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Top news on 8 September 2009 |
'Green racing car' powered by chocolate ready to race
A ?green racing car? powered by chocolate and steered by carrots will line up on a Formula 3 grid for the first time next month.
Pirated Artist Orders Police Raid on Sony Music Office
A Sony Music office in Mexico has been raided after the label refused to hand over the recordings of one of Latin America?s biggest artists, Alejandro Fernández. Police took over 6,000 CDs that Sony refused to return, even though Fernández? contract with the label had ended.
Time: America and Its Deficits; Are We Broke Yet?
How long can the U.S. get away with running giant deficits? We may be about to find out.
Socialism [comic]
Murray The Nut celebrates Labor Day
Woman Thrown in Jail for Wearing Pants... but Not Flogged
Lubna Hussein, a female Sudanese journalist, has been jailed for a month after refusing to pay a fine for "dressing indecently" (i.e., wearing pants). She says she didn't want to give the verdict any legitimacy by paying the fine. Under Sudanese law, she could have received up to 40 lashes for the "crime."
Describing an NFL or MLB game: Violate Copyright Laws?
MLB response: "Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or account of this game, without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, is prohibited....Depends on your definition of "account".
Car of the future gets propelled by electromagnetic wheels
Working to design cars for the future, Indian auto designer Nanish K R has come up with a car design aimed to revolutionize transport in the year 2020.
10 Memorable Clowns in Movies (Pics)
When you see a clown in a movie, you tend to remember it. Even if the clown doesn?t scare you, you often can?t help but think, ?Man, that would have scared the crap out of me when I was younger.?
Twitter turns you into a twit but Facebook makes you clever
Avoid Twitter and YouTube but sign on to Facebook if you want to get smart, a scientist has claimed. Facebook,..requires us to use more memory and information and makes us feel part of a social group, helps train our brains. "Twitter can cause harm because it produces a stream of information every second with no opportunity to process or
VIDEO of President REAGAN INDOCTRINATING Students
Republican hypocrisy once again at play.Clearly their cup runneth over with hypocrisy as they continue to dish it out in abundance.
6 Fake Foods You (Will Wish You Didn't) Have in Your Kitchen
We know that the food we buy at the grocery store isn't made by a kindly old man on a farm. But apparently there are some downright soylent green-like horrors being produced by the food industry.
Oh, Why Hello There! [PIC]
Nice to see you again
Trapped kids update Facebook rather than ring police
Trapped kids update Facebook rather than ring police 'Little Joey is stuk in stm drain lolz' : TechRadar UK
Damon turns corporate whistleblower in dark comedy
Matt Damon stars as a whistleblower at a big U.S. agri-business company in ''The Informant!,'' a black comedy based on a true story which had the audience laughing out loud at the Venice film festival. Damon had to put on 30 pounds, wear a mustache and look unusually unglamorous to play Mark Whitacre.
11 Firsts In Internet History
People on the Internet love firsts. I can only conclude this based on the number of comment threads that begin with someone writing "First!" So I went on a hunt for 11 Internet firsts and found some really interesting ones... although, sadly, I was unable to track down the first time someone left the first "First!" comment.
Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered
A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea.
PS3 sales skyrocket with PS3 slim release
Around half a million units sold worldwide last week according to preliminary data
Recession Lowers Divorce Rate by 40%
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers reports that divorce filings are down by 40%, a phenomenon the NY Daily News calls "sleeping with the enemy."
Monopoly City Streets: Google Maps Enable Real Street Buying
This could be very addictive: GoogleGoogle is teaming up with board game maker Hasbro to launch a Google MapsGoogle Maps version of Monopoly. A monopoly game to let you buy any street in the world.
District 9 warns us of a dangerous future
Sci-fi films are often read as allegory. The provenance of District 9 has led some to see it as a reflection on apartheid. Perhaps, however, it has as much to tell us about the future as the past.
