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Financial firms face a "new world order" after a weekend fire sale of Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) and the Federal Reserve's first emergency weekend meeting since 1979, research firm CreditSights said in a report Monday. - Coffee Printer Makes Your Cup of Joe a Beautiful Thing
"Could I have some artwork with that cappuccino?" Not exactly something you hear at Starbucks a lot, but if this coffee-printer technology goes mainstream? The a coffee printer has been modified to shoot out edible ink. The result is a machine that can draw surprisingly detailed art on your cup of joe & put creative baristas everywhere to shame. - World's Second Tallest Building To Be Green?
The historic city of Philadelphia hasn't been known for its skyline in a long time. Now, some developers want to change that with a proposal to construct what would become the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the second-tallest building in the world, standing at 1,500 feet, with a very-high degree of energy and water efficiency. - Naughty children as young as 5 could be put in DNA database
Badly behaved children as young as five should be recorded on the national DNA database, a British police chief said yesterday. Gary Pugh, forensic science director for the Metropolitan Police, said children should be 'targeted' because future offenders can often be picked out at a young age. - The CSIRAC Story - Australia's First Computer
CSIRAC's story began in 1936, when British mathematician Alan Turing described his idea for a computing machine capable of solving any numerical problem. - Firefox 3 beta's new features [Slideshow]
Review gives screenshots that demonstrate some of the cool new features of Firefox 3, and also highlights some areas that still need work. - New high resolution satellite photos of the planet
A new global portrait taken from space details Earth's land cover with a resolution never before obtained. The map, which will be made available to the public upon its completion in July, has a resolution 10 times sharper than any of its predecessors. - Reporting on Bush's visit to troops
You might want to have your asthma inhaler handy before watching this, it paints the president in a not entirely flattering light based on quotes during his visit to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. See also: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23640421#23640421 - Far out! Peace symbol turns 50
The peace sign, which turns 50 in April, was introduced in a calmer Britain in 1958 to promote nuclear disarmament, and spread fast as times got tense. - IBM builds optical switch for multicore chips
IBM today announced that its scientists have built a switch that can control the flow of information on a chip using pulses of light instead of electrons. - Ha Ha! Your medium is dying!
Well it must be true if Nelson says so. - The Caucus: Superdelegates: A Shift Toward Obama
Barack Obama has gained the support of about 60 superdelegates in the last month while Hillary Rodham Clinton added more than half as many. - Google Naps
An employee takes a nap in a nap pod which blocks out light and sound at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. - We Stand By Our President...
Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. It is the last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line. Offering satire on all aspects of American life and pop culture, the monthly publication deflates stuffed shirts and pokes fun at common frailties. - Barack Obama's Money Maven
As the national finance chairman for Sen. Obama's campaign, Penny Pritzker has become a powerful force in the primaries. Over the past year, she and her team have raised more than $188 million- the largest sum ever amassed for a primary race. - Iraq a country no more. Like much else, that was not planned
Five years of occupation have destroyed Iraq as a country. Baghdad is a collection of hostile Sunni and Shia ghettoes divided by high concrete walls. Different districts even have different national flags. The fall in the death rate is partly because ethnic cleansing has done its grim work and in much of Baghdad there are no mixed areas left. - Why Cable News Doesn't Cover Science
Cable news focuses much of its time on 3/4 topics a day and relies on wires and brief "tell stories" for much of the rest of the news. There's 2 distinct parts to a cable day, daytime is more focused on crime/disaster where nighttime increasingly is more about topics that spark controversy and suit the particular audience that tunes in. - Jenna Jameson "Dying" to See Charlize Theron Naked
Jenna Jameson made a smooth transition from porn princess to PETA spokeswoman last week as she unveiled her latest "Pleather Yourself" campaign to promote wearing of fake leather. "I saw her just the other day and she just blew me away. Charlize is so sexy; I would totally love for her to go naked. I'd die for that," said Jameson of the campaign. - Scientists discover new hemoglobin type
Scientists at the University of Bonn have discovered a new rare type of haemo-globin. Haemoglobin transports oxygen in the red blood corpuscles. When bound to oxygen it changes colour. The new haemoglobin type appears optically to be transporting little oxygen. - Sand Artist
nice images with sand - very artistic - Myth of American Zombies Dispelled - Sleep Well.
