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Dennis Kucinich Demolishes Wingnut Doc on Healthcare
"I'm not surprised that psychiatrist David Gratzer testified this week that the Canadian healthcare system is just awful and how the poor deprived Canadians are simply pouring across the border... Oddly enough, he forgot to mention that the Canadian government was not only sending them across the border, they were picking up the check."
Obama orders probe of alleged mass grave
President Barack Obama has ordered his national security team to investigate reports that U.S. allies were responsible for the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war during the opening days of the war in Afghanistan.
10 great places to study skylines of the world
After nearly 20 years photographing skylines, James Blakeway, author of Skylines of the World, remains fascinated by how a "collection of unique buildings comes together to create a city." He shares his list of favorite viewing spots with Kelly DiNardo for USA TODAY.
Carbon Footprint Added To Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Carbon footprint (1999): the negative impact that something (as a person or business) has on the environment; specifically: the amount of carbon emitted by something during a given period.
Nudity Does Us All Good
Channel 4's Life Class delivers an important lesson on the human form, whatever the moral guardians of daytime TV say, writes Jemima Lewis.
A Knuckleballer?s Winding Path
Tim Wakefield, once a floundering first baseman who batted .189 in the minors, turned an aimless, dancing toss into a signature pitch.
High Stakes: A Call to Legalize Marijuana - CBS
California desperately needs tax revenue, prompting some to see green in making grass legal. A high-stakes political battle is underway. At issue is the narrowly-defined liberty people have there to grow and sell a certain plant . . . and the desire of some folks to have the state government tax it.
George Will: Higher Taxes, Anyone?
Economic policy, which became startling when Washington began buying automobile companies, has become surreal.
PublicBT Tracker Set To Patch BitTorrent?s Achilles
Along with the lingering uncertainty surrounding the future of The Pirate Bay comes an increasingly urgent demand for alternative public BitTorrent trackers. PublicBitTorrent, operated by the people behind some of today?s most prominent torrent sites, is one of these much needed alternatives.
Boston's Josh Beckett Blanks Royals for 100th Career Win
Josh Beckett's 100th career victory may have been his best. The Red Sox ace capped a brilliant first half of the season with a three-hitter, joining teammate Tim Wakefield as the only 11-game winners in the AL as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 6-0 Sunday.
Taekwondo Athlete Opens Brothel To Fund Olympic Campaign
A New Zealand taekwondo athlete has opened a brothel to help fund his bid to compete at the 2012 London Olympics.
Mars Rover Devouring Budgets
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA's souped-up 1-tonne rover due for launch in 2011, needs yet more money. The latest budget overrun could for the first time delay other missions in the agency's cash-strapped planetary-science division.
Leopard takes a dip in spa hot tub
This wild leopard was caught on camera taking a break from her cubs with a relaxing dip in an outdoor spa hot tub.
LA 'ripped off' over Jackson gig
Los Angeles city officials call for a review on who should foot the $1.4 million bill for the Michael Jackson memorial gig. Councilman Dennis Zine claims taxpayers, who have been asked to make donations, "are getting ripped off".
Mario Marathon Fundraiser Blows Past 2008 Totals - Charity -
Game marathons became something of a fad last year, but the original is still the best. Year two of the Super Mario Marathon, which raised more than $10,000 in 2008, is already past $16,000.
China overtakes US to become world's largest auto market
China has for the first time overtaken the United States as the world's largest auto market with sales of locally-made vehicles surging 17.7 per cent to 6.1 million units in the first six months this year.
Gwar's Oderus Urungus Gets 'Cool Gig' on FOX News
Fox News' 'Red Eye' recently gained a new correspondent on their show. An Interplanetary Correspondent, no less, in the guise of Oderus Urungus, frontman for shlock metalheads Gwar.
Screen Capture Tools and Techniques
Screen capturing tools do what the basic tool don?t. Make your screen capture and sharing experience more interesting, here?s a showcase of 40+ Free Screen Capturing Tools and Related Techniques.
UFO over the Rocky Mountains
Young boys used to find summertime trouble outside; now they go to YouTube.
Mobile Mapping Services Hit Big Time
Gartner Inc. predicts that the number of subscribers using location-based services (LBS) globally will double this year, even as mobile device sales decline by 4%.
