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The 10-time All-Star takes over. Too bad they didn't make him the Outfield coach to teach Mets players how to do his famous snap-catch.

Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona’s testimony has once again highlighted the extent to which the Bush administration suppresses and manipulates science to fit their narrow ideological view.

SFW, even cute..

The chief executive of Whole Foods Market posted messages on a Yahoo chat forum under an alias for years, talking up his own company while predicting a bleak future for Wild Oats Markets, the rival it has since sought to acquire. Company CEO John Mackey posted messages on a Yahoo financial forum under the user name "rahodeb."

The partnership allows people using the imeem community site to create and share play lists, video channels, photo slideshows, and blogs.

University of Colorado police are investigating a series of threatening messages and documents e-mailed to and slipped under the door of evolutionary biology labs on the Boulder campus.

All the development going on with the free Nouveau has paid off. Today the free driver has outperformed the existing nv driver by 64%. The GtkPerf benchmark was used.

Sony has played some very strong cards from their hand this week, announcing new titles yesterday and and a price cut for their flagship console on Monday, but as Sony shaves off $100 from the PlayStation 3's price, Microsoft shrugs its shoulders and calmly goes about their business... or so they say.

Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on Wednesday night, Ms. Williams told a crowd of about 1,000 that the Bush administration has been treacherous and wrong and acted unconstitutionally.

Carey has a hot new Ted Stevens bon mot, gleaned from his liveblogging of the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing On Number Portability, almost in the same echelon as his "series of tubes" comment:

Competition is fierce, and eateries work every angle to capture your dining dollars. Here are some angles for you to work.

This ancient and intriguing book is known as the Voynich Manuscript. The textual content of this mysterious illustrated book is unknown because it is written in an unknown alphabet and unintelligible language, and despite the efforts of expert cryptographers over many decades, not a single word has been deciphered

Title says it all.

In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network.

"Yeah. I mean, you left out a bunch of things â€" spying on citizens without a warrant, going around FISA, on and on. Look, I have always said it should be on the table."

Via Citizens for Legitimate Government: The phone number for GOP political operative/conservative pundit, John (Jack) M. Burkman Jr. - Principal J.M. Burkman & Associates, Arlington, VA - appears in the database of phone records of the ‘DC Madam.’

MIT researchers are designing a "Digital Water Pavillion" for next year's Expo Zaragoza in Spain. The walls of the structure are sheets of water sprayed from suspended pipes. Software-controlled valves enable the valves to be opened and closed with high accuracy to create gaps at very specific locations, forming something like liquid pixels.

Mea culpa. Dell confesses it made a mistake with its pricing and is now offering the Inspiron 1420 laptop with Ubuntu and a full 2 gigabytes of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive for $50 less than the same system with Windows Vista and not $225 more as had been the case last week.

The team presented a proof-of-concept program for Unix-based systemsâ€"although it could theoretically be adopted for any modern multitasking operating systemâ€"that allows a specified task to "cheat" and take more CPU cycles than the OS would normally allow it to have.

Why Apple should include many of the non-phone features in the next gen iPod.

Francisco Rodriguez owes more than $10,000 in back child support payments in a paternity case involving a 15-year-old girl who, according to DNA results and the girl's mother, is not his daughter. Huh??

Sony says its PlayStation 3 is still a contender as Nintendo gleefully vowed on Wednesday to turn everyone into a "gamer" and proclaimed this year a turning point in the industry. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime (R) competes against legendary Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto in one of the many activities in Wii Fit,

Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, has been producing beat-heavy electronic music for more than a decade. From his early solo trip-hop efforts to his more recent collaborations with jazz giants, Spooky has always approached music from multiple angles at once. He has the chops of a musician, the genre-blending..........

I think the world now makes a little more sense.Over in the UK, McDonald's announced today that it will start using its own waste cooking oil to make biodiesel, which will be then used in its entire truck fleet of 155 vehicles.

The House of Representatives voted 223-201 Thursday to require most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by April 1, 2008.

Air pollution is on the minds of many athletes this summer, especially those who exercise outdoors.

Two new videos of Heavenly Sword directly from E3

FBI personnel who used misleading emergency letters to acquire thousands of Americans' phone records are the...

Scientists want you to help them sort through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.

We started off with a $500/$600 PS3 sku combo. On Monday, Sony announced a drop in price and now we have a $500/$600 sku combo and people are going nuts. Did Sony pull a fast one on us?

Miyamoto talks retirement with Kotaku.

A sports car enthusiast who suffered a mini stroke while restoring a Lotus Espirit was amazed when online friends finished the work for him in secret.

Bush finally admitted that Administration leaked....says "It's been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House, and it's -- it's run its course, and now we're going to move on. No one in press asks about Bush's promise to fire anyone who leaked

A 75 year old woman from central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection. Sigbritt Löthberg's blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection means she can enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously or download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.

The new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has taken a record-breaking $12m (£6m) at midnight screenings in the US. The figure is the most made at the box office for a Wednesday opening midnight run, according to Daily Variety.

Today in his press conference, a reporter asked President Bush why he is “so resistant” to a “change of course in Iraq,” even though that’s what the American public is “clamoring for.” Bush dismissed the reporter’s question, saying the public's criticisms are merely “war fatigue.” "It’s affecting our psychology," he said.

Food is so connected to who we are and how we operate in this world. Think about the different patterns of food that cross cultures and social divides.

Michael Moore caught Sanjay Gupta in a lie on his report about Sicko.Details here.

About a month ago, Dennis Milligan, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, sounded pretty excited about the prospect of domestic terrorism. Yesterday, Rick Santorum echoed a similar sentiment, implying that terror attacks will occur inside America which will alter the body politic and lead to a reversal of the anti-war sentiment.