Tim Ferriss Takes Wired.com's Self-Promotion Prize

OK, Timothy Ferriss: You win. You are the greatest self-promoter in the world.

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Massaging backpack keeps you relaxed on the go

If I was a rich man, I'd hire a full time masseuse to follow me around everywhere constantly rubbing my back and shoulders so I was always relaxed.

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Local tech firm sues government for $250M

Ottawa tech consulting company, The Powell Group, or TPG, has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the federal government for breach of contract.

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Is today the day we get the much anticipated changes?

I saw this and wondered if today could be the day --- it is almost April and didn't they say April???

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DV EXPOSE: April Fools' Day

You may think April Fools' Day is fun. You may be looking forward to it. You may even have planned something which you think is fantastic but which really only serves to illuminate the pervasive sadness of your life. It's amazing how wrong you can be.

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Virgin volunteers to be Big Brother

According to a piece in The Telegraph this morning, Virgin Media — the Internet service provider run by Richard Branson’s Virgin conglomerate — has volunteered to play copyright cop and yank the Internet account of users who share infringing material.

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Virgin volunteers to be Big Brother

According to a piece in The Telegraph this morning, Virgin Media — the Internet service provider run by Richard Branson’s Virgin conglomerate — has volunteered to play copyright cop and yank the Internet account of users who share infringing material.

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CIA Enlists Google's Help for Spy Work

US intelligence agencies are using Google's technology to help its agents share information about their suspects.

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The much-hyped 2006 Indiana Jones game may enter development

Even though a trailer and screenshots for an upcoming Indiana Jones game were revealed by LucasArts two years ago, the publisher is admitting that the game's development cycle is only now just starting.

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Site launched in protest of Creative's egregious actions!

Site launched in protest of Creative's actions against volunteer driver coder! "If you're of the same opinion as many people, NOW is the time to boycott Creative until they can pull their heads out of their asses!"

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Shes Back ... Kathie Lee joins NBC News cast

TODAY show executive producer Jim Bell announced Monday that Gifford would join the fourth hour of the program as co-host, beginning April 7.

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Shes Back ... Kathie Lee joins NBC News cast

TODAY show executive producer Jim Bell announced Monday that Gifford would join the fourth hour of the program as co-host, beginning April 7.

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Nintendo's Wii Fit Expected To Rock Market

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is predicting the game - more of a virtual personal trainer than a traditional shoot 'em up or sports fantasy - could be one of the industry's biggest blockbusters of 2008.

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What If Mickey Mouse and Minnie Had A Baby?

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10 Killer Internet Companies That Want to Pay You for Photos

For photographers wanting to earn an income from their photos and videos in a professional environment. Ten Killer Internet Companies That Want To Pay You For Photos are just waiting for you to get started, today.

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Sometimes, science can be mean [pic]

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The April Fools' Day defense kit.

"As April 1 approaches, prudent observers will be on the lookout for the media's latest hoaxes. Last year, in anticipation of April Fools' Day, Jack Shafer offered advice on how to avoid becoming the victim of the media's shenanigans."

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19 Essential Talking Points for the Banana Enthusiast

1. In recorded history, bananas date back to around 600 B.C.E., when they were mentioned in Buddhist texts.

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Get me out of here !

I ran across this and loved it although it did make me wish the little fellow wasn't locked up in a glass cage.

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Get me out of here !

I ran across this and loved it although it did make me wish the little fellow wasn't locked up in a glass cage.

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Lofty Egg Prices Showing No Sign Of Cracking Soon

If you haven't shopped for eggs lately, get ready for some sticker-shock: A dozen eggs cost $2 or more in most U.S. cities, up about 45% in just eight months. And the lofty price tag is likely to stick for the foreseeable future, according to those that track the industry.

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Pete Cashmore Gets Scobleized [Video]

Cashmore vs. Scoble showdown at Saturday’s excellent CommunityNext Conference in LA. By all accounts, Mashable’s CEO and the FastCompany videoblogger extraordinaire struck up an interesting conversation - many thanks to Robert for his insightful answers.