Scrub tech causes major hepatitis scare in Colo. | Comcast.n
Kimberly Spencer's 9-year-old son went to Audubon Ambulatory Surgery Center last month for what was supposed to be a routine surgery. The rambunctious child stuck a BB in his ear and doctors had to op | Comcast.net.
Pocket God offers example of how to make a hit iPhone game
Bolt Creative is one of the lucky iPhone app developers; it?s a case study on how to create a hit without a lot of resources. The two-man team created Pocket God, a cartoon-style game where you play a god ruling over the pygmy natives on a remote island, and they've been very very successful.
Destructoid - Sony needs to just STFU
Sony needs to shut the ***** up and leave the PS3 alone. Cancer comes from within, not without, and right now, Sony's the biggest tumor the PlayStation brand has ever seen.
Rise of the (ATM) Machines
You know things are bad in South Africa when even the ATM's are defending themselves.
Want your lost wallet returned? Carry a baby picture
Hundreds of wallets were planted on the streets of Edinburgh by psychologists last year. Perhaps surprisingly, nearly half of the 240 wallets were returned. But there was a twist.
Dead Celebrities Crazy People Say Are Still Alive & Hiding
When Michael Jackson died on June 25, it took about five minutes before some looney Internet junkie started blogging about how he's really not dead, he's just hiding. That's right, he faked his own death But, of course, as anyone (who's completely certifiably insane and has seen Death Becomes Her too many times) can tell you, MJ wasn't the first.
Young GOP Chooses Hate
Audra Shay, the Young Republican leader accused of endorsing racism on Facebook, was elected head of the group for GOP members under 40 this afternoon.
Former CIGNA exec says Michael Moore was right all along
Bill Moyers exposes for the first time the health insurance industry's secret campaign against Michael Moore and his film, "Sicko." It contains a stunning revelation and admission by a top health insurance executive. Video at the link...
Fiber Fabric Could Create Whole-Body Cameras
Flexible translucent fibers woven into a fabric can capture light and turn it into images without a camera lens, researchers announced this week.
Pirate Bay Buyer?s Stock Back to Square One
After Global Gaming Factory (GGF) announced that it intends to buy The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million, shares in the company quickly doubled. The financial faith in the company?s plans for the world?s most prominent tracker were short lived though, as the share price is back to square one two weeks later.
Using electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data
If attackers intent on data theft can tap into an electrical socket near a computer or if they can draw a bead on the machine with a laser, they can steal whatever is being typed into it.
She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It
As the Republicans? lone charismatic performer, Sarah Palin has come to represent a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances.
Science, religious beliefs conflict for 1 in 3 Americans
Americans by-and-large admire scientists -- unless they get crosswise on issues with religious overtones such as evolution, global warming, embryonic stem cell research -- according to a new survey released today from the Pew Forum.
Death of a Paper: NYTimes to Charge for Online Content
He is looking at the so-called "metered model", such as the Financial Times offers, where you have access without charge for a certain number of views. He is also mulling a "membership model", which could include a collection of different privileges and services unavailable to those who do not become paid members.
APOD: 2009 July 12 - A Cosmic Call to Nearby Stars
If Earth received this message from deep space, could we decode it? The people from the Cosmic Call project sent the above image as the first page of a longer message. The message was broadcast toward local stars by radio telescope during the summer of 1999. Another message was sent in 2003. The single-dish 70-meter diameter telescope that send...
Elvis Grbac: Not as sexy as initially indicated
Yet People, being People, simply informed the photographer assigned to the piece that the Sexiest Athlete was the Chiefs? quarterback. Hence, he took pictures of the Chiefs? quarterback. Well, one of the Chiefs? quarterbacks: Elvis Grbac.
Kids Put Dad In Jail, 20 Yrs. Later Admit They Lied
The two adult children of former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer, who spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of molesting them, testified in court Friday the abuse never happened.
30 Light and Sleek Web Designs for Inspiration
This collection presents exemplary and gorgeous examples of light, bright and sleek web designs for your design inspiration.
Creationists Still Want to Give Master of Science Degrees
What has become of the Institute for Creation Research's federal lawsuit filed in April against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in which the Dallas-based organization claimed the THECB violated its constitutional rights when it refused to grant the ICR's request to dole out master's degrees in science?
To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes
If running shoes were a drug, it would be yanked off the market. A small but growing body of research suggests that barefoot is the way adults should run.
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