January 2010
35 posts
"BatteryBar’s One Year Anniversary: Pay Your Own...
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Mountain Dew and Pepsi Throwback bring real sugar...
They’re baaaack! I just spotted the greatest beverages on Earth in my local Rite Aid while shopping for New Year’s Eve refreshments. The last I heard, Pepsi discontinued the Throwback line after a brief early summer run. But according to Wikipedia – who’s never wrong — the HFCS-free sodas are back for a limited time. Why, oh why, did I give up soda a few days ago. Who does something like...
Nissan 350Z Teeters On Guard Rail After Snowy...
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December 2009
51 posts
Snowstorm squelches climate change protest - Salt...
A downtown protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday’s snowstorm. “Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions,” said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah. It didn’t take long for the six friends to pack up a bullhorn and posters they’d planned to use for their...
Haywood shovels some snow!
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Apparently, Lithium Batteries Cure Constipation...
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Sprint Overdrive dual-mode WiMAX / EV-DO mobile...
via engadget.com Move over, MiFi — this Sprint Overdrive dual-mode WiMAX / EV-DO mobile hotspot that just hit our inbox has taken over as our new object of broadband desire. Our tipster says internal training on the Sierra-built device has already begun, and that the unit itself features a microSD slot, support for location services, and has a 100-foot Wi-Fi range — but sadly we...
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell via...
Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can’t stop applauding the companies long enough to understand what’s really going on with these games. The real story isn’t the business success of these startups. It’s the completely unethical...
Shrink Pic Resizes Images Automagically for Faster...
Windows only: Image resizing tools are a dime a dozen, but free utility Shrink Pic is actually an extremely clever original: Instead of any requiring manual processing, it runs in the background and automatically resizes images whenever you attach or upload them. A perfect tool for frequent Facebook uploaders, for example, Shrink Pic works with a number of...
CalPERS weighs appeal on furlough suit - via...
CalPERS is mulling over its options after a judge rejected its challenge to the state-worker furlough program. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System sued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in August, saying the three-times-a-month furlough system was hindering the pension fund’s ability to recover from huge investment losses. In that sense, the furloughs are actually...
Problems Tramping? You Need a Separate Sack...
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Leaked Nexus One Documents: $530 Unlocked, $180...
A tipster just sent in these Nexus One screenshots that supposedly confirms two things: that Google will sell it unlocked and unsubsidized for $530, and that Google will sell it by themselves. Plus, some other very interesting details. UPDATE Some of the most important bits of info we extracted (assuming the tipster is accurate, and it seems like he is). Oh, and take...
VOTD: Tom Wilson’s Biff Song | /Film
VOTD: Tom Wilson’s Biff Song Posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta Most people know comedian Tom Wilson as the guy who played Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future trilogy, which probably explains why he is consistently questioned about his experience on the films wherever he goes. Wilson decided to turn the answers into a song as part of...
Harold Ramis Promises Ghostbusters 3 For 2011 |...
Harold Ramis Promises Ghostbusters 3 For 2011 Posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 by Russ Fischer I propose a new policy for 2010: let’s not be even vaguely ready to buy into every little Ghostbusters 3 statement that passes the lips of Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd . Especially Dan Aykroyd. But the thing does seem to be happening, for better or worse, and...
Family Feud: American Chopper's Paul Teutel Sr....
Family Feud: American Chopper’s Paul Teutel Sr. reportedly sues Paul Jr. for over $1 million by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) on Dec 29th 2009 at 3:32PM Drama, drama, drama. Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking American Chopper is all about the motorcycles. In reality, the television show has always been about an amazingly dysfunctional family, and in particular the father/son...
How Three Guys Dismantled One of the World's Most...
If you’re envisioning lines of code flying across bays of screens, amphetamine-fueled digital manhunts and dramatic, albeit rendered, explosions, I’m sorry. When major botnets fall nowadays, it’s the product of hard work, patience, and some well-placed phone calls. For the last couple years, security firm FireEye has been under contract to...
Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs Because...
Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students. The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High’s School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change...
This New Years Eve Brings the Rarest Blue Moon of...
Magical things happen once upon a blue Moon. And this Thursday we get a chance to find out just what those magical things as we watch the rare lunar event coincide with all the beautiful fireworks of New Years Eve. Blue Moon is the term applied to the second full Moon in a calendar month. It’s an event that occurs roughly every two and a half years. This...
