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DNA credited for arrest in 25-year-old homicide (Chicago Tribune)
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Why Have So Many Internet People Lost Touch With Reality? (Wall Street Pit)
Sometimes its hard to tell if people are trying to be funny, mean, interesting, provocative or are just plain stupid or completely out of touch with reality. I know I get accused of being all of the a...
 
IPCC errors of the day (Don Surber)
Scientific, it is not. Nor is its Nobel Prize. It is in that catch-all category: “Peace,” a prize awarded this year to the commander-in-chief of two wars. But the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
 
Computer and internet briefs 7 February 2010 (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)
Washington - Most web browsers today - including Internet Explorer and Chrome - have adopted the F11 shortcut key to put the browser into full screen mode. Full screen mode essentially makes your enti...
 
iPhone Loses Market Share in Q4 2009, Sales Up (CoolTechZone)
Apple’s iPhone had a great Q4 last year when it sold a record 8.7 million units in the shopping season alone. However, despite the strong sales, the company’s smartphone lost marketshare from having 1...
 
International Space Station Cupola Video Released
International Space Station Cupola Video Released
quaith writes "With the Space Shuttle Endeavour scheduled to launch at 4:39 AM EST on Sunday for a trip to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency has released a video that shows ho...
 
Google's Nexus One, a Steal At $49 Unlocked?
Google's Nexus One, a Steal At $49 Unlocked?
gjt writes "I initially posted a piece ragging on the Nexus One. But then a commenter pointed out a problem with my initial logic, and after doing some math I concluded that the $529 unlocked/unsubsid...
 
19th-Century Photographer Captured 5,000 Snowflakes
19th-Century Photographer Captured 5,000 Snowflakes
tcd004 writes "Wilson Bentley began photographing snowflakes in 1885, and managed to immortalize more than 5,000 crystals before his death in 1931. Now his images are widely recognized and highly soug...
 
Safety (beer) glass
Safety (beer) glass
With 87,000 bar fights a year in the UK, with a combined health care cost of over 2.5 million pounds per year, the British Design Council saw a need for better bar glassware. Design agency DesignBr...
 
Beautiful cube sculpture from copper pipe fittings
Beautiful cube sculpture from copper pipe fittings
This 2007 piece by Vancouver artist Steven Shearer (Wikipedia) is called "Geometric Healing Cell for Youth - Model III." It reminds me of some of my favorite work by Tom Friedman. I love art that ...
 
Motorola MOTOSPLIT to have dynamic key labels, lame processor?
Motorola MOTOSPLIT to have dynamic key labels, lame processor?
A quick glance at that render we'd obtained of the rumored MOTOSPLIT had us thinking we were seeing a large, Sholes-style phone with a musclebound OMAP3 core, but hold up -- maybe this is a lower-end...
 
Google's Superbowl ad will make you cry a little bit
Google's Superbowl ad will make you cry a little bit
Admit it: you're crying a little bit now, aren't you? Now, here's the thing: this ad, from Google's "Search Stories" YouTube channel, is from back in November, but John Battelle says he's got a s...
 
Kindle dev kit now rolling out in limited beta
Kindle dev kit now rolling out in limited beta
Back on the 21st of January when Amazon announced that it would release its Kindle Development Kit, A/K/A KDK, we heard it would begin rolling out in limited beta this month, with a wait list of peop...
 
Pedobear: 2010 Vancouver Olympics mascot?
Pedobear: 2010 Vancouver Olympics mascot?
Hayyyyyy. How'd Pedobear get into the mascot lineup for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in this highly esteemed Polish newspaper (hi-res scan JPEG)? Who cares! Buzzfeed article, and more here about the pe...
 
Pen spinning gets competitive in Hong Kong
Pen spinning gets competitive in Hong Kong
Pen spinning gets competitive in Hong Kong, where 100 contestants were recently judged on the style, difficulty, creativity, and fluidity of their pen tricks. Read Full Article ...
 
Neon Green Makes Soular Bags Hip and Trendy
Neon Green’s Soular Powers Back-Up Packs is a brand of backpacks and bags that have built-in solar panels. The bags are able to passively capture energy from the sun, to store it for future rech...
 
BlackBerry Curve 8530 Now Available in Violet
Here is one more gift for Valentine’s day that we could have included in our 2010 Valentine’s Day gift list. The Blackberry Curve 8530 Smoky Violet is the perfect gift for the girl who pre...
 
How to Keep a Window Always on Top in Snow Leopard by Using Afloat
Have you ever wished that one of your application windows could stay afloat on top of other apps while you work? Personally, I often like to watch YouTube while I work, but the YouTube window always g...
 
Rolex Cell Phone vs Rolex Watch - luxcellphone
Rolex has recently launched a version of century collection luxurious mobile phone, which introduced top configuration and enchased a nobler Rolex phone watch in the crest. Since the financial storm h...
 
