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(S01E09) There was a lot going on in this episode, as the folks aboard Destiny started to adjust to their new lives away from Earth. The adjustment, of course, is easier for some than it is for others. Chloe has made new friends like Eli and has found a partner in Scott, who comforts her and makes her…
1hr 18mins ago From TV Squad.
It's easy to forget about your body's needs when you're deep into your work or the net—until your body offers a painful reminder. Save your physical shell some strain with these cheap, customizable ergonomic workspace upgrades. Photo by IMG_3771 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!. 10. Elevate your laptop…
1hr 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
After watching The Oprah Winfrey Show today and hearing her teary announcement about her decision to end her syndicated talk show, I had one thought in my head. Oprah Winfrey is doing a Johnny Carson. She's writing her own script (no pun intended). Oprah is leaving while she's still wanted, while she's…
2hrs 17mins ago From TV Squad.
Have an old t-shirt or skirt lying around? With little more than a pair of scissors and a sewing machine, you can turn your old clothes into a nifty wine tote for that bottle of Merlot you're giving to mom. Practically any item of clothing will do, from football jerseys to old jeans. This video provides…
2hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
British citizen and experienced sailor Laura Hughes and her friend John Cochrane were battling gale force winds off the Turkish coast when a rope got caught in her boat’s propeller and killed the engine. She sent a Mayday signal and a boat responded, but the crew demanded 10,000 euros for their…
2hrs 50mins ago From Neatorama.
The folks who bring you the Merriam-Webster dictionary select their top words of the year not by how trendy or new they are, but by which words are the most looked up in their online dictionary. This year, nine of the top ten words are easily linked to big news stories. For example, the word people…
2hrs 58mins ago From Neatorama.
If you are counting the seconds until the new big screen remake of American Gladiators hits a theater near you, please seek immediate medical attention or the nearest clergyman for guidance. Screenwriter Peter Iliff has developed a script for the project. The TV tough guys and gals will be turned into…
3hrs 17mins ago From TV Squad.
Within a few weeks, All My Children will be turning over a new leaf, officially making the move west to new studios in Los Angeles. Most actors are making the move. Some are not. And today ABC informed the head writer, Charles Pratt Jr., that he's been let go. If he had his suitcases packed, well, sorry…
4hrs 17mins ago From TV Squad.
As the new Doctor Who logo is unveiled, a look at the changing logos from the first in 1963 to the 2009 version - and the Doctors who have accompanied them
5hrs 46mins ago From Mixx: Popular.
Remember A Glorious Dawn, the awesome auto-tuned Carl Sagan (and Stephen Hawking) video clip that went viral? What could be better than that? Well, John Boswell of Symphony of Science made another song, this time featuring Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye. Hit play or go to…
9hrs 41mins ago From Neatorama.
It’s no wonder that Neatorama reader Guy won the recent Bent Objects caption contest – turns out he’s one of the guys behind Brevity, a darn funny syndicated comic strip. This one above, titled Medieval Tron, is my favorite, but they’ve got tons of other great stuff. Links: Lots…
10hrs 10mins ago From Neatorama.
(S05E09) "I have a bad feeling about this one. A very bad feeling." - Melinda about the ghost in the closet Melinda's bad feeling was, pardon the pun, dead on. Very bad things happened in this November Sweeps episode: Aiden was put in danger, the dead girl from the closet was front and center, the Shadows…
10hrs 27mins ago From TV Squad.
Trigger Finger of Santa Guerra When I die and become Saint Neatorama, I’d like sculptor Al Farrow to make me a reliquary to treasure one of my body parts. Presumably my blogging pinkie. Al has made some 40 unusual reliquaries, mausoleums and monuments out of guns and ammo parts, dedicated to preserving…
10hrs 28mins ago From Neatorama.
Shiny NGC 253 Galaxy, is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible, and also one of the dustiest. Some call it the Silver Dollar Galaxy for its appearance in small telescopes, or just the Sculptor Galaxy for its location within the boundaries...
11hrs 43mins ago From Mixx: Popular.
(S09E08) The whole alternate timeline or alternate future concept has been around sci fi for ... well, I don't know how long. The most famous example I can think of is the classic Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror," though I'm sure there are many more. We've already had alternate timeline stories in…
11hrs 45mins ago From TV Squad.
