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Top news on 10 August 2009 |
The 10 Worst Video Game Systems of All Time
Truly Terrible Game Consoles: Since the appearance of the first video game console--the Magnavox Odyssey--in 1972, dozens of companies have tried their hands at crafting successful and lucrative game platforms. Each new machine brought with it the promise of a compelling, novel gaming experience, but the vast majority failed miserably to deliver.
Hard Electronic Music Fest Shut Down by LA County Fire Dept
Saturday's all-night electronic event Hard Summer at the Forum was shut down by 10pm. The event was declared a "hazard" by the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The Forum has a capacity of about 18,000 people. According to the Hard Summer website, the event was sold out. The crowd was chanting "We want music" and "***** this *****."
Roddy White ends holdout and becomes 2nd highest paid WR
The Atlanta Falcons and Pro Bowl wide receiver Roddy White have agreed on a six-year contract extension worth $50 million dollars, with $18.6 million dollars guaranteed.
Meth in the madness - Fresno, California
Fresno in California has been on the slide for years. Joblessness, urban sprawl, social breakdown, it's got them all, along with - not coincidentally - one of the worst meth problems in America. Methamphetamine gives dizzying highs but is acutely addictictive and wrecks the body. So why do people do it, asks Louis Theroux.
Taliban's top two successors kill each other in argument
Taliban's top two successors kill each other in an argument over who should be the next in line to succeed.
How much do stores jack up ambient lighting to sell you HDTV
HDTV retailers boost the brightness in their stores (including on the sets themselves) to entice buyers. Why? In part because bright screens can mask poor black-level performance on cheaper sets. But then some buyers are then surprised when sets that ?pop? in a store appear far more muted when they are hooked up in the living room.
The 8 Most Insulting Attempts to Raise Money for a Cause
Getting people to just give you their hard-earned cash can be difficult, especially if you're a prick.
Mouse Builds Nest in Oregon ATM With $20 Bills
A mouse found inside an automatic teller machine ? along with a nest it had built with chewed-up $20 bills ? gave an Oregon gas station employee the surprise of her life.
Reuters Happy to Take Traffic the AP Doesn't want
For those of you interested in the online news industry and the never-ending controversial discussion surrounding the Associated Press, linking, fair use, etc., you should be interested in reading what Chris Ahearn, Media President at Thomas Reuters has to say.
Luxury Resorts offer Survivor Packages (No Beds, Lights, TP)
A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 a night â?? if you don't mind sleeping in a tent. For $19, guests give up breakfast, air conditioning, lights, sheets and even the bed. Staff will remove the mattress and headboard and leave a small tent instead.
Publicis Groupe to buy Microsoft's Razorfish
French advertising group Publicis Groupe SA has agreed to acquire Internet ad agency Razorfish from Microsoft for $530 million in cash and stock.
Splitter 2 (Game)
Slice and dice your way to victory over 32 levels!
I Want To Love Firefox 3.5, But It Keeps Crashing On Me
Firefox keep crashing and it has been reported by many user. If you open 10-15 tabs Firefox can not handle it. What's up with that Mozilla?
Typhoon forces evacuation of 1 million Chinese
Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people Sunday, a day after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.
50 expert tips to make your PC faster
The road to a faster PC starts by properly optimising your hardware. While some of these procedures can be risky, they can also prove very effective, often delivering direct and noticeable performance gains in every area of your system.
Slump Makes Nigeria's Online Scammers Work That Much Harder
Online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times, the scammer said earnestly.
How To Create An Ubuntu Installation USB On The Mac
I just let myself be lured into buying a Netbook for my daughter. It was a good deal actually and I love the machine. The only problem is that it came with no
16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap
Easier ways to share files online...
Hawks' Kane arrested for robbing, assaulting cab driver
Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane and his cousin were arrested for assaulting and robbing a cab driver in Buffalo, according to several news sources in that city.
New antibiotic resistant superbug found in Britain
A new superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics has been brought into Britain by patients having surgery abroad, Government scientists said. Doctors are urged to be vigilent for a new bug that has arriving in Britain with patients who have travelled to India and Pakistan for cosmetic surgery or organ transplants and is now circulating here.
Earcandy is the next cool thing you want in Linux
This volume manager could mute music in your amarok or rhythombox or literally any music player when you play some video in youtube(i am not lying) or VLC or other video players. Mute is not the right word, but instead the music slowly fades away, and the sound from video player fades in. Sounds promising eh? But it is much better than you think.
iTunes 9 rumored to have Blu-ray, social media support
A new report suggests that the next version of Apple's iTunes could carry support for Blu-ray discs, visual management and rearrangement capabilities for App Store software, and integration with social media Web sites.
