1. Brainy Robots To Lead To Longer Unemployment Lines?

    Robot lovers and outsourcing opponents could soon have something in common: the fear that their jobs are at stake. In the future robots will take over many tasks performed by American workers today potentially leading to increased unemployment, says Marshall...

    10.25.08 From Gadget Lab

  2. October Rocks: R.I.P. Gravediggaz

    Listening Post is back with scary Halloween sonics for your inner ear. This time, we bow down to Gravediggaz, the underrated supergroup featuring Wu-Tang Clan architect RZA, legendary producer Prince Paul and fearsome rappers Frukwan and the late Too Poetic....

    10.25.08 From Listening Post

  3. Expectation of Machine Intelligence Could Change Social Behavior, Says Economist

    As computers get smarter machines could become more intelligent than humans within a few decades, leading to an event dubbed the Singularity. Technologists are still debating the possibility but what if just enough people believed it is likely? Whether the...

    10.25.08 From Gadget Lab

  4. Manual labor as manual leisure, or, the street finds its own uses for things

    http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2008/10/reflections-on.html Link: Relevant History: Reflections on tinkering. (...) Tinkering isn't so much a specific set of technical skills: there tends to be a pretty instrumental view of knowledge. You pick up just enough knowledge about electronics, textiles, metals, programming, or...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  5. Space Is The Next Frontier for Esther Dyson

    If you have a couple million dollars, are a technology visionary and wondering what your next challenge will be? Consider a chance to take a spin around the earth. Technology heavyweights are fast queuing up for an opportunity to blast...

    10.25.08 From Gadget Lab

  6. Rock Daddy Rock Giveaway Reminder

    This is just a gentle reminder that we'll be giving away two free copies of Rock Daddy Rock's silly short songs for silly short people to a pair of GeekDad readers. To enter, simply add a comment to the album...

    10.25.08 From Geekdad

  7. Spy Pigeons Circle the World

    This week's report that Iran had found "spy pigeons" near one of its nuclear faculties looked ridiculous. The very idea of using pigeons for intelligence gathering is obviously crazy. But is it crazy enough to be true? Attaching instrumentation to...

    10.25.08 From Danger Room

  8. Five for Fighting 10/25/08

    * Navy officer guilty of illegal laser sales * Killer robot fashion * NSA spy report buried * Yemen's secret dungeons * "Marrying a pirate is every girl's dream"

    10.25.08 From Danger Room

  9. Astonishing Pictures of Saturn's Moon Enceladus

    The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn for several years, and in that time has had a number of close flybys of Enceladus, one of Saturn's many moons. Boston.com published 26 amazing photographs taken during these flybys, and some of...

    10.25.08 From Geekdad

  10. Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature

    Haeckel_Kunstformen_100.jpg Originally uploaded by EricGjerde *Wow, looks like the guy put the entire book in FlickR. Terrific resource.

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  1. Bison Return to Iowa

    (((Perhaps they'll outlive the endangered American voter.))) http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2008/2008-10-20-095.asp Link: Bison Return to Iowa's Native Prairie. (...) "These animals will be in the corral for the first week, then in the west half of the trap pasture, then have access to...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  2. Richard Garriott back from outer space, fresh and ready to go

    http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/EU_Russia_US_Space.html Link: Russians, plus American tourist, return from space. Russians, plus American tourist, return from space By STEVE GUTTERMAN Associated Press Writer MOSCOW — Soon after he touched down Friday, American space tourist Richard Garriott got a pat on the...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  3. Click On Nothing, Get a Worm Anyway

    (((It's been a while since we had a real bust-down-the-house kind of global worm, but a nonclickable worm oughta do it.))) TOP OF THE NEWS --Microsoft Issues Out-of-Cycle Patch (October 22 & 23, 2008) Microsoft has released an out-of-cycle patch...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  4. Meanwhile, at the Evangelical Vatican

    http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2008/10/Praying-for-Sarah-Palin.html "Colorado Springs is what Sarah Palin would call one of the "pro-American areas of the nation." This mile-high city in the shadow of Pike's Peak is home to several key military sites, including the US Air Force Academy and...