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Official Response: How I didn't Rig the Zimbabwean elections

This story is NOT TRUE. In fact it could have only been more fictional if we were accused of using alien technology.

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Pete Cashmore Gets Scobleized [Video]

Cashmore vs. Scoble showdown at Saturday’s excellent CommunityNext Conference in LA. By all accounts, Mashable’s CEO and the FastCompany videoblogger extraordinaire struck up an interesting conversation - many thanks to Robert for his insightful answers.

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10 things that uniquely identify and define Metalheads

Being a metalhead, as mentioned, is a lifestyle; it is an attitude that reflects your world view that is fueled by the music - and vice versa. What makes this way of thinking? What defines this identity? Let's take a look at 10 things that uniquely identify and define metalheads:

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19 Essential Talking Points for the Banana Enthusiast

1. In recorded history, bananas date back to around 600 B.C.E., when they were mentioned in Buddhist texts.

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Stats Junkies Get Another Fix: Woopra

Want to talk to the people visiting your blog in real time via a chat request? That’s just one of the features of new stats/analytics startup Woopra. Think Google Analytics or Nuconomy, but in real time.

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Life's little mysteries, like: Why do women wear high heels?

Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain the weird and wonderful situations we encounter in everyday life

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The creepiest universal remote. Ever.

Since it's a robot with some semblance of artificial intelligence, ApriPoko is smart enough to observe how you use your remote control and then ask you questions regarding your actions.

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Young Pilot Sends Text Message: 'I Am Alive'

A student pilot who hiked a mile in waist-deep Montana snow in shorts to meet rescuers he alerted by sending a text message from his cell phone after his plane crashed into a mountainside.

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Whirlwind of Color

Cool shot taken from the bottom of a 50 cent globe. The post below the picture tells what equipment was used to take the photo.

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75 Frugal Hacks for your Home

If you’ve fallen victim to the recent mortgage market or if you’re just feeling the effects of the lagging economy, now is the perfect time to learn to manage your budget more effectively. By cutting down on costs around your home, you can make the best of your income and make wise moves like investing or stashing some money in savings.

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English will turn into Panglish in 100 years

English as it is spoken today will have disappeared in 100 years and could be replaced by a global language called Panglish, researchers claim.

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NBC President Mocks Writers' Strike In Upcoming Commerical

Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC Universal, will appear in a commercial to run before the April 3 return of NBC's "My Name is Earl." In the commercial, Zucker appears to mock both the writers and the strike that sidelined Hollywood for months. This guy is clearly a wangface. Make sure you watch until the end.

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Letterman Pokes Fun At Seniors Arrested In Prostitution Case

"Listen to this, maybe you know someone like this," Letterman said. "A couple of guys, 93-year-old guys living in Florida – and guess what? They're hiring prostitutes. They're out hailing hookers. This is what happens when, by the way, Medicare covers Viagra."

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New Hidden Google Mobile Service Revealed

Google mobile "LCB" was uncovered by picking apart a publicly available file containing a list of all pages that crawlers shouldn’t be able to see. Essentially, LCB is an interesting move away from Google’s typical offerings.

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The Most Depressing Watch Ever

This watch has been dubbed the "Accurate" not so much for its abilities to keep accurate time, but for its reminder about our inevitable demise. Following in the tradition of memento mori, the Accurate watch continuously alerts us to the fact that life is short and that we should strive to seize the day.

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A dumb branding strategy

Jewelry Central is a really bad brand name. So are Party Land, Computer World, Modem Village, House of Socks & Toupee Town. It's a bad brand name because Central or Land or World are meaningless. The second reason this is an exceedingly dangerous strategy is that if you start to succeed a little bit, you suddenly want to protect your lame name.

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Wanted

Google Analytics Blog: YouTube now offers more analytics

Google Analytics Blog: YouTube now offers more analytics

Dolphin and whale mate to create a 'wolphin'

If life on Earth was not strange enough, nature occasionally throws a very unusual creation into the genetic mix.