(S01E05) I don't think I've sighed as hard as I sighed during the opening scene of this episode of White Collar in a long time. Caffrey and Moz find a note hidden by Kate ... in Grand Central Station? And not even in the station, but in the corner of the building outside. Did I miss some massive clue…
12hrs 24mins ago From TV Squad.
(S08E14) File this one under be careful what you wish for ... I feel like Rod Serling writing that, but there was a bit of a Twilight Zone feel to this episode of Monk. It was Monk in an alternate universe, only it looked like the same place we'd been to before. Same with Natalie. More on how things…
12hrs 44mins ago From TV Squad.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs.
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YouTube streaming video - Angry Crowd Shouts at Sarah Palin Book Signing Tour Noblesville, ... - Angry crowd shouts at Sarah Palin at her book signing in Noblesville, Indiana on November 19, 2009 after Palin quits and refuses to sign books for around 300.
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CNN's Eileen Hsieh introduces the new EU president, Kenya's orphaned elephants and 2010 World Cup qualifiers
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It’s been a long and undoubtedly strange journey for Galileo Galilei’s various body parts. Some of you will recall that when his body was reinterred in 1737, his middle finger was removed, along with several other body parts. The finger and a vertebra have been stored (and displayed)…
15hrs 4mins ago From Neatorama.
What you smell may be a marker for their slow death. After noticing that professional conservators smelled paper while doing their assessments, researchers from University College London’s Centre for Sustainable Heritage used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to identify and quantify the…
15hrs 43mins ago From Neatorama.
(Video Link) Pedro M. Cruz, a graduate student in information visualization and interaction design, created this time-elapsed representation of the rise and decline of the British, French, Portuguese, and Spanish overseas empires from 1800 to 2000. He writes: The data refers to the evolution of the…
15hrs 43mins ago From Neatorama.
by Mike Krumboltz New faces stirred the Search box this week. Folks quickly turned to the Web to learn more about the president's half-brother, a vilified soccer player, and a 2-year-old who helped deliver his baby brother. Catch up on these stories and more with the Buzz Week in Review.President Obama's…
16hrs 8mins ago From Yahoo! Buzz Log.
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up…
16hrs 19mins ago From TV Squad.
CBS News: Reid Seeks Momentum in Health Debate - Bob Schieffer hears from Washington correspondent Nancy Cordes on the votes Democratic senators will need to start a formal debate on their healthcare bill. And, how did Ronald Reagan really get elected?
16hrs 22mins ago From Mixx: Popular.
by Claudine Zap The vampire sequel "New Moon" may not be scoring big with critics. But that sure won't be true for the box office. Hordes of Twi-hards stampeded movie theaters for a first look at a midnight viewing. In fact, fans helped make the teen sensation a record-breaker, with the largest audience…
17hrs 7mins ago From Yahoo! Buzz Log.
I thought that Cheech and Chong and Ann Coulter's gloves-off, no holds barred showdown/friendly exchange of ideas was the weirdest match up of all time. I officially stand corrected. Rapper 50 Cent's posse and sportcaster Marv Albert got into a little backstage tussle on the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live…
17hrs 18mins ago From TV Squad.
Readers offer their best tips for updating Remember the Milk with Gmail's canned responses, avoiding mouse jumps while typing with touchpads, and repelling mosquitoes with Listerine. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads…
17hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
by Claudine Zap We would want to be the last ones to ruin movie night, but this just in from Center for Science in the Public Interest: Chowing down on a medium popcorn and soda is the calorie equivalent to three McDonald's quarter-pounders and 12 — yes 12 — pats of butter. And it gets worse: About…
17hrs 50mins ago From Yahoo! Buzz Log.
If you're playing a TV news drinking game wherein you and your dumb little buddies have to do a shot every time someone posts fake footage or film for a story, you might want to think about switching to Tang. Now MSNBC's Morning Meeting has been caught dipping their hand in the Photoshopping jar when…
18hrs 7mins ago From TV Squad.
This week we rounded up the best online backup tools and explained how you're backing up wrong, detailed how to build an excellent Boxee-based media center, and cured your various aches and pains with some simple home remedies. Five Best Online Backup Tools Local backup is a useful and necessary part…
18hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
You recall the YATTA music video? We I am wondering if they are a one hit wonder?
