Interesting Stuff
6/6/2007 9:13:26 PM
An environmental group asked the federal government Tuesday to ban the use of certain toxic chemical compounds in industrial and household detergents because the ingredients are believed to cause male fish to develop female characteristics. NPEs are more tightly restricted in Canada and Europe than in the United States, which issued
6/6/2007 9:00:02 PM
Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS the file system in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard.
6/6/2007 8:47:16 PM
Everyone is talking about the PlayStation 3 dropping in price and Square-Enix's decision to keep Final Fantasy away from the 360. But is there truth to these rumors? We investigate.
6/6/2007 8:35:50 PM
Spike Lee plans to return to New Orleans for HBO to follow up the stories told in last year's four-hour documentary about the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
6/6/2007 8:25:15 PM
A man wanted over an alleged plot to blow up New York's JFK airport has surrendered to police in Trinidad and Tobago, officials say. Abdel Nur of Guyana turned himself in at a police station at Diego Martin in western Trinidad, said police.
6/6/2007 8:10:03 PM
An incredible selection of high speed photography from the "Speed Demon" round in Crestock's photography contest....pictures ranging from pure adrenaline, blinding speed and motion blur to more subtle and hilarious interpretations of the theme...
6/6/2007 8:07:55 PM
A nearly 400-year-old metal cargo tag and some commemorative mementos are packed in Atlantis' mid-deck floor cargo space for the round-trip flight to the International Space Station. Their hitchhike through the galaxy honours this year's 400th anniversary of Jamestown, Va., the first permanent English settlement in North America.
6/6/2007 7:55:05 PM
For any one who's tried to customize a car in Forza, this guy just took us all to school....Disney style. Way better than most of the custom stuff out there.
6/6/2007 7:41:50 PM
A researcher with the US Olympic Committee studies moments like that coaches call field sense or "vision," and he makes a habit of deconstructing psychic plays: analyzing the steals of Larry Bird and parsing Joe Montana's uncanny ability to calculate the movements of every person on the field.
6/6/2007 7:30:04 PM
Top tips on how to keep your identity safe from prying eyes and keep out unwanted visitors.
6/6/2007 7:10:02 PM
Good news, everyone! Dell is now selling PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. Read on to discover what happens when one man decides to buy one of these PCs, then chooses Dell's Complete Care solution to protect his new hardware. Chaos, or at very least, confusion, ensues.
6/6/2007 7:09:44 PM
Examination of the nine-hundredths-inch-long mushroom cap revealed that it had been infected by an ancient parasite, which a second parasite was feeding on. "They're similar to pinwheel mushrooms that grow on the bark of modern trees. They dotted the trees 100 million years ago, so they probably were tasty treats for the dinosaurs to nibble on."
6/6/2007 6:55:20 PM
Wireless, Micro-electromechanical systems, Displays, Miniature Cameras, and Sensors are only a few of the things we could be seeing in the next generation.
6/6/2007 6:42:56 PM
HBO broadcasts the series finale of "The Sopranos" on June 10, and locations made famous by the saga of a northern New Jersey mob boss struggling to keep both his "families" in line attract flocks of fans
6/6/2007 6:30:05 PM
Johnny Cash did a stark cover of this song with a striking video. In the video, the 71-year old Cash appears very fragile as he sings this from his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Cash wore no makeup, & there was no attempt to make him look younger. Trent Reznor was very impressed by Cash's take on his song & quite moved by the video (The Video)
6/6/2007 6:30:03 PM
Dreamhost just sent out an email to their users advising that 3500 FTP passwords have been compromised. This coming from one of the world's biggest hosting companies.
6/6/2007 6:21:51 PM
"These daring men and women have made the world a smaller place. Thanks to their guts and sweat, we know the Earth is round, life exists in the depth's of the sea and that the view from space is spectacular."
6/6/2007 6:08:19 PM
Between 80 and 100 employees were laid off today an insider tells Kotaku. A Sony Computer Entertainment of America spokesman says such measures are necessary to keep Sony as the "market leader." Those laid off were told to leave their belongings at the office and schedule an appointment to pick them up or ask their boss to pack them up for them.
