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Barack Obama usually gets a reaction. Critics say he’s inexperienced (although he spent years in state government in Illinois.) Supporters liken his campaign as ultimately positive in a world where the last eight years have been mired in toxicity and corporate greed. And, long before the events of this past weekend, he was compared to […]

Photography is an amazing hobby to mess around with. I’ve seen what happens when people manipulate great images, and the results are always amazing. For example, high dynamic range images (HDR) exhibit a technique to use composite exposures to produce picture quality that borders on the unrealistic. However, it’s utterly impossible to take your eyes […]

New Line Cinema and MGM are in talks with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro to take over directing the J.R.R. Tolkien Hobbit films. So far the project, which would include back-to-back installments of the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has been repeatedly sidelined. In part due to the WGA strike (yes, it […]

Despite recent positive developments regarding the WGA strike, CBS Paramount Network TV isn’t holding its breath. Variety reports that the Eye has found a way around the conflict—outsourcing. On Monday, CBS released the details of a deal it has made with Canada’s CTV to begin the production of a new primetime drama series.  A brief […]

Maybe it’s the constant stream of spam to your Inbox. Or the automatic music that seems to play every time you look at someone’s account. Speaking of profiles, how is it possible that MySpace pages are so ugly? Not everyone is happy with MySpace. Especially this guy who instigated an International Day to commission the […]

Remember that huge New York Times advertisement that begged the question: “Are you fed up with your web browser?” That was the Mozilla Foundation taking off the gloves to lay the smack down against Microsoft and their crummy Internet Explorer alternative. When they wage war, they mean it. Firefox has been gaining some serious traction […]

With 700,000 Americans suffering from strokes each year (and over 150,000 dying from them), doctors are continuously researching new ways to clear brain clots. Strokes generally occur when the blood vessels feeding the brain become blocked, which deprives brain cells of oxygen until they die. For those who suffer a stroke, the clot-eliminating drug TPA […]

Boing Boing has a post this morning asking other websites and blogs across the web to mirror their post regarding coercion of UK citizens into a National ID Registry. Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget — note the call to action there. We’ve got a sensitive government document revealing the […]

Surviving in the jungle of work can be a daunting task. With everyone putting in more and more hours all the time, feeling like you have to rack up 90 hours a week can seem natural. But how many people out there practice voluntary overtime with no compensation? A number of new entrants (we’re looking […]

Imagine buying groceries or clothing without having to stand in the checkout line. For business owners, what if there was a way to drastically cut the amount of thefts in your store. For everyday consumers, what if the government could draw a profile on you based on the products you buy… and keep tabs on […]

Allow me to wax philisophical this Monday morning as we take a look at the latest story about a foiled plot where suicide bombers were reportedly going to attack cities in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal and how an informant who infiltrated the mission halted the plan. CNN is reporting that Islamic suicide bombers, […]

If you follow the Internet giant Google even a little bit, you may have heard about how they are gunning for bid on America’s last chunk of broadcast spectrum. If not, then you probably didn’t understand that last sentence. In case you identify with the latter, RobertCringely has written an incredibly thorough column entitled “Everything […]

When Hamas militants tore down part of a wall that was built on Tuesday that separated Egypt from the Palestinians several years ago, it had a huge impact on the global community who is watching the situation with some trepidation. The idea of putting up a wall to keep a border problem under control is […]

Kent Rogowski  turn bears inside out. Teddy Bears that is. It’s not as grim as it sounds. By taking the bears and turning them inside out there is something quite beautiful and oddly nostalgic about the photography project that he began and that has recently been published into a book, Bears. The photography series breaks […]

If you’re gonna make a movie about aliens in space, then you’re gonna need a spaceship. I don’t think anyone would have appreciated Ridley Scott’s make-believe world in his 1979 blockbuster Alien without having those killer spaceships. The set of a Scifi movie makes or breaks the film. And the Science Fiction experts over at […]