Sleep deprivation has been a watchword in health discussions in recent years, but a new analysis overturns the idea that we're all zombies. Americans get about 8 hours of sleep a night, possibly more in recent years, according to the University of Maryland study, which counters annual polls conducted by the non-profit National Sleep Foundation . . - The Top 10 Weirdest Rock 'n' Roll Deaths
Rock stars have a flair for the dramatic, sometimes resulting in strange deaths. - Scientists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban
Scientists who want to describe their work on Wikipedia should not be forced to give up the kudos of a respected journal. So says a group of physicists who are going head-to-head with a publisher because it will not allow them to post parts of their work to the online encyclopaedia, blogs and other forums. - British man auctions entire life on eBay
Ian Usher loves his life in Perth, Australia. But since his wife, Laura, was part of that life and the couple have split up, he has decided to offer it, lock, stock and barrel to the highest bidder. Mr Usher, 44, originally from Darlington, County Durham, has put his entire life up for grabs on the online auction site eBay... - TIME Invents Facts to Claim Americans Support Bush's Spying
No matter how corrupt and sloppy the establishment press becomes, they always find a way to go lower. Time Magazine has just published what it purports to be a news article by Massimo Calabresi claiming that "nobody cares" about the countless abuses of spying powers by the Bush administration; that "Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy - Injunction Against Law on Violent Video Games Upheld
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld an injunction against a Minnesota law that targeted at children under 17 who rent or buy violent video games. - Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?
Humans have long wondered how the salamander pulls off this feat. How does the regrowing part of the limb "know" how much limb is missing and needs to be replaced? Biologists are closing in on the answers to those questions. And if we can understand how the regeneration process works in nature, we hope to be able to trigger it in people. - BookLamp.org is Pandora.com for Books
CanGoogleHearMe.com recently introduced BookLamp.org. It's a system that matches users to books based on a full-text analysis of the novel, like how Pandora matches music. It measures elements like action, dialog, and description, graphs them for you scene-by-scene, and uses that to find other books that have similar writing style. - Apple patent would allow iPhone clamshell
Apple has developed a technique that could allow for a smaller iPhone with all the controls but half the size, according to a recent but not yet fully public US Patent Office filing. Described as a "dual sided trackpad," it would allow multi-touch on the inside and out: in other words, it would allow an iPhone flip. - 3/15 College Game Rick Rolled / Raided!
March 15: A college basketball game is Rick Rolled / Raided! Major lulz ensue! - New York City at Night - HDR [PIC]
Wikipedia ranks this as one of their best photos. It's HDR on Photomatix. Made using 3 exposures, 2 stops each. - Woman Sues American Airlines for Mastuburbating Passenger
Have you seen 'Something About Mary?" Well, yeah... - Ultimate loungeroom golf simulator
An awesome addition to your games room if you can spare the $50,000 - $80,000. - An attack on Tupac Shakur launched a hip-hop war
In 1994, Tupac Shakur was ambushed, beaten and shot at the Quad Recording Studios in New York. He insisted that friends of Sean 'Diddy' Combs were behind it. New information supports him. - Lobbyists: Power, Influence, Sex Appeal
A female lobbyist says that "if someone didn't grab your butt once a week, you were like 'What's wrong with me?' When you walk into a room, they say, 'Well our day just brightened up.' In my own judgment, you have to sort of roll with it. If you don't, you're a feminist bitch that no one wants to work with. You don't want to send the wrong signal." - The Canadian Dope Rush
Believe it or not, there are parts of the country where cannabis provides more jobs than logging, mining, oil and gas combined...... - A Taste of Things to Come: Gas Rises to $5.20 In Some Places
- Recognize Internet addiction as a mental illness, MD urges
Compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness. - Eliot Spitzer's Seven Deadly Sins
Lust is the least of it. Here's a look at the mistakes New York's sex-scandal-scarred governor made, and the lessons for any leader—in politics or business - Ice bridge disappears - go to plan B
Read about the impact of disappearing Arctic sea ice.
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