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FriendFeed and 8 Other Lifestreaming Services

There are just too many social sites out there for everyone to be able to keep up, and that's where lifestreaming services step in. FriendFeed is the one everyone talks about lately, but it's definitely not the first such site to appear. Try it out together with 8 top competitors and see which one you like best.

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Twitter's Monetization Conundrum

Sooner or later, the conversation shifts from, "will people use this" to "hey, we've gotta make some money here." After all, servers and staff aren't free. Monetizing Twitter is especially interesting because of its size and structure.

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Feds Say Saddam Officials Arranged Secret Pre-war Iraq Trip

Federal prosecutors say Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion.

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Feds Say Saddam Officials Arranged Secret Pre-war Iraq Trip

Federal prosecutors say Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion.

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100,000: Wells Needed to store America's Carbon Underground

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) would take coal out of the ground, burn it for energy in coal plants and put the leftover gas back in the Earth where it came from. It’s an idea whose time may never come, and here’s another reason why, The number of new wells needed to store the CO2 at large scales is likely to be huge and unrealistic.

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Exclusive: New Iron Man TV Spot Will Blow You Away! [Video]

Check out the all new TV Spot from Jon Favreau's "Iron Man" movie starring Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges. This is one movie I am actually looking forward to seeing. I love the end of the commercial where Downey is reading The Chronicle and says"IRON MAN THAT'S KINDA OF CATCHY"

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Vintage tune may grace new Skynyrd album

The previously unreleased song "Cottonmouth County" featuring the original Lynyrd Skynyrd lineup could be on the Southern rock band's next album due out early 2009. Guitarist Gary Rossington tells that he recently unearthed the song, from the archives. "It has Ronnie Van Zant singing and Leon (Wilkerson) on bass and Bob Burns is on drums."

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Three Extremely Useful Sets of Free Icons

Famfamfam.com is known for its free icons and these 3 sets have been around for a while. If you haven’t come across these free computer icons, flag icons and web icons you don’t know what you are missing.

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Google's Stake in Search Engine Optimization

Companies that provide services for improving Web sites' search-engine rankings and running effective search-engine ad campaigns have a new competitor: Google. Bundled in the DoubleClick acquisition came Performics, which provides search-engine marketing (SEM) & search-engine optimization (SEO) services. This has created concern for SEM & SEO ...

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15 Great Movies You Didn't Know Were Science Fiction

The greatest science fiction movies sometimes aren't labeled as science fiction at all. Call them slipstream, or "stealth science fiction." Here's our list of 15 great movies you may be familiar with, but didn't know were science fiction.

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Smart Eating at Work, Top 10 Snacks to Keep At Your Desk

A shopping list of foods to snack on at work.

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Synthesizing new molecular motors for nanotechnology

Nature employs an army of miniaturized motors in the daily function of mammalian cells. These natural nano machines can perform a variety of movements such as rotating, walking, and bending. Chemists, inspired by nature, are actively trying...

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Cheap New Solar Cells Made Much More Efficient

A cheap alternative to silicon solar cells can be found in dye-sensitised solar cells. This type of cell imitates the natural conversion of sunlight into energy by, for instance, plants and light-sensitive bacteria.

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Top 10 Most Useless Items of Crapola

My point is that it never ends. As we're buying up all of this "stuff," we're wasting money, polluting the earth and adding another piece of junk to our already overcrowded lives. To offset the havoc we purchase yet another useless product and on and on it goes.

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5 Killer Ways to Improve your Writing Right Now

5 great tips on improving your writing. The top tip, one I live by, "JUNK unnecessary WORDS!" Truth.

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7 Ways to Attract Money, by Dr. Joe Vitale

This is an excellent article! Clear cut and to the point, it outlined the fundamentals to creating wealth. Thank you, Joe!!

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10 Ways to Develop Your Creativity

"Because of research we know a significant amount about the creative process and creative people. We know they are energetic, curious, flexible, independent, adventurous, perceptive, open-minded, and imaginative."

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Sega confirms: Sonic video and screenshot leaked

For the past few days, we've been seeing a gaggle of screenshots and a somewhat dubious gameplay video (check it out after the break) for Sega's recently trademarked title Sonic Unleashed.

