A complete list of the top 25 most popular video game sites, compiled for all gamers looking to gain an informational edge, ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Page Rank, Alexa Rank and Compete and Quantcast U.S. traffic data.read more | digg story
What’s new in this release:
- A variety of fixes to improve Photoshop CS2 support.
- More complete support for device installation in setupapi.
- New Bidi text implementation that doesn’t depend on libicu.
- The usual assortment of Direct3D improvements.
- Beginning of I/O completion ports support.
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An ultra-secret conservative group — so secret that members don’t even use the group’s name in communications — will feature Vice President Dick Cheney as a speaker at a meeting in Utah today.read more | digg story
The inventor of the HomePub, a fridge freezer with built-in draught beer system, is, it goes without saying, a genius. Designed with special people in mind, the kind who like to pour beer on their cornflakes or drink their coffee with beer and two sugars, there’s designated space for two five-liter kegs.read more | digg […]
Determining which industries aren’t long for this world may seem easy enough. But some types of businesses, such as telemarketing, are surprisingly hard to kill. And then again, other industries, probably the ones you’re sad to see go, can’t find a way to survive.read more | digg story
About 50 Boulder High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance and recited their own version, omitting “one nation, under God.”read more | digg story
For six years, Tania Head symbolised the courage and determination of 9/11 survivors. It made her one of the chosen few. Her account reduced many people to tears and inspired thousands more… But yesterday,it was revealed that she ‘made it all up’ !read more | digg story
While it’s one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists.read more | digg story
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited President Bush to speak at an Iranian university if the American leader ever traveled to the Islamic Republic, state-run television reported Friday.read more | digg story
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 “baby bond” from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home.read more | digg story
“Advertising is literally everywhere, including on escalators. It seems that many products can use the unique features of escalators to their marketing advantage. Since an ad can only be successful if it can your attention and make a statement, here are 8 escalators ads that I thought successful.”read more | digg story
Well before the Wii, Nintendo burrowed its way into our pop culture with classic games like The Legend of Zelda, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! and Metroid. How well do you remember the little details? Match the element to the game in which it played an admittedly minor role.read more | digg story
The Associated Press
MAPLE VALLEY (Washington), Sep 28: During the eight days that Tanya Rider lay seriously injured in her crashed SUV, her husband was fighting red tape to get authorities to launch a search for her.
Rider, 33, was found alive but dehydrated at the bottom of a steep ravine on Thursday, more than a week […]
David Letterman on Thursday announced a segment on “George Bush vs. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” promising also that each joke “will be punctuated with a ridiculous sound effect.” Along with celebrity gags and jokes playing off the Iranian president’s popular image as a bloodthirsty tyrant, there were also some more interesting comparisons.read more | digg story
Doctors in Philadelphia are testing a revolutionary new treatment that is restoring life and bringing people back from the dead. CBS Station KYW-TV in Philadelphia Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has details.read more | digg story
The IWHBYD Skull has been found! After countless hours from the Halo3Planet Community, we finally present you with the location of the final skull, the IWHBYD Skull!read more | digg story
The latest episodes of Heroes and Prison Break have been downloaded over a million times already. However, quite a few paranoid downloaders noticed that the .torrent files, apparently released by EZTV, were using the MiiVi.org tracker. A trap perhaps?read more | digg story
One of the most frightening realities of teaching college history is that most students rarely have a clue what fascism is. They know about Hitler and the extermination of Jews, but they see little connection with Nazi rule in the 1930s and 40s and the current political milieu in the United States.read more | digg […]
The United States and Iraq are focusing on five incidents where Blackwater USA guards killed civilians in Iraq this year as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ordered a high-level review board to Baghdad, U.S. officials said.read more | digg story
