August 2009
Best Friend, Worst Co-Op Partner →
It’s friendly fire for the altruistic.
Bikini completely melts away after a few seconds... →
Named the “Get Naked Bikini”, it’s being marketed as the ultimate form of revenge for recently dumped dudes. The bikini has upset women’s rights groups, with one campaigner, Rosmarie Zapfl, saying,…
High School Student Suing Amazon After They... →
Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski’s electronic notes…
Eminem destroys Mariah Carey in new song 'The... →
Eminem has released a new song tearing apart Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon after their latest song against him. ‘Bitch, shut the fuck up before I put all them phone calls out you made to my house when…
July 2009
Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster... →
Read this if you want to learn how to read quicker.
Unexpected Divorce Entrance [VIDEO] →
Someday, when I fall out of love, I hope my divorce is this much fun.
Historic Amish Town Has More Spycams Than Major... →
Laid out in 1730, the whole town is 4 square miles around a central square. Amish families still sell quilts in the nation’s oldest public market, and the Wal-Mart provides a hitching post to park a…
Health Care Spending in Developed Countries... →
America’s ongoing debate over the merits of implementing public health care inspired us to take a look at how the US currently compares to health systems around the world.
Fmr Treasury Sec. Hank Paulson Joins Electric Car... →
Today, Coda said it has raised $24 million in its second round of financing. Not only that, it has added President George W. Bush’s former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. (Hank) Paulson, Jr. to its…
Researchers exploit SSL and domain flaws →
Two researchers have independently uncovered flaws in the way domain names are verified on the internet, which could allow attackers to impersonate a site and steal information from unsuspecting…
U.S. Cyber Challenge Recruits Hackers and Geeks... →
Sometimes it’s nice to see the government admitting weakness — and even better when it does something about it. Following President Obama’s announcement in May that the U.S. was “not as prepared” as…
Obama renews ban on blood rubies →
President Barack Obama has renewed sanctions aimed at the military junta that rules Myanmar, continuing the ongoing ban on the importation of jade and rubies into the United States.
How big is the internet? →
Epic scale … feel like you’ve got information overload? There are now so many website addresses that it would take one person 31,000 years without any sleep to visit all of them.
DixonBaxi Creative Agency – Strategy, Identity,... →
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JAM3MEDIA Toronto Flash web design and development →
Inside The Plane That May Take Us To Space →
WhiteKnightTwo is the plane that Richard Branson hopes will usher in space tourism and allow the rest of us to fly beyond earthâ��s atmosphere. A lot is riding on the planeâ��s twin fuselages, which…
Text-Message Exploit Can Hijack Every iPhone →
Security researchers plan to reveal a security hole that would enable hackers to take complete control of an iPhone with a text-messaging attack.
AutoWeek: Ferrari 458 Italia →
Ferrari has drawn from the visual spirit of the Enzo to create a power-packed replacement for the F430 that shuns the rounded curves of its past V8s in favor of chiseled, unmistakable aggression. It…
Beluga whale carries struggling diver to surface →
A DROWNING diver has a beluga whale to thank for helping to save her life after her legs were paralysed by cramps.
NexGen AI - A Threat to Human Civilization? →
What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being? AI is becoming the stuff of future scifi greats: A robot that can open doors and find electrical…
Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months →
Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months.
Marijuana’s Impact On Brain Function Minimal, New... →
The consumption of cannabis, even long-term, has a “minimal” impact on brain function, according to a systematic literature review just published online by the journal Psychological Medicine.
William Shatner Performs Palin’s Farewell Speech... →
See, now this is mockery.
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Yahoo committed seppuku today →
Yahoo committed seppuku today.
The once proud warrior of the internet space laid down its sword, knelt at the feet of Microsoft and gutted itself today. There was no honor in this death,…
Justin Williams: ‘Where Do I Sign Up?’ →
iPhone developer Justin Williams: With the latest app rejection being Google Voice, I am one step closer to selling off my iPhone products and focusing entirely on the Mac once more. I can’t help…
Cheating on the Rorschach test →
After someone posted all ten of the Rorschach inkblots to Wikipedia along with the most common responses to them, some psychologists cried foul, saying that the responses could be used by…
No faith in science →
The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of undiagnosed diabetes as the family prayed for her to get better testified Tuesday that she believes sickness is caused by sin and can be cured by God.
