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Was I only dreaming or did we use to have something called "Due Process of Law?"

Britain became separated from mainland Europe after a catastrophic flood some time before 200,000 years ago, a sonar study of the English Channel confirms.

Do you currently work with a real-life David Brent? Follow this list to see if you do.

Read the horror stories of people that have installed Automatix thinking that it would save time, only finding out that it would break their entire systems. Check out the alternatives to really pimp out your Ubuntu System.

Why hard-core gamers have to care about casual-gaming audiences and what the impact is for us hard-core gaming fanatics!

The unique combination of the open source model with the universalism of web design remains one of the ideal applications of the open access philosophy. Here are 100 resources--including open source design software packages, CSS tools and generators, templates, and code sources--that can save you time and money while designing web sites.

Apparently the online co-op play may not be 4 player as rumored and may not exist at all. Although there is still hope that it will be patched in later.

Ferrari surprised us all today by revealing the newest F430 model, which we though would be called the Challenge Stradale like past models, but instead is being called the Scuderia. It's an F430 meant primarily for the track, as it's lighter and more powerful than a normal F430.

"Here's a gallery of a 59-feet-tall 1:1 Gundam robot, lying down in its base at Mount Fuji. I know the world is entranced by Transformers right now, but please excuse my enthusiasm when I say... "it's full-scale Gundam! A REAL GUNDAM! Look at those pics! LOOK AT THAT DETAIL! OMFG!"

IDC released marketshare numbers for the top U.S. and worldwide computer brands.Apple's 2nd Quarter 2007 U.S. marketshare was up to 5.6% of U.S. shipments. This tied Apple in 3rd place with Gateway for U.S. marketshare for this quarter. Dell and HP were well ahead at 28.4% and 23.6% respectiv...

"It took an unlikely straight on the final card of the 205th hand, but Jerry Yang finally eliminated Tuan Lam to win the 2007 World Series of Poker's Main Event, the $8.25 million first prize and his first WSOP bracelet."

A slick web 2.0 SSH client for you iPhone with that nice iPhone look and feel. Give it a try. Works great in a normal web browser too. Contains helpful security tips.

Walmart will start selling a $300 PC with Vista Basic and no Trialware. PC made by Everex with 1.5Ghz Processor, 1GB RAM and 80 GB Hard Drive. The PC will also include free OpenOffice pre-installed. It looks like Walmart finally is getting something right!

A woman who hates spiders is crediting them with helping save her from a house fire.

Since true random numbers are impossible to generate with a finite state machine, scientists are forced to either use specialized expensive hardware number generators, or content themselves with suboptimal solutions. A 'true' random number generator that relies on the unpredictable quantum process of photon emission has gone online.

This is in reaction to horrific vehicular deaths of five teens where driver was texting while driving. Recent poll of people 18-24 years old shows 2 out of 3 admit to sending text messages while they drive.

After an XKCD comic strip joked about getting an on-ride photo of someone playing chess on a roller coaster, many readers have sent in their own photos of various board games on extreme rides.

Find out about the Eclipse Platform, including its origin and architecture. Starting with a brief discussion about the open source nature of Eclipse and its support for multiple programming languages, we demonstrate the Java™ development environment with a simple programming example.

E3 may have ended last week but the my E3 hangover still lingers. There's lots of info to process from the event that's still stuck in my head. Here is something that's easy to process, a talk with Morgan Webb...

You don't have to have seen Sicko to know that if there is one area of human endeavor where private enterprise doesn't work, it's healthcare. Consider the private, profit-making insurance industry, which Bush is so determined to defend. What "innovations" has it produced? The deductible, the co-pay and the pre-existing condition are the only ones

Scripts, books, treatments and other ideas that just never got off the ground. Well, "I Am Legend" finally did, so maybe there's hope for the others.

Think this will get the same traction as the story about someone else's haircut?

Electronics specialty retailer Best Buy, which announced in April that it would be expanding its Mac pilot program to about 200 stores, has begun fitting some of its higher profile locations with radically improved Apple store-within-a-store concepts. These include 'mini theaters' with stereo speakers and embedded Apple cinema displays.

This can't work. Unless a few drops of this extravagantly expensive liquid can form a seal around every piece of crap as it comes out your ass on its way into the toilet water....or can it?

Usually, when someone spouts creationist garbage, it’s because they’ve been mislead. We have a case of this, in spades, in the Evansville (Indiana) Courier Press, where a highly deluded creationist has written an editorial so full of crap I’m tempted to call a septic cleaning crew.

“A small boy got out of the car with his hands shaking and said: “Some people stole my mom’s car, and I drove it away when they weren’t paying attention”.”

The hunk of gray metal fell with a bang into a multifamily home around lunchtime. It was 3 inches by 5 inches with two hexagonal holes. The man who lives in the home was watching television in the next room when he heard the crash and saw a cloud of dust.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A transformer exploded Wednesday afternoon near Manhattan's Grand Central train station, possibly a result of steam underground, New York Police Department told CNN.

Come on guys, you got the putting calories on the menu thing right. Now, let's try draping the calories across the sub in a geometrically satisfying pattern, the one that fulfills the design destiny intended by your sandwich scientists. Spurn not their legacy.

The guy who took pictures of the stolen harry potter book and put them on the net forgot to remove the EXIF data which contains the serial number of his Canon camera which means he can be traced back.

Another day, another subpoena deadline missed. But this time, instead of President Bush's lawyer invoking executive privilege for anyone who has ever set foot in the White House, Cheney seems like he's getting set to invoke it for himself.

While a two-player co-op mode has been confirmed for Halo 3 (player two assumes the role of the Arbiter) it looks like it'll be available in LAN or split-screen only as Bungie struggles to get the mode running over Xbox Live.

What is it that makes celebrity bands so incomprehensibly bad? One popular theory states that there's only so much room for artistic talent in a person, and that these celebs' highly developed primary talents simply leave no room for musical talent.

Hideo Kojima has flown from E3 to Tokyo and the PlayStation Premier event to reveal that Metal Gear online is in the pipeline for PS3.

Guy fixes 360's red ring of dealth without having to open up the 360...

Sure they support the war, but just how many College Republicans are willing to FIGHT the war? The answer might surprise... actually, it won't. Sadly, it's exactly what you would expect.

'And your contribution to society is...what?' asks new Microsoft exec.

"... 200 years ago, Congress used to routinely try people and that the sergeant-at-arms had men and weapons at his disposal to bring people in. The practice lapsed because it became a nuisance and has not been used for 70 years, but it remains available."

Our friend Niek who runs mininova posted a series of hilarious e-mails that he received from Mininova users. A sneak peek into the daily business of a BitTorrent site admin.

A group of Harry Potter fans are collectively typing out “Deathly Hallows”, the final episode in the Harry Potter series, from photographs leaked of each page in the book.