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HE'S BACK: Bill Clinton's Campaign Remarks

Priceless ....... you just can't make up stuff this good.

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2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur

The benefits of the new ways we communicate also mean there’s a lot more of it. The volume of communication requests for most people today are far, far beyond what they can handle. Few people today respond to every communication they receive. Someone out there has the beginning of an idea on how we can better manage our electronic communication.

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HE'S BACK: Bill Clinton's Campaign Remarks

Priceless ....... you just can't make up stuff this good.

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New Google Visualization API to Limit Our Data Imagination?

Google recently released a visualization API that allows you to share embeddable visualization on your website, create Google Gadgets that can be shared and reused, and create extensions for existing…

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New Study: Seeing Apple Logo Boosts Creativty

It turns out just thinking about Apple can make you more creative. Don't just take it from a fanboy; According to researchers at Duke & University of Waterloo, exposing people to a brand’s logo for 30 milliseconds will make them behave in ways associated with that brand. In Apple’s case that means more creatively.

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XP and Democracy

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Guitar Hero Lawsuit

Gibson Guitar said on Friday that it had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against MTV Networks and Harmonix relating to the Guitar Hero video games.

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Dog Fur Reveals Mercury Pollution

A sled dog's thick fur coat may do more than protect it from inclement weather: Scientists say it can be used to detect mercury contamination in the environment — and possibly even in humans.

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50 Great Things you Never Knew you Could do with Tennis Ball

Since they wear out and lose their bounce quickly, most tennis balls simply end up in the garbage when they stop being useful on the court. If you can’t stand to throw them away, they tend to pile up quickly - so what can you do with them?

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Cubicle Prank Toolbox: 25 Ideas to Jack with Your Coworkers

There are two reasons to prank someone: They’re new to the company, or they have it coming. Both of those instances justify you. Now, you just need the ends and the means to create the perfect practical joke for your hapless coworker of choice.

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Students Make Disappearing Nail Polish to Beat School Rules

A nail varnish that "vanishes" has been developed by a group of school pupils - offering girls the chance to beat bans on makeup.

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Mayhem At Fox News: Anchor Walks Off Set

Fox News' very own anchors are speaking out — and walking off — over what they perceive to be "Obama-bashing" on their network.

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100 Best Last Lines from Novels

A timeless collection of best "last lines" from Novels. If you have one thats not on the list that you like ....please add it in comments!

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20 Actors Who Turned Down Important or Popular Roles

For every celebrity winning critical acclaim or an Academy Award there’s another celeb or two who turned down that same meaty role. While we’re sure they had good reasons for their decisions, we’re also wondering how hard they kick themselves after realizing they passed up "The Big One."

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Russia's 'Rambo' dies after shoot-out with police

A heavily armed recluse nicknamed Russia's Rambo of the Forest has been gunned down in a shoot-out with police.Alexander Bichkov, had lived a semi-feral existence in the woods for 20 years, terrorising locals and the police if they ventured near him.A giant at 6ft 7in with a wild straggly beard, the man lived in an old shack and self-made camps.

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Heal [COMIC]

Obama might not make such a bad Moses.

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By 2050 Solar Power Could End U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil

A massive switch from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power plants to solar power plants could supply 69 percent of the U.S.’s electricity and 35 percent of its total energy by 2050. But $420 billion in subsidies from 2011 to 2050 would be required to fund the infrastructure and make it cost-competitive.

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Best Buy Giving $10 Million in Gift Cards to HD DVD Buyers

Best Buy is giving $50 to anyone who bought an HD DVD player from Best Buy before February 23. Best Buy also plans to offer trade-ins for players and HD DVD movies, regardless of where they were purchased, through its online trade-in center. An example given shows a trade-in value of $54 for player with 6 movies.

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19 Extraordinary USB Devices

A collection of some of the most inventive, strange, and unique USB Devices. You won’t find these at Best Buy.

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Google Code University - Free Training from Google

Want to learn how to program? Develop in mySQL? Enhance your skills as a developer or programmer or just learn the lingo. Tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas including AJAX, Distributed Systems, Web Security, Languages and a ton of other great classes - at no cost!

