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Top news on 20 September 2009 |
Eight Piratical Apps For Your ayePhone
What better way to help celebrate International Talk Like A Pirate Day than to waste some of the day messing around with your favorite gadget? The iTunes App Store has a bountiful supply of Pirate themed apps and here?s a small selection of our favorites to whet your appetite and get you ready for the big day.
PARK(ing) Day 09 Transforms Parking Spaces Into Public Parks
The day to roll out some sod, fire up the barbecue, and set out in the street like it?s your front porch. If you didn?t hear about it from us, from the event site, or from last year?s awesome photos, then you must not have gotten the telegram, ?cause this is the best reason to cruise around the city on bikes since you were 10 years old.
U. of C. Researcher Dies After Exposure to Plague Bacteria
A University of Chicago molecular genetics professor studying the origins of harmful bacteria died last weekend after contracting an infection linked to the plague, officials said today.
Will Amazon Become the Wal-Mart of the Web?
But his cries might double as a warning to the retail world: Amazon, the Web?s largest retailer, wants you to step aside.
Secrets Of Insect Flight Revealed
Researchers are one step closer to creating a micro-aircraft that flies with the maneuverability and energy efficiency of an insect after decoding the aerodynamic secrets of insect flight.
The Coming Swine Flu--The Biggest Challenge Is In Our Heads
For the first time in history, the world is fighting a pandemic flu before it becomes a full-fledged catastrophe. But the real battle is the one in our heads...
Weak Signals: Problems Linger With Digital TV Switch
Think the digital TV transition is over? Not quite. Many viewers have found that they can't pick up certain stations after the switch, even with the right TVs or converter boxes. The stations are still trying to figure out ways to help them tune in.
Anti-Piracy Outfit and Lawyers May Operate Illegally
Last month TorrentFreak reported on DigiProtect, the anti-piracy company with the tagline ?Turn Piracy Into Profit?. A manager from DigiProtect revealed some of the inner workings on how the company operates but according to a lawyer who defends alleged file-sharers, he may have revealed just a little too much.
Talk Like a Pirate Day: Five Great Comic Book Pirates!
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a list of my favorite comic book pirates. Counting down from five to one....
Mysterious ruins may help explain Mayan collapse
Hidden in the hilly jungle, the ancient site of Kiuic was one of dozens of ancient Maya centers abandoned in the Puuc region of Mexico's Yucatan about 10 centuries ago. The latest discoveries from the site may capture the moment of departure.
Flying logs crush Swedish man's home - again
Erold Sigurdsson, 65-year-old man from northern Sweden, is once again counting his blessings and picking up the pieces after a truckload of timber slammed into his house on Thursday ? for the third time.
RIAA asks kids to act as unpaid PR staff
The Recording Industry Association of America has updated its Music Rules! school program -- which contains blatant falsehoods about copyright.
New Mosquito-Borne Virus Is Much Worse than West Nile
Chikungunya virus has spread beyond Africa since 2005, causing outbreaks and scores of fatalities in India and the French island of Reunion. It also has been detected in Italy, where it has begun to spread locally, as well as France.
Johnny Depp Quitting Pirates Of The Caribbean 4?
"There's a fissure, a crack in my enthusiasm at the moment," Depp expressed. "It was all born in that office." As far as I can tell Depp isn't know as a "prick" among his peers, but the guy doesn't exactly need Pirates as much as the other way around so what's to stop him from walking out? Have we thus seen the last of Jack Sparrow?
Man sets Guinness rec. pulling huge plane 8.8 metres w/rope
A strongman from Cobourg, Ont., used some heavy duty muscle to set a Guinness record Thursday for the the heaviest aircraft pulled by an individual.
50 of the best foods in the world and where to eat them
From cake, steak and tapas, to oysters, chicken and burgers, Killian Fox roamed the world to find the 50 best things to eat and the best places to eat them in, with a little help from professionals like Raymond Blanc, Michel Roux, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray
Arrr, Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009 is Here
Every single day millions of ?pirates? all around the world gather on BitTorrent, but one day in September is extra special. Avast mateys, today is Talk Like a Pirate Day so wear your eye patches and Arrr like you?ve never Arrred before.
Scott Weiland Suffers Seizure on Airplane
The Stone Temple Pilots frontman experienced a mild seizure on a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Miami that resulted in the plane having to make an emergency landing at Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
GIMP 2.8 and its (huge) improvements to the User Interface!
Finally confirmed: single window mode is coming for 2.8! But thats not the whole story yet ;) The plan for 2.8 also includes lots of other cool new usability and interaction features!
