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The Top 7... New franchises that already feel old
What's that? Wii What? ...Zzzzzzzzzzz
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Shoppers to use fingerprints or eye scans to pay for goods
Shoppers could soon be able to pay for goods and services using their fingerprints, or iris identification techniques.
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NFL Warning sign: To Many Injuries = Don't Add Games
I have zero interest in the league tempting fate and adding another game or two to the regular season, which it seems favorably inclined to do beginning in 2010 or 2011.
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Throw out the Kindle, Plastic Logic has something better
et ready to finally chuck all those newspapers and books that you've been carrying because Plastic Logic has introduced a full-page sized ebook reader that doesn't suck.
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Let pupils giv up spelling rules. There to hard
Children are being held back at school because they are forced to memorise irregular spellings and learn how to use the apostrophe, a leading academic will claim.
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Pictured: The frozen fighter jet tested in icy conditions
Covered in frost and dripping in icicles, this plane resembles a frozen lolly more than a fighter jet.The F-4E Phantom fighter is being put through its paces at the brand new aircraft testing centre in Seosan, South Korea.
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Clever commercial, Comcast... but you're wrong
Glaskowsky takes Comcast to task over a misleading advertisement about its high-definition programming vs. DirecTV's.
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Armstrong Returning To 2009 Tour De France!!
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong will come out of retirement and compete in next year's Tour de France, VeloNews reported Monday, citing sources close to the situation.
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11 Most Beautiful Coastlines of The World [Pics]
Sunrise paints the sky pale orange over Coastguard Beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. More than half of all U.S. residents live in coastal counties—and that figure is expected to continue climbing, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Pictures are worthy of being used as wallpaper.
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Global computer network ready for the Big Bang
"This is the next step after the Web," says David Colling, a scientist at Britain's Imperial College, which is contributing to the Grid. "Except that unlike the Web, you're sharing computing power and not files."
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13 yr-old Boy with Alopecia Banned frm Wearing Cap in School
Since losing his hair to a serious illness as a young child, Dale Platts' New York Yankees cap has not only helped the 13-year-old cope with the cruelty of other children, but it also protects his head & lashless eyes from the sun. But the schoolboy has now been ordered to remove the cap after his school decided it went against its uniform policy.
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4 Reasons the iPhone Is Evil
I just hope there's good 3G coverage in hell.
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The Electronic Newspaper From Science Fiction: Coming Soon
The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. While the dream device remains on the drawing board, Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look of paper
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Your Wife May Be Cheating On You Right Now
And "it's happening where you least expect it." "Today's wife knows nothing of the isolation of her mid-century counterpart. She has Internet chat rooms and cell phones. She has personal trainers, yoga instructors, and mommy groups. Mommy groups? Why would any man think he had reason to get twitchy about his wife's going to a mommy group?"
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Fuel Costs Force Kids to Walk to School Instead of Ride
As fuel prices rise, some districts are updating an old method of getting children to school, by creating "walking schoolbuses," where students walk together in large groups supervised by an adult.
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Amazing Satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Our Milky Way Galaxy is not alone. It is part of a gathering of about 25 galaxies known as the Local Group. Members include the Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M32, M33, the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, Dwingeloo 1, several small irregular galaxies, and many dwarf elliptical and dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
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Humans Have Astonishing Memories, Study Finds
If human memory were truly digital, it would have just received an upgrade from something like the capacity of a floppy disk to that of a flash drive. A new study found the brain can remember a lot more than previously believed.
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Oh Baby You're Amazing
Zoologist Desmond Morris admits that his latest study has left him in awe of the power and potential of the human infant.
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P. Diddy's Plan for Economic Misery
"[R]ight now, can you believe it, I am actually flying commercial," he explained. "That's how high gas prices are, OK? So I feel you." Then came the solution, "I want to give a shout out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all my brothers and sisters from all the countries that have oil, send me some oil for my jet"
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Top 5 Overlooked Video Game Prequels
Not every game is destined to become an instant classic. Some franchises start a step or two from greatness, rightly or wrongly ignored by the masses before finally stumbling into the formula that puts it into the pantheon. Sometimes when that solution is finally reached, the originals are unearthed and hailed along with their better known sequels.
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Ten things you don't know about the Earth
Look around you. Unless you're one of the Apollo astronauts, you've lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There's a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it?
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Finally A Trend I Like- Gas Prices Fall For 8th Straight Day
Nationwide, Alaska and Hawaii remained the two states with gas prices still tracking above $4 a gallon. The cheapest gas was now found in New Jersey, where prices averaged $3.431 a gallon. Gas has fallen about 46 cents from the record high average of $4.114 that AAA reported on July 17, but they are still 83 cents above this time last year.
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For monster crickets, size matters
Female giant weta crickets are huge. At about 0.7 ounces (20 grams), they're one of the world's heaviest insects. But the males are about half their size. Now scientists know why.
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In Soviet Russia, South Park bans you!
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Russia want to ban the award-winning satirical U.S. cartoon "South Park," calling the series "extremist" after receiving viewer complaints, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Will the world end on Wednesday?
German chemistry professor thinks it "quite plausible" that the "mini black holes" the CERN atom-smasher creates "will survive and grow exponentially and eat the planet from the inside" and has lodged an EU court lawsuit alleging that the project violates the right to life guaranteed under the European Convention of Human Rights.
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The Crysis Warhead PC Specs and Prices
About a month ago, I reported that EA was planning to market a Crysis Warhead-ready PC. I have now learned that the machine—which, at least among the Crytek staff that specced it out, is called the "Warhead PC"—will be officially announced next week. It will be priced at $699, and it will apparently be coming in a single SKU.
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Judge waves gavel, Harry Potter (Lexicon) Site Disappears
Ark's lexicon began as a web site (which is currently down) and quickly gained popularity. Rowling herself was once a way fan of the web site and has previously lavished it with praise, gave it an award in 2004, and even admitted to using it herself while she was writing some of the later books in the series.
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Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
The problem is that most of these newspapers are not available online. We want to change that.Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.
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Can Science Improve Man's Best Friend?
If you could design the perfect dog, what would it look like? While animal buyers often look closely at physical characteristics, behavioral traits can make the difference between a dog becoming a much loved and pampered family member, or a mistreated or neglected unwanted animal.
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Meet the Real 'Bionic Woman'
A woman reports sensations in her missing arm thanks to a high-tech prosthetic.
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Coney Island Closes Its Doors Forever
The Cyclone, the famous Coney Island roller coaster, and the 150-foot-tall Wonder Wheel, a Ferris wheel, are separately owned and landmarked by the city so they are unaffected by the closing. News that Sunday would be the last gasp for Dante's Inferno fun house, 22 other rides and three arcades drew hundreds of nostalgia-minded visitors...
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World Doesn't End on Wednesday, And You Can Watch It Live
We have joked about it in the past, but as our mailboxes get filled with clueless people and psychopaths' mails we will have to say it again: there's no chance that the Earth will cease to exist as CERN scientist activate the Large Hadron Collider this Wednesday.
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Suspected Body of UFC Fighting Champ Found
Body Found Near Campsite of Missing UFC Fighter, A body has been found near a California desert campsite where former Ultimate Fighting champion Evan Tanner stayed days before.
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In the Wilds of New Jersey, a Legend Inspires a Hunt
In Smithville, N.J., a group devotes itself to looking for the elusive Jersey Devil, said to have haunted this area for centuries.
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Roger Federer Wins the US Open for the 5th Time!
Great Scott! Now... five times US Open champion Roger Federer has defeated Andy Murray in three straight sets. 2-6 5-7 4-6"Federer has been top class but you can't help but feel like Murray's time is yet to come in the sport."
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Clinton: No Way. No How. No Palin
Just like her speech to McCain, she gives a very strong speech about Palin and how dangerous she really is.
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Bush Picks McCain's Finance Chairman To Take Over Fannie Mae
The federal government has announced that it will be bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises that "own or guarantee almost half of the country's $12 trillion in outstanding home mortgage debt," making it potentially the "largest financial bailout" in U.S. history.
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5 Sports Injuries That Made Us Smile
If taking pleasure in seeing Patriots QB Tom Brady go down with a knee injury 20 minutes into New England's first game of the 2008 season makes us assholes, well, toss our salad. And while you're at it, check out five other sports injuries that put a smile on our face.
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Spielberg Sued For 'Disturbia' Ripping Off Hitchcock
Steven Spielberg and major Hollywood studios stole the plot from Hitchcock's classic 1954 film "Rear Window" in making last year's "Disturbia," a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday said. Dreamworks is accused of infringement and breach of contract for making Disturbia without first obtaining permission from the copyright holders.
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Korn Shell Scripting Tutorial Done Like Never Before
Korn shell scripting is something all UNIX users should learn how to use. Shell scripting provides you with the ability to automate many tasks and can save you a great deal of time. It may seem daunting at first, but with the right instruction you can become highly skilled in it. This article will teach you to write your own Korn shells scripts.
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