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Why Changing Your Lightbulbs Doesn't Matter
OK, I'm officially sick of it. Let's stop talking about changing our world by changing your light bulbs. There are a few reasons why people tell you that switching from incandescents to CFLs should be done, and they're all crap reasons. I'm tired of it.
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Random Acts of Kindness: A Social Site I'd Love to See
I don't think anything like this exists yet, so if you're looking for an idea for a website/service, I've got one for you:
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Tech Geeks Gone Wild... With Dorm Lights
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500GB Blowout: How to Supercharge your PS3!
Is that measly 40GB hard drive keeping you from downloading all your favorite movies and games from the PlayStation Store? Here are five easy to follow steps to supercharge your PS3 to a whopping 500 gigs for all your downloading pleasures. Watch the video walkthrough to see how it's done.
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What do our dreams mean?
Research suggests claims that dreams are top heavy with sex and religion might be wrong, and that most, as many as eight out of ten, are about mundane everyday concerns and interests such as parents, friends, driving, shopping and sport.
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Adam Savage: Credit Card Companies Bullied Mythbusters
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The era of the American Internet is ending
Andrew M. Odlyzko, a professor at the University of Minnesota who tracks the growth of the global Internet, added, "We discovered the Internet, but we couldn't keep it a secret." While the United States carried 70 percent of the world's Internet traffic a decade ago, he estimates that portion has fallen to about 25 percent.
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Orange County Reacts To New Medical Marijuana Rules
A couple of days after the California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued a new directive on guidelines governing medical marijuana, the county's top law enforcement brass scrambled to figure out what it means to them.
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Don't do it for me, do it for this poor guy! [pic]
Struggling against the waves, this polar bear faces almost certain death after becoming lost at sea in the Arctic.
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APOD: The View from Everest
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Scholars question Palin credentials
Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.
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Blueprint For The 2012 London Olympic Venues
London 2012 Olympic Games main stadium blueprints. That is one of Europe's largest engineering programmer from the London Olympic Delivery Authority (Olympic Delivery Authority) planning, in April 2008 to commence in 2012 and put into use.
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McCain's Selection of Palin as VP is the Epitome of Tokenism
It is hard to think of a more cynical and contemptuous political act this year than John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate. Having served as governor of Alaska for less than two years -- and as mayor of a small town before that -- her qualifications for national office are minimal.
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HTC Dream / Googlephone first pics!
We've gotten our hands on a slew of pictures showing off a very real T-Mobile-branded Dream in all its Android-running glory.
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Man Faces 21 Years for Killing Baby Who Interrupted Game
A man has pleaded guilty to killing an 18-day-old baby so that he could finish his videogame in peace.
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' It's the Least Painful Way to Die' -- Reiser's Confession
With his children asleep in bed, Hans Reiser stole away from his home two nights in a row to dig his wife's grave, while her body sat in a duffel bag in his car.That's one of the details to emerge in Reiser's belated August 21 confession to prosecutor Paul Hora. An excerpt is below. One note: it becomes unpleasant after the jump.
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Audio slideshow: Video game orchestra
In this audio slideshow, a symphony orchestra takes us on a trip down memory lane playing some of the most dynamic video game music written to date. Read this blog post by James Martin on News - Gaming and Culture.
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Plastic Electrical Grid Will Generate Power at Bottom of PA
Vandergrift, PA is ditching its longtime reputation as a steel town to become a model of sustainability. First up in the transition: installing a grid of electricity-generating smart materials on the bottom of the Kiskiminetas River.
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Qwest's Unofficial 250 GB Data Cap
Today, Comcast officially announced a 250 GB cap, while threatening to disconnect users who exceed this limit more than once. Comcast is taking the heat once again, but they are not the only ISP that limits its users. Other ISPs, Qwest being one of them, have exactly the same policy - and the same threats.
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Cosmic crash reveals dark matter
Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic "stuff" called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes. The results come from astronomical observations of a titanic collision between two clusters of galaxies 5.7 billion light-years away. Astronomers detected the dark matter because it separated from the ..
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How GPS Helped Convict Murderer of Killing 4 Family Members
Eric Hanson's trial was among recent criminal cases around the country in which authorities used GPS navigation devices to help establish a defendant's whereabouts; Garmin GPS units, similar to this one can be used in court cases to pinpoint for jurors the places defendants have been.
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Apple, your secrets safe with us!
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Why Strawberry Jam is More Regulated than Cigarettes ...