Watch the Super Bowl Ads on YouTube [VIDEO] (Mashable)
As expected, YouTube announced the launch tonight of its Super Bowl ad channel at youtube.com/adblitz , which will allow viewers to vote on the commercials immediately after they air on TV. The channe...
 
What You Should Be Reading This Weekend (GigaOM)
Taking a cue from Simon Mackie, editor of WebWorkerDaily and VC blogger Paul Kedrosky, I am sharing a list of articles I think you should read this weeked. An interview with Steve Jobs, essay about li...
 
Macmillian Books Back On Amazon (CoolTechZone)
Macmillian, the publisher that had a dispute with the world’s largest online retailer Amazon, is back in business over its digital books, reports BusinessWeek. After Apple revealed its iPad, Macmillia...
 
6 New APIs: Powerful Americans, Moods, Museums, Web Analytics and Web Hosting (Programmable Web)
Last week was a busy one for new APIs and in addition to the 7 new APIs we profiled earlier , here are 6 more new listings from our API directory . These include an API for tracking political and busi...
 
Windows Phone 7 Details Emerge (CoolTechZone)
Just before the Mobile World Congress event on February 15, possible details about Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 have leaked out, and they look intriguing. The device will have a Zune-like feel...
 
Best of The Jewish/lsraeli Blogosphere (Yourish.com)
It is that time again, the Best of the Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere. The current edition was assembled by my fellow co-blogger Snoopy: Haveil Havalim #255: post – Groundhog Day edition When you are fini...
 
"Blogging is the uncoolest thing you can do on the Internet" (Patrick Joubert Conlon)
Nick Carr : Did you see that new Pew study that came out [this week]? It put a big fat exclamation point on what a lot of us have come to realize recently: blogging is now the uncoolest thing you can ...
 
How to remove Virus from an infected computer
Viruses are the worst enemies of a computer and virus removal is no easy task. They leave several adverse effects on a PC that can range from an uneven slow down to a severe system crash. Virus is a c...
 
Salim Mansur, helping me test the "clipmarks" firefox add-on (Covenant Zone)
clipped from www.torontosun.com In protecting Muslims from those who offend them, the West ill-serves Islam and those Muslims who seek its reform. Muslims need untrammelled free speech to awaken to th...
 
Three ways to find a cool deal using Google (Mighty Bargain Hunter)
(This is guest post is by Ann Smarty, a search engine geek, social media enthusiast and a passionate blogger. She has recently started a community of guest bloggers, so if you have a blog and want to ...
 
Google to run its first-ever Super Bowl commercial (VentureBeat)
Google plans on running its first Super Bowl commercial today during the third quarter of the game. John Battelle of Federated Media reports on his blog that Google will run the “Parisian Love” ad tom...
 
NASA plans pre-dawn space shuttle launch (USA Today)
NASA aimed to launch shuttle Endeavour in the early morning darkness Sunday with the last major pieces of the International Space ...Source : USA Today (subscribe)Explore : NASA, SciencesRead Full Ar...
 
Daytum: Free Stats Tracking Tool – Anything You Think Of Can Be Tracked (Crenk.com)
Daytum is a web application that lets you set up any number of various displays tracking virtually anything you want, and presents it in a beautiful way. Daytum is a great tool for goal tracking. For ...
 
Kids Say the Darndest Things: Teens In Tech 2.0 Video (ReadWriteWeb)
Our young friends at the Teens In Tech Conference this year have all the blessings and foibles of their tender years. They haven't learned that the sky is not, in fact, the limit - and for god's sake,...
 
Google Super Bowl 2010 Ad surprises [Video] (i4U)
Today is Super Bowl XLIV and we actually thought we know all Super Bowl 2010 advertisers by now. Out of nowhere comes a report that search giant Google is running their first Super Bowl commercial at ...
 
Nexus One video series, part two: Google schools us on OLED displays (Engadget Mobile)
The first installment of Google's fancy Nexus One design series focused on the sound quality of the device, and on the overall design. Well, part two is here now, and this time, we get to watch while ...
 
NASA scrubs shuttle launch (CNN)
Low cloud ceilings forced NASA to scrub Sunday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station.Source : CNN (subscribe)Read Full Article ...
 
An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme
An Interview With F# Creator Don Syme
OCatenac passes along an interview with Don Syme, chief designer of F#, which is Microsoft Research's offering for functional programming on the .Net platform. Like Scala, which we discussed last fall...
 
95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus
95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus
coomaria writes "The HoneyGrid scans 40 million Web sites and 10 million emails, so it was bound to find something interesting. Among the things it found was that a staggering 95% of User Generated Co...
 
You launch some, you scrub some
You launch some, you scrub some
Spaceflight is complicated, with many constraints and requirements that must be met before all systems can claim "go" for launch. Unfortunately for STS-130, this evening's "dynamic" weather proved t...
 
Study structures with straws
Study structures with straws
The forces that affect buildings and other structures can be modeled inexpensively and quickly by using the humble drinking straw. Usually, the projects built with drinking straws are rapid build. S...
 