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The producers of Tin Man, Syfy's dark and splashy spin on The Wizard of Oz, are back with Alice, a twisted take on Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In a conference call with reporters, Alice director Nick Willing and star Caterina Scorsone talked flying flamingos, Tweedledee…
19hrs 17mins ago From TV Squad.
If you want to put your computer through the paces and get some feedback and benchmarks, you'll be hard pressed to find a tool more packed with tests than the Phoronix Test Suite Live CD. PTS Desktop Live is an Ubuntu Live CD with the Phoronix benchmarking suite preconfigured and installed. Reboot your…
19hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
It was 66 years ago on this date that the Second Marine Division began the assault on Betio Island, in the Tarawa Atoll. The island, roughly two thirds of the size of my college’s small campus, was the most heavily fortified beach in the world.
19hrs 49mins ago From Mixx: Popular.
So Oprah is ending her talk show in September 2011. The news first came out yesterday, but when she announced it on today's live show, there were still a few surprised moans in the audience. What, they didn't know about it already? Weird. Anyway, here's the clip with her announcement. I hope she can…
20hrs 8mins ago From TV Squad.
Brizzly, the web-based social media manager that ranked as one of our readers' favorite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It's still technically in "beta," but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechCrunch]…
20hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
Charlie Sorrel has an article at Wired exploring the potential development of LED-lit tattoos. New chips are small enough to be placed under the skin, mounted on a sheet of silk that dissolves into the body: New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus…
20hrs 22mins ago From Neatorama.
The remarkable variety of terrestrial insects. Well, who else loves sushi?
20hrs 24mins ago From Mixx: Popular.
Conductor/composer Andre Rieu showcases Il Silenzio (commonly known as a variation of Taps) with trumpet solo by 13 year old Melissa Venema. The song is much more beautiful when played in its entirety, as opposed to what we hear in movie funeral scenes. This is probably the most peaceful five minutes…
20hrs 26mins ago From Neatorama.
This is a functional mug made out of woven strips of bacon, filled with melted cheese.
I have not yet been able to find the name of the genius responsible for this holy creation. Will s/he step forward and claim the appropriate adulation?
Link via Geekologie
20hrs 34mins ago From Neatorama.
Strong emphasis on the word “early.” A research team at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada was able to temporarily stun worms with an ultraviolet light: The animals that scientists experimented with — pinhead-sized worms known as nematodes — stayed paralyzed even when the light…
20hrs 40mins ago From Neatorama.
Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it's hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start. This free utility takes a look at your hard drives and ferrets out any physical errors it finds, so you…
20hrs 49mins ago From Lifehacker.
In a new comic, cartoonist Patrick Moberg compares various web 2.0 social networking tools to intoxicating drugs, including tumblr, twitter, vimeo, and myspace. But don’t think that he holds these utilities in low regard. Moberg once used them and more to locate a girl that he saw on a NYC subway.…
20hrs 54mins ago From Neatorama.
Photo: Gentle Giant Studios The Star Wars cantina bookend set is currently out of stock, and at a cost of over $150.00 it’s definitely for those with money to burn. Neatorama sells cool bookends for far less. However, this and other examples including Lord of the Rings, Batman vs. Superman,…
21hrs 8mins ago From Neatorama.
Every week we can be guaranteed that Tina Fey and the people at 30 Rock will make fun of NBC in some way, whether it's product placement or The Jay Leno Show or last night's line about the green NBC peacock in the corner of the screen. Fey also isn't shy about dumping on NBC when she's away from the…
21hrs 17mins ago From TV Squad.
Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived is a replacement for the popular MinimizeToTray extension (which has since been abandoned and doesn't support Firefox 3 or later). The simple extension puts Firefox in your system tray with a click of your mouse or a keystroke. Once you've installed…
21hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
Remember the Dramatic Chipmunk Internet meme? Well, I don’t know what took so long, but the chipmunk (or prairie dog if you want to be technical about it) has made a come back of sorts. Behold the Dramatic Chipmunk Messenger Bag, made from thick faux canvas, with adjustable nylon strap. From the…
21hrs 21mins ago From Neatorama.
