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Erin Andrews Confirms She Was Taped Naked Without Consent
While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future.
iPhone Games: Idea Attracts Coke, Audi, but not Many Others
While branded utility apps and established video-game brands took off early in the iTunes App Store, branded iPhone games are off to a much slower start.
Warming World May Mean Smaller Animals
Climate change has already had documented effects on species living across the globe, from polar bears in the Arctic to coral reefs in the tropical seas. While some changes are specific to certain types of animals, others seem to be more universal.....
The Charles Atlas Hall of Fame: 10 Memorable Comic Book Ads
Comic Book ads certainly have changed over the years. Here is a look at 10 classic ads that used to run in comics.
10 Worst Evolutionary Designs
#1 Sea mammal blowhole. Any animal that spends appreciable time in the ocean should be able to extract oxygen from water via gills. Enlarging the lungs and moving a nostril to the back of the head is a poor work-around.
The Top 10 Grey Market Cars Worth Bribing Customs For
If you have an ?in? with the U.S. Department of Commerce and unlimited funds, however, there are 10 cars that are totally worth trying to smuggle through customs.
Conspiracy? New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (Haarp) has created a $250 million facility with a 30-acre array of antennas capable of spewing 3.6 megawatts of energy into the mysterious plasma of the ionosphere. This device can not only make the sky glow but it might do much much more.
The 10-year-old who helped Apollo 11, 40 years later
On July 23, 1969, as Apollo 11 hurtled back towards Earth, there was a problem -- a problem only a kid could solve.
Why Japanese Smartphones Haven't Gone Global
Japanese handset makers rush to innovation in the last 15 years has put them so far ahead they cant find a niche to expand outside their networks.
Closet Case: How Intolerance Fuels Africa's AIDS Crisis
Social and even legal suppression of gay sex forces it underground, increasing the HIV risk to those who engage in it - and to their heterosexual partners
"Toughest Sheriff In America" May Be Own His Way To Jail
Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona will get a new judge at a trial where he faces racial profiling charges. Arpaio, a foe in the Latino community of Phoenix and surrounding areas, has been in the national spotlight recently after federal investigators began a probe into wide spread claims of racial profiling...
Big Brother U.K. Contestant Electrocutes Housemates For Fun
Basically, the housemates had to pass a metal ring over a twisting electrified bar, and if the ring touched the bar, other housemates got an electric shock (hence the ridiculous suits, I believe). One of the guys just repeatedly touches the ring to the bar, intentionally shocking his housemates over and over again.
Yakuza Try Internet Dating
Nothing?s beneath the Yakuza, as long as it pays. Couple this fact with a surging marriage boom, and you get? yakuza infiltrating the matchmaking business? Sure enough, the magazine finds.
Taxidermy Gone Wrong
A gallery of the less fortunate stuffed animals of our time.
100 Website Naming Disasters
The biggest ever list of websites with unintentional double meanings - hilarious!
Pirates' Singh Becomes First India-Born Pitcher to Get a Win
Pittsburgh Pirates farmhand and reality show contestant Rinku Singh earned his first win Monday in the second game of a Gulf Coast League doubleheader.
Oakland to Vote Tuesday on Taxing Pot
The measure would make Oakland the first city in the United States to have a business tax category for marijuana merchants.
27 Bluetooth-enabled Multiplayer iPhone Games
The iPhone/iPod 3.0 OS allows third-party applications to utilize the device?s Bluetooth capabilities for two-player games. The first (and only) application I had that supported this in an update was Flight Control, and since then, whenever my wife and I are on a train, we occupy our time playing this.
23 Things Palm Could Improve By Software
I love the Palm Pre. I've had it for just over a month, and it's probably the best phone I've ever owned. But there are some nagging shortcomings and idiosyncrasies I think they could theoretically fix easily, by software.
16 Exciting Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Awesome Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. Some of them, I personally want to master. Check them out.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin call for mission to Mars
Astronauts from the Apollo 11 mission have called on President Barack Obama and America's politicians to provide proper funding for a return to the moon and the human exploration of Mars.
Black Harvard Scholar Arrested For Trying To Enter His Home
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University.
