| 2009-07-03 20:40 |
|
Digg |
|
Taliban Slip Away From Afghanistan Surge Battle - WSJ.com
The U.S. embarked on a large offensive in southern Afghanistan Thursday in which one Marine was killed, while in the east the military mobilized to recover a soldier apparently captured by the Taliban.......
|
| 2009-07-03 20:20 |
|
Slashdot |
|
Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books
theodp writes "Three Amazon inventors set out to correct what they felt was a real problem: that 'out-of-print or rare books ... typically do not include advertisements ... the content is fixed and, therefore, has not been adapted to modern marketing.' Their solution is spelled out in newly-disclosed Amazon patent applications for On-Demand Generating E-Book Content with Advertising and Incorporating Advertising in On-Demand Generated Content. From the patent apps, here's what the future of reading may look like: 'For instance, if a restaurant is described on page 12, [then the advertising page], either on page 11 or page 13, may include advertisements about restaurants, wine, food, etc., which are related to restaurants and dining.' So, what would a delightfully-tacky-yet-unrefined Hooters ad do for your Hemingway experience?"...
|
| 2009-07-03 20:20 |
|
Fark |
|
There are safer ways to remove weeds around your home than by using a flame thrower. Not as fun or effective, but safer [Dumbass]
[link] [6 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 20:20 |
|
Digg |
|
Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot | Salon
And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"......
|
| 2009-07-03 20:10 |
|
Digg |
|
Photographer Learned About VIBE Shutdown in Mid-Shoot
David Anthony's photos of skateboarder Chaz Ortiz will never make it into VIBE, which folded Tuesday as the shoot was in progress.......
|
| 2009-07-03 20:10 |
|
Digg |
|
Amazing Bottle Art: How to Recycle Glass Bottles
Here are some awesome ideas for you how yo recycle glass bottles:......
|
| 2009-07-03 20:00 |
|
Fark |
|
South Carolina serial killer blamed for 4 deaths in the past week [Scary]
[link] [13 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:50 |
|
Digg |
|
Ten ways to smooth the switch to Linux
Without sending users on some sort of boot camp, changing the preconceptions of users may seem a daunting task. But there are ways to ease the pain of learning Linux.......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:40 |
|
Fark |
|
Photoshop theme: It's a small world [Photoshop]
[link] [20 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:40 |
|
Fark |
|
"Startled" kids in arcade get anti-drug lesson as police tase naked 19-year-old who thinks he's the Terminator [Amusing]
[link] [7 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:40 |
|
Fark |
|
Warren Buffet gives 30% less this year, donates a paltry $1.25B to Gates Foundation [Cool]
[link] [3 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:40 |
|
Digg |
|
"Fringe" Producer Writing a Movie Based on Fisher-Price Toy
And you thought that Asteroids movie was a far-fetched idea? "Fringe" co-producer and writer Brad Caleb Kane will be writing a movie based on Fisher-Price's View-Master toy. Kane later confirmed the news on his Twitter adding that, "it'll be like the old 80's Amblin movies: Goonies, Young Sherlock⦠In that vein."......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:30 |
|
Slashdot |
|
Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web"
cin62 writes "The number of Internet scammers offering fake versions of the anti-swine flu drug Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, reports CNN. Since the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, was declared a global pandemic last month, there has been an increase in the number of Web sites and junk emails offering Tamiflu for sale. 'Every Web site that used to sell Viagra is now selling Tamiflu. We are pretty sure that the same people are making the Tamiflu as are making the Viagra,' said Director of Policy for the UK's Royal Pharmaceutical Society." This news fits in nicely with a report Wired ran a couple weeks ago about the hysteria behind H1N1....
|
| 2009-07-03 19:30 |
|
Fark |
|
A bevy of mugshot subjects are decked out in red, white and blue this week -- as well as one in black and blue [Amusing]
[link] [13 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:20 |
|
Digg |
|
How Nerds can Feel More Like Jocks (on paper, at least)
*****......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:10 |
|
Fark |
|
Tomorrow, the crown of the Statue of Liberty will be open to visitors for the first time since 9/11 [Cool]
[link] [8 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 19:00 |
|
Fark |
|
Great news, everyone - investigative reporting finds some strip clubs have pretty decent food [Spiffy]
[link] [18 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:50 |
|
Digg |
|
North Korea Launhes Beer! Less Threatening, Tastes Great
North Korea's latest launch is not missiles, but a TV campaign for a locally-brewed beer. features a thirsty worker holding a mug of frothy beer. Young women in traditional Korean dress are shown serving trays of beer to men in Western suits. Billed as the "Pride of Pyongyang"......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:40 |
|
Slashdot |
|
Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released
jadoon88 writes to share a series of old Atari 7800 games that have been unofficially open sourced. "Remember Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari's 7800 series was still around. Since the era of those consoles is over, and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari has unofficially released source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire the state-of-the-art (because this is what it was back then). During those times, nobody would have imagined in their wildest dreams the games that Atari's developers floated into the gaming thirsty market and instantly swept across continental boundaries. But things changed soon after that and a company once regarded as one of the most successful gaming console manufacturers and developers faded away in the pages of our technology's hall-of-fame."...
