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Strange,Weird And Mysterious Sounds That Come From The Earth
The earth is full of sounds ... Here is a list of weird ?sonic mysteries? that come from our Earth.(includes some audio)

NEW: StarCraft 2 Screens [PICS]
We're posting these new StarCraft II screens with much reservation. After all, someone out there woke up this morning with no intention to die. But, having seen these new depictions of war-waging micro machines, this someone has triggered an inescapable obsession....

Is It Possible For DNA To Have Telepathic Properties?
Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the ?amazing? ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA.

What?s Behind Phil Schiller keynote? Joy of Tech Fills us in
Check out this great piece of satire by the talented folks over at JoyOfTech which gives us a sneak peek at what?s going on behind the scenes in preparation for Phil Schiller?s upcoming keynote. You gotta love Jobs sitting on a thrown below the mainstage as lions circle around.

Pink Iguana That Darwin Missed Holds Evolutionary Surprise
For iguanas, it turns out that it's not easy being pink, either.Biologists report that a rare type of pink iguana found on a single volcano in the Galapagos Islands is a genetically-distinct species from its green cousins ? and that it's probably critically endangered.

Windows 7 Beta: First Impressions
It's probably not an exaggeration to say that Windows 7 is Microsoft's most important release of its operating system in a decade. That's not necessarily because of its advances, or what it does for Windows users, but rather because of what it means for Microsoft as a company.

Macworld 2009 Keynote Live Coverage at Macrumours HACKED
OMG, pwned!

Popping Smart Pills: the Case for Cognitive Enhancement
Using Adderall, Ritalin, modafinil, and other performance-raising medications has become commonplace enough that a group of seven leading bioethicists and neuroscientists published an editorial in the scientific journal Nature last month advocating the use of performance-boosting drugs.

Debian 5 release approaches... binary blobs included
The developers behind the Debian Linux distribution have voted to proceed with the release of the next major version despite ongoing controversy over the inclusion of binary firmware in the kernel.

Eyewitness in Gaza: 'People Are Being Killed in Their Homes'
Gaza's hospitals are said to be at a breaking point, with medical supplies running low and paramedics among the many attacked. Western media have not been allowed into Gaza so far to witness and report on the situation there. Here is an eyewitness account of conditions on the ground in Gaza.

Atheist buses denying God's existence take to streets
Atheist adverts declaring that "there's probably no God" have been placed on 800 buses around Britain after an unprecedented fundraising campaign.

Clever and Creative Billboard Advertising (PICS)
Creative uses of billboards in advertising campaigns by various companies.

Ass Kicked, Ann Coulter's "Today" Show Appearance Canceled
NBC had come under fire for booking Coulter to promote her new smear-book, _Guilty_, on the "Today" show. Coulter, long suspected of being a penis-retaining transvestite, is now pouting, but lied and smeared from her blog, saying "I guess this ends the 'they just want to get ratings' argument about liberal media bias."

Hyundai: Lost Your Job? Return Your Car, No Additional Cost
Dubbed the Hyundai Assurance Program, the South Korean automaker said that people who finance or lease a new Hyundai during the next 12 months can return the car if they ?experience an involuntary loss of income? within one year of the purchase date.

Twitter Phishers Also Targeting Facebook
The phishing site that was set up to hoodwink Twitter's users has a second front door that looks exactly like Facebook. The address of the fake Twitter site was twitter.access-login.com/login, but take out the "/login" part and you arrive at the dead-ringer for the Facebook homepage.

Toyota Shuts Down Plants in Japan
Toyota reeling from its worst U.S. sales decline in more than a quarter of a century, will shut all its factories in Japan for 11 days as the global economic slump hits demand and company profits.

Apple intros 17" MacBook Pro
17" MBP!?

Steelers? James Harrison is AP Defensive Player of Year
The linebacker who had a career-high 16 sacks, setting a team record, and led the NFL with a career-high seven forced fumbles, beat Dallas? DeMarcus Ware in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters announced Monday. Pittsburgh defense was the league?s stingiest in total defense, pass defense and points allowed.

