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What Your Tattoo Really Says About You
Tattoos are more popular than ever. People from nearly every social, cultural, and ideological background are using tattoos as a way to identify themselves to the world. But sometimes your tattoo can send a message that's different than what you intended. Here's what your tattoo is really saying about you.
Fall Out for Real [PICS]
There are a lot of fans of ?Fallout? game across the world. In Russia this electronic entertainment piece is widely recognized too. Sometimes the anticipation to game goes so strong that devoted people are trying to transfer the gameplay to real life, stating that some Russian abandoned locations are a perfect fit for an image of ?New California?..
MIT: Can 4 Billion Cellphones Change the World?
Teams of MIT Media Lab's Next Billion Network participants -our next generation of tech movers and shakers- are exploring new ways to harness the increasingly ubiquitous cellphone to help people in developing nations to raise their incomes, learn to read, get where they're going, and diagnose their health.
The hazy future of Web typography
Current technology can break Web type free from the Georgia/Verdana prison, but getting all the stakeholders - Web designers, type designers, font vendors, and browser vendors - to agree on a standard may be a bigger challenge than the technology.
HELP Is On The Way
Last week the budget office scored the proposed legislation from the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). And the news was good. Yes, we can reform health care.
A real-life Wall-E
Meet DustCart, a prototype robot that seems to have escaped from the animated movie ?Wall-E.? As cute as it looks, it could revolutionize garbage collection throughout many small Italian towns where the traditional garbage truck gets stuck at tight turns in the road.
Warning: Oysters Can Be Deadly, But Pasteurization May Help
About 15 people die every year from eating oysters contaminated with the Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. But they don't have to. To protect those vulnerable to death by infection, techniques that costs pennies per oyster can kill the bacteria without affecting taste, according to the center.
10 Amateur Masters of Beatboxing
Beatboxing is a unique art form that takes a lot of practice to master. Here are 10 of the best amateur beatboxers caught on tape.
Security by Obscurity: Or How to Run Your Server on Caffeine
One of the many ways an attacker plots their attack is by gaining as much information they can get about the server software and more specifically which version of the package they are running. Some of these packages may have very well known exploits in the wild which can be used to compromise the server.
A Virtual Tour of Michael Jackson's Arcade Room
So envious...
iPhone 3.0 pinpointed as likely battery life killer
Reports that Apple's iPhones are draining their batteries so fast that some users can't make it through a workday without recharging likely point to a problem in the new iPhone OS 3.0 software, an Apple hardware repair expert said Sunday.
Is The iPhone The Key To The Future Of Video Chat?
Imagine walking down the street and being able to share what you see with another person, live. Now imagine video chatting with them at the same time, all on your iPhone.
Megan Fox Devours Male Scenery in 'Jennifer's Body' Trailer
Anybody who's followed the aftermath of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen knows that inside Megan Fox's lithe, photogenic frame, there's the soul of a serious actress waiting to captivate Hollywood. And this morning, with the red-band trailer for her horror comedy Jennifer?s Body debuting online, we know that we?ll have to wait at least...
WTF: Woman accused of targeting girl, 9, with Craigslist ad
A Long Island, New York, social worker is facing two misdemeanor charges after allegedly posting a sexually suggestive ad on Craigslist that gave interested parties the home phone number of a 9-year-old girl.
13 Beautiful Images of Pollen Under the Microscope
Never mind that they look like virulent viruses or a fetish from someone?s kinky imagination; these little nuggets are the grains of life. We?re used to seeing bees? knees thickly coated in them, but it?s a rare thing indeed to see pollen under the microscope, up close and personal and in all its juicy detail.
10 Piping-Hot Peppers
Turns out my love for Jalapenos is to hot peppers as loving Kenny G is to music; not that cool at all. Check out the 5 hotter peppers and those less so than the popular Jalapeno.
8 Game-Changing Electric Vehicle Startups
These are the companies with the right mix of the right stuff -- business acumen, a great plug-in product and a marketing plan. Don't be surprised if at least one of these companies becomes as big as (or bigger than) General Motors.
Wife of Murdered Titan QB Steve McNair was Unaware of Affair
Sources: Slain Titan QB Steve McNair's wife may have only learned about the football's star's affair with a gorgeous younger woman after the clandestine couple's grisly deaths by gun shot.
Viliv X70 dissected and reviewed ahead of initial pre-order
We know what you're thinking: too much Viliv X70 news at once and you're liable to go mad as a hatter with excitement. Settle down, and now let's move on. jkkmobile's been playing with the MID for quite some time now, and has posted an epic, 27-minute long review.
UQ researchers break the law -- of physics
Dr Tony Roberts and PhD student Christophe P. Haynes, from the School of Maths and Physics, showed the fractal-Einstein and Alexander-Orbach laws can fail in some instances, and have derived a new law to replace them.
