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GameSpy's 25 Favorite PC Games of the '90s
Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 11:55 AM EST (GameSpy)
The 1990s were landmark years for PC gaming, giving rise to three of the most deeply ingrained genres on the platform (first-person shooters, real-time strategy games, and massively multiplayer online games), and delivering memorable classics in the role-playing and adventure gen …
Nuke the Moon: 5 Certifiably Insane Cold War Projects
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:51 PM EDT (CRACKED.com)
The upcoming movie The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the story of a military operation that attempted to create Jedi warriors who could teleport through walls and kill goats by staring at them. It all sounds pretty far-fetched ...
As airlines cut corners, will pilot fatigue run the industry into the ground?
Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:20 PM EDT ()
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are once again discussing a radical change in rules about pilot flight limits. Current regulations, which have been in effect since the 1960s, only allow pilots to fly for 100 hours per month or 8 hours in any 24-hour period.
Alan Grayson SCHOOLS Paul Broun on Constitution. He will NOT yield!
Seeded on Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:07 PM EDT (Daily Kos)
The guy is a TRUTH MACHINE! This is another absolute beaut from the CongressmanWithGUTS, Alan Grayson (BIG D-FL08).
Study Backs Open Access to Broadband Networks
Seeded on Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:04 AM EDT (PC World)
The question of what makes for a successful national broadband policy has generated heated debate in the U.S. over the past several years, focusing on issues including net neutrality, the Universal Service Fund for rural phone service, and the proper role of government. The U.S.
Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world
Seeded on Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:25 PM EDT (Telegraph)
Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those events that shatter assumptions.
Wingnuts, Thieves, Terrorists and Imbeciles Kill Social Sites
Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:47 AM EDT
In recent months there has been a growing awareness among the citizens of on-line communities that social sites and other gathering places or waterholes are being attacked by various and sundry individuals and organisms that appear to bring detriment, discord and sometimes fatal …
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EU farmers in white heat over milk prices
Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:18 AM EDT
Belgian farmers sprayed 3 million liters (790,000 gallons) of fresh milk onto their fields Wednesday, furious over the low milk prices they say are bankrupting farmers.
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Ike's Other Warning
Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:56 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"The authoritarian follower, Eisenhower suggested, desired nothing more than insulation from the pressures of a free society."
Why AT&T Killed Google Voice
Seeded on Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:05 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
With Google Voice, you have one Google phone number that callers use to reach you, and you pick up whichever phone—office, home or cellular—rings. You can screen calls, listen in before answering, record calls, read transcripts of your voicemails, and do free conference calls.
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show
Seeded on Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:54 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.
The real price of Goldman's giganto-profits
Seeded on Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:14 PM EDT ()
So what's wrong with Goldman posting $3.44 billion in second-quarter profits, what's wrong with the company so far earmarking $11.4 billion in compensation for its employees? What's wrong is that this is not free-market earnings but an almost pure state subsidy
Goldman Sachs Likely to Post Huge Profits, Analysts Say
Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:27 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Up and down Wall Street, analysts and traders are buzzing that Goldman, which only recently paid back its government bailout money, will report blowout profits from trading on Tuesday.
Iran's terrifying Facebook police
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:14 PM EDT ()
Iranian authorities are paying very close attention to what's going on Facebook and Twitter (which, in my opinion, also explains why they decided not to take those web-sites down entirely - they are useful tools of intelligence gathering).
Windows 7 Hits a New Low
Seeded on Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:27 AM EDT (PC World)
I've always wanted to get a modern operating system to work on my graphing calculator. And we're about there, thanks to the efforts of a fellow (or strangly named lady) on The Windows Club forum.
What Does the End of the Recession Look Like?
Seeded on Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:38 PM EDT ()
Regional economic experts agree: The end of the recession just means the end of the beginning of bad times.
Would Iran be any different under new management?
Seeded on Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:41 PM EDT ()
So why is the international community yet to seize on this opportunity? One reason could be that Western leaders think that any so-called "green revolution" would make no difference in the foreign-policy challenges that Iran, in its current shape and form, presents them, and as a …
Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business
Seeded on Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:26 PM EDT (Business Insider)
The traditional TV industry--cable companies, networks, and broadcasters--is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: In denial.
Newly Discovered Iron-breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of Years
Seeded on Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:58 AM EDT (Science Daily)
A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report April 17 in the journal Science.
The Formula That Killed Wall Street
Seeded on Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:54 PM EDT (Wired News)
For five years, Li's formula, known as a Gaussian copula function, looked like an unambiguously positive breakthrough, a piece of financial technology that allowed hugely complex risks to be modeled with more ease and accuracy than ever before.
BBC Exposes Cyber Crime Risk: Journalists easily create bot-net of 22,000 hijacked computers capable of sending spam, attacking websites and stealing personal data
Seeded on Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:47 PM EDT (BBC News)
Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime. The technology programme Click has demonstrated just how at risk PCs are of being taken over by hackers.
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today.
Seeded on Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:44 PM EST (Slate)
It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online.
The Question: "Does flight simulation prepare us for flying a real plane? "
Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:10 PM EST ()
There is this question on the mind of many flight simulation enthusiasts A question as old as our hobby itself: Does flight simulation prepare us for flying a real plane?
Will invoking the Great Depression bring it on?
Seeded on Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:54 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who heads the International Monetary Fund, has suggested that the world's major economies are "already in depression." Economist bad-boy Nouriel Roubini warns that the United States is in a "near depression."
5 Great Progressive Moves by Obama That You Might Have Missed
Seeded on Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:12 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
It's been a full month since the inauguration of Barack Obama. With debates raging over the financial system and the larger economic crisis, Obama has quietly succeeded in pushing through some great progressive initiatives and picked an encouraging candidate for his drug czar.
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GameSpy's 25 Favorite PC Games of the '90s
Nuke the Moon: 5 Certifiably Insane Cold War Projects
Energy crisis is postponed as new gas rescues the world
Why AT&T Killed Google Voice
DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show
The real price of Goldman’s giganto-profits
What Does the End of the Recession Look Like?
Would Iran be any different under new management?
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today.
Will invoking the Great Depression bring it on?