Man Buys Crack With Monopoly Money When you attempt to pull one over on a drug dealer, they might be looking for retribution. For evidence, take a look at this case in Kansas in which a man bought hundreds of dollars worth of crack...
// 10 March 2010, 12:00 am Voodoo practitioners shrug off blame for Haitian quake In a whirl of limbs and with eyes bulging, the woman is helped to a squat in the ramshackle shed and starts cackling maniacally like a terrified chicken.
// 9 March 2010, 11:50 pm Biggie Smalls is Still Influential 13 Years After his Death Today is the 13th-year-anniversary of Biggie Smalls (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) death. He was one of the most momentous hip hop artists of all time. Here he is before he made it, rapping, age 17 on a...
// 9 March 2010, 11:42 pm The 7 People You Meet at The Gym And how you can avoid becoming them.
// 9 March 2010, 11:40 pm NJ Airport Breach a Few Months Back Was From A Goodbye Kiss A 28-year-old student pleaded guilty today to breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport so that he could give his girlfriend a goodbye kiss. Haisong Jiang also agreed to a $500...
// 9 March 2010, 11:30 pm The Rise of Netbooks (Infographic) 2009 saw dramatic growth in the popularity of netbooks. This trend is expected to continue in 2010 as they become increasingly affordable.
// 9 March 2010, 11:30 pm Two Of Oldest People In World Die On Same Day Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years, 342 days
// 9 March 2010, 11:30 pm Biblical City's True Location Discovered, Researchers Claim Scientists think they've finally found the real location of a city mentioned in the bible called Neta'im.
// 9 March 2010, 11:10 pm Patton Oswalt To Write 'Firefly' Comic Book (pic) Comedian Patton Oswalt is penning a stand-alone comic book that picks up the action where the story left off. Also, the cover art has been released!
// 9 March 2010, 11:00 pm Rock 'N' Roll Metro Map v1.0 *****
// 9 March 2010, 11:00 pm 'Bottled ghosts' sold in New Zealand auction Two glass bottles said to contain the ghosts are bought for NZ$2,000 in an online auction in New Zealand.
// 9 March 2010, 10:50 pm Mile-High Mega-Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power-Plant Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That's a Korean research team's new...
// 9 March 2010, 10:40 pm Edwards' affair earns National Enquirer some respect In breaking the story around former presidential candidate John Edwards' infidelity, the National Enquirer has beaten mainstream papers at their own game, and is now under consideration for a...
// 9 March 2010, 10:40 pm The Five Most Badass Japanese Game Designers Another thing that's awesome about Japan: Video game designers are often seen as rockstar celebrities.
// 9 March 2010, 10:40 pm N.Korea says ready for dialogue and war with US North Korea said Tuesday it would strengthen its nuclear deterrent in response to US military threats and is prepared for both dialogue and war with Washington.
// 9 March 2010, 10:30 pm Concept art from HL2 Episode 3 leaked? *****
// 9 March 2010, 10:30 pm VA to Automate Its Agent Orange Claims Process The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is automating how it pays disability claims related to exposure to the chemical Agent Orange, officials said.
// 9 March 2010, 10:30 pm
// 10 March 2010, 12:00 am Voodoo practitioners shrug off blame for Haitian quake In a whirl of limbs and with eyes bulging, the woman is helped to a squat in the ramshackle shed and starts cackling maniacally like a terrified chicken.
// 9 March 2010, 11:50 pm Biggie Smalls is Still Influential 13 Years After his Death Today is the 13th-year-anniversary of Biggie Smalls (aka The Notorious B.I.G.) death. He was one of the most momentous hip hop artists of all time. Here he is before he made it, rapping, age 17 on a...
// 9 March 2010, 11:42 pm The 7 People You Meet at The Gym And how you can avoid becoming them.
// 9 March 2010, 11:40 pm NJ Airport Breach a Few Months Back Was From A Goodbye Kiss A 28-year-old student pleaded guilty today to breaching security at Newark Liberty International Airport so that he could give his girlfriend a goodbye kiss. Haisong Jiang also agreed to a $500...
// 9 March 2010, 11:30 pm The Rise of Netbooks (Infographic) 2009 saw dramatic growth in the popularity of netbooks. This trend is expected to continue in 2010 as they become increasingly affordable.
// 9 March 2010, 11:30 pm Two Of Oldest People In World Die On Same Day Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days. Ray died just hours before Daisey Bailey, who was 113 years, 342 days
// 9 March 2010, 11:30 pm Biblical City's True Location Discovered, Researchers Claim Scientists think they've finally found the real location of a city mentioned in the bible called Neta'im.
// 9 March 2010, 11:10 pm Patton Oswalt To Write 'Firefly' Comic Book (pic) Comedian Patton Oswalt is penning a stand-alone comic book that picks up the action where the story left off. Also, the cover art has been released!
// 9 March 2010, 11:00 pm Rock 'N' Roll Metro Map v1.0 *****
// 9 March 2010, 11:00 pm 'Bottled ghosts' sold in New Zealand auction Two glass bottles said to contain the ghosts are bought for NZ$2,000 in an online auction in New Zealand.
// 9 March 2010, 10:50 pm Mile-High Mega-Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power-Plant Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That's a Korean research team's new...
// 9 March 2010, 10:40 pm Edwards' affair earns National Enquirer some respect In breaking the story around former presidential candidate John Edwards' infidelity, the National Enquirer has beaten mainstream papers at their own game, and is now under consideration for a...
// 9 March 2010, 10:40 pm The Five Most Badass Japanese Game Designers Another thing that's awesome about Japan: Video game designers are often seen as rockstar celebrities.
// 9 March 2010, 10:40 pm N.Korea says ready for dialogue and war with US North Korea said Tuesday it would strengthen its nuclear deterrent in response to US military threats and is prepared for both dialogue and war with Washington.
// 9 March 2010, 10:30 pm Concept art from HL2 Episode 3 leaked? *****
// 9 March 2010, 10:30 pm VA to Automate Its Agent Orange Claims Process The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is automating how it pays disability claims related to exposure to the chemical Agent Orange, officials said.
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Nigerian army 'ignored warning of massacres' in Jos - BBC News Telegraph.co.ukNigerian army 'ignored warning of massacres' in JosBBC NewsThe governor of Nigeria's Plateau state has accused military commanders of ignoring warnings of an attack on...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi both claim victory in Iraq elections - Times Online ABC NewsNouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi both claim victory in Iraq electionsTimes OnlineThe two front-runners in Iraq's national election both claimed victory yesterday after the authorities...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Israel's UN envoy: Little chance of paralyzing sanctions on Iran - Ynetnews New York Times (blog)Israel's UN envoy: Little chance of paralyzing sanctions on IranYnetnewsIsrael's UN ambassador, Prof. Gabriella Shalev, said to reporters that the chances of significant...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Are Indonesian terror networks regrouping? - BBC News ReutersAre Indonesian terror networks regrouping?BBC NewsIndonesian officials say the man they killed in a raid on the outskirts of Jakarta on Tuesday is believed to have links to the group of...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Stormont votes to take over Northern Ireland policing powers - The Guardian ReutersStormont votes to take over Northern Ireland policing powersThe GuardianThe cap fits: Stormont is now expected to take control of policing and justice powers in Northern Ireland, in a deal...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Gates Visits Former Taliban Village - New York Times Washington PostGates Visits Former Taliban VillageNew York TimesNOW ZAD, Afghanistan -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Seven held in Ireland over Swedish cartoonist 'plot' - AFP Washington PostSeven held in Ireland over Swedish cartoonist 'plot'AFPDUBLIN -- Irish police arrested seven Muslims suspected of conspiracy to murder Tuesday over an alleged plot to kill a...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Turkish minister cancels US trip following House panel vote - Xinhua Novinite.comTurkish minister cancels US trip following House panel voteXinhuaANKARA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan cancelled his trip to the United States in response to...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Dubai accuses Israel of 'vast falsification' of passports - AFP ABC NewsDubai accuses Israel of 'vast falsification' of passportsAFPDUBAI -- Dubai's police chief accused Israel on Tuesday of "vast falsification" of travel documents, noting...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Thailand invokes emergency laws before rally - BBC News Aljazeera.netThailand invokes emergency laws before rallyBBC NewsThe Thai government has announced that it will invoke the Internal Security Act from 11-23 March, in Bangkok and seven surrounding...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi both claim victory in Iraq elections - Times Online ABC NewsNouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi both claim victory in Iraq electionsTimes OnlineThe two front-runners in Iraq's national election both claimed victory yesterday after the authorities...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Israel's UN envoy: Little chance of paralyzing sanctions on Iran - Ynetnews New York Times (blog)Israel's UN envoy: Little chance of paralyzing sanctions on IranYnetnewsIsrael's UN ambassador, Prof. Gabriella Shalev, said to reporters that the chances of significant...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Are Indonesian terror networks regrouping? - BBC News ReutersAre Indonesian terror networks regrouping?BBC NewsIndonesian officials say the man they killed in a raid on the outskirts of Jakarta on Tuesday is believed to have links to the group of...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Stormont votes to take over Northern Ireland policing powers - The Guardian ReutersStormont votes to take over Northern Ireland policing powersThe GuardianThe cap fits: Stormont is now expected to take control of policing and justice powers in Northern Ireland, in a deal...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Gates Visits Former Taliban Village - New York Times Washington PostGates Visits Former Taliban VillageNew York TimesNOW ZAD, Afghanistan -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Seven held in Ireland over Swedish cartoonist 'plot' - AFP Washington PostSeven held in Ireland over Swedish cartoonist 'plot'AFPDUBLIN -- Irish police arrested seven Muslims suspected of conspiracy to murder Tuesday over an alleged plot to kill a...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Turkish minister cancels US trip following House panel vote - Xinhua Novinite.comTurkish minister cancels US trip following House panel voteXinhuaANKARA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan cancelled his trip to the United States in response to...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Dubai accuses Israel of 'vast falsification' of passports - AFP ABC NewsDubai accuses Israel of 'vast falsification' of passportsAFPDUBAI -- Dubai's police chief accused Israel on Tuesday of "vast falsification" of travel documents, noting...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm Thailand invokes emergency laws before rally - BBC News Aljazeera.netThailand invokes emergency laws before rallyBBC NewsThe Thai government has announced that it will invoke the Internal Security Act from 11-23 March, in Bangkok and seven surrounding...