    10.25.08 From Beyond the Beyond

  5. Doctor Who Comics Make Comeback in Print, DVDs

    Doctor Who comics of the past, present and future are making a comeback. (He's a time traveler. He can do that sort of thing.) Throughout the show's 45 year history, Doctor Who has been a powerful multimedia presence. Whether appearing...

    10.25.08 From The Underwire

  6. EMI Badly Wounded, Bleeds Over a Billion

    If Radiohead, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and other popular artists hadn't already left it for dead, we'd almost feel bad for EMI, one of Earth's four major labels left alive. In truth, EMI might have asked for it, after...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  7. MadWorld's Box Art: Hot or Not?

    Here's the box art for Sega's upcoming ultraviolent Wii game, MadWorld. What do you think -- a perfect representation of the game's stark visual style? Or is it just a bit too literal? Plenty violent, or not violent enough? MadWorld...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  8. Video: How to Prepare for Analog-TV Doomsday

    About a week ago we reported on a survey that said 10 million U.S. households are not properly equipped for the full transition to digital TV. The hilarious video above seems to be targeted at those very people. That's a...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Nextar Previews New GPS System at Las Vegas Auto Gear Show

    While most people will be glued to the television on November 4th to finally figure out the end result of the crazy U.S. election (after voting, of course), auto aficionados will be checking out the latest car gear at the...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  10. Underground Lab Probes How Matter Licked Antimatter

    Everything in our universe is made of matter, but a century of physics has revealed that at the beginning of time, an exactly equal amount of antimatter existed. Then, two seconds after the Big Bang, something changed and suddenly there...

    10.24.08 From Wired Science

  1. YouTube Co-Founder Opposes Ratings System

    Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, doesn't want the responsibility of babysitting other people's children online. Asked by the Times of London about the lack of "prior warning" small children receive before potentially accessing violent or sexual content, Hurley argued that...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  2. Olfactory Hack Tricks Worms Into Living Longer

    It's the ultimate fad diet: smell less to live longer! The possibility is raised by new research on roundworms who lived extra-long when deprived of their sense of smell. The longevity benefit was comparable to that produced by caloric restriction,...

    10.24.08 From Wired Science

  3. Hypnosis Lets Regular People See Numbers as Colors

    Psychologists have used hypnosis to give people the ability to see numbers as colors. That form of synesthesia is naturally possessed by roughly one in 1,000 people, among them such historical luminaries as physicist Richard Feynman and writer Vladimir Nabokov,...

    10.24.08 From Wired Science

  4. Fed Blotter: Pedophile's Online Sock Puppets Included Fake Johnny Depp

    A 46-year-old man who posed online as Johnny Depp and three other people in the hope of seducing a 14-year-old girl will live out the next quarter-century under a new, fifth identity: federal inmate number 09073-030. Using the persona Modelman_Matthew2006, a handsome 19-year-old male, Graeme...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  5. Wisconsin Court Rejects Lawsuit Challenging New Voters; AG Vows to Appeal

    A lawsuit filed in Wisconsin against a state board that oversees elections was dismissed by a circuit judge on Thursday. But the state's attorney general who filed the suit vowed to appeal and may take the case to the state Supreme Court. The suit, filed...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  6. 'Father of the MP3' Teaches Machines to Parse Music

    Mufin, the latest music-recommendation engine, is going to tell you what to listen to, and it doesn't care what you think. Computers have been telling us what to listen to for years -- at least since Amazon first told us...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  7. The Watch List is Short, But Is It Useful?

