Starbucks identifies 50 stores set for closing

On the list are stores in Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas and West Virginia. The sites will shut down by the end of this month.

I had sex with my brother but I don't feel guilty

A woman slept with her sibling for years and has good memories. Not many people understand their relationship, she says

A National Museum for Manga, Anime and Video Games?

There are renewed calls in Japan for a consolidated museum to preserve Japanese pop art.

Bud's New World

Having just created the world's largest brewer, InBev and Anheuser-Busch now say they are going to turn Budweiser beer into a name that is recognized from the United States to Europe to Asia.

Drunk Referee Helped From Pitch

Sergei Shmolik was refereeing a Belarusian Premier League match between FC Vitebsk and FC Naftan Novopolotsk on July 5 when, during the second half, the crowd noticed that he had begun behaving strangely. Watch the amazing video too :)

Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner!

A good-sized asteroid sailing past our planet right now turns out to be two giant rocks doing a celestial jig.Now seen as two objects orbiting each other, the pair will be closest to Earth on July 14, at about 1.4 million miles (2 million kilometers) away. That's nearly six times as far from us as the moon.

The 25 Sexiest Daily Show Moments

If you like fake news and getting wicked horny, then this is for you. Porn stars, nut-cams, Stephen Colbert deep-throating a banana, and much more.

17 Electric Cars You Should Know About from 2005 to 2008

Electric Cars: You Want 'Em? We've Got 'Em!Over the past 3 years, we've written about many electric cars here onTreeHugger. We think it's time to look in the rearview mirror, so here's an overview.

iPhone App Listens to Music and tells you the name of Song

Have you ever heard some music, be it in the background in a shop, or played on the radio and ever wished you knew the track's name? That's the dilemma Shazam sets out to solve.

gOS Space: OSX like operating system without Apple

I've been a fan of gOS for a while now. I've been running their Rocket release for about a year. It's based on Ubuntu and has the benefit of pre-installed Enlightenment. It's solid, runs well on lower-end hardware, and...it's Enlightenment (what more do you want?) On January 7, 2008 gOS...

Should've Bought a Garmin? Testing the iPhone 3G's GPS

We wanted to see whether the iPhone 3G's new GPS functionality was worth the cost of admission or if we'd be better off buying one of the many stand-alone navigation units currently on the market. Make the jump to find out if it's worth your hard-earned cash and a place on your dash.

The Truth About Plastic

The U.S. produced 28 Million tons of plastic waste in 2005 - 27 million tons of which ended up in landfills. Our food & water come wrapped in plastic. It's used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the infinitely adaptable substance has its dark side.

Google as 'Potential Monopolist'

The Google-Yahoo partnership has theoretical implications for the search market and, by consequence, for the whole advertising market.

18 Common Phrases to Avoid in Conversation

Some things should never be said. Here, how to avoid putting your foot in your mouth—and what to use instead.

Tesla Roadsters now rolling off production line

The wait for the much-anticipated all-electric sports car is almost over, as manufacturing begins this summer with anticipated ramping up later this year.

Internet Famous! How to become it (even if you're a nobody)

Julia Allison can't act. She can't sing. She's not rich. But thanks to a genius for self-promotion, she's become an Internet celebrity.....

Japanese team developing palm-held 3D display [gCubik]

Researchers in Japan are developing a gadget that could enable people to hold a three-dimensional image of someone in the palm of their hand. They hope the gCubik, which is still at the prototype stage, will later be developed to move in real time and appear to speak.

Sexiest Politicians: Shirtless in Swaziland to Topless in It

I’ve combed countries near and far for the sexiest politicians. Take a look at the winners...

The 10 Commandments of Web Design

The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008

The Science Fiction Stories that Inspire/Hinder Real Science

Everything from satellites and space travel to synthetic biology and robots existed in fiction before they were realized in a lab — and most science fiction fans assume that situation is somehow beneficial for scientists.

Resident Evil 5 Launching Worldwide Friday, March 13th 2009!

