Why I continue to hate teens with MySpace profiles

Caution: Pokemon seizures may occur.

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Rare cosmic alignment A smile that'll light up the night sky

THE world may be facing its worst economic turmoil in decades, but the heavens are about to smile on Australia. A rare cosmic alignment on Monday will produce a smiling face - or an emoticon, depending on your generation - high over the country.

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They Never Should Have Let This Man Run Wall Street (PIC)

It all makes sense now.

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Amazon deforestation up almost 4.0 percent

Brazil's Amazon jungles, known as the lungs of the world, lost almost 12,000 square kilometres (4,800 sq. miles) in just 12 months, a rise of almost 4.0 percent, new figures showed Friday.

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Rosie O'Donnell Scores Lower than Knight Rider. Ouch.

Rosie O'Donnell writes on her blog that her NBC variety show -- her first TV gig since leaving The View -- won't being continuing. The Wednesday night show attracted just 5 million viewers, down even from the previous week's low-rated Knight Rider. The night was dominated by Barbara Walters' interview of Barack and Michelle Obama.

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Stupid Play Made Worse By Slick Goal [VID]

Leafs would win the game 4-2.

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Steelers Stomp Patriots!

Pittsburgh's NFL-best defense stopped Matt Cassel's two-game offensive surge and pushed New England closer to strange territory: a sideline seat for the playoffs.

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MacDeveloper Helps Mac Beta Testers and Developers Connect

t can be tough putting together a good closed beta testing pool if you’re a small developer. Perhaps especially so if you’re developing for Mac, which, still has a smaller overall user base to draw from than Windows. MacDeveloper, a recently founded Mac testing community, wants to bring developers together with motivated, responsible beta testers.

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The ultimate guide to testing your website

How to conduct 'guerilla testing' to perfect usability.

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The ultimate guide to testing your website

How to conduct 'guerilla testing' to perfect usability.

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Draw my Thing - Multiplayer Online Pictionary [ADDICTIVE]

Addictive multiplayer game where one person draws something while the other players guess what word they're trying to say. Its like a massive multiplayer online pictionary, no need to register simply hop on as a guest and start joining some matches!

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Draw my Thing - Multiplayer Online Pictionary [ADDICTIVE]

Addictive multiplayer game where one person draws something while the other players guess what word they're trying to say. Its like a massive multiplayer online pictionary, no need to register simply hop on as a guest and start joining some matches!

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Draw my Thing - Multiplayer Online Pictionary [ADDICTIVE]

Addictive multiplayer game where one person draws something while the other players guess what word they're trying to say. Its like a massive multiplayer online pictionary, no need to register simply hop on as a guest and start joining some matches!

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"CAN YOU ALL JUST WAIT ONE MINUTE!! I'VE ONLY GOT 8 LEGS!!"

Photographer Rob Jan says: "Strewth. Found this little domestic scene about ten feet [3.05 meters ] in the air under the house eaves. The picture is about four times the actual size."

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Three Applications for Making Disc Labels on Linux

Making labels for DVDs and their cases is an often overlooked task. Many discs are lucky to have some terse information quickly scrawled on them after burning. But there are some fine open source applications available for creating labels for CD-ROM and DVD disks and printing jewel case inserts, including gLabels, kover, and cdlabelgen.

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Woman Finds 14 Baby Pythons In Bedroom

An Australian woman says she hated snakes even before she found 14 young carpet pythons in her bedroom. A snake catcher believes a female python living on the roof laid her eggs there and the babies slithered down through air-conditioning vents. Since carpet pythons usually lay 25 to 30 eggs, the woman could have some more unwelcome guests.

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Quick Take: Broncos cool off Jets

It was over when ... Jay Cutler caught the Jets off guard on third-and-2 in the fourth quarter. With New York's secondary expecting a short passing route, Brandon Stokley was left wide open behind safety Abram Elam for a 36-yard touchdown pass that gave Denver a 34-17 lead with 9:26 remaining.

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Stainless - Google Chrome’s Mac Twin

No, not really. Stainless is a multi-process OS X browser inspired by Google Chrome. Although it is merely a technological demo, there are 3 words I can utter about Stainless. It has potential

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Toys R Us reopens in Palm Desert after 2 men are killed

Reporting from Palm Desert and Los Angeles -- Shoppers returned to Toys R Us in Palm Desert on Saturday, a day after two men shot each other dead in front of terrified Black Friday customers.

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Wow! Wow! Wow!

Location: Beach in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Photographer: neloqua

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Alcohol Experiment - Calorie Intake From Your Last Night Out

What effect does drinking have on your waistline? Lots of people end up with 'beer bellies' if they drink too much, but spirits and wine also contain plenty of calories.

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Wow! Wow! Wow!

Location: Beach in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Photographer: neloqua

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The 100 Best Movies of 2008

Here is our pick of the best movies released in the UK this year. Do you agree with our selection? What have we missed? What were your favourites? Click film titles to read the reviews, and have your say below

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Navy Retires 40 Year Old “Secret” Sub

Launched in Groton, Conn., in January 1969, for years NR-1 was a secret submersible built to dive so deep it had wheels for moving along the ocean floor. Because of its nuclear reactor, its dwell time was not limited by batteries like other submersibles. But it was not fast, managing a little more than 3 knots submerged.

