Google Creating Twitter Clone for Gmail Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the current offering and the new feature is that status messages aren't available in a...
// 8 February 2010, 11:10 pm Sweet Breesus! The Greatest Image from Super Bowl 44 The genuine, feel-good story of Drew Brees, encapsulated in this photo and the video of Brees with his son, helped to make Super Bowl XLIV a memorable one, even for fans with no rooting interest in...
// 8 February 2010, 11:00 pm California Lays Claim to 100 Objects on the Moon California laid a historical claim to over 100 objects left behind on the moon when the State Historical Resources Commission voted unanimously to name the objects a state historical resource. The...
// 8 February 2010, 10:50 pm The Everyday Lives of Stormtroopers Switch celebrities with stormtroopers, though, and then I'm interested. I don't know what it is, but there's something about seeing a stormtrooper taking a break from serving the Emperor and going...
// 8 February 2010, 10:40 pm 10 Ways to a Geeky Girl's Heart If you're a geeky guy looking to romance a geeky girl, it doesn't matter if you've been with her forever or if she's a new interest; realize that conventional romantic overtures won't always work.
// 8 February 2010, 10:30 pm Winter Olympics Go for Environmental Gold, Settle for Bronze Environmentalists have praised Olympic organizers for building energy-efficient venues, using clean-energy sources, relying on public transit during the Games, and offsetting part of the event's...
// 8 February 2010, 10:30 pm Jackson's doctor charged with manslaughter Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, has been charged with a single count of involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors said.
// 8 February 2010, 10:21 pm Woman Sues McDonald's.....again??? When people decry lawyers and frivolous lawsuits, the first thing they point to is the 1994 "hot coffee being spilled on an old lady's lap" suit that ended up settling for about $600,000. But people...
// 8 February 2010, 10:20 pm Can a veterans court help former GIs find justice at home? More and more veterans are showing the catastrophic impact of their psychological scars from battle. The government doesn't currently employ resources to specifically give soldiers the support they...
// 8 February 2010, 10:10 pm -6C temperatures..snow's on the way as the big freeze return Some parts of Britain will have up to six inches of snow, with ice expected to cause major disruptions on the roads. Eastern parts will be most at risk of snow showers but western areas could have...
// 8 February 2010, 10:10 pm Windy City 1st To Use Wind To Charge Electric Vehicles As we get ready for the Chicago Auto Show next week, a note about what is apparently the first wind-powered electric vehicle charger in the continental U.S.
// 8 February 2010, 10:10 pm Virus-Free Technique Enables To Make Stem-Cell Pluripotent Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists at the Stanford...
// 8 February 2010, 10:00 pm Adobe Claims They Don't Ship Flash With Known Crash Bugs Adobe's comment is what you'd expect any company to say publicly; realistically, what else could they say? It's just very unfortunate for them that someone was able to prove the inaccuracy of this...
// 8 February 2010, 9:40 pm BREAKING - Rep. John Murtha Dead at 77 Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. John Murtha, the first veteran of the Vietnam war and one of the most powerful lawmakers in Congress, died Wednesday morning at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA,...
// 8 February 2010, 9:24 pm 25 Ironic Signs (PICS) It's like rain on your wedding day, or tape on a sign that says don't use tape.
// 8 February 2010, 9:20 pm Hello Botox, Bye-Bye Sadness Paralyzing the frown muscles also inhibits the ability to understand anger and sadness.
// 8 February 2010, 9:00 pm Canon bows Rebel T2i with 18-megapixel sensor, 1080p30 video Canon this morning launched a slew of camera updates headlined by the Rebel T2i. The successor to Canon's entry DSLR shoots at the same 18 megapixels as the EOS 7D and also inherits its video...
// 8 February 2010, 8:54 pm
// 8 February 2010, 11:10 pm Sweet Breesus! The Greatest Image from Super Bowl 44 The genuine, feel-good story of Drew Brees, encapsulated in this photo and the video of Brees with his son, helped to make Super Bowl XLIV a memorable one, even for fans with no rooting interest in...
// 8 February 2010, 11:00 pm California Lays Claim to 100 Objects on the Moon California laid a historical claim to over 100 objects left behind on the moon when the State Historical Resources Commission voted unanimously to name the objects a state historical resource. The...
// 8 February 2010, 10:50 pm The Everyday Lives of Stormtroopers Switch celebrities with stormtroopers, though, and then I'm interested. I don't know what it is, but there's something about seeing a stormtrooper taking a break from serving the Emperor and going...
// 8 February 2010, 10:40 pm 10 Ways to a Geeky Girl's Heart If you're a geeky guy looking to romance a geeky girl, it doesn't matter if you've been with her forever or if she's a new interest; realize that conventional romantic overtures won't always work.
// 8 February 2010, 10:30 pm Winter Olympics Go for Environmental Gold, Settle for Bronze Environmentalists have praised Olympic organizers for building energy-efficient venues, using clean-energy sources, relying on public transit during the Games, and offsetting part of the event's...
// 8 February 2010, 10:30 pm Jackson's doctor charged with manslaughter Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, has been charged with a single count of involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors said.
// 8 February 2010, 10:21 pm Woman Sues McDonald's.....again??? When people decry lawyers and frivolous lawsuits, the first thing they point to is the 1994 "hot coffee being spilled on an old lady's lap" suit that ended up settling for about $600,000. But people...
// 8 February 2010, 10:20 pm Can a veterans court help former GIs find justice at home? More and more veterans are showing the catastrophic impact of their psychological scars from battle. The government doesn't currently employ resources to specifically give soldiers the support they...
// 8 February 2010, 10:10 pm -6C temperatures..snow's on the way as the big freeze return Some parts of Britain will have up to six inches of snow, with ice expected to cause major disruptions on the roads. Eastern parts will be most at risk of snow showers but western areas could have...
// 8 February 2010, 10:10 pm Windy City 1st To Use Wind To Charge Electric Vehicles As we get ready for the Chicago Auto Show next week, a note about what is apparently the first wind-powered electric vehicle charger in the continental U.S.
// 8 February 2010, 10:10 pm Virus-Free Technique Enables To Make Stem-Cell Pluripotent Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists at the Stanford...
// 8 February 2010, 10:00 pm Adobe Claims They Don't Ship Flash With Known Crash Bugs Adobe's comment is what you'd expect any company to say publicly; realistically, what else could they say? It's just very unfortunate for them that someone was able to prove the inaccuracy of this...
// 8 February 2010, 9:40 pm BREAKING - Rep. John Murtha Dead at 77 Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. John Murtha, the first veteran of the Vietnam war and one of the most powerful lawmakers in Congress, died Wednesday morning at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA,...
// 8 February 2010, 9:24 pm 25 Ironic Signs (PICS) It's like rain on your wedding day, or tape on a sign that says don't use tape.
// 8 February 2010, 9:20 pm Hello Botox, Bye-Bye Sadness Paralyzing the frown muscles also inhibits the ability to understand anger and sadness.
// 8 February 2010, 9:00 pm Canon bows Rebel T2i with 18-megapixel sensor, 1080p30 video Canon this morning launched a slew of camera updates headlined by the Rebel T2i. The successor to Canon's entry DSLR shoots at the same 18 megapixels as the EOS 7D and also inherits its video...
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Decision time for Ukraine's Tymoshenko - BBC News ReutersDecision time for Ukraine's TymoshenkoBBC NewsWill she or won't she pursue her political ambitions through the courts or in protest action on the streets? It is not often that the...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Tests Ahead on Iran - Wall Street Journal ReutersTests Ahead on IranWall Street JournalThis is to be a week of testing on Iran: testing of the Iranian government, of the international will to oppose that government and of the delicate...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Australian activist released on bail in Israel - ABC Online Ha'aretzAustralian activist released on bail in IsraelABC OnlineIsrael's Supreme Court has ordered the release of an Australian woman who was arrested during a pre-dawn military raid in the...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Americans jailed in Haiti had Dominican OK, lawyer says - CNN Telegraph.co.ukAmericans jailed in Haiti had Dominican OK, lawyer saysCNNAmericans Laura Silsby, left, and Charisa Coulter leave a court hearing in Port-au-Prince last week. Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Why China Needs The U.S. -- And Vice Versa - TIME MSN Malaysia NewsWhy China Needs The U.S. -- And Vice VersaTIMEIt hasn't been a banner few weeks for US-China relations. In mid-January, Google announced that it was contemplating pulling out of...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Fonseka arrest could be poll issue - The Hindu CBC.caFonseka arrest could be poll issueThe HinduCOLOMBO: With the dissolution of the Sri Lankan Parliament expected on Tuesday and the general election scheduled for the first half of April, the...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Voters of Costa Rica Elect Their First Female President - New York Times The GuardianVoters of Costa Rica Elect Their First Female PresidentNew York TimesMEXICO CITY -- Costa Ricans elected a former vice president, Laura Chinchilla, as the country's first female...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am 17 Army men killed in avalanches - The Hindu New York Daily News17 Army men killed in avalanchesThe HinduJAMMU: Seventeen Army men, including an officer, were killed in avalanches near Gulmarg early on Monday. Out of the 400 men undergoing...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Iranians prepare for risky clashes - Wall Street Journal Brisbane TimesIranians prepare for risky clashesWall Street JournalDUBAI--Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticized protesters as agents of foreign powers ahead of antigovernment...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Afghan Official Held for Alleged Aiding Taliban - Wall Street Journal Telegraph.co.ukAfghan Official Held for Alleged Aiding TalibanWall Street JournalKABUL--Afghan authorities said Monday they had arrested a district administrator who was allegedly feeding information...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Tests Ahead on Iran - Wall Street Journal ReutersTests Ahead on IranWall Street JournalThis is to be a week of testing on Iran: testing of the Iranian government, of the international will to oppose that government and of the delicate...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Australian activist released on bail in Israel - ABC Online Ha'aretzAustralian activist released on bail in IsraelABC OnlineIsrael's Supreme Court has ordered the release of an Australian woman who was arrested during a pre-dawn military raid in the...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Americans jailed in Haiti had Dominican OK, lawyer says - CNN Telegraph.co.ukAmericans jailed in Haiti had Dominican OK, lawyer saysCNNAmericans Laura Silsby, left, and Charisa Coulter leave a court hearing in Port-au-Prince last week. Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Why China Needs The U.S. -- And Vice Versa - TIME MSN Malaysia NewsWhy China Needs The U.S. -- And Vice VersaTIMEIt hasn't been a banner few weeks for US-China relations. In mid-January, Google announced that it was contemplating pulling out of...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Fonseka arrest could be poll issue - The Hindu CBC.caFonseka arrest could be poll issueThe HinduCOLOMBO: With the dissolution of the Sri Lankan Parliament expected on Tuesday and the general election scheduled for the first half of April, the...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Voters of Costa Rica Elect Their First Female President - New York Times The GuardianVoters of Costa Rica Elect Their First Female PresidentNew York TimesMEXICO CITY -- Costa Ricans elected a former vice president, Laura Chinchilla, as the country's first female...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am 17 Army men killed in avalanches - The Hindu New York Daily News17 Army men killed in avalanchesThe HinduJAMMU: Seventeen Army men, including an officer, were killed in avalanches near Gulmarg early on Monday. Out of the 400 men undergoing...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Iranians prepare for risky clashes - Wall Street Journal Brisbane TimesIranians prepare for risky clashesWall Street JournalDUBAI--Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, criticized protesters as agents of foreign powers ahead of antigovernment...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am Afghan Official Held for Alleged Aiding Taliban - Wall Street Journal Telegraph.co.ukAfghan Official Held for Alleged Aiding TalibanWall Street JournalKABUL--Afghan authorities said Monday they had arrested a district administrator who was allegedly feeding information...