A release date has finally been revealed for one of the most highly anticipated titles - Resident Evil 5. Now, we just hope (unlike GTAIV), there will be no further delays and the game actually comes out on that day. Japan gets the game a day earlier (lucky bastards)

Top 10 Coolest Backyard Inventions of 2008: DIY Rally

When we asked readers to submit their coolest, craziest, most all-consuming DIY projects, we knew we'd see some off-the-chart innovation (with video, plans and more). After all, when it comes to welding, building, modding and wiring brainstorms into reality, who does it better than Popular Mechanics readers?

$15 Million of Red Bull says Ruby on Rails is here to stay

Enterprise Ruby host "Engine Yard" has announced another $15 million in funding- a strong indicator of the future of the Ruby programming language. They plan to use the money to buy Red Bull and build a cloud computing infrastructure called Vertebra.

2008 Tour de France

France is currently hosting the 95th Tour de France - which began on July 5th, and continues through July 27th. The Tour is the world's largest cycle race, with twenty teams of nine riders (invitation-only) entered in this year's race.

Stephen Colbert vs Rain: The Dance Off

Venues of the Beijing Olympics

#2 'Beijing National Aquatics Center' Also known as the "Water Cube," the Aquatics Center will accommodate 17,000 fans for the swimming, diving, water polo and synchronized swimming competitions. The outer structure is a steel frame filled with more than 100,000 square meters of ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene)...

7,000 SF Home Has Zero Carbon Footprint

The Eco House in Spain aims to be the first zero carbon footprint home in Andalusia and it sure looks damn pretty.

Configuring Terminal to Work as a Transparent Wallpaper

Customizing linux terminal window.

Bolton Falsely Claims that He Never Wanted to Strike Iran

On Friday edition of Hannity and Colmes, Alan Colmes questioned former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton about his “statements over the last few months” advocating that the Bush administration use military force against Iran. Bolton denied having made such statements, replying that “would not be an accurate reflection of my view”

Why We Wait In Line for iPhone 3G and You Are Inferior

While waiting in line this weekend at the Apple store I was shocked by the questions posed by passers-by to the line-elites. It was as if we'd crash landed on a Planet of the Apes, where only I and my fellow line-warriors had any conception of modern technology, civilization, and the messianic glory of Father Jobs and the Apple Trinity.

The Best On-Screen Portrayal of ‘Batman’ Characters

I’ll take a look at the Batmans of the last 60 or so years, as well as a random assortment of villains and heroes that joined Batman along the way.

Camel toe (PIC)

Jim Rogers Calls Fannie Plan - "unmitigated disaster''

The U.S. Treasury Department's plan to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is an ``unmitigated disaster'' and the largest U.S. mortgage lenders are ``basically insolvent,'' according to investor Jim Rogers. Goldman Sachs says shares my fall another 30%

Printer dots raise privacy concerns

The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you're printing on.More manufacturers are outfitting greater numbers of laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page to identify the printer's

How Did Heath Ledger's Death Affect TDK's Marketing?

'The thing that is most appropriate is to get it out there so that as many people can see it as [possible],' producer says of late actor's performance.

Apple Sells One Million 3G iPhones First Weekend

Despite a few hiccups and stores running out of inventory, Apple was able to sell one million 3G iPhones worldwide across 21 countries its first three days on sale. During that same time, owners of both the new and old iPhone were able to download 10 million apps from the newly launched App Store on iTunes, despite a few hiccups with the iPhone 2.0

Americans Twice As Likely To Have Tried Marijuana Than Dutch

Researchers found that 42% of people surveyed in the United States had tried marijuana at least once, and 16% had tried cocaine. About 20% of residents surveyed in the Netherlands, by contrast, reported having tried pot.

Bo Burnham - High School Party

Bo's latest music video talks about his days in high school...

20 Examples of Hiliariously Geeky Art and Graffiti [PICS]

What makes art geeky? It can be anything from the subject matter to the method or both at the same time. From a Stephen Colbert portrait made up entirely of Rubik's Cubes to a motorcycle created from recycled computer parts here are twenty awesome examples of extremely geeky art.

GNOME 3.0 officially announced... and explained

The developers of the open-source GNOME desktop environment have announced their plans for version 3.0. This milestone will be reached through the current strategy of incremental development.