// 31 December 1969, 11:59 pm
Massa denies he sexually groped male staffer Former New York Congressman Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, acknowledged Tuesday groping a staffer but denied it was sexual.
// 9 March 2010, 10:27 pm Pa. woman charged with recruiting jihadists online A suburban Philadelphia woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill someone, prosecutors said Tuesday.
// 9 March 2010, 8:53 pm Woman delivers surprise baby, picks up other son A 32-year-old Kentucky woman who said she didn't know that she was pregnant delivered her newborn son on the floor of her laundry room by herself and even cut the umbilical cord. Kelly Bottom told The Advocate-Messenger that she also picked up her other son from school and stopped in at the baby's grandmother's house to show her the infant before going to the hospital Thursday.
// 9 March 2010, 9:39 pm OM Group gets new $250M revolving loan OM Group Inc., which makes industrial chemicals and materials, said Tuesday that it has a new $250 million secured revolving-credit facility with a syndicate of lenders.
// 9 March 2010, 11:47 pm Boston Beer 4th-qtr profit more than doubles Boston Beer Co.'s fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as it shipped out more beer and its profit margin grew and write-downs fell, the company said Tuesday after the market closed.
// 9 March 2010, 11:44 pm Analysis: Greece's crisis could presage America's Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?
// 9 March 2010, 11:42 pm Bruker to buy Varian products to ease Agilent deal Scientific instrument maker Bruker Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy certain product lines that Agilent Technologies Inc. has agreed to sell as part of its previously announced takeover of competitor Varian Inc.
// 9 March 2010, 11:42 pm Battery maker A123 narrows 4Q loss as sales rise A123 Systems Inc., which makes lithium-ion batteries for cars, narrowed its loss in the fourth quarter as its sales rose.
// 9 March 2010, 11:39 pm Saints agree to terms with DB Torrence New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has agreed to re-sign reserve defensive back Leigh Torrence to a one-year contract.
// 9 March 2010, 11:39 pm Chiefs sign free agent RB Thomas Jones The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free agent running back Thomas Jones, who led the New York Jets to the AFC championship game last season and was the NFL's third-leading rusher.
// 9 March 2010, 11:38 pm Eagles pick up Vick's option for 2010 Michael Vick says the Philadelphia Eagles exercised their 2010 option on him, meaning the quarterback will receive a $1.5 million roster bonus sometime this week.
// 9 March 2010, 11:36 pm Vargas looks sharp in Mariners loss Jason Vargas pitched into the fourth inning in another impressive outing but the Seattle Mariners lost 6-4 to the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday.
// 9 March 2010, 11:32 pm Texas Instruments CEO pay up 2 percent to $9.8M Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc.'s CEO's compensation edged up in 2009, according to calculations by the Associated Press, a recession year that proved difficult for the chipmaker.
// 9 March 2010, 11:25 pm Rockies pound out 16 hits to beat Dodgers 12-0 Colorado Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez showed little rust Tuesday with three scoreless innings in a 12-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
// 9 March 2010, 11:23 pm Upton homers as Diamondbacks top Harang, Reds 10-4 Justin Upton hit a two-run homer, and the Arizona Diamondbacks roughed up right-hander Aaron Harang in his first spring training start on Tuesday, pulling away to a 10-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
// 9 March 2010, 11:16 pm NY writer accused of abusing foreign assistants A suburban New York City writer who offered jobs to women from Hungary, France and Brazil has been accused of sexually abusing them.
// 9 March 2010, 11:23 pm NYC chef creates breast milk cheese Breast milk cheese, anyone? A Manhattan chef has posted a recipe on his blog for what he calls "My spouse's mommy milk cheese." Daniel Angerer co-owns Klee Brasserie with his wife Lori Mason. A photo on his blog features the cheese encrusted with maple caramelized pumpkin and Concord grapes. They had an overabundance of milk for their newborn, Arabella Caroline. When their small freezer ran out of space, Angerer decided to experiment.
// 9 March 2010, 8:28 pm
// 9 March 2010, 10:27 pm Pa. woman charged with recruiting jihadists online A suburban Philadelphia woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill someone, prosecutors said Tuesday.
// 9 March 2010, 8:53 pm Woman delivers surprise baby, picks up other son A 32-year-old Kentucky woman who said she didn't know that she was pregnant delivered her newborn son on the floor of her laundry room by herself and even cut the umbilical cord. Kelly Bottom told The Advocate-Messenger that she also picked up her other son from school and stopped in at the baby's grandmother's house to show her the infant before going to the hospital Thursday.
// 9 March 2010, 9:39 pm OM Group gets new $250M revolving loan OM Group Inc., which makes industrial chemicals and materials, said Tuesday that it has a new $250 million secured revolving-credit facility with a syndicate of lenders.
// 9 March 2010, 11:47 pm Boston Beer 4th-qtr profit more than doubles Boston Beer Co.'s fourth-quarter profit more than doubled as it shipped out more beer and its profit margin grew and write-downs fell, the company said Tuesday after the market closed.
// 9 March 2010, 11:44 pm Analysis: Greece's crisis could presage America's Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?
// 9 March 2010, 11:42 pm Bruker to buy Varian products to ease Agilent deal Scientific instrument maker Bruker Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy certain product lines that Agilent Technologies Inc. has agreed to sell as part of its previously announced takeover of competitor Varian Inc.
// 9 March 2010, 11:42 pm Battery maker A123 narrows 4Q loss as sales rise A123 Systems Inc., which makes lithium-ion batteries for cars, narrowed its loss in the fourth quarter as its sales rose.
// 9 March 2010, 11:39 pm Saints agree to terms with DB Torrence New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis says the club has agreed to re-sign reserve defensive back Leigh Torrence to a one-year contract.
// 9 March 2010, 11:39 pm Chiefs sign free agent RB Thomas Jones The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free agent running back Thomas Jones, who led the New York Jets to the AFC championship game last season and was the NFL's third-leading rusher.
// 9 March 2010, 11:38 pm Eagles pick up Vick's option for 2010 Michael Vick says the Philadelphia Eagles exercised their 2010 option on him, meaning the quarterback will receive a $1.5 million roster bonus sometime this week.
// 9 March 2010, 11:36 pm Vargas looks sharp in Mariners loss Jason Vargas pitched into the fourth inning in another impressive outing but the Seattle Mariners lost 6-4 to the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday.
// 9 March 2010, 11:32 pm Texas Instruments CEO pay up 2 percent to $9.8M Chip maker Texas Instruments Inc.'s CEO's compensation edged up in 2009, according to calculations by the Associated Press, a recession year that proved difficult for the chipmaker.
// 9 March 2010, 11:25 pm Rockies pound out 16 hits to beat Dodgers 12-0 Colorado Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez showed little rust Tuesday with three scoreless innings in a 12-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
// 9 March 2010, 11:23 pm Upton homers as Diamondbacks top Harang, Reds 10-4 Justin Upton hit a two-run homer, and the Arizona Diamondbacks roughed up right-hander Aaron Harang in his first spring training start on Tuesday, pulling away to a 10-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
// 9 March 2010, 11:16 pm NY writer accused of abusing foreign assistants A suburban New York City writer who offered jobs to women from Hungary, France and Brazil has been accused of sexually abusing them.
// 9 March 2010, 11:23 pm NYC chef creates breast milk cheese Breast milk cheese, anyone? A Manhattan chef has posted a recipe on his blog for what he calls "My spouse's mommy milk cheese." Daniel Angerer co-owns Klee Brasserie with his wife Lori Mason. A photo on his blog features the cheese encrusted with maple caramelized pumpkin and Concord grapes. They had an overabundance of milk for their newborn, Arabella Caroline. When their small freezer ran out of space, Angerer decided to experiment.
// 9 March 2010, 8:28 pm
Why Republicans are scared of Obama [PIC]
Best plant ever. period.
Limbaugh vows to flee the country if health care passes. The insincere ramblings of a drug addict or would he actually go?
If you're a Redditor, and you do this, what? Are we supposed to hate you? Life is too short. The point is, it goes both ways.
Can Reddit add an option to collapse all comment replies leaving only the post replies for easy skimming?
Lindsay Lohan suing E-Trade for $100M after they use a talking baby named "Lindsay".
Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution
Team Fortress 2 - Your Mac Questions Answered
EFF: Apple Owns Your Apps (and Maybe Your Soul?)
(Nigeria) Over five-hundred Christians, mostly women and children, are hacked to death by Muslim raiders with machetes in a night-time attack on their village. The killers yelled 'Allah Akbar,' as they chopped.
Reddit, Who else is more likely to buy a game if they can download a demo and try it out first?
" If scientists want people at least to try to understand their work, they should raise a full-scale revolt against the journals that publish them. It is no longer acceptable for the guardians of knowledge to behave like 19th-century gamekeepers, chasing the proles out of the grand estates."
Pope's brother linked to new claims of child abuse by clergy
Review: Science Trips Out on Music in 'The Heart Is a Drum Machine' Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.
// 10 March 2010, 5:32 am Broadcast Video From Your Mobile You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
// 10 March 2010, 5:30 am Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up For Auction It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.
// 10 March 2010, 5:15 am Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block It's a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can't keep up with the payments....
// 10 March 2010, 5:10 am Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
// 10 March 2010, 4:46 am Your Computer Really Is a Part of You Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
// 10 March 2010, 4:40 am Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
// 10 March 2010, 4:39 am Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become...
// 10 March 2010, 3:34 am Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion...
// 10 March 2010, 3:15 am Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
// 10 March 2010, 2:00 am Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
// 10 March 2010, 1:30 am Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000 For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we've been doing it...
// 9 March 2010, 11:10 pm Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle Browsing the web on one of Amazon's Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It's clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But...
// 9 March 2010, 10:25 pm Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
// 9 March 2010, 8:00 pm Supreme Court Takes "Informational Privacy" Case The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person...
// 9 March 2010, 12:00 pm March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
// 9 March 2010, 12:00 pm Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
// 9 March 2010, 8:00 am
// 10 March 2010, 5:32 am Broadcast Video From Your Mobile You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
// 10 March 2010, 5:30 am Oldest Known Flying 'Car' Up For Auction It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.
// 10 March 2010, 5:15 am Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block It's a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can't keep up with the payments....
// 10 March 2010, 5:10 am Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
// 10 March 2010, 4:46 am Your Computer Really Is a Part of You Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
// 10 March 2010, 4:40 am Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
// 10 March 2010, 4:39 am Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become...
// 10 March 2010, 3:34 am Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion...
