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Top news on 27 August 2009 |
Placed my order at Wendy's -- and got a new iPhone
Is it realistic to expect tech companies to offer a level of service similar to Nordstrom, or Ritz-Carlton? Well, why not? Apple comes the closest to delivering such service, although that service is inconsistent. Yet for tech consumers, the Genius Bar is one of the few places that offers reliable customer service.
America's 25 Douchiest Colleges
The question isn't whether you're a douche bag when you go to college. We were all kind of douche bags when we went to college, if we're going to be honest about it. No, the question for America's youth is: What kind of douche bag do you aspire to be?
The smell of Trekkies: Star Trek's own colognes
Humans and aliens alike swooned over Captain James T. Kirk, so it was only a matter of time before someone claimed to have bottled his charms.
Stumbling Towards Greatness: A Batman Retrospective
Batman has had a long and (mostly) horrendous career as a video game crime fighter. While his big screen adventures have evolved into masterpieces, most of Batman's video game outings have made players want to poke out their eyes with a Batarang. To celebrate the arrival of Batman's latest and (we assure you) greatest adventure.
Prep Your Mac for Snow Leopard
An operating system update like this Friday&'s release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a perfect time to clean up your computer and start fresh. Let's prepare your Mac for this weekend's 10.6 upgrade.
Welcome to the ha-ha-hacienda: Batman Arkham Asylum Review
If we went back in time two years and tried to convince ourselves that in 2009 Palm would release a damn fine phone, people would be excited about a new Windows release, and Batman would star in a game-of-the-year contender, what do you think we would say to ourselves? We live in interesting times.
Timeline: Edward M. Kennedy: A Life Of Service
Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, well known as part of his family's political dynasty, spent more than four decades in the Senate, where he championed health care, education and labor. Here, a look back at his life.
Crazy Condom Creativity
It's probably safe to say that the overall condom experience would never be complete if it didn't include all the exciting erection-protection innovations
Home Prices Up During 2nd Quarter
After three years of declines, U.S. home prices showed tentative signs of an upturn in the second quarter of the year, according to an authoritative report released Tuesday.
The 10 Most Shocking Olympic Gender Scandals
Gender scandals happen way more often than you'd think. Like that one time the fastest ?woman? in the world was killed in a bank robbery and found to have a penis.
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi 'may live for many more months'
The Lockerbie bomber could live far longer than predicted by Scottish ministers when they decided to release him, a cancer expert has said.
Watermelon Juice: The New Fuel?
According to a new study, leftover watermelons from farms' harvests could be converted into up to 9.4 million liters (2.5 million gallons) of clean, renewable ethanol fuel every year destined for your car, truck, or airplane's gas tank.
Utilities may get dedicated chunk of spectrum for smart grid
As part of its broadband hearings, the FCC looked at whether it should follow Canada's lead and allocate a chunk of spectrum to give utilities wireless broadband for smart grid devices. The FCC joined the alphabet soup of federal agencies that's contemplating what its role might be in bringing our electric grid a bit of intelligence.
Rats' mental 'instant replay' drives next moves
Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that rats use a mental instant replay of their actions to help them decide what to do next, shedding new light on how animals and humans learn and remember.
7 People Who Will Definitely Be In Your English 101 Class
English 101 is like the Ellis Island of college. It doesn't matter what your major is, you have to take English 101. Because of this mandate, your English 101 classmates are the most eccentric and varied bunch that you'll ever encounter on a college campus.
18 Cool Things Windows 7 Does That Vista Doesn't
In fact, there aren't many changes to the overall look of Windows 7 when compared to Windows Vista. Instead, Microsoft seems to have paid attention to the feedback it received and created an OS that is not only stable, but also very capable.So what is new in Windows 7? Here are 18 cool things Windows 7 does that Vista doesn't.
Seven Things You May Not Know About Halo 3: ODST
These days, we face a wall of information?sometimes we miss or forget the little things. So we?ve scoured videos, the Bungie community and more to bring you ? in true Bungie fashion ? seven little titbits of info on Halo 3: ODST that your average Halo fan may not know. (Very minor spoilers included)
Lies of Mass Destruction
The same skewed thinking that supports a Saddam-9/11 link explains the power of health-care myths.
Texting and driving - is it an overly explicit PSA?
A 'texting while driving' public service announcement (PSA) for television in the UK, is creating controversy for its graphic nature, breaking new boundaries in the explicit level of its bloody details.
