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Army Corps to Cut Down All Trees Near Levees
The Army Corps of Engineers has decided all trees must be cut down that are within 15 feet of a levee. From sycamores in Louisiana to cottonwoods in California, the corps is concerned tree roots could undermine barriers meant to protect low lying communities.
Ten Tips for Finding Grants to Make Your Business Greener
Here are some helpful hints for businesses interested in earning some extra cash by going green.
Who consumes the most alcohol in the world?
Australians are now the world's undisputed beer-swilling kings - with even the Irish failing to keep the pace of our outback booze hounds. A report has shown Northern Territorians drink 15 litres of pure alcohol each year - three times the global average.
Linux 2.6.30's best five features
Step by step Linux keeps getting better. Here's the best of the latest release's features.
Sale of Phoenix Coyotes Rejected by Bankruptcy Court
In the 21-page document he said the court didn't believe there was enough time to resolve all the various issues before the sale of the insolvent team to Balsillie for US$212.5 million that was due to close June 29.
School & Government Websites Hacked to Sell Viagra and Porn
The hacked websites, which include primary schools, universities, the Driving Standards Association and various local government websites, such the Historic Scotland heritage site, have fallen victim to hackers exploiting loopholes in badly designed software.The websites were affected in different ways.
WSJ.com - Opinion: The IRS Phones Home
What's next, a tax on each sip of office coffee? The IRS believes that some percentage of the costs incurred by employees using company-provided wireless devices should count as a "fringe benefit" and thus be subject to taxation.
AT&T signals an abrupt end for prepaid iPhone plans
AT&T seems to be using pretty underhanded tactics to get prepaid iPhone users to move over to new plans. They're also requiring those users to sign new 2 year contracts even if they aren't purchasing a new handset.
Adobe Acrobat-ics: How to Masterfully Manage Projects in PDF
You can use PDF documents as small, flexible, Internet-safe files for managing documents in a collaborative project that requires input from several people. And with PDF, you can view and comment on the exact layout, which isn?t possible in text-based applications....
How to Save Your Vista MCE Recordings
A Windows Vista Media Center PC with a digital tuner is all you need to capture, save, and edit broadcast footage in HD.
Why Calvin Klein hopes you hate its racy new billboard
Are you absolutely out-of-your-mind furious about that new Calvin Klein billboard showing a cluster of half-dressed young folks in what appears to be the prelude to an orgy? A lot of people are, apparently. If you're one of them, here's the best thing you can do about it: Nothing.
Tehran is running scared of the forces of freedom
Iran seldom admits the international media. Election times are an exception so the world can see the Islamic republic's glorious democracy in action. Well it seemed like democracy until the charade ended abruptly, with a landslide victory for Ahmadinejad, and then the crackdown began.
So When Does The Writers Strike Stop Ruining Movies?
Hollywood writers went on strike in 2007-2008, but we're only seeing the results now, in a crop of summer movies with half-baked scripts and abnormally dunderheaded writing. So when do we start seeing some movies that the strike didn't wreck?
Silk Road Threatened By Melting Glaciers
The Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded ? and the culprit, researchers say, is climate change. Melting glaciers sitting above the Hexi corridor in Gansu province, once an important trading and military route into Central Asia, are fuelling dramatic regional floods.
8 Starship Enterprise Facts Every Trekker Should Know
To boldly go where no man has gone before, you'd need a really good starship - and to launch Star Trek, the pop culture phenomenon that entertained and inspired millions, you'd need a pretty darned good one! And that is exactly what the United Space Starship Enterprise delivered.
The Surprising Tale of a Couple?s Battle with Modern Pirates
... they just don't make pirates like they used to.
Bruce Lee mixer
This site is awesome. You are the video editor. Use your keyboard to create Bruce Lee kung-fu fight scenes blow-by-blow, with simple control over timing, overdubs, music and sound - and you can record and play the results.
Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing marijuana
The savage Mexican drug war. Crumbling state budgets. The election of a president who said, "Yes ? I inhaled." These developments are kindling unprecedented optimism among the many Americans who want marijuana legalized. Doing so could weaken cartels profiting from U.S. pot sales, save billions in enforcement costs, and generate billions in taxes.
Cell Phone Giants To Explain Senate Why Texting Is Expensive
Representatives from Verizon, AT&T, and Cricket will be faced with questions from US Senators on why those short 160 character SMS messages are so darn expensive these days. Text messaging can cost from .01 cents to...
How Facebook Is Affecting School Reunions
The ability to locate former classmates through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and, well, the Internet itself, has alumni organizations and other such groups wondering if the sun is setting on the traditionally organized reunion.
Critical Java security hole affecting Tiger, Leopard [Apple]
Apple on Monday finally got around to patching a widely-publicized security flaw in the version of Java shipping with Mac OS X, which could leave a Mac open to attack while browsing the web.
