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Top news on 21 September 2009 |
Merge Records: 2 decades in the guitar-hero industry
Long before real estate and Wall Street collapsed, the music industry was already swooning. Executives were in a panic as consumers deserted the megastores and stayed home to download files illegally. But even as the biggest recording labels endured wrenching pain, a small label in North Carolina existed in a parallel universe.
Kids comedy 'Meatballs' reigns at box office
'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a new 3D animated feature based on a popular children's book, shone brightest at the weekend box office in North America on Sunday, overshadowing flops starring Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston and Megan Fox.
Top 10 games to look forward to this holiday season
Lots of games this year have been pushed to early 2010 because it was simply too crowded, thereā??s still a ton of great, quality AAA titles which will be released in the upcoming months.
Elm Street Legacy Teaser Trailer
Teaser trailer for DVD documentary NEVER SLEEP AGAIN: THE ELM STREET LEGACY.
Joe Wilson cast deciding vote giving Rx coverage to illegals
Joe Wilson cast a deciding vote in 2003 giving prescription coverage to illegal immigrants
German Youth Would Vote Pirate Party Into Parliament
Next week the German Pirate Party will compete in the elections for the German Parliament, but this week the country?s youth already cast their votes. In the youth polls nearly 9% of all votes went to the Pirate Party, a result that the party hopes to match in the upcoming election.
Beach NASA rocket launch = Geektastic vacation
GeekDad listed both Chincoteague and the Wallops NASA base on 100 More Geeky Places to Visit. This summer I enjoyed both at the same time as I stood in a
FDA to be aggressive in tobacco regulation
If there is any doubt about how aggressive the federal Food and Drug Administration intends to be in regulating tobacco, take a look at a letter the agency sent out last week.
Can a Daily Pill Really Boost Your Brain Power?
In America, university students are taking illegally obtained prescription drugs to make them more intelligent. Here, an investigation into the brave new world of neuro enhancement...
Three suspects arrested in U.S. terrorism probe
A Colorado man, his father and an accused accomplice in New York were arrested on Saturday and charged with lying to federal agents about a plot to blow up unspecified targets in the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Top Ten - Most Overhyped Games Ever Part 2
Part 2 covers the last two console generations, or when internet hype really took over.
Scientists Make Paralyzed Rats Walk After Spinal-Cord Injury
UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run again while supporting their full weight on a treadmill.
Top 10 Underhyped Webapps, 2009 Edition
As with rock music, video games, and other awesome pursuits, great web applications often don't get enough credit for what they do well. We're revisiting and updating our favorite underhyped webapps to give a new crop of contenders their due.
The most expensive fence in the U.S.
Is a pricey fence really the best method for keeping illegal immigration under control?Regardless of your opinions about illegal aliens and immigration policy, you should give a thought to whether $6.5 billion to patch up fencing that will probably be ripped open again is the best way to go.
Brett Favre sets NFL record with 271st start in a row
Brett Favre started Sunday for a record 271st straight time in the regular season, playing for the Minnesota Vikings against the Detroit Lions.
Can free market enterprise create clean-energy breakthroughs
The world is in the market for some clean-energy breakthroughs. But can the market deliver?
Trailer Park Boys - more coarse, boozy humour in new movie
It takes only minutes into the new Trailer Park Boys movie, "Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day", to see that the drug-addled gang of louts is headed right back to their harebrained, n'er-do-well ways - and back to a filmmaking formula they hope will be as successful as their last celluloid venture.
Why Did Intuit Buy Mint?
Did Intuit buy Mint to kill it? Or did Intuit make a big leap in the online space with this purchase? And what does this mean for other online personal finance tools like Wesabe?
Inside BART's lost-and-found: Porn, prosthetics, and pot
A recent San Francisco Examiner article about BART's lost-and-found policy somehow managed to avoid asking the massive, throbbing question one simply must ask of the person charged with rummaging through the detritus mistakenly left on trains. Namely ? what's the weirdest stuff you find?
Soda Tax: It's the Real Thing
FTA: "Coke wants to double global beverage servings as American teen obesity has tripled. This is now a wanton attack on the health of children. Taxing Coke is not communism. It is common sense." A liberal Boston Globe columnist gives a full-throated endorsement on another sin tax that would disproportionately hurt those can't afford it.
