Inifinty Ward's 402; lead PR man gets caught being a Fanboy.

Mister fourzerotwo himself gets caught being a 360 fanboy. How can a developer for PS3 and Xbox360 be a fanboy? He sure doesn't mind taking PS3 gamers money!

A really, REALLY big bang

There's a chance that the world, maybe even the universe, could be swallowed by a black hole this summer.Maybe you didn't notice this bulletin from the outer limits of particle physics and a federal court in Hawaii. Maybe you get protons and neutrons mixed up. Maybe you still don't get how in quantum physics a particle can exist in two...

Mind-Reading Hat Could Prevent Brain Farts

We've all goofed up and flubbed up things we've previously done time and again. The solution to such screw-ups could be a kind of mind-reading hat, a device to predict and even prevent mindless errors that can threaten lives.

Bionic eyes implanted in blind patients

Bionic eyes have been implanted in British patients for the first time offering hope to hundreds of thousands of blind people.

Microsoft Predicted to Back Away from Vista

"When it comes to technology debacles, every major company has a few (remember the Newton?), but right now one of the top spots has to go to Windows Vista, Microsoft’s clunky operating system that has IT shops and consumers desperately clutching at XP for as long as they can."

Cool Map-Simulation: Growth Of Light Pollution In N. America

Picture of the growth of "light pollution" (i.e., artificial light) from 1950 to projection for 2025. Measured by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. Map completed few years ago. Shows graphic differences among moments in time--1950, mid-1970s, 1997, and projected 2025.

Shocking pictures; is this the 'humane' seal hunting ??

Isn't it time something was done about this? This is what the Canadian government means by 'humane' slaughter. Incredible story and pictures from a witness of seal hunting... really cruel and really really sad...

Are Comics to Blame for Eroding Hollywood Sci-Fi Quality?

There was a time when big-budget science fiction wasn’t completely brainless. In fact, some of it was good, even brilliant, and a source of inspiration for generations of researchers. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator, the promise (and the apocalyptic threat) of technology was sometimes presented with a surprising level of authority.

Why is This Man Smiling? [Political Cartoon]

Drink-drive limit should be under a pint, says study

The drink-driving limit should be lowered to less than a pint of beer and brought into line with the rest of Europe, according to a motorists' poll. The findings in a survey of Automobile Association (AA) members increase the pressure on the government to reduce the limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg.

Looking for love? Keep an eye on your wallet

The number of broken hearts aside, romance fraud costs victims millions of dollars each year... we encourage members to do their own research on potential love matches, including asking questions, utilizing Internet search engines, and most importantly, use common sense," Match.com says. Scammers often work on the Internet from other countries

Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Praises Farrakhan and N.O.I.

This is the transcript of former Mayor, Ed Rendell, who is Governor of Pennsylvania and the states most influential supporter of Presidential hopeful, Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to a packed audience at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church on April 14, 1997 at rally: "A Solution Too Heal The Racial Divide." The then mayor was the principa...

How has the BBC News changed over the years

A video compilation of the opening credits for the UK's BBC News over the years - ever since that new fangled "television" thing was permitted to start broadcasting the news, long reserved for the radio.

The Green Ad Effect (Pics)

A recent survey from Burst Media revealed that green advertising has a stronger than average impact with consumers. Good right? Well they have higher recall but they aren't necessarily buying into the messages. Maybe that's due to the overwhelming amount of green claims consumers have been hit with.

Jason Linkins: Hillary Clinton Ad Features Osama Bin Laden:

"As Talking Points Memo notes, "Dropping a last-minute bomb in order to sow doubts about Obama among the late-breaking undecideds -- and doing it in the guise of an ad only mentioning Hillary -- worked in Ohio and Texas. Camp Hillary is hoping that the tactic will deliver a second time."

Digg & Diggnation Nominated for Webbys!

"We are excited to be nominated for two Webby awards! Digg has been nominated in the Best Practices category, along with Facebook, Flickr, Yelp and the NYTimes.com. Diggnation is also up for a Webby in Film & Video."

The 10 Best Nintendo Games No One Played

Videogames come and videogames go, but nothing will ever hold sway over an entire generation like the good ol’ Nintendo Entertainment System.

Last Request: Please Don't Smoke

Powerful last message

70 Excellent Vintage and Retro Graphic Works

Retro and vintage are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That's not true. It has a large variety of benefits modern graphic designers often tend to overlook. And that's a pity. Because we, as designers, can learn a lot from it.