// 1 January 1970, 12:59 am
Police: Man tries to buy crack with credit card Authorities said a man accused of stealing a car then reporting it stolen remains in custody after telling police he was robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy crack cocaine with a credit card. The Flint Journal said the man reported Thursday night that a 2003 Chevy Malibu had been stolen.
// 8 February 2010, 9:28 pm GOP cool to Obama call for two-party health talks Republicans gave a chilly reception Monday to President Barack Obama's invitation to discuss health care in a bipartisan, televised setting later this month, part of the White House effort to revive the stalled legislation.
// 8 February 2010, 5:05 pm Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77 Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
// 8 February 2010, 8:46 pm Lawyer: Pitt and Jolie sue over split claim Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have begun legal action against a British tabloid that reported the celebrity couple was going to split, a lawyer acting on their behalf confirmed Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 7:39 pm Pacers C Foster out for season with back injury Indiana Pacers center Jeff Foster will miss the rest of the season with a back injury.
// 8 February 2010, 11:11 pm NYC man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend's cat A New York City graphic designer accused of surreptitiously killing a series of his girlfriend's cats has admitted slaying one of them, a kitten found with a broken neck.
// 8 February 2010, 11:11 pm Buffalo man accused of imprisoning 13-year-old A 26-year-old Buffalo man has been accused of holding a 13-year-old runaway in his house for six months, having sex with her more than 100 times and making her baby-sit his 1-year-old son.
// 8 February 2010, 10:48 pm Atmel's losses widen; shares climb on better sales Atmel Corp.'s loss widened in the fourth quarter as the chip designer wrote down the value of its business, but its sales rose and investors pushed up its stock price after hours Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 11:10 pm Colts are 7-1 favorites to win 2011 Super Bowl One bad pass by Peyton Manning hasn't cost the Indianapolis Colts any cachet.
// 8 February 2010, 11:07 pm Lechleiter pay rises in 1st full year as Lilly CEO Eli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter received a compensation package valued at $16.4 million for 2009, up 54 percent from 2008, the year he became the drug maker's chief executive, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed Monday in a regulatory filing.
// 8 February 2010, 10:50 pm Quinn: Ill. lt. governor hopefuls should speak up Democrats in Illinois are getting a political do-over: the chance to pick a new lieutenant governor nominee themselves now that the primary winner dropped out of the race because of revelations about his checkered past.
// 8 February 2010, 11:01 pm Spinoff enables direct stake in NY teams, arena Investors will get a chance to bet directly on the fortunes of the New York Knicks and Rangers and their home arena, Madison Square Garden, beginning Tuesday.
// 8 February 2010, 10:53 pm Ethics debate over blood from newborn safety tests A critical safety net for babies — that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack.
// 8 February 2010, 10:08 pm Terremark fiscal 3Q loss narrows on higher revenue Information technology services provider Terremark Worldwide Inc. said Monday that its fiscal third-quarter loss narrowed slightly as its revenue climbed 13 percent.
// 8 February 2010, 10:53 pm Tel Aviv "savior" accused of enslaving women The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name — Savior.
// 8 February 2010, 9:59 pm NFL future: spotlight off the field A memorable season capped by a super title game with a record TV audience has NFL executives and fans beaming.
// 8 February 2010, 10:43 pm Hartford Financial's 4Q profit beats estimates Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group says it was profitable in the fourth quarter as its life and property-casualty businesses both improved.
// 8 February 2010, 10:47 pm
// 8 February 2010, 9:28 pm GOP cool to Obama call for two-party health talks Republicans gave a chilly reception Monday to President Barack Obama's invitation to discuss health care in a bipartisan, televised setting later this month, part of the White House effort to revive the stalled legislation.
// 8 February 2010, 5:05 pm Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77 Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
// 8 February 2010, 8:46 pm Lawyer: Pitt and Jolie sue over split claim Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have begun legal action against a British tabloid that reported the celebrity couple was going to split, a lawyer acting on their behalf confirmed Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 7:39 pm Pacers C Foster out for season with back injury Indiana Pacers center Jeff Foster will miss the rest of the season with a back injury.
// 8 February 2010, 11:11 pm NYC man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend's cat A New York City graphic designer accused of surreptitiously killing a series of his girlfriend's cats has admitted slaying one of them, a kitten found with a broken neck.
// 8 February 2010, 11:11 pm Buffalo man accused of imprisoning 13-year-old A 26-year-old Buffalo man has been accused of holding a 13-year-old runaway in his house for six months, having sex with her more than 100 times and making her baby-sit his 1-year-old son.
// 8 February 2010, 10:48 pm Atmel's losses widen; shares climb on better sales Atmel Corp.'s loss widened in the fourth quarter as the chip designer wrote down the value of its business, but its sales rose and investors pushed up its stock price after hours Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 11:10 pm Colts are 7-1 favorites to win 2011 Super Bowl One bad pass by Peyton Manning hasn't cost the Indianapolis Colts any cachet.
// 8 February 2010, 11:07 pm Lechleiter pay rises in 1st full year as Lilly CEO Eli Lilly and Co. CEO John Lechleiter received a compensation package valued at $16.4 million for 2009, up 54 percent from 2008, the year he became the drug maker's chief executive, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed Monday in a regulatory filing.
// 8 February 2010, 10:50 pm Quinn: Ill. lt. governor hopefuls should speak up Democrats in Illinois are getting a political do-over: the chance to pick a new lieutenant governor nominee themselves now that the primary winner dropped out of the race because of revelations about his checkered past.
// 8 February 2010, 11:01 pm Spinoff enables direct stake in NY teams, arena Investors will get a chance to bet directly on the fortunes of the New York Knicks and Rangers and their home arena, Madison Square Garden, beginning Tuesday.
// 8 February 2010, 10:53 pm Ethics debate over blood from newborn safety tests A critical safety net for babies — that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack.
// 8 February 2010, 10:08 pm Terremark fiscal 3Q loss narrows on higher revenue Information technology services provider Terremark Worldwide Inc. said Monday that its fiscal third-quarter loss narrowed slightly as its revenue climbed 13 percent.
// 8 February 2010, 10:53 pm Tel Aviv "savior" accused of enslaving women The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name — Savior.
// 8 February 2010, 9:59 pm NFL future: spotlight off the field A memorable season capped by a super title game with a record TV audience has NFL executives and fans beaming.
// 8 February 2010, 10:43 pm Hartford Financial's 4Q profit beats estimates Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group says it was profitable in the fourth quarter as its life and property-casualty businesses both improved.
// 8 February 2010, 10:47 pm
You requested him, and we got him! Ask Noam Chomsky Anything (reddit video interview).
Better than any Super Bowl ad. Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.
ATTENTION: Many people expressed feelings of misrepresentation on the survey. Here is survey 2.0. Hopefully it is better than the last one. Take it and check back on Feb 21 for results!
That'll freak someone out someday...
The world capital of rape: "Jeanne and other girls were regularly tied spread-eagle and gang-raped, and she soon became pregnant. The rapes continued, sometimes with sticks that tore apart her insides and left her dribbling wastes constantly."
Can we stop calling it "defense" spending?
Is it just me, or is I-Tunes a very frustrating user experience?
How many of you under 30 know (& love) The Far Side? It took WTF to a new level.
The iPhone obsession -- Is iPhone the new IE6?
21st-Century Shooters Are No Country for Old Men
Why do the planets all revolve around the sun in the same direction?
Giant bizarre deep sea fish filmed in Gulf of Mexico
OMG I'M IN A TREE... i think.
Electric Cars, and Chargers, Poised to Flood Israel Shai Agassi brokers a deal to electrify one-third of the country's fleet within 5 years.
// 9 February 2010, 3:57 am Farewell to Sci-Fi Writer William Tenn William Tenn, one of science fiction's most imaginative writers, has passed. Tenn created vivid scenarios of mind-blowing alien worlds in novels and stories that illuminated emotional, political and...
// 9 February 2010, 3:05 am Artist Creates Paintings From Floppy Disks British artist Nick Gentry is using floppy disk drives to created mixed-media portraits.
// 9 February 2010, 2:46 am First Chevrolet Volt Rolls Off the Line Nov. 1 GM's date with destiny is set, but there's still no word on what the electric car will cost.
// 9 February 2010, 2:32 am After 100 Years, Are The Boy Scouts Still Relevant? February 8 marks the centennial of Boy Scouts in America. At a time when shows like 'Man Vs Wild' and 'Survivorman' are experiencing immense popularity, wouldn't it make sense that they'd see a...
// 9 February 2010, 12:41 am Rewiring Haiti: Patience Wears Thin in Port-au-Prince PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- With the disaster-relief phase ending, the streets of Port-au-Prince are now crowded with the white SUVs of international aid and development agencies shuttling purposefully...
// 8 February 2010, 11:40 pm 10 Ways to a Geeky Girl's Heart If you're a geeky guy looking to romance a geeky girl, it doesn't matter if you've been with her forever or if she's a new interest; realize that conventional romantic overtures won't always work....
// 8 February 2010, 10:36 pm Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in Search Google debuted a Super Bowl ad Sunday. The ad tells the story of a romance helped along by a series of Google searches conducted by (one is left to imagine) a young man whose simple plan to study...
// 8 February 2010, 9:27 pm Review: Daddy-Daughter Killing Sprees Power 'BioShock 2' By building on the original's creepy setting and tweaking the troubling relationship between Big Daddies and Little Sisters, this sequel becomes a worthy successor to a groundbreaking game.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Missile Silo Confessions: Living on the Edge of Armageddon A renovated missile silo in the middle of the Arizona desert is a reminder of more chaotic times. Ex-crew members share their stories as we take a tour.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm How Movies Activate Your Neural G-Spot Scott Brown considers the pros and cons of MindSign Neuromarketing's plans to create the "neurocinema," the real-time monitoring of the brain's reaction to movies.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Feb. 8, 1865: Mendel Reads Genetics' Founding Paper An Austrian monk is anything but pea-shy when he explains the principles of heredity.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Ad-Network Vets Try to Clean Up Their Act Do you wonder where those ads for work at home, teeth whitening and so on are coming from, and why they appear on otherwise respectable websites? The answer is complicated, but becoming less so.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm A Would-Be Spy's Buried Treasure and Uncrackable Code Former Air Force sergeant Brian Regan buried stolen government secrets and encrypted the coordinates, hoping to sell the stash to the highest bidder. Then he had to crack his own code.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm 21st-Century Shooters Are No Country for Old Men Can aging gamers compete with twitchy teens on today's increasingly complicated virtual battlefields? War is extra hellish when you're too old, or too busy, to fight off the adolescent hordes in...
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Apple iPad's Tiny SIM Is Just There to Mess With You Evidence suggests that Apple's decision to use a smaller-than-usual micro SIM card in the iPad was motivated by business reasons, not a lack of space. The company is likely trying to prevent iPhone...
// 6 February 2010, 7:58 am Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Puts Old Atomic Clock to Shame Scientists create an atomic clock that uses quantum logic to be precise within one second in 3.7 billion years.
