January 2009
Bill Gates' new mission: Saving lives →
This story almost made me cry. You can hate him for Windows, but i Have to agree that there is no better way to spend your wealth. This is just fascinating.
Chipotle Employee Just Gave Guy In Front Of You... →
Onion news piece about how little rice you got in your burrito.
Zimbabwe: Over 2000+ Dead But No Mainstream Media... →
It’s easily the worst humanitarian crisis right now: 5 million people (almost half the population) need food aid. More than 2200 people have died in a cholera outbreak. Unemployment at more than 80%….
Obama Gives First Interview As Pres To Arabic TV:... →
Barack Obama will do his first formal interview as president with an Arabic cable TV network. The interview is set to air at 11pm EST, it reports. Al Arabiya is a 24-hour Arabic news channel based in…
Indians protesting Slumdog Millionaire as... →
Several dozen Mumbai slum residents protested the award-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” on Thursday, calling the film’s title insulting. The protest came amid mounting excitement in India — where…
Slumdog Millionaire: Mumbai's real slumdogs [PICS] →
Following the success of Slumdog Millionaire, set in the squalid underbelly of Mumbai, Nigel Richardson reports on a growing phenomenon: the slum tour.
Poll: Obama's 68% approval rating is highest start... →
President Barack Obama won approval from 68 percent of Americans in his first three days on the job, emerging at the high end of ratings for the last eight first- term predecessors, according to a…
Christians Should Keep Scripture Out Of Politics →
“… Did not Christ tell Pontius Pilate: ‘My kingdom is not of this world’ (John 18:36)? Which of these seven words is so hard to understand? Yet the clarity of Christ’s statement hasn’t stopped…
Removing the US Airways Airbus A320 from the... →
President Obama's First Weekly Video Address →
In his first weekly address since being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, President Barack Obama discussed how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will jump-start the…
Obama wants to know: Why open source? →
President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that he’s been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott…
Obama to sign order Thursday to close Guantanamo →
U.S. President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Thursday to shut down the infamous U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year.A draft of the order was obtained Wednesday by the…
BREAKING NEWS: Obama retakes oath of office at... →
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama retook the oath of office at the White House on Wednesday after a blunder during Tuesday’s inauguration.
Obama inauguration marks new chapter for digital... →
On March 4, 1901, a lone cameraman in the employ of Thomas A. Edison was dispatched to capture the swearing in of William McKinley. To posterity he delivered a total of 44 seconds of grainy footage…
Attack of the Celebs: Stars Descend on... →
Oprah! Bono! Miley! Oh, and some guy named Barack Obama. Along with millions of regular folk, celebrities swarmed to DC to celebrate the Inauguration. Find out who was there.
Windows 7 - What It Means for Gamers →
Will Windows 7 achieve the respect that Vista failed to win? It’s telling that one element of Windows 7 Microsoft isn’t especially trumpeting (amidst the cloud of self-congratulation about how the…
CES 2009: Shure SE115 Headphones →
During the Consumer Electronics Show, Shure announced a new set of headphones, the SE115. The series is their most affordable earphones to date, with a retail price of $99. Although…
Use Your PSP as an Additional Windows Monitor →
Windows only: If you’re on the look out for a new trick to teach your PSP, using it as supplemental monitor for your Windows rig is pretty sweet trick indeed.
19 yr old assaults mom with a taco after she... →
“He went ahead and hit me with the taco and I got taco all over my shirt and kitchen. I’ve threatened to call police before. But anyway this time, I thought he went too far so I called police and…
Palestinian doctor's three daughters killed on... →
War is cruel. But sometimes, a story comes along that redefines what cruel really means.
8 Years Of Bush in 8 Minutes! -- Keith Olbermann →
A whirlwind of the last 8 years under George W. Bush that has left so much demolished.
Historic Failure: Bush's Final Approval Rating is... →
President Bush will leave office as one of the most unpopular departing presidents in history, according to a new CBS news/NY Times poll showing Mr. Bush’s final approval rating at 22 percent. His…
Man Loses $150,000 To Nigerian Scam →
John Rempel said he quit his job, lost friends, borrowed money and crossed the globe in pursuit of a non-existent inheritance, after he was contacted by e-mail in what is known as a Nigerian 419…
17 Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are... →
There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your…
Caught: Belkin Pays 65 Cents For Fake Good Reviews... →
Users are paid 65 cents for every positive review they leave on an Amazon.com listing for a Belkin router which has consistently gotten bad reviews in the past from users who say that the product is…
Hulu CEO on 'It's Always Sunny': We screwed up... →
On the sudden removal of 3 seasons of full episodes of ”It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”: “We gave no notice to our users that these episodes would be coming off the service. We screwed up…
Rant: Slumdog Millionaire Doesn't Celebrate Indian... →
“Even before it won the Golden Globe, Slumdog Millionaire was the odds on favorite to win Oscar’s Best Picture. It’s one of the year’s best reviewed films and the reviewers who have praised it…
60 Minutes: The Price Of Oil →
(CBS) About the only economic break most Americans have gotten in the last six months has been the drastic drop in the price of oil, which has fallen even more precipitously than it rose. In a year’s…
Girl, 13, sends 14,528 texts in a month →
A California father says he discovered his 13-year-old daughter sent 484 text messages per day last month — one message every 2 minutes of every waking hour.
Where Tijuana Meets San Diego (Pic) →
I just stepped outside and snapped this photo of... →
Today is the day that the moon is closest to the earth since 1993 (even closer than last month). I waited patiently to get the perfect photo.
Cadillac One: The Car that Thinks it's a Tank... →
A breakdown of the Cadillac One and it’s many hidden surprises.
Delhi will run out of petrol by evening →
NEW DELHI: The petrol stock in the capital will be over by Friday evening, the head of the Federation of All India Petroleum Traders said late onFriday morning. Sixty to seventy percent of petrol…
Google Rolls Out New Favicon →
Google has a shiny new favicon to kick off the new year. The new, more colorful icon uses all the colors of their logo and will replace the short lived silver and blue lower case “g” that was…
How NOT To Design A Logo →
Logo design in today’s world is totally under rated. People do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business. This article outlines the ways in which you should…
Palm Pre Preview: Simply Amazing →
Here’s a long preview of the Palm Pre, the phone that’s making Palm actually worth your consideration again.
Search Begins for the New 'Air Force One' →
After a couple years of speculation, yesterday the air branch officially announced its search for a new high-tech jumbo jet to haul around the President and his peeps. And like the bitter,…
CNN's Sanjay Gupta to be named Surgeon General →
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.
iTunes goes DRM free →
While Phil hasn’t mentioned it in the keynote just yet, it looks like iTunes might be getting a big catalog overhaul, with most major labels finally offering up DRM free tunes. Previously purchased…
MacWorld 2009 Keynote →
Prior to today’s keynote there were plenty of speculation as to whether Apple would roll out a iPhone Nano, new Mac Minis, or a new iMac. Unfortunately none of those happened. Launching…
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60 Minutes: Mind Reading No Longer Science Fiction →
Neuroscience has learned much about the brain’s activity and its link to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person’s mind.
Fox News TWITTER account hacked? or Bill O'Reilly... →
A few minutes ago the official Fox News Twitter account posted “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay” (referring to the host of the popular Fox show O’Reilly Factor), right after a legitimate message about…