The commercial is 38 seconds long. Try to figure out what it's about before it's revealed around the 25 second mark. It's filmed like an investigative news report or maybe an old cop show. Are those hookers? Who jumps out of the van? What's with the gross blob guy? [via Adfreak] Filed under: Video,…
21hrs 47mins ago From TV Squad.
In our continuing efforts to help as many of our readers get a chance to play around with Google Wave as possible, we're back again with our weekly Google Wave invitation donation thread. Note: Read the entire post carefully before commenting. If you've got Wave invitations you're willing to donate,…
21hrs 49mins ago From Lifehacker.
Remember the old saying, "Fool me once (awkward pause), shame on (another awkward pause), shame on you (another longer and more awkward pause). Fool me, we can't get fooled again"? Less than a week after Fox News host and conservative pundit Sean Hannity apologized for accidentally using the wrong footage…
22hrs 12mins ago From TV Squad.
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Some things are so obvious, it only took a quarter-century for someone to think of this. (via b3ta)
22hrs 18mins ago From Neatorama.
Turkeys are being purchased, pie recipes dusted off, and the folding chairs are being dragged out from the basement. It's that time of year again—celebrate Thanksgiving with some fresh wallpaper for your computer. We've rounded up some Thanksgiving and fall-themed wallpapers for you to browse…
22hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
This 1936 ad for Camel cigarettes encourages you to stop and smoke between each course of your Thanksgiving feast. Link to Flickr page (full size). -via Metafilter
22hrs 25mins ago From Neatorama.
Wireless charging mats are a clever way to charge your gadgets without cords or power bricks, but a big black mat can easily stick out in any room. Instructables shows you how to make a more stylish wooden induction charger. Instructables user jvalal has been working on altering the aesthetics of his…
22hrs 49mins ago From Lifehacker.
First there was the Lincoln-Douglas debate. Then came the Nixon-Kennedy debate. Now Fox News' Geraldo Rivera continues that great American tradition of the public debate with the Cheech and Chong-Coulter debate. It might sound like the world's most lopsided episode of Celebrity Deathmatch, but the world's…
22hrs 50mins ago From TV Squad.
It won't affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo, or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google's streaming video service will start blocking API access to TV-connected devices as of Dec. 2. The COO of set-top box maker Popcorn Hour writes that the firm tried to negotiate with YouTube to retain the service, but…
22hrs 59mins ago From Lifehacker.
Can’t decide what kind of pie to serve after Thanksgiving dinner? Make them all in one pie pan! Cakespy at Serious Eats experimented with pecan, apple, and pumpkin pie recipes to make this triple threat. The best results came from the pie divided into sections, as seen in the picture. The recipes…
23hrs 10mins ago From Neatorama.
Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of choice. Torrent sites offer a lot of information about…
23hrs 19mins ago From Lifehacker.
The entire time I watched this clip from last night's Late Night, I was thinking, "if Taylor Lautner smashes into a wall face-first or falls off of the mini-bike and cracks his head open, Fallon is going to be in big trouble." The two guys raced around the NBC hallways on mini-bikes. The winner wins…
23hrs 19mins ago From TV Squad.
by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Lebron James' house (Searches increased by 1,586%). The basketball star's 35,000 square-foot abode will include a barber shop, sports bar, and a casino. Thawing turkey (+957%). Yes, it probably is about time to start thinking about doing…
23hrs 32mins ago From Yahoo! Buzz Log.
When you've placed yourself where you need to be, kept at something past your initial doubts, and taken a risk at failing, you're running at 100 percent. Weblog The Simple Dollar suggests thinking of challenges that way—40/30/30—to stay motivated. Photo by martinhoward. Financial blogger…
23hrs 39mins ago From Lifehacker.
People who have changed the world part2
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If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the caption! Last week's winner is patrick with this: "And the next American Idol is..." This week's picture is from the recent meeting between Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart: Filed…
23hrs 43mins ago From TV Squad.
Lately, Detroit Tiger all-star outfielder Curtis Granderson has been in the news because he might be joining the New York Yankees. However, if Major League Baseball free agency doesn't make him a household name, television might. Granderson has an idea for a reality series that's being shopped around…
1 day ago From TV Squad.
Headphones have a magic way of tangling themselves in inexplicably complicated knots. Many techniques for keeping headphones tangle-free work but they badly kink and over tighten them in the process. Use an over-under wrap for easy and cord-friendly storage. Over at HackCollege they tested out a bunch…
1 day ago From Lifehacker.