Top 10 iPhone Annoyances (and How to Fix Them)
Even the greatest gadgets have flaws, and the iPhone is certainly no exception. Here are the top 10 iPhone annoyances and what you can do about them. Praise it all you want, but the "Jesus phone" has plenty of little annoyances or nuisances.
Welcome to Your Crammed, Pricier College
"I'm pissed because they cut, like, a ton of classes, and we're paying more money - it's stressful."
Science fiction breaks free from fantasy
A lot of the predictions made by science fiction writers have been replaced by the march of science
Return of the thugs: Hundreds Football Fans Riot [PICS]
West Ham and Millwall fans rioted on a night of shame in the Carling Cup which will force an urgent FA investigation. One man was stabbed and hundreds fought a pitched battle outside Upton Park in the worst scenes to blight the English game for years.
I Cheated This Is My Punishment [vid]
The cheater got to wear a sign. On Route 7. During rush hour.
Toyota to cut capacity by 10%
Think Detroit has problems making money? It's no easier for Toyota Motor. The Japanese auto giant will cut its global production capacity by 10%, or 1 million vehicles. The production cut will come as early as this fiscal year to raise utilization at underused plants.
Republican Admits He's Simply Blocking Health Care Reform
Mike Enzi, one of three Republicans ostensibly negotiating health care reform as part of the Senate's Gang of Six, told a Wyoming town hall crowd that he had no plans to compromise with Democrats and was merely trying to extract concessions.
5 Metamaterials That Make Matter Invisible, Silent or Fast
Metamaterials are tiny engineered structures from existing composites that are used to manipulate light, sound and radiowaves. Researchers are just starting to come out with products that can cloak, silence and play with light. Here are 5 examples of metamaterials in action.
Farmers Use Beer Bacteria to Convert Onion Juice Into Energy
Steve Gill recently began using juice from his pungent onion crop mixed with beer bacteria from Anheuser-Busch to produce methane gas and create energy to run his refrigerators and lighting.
Monkeys Born From Eggs With DNA Transplant
An experimental procedure that someday may enable women to avoid passing certain genetic diseases on to their children has gained an early success, with the birth of four healthy monkeys, scientists report.
10 Common Mistakes Made by New Linux Administrators
As Linux squeezes itself into all facets of technology, more people are being forced to use it who have little knowledge of the foreign Unix land. Maybe you're trying to learn your way around, or maybe you're the Windows guy who just got 'promoted' to maintaining the Linux system; either way, things are odd, and you just really, really don't
We Learn More From Success, Not Failure
There is a biological reason why we learn more from our triumphs than from our failures, according to new research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scientists there have shown that the brain responds to success at the level of individual brain cells, but the neurons show virtually no response to failures.
Top Ten Geekiest Constructed Languages for Movies & Books
J. R. R. Tolkien flipped readers? wigs with his penchant for inventing new languages, but since then it has become almost de rigueur for fiction writers and moviemakers to include a constructed language (conlang) when crafting a new universe. Here are some of the best:
Why It Took 15 Years To Love The Flaming Lips
Finding great music (not good but great music) does not happen very often for most of us and when you realize it was right under your nose for so many years, you can?t help but laugh.
Adobe abandons CS3 legacy support for Apple's Snow Leopard
Adobe announced this week that it has not tested and will not support its Creative Suite 3 line of products, including Photoshop CS3, on Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system.
Hack Your Palm Pre
If you're looking to get the most out of your Palm Pre, and don't mind getting your hands a little dirty in the process, here are seven things you can do with your Palm Pre, which can completely redefine how you can use it.
Top 10 Respectable Horror Sequels
With Halloween II hitting theaters, here is a run down of some of the better fright-flick follow-ups.
Prehistoric Animals Swung Tails Like Baseball Bats
Enormous prehistoric armored mammals called glyptodonts swung their spiked tails like athletes swing tennis rackets and baseball bats according to a new study.
FCC Chairman Talks Tough On Network Neutrality
The FCC's Chair says he's got the public's back when it comes to protecting the 'Net. But it's unclear what he thinks of new net neutrality legislation in Congress and Comcast's lawsuit against its spanking for P2P throttling.
Argentina rules on marijuana use
Argentina's supreme court rules that it is unconstitutional for the government to punish people for the personal use of marijuana.
10 Commercials Before they Were Stars
Before fame, many actors find work filming commercials. Unfortunately, we found a few of the funniest ones and put them together.
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