The Thin Laptop Wars

Competition is heating up as Toshiba, Dell and HP launch rival products to Apple's MacBook Air.

How to give death a good name

With society now obsessed by the desire to prolong life, Elizabeth Grice asks if we have lost the art of dying well and examines practical steps to change our attitudes

The Water Shortage Myth

Over the past year or so have been the twin impending disasters of global warming and water shortages. The more pressing issue is water; people can live with global warming - people cannot live without water. There is plenty of water. The problem is, the vast majority of Earth's water is contained in the oceans as saltwater & needs desalination.

Fewer Pursuing Tech Degrees

Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs. The colliding trends have some business leaders worried that they won't find enough workers needed to maintain expected growth...

Virgin’s Awesome Digg Swarm Clone

Virgin programmers seem to be digg swarm fans; they’ve launched a real-time news visualization experiment. The tool listens to 5000 news sources for any mentions of the brand and then displays them in an interactive flash "universe". Hint: click "beautify" in the "Display Options"

'Shake Up' For Internet Proposed

The net could undergo its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are cleared

'Dark Knight' Director Shuns Digital Effects for Real Thing

For director Christopher Nolan, reality beats the hell out of gee-whiz special effects. But keeping it real doesn't come cheap: The $180 million flick is Warner Bros.' biggest summer tent pole, and after Speed Racer's flameout, its only box-office hope....

From The Egg, Baby Crocodiles Call To Each Other And To Mom

For the first time, researchers have shown that the pre-hatching calls of baby Nile crocodiles actually mean something to their siblings and to their mothers.

Photo reportedly shows Big Browns shoe was loose!

A photo taken during the early stages of the Belmont Stakes has revealed Big Brown was running with a loose shoe as the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner attempted to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1979, Newsday reported Monday.

Will Discovery of Mars Water Lead to Terraforming?

White material was uncovered by the Phoenix Lander remote robot digger arm, the most amazingly ultra-tech bucket and spade ever to exist.

Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History (VIDEO)

Amazing look into the Lego secret vault, where they store all the Lego sets ever created—4,720 boxes—since 1958: "Maybe that's why visiting Lego's Memory Lane touched me in a way I didn't expect. These were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten".

Indie video game designers finally break through!

The industry has been shrinking to a handful of big players that use large teams of in-house programmers.But Silva is a one-man game maker. He's among a growing number of independents working to distribute their games to Internet-connected consoles with the help of game box makers seeking to meet demand for titles beyond the us

Italian Soldiers Floored By 77-Year-Old Japanese Woman

Italian soldiers are facing the embarrassment of being beaten up daily by a 77-year-old Japanese grandmother.

Fans Cover Radiohead With Weezer! [VID]

We've seen the open-source approach from Weezer in the run-up to their new album, but now they're teaming up with instrument-wielding fans for "Creep" by the Web's favorite free-tunes band.

Coal Plants and Algae Fuel..Symbiotic?

Seattle-based Inventure Chemical and Tel Aviv-based Seambiotic announced this week a joint venture to create biofuels from algae fed by a coal-fired power plant. Apparently, this is an idea growing in popularity.

GIJOE; The rise of Cobra teaser poster!

Check out the new teaser posterfor the upcoming GIJOE poster! I'm a huge Joe fan so this got me stoked!

Girl Spins On Escalator Thanks to Physics or Magic

There are moments in which, for whatever reason, being it a scientific discovery, a voyage into the unknown, or somebody's excessive alcohol intake, humanity advances one step forward into its destiny, a final state of clarity and peace that will take us all to the stars.

Half Life Creatures in Spore

Awesome recreations in the Spore Creature Creator of the Strider, Houndeye and many more!

How to Reduce Camera Shake - 6 Techniques

"I’m a mover and a shaker in general, and this is particularly true when I’m on a shoot. I’m twistin’ and turnin’, climbin’ and jumpin’ and to top it all off, I DO NOT have a steady hand, plain.and.simple."

Plastic Bags: Can We Kick the Habit?

Adventures in the development of truly biodegradable plastics are showing that technology can help us with our environmental challenges, but make no mistake technology on its own will not be able to deliver us from our environmental quagmire.