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Relive the past 9.8 years in news stories condensed into seven minutes, peppered with snark and wit. via AcidCow.
1 day ago From Neatorama.
You may have every corner of your work life streamlined, but that doesn't mean you don't still need a quick break from work after a long week. Take a little breather in our open thread. Photo by lepiaf.geo. The open thread is your weekly opportunity to strike up conversations with your fellow readers…
1 day ago From Lifehacker.
Hurry, hurry, HURRY!!! There's NO time for thinking; it's time to act.!!! Right or Wrong - - - DO SOMETHING NOW!!!! Washington's permanent war lobby has worked itself into a veritable lather. The proper Pentagon press leaks have been made, Op-Eds written
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The preview edition of Gina and Adam's new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. Google Wave is a young tool that's not terribly easy to understand for a lot of folks, but at least a couple of your Lifehacker editors are completely…
1 day 1hr ago From Lifehacker.
Maité Roël of Bovekerke, Belgium is the youngest victim of the first World War. As a disabled war victim, she carries a veteran’s card that entitles her to reduced train fares, but gets suspicious looks when she uses it. Roël was only nine years old when an RAF bomb that was inadvertently thrown…
1 day 1hr ago From Neatorama.
Would you like to tweet this? I thought I would get that out of the way first, as its fast becoming one of the most common questions asked on the internet.
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It's important to keep your knives sharp for a safe and efficient kitchen, but it's easy to neglect the other bladed tools, like your vegetable peeler. Food weblog Chow shows how to keep a sharpener's edge with a paring knife. By running the tip of a paring knife along each blade of your peeler, the…
1 day 1hr ago From Lifehacker.
Photo: Design Fetish In 1997, home developer Kaufman & Broad built a house in Henderson, Nevada that looks exactly like the house that the Simpson family lives in, both inside and outside, including furniture and pictures on the walls. From an article in The Las Vegas Sun, written at the time of…
1 day 2hrs ago From Neatorama.
Android/iPhone: ShopSavvy proved itself one of the most popular Android apps out of the gate, and it's easy to see why. Now on iPhones, the app lets you scan item barcodes, see who has it for less, and locate them. Beyond the simple price comparisons via barcode scanning, ShopSavvy saves a history of…
1 day 2hrs ago From Lifehacker.
A strange assortment of prehistoric crocodilyform fossils have been found in Africa. Crocodilyforms are ancient cousins of today’s alligators, crocodiles, and caimans. For instance, the rodent-like RatCroc had buckteeth for rooting through the ground after tubers or simple animals. The flat-bodied…
1 day 2hrs ago From Neatorama.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin stunned the political world today with her announcement that she will resign as governor on July 26th. In a speech held at her home in Wasilla, Alaska -- described by CBS News as "rambling and sometimes confusing" - - - -
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A crimson-crested woodpecker battles an olive whipsnake on Peru’s Yarapa River. One presumes that the snake was stealing eggs or attacking chicks in the woodpeckers’ nest. The battle ends by the 3:00 mark.
1 day 2hrs ago From Neatorama.
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writer Ramit Sethi's first example, Jim Collins, might be familiar to those read…
1 day 3hrs ago From Lifehacker.
Pare down the bill for your next meal out by picking a restaurant where kids get special treatment with the help of web site KidsEatFor. We've shared a resource with you before for finding places that offer free meals to kids, but KidsEatFor is definitely a more sophisticated tool for finding free places…
1 day 3hrs ago From Lifehacker.
The top 10 things learned by watching the Google Chrome OS debut webinar. (A taste: #1 Chrome already runs faster than IE by 40%, on the Chrome OS it will run even faster because it is optimized for the Linux kernel and the Google Linux kernel tweaks.)
1 day 4hrs ago From Mixx: Popular.
Firefox: Gmail recently made a few tweaks to its message count API, leaving tools like the favicon message indicators by Eric Bogs and Peter Wooley, along with Gina's own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, broken. Now they're fixed. Bogs and Wooley, whose clever user scripts cleverly show your unread…
1 day 4hrs ago From Lifehacker.