    There are 250 Americans on the No-Fly list. That's the good news. The bad news? There's 250 people in America who the federal government believes are too dangerous to let onto a plane, but who aren't dangerous enough to arrest. There are fewer than 20,000...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  8. Hellgate: London Closing in January

    Hellgate: London, Namco Bandai's troubled MMO, will be closing its doors on January 31, 2009. Until that time, the firm will offer "server support free of charge to all fans and players of the game." This closure follows a string...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  9. Product Reviews: 40-inch TVs You Need To Know About Now

    Sony Bravia KDL-46W4100 Sony's LCD 46er aced our processing-evaluation gauntlet, cleanly displaying all SD and HD video we fed it — even film-style 24-frame-per-second sources. Toss in stunning, accurate color and this LCD rendered our test Blu-ray — Spider-Man 3...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  10. Geek Proposes With iPhone, Succeeds

    Antelope, California resident Dan Deeble proposed to his girlfriend with an iPhone this week -- and it worked. As dorky as that may sound, it wasn't something impersonal like sending a text message or lame like writing an e-mail. According...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  1. E For All 2009 Officially Canceled

    To the surprise of very few, the E For All gaming conference will not return next year, and may be permanently canceled. "Unfortunately, E for All will not be occurring in 2009, as our focus now turns to E3," a...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  2. Trophies Coming to Grand Theft Auto IV

    An upcoming update for the PlayStation 3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV will add support for Trophies, Sony's iteration of the Xbox 360's Achievement system. The update, which will hit the PlayStation Network on October 27, will bring with...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  3. Disposable Phone Maker Hops on to Google Android

    Just days after the first Google-powered handset hit stores, disposable phone maker Hop-on announced its Android phone is on the way, too. Scarce with details, Hop-on said in a press release that it expects to launch its Android-powered phone at...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  4. Johnny Cash Surgically Remixed by Snoop, More

    The Man in Black was a badass for sure. But can he withstand sonic recombination from the likes of Snoop Dogg? We'll find out in January 2009, when Johnny Cash Remixed drops. Featuring several Cash classics squeezed through the various...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  5. Dutch Teens Sentenced for Virtual Theft

    Two teens have been convicted by a Dutch court of coercing a younger boy into transferring items to their account within the Runescape virtual world, reports the Associated Press. "These virtual goods are goods (under Dutch law), so this is...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  6. Takei Takes a Swat at Shatner's YouTube 'Silliness'

    Star Trek actor George Takei describes as "silliness" William Shatner's recent YouTube clip claiming a snub over a wedding invitation. "It is absolutely baffling to us, because, in fact, we did invite Bill, and we didn't hear from him," Takei...

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  7. Spy Cam Hides Inside an ID Card

    Brando's Spy Pass Card Micro Camera can capture still images, video and audio -- and while it looks pretty sneaky, the part that reads "ID CARD" might give you away. I don't know about you, but I've never received an...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  8. Blu-ray Is Winning Over the Ladies

    Blu-ray is mostly a guy thing, but the high-definition DVD format is making inroads with women, mainly because they're more susceptible to in-store sales pitches, according to NPD, a market research firm (via VideoBusiness.com). "Salespeople are apparently doing a better...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  9. No One Knows How Many Iraqis are On Duty

    In 2004 and 2005, the Bush administration caught hell for their constantly-changing figures of how many Iraqi cops and soldiers could be counted on to share the burden with U.S. forces. "Over the past 18 months," the Christian Science Monitor...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  10. Scorned Gamer Jailed After Vengeful Deletion

    A 43-year-old Japanese woman was arrested after deleting her virtual ex-husband's Maple Story avatar in an apparent act of retaliation following the couple's online divorce. The unnamed woman faces hacking charges and if convicted could serve a prison term of...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  1. YouTube Ventures Offline For First Live Event

    YouTube's most popular content creators are going offline -- for an evening of musical acts, comedy sketches and screenings. Dubbed YouTube Live, the one-night only showcase will feature performances by rapper Soulja Boy, Sarah Palin-spoofing vlogger LisaNova, masked martial artist...