// 10 March 2010, 3:15 am Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
// 10 March 2010, 2:00 am Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
// 10 March 2010, 1:30 am Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000 For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we've been doing it...
// 9 March 2010, 11:10 pm Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle Browsing the web on one of Amazon's Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It's clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But...
// 9 March 2010, 10:25 pm Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
// 9 March 2010, 8:00 pm Supreme Court Takes "Informational Privacy" Case The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person...
// 9 March 2010, 12:00 pm March 9, 1454: This Man Is a Continent ... or Two Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
// 9 March 2010, 12:00 pm Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
// 9 March 2010, 8:00 am
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Eric Massa on Glenn Beck: Massa Describes 'Tickle-Fight' (Video) // 9 March 2010, 11:53 pm
Obama Fishing Ban: ESPN Reports End Of Public Input Into Fishing // 9 March 2010, 11:52 pm
Heidi Montag Funny or Die: Ron Howard Directs 'Say No to Plastic' // 9 March 2010, 11:44 pm
Colleen LaRose, Jihad Jane, Material Support to Terrorists // 9 March 2010, 11:29 pm
Haul Vlogging: Teens Show Off What They Got at the Mall // 9 March 2010, 11:07 pm
Chad Ochocinco Colin Cowherd Comments: What Did Cowherd Say? // 9 March 2010, 11:02 pm
Halderman Pleads Guilty In Letterman's Case: Gets Jail Time // 9 March 2010, 11:01 pm
Doug Schantz Body Found: Missing Exec's Body Found in River // 9 March 2010, 10:47 pm
Harlem -- Hippies: New Album out April 6th, SXSW Dates and Tour // 9 March 2010, 10:43 pm
Jersey Shore's Snooki and Boyfriend Emilio Masella are in Love // 9 March 2010, 10:40 pm
Immigrant Rights Groups Betrayed By Obama And Democrats // 9 March 2010, 10:32 pm
Kathy Taft Assault: Greenville, NC School Board Member Dies // 9 March 2010, 10:05 pm
Jersey Shore Season 2 Filming Location Not Known to Jersey Cast? // 9 March 2010, 10:03 pm
2-Yr-Old Layla Grace Passes Away to Cancer: Twitter, Blog Update // 9 March 2010, 9:33 pm
Nicolas Chartier's Oscar Acceptance Speech (Video) // 9 March 2010, 9:33 pm
Betty White Accepts SNL Hosting Invite It's happening!
Betty White will host SNL! This after a massive fan movement to put her on the show erupted when White appeared in a Super Bowl commercial on January 31. At an Oscars party Sunday...
// 9 March 2010, 1:56 pm Poll: U.S. has lost global standing under Obama A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than two years ago and believe President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national...
// 9 March 2010, 11:31 am Lindsay Lohan Suing E-Trade for Milkaholic "Parody" "This is a subliminal message," the star's lawyer says of the commercial, which showcases a boyfriend-stealing baby
// 9 March 2010, 4:10 pm Where to get a bargain on higher education Many schools still offer great deals, and at one college, every student pays $0 for tuition.
// 9 March 2010, 5:09 pm Fighting with the Mother of My Kid's BFF How do you keep your kid's friendship intact when you're in a tiff with her BFF's mother? Guest blogger Maria: I'm in a sticky situation. My daughter has a good friend whose mother I am good...
// 9 March 2010, 9:31 am After slow start, tornado season under way (AP) AP - Forecasters say a wetter-than-usual winter and a jet stream ripping over the part of the country known as "Tornado Alley" could lead to an active spring -- perhaps starting with the strong...
// 9 March 2010, 8:17 pm Simon Cowell: Sting is an Idiot Call the Police Clearly, Simon Cowell is not very much a Sting fan. But I can't say I blame him considering Sting's criticism of Cowell and his show X Factor. Simon is finally fighting back and it's...
// 9 March 2010, 12:11 pm Michael Jackson's Former Bodyguards Tell All In an interview with "Good Morning America," Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon "BJ" Beard spoke about Jackson's very private...
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 pm Howard Stern's Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant: Odds Posted Howard Stern's Tiger Woods mistress beauty pageant takes place on Wednesday, and the contestants aren't the only ones who are able to cash in on the event. Sportsbook.com has posted odds for twelve...
// 9 March 2010, 5:43 pm Biden to Israel: Take risks for peace The U.S. will back those willing to "take risks for peace," U.S. Vice President Biden said Tuesday during the highest-level visit ...
// 9 March 2010, 12:47 pm Gabourey Sidibe Hits On Gerard Butler Apparently, Gabourey Sidibe is just the latest Hollywood starlet to fall under Gerard Butler's spell. During her red carpet Oscar interview with Billy Bush on Sunday, she noticed Gerard standing...
// 9 March 2010, 3:47 pm NASCAR suspends 2 for violating drug policy (AP) NASCAR has suspended two crewmen for violating its substance abuse policy, including the former brother-in-law of Jeremy Mayfield.
// 9 March 2010, 10:14 pm Report: Eric Massa groped male staffers; Glenn Beck schedulers need some Tums Hours ago, Charles Johnson noted, Michelle Malkin took to Glenn Beck's radio show to warn him off on giving him Eric Massa a full hour to tell his story about corruption in the Democratic Party on...
// 9 March 2010, 8:17 pm Marie Osmond Attends Son's Funeral in Utah The Osmond family comes together. It's been a sad few weeks for the Osmond family since Marie Osmond's 18 year-old son, Michael Bryan, leapt to his death from his LA apartment building. Still, at a...
// 9 March 2010, 5:57 pm
// 9 March 2010, 1:56 pm Poll: U.S. has lost global standing under Obama A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than two years ago and believe President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national...
// 9 March 2010, 11:31 am Lindsay Lohan Suing E-Trade for Milkaholic "Parody" "This is a subliminal message," the star's lawyer says of the commercial, which showcases a boyfriend-stealing baby
// 9 March 2010, 4:10 pm Where to get a bargain on higher education Many schools still offer great deals, and at one college, every student pays $0 for tuition.
// 9 March 2010, 5:09 pm Fighting with the Mother of My Kid's BFF How do you keep your kid's friendship intact when you're in a tiff with her BFF's mother? Guest blogger Maria: I'm in a sticky situation. My daughter has a good friend whose mother I am good...
// 9 March 2010, 9:31 am After slow start, tornado season under way (AP) AP - Forecasters say a wetter-than-usual winter and a jet stream ripping over the part of the country known as "Tornado Alley" could lead to an active spring -- perhaps starting with the strong...
// 9 March 2010, 8:17 pm Simon Cowell: Sting is an Idiot Call the Police Clearly, Simon Cowell is not very much a Sting fan. But I can't say I blame him considering Sting's criticism of Cowell and his show X Factor. Simon is finally fighting back and it's...
// 9 March 2010, 12:11 pm Michael Jackson's Former Bodyguards Tell All In an interview with "Good Morning America," Mike Garcia, Bill Whitfield and Javon "BJ" Beard spoke about Jackson's very private...
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 pm Howard Stern's Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant: Odds Posted Howard Stern's Tiger Woods mistress beauty pageant takes place on Wednesday, and the contestants aren't the only ones who are able to cash in on the event. Sportsbook.com has posted odds for twelve...
// 9 March 2010, 5:43 pm Biden to Israel: Take risks for peace The U.S. will back those willing to "take risks for peace," U.S. Vice President Biden said Tuesday during the highest-level visit ...
// 9 March 2010, 12:47 pm Gabourey Sidibe Hits On Gerard Butler Apparently, Gabourey Sidibe is just the latest Hollywood starlet to fall under Gerard Butler's spell. During her red carpet Oscar interview with Billy Bush on Sunday, she noticed Gerard standing...
// 9 March 2010, 3:47 pm NASCAR suspends 2 for violating drug policy (AP) NASCAR has suspended two crewmen for violating its substance abuse policy, including the former brother-in-law of Jeremy Mayfield.
// 9 March 2010, 10:14 pm Report: Eric Massa groped male staffers; Glenn Beck schedulers need some Tums Hours ago, Charles Johnson noted, Michelle Malkin took to Glenn Beck's radio show to warn him off on giving him Eric Massa a full hour to tell his story about corruption in the Democratic Party on...
// 9 March 2010, 8:17 pm Marie Osmond Attends Son's Funeral in Utah The Osmond family comes together. It's been a sad few weeks for the Osmond family since Marie Osmond's 18 year-old son, Michael Bryan, leapt to his death from his LA apartment building. Still, at a...
// 9 March 2010, 5:57 pm
Pressed by Charters, Harlem Public Schools Turn to Marketing Principals in Harlem are using firms to help lure students with Web sites, brochures and open houses.
// 9 March 2010, 10:52 pm Police Say Ohio State Worker Kills 1, Wounds Another and Shoots Self The gunman was identified as Nathaniel Brown, 51, a custodial worker who may have been disgruntled about a poor work evaluation.
// 9 March 2010, 6:18 pm Flu Shots in Children Help People of All Ages A study of farming colonies in Canada found that giving flu vaccine to schoolchildren protected the community.
// 9 March 2010, 9:37 pm Letters Capture American Grief After the Kennedy Assassination A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
// 9 March 2010, 2:48 pm Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.
// 9 March 2010, 4:16 pm Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
// 9 March 2010, 6:35 am Experts Urge Keeping Two Options for Terror Trials Former national security officials say eliminating civilian trials for foreign terrorism suspects would tie the government’s hands.
// 9 March 2010, 10:15 am Public Pensions Are Adding Risk to Raise Returns Even as big companies are moving their pension funds out of stocks, state governments are chasing higher returns by making riskier investments.
// 9 March 2010, 5:30 pm A Conversation With Dr. Peter J. Pronovost: Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, travels the country advising hospitals on innovative safety measures.
// 9 March 2010, 5:22 pm Sidebar: Dissents From the Bench Hint at a Polarized Supreme Court The practice of Supreme Court justices reading a dissent from the bench to note their unhappiness is on the rise.
// 9 March 2010, 6:10 am Supreme Court Roundup: Court Takes Case of Church Protesting Marine’s Funeral The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine may sue protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church who picketed the funeral.
// 9 March 2010, 5:42 am Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed Accused of Aiding Somali Terrorists Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed was accused of getting military training from Al Shabab, which has been fighting the Somali government and has declared its intent to harm the United States.