Heineken Bot does what it says on the keg, soon to be man's new best friend
Heineken Bot does what it says on the keg, soon to be man's new best friend
If you ask us, our theory is that the Daleks are rather huggable by nature, but they probably partied a tad too hard with these beer-toting fellas before trashing the world. One such "Heineken Bot" -...
 
Nexus One video series, part two: Google schools us on OLED displays
Nexus One video series, part two: Google schools us on OLED displays
The first installment of Google's fancy Nexus One design series focused on the sound quality of the device, and on the overall design. Well, part two is here now, and this time, we get to watch while...
 
When Thatcher met Carter (Don Surber)
More than a year before Ronald Reagan was elected president, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of England. President Carter icily told her it was a “tremendous personal victory for you… We look ...
 
Kirk Johnson, eagle dentist (Don Surber)
Dentist Kirk Johnson may not soar with eagles, he just fixes their beaks. Cyrano the Bald Eagle had a busted beak. He wound up at a shelter for birds in Anchorage. Cindy Palmatier asked Johnson if he ...
 
Linus Torvalds: Google’s Nexus One First Mobile Phone I Don’t Hate (TechCrunch)
Linus Torvalds , the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones. All of the ones he has purchased in the past, the man writes on his personal blog, ended up being "mostly ...
 
NSFW: Hey, 1997 – Macmillan called, they want the Net Book Agreement back (TechCrunch)
This time last week I rattled off the world's laziest column . I was struggling against my book deadline which expired 24 hours later and I simply didn't have time to write anything else. This week sh...
 
Patricia Handschiegel: The New Power Girls: Understanding The Future Of The Internet And How Women E
It's a sunny afternoon in the Los Angeles area as I take a chair at the long, rectangular table facing attendees at the Digital Hollywood...Source : The Huffington Post (subscribe)Explore : InternetR...
 
Flash, HTML5, and Mobile Apps (A VC)
About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple's "blind spot" for Flash. I took more heat for that post than anything else I've written here other than political posts. It opened my eyes to the fact tha...
 
Motorola Droid Gets Google Maps 3.4 And Multi-touch (übergizmo)
It seems that Motorola Droid users won’t have to keep staring at Nexus One users in jealousy over the recent multi-touch update . That’s because Google has released and update for its Maps application...
 
RFK Jr., recycled (Don Surber)
Six weeks ago, the nation’s capital was under nearly two feet of snow. I re-post this December 19th post again today as the nation’s capital is under another two feet of snow. My critics who still wor...
 
9 Tricks I Used To Triple My AdSense Earnings In 30 Days (ProBlogger)
Guest post by Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips. I have been using Google AdSense to monetize my blogs and websites for as long as I remember. In fact it was the first method I ever tried (I made a w...
 
Sarah Palin reviewed (Don Surber)
Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner: “Watching Sarah Palin’s speech to the Tea Party National Convention last night in Nashville on PJTV, it was clear that she has a rapport and comfort with the ...
 
Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem (TechCrunch)
“People in technology businesses are drawn to places known for diversity of thought and open-mindedness”, is what Professor Richard Florida concluded after studying the growth and success of 50 metrop...
 
Indian IT Giant Tata Consultancy Services Hacked (TechCrunch)
The website Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software vendor, has been hacked. The hacker has posted a "For Sale" message on the site, which is written in both French and English. Ironically...
 
Lady Makes Left Turns, Acquits Self Nicely; Apparently A Huge Step Forward For Entire Gender [Wake U
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you.....
 
How Social Gaming is Improving Education (Mashable)
For decades, educators have been scrambling to find better ways to prepare students for the real world. It began with the mildly apocalyptic government report, A Nation at Risk , which warned that an ...
 
Secret London Facebook Group Amasses 180,000 — Morphs Into Startup (TechCrunch)
There's a certain irony that TechCrunch's in-house satirist Paul Carr is currently slaving over the sequel to his book about his failure to launch a startup. Fridaycities was to be a site which allowe...
 
Poll: conservative 40%, liberalism 14% (Don Surber)
The Rasmussen Poll is much disliked by liberals. It tells them things they do not like to hear. The Daily Kos poll will tell them President Obama has 56% favorability, making him more popular than he ...
 
RollerGen charges your devices with pedal power (DVICE)
When I was a kid, I had dynamo powered lights on my bike. They worked great as long as you were moving along, but quickly dimmed if you slowed down or stopped. Now a California company called High Tid...
 
BlackBerry has spyware risk too, researcher says (Cnet)
Veracode researcher demonstrates spyware that allows someone to steal a stranger's contact list, read text messages in real time and track the location of the phone.Source : Cnet (subscribe)Explore : ...
 
CubeMe for Google Chrome lets you pretend you're browsing on an iPad! (Download Squad)
Filed under: Google , Browsers There's a very good chance that Chrome OS tablets -- unlike the iPad -- will support Adobe Flash. Google is, after all, one of Adobe's partners in the Open Screen Projec...
 
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