5 Celebrity Wikipedia Entries They Clearly Wrote Themselves
What's great, and terrible, about Wikipedia is that anyone can edit it. Anyone--including the person the Wikipedia entry is about. This becomes obvious when looking at the pages of certain washed-up celebrities, and the results are equal parts hilarious and sad.

Twitter Hack Trail Leads To 'DigitalGangster'
It all seems to point back to one person that goes by ?Gmz? on a hacker site called Digital Gangster (this site was also where Miley Cyrus photos were posted after they were taken from her hacked Gmail account). Gmz obtained the account credentials and then posted them on DigitalGanster.

Kid Given Winter Classic Hockey Stick, "Security" Steals It
As the Red Wings left the field, one of them, Henrik Zetterberg, made eye contact with the 14-year-old. "He kind of winked," Plew said. "Then he gave me his stick."What happened next is just sick.

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 songs are now upgradable for the same old price of $0.30 a song.

Faster than the Speed of Light? A New Theory Says, "Yes"
Magueijo, a 40-year old native of Portugal, puts forth the heretical idea that in the very early days of the universe light traveled faster?an idea that if proven could dethrone Einstein and forever change our understanding of the universe.

Yale to hire first Black Football Coach
Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Tom Williams has been hired at Yale, becoming the first black head football coach at the Ivy League school.

How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web but Failed
From the beginning, newspapers sought to invent the Web in their own image by repurposing the copy, values, and temperament found in their ink-and-paper editions. Every newspaper Web site is instantly identifiable as a newspaper Web site. By succeeding, they failed to invent the Web.

Group: Israel deliberately attacked Palestinian journalists
Israel deliberately targeted Hamas-run media installations in its bombing campaign on Gaza and is practising media censorship, a journalist rights group said Monday. The installations in question include Al-Aqsa television, Al-Resalah newspaper and Sawt Al-Aqsa radio, which the Israeli army bombed on December 28 and over the weekend respectively.

President-elect Obama to name Leon Panetta to head CIA,
Leon Panetta to head CIA, NBC reports

The Brave New World: More Digital, Less Physical
Yesterday, I was with my wife in the L'Occitane store. The shelves were filled with fragrances, soaps, lotions: all sorts of handcrafted beauty products. It occured to ...

Banana Fireworks (acute form of self-expression)

Our Galaxy Is Bigger Than Once Thought
Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore.

Phillies' Romero suspended, says it's not fair
While Major League Baseball never said J.C. Romero tried to cheat, the 33-year-old reliever who won the third and clinching games of the 2008 World Series has been ruled guilty of "negligence" and will be suspended for the first 50 games of the 2009 season.

Diabetes dulls the brain claim scientists
People with diabetes suffer a mental slowdown early in the disease, according to a new study.

The Growth of Walmart Across America [VidMap]
"I mapped the spread of Walmart using Modest Maps. It starts slow and then spreads like wildfire in the southeast and makes its way towards the west coast. "

World Cup Whistle-Blower Shot Dead
A senior ANC member who became a whistle-blower over corruption surrounding the upcoming World Cup games was shot dead in front of his home Sunday evening.

The 8 most absurd devices from sci-fi movies
Sure, by its nature sci fi will include some fantastical elements, particularly with tech. But sometimes that tech crosses the line between plausible coolness and sheer fantasy. When far-fetched "technology" with no basis in reality at all shows up in a movie, our disbelief crashes down all around us

35 Basic Tutorials to Get You Started with Photoshop
If you?re interested in honing your Photoshop skills to create spectacular compositions, this is for you. In this article, you?ll find 35 basic Photoshop tutorials for getting started with Photoshop.

10 Fittest Movies of All Time
The best-ever cinematic expressions of muscle, endurance, and guts to ever hit the big screen.

President Bush to protect ocean reefs, fish and volcanoes
George W. Bush is planning to create the world's largest oceanic protected area in the Pacific as part of a bid to improve his record on the environment before leaving office.

Mininova?s Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year
The BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway, with more users discovering that it?s the fastest way to transfer large files online. One of the most frequently visited torrent sites, Mininova, has seen the number of torrent downloads double from 3.5 billion to 7 billion during 2008, and this download rate is still increasing.

87 Ingenious Homegrown Storage Ideas
Simple solutions for getting it all together using things you probably already own?