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We #BlameDrewsCancer for This Addictive Tetris-Inspired Game
Now whether or not you?ve tweeted in support of #BlameDrewsCancer, you can take the lazy way out by playing the new Tetris-inspired Twitter game called TweetBricks. Built by Mike Demers of 9Astronaunts, TweetBricks is creative way to waste away the day and still help spread awareness about this amazing cause.
It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
The funny thing about waste is that it's all relative to your sense of scarcity.....
Life, Drugs, and Asphyxiation: 20 Unusual Celebrity Deaths
Everybody dies, but not everybody dies an unnatural death, and very few people are famous. Those criteria combined make for some interesting headlines, and even more interesting history. These 20 celebrities died unusual, even bizarre deaths under equally strange circumstances.
Commodore 64 on Your iPhone: Exclusive Interview w/Manomio
We were devastated to learn that Apple denied permission to the developer who created a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. So in the hopes of getting a second chance from Apple, here is our exclusive interview with Stuart Carnie the CTO of Manomio...
Dad's ashes up for sale on eBay
A Warwickshire man is auctioning his dad's ashes on eBay - in revenge for abandoning him as a child.
Will Extraterrestrial Life be Found in Oceans of Europa?
Jupiter's Europa is one of the most interesting non-Earth locations in the solar system. Never mind ice and occasional puddles; this moon has entire oceans -- and where there's water, we can't help but hope there's life.
Going Down for the Downturn: More Women Turning to Sex
More women are turning to sex work in a bad economy. Does it beat working at McDonald's?
Woman Creates Robotic Horse Legs for Humans
We?ve all heard of clothes horses, dark horses and equines named Charlie, but horse legs for humans to wear has got to be a horse of another color if there ever was one, Read all about Seattle artist, Kim Graham, and her latest, one-of-a kind creation.
iPhone 3GS sales top one million
Apple Inc sold more than 1 million units of its newest iPhone, the 3GS, in the first three days of launch, the company said on Monday. The news sent Apple shares up nearly 1 percent, after the stock had been trading down about 1 percent following a Wall Street Journal report over the weekend that said Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs had undergone
How a T. Rex Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown
Everyone suspected dinosaurs were giant birds; then one researcher produced 68 million-year-old protein to prove it. Critics rejected those findings as statistical junk. How a femur sparked a new field of biology?and a scientific smackdown.
How Internet Gambling is Keeping Wall Street Rich
A generation of down-on-their-luck brokers are trading in stocks for Plan B?online poker....
The Worlds Weirdest Hangover Cures
A hangover is the price you pay in pain and suffering for the fun you had the night before. The Danish call it ?Hammering Carpenters?, the Germans call it ?Wailing Cats? and the French call it ?Wooden Mouth? but it all means the same thing, you feel like something the cat puked up on the carpet after dining on alley scraps all night.
Neda Agha-Soltan was 'Deliberately Targeted By Basij Milita'
This is a BBC-translated full interview with Neda's fiancee, giving further depth to the woman who tragically died in the iconic video that has sparked grief and outrage around the world.
At V.A. Hospital, a Rogue Cancer Unit
For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans? hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off.
Obama Announces Agreement with Drug Companies
President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for overhaul of the health care system.
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Lose License To Chase Pirates
Just days after Norway?s data protection department told ISPs they must delete all personal IP address-related data three weeks after collection, it?s now become safer than ever to be a file-sharer in Norway. The only law firm with a license to track pirates has just seen it expire and it won?t be renewed.
Baby's First Beer [pic]
A role model on Father's Day...
Cat Dropped In Mailbox Adopted By Postal Worker
BOSTON ? A New Hampshire postal worker is getting his own special delivery.George Knapp and his wife, Dani-Jean Stuart, of Weare, N.H., have adopted the two-pound, 8-week-old kitten that was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston.
Top Scientists Voice Support for Climate Legislation
A group of U.S. climate scientists is urging Congress to quickly pass a strengthened version of the House global warming bill, saying the legislation would provide a basis for stronger federal policies.
Pot-Smoking Postman Burned Mail
Authorities in Britain said a marijuana-smoking postal carrier burned thousands of letters that the weed made him too lazy to deliver.
Second T-Mobile-Android Phone, myTouch 3G Coming in August!
T-Mobile is coming back with another attempt at an Android phone in the U.S., which it is calling the myTouch 3G ? and it?s much better.