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  2. Review: Addictive Spelunking in Master of the Monster Lair

    Sometimes the most ill-fitting, quirky themes make for the most enjoyable games. Take Master of the Monster Lair, for instance. This is a Nintendo DS game in which you're tasked with digging elaborate holes in the ground and filling them...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  3. Saw's Gory Gadgets Catapult Creator Into Director's Chair

    Even though he hails from Canada, the land of polite people, Toronto-based filmmaker David Hackl says: "I'm not that nice." Which would explain the former child inventor's weird genius for devising deadly traps used in the grisly Saw horror flicks....

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  4. New Cheap Wii Accessories Land Near an Economy-Crippled Home Near You

    Two new Wii accessories are being released this month that are sure to end up in hundreds of Santa wish lists this Christmas, one a glowing jedi-like saber attachment and the other a jolly gun trigger. So when the kids...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  5. Judge Rejects 'Making Available' Defense, Orders Teen File Sharer to Pay RIAA $7,400

    A federal judge is ordering a Texas college student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $7,400 to settle copyright infringement allegations involving her use of the peer-to-peer file sharing network Kazaa when she was a juvenile. The decision contradicts last month's mistrial ruling...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  6. How AT&T; Became Apple's Lap Dog

    It's hard to believe that AT&T; was once the largest, most powerful telephone company in the world. Now it's basically a glorified wireless carrier whose future depends on a precious, niche customer base. Not that it's a bad business. Last...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  7. Tweets Give Race-Baiting Hoaxster a 'B' for Effort

    Thanks to an unattended Twitter widget, a website intended to promote the work of 50 young Republican volunteers became an unwitting showcase for the mockery of one group member Friday, when it emerged that the volunteer faked a macabre attack on herself and tried to...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  8. Superbowl Ads Sacked by the Economy

    The television ad market in 2008 was buoyed by ad spend during the Olympics and in the lead up to the presidential election, but marquee events in 2009 aren't looking so dependable. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has already seen a...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  9. Robots Hunt 'Non-Cooperative Humans' in Army Plan

    Pagey calls it "trouser-moisteningly terrifying news." The Army is looking to develop software and hardware that will let packs of robots chase down "non-cooperative human subject[s]." The machine team would be 3-5 'bots, each about 220 pounds, led by a...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  10. Bethesda Expects New Fallout in 3 Years

    Bethesda's Fallout 3 isn't even out yet, and already there's talk of when a sequel could show up -- and it's sooner than you think. Fallout executive producer Todd Howard told Reuters that "it's good for people to miss things,"...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  1. Downloadable Card Games, The Latest Console Craze

    Fans of strategy card and board games should be happy to hear that Big Rooster is brining Zombies!!! and Wings of War: Famous Aces to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. Zombies!!! drops you in the middle of an...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  2. Sticker Picture Girls Pack Heat in Japan

    When it comes to cute, can you beat a girl holding a pink plastic gun? Apparently not. Print club machines that print decorated photo-stickers are a big part of the modern Japanese game center -- there's a reason we devoted...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  3. Kindle Is Oprah’s 'New Favorite Thing in the World'

    Early speculation that Oprah Winfrey would endorse the Amazon Kindle has been confirmed. A posting on her website says that the e-book reader is her “favorite new gadget.” "I'm telling you, it is absolutely my new favorite thing in the...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  4. Dude, Where Are My Gadget Reviews?

    If you're a regular at the G-Lab then you're probably aware that we've been publishing witty, original, and informative product reviews on the site almost everyday for the last two years. But all of a sudden starting this week, the...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  5. Atari's Phil Harrison: Game Development Should Be Cheaper

    To foster a democratization of game development, Atari's Phil Harrison believes that publishers and developers should turn to low-cost development tools, specifically referring to the Unity game engine. Unity is a game development tool created by Unity Technologies, which provides...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  6. Dragon Quest IX Playable at 'Jump Festa' Event

    Missed playing Dragon Quest IX at the Tokyo Game Show? That's because the game's presence was limited to a new trailer (right) shown inside Square Enix's closed theater. To play it, you'll need to go to Jump Festa in December....