// 9 March 2010, 3:29 am New Trial Granted in 5 Murders in New Orleans A judge overturned the district attorney’s office’s trophy verdict because the prosecution failed to turn over evidence in a capital case.
// 9 March 2010, 4:10 am Senate Panel to Investigate Deaths in Long-Term Care The investigation will focus on Select Medical, which runs more long-term care facilities than any other company.
// 9 March 2010, 4:20 am Eric J. Massa Says Democratic Party Drove Him From Office Eric J. Massa from New York, accused of sexual harassment, said that party leaders had orchestrated a campaign against him.
// 9 March 2010, 12:53 pm Construction Unions to Rally for Building at Ground Zero Building is stalled as the Port Authority and the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, debated how much government should invest in private development.
// 9 March 2010, 5:00 am National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Death Row Inmate Takes Overdose Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed until March 16 the execution of a killer who took an overdose of pills in his cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 am
// 9 March 2010, 10:52 pm Police Say Ohio State Worker Kills 1, Wounds Another and Shoots Self The gunman was identified as Nathaniel Brown, 51, a custodial worker who may have been disgruntled about a poor work evaluation.
// 9 March 2010, 6:18 pm Flu Shots in Children Help People of All Ages A study of farming colonies in Canada found that giving flu vaccine to schoolchildren protected the community.
// 9 March 2010, 9:37 pm Letters Capture American Grief After the Kennedy Assassination A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
// 9 March 2010, 2:48 pm Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.
// 9 March 2010, 4:16 pm Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
// 9 March 2010, 6:35 am Experts Urge Keeping Two Options for Terror Trials Former national security officials say eliminating civilian trials for foreign terrorism suspects would tie the government’s hands.
// 9 March 2010, 10:15 am Public Pensions Are Adding Risk to Raise Returns Even as big companies are moving their pension funds out of stocks, state governments are chasing higher returns by making riskier investments.
// 9 March 2010, 5:30 pm A Conversation With Dr. Peter J. Pronovost: Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, travels the country advising hospitals on innovative safety measures.
// 9 March 2010, 5:22 pm Sidebar: Dissents From the Bench Hint at a Polarized Supreme Court The practice of Supreme Court justices reading a dissent from the bench to note their unhappiness is on the rise.
// 9 March 2010, 6:10 am Supreme Court Roundup: Court Takes Case of Church Protesting Marine’s Funeral The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine may sue protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church who picketed the funeral.
// 9 March 2010, 5:42 am Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed Accused of Aiding Somali Terrorists Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed was accused of getting military training from Al Shabab, which has been fighting the Somali government and has declared its intent to harm the United States.
// 9 March 2010, 3:29 am New Trial Granted in 5 Murders in New Orleans A judge overturned the district attorney’s office’s trophy verdict because the prosecution failed to turn over evidence in a capital case.
// 9 March 2010, 4:10 am Senate Panel to Investigate Deaths in Long-Term Care The investigation will focus on Select Medical, which runs more long-term care facilities than any other company.
// 9 March 2010, 4:20 am Eric J. Massa Says Democratic Party Drove Him From Office Eric J. Massa from New York, accused of sexual harassment, said that party leaders had orchestrated a campaign against him.
// 9 March 2010, 12:53 pm Construction Unions to Rally for Building at Ground Zero Building is stalled as the Port Authority and the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, debated how much government should invest in private development.
// 9 March 2010, 5:00 am National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Death Row Inmate Takes Overdose Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed until March 16 the execution of a killer who took an overdose of pills in his cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 am
SV Angel Partner Brian Pokorny Now CEO Of Dailybooth
SV Angel, the angel fund founded by super-angel Ron Conway, is losing one of its general partners to a portfolio company. Brian Pokorny is now the CEO of fast-growing Silicon Valley-based...
// 9 March 2010, 10:17 pm Google's Chief Economist: "Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News" Earlier today, Google chief economist gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a...
// 9 March 2010, 10:09 pm Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac, he hasn’t given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasn’t been updated since late November, a new...
// 9 March 2010, 9:17 pm Chomp Closes In On 300,000 Users, Launches App Review Site And Chomp Connect When Chomp launched eight weeks ago in the iTunes store, it launched as an app for reviewing other iPhone apps. The app shows you a stream of realtime reviews, which you can filter by everyone or...
// 9 March 2010, 7:57 pm Embrace Your Inner Geek At The New Linux Store The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, has launched a merchandise store where people can purchase a newly launched line of original T-shirts, hats, mugs...
// 9 March 2010, 7:50 pm NYT: Facebook Location Features Coming Next Month Facebook is finally going to enter the location game at this April’s f8 conference, according to a report this morning on the NYT’s Bits blog. And they’re looking to take Google...
// 9 March 2010, 7:30 pm Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website When I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on...
// 9 March 2010, 7:17 pm It's Official: We're No Longer Updating Our Twitter Accounts, We're Tweeting Twitter has quietly changed the wording on the button users need to press to update their statuses on the Twitter.com website. It took them 10 billion (or so) tweets to realize we don’t...
// 9 March 2010, 7:05 pm PANIC! Study Finds That Students are Addicted To Their iPhones! 200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be "addicted" to their iPhones. "When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five -- five being addicted and one...
// 9 March 2010, 6:45 pm Team Europe Ventures Starts €6m Fund For Early Stage Startups Team Europe Ventures, the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space. The fund is mainly targeting companies in...
// 9 March 2010, 5:53 pm Autoquake Gets Another £6m Investment From Its Backers Autoquake, an online used car retailer in the UK, has raised another £6 million round of venture capital and venture debt financing from existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital...
// 9 March 2010, 5:47 pm Allmyapps Updates Its iTunes-for-apps, Get Some Beta Invites I first learned of Allmyapps at Le Web ‘09 when the company’s CEO Thibauld Favre, and co-Founder Aranaud Coulondre, grabbed my attention and enticed me into a demo. I nearly missed my...
// 9 March 2010, 5:44 pm Platogo Lets Developers Make Their Casual Games Facebook Ready Platogo, the social games platform, has released its Platogo Wrapper that enables casual games developers to easily integrate their games with Facebook by inserting a few lines of code. Essentially,...
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 pm
// 9 March 2010, 10:17 pm Google's Chief Economist: "Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News" Earlier today, Google chief economist gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a...
// 9 March 2010, 10:09 pm Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac, he hasn’t given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasn’t been updated since late November, a new...
// 9 March 2010, 9:17 pm Chomp Closes In On 300,000 Users, Launches App Review Site And Chomp Connect When Chomp launched eight weeks ago in the iTunes store, it launched as an app for reviewing other iPhone apps. The app shows you a stream of realtime reviews, which you can filter by everyone or...
// 9 March 2010, 7:57 pm Embrace Your Inner Geek At The New Linux Store The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, has launched a merchandise store where people can purchase a newly launched line of original T-shirts, hats, mugs...
// 9 March 2010, 7:50 pm NYT: Facebook Location Features Coming Next Month Facebook is finally going to enter the location game at this April’s f8 conference, according to a report this morning on the NYT’s Bits blog. And they’re looking to take Google...
// 9 March 2010, 7:30 pm Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website When I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on...
// 9 March 2010, 7:17 pm It's Official: We're No Longer Updating Our Twitter Accounts, We're Tweeting Twitter has quietly changed the wording on the button users need to press to update their statuses on the Twitter.com website. It took them 10 billion (or so) tweets to realize we don’t...
// 9 March 2010, 7:05 pm PANIC! Study Finds That Students are Addicted To Their iPhones! 200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be "addicted" to their iPhones. "When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five -- five being addicted and one...
// 9 March 2010, 6:45 pm Team Europe Ventures Starts €6m Fund For Early Stage Startups Team Europe Ventures, the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space. The fund is mainly targeting companies in...
// 9 March 2010, 5:53 pm Autoquake Gets Another £6m Investment From Its Backers Autoquake, an online used car retailer in the UK, has raised another £6 million round of venture capital and venture debt financing from existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital...
// 9 March 2010, 5:47 pm Allmyapps Updates Its iTunes-for-apps, Get Some Beta Invites I first learned of Allmyapps at Le Web ‘09 when the company’s CEO Thibauld Favre, and co-Founder Aranaud Coulondre, grabbed my attention and enticed me into a demo. I nearly missed my...
// 9 March 2010, 5:44 pm Platogo Lets Developers Make Their Casual Games Facebook Ready Platogo, the social games platform, has released its Platogo Wrapper that enables casual games developers to easily integrate their games with Facebook by inserting a few lines of code. Essentially,...
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 pm
Fraud-prevention service ponies up $12m for 'false' ads Agrees to safeguard customer data
An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't...
// 9 March 2010, 11:17 pm Pillar juices flash drive box Reliability boost roadmap Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy, and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to...
// 9 March 2010, 9:18 pm Apple's draconian developer docs revealed The first rule of iPhone Club is... In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight...
// 9 March 2010, 8:54 pm It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app The new Microsoft Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…Web...
// 9 March 2010, 8:33 pm Cisco 'forever changes internet' with...a router 322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
// 9 March 2010, 7:45 pm Google tests TV set-top search, says report Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own...
// 9 March 2010, 7:24 pm New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild IE 6 and 7 users targeted Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on...
// 9 March 2010, 7:08 pm Dell intros restyled biz laptops Vostro 3000 line debuts Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".…
// 9 March 2010, 5:29 pm FA launches security probe after England team bugged Lancaster Gate-gate Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…Offloading malware...
// 9 March 2010, 4:20 pm Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted...
// 9 March 2010, 4:13 pm Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an...
// 9 March 2010, 3:37 pm Nokia killed free navigation, alleges EU complaint The fall of Nav4All A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.…Web threats: Why...
// 9 March 2010, 2:48 pm Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out SCR ain't ready for primetime The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.…What is your recession sales strategy?
// 9 March 2010, 2:36 pm Open source boss quitsSun Oracle Simon Phipps rides out of Ellison town
Sun Microsystems' veteran Simon Phipps quit his chief open source officer post at the Oracle-owned company yesterday.…Offloading malware protection to the...
// 9 March 2010, 2:30 pm Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4? Is this the wrong question? Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what's the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It's a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent,...
// 9 March 2010, 2:24 pm Northerners give up ID cards for Lent figures suggest Has gov gotten cold feet on ID scanning centres? Comment The initial rush to join the government's ID card scheme appears to have eased, with applications from people in the Northwest running at an...
// 9 March 2010, 1:37 pm Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks? It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it...