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The Great Angel Oak [Pic]

Majestic and impressive. "To think that I shall never see..."

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Now, that stings! Escapee bees swarm a.m. commute

Imagine driving down the highway amid the typical stream of cars and trucks to suddenly discover millions of bees swarming toward the morning commute.

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Google St. Patrick's Day Logo PIC

Do you know? Since 2000 - (They were still in beta in 1999) Which year did Google not update their logo for St. Patrick's Day? Here is a Google St Patrick's Day Logo History - PICS of each year except One!

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Does Big Media's One-Two Punch Knock Out the Internet?

To prevent this Big Media alliance with Big Cable/Telco from cornering and controlling the Internet, it is time for the government to implement reasonable network neutrality oversight that protects consumers and content creators, and preserves the open Internet we enjoy today.

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What Chicago Looks Like at Night, From 36,000 Feet

Beautiful aerial view of Chicago's grid-style geography at night.

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Iran Shuts Down 9 Magazines

Iran's Culture Ministry on Sunday announced the closure of nine cinema and lifestyle magazines for publishing pictures and stories about the life of "corrupt" foreign film stars and promoting "superstitions."

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Productivity, How-to and Advice: Making Linkbait Useful

Then there's many lists of useful site sites. But how useful are they really? They could be a whole lot more useful than they are. One way for that to happen is to turn such lists into Custom Search Engines.

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A Taste of Things to Come: Gas Rises to $5.20 In Some Places

Gas Rises to $5.20 In Some Places

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World’s Largest 38,500-meal Solar Kitchen in India

India is well-known for delicious food, and the kitchen is considered to be a sacred place in any Indian home. And now India has something else to be proud of: the world’s largest solar kitchen.

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Tanya Andersen takes RIAA Head-On With Class Action Suit

Today, after a detailed briefing by federal judge Anna Brown, Andersen re-refiled against the RIAA in what will become a milestone in the RIAA sue ‘em all terror campaign. Judge Brown clearly directed that she would not tolerate any further delay from the RIAA, warning the RIAA lawyers that no more pleading motions would be allowed.

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30 Surefire Ways To Trim An Inch

Everyone wants to remove the excessive deposition or storage of fat in adipose tissues. Over many years it has been a common problem all over the world. These simple techniques are helpful to burn excess calories and make you trim an inch.

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Deputy-Dog opens up for submissions

Popular blog deputy-dog.com has opened its doors for submissions from other bloggers. Broken computers, forced-vista usage, and Chicago's grid system at night photos - what more could you ask for. Prepare to write in all lower-case.

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Deputy-Dog opens up for submissions

Popular blog deputy-dog.com has opened its doors for submissions from other bloggers. Broken computers, forced-vista usage, and Chicago's grid system at night photos - what more could you ask for. Prepare to write in all lower-case.

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17 Random Health Facts You Never Knew About

Here are some interesting, and maybe even frightening health facts, that you probably never knew about. After reading these facts, you might want to think twice about grabbing a cup of coffee or even drinking a glass of orange juice for breakfast! Want to be lazy and lose weight at the same time, just go to sleep!

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20 Hilarious Pranks and Pwns Caught on Tape [Videos]

In today's article, we rounded up 20 videos containing the most hilarious and ingeniously executed pwnage we could find (in no particular order). Enjoy!

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Answer the phone? Sniff armpits? Top 10 interview gaffes

Hear the one about the job candidate who brushed her hair during an interview? Or the man who sniffed his armpits on the way into the interview room? They may sound like jokes but these are two of the top 10 gaffes to...

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10 Overachievers Under 21

They're the next generation of entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators--and not one of them is old enough to buy beer.

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15 Ridiculously Fake Brands [PICS]

A collection of pictures of some of the most blatant knock offs of famous consumer brands. Who do they think their kidding...

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Two-Dimensional High-Temperature Superconductor Discovered

Scientists at Brookhaven Lab have discovered a state of two-dimensional (2D) fluctuating superconductivity in a high-temperature superconductor with a particular arrangement of electrical charges known as "stripes."