// 6 February 2010, 7:13 am
// 9 February 2010, 3:57 am Farewell to Sci-Fi Writer William Tenn William Tenn, one of science fiction's most imaginative writers, has passed. Tenn created vivid scenarios of mind-blowing alien worlds in novels and stories that illuminated emotional, political and...
// 9 February 2010, 3:05 am Artist Creates Paintings From Floppy Disks British artist Nick Gentry is using floppy disk drives to created mixed-media portraits.
// 9 February 2010, 2:46 am First Chevrolet Volt Rolls Off the Line Nov. 1 GM's date with destiny is set, but there's still no word on what the electric car will cost.
// 9 February 2010, 2:32 am After 100 Years, Are The Boy Scouts Still Relevant? February 8 marks the centennial of Boy Scouts in America. At a time when shows like 'Man Vs Wild' and 'Survivorman' are experiencing immense popularity, wouldn't it make sense that they'd see a...
// 9 February 2010, 12:41 am Rewiring Haiti: Patience Wears Thin in Port-au-Prince PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- With the disaster-relief phase ending, the streets of Port-au-Prince are now crowded with the white SUVs of international aid and development agencies shuttling purposefully...
// 8 February 2010, 11:40 pm 10 Ways to a Geeky Girl's Heart If you're a geeky guy looking to romance a geeky girl, it doesn't matter if you've been with her forever or if she's a new interest; realize that conventional romantic overtures won't always work....
// 8 February 2010, 10:36 pm Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in Search Google debuted a Super Bowl ad Sunday. The ad tells the story of a romance helped along by a series of Google searches conducted by (one is left to imagine) a young man whose simple plan to study...
// 8 February 2010, 9:27 pm Review: Daddy-Daughter Killing Sprees Power 'BioShock 2' By building on the original's creepy setting and tweaking the troubling relationship between Big Daddies and Little Sisters, this sequel becomes a worthy successor to a groundbreaking game.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Missile Silo Confessions: Living on the Edge of Armageddon A renovated missile silo in the middle of the Arizona desert is a reminder of more chaotic times. Ex-crew members share their stories as we take a tour.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm How Movies Activate Your Neural G-Spot Scott Brown considers the pros and cons of MindSign Neuromarketing's plans to create the "neurocinema," the real-time monitoring of the brain's reaction to movies.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Feb. 8, 1865: Mendel Reads Genetics' Founding Paper An Austrian monk is anything but pea-shy when he explains the principles of heredity.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Ad-Network Vets Try to Clean Up Their Act Do you wonder where those ads for work at home, teeth whitening and so on are coming from, and why they appear on otherwise respectable websites? The answer is complicated, but becoming less so.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm A Would-Be Spy's Buried Treasure and Uncrackable Code Former Air Force sergeant Brian Regan buried stolen government secrets and encrypted the coordinates, hoping to sell the stash to the highest bidder. Then he had to crack his own code.
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm 21st-Century Shooters Are No Country for Old Men Can aging gamers compete with twitchy teens on today's increasingly complicated virtual battlefields? War is extra hellish when you're too old, or too busy, to fight off the adolescent hordes in...
// 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm Apple iPad's Tiny SIM Is Just There to Mess With You Evidence suggests that Apple's decision to use a smaller-than-usual micro SIM card in the iPad was motivated by business reasons, not a lack of space. The company is likely trying to prevent iPhone...
// 6 February 2010, 7:58 am Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Puts Old Atomic Clock to Shame Scientists create an atomic clock that uses quantum logic to be precise within one second in 3.7 billion years.
// 6 February 2010, 7:13 am
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Shaq New Art Show: "Size Does Matter" Showcases Big And Small Art // 8 February 2010, 11:19 pm
No joke -- here it comes again // 8 February 2010, 11:16 pm
Steve Irwin Joins Bob Barker in Thwarting Whalers // 8 February 2010, 11:12 pm
U.S. military anti-human trafficking policy bears no fruits // 8 February 2010, 11:08 pm
Elton John and Lady Gaga "The Likeliest Unlikely Pair" // 8 February 2010, 10:29 pm
PPC Advertising Taken By Storm, By The Internet Time Machine! // 8 February 2010, 10:26 pm
Tila Tequila Returns to Twitter! // 8 February 2010, 10:25 pm
Kendra Wilkinson Crying Photos // 8 February 2010, 10:24 pm
Lady MJ Warrior And Non Epileptic Disorder // 8 February 2010, 10:18 pm
Congressman Murtha has passed -- Patriot and Statesman // 8 February 2010, 10:03 pm
Google to Announce New Tools for Vancouver 2010 Games // 8 February 2010, 10:00 pm
Reggie Bush Kisses Super Bowl Trophy: Bush Kissing Vince Lombardi // 8 February 2010, 9:44 pm
Trenton Base Commander Charged with Murder // 8 February 2010, 9:33 pm
First Flight Of Boeing 747-8 Jumbo Jet Delayed Due To Weather // 8 February 2010, 9:28 pm
Rep John Murtha Dies - Murtha Dead At 77 // 8 February 2010, 9:11 pm
China finds 170 more tons of tainted milk powder (AP) AP - The discovery has punched a 170-ton hole in China's promises to overhaul its food safety system. Officials say they've found yet another case where large amounts of tainted milk powder from the...
// 8 February 2010, 7:46 am Peyton Manning storms off Super Bowl field. Is he a poor sport? (Yahoo! Sports) Peyton Manning didn't shake hands with New Orleans Saints players after his Indianapolis Colts lost 31-17 in...
// 8 February 2010, 9:13 pm Palin advises Obama to 'declare war on Iran' This is really quite incredible. Via my colleague David Edwards at Raw Story: President Barack Obama won't be re-elected in 2012 unless he can "toughen up" on national security, according to Sarah...
// 8 February 2010, 2:53 am Toyota's once-golden resale value gets dented (AP) Toyota owners looking to trade in their cars have little reason to sing the carmaker's old ad slogan, "I love what you do for me -- Toyota!"
// 8 February 2010, 1:51 pm Could we clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Ocean waste like this discarded net often works its way across thousands of miles, photodegrading and ultimately converging into a swirling vortex big by any standards. Is it possible to clean up the...
// 8 February 2010, 2:30 pm Your engaging headline Lesser-known airlines get gold stars for performance from fliers in a new survey.
// 8 February 2010, 10:19 am Exclusive: Dave Wanted Conan for Jay-Oprah Super Bowl Spot (video) By Josef Adalian Sunday's Dave-Jay-Oprah Super Bowl ad might have been a foursome -- but an early notion to include Conan O'Brien in the spot didn't work out. Rob Burnett, executive...
// 8 February 2010, 5:45 am Tea-Party Convention: Lessons on Palin and the Movement Things can get awkward when protesters have to put down their placards and tackle the business of building an organization - networking online and recruiting reliable volunteers, precinct captains...
// 8 February 2010, 3:41 pm Dead man found in landing gear of US jet in Japan TOKYO (AFP) -- Japanese authorities have found the body of a man in the landing gear of a Delta airliner that arrived in Tokyo from New York and said Monday they were seeking US help in identifying...
// 8 February 2010, 12:14 pm Body found in landing gear of NY-to-Tokyo flight (AP) AP - A body was found inside a wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities Monday were trying to identify the man.
// 8 February 2010, 1:08 pm Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Bertie Ahern expects to go to heaven (IrishCentral) Former Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern has said that life "did not end at the graveyard," and he has firm hopes that he will go to heaven when he dies.
// 8 February 2010, 2:17 pm Autism Odds Double For Kids Born To Moms Over 40 Disability Scoop: Older mothers are more likely to give birth to a child with autism, largely irrespective of the father's age, one of the biggest population-based studies of and parental ageautism...
// 8 February 2010, 7:34 pm 17 soldiers dead, 53 rescued in Kashmir avalanche (AP) AP - A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing 17 soldiers and critically injuring 17 others.
// 8 February 2010, 10:35 am Comic Books Will Look Incredible on the iPad I'd buy an iPad just to read comic books. Think I'm nuts? I probably am, but see how you feel after this first look at what Panelfly, maker of a popular comic book iPhone app, is building for the...
// 8 February 2010, 3:02 pm
// 8 February 2010, 7:46 am Peyton Manning storms off Super Bowl field. Is he a poor sport? (Yahoo! Sports) Peyton Manning didn't shake hands with New Orleans Saints players after his Indianapolis Colts lost 31-17 in...
// 8 February 2010, 9:13 pm Palin advises Obama to 'declare war on Iran' This is really quite incredible. Via my colleague David Edwards at Raw Story: President Barack Obama won't be re-elected in 2012 unless he can "toughen up" on national security, according to Sarah...
// 8 February 2010, 2:53 am Toyota's once-golden resale value gets dented (AP) Toyota owners looking to trade in their cars have little reason to sing the carmaker's old ad slogan, "I love what you do for me -- Toyota!"
// 8 February 2010, 1:51 pm Could we clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Ocean waste like this discarded net often works its way across thousands of miles, photodegrading and ultimately converging into a swirling vortex big by any standards. Is it possible to clean up the...
// 8 February 2010, 2:30 pm Your engaging headline Lesser-known airlines get gold stars for performance from fliers in a new survey.
// 8 February 2010, 10:19 am Exclusive: Dave Wanted Conan for Jay-Oprah Super Bowl Spot (video) By Josef Adalian Sunday's Dave-Jay-Oprah Super Bowl ad might have been a foursome -- but an early notion to include Conan O'Brien in the spot didn't work out. Rob Burnett, executive...
// 8 February 2010, 5:45 am Tea-Party Convention: Lessons on Palin and the Movement Things can get awkward when protesters have to put down their placards and tackle the business of building an organization - networking online and recruiting reliable volunteers, precinct captains...
// 8 February 2010, 3:41 pm Dead man found in landing gear of US jet in Japan TOKYO (AFP) -- Japanese authorities have found the body of a man in the landing gear of a Delta airliner that arrived in Tokyo from New York and said Monday they were seeking US help in identifying...
// 8 February 2010, 12:14 pm Body found in landing gear of NY-to-Tokyo flight (AP) AP - A body was found inside a wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities Monday were trying to identify the man.
// 8 February 2010, 1:08 pm Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Bertie Ahern expects to go to heaven (IrishCentral) Former Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern has said that life "did not end at the graveyard," and he has firm hopes that he will go to heaven when he dies.
// 8 February 2010, 2:17 pm Autism Odds Double For Kids Born To Moms Over 40 Disability Scoop: Older mothers are more likely to give birth to a child with autism, largely irrespective of the father's age, one of the biggest population-based studies of and parental ageautism...
// 8 February 2010, 7:34 pm 17 soldiers dead, 53 rescued in Kashmir avalanche (AP) AP - A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing 17 soldiers and critically injuring 17 others.
// 8 February 2010, 10:35 am Comic Books Will Look Incredible on the iPad I'd buy an iPad just to read comic books. Think I'm nuts? I probably am, but see how you feel after this first look at what Panelfly, maker of a popular comic book iPhone app, is building for the...
// 8 February 2010, 3:02 pm
Jackson’s Doctor Pleads Not Guilty to Manslaughter Dr. Conrad Murray had provided Mr. Jackson with an anesthetic that was ruled a major factor in his death.
// 8 February 2010, 11:09 pm Sidebar: A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner.
// 8 February 2010, 6:04 pm Blacks Question Obama’s Approach to Race A quiet observation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday last month was typical of the president, whose low-key stance on race is frustrating some black leaders and scholars.