Yahoo Releases a New Toolbar (P.S. It's Broken)
A few days ago, Yahoo! released a new version of their browser toolbar and this time, they've made it available for Firefox users, too, albeit in a beta format. There's only one problem with the software (besides the fact that toolbars in and of themselves are incredibly passé): it doesn't work on Windows 7.
Black Eyed Peas' Manager Punched Perez Hilton In The Face
Police have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly gave celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a black eye outside a Toronto nightclub. Hilton said he got into an argument with band members Fergie and will.i.am at the nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside by Polo Molina, the band's tour manager.
U.S. Climate Legislation Won't Regulate Cow Burps
Methane from cows and pigs won't be regulated under proposed legislation aimed at limiting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Even though the EPA has said it has no plans to regulate the gas, worries over the idea of a "cow tax" prompted the exclusion of a specific gas from the legislation.
25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods
Why neighborhoods and not cities? Even the cities with the highest crime rates can have relatively safe neighborhoods, and thus it is less useful to generalize about an entire city.
Japan's Satellite Crashes Into the Moon, Sends Back Footage
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Newly Uncovered Enzymes Turn Corn Plant Waste into Biofuel
"Visualize three tons of moldy bread." It's not the most appealing image, but it's a description of the moist mound of growth media at a biofuel facility in Butte, Mont., that could help cut ethanol costs at the pump. The special enzymes allow lower cost ethanol production by replacing some of the high-priced corn with cheaper corn stover "waste".
A new weapon in the war against HIV-AIDS
A discovery by a team of Canadian and American researchers could provide new ways to fight HIV-AIDS. According to a new study published in Nature Medicine, HIV-AIDS could be treated through a combination of targeted chemotherapy and current Highly Active Retroviral (HAART) treatments.
City College Seeks Corporate Sponsors For Courses
Biology 101: Brought to you today by Home Depot!
Western Corporations Helped Censor Iranian Internet
The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.
A Computer Geek?s Smart Productivity Guide [PDF]
With all distractions that modern life brings, it?s not easy to keep your productivity up. Whether you?re an enthusiastic procrastinator, or just happen to have very little time at hand, there are a lot of people who really can?t afford to lose sight of business. A Great Guide for Geeks.
Movie Review - Food, Inc. (2008)
If you?ve read either ?Fast Food Nation? or ?The Omnivore?s Dilemma,? you won?t be surprised by what the movie shows and tells about the killing floors and soybean fields. Chances are that you?ll still be appalled, which is to Mr. Kenner?s credit. Much as Mr. Schlosser does in ?Fast Food Nation,? the movie takes a look at the animal abuse....
Train collision in Washington DC
Two Metro subway trains collided between stations north of downtown Washington, D.C., during afternoon rush hour Monday, killing at least two people, a Metro representative said.
The 11 Worst Mortal Kombat Rip-Offs
From Cardinal Syn to Tattoo Assassins, with a lot of pixellated blood in-between.
Arizona has longest stretch under 100 deg says since 1913
"It's probably the best June since I've been here, and I've been here most of my life," said the National Weather Service's Valerie Meyers, who is in her late 40s. "It's been really nice."
Best Party Trick Ever: Multi-Device Wireless Broadband
It's the length and width of a credit card. It's the thickness of a couple nickels. It'll let you and a few friends get an Internet connection just about anywhere with no wires whatsoever.
Seesmic Desktop: More Facebook Comments, Less Twitter Spam
When Seesmic Desktop first launched we thought it had great potential to be a threat to TweetDeck. Then after adding Facebook integration, we were convinced that it was indeed a fierce rival.
World's First Controllable Molecular Nano-Gear
Scientists from A*STAR?s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), led by Professor Christian Joachim,* have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear of the size of 1.2nm whose rotation can be deliberately controlled.
Brain Sees Tools as Extensions of Body
After using a mechanical grabber that extended their reach, people behaved as though their arm really was longer, they found.
Living Safely with Robots, Beyond Asimov's Laws
In 1981, a 37-year-old factory worker named Kenji Urada entered a restricted safety zone at a Kawasaki manufacturing plant to perform some maintenance on a robot. In his haste, he failed to completely turn it off. The robot?s powerful hydraulic arm pushed the engineer into some nearby machine, making Urada the first recorded victim killed by Robot
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