Samoa drivers brace for left turn
The Pacific island nation of Samoa prepares to move traffic from the right to the left side of roads, a move that has angered many residents.Cars are going to crash, people are going to die - not to mention the huge expense to our country
Star-shaped cells in the brain aid with learning
Every movement and every thought requires the passing of specific information between networks of nerve cells. To improve a skill or to learn something new entails more efficient or a greater number of cell contacts. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology could now show that certain cells in the brain influence this information
RoboBath: NASA Studies The Cleanest Robot in the World
When searching for life on a distant planet, it pays to make sure that any biologically derived molecules you find didn?t catch a ride from Earth on the spaceship. Avoiding ?forward contamination? takes the right mix of chemicals, before a mission even launches. To test NASA?s sterilization protocol, scientists set off for the Arctic with Cliffbot.
Obama's Speech to Students -- The Transcript
Despite the controversy surrounding Tuesday's speech to schoolchildren across the nation, the transcript shows it to be both non-political and inspirational.
20 Things You Didn't Know About the Beatles
Great list of little known facts, trivia. Fact #15: "The closest the Beatles came to reuniting was at Eric Clapton's wedding to Patti Boyd in 1979, where McCartney, Harrison and Starr played. Lennon did not attend."
Customer Beaten to Death by Wal-Mart Employees
At Wal-Mart, theft is not tolerated. At least not at the Wal-Mart in Jingdezhen, China, where a customer died at the hands of Wal-Mart employees who suspected
Late-Night Snacks Worse Than You Think
A study has found that eating at irregular times -- the equivalent of the middle of the night for humans, when the body wants to sleep -- influences weight gain. The regulation of energy by the body's circadian rhythms may play a significant role. The study is the first causal evidence linking meal timing and increased weight gain.
Password Hackers Do Big Business with ex-Lovers
When Elaine Cioni found out her married boyfriend had other girlfriends she turned to YourHackerz.com. For $US100, the website provided Cioni, then living in northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL email account. For another $100, she got her boyfriend's wife's password. And then the password of another girlfriend and ...
Patrick Stewart: May return to X-Men; no more Star Trek
In a talk show interview setting, Patrick Stewart fielded questions about his career and memories of his tenure as captain of the Enterprise. Stewart thought that this summer?s reboot of ?Star Trek? was ?terrific,? but didn?t see a future for Jean-Luc Picard in the franchise, leaving open only the possibility that he would agree to do a cameo.
Losing Its Religion: The New York Times Compromises
Two things that would end hypocrisy and make the world a better place: Priests should be allowed to get married, and the New York Times should update it?s Ethics Policy.
Awesome Home Run celebration!
Prince Fielder involves his teammates in the celebration after he cracks a walk-off line-drive homer in the 12th.
Like Apple, TV Explores Must-Have Applications
DirecTV and Verizon have app stores. Other cable, satellite and phone companies are working on new technology, but the industry is still wrestling with many questions.
Could a Solar-Hydrogen Economy Supply All our Energy Needs?
Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Adelaide in Australia, makes a persuasive case that it is perhaps the most effective medium for using and storing solar energy
'Achilles' Heel' In Y Chromosome Linked To Sex Disorders
The unique mechanism behind the evolutionary survival of the human Y chromosome may also be responsible for a range of sex disorders, from failed sperm production to sex reversal to Turner Syndrome.
C64 emulator for iPhone approved ? minus BASIC
After a lengthy process that had previously met with rejection, Manomio?s Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch has finally been accepted by Apple. This marks the first time a multi-purpose emulation title has been approved by the App Store.
Video Games Are Evil, says guy who made money creating games
I think that video games are evil," says Tomino. "[Gaming] is not a type of activity that provides any support to our daily lives, and all these consoles are just consuming electricity! Let's say we have about three billion people on this planet wasting their time, bringing no productivity at all. Add 10 billion more people, and what would happen t
Clijsters upsets Venus to reach quarters
When the Grand Slams roll around, the best stories often revolve around the prospect of Williams vs. Williams, Maria Sharapova, maybe even a possible breakthrough by No. 1 Dinara Safina. All those options have vanished from the U.S. Open, replaced in large part by the potential of Kim Clijsters.
22 TV series not ruined when two characters hooked up
Not surprisingly Who's The Boss? failed to make the cut
China, green? In the case of solar water heating, yes
In a nation known more for its belching smokestacks, solar water heaters are on nearly every roof in some cities. Chinese manufacturers are eyeing foreign markets, including Southern California.
Astronomy Picture of the Day Jupiter Over the Mediterranean
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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