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  • Strange Xbox Signal Suspected of Jamming Wireless LANs
    Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console can create a strong and strange signal that disrupts wireless LANs, according to IT staff at Morrisville State College. It's not clear whether the signal disrupts the college's WLAN access points or students' wireless notebooks.


  • Care For a Little Swim?
    This may be the most original pool design I've ever seen.


  • Why Do Whales Get the Bends?
    The Cuvier's beaked whale is a master of the ocean's crushing depths. It can dive as deep as 2 kilometers in search of prey, the deepest known for any mammal. So scientists have been at a loss to explain why, in response to naval sonar testing, this champion cetacean sometimes succumbs to the same decompression sickness that afflicts scuba divers.


  • Stock Exchange embraces Linux
    The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year.


  • Mysterious Lightbulb Prank!
    Prank your friends with this homemade light bulb hack!


  • All I Want for Christmas Is Not To Hear That Damn Song
    A little advice: When friends and relatives come visiting around Christmas, don't haul out those old CDs with Madonna's rendition of "Santa Baby" or Barbra Streisand's "Jingle Bells?" And by all means, avoid "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."


  • 10 Amazing and Magnificent Trees In the World
    "Pando, which is Latin for I Spread, is composed of about 47,000 stems spread throughout 107 acres of land. It estimated to weigh 6,600 tons, making it the heaviest known organism. Although the average age of the individual stems are 130 years, the entire organism is estimated to be about 80,000 years old!"


  • Huckabee staffer tried to suppress black voter activism.
    Today, former governor Mike Huckabee (R-AK) announced Ed Rollins as his new campaign chairman. In 1993, Rollins chaired the successful campaign of Christinie Todd Whitman in the New Jersey gubernatorial race, where he paid black leaders to not speak out for opponent Jim Florio


  • Call of Duty 4 Outsells Super Mario Galaxy
    NPD Group today released sales data for the month of November 2007, and Call of Duty 4 outsold the biggest name in video games.


  • How to make a Christmas L...
    Learn how to make an original Christmas home decoration. This Christmas, Make something different at home!


  • World Bank Plan Aims to Reduce Deforestation
    Citing its role as a key contributor to climate change, the World Bank unveiled a new set of initiatives at the Bali climate talks aimed at tackling deforestation and forest degradation - two issues that received short shrift in the Kyoto treaty.


  • Pack of Killer Whales Use Waves to Knock Seals Off the Ice
    Some Antarctic orcas use the cunning tactic of regularly hunting in packs and making waves to wash seals off floating ice.


  • Geothermal, The Holy Grail of Heating/Cooling
    Tom Rand, starting with an old shell of a building as raw material, is taking us on a virtual tour of the development process as he works to create a green hotel in Toronto, Canada — aiming at an 80% carbon reduction over standard buildings, all whilst still thinking like a businessman (i.e. not over-capitalising).


  • 10 Rules for Fledgling Santas
    If you're going to a believable Santa Claus during the Holidaze, you need to check out these ten simple tips.


  • Bush Secret Document Shredding Soars 600%
    Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since George W. Bush took office.In 2000, the feds spent $452,807 to make unpleasant truths go away; by 2006, the "Cheney Effect" had bumped that number up to $2.9 million. And by halfway through 2007, the feds almost matched that number, with $2.7 million and counting.


  • The Fact And Fiction Of Sam Sethi by Michael Arrington
    Arrington sets the record straight. Have fun!


  • Google to Wikipedia: "Knol" thine enemy
    Google's new "knol" social knowledge project has a lofty-sounding goal: make the world's knowledge easier to put on line. In reality, Google wants a piece of the social knowledge search results, and looks likely to get it.


  • Roger Clemens Is Now Under Same Cloud of Suspicion As Bonds
    No matter what happens now, Roger Clemens is forever tainted. Every accomplishment will be diminished, every Cy Young will be neglected, and no amount of bluster from his attorney can change that basic fact.


  • Rednecks Built a Spider Mech!
    I hope this ain't fake, because it is soooo awesome! These guys created an 8-legged, gas-powered spider mech "because they could!" Screw NASA and DARPA - turn them over to rednecks and we'll have a Mars colony and Robotech in 10 years.


  • Anti-Social College Kids Build Autonomous Foosball Table
    Four engineering students from Georgia Tech have built an Autonomous Foosball Table, quite possibly the key to my never-ending quest to replace the humans in my life with robots.