// 8 February 2010, 10:48 pm More Snow Is Expected in Mid-Atlantic Another heavy snowfall is forecast to start Tuesday in Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, just as they begin to dig out from an epic snowstorm that began on Friday.
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Shuttle Blasts Off for Space Station It was the second attempt to launch the Endeavour, 24 hours after Sunday’s attempt was scrubbed because of clouds over the launching pad.
// 8 February 2010, 9:29 pm News Analysis: For Human Spaceflight, Can Measured Beat Bold? The Obama administration is trying to keep humans flying in space, but will its measured proposals succeed?
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Salt Lake City Journal: Huge Church Project Renews Downtown, and Debate A $1 billion Mormon church-financed redevelopment project and a wave of recent church purchases in Salt Lake City have put a new focus on the line between culture and economics.
// 8 February 2010, 10:17 pm For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students.
// 8 February 2010, 7:01 pm A Federal Effort to Push Junk Food Out of Schools To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.
// 8 February 2010, 8:01 am Iron Checkbook Shapes Cultural Los Angeles Eli Broad dominates the arts in Los Angeles with a force that has no parallel in any major city.
// 8 February 2010, 6:19 pm A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person A new group of soldier-writers explore the futility of war — but wars that they for the most part support.
// 8 February 2010, 6:33 pm In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Bankers, unhappy at the president’s proposals for tighter financial regulations, are shifting donations to Republicans.
// 8 February 2010, 5:11 pm Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care The meeting would mark the first time in the long health care debate that leaders from both sides would be allowed to air their ideas publicly.
// 8 February 2010, 5:26 pm New Orleans Picks Mayor With Show of Support With backing from both blacks and whites, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu was elected the first white mayor in 32 years.
// 8 February 2010, 7:49 am Cleaning Up After a Snowstorm as Another One Looms Residents tried to restore electricity and mobility, but it seemed unlikely that life would return to normal by the beginning of the workweek on Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 7:51 am With Federal Stimulus Money Gone, Many Schools Face Budget Gaps The stimulus helped forestall drastic cuts at public schools, but many are now approaching what officials call a “funding cliff.”
// 8 February 2010, 7:47 am Some Toyota Owners Voice an Eroding Loyalty The recall of millions of Toyota cars and trucks for problems with their accelerator pedals is giving Toyota loyalists second thoughts.
// 8 February 2010, 7:05 am
// 8 February 2010, 11:09 pm Sidebar: A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner.
// 8 February 2010, 6:04 pm Blacks Question Obama’s Approach to Race A quiet observation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday last month was typical of the president, whose low-key stance on race is frustrating some black leaders and scholars.
// 8 February 2010, 10:48 pm More Snow Is Expected in Mid-Atlantic Another heavy snowfall is forecast to start Tuesday in Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, just as they begin to dig out from an epic snowstorm that began on Friday.
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Shuttle Blasts Off for Space Station It was the second attempt to launch the Endeavour, 24 hours after Sunday’s attempt was scrubbed because of clouds over the launching pad.
// 8 February 2010, 9:29 pm News Analysis: For Human Spaceflight, Can Measured Beat Bold? The Obama administration is trying to keep humans flying in space, but will its measured proposals succeed?
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Salt Lake City Journal: Huge Church Project Renews Downtown, and Debate A $1 billion Mormon church-financed redevelopment project and a wave of recent church purchases in Salt Lake City have put a new focus on the line between culture and economics.
// 8 February 2010, 10:17 pm For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students.
// 8 February 2010, 7:01 pm A Federal Effort to Push Junk Food Out of Schools To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.
// 8 February 2010, 8:01 am Iron Checkbook Shapes Cultural Los Angeles Eli Broad dominates the arts in Los Angeles with a force that has no parallel in any major city.
// 8 February 2010, 6:19 pm A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person A new group of soldier-writers explore the futility of war — but wars that they for the most part support.
// 8 February 2010, 6:33 pm In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Bankers, unhappy at the president’s proposals for tighter financial regulations, are shifting donations to Republicans.
// 8 February 2010, 5:11 pm Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care The meeting would mark the first time in the long health care debate that leaders from both sides would be allowed to air their ideas publicly.
// 8 February 2010, 5:26 pm New Orleans Picks Mayor With Show of Support With backing from both blacks and whites, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu was elected the first white mayor in 32 years.
// 8 February 2010, 7:49 am Cleaning Up After a Snowstorm as Another One Looms Residents tried to restore electricity and mobility, but it seemed unlikely that life would return to normal by the beginning of the workweek on Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 7:51 am With Federal Stimulus Money Gone, Many Schools Face Budget Gaps The stimulus helped forestall drastic cuts at public schools, but many are now approaching what officials call a “funding cliff.”
// 8 February 2010, 7:47 am Some Toyota Owners Voice an Eroding Loyalty The recall of millions of Toyota cars and trucks for problems with their accelerator pedals is giving Toyota loyalists second thoughts.
// 8 February 2010, 7:05 am
Apple Surveying iPhone Developers' Happiness With The App Store
Last year, there was no shortage of developers who were complaining about Apple’s App Store. The situation got so heated that no less than Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Product...
// 8 February 2010, 11:01 pm Win A Mentoring Session With Founders Of Digg, Flickr, Mint, Ning, Slide Or Zynga Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring...
// 8 February 2010, 10:40 pm Give Your Index Finger A Rest With Facebook's New Photo Slideshows Since the dawn of Facebook’s Photos feature, users have been tasked with the not-so-terrible burden of having to manually click through every photo in an album. Sure, you can also hit the...
// 8 February 2010, 10:20 pm Google To Unveil Broad New Social Product Tomorrow Google is planning to unveil a broad new social product on Tuesday that will integrate with at least two existing Google products. Some details emerged earlier today on the Wall Street Journal...
// 8 February 2010, 9:46 pm Flixster Gets A Thumbs Up From Investors, Raises $12.5 Million Movie ratings site Flixster raised $12.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. The last time Flixster raised money was a $5 million Series B in April, 2008. The new round brings the...
// 8 February 2010, 9:46 pm MEETorDIE Quantifies The Cost Of Wasteful Meetings Company meetings are a nearly universally hated thing. No matter what line of work you’re in, most are simply a waste of time. And even when they’re important and necessary, they’re...
// 8 February 2010, 9:08 pm Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet Mitali Pattnaik Appointed GM Of PlayFirst We haven’t heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startup’s last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesn’t mean things...
// 8 February 2010, 7:44 pm New Tweetdeck Puts Twitter On Crack -- Adds YouTube and Flickr There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far....
// 8 February 2010, 7:41 pm The Filter Reboots As Recommendation Engine For Hire, Ex-Googler Doug Merrill Joins Board Almost two years ago The Filter, a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers. The site got lost in the abundance of more popular music...
// 8 February 2010, 5:53 pm Monday Morning Marketing Quarterback: Which Superbowl Ads Scored On The Web? With the Super Bowl yesterday came the time-honored Super Bowl commercials, each costing $2.5 million for a 30-second spot. Even Google got in on the game with its first ever spot receiving rave...
// 8 February 2010, 5:31 pm
// 8 February 2010, 11:01 pm Win A Mentoring Session With Founders Of Digg, Flickr, Mint, Ning, Slide Or Zynga Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring...
// 8 February 2010, 10:40 pm Give Your Index Finger A Rest With Facebook's New Photo Slideshows Since the dawn of Facebook’s Photos feature, users have been tasked with the not-so-terrible burden of having to manually click through every photo in an album. Sure, you can also hit the...
// 8 February 2010, 10:20 pm Google To Unveil Broad New Social Product Tomorrow Google is planning to unveil a broad new social product on Tuesday that will integrate with at least two existing Google products. Some details emerged earlier today on the Wall Street Journal...
// 8 February 2010, 9:46 pm Flixster Gets A Thumbs Up From Investors, Raises $12.5 Million Movie ratings site Flixster raised $12.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. The last time Flixster raised money was a $5 million Series B in April, 2008. The new round brings the...
// 8 February 2010, 9:46 pm MEETorDIE Quantifies The Cost Of Wasteful Meetings Company meetings are a nearly universally hated thing. No matter what line of work you’re in, most are simply a waste of time. And even when they’re important and necessary, they’re...
// 8 February 2010, 9:08 pm Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet Mitali Pattnaik Appointed GM Of PlayFirst We haven’t heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startup’s last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesn’t mean things...
// 8 February 2010, 7:44 pm New Tweetdeck Puts Twitter On Crack -- Adds YouTube and Flickr There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far....
// 8 February 2010, 7:41 pm The Filter Reboots As Recommendation Engine For Hire, Ex-Googler Doug Merrill Joins Board Almost two years ago The Filter, a startup backed by Peter Gabriel, launched to bring better music and movie recommendations to consumers. The site got lost in the abundance of more popular music...
// 8 February 2010, 5:53 pm Monday Morning Marketing Quarterback: Which Superbowl Ads Scored On The Web? With the Super Bowl yesterday came the time-honored Super Bowl commercials, each costing $2.5 million for a 30-second spot. Even Google got in on the game with its first ever spot receiving rave...
// 8 February 2010, 5:31 pm
Microsoft tests show no Win 7 battery flaw Replace battery warnings correct, says Redmond
Microsoft says that extensive testing and conversations with OEMs indicate that Windows 7 is handling notebook batteries exactly as intended - despite...
// 8 February 2010, 11:00 pm Microsoft kills FAST's Linux and Unix search biz Values your business on Windows Customers of FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) on Linux or Unix better develop a taste for Windows or look elsewhere for their enterprise search.…The power of...
// 8 February 2010, 9:22 pm Linus Torvalds doesn't hate the Googlephone I like your fork! Linus Torvalds hates cell phones. But that doesn't include the Googlephone.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
// 8 February 2010, 7:57 pm Sweden to prosecute alleged Cisco, NASA hacker Stakkato's abrupt transfer The prosecution of a Swedish man charged with breaching the computer networks of NASA and Cisco Systems and making off with sensitive source code will be transferred to...
// 8 February 2010, 7:50 pm Google (Voice) solves universal translation soonish Babel fishing for compliments Google has managed to get some decent press by announcing that, in a few years, it might be able to translate speech - something iPhone owners can already do.…Case...
// 8 February 2010, 5:56 pm Dell snaps up crashed Exanet How to turn $70m into $12m Update Dell is buying failed clustered filer supplier Exanet for $12m.…
// 8 February 2010, 5:24 pm iPhone OS 3.1.3 unlock app posted Dev Team tool tweaked Owners of unlocked iPhones who want to upgrade to the recently released OS 3.1.3 and want to retain the ability to use whatever Sim meets their needs can now do so. The iPhone...
// 8 February 2010, 5:23 pm Cheeky French hackers hijack Tata website Now you see it, maintenant... non Top flight outsourcing firm Tata Consulting Services appeared to have lost control of its website to hackers today, with the domain apparently being touted for...
// 8 February 2010, 5:03 pm Phoenix recovers barbecued data in Europe Firey databird has new nest, but is it er, cheep? European data centres can recover data from data centres blown to smithereens by using Axxana's near-bomb proof Phoenix data recovery system…The...
