Senate, McCain's net worth is 45 times greater than Obama -- $36 million to 799,000.
- Obama's Daughters Interrupt Him During Democratic Convention
- Love him or hate him as a presidential candidate it was quite the cute moment.
- Diebold comes clean, admits its e-voting machines are faulty
- For years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it's finally coming clean.
- Confirmed: Joe Biden is Obama's Running Mate
- CNN has just broke the news that Joe Biden is indeed Obamas Running mate. More news as story develops.
- Rush: No one had guts to stand up and say no to a black guy
- Yesterday on his radio show, right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh said it’s “striking how unqualified Obama is and how this whole thing came about within the Democrat Party. I think it really goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy.”
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Entertainment
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- Muppet Show to Return To TV After 27 Years
- Kermit the frog and friends could return in the first new Muppet Show TV series for 27 years.
- Anatomy of a Hit: 'The Dark Knight'
- Nearly 6 months after his death, Ledger's performance as the Joker helped power 'The Dark Knight' to a best-ever $18.5 million opening-night take. It was the first in a cavalcade of domestic BO records shattered by a film that has survived a host of challenges to become the highest-grossing Warners release of all time ($489.4 million and counting)
- FBI arrests blogger over leak of Guns N' Roses songs
- Federal authorities say they have arrested a blogger suspected of streaming songs from Guns N’ Roses unreleased album, “Chinese Democracy,” on his Web site. FBI agents arrested 27-year-old Kevin Cogill on Wednesday morning on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws. Federal authorities say Cogill posted nine unreleased Guns N’ Roses songs...
- Buy a Role in Spider-Man 4
- Starting bid $5,000
- Ten Truly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies
- There's a whole subset of underappreciated sci-fi gems that have gone sadly unheralded without any geeky conventions to call their own. As a public service to the new generation of sci-fi geeks who've only grown up with Star Wars prequels and Scott Bakula as their Starfleet captain, here are ten sci-fi movies that don't get the credit they deserve.
- RIAA, MPAA Converging on Political Conventions
- When the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America aren't suing individuals and web sites for copyright infringement, they're lobbying.
- The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World
- Surely in their insatiable curiosity and desire to put knowledge above all things, science would never, say, inadvertently set off a chain of events that lead to the end of the world. Right?
- Led Zepplin Back in the Studio
- Led Zeppelin could be on the brink of a 10th studio album after musicians Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham said they had been working on new songs.
- The 10 Most Shameless Product Placements in Movie History
- We understand why movies have product placement. How are studios supposed to make money? You know, other than from ticket sales and DVDs. And merchandising.
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- The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World
- Surely in their insatiable curiosity and desire to put knowledge above all things, science would never, say, inadvertently set off a chain of events that lead to the end of the world. Right?
- Ten Truly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies
- There's a whole subset of underappreciated sci-fi gems that have gone sadly unheralded without any geeky conventions to call their own. As a public service to the new generation of sci-fi geeks who've only grown up with Star Wars prequels and Scott Bakula as their Starfleet captain, here are ten sci-fi movies that don't get the credit they deserve.
- RIAA, MPAA Converging on Political Conventions
- When the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America aren't suing individuals and web sites for copyright infringement, they're lobbying.
- Buy a Role in Spider-Man 4
- Starting bid $5,000
- Muppet Show to Return To TV After 27 Years
- Kermit the frog and friends could return in the first new Muppet Show TV series for 27 years.
- FBI arrests blogger over leak of Guns N' Roses songs
- Federal authorities say they have arrested a blogger suspected of streaming songs from Guns N’ Roses unreleased album, “Chinese Democracy,” on his Web site. FBI agents arrested 27-year-old Kevin Cogill on Wednesday morning on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws. Federal authorities say Cogill posted nine unreleased Guns N’ Roses songs...
- Anatomy of a Hit: 'The Dark Knight'
- Nearly 6 months after his death, Ledger's performance as the Joker helped power 'The Dark Knight' to a best-ever $18.5 million opening-night take. It was the first in a cavalcade of domestic BO records shattered by a film that has survived a host of challenges to become the highest-grossing Warners release of all time ($489.4 million and counting)
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- The 5 Scientific Experiments Most Likely to End the World
- Surely in their insatiable curiosity and desire to put knowledge above all things, science would never, say, inadvertently set off a chain of events that lead to the end of the world. Right?
- Jon Stewart: "Why do I take this more seriously than you?"
- The Daily Show host scolded a group of prominent political journalists at a DNC breakfast this morning as they fawned over him.
- Should Movie Theaters Offer Kid-Free Screenings?
