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Top news on 3 October 2009 |
Sodas That Sound Like Pornos
Sodas or Pornos? Possibly both.
Bad Cops, Bad Cops, Whatcha Gonna Do? Police Horror Stories
Many of us enjoy laughing at stupid criminals. And there are those of us who find the humor in shows like Cops. It usually makes my day laughing at how at stupid criminals can be. But sometimes cops themselves can top even the dumbest of criminals.
Newark Mayor goes head to head with Conan O'Brien over joke
Conan O'Brien recently made a crack about the city of Newark, New Jersey, on The Tonight Show. But it seems the city's Mayor, Cory Booker, didn't find it very funny.
Paedophile at nursery 'was not checked by staff'
Two nursery managers suspended for allegedly employing a convicted sex offender without making background checks
21 Secrets to Save on Travel
The travel industry continues to smart from the recession, so deals abound. You just need to know where to look. Search no further than our 21 tips to save on lodging, airfare, vacation packages and cruises: Book a bargain stay.
Bill Gates down $7 billion, still richest American
The 2009 "400 Richest Americans" list has been released by Forbes, and techies continue to do well in the rankings. Bill Gates stayed on top, but the list shows that the global recession robbed loads of cash even from the ultra-rich.
10 worst ways to spend your time in a game
Outside of games there's this thing called work.Work tends to be done in the form of a job and it can often be menial, demanding, dangerous and a hundred other kinds of no fun whatsoever.
Man Arrested at Apple Store After Threats to Shoot iPhone
He told the employee he was, "So mad, I could pop a 9mm at it."
New DollHouse App: Dushku Struts & Dances on Comp Screen
Fox is rolling out a desktop application for"Dollhouse" fans where star Eliza Dushku's character Echo entertains and interacts with the user.
Shell Executives Accuse Oil-Covered Otter Of Playing It Up
He's fine, said Shell president Marvin Odum. Trust me, before all of the cameras and reporters showed up, our little buddy here was having no problem at all cleaning himself off. Now, all of a sudden, it's severe spastic convulsions this and complete kidney failure that.
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Big Business PR Hall of Shame
These pillars of the business world show just how far the Mighty can fall.
NBA Warns Players Not to Criticize Replacement Refs
The NBA today released a statement warning players and coaches that there is to be no excessive criticism of the NBA?s replacement referees as we approach the new season. Due to the NBA referee lockout, the 2009-10 season is scheduled to move forward with replacement referees.
9 Remarkable Underwater Attractions
Sunken treasures, marine animals and man-made structures all make up the mysterious depths of the underwater world. At one time or another, we?ve all wondered what it would be like to experience life below the surface. Check out these nine unique underwater museums, restaurants and hotels.
U.S. September Auto Sales Plunge; GM, Chrysler hit hard
U.S. auto sales tumbled by 23 percent in September as showrooms emptied after the government-funded boom from the ''cash for clunkers'' program, with General Motors Co and Chrysler hardest-hit. Sales for GM and Chrysler -- the two U.S. automakers struggling to regain momentum after emerging from bankruptcy -- dropped by 45 percent and 42 percent.
Is the iPhone hurting AT&T's brand?
The Apple iPhone has boosted AT&T's subscriber numbers, but network problems and a bevy of complaints from frustrated customers are likely hurting the company's reputation.
The Man Who Sued Twitter Is Baseball's October Idiot
But the truly remarkable thing about Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is his rather unspectacular record at winning anything that counts. Eugene McCarthy once said of Walter Mondale that the latter "had the soul of a vice-president." Tony La Russa has the soul of a semifinalist.
Apple flexes iPhone muscle with mobile networks
Apple dictates terms as iPhone price war looms between Vodafone, O2 and Orange.
Would You Pay to Play on Facebook?
Facebook is the new king of social networking. But the site is stuck with an old business model that prevents it from cashing in on the increasing affluence of its users and the monopoly it has over their attention. Simply...
Scientists Develop Nasal Spray that Improves Memory
Good news for procrastinating students: A nasal spray developed by a team of German scientists promises to give late-night cram sessions a major boost, if a good night's sleep follows.