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Panasonic rolls out space-age capsule hotel →
Despite the cultural differences it’s still a wonder why Japanese capsule hotels haven’t made their way to big U.S. cities like New York and Chicago. Perhaps a new take on the capsule hotel by
Trick out your Xbox 360 with windows and lights →
Tons of people own an Xbox 360. But almost all of them have a boring, stock model. You know, one without a window in the top and sweet LED lights inside that let you see the components as they…
The face of child beauty pageants →
High Glitz is Susan Anderson’s portrait series depicting “the extravagant world of child beauty pageants”. Hours of preparation are spent on each child’s appearance, and her camera…
Unhappy Mac →
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The Times really really really regrets the error →
A piece on Walter Cronkite by Alessandra Stanley was corrected to within an inch of its life. An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies,…
Noted Security Pros Hacked →
The two pros, security researcher Dan Kaminsky and former hacker Kevin Mitnick, were targeted because of their high profiles and because the hackers considered the two notables posers who hype…
DELTA LAB RECORDING STUDIO - Worlds First Designer... →
Floating Camping →
I don’t know about you but this Floating Camping Island looks very relaxing to me.
Cocksure →
Malcolm Gladwell on the psychology of overconfidence.
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Unofficial Rules of the App Store →
New weblog devoted to “unpublished rules and clarifications from Apple’s App Review team that can cause your iPhone app to be rejected.” (Via Marco Arment.)
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Mind Share vs. Market Share →
Steven Hodson, regarding the iPhone/Google Voice affair: It is amazing that Apple continues to do business in this heavy handed way and still get away with it. If Microsoft ever did anything like…
A Man’s Home Is His Constitutional Castle →
Christopher Hitchens on Henry Louis Gates’s arrest: It is the U.S. Constitution, and not some competitive agglomeration of communities or constituencies, that makes a citizen the sovereign of his…
★ Apple Rejects Google Voice Apps From App Store →
So, surprise surprise, Apple has rejected Google’s official Google Voice app, and has removed from the App Store several Google Voice-related apps that had previously been accepted. Jason…
Jason Koxvold →
Stunning photography from Jason Koxvold.
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Apple Docking Patent Portends Dual OS Tablet →
via gizmodo.com
Playing the Apple guessing game is fun. It’s focused on rumors, more rumors, some facts and more rumors. The latest is that a “big” iPod Touch that runs the iPhone OS
Inca's Built Largest Empire Ever Due To Global... →
A 400-year warm spell helped the ancient Inca to build the largest empire ever to exist in the Americas, a new study has established. Beginning around 1100 A.D., the increase in temperature served as…
Massive Open Pit Iron Mine in Middle of Amazon... →
Great satellite image, enlargeable, from NASA. Contrast between deforested mine area & surrounding rain forest is clear. Mine is located in the Carajas mountain range in northeast Brazil, & contains…
Polyamory: The Next Sexual Revolution? →
Meet a group of Seattle dwellers who believe in ”ethical nonmonogamy,” or engaging in loving, intimate relationships with more than one person - based upon the knowledge and consent of everyone…
Six Sigma, Changing organizations for the better →
The Six Sigma philosophy, which has been implemented by such companies as GE and American Express, starts with a very simple and obvious idea: defects cost money. Learn more about the philosophy in…
“I can’t breathe. I’ve been stabbed. Please help... →
Amy Leigh Barnes, 19, dialled 999 as she lay wounded with multiple stab wounds inflicted with a kitchen knife by Ricardo Morrison, who had also slashed her across the face. The aspiring actress,…
Kid Owned By Mentos And Diet Coke →
Most parents, whether we listened to them or not, taught us not to play with fire, explosives, zombies and such… But they never warned us about mentos and coke.
How to own the “guess the number of M&Ms in... →
How to own the “guess the number of M&Ms in the jar” contest.
A great walk-through from physics lecturer Adam Micolich.
If memory serves, a friend of mine (who was majoring in chemical…