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Meteorites are rich in the building blocks of life

Amino acids that are the building blocks of life have been found in their highest ever concentration in two ancient meteorites which crashed to Earth millions of years ago, scientists claim.

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How To Search Your PSTs with Vista's Built-In Search

Do you archive your email to PST files (maybe due to a corporate policy limiting your mailbox size)? If so, you know that even though it's archived, you will still need to access those old emails from time to time. If you don't want to keep all your archives open...

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Ex-Googler Launches Search Engine Community, Topicle

Former Google Product Manger, Steffen Mueller, has launched Topicle, a new search engine community. The service, which went live today, uses a model similar to that of Wikipedia, allowing anyone to contribute to the creation and enhancement of their own vertical search engines.

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Huge Discovery: GE Announces Printable OLED Breakthrough

Imagine a world where your wall glows at a brightness determined by ambient lighting and personal preference. Lamps might soon be obsolete, and the whole discussion about swtiching light bulbs completely moot.

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Governor Spitzer To Resign

Spitzer informing top NY officials. Support on all fronts cratering: "Marist College poll released late Tuesday found 70 percent of New Yorkers polled feel Spitzer should resign and 66 percent feel he should be impeached and removed from office if he doesn't."

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Texas Rain Storm Photograph

An approaching rainstorm in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Late August, 2007.

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Thousands+ of Holocaust survivors in danger; solution born

Actor and Producer in Hollywood, Zane Buzby found fate revealing a reality most people are not aware of. "Scattered across Eastern Europe there are thousands of Holocaust survivors living still, in their 80s and 90s, and living without food, medicine, heat, and shelter. Time is running out." Survivor Mitzvah Project was created as a 100% charity.

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo

Believe it or not, this sentence is grammatically correct and has meaning: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

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Wrestler Finishes Career Undefeated, 137-0

NJ wrestler Scott Winston wins last match in state finals with a pin. Becomes the first high school wrestler to finish with a perfect career.

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The Kama Sutra ... Guitar

The exquisite Kama Sutra Guitar features hand-painted henna illustrations on a canvas of natural blonde Ash woodgrain, in perfect harmony with the rich tones of the African Maple core and headstock. The Tree of Life is depicted in glorious detail across the fretboard. [NSFW] if you look real close...

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Football star, 17, slain before he could answer gang

Gang members pulled up in a car and asked Shaw if he was in a gang. Shaw didn't have time to tell them "no." He was mowed down before he could answer, police say.

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Through Baby's Eyes

Every morning at home, through a baby's eyes. Have you ever thought about things, that way ?

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Funny Tech Signs - Office Humor

Funny office tech signs for you! If you know of others send them to me plz.... Thanks =)

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Where Was This Walrus in the 1980s?

Is it wrong that I think the walrus dances better than the woman?

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10 Words Women Use (And What They Really Mean)

This is a helpful guide to figuring what the hell women are saying. Take notes, my friend.

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World's First Animation Gets Documentary

What do you think is the world's first animation?Betty Boop? No. Nickelodeon slides? No. Flip books? The Zeotrope? Ancient Greek reliefs? Nope.

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5 Virtuous Figures Caught With Their Flies Down

With Eliot Spitzer dominating today’s news, we decided to look back at other so-called virtuous figures who became embroiled in sex scandals.

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George Clooney Responds To The Fabio, Trump and Gay Rumors

George Clooney sat for an interview with the April issue of Esquire magazine, and People got a sneak peak. The actor/director/activist gamely answered all the rumors and stories out their about him.

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It's 3am - What Each Candidate Would Say

Funny Cartoon take on the recent 3am ad ran by Hillary Clinton - regardless of who you are voting for you can laugh at this =)

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50 Moments Photographed

Outstanding moments caught on camera.

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AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water

A vast array of pharmaceuticals (AP) -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

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AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water

A vast array of pharmaceuticals (AP) -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

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Road Pics

Really amazing snapshots taken out on the road.

