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• Attack of the Crazy Laser Purse!
  A great web video featuring beautiful french women fighting with laser purses.
  
  
  
• Web Developer's Guide: How to Talk to Non Tech-Savvy Clients
  A simple article on how to communicate effectively with non tech-savvy clients/employers. Written for web developers, but applicable to many other fields.
  
  
  
• Am I a Torturer?
  The first time Ben saw a detainee get beaten, he took the lead interrogator aside afterward to ask, "Was this stuff really allowed? Didn't it violate the Geneva Conventions?" "These aren't pows; they're detainees," he was told. "Those rules are antiquated and don't apply. You can't get any information without breaking that stuff."
  
  
  
• Roethlisberger Contract is Largest Deal in Steelers History
  Ben Roethlisberger signed an eight-year extension worth $102 million with the Pittsburgh Steelers that makes him one of the NFL's highest-paid players. He said he "wanted to be like the Dan Marinos, like the John Elways, guys who played with one team their whole career."
  
  
  
• How to Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation
  Making the leap to Linux? Trick out your freshly installed desktop OS with the free software programs listed in our guide. In a few steps, you'll have a machine worth leaving Windows or Mac OS X behind for.
  
  
  
• The Underground Tunnel Beneath Niagara Falls [PICS]
  Imagine a tunnel more than ten storeys underground, a hundred years old, bricklined, wet, and completely inaccessible save by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor, and then returning up the same rope you came down. This tunnel exists in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
  
  
  
• Jean-Claude Van Damme Gets Serious About His "Craft"
  No, Van Damme didn't call what he does in movies a "craft," but he is saying he'll pick his roles more carefully. That's probably not a bad thing when you consider the last movie with a recognizable title is nine years old. It is a bad thing, however, when the movie that's turning his career around stars Van Damme as...Jean-Claude Van Damme.
  
  
  
• Court Finds Model Innocent Based on Breast Size
  "I used to hate my body so much, but it was my breasts that won in court", Serena said.
  
  
  
• Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
  High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.
  
  
  
• Top 5 Tom Cruise Crazy Moments [VIDEO]
  Tom Cruise has given us so much comedic gold and it wasn't even intentional.
  
  
  
• ASUS' 9-inch Eee PC, now with living pixels!
  Pics of the new Eee PC with its new 9 inch screen
  
  
  
• Tron To Triumphantly Return To Theaters In 2011 (in 3D!)
  It's been over twenty five years since the original Tron flick took drive-in theaters by storm, but it looks like Tron fever may be sweeping the nation again in the next decade.
  
  
  
• New Rugged Dell -- the 'Anti-Air'
  Dell unveiled today its latest (and probably greatest) rugged laptop, the XFR D630. The device is the polar opposite of the Apple MacBook Air. The D630 is thick and ugly. The Air is thin and pretty. The D630 is "IT-Friendly." The Air, well, isn't.
  
  
  
• Curved Yellow Fruit
  New form of fruit discovered...
  
  
  
• Quantum computer may be capable of seeing the big picture
  A combination of neural networking and quantum computing may provide a uniquely powerful pattern recognition program.
  
  
  
• Hillary's Ad: Debate Footage Doctored To Make Obama Blacker
  In case you needed yet another reason to despise Hillary Clinton and her vermin strategists, she's now running an ad blatantly lying about Obama's subcommittee. Her ad includes debate footage heavily doctored to make Obama blacker.
  
  
  
• MSNBC: Abraham Lincoln Letters Proposed Avoiding Civil War
  "Barely a year into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suggested buying slaves for $400 apiece under a "gradual emancipation" plan that would bring peace at less cost than several months of hostilities."
  
  
  
• Photo of the Earth and Moon, taken from Mars
  Yeah, that's us. That's home. We were 192 million kilometers (115 million miles) from Mars when HiRISE turned around and took this picture. Right away I could tell that was South America's west coastline… which is incredible
  
  
  
• Jamaica considers legalising cannabis
  Jamaica is considering the legalisation of marijuana, a drug revered by members of the island's large Rastafarian population who say smoking it is part of their religion.
  
  
  
• 100+ Essential Resources for Web Developers
  We've put together a list of over 100 resources to help make your life as a developer easier; where to find snippets of code, sites that automate processes, cheat sheets, lessons, useful tools and a couple of silly videos to give your brain a break if you make it through to the end.
  