"While jams and other consumer products are strictly regulated and are required to pass stringent tests before they can be sold, tobacco has no restrictions and manufacturers can, and do, add anything they want into the product." ...
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Five Films Enter Labor Day Fray
There are five new wide releases playing over the long Labor Day weekend -- more than ever before for the holiday -- in a fitting end to a summer that's been full of surprises. Total B.O. revenues for the season should come in just behind last summer's record-breaking haul of $4.16 billion once Labor Day weekend grosses are tallied.
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Dad gets 18 months for forcing girl to kill cat
A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting that he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet. "I am extremely sorry for what I did," Danield J. Collins said during his sentencing Thursday. "Everything is my responsibility."
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MySpace's Tom Anderson Was A Real Life "WarGames" Hacker
In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it.
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Chad Johnson Changes His Last Name to Ocho Cinco
The Cincinnati Bengals receiver has legally changed his name to Chad Javon Ocho Cinco in Broward County, Fla., a switch that became official this week. Johnson, who lives in Miami, didn't return a message left on his cell phone Friday night.
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Fractal Art: Complex and Beautiful Color Inspiration
Even though I hate math… I love what can be created using geometric patterns. While there seems to be many different styles of art that fit under the umbrella name of a Fractal, what I found when I went looking for more information about them was a treasure trove of amazing art.
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McCain Would Rather Win an Election than Pick a Qualified VP
Does John McCain think about actually governing? Or is he merely focused on winning? Because a man of 72 years old with a history of health problems has to consider the possibility that his Vice President might actually have to govern. No, he's not thinking about that. He's not thinking about you or me. John McCain is thinking about John McCain.
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Palin denies global warming is man-made
In an interview with Newsmax today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) newly minted running mate — was asked for her "take on global warming and how is it affecting our country." Palin said, adding, "I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made."
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Why Mario should retire from Video Games
The stuff of gaming legendThe thing is, Mario is a true icon of gaming. He's forever going to be associated with all that's good about our favourite consoles of yesteryear. His Jumpman beginnings in Donkey Kong and the arrival of Luigi for Mario Bros make him more old-school than the Tucker years on Grange Hill.
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Amazon's Mechanical Turk Used for Fraudulent Activities
Although these HITs may stop short of being "fraud" in the legal sense of the word, they are certainly dishonest and unsavory. In addition to these spam bookmarking requests, we're also seeing HITs for Diggs, Stumbles, Slashdots, etc. of spammers' web pages and web sites.
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Could a Category 6 Hurricane Strike?
Hurricane Gustav, churning toward the Gulf Coast now, has a small chance of becoming a Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. That would put its winds at 156 mph or stronger. Such winds would devastate most buildings and trees in the storms path. Little would be left standing.
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Everyday Culprits of Tooth Decay
I learned that there's a lot more than sugar to watch out for. From foods that encourage tooth decay to habits that wear away gums, there's more to maintaining our smile than a simple brush and floss.
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10 Funniest Movie Scenes 1997-2007
From Austin Powers to Superbad, this is relentlessly funny.
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25 Secret Tips for Healthy Food Shopping Trips
#14 --> 'Choose prepared foods with short ingredient lists.' We don't expect you to cut out prepared foods entirely. Just remember: The shorter the ingredient list, the healthier the food usually is. Of course, if the ingredients are sugar and butter, put the item back on the shelf....
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Insights into Cyber-Jihad: Tracking the Terrorists Online
For years, al-Qaida and other terror groups have set up shop in the Internet. Those who track them have covertly followed. The companies SITE and IntelCenter have penetrated even deeper into the terror Web than most intelligence agencies.
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Google's Android Market: Cathedral Or Bazaar?
Google has revealed the Android Market, a software distribution channel for deploying third-party Android applications. Unlike conventional Linux package management systems, however, Android Market is a highly centralized system with a single point of failure, and a single point of control. Ars looks at the details revealed so far and wonders if it
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Robert J. Elisberg: The Worst Vice-Presidential Nominee in U
Selecting Sarah Palin as its choice for a vice presidential candidate is perhaps the worst such choice in American History.
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Ubuntu Keeps Building Momentum
With Windows XP going the way of the dodo, Ubuntu looks to us like a good fit. We wouldn't recommend Ubuntu as a primary OS for our other builds, since it won't let you play most games or run Photoshop out of the box, but this is a sub-$300 small-form-factor PC for basic desktop tasks.
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