Friday, June 08, 2007

Interesting Stuff

6/9/2007 1:20:02 AM
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.
6/9/2007 1:10:01 AM
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!
6/9/2007 12:50:01 AM
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.
6/9/2007 12:37:50 AM
"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.
6/9/2007 12:20:12 AM
VIDEO and article of Ron Paul making sense on real issues. Covers constitutional liberties and what it means to be free.
6/9/2007 12:05:59 AM
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
6/8/2007 11:50:04 PM
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...
6/8/2007 11:40:05 PM
"By a margin of 52 to 43 percent, citizens want Congress to impeach President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval"
6/8/2007 11:30:03 PM
Lots of people ask about what it takes to write on a successful blog and one of the keys to it is to make your mistakes early on and learn from them fast. eMoms at Home offers 10 mistakes that were made the first year of blogging, the lessons learned and how she overcame them.
6/8/2007 11:00:32 PM
German Chancellor calls talks a “huge success.”
6/8/2007 10:40:05 PM
Paris cries as she's driven away by LA Police
6/8/2007 10:30:08 PM
Here's a travel tip: if you're driving through Russia, make sure your plates don't have the numbers "666" on them. Otherwise, your $85,000 Dodge Viper will be accused of witchcraft and torched.
6/8/2007 10:30:02 PM
This year, our MacRumorsLive feed will be further improved with "continuous" text updates, larger photos, and more detailed transcriptions. The keynote begins on June 11th, 2007 at 10am PDT. The fastest way to hear about all of the announcements will be to watch MacRumorsLive. But we also offer a few other options this year...
6/8/2007 10:20:06 PM
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6/8/2007 10:20:05 PM
this takes you from Truman through Bush. It ws updated in 2006 so... It's rather surprising.
6/8/2007 10:20:02 PM
Welcome once again to Destructoid's continuing anthropological guide to the ways of the modern gamer. After last week's lengthy chav special, things return to normal with a total of two very different gamer sub-species up for analysis, to promote greater understanding of their ways, and perhaps better prepare you for an encounter in the wild.
6/8/2007 10:00:03 PM
Some call the Higgs boson the Holy Grail of particle physics. As the only undetected element of the field's theoretical masterpieceâ€"the "standard model"â€"the Higgs guarantees a Nobel Prize for the experimenters who find it first.
6/8/2007 9:50:10 PM
The UK city of Liverpool is playing host to a rather kooky artwork for the next 18 months. Called Turning The Place Over (I do hope that's not a reference to Scousers being nifty burglars) by Richard Wilson, it consists of a rotating wall that turns 360º. Cut in the wall of an old Yates's Wine Lodge
6/8/2007 9:50:09 PM
FTA: Washington, DC: A 27-year-old quadriplegic man sentenced to serve ten days in a Washington, DC jail on charges that he possessed a minor amount of marijuana died while in custody last week due to inadequate health care, including prison officials' failure to provide him with a ventilator.
6/8/2007 9:50:04 PM
So, the only real choice when it comes to drunk gaming is to invite some buddies over, crack open a few cans and get your system of choice going! Here is a list of top games to play drunk with friends. Feel free to try these out.
6/8/2007 9:34:44 PM
There can be only one, huh? The makers of Highlander never took that line seriously as they’ve churned out four movies, two TV series, numerous novels, comic books, and a 1994 animated series. Now, the Highlander franchise heads into the world of anime with mixed results.
6/8/2007 9:16:10 PM
Mark Pagel, head of the evolutionary biology group at the University of Reading in England and editor of The Encyclopedia of Evolution, fills us in:
6/8/2007 8:40:01 PM
29th of June will be a historical day for every Apple fan and it seems Apple is trying hard to have full warehouses for the first shipping day.
6/8/2007 8:30:09 PM
I don't know why this is so eye-catching, but I can't stop looking at it.
6/8/2007 8:20:13 PM
Are there any Republicans at all that would make even a tolerable president? I don't see any here. Anti-science, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual anti-truth.
6/8/2007 7:50:04 PM
Ars Technica goes to look at the new Creation Museum to see what the fuss is about.
6/8/2007 7:40:28 PM
This guy was brought up on child pornography charges, yet, enough people bought his album to make it number 1. Boggles the mind.
6/8/2007 7:40:02 PM
Apple is poised to deliver its third Mac revision in less than a month next week when the company takes the wraps off its new iMac line. Sources with reliable track records report the new iMac, wrapped in a brushed aluminum enclosure, is currently tracking for release at or around Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11.
6/8/2007 7:20:10 PM
So you were looking forward to an Xbox Live style headset with your shiny new Wii? Well fear not! We've uncovered that the Speech recognition chip, discovered last week, just isn't there for show, as a customer services representative lets on more than he should have!
6/8/2007 7:10:02 PM
Playstation Portable will have a much slimmer design, new LED screen that will deliver an ultra-crisp image, battery life which can last as much as four times longer than the original PSP, much faster load times, 8GBs of internal flash and redesigned controls.
6/8/2007 7:01:19 PM
Two senators have proposed an amendment that would restrict companies from hiring more foreign workers if they are planning "mass layoffs" that will reduce the US workforce. Such an amendment could affect a number of big tech companies that are still pushing for an increased H-1B cap.
6/8/2007 6:41:33 PM
Maybe he was the Lizard King.
6/8/2007 5:50:04 PM
While robots certainly come in many shapes and sizes, they tend to be, by and large, masculine. Seeing the lack of representation of the fairer sex, Tomotaka Takahashi took on the task of creating a robot that didn't just look female, but moved in a feminine way as well. Thus the FT (female type) robot was born.
6/8/2007 5:30:09 PM
When the qualifying round had ended and all the legalities had been sorted out, ten competitors were flown to New York City to play for the Pac-Man World Championship title and, with only a few practice hours beforehand, forced to compete within the new and unfamiliar settings of Pac-Man Championship Edition. Meet seven of them.
6/8/2007 4:30:04 PM
If you've ever tried copying and pasting a multi-line address into Google Maps just to realize that an input box will only take one line at a timeâ€"meaning that you have to copy and paste each line individuallyâ€"there's a simple Firefox tweak that will solve this problem
6/8/2007 4:10:12 PM
"The Nintendo Wii really is a versatile piece of hardware. I mean, when it comes to controllers, there are pretty much four different types."This, is, exciting.
6/8/2007 4:10:01 PM
When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple's programmers conference, he's likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine's interface in 30 years.
6/8/2007 3:50:11 PM
At the Republican debate last night, almost all the candidates said that they would not rule out a nuclear attack on Iran Only Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said he opposed a nuclear strike on moral grounds and because he believed Iran "has done no harm to us directly and is no threat to our national security."
6/8/2007 3:28:12 PM
A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality. US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires.
6/8/2007 3:22:30 PM
The return of wildlife to the region near the world's worst nuclear power accident is an apparent paradox that biologists are trying to measure and understand. Wildlife has returned despite radiation levels in much of the evacuated zone that remain 10 to 100 times higher than background levels, according to a 2005 U.N. report _ though they have

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