Who Will Tell the People?

We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.

May 5, 1992: 'Wolfenstein 3-D' Shoots the FPS Into Stardom

Today in 1992, Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, and it launches a huge computer-game category. Wolfenstein 3-D may not have been the very first "first-person shooter," as the genre came to be known, but it was by far the most successful

The failure dynasties

It's really tough to build a winning dynasty in Major League Baseball, this much we know. Reeling off a streak of winning seasons is hard enough, never mind stringing together multiple World Series victories. So many teams came close to achieving immortal status only to fall short that we rolled out an entire series on failed dynasties.

NIN Gives Away New Full Length Album - the slip

as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE.

Drunken British students wreck Spanish resort

An invasion of thousands of British students at a small Spanish resort for a sports tournament has left locals reeling from their drunken antics. But so many spent their days drinking instead of competing that locals said the tournament was more about being drunk than sport. They said beaches were left littered, revellers kept them awake...

Icelanders' Love Of Crazy Trucks Hits Deep Freeze

Demonstrations are rare in stoical Iceland, a country of only 300,000 people. But the threat to jeep habits is just too much. Alfred "Spotti" Bergisson, a 26-year-old plumber who drives a beefed-up Toyota Land Cruiser, is willing to fight for his right to party.

10% of U.S. Kids Using Cough Medicine Every Week

Approximately one in 10 U.S. children uses one or more cough and cold medications during a given week, according to new research from Boston University. While cough and cold medications for children are widely marketed in the United States, how frequently they are used had not been scientifically studied.

Plan To Send A Probe To The Sun

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system.

Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook

After experimenting with free BitTorrent distribution on their last album, ‘Ghosts’, The Nine Inch Nails are today releasing their latest single ‘Echoplex’ for free, to tens of millions of Facebook users. Also,everyone should check out NIN.com tomorrow - apparently a “surprise” awaits.

Not even a flood can stop this guy from mowing (pic)

No man is an island, but his house can be. Kenny Leitner mows what little grass he has that’s not under water Monday in the 1300 block of West Main Street in Grafton as the Illinois River rises out of its banks.

NASA to Fly You to the Moon for Free, Sinatra Style

NASA is opening the door to anyone wanting to go to the moon as part of their next lunar mission—all without requiring years of tests, training, or smoking astroturf. Sadly, only your name will go. You will get a certificate from NASA.

Mentos and Diet Coke explosion at 1200fps

Giz reader Robert Woodhead combined two things that I just can't seem to get sick of seeing: Stuffing Mentos into Diet Coke bottles and the super-slow-mo action of Casio's EX-F1 camera to create this stunningly beautiful video.

Saturday Morning: 1968 - VIDEOS

The operative word to describe the 1968-69 Saturday morning schedule was 'change'. After two years of superhero and action/adventure cartoons the networks and the animation studios decided to shake things up a bit. So, if you have your "Thing Maker" in front of you, let's journey back in time to 1968

The reason fat people find it hard to lose weight is found

Scientists have discovered why fat people find it so hard to lose weight, which will lead to many new approaches to weight loss.

It's "offical": You're an idiot

In Houston, a Texan protesting amnesty for illegal immigrants argues that anyone who can't master English doesn't deserve to live in America. Excellent point.

Raptor Menu for KDE4

A new menu for KDE4 that lists what items it thinks you are most likely to choose. For example, if you have konqueror open and you usually have it open with konsole, it will be on the list. If you already have akregator open, it knows you don't want to open it again so it won't show that. If you always open wine pr0n.exe at 1am every night, ...

CLINTON supporters caught LYING to NC voters w/ robo-calls

The group has landed in legal hot water in North Carolina for robo-calling voters, heavily skewed to African Americans. Notably, calls came AFTER the primary registration date, causing voters to question whether they were eligible to vote in the NC primary on Tuesday.

Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs

Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they used to be — often because of some combination of higher premiums, less extensive coverage, and bigger out-of-pocket deductibles and co-payments.

I Didnt Knoez I Haz It In Me (pic)

kitty is hiding a deep dark secret

Howard Dean On Fox News: Coverage Is "Shockingly Biased"

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday this morning, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said that Fox's news coverage has at times been "shockingly biased, and I think that's wrong and I just say so right up front." Dean also said he agreed with the netroots campaign to boycott the Democratic debates on the network.