What Future History Textbooks Will Write About Obama's '09
In the future, when my bastard children are reading about what life was like in their alleged father's time, what are they going to see?
Scandinavia Fights Female Genital Mutilation
When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother?s native Somalia. The mother wanted to ?make her daughter clean? and paid a man to cut off her daughter?s clitoris and labia while two women held her down. No anesthesia was used.
Woman dies at 99, leaves behind 1,400 descendents
The commandment to "be fruitful and multiply" the Krishevsky family follows quite closely. Last Saturday, the great grandmother, Rachel Krishevsky passed away at the age of 99, leaving behind no less than 1,400 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren.
Never Mind Leno. Oprah Beats Them All...
Thanks to the debut of his (critically panned) prime-time talk show this week, Jay Leno has been dominating all sorts of mind share, from mainstream media to social media. As you'd expect, he spiked big as a Twitter topic: On Tuesday, there were 56,549 tweets that referenced him.
Bizarre "Crate Man" Statues Spotted All Over Melbourne
Melbourne has been known for their diverse street art and Crate Man is nothing short of that! The Crate Man is made up of brightly colored milk crates and can be seen doing many activities such as climbing a fence, sitting on roofs, and even going fishing in a creek.
Squirrel seen savaging fruit bat
"The bat was injured and damaged in very specific places. This is pure speculation, but it's almost as if the squirrel was seeking to maim the bat in some way. Maim it or kill it such that it couldn't fly." ..Why the squirrel would want to kill the bat is a mystery
FCC Chairman To Smack Down ISPs That Throttle Data - HotHard
The new FCC chairman has clearly had enough of these games. In just a few hours, he'll spark up a speech at The Brookings Institute, where he will "propose a new so-called net neutrality rule Monday that could prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications."
Idol didn't make a cent on 300,000 CDs
Australian Idol survivor Damien Leith sold more than $5 million worth of records when he won the 2006 crown but had to sell his car to pay the rent.
Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won't Win This Fight.
Well, something clearly broke down behind the scenes in the ongoing Apple/Google negotiations over Google Voice on the iPhone, because Google released one ...
Monkey pushes woman who wouldn't share off cliff
A MONKEY has pushed a woman off a cliff. The woman, 60-year-old Zhou Juchang, made the claim after winding up at the bottom of a seven-metre rockface, fracturing her hip and breaking three ribs.
SF Program Offers to Train Deaf Woman's Dog Over the Phone
While dog-training over the phone is a novel concept, the kicker here is that Patricia Frieze is deaf -- and the animal in question, Cragmont, is her hearing assistance dog.
5 Popular Facebook Scams (and How to Avoid Them)
Just as bearded hipsters migrate from bar to bar in pursuit of young ladies to ogle, so too have scammers and hackers followed their prey from MySpace to Facebook. As a result, the social network once deemed the "safe" option is now plagued by legions of 419 scammers, phishers, and peddlers of malware. Fortunately, there are a few simple...
7 Reasons Why the Motorola Dext Will Save the Brand
After what seems like eons in the wilderness, Motorola is back with a new phone, the Dext. It's the brand's first effort at a phone on the Android platform, and it has high hopes that this will be the one to bring it back into the light.
Hidden atmospheric & oceanic waves pack a big punch
MIT sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky.
New NASA Temperature Maps 'Whole New Way Of Seeing The Moon"
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, is making the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface while the spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon.
Poverty Forces Kids to Sleep in Odd Places [PICS]
What to some may seem like a disgusting place that one hastens to pass is a suitable sleeping place for others. Drainage pipes, train stations, garbage bins, house entrances and really any little ledge not claimed by anyone else are turned into makeshift beds by millions of homeless children every night.
Ways the web has changed the world
When was the last time you checked Ceefax, received a hand-written letter, or displayed your holiday photos in an album?
Cavs' Delonte West Arrested with Shotgun and Two Handguns
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West was arrested Thursday after officers pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle while carrying two handguns and a shotgun in a guitar case.
Google Aims to Wrest Display Ads From Yahoo
The company has built its fortune almost entirely on the back of small text ads, which appear alongside its search results and on sites across the Web. Now it is stepping up efforts to make inroads into graphical display ads, a business long dominated by Yahoo.
Tea Party Organizer Is Epitome Of Privilege (Video)
This exclusive clip is from the latest episode of "Bill Moyers Journal" which airs tonight. In the episode, Moyers goes after FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey -- one of the key figures using large industry donations to fund "Tea Party" rallies around the country, such as the the 9/12 march in Washington DC last week.
Wife divorces husband for defecating in pots
A woman has demanded a divorce from her husband who repeatedly defecated in the family cooking pots.
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