// 9 March 2010, 1:35 pm
// 9 March 2010, 11:17 pm Pillar juices flash drive box Reliability boost roadmap Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy, and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to...
// 9 March 2010, 9:18 pm Apple's draconian developer docs revealed The first rule of iPhone Club is... In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight...
// 9 March 2010, 8:54 pm It's official: Adobe Reader is world's most-exploited app The new Microsoft Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.…Web...
// 9 March 2010, 8:33 pm Cisco 'forever changes internet' with...a router 322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud
// 9 March 2010, 7:45 pm Google tests TV set-top search, says report Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own...
// 9 March 2010, 7:24 pm New Internet Explorer code-execution attacks go wild IE 6 and 7 users targeted Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on...
// 9 March 2010, 7:08 pm Dell intros restyled biz laptops Vostro 3000 line debuts Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".…
// 9 March 2010, 5:29 pm FA launches security probe after England team bugged Lancaster Gate-gate Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.…Offloading malware...
// 9 March 2010, 4:20 pm Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted...
// 9 March 2010, 4:13 pm Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an...
// 9 March 2010, 3:37 pm Nokia killed free navigation, alleges EU complaint The fall of Nav4All A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.…Web threats: Why...
// 9 March 2010, 2:48 pm Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out SCR ain't ready for primetime The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.…What is your recession sales strategy?
// 9 March 2010, 2:36 pm Open source boss quits
// 9 March 2010, 2:30 pm Tories ask: Why BBC3, BBC4? Is this the wrong question? Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what's the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It's a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent,...
// 9 March 2010, 2:24 pm Northerners give up ID cards for Lent figures suggest Has gov gotten cold feet on ID scanning centres? Comment The initial rush to join the government's ID card scheme appears to have eased, with applications from people in the Northwest running at an...
// 9 March 2010, 1:37 pm Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks? It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it...
// 9 March 2010, 1:35 pm
Remains of the Day: Google on Your TV Edition [For What It's Worth]
Google dips its toe into TV programming searches, netbooks' market share is growing, Twitter and Facebook gear up for geolocation, and researchers...
// 10 March 2010, 12:00 am SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac's Monitors [Downloads] Mac only: Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one screen. If you're looking for more menu access,...
// 9 March 2010, 11:00 pm Best VPN Tool: OpenVPN [Hive Five Followup] Last week we asked you to share your favorite VPN tool, then we rounded up the top five contenders for a vote. Now we're back with the...
// 9 March 2010, 10:30 pm Improve Meeting Efficiency with a 22-Minute Limit [Meetings] Meetings don't have to be the bane of the workday existence. Try scheduling them in 22-minute blocks to get more out of them and spend less time...
// 9 March 2010, 10:00 pm Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer Tweaks, Enlarges Your Superbar Thumbnails [Downloads] Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of "software that does exactly what its name implies", Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size,...
// 9 March 2010, 9:30 pm FCC Considers Dedicating Portion of U.S. Wireless Spectrum to Free Wi-Fi [Wi-Fi] The FCC is considering dedicating a portion of the wireless spectrum to "free or a very low cost wireless broadband service," according to Reuters. They didn't offer much in terms of...
// 9 March 2010, 9:15 pm Make an Appointment with Yourself for Distraction-Free Time Blocks [Distractions] Workplace distractions are nothing new, but if you can't seem to find time to do some serious distraction-free work for any significant chunk of...
// 9 March 2010, 9:00 pm Red and Black: An Office Makeover [Featured Workspace] If bold colors, a big desk, and plenty of well lit storage sounds like your kind of office, you'll definitely want to check out today's featured...
// 9 March 2010, 8:30 pm Lifehacker RSS Feeds Do a Little Dance [Announcements] Hey there Lifehacker RSS readers! Starting today, as passed down from above, Lifehacker's default RSS feed is switching from a full-item feed to an...
// 9 March 2010, 8:00 pm "Work Expands to the Time Allowed" [Quotables] Math professor, programmer, and blogger John Cook discusses how work expands to fill the time allowed for it, and why the more trivial something is,...
// 9 March 2010, 7:30 pm TypeWith.me Makes Real-Time Text Collaboration Dead Simple, Resurrects EtherPad [Collaboration Tools] If you like Google Wave's real-time collaboration but not the interface or registration, check out TypeWith.me. It's a solid, simple, as-you-type...
// 9 March 2010, 7:00 pm Staying Motivated at Work with a Status Board [Workflow] Panic is a software company that makes useful tools like my personal favorite, Transmit for the Mac. They've also made a beautiful project status...
// 9 March 2010, 6:30 pm Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker] Discounted laptops, HDTVs with built-in internet, and portable devices galore await you in today's Dealhacker roundup. Come for the window shopping,...
// 9 March 2010, 6:00 pm
// 10 March 2010, 12:00 am SecondBar Puts a Menu Bar on All Your Mac's Monitors [Downloads] Mac only: Multiple monitors do great things for your desktop space, but your menu bar sticks to one screen. If you're looking for more menu access,...
// 9 March 2010, 11:00 pm Best VPN Tool: OpenVPN [Hive Five Followup] Last week we asked you to share your favorite VPN tool, then we rounded up the top five contenders for a vote. Now we're back with the...
// 9 March 2010, 10:30 pm Improve Meeting Efficiency with a 22-Minute Limit [Meetings] Meetings don't have to be the bane of the workday existence. Try scheduling them in 22-minute blocks to get more out of them and spend less time...
// 9 March 2010, 10:00 pm Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer Tweaks, Enlarges Your Superbar Thumbnails [Downloads] Windows 7: Hailing from the camp of "software that does exactly what its name implies", Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer fine-tunes the size,...
// 9 March 2010, 9:30 pm FCC Considers Dedicating Portion of U.S. Wireless Spectrum to Free Wi-Fi [Wi-Fi] The FCC is considering dedicating a portion of the wireless spectrum to "free or a very low cost wireless broadband service," according to Reuters. They didn't offer much in terms of...
// 9 March 2010, 9:15 pm Make an Appointment with Yourself for Distraction-Free Time Blocks [Distractions] Workplace distractions are nothing new, but if you can't seem to find time to do some serious distraction-free work for any significant chunk of...
// 9 March 2010, 9:00 pm Red and Black: An Office Makeover [Featured Workspace] If bold colors, a big desk, and plenty of well lit storage sounds like your kind of office, you'll definitely want to check out today's featured...
// 9 March 2010, 8:30 pm Lifehacker RSS Feeds Do a Little Dance [Announcements] Hey there Lifehacker RSS readers! Starting today, as passed down from above, Lifehacker's default RSS feed is switching from a full-item feed to an...
// 9 March 2010, 8:00 pm "Work Expands to the Time Allowed" [Quotables] Math professor, programmer, and blogger John Cook discusses how work expands to fill the time allowed for it, and why the more trivial something is,...
// 9 March 2010, 7:30 pm TypeWith.me Makes Real-Time Text Collaboration Dead Simple, Resurrects EtherPad [Collaboration Tools] If you like Google Wave's real-time collaboration but not the interface or registration, check out TypeWith.me. It's a solid, simple, as-you-type...
// 9 March 2010, 7:00 pm Staying Motivated at Work with a Status Board [Workflow] Panic is a software company that makes useful tools like my personal favorite, Transmit for the Mac. They've also made a beautiful project status...
// 9 March 2010, 6:30 pm Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker] Discounted laptops, HDTVs with built-in internet, and portable devices galore await you in today's Dealhacker roundup. Come for the window shopping,...
// 9 March 2010, 6:00 pm
Adam Savage: my Blade Runner gun
I made my first Blade Runner pistol when I was 18, while living in Hell's Kitchen, NYC. I stared at the VHS version on pause and made sketches. Put it together from toys and model kit parts. It's...
// 9 March 2010, 11:51 pm Sex.com for sale Sex.com will be sold at auction next week. Current owner Escom LLC reportedly paid $14 million for it a few years ago, but has since defaulted on loans. According to CNN, "The auction is set for...
// 9 March 2010, 11:45 pm Glenn Beck advertiser sells "survival seeds" for apocalyptic agriculture The Survival Seed Bank is advertising on Glenn Beck's television show. They offer "survival seeds" for growing your own "crisis garden" amid "emerging totalitarianism." As Media Matters points out,...
// 9 March 2010, 11:55 pm Chilean earthquake so strong, it moved an entire city 10 feet Researchers say the magnitude-8.8 earthquake that hit Chile was so strong, it moved the city of Concepcion 10 feet (or more!) to the west. The Chilean capital, Santiago, was bumped about 11 inches to...
// 9 March 2010, 11:07 pm Study says US doctors in hospitals only wash their hands about 30% of the time An upsetting stat tucked away in a NYT piece today: Doctors in American hospitals wash their hands only 30-40% of the time, according to national estimates. (via consumersunion)
// 9 March 2010, 10:49 pm Wired Reread: AT&T's "strap-on telephone" Image (large size): One of many vintage ads from old issues of Wired Magazine at wiredreread.com, a site created by Theis Søndergaard. This one for an AT&T "strap-on telephone" appeared in 1995....
// 9 March 2010, 10:44 pm Totally righteous "Cove" dudes reported to have caught LA sushi joint selling illegal whale meat Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump is reported to have been caught selling illegal whale meat to its customers. Who went after them with hidden cameras? The guys behind the dolphin slaughter...
// 9 March 2010, 10:14 pm Kids in Haiti refugee camps making kites Lawrence Downes of The New York Times says: "I was just in Haiti reporting on things there and found amazing makers: boys who make kites. Even in refugee camps, where there's only tiniest scraps of...
// 9 March 2010, 10:17 pm Lindsay Lohan is absolutely not a milkaholic Lindsay Lohan would like you to know that she is not a milkaholic. To that end, she is reported to be suing e*trade for $100 million over a baby that appears in one of its TV ads. (via @tokyomango)
// 9 March 2010, 9:19 pm Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs: The Metzger interview Richard Metzger writes: "It was the blog post heard 'round the world. When Charles Johnson wrote "Why I Parted Ways With The Right" in the space of a few minutes and posted it on his popular Little...
// 9 March 2010, 9:44 pm Fake electronic gear props Rob B and I were discussing the inherent oddness of those faux stereos, TVs, and computers used in furniture store displays. Cut to a good half-hour of browsing the site of Props By IDM...