10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus, Junk Science
Weekend Edition math guy Keith Devlin graded the body mass index, a popular measure of determining healthy body weight, and failed it on 10 grounds.
5 Theme Park Rides That Pushed the Limits of Common Sense
In the quest for bigger and better thrills, some rides attempt to betray the laws of physics. And while these rides are usually well-designed, safe attractions?just so big and awe-inspiring that they are frightening?some of them are simply dangerous. Here are five of the biggest, baddest and scariest rides of all time.
Guitar Hero 5's drums getting a Rock Band makeover?
Looks like that bulky Guitar Hero World Tour drumset might be getting itself an extreme makeover in time for the launch of Guitar Hero 5.
CompuServe Classic Laid To Rest
AOL has shut down the historic Internet access service, which got millions on the Internet for the first time in the 1980s and 1990s but has grown obsolete. Read this blog post by Tom Krazit on Digital Media.
Team Fortress 2 - The Pen and Paper RPG
This began a few days ago as a simple project me and my cousins were doing just for fun. The game itself is in vein of a classic pen and paper RPG. It's simpler than what you might find elsewhere in the RPG world but it's just getting started.
Photographic Memory in a Pill?
A group of Spanish scientists claim to have singled out a protein that can extend the life of visual memory significantly. When the production of the protein was boosted in mice, the rodents' visual memory retention increased, from about an hour to almost 2 months.
Beyond Atom, Exploring Performance Small Form Factor PCs
If you find the idea of a tiny small form factor machine appealing but can't stand the limited performance and lack of customizability of current "nettops", then listen up. We're going to take you on a quick tour around some exciting new ITX products from SilverStone, Intel and Zotac and show you that "performance ITX" isn't an oxymoron.
Filing municipal complaints: advantage iPhone users
Talk about your digital divide. Boston will soon offer an iPhone app allowing residents to easily notify City Hall about neighborhoods problems. Should municipal government be offering preferred service for a single platform with minority market share?
Secure Your Identity and Data on Every PC You Use
Protect yourself with this essential, portable security toolkit.
US lurching towards 'debt explosion' with longterm interest
The US economy is lurching towards crisis with long-term interest rates on course to double, crippling the country’s ability to pay its debts and potentially plunging it into another recession, according to a study by the US’s own central bank
Racist Fireworks = Not So Patriotic, Cause Uprise
A Wisconsin fireworks store got a different kind of explosion this Fourth of July weekend. While the state is used to Minnesotans flocking over the border to get fireworks illegal in their own state, the store was bombarded with angry customers and Muslim groups who said their "Run Hadji Run" fireworks were flat-out racist.
Can Artificial Lifeforms Capture Carbon to Create New Fuels?
The discovery of DNA is one of the most important events in the history of mankind, allowing us to access the program that writes what we are - but what's the point in perfecting ourselves while the planet dies around...
New Zealand Puts Up Scary-As-Hell Bleeding Billboard [VID]
The first heavy rains after summer bring the highest death toll on New Zealand roads. To alert people to the dangers of driving in the wet, Colenso BBDO Auckland created billboards that bled every time it rained.
Viagra-laced coffee seized in Malaysia
Malaysian authorities have confiscated 900 boxes of coffee laced with Viagra, which was marketed as an energy boost.
The Smell of Burning Flesh in the Morning
It?s about how one of the largest bases in Iraq burns all of its garbage and waste, which might even include amputated body parts, in an open pit. The thick black smoke from the burn pit is a landmark at Camp Anaconda.
20+ Ready to Use Auto Completion Scripts
Auto Completion has become one of the coolest user interaction element in websites lately and most of the famous sites from google, youtube to msn have auto completion based search boxes.so this time i?ve Collected 20+ Ready to Use Auto Completion Scripts vary from CSS,Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation .
Court Approves Formation of New GM
Only 35 days after GM entered bankruptcy protection, a Manhattan judge issued a ruling allowing GM to sell its best assets to a government backed new company. The sale is expected to close by the end of the week, and the new GM will be free of debt, excess brands, and dealerships.
12 Science Fiction Movie Sequels That Don't Utterly Suck
Transformers 2 suffered from a terrible case of sequel-itis, raising fears that upcoming Star Trek and Iron Man sequels will contract this deadly ailment. But it doesn't have to be that way: Here are twelve sequels that didn't suck.
Goldman Sachs Hacked Sacked and Tracked
A Goldman trading scandal? Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs? secret sauce? While most in the US were celebrating the 4th of July, a Russian immigrant in New Jersey was being held on federal charges of stealing top-secret computer trading codes from a major New York-based financial institution sources say is Goldman Sachs...
TomTom for iPhone en route
Although final details are still hazy, MacWorld has a ton of information on TomTom's upcoming turn-by-turn navigation solution for the iPhone.
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