- FTA: 'Few things ruin a movie for me more quickly than a theater full of talking, thrashing, hollering, seat-kicking, popcorn-pitching kids. But is that enough to justify kids-banned shows? As a parent, I want to say 'No!' I'm capable of deciding what movies are appropriate for my kids, and what times are appropriate for them to see them.'
- The 6 Most Depressing Happy Endings in Movie History
- Let's face it: very few hit films end with the credits scrolling over dead puppies and weeping children. Movie audiences pretty much demand happy endings. But sometimes Hollywood slips one past us, giving us a supposed happy ending that is actually depressing as hell once you give it a little thought. For instance:
- The crime that created Superman
- On the night of June 2, 1932, the world's first superhero was born — not on the mythical planet of Krypton but from a little-known tragedy on the streets of Cleveland.
- Bill O'Reilly's 7 Worst Moments: We'll Do it Live!
- Yes, he is an easy target. But the truth is, he's a monster douche-bag and not just because of his obnoxiously conservative views on everything, ever. This should be a solid list of his worst moments...that we know of.
- Happy 78th Birthday Sean Connery
- Scottish acting legend Sir Sean Connery will celebrate his 78th birthday by launching his memoirs at a sell-out event in Edinburgh He will discuss the book with his friend and co-writer Murray Grigor at the Edinburgh International Book Festival later.
- The 10 Most Shameless Product Placements in Movie History
- If they have to show a Pepsi label now and then so Will Smith can keep the heat on in his home, we're fine with that. But don't rewrite the damned movie to work the product into the plot.
- Led Zepplin Back in the Studio
- Led Zeppelin could be on the brink of a 10th studio album after musicians Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham said they had been working on new songs.
Gaming
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- How Old School are YOU in Counter Strike?
- This 11-question quiz will test your knowledge of one of the most-widely played games in history.
- World of Warcraft will slowly update graphics to stay fresh
- When a company has one of the most successful MMORPGs games of all time, the last thing anyone there wants to do is throw a wrench into what the customer's rigs can handle. To that end, the Blizzard team explained in a few interviews last week that World of Warcraft's graphical updates will happen over time with expansions.
- Games Demystified: Portal
- Game mechanics are usually abstractions based on real-world physics. In the previous Games Demystified column, we covered gravity as it was applied in Super Mario Galaxy, a force that is mostly unexplainable and yet tremendously fun with the proper application in gameplay.Teleport mechanics in video games are nothing new.
- Rappers Bow Wow and The Game Wager $100k on Madden Game
- Bow wow challenged The Game who claimed he was the greatest Madden player in the world. Bow Wow says, 'I've seen you do your thing in Madden. But I wanna let you know I will bust your ass in that Madden. We can get it poppin, on $100,000 dollars. The winner can take the money and donate it to charity. Live on YouTube.' The Game accepted!
- The 7 Weirdest Super Mario Bros.Theme Song Performances
- The main theme from Super Mario Bros. is iconic. Any gamer with an inkling of musical talent has learned to play the song on their instrument of choice. When the chosen instrument is completely bizarre, the results are the 7 Weirdest Mario Theme Performances.
- Celebrating Spore: 54 Cool and Bizarre Creatures
- People have gotten pretty creative with the Spore Creature Creator. Post pictures or videos of funny Spore creatures here, whether they be your own or random ones you've seen online.
- Analyst: Nintendo May Trigger Next-Gen War
- The current generation of consoles still has three to four more years before newer hardware hits the market, but Nintendo's next may arrive sooner, according to one analyst.
- Why your gaming degree may be a waste of time
- This is an issue that's particularly close to my heart, as I have been very close to the game development scene here in Canada.
- This Online Music Game is Addictive as Hell
- SongBlitz is a game that puts your musical knowledge to the test. Do you think you know Rock & Pop, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Metal, or Indie music? Or are you knowledgeable in all of the above genres? Put your skills to the test and try this game out. We promise you could waste a lot of hours playing this.
- Exclusive: 4th Halo: Fall of Reach Movie Concept Art!
- Intel tells me that this is the climax of the movie where Master Chief is fighting to get Cortana off Reach. I think that's 'Foehammer' in the Pelican flying towards him. I think it is safe to say the Spartans are totally screwed!
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- The 7 Weirdest Super Mario Bros.Theme Song Performances
- The main theme from Super Mario Bros. is iconic. Any gamer with an inkling of musical talent has learned to play the song on their instrument of choice. When the chosen instrument is completely bizarre, the results are the 7 Weirdest Mario Theme Performances.
- Celebrating Spore: 54 Cool and Bizarre Creatures
- People have gotten pretty creative with the Spore Creature Creator. Post pictures or videos of funny Spore creatures here, whether they be your own or random ones you've seen online.