PA Primary Will Be Unauditable; GOP Blocks E-Voting Reform

On the eve of tomorrow's hotly contested and relatively close Democratic presidential primary in Pennsylvania, a number of voting activists are sounding the alarm one last time about the state's election systems. Over 85 percent of PA voters will vote on paperless touchscreen machines that are hackable, failure-prone, and fundamentally unauditable.

7 Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design

If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout - here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.

BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus

Data collected by the BitTorrent client Azureus shows that Comcast might only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to BitTorrent throttling ISPs. Early findings show that customers from quite a few other Internet service providers experience an unusually high amount of TCP-resets.

Fontbots [imgs]

Jonathon Yule's beautiful Helvetica, Futura and Akzidenz-Grotesk font robots.

11 of the Dumbest Business Decisions Ever

We’ve all made mistakes … but probably not big mistakes like making snot beer, saying no to The Beatles, or turning down the patent for the telephone. In fact, here are some of the biggest business blunders in history:

RIAA spent $2 million lobbying for tougher IP laws in 2007

All groups lobbying Congress and the executive branch are required to disclose how much they spent on the task each year. During 2007, the RIAA spent $2.08 million lobbying lawmakers for tougher copyright laws, among other things.

Science 2.0: Is Posting raw results online a great tool?

Science 2.0 generally refers to new practices of scientists who post raw experimental results, nascent theories, claims of discovery and draft papers on the Web for others to see and comment on.

TOP 10 Shirts To Get Arrested In

Clinton Surrogate, Ed Rendell, Praises Farrakhan

Pennsylvania's governor, who said many whites wouldn't vote for a black man, passively condoning such prejudice rather than condemning it.

A Cellphone's Missing Dot Kills Two People, Jails Three

After splitting up, a couple kept having bitter arguments over the cellphone, texting each other until one day the husband wrote "you change the topic every time you run out of arguments." That day, afaulty localization of the cellphone's typing system caused a chain of events that ended in a blood bath. (Strong language ahead.)

World Record QuarterPipe Jump

Simon Dumont goes HUGE on this stunt.

9 Questions To Ask Your Boss

DO NOT ask: "How did someone as nice as you end up marrying someone so unpleasant?" DO ask: "What are the options for growth within the organization?"

Uwe Boll asks Blizzard for WoW movie rights, Azeroth says no

Blizzard has essentially laughed the German director out of their offices, and certainly right out of Azeroth."We will not sell the movie rights, not to you... especially not to you," was apparently Paul Sams reply, to which Azeroth was pronounced saved!

Why Bother Dealing with Climate Change? - Michael Pollan

There are so many stories we can tell ourselves to justify doing nothing, but perhaps the most insidious is that, whatever we do manage to do, it will be too little too late. Climate change is upon us, and it has arrived well ahead of schedule.

OMG, Global Warming! [PIC]

The Housewife Explorers Who Climbed The Himalayas

What possessed three 1950s housewives to defy convention and set off together for the forbidden reaches of the Himalayas? And what did they find when they got there?

World’s First Energy Efficient OLED Lamp

"It’s an exciting time for OLED technology as it finally begins to integrate into the home and designers start to realize its potential for efficient and inexpensive lighting solutions in a variety of stunning new applications. Resembling a tiny tree blossoming with lucent leaves, Ingo Maurer’s Early Future lamp is the world’s first OLED lamp."

3D Design in 1975 [img]

Jef Raskin & Co. at work/play in pre-Apple days.

Redskins Cheerleaders Shake Up Cricket In Modest India

BANGALORE, India, April 18 -- Squeezing through the gates of a sold-out 55,000-seat cricket stadium in steamy evening heat, Hashim Kerala made no attempt to hide his reason for coming to the season's opening match: Cheerleaders. Washington Redskins cheerleaders, to be specific.

How to make it as a TV writer

If you want to be a TV writer, make sure the scripts you send to network executives are formatted correctly. And for goodness' sake, use a spell-checker before you put your work in the mail.Those were just a couple of the practical tips that aspiring writers picked up...

TimeLapse Video of a Guy Trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours

On Friday, October 15, 1999 at 11pm in the McGraw Hill Building in NYC, Nicholas White took a cigarette break. After his nicotine fix, White heads back upstairs in Elevator Car #30.... But, something went wrong, and 41 hours later, he finally exits the elevator!