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Going through security, as a geek, is never easy. You have to take our your laptop, put your treo and cell phone in a tray, untie your shoes, and remove your bluetooth devices...

With his resolution calling for the ouster of Dick Cheney, Rep. Dennis Kuchinich on Wednesday announced renewed efforts to impeach the vice president.

Before clicking, how many can you guess? These are based on the most recent available monthly stats, and not counting non-localized Asian MMOs. (Hint: only four are traditional RPGs.)

The update is available in their software update program on windows/mac. Maybe they should update their site to say "Our engineers have make safari to be secure from day 4 ;)

Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and supply of oxygen and water have failed, potentially extending the space shuttle's mission -- or cutting it short. Russian engineers aren't sure why the computers stopped working. A failure of this type has never occurred before on the space station.

“I won’t lie to you,” said the great Homer Simpson. “Fatherhood isn’t easy like motherhood.” Yet in our insistence that men are more than elaborately engineered gamete vectors, we neglect the marvels of their elaborately engineered gametes. As the scientists who study male germ cells will readily attest, sperm are some of the most extraordinary...

Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel occupies floors 53 to 87 of China's tallest building - and standing at the reception desk, you can look up approximately 115 meters to the top floor. The hotel also happens to have the worlds longest laundry shute.

Actress Jessica Alba says she is up for a one-night standâ€"as long as the man leaves the next morning. She told Cosmopolitan magazine: "I just wanted to see what it was like to be with different people. I don't think a girl's a slut if she enjoys sex."

EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be seen in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.

Honda Motor Co. plans to become the first Japanese carmaker to produce passenger vehicles with low-pollution, fuel-efficient diesel engines, according to a report released on Wednesday. Honda hopes to launch the clean diesel vehicles "as soon as possible" in Japan, said spokesman Yoshiyuki Kuroda,

I made a resolution. I decided that instead of saying “no” to things because I was afraid of them, I would “just say yes”. That became my working motto: “Just say yes”.

It soon will be a crime in this Cajun-country town to let the waistband of your pants sag too low in public. Mayor Carol Broussard has said he will sign an ordinance the town council approved this week setting penalties of up to six months in jail and a $500 fine for being caught in pants that show undergarments or certain private parts.

Check out the work of 10 professionals working at the very edges of their disciplines in order to redefine their industries.

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Ever wanted to see some of the women behind your favorite podcasts? Make sure you don't check this link out while at work, things could get awkward!

..the ice cream in question, marketed under the moniker "Staten Island Landfill," is "insulting and derogatory," borough president James Molinaro wrote..The company markets other city-based ice cream flavors, including "Jackson Heights Mangodesh," "South Bronx Cha Cha Chocolate" and even "Upper East Side Rich White Vanilla."

The Gravity Bookshelf is a piece of furniture with a design that you'll love or hate, but either way you can't deny its inherent practicality. By bending the plywood shelves so they appear to be coming out of the floor, designer Leo Kempf ensured that any books (or, say, DVDs) that you put on it won't fall over, with no need for any bookends.

A tale of souls and swords, and ridiculous breasts

With WWDC in full swing, few first hand reports of Apple's Mac OS X Developer Build of Leopard have been leaked beyond what was shown at the WWDC Keynote. The reason for this is that beyond the keynote, the remainder of Apple's conference is under a strict non disclosure agreement. A few tidbits,...

If these photos are for real, and she just wasn't just holding in her cheeks. Then someone need to throw her a bone, namely a VERY Large T-Bone. Here's a photo of a gaunt-looking Madonna leaving the Locanda Locatelli restaurant.

The Lightning Car Company of England is working on a 700hp sportscar powered by Altairnano's Nanosafe batteries. They expect to start production in 2008.

Out of all the period games that could be made, a lopsided majority end up being about World War II. In the 2006 calendar year alone, a whopping 23 World War II-themed games (including special editions) were released at an average of two titles per month. Unthinkable? There's a reason.

I think twitter is perfectly suited for the iPhone, and sure you could use the standard Twitter page or you could use something like this. Its only a concept at the moment, but it shows how it could be displayed.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the PS3 is harder to make games on than the Xbox 360. Is it? A recent report sheds light on the subject, and GamePro speaks to Sony's dev team for the official word.

A man who spent five years in jail for exposing sexual partners to HIV was sentenced to life in prison for knowingly exposing another woman to the virus.

SUN's CIO Jonathan Schwarz invites Linus Torvalds for dinner to end the cynical dispute Linus started on LKML and to make the world a better place for everyone.An open letter to Linus about the competition of Linux and OpenSolaris and about SUN's interests in this market.

"In my opinion, cannabis is safer than they say, it is not worse than alcohol or tobacco," said King, a 15-year-old Grade 10 student.

Looking perhaps a bit like a gigantic owl monster, the cloud pictured above resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. The jet that released the flares, a C-17 Globemaster III, is seen on the right. The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel.

A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests.

The new desktop in Mac OS X brands a new desktop image to replace the now familiar Aqua image. For those that don’t want to wait until october to get it, here it is.

Executives from Microsoft and Mozilla have responded to Apple's announcement that Safari will now be available to Windows users.

The fastest flows of matter in the universe shoot out of dying stars at more than 99.999% the speed of light, new observations reveal.

It has just been announced that Gears of War will be getting a title update tomorrow, June 14th after 0200 GMT. Inside the Title Update, you’ll find eight new Achievements for the "Annex" gametype and the "Hidden Fronts" Multiplayer Map Pack on Xbox LIVE.

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has said that he no longer cares about his movie career.

A lobster caught last weekend by Steve Hatch and his uncle Robert Green was spared from being cooked and ripped apart on a plate because of its color. The 1 1/2 -pound clawed creature is bright blue, the result of an extremely rare genetic mutation.

A company called Marine Current Turbines will be installing a 1.2 megawatt tidal turbine off the coast of Northern Ireland in August.

Johnny Depp gets serenaded by a group of pirate children.

"Find out now by ordering a copy of their FBI files and learn a bit more about your family history. Best of all, it's free! (Well, except for the cost of a postage stamp.)"

HardOCP had hoped the newer ATI driver revisions would improve performance on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. Sadly the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is not even a match for even the much less expensive and much less power hungry 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS when it comes to real world gaming at 1600x1200 resolutions and above.