- Rappers Bow Wow and The Game Wager $100k on Madden Game
- Bow wow challenged The Game who claimed he was the greatest Madden player in the world. Bow Wow says, 'I've seen you do your thing in Madden. But I wanna let you know I will bust your ass in that Madden. We can get it poppin, on $100,000 dollars. The winner can take the money and donate it to charity. Live on YouTube.' The Game accepted!
- World of Warcraft will slowly update graphics to stay fresh
- When a company has one of the most successful MMORPGs games of all time, the last thing anyone there wants to do is throw a wrench into what the customer's rigs can handle. To that end, the Blizzard team explained in a few interviews last week that World of Warcraft's graphical updates will happen over time with expansions.
- Games Demystified: Portal
- Game mechanics are usually abstractions based on real-world physics. In the previous Games Demystified column, we covered gravity as it was applied in Super Mario Galaxy, a force that is mostly unexplainable and yet tremendously fun with the proper application in gameplay.Teleport mechanics in video games are nothing new.
- How Old School are YOU in Counter Strike?
- This 11-question quiz will test your knowledge of one of the most-widely played games in history.
TOP 7 DAYS
- Joker’s Gag Gun Fatality Ends with a BANG!
- So when I saw the Joker’s Fatality (and yes, it appears that DC Villains will be able to perform Fatalities) I almost ***** my pants. If you are one of the many gamers out there who vowed they would never buy a Teen Rated Mortal Kombat game, you may want to check this clip out before you utter another word.
- Xbox Live: Stop Calling My Kid Bitch
- A dad's view of his son wearing headphones on Xbox Live after being called bitch, punk, and worse..
- Moore warns against suing file-sharers
- EA Sports boss Peter Moore has said he doesn't support the move to sue consumers for illegal downloading - warning, 'It didn't work for the music industry.'
- Register To Vote On Your Xbox 360?!
- A leading gaming and entertainment platform just became a leading platform for change. Microsoft Corp. and Rock the Vote today announced a groundbreaking partnership that will allow Xbox 360 owners to register to vote, participate in presidential polls and voice their opinions to the presidential candidates. It will
- This Online Music Game is Addictive as Hell
- SongBlitz is a game that puts your musical knowledge to the test. Do you think you know Rock & Pop, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Metal, or Indie music? Or are you knowledgeable in all of the above genres? Put your skills to the test and try this game out. We promise you could waste a lot of hours playing this.
- Top 7 "That’s a Dude!?" Video Game Characters
- “Damn, that girl is smokin... oh... that’s a guy?” Surely, we’ve all fallen victim to such a scenario. Not you, you say! You’re a hardcore gamer with 20/20 vision and a keen eye? Fine! Many of us aren’t as perceptive, so we’ve decided to highlight those brave folks who might not have gotten their sex the first time around.
- Casting Mike Tyson's Punch Out
- Ever wondered who would play the roles in a movie version of the video game Mike Tyson's Punch Out?
- The Best Nintendo Wii Games Under $20
- Since retail Wii games aren’t the only thing you can play on your Wii, I’m also including some of the most critically acclaimed WiiWare titles so far and my picks for the best cheap Gamecube games that would complement a solid Wii library.
- Why your gaming degree may be a waste of time
- This is an issue that's particularly close to my heart, as I have been very close to the game development scene here in Canada.
- $199 Xbox with Motion Controller on the Way [Rumor]
- Xbox 360 Fanboy, citing 'a tip from a source close to Microsoft's marketing department,' says the price cut to $199 for the Arcade system is meant to position that bundle against the Wii. So it'll get a huge family-friendly marketing push and title support.
Sports
TOP RECENT
- O'Doyle Rules! Top 10 Showboaters in Sports (w/PICS)
- NHL players do a pretty good job of policing themselves. Excessive hot-dogging usually brings swift retribution. But Avery is one those special players who enjoys aggravating foes while drawing attention to himself. Who else would do jumping jacks in front of New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur during the playoffs?
- Police Eject Fan For Trying to Pee During National Anthem
- A baseball fan says a uniformed police officer (perhaps off-duty but working security for overtime) forcibly ejected him from the stadium last night during the Yankees-Red Sox game. Why? He says all he did was try to go to the bathroom while 'God Bless America' was played during the 7th inning stretch.
- Michael Phelps Strokes His Way to $1.6M Book Deal
- Even before landing back in the US, Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps, winner of 8 gold medals in Beijing, was converting his fame into a big pool of Yankee dollars.Phelps snagged an estimated $1.6 million advance from the Free Press imprint of Simon & Schuster for his latest book 'Built to Succeed.'
