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  • Hank Aaron believes baseball can move on
    He's no longer the home run king, but he's still the Hammer. Hank Aaron hobbled into Atlanta's spring training camp on Tuesday — he needs knee-replacement surgery — with no opinion on whether Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens deserve to be in the Hall of Fame, but saying he's confident baseball is on the way to recovering from the Steroids Era.


  • Use Your Wii as a Media Center
    The best thing the Nintendo Wii got going for it is the excellent Opera web browser, but web browsing with the Wii remote is still a bit klunky. Luckily, using that very same browser, you can turn your Wii into a full-fledged media center with the freeware Windows application Orb. Here's how


  • CRAZY Rollercoaster Crash
    Watch how someone manipulates a loophole in Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 in order to slaughter everyone below!


  • Information will be free: Wikileaks still up, despite order
    After unflattering and apparently internal documents from the Swiss banker Julius Baer appeared on Wikileaks, the bank filed a federal lawsuit in the US. A judge has now ordered Wikileaks.org scrubbed from the DNS system, but it's hard to eradicate a website.


  • The new US $5 (FIVE) Dollar Bill. It's got purple!
    George Washington must be green with envy.


  • Obama Wins Hawaii and Wisconsin
    Obama wins Hawaii caucuses!


  • Networks Interrupt Clinton Speech For Obama
    Sen. Hillary Clinton began giving a speech on Tuesday night shortly after Wisconsin's results came in. But within minutes, Sen. Barack Obama appeared in Texas to give his victory speech, and the networks cut Clinton off. Ouch. Watch it:


  • xkcd: Duty Calls


  • Undersea saboteurs may have been responsible for cable cuts
    New information from the UN agency tasked with repairing the undersea cable cuts of early February has reported that they can't rule out sabotage at this point of time. Of the five cuts, only one has been ruled an accidental failure—the cause of the other four is still unknown.


  • Mysterious Creatures Found in Antarctica
    Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctica said Tuesday they have collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms in the murky depths.


  • CIA operation advocated by Obama successfully carried out
    "In August, Sen. Barack Obama had made the argument that, as president, he would target Al Qaeda officials in Pakistan even without the country's acquiescence -- the type of attack that, six months later, proved to be successful." The White House had earlier criticized his position. Naive/inexperienced indeed...


  • CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bay | The Onion
    A leading team of CGI experts hand-selected by blockbuster producer and director Michael Bay has pushed the limits of what can be accomplished with special effects and digital imaging by creating a computer- generated best-director Oscar for the 43-year-old filmmaker.


  • $5 Bill from 1896
    The famous "Educational Series" Silver Certificate. The entire obverse was covered with artwork representing electricity... looks pretty wicked.


  • Microsoft posts new Windows XP SP3 build, RC2 to the public
    Two weeks after it last handed a new build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to several thousand invitation-only testers, Microsoft Corp. today posted that version for public downloading. Want to try it out? Here's how: Uninstall RC1 if you have that first, download the reg patch from http://tinyurl.com/2mflo7 , then run windows update to get it.


  • You've Been Had! The Government Is Wasting Your Tax Dollars!
    "Almost a decade ago, the federal government dropped $100 million for an Earth-monitoring satellite that never made it into space. Today it sits in a closet in Maryland. Cost to taxpayers for storing it: $1 million a year." - That's just one expense... You'll want to read more.


  • Oil breaks $100, hits new all-time high
    Oil prices hit new record highs Tuesday as a Texas refinery fire and fears of an OPEC production cut pushed crude to settle at over $100 a barrel for the first time ever.


  • Top 10 Landfill Candidates
    We've got fixated on producing and consuming ever more wastefully complex stuff that has no future. It's there to take our money and time on its brief trip from factory to landfill.


  • Why Not Just Walk Away from Your Home Mortgage
    Sometimes, walking away from your mortgage makes economic sense, especially for homeowners who find themselves "upside down" — that is, they owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth. In those cases, "voluntary foreclosures are not by themselves evidence of a newfound irresponsibility on Americans' part,"


  • Bible story comics featuring giant killer robots
    Mecha Manga Bible Heroes is a series of graphic novels featuring "action-packed mecha-manga art and adventure-filled tales from the Old Testament." The characters, stories and themes remain the same. Only the setting has changed – to a futuristic world of robots, aliens and advanced technology!