Windows Mobile 6.5: If you're rocking a fairly new Windows Mobile phone, Microsoft offers a beta build of its portable Office applications until April 2010. That means free viewing and editing of Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, and other documents. The app seems to require a touch interface, along…
1 day 5hrs ago From Lifehacker.
Microsoft put far more work into the look and themes of Windows 7 than its previous operating systems. Pull down that design work into your non-7-system with Digital Inspiration's simple work-arounds. You can't just grab the files from Windows 7's themes gallery and set them as your own. You can, however,…
1 day 5hrs ago From Lifehacker.
This week on Security Levity... the third in a series of posts about spam in different cultures. This time: Nigeria, home of the 419 scam. Advance-fee fraud come-ons: we've all received them. Typically, badly-worded invitations to help a bank teller
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Buachaille Etive Mor, or the great herdsman of Etive, is a 5 mile ridge set about 1000m in height and crowned by 4 tops, Stob na Doire being one of them. Beautiful Scottish scenery. Great views are a part of Munro bagging.
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This is a demo video to give you a feel for the Google Chrome OS user experience.
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If you're aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment. While Chrome OS is far from ready for the regular user, lots of us are aching to play around a little…
1 day 12hrs ago From Lifehacker.
The 2,100 citizens of North Pole, Alaska take Christmas very seriously. Since 1954, they’ve volunteered for Operation Santa, a program of the US Postal Service which answers letters to Santa Claus. The program has volunteers all over the country, and many letters are routed through Alaska to get…
1 day 13hrs ago From Neatorama.
(Video Link) “Monster Manual” is a song by the band Mixel Pixel. It tells the tale of a role-player’s struggle with a particularly brutal Dungeon Master, who is throwing just about every creature in the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual at him. The video is animated by Dan Meth,…
1 day 14hrs ago From Neatorama.
With the rise of broadband not only do we share pictures of our screens but full out video. This week we want to hear about your favorite tool for screencasting your virtual workspace. Photo by Tim Dorr. Earlier this year we had a Hive Five focused on screen capture tools to find out your favorite tools…
1 day 17hrs ago From Lifehacker.
by Mike Krumboltz Movie critics probably shouldn’t have bothered. All the reviewers in the world can't stop “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” the second film in the hit franchise, from raking in mountains of cash. Still, a few critics tried. Roger Ebert, perhaps the most famous movie critic of all…
1 day 17hrs ago From Yahoo! Buzz Log.
YouTube starts hitting 1080p resolution, courts start respecting work email privacy a bit, and cheap food gets the gourmet makeover. YouTube 1080p roll-out begins If you're shooting something new, feel free to go as big as your storage card allows. If you've already waited out a giant upload, it might…
1 day 18hrs ago From Lifehacker.
“Ears” something unfortunate for bank robber David Holyoak of Manchester, England: his distinctive feature made it really easy for the police to identify and locate him! As Holyoak, of Whitefield, Manchester, began a three-and-a-half year jail sentence for robbery yesterday, one officer…
1 day 18hrs ago From Neatorama.
The winners of the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Photo Digital Imaging Competition were just announced yesterday. Here are some of the wonderful winning and honorable mention images: 1st Place Winner: Water flea Daphnia atkinsoni. This specimen has a "crown of thorns," a defensive trait induced in…
1 day 18hrs ago From Neatorama.
Filmmaker Tim Burton’s visual art will be on display starting on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. His media include watercolors, line drawings, pastels, and sculptures. The exhibit features not only film concept work, but his independent, stand-alone projects. News…
1 day 19hrs ago From Neatorama.
by Claudine Zap Move over, Barbie. Stand back, Hillary Clinton Voodoo kit. There's a new action figure in town. Able to bare her strong arms (that bend at the elbows) and look smashing in a sleeveless shift dress, it's first lady Michelle Obama. As a six-inch plastic doll. Fans of the figurine can collect…
1 day 19hrs ago From Yahoo! Buzz Log.
YouTube clips have previously allowed for captioning, but it was a system that was a little buggy and only worked from YouTube's site. That's all changed with the advent of machine-generated captions and auto-timing. Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology has been paired up with YouTube's…
1 day 19hrs ago From Lifehacker.
by Mike Krumboltz It’s Goliath vs. Goliath! AT&T and Verizon, two titans of the mobile phone industry, are slugging it out for your amusement. In a race to one-up each other, the two companies have each produced snarky TV ads that paint their not-so-friendly competition in an unflattering light. Let’s…
1 day 20hrs ago From Yahoo! Buzz Log.