// 9 March 2010, 8:31 pm Knife-brandishing yob in a hoodie openly menaces public just steps from Parliament
// 9 March 2010, 8:17 pm Horned centenarian Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Henan province in China, appears to have a horn growing on the left side of her forehead. Another is reportedly sprouting on the right side, according to the Daily Mail. I...
// 9 March 2010, 8:33 pm Laptop bag made from cement bag Etsy seller TheWren sells messenger bags made out of South African cement sacks (which, I imagine, are durable by definition). Very nice, old school art. I had to give up messenger bags to spare my...
// 9 March 2010, 7:56 pm Future of Interrogation Not only are torture techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced stress positions evil, they don't work very well for interrogation. Jacques Vallee talked about that on BB last year...
// 9 March 2010, 11:07 pm CNN visits dog and cat meat market in China Warning: This may shock you if you love dogs and cats. In this video report, CNN's Emily Chang goes to a dog and cat meat market in Guanghzhou, China. There, dogs and cats are kept in cages and...
// 9 March 2010, 7:46 pm Paris mapcut by Karen O'Leary Karen O'Leary creates hand-cut city maps from paper. She just finished Paris, and it is shown above. More here, and her Flickr stream is here. Previously:Hand-cut paper street maps of world...
// 9 March 2010, 7:21 pm
// 9 March 2010, 11:51 pm Sex.com for sale Sex.com will be sold at auction next week. Current owner Escom LLC reportedly paid $14 million for it a few years ago, but has since defaulted on loans. According to CNN, "The auction is set for...
// 9 March 2010, 11:45 pm Glenn Beck advertiser sells "survival seeds" for apocalyptic agriculture The Survival Seed Bank is advertising on Glenn Beck's television show. They offer "survival seeds" for growing your own "crisis garden" amid "emerging totalitarianism." As Media Matters points out,...
// 9 March 2010, 11:55 pm Chilean earthquake so strong, it moved an entire city 10 feet Researchers say the magnitude-8.8 earthquake that hit Chile was so strong, it moved the city of Concepcion 10 feet (or more!) to the west. The Chilean capital, Santiago, was bumped about 11 inches to...
// 9 March 2010, 11:07 pm Study says US doctors in hospitals only wash their hands about 30% of the time An upsetting stat tucked away in a NYT piece today: Doctors in American hospitals wash their hands only 30-40% of the time, according to national estimates. (via consumersunion)
// 9 March 2010, 10:49 pm Wired Reread: AT&T's "strap-on telephone" Image (large size): One of many vintage ads from old issues of Wired Magazine at wiredreread.com, a site created by Theis Søndergaard. This one for an AT&T "strap-on telephone" appeared in 1995....
// 9 March 2010, 10:44 pm Totally righteous "Cove" dudes reported to have caught LA sushi joint selling illegal whale meat Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump is reported to have been caught selling illegal whale meat to its customers. Who went after them with hidden cameras? The guys behind the dolphin slaughter...
// 9 March 2010, 10:14 pm Kids in Haiti refugee camps making kites Lawrence Downes of The New York Times says: "I was just in Haiti reporting on things there and found amazing makers: boys who make kites. Even in refugee camps, where there's only tiniest scraps of...
// 9 March 2010, 10:17 pm Lindsay Lohan is absolutely not a milkaholic Lindsay Lohan would like you to know that she is not a milkaholic. To that end, she is reported to be suing e*trade for $100 million over a baby that appears in one of its TV ads. (via @tokyomango)
// 9 March 2010, 9:19 pm Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs: The Metzger interview Richard Metzger writes: "It was the blog post heard 'round the world. When Charles Johnson wrote "Why I Parted Ways With The Right" in the space of a few minutes and posted it on his popular Little...
// 9 March 2010, 9:44 pm Fake electronic gear props Rob B and I were discussing the inherent oddness of those faux stereos, TVs, and computers used in furniture store displays. Cut to a good half-hour of browsing the site of Props By IDM...
// 9 March 2010, 8:31 pm Knife-brandishing yob in a hoodie openly menaces public just steps from Parliament
// 9 March 2010, 8:17 pm Horned centenarian Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Henan province in China, appears to have a horn growing on the left side of her forehead. Another is reportedly sprouting on the right side, according to the Daily Mail. I...
// 9 March 2010, 8:33 pm Laptop bag made from cement bag Etsy seller TheWren sells messenger bags made out of South African cement sacks (which, I imagine, are durable by definition). Very nice, old school art. I had to give up messenger bags to spare my...
// 9 March 2010, 7:56 pm Future of Interrogation Not only are torture techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced stress positions evil, they don't work very well for interrogation. Jacques Vallee talked about that on BB last year...
// 9 March 2010, 11:07 pm CNN visits dog and cat meat market in China Warning: This may shock you if you love dogs and cats. In this video report, CNN's Emily Chang goes to a dog and cat meat market in Guanghzhou, China. There, dogs and cats are kept in cages and...
// 9 March 2010, 7:46 pm Paris mapcut by Karen O'Leary Karen O'Leary creates hand-cut city maps from paper. She just finished Paris, and it is shown above. More here, and her Flickr stream is here. Previously:Hand-cut paper street maps of world...
// 9 March 2010, 7:21 pm
Google's Computing Power Refines Translation
Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C
NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s
Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week
Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications?
Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router
Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells
The Secret Origin of Windows
Open Data Needs Open Source Tools
HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed
Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09
European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA
Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed
US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card
50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System
Tangled Disney restyles "Rapunzel" to appeal to boys. Disney is wringing the pink out of its princess movies.
After the less-than-fairy-tale results for its most recent animated release, "The Princess and...
// 9 March 2010, 3:55 pm Historian Tony Judt's struggle with ALS Historian Tony Judt has been the subject of MetaFilter posts before. He has also written an essay on his struggle with ALS that has been debated here. However, it may have taken an article in the...
// 9 March 2010, 3:47 pm Bob Barker shows us what the 1970s were like. What a pretty little outfit, good girl! Look at you, wow, you're not just a pretty face! Now come over here, stand close to me.
// 9 March 2010, 3:46 pm "Just close your eyes and don't let the show into your head.", they told the kids. Jhonen Vasquez best known for his comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac [Google Book] and his Nickelodeon show Invader Zim has decided to post Zim "Facts" throughout the month of March.
// 9 March 2010, 2:50 pm "Clearly, even people who play Farmville want to avoid playing Farmville." Cultivated Play: Farmville
// 9 March 2010, 2:38 pm "Plumbing. Can't beat it. Helps any movie." I mean, in these days of indoor plumbing, the toilet is a naturally potent metaphor for everyday repression, for all the bile and rage and memories and sins and other impure thoughts and unclean...
// 9 March 2010, 1:19 pm A Blog About Plays Blog: Daily Plays. "Reading a play a day and writing about what I read."
// 9 March 2010, 1:09 pm Women hold up half the sky Gendercide, or sex-selective abortion aided by female ifanticide, is soberingly common in coutries where a strong cultural and economic preference for male children exists: 100 million women are...
// 9 March 2010, 12:29 pm ¿Qué es esto que ni siquiera Stefania Rotolo performs live! (single-link incomprehensible YouTube video circa 1979)
// 9 March 2010, 11:32 am Now you can own your own pothole Now you can own your own pothole......
// 9 March 2010, 11:01 am Very large numbers The Shannon number? Skewes' number? Graham's number? Please. When you're ready to get serious, here are some truly large numbers. (previously, but with dead links)
// 9 March 2010, 10:16 am Where have you gone, Buck O'Neil? "Feel sorry for the people who never got to see us," he once said. "We were good." The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City faces a $200,000 shortfall for 2009. The museum is battling both...
// 9 March 2010, 9:26 am Text of the Apocalypse as Graphics The Alban Grimm exhibit, `Text of the Apocalypse as Graphics,' displayed at the recent TUG'99 meeting in Vancouver, shows what happens when a typographer-cum-graphic artist is introduced to computer...
// 9 March 2010, 9:08 am Way Down, Hadestown ... Way Down Under The Ground. Way Down Under The Ground. The tale of Orpheus's journey through the Underworld has been retold so many times, on stage, in film. Tennessee Williams saw it as Orpheus Descending. Neil Gaiman took...
// 9 March 2010, 8:33 am Justice as Commissioner The judge-umpire analogy has a long historical pedigree.
Note: Some links are apparently just supposed to be mouseovers. If there's not a URL listed in the mouseover popup, clicking takes you...
// 9 March 2010, 7:34 am You want fries with dat? Celebrity chef Beppe Bigazzi upset viewers and his host with his recipe for "cat casserole", and has been suspended from the program [Italian]. Inhabitants of Northern Italy, particularly...
// 9 March 2010, 6:39 am
// 9 March 2010, 3:55 pm Historian Tony Judt's struggle with ALS Historian Tony Judt has been the subject of MetaFilter posts before. He has also written an essay on his struggle with ALS that has been debated here. However, it may have taken an article in the...
// 9 March 2010, 3:47 pm Bob Barker shows us what the 1970s were like. What a pretty little outfit, good girl! Look at you, wow, you're not just a pretty face! Now come over here, stand close to me.
// 9 March 2010, 3:46 pm "Just close your eyes and don't let the show into your head.", they told the kids. Jhonen Vasquez best known for his comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac [Google Book] and his Nickelodeon show Invader Zim has decided to post Zim "Facts" throughout the month of March.
// 9 March 2010, 2:50 pm "Clearly, even people who play Farmville want to avoid playing Farmville." Cultivated Play: Farmville
// 9 March 2010, 2:38 pm "Plumbing. Can't beat it. Helps any movie." I mean, in these days of indoor plumbing, the toilet is a naturally potent metaphor for everyday repression, for all the bile and rage and memories and sins and other impure thoughts and unclean...
// 9 March 2010, 1:19 pm A Blog About Plays Blog: Daily Plays. "Reading a play a day and writing about what I read."
// 9 March 2010, 1:09 pm Women hold up half the sky Gendercide, or sex-selective abortion aided by female ifanticide, is soberingly common in coutries where a strong cultural and economic preference for male children exists: 100 million women are...
// 9 March 2010, 12:29 pm ¿Qué es esto que ni siquiera Stefania Rotolo performs live! (single-link incomprehensible YouTube video circa 1979)
// 9 March 2010, 11:32 am Now you can own your own pothole Now you can own your own pothole......