- Cubs or Sox? Obama makes his allegiance clear
- When interviewed by ESPN, Obama made his allegiance clear: 'You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. Southside.'
- The Dream Team Since 1992 (Gallery)
- FIBA's landmark 1989 decision to allow professional hoopsters to compete in the Olympics led to USA Basketball's creation of the Dream Team, considered among the most illustrious collections of talent in the history of world sport. Charles Barkley averaged a team-high 18.0 points as the Americans steamrolled through the tournament in Barcelona...
- The 5 Slowest People in Sports
- During the Beijing Olympics, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt proved that he is, without a doubt, the fastest man in the world. It was fun watching him run, but I think I'd prefer to watch a race to determine the slowest man in sports, where whoever finishes last would actually finish first.
- 135 Ways to Ruin the Olympics Using Tech [PICS]
- Nearly every event got its due, and we have some pretty amazing images. Hit the jump for your top three winners and then marvel at the humungous Gallery of Champions.
- Hot Babes of the 2008 US Open
- After two weeks of Olympic Games, we’ve seen more hot athlete chicks than you can shake a gold medal at. But don’t get depressed just yet, we’ve got plenty of room for more! Luckily for us all, today marks the beginning of the US Open tennis tournament, which means hot, sweaty, awesomely grunting babes for your sporting pleasure.
- The Five Greatest Upsets in Olympic History
- The U.S. softball defeat got me to wondering about the greatest upsets in Olympic history. This was monumental. Things like this are just not supposed to happen, but things like this are why we love sports... well some diggers at least. Here is one sports journalist's quick list of the greatest upsets in Olympic history.
TOP 24 HOURS
- Police Eject Fan For Trying to Pee During National Anthem
- A baseball fan says a uniformed police officer (perhaps off-duty but working security for overtime) forcibly ejected him from the stadium last night during the Yankees-Red Sox game. Why? He says all he did was try to go to the bathroom while 'God Bless America' was played during the 7th inning stretch.
- Cubs or Sox? Obama makes his allegiance clear
- When interviewed by ESPN, Obama made his allegiance clear: 'You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there. People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball. Southside.'
- Michael Phelps Strokes His Way to $1.6M Book Deal
- Even before landing back in the US, Olympic swimming champ Michael Phelps, winner of 8 gold medals in Beijing, was converting his fame into a big pool of Yankee dollars.Phelps snagged an estimated $1.6 million advance from the Free Press imprint of Simon & Schuster for his latest book 'Built to Succeed.'
- The Dream Team Since 1992 (Gallery)
- FIBA's landmark 1989 decision to allow professional hoopsters to compete in the Olympics led to USA Basketball's creation of the Dream Team, considered among the most illustrious collections of talent in the history of world sport. Charles Barkley averaged a team-high 18.0 points as the Americans steamrolled through the tournament in Barcelona...
- O'Doyle Rules! Top 10 Showboaters in Sports (w/PICS)
- NHL players do a pretty good job of policing themselves. Excessive hot-dogging usually brings swift retribution. But Avery is one those special players who enjoys aggravating foes while drawing attention to himself. Who else would do jumping jacks in front of New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur during the playoffs?
TOP 7 DAYS
- Wrestler who quit was right
- The Olympian who threw away his bronze medal had reason to be upset, judges rule.
- One Way of Protesting a Referee’s Decision (With Pic)
- A Cuban tae kwon do fighter, disqualified for taking too much time to tend to the broken toe on his left foot, kicked a referee in the head with his left foot. Now he's banned for life.
- Behind the Scenes: Lots of Sex in the Olympic Village
- 'I am often asked if the Olympic village - the housing conglomeration that hosts the world's top athletes - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is. I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point.'
- The 50 Hottest Female Olympians Of The 2008 Summer Olympics
- Hope you enjoy, we certainly had a great time putting it together.
- Cuban taekwondo athlete banned for life after kicking ref
- A Cuban taekwondo athlete and his coach were banned for life after Angel Matos kicked the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification. Cuban coach Leudis Gonzalez offered no apology for Matos' actions during the men's over-80 kg (176 pounds) match.
- IOC To Launch Investigation Into Ages Of Chinese Gymnasts
- The International Olympic Committee will investigate whether the Chinese women's gymnastics team that won the gold medal had underage athletes, saying 'more information has come to light.' 'If there is a question mark and we have a concern, which we do, we ask the governing body of any sport to look into it,' IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said
- IOC Launches Formal Investigation into He Kexin's Age
- Enough allegations have been leveled against He Kexin that the International Olympic Committee is finally taking notice.