10-year high in prosecution of criminal immigrants...
FRESNO, Calif. — Federal officials say the number of cases filed in Northern California against illegal immigrants with criminal records is at a 10-year high. Authorities in the Eastern District, which covers inland areas from Bakersfield to the Oregon border, announced Wednesday that 414 illegal immigrants were prosecuted this past fiscal year. Nearly all of the cases involved...
Schwarzenegger budget plan will include furlough,...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to save $1.6 billion in state employee costs by maintaining monthly furloughs past next June, instituting layoffs or shifting general fund workers into positions financed by other revenues, according to sources familiar with the governor’s forthcoming budget proposal. California faces a $20.7 billion general fund budget deficit through June 2011,...
She's making a list, she's checking it twice.
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Chrysler Blog - Towing Test: Ram 1500 vs. Ford...
December 23, 2009 9:50 AM Our pals over at the Ram Zone blog are always on the prowl for comparison tests, and they have wrapped up a nice little video on the Ram 1500’s towing prowess. (For the competition, well, it’s a lump of reality coal). Ram engineers put the Ram 1500 Larmie against Ford F-150 Lariat, which was equipped with Ford’s maximum towing...
Man Who Inspired 'Rain Man' Passes Away - via...
The name Kim Peek might not mean anything to you. But what if I said he was the man who inspired Rain Man? MSNBC reports that the 58-year-old Peek had a major heart attack on Saturday and was pronounced dead at the hospital. While Rain Man was a fictional narrative, screenwriter Barry Morrow was inspired to create the story after meeting Peek at a convention in the early ’80s. Morrow...
Why It's Better To Pretend You Don't Know Anything...
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Tragedy averted at Costco - via The Sac Rag
As I strolled the aisles of the Expo Ave. Costco yesterday around lunchtime, I noticed an open gun safe over in the tools area. Had I tarried a while longer I would have witnessed what must have been a pretty scary scene as an 11-year-old boy walked inside and closed the door behind himself. The safe’s locking mechanism is battery-operated, but when store personnel tried to get the safe...
Via Forbes: A slight majority (52%) believe this...
According to an article found on the Forbes website; “As with all polls, the answers you get depend on the questions you ask. We found that almost all climate scientists believe that the world has been warming: 97% agree that “global average temperatures have increased” during the past century. But not everyone attributes that rise to human activity. A slight majority (52%)...
Sen. Whitehouse says foes of health care bill are...
In the video Senator Whitehouse states that if you are a foe of the current healthcare bill you a basically a lunatic. I does not matter if you are against it because they added “A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, his office...
Had to dig out my Killer Loops as I lost my Black...
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What’s Faster: A Ferrari or a 1970 Barracuda? |...
What’s Faster: A Ferrari or a 1970 Barracuda? Posted on: December 17, 2009 - 2:31 pm You may have some rethinking to do. What happens when you take an old 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, spruce it up a bit (read: pack it with a 1,000-horsepower Viper V-10), pit it against a Ferrari Enzo, and take it out on the track at the Chrysler proving grounds in Chelsea,...
Here’s the latest Alice In Wonderland trailer in...
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Roy E. Disney Passes Away - via @Cinematical
Roy E. Disney Passes Away by Elisabeth Rappe Dec 16th 2009 // 3:40PM Filed under: Animation, Disney, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, ObitsIt’s a sad day in the Magic Kingdom. Variety reports that Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt, has passed away at the age of 79. Disney was involved with the company from a very early age. He worked as a writer, director, and producer with Disney until 1967. He...
Google Street View Captures Guy Getting Ready To...
It’s hard to tell exactly what this guy is about to do, but he appears to be squatting (more or less) with his pants around his ankles on a DC street. View 519 H St NE in a larger map Maybe he is about to take a dump, maybe his lady’s husband arrived home early and he escaped out a window. Who knows—but the whole thing strikes me as kind of sad. Either...
Biden Convenes 'Piracy Summit' That Appears To Be...