Make the most of large drives with GPT and Linux
Once a faraway problem, an important barrier in disk storage is fast becoming a reality: the venerable master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme can't fully handle disks larger than 2TB. With 1TB-hard disks now common and 2TB-disks becoming available, forward-looking individuals are thinking about alternatives to the MBR partitioning scheme.
Google Voice Can Sneak onto iPhone
Here's a way around Apple's initial ban on a Voice over IP application. The all-things-phone-management application (which was widely speculated to have been rejected for threatening AT&T profits on calling plans) will be remade as a stylized Web site that offers everything the rejected app would have.
Underworld 4 Happening In 3-D
Shock Till You Drop confirms that Sony?s Screen Gems is moving forward on Underworld 4, and planning it for a January 2011 release. There?s a twist this time. Underworld 4 will be in 3-D.
Hitting on Married Woman FAIL
A banner warning former NBA star Reggie Miller off of married women was flown over southern California beaches. Seems Miller's been accused of trying to dip his Dunkaroos in someone else's frosting cup, and we've got the restraining order to prove it.
Show Trial of protesters seems only to hurt Iran
The alleged French spy stood at the lectern in Tehran on Saturday and described her dastardly act of collusion. Clotilde Reiss, a pale, soft-spoken 24-year-old who had been teaching French in the central Iranian city of Isfahan when she was arrested, confessed to sending a single e-mail to a colleague in the capital.
Surface Features On Titan Form Like Earth's
Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two new pieces of research. Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like processes all sculpt features on Titan's complex and varied surface.
Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About?
The first signs of illness in Suleiman Djarra appeared during a heavy rainstorm.
Classic: Neighbor stealing your wifi? Time for some fun!
My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.
uTorrent?s 2.0 Beta Finally a Good Citizen
Almost four years since uTorrent had its debut, the development team has now released a version 2.0 Beta of their BitTorrent client with significant improvements and updates.
Psychologists offer ways to improve prison environments
U.S. prisons are too punitive and oftPsychologists offer ways to improve prison environment, reduce violent crimeen fail to rehabilitate, but targeting prisoners' behavior, reducing prison populations and offering job skills could reduce prisoner aggression and prevent recidivism,
GE, Fox, and Clear Channel let the crazy-train roll
What happens when you get three pumpkin heads of the airwaves shouting at each other as their conglomerate parents try to rein them in? You get a whole lot of crazy! But that's crazy like a fox -- because all this media attention about the pumpkin heads and their corporate minders is good for ratings.
Earth's Most Prominent Rainfall Feature Creeping Northward
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years. If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile a year, which is the average for all the years it has been moving north, then some Pacific islands near...
World?s First LEED Platinum Data Center Opens in Germany
Designed by leading sustainable architecture and engineering firm Arup Associates, the 230,000-square-foot facility?s efficient use of energy and resource-conserving design have made it the first data center in the world to achieve LEED Platinum! That?s no small task considering the energy required to keep stacks of servers running smoothly.
Health care opponent calls for town hall violence on Twitter
Talking Points Memo reports that a health care protester in New Mexico has been encouraging those following him on Twitter to bring their guns to town hall meetings ? and use them against ACORN and SEIU if provoked. SEIU, in particular, appears the to be latest boogeyman for the anti-health care protesters.
WTF: Doctors say Baby Died but Man Finds him Alive in Coffin
Paraguayans have hailed a "miracle" after a grieving father opened his baby son's coffin and discovered that the infant was still alive hours after doctors pronounced him dead. Definitely need a better health care system there !!!
Wine 1.1.27 Released
- New version of the Gecko engine. - New GSM 06.10 codec support. - Improved support for the disk volume APIs. - Support for XShm pixmaps for better performance. - Various bug fixes.
Remembrances, Mike Seeger Cleared Paths, Showed Us The Way
Mike Seeger, whose love for traditional songs and tunes inspired many other musicians ? including Bob Dylan ? to look for the rural roots of American music, died of cancer Friday night at his home in Lexington, Va. He was 75.
Study: How Facebook is Destroying Relationships
Never mind the perils of cyber-stalking, cyber-bullying and posting photos that could endanger your future job prospects: Facebook could be ruining your relationship and driving you toward compulsively jealous behavior.
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