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Mayor Declares "Lou Dobbs Free Month"

The mayor, is asking Santa Cruz residents to turn off "Lou Dobbs Tonight." The boycott, announced Wednesday in a proclamation written by Mayor Ryan Coonerty that declares March a "Lou Dobbs-free month," is retaliation for the CNN anchor's criticism of Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel.

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March 7, 1897: First Morning of the Corn Flake

Dr. John Kellogg, believing that a strict diet (along with vigorous exercise, fresh air and plenty of rest) benefits the patients at his sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, serves up the world's first corn flakes.

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Barbara Walters and crew overflowed the Miley Cyrus's toilet

Barbara Walters and crew overflowed the Cyrus family toilets when they filmed Barbara's Oscar special interview of Miley (aka Hannah Montana) in February.

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Why It’s a Bad Idea to Tease a Crocodile

That’s Israeli fisherman Novon Mashiah, who thought that it would be a good idea to pose with a 12-foot crocodile. Here’s what happened: "One minute I was leaning over the boat teasing it for a picture. The next minute it burst out of the water with incredible speed.

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5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done

(Plus a Custom-Rigged Setup)

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New Experiment Could Make Quantum Networks Possible

Caltech researchers have developed a way to send quantum information over a network: The process of transferring information from light to matter and back to light again, on demand. A possible network protocol for quantum computers, the approach could create systems exponentially more powerful than the sum of their individual nodes.

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The 7 Most Terrifying Corporate Mascots of All-Time

Here, allow us to terrify you into buying our fine product!

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Guy Kawasaki’s Thoughts on Online Life

Guy Kawasaki visited Ireland to deliver his Art Of The Start talk at the Irish Software Association’s annual conference. His ‘Irished-up’ version of the talk was warmly received by a packed house. Despite his busy work and tourist schedule (this was his first visit to Ireland) Guy found time to sit down and discuss his online life.

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Broadcast Your Face Above Times Square

Where else but in New York could you find the opportunity to broadcast your magnified mug to the world?

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6 Must-have Facts about Infomercials

Have you ever been laboriously peeling potatoes the old-fashioned way when suddenly you realized: “My life has been a waste! If only I had a set of Tater Mitts

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5 Things Your Car Will Finally Do in 2020

We’ll spare you the far-future posturing and flying-car jokes, but the future looks bright. In fact, we’ve already made some pretty impressive headway.

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Why No One Should Buy Gawker, Boing Boing, Or TechCrunch

Portfolio, which Condé Nast started because there were no other credulous business magazines, has a story on why media companies should buy blogs, which is of course entirely wrong.

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Stupid Fads Americans Followed

As a consumer nation, Americans love to do stupid shit. Buying it, speaking it, or doing it — we’re all guilty. Many fads have created and changed American pop-culture. Some for the better, but a staggering amount for the worse. We are here to bring you a list of what we think were some of [...]

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The Best Pictures Awards on The Net

18 Stunning pictures which justify the best pictures awards on the net. My favorite is number 5. See for yourself.

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Avoid Keyloggers with Neo's SafeKeys....excellent tool!

certainly an excellent tool if you visit cybercafe or other public computers often

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Nifty tools for drawing diagrams, charts and flow-charts

Being a web-developer means not only being able to design web-sites or program their functionality. Sometimes it also means to be able to explain complex issues clearly and be able to present to your potential customers reasonable and convincing arguments...

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The Hooters 2008 Calendar [PICS]

That is some fine tail! I like the August girl?

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10 Video Games That Gobbled Up a Lot of Quarters

All video games got their start from some place and this article honors nine past video games and one present-day video game. Here's your chance to learn about these games, and then afterwards play a game or two, so to see what you have been missing out on.

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High-Tech Billboards and Signs to Feature Breaking News

It's not as dramatic as the futuristic world imagined in 1982's "Blade Runner" that had Harrison Ford seemingly unable to escape high-tech signage promoting anything that could be advertised, but digital billboards nevertheless have descended on Los Angeles and other big cities.

