Halo 3 has quickly come under fire for disc-read errors and scratched discs, but now some tech heads on the Beyond 3D forums have found what they believe to be evidence that the most hyped game of Microsoft’s ‘all games in HD’ console only runs natively at a paltry 640p — not 720p, not HD […]
We were always a little wary of bringing our Legos into the bathroom, but if you’ve got no such baseless fears, BattleBricks has published a handy how to on building one of those fancy auto-flushers you see in some of the finest washrooms worldwide.read more | digg story
Apple’s firmware wiped away the powerful apps that helped push the iPhone to greatness. With this, I’m going to have to move our recommendation from “Wait” to “Don’t Buy”. I’m done with this phone until the apps come back.read more | digg story
Kent Kauffman said he coughed towards a police officers waist during a routine traffic stop. He we was then put in handcuffs, thrown into the side of the patrol car and charged with a misdemeanor.read more | digg story
You’ve been a customer in good standing for 3 months. You’re heading out of the country. You want a subsidy unlock so you can use your iPhone on an overseas GSM network. You call AT&T with this eminently reasonable request… guess what happens next.read more | digg story
School security guards in Palmdale, CA have been caught on camera assaulting a 16-year-old girl and breaking her arm after she spilled some cake during lunch and left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning it up.read more | digg story
The current kings of juvenile on Comedy Central, “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are pitching in to bring a series of silly competitions to the cable channel. Comedy Central has acquired rights to a Canadian series, “Kenny vs. Spenny,” and fans Parker and Stone agreed to help produce new episodes.read more | […]
The Spanish newspaper El País recently published the transcript of a conversation between President George W. Bush and then-Prime Minister José María Aznar on Feb. 22, 2003—a few weeks before the invasion of Iraq—and it confirms some (though not all) of the most dreadful accounts and suspicions about Bush’s intentions and nature.read more | digg […]
In Georgia, 21-year-old Genarlow Wilson is serving a mandatory 10-year jail sentence for aggravated child molestation. His crime: When he was 17, he had oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. Nooooooooooo!!! He did WHAT?? This article explores the gray areas of this touchy topic.read more | digg story
Under the principles of the Nuremburg Trials at the end of World War Two, Bush would be indictable for all four counts established back then:
1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace;
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace;
3. War crimes;
4. Crimeread more […]
The Senate agreed on Thursday to increase the federal debt limit by $850 billion — from $8.965 trillion to $9.815 trillion — and then proceeded to approve a stop-gap spending bill that gives the Bush White House at least $9 billion in new funding for its war in Iraq. Ron Paul is the only republican […]
“We’re preparing for another war, and they’re going to destroy America,” Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Thursday on the Ed Schultz show. “We have a government in place right now that has to be challenged. I’m seriously thinking about calling a privileged resolution on impeachment of the vice president and forcing a vote on the floor […]
Some universities block the downloading of torrent files by not allowing users to access files with the wrong mime-type or file extension. This simple block is easy to get around, and that’s exactly what a new site called “txtor” does.read more | digg story
Kevin Rose and Tariq Krim, the respective founders of social network and news aggregation sites Digg and Netvibes, and Garrett Camp, founder of Web browser plug-in site StumbleUpon fielded questions from Jason Pontin, publisher of MIT’s Technology Review magazine during a panel discussion at the university’s Emerging Technologies Conference.read more | digg story
If you haven’t already bitten the bullet and taken your unlocked iPhone down that scariest of paths, the 1.1.1 update, we’re here to sort out a bit of the hearsay from the actual and fairly inconvenient truth.read more | digg story
Robotics experts say gadgets introduced Thursday could usher more socially oriented robots into the U.S. market, though they bear little physical resemblance to humans or pets as robots embraced by consumers in Japan and South Korea do.read more | digg story
Do you wonder what it would be like to walk an idiot though installing Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Beta over the telephone as a technical support representative? Step into someone idiotic shoes and read to find out.read more | digg story
The MIT libraries has a nice page up of an old entrance exam as required for freshman to enter the institute. subjects include english, geometry, algebra, and arithmetic.read more | digg story
A WOMAN was locked up and “lost” for 70 years after being wrongly accused of stealing 13p. Jean Gambell, 85, was “certified” indefinitely in 1937 over claims she had taken the cash while cleaning at a doctor’s surgery. The money was found — but Jean still spent 70 years in a maze of care institutions.read […]
It was bound to happen: Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who charges the trio with a variety of offenses stemming from the recent iPhone price cut. She’s seeking damages in the amount of $1 million, […]