Permalink. Biden Convenes ‘Piracy Summit’ That Appears To Be Entirely One-Sidedfrom the of-course dept Vice President Joe Biden has long been known to be a supporter of Hollywood when it comes to making copyright laws more draconian (and, not surprisingly, Hollywood has been a strong monetary supporter of Biden campaigns). He doesn’t even try to hide that...
Amanda upupgraded my Superman ring for #Christmas....
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No rain today.
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» Pay No Attention to This! Global Temperature...
Click to enlarge Global Temperature Trends Since 2500 B.C. — This stuff keeps coming in and nobody wants to hear it. From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, a climate research organization called the Weather Science Foundation of Crystal Lake, Illinois, determined that the planet’s warm, cold, wet and dry periods were the result of alternating short-term and long-term climatic...
Facebook Will Let You Determine Privacy Levels For...
(Photo: gary j wood) The next time you don’t get that job because someone in HR saw your Facebook pics of you at the weekend cosplay orgy, you’ll have only yourself to blame. (But not for the orgy, which sounded like a really good idea at the time.) Starting soonish—it’s being rolled out now—you’ll have the ability...
New jacket makes cold weather cigar smoking more...
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This Year's Most Ridiculous Events Auto-Tuned -...
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Peekaboo, I See a Constitutional Violation — The...
Peekaboo, I See a Constitutional Violation By Ilya Shapiro and Travis Cushman Saturday, December 5, 2009 Filed under: Government & Politics, Boardroom, Economic Policy Today the Supreme Court hears a case on the unconstitutional Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. To uphold checks and...
Freaky Singing Animatronic Heads Part of $75K Art...
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A Free Press Only Counts if It’s on Dead Trees |...
Next: Likely Supreme Court Tie Would Be a Loss to Property Owners Previous: Not the Change We Hoped For A Free Press Only Counts if It’s on Dead Trees Posted by Jason Kuznicki The Associated Press reports: The federal government is wading into deliberations over the future of journalism as printed newspapers, television stations...
Ownership Chart: The Big Six | Free Press
The U.S. media landscape is dominated by massive corporations that, through a history of mergers and acquisitions, have concentrated their control over what we see, hear and read. In many cases, these giant companies are vertically integrated, controlling everything from initial production to final distribution. Here is information about the largest U.S. media firms. ...
LA 2009: 2011 Ford Mustang V6 on show floor with...
LA 2009: 2011 Ford Mustang V6 on show floor with little fanfare by Drew Phillips (RSS feed) on Dec 2nd 2009 at 6:58PM 2011 Ford Mustang V6 - Click above for high-res image gallery You would think that with all of the new powertrain improvements to the 2011 Mustang V6 that Ford would be making a big deal about the car here at the LA Auto Show. Not so. While the Fiesta display took up nearly a...
LA 2009: Dodge Viper enters final year with tweaks...
LA 2009: Dodge Viper enters final year with tweaks and first two limited-edition models by Michael Harley (RSS feed) on Dec 2nd 2009 at 12:48PM 2010 Dodge Viper ACR 1:33 Edition – Click above for high-res image gallery The 2010 model year marks the last run of the 600-hp Dodge Viper. To keep performance (and consumer interest) high for the next 12 months, the automaker is adding new colors,...
The Way We Ate: The Great Scrapple Correspondence...
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Scrapple at the Down Home Diner in Philadelphia in 2003. For more than a century and a half, The New York Times has been recording the pleasures and prejudices of the American palate. “The Way We Ate” is a weekly tasting menu of vintage food writing from The Times’s archives. In the winter of 1872, the Letters page of The New York Times was briefly invaded...
Really?
Dana Hanna updates his Facebook and Twitter, at the altar. Without his bride Tracy knowing he was going to do it. I’m sure she was thrilled: I surprised not only my guests, but also Tracy by pulling out my phone and posting on Facebook and Twitter from the altar during out wedding. I had her phone ready in my pocket, so when she asked for it I could hand it to her. No one knew about...
Donkey Kong plus Star Wars equals the nerdiest...
There should be a contest. If you can go to a bar wearing this shirt (or, say, that one Wi-Fi detecting one) and successfully pick up a member of the opposite sex, you get… I don’t know, a better shirt. This does seem like a good idea, though — not the shirt, the idea of a Han/Luke game where both guys are playable. Luke would be the close-up damage dealer, Han would have his blaster…...
Cold out but not cold enough to stop me from...
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