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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.

Prince is the man.

See the elaborate artwork on 36 NHL Goalie Masks.

Bad ass pics here... I don’t know what those folks at Retro studious did, but strafing, and run ‘n’ gun tactics have never felt so good or so natural before. Without even thinking about it, you become immersed in the game; running, jumping and rolling through levels like you were born to it. Oh, and the camera? Perfect.

Protesters interrupted the first-ever Hindu prayer in the US Senate. Officers removed the three and charged them.

Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos announced that Rock Band has some serious plans for delivering content to players. First off, Harmonix plans to release new music tracks every week. They can be released in singles, multi track bundles, or more deliciously, full albums.

Wow. We never thought about it this way before, but if the web still looked like this, you wouldn't need an iPhone with Safari to surf the web on your phone.

If we can figure out how to read and write data on the atomic scale, you could store the sum total of all the data we recorded in 2003 on a grain of sand.

An in-depth look at the roller coaster marketing of CAPTIVITY. The controversy began in March when some billboards that were not approved by the MPAA showed up in New York & LA. The Billboard [PIC] shows four images of the film's star, the gorgeous, Canadian vixen Elisha Cuthbert in various stages of captivity...

Global warming is killing cold water fish and may cause countries to impose bans on fishing. These warnings have been fired at fishermen for years, but how valid are they?

The page is scaled so that the smallest thing on it, the electron, is one pixel. That makes the proton thousand pixels across, and the distance between them is... yep, fifty million pixels. If your monitor displays 72 pixels to the inch, then that works out to eleven miles - making this possibly the biggest page you've ever seen.

Common but very dangerous hazards of climate change

If you thought that Sony was the only console manufacturer having a really bad day, guess again. After many months of public complaints and outcries, Microsoft has publically admitted that *ALL* (as in every single one ever sold) Xbox360's have a design defect that can lead to their failure.

One of the big problems in recent astronomy is that we’re collecting data faster than we can analyze it. Computers can analyze the data, and in many cases they’re pretty good at it. But sometimes, you just can’t beat a human brain. Enter the Galaxy Zoo, where you can help catalogue hundreds of thousands of galaxy photos

Want to talk about government conspiracies? The Bush administration has repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress key public-health reports because they were contrary to its political agenda, according to former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona. Carmona, who spoke with a Congressional panel on Tuesday, served for one four-year term from 2002 to 2006

Once again, candidate for President Ron Paul shows us how the U.S. government takes advantage of us without our permission.

There are 102 CCTV cameras monitoring crime on the two-mile road. At the time, police disclosed there had been 430 offenses committed over six months on Holloway Road, including 29 serious assaults, 15 robberies and 32 burglaries. "Having so many cameras in one place actually makes police investigations harder..."

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday acknowledged publicly for the first time that someone in his administration likely leaked the name of a CIA operative, although he also said he hopes the controversy over his decision to spare prison for a former White House aide has "run its course."

...Possibly Nationwide Soon

Lenovo's newest high-end laptop, the T61p ThinkPad, runs desktop Linux, but the company isn't overly eager to let the world know about it.

President Bush, defending his troop surge in Iraq, insisted Thursday that the insurgents attacking US troops in Iraq "are the same ones who attacked us on Sept. 11."

Titles including Killzone 2, Ratchet and Clank Future, Heavenlty Sword, Infamous and much more shown during the conference.

"Once, it was the greatest show on TV. Every episode was brimming with imagination, excitement and some of the sharpest one-liners to come out of America for decades. But above all it was smart. Then it all changed. A new guard took over and ripped up the rules." Great read on the destruction of this once-beloved show.

Here's our resident artiste's rendition of the latest Apple-Beatles rumor: this one has a Yellow Submarine-like iPod shipping soon with the entire Beatles catalog loaded on board.

The cuneiform inscription in a tablet dating from 595BC has been deciphered for the first time - revealing a reference to an official at the court of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, that proves the historical existence of a figure mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.

The US could approve cloned animals for use as food in two to three years, according to experts. Following a five year study, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft ruling last year that meat and milk from cloned animals was safe for human consumption.

Undercover investigators, working for a fake firm, obtained a license to buy enough radioactive material to build a "dirty bomb," amid little scrutiny from federal regulators, according to a government report obtained on Wednesday. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the license to the dummy company in just 28 days with only a cursory rev

A federal court closed the door on legal attempts to delay the implementation of the new, heavily-criticized Internet radio royalty scheme. Webcasters' hopes now lie exclusively with Congress.

Coming to America next?

Why isn’t everyone beautiful, smart and healthy? Or, in a less-polite formulation, why haven’t ugly, stupid, unhealthy people been bred out of the population?

A vendor of tiny, Linux-based computer modules will soon begin offering a set of building blocks that can be used by "hobbyists who want to build their own [Linux] phone."

No, certainly not. And I think we need to be aware that it’s enemies. I mean, America doesn’t face just one opponent in this country, but a whole multitude, many of whom are becoming stronger, the longer the U.S. occupation here, or presence here in Iraq continues. So unfortunately, I’m afraid that Sen Lieberman has taken an excursion into fantasy

In this funny skill game you have to help Homer to bounce the police bus with the wrecking ball. Use the arrow keys to control.

In the next few days, a slew of folks will begin the dissection of what went wrong for John McCain. Was it immigration? Was it his fundraising? Was it his energy level? The role Bush played in stopping McCain's rise in 2000 is obvious and has been chronicled with great detail.

Last week, I blogged about how the Electronic Frontier Foundation had prised 1,000+ pages' worth of FBI docs loose with a Freedom of Information Act request. These docs document the FBI's abuse of power after the PATRIOT Act. Now, 1,000+ pages is a LOT of material, and EFF needs your help.

Two people are sitting in a room together: an experimenter and a subject. The experimenter gets up and closes the door, and the room becomes quieter. The subject is likely to believe that the experimenter's purpose in closing the door was to make the room quieter.

The Ubuntu project has announced the availability of daily CD builds for Gobuntu, an Ubuntu derivative that aims to provide no proprietary software or drivers. Canonical has also started releasing the source code of the web-based Launchpad project management system.

Days Before She Died In A Car Crash.