Chilean miners reenactment - o_O
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 18:00:11
http://www.nma.tv/33 Chilean miners are trapped deep underground and it may take NASA up to four months to rescue them. Spirits were raised this week when th...
Show detailsAwesome Interactive Super Mario Bros. Mural (PICS)
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 18:00:09
Mario and Luigi would certainly be proud to play around with this masterpiece created by a few talented Columbus College of Art & Design School students.
Show detailsWhen Presumably Prominent Characters in Movies Are Killed Quickly
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 18:00:07
There are plenty of scenes in movies where a character is killed seemingly out of nowhere, but it's not too often when one of those characters is played by
Show detailsTexas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:49
Hugh Pickens writes "The AP reports that Texas' attorney general, Greg Abbott, has opened an anti-trust investigation against Google spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant search engine. The review appears to be focused on whether Google is manipulating its search results to stifle competition. European regulators already have been investigating complaints alleging that Google has been favoring its own services in its results instead of rival websites and several lawsuits have also been filed in the US that have alleged Google's search formula is biased. However Google believes Abbott is the first state attorney general to open an antitrust review into the issue." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsSpammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:47
An anonymous reader writes "Scammers and spammers have deluged the new Ping musical social network, created by Apple and built into the new version of iTunes. Sophos researchers have found that Ping is being overrun by scams and spam messages. 'Apple seems to have anticipated a certain degree of malfeasance, as profile pictures that you upload will not appear until approved by Apple. They are likely filtering for other offensive content as well, so they probably have means in place they could use to stop the spam.' It's ironic that the most common scams on Ping right now revolve around Apple's own iPhone." The Sophos blog post adds that Apple is doing their best to clamp down on the spam, manually deleting many of the offending messages for now. Reader Tootech adds that Facebook integration was quickly disabled, possibly because of blocked API access. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show details11 Must-Know Health Numbers
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:26
From the phone number for poison control to how many times your kid should poop each week, these are 11 numbers you should know to keep your family feeling well.
Show detailsCraigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:24
Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the Erotic Services Adult Services section of their site. Its gone, replaced by a large black and white censored logo. Ive reached out to Craigslist for comment and await their reply. But the choice of words is significant the section wasnt simply removed, the censored word was used. The site has been embattled as old press and state attorneys general use any excuse to blame sex crimes on the site. From South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMasters failed crusade against them to a variety of press stories about sex and other crimes. If its just a sex crime it isnt a story. But if a listing on Craigslist was involved, its a big story. Craigslist has fought back using little more than their blog and logic. And theyre right. Having prostitution up front and regulated, as Craigslist does, means less crime is associated with it. Its not like prostitution, sometimes called the worlds oldest profession, was invented on the site. The fact that eBay and others do exactly the same thing, but without human review and moderation, doesnt seem to matter. Craigslist Sex is what scares the general population, and its what the press and the politicians will continue to use to get their hits and votes. So the Craigslist Adult Section was removed. Is the world now a safer place? [crunchbase url="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/craigslist" name="Craigslist"]
Show detailsPowerful 7.1 quake hits New Zealand
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:22
A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake damaged buildings, cut power and knocked fleeing residents off their feet on New Zealand's South Island early ...
Show detailsBREAKING: Facebook Now Displaying All Liked News Articles In Search Results
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:20
Another big upgrade from Facebook: the company is currently testing search results which display articles ranked by likes. Additionally, the results for searches now shows the results from all around the web based on two things: the number of likes and the number of friends who liked that object, m ...
Show detailsThe physics of breaking stuff with your fists
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:18
iO9 recently ran a story on how martial artists are able to break boards and cement blocks, using their hands rather than mystical powers. I thought it was pretty neat, but then I read an interesting counter-analysis by science journalist (and, significantly, martial arts practitioner) John Rennie. iO9 is right about the lack of magic powers, he says. But they got the physics wrong. Key slip-up: Assuming martial artists strike like a cobra—fast punch, with a quick pull back at the end—when they have their smashing fun times. iO9's theory was that that movement caused the boards to bend and snap. But that's not how it works, Rennie says. In fact, martial artists are taught to follow through with their punches, aiming not at the board-to-be-broken, but at a point beyond it. So how's the breaking really done? Rennie quotes an episode of the awesome old PBS show Newton's Apple: One key to understanding brick breaking is a basic principle of motion: The more momentum an object has, the more force it can generate. When it hit the brick, [karateka Ron] McNair's hand had reached a speed of 11 meters per second (24 miles per hour). At this speed, his hand exerted a whopping force of 3,000 Newton's -or 675 pounds-on the concrete. A slab of concrete could likely support the weight of a few people weighing a total of 675 pounds (306 kilograms). But apply that amount of force concentrated into an area as small as a fist and the concrete slab will break. The fact that martial artists also pick their materials very carefully doesn't hurt, either. When breaking wooden boards, you use pine (not oak, not mahogany) that isn't marred by dense knots, cut inch thick and about 12 inches on the diagonal; you hit them to break along the wood's natural grain. (It's not playing by Hoyle but some breakers have been known to bake their boards in ovens before demonstrations to make them more brittle.) One good board, if held securely so that it won't move on impact, is so easy to break that even those with no training at all can be taught to do it in under five minutes. P.S.: Rennie's blog, The Gleaming Retort, is part of a new family of science blogs, hosted by the Public Library of Science—a non-profit that publishes open-access science journals. I highly recommend checking out the entire PLoS Blogosphere. Slow motion video of things being destroyed Science of Scams: Derren Brown and Kat the Scientist debunk the ... The Kung Fu Kid (and why it's OK the new movie isn't called that ...
Show detailsBP Says Cost of Spill Hits $8 Billion
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:16
Oil major BP said it has spent around $8 billion to date in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling shortly.
Show detailsPentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography (The Upshot)
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:14
The Upshot - A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department--including some with the highest available security clearance--who used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But the Pentagon only investigated a comparative handful [...]
Show detailsStephen Hawkings Rules: Fear Aliens, 9/11 No Big Deal, Who Needs God?
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:12
Stephen Hawking is smarter than NewsFeed! So when he says things like theres no way God created the universe we should probably believe them. Here are the best of the physicists often-controversial opinions. Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is [...]
Show detailsBetween Two Ferns w/ Zach Galifianakis & Sean Penn
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:09
Sean Penn sits down with Zach's twin brother, Seth Galifianakis.
Show detailsMorbid Curiosity
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-04 17:00:07
The best sparrow is the little one in the front, who looks down first, when all the others watching the fight and when the 2 sparrows fall down he provacantly smoothly turns around and looks away. He's absolutely not impressed, the others gawk.
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