Disney Offers Free Entry to 1,000,000 Volunteers
The "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day" program will provide certified volunteers with a one-day ticket to any park at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., or Walt Disney World near Orlando, Fla., in 2010.
An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth
From Yahoo Developer Network
Is Dark Energy Creating Infinite Universes?
Dark energy is the deus ex machina of cosmology, able to save even the most inflation-prone calculations from destruction or - worse - being provably wrong. But while we've been busy watching the X-energy apparently accelerating all of creation while...
Michael Bay Announces Transformers 3 Date, Disses Megan Fox
P.S. Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth...
Top 5 Most Awesome (and 5 Least) "Baby" Cartoons
In the 1980s, television took a particularly strange form in which a scene from a single movie inspired a cartoon, which in turn inspired numerous other franchises to re-invent themselves as "babies." Oh, Muppet Babies, what have you wrought?
George Romero to Write His Definitive Guide to Zombies
Filmmaker George Romero birthed the modern zombie, and now he's finally ready to reveal all the secrets of the walking dead. In his first novel, Romero will explain the full capabilities of the undead and how the zombie plague began.
First Rule Of Marijuana Growing: Don't Call the Cops
In the Houston suburb of Santa Fe, a woman who called the cops because her husband was choking her somehow forgot to hide the massive marijuana garden in her home, complete with notebooks documenting production.
Cops shoot homeowner who called 911 in the back six times
"That's all right. Don't worry about it. I got your back. ... We clear?" The family says the officers were not aware that the 911 call was still recording as they spoke about covering up the shooting.
Exploring the Mysteries of the Ocean Floor
About three years ago, Emily Beal ? a graduate student in geosciences at Penn State ?eagerly boarded the deep-diving research submersible called Alvin, bound for the bottom of the ocean.
The Top 10 Indispensable Technologies We Never Saw Coming
Once something becomes a part of your everyday life it?s hard not to take it for granted, as though it has always existed in some form. Although the majority of technology has followed a fairly traceable evolutionary path, some of the most vital and world-changing tech has emerged completely out of left field.
The One "Wild Things" Change That Bothered Maurice Sendak
When Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers set about adapting Where The Wild Things Are into a movie, Maurice Sendak encouraged them to take a free hand and change stuff. But Eggers and Jonze tell us one change made Sendak nervous.
Hell planet where rock falls as rain found
COROT-7b, an alien planet where a rain of pebbles falls from clouds of rock vapour into lakes of molten lava, has been found by astronomers. COROT-7b, a rocky planet around twice the size of the Earth but of similar density, is only 1.6 million miles from its star: 23 times closer than the innermost planet in our solar system, Mercury, is to the Su
Recovery from marine mass extinction happened much faster
In 1979, Luis Alvarez and his collaborators stunned the world with their discovery that an asteroid impact 65 million years ago probably killed off the dinosaurs and much of the the world's living organisms.
2016 Olympic Announcement: Rio de Janeiro Hosts Summer Games
Rio de Janeiro has been chosen as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics, beating Madrid in the final round of voting.
New Computer Graphics Systems Give Reality a Convincing Make
Augmented-reality technology mashes computer-generated images with real-world sights and sounds
Chemicals Found in Air Outside 15 schools in Eight States
Outside 15 schools in eight states, government regulators have found elevated levels of a substance that in a more potent form was also used as a chemical weapon during World War I.
ICE AGE Director Will Bring SPORE To Life As Film
20th Century Fox has acquired the rights to Electronic Arts? ?Spore? video game to create a CG animated feature...
The Best and Worst New Shows of Fall 2009
We've sampled autumn's harvest of new TV, and now our critics are ready to pass judgment.
Chicago Loses Vote's First Round
Chicago has lost in the first round of voting in Copenhagen.
Google Strips Pirate Bay Homepage from Search Results
The Pirate Bay?s homepage and seven other pages relating to the BitTorrent tracker website have been removed from Google?s search engine, following a DMCA complaint.
Canadians Breathing in Ashes of Dead People
Looks like we're celebrating Halloween early this year... Residents of Ottawa, Canada, have been complaining that soot from a crematorium on Bank street has been "falling and blowing on nearby homes" and making it impossible to open windows or sit outside. A resident said: "It makes you feel like you're breathing in the remnants of a ... dead body.
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