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The Best Pictures Awards on The Net

18 Stunning pictures which justify the best pictures awards on the net. My favorite is number 5. See for yourself.

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Habits that Will Prevent Your Success

There is a plethora of information out there touting all of the things you should be doing in order to succeed. But what about those pesky habits that will actually prevent you from succeeding? These are the unwritten rules that have nothing to do with office politics, a college degree or a past success, these are about YOU.

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Many Mysteries of Flight Remain

As anyone with a fear of flying will tell you, flight is a mystery.

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CG Girls #3

This is collection number 3, which I find over the internet.Enjoy!

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28 Billion Bottles of Water [PIC]

Is bottled water really worth it?

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Is Technology Failing to Simplify Life?

The proposition: If the promise of technology is to simplify our lives, it is failing.Do you agree or disagree?

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Document Sharing Becoming Big Business

Three entrepreneurial firms see opportunity in changing smaller companies’ perceptions about computers. Rather than keeping all corporate data, confidential and otherwise, in software programs within the organization, the three firms would hold it online.

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Happiness Is Partly Inherited

The key to happiness may lie in your genes.

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Bill Gates Leaves Facebook and Joins LinkedIn

Earlier this month, the Microsoft co-founder reportedly deleted his Facebook page after receiving thousands of friend requests and becoming unnerved by some strange fan groups on the site. Now Mr. Gates, has popped up on the professional social network LinkedIn where he currently has three contacts.

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Impossible Artistic Designs of M.C.Escher (Pics)

Escher was an individual artist who incorporated the fantasy of Monet, the logic and precision of Michaelangelo, and 3d vision of Wright. He created impossible worlds and outlandish creatures.

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APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion on Pros and Cons

Should your company offer an API for outside developers to build on? Should you engage in one of the fast growing developer platforms or with another company's API? There's a world of options opening up to leverage cross-site functionality and data exchange, but there are also some serious questions to ask about this emerging paradigm.

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High-Speed Rail Coming to America...South America

High-speed rail is finally coming to America. However it's Argentina and not the United States that will be the first "New World" country to build a high-speed rail system and join the modern age of transportation.

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9 Revolutionary Celebrity Internet Internauts

In some cases, a celebrities’ status is larger online than it is in the real world - or close to it. Is it life imitating art, or art imitating the internet? With that said, check out our list of celebrities who not only made a move online, but benefited from it in a major way.

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25 Tasty 3D Graphic Design Treats

many of these 3D graphic design projects were created using programs such as Xara 3D, Maya 3D, Photoshop, and Illustrator to name a few.

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LinkedIn Users Question Gates Query

Within 10 hours, Bill Gates had racked up nearly 1,200 answers to a question that he posed on professional-networking site LinkedIn, with new comments coming in every minute.

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Apple Might Be Creating Secret eBook Reader - NYT

The New York Times' John Markoff speculates that Steve Jobs' now-famous diss of the Amazon Kindle -- "nobody reads anymore" -- might indicate that Apple is working on its own reader. Markoff weighs the evidence.

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Apple Might Be Creating Secret eBook Reader - NYT

The New York Times' John Markoff speculates that Steve Jobs' now-famous diss of the Amazon Kindle -- "nobody reads anymore" -- might indicate that Apple is working on its own reader. Markoff weighs the evidence.

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In Russia, Medvedev Sweeps Presidential Election

After 24 hours of voting across 11 time-zones, Russians handed Dmitry Medvedev an overwhelming victory in the presidential election Sunday despite a lackluster campaign that was more coronation than contest from the moment last December when President Vladimir Putin endorsed him.

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PRI: How does news shape the world from TED 2008

Great chat by Alisa Miller at this years TED conference on the state of news as presented by US media. Brett says check it out!

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Are You Ready for WordPress 2.5?

WordPress 2.5 is on it’s way. It’s now due March 10, 2008. Are you ready? As a WordPress blogger, you need to be ready to upgrade your blog. Why not take time now to clean up your Theme, fix all those little nagging things desperately in need of fixing, and make note of all the customizations, WordPress Plugins, ....

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A Human Bird Feeder ? Yuck

Belarussian taxi driver Leonid Kulakov uses his tongue as a bird-feeder in Minsk

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My Desk

Would you want this for your work space?

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