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Top news on 19 August 2009 |
What Recession? Panera Bread Co. Debuts $17 Lobster Sandwich
"Most of the world seems to be focused on the Americans who are unemployed," says Panera Chief Executive Ron Shaich. "We're focused on the 90% that are still employed." Ah. Is that why Bread Co. won't cut us a break with recession specials or extra value meals? In a word, yes.
How to Eat on Just $1 per Day
A pair of schoolteacher-writers gave themselves the toughest of all restrictions: All their food had to cost no more than $1 per day per person. After all, if a billion people across the world can do it... why not?
Why Remakes Are Not Actually A Blight On Society
Is there anything Hollywood does that raises movie geeks? ire as much as remakes? Here's an interesting counterpoint to the argument...
New Low: Man Passes Fake $20 Bill at Lemonade Stand
A Seattle family says a couple passed a bogus $20 bill at their daughter's lemonade stand. It happened Sunday afternoon at the family's garage sale in North Seattle.
Hurricane Bill Still Growing- U.S. East Coast on Watch
Hurricane Bill headed west-northwest over the open Atlantic Tuesday on a path toward Bermuda that would likely keep it clear of the U.S. East Coast but could spell trouble for Canada's.
The Science Behind District 9's Blood Splattering Alien Guns
The big bad alien controlled weapons confiscated from the alien inhabitants of District 9 make a blood-splattering mess of their targets. We talked to director Neill Blomkamp about his scientific inspiration behind these killing machines, and the violence. Minor spoilers...
Surfing Since 1991: The Evolution of Web Browsers [PICS]
No matter which browser you choose to surf the web with, the features you take for granted today are the result of nearly two decades of browser design. We take you through a visual tour of every major web browser that ever was, starting with the very first one: WorldWideWeb.
Astros Send 14-Time All-Star Pudge Rodriguez Back to Rangers
Ivan Rodriguez is coming home to the Texas Rangers. The 14-time All-Star catcher who started his career with the Rangers at age 19 was acquired in a trade Tuesday with the Houston Astros for minor league pitcher Matt Nevarez and two players to be named later.
New Beatles Rock Band Trailer Arrives, Alleged Track List
Another sneak peek at the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band has been released, which again shows the amazing attention to detail that went into producing a game worthy of the Fab Fours esteemed catalog.
iPhone apps are spyware: PANIC!
Some iPhone applications are phoning home with some scarily detailed information about you and your usage patterns. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dissect the news, and wonder if it's the spyware story all over again.
Man Born With Heart Outside Chest Celebrates 34th Birthday |
How long could you live with your heart outside your chest? For Christopher Wall it's 34 years and counting. Having just celebrated his birthday on Monday,
In Beep Ball, Umpires Aren't Blind, But the Players Are
At beep baseball's World Series, the West Coast Dawgs triumph in a version of the national pastime for the blind.
Real-Life Decepticons: Robots Learn to Cheat
In an experiment that sounds like a deleted scene from one of the Terminator movies, robots with artificial animal-inspired brains quickly evolved to deceive one another.
Cloaking Technology May Protect From Natural Disasters
Researchers have developed a new cloaking method that may someday be used to shield buildings and oil rigs from the devastating effects of earthquakes and tsunamis.
Hurricane Bill: How to Track it Online
Felicia is fading, but Bill is building. Forming early Monday, Hurricane Bill sustained winds of 90 mph which are expected to climb to 110 mph ? putting it in the running to become a major hurricane in the next couple of days.
PlayStation 3 Slim unboxing and hands-on!
The PlayStation 3 Slim is now officially in-house, and it's a matte-laden beauty!
NVIDIA's HD-Capable Tegra Chip Powers Zune HD
Michael Rayfield, general manager of NVIDIA?s mobile business,stated that Tegra "provides the multimedia muscle in Zune HD," alsoproclaiming that users will simply "love the device?s new design,amazing multimedia features and HD video out capability."
From ?Tentpoles? to ?Oscar Hopefuls?: The seasons of cinema
It's no secret that movies are, in general, a seasonal industry. But it's gotten out of hand.
Search For Green Power On & Off Of The Grid
Hundreds of utilities around the U.S. ? and a growing number of companies ? are offering customers a chance to buy green power. Businesses use them to promote their environmental consciousness. But where does the power come from?
Artificial Tongue Is Sweeter Than Real Thing
A new artificial tongue is better than the real thing when it comes to sensing subtle differences in sweeteners, including the many natural and artificial variations used in beverages, cakes, cookies and chewing gum.
