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Study Shows Most Corporations Pay No U.S. Income Taxes
Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales, a government study released on Tuesday said.
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Why is fooling Google News as easy as s-p-o-o-f?
Because software has no sense of humor, and software -- not human editors -- runs Google News. On Monday, that lack of a funny bone resulted in a spoof of the MIT-hackers-vs-Boston-transit story leaping over 331 serious news accounts to be listed No. 1 on the Google News front page. It's happened before and it will happen again.
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Cuban, Cubs get rolling
Bidder for ballclub, governor among striking list of celebs at Cubbie bowl
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Leaves, Twigs, and Bark: Cheap Biofuel Alternatives?
It seems like new reports are practically coming out daily about the next great gasoline alternative— furfural, algae, and switchgrass, just to name a few. Now 3 more contenders have entered the ring: leaves, twigs, and bark.
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Big cats banned from Australia
Making a mistake isn't necessarily stupid, but making the same mistake twice is. Thankfully Australia has learned from its past and banned the introduction of Savannah cats, a natural destroyer of the country's unique wildlife.
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Angry Gamers Making Angry Faces (w/video)
For those without sunlight, an untimely death on Halo 3 is a gateway into Satan's most furious rage. Yes, that's right -- it's time for angry gamers caught on tape.
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Birth Control Pill Make Women Pick Bad Mates
Birth-control pills could screw up a woman's ability to sniff out a compatible mate, a new study finds. While several factors can send a woman swooning, including big brains and brawn, body odor can be critical in the final decision, the researchers say.
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Council Workers caught in the (sex) act
Two frolicking council workers had such tunnel vision that they failed to notice 20 passers-by, and a policeman, watching them at it through the window. 'You could see two figures undressing each other before getting very close. There was nothing left to the imagination,' said a witness. (pic)
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A New Era Of Music
Online music is a complex and constantly-morphing beast, especially from the perspective of the bands and artists who create it
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Why Apple Doesn't Do "Concept Products"
Technology giants like Microsoft and Nokia have also had a penchant for concocting concept products that never see the light of day in the market. Why hasn't Apple, the most innovative and visionary company in computing, produced a single concept product or vision in over a decade? Because, to paraphrase Jobs, 'real artists ship'.
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Why so Cryptic? .. Speak your Mind
Are you open?
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Our Favorite 25 TV Bosses (And What We Learn From Them)
If you think your boss is tough, wait 'till you see these guys! The scripted, non-reality TV show might be a dying breed, but shows past and present provide us with many memorable bosses and leaders. Following are some of the most unforgettable TV bosses, along with what made them so great (or not so great).
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Daily Show: Rob Riggle Gets Racist In China
Rob Riggle reports from China and manages a frankly impressive amount of racism.
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The 6 Raunchiest, Most Depraved Sex Acts (From the Bible)
What happens when you take a really skanky sex story and dress it up in a lot of flowery words? You get the Bible. Or large chunks of it, anyway.
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Alleged KBR Rape Victim Sues the U.S.A.
A former KBR employee who made national headlines with her heart-wrenching account of being raped while working at Camp Hope in Baghdad, Jones filed a lawsuit several days ago in Houston federal court against the United States of America. She filed a lawsuit against her former employer more than a year ago.
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The 10 Most Inappropriate "Touch My Body" Covers
You might recall a few weeks ago, when we brought you video of a small boy singing his little, confused heart out to Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body." (The video has now been thankfully taken down.) The first word that came to mind was NAMBLA; the second, "Inappropriate." Which led me to wonder: How many other inappropriate covers are out there?
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Colorado Creating World's First Fossil Fuel-Free Community
Called Geos, the 25-acre area will have 250 homes from smaller 850 square feet to mansion-sized 3,500+ square feet placed in four neighborhoods. While that's a whole lot of houses, they'll be keeping a whopping 40% of the area as green space.
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Polar bear eaten by shark? What? Who's the top predator?
Already threatened by a thaw of ice around the North Pole, the polar bear's title as the top Arctic predator may under challenge from a shark. Scientists researching how far sharks hunt seals in the Arctic were stunned in June to find part of the jaw of a young polar bear in the stomach of a Greenland shark, a species that favors polar waters.
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Attn: Pigs--You Have A Dashcam; Quit Assaulting People!
Dude gets knocked the fuck out
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Guy builds Massive folding farm with 51 nVidia Video Cards
A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU's and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD.