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  7. Jules Verne Fest Salutes Galactica, Planet of the Apes

    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other sci-fi film classics inspired by the imagination of steampunk godfather Jules Verne get the big-screen treatment in Los Angeles this weekend. The second annual Jules Vernes Festival, which runs through Sunday, pays homage...

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  8. Near Miss at $2-Million Lunar Lander Challenge

    A team of rocket-vehicle designers came tantalizingly close to winning the $2-million Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this morning. The lunar lander built by Armadillo Aerospace managed to lift off vertically from a lunch and land on a second pad...

    10.24.08 From Wired Science

  9. Japan's Awesome Ape Escape Sackboy

    Want your very own Ape Escape Piposaru to show up in your LittleBigPlanet levels? You'll have to pre-order a copy of the Japanese release, out next week. Pre-ordering will entitle you to a code you can redeem on the PlayStation...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  10. iPhone or Google Phone? Web Site Helps You Choose

    Many who resisted purchasing an iPhone were waiting for the release of the first Google-powered handset. That phone -- the HTC T-Mobile G1 -- launched Wednesday, but the decision to invest in a handset still isn't easy, as Android is...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  1. Fallout and More, Cheap and DRM-Free

    Good Old Games is a digital distribution service that carries older PC games. It recently opened its beta to the public, offering up about 50 DRM-free classics. Among the list are critically acclaimed titles like the Fallout series (pictured), and...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  2. Nokia's UK Music Benches Blare Beatles, Stones, More

    How does Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" go again? Sitting on a park bench/Listening to Dusty Springfield? No, that's not it. That's Nokia's new advertising stratagem, which jacks legendary music into benches from London to Leeds to Glasgow. It's an idea whose...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  3. Bionic Commando, Penny Arcade Papercraft

    What better way to end the week than with some new papercraft projects, courtesy of Christopher Beaumont's Cubeecraft models. The latest videogame character to be Cubeecraft-ed is none other than old-school Bionic Commando star Nathan "Radd" Spencer -- not the...

    10.24.08 From Game | Life

  4. Mama Mia! Italian Police Roll In A Lamborghini

    Don't even think about trying to outrun the cops in Lazio, Italy, unless you can do 204 mph because the boys in blue are rollin' in a 560-horsepower Lamborghini Gallardo that'll do 203. The Italian automaker today handed Antonio Manganelli,...

    10.24.08 From Autopia

  5. Apple Is Ready to Take a Bite of Silicon Valley

    Comments from Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week suggested that the cash-rich computer and phone maker might be in a good position to start snapping up struggling tech companies. During Apple's earnings call Tuesday, Steve Jobs proudly reported that Apple...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  6. Air Force Wants 'Freedom to Attack' Online

    Gone are the days when the Air Force pledged to "dominate" cyberspace. Now, the flyboys just want "freedom of action" online. Oh, and the ability to deceive foes, and cyberstrike enemies at will. That's according to a draft document, "Cyberspace...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  7. Florida Man Sells Voting Machines and Chads from 2000 Election

    Dangling, dimpled and pregnant chads were the controversial stars of the 2000 presidential election, but are now on the endangered species list due to a federal law passed in 2002 that led Florida and other states to ditch their much-maligned punch-card machines for much-maligned electronic...

    10.24.08 From Threat Level

  8. Bad Economic News = Big Weekend at the Movies

    All this dire economic news could be good for Hollywood. Box office grosses for the weekend are projected to range between $130 million and $140 million, up from $102 million last year, estimates Stifel Nicolaus analyst Drew Crum. The reason?...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  9. Art Cars at Maker Faire Austin 2008

    The first area inside the main gate was for the Art Cars. By far the loudest, both figuratively and literally, was the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, a blue 1984 Volvo 240 covered with singing lobsters and fish. For reasons that I...

    10.24.08 From Geekdad

  10. Derek Sivers Sold CD Baby for $22 Million, Giving Most of It Away

    CD Baby made around $70 million for independent artists and labels by distributing their music through Amazon and other online retailers over the past ten years, before founder Derek Sivers, who owned 100 percent of the company, finally sold the...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  1. Could a Spanair-Style Crash Happen in the US?