  • Megan Fox's Top Five Sexiest Web Moments
    We've said it before with Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel, but this time we really mean it: Megan Fox is the hottie of all hotties. And with the announcement that Jessica Alba will soon be sporting a baby bump, this news couldn't have come at a better time.


  • Proof: Nintendo Wii May Get Voice Chat
    Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime mentions that Wii voice chat could be on its way.


  • What Will it Take for Countries to Stop Deforestation?
    Coming out of Bali are details on a new plan to address the largest overlooked contributor to climate change – the destruction of forests. Right now, developing countries earn more from cutting forests than from keeping them standing. This plan looks to establish a financial value for the carbon stored in standing forests.


  • How the Colorblind see the world
    There are an estimated 10.5 million American men who are red green color blind. I am one of them. I discovered this many years ago and rarely think about it as to me it is normal. However, I have discovered that those around me are endlessly fascinated with it—especially designers. So, to you I provide this helpful visual guide...


  • Wine 0.9.51 Released
    This is release 0.9.51 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new in this release: A bunch of WinHelp improvements. Better Japanese font support. A ton of rpcrt4 fixes. Several Alsa capture fixes. Improved support for screen resolution changes. Lots of bug fixes.


  • Go Green-Toilet Train Your Cat For Christmas? (w/ great pic)
    okay, i don't know if this is brilliant or bull, but these cats on these toilets crack me up. and who knew kitty litter was so eco-unfriendly? an idea whose time has come?


  • Explosm takes you behind the scenes of your fav shocker site


  • Reid Bows to Buch/Cheney on Telecom Amnesty -- Act Today!
    Reid is doing everything possible to enable the Bush/Cheney FISA agenda on telecom amnesty and surveillance powers, and doing everything possible, yet again, to ensure that Senate Democrats stand up to nobody except their voters and their base who put them in power. TODAY: Pressure Reid, ask presidential candidates to support Dodd's filibuster.


  • "Take A Seat" a Chair that Follows You
    The "Take-A-Seat" is a chair concept that follows you wherever you go designed by Jelte van Geest. For instance if you're in a library and you are a member of that library as you can see in this video.


  • Will you let Microsoft represent your country at Geneva?
    Microsoft is trying by all means to get its "standard" adopted withoutsubstantial changes despite of its thousands of officially reportedtechnical flaws and the pre-existence of ISO 26300:2006 (OpenDocument,ODF) as the most appropriate international standard for therepresentation of office documents.LET'S STOP THEM!


  • Countdown: Giuliani Made Millions Lobbying For Data Mining
    Apparently, Rudy's law firm made millions of dollars, possibly illegally, lobbying on behalf of a software company that developed data mining programs that kept huge databases on millions of Americans, getting the company's owners in front of Vice President Cheney, the FBI and other high ranking White House officials one month after being hired


  • Fox news caught planting audience members.
    Once again Fox or Faux news is caught "staking the deck" to favor corporate America. Oh Fox, when will you learn. Nobody likes you.


  • Raw: Soldier In Box Jumps Out To Surprise Daughters
    A father just home from Iraq surprises his little girls by hiding in a big gift box at their school.


  • Google releases Zeitgeist 2007
    Anna Nicole Smith, Vanessa Hudgens, the iPhone and the Red Sox were all top searches in 2007. See who else made the list...


  • Ron Paul on Mad Money with Jim Cramer
    Best interview yet!


  • New Joker Posters for The Dark Knight!
    Even more posters for The Dark Knight! This time featuring Heath Ledger's The Joker. Allocine.com premiered the following international poster:


  • Darth Elevator: Private Home Elevators On the Rise
    The luxury trend is bad news for energy use. One guy even told a newspaper he installed an elevator in his town house so his 7-year-old dog wouldn't have to climb the stairs.


  • Why most hangover remedies won't work
    While hangovers have plagued revelers since early hominids kicked back with some date-palm wine, science still doesn't have a good understanding of how your I-love-everybody yuletide cheer turns into such a biological bah-humbug.


  • This cancer - inducing machine was once commonplace
    The shoe fitting fluoroscope was a common fixture in shoe stores during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. When you looked through one of the viewing ports, you would see a fluorescent image of the bones of the feet and the outline of the shoes.


  • Netherlands adopts Free Open Source Software
    The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software, the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.Government organizations will still be able to use proprietary software and formats but will have to justify it under the new policy, ministry spokesman Edwin van Scherrenburg said





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