Windows only: If you've ever wanted to keep a program safe from prying eyes but don't want to close it, free utility LockThis! will let you easily protect any open program, so that un-minimizing it requires a password. LockThis! is extremely easy to use—to lock an application, all you need to…
1 day 20hrs ago From Lifehacker.
Cinematical has a list of ideas for making movies based on classic 20th century TV shows. A couple of these I’d never seen, but I definitely remember tuning in to see Martin Landau and company fight to survive each week on Moonbase Alpha (Space:1999, pictured). The list includes Earth 2, The…
1 day 20hrs ago From Neatorama.
Windows: Gaming is fun. Organizing all your personal video games isn't. Sisimizi takes the hassle out of managing your collection so you can get back to raiding villages and killing zombies. Sisimizi Game Catalog is a free, open-source database application that supports classic and recent video game…
1 day 20hrs ago From Lifehacker.
Web application Shape Collage quickly turns your online photos into embeddable photo collages with nothing more than a few clicks. It's a interesting way to showcase your pictures online without a lot of work. Making your own collage requires simply adding URLs to the individual photos, or in the case…
1 day 21hrs ago From Lifehacker.
Photo: Digited Image Company Apple executive Jeff Dauber has a backyard deck that will not, despite initial impressions, suck you into a wormhole and then throw you back in time. He had architect Thom Flauders design the piece to create an optical illusion of curves where there are only flat surfaces:…
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Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it's different than other operating systems. Here are the features, functions, and screenshots you'll want to know about. Want the short version, sketched out on a notepad, uploaded as a video,…
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It's bad enough having a super messy workspace, but when your workspace is lofted above the rest of your living space and all your cable clutter and your ugly desk become an eyesore something must be done. Lifehacker reader aloftindenver lives, shockingly enough, in a a loft in Denver. They've been…
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If the iPhone's zoom just isn't doing it for you, and you prefer a higher-quality optical zoom to lesser digital zoom apps, DIY web site Instructables details how to make a contraption that'll help you achieve just the frame you're looking for. While this particular how-to is built for an iPhone, the…
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by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Johnny Depp (Searches increased by 1,057%). It's official. People magazine has decreed the "Pirates of the Caribbean" star the sexiest guy on the planet. Abraham Lincoln biography (+317%). On this day back in 1863, the 16th president delivered…
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by Claudine Zap Here's a heavy subject: If obesity trends continue, more than 40% of the U.S. will be obese by 2018. According to a new study, that's not the only number to go up: The health care costs associated with a tubby country will quadruple to $344 billion a year, making up a rotund 21% of all…
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Firefox only: If your bookmarks bar has gotten out of control with dead links, duplicates, and empty folders, Firefox extension CheckPlaces will check all your bookmarks and even clean them up for you, automatically deleting anything unnecessary. The extension is extremely configurable, so you can choose…
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We've talked time and time again about new and different ways to hide the unsightly cable nests lurking in your home. Instead of squirreling them away, artist Maisie Maud Broadhead cleverly decorates with them in plain sight. Running cables through walls, attics, and ceilings isn't anyone's idea of…
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Buy three 24" monitors get one free? Buy a 1TB hard drive and get a free HDD dock? Buy a media player and get a free 640GB matched hard drive? We've got these awesome combos and more inside. Computer Gear! Lenovo IdeaCentre Q700 Desktop PC for $349.00 + Free Shipping (Regular Price: $499 - use coupon…
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My wife bought me a Garmin GPS for Christmas last year. After showing her Google Navigation on my G1, she asked if her gift is obsolete. Sorry to say but, for anything but long-distance treks, Google's Navigation is good enough. I've been using Google Maps Navigation on an HTC G1, which is not the higher-powered,…
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Mac: Wondering what kind of impact your power and fuel consumption have on the environment? ECOBOT helps you figure it out. ECOBOT is a free, open-source application that calculates how much fuel, paper, and power you use during the course of a day to help keep you aware of how you can reduce your carbon…
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If you've installed Windows 7 (or Vista) but still don't have a product key, you'll eventually end up with an activation nag screen and "reduced functionality" until you get a proper key. Still not ready to buy? Temporarily bypass the problem instead. Tech weblog UneasySilence details how to use the…