    Most of us who fly regularly don't worry much about safety. After all, the US aviation industry has a stellar record. Which makes it all the more disturbing when we learn that there have been more close calls than we...

    10.24.08 From Autopia

  2. Let the Debate Begin!

    The Wired debate between the Obama and McCain camps on technology policy is on. It'll take place next Thursday at 12:30 at the New America Foundation in Dupont Circle. You can RSVP here and read about the issues here. It...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  3. Study: Payola and Major Labels Still Rule Radio

    Despite a 2007 agreement between the FCC and the country's largest radio conglomerates, payola (copyright holders paying for airplay) still appears to be influencing stations to play music from the world's four major labels, according to a study released earlier...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  4. Why Are There No Decent Note-Taking Applications for the iPhone?

    It seems simple. You have an iPhone (or iPod Touch). It's the perfect little device for taking notes — always in your pocket and always ready to go. Back home you have a Mac or PC, also both perfect for...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  5. From Pawns to People, Star Wars' Clones Evolve

    Star Wars' clones used to be servants of evil who also served nicely as blockbuster cannon fodder. But ever since George Lucas unwound their back stories with the help of Genndy Tartakovksy, the clone warriors have become individuals with narratives...

    10.24.08 From The Underwire

  6. Yahoo's Yang: We've Got Enough Cash To Make it Through the Downturn

    In the second part of his Boom Town's interview, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is characteristically vague about the company's potential purchase of AOL and their pending deal with Google -- but he is sure that cash on hand puts his...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  7. Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone Jihadists

    Could Twitter become terrorists' newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks. For years, American analysts have been...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  8. Real Ad Men Talk About Mad Men

    Every week on AMC TV's Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men, Wired.com...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  9. Fold your own Furniture from Cardboard

    Over at Foldschool they have taken that time honored tradition of children playing with the cardboard box with more gusto than the toy it contained one step further. Foldschool provides 3 simple designs, downloadable as an easy-to-follow pdf, to help...

    10.24.08 From Geekdad

  10. Gannett’s Q3 Profits Plunge 32 Percent

    Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. reported its third-quarter profits fell 32 percent due to a decline in ad revenue. Revenue fell 9 percent to $1.6 billion, due to an 18 percent drop in the publishing division. Its net income was $158...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  1. Pink Floyd Makes Chickens Shiver With Pleasure

    If you thought only humans were the only beings capable of having music send chills down their spines, think again. Steve Kotler's West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief, about his recovery from Lyme disease through surfing...

    10.24.08 From Listening Post

  2. Leaked: Text of US-Iraq Deal

    After months of negotiation, the US-Iraq security pact seems to have hit a wall. The Iraqi cabinet has reportedly asked for changes to the draft agreement; the White House has warned of 'real consequences' if Iraq rejects the deal. The...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  3. The Way We Work is Cool Anatomy for Kids

    Children’s book author/illustrator David Macaulay’s specialty is explaining complicated things through clear, lively drawings. He also has a terrific, if dry, sense of humor (probably a result of his English origins). The first Macaulay book I ever bought – long...

    10.24.08 From Geekdad

  4. Google Reads Brain Waves To Measure YouTube Ads

    Google, together with MediaVest, released information on Thursday about ad quality found by reading brain waves and psychological responses to ads on YouTube's video content. Together with neuroscience advertising research firm NeuroFocus, Google measured things likes users' skin responses, eye...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  5. E-books May Get O-Factor Boost: Oprah Expected to Endorse Kindle

    The talk show host who has done wonders for books sales through her book club – not to mention certain presidential candidates -- is expected to give e-books a major boost Friday by endorsing the Amazon Kindle on her show,...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  6. Five for Fighting 10/24/08

    * Royal Navy sunk? * Woman arrested after killing virtual ex-husband * $5 M more for laser weapon components * CIA vet: agency is anti-semitic * Blimps vs. pirates