Mint Adds Extra Security,Editable Transactions to iPhone App
While Mint's iPhone app was always quite good, this new version brings a number of new features to the app that make it more useful and, most importantly, more secure.
6 Tips for Perfect Composition in Portrait Photography
Posing and lighting both play enormous roles in the creation of a dynamic portrait. However, background composition is a forgotten component that requires an equal amount of time and thought here are some things to consider when creating a perfectly composed portrait.
Co-workers at Waldoboro store discover they are brothers
Gary Nisbet and Randy Joubert work at the Dow Furniture store. Joubert searched the Maine database in January to find out about his birth parents and was told he had a brother, but was given only a first name for his sibling. He and Nisbet have been working together since July, riding in the same delivery truck, unaware they were brothers.
6 Insane Dog Behaviors Explained by Evolution
much of what dogs do is so bizarre and unfathomable that you can't help but wonder what the hell they're thinking. Turns out they have their reasons. Weird, disgusting reasons.
Apple Taking More Active Role In iPhone 3.1 Battery Life Tro
Sure, the iPhone 3.1 update delivered a host of new features, including the exceptionally tardy MMS, but for some users there was something extra: Crappy battery life.
3 Simple Free Virtual Drive Tools to Mount Disks & ISO Image
Using widely available tools called free virtual drive software or Disk Emulators, it?s easy to mount an ISO file (or a disk for that matter) and use it as one would with a disk loaded in the CD tray. Let?s load with three simple and free virtual drive tools.
USC drops to No. 12, Washington into Top 25
Southern California dropped nine spots and out of the top 10 in The Associated Press college football poll and Washington moved into the rankings for the first time in six years.
Planck Snaps Its First Images Of Ancient Cosmic Light
Preliminary results from European Space Agency's Planck mission to study the early Universe, indicate that the data quality is excellent. This bodes well for the full sky survey that that has just begun.
Artist creates sculptures with party balloons
Artist Jason Hackenwerth has turned a children's party trick of twisting balloons together to form animal shapes into an art form by creating highly complex sculptures.
The Mysterious Skeleton Lake
Roopkund is one of the most enticing and fascinating places of the world. Situated in the isolated corners of the greatest mountains of Himalayas ...
Intel vs Apple, future rivals?
As Intel readies its most potent chip yet for small devices, Apple is already a competitor.
Nanoparticle-based ED Therapy Shows Promise
An innovative drug-delivery system, nanoparticles encapsulating nitric oxide or prescription drugs, shows promise for topical treatment of erectile dysfunction . Delivery system smaller than a grain of pollen, that can carry tiny payloads of various drugs or other medically useful substances and release them in a controlled and sustained manner
Statistics Show That Atheists Are a Dying Breed
Austria's figure of 0.85 children per atheist woman is far below replacement rate (2.1) and below even the most barren European country?s average rate, which is about 1.2. And since most people inherit their parents? political and religious world views, this is bad news for Team Dawkins.
10 Revealing Infographics about the Web
In this article, you'll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks!
APOD: 2009 September 20 - Ganymede Enhanced
What does the largest moon in the Solar System look like? Ganymede, larger than even Mercury and Pluto, has a surface speckled with bright young craters overlying a mixture of older, darker, more cratered terrain laced with grooves and ridges. Like Earth's Moon, Ganymede keeps the same face towards its central planet, in this case Jupiter.
Reject Google book deal, says US justice Department
The US Justice Department has advised a court to reject a legal settlement between Google and authors and publishers that would allow the internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online.
Your Google Docs Soon to be in the Search Results?
In two weeks, Google will allow published docs linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results, it announces.
Seinfeld Stars Reunite ... Yada Yada Yada
The fab four from hit sitcom will reunite on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the HBO show starring "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David.
How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking "Import" in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it's not --and with good reason. Here's how to digitize your tunes, the right way.
U.S. Subsidises Oil 2.5 Times More Than Renewables
Listen to the messages coming out of Washington, D.C. and you'd think we're spending all our available money on clean and green technologies, things like algae biofuels, cleaner cars and advanced batteries. Turns out, this isn't remotely true.
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