How Much Did Rumsfeld Know?

That decision set up the United States for a failed first year in Iraq. There is no question about it. And I was supposed to believe that neither the Secretary of Defense nor anybody above him knew anything about it? Impossible! Rumsfeld knew about it.

Clinton Considering Nuclear Option To Overtake Delegate Lead

With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations.

Hillary Attacks Economists as being "Elite"

She continued the line of attack, criticizing "this mindset where elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans." But one member of the town hall was unconvinced. When given the chance to ask a question, a woman told her: "Call me crazy but I listen to economists because they know

Pollution Sends Men Bald

Are you bald? Because men living in polluted areas are more likely to go bald than those breathing cleaner air, a new study suggests.

Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

From boutique favourites such as Agent Provocateur and Joe Bloggs to icons of the global hyper-mall such as Diesel, Yahoo!, Audi and Coca-Cola, brands have awoken to music’s potential as a powerful communication tool, and a content gold rush is on. Under the “lifestyle” umbrella, household names are seeking out, signing and promoting music.

Does Ballmer Need To Go?

Microsoft’s dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo’s shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?

Celtics rout Hawks in Game 7 to set up matchup with Cavs

Kevin Garnett took a behind-the-back pass from Paul Pierce, slammed in the dunk to make the lead three dozen points and then slashed his hand across his throat to signal what the Atlanta Hawks already knew. "It's over," he told the crowd. The game. The series. The surprising little scare Atlanta put into the NBA's best.

Video of Force Unleashed for Wii, Duel Mode

Ah the Wiimote. An elegant weapon, not as clumsy or as random like a blaster. Paired with the Nunchuk, it's pretty awesome too, according to this video from G4, which got an exclusive hands-on with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Wii's duel mode.

The All-White Elephant in the Room

If we’re to judge black candidates on their most controversial associates we must judge white politicians by the same yardstick.

Teacup dogs inbred to be tiny only live a few years

What most people don't know is that unusually tiny dogs don't live but a couple of years because of inbreeding to achieve the small size.Kiyomi Miyauchi was heartbroken when the Boston terriers she bought suddenly collapsed last year into spasms on the living room floor and died.

Think twice before stuffing your suitcase with prosciutto

Jamie offered to eat the illicit ham on the spot, but the official was having none of it: "Can't I just eat a couple pieces of it now?" she asked. "I really can't let you do that," he replied.

Do different cells in our nose respond to different smells?

People can smell thousands—perhaps even millions—of different scents. Yet scientists know that in the nose, there are only about 400 different types of odor receptors—proteins that capture scented molecules so that smells can be identified.

Family Guy: The Matrix Trailer

Sony Unveils Ultrasmall Hybrid Fuel Cell for phones

Sony prototyped a fuel-cell system small enough to fit in one hand (50x30mm). It works by combining a fuel cell, a Li-polymer secondary battery, a control circuit and so forth together to output up to 3W of power. Its use efficiency of energy is high enough that 14 hours of 1seg movie can be continuously played by general mobile phones.

Heroism turns to absolute despair...

Grand Prix circuit racer Roger Williamson crashes hard on lap 8, rolls his car and catches fire. Yards away stood a fire tender, but no order was given to stop the race. Worse, marshals with fire extinguishers merely watched as friend and colleague David Purley fought a lone battle to right the upturned car. What happens next will break your heart

Angry GTA4 Fan Creates Freeze Page On YouTube

This page is solely dedicated to the individuals, whether owners of a playstation 3 or xbox360, who have been affected by the GTA4 freezing epidemic and also for those who have lost their entire gaming systems to the problem as well.

The Watergate History

A burglary at a Washington office complex called the Watergate in June 1972 grew into wide-ranging political scandal that culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon two years later.This is the history:

Which is the real psychopath?

Quite the resemblance!

ABC News : John Stossel : Cheap on Charity

Another report on Who Really Cares. They compare South Dakota and San Fransisco and who contributes more ?

Slow motion video of a laser beam on an aluminum target

"These test results reveal the functioning of several mechanisms when the laser is used to destroy a target: thermal heating of the high explosive to ignition; increased material removal due to combustion of certain materials from the increased oxygen during air flight; and aerodynamic forces that literally rip the membrane from the annealed..."