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  7. Look Out Below

    UPDATES with early US market action Investors around the world are running scared again today, dumping assets on an enormous scale. Stocks in the United States tumbled at the opening, following steep slides on Asian and European markets. But the...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  8. Kickit: Brush-Lined Furniture Catches Flying Footwear

    The Kickit would fit perfectly into my apartment, were it not for the ridiculous €2000 ($2500) price tag. Upon my nightly arrival home from the pub, I engage in a little ritual, loosing my sneakers by crushing the heel to...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  9. Teen Posted Fake iReport of Steve Jobs Heart Attack: Report

    A fake report on CNN’s iReport a few weeks ago that claimed Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack was posted by an 18-year-old, Bloomberg reports. Investigators with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are still looking into the motives,...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  10. Instant Project: DIY Coathanger Notebook Stand

    Here's a completely ghetto DIY project which you can complete using the things you have in your house right now. From Instructables, we bring you the "Ergonomic Laptop Stand Made From a Coat Hanger". In the picture, right, you can...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  1. When Will Microsoft Go in for the Kill?

    If the tech world were the animal kingdom, this week's earnings results from Yahoo and Microsoft would show that the former is a wounded animal, while the latter remains a robust, healthy specimen. According to the law of the jungle,...

    10.24.08 From Epicenter

  2. GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Dugong Reunion - Solution

    Congratulations to Susan Russell who drinks among the Dugong and wins a $50 gift code to ThinkGeek! Thanks to all readers who submitted answers but were turned away from the cantina. (You shouldn't be hanging around Mos Eisley anyway.) Check...

    10.24.08 From Geekdad

  3. Google Launches Gmail for Mobile v2.0

    Despite what you might gather from reading the internet, there are other smart phones around. And Google today has thrown those users an update to the Gmail Mobile application, bringing it to v2.0. It works on J2ME-capable phones, as well...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  4. Pepper Gun, Laser, Flashlight Combo Brings the Pain

    Sure, it looks like an ordinary, high-powered flashlight. Until it zaps you with a laser, and shoots you with pepper spray bullet. Then you double over in pain. The PepperBall Technologies company just rolled out a sadomasochistic torture consumer safety...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  5. Joel Johnson Reviews Griffin's AirCurve Dock. Result: It's a Paperweight

    Over at BoingBoing Gadgets, Joel Johnson has been working on his new look (no, not Magnum). It comes somewhere between Joe 90 and the creepy, floppy-haired blondness of the Hitler Youth. Amazingly, Joel has – at the exact same time...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  6. 5 Indispensable Halloween Specials

    It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is the Velvet Underground of Halloween specials; while not without its flaws, it rocketed from the mid-sixties to influence practically all those that came after.

    10.24.08 From Geekdad

  7. Russian Eee PC In-Dash Computer Mod

    An enterprising Russian hacker has ripped apart both his car's dashboard and his Eee PC (701G) and recombined them into a rather excellent in-car computer. It's no simple mod, either: The perpetrator, named Dali, added a USB touchscreen, USB Bluetooth,...

    10.24.08 From Gadget Lab

  8. Hamas' YouTube Ripoff, Dead Again

    Hamas' YouTube ripoff is offline. Again. But for a brief time this week, the jihadist propaganda site was back up. And it'll probably rise again, before you know it. By last Wendesday, Hamas had found a new service provider for...

    10.24.08 From Danger Room

  9. Air Force's Postmodern Art Collection

    While we're on a visual art kick here, I thought it worth directing DANGER ROOM readers to the US Air Force art collection, housed in room 5E271 of the Pentagon. There's some, uh, pretty far out stuff there. My favorite...

    10.23.08 From Danger Room

  10. The Web in the World by Timo Arnall

    *Watch this Timo Arnall speech in fullscreen. Think about it as it scrolls by. It's important. http://www.slideshare.net/tmo/the-web-in-the-world-presentation

    10.23.08 From Beyond the Beyond
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