|
| 2009-07-03 18:30 |
|
Digg |
|
The Strange Ingredients in Fireworks
Fireworks for the 4th of July are all about light, color and sound. But inside, there are some bizarre ingredients, from aluminum to Vaseline and even the stuff of rat poison.......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:20 |
|
Fark |
|
Why athletes stick to their lucky underwear. Now, if only someone could explain why subby's lucky underwear sticks to him [Interesting]
[link] [5 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:20 |
|
Digg |
|
Apple prepares iPhone SMS patch
Security experts have discovered a flaw in the way Apple's iPhone handles text messages, prompting the company to ready a patch to fix the issue.......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:00 |
|
Digg |
|
The Cost of Doing Something
Declaiming the price of "inaction" is a perennial argument for big government and bad law.......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:00 |
|
Digg |
|
Wall of Bacon [PHOTOS]
"If god hadn't wanted us to eat animals then he wouldn't have made them out of meat"......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:00 |
|
Digg |
|
Dog-Cat-Rat Man Fined for Drawing Big Crowds
Gregory Pike, San Francisco's renowned "Dog-Cat-Rat Man," was found guilty this afternoon on a misdemeanor charge of public obstruction for drawing large crowds at the corner of Geary and Powell with his beloved animal act.......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:00 |
|
Digg |
|
BMW Electric Bike Saves The Planet But Not People
The Halbo takes up about half the space of a conventional motorbike, according to the designer. Its front wheel is standard, gyro-assisted, and even propels the vehicle. The rear wheel, which is spherical and attached to a mounted arm, pivots from side-to-side for balance...and just a little less death.......
|
| 2009-07-03 18:00 |
|
Digg |
|
Flash DOOM 2D (Platformer)
DOOM is back as 2D Jump-N-Run Game.......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:50 |
|
Fark |
|
"Is Facebook an Israeli plot to control the world?" [Amusing]
[link] [9 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:50 |
|
Fark |
|
Introducing Ript, the push-up bra for men. Wait, aren't they all? [Silly]
[link] [9 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:40 |
|
Slashdot |
|
How To Get Your Program Professionally Marketed?
one-man orchestra writes "I'm the sole programmer of a small, multi-platform, commercial audio program (a spectrogram editor). After over 6 months on the market, I realized that the program would never just sell itself, and that I need some real marketing done for it. Being a one-man orchestra is becoming increasingly difficult; I only can devote so much time to marketing, my skills in that department are lacking, and I'd much rather spend more time coding. Despite my lackluster part-time marketing effort, I still manage to make a modest living out of the sales. My logical assumption is that with someone competent taking care of that part, revenue could greatly scale up. But what's the right way to go about doing this? What type of people/company do I need to contact? What to expect? What to look out for?"...
|
| 2009-07-03 17:40 |
|
Digg |
|
APOD: 2009 July 3 - Perihelion and Aphelion
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:40 |
|
Digg |
|
How Accurate is Elena Dementieva?
But can she triple stamp a double stamp?......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:40 |
|
Digg |
|
Goldman Sachs created every major economic bubble since 1930
They use the same playbook over and over again: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. When it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again.......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:30 |
|
Fark |
|
Calgary's divorce rate jumps 40 percent after the Calgary Stampede. "Thousands of beautiful men and women come out of the woodwork at Stampede and people look incredibly sexy when you put them in a co
[link] [7 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:30 |
|
Digg |
|
The Best Web Browser for Secretly Watching Videos at Work
Double Vision is one of the best web browsers for this kind of thing - it lets you view and interact with two applications at the same time, without having to switch windows again and again. So, you could be working on your presentation and watching your favorite video or even better - a related tutorial at the same time.......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:20 |
|
Slashdot |
|
Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance
A recent eulogy for open source's relevance to cloud computing by Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady caught the attention of Matt Asay, who breaks down the difficulty of this David and Goliath problem. "In a world where horsepower matters more than the software feeding those 'horses,' in terms of the entry cost to compete, and where big vendors like Amazon and Google are already divvying up the market, the odds of a small-fry, open-source start-up challenging 'Goliath' are slim. It's not a new argument: Nick Carr has been suggesting for some time that only a few, big companies can afford relevance in this hardware-intensive business. Given this fact, O'Grady thinks the best we can hope for (and he thinks it's pretty important) is 'a loose coalition or confederation of [open-source] projects and vendors that will together comprise an increasingly viable top to bottom alternative to some of the cloud providers today.' He includes projects like Puppet (Reductive Labs) and Hadoop in this mix, but is careful to point out that he doesn't see a full-fledged, open-source alternative seriously challenging the closed platforms of Google, Amazon, Salesforce, and the other mega-clouds."...