// 8 February 2010, 4:58 pm LG eyes golden age of telly with retro CRT set Valve Doonican It's the telly Mad Men and Avengers fans will surely be craving: a 14in telly kitted out in true 1960s style.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
// 8 February 2010, 4:45 pm El Reg reader assembles own iPad Click here for an iFul of low-cost DIY project The fanbois out there whose lives have become a meaningless succession of days to be crossed off the calendar until the release of Apple's...
// 8 February 2010, 4:25 pm Half a million PCs can access Schengen's 'secure' database Big network, big danger The number of computers with access to the Schengen Information System has doubled to 500,000 thanks to the extension of the EU.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland...
// 8 February 2010, 3:46 pm Vodafone tosses out idiot tweeter No more beavering for you Vodafone's Twitter-based stupidity on Friday was down to an unguarded terminal, it transpires, and the employee concerned is now kicking his heels at home.…Web threats:...
// 8 February 2010, 3:33 pm Eidos confirms Championship Manager Online shutdown Season's end Publisher Eidos has confirmed that it has ordered the closure of Championship Manager Online, the web-based version of the long-running popular fantasy football franchise.…Web threats:...
// 8 February 2010, 3:11 pm Online Kiwis maybe feeling Oz censor trickledown People of Walmart now counts as filth, apparently Australia's drive to protect its own population from the horrors of the internet may be starting to have knock-on effects on the surfing habits of...
// 8 February 2010, 2:55 pm Archos posts 'full' Linux distro for Android tablet Developers only, please Media player maker Archos has posted a full Linux distro that will run on its Archos 5 machine.…What is your recession sales strategy?
// 8 February 2010, 2:43 pm Bishop Hill: Gonzo science and the Hockey Stick Torturing the climate numbers until they confess Interview In 2001 the IPCC published its Third Assessment report prominently featuring a graph that became "the logo of global warming". Previous...
// 8 February 2010, 2:25 pm
// 8 February 2010, 11:00 pm Microsoft kills FAST's Linux and Unix search biz Values your business on Windows Customers of FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) on Linux or Unix better develop a taste for Windows or look elsewhere for their enterprise search.…The power of...
// 8 February 2010, 9:22 pm Linus Torvalds doesn't hate the Googlephone I like your fork! Linus Torvalds hates cell phones. But that doesn't include the Googlephone.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
// 8 February 2010, 7:57 pm Sweden to prosecute alleged Cisco, NASA hacker Stakkato's abrupt transfer The prosecution of a Swedish man charged with breaching the computer networks of NASA and Cisco Systems and making off with sensitive source code will be transferred to...
// 8 February 2010, 7:50 pm Google (Voice) solves universal translation soonish Babel fishing for compliments Google has managed to get some decent press by announcing that, in a few years, it might be able to translate speech - something iPhone owners can already do.…Case...
// 8 February 2010, 5:56 pm Dell snaps up crashed Exanet How to turn $70m into $12m Update Dell is buying failed clustered filer supplier Exanet for $12m.…
// 8 February 2010, 5:24 pm iPhone OS 3.1.3 unlock app posted Dev Team tool tweaked Owners of unlocked iPhones who want to upgrade to the recently released OS 3.1.3 and want to retain the ability to use whatever Sim meets their needs can now do so. The iPhone...
// 8 February 2010, 5:23 pm Cheeky French hackers hijack Tata website Now you see it, maintenant... non Top flight outsourcing firm Tata Consulting Services appeared to have lost control of its website to hackers today, with the domain apparently being touted for...
// 8 February 2010, 5:03 pm Phoenix recovers barbecued data in Europe Firey databird has new nest, but is it er, cheep? European data centres can recover data from data centres blown to smithereens by using Axxana's near-bomb proof Phoenix data recovery system…The...
// 8 February 2010, 4:58 pm LG eyes golden age of telly with retro CRT set Valve Doonican It's the telly Mad Men and Avengers fans will surely be craving: a 14in telly kitted out in true 1960s style.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work
// 8 February 2010, 4:45 pm El Reg reader assembles own iPad Click here for an iFul of low-cost DIY project The fanbois out there whose lives have become a meaningless succession of days to be crossed off the calendar until the release of Apple's...
// 8 February 2010, 4:25 pm Half a million PCs can access Schengen's 'secure' database Big network, big danger The number of computers with access to the Schengen Information System has doubled to 500,000 thanks to the extension of the EU.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland...
// 8 February 2010, 3:46 pm Vodafone tosses out idiot tweeter No more beavering for you Vodafone's Twitter-based stupidity on Friday was down to an unguarded terminal, it transpires, and the employee concerned is now kicking his heels at home.…Web threats:...
// 8 February 2010, 3:33 pm Eidos confirms Championship Manager Online shutdown Season's end Publisher Eidos has confirmed that it has ordered the closure of Championship Manager Online, the web-based version of the long-running popular fantasy football franchise.…Web threats:...
// 8 February 2010, 3:11 pm Online Kiwis maybe feeling Oz censor trickledown People of Walmart now counts as filth, apparently Australia's drive to protect its own population from the horrors of the internet may be starting to have knock-on effects on the surfing habits of...
// 8 February 2010, 2:55 pm Archos posts 'full' Linux distro for Android tablet Developers only, please Media player maker Archos has posted a full Linux distro that will run on its Archos 5 machine.…What is your recession sales strategy?
// 8 February 2010, 2:43 pm Bishop Hill: Gonzo science and the Hockey Stick Torturing the climate numbers until they confess Interview In 2001 the IPCC published its Third Assessment report prominently featuring a graph that became "the logo of global warming". Previous...
// 8 February 2010, 2:25 pm
AudioBox Puts Your Music Library in the Cloud So It's Accessible Anywhere [Media Players] When you bop between your work and home computers all the time, it's tough keeping your favorite music at your fingertips ("Which computer has my Once More, With Feeling soundtrack on it?")...
// 8 February 2010, 11:00 pm UltraDefrag Is a Portable and Open-Source Disk Defragmenter [Downloads] Windows: If you like your software open-source you'll definitely want to check out UltraDefrag a snappy open-source Windows disk defragmenter. UltraDefrag is available as a portable application and...
// 8 February 2010, 10:30 pm Quickly Backup Your Firefox Profile with about:support [Firefox Tip] Navigating to the directory where Firefox stores your profile has always been a bit of a pain, but the recent release of Firefox 3.6 makes finding that folder—and from there backing up your...
// 8 February 2010, 10:00 pm Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies [Use Cases] A week ago we asked readers to tell us how they're using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of "ha! no one's using Wave!" snarking on the Twitter, we got lots of interesting...
// 8 February 2010, 9:30 pm StorageFront Catalogs and Compares Self-Storage Facilities [Storage] You'll find no shortage of self-storage facilities in most US locales but it's tricky figuring out which one is the best value and has the best amenities. StorageFront lets you sort and compare...
// 8 February 2010, 9:00 pm PwnageTool 3.1.5 Jailbreaks iPhone 3.1.3 [Downloads] Mac OS X: Last week Apple pushed out a minor update to the iPhone OS, and, naturally, the update re-jailed any jailbroken devices. Yet again, the iPhone dev-team is back with a new version of...
// 8 February 2010, 8:30 pm Google Adding Social Feature to Gmail? [Rumors] Google may unveil a new social feature to Gmail as early as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. The feature would closely mimic status updates like those popularized by Facebook and...
// 8 February 2010, 8:28 pm How to Separate Stuck Drinking Glasses [Cleaning] If you dumped all your glassware into a sink full of water last night and went to bed after the big game, you might find some of the glasses nested tightly together this morning. Here's how to get...
// 8 February 2010, 8:00 pm Modified Tab Ordering Enables Firefox-like Tab Handling in Google Chrome [Downloads] Google Chrome: If you've recently moved from Firefox to Chrome, you probably miss the way that Firefox orders tabs. This small Google Chrome extension switches the tab ordering in Chrome to mimic...
// 8 February 2010, 7:30 pm The Complete Guide to Windows System Restore (It's Better than You Remember) [Windows] Most of us remember Windows System Restore as a lame-duck feature from Windows XP; when it seemed we might benefit from using it, it never quite worked how we expected. That's no longer the...
// 8 February 2010, 6:30 pm Are You Interested in Tablet Computing? [Reader Poll] We've been showered in tablet talk in the wake of the Apple iPad announcement, and while we have our problems with it (and so did you), we're still left wondering: Are you interested in some form...
// 8 February 2010, 6:00 pm Stave Off Snacking by Brushing Your Teeth [Diet Hacks] Many people working on getting in shape find that they frequently crave food in between meals, if you're trying to cut down on your in-between snacking, these simple deterrents can help. Photo by...
// 8 February 2010, 5:30 pm Data Crow is a Cross-Platform Manager of All Your Media [Downloads] Windows/Mac/Linux (Java): Data Crow doesn't just catalog your movies with IMDB look-ups, organize your MP3s and CDs with discographies, or handle pictures. It handles all three, plus contacts,...
// 8 February 2010, 5:00 pm
// 8 February 2010, 11:00 pm UltraDefrag Is a Portable and Open-Source Disk Defragmenter [Downloads] Windows: If you like your software open-source you'll definitely want to check out UltraDefrag a snappy open-source Windows disk defragmenter. UltraDefrag is available as a portable application and...
// 8 February 2010, 10:30 pm Quickly Backup Your Firefox Profile with about:support [Firefox Tip] Navigating to the directory where Firefox stores your profile has always been a bit of a pain, but the recent release of Firefox 3.6 makes finding that folder—and from there backing up your...
// 8 February 2010, 10:00 pm Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies [Use Cases] A week ago we asked readers to tell us how they're using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of "ha! no one's using Wave!" snarking on the Twitter, we got lots of interesting...
// 8 February 2010, 9:30 pm StorageFront Catalogs and Compares Self-Storage Facilities [Storage] You'll find no shortage of self-storage facilities in most US locales but it's tricky figuring out which one is the best value and has the best amenities. StorageFront lets you sort and compare...
// 8 February 2010, 9:00 pm PwnageTool 3.1.5 Jailbreaks iPhone 3.1.3 [Downloads] Mac OS X: Last week Apple pushed out a minor update to the iPhone OS, and, naturally, the update re-jailed any jailbroken devices. Yet again, the iPhone dev-team is back with a new version of...
// 8 February 2010, 8:30 pm Google Adding Social Feature to Gmail? [Rumors] Google may unveil a new social feature to Gmail as early as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal. The feature would closely mimic status updates like those popularized by Facebook and...
// 8 February 2010, 8:28 pm How to Separate Stuck Drinking Glasses [Cleaning] If you dumped all your glassware into a sink full of water last night and went to bed after the big game, you might find some of the glasses nested tightly together this morning. Here's how to get...
// 8 February 2010, 8:00 pm Modified Tab Ordering Enables Firefox-like Tab Handling in Google Chrome [Downloads] Google Chrome: If you've recently moved from Firefox to Chrome, you probably miss the way that Firefox orders tabs. This small Google Chrome extension switches the tab ordering in Chrome to mimic...
// 8 February 2010, 7:30 pm The Complete Guide to Windows System Restore (It's Better than You Remember) [Windows] Most of us remember Windows System Restore as a lame-duck feature from Windows XP; when it seemed we might benefit from using it, it never quite worked how we expected. That's no longer the...
// 8 February 2010, 6:30 pm Are You Interested in Tablet Computing? [Reader Poll] We've been showered in tablet talk in the wake of the Apple iPad announcement, and while we have our problems with it (and so did you), we're still left wondering: Are you interested in some form...