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Nanoantennas Possible Replacement For Solar Cells
Imagine the possibilities of harvesting waste heat and converting it into electricity. Computer processors could be the source of power for their own cooling devices and solar cells could become dramatically more efficient by leveraging energy that is not being used today.If everything goes right, nanoantennas could even replace solar cells one day
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When Wacky Packages Ruled
At 9 years old, I became hooked on the Topps-brand sticker series of product parodies, which recast Cap'n Crunch as "Cap'n Crud" and Nestle's Quik as "Nutlee's Quit" ("Explodes Instantly with Milk").
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Team Fortress 2 Heavy Update Coming Tuesday, August 19th
The update will include new maps, achievements, game modes, and weapons for the Heavy class.
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Olympic Balladeer's Voice Was Dubbed
Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke performed during the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics on Friday. the voice of Lin Miaoke, age 9, was perfect. Too perfect. Except that she was not really singing.....
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Scientists Find Ways to Cloak 3D Materials
New invisibility cloak works toward fulfilling long-time dreams of military, ninjas, fantasy fans alike.A new breakthrough in the art of illusion has been achieved. Researchers at the UC Berkeley have for the first time found a way to cloak 3D materials.They did this with not only one, but with two different materials.
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World's All-Time Most Expensive Homes (w/ Pics)
Photos of the most amazing mansions that have sold for the highest prices. See what a truckload of cash will buy you in todays real estate market, swimming pools, chandeliers, manicured gardens, grand staircases and 30-car garages.
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Google acknowledges tracking behavior without consent
Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without informing customers, according to letters released Monday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Google stated that it had begun using Internet tracking technology that enabled it to precisely follow Web-surfing behavior across affiliates.
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APOD: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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'Always Sunny' Gang Raps in Going Back to Philly Music VID
The gang from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is going back to Philly. This isn't quite the musical level of Day Man (or Night Man for that matter) but it's surprisingly high quality for an Internet promotional piece.
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McLovin Is Back.. Role Models Trailer
I'm thinking American Pie, 40 Year old Virgin and Superbad in one supermovie..
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The 10 Most Terrible Tyrants of Tech
Here's to the screaming ones. The chair-throwers. The death-threat makers. The imperious gazers. The ones who see things differently — and will stare you down until you do, too. They're not fond of rules, especially those outlined by the human-resources department on "treating your employees with respect."
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Here's A Map Of Nations That Don't Use The Metric System
Like you were suprised...
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Silly Chick Tries To Parallel Park
There was about 20 more minutes of this before the guy filming went down and parked it for her.
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Using Open Source Software for HTTP Load Testing
A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load.If you leave out the load-testing packages that are no longer maintained, non-free, or fail the installation process in some obscure way, you are left with five candidates: curl-loader, httperf, Siege, Tsung, and Apache JMeter
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The Bigger They Are: 10 Ice Age Giants
The Pleistocene Era began 1.8 million years ago and ended roughly 10,000 years ago. During that period were several Ice Ages. Many giant sized animals and birds that seem familiar to us (because they resemble modern animals) roamed the earth. They became extinct, possibly due to environmental conditions or disease.
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Citibank's Website Glitch Tricks Man Into Overpaying
I have had the most unbelievable experience with Citi Card this week. In a nutshell, an error on their website led me to schedule two full payments and they won't give me the money back. Hopefully this story will prevent some of your readers from experiencing a similar problem.
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Mad at Mad World, group says Wii should be carnage-free
The upcoming Mad World shows the very act of releasing a Mature-rated game on the Wii may be cause for controversy. The disruptive system may be held up to stricter standards by watchdog groups.
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BP shuts pipeline on fears over Georgia Attacks!! Not Good@!
BP shut down a pipeline carrying Caspian oil from Azerbaijan to the Georgian Sea on Tuesday citing concern about security in Georgia. Toby Odone, a BP spokesman, said the 150,000 barrels a day pipeline from Baku to Supsa on the Georgian Black Sea had been closed as a "security precaution." What does this mean? I don't know but it cant be good!
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5 Famed Retired Corporate Mascots
A great mascot builds brand equity for decades, while a bad one can be an embarrassing smear on a company's history. Both types often meet the same fate, though, when it comes time for forced retirement. Here are a few of our favorites, some still mourned, some still mocked.
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New Evidence Proves Digg Is Older Than The Internet!! (pic)
New iPhone interface reveals that Digg has been around for almost 40 years.
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