6/6/2007 5:50:03 PM
After lots of hard work the past month, the Mythbuntu team is proud to present our first publicly announced Alpha.This alpha can be used for running a live frontend from CD, and provides a good representation of where the GUI is headed for the installer.The CD contains a backend/frontend full installation on disk with all plugins. Depending u
6/6/2007 5:30:09 PM
A new game in the much-loved SimCity PC series is to be revealed in the next official US Games for Windows magazine.
6/6/2007 5:15:19 PM
"Recently, folks like Slashdot and others reported that we are no longer offering extended warranties or CompleteCare on Ubuntu-based systems. User johnnyk submitted an idea on IdeaStorm asking us to bring back warranty options for these systems. The short answerâ"we will soon."
6/6/2007 4:20:09 PM
Manchester, NH - Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani's staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building collapses and ordered his arrest.
6/6/2007 3:18:45 PM
"A key hormone enables starving mice to alter their metabolism and "hibernate" to conserve energy, revealing a novel molecular target for drugs to treat human obesity and metabolic disorders, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found."
6/6/2007 2:59:26 PM
A Look back at 25 years of other changes in our lives. Some things are still around, some not...Typewriters..Vinyl records...New Coke...Phone booths...Hair bands
6/6/2007 2:29:18 PM
Digital paper that can speak to you has been created by scientists. Researchers from Mid Sweden University have constructed an interactive paper billboard that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.
6/6/2007 2:14:36 PM
Mozilla Corp. is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads, but the company's security chief refused to spell out details, saying Mozilla is "not ready to talk about the feature."
6/6/2007 2:00:38 PM
Making good on her claim that the seventh and final book in the popular series will be the "darkest yet," author J.K. Rowling revealed today.... oh this is the Onion, come on now, just check it out
6/6/2007 1:55:29 PM
Lala.com is like a subscription music service, but without the monthly subscription fee. Lala is betting that in return for getting all that free access to music at home, listeners will pay to buy the songs they want to take with them on iPods and other music players.
6/6/2007 1:50:33 PM
In research published on Monday by McAfee SiteAdvisor, 5.4 percent of Yahoo searches returned links to "risky" internet sites. AOL was found to be the safest of the top five, with 2.9 percent of sites.
6/6/2007 1:28:58 PM
Scientists said Monday that they have discovered 24 new species of wildlife in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname, including this frog with fluorescent purple markings
6/6/2007 1:04:19 PM
Christopher Newton's execution lasted so long, he needed a bathroom break. Death penalty opponents say Newton's May 24 lethal injection was the latest in a series of botched executions nationwide, and that executioners' identities and professional credentials should be open to public scrutiny.
6/6/2007 12:09:58 PM
"Blasting out of the water like a giant torpedo, this was the astonishing moment when 40 tons of humpback whale decided to give an air show.Its flippers stretched out like wings as it hurled itself towards wildlife photographer Ray Alley - who fortunately had his camera at the ready. "
6/6/2007 11:56:04 AM
Physicists have teleported data a whopping 89 miles (from the Canary Island of La Palma to the island of Tenerife), which is 10 times further than the old record using "quantum entanglement" -- the technology used in Star Trek teleporters. "Beam me up, Scotty!"
6/6/2007 11:00:04 AM
Join Guest Host Eli White as he talks about practical tips you can use to help make your application more secure.
6/6/2007 10:20:02 AM
The day Dell announced I ordered one of their laptops, and today (May 31) it arrived.I popped open the box to see what's included. The only Ubuntu-specific thing included was the CD. I half-expected to see the 'DELL' logo on the blue-shirted guy. ;-)
6/6/2007 10:13:34 AM
Matt Cutts writes a long post about the NY Times article on Google. Great post!
6/6/2007 9:40:08 AM
During the second intermission in last nights Stanley Cup Finals, Don Cherry makes his NBC debut and talks about fighting in the NHL with Brett Hull. For anyone who doesn't think fighting belongs in the game, you need to watch this.
6/6/2007 9:25:32 AM
Looking for more Final Fantasy following the Xbox 360 port of Final Fantasy XI? Then you're going to have to look to a different next generation system. A Square Enix executive has disclosed to Japan's Nikkei BP that the company currently has no plans for Final Fantasy games on the 360.
6/6/2007 9:02:43 AM
You wear lenses while you sleep, then wake up with perfect vision.
6/6/2007 8:50:03 AM
Video lesson from a standup comedian - who speaks the truth about Powerpoint
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