// 8 February 2010, 6:00 pm Stave Off Snacking by Brushing Your Teeth [Diet Hacks] Many people working on getting in shape find that they frequently crave food in between meals, if you're trying to cut down on your in-between snacking, these simple deterrents can help. Photo by...
// 8 February 2010, 5:30 pm Data Crow is a Cross-Platform Manager of All Your Media [Downloads] Windows/Mac/Linux (Java): Data Crow doesn't just catalog your movies with IMDB look-ups, organize your MP3s and CDs with discographies, or handle pictures. It handles all three, plus contacts,...
// 8 February 2010, 5:00 pm
PopSci article on "mind reading"
I wrote an article in the February issue of PopSci about visual cortex neuroscientists who are figuring out how to read our thoughts.
// 8 February 2010, 10:34 pm Battle of the Deathburgers: Heart Attack Grill sues Heart Stoppers Sports Grill The owner of the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona, which offers a "quadruple bypass burger," is suing the owner of the Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Florida. Both businesses are...
// 8 February 2010, 11:08 pm FBI wants ISPs to retain your web surfing records for 2 years The FBI wants ISPs to keep tabs on which websites users visit, and retain those logs for two years. FBI Director Robert Mueller wants providers to store customers' "origin and destination...
// 8 February 2010, 9:28 pm Sony Pictures layoffs explained Fred from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Paul Sweeting, one of the smartest analysts covering Hollywood's collision with the Internet, does a great job reminding us of the real reasons...
// 8 February 2010, 9:07 pm Science of Cocktails Jonas Halpren is publisher of Drink of the Week and Channels Director at Federated Media. San Francisco's famed science museum, The Exploratorium, recently transformed into a giant cocktail...
// 8 February 2010, 11:20 pm 4chan says Verizon is blocking 4chan Verizon Wireless is said to be filtering HTTP traffic to/from boards.4chan.org (all image boards). From status.4chan.org: "After an hour and a half on the phone, we've received confirmation from...
// 8 February 2010, 8:55 pm South Carolina now requires "subversives" to register Planning to overthrow the US government? If yes, and you live in South Carolina, you must pay a five-dollar subversive registration fee. (Via The Agitator)
// 8 February 2010, 8:53 pm Skip James plays "Crow Jane" in 1967 Skip James plays "Crow Jane" in 1967. (After watching this video, I had to go back and watch one of my favorite YouTube videos ever, "Inflatable tube man dances to Cream's 'Glad.'") (Via...
// 8 February 2010, 8:43 pm Haiti: Red Cross blog post on why donating cash is better than donating "stuff" "First let me debunk a couple of myths, starting with the principle that 'anything is better than nothing'. Trust me, it's not. Relieving suffering should be guided solely by need and not what people...
// 8 February 2010, 8:45 pm Case Sunstein: Feds should "cognitively infiltrate" online conspiracy groups Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, recently suggested that the feds should "cognitively infiltrate" conspiracy theorist hang-outs and...
// 8 February 2010, 10:06 pm Best Superbowl photo ever Thanks for sharing this wonderful Superbowl photo, Shelley!
// 8 February 2010, 10:44 pm Nuit Blanche Video above: Nuit Blanche, from Spy Films, directed by Arev Manoukian. There's a "making of" video here.
// 8 February 2010, 8:36 pm US soldier waterboards his 4-year-old daughter for not reciting alphabet Joshua Tabor, a 27-year-old Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months, was restricted to his Washington state military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because...
// 8 February 2010, 8:04 pm Band Reunion at the Wedding Best SNL skit since Black Flag was still together. Dave Grohl? More like Dave LOL. Video at Hulu, and alternate link which may or may not work for non-USA viewers. Or maybe this one. Sorry,...
// 8 February 2010, 10:36 pm Tech can be romantic: ask Ryan and Veronica This is the first time I thought a Q&A about IM, press events, and World of Warcraft was really romantic: read Geeksugar's pre-V-day interview with tech journalists Ryan Block and Veronica Belmont.
// 8 February 2010, 8:00 pm Brain scans enable communication with vegetative people Researchers have used brain scans to communicate with individuals in total vegetative states. Scientists at the University of Cambridge asked "yes" or "no" questions of the patients which they...
// 8 February 2010, 10:09 pm BirdBox turns iPhone into nesting-box cuckoo alarm clock Emma says: BirdBox is a physical bird box that turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a nesting-box cuckoo alarm clock. Touching the clock face reveals the interior of the birdbox, whilst the alarm...
// 8 February 2010, 7:14 pm
// 8 February 2010, 10:34 pm Battle of the Deathburgers: Heart Attack Grill sues Heart Stoppers Sports Grill The owner of the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona, which offers a "quadruple bypass burger," is suing the owner of the Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Florida. Both businesses are...
// 8 February 2010, 11:08 pm FBI wants ISPs to retain your web surfing records for 2 years The FBI wants ISPs to keep tabs on which websites users visit, and retain those logs for two years. FBI Director Robert Mueller wants providers to store customers' "origin and destination...
// 8 February 2010, 9:28 pm Sony Pictures layoffs explained Fred from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Paul Sweeting, one of the smartest analysts covering Hollywood's collision with the Internet, does a great job reminding us of the real reasons...
// 8 February 2010, 9:07 pm Science of Cocktails Jonas Halpren is publisher of Drink of the Week and Channels Director at Federated Media. San Francisco's famed science museum, The Exploratorium, recently transformed into a giant cocktail...
// 8 February 2010, 11:20 pm 4chan says Verizon is blocking 4chan Verizon Wireless is said to be filtering HTTP traffic to/from boards.4chan.org (all image boards). From status.4chan.org: "After an hour and a half on the phone, we've received confirmation from...
// 8 February 2010, 8:55 pm South Carolina now requires "subversives" to register Planning to overthrow the US government? If yes, and you live in South Carolina, you must pay a five-dollar subversive registration fee. (Via The Agitator)
// 8 February 2010, 8:53 pm Skip James plays "Crow Jane" in 1967 Skip James plays "Crow Jane" in 1967. (After watching this video, I had to go back and watch one of my favorite YouTube videos ever, "Inflatable tube man dances to Cream's 'Glad.'") (Via...
// 8 February 2010, 8:43 pm Haiti: Red Cross blog post on why donating cash is better than donating "stuff" "First let me debunk a couple of myths, starting with the principle that 'anything is better than nothing'. Trust me, it's not. Relieving suffering should be guided solely by need and not what people...
// 8 February 2010, 8:45 pm Case Sunstein: Feds should "cognitively infiltrate" online conspiracy groups Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, recently suggested that the feds should "cognitively infiltrate" conspiracy theorist hang-outs and...
// 8 February 2010, 10:06 pm Best Superbowl photo ever Thanks for sharing this wonderful Superbowl photo, Shelley!
// 8 February 2010, 10:44 pm Nuit Blanche Video above: Nuit Blanche, from Spy Films, directed by Arev Manoukian. There's a "making of" video here.
// 8 February 2010, 8:36 pm US soldier waterboards his 4-year-old daughter for not reciting alphabet Joshua Tabor, a 27-year-old Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months, was restricted to his Washington state military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because...
// 8 February 2010, 8:04 pm Band Reunion at the Wedding Best SNL skit since Black Flag was still together. Dave Grohl? More like Dave LOL. Video at Hulu, and alternate link which may or may not work for non-USA viewers. Or maybe this one. Sorry,...
// 8 February 2010, 10:36 pm Tech can be romantic: ask Ryan and Veronica This is the first time I thought a Q&A about IM, press events, and World of Warcraft was really romantic: read Geeksugar's pre-V-day interview with tech journalists Ryan Block and Veronica Belmont.
// 8 February 2010, 8:00 pm Brain scans enable communication with vegetative people Researchers have used brain scans to communicate with individuals in total vegetative states. Scientists at the University of Cambridge asked "yes" or "no" questions of the patients which they...
// 8 February 2010, 10:09 pm BirdBox turns iPhone into nesting-box cuckoo alarm clock Emma says: BirdBox is a physical bird box that turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a nesting-box cuckoo alarm clock. Touching the clock face reveals the interior of the birdbox, whilst the alarm...
// 8 February 2010, 7:14 pm
Google Shooting for Smartphone Universal Translator
New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries
Verizon Blocking 4chan
A Reflection On Sun Executive Payouts For Failure
Turns Out You Actually Can Be Bored To Death
Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring
What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts?
SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking
Nexus One First Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate"
Zero-Day Vulnerabilities On the Market
Mozilla Puts Tiger Out to Pasture
Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off For Space Station
Google Mystery Domain Reroutes 3% of Net Surfers
Push To End Online Gambling Ban Gains Steam
3D HDMI Specification Is Set Free
Screen Tests. Good, now 3/4 to the right. Full profile. Thank you. The screen test offers a disorienting angle on 'behind the scenes' footage—straight through the camera.
More fun screen tests and auditions:
Marilyn Monroe for Something's...
// 8 February 2010, 2:03 pm What's the worst that can happen? 'As part of its budget for the next year [pdf], DARPA is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating "the randomness of natural evolutionary...
// 8 February 2010, 2:03 pm The Voice of Darth Vader: Before James Earl Jones Came across this video today and thought I'd share. The original track of Darth Vader's voice as performed by the British actor that played him, David Prowse. Imagine how different Star Wars would...
// 8 February 2010, 1:18 pm Jesus' Ham Streak hits 24 straight days. The man is a machine. Hi, I'm Vincent "Vinny" Van Gogh...artist, mad man, dead guy. I live with James T Kirk and Jesus in the City of Industry--where we pretty much just watch TV all day. This is my blog about it.
// 8 February 2010, 10:26 am Online image blast from the past Internet Archaeology is archiving the early graphics of the Internet. There are still graphics, animated ones, and complete websites. They also have a blog featuring select images. (via) Some images...
// 8 February 2010, 9:44 am I <3 Comfort Women and Robots' Runts! Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur. Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library.
Full Dataset. (google docs spreadsheet)
B-Level Men's...
// 8 February 2010, 9:33 am The Desert is alive The Qanat; a water management system from C7th BC still in use today;is one of the wonders of the world, and keeps the desert alive. This fascinating 17 min video from UNESCO is a good introduction...
// 8 February 2010, 7:11 am Slackers. Slacker is a unique film written and directed by Richard Linklater that follows the life of various characters in a Austin, Texas. Mind-numbingly boring or oddly captivating, Slacker provided an...
// 8 February 2010, 5:45 am This food - it glows? Do not be alarmed! Salt substitute is radioactive, but it's ok to eat. It also helps keep the earth's core warm.
// 8 February 2010, 4:47 am My other car is a minimalist Jeff Koons joins other modern artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella in treating BMW cars as a canvas for art.
All the BMW art cars. (Previously, with lots of dead links.)
// 8 February 2010, 3:52 am a glimpse of the joy and genius of contemporary Cuban culture You dig this Canto para Shango? Well then, you might want to peruse more of the Cuban folkloric and popular music and dance on offer at Boogalu Productions. Check out the top video on their YouTube...
// 8 February 2010, 2:17 am I DIDN'T MEAN IT, GIDEON! Either they are high as a kite, or tired and giddy from a long day of interviewing, but either way -- Jason Segal and Paul Rudd can barely hold it together in this promotional interview for "I Love...