  • 20 Facts About the Human Genome
    Check out the list of 20 facts about the human genome.


  • A Gamer's Dream: Brain Controlled Headset
    Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone.


  • International clock


  • The Dark Side of Light
    Light may not seem very interesting in our everyday lives. But to scientists, light's properties are a constant source of intrigue. The nature of light as both wave and particle, light as the universal speed limit, and the way light interacts with magnetic fields in the atmosphere to form auroras are a just a few examples of light's fascinating


  • The most incredible motorbike accident I've ever seen
    You have to see this! especially if you're a biker.


  • Top 12 Green Cars: The Un-Dirty Dozen
    Four Honda models made the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy's annual list of the most environmentally-friendly cars.


  • 'DVD Jon' frees your media with DoubleTwist
    Beginning Tuesday, the first product from his company, DoubleTwist Ventures, will enter open beta. Called DoubleTwist, it's a free desktop client that essentially allows any kind of music, photo, or video file to be shared between a long list of portable media players, and through Web-based social networks.


  • recharge your ipod with your shirt
    U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power.


  • What do thousands of 'internet voices' sound like?
    Thousands of people chat online every day - but what does it actually sound like?


  • Japan's Lost And Found Culture.
    Anywhere else perhaps, a shiny cellphone fallen on the backseat of a taxi, a nondescript umbrella left leaning against a subway door, a wad of cash dropped on a sidewalk, would be lost forever .But here in Tokyo these items and thousands more would probably find their way to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Lost and Found Center.


  • Fired officer: Woman's black eyes, broken teeth from 'fall'
    After Angela Garbarino was arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana last November on suspicion of drunk driving, she wound up lying on the police station floor in a pool of her own blood with two black eyes, a broken nose, two broken teeth, and other cuts and bruises. Garbarino says that Officer Wiley Willis beat her up after turning off the police video.


  • Ebay Sellers' Boycott gains traction; competing sites grow
    On February 20th, 2008 eBay will roll out unprecedented changes to their auction format. eBay will be ending seller's abilities to leave negative feedback for buyers, opening the possibility for blackmail. Other changes to fees have also ruffled feathers, with sellers saying they will end up paying more. Sellers are boycotting Feb. 18th - Feb. 25th


  • Fort Hood soliders breaking the silence on war in Iraq
    Fort Hood soldiers are openly speaking out to end the misguided war in Iraq, saying that if Americans knew what was going on there they would be speaking out too. Information from Iraq is "filtered" by politicians. There is no end in sight.


  • Best Drunken Conversation (PIC)
    I wonder how drunk this dude must be to be having a conversation with a statue!


  • Cable and telcos side with Comcast in FCC BitTorrent dispute
    The RIAA, Big Cable and the telcos are lining up back Comcast and oppose FCC "neutrality" oversight over network management, but Sony, Vonage, and other want the FCC to make sure the playing field stays fair


  • Cool Stuff: Movie Toys at Toy Fair 2008
    A ton of cool movie-related action figures were revealed at the 2008 Toy Fair in New York City this weekend. Check out some photos of the cooler toys after the jump


  • Supreme Court rejects ACLU challenge to wiretaps
    The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Bush administration's domestic spying program. However, the justices' decision Tuesday included no comment explaining why they turned down the appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.


  • Some People Are Gay.................
    I think Stonewall may have overestimated the maturity of their audience a bit.


  • Breaking News: Obama wins Wisconsin Democratic Primaries
    Just projected...


  • 16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts
    I love dingbats because (most of the time) I convert them to vectors in Illustrator and use them as very large elements in some cases. All you have to do is use the font in Illustrator and then go to Type > Create Outlines, and Bam. You got yourself a vector to work with. Here are some dingbat fonts that I thought you might enjoy.


  • Samsung-releasing,Google-branded Android phones
    According to man-about-town, Robert X. Cringely, Samsung is readying not one, but two separate Android-based phones, one of which is due in September, with another model following around Christmas.





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