// 9 March 2010, 11:01 am Very large numbers The Shannon number? Skewes' number? Graham's number? Please. When you're ready to get serious, here are some truly large numbers. (previously, but with dead links)
// 9 March 2010, 10:16 am Where have you gone, Buck O'Neil? "Feel sorry for the people who never got to see us," he once said. "We were good." The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City faces a $200,000 shortfall for 2009. The museum is battling both...
// 9 March 2010, 9:26 am Text of the Apocalypse as Graphics The Alban Grimm exhibit, `Text of the Apocalypse as Graphics,' displayed at the recent TUG'99 meeting in Vancouver, shows what happens when a typographer-cum-graphic artist is introduced to computer...
// 9 March 2010, 9:08 am Way Down, Hadestown ... Way Down Under The Ground. Way Down Under The Ground. The tale of Orpheus's journey through the Underworld has been retold so many times, on stage, in film. Tennessee Williams saw it as Orpheus Descending. Neil Gaiman took...
// 9 March 2010, 8:33 am Justice as Commissioner The judge-umpire analogy has a long historical pedigree.
Note: Some links are apparently just supposed to be mouseovers. If there's not a URL listed in the mouseover popup, clicking takes you...
// 9 March 2010, 7:34 am You want fries with dat? Celebrity chef Beppe Bigazzi upset viewers and his host with his recipe for "cat casserole", and has been suspended from the program [Italian]. Inhabitants of Northern Italy, particularly...
// 9 March 2010, 6:39 am
The Winning Photographs from World Press Photo The Winning Photographs from World Press Photo.
// 9 March 2010, 6:15 pm 8 Design Elements Your Blog Should Have There are certain design elements that all blogs should have to keep readers happy and engaged in your content. With the evolution of blogs and social media sites, the expectations for a blog are much higher.
// 8 March 2010, 8:13 pm Comradez.net: Social Media for Social Media Pormoters If you plan to promote your website and it's great content through social bookmarking and other social media, you probably fall into two camps:
// 9 March 2010, 1:15 pm The Illusion of Peace Peace!
// 9 March 2010, 2:26 pm Funniest ways of begging in America! | BoGoBoo - Funny People, Photos, And more Stuff How to make money and nothing to do? Eternal question for all people who fantasize about the easy life and easy earn .. But these unhappy people have neither money nor life, but eternal and endless wandering and struggle for bare life and survival in the
// 9 March 2010, 6:03 pm The Business-Cycle Peak of March 2001 The NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee has determined that a peak in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in March 2001. A peak marks the end of an expansion and the beginning of a recession. The determination of a peak date in March is thus
// 9 March 2010, 12:05 am How To Hack Windows 7 Passwords Using Linux This video shows you how to hack Windows 7 passwords using Bauer-Puntu Linux 9.10R2. This also works in Vista, XP and Windows 2000.
// 9 March 2010, 5:40 pm Dear Seattle: Remember the Chile Quake Since the magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Chile last weekend, folks in the media have been talking a lot about how the Pacific Northwest could have a similar
// 8 March 2010, 1:29 pm 30 Stunning Examples Of Animal Photography Animal photography can be a very difficult and risky art, animals wont stay still nor will some animals think twice about attacking you. We have collected 30
// 9 March 2010, 8:26 pm APOD: Galaxies Beyond the Heart: Maffei 1 and 2 The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968. The opaque dust of our Milky Way Galaxy had obscured them from being seen in visible light.
// 9 March 2010, 5:05 am 18 Biggest, longest, largest objects in the World photo: 18 Biggest, longest, largest objects in the World
// 8 March 2010, 3:02 pm Stand Up for the Students! When President Obama signed a $450 billion spending bill in December, his signature effectively dismantled a small, successful education program benefiting low-income children in the nation's capital. This week, a bipartisan coalition led by Sen. Joseph L
// 8 March 2010, 2:16 pm Website Backlink Strategies - Add Value To The Information Highway [VIDEO] Getting back links for your website is not difficult. All you need to do is add value to the internet. Watch this free video for more ideas about this concept
// 9 March 2010, 10:11 am Consultant Says "I Am Not Your Company's Computer Guy" Using "Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy," the Jimmy Fallon character from SNL, as a jumping off point, this computer consultant writes about the important differences between the role of a part-time CIO or I.T. Director on the one hand, and the rol
// 8 March 2010, 9:52 am Murray The Nut - Liar
// 8 March 2010, 11:37 pm Tron Legacy Trailer - Trailer Addict The new HD Trailer for Tron Legacy!
// 9 March 2010, 1:31 pm 2012: Social Media Uncovering Signs of the End of the World! | Thoughtpick Blog Regardless of whether the end is near or not, social media plays a crucial role in further spreading the idea & enforcing it into our minds, even if unintentionally! Kindly pay attention to the following world end signs circulating the social media arena!
// 9 March 2010, 5:03 am
// 9 March 2010, 6:15 pm 8 Design Elements Your Blog Should Have There are certain design elements that all blogs should have to keep readers happy and engaged in your content. With the evolution of blogs and social media sites, the expectations for a blog are much higher.
// 8 March 2010, 8:13 pm Comradez.net: Social Media for Social Media Pormoters If you plan to promote your website and it's great content through social bookmarking and other social media, you probably fall into two camps:
// 9 March 2010, 1:15 pm The Illusion of Peace Peace!
// 9 March 2010, 2:26 pm Funniest ways of begging in America! | BoGoBoo - Funny People, Photos, And more Stuff How to make money and nothing to do? Eternal question for all people who fantasize about the easy life and easy earn .. But these unhappy people have neither money nor life, but eternal and endless wandering and struggle for bare life and survival in the
// 9 March 2010, 6:03 pm The Business-Cycle Peak of March 2001 The NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee has determined that a peak in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in March 2001. A peak marks the end of an expansion and the beginning of a recession. The determination of a peak date in March is thus
// 9 March 2010, 12:05 am How To Hack Windows 7 Passwords Using Linux This video shows you how to hack Windows 7 passwords using Bauer-Puntu Linux 9.10R2. This also works in Vista, XP and Windows 2000.
// 9 March 2010, 5:40 pm Dear Seattle: Remember the Chile Quake Since the magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Chile last weekend, folks in the media have been talking a lot about how the Pacific Northwest could have a similar
// 8 March 2010, 1:29 pm 30 Stunning Examples Of Animal Photography Animal photography can be a very difficult and risky art, animals wont stay still nor will some animals think twice about attacking you. We have collected 30
// 9 March 2010, 8:26 pm APOD: Galaxies Beyond the Heart: Maffei 1 and 2 The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968. The opaque dust of our Milky Way Galaxy had obscured them from being seen in visible light.
// 9 March 2010, 5:05 am 18 Biggest, longest, largest objects in the World photo: 18 Biggest, longest, largest objects in the World
// 8 March 2010, 3:02 pm Stand Up for the Students! When President Obama signed a $450 billion spending bill in December, his signature effectively dismantled a small, successful education program benefiting low-income children in the nation's capital. This week, a bipartisan coalition led by Sen. Joseph L
// 8 March 2010, 2:16 pm Website Backlink Strategies - Add Value To The Information Highway [VIDEO] Getting back links for your website is not difficult. All you need to do is add value to the internet. Watch this free video for more ideas about this concept
// 9 March 2010, 10:11 am Consultant Says "I Am Not Your Company's Computer Guy" Using "Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy," the Jimmy Fallon character from SNL, as a jumping off point, this computer consultant writes about the important differences between the role of a part-time CIO or I.T. Director on the one hand, and the rol
// 8 March 2010, 9:52 am Murray The Nut - Liar
// 8 March 2010, 11:37 pm Tron Legacy Trailer - Trailer Addict The new HD Trailer for Tron Legacy!
// 9 March 2010, 1:31 pm 2012: Social Media Uncovering Signs of the End of the World! | Thoughtpick Blog Regardless of whether the end is near or not, social media plays a crucial role in further spreading the idea & enforcing it into our minds, even if unintentionally! Kindly pay attention to the following world end signs circulating the social media arena!
// 9 March 2010, 5:03 am
FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition 1.6 available for public download dynaTrace Labs released its next version of the FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition for Web Site Performance Analysis in Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8 including JavaScript/AJAX/DOM/XHR tracing, Network and...
// 10 March 2010, 4:57 am The Times They Are a-Changin' ? Maybe Not This post is not about a Bob Dylan against Karl Marx debate, but about a thought that came when, after following a conference presenting some of the IBM Rational products, I discovered the Open...
// 10 March 2010, 4:30 am Advance Level PHP Tutorials & Scripts Advance Level PHP Tutorials & Scripts with demos and Sources
// 10 March 2010, 4:17 am CouchDB Moving Into the Cloud Apache CouchDB is one of the more promising technologies under the NoSQL distinction. The project is strongly supported by commercial backers such as Cloudant, who plans to sell cloud services for...
// 10 March 2010, 4:15 am Neural Networks in PHP This article explains how to easily implement Neural Mesh to develop Neural Network applications in PHP.
// 10 March 2010, 2:48 am Everything You Need to Know About ColdFusion Builder ColdFusion Builder is the first IDE built specifically for ColdFusion. Currently in its third beta, CF Builder doesn't use a GUI interface for designing interfaces in WYSIWYG fashion. Instead, it...
// 10 March 2010, 2:03 am Working with Cookies using jQuery and pure JavaScript This article goes over the important aspects of cookies and how to use them via jQuery or plain JavaScript
// 10 March 2010, 1:21 am Understanding JSON A simple overview of JSON (Javascript Object Notation) for beginners. Helps to understand JSON data structure and it use.
// 10 March 2010, 1:14 am Frank Wierzbicki on Jython and Switching from Sun to Startup Frank Wierzbicki is the Jython project lead and a lead developer at Sauce Labs. He's been working on Jython as an open source project since 2004 and using Jython since 1999. After a year at Sun,...
// 10 March 2010, 12:26 am Design By Contract with Clojure I just learned about the design by contract features of Clojure, and I'm impressed by the simplicity. It's implemented using regular Clojure metadata (i.e. no new language constructs to support...
// 10 March 2010, 12:24 am Web service testing with soapUI SoapUI is a useful tool for testing web services. Not only makes it possible to test deployed web services, but it also offers the possibility to mock any "external" service needed by the service you...
// 9 March 2010, 11:58 pm Dr. Strangecode. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Legacy Someone recently asked me what technologies I would recommend for the next Enterprise Web Project. Like a good little software developer, my initial reaction was "I would have to see the requirements...