What I've Learned: George Carlin

I think that the assassinations of the Kennedy's and Martin Luther King showed that all of the wishing and hoping and holding hands and humming and signing petitions and licking envelopes is a bit futile.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'When John McCain was my captive'

So is Mr Duyet implying that that Senator McCain lied about his treatment at the Hanoi Hilton?"He did not tell the truth," he says. "But I can somehow sympathise with him. He lies to American voters in order to get their support for his presidential election." ...More McCain lies! His ethics or lack of should be a main focus of the elections

Gaza: The Killing Zone (NSFW)

A Dispatches documentary from May 2003 shows the shocking reality of seemingly ordinary Palestinians living under constant terror from Israeli 'occupation' forces. For some, life in Gaza can be a constant gauntlet of Israeli sniper fire, military rockets and army bulldozers. Warning, contains scenes of graphic violence which you may find disturbing

25 Beautiful Fantasy Photoshop Tutorials

A collection of 25 beautiful fantasy photoshop tutorials.

Super Mario cakes

Humanity is funny like that, but on the other hand I myself considered doing a Mario tattoo. Here's a nice collection of Super Mario cakes.

The Hottest Women of Euro 2008 [PICS]

I’m still not sure entirely how I feel about soccer, but I do know one thing I love about the sport: all the women. Every time there’s a huge tournament somewhere it seems like we’re inundated with pictures of hot flag waving women. Here are some of the hottest women from this year’s major soccer event, Euro 2008.

Safety report: Latest Collider at CERN won't end the world

Magnetic monopoles, strange quark matter, and miniature black holes, oh my! The final safety report on the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator set to start up this summer, says that if its collisions were capable of destroying the earth, nature would have gotten there first.

China demolishes mosque for not supporting Olympics

Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.

5 Superpowers From the Bible That Put Marvel and DC to Shame

The Bible is full of superheroes with powers that make their cape-sporting descendants look like cowering children. A rundown of the five powers that would be most useful to the modern crime fighter.

Astronauts Hardest Hit By High Gas Prices

Although it looks very cool, driving the Space Shuttle will cost you. The shuttle burns 540,000 gallons of fuel just to go 200 miles, costing $2,197,800 to fill the tank. If you rent the Shuttle from Hertz, that jumps to $3,421,675. That's roughly 3.7037 x 10-4 miles per gallon, which ranks just slightly more fuel-efficient than the Hummer H2, whic

Solar Industry to Explode in Japan

Japan currently has the 2nd largest market for solar energy, but remains very dependent on imported energy. This will start to change as Prime Minister Fukuda's residential solar plan unfolds in 2009.

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Why I Would Have Voted for Baltar, Too

(This essay covers information up through the Season 2 Presidential election and is based only on the data available at that time.)

Stop the Bush Cuts to Public Broadcasting

The Bush administration has slashed the proposed public broadcasting budget by 56% -- putting at risk vital news, educational & cultural programming that millions of Americans say they prefer to commercial media. The Senate, who's going to vote tomorrow, must stand with the millions of Americans who have acted in the past against such drastic cuts.

Sharp’s 108” LCD TV on sale for $185,000

Sharp recently announced that it will begin selling its 108” LCD TV in the U.S. in September and if you are planning on buying Sharp’s 108” TV you may want to hold off on that next Ferrari...

Top 10 Best and Worst Reputations In Corporate America

The results of the Harris Interactive survey that tracks the reputations of the 60 most visible companies in America has been released and here they are...

How I Paid Off $35,000 in Debt, and How You Can Too

Last December, after twenty years of owing money, I finally paid off all of my debt (except the mortgage — and I’m working on that). Co-incidentally, Leo paid off his debt at the exact same time. I didn’t pay off my debt overnight. It took many years, and I made plenty of mistakes. But with patience and perseverance, I met my goal.

Can you imagine having THIS on your walls? I can!

My wife would kill me, but I can imagine it. Everytime I came to the hole though I'd probably try to jump over it. I'd be injured within the first week it was in the house.

Five undisclosed features of Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Apple is billing Snow Leopard as an OS without any new features, but this couldn't be further from the truth. Under the hood improvements offer users much to look forward to, including the benefits of a new multi-touch framework, dramatic file size reductions, text-processing features, auto activation of fonts, and full read and write ZFS support.

Tricks to improve your Gmail experience

I’ve switched (back) to Gmail. After the problems Outlook gave me in the past, I was looking for a solution with more flexibility. Gmail has everything I need for my online business, but Outlook was the client to have for connecting with an Exchange server. Since I’m no longer using the Exchange account anymore, Gmail is the way to go!