Google promises 'the end of viruses'
Google's Engineering Director has promised that its forthcoming Chrome OS will see 'the end of malware'.
U.S. Military Holds Iraqi Journalist Without Charge : NPR
American forces arrested Iraqi cameraman Ibrahim Jassam last year and continue to hold him, without charge, in a U.S. military prison camp - even as the United States transfers jurisdiction to Iraqi authorities. The U.S. says he is a "high-security threat," but offers no evidence.
Speechless: Dilbert Creator's Struggle to Regain His Voice
Scott Adams, the chief engineer of the Dilbert comic empire was stricken with a perplexing condition 4vyears ago. One day we woke up and he could neither control his voice nor predict exactly when it would work. All he knew was that he'd woken up one morning and found that his voice had turned against him, imposing a set of bizarre restrictions...
The Squandered Stimulus of Obama and Congress
It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating.
Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
An aroma like bread dough permeates Raul Cano's lab. He has just removed the cover from a petri dish. The dish contains a variant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known in culinary circles as baker's or brewer's yeast. But Cano didn't get this from Whole Foods. Back in 1995, he extracted it from a 45 million-year-old fossil...
Pollution: Making Us Stupid. Pollution Linked To Low IQ
Researchers for the first time have linked air pollution exposure before birth with lower IQ scores in childhood, bolstering evidence that smog may harm the developing brain.
Las Vegas Residents Get Paid to Kill Their Lawns
In Las Vegas, the biggest desert city in the U.S., and still one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation, the local water utility is offering cash incentives to replace water-sucking lawns with drought-resistant landscapes.
Same-name couple to wed after Facebook meeting
Kelly Hildebrandt, 20, and Kelly Hildebrandt, 24 met on Facebook, when Kelly (the She) was curious and bored one night, so she plugged her name into Facebook just to see if anyone shared it. Months after Kelly Hildebrandt (the She) sent her first e-mail to Kelly Hildebrandt (the He), he proposed.
The Bionic Eye: Latest In Med-Tech
A tiny glass telescope about the size of a garden pea could hold the answer to patients suffering from an otherwise untreatable type of eye disease. Developed by US health tech firm VisionCare, the Implantable Miniature Telescope could help in the fight against
Any website can determine where you've been on the internet
Did you know that any website you visit can determine your browsing history? A new site, web app, shows how easy it is for strangers to determine your browser history. By constructing a collage of the sites that you've visited, it mixes art and technology to raise privacy awareness.Many of us consider our browser history private, not true anymore.
Fake bus stop keeps Alzheimer's patients from escaping
A nursing home in Germany built an exact replica of a bus stop in front of the facility. The only difference is that buses never stop there.
Creepy Kids From Modern Movies [w/ pics]
Let's take a look at some of the menacing kiddies who have recently been causing their on-screen mothers to wish they'd considered an "alternative option" to parenthood.
Push a corpse down the river with a stick - Adult Swim Game
Remember back when you were kid, and you spend whole summers just finding dead bodies in the woods and pushing them down the river, laughing and high-fiving with your friends? It's time to get you that feeling back.
Interview With Iranian Basij: I Raped Girls Before Execution
In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a "wedding" ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard - essentially raped by her "husband."
How the "Right Stuff" Went Wrong: Wolfe & Hawking on Apollo
The race to the moon was simply a Cold War battle; once Armstrong took that "one small step for a man," and we'd vanquished the Russians, there was little national stomach for making the massive investment necessary to fulfill Werner Von Braun's vision of a mission to Mars, says Tom Wolfe on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Left 4 Dead 2 Exclusive Preview
GameSpy gets first hands-on with the new Swamp Fever campaign.
Why would Microsoft patent a 'butt hinge with butt straps'?
Actually, it's a "butt hinge with integrally formed butt straps." Patent No: 5,819,372. ? There is a reasonable explanation.
All 273 U.S. Whole Foods Stores Earn Organic Certification
Whole Foods became the first national chain to earn ?group certification? status in 2003. In 2008, the USDA decided each store must be inspected. Whole Foods Market said last week each of its 273 U.S. stores passed and earned organic certification.
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