// 9 March 2010, 11:18 pm Creating Flex Applications for Mobile Devices "The mobile version of the Flex framework (code-named "Slider") will provide structure and guidelines for creating application experiences that translate well across platforms, and make it easy to...
// 9 March 2010, 11:18 pm YUI Niceforms -- niceform a like YUI plugin YUI Niceforms is an easy to use and highly configurable YUI plugin to give most form controls a modern look that is consistent across all major browsers. Based on Niceforms by Lucian Slatineanu.
// 9 March 2010, 11:09 pm Ehcache 2.0 Gets More 'Enterprisey' Features Today, Terracotta is releasing new versions of Ehcache and the Terracotta infrastructure. Today's bundle release, which is appropriately named "Project Darwin", contains Terracotta version 3.2.1,...
// 9 March 2010, 11:02 pm SOA: Anti-Principles Okay so everyone knows what a principle is, its a core concept that you are going to measure things about. I've seen projects littered with the buggers.
// 9 March 2010, 10:52 pm 10 Cool Websites with Amazing jQuery Effects jQuery has made our life easier to achieve great result. It's time to show you something cool. Check out the these websites, they all are using pretty amazing animation and intensive javascript...
// 9 March 2010, 10:25 pm
// 10 March 2010, 4:57 am The Times They Are a-Changin' ? Maybe Not This post is not about a Bob Dylan against Karl Marx debate, but about a thought that came when, after following a conference presenting some of the IBM Rational products, I discovered the Open...
// 10 March 2010, 4:30 am Advance Level PHP Tutorials & Scripts Advance Level PHP Tutorials & Scripts with demos and Sources
// 10 March 2010, 4:17 am CouchDB Moving Into the Cloud Apache CouchDB is one of the more promising technologies under the NoSQL distinction. The project is strongly supported by commercial backers such as Cloudant, who plans to sell cloud services for...
// 10 March 2010, 4:15 am Neural Networks in PHP This article explains how to easily implement Neural Mesh to develop Neural Network applications in PHP.
// 10 March 2010, 2:48 am Everything You Need to Know About ColdFusion Builder ColdFusion Builder is the first IDE built specifically for ColdFusion. Currently in its third beta, CF Builder doesn't use a GUI interface for designing interfaces in WYSIWYG fashion. Instead, it...
// 10 March 2010, 2:03 am Working with Cookies using jQuery and pure JavaScript This article goes over the important aspects of cookies and how to use them via jQuery or plain JavaScript
// 10 March 2010, 1:21 am Understanding JSON A simple overview of JSON (Javascript Object Notation) for beginners. Helps to understand JSON data structure and it use.
// 10 March 2010, 1:14 am Frank Wierzbicki on Jython and Switching from Sun to Startup Frank Wierzbicki is the Jython project lead and a lead developer at Sauce Labs. He's been working on Jython as an open source project since 2004 and using Jython since 1999. After a year at Sun,...
// 10 March 2010, 12:26 am Design By Contract with Clojure I just learned about the design by contract features of Clojure, and I'm impressed by the simplicity. It's implemented using regular Clojure metadata (i.e. no new language constructs to support...
// 10 March 2010, 12:24 am Web service testing with soapUI SoapUI is a useful tool for testing web services. Not only makes it possible to test deployed web services, but it also offers the possibility to mock any "external" service needed by the service you...
// 9 March 2010, 11:58 pm Dr. Strangecode. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Legacy Someone recently asked me what technologies I would recommend for the next Enterprise Web Project. Like a good little software developer, my initial reaction was "I would have to see the requirements...
// 9 March 2010, 11:18 pm Creating Flex Applications for Mobile Devices "The mobile version of the Flex framework (code-named "Slider") will provide structure and guidelines for creating application experiences that translate well across platforms, and make it easy to...
// 9 March 2010, 11:18 pm YUI Niceforms -- niceform a like YUI plugin YUI Niceforms is an easy to use and highly configurable YUI plugin to give most form controls a modern look that is consistent across all major browsers. Based on Niceforms by Lucian Slatineanu.
// 9 March 2010, 11:09 pm Ehcache 2.0 Gets More 'Enterprisey' Features Today, Terracotta is releasing new versions of Ehcache and the Terracotta infrastructure. Today's bundle release, which is appropriately named "Project Darwin", contains Terracotta version 3.2.1,...
// 9 March 2010, 11:02 pm SOA: Anti-Principles Okay so everyone knows what a principle is, its a core concept that you are going to measure things about. I've seen projects littered with the buggers.
// 9 March 2010, 10:52 pm 10 Cool Websites with Amazing jQuery Effects jQuery has made our life easier to achieve great result. It's time to show you something cool. Check out the these websites, they all are using pretty amazing animation and intensive javascript...
// 9 March 2010, 10:25 pm
Pressed by Charters, Harlem Public Schools Turn to Marketing Principals in Harlem are using firms to help lure students with Web sites, brochures and open houses.
// 9 March 2010, 10:52 pm Police Say Ohio State Worker Kills 1, Wounds Another and Shoots Self The gunman was identified as Nathaniel Brown, 51, a custodial worker who may have been disgruntled about a poor work evaluation.
// 9 March 2010, 6:18 pm Flu Shots in Children Help People of All Ages A study of farming colonies in Canada found that giving flu vaccine to schoolchildren protected the community.
// 9 March 2010, 9:37 pm Letters Capture American Grief After the Kennedy Assassination A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
// 9 March 2010, 2:48 pm Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.
// 9 March 2010, 4:16 pm Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
// 9 March 2010, 6:35 am Experts Urge Keeping Two Options for Terror Trials Former national security officials say eliminating civilian trials for foreign terrorism suspects would tie the government’s hands.
// 9 March 2010, 10:15 am Public Pensions Are Adding Risk to Raise Returns Even as big companies are moving their pension funds out of stocks, state governments are chasing higher returns by making riskier investments.
// 9 March 2010, 5:30 pm A Conversation With Dr. Peter J. Pronovost: Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, travels the country advising hospitals on innovative safety measures.
// 9 March 2010, 5:22 pm Sidebar: Dissents From the Bench Hint at a Polarized Supreme Court The practice of Supreme Court justices reading a dissent from the bench to note their unhappiness is on the rise.
// 9 March 2010, 6:10 am Supreme Court Roundup: Court Takes Case of Church Protesting Marine’s Funeral The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine may sue protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church who picketed the funeral.
// 9 March 2010, 5:42 am Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed Accused of Aiding Somali Terrorists Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed was accused of getting military training from Al Shabab, which has been fighting the Somali government and has declared its intent to harm the United States.
// 9 March 2010, 3:29 am New Trial Granted in 5 Murders in New Orleans A judge overturned the district attorney’s office’s trophy verdict because the prosecution failed to turn over evidence in a capital case.
// 9 March 2010, 4:10 am Senate Panel to Investigate Deaths in Long-Term Care The investigation will focus on Select Medical, which runs more long-term care facilities than any other company.
// 9 March 2010, 4:20 am Eric J. Massa Says Democratic Party Drove Him From Office Eric J. Massa from New York, accused of sexual harassment, said that party leaders had orchestrated a campaign against him.
// 9 March 2010, 12:53 pm Construction Unions to Rally for Building at Ground Zero Building is stalled as the Port Authority and the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, debated how much government should invest in private development.
// 9 March 2010, 5:00 am National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Death Row Inmate Takes Overdose Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed until March 16 the execution of a killer who took an overdose of pills in his cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 am
// 9 March 2010, 10:52 pm Police Say Ohio State Worker Kills 1, Wounds Another and Shoots Self The gunman was identified as Nathaniel Brown, 51, a custodial worker who may have been disgruntled about a poor work evaluation.
// 9 March 2010, 6:18 pm Flu Shots in Children Help People of All Ages A study of farming colonies in Canada found that giving flu vaccine to schoolchildren protected the community.
// 9 March 2010, 9:37 pm Letters Capture American Grief After the Kennedy Assassination A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
// 9 March 2010, 2:48 pm Oscar Winners Try to Keep Whale Off Sushi Plates The team behind “The Cove” set up a sting operation at a restaurant that officials say served illegal whale meat.
// 9 March 2010, 4:16 pm Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
// 9 March 2010, 6:35 am Experts Urge Keeping Two Options for Terror Trials Former national security officials say eliminating civilian trials for foreign terrorism suspects would tie the government’s hands.
// 9 March 2010, 10:15 am Public Pensions Are Adding Risk to Raise Returns Even as big companies are moving their pension funds out of stocks, state governments are chasing higher returns by making riskier investments.
// 9 March 2010, 5:30 pm A Conversation With Dr. Peter J. Pronovost: Doctor Leads Quest for Safer Ways to Care for Patients Dr. Peter J. Pronovost, medical director of the Quality and Safety Research Group at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, travels the country advising hospitals on innovative safety measures.
// 9 March 2010, 5:22 pm Sidebar: Dissents From the Bench Hint at a Polarized Supreme Court The practice of Supreme Court justices reading a dissent from the bench to note their unhappiness is on the rise.
// 9 March 2010, 6:10 am Supreme Court Roundup: Court Takes Case of Church Protesting Marine’s Funeral The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine may sue protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church who picketed the funeral.
// 9 March 2010, 5:42 am Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed Accused of Aiding Somali Terrorists Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed was accused of getting military training from Al Shabab, which has been fighting the Somali government and has declared its intent to harm the United States.
// 9 March 2010, 3:29 am New Trial Granted in 5 Murders in New Orleans A judge overturned the district attorney’s office’s trophy verdict because the prosecution failed to turn over evidence in a capital case.
// 9 March 2010, 4:10 am Senate Panel to Investigate Deaths in Long-Term Care The investigation will focus on Select Medical, which runs more long-term care facilities than any other company.
// 9 March 2010, 4:20 am Eric J. Massa Says Democratic Party Drove Him From Office Eric J. Massa from New York, accused of sexual harassment, said that party leaders had orchestrated a campaign against him.
// 9 March 2010, 12:53 pm Construction Unions to Rally for Building at Ground Zero Building is stalled as the Port Authority and the developer, Larry A. Silverstein, debated how much government should invest in private development.
// 9 March 2010, 5:00 am National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Death Row Inmate Takes Overdose Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed until March 16 the execution of a killer who took an overdose of pills in his cell and was found unconscious just hours before he was to be driven to his execution.
// 9 March 2010, 5:34 am
