"Today, your eyes might not deceive you. But soon, they very well might.Some extremely clever people at Cal (the one at Berkeley) have created a material that can control the direction in which visible light travels."
I have already downloaded and use a number of the applications from the original list of 40 published last year. To anyone who wants to improve their experience with their computer and the internet, and do it...
Counterintelligence Field Activity office (Cifa) has been closed. It was created the office in 2002 by Rumsfeld in response to the September 11 attacks. "Cifa caused concern after a database...
" The world's oldest calculator - a box of dials, gears and cogs created by the Ancient Greeks more than 2,000 years ago - could predict eclipses decades in advance, say researchers. The Antikythera Mechanism,...
"TAMPA - A man arrested after trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight with a box cutter concealed inside a hardcover book was sentenced in federal court today to a year's probation. Benjamin Baines Jr., 22, of Clearwater pleaded guilty to a federal weapons violation in...
Estelle Getty, the feisty mother hen to the famous Golden Girls series that ran throughout the 80's (and continues in reruns today) died today at the age of 84. Getty was long a supporter of gay rights and had a...
highlighted by Rob Walker | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago 320 views | 3 comments
The frontrunner in the contest for the new Hockey Night in Canada song is a compilation of animal noises and banging sounds. Sort of like a K-Fed song. This creation ("song" is perhaps overstepping it) has been...
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I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this sort of thing, but right now Microsoft is the only gaming console offering users the chance to put their own games online - and keep most of the profits.With the market penetration Microsoft has (they sold over 500 million items over the...
Scientists at the University of Alberta believe they've figured out where a large portion of the world's oil came from--massive underwater volcanic eruptions that took place millions of years ago. Their theory...
highlighted by Rob Peters | 4 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago 251 views | 1 comment
"y Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints ShareDiggFacebookMixxYahoo! BuzzPermalink By BRIAN STELTER Published: July 21, 2008...
There is widespread panic undergoing in the borders areas of Pakistan after heavy deployment of NATO forces. Now local tribesmen are terrified for military actions against them. "After deployment along the...
highlighted by Sanjay Jha | 5 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago 161 views | 1 comment
If you had the time, you could write thousands of eye-opening money-and-politics stories using the information that lives on OpenSecrets.org. And many professional journalists do just that -- CRP was cited in the news more than 3,000 times last year. But why leave...
While I personally would rather see women be more modest (compared to the thong bikinis and some of the clothing of today) I think that much like the traditional burka, this is a little extreme. "DALLAS – Just in...
Previous articles on the 40th birthday of Hot Wheels can be seen here.I wish I could go to one of the road shows, but I don't think they are stopping in Vancouver. Seems more interesting than a regular car show since...
highlighted by JeffHuang | 7 wks ago | updated 7 wks ago 661 views | 7 comments