Exclusive Interview With "Moon" Director, Duncan Jones
Making a cerebral sci-fi film on an indie budget isn't easy, especially when it requires your star to tackle simultaneous dual roles. Yet that's exactly what 38-year-old writer/director Duncan Jones -- son of rock legend David Bowie.
Sneaky speed bumps actually power supermarket's check out
Saintsbury's has installed "Kinetic Road Plates" at the supermarket giant's new store in Gloucester, U.K. The new technology harnesses enough energy from vehicles driving in and out of the store's car park to power all the store's check outs. The kinetic energy system is just one of a raft of environmental technologies featured at the new store.
NVIDIA Announces New GeForce 200M Series GPUs
NVIDIA has just announced a bevy of new mobile GPUs in the GeForce 200M series. Unlike some previous mobile products, however, the GPUs in this release are based on all new silicon, and not a re-branded version of the G92 that has served NVIDIA so well over the years.
The Dawn of Quantum Applications
Technologies that exploit the unique weirdness of quantum mechanics could debut in the very near future, thanks to the groundbreaking work of a huge European research consortium. Unbreakable cryptography, unimaginable simulations of profoundly complex problems and super-fast networks are just some of the promise held out by quantum computing.
Tennis officials plan crackdown on noisy "grunting" players
A loud grunt as a ball is served down the court has almost become as part of the Wimbledon fabric as strawberries and cream but that could all be about to change as tennis officials are considering a ban on emitting too much noise. Includes list of Top 10 Grunters in decibels.
Universal Music and Virgin Media in Anti-Piracy Pact
The unusual agreement unites the leading music publisher with a broadband company to combat online theft.
'FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE!'? Or, 'How headline writers create news'
"Fear grips Google?" Over Bing? ? You have to hand it to the tabloid headline writers at the New York Post: They know nothing if not how to turn the tiniest spark into a five-alarm conflagration.
'Cloak of Silence' Tech Could Hide Submarines
A new invisibility cloak for sound could help doctors find tiny tumors or hide submarines from enemy sonar.
Google's digital book future hangs in the balance
Google, the company best equipped and most motivated to digitize the world's books, wants to offer the world an online Library of Alexandria
'Hangover' Sequel Confirmed
Now that The Hangover is a bona fide hit, talk of a sequel is inevitable. And the film's director Todd Phillips (Old School) says that while a follow-up to the drunken day-after comedy has been in discussions since before the film was even finished, a sequel is now confirmed to be in the works.
Milestone: 500th Astronaut Heads for Space
A little-noticed but historic milestone will be reached this week when the 500th person ever to fly in space blasts off. Chris Cassidy, 39, who has led combat missions in Afghanistan, will take the honor.
The World's 20 Richest Women
Christy Walton, widow of John Walton (and worth $20 billion), tops the list of 20 women worth a combined net worth of $160 billion. At number 20, Rosalia Mera of Spain is a self-made billionaire who started out helping then-husband Amancio Ortega make dressing gowns and lingerie in their home.
Exclusive: Introducing the Warpship
Until now, there has been little idea about what a spaceship propelled by a warp drive (or a warpship) would look like. Would it resemble the sleek Starship Enterprise? Or will it be like nothing we've seen before? So here's your exclusive look at what could be the future warp drive propulsion...
Apple's iTunes Now Nation's Largest Music Seller
Apple?s iTunes is now the nation?s largest music seller - with 20 percent of the market. Amazon has about 8 percent. And some studies show most music is now downloaded for free illegally.
The cephalopods can hear you
Octopus and squid can hear. The discovery resolves a century-long debate over whether cephalopods, the group of sea creatures that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses, can hear sounds underwater.
13 Comic Book Objects That Belong In Warehouse 13
In celebration of this super show, here's the Top 13 coolest objects from the comic-verse that would fit perfectly on the vast shelves in Warehouse 13.
I Applied for 300 Jobs (Still Didn't Hear from McDonald's)
How hard is it to find a job these days? Esquire's guy applied for more than three hundred over several weeks ? and ended up with eight interviews. Real jobs, real interviews, real pain in the...
Top 23 Funny YouTube Clips You Haven?t Seen Yet
Because he doesn?t want the world to miss out on a racist, Jesus-loving puppet sing-along on his account, here they are: the best leftovers from two years dedicated to combing YouTube?s funniest, stupidest videos. Dig in, feel free to forward, and try not to cry laughing.
Why Wealthy Nations Are Stiffing Africa
It may be no surprise, in light of the global economic recession, that the world's richest nations have failed to deliver much of the aid they promised Africa four years ago. But campaigners are not letting the Group of Eight (G-8) industrialized countries off the hook.
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