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Another delay for the Large Hadron Collider

The world's largest physics experiment has seen a series of setbacks since September, but CERN is determined that 'the LHC will run next year.'

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10% of All Vehicles in Ireland to be Electric Cars by 2020

The Irish government has announced radical plans to introduce more than 250,000 electric cars onto the nation’s roads by 2020, a staggering ten percent of the total vehicles in the country.

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9 headless bodies found in Mexican border city

The bodies of nine decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said

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Pentagon to build robot soldier that won't commit war crimes

The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war crimes like their human comrades in arms. The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately.

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Here's my Business Card

From http://ni9e.com/photos/4publication/

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Holy Crap! Abort! Abort!

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NY Times Video: Acid Attacks on Pakistani Women Increasing

Westerners associate terrorism in Pakistan with suicide bombers, but the real emerging terrorist threat for Pakistani women is being disfigured by acid attacks, often by their own husbands, Nicholas D. Kristof reports.

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60 Minutes: Michael Phelps Interview

He swam into history at the Beijing Olympics and now the 23-year-old phenom tells Anderson Cooper how his life has since changed.

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Worst Jobs with the Best Pay

Yes, IT Worker ACTUALLY IS on the list. These are dirty jobs and somebody has to do them. At least they get paid for it. Also includes: crab fisherman, roughneck, gastroenterologist, security in Iraq, trucker, crop duster pilot, toll collector, embalmer, and many more high paying jobs you probably don't want.

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Second Life Lacks Buzz, Reuters Bails

Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone...

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Rumor: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $20 Billion Now

The Times of London reported this weekend that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's search business for $20 billion. According to the paper, former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller and fomer Fox Interactive President Ross Levinsohn are set to head the effort. t is worth noting that as of Friday, the market capitalization of Yahoo in its entirety was jus

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Donald Trump is Missing $53M Payments: Times Must be Tough

Think he gets annoying calls to the house at 8 am on Saturdays? Facing tough competition and sliding revenue amid the economic meltdown, Trump Entertainment Resorts will have to skip a $53.1 million interest payment scheduled for Monday on its 8.5% senior secured notes due 2015 in order to maintain sufficient liquidity.

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The 10 Big Energy Myths

There has never been a more important time to invest in green technologies, yet many of us believe these efforts are doomed to failure. What nonsense, according to The Guardian's Chris Goodall

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Yahoo and Virgin agree to British mobile search deal

Yahoo is hoping to steal a lead on rival Google in the nascent mobile search and advertising markets, having lost the battle for dominance in the desktop computer search market, and is spearheading its European efforts in Britain.

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Facebook Connect Has Arrived

Facebook's new web sign-in platform has officially launched today. Facebook users will now be able to log in to a number of sites (including Digg) via their Facebook identity. Data will be swapped between Facebook and other services.

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Wrath of the Lich King is fastest selling PC game ever

Online gamers, bow before the king. According to developer Blizzard, the recently released World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King sold over 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the single fastest selling PC game in history.

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FDA to Allow Trace Levels of Melamine in Baby Form

The FDA will allow trace amounts of melamine in infant formula, saying tiny levels don't pose health concerns.

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Model Propaganda - Do games help to 'escape' from daily life

So we read Chomsky's Propaganda Model earlier in the semester for insight into limiting forces on journalistic verification and transparency in mainstream news media. Before you discount this post as mental masturbation or the ramblings of another upper-middle class anaracho-syndicalist (which I'm not), I'd like to state clearly that I'm not going

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One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex

Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce.

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No Outsourcing Here: Jobs That Are Staying Put

When outsourcing first began, most college students and recent grads weren't concerned with whether or not their chosen industry would remain based in the U.S. Today, many workers realize they have equally educated and skilled workers competing for the same jobs overseas.

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Five Best CD and DVD Burning Tools

The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn't mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past

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Editor's Picks: The 20 Best Holiday Gifts for a Digital Man

It's the most gadget-full time of the year, and our favorite present ideas are guaranteed to bring you all-around holiday joy this season.

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Survey Finds that more Believe in the Supernatural than God

Believing in ghosts and little green men from outer space appears a touch easier than having faith in God, according to a survey. Nearly a quarter of the 3,000 surveyed claimed they had had a paranormal encounter.

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Bad Weight Lifting Spotter

This guy gets annoyed having to spot his buddy who can only bench press 115 lbs so he drops a nut shot during his friends set.

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Venus from around the world [PICS]

Photos of and related to the Venus Transit, obtained in different places around the world.

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Jasper-Based Xbox 360 Consoles finally ship

After months of anticipation and speculation, revised Xbox 360 consoles built around the new Jasper platform have finally appeared in the wild. Jasper employs an updated GPU manufactured using 65nm process, as opposed to the 90nm process used for the original revision. Other than the GPU, however, a few more changes have been made as well

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