  
  
• Plug-'n'-Play USB Virus Makes MacBooks Fall to Pieces
  Behold, a video of the Newton Virus. Back in 2005, Troika, the British-based art collective that was behind the Heathrow Terminal 5 sculpture that some of you recently described as a "disco turd," created a virus for Macs, called Newton. It came on a little USB key that looked like a cross between a malevolent Apple and Pac Man and was aimed at,
  
  
  
• Female American Soldiers Are Raped and Silenced in Barracks
  The Pentagon fails to protect U.S. troops from sexual abuse -- sometimes with deadly results... When military sexual assault survivors call Avila-Smith, she advises them to keep their mouths shut while she works on getting them home. "It breaks my heart to do that," she says, "but I want to get them out alive and that's my main goal."
  
  
  
• IGN Brawl Review- 9.5
  With Brawl, famed series director Masahiro Sakurai and his Sora development team have spared no expense to bring to life the full Smash Bros. universe with a meticulous attention to detail and a decidedly un-Nintendo approach to presentation.
  
  
  
• Patriots Re-Sign Randy Moss to 3-Year Deal
  Randy Moss is staying with the New England Patriots. The defending AFC champions re-signed the All-Pro receiver to a three-year deal that's reportedly worth $27 million. The deal was confirmed by the team on Monday shortly after Moss posted a message to fans on his Web site.
  
  
  
• At A Staggering Cost Of $8000/Gallon; We All Pay The Price
  The Inkjet Refill Racket: Why I've given up on the world's most expensive fluid
  
  
  
• Terraforming Dubai's Next Artificial Island City [PICS]
  This gleaming hunk of urban development is about to rise on an artificial, perfectly square island off the coast of Dubai. Engineers in the coastal country are already adept at building islands -- Dubai possesses three artificial island developments, including one made of house-sized islets that form the shape of all the continents of the world.
  
  
  
• Martian Avalanche Caught on film
  Bad Astronomy writes about how HiRISE caught an avalanche on Mars' North Pole recently. [pics]
  
  
  
• TWC founder and global warming skeptics suing Al Gore
  Weather Channel founder Coleman told an audience at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change on March 3 in New York that he is highly critical of global warming alarmism.
  
  
  
• Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit
  Ars takes a close look at emerging open-source solutions for rich Internet application development using WebKit with Qt and GTK.
  
  
  
• Breaking News: Phil Harrison appointed President of Infogram
  Phil Harrison recently resigned from his position within Sony Computer Entertainment, but we can now confirm that he has been appointed as President and Directeur General of Infogrames Entertainment.
  
  
  
• 10 Ways Retailers Trick You to Buying Crap You Don't Need
  Consumers shopping habits have been put under a microscope and analyzed by the retail industry in order to maximize sales.
  
  
  
• Facebook partner's with iTunes for music store
  Facebook today launched a new music section with built-in integration with Apple's iTunes. You find your favorite band's page, where you can listen to new music, interact with them and their community, and even purchase tracks or albums.
  
  
  
• 6 Terrible Cameos That Just About Ruined the Movie
  A good cameo subtly acknowledges the fourth wall without taking the audience out of the flow of the story. A bad one hurtles through the fourth wall and furiously pimp slaps you until you're unable to remember what the fuck this movie was about in the first place. Six of the worst.
  
  
  
• New Pepsi Cola: Can Pepsi Actually Make Something Natural?
  Pepsi recently introduced Pepsi Raw to the UK market, their first new Pepsi drink in 10 years. All natural? Yes. Healthy? Probably not.
  
  
  
• Gary Gygax, creator of D&D has passed.away at age 69
  (From WikiPedia) According to Steve from Troll Lord Games, Gary Gygax has passed on to the Great Gaming Table on March 4th 2008. This has not yet been verified independently, but is from a reliable source: http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4373&mforum=trolllordgames
  
  
  
• Japanese Star Wars Gorier, Longer, More Awesome [PICS]
  The official Star Wars blog says the Japanese manga adaptation of the first three Star Wars movies is light years better than Marvel Comics' original adaptation. To hammer home how flawed the American version was, here are some comparisons of how certain scenes appeared in the U.S. and japanese versions.
  
  
  
• Are Lost's New Time-Travel Physics Junk Science? Maybe Not..
  As if smoke monsters and tropical polar bears weren't enough to keep our heads spinning, Thursday's episode of Lost, "The Constant," opened up a whole new can of worms: the fourth dimension.
  
  
  
• Bet you didn't know Linux could do this!
  Gotta read to believe it
  
  
  
• Artist Beats Back Penile Cancer: Inspiring & Hilarious
  'Cancer patients are often quite gung-ho," says John D. Edwards at his studio in the Foundry, a converted biscuit factory in Poplar, east London, "but I could shut them up in seconds."..."I told my family I had...penis cancer, 'cancer of the dick!' With four sisters and a mother, you just have to say it like it is."
  
  
  
• Buffett: US Essentially in Recession
  Billionaire Warren Buffett says the U.S. economy is essentially in a recession even if it hasn't met the technical definition of one yet.
  
  
  

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