|
| 2009-07-03 17:20 |
|
Slashdot |
|
Phoenix Lander Discovers Nighttime Snowfall On Mars
Many outlets are reporting on the recently released results of the various experiments and observations of NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander. Most notable is the discovery of nighttime snowfall on the planet, lending credibility to the idea of a hypothesized active water cycle based on earlier data collection. "The papers rely on evidence from a variety of the instruments on the lander, and the description of the data provides an impressive catalog of the various ways that Phoenix could prod and query the Martian pole. In the months before Martian winter shut the lander down, it managed to dig a dozen trenches, taking soil samples from each. These samples went into wet and dry chemistry labs, had their conductivity tested, and were even examined using an atomic force microscope. Meanwhile, cameras and a LIDAR system (a laser-based range detector) scanned the surroundings. The overall conclusion is that the northern pole has an active water cycle. This had been suggested by a variety of evidence from orbital sensors, as well early images returned from Phoenix. It's also not a huge shock, given the seasonal growth and retreat of the polar ice cap. Still, Phoenix provided some significant details on the cycling of water in the area where it landed."...
|
| 2009-07-03 17:20 |
|
Fark |
|
"Well, I guess this is a swamp, shark that lives in the swamp. You could call it a swamp shark." [Scary]
[link] [3 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:10 |
|
Digg |
|
Man stares death in the face, and then takes a picture of it
*****......
|
| 2009-07-03 17:00 |
|
Digg |
|
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will not run for re-election
Palin has scheduled a 3 p.m. ET news conference at her home in Wasilla. The governorâs office offered no further details about the subject of the news conference, but the sources tells CNN that Palin will announce her decision to forgo another run.......
|
| 2009-07-03 16:50 |
|
Slashdot |
|
Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students
Hugh Pickens writes "Retired University of Tennessee Professor Dr. John Reece Roth has been sentenced to four years in prison after he allowed a Chinese graduate student to see sensitive information on Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones. In 2004, the company Roth helped found, Atmospheric Glow Technologies, won a US Air Force contract to develop a plasma actuator that could help reduce drag on the wings of drones, such as the ones the military uses. Under the contract, for which Roth was reportedly paid $6,000, he was prohibited from sharing sensitive data with foreign nationals. Despite warnings from his university's Export Control Officer, in 2006, Roth took a laptop containing sensitive plans with him on a lecture tour in China and also allowed graduate students Xin Dai of China and Sirous Nourgostar of Iran to work on the project. 'The illegal export of restricted military data represents a serious threat to national security,' says David Kris of the US Department of Justice. 'We know that foreign governments are actively seeking this information for their own military development. Today's sentence should serve as a warning to anyone who knowingly discloses restricted military data in violation of our laws.' During his trial, Roth testified that he was unaware that hiring the graduate students was a violation of his contract. 'This whole thing has not helped me, it has not helped the university,' said Roth. 'And it has probably not helped this country, either.'"...
|
| 2009-07-03 16:50 |
|
Fark |
|
Gold's Gym has named July "Cankle Awareness Month" [Amusing]
[link] [5 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 16:50 |
|
Fark |
|
Michael Jackson had asked Nadya Suleman about adopting the Octots to offer them a bright future and because "Blanket would love to have more siblings." [Weird]
[link] [5 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 16:40 |
|
Digg |
|
Solar Power from Outer Space: Microwaves and Frickin' Lasers
In order to meet our world's rising energy needs, and to help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, some ideas that seem right out of a science fiction novel are picking up steam with start-ups and investors. But does using satellites for energy production really make sense financially or environmentally?......
|
| 2009-07-03 16:20 |
|
Digg |
|
NY thieves want iPhones, victims fight back
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology.One device allows a user to remotely activate a loud siren designed......
|
| 2009-07-03 16:10 |
|
Digg |
|
The Making of 'Batman Arkham Asylum'
Take a first look at the 'Inside the Asylum' Video.......
|
| 2009-07-03 16:10 |
|
Digg |
|
The FDA and Painkillers: What's Safe Now?
The recent recommendation by an FDA advisory panel to do away with acetaminophen-containing prescription painkillers raised many questions for consumers. Here are some answers.............
|
| 2009-07-03 16:00 |
|
Slashdot |
|
Copyright Should Encourage Derivative Works
Techdirt has an interesting look at copyright and the idea that an author is the originator of a new work. Instead, the piece suggests that all works are in some way based on the works of others (even our own copyright law), and the system should be much more encouraging of "remixing" work into new, unique experiences. "Friedman also points back to another recent post where he discusses the nature of content creation, based on a blog post by Rene Kita. In it, she points out that remixing and creating through collaboration and building on the works of others has always been the norm. It's what we do naturally. It's only in the last century or so, when we reached a means of recording, manufacturing and selling music — which was limited to just those with the machinery and capital to do it, that copyright was suddenly brought out to 'protect' such things."...
|
| 2009-07-03 15:40 |
|
Fark |
|
Englishwoman dials emergency hotline to report missing hamster. Dispatcher suggests she call Top Gere instead [Amusing]
[link] [7 comments]......
|
| 2009-07-03 15:40 |
|
Fark |
|
ASCAP trying to claim ring-tones are public performance, you now owe Air Supply $100,000 [Asinine]
[link] [17 comments]......
|
Newslookup.com - Forum Watch