// 8 February 2010, 12:10 am Prophetic Pictures from Menominie, WI Prophetic Pictures from Menominie, Wisconsin. In 1905, high school senior Albert Hansen took photogaphs of his graduating classmates at Menominie HS. Not as they were -- but as they believed, or...
// 7 February 2010, 11:44 pm Who dat? The Who Dat nation is composed of long-suffering, widespread, well-dressed, ballsy, divinely inspired (?), stubborn, parading, boundary-crossing, musical, and - as of tonight - very happy citizens....
// 7 February 2010, 10:39 pm I have no eyes and I must see! Sea urchins do not have eyes, yet appear to be able to see where they are going. One posible answer: they may use the entire surface of their bodies as a compound eye.
// 7 February 2010, 10:36 pm "I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!" "He's made our case for us, your honor, you see. And so prosecution rests our case, don't we?" "Your responsibility is to defend Yertle. You may argue that Yertle is the king and, as protector of the realm, has a right to order his subjects to do whatever he thinks is necessary. He thought it...
// 7 February 2010, 9:34 pm
More fun screen tests and auditions:
Marilyn Monroe for Something's...
// 8 February 2010, 2:03 pm What's the worst that can happen? 'As part of its budget for the next year [pdf], DARPA is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating "the randomness of natural evolutionary...
// 8 February 2010, 2:03 pm The Voice of Darth Vader: Before James Earl Jones Came across this video today and thought I'd share. The original track of Darth Vader's voice as performed by the British actor that played him, David Prowse. Imagine how different Star Wars would...
// 8 February 2010, 1:18 pm Jesus' Ham Streak hits 24 straight days. The man is a machine. Hi, I'm Vincent "Vinny" Van Gogh...artist, mad man, dead guy. I live with James T Kirk and Jesus in the City of Industry--where we pretty much just watch TV all day. This is my blog about it.
// 8 February 2010, 10:26 am Online image blast from the past Internet Archaeology is archiving the early graphics of the Internet. There are still graphics, animated ones, and complete websites. They also have a blog featuring select images. (via) Some images...
// 8 February 2010, 9:44 am I <3 Comfort Women and Robots' Runts! Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur. Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library.
Full Dataset. (google docs spreadsheet)
B-Level Men's...
// 8 February 2010, 9:33 am The Desert is alive The Qanat; a water management system from C7th BC still in use today;is one of the wonders of the world, and keeps the desert alive. This fascinating 17 min video from UNESCO is a good introduction...
// 8 February 2010, 7:11 am Slackers. Slacker is a unique film written and directed by Richard Linklater that follows the life of various characters in a Austin, Texas. Mind-numbingly boring or oddly captivating, Slacker provided an...
// 8 February 2010, 5:45 am This food - it glows? Do not be alarmed! Salt substitute is radioactive, but it's ok to eat. It also helps keep the earth's core warm.
// 8 February 2010, 4:47 am My other car is a minimalist Jeff Koons joins other modern artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella in treating BMW cars as a canvas for art.
All the BMW art cars. (Previously, with lots of dead links.)
// 8 February 2010, 3:52 am a glimpse of the joy and genius of contemporary Cuban culture You dig this Canto para Shango? Well then, you might want to peruse more of the Cuban folkloric and popular music and dance on offer at Boogalu Productions. Check out the top video on their YouTube...
// 8 February 2010, 2:17 am I DIDN'T MEAN IT, GIDEON! Either they are high as a kite, or tired and giddy from a long day of interviewing, but either way -- Jason Segal and Paul Rudd can barely hold it together in this promotional interview for "I Love...
// 8 February 2010, 12:10 am Prophetic Pictures from Menominie, WI Prophetic Pictures from Menominie, Wisconsin. In 1905, high school senior Albert Hansen took photogaphs of his graduating classmates at Menominie HS. Not as they were -- but as they believed, or...
// 7 February 2010, 11:44 pm Who dat? The Who Dat nation is composed of long-suffering, widespread, well-dressed, ballsy, divinely inspired (?), stubborn, parading, boundary-crossing, musical, and - as of tonight - very happy citizens....
// 7 February 2010, 10:39 pm I have no eyes and I must see! Sea urchins do not have eyes, yet appear to be able to see where they are going. One posible answer: they may use the entire surface of their bodies as a compound eye.
// 7 February 2010, 10:36 pm "I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me! For I am the ruler of all that I see!" "He's made our case for us, your honor, you see. And so prosecution rests our case, don't we?" "Your responsibility is to defend Yertle. You may argue that Yertle is the king and, as protector of the realm, has a right to order his subjects to do whatever he thinks is necessary. He thought it...
// 7 February 2010, 9:34 pm
STS-130 Launch Replays Nighttime liftoff replay's from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
// 8 February 2010, 1:35 pm France24 - 'Fewer than 50 wild tigers' left in China AFP - Fewer than 50 wild tigers remain in China, a conservation group said Monday, voicing hope that the Year of the Tiger would not be the last for the endangered cats.
// 8 February 2010, 1:41 pm Train traps Callahan woman in her yard Aretha Brown is a 66-year old woman with back trouble who has had to crawl between two train cars almost every time she has left her yard since Dec. 27.
// 8 February 2010, 3:54 pm Parisian Love: Google's Superbowl ad An American finds love in Paris.
// 8 February 2010, 12:02 pm Are these Palin's Tea Party cheat notes? A close inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand.
// 8 February 2010, 11:17 am Da Vinchi Sketches Some of Leonardo da Vinchi Sketches about human body and other stuff...
// 8 February 2010, 5:50 pm "The pitbull in lipstick is back!" - ( from Joan Walsh with Salon.com ) She said that she is, "tired of hearin' the talk talk talk" but Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit
// 7 February 2010, 11:42 pm The Amazing » Electric Charge Can Change Freezing Point of Water A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes.
// 8 February 2010, 4:11 pm Internet Bridge Troll -- TheDailyTube Trolls like this are the reason that AOL introduced "block user" all those years ago.They are why mixx has one too!BYE BYE TROLL!
// 8 February 2010, 7:05 am Dave, Oprah & Jay Leno's Super Bowl Ad The worst Super Bowl party ever? Watch Dave, Oprah and Jay in this super commercial.
// 8 February 2010, 6:00 am The Round Up 69: MadMixMustang and The Losers For the 69th edition of The Round Up, Andy plays a mashup by MadMixMustang joining the sounds of Daft Punk and Bob Marley called Is This Digital Love? Greg then takes a look at the film adaptation of the graphic novel The Losers directed by Sylvain White
// 8 February 2010, 5:42 am Kitty castle | Kittens - Cats Pictures, Pet Cat And More The world never seizes to amaze me as recently I got news that there was a hotel In Taiwan whereby it is strictly for guest who either love cats or do own cats of their own.
// 8 February 2010, 12:44 pm Google Super Bowl Ad Video: "Parisian Love" Google ran their first Super Bowl Commercial entitled "Parisian Love". If it looks familiar, that's because it's one of their "Search Stories"
// 8 February 2010, 9:17 am Mother Nature Gives Cold Hugs. Right about now, you are probably thinking… "Next year, I need to winterize!"
// 8 February 2010, 3:37 pm Trimester Trimester: Also, it's not like anyone actually calls up the Nobel committee to double-check things.
// 8 February 2010, 6:02 am Mystery "X" Stands For "X-traterrestrial" to Some Believers When Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get attention among the X-Files crowd. The "X"
// 8 February 2010, 12:26 am Live Webcast Goes Wrong Yo dawg I heard you like live webcast, well we put a live web cast in yo live web cast so you can live web cast while you live webcast.
// 8 February 2010, 2:25 pm
// 8 February 2010, 1:35 pm France24 - 'Fewer than 50 wild tigers' left in China AFP - Fewer than 50 wild tigers remain in China, a conservation group said Monday, voicing hope that the Year of the Tiger would not be the last for the endangered cats.
// 8 February 2010, 1:41 pm Train traps Callahan woman in her yard Aretha Brown is a 66-year old woman with back trouble who has had to crawl between two train cars almost every time she has left her yard since Dec. 27.
// 8 February 2010, 3:54 pm Parisian Love: Google's Superbowl ad An American finds love in Paris.
// 8 February 2010, 12:02 pm Are these Palin's Tea Party cheat notes? A close inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand.
// 8 February 2010, 11:17 am Da Vinchi Sketches Some of Leonardo da Vinchi Sketches about human body and other stuff...
// 8 February 2010, 5:50 pm "The pitbull in lipstick is back!" - ( from Joan Walsh with Salon.com ) She said that she is, "tired of hearin' the talk talk talk" but Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit
// 7 February 2010, 11:42 pm The Amazing » Electric Charge Can Change Freezing Point of Water A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes.
// 8 February 2010, 4:11 pm Internet Bridge Troll -- TheDailyTube Trolls like this are the reason that AOL introduced "block user" all those years ago.They are why mixx has one too!BYE BYE TROLL!
// 8 February 2010, 7:05 am Dave, Oprah & Jay Leno's Super Bowl Ad The worst Super Bowl party ever? Watch Dave, Oprah and Jay in this super commercial.
// 8 February 2010, 6:00 am The Round Up 69: MadMixMustang and The Losers For the 69th edition of The Round Up, Andy plays a mashup by MadMixMustang joining the sounds of Daft Punk and Bob Marley called Is This Digital Love? Greg then takes a look at the film adaptation of the graphic novel The Losers directed by Sylvain White
// 8 February 2010, 5:42 am Kitty castle | Kittens - Cats Pictures, Pet Cat And More The world never seizes to amaze me as recently I got news that there was a hotel In Taiwan whereby it is strictly for guest who either love cats or do own cats of their own.
// 8 February 2010, 12:44 pm Google Super Bowl Ad Video: "Parisian Love" Google ran their first Super Bowl Commercial entitled "Parisian Love". If it looks familiar, that's because it's one of their "Search Stories"
// 8 February 2010, 9:17 am Mother Nature Gives Cold Hugs. Right about now, you are probably thinking… "Next year, I need to winterize!"
// 8 February 2010, 3:37 pm Trimester Trimester: Also, it's not like anyone actually calls up the Nobel committee to double-check things.
// 8 February 2010, 6:02 am Mystery "X" Stands For "X-traterrestrial" to Some Believers When Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get attention among the X-Files crowd. The "X"
// 8 February 2010, 12:26 am Live Webcast Goes Wrong Yo dawg I heard you like live webcast, well we put a live web cast in yo live web cast so you can live web cast while you live webcast.
// 8 February 2010, 2:25 pm
4 Quick and Easy Design Theory Tips Oftentimes you can create a snappy design that just doesn't seem to work -- it looks nice and all, but there's something about it, something you just can't quite put your finger on, that stalls it...
// 9 February 2010, 6:05 am Green Thumb -- A Free Social Media Icon Set Green Thumb is a free, vector-based social media icon set designed exclusively for release on Visual Swirl. The package contains icons for the following sites: Delicious, Design Bump, Design Float,...
// 9 February 2010, 6:05 am Adam Lehman on the "ColdFusion Renaissance" In this interview, recorded at CFinNC 2009, Dan Wilson speaks with ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman on the rebirth of the ColdFusion platform. Evolving from its early days as a C++ product, to...
// 9 February 2010, 5:33 am Getting Started with iPhone Development Moving from a country to another and starting a new life specifically as a graduate student has its own difficulties that eat all your time. However, the good news is that now I have some...