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by Mike Krumboltz Attention, class. Here’s a logic question for you: If it’s true that everyone loves a deal, and Black Friday offers the best deals of the year, then is it safe to assume that folks will go into a state of high-grade hysteria the day after Thanksgiving? The answer is: duh, of course.Though…
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by Mike Krumboltz In the olden days, when an American citizen was ticked off at those “bureaucrats on Capitol Hill,” he or she would write to their congressperson. These days, some folks are going a step further, sending their representatives pink slips. Over 5 million of them, to be exact.As many…
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by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Manatee (Searches increased by 6,926%). The monster supposedly spotted in a Florida canal may actually be a sea cow. Minnie Driver (+4,275%). The actress will guest star on "Modern Family." Apple tablet (+2,954%). The mythical device that…
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by Mike Krumboltz People love it when animals exhibit human-like emotions because it brings us closer to them. A photographer for National Geographic recently had an experience with a leopard seal that proves many traits we think of as “human” are actually far more universal.In an exclusive interview…
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by Claudine Zap Cheapskates and cable-discontents will rejoice in the news that a TV service called Sezmi is coming soon. Customers in L.A. are already testing out the competitor to TV and DVR services that "sez" it offers a cheaper, more net-friendly alternative. The all-in-one idea is a combo of local…
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by Mike Krumboltz Wanna buy Coca-Cola at Costco? Too bad. The two giants are currently in a tiff over prices. Costco contends that it won't sell the sugar-water unless Coca-Cola agrees to lower prices. So far, the soda makers aren't bugging. But, hey, in the meantime, there's always water.Follow us…
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Came across this cool video today that perfectly reflects the goal behind our push to get teachers using CreateDebate in the Classroom. Are you a teacher interested in using a web-based virtual learning environment to increase participation, promote critical thinking, and improve the vocabulary and…
53 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
Love and Debate, a great new movie by Virgil Films, is a coming of age story about a Jewish Latina girl, Jordan (played by Gina Phillips) who finds her way through the trials and tribulations faced by teenagers. Jordan, who grows up in a Jewish household, where the customary role of a woman is to get…
66 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
Today we launched CreateDebate in the Classroom, which is a culmination of months of hard work put in by the CreateDebate team. Now, teachers can leverage all of the features and functionality of CreateDebate in a private setting specifically designed for a classroom. We have worked with several…
92 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
Watched a very funny VH1 show last night that deserves a shout out. The Greate Debate is a “Best Week Ever” type show where a motley crew of pop culture comedians crack rapid fire one-liners about intense pop culture debates…and hilarity ensues. You really have to watch the video to…
128 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
Congratulations to the winners of both CreateDebate Spring Fever contests. The winner of the “Tell Your Friends” contest will receive a $20 gift certificate to Clutch Tees and the winners of the “Earth Day” contest have won six great books from Hachette Book Group. Tell Your…
186 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
Now that the weather is starting to warm up and everyone is gearing up for Spring, it’s time to make sure you’ve got some sweet gear to rock when you emerge from your winter slumber. To help you out, CreateDebate has partnered with ClutchTees.com to give away a $20 gift certificate for…
220 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
There has been much discussion on CreateDebate about the use / abuse of downvotes on the site and certain participants getting “mass” downvoted, causing their efficiency score to drop dramatically. In order to combat this problem and provide greater transparency around voting, we have…
249 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
Congratulations to the winners of each of the three contests that CreateDebate ran as part of our Mental Stimulus Package in February. This month, we gave away ninety-five books from Hachette Book Group and a $20 gift certificate to Clutch Tees. Love Is In the Air Contest Results Contest Winner…
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While lawmakers are figuring out how they can take more of taxpayer’s money to give to Wall St. executives, CreateDebate wants to give YOU something free. That’s why we’re officially bailing out our awesome debaters via CreateDebate’s Mental Stimulus Package. We will be running…
286 days ago From The CreateDebate Blog.
We just launched a new version of CreateDebate that will let you personalize your debates more than ever! Go ahead and create a new debate. The new interface makes it easy to insert pictures, add videos from YouTube or Google Video, add unlimited hyperlinks, format your text, and so much more! The…
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