"First rain
On the last day of the May we had quite a decent rain accompanied by strong winds and lightning. It was quite nice to feel the breeze after a very long spell of extreme heat. Although I enjoyed the...
created by Picturejockey | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1776 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
June 2, 2007 -- What's being heralded by experts as "the first of its kind in the state, and possibly the nation" is Solara: "a green-built, government-financed, affordable-housing complex that's virtually climate...
created by carloscfranco | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 822 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
No, not The Simpsons. The Sims. When I think "video game-based movie", I think Resident Evil, or maybe even Doom. Or the still-in-preproduction Splinter Cell. I do not think of The Sims, in which the player...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 1077 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
"E: a much newer version of this add-on is available at the
url above – the add-on listed on this site is over four months
old and very out of date; a new version has been pending approval for
some time by the add-on team and should be published on this site in
the near...
created by anyone | 6 years ago 163 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Halo, the flagship title for Microsoft's Xbox gaming platform, is back. The third title in the series is entering public beta as gamers check to see if the Master Chief is ready for prime time. UPDATE: our own...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 864 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
I'm sitting here with Mike Tippett and he is showing me Highlight..."With social networks like MySpace and Friendster running at full capacity, it's no surprise that Web sites have started turning separate forming separate cliques. Lately the Internet has seen the spin-off of...
created by kmancan | 6 years ago 581 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Okay, this isn't the sexiest news item of the day, but it is big news for wireless Internet fans... We love wandering around town with our laptops, but we arent' so crazy about how relatively slow it is. The 802.11n standard will mean that new wireless cards and routers will...
UPDATE: This is looking pretty hoaxey... hence the "fishy" flag...This is one for the never-would-have-thought-of-this department, but here it is: since activating the pixels in a computer's display uses...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 1854 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
Chicago officials have given the green light for the construction of the Chicago Spire, which will be the United States' tallest building. The next step will be funding, as the proposed budget for the project...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 1805 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The Ulster Volunteer Force, an anti-Catholic terror group in Ireland, has annuonced that it is laying down its arms and renouncing violence. Nice to know that the War on Terror is making headway...
created by Brian A Kennedy | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 553 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
April 30, 1970 President Nixon announced to the American public "We take these actions not for the
purpose of expanding the war into Cambodia, but for the purpose of
ending the war in Vietnam, and winning the just...
created by babblingdweeb | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 3090 views | 10 recommendations | 5 comments
"COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists here have designed a new, interactive map of the spread of the avian flu virus (H5N1) that for the first time incorporates genetic, geographic and evolutionary information that may...
created by steve468 | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 444 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"NowPublic - Highlight 0.12.12.20 Homepage
by NowPublic Development Team
Highlight anything on the web you think is newsworthy and connect to eye witnesses at the scene of the story.
NowPublic Highlight lets you grab anything on the web you think is news. One click connects...
created by laoyu2003 | 6 years ago 1250 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
I just saw Grindhouse, and although I enjoyed it, I can't imagine Tarantino's half as a nearly two hour standalone piece. That's a lot of ladies talking in cars... "Other highlights in competition include Joel and...
created by mardoux | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 611 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments