10 Helpful Ways to Recycle Used Books

When you consider that only 24 books are produced for every tree felled, it makes sense to spread the love by passing our books onto other people.

Compact Disk (CD) Turns 26 and It Still Won't Die

Another birthday for the CD has come and gone and yet the damn things just won?t die. On Aug. 17th, 1982, the Compact Disc was born into an age of rampant consumerism that was the 1980s. Big hair was in, big vinyl and the big snarls of tape from cassettes was out.The CD of course wasn?t without its drawbacks.

Conan O'Brien Breaks Down McCain's VP Options

If you are at all like us, you've been toggling back and forth between the Olympics and hard-hitting political shows, speculating on who the presidential candidates will choose as their running mates. And by hard-hitting political shows, what we really mean is Conan. And by speculating, we mean making jokes.

A Wise Man Once Said...

Mitchell Bard: Why Does the Media Allow McCain to ignore fac

Why do I paint such a ridiculous scenario? Well, because it stands in stark contrast to how John McCain is treated. He can seemingly say the most ridiculous and obviously false things, and yet he is never taken to task by the media or the American public for his fabrications.

Samsung Omnia i900 Unboxing: Greatest. Packaging. Ever.

I don't usually give a shit about unboxing videos, but this is some seriously impressive packaging for Samsung's new phone.

8 Easy Steps to Banish Bad Breath

Bad breath is embarrassing, unpleasant, and all too common. These eight easy tips will sweeten your breath for good.

Japan Is TOTALLY Sold Out of Xbox 360s!

Next shipments won't hit store until next month! The situation is so bad apparently that Microsoft even released a statement apologizing. Guess Japan doesn't hate the Xbox 360 so much anymore...

Brutal Landing!

This gymnast comes down awkward on a landing and hyper-extends both his knees. Definitely, going to feel that in the morning.

How big is the universe - we are closer to finding out

How fast the universe is growing, how big it is and how old it is all depends on an elusive number known as the Hubble constant that has led astronomers on a merry chase for three-quarters of a century.

Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain

If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything?or any responsibility for what we do?

Project Hovercraft

The goal of this project was to build a working remote controlled hovercraft while spending as little money as possible. I was successful, as the hovercraft works (mostly) and the only money I spent was on the batteries and propellers.

Cloned Puppies: Sure, They're Cute, But at What Cost?

When skin cells from a dead pit bull named Booger gave rise to five healthy-looking puppies with a $50,000 price tag, it marked the formal beginning of a commercial dog-cloning industry.But for all the attention given to these and other clones, little was paid to the behind-the-scenes science.

The Riff: What's Up With That Tropic Thunder Controversy?

The buzz about Robert Downey Jr.'s edgy portrayal of an over-eager actor putting on blackface for his part has me intrigued: how will he walk that high-wire?But the biggest controversy to emerge before the film's release turned out to be something else: its use of the term "retard."

Army Moves Ahead with Mobile Laser Cannon

The Army is moving head with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 31-ton-plus truck.

Massive New Object Discovered at Edge of the Solar System

The Oort Cloud is a spherical cloud of comets believed to lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sunm which places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. The Kuiper belt and scattered disc, the other two known reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects, are less than one thousand

Japanese Playing Football (Soccer)... Wearing Binoculars!

Needless to say, hilarity ensues. This is one of the funniest Japanese game/variety show clips I've seen.

Bush Officials Plan a Sneak-Attack on America's Wildlife

In the excitement of the Olympics, the run-up to the presidential conventions and the flurry of late summer vacations, it was easy to miss the Bush administration's stealth attack on the Endangered Species Act last week. A proposed regulation would simply eliminate independent scientific reviews that have been required for over 30 years.

Olympic Torrents More Popular Than Ever

This week, close to two million people have downloaded the Olympics opening ceremony, which makes it the most pirated TV-show of the week - again. The International Olympic Committee is not too happy about it, and they are urging the Swedish government to take on The Pirate Bay.

Ah, a world without religion

Religion should never be given the benefit of the doubt. Just because it worships one god over another, claims past miracles or fulfilled prophecies and is exempt from taxation, does not mean that your one religion is more likely to purify your soul over another.

20 Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers [PICS]

Often when we think of commercial design work, we imagine 3 color logos and simple illustrations? but not all commercial work is so plain. Here are 20 commercial designers who create stunningly colorful work.

XKCD: Quantum Teleportation

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Kite Boarder Gets Pwned By Tropical Storm Fay

Kite Boarder off Fort Lauderdale beach tastes some sand and the pavement up against Tropical Storm Fay.

Olympics: What Winning Looks Like (pics)

Man Arrested and Locked up Just for Taking a Photo of Cops

When Andrew Carter saw a police constable ignore no entry signs to reverse up a one-way street to reach a chip shop he went over to protest about the illegal manoeuvre and photograph the officer and his vehicle. It led to the 44-year-old being arrested and slung in a cell, over claims he had 'assaulted' an officer with his camera.

Yoda Cat

You never know what kind of cat you might meet at a bar...

This is your mind on...binaural beats

Basically, binuaral beats consist of pulses of two different frequencies being played in each ear at the same time. The pulses, in the 1,000 hertz to 1,500 Hz range, have slight differences between them - less than 30 Hz. For about $5, you can buy a "fix" of binaural cocaine, marijuana, crack, heroin, ecstasy and all sorts of other...

NimbleX 2008 "The New Wave of Linux" is Speedy But Flawed

NimbleX, a Slackware-based distribution, advertises itself as "the new wave of Linux." However, what is appealing in NimbleX -- its speed and small footprint and the resulting selection of alternative software choices -- will likely strike veteran GNU/Linux users as being very old school. By contrast, its limitations -- too little attention

The Ups and Downs of Competition

The recent World Yo-Yo Contest drew 196 competitors from 20 countries to compete using yesterday?s forgotten up-and-down string toy.

Open Virtual Machine Tools with Ubuntu Hardy

Getting a working vmtools installation into a freshly upgraded Ubuntu 8.04 is a simple matter of rebuilding the right modules against the newer kernel and rolling them up into a tarball.

Extreme Anti-environment Cheney Aide up for Top Energy Post

F. Chase Hutto, a senior Cheney advisor, is the leading candidate to be appointed assistant secretary for policy and international affairs at the Energy Department, the Washington Post reports. Former EPA official Jason Burnett said Hutto is ?naturally and philosophically opposed to regulation.?

Gmail Superstars and Quick Links Make a Killer To-Do List

"Now reader Alex McRoberts details how he uses the two excellent features to turn his Gmail account into a killer to-do list manager. Here's how he did it..."

Meet The Boy Who Can't Stop Growing!

He's only 12, but he towers over his mom, his teacher and every kid his age. This 12-Year-Old Boy Is Truly Unique and Truly Tall. Ellensburg, Wash., is home to a truly unique young man: 12-year-old Brenden Adams, who is more than seven feet tall and, incredibly, still growing.

Golden Girls! A Big Day For U.S. Women

Shawn Johnson won the balance-beam gold Tuesday night in the final event of women's gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Nastia Liukin took silver.This was a coronation.For American gymnastics royalty has a new power pair.Two good friends, one from Parker, Texas, near Dallas, the other from West Des Moines.

Drinking orange juice can make common drugs almost useless

Apple and grapefruit juices also wipe out the effects of some antibiotics and hay fever pills.