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Remember that Astute-class nuclear submarine that looked like a whale? Well, scrap that, because it really looks like a Calamari Cruiser or a Zentraedi mothership. At least, that's what people must be thinking while they watch it travelling through the roads of Britain mounted on a gigantastic moving platform

As a longtime Windows guy who has recently migrated to the Mac, I think I'm in a pretty good position to try and sort out reality from fiction. Let's take a look at what you can really get for your money these days.

"This is not the Ford you're looking for." -- Spotted in Seattle: a homegrown Star Wars-themed Econoline invades a local Home Depot. It ain't pretty, but then again, neither is the Millenium Falcon.

Forget about complex methods to downloads MP3 from MySpace, just enter the Band Name and get a list of MP3s to download. Its 100% Free!!

Here's a pretty damned simple ice-cream recipe: combine ingredients in a baggie. Fill a bigger baggie with ice, salt and the baggie of ingredients. Shake for five minutes. Ice cream. Who knew?

- A European investigator says he has proof Poland and Romania hosted secret CIA prisons under a post-9/11 pact to hunt down "high value" terrorist suspects wanted by the United States.

In some coin-op pool tables, the cue ball is recognized by its reflection of light; in others, by its weight comparing to the object balls' weight. The most common solutions include enlargement of the cue ball or usage of a magnetic cue ball.

"Three economists decided to investigate whether using a for sale by owner (FSBO) web site could actually make homeowners more money compared to selling a house with a traditional real estate agent. The answer, at least in Madison, Wisconsin, is yes."

In a previous post we discussed about the strange 2 countdowns that appeared on the Rage Against The Machine website, well the mystery is revealed ! In a wikipedia update we can see that if a user forwards his pc’s internal clock to the respective dates ( June 11 or August 24 ) the webpage’s secretes are revealed! Neet, right ?

Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson covers her ears and sings on air to block out report that she couldnt handle listening to.

Link's shield has been as much a staple of the Zelda series as the adventurer's green cap, deflecting octorok attacks and pushing away charging enemies. Over the past two decades, the defensive device's design has evolved much from its original cross emblem to incorporate Triforces, various winged figures, and decorative accents.

Most people have heard absolute zero described as the lowest possible temperature, but what does that mean? Is it really the coldest cold, or just the lowest temperature that we can measure? Is there a corresponding highest temperature? According to Moses Chan, Evan Pugh professor of physics at Penn State, answering these questions requires underst

Action figure customization has grown from a back-room, glue-sniffing hobby into a viable sub-culture of the phylum Geek. We sit down and discuss the process with one of the premier customizers in the field, Ray Carro Roel.

Well it's not rocket science, it just takes a little patience and a well laid plan.

The fifth public alpha build of Firefox 3 has been officially released. The new alpha build, which is codenamed Gran Paradiso, features early components of the revamped Places system, a cohesive storage framework that will unify bookmark and history storage.

His Lonely Act Of Defiance Against The Chinese Regime Amazed The World. What Became Of Him? And 17 Years Later, Has China Succeeded In Erasing This Event From Its History? This Is A Must Watch, Honor The Memory Of Tank Man.

For software developers, a good set of tips on how to release an API for your product. Nice simple tips. Congrats to the digg folks for getting this right.

We recently visited legendary Irrational in New York for a special hands-on preview of its stunning new FPS for PC and Xbox 360. Video of gameplay included. So sweet...

Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam.

Gateway responded with a 2-inch thick stack of legal docs, and claimed that Sheehan violated the EULA, which requires that users give up their right to sue and settle these cases in private arbitration. Sheehan responded that he never read the EULA, which pops up when the user first starts the computer, because the graphics were scrambled.

Will Smith's new vampire/end-of-the-world action flick is due to be released this December. And it looks pretty sweet.

Please no "I digg it" jokes.

Apple's iPhone is coming on June 29th, and surprisingly few details have been leaked about the phone itself, beyond the original specs described in January. We've obtained the official list of specs that Apple lists for the upcoming device.

On Monday Jobs is taking the stage at Apple's worldwide developers conference in San Francisco to do what he does best - tell us all about Apple's latest products and reinforce his place as the most charismatic CEO on the planet. One announcement I'm almost sure of, however : A far reaching, cloud computing partnership with Google.

Malware targeting OpenOffice documents is spreading through multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows and Linux, according to Symantec.

54 slides that lay out the future of fuel clearly and comprehensively- demand is young, supply is old, infrastructure is rusting, suppliers are less and less friendly.

Scholastic, the US publisher of the Harry Potter books, has released the cover art for the deluxe edition of the American "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." According to Scholastic, it is "set during a highly dramatic sunset, Harry, Hermione, and Ron--clothes in tatters--cling atop a flying dragon."

Countless tools let you do all sorts of network trickery, many with their roots at the Unix command line. But forget arcane command line tools. Today we've picked out 10 of our favorite, free, point and click software applications and webapps that help you make the most of the giant web of connected computers that is your network.

Geek on the scene Dr. Royce Clemens gives us the lowdown on Eli Roth’s latest torture-fest Hostel II. Be warned, this review is almost as brutal as the movie itself.

Educated and hot, these ladies are not only easy on the eyes, but they usually seem to know something about the sports they are covering. We like to think of them as the second best thing to happen to sport -- after cheerleaders, of course. So, without further ado: over to you, ladies!

House Democrats looking to spare millions of middle-class families from the expensive bite of the alternative minimum tax are considering adding a surcharge of 4 percent or more to the tax bills of the nation's wealthiest households.

Traditionally, people washed bacteria from their bodies and homes using soap and hot water, alcohol, chlorine bleach or hydrogen peroxide. These substances act nonspecifically, meaning they wipe out almost every type of microbe in sight rather than singling out a particular variety. Antibacterial other cleaners may actually be aiding development...

1. The Spurs have a superstar, too. 2. The Spurs have been here before. 3. LeBron won't be allowed to beat the Spurs all by himself. 4. Manu Ginobili is something wild. 5. Gregg Popovich is the master; Mike Brown is the pupil. ... If LeBron and the Cavs find something that works, Popovich will more than likely find an answer. And if that

We've seen scorched Macs before, but nothing quite like this. After a devastating fire at their Boulder home last week, Gwen and Paul returned to find their formerly sleek white MacBook decidedly crispier.

Mere hours after Parallels Desktop 3.0 was released, VMware released their Fusion Beta 4, which has the new Unity feature that is similar to Coherence. Lots happening on the Mac VM front!

Generally when a game gets an awful review you'd hope everyone would listen, unfortunately far too many awful games actually sell well. This article looks at some of the most woeful games of recent years and how well they've done regardless of that fact.

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore," Washington said in a statement released through his publicist, Howard Bragman, without elaboration.

VIDEO and article of Ron Paul making sense on real issues. Covers constitutional liberties and what it means to be free.

Michael Blowen used to be a movie reviewer in Boston. But he owned a few horses; raced one and learned a lot about the business â€" especially the dark side. He saw horses that were too old, or too injured to race, or to breed sent off to slaughterhouses. "Old Friends" relies mostly on donations to rescue and maintain the horses. Some owners pay the

The picture of the girl whose underwear showed up on Google Maps Street View has been removed. It turns out that you can report inappropriate images to Google. Awww...