// 9 February 2010, 4:50 am Simultaneously add Multiple Event Handlers to a Selector using jQuery 1.4 With jQuery 1.4, you can add multiple event handlers to a selector by passing a map of event type/handler pairs. This post shows you how
// 9 February 2010, 4:50 am Visual Studio First Launch Sequence With the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate around the corner, I would like to talk briefly about some changes we have made to the first-launch-after-installation sequence. Many of you may...
// 9 February 2010, 4:12 am Developer Lessons from Diablo II Think you can't learn anything useful from a video game for development? Well, spend a few hundred hours on Diablo II and you might learn some of these lessons.
// 9 February 2010, 3:45 am How to easily monitor your web server using PHP In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your...
// 9 February 2010, 2:48 am CSS3 - The future now - menu - Drop Everything Full drop down menu done with CSS only! The ONLY gaphic used in this menu is the photograph of the butterfly, all the rest of the demo is down to css3 styling. As with the last menu, this works in...
// 9 February 2010, 2:17 am CSS3 Techniques You Should Know Many of you have probably heard all the buzz around CSS3, but exactly which techniques can we use today? In this article I'll show you some different CSS3 techniques that work great in some of the...
// 9 February 2010, 1:59 am Did I mention #MongoDb is fast?!?! Way to go @mongodb So now that I've got a bunch of data in the database, I figured might as well see what queries looked like. Let me just say WOW. The details speak pretty much for themselves, but here's a little...
// 9 February 2010, 1:59 am 43 In-Browser Web Development Tools That Will Make You A Better Web Developer More that 40 in-browser tools for you to choose from. This is a toolbox that is sure to contain most of the web developer tools you need to develop your website into something unique and make you an...
// 9 February 2010, 1:56 am Compiling Subversion 1.6.9 from source on Debian Lenny (FSFS backend - apache2) bug workaround Mark Poole talks about a workaround for a bug when compiling svn 1.6.9 from source on Debian Lenny.
// 9 February 2010, 1:45 am Clustering Wicket for fun and profit ! Jetty + Memcached Traditionally a Java servlet container has a fixed session time, a flood of traffic can potentially cause JVM OOM errors if the session time is set too high. I wanted a smart session container that...
// 9 February 2010, 1:11 am Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs Awesome link of templates for the site
// 9 February 2010, 1:07 am Conversational Stories Here's a common misconception about agile methods. It centers on the way user stories are created and flow through the development activity. The misconception is that the product owner (or business...
// 9 February 2010, 1:01 am Windows 7: Bogus ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT error Hyrum Wright talks about a recently discovered bug in Windows 7 whereby it reports that a file is corrupted, when in fact it is not...
// 9 February 2010, 12:40 am
// 9 February 2010, 6:05 am Green Thumb -- A Free Social Media Icon Set Green Thumb is a free, vector-based social media icon set designed exclusively for release on Visual Swirl. The package contains icons for the following sites: Delicious, Design Bump, Design Float,...
// 9 February 2010, 6:05 am Adam Lehman on the "ColdFusion Renaissance" In this interview, recorded at CFinNC 2009, Dan Wilson speaks with ColdFusion Product Manager Adam Lehman on the rebirth of the ColdFusion platform. Evolving from its early days as a C++ product, to...
// 9 February 2010, 5:33 am Getting Started with iPhone Development Moving from a country to another and starting a new life specifically as a graduate student has its own difficulties that eat all your time. However, the good news is that now I have some...
// 9 February 2010, 4:50 am Simultaneously add Multiple Event Handlers to a Selector using jQuery 1.4 With jQuery 1.4, you can add multiple event handlers to a selector by passing a map of event type/handler pairs. This post shows you how
// 9 February 2010, 4:50 am Visual Studio First Launch Sequence With the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate around the corner, I would like to talk briefly about some changes we have made to the first-launch-after-installation sequence. Many of you may...
// 9 February 2010, 4:12 am Developer Lessons from Diablo II Think you can't learn anything useful from a video game for development? Well, spend a few hundred hours on Diablo II and you might learn some of these lessons.
// 9 February 2010, 3:45 am How to easily monitor your web server using PHP In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your...
// 9 February 2010, 2:48 am CSS3 - The future now - menu - Drop Everything Full drop down menu done with CSS only! The ONLY gaphic used in this menu is the photograph of the butterfly, all the rest of the demo is down to css3 styling. As with the last menu, this works in...
// 9 February 2010, 2:17 am CSS3 Techniques You Should Know Many of you have probably heard all the buzz around CSS3, but exactly which techniques can we use today? In this article I'll show you some different CSS3 techniques that work great in some of the...
// 9 February 2010, 1:59 am Did I mention #MongoDb is fast?!?! Way to go @mongodb So now that I've got a bunch of data in the database, I figured might as well see what queries looked like. Let me just say WOW. The details speak pretty much for themselves, but here's a little...
// 9 February 2010, 1:59 am 43 In-Browser Web Development Tools That Will Make You A Better Web Developer More that 40 in-browser tools for you to choose from. This is a toolbox that is sure to contain most of the web developer tools you need to develop your website into something unique and make you an...
// 9 February 2010, 1:56 am Compiling Subversion 1.6.9 from source on Debian Lenny (FSFS backend - apache2) bug workaround Mark Poole talks about a workaround for a bug when compiling svn 1.6.9 from source on Debian Lenny.
// 9 February 2010, 1:45 am Clustering Wicket for fun and profit ! Jetty + Memcached Traditionally a Java servlet container has a fixed session time, a flood of traffic can potentially cause JVM OOM errors if the session time is set too high. I wanted a smart session container that...
// 9 February 2010, 1:11 am Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs Awesome link of templates for the site
// 9 February 2010, 1:07 am Conversational Stories Here's a common misconception about agile methods. It centers on the way user stories are created and flow through the development activity. The misconception is that the product owner (or business...
// 9 February 2010, 1:01 am Windows 7: Bogus ERROR_FILE_CORRUPT error Hyrum Wright talks about a recently discovered bug in Windows 7 whereby it reports that a file is corrupted, when in fact it is not...
// 9 February 2010, 12:40 am
Jackson’s Doctor Pleads Not Guilty to Manslaughter Dr. Conrad Murray had provided Mr. Jackson with an anesthetic that was ruled a major factor in his death.
// 8 February 2010, 11:09 pm Sidebar: A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner.
// 8 February 2010, 6:04 pm Blacks Question Obama’s Approach to Race A quiet observation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday last month was typical of the president, whose low-key stance on race is frustrating some black leaders and scholars.
// 8 February 2010, 10:48 pm More Snow Is Expected in Mid-Atlantic Another heavy snowfall is forecast to start Tuesday in Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, just as they begin to dig out from an epic snowstorm that began on Friday.
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Shuttle Blasts Off for Space Station It was the second attempt to launch the Endeavour, 24 hours after Sunday’s attempt was scrubbed because of clouds over the launching pad.
// 8 February 2010, 9:29 pm News Analysis: For Human Spaceflight, Can Measured Beat Bold? The Obama administration is trying to keep humans flying in space, but will its measured proposals succeed?
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Salt Lake City Journal: Huge Church Project Renews Downtown, and Debate A $1 billion Mormon church-financed redevelopment project and a wave of recent church purchases in Salt Lake City have put a new focus on the line between culture and economics.
// 8 February 2010, 10:17 pm For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students.
// 8 February 2010, 7:01 pm A Federal Effort to Push Junk Food Out of Schools To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.
// 8 February 2010, 8:01 am Iron Checkbook Shapes Cultural Los Angeles Eli Broad dominates the arts in Los Angeles with a force that has no parallel in any major city.
// 8 February 2010, 6:19 pm A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person A new group of soldier-writers explore the futility of war — but wars that they for the most part support.
// 8 February 2010, 6:33 pm In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Bankers, unhappy at the president’s proposals for tighter financial regulations, are shifting donations to Republicans.
// 8 February 2010, 5:11 pm Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care The meeting would mark the first time in the long health care debate that leaders from both sides would be allowed to air their ideas publicly.
// 8 February 2010, 5:26 pm New Orleans Picks Mayor With Show of Support With backing from both blacks and whites, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu was elected the first white mayor in 32 years.
// 8 February 2010, 7:49 am Cleaning Up After a Snowstorm as Another One Looms Residents tried to restore electricity and mobility, but it seemed unlikely that life would return to normal by the beginning of the workweek on Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 7:51 am With Federal Stimulus Money Gone, Many Schools Face Budget Gaps The stimulus helped forestall drastic cuts at public schools, but many are now approaching what officials call a “funding cliff.”
// 8 February 2010, 7:47 am Some Toyota Owners Voice an Eroding Loyalty The recall of millions of Toyota cars and trucks for problems with their accelerator pedals is giving Toyota loyalists second thoughts.
// 8 February 2010, 7:05 am
// 8 February 2010, 11:09 pm Sidebar: A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer While in prison, a former bank robber transformed himself into an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner.
// 8 February 2010, 6:04 pm Blacks Question Obama’s Approach to Race A quiet observation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday last month was typical of the president, whose low-key stance on race is frustrating some black leaders and scholars.
// 8 February 2010, 10:48 pm More Snow Is Expected in Mid-Atlantic Another heavy snowfall is forecast to start Tuesday in Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, just as they begin to dig out from an epic snowstorm that began on Friday.
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Shuttle Blasts Off for Space Station It was the second attempt to launch the Endeavour, 24 hours after Sunday’s attempt was scrubbed because of clouds over the launching pad.
// 8 February 2010, 9:29 pm News Analysis: For Human Spaceflight, Can Measured Beat Bold? The Obama administration is trying to keep humans flying in space, but will its measured proposals succeed?
// 8 February 2010, 11:14 pm Salt Lake City Journal: Huge Church Project Renews Downtown, and Debate A $1 billion Mormon church-financed redevelopment project and a wave of recent church purchases in Salt Lake City have put a new focus on the line between culture and economics.
// 8 February 2010, 10:17 pm For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students.
// 8 February 2010, 7:01 pm A Federal Effort to Push Junk Food Out of Schools To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.
// 8 February 2010, 8:01 am Iron Checkbook Shapes Cultural Los Angeles Eli Broad dominates the arts in Los Angeles with a force that has no parallel in any major city.
// 8 February 2010, 6:19 pm A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person A new group of soldier-writers explore the futility of war — but wars that they for the most part support.
// 8 February 2010, 6:33 pm In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P. Bankers, unhappy at the president’s proposals for tighter financial regulations, are shifting donations to Republicans.
// 8 February 2010, 5:11 pm Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care The meeting would mark the first time in the long health care debate that leaders from both sides would be allowed to air their ideas publicly.
// 8 February 2010, 5:26 pm New Orleans Picks Mayor With Show of Support With backing from both blacks and whites, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu was elected the first white mayor in 32 years.
// 8 February 2010, 7:49 am Cleaning Up After a Snowstorm as Another One Looms Residents tried to restore electricity and mobility, but it seemed unlikely that life would return to normal by the beginning of the workweek on Monday.
// 8 February 2010, 7:51 am With Federal Stimulus Money Gone, Many Schools Face Budget Gaps The stimulus helped forestall drastic cuts at public schools, but many are now approaching what officials call a “funding cliff.”
// 8 February 2010, 7:47 am Some Toyota Owners Voice an Eroding Loyalty The recall of millions of Toyota cars and trucks for problems with their accelerator pedals is giving Toyota loyalists second thoughts.
// 8 February 2010, 7:05 am