Douchebag Defines "Bipartisanship"
On today's "Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan" on MSNBC, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that even if the committee's final version of a health insurance reform bill gives him everything he says he wants, he will vote against it.
B.C. university introduces grade worse than F
It used to be that the worst grade you could receive in school was an F, and that was bad enough. But now B.C.'s Simon Fraser University is taking punishment to a whole new level.
Man Drives Snowmobile on Highway with No Snow - gets DUI #5
COLCHESTER, Vt. -- Police arrested a Colchester man Saturday morning for driving an unusual vehicle under the influence.
The 10 Most Infamous Internet Animals Of All Time
It took them a while to catch on to the whole internet thing, but animals are finally starting to capitalize on their animal behavior. Animals are some of the biggest stars the history of the internet and as they become more popular who knows what will happen.
What Does Googles Customer Satisfaction Rating Mean for Bing?
According to the results of a new survey by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, Google's users are extremely happy with their search engine. Google scored 86 points out ...
20 Fall Movies We Can't Wait to See
Summer's almost over, but there's a lot to look forward to at the multiplex before the end of the year; here are the coming attractions we've got high hopes for, from ''9'' to ''Jennifer's Body'' to ''Where the Wild Things Are'' to ''Avatar''
Snes On An Xbox360
Surprisingly the Xbox 360 hasn?t seen a lot of homebrew action. [tmbinc] has taken it upon himself to port the Snes9x emulator to it. There?s no pretty GUI, and its not running on top of linux or anything. This is native, directly to the hardware emulation.
Mad Men's Secret Product Placements
The show's third season, which premiered Sunday (Aug. 16), featured placements with London Fog and Stolichnaya vodka that both brands said were engineered.
7 Reasons Why a District 9 Game Would Be Awesome
If you're anything like us, you walked out of the theater thinking a few things: (a) that Neill Blomkamp should direct a Halo movie and (b) District 9 would make a kick-ass video game experience. With that in mind, we humbly present 7 Reasons Why a District 9 Game Would Be Awesome.
A State-by-State Guide About Increasing U.S. Wildfires
More than 5 million acres of U.S. forests have burned so far in 2009, continuing a 10-year trend in above average forest wildfires.
Arsene Wenger predicts European super league within decade
A full-blown, midweek European League could be in place within a decade, according to Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.
The Edge of a Black Hole
This combined optical and X-ray deep image shows some of the faintest galaxies ever seen, along with the X-ray glow (in blue) from heated material in the environment of a black hole that is in the same region of the sky. Credit: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory
Elite 360 No Longer Ships With HD Cables
One of the things I appreciated most about my Xbox 360 Elite was that it shipped with a HDMI cable in the box, letting me get the most out of my system's visuals without the need for further expense. Thing is, I got my Elite years ago. If you plan on picking one up in the future, you won't be so lucky.
How Sam Adams Helped Save Craft Brewing
Making and drinking beer is serious business, says Boston Beer Founder, Jim Koch. But he's just as serious about doing right by his neighbors and his band of craft brewing brothers.
A Ceiling Made From What?!
This incredible ceiling art - known as Heaven of Delight, fantastic ceiling art created in four months using 1.6 million beetle shells
Why Haven't Signs of Intelligent ETs Been Discovered?
The world-renowned physicist Lee Smolin author of Life of the Cosmos says that what we should look for to confirm the existence of intelligent life in the Milky Way is a message left for us some time in the last several hundred million years.
Kids Recognize Faces Better Than Adults
Scientists have found one reason why children are better than adults at distinguishing between the faces of children.Using this test, called the composite illusion (or effect), Susilo and colleagues found that children had stronger holistic processing for other children than the adults did.
Erin Andrews in GQ...With Clothes On
Erin Andrews appears in the September issue of GQ magazine, as previously rumored, and the photos are finally available. These shots were taken back in April, and are pretty tame compared to what many people were predicting.
New Techniques Developed To Analyze Hebrew and Arabic Docs
Researchers in Israel will combine the scientific and scholarly expertise of their humanities and computer science experts in a new project to analyze degraded Hebrew documents. The effort to develop new computer algorithms combines scientific expertise in computer vision, computer graphics, image processing and computational geometry.
A Journalist's Look at How Journalists Look at Detroit
After suffering through the nation?s worst and most concentrated examples of racial violence, industrial collapse, serial arson, crack war, and municipal bankruptcy following years of municipal kleptocracy, Detroit is being descended on by a plague of reporters. Here's one writer's take on how journalists are covering Detroit and how they fail.
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