New Exclusive Transformers Trailer

Yahoo! Movies just dropped the new trailer for Transformers. First reaction: school girl giddiness. Second reaction: Ok, there isn’t too much in here that we haven’t seen before, but I still like it.



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Final Transformers theater trailer hits the web! [VIDEO + PICS]

Screenshots and the last theatrical trailer of the new live-action Transformers movie. Guaranteed to give you a robogasm!



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Sanctuary, a cool new web only sci-fi series is out and looking good.

Sanctuary is the very first web-based (non-televised) science fiction series. "The first broadcast caliber sci fi series developed specifically for the internet." It's like " 'The League of Extraordinary Gentleman' meets X-Files," but in Gotham City. What's cool is you get to see Stargate cast members like Carter & McKay in a new light.



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BitTorrent in Focus: TV-series are Hot

Almost 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do this to download TV-series, while only 10% of the available torrents are TV related. People who download TV-shows also have one of the best share ratios, only Anime fanatics beat them.



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Robert De Niro and Al Pacino Are Teaming Up for a New Movie

"Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are teaming to play New York police investigators hunting a serial killer in Jon Avnet's $60 million thriller "Righteous Kill" for Avi Lerner's Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films. The independently financed feature written by Russell Gewirtz unites longtime friends on screen for some 90% of the film." [popcandy]



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Rolling Stone: Inside Scientology

The Rolling Stone 2006 Article: "Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion"



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Jon Stewart Analyzes the FOX News GOP Debate

Final Analysis: Republicans want to rule over a fictional world created by FOX. Not exactly a "Stop the presses!" type revelation I admit...



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Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?

Brilliant historian and essayist Chalmers Johnson argues that unless we face up to the tremendous strain our empire is having on America, we will lose our democracy, and then it will not matter much what else we lose.



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How To Beat The Stock Market: Buy Companies With High Customer Satisfaction

Using a back-tested paper portfolio and an actual case, the authors of a study published in the Journal of Marketing found that companies at the top 20% of the the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) greatly outperformed the the stock market, generating a 40% return.



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Refresh your High School Math skills

Do you remember precalculus or do you feel a bit rusty? This article features a few mathematical exercises to test your knowledge and resources to brush up your high school math skills.



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Parallel universes, the Matrix, and superintelligence

"Physicists are converging on a "theory of everything," probing the 11th dimension, developing computers for the next generation of robots, and speculating about civilizations millions of years ahead of ours" (Published on June 26, 2003.)



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Timothy Leary's Message to You, Here, Now.

Unearthed from the notes of Joe Bageant and recently published in Counterpunch. Bageant desribes a conversation between Leary and G. Gordon Liddy while the two were on their debating tour. It’s probably the most important thing you’ll read this month.



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Medical Marijuana: the Replacement for Very Dangerous Drugs

Cannabis / marijuana medicines were at one time the “drugs of choice” in the United States, until they were declared illegal. They had been used for 100 specific medical problems through the use of about 30 prescription medicines. Marijuana is less addictive and less dangerous than Starbuck’s espresso.



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Mod a cheap $5 throwaway flashlight into a blinding torch

Reader Kip modded a cheap $5 throwaway flashlight into a blinding torch that's brighter than a $95 fancy pants flashlight. Hit the play button to see how.



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25 Killer Code Snippets every Good Designer Should See

Round up 25 of the Best CSS, scripts, html, javascript, Ajax and widgets that you can use on on your website or blog (Part 5) .....



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Top 10 HDTV Myths: Fact vs. Fiction

Myth #3 - HD video can’t be recorded to regular DVDs. Fact: Yes it can. New blue-laser discs such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD have high capacities, up to 50GB, but conventional red-laser DVDs can hold hi-def, too. Recording capacity is about 30 minutes for an HD program with the MPEG-2 digital compression system in widespread use today.



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Moody: Mood Tag Your iTunes Songs

"You first tag your iTunes songs in mood according to the Moody colors. Horizontally the mood goes from sad to happy and vertically from calm to intense music. When your songs are tagged you can play songs not from a specific album, artist or genre but from the mood you're in."



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Engadget Responds to yesterday's Apple news

"The question we faced at that moment was: Do we run with the story without Apple's comment or not? The answer seemed fairly clear there, too, at the time. We possessed what confirmed Apple employees believed was an internal Apple memo that with absolutely no doubt had also been received by any number of other Apple employees. "



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30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes

Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. However, to convey the message of presented data effectively, it’s important to offer it in an attractive and intuitive way.



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One Of The Coolest Monitors I've Ever Seen!!

Dell ultra-thin LCD monitor!!



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10 Nightmare Web Design Clients

Designers, you know what I'm talking about. Ten anecdotes about web design clients or enquirers who were stupid, silly or downright weird. Maybe all three. Feel free to add your own stories.



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Vista Hacked Again, This Time Even More Effectively

A hacker group known as NoPE somehow managed to create a cracked Windows Vista DVD that works immediately, out of the box, with no serial number or activation keys required.



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How To Add Music To Your Ipod Without Itunes

a review of 3 programs that give you more functionality then Itunes.



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The Pirate Bay to set up video streaming site

Ends all the speculation and formally announces what the "it's coming project" really is.



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Top 10 High Definition TVs

"High-definition tellies come in all shapes and sizes, from compact 15-inch LCDs to yawning great 70-inch plasmas for the ultimate in home cinema. These are the 10 we've come across that have made the biggest impression."



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iPhone to be available at 2000 store fronts on launch

Apple's inaugural mobile handset, iPhone, will be available for sale at 2000 retail store fronts when it goes on sale for the first time next month, putting the device within reach of most US households.



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How Often Should You Have Sex?

"If you have more than 200 orgasms a year, you can reduce your physiologic age by six years," Dr. Oz says. ---------- I am so glad that my wife saw this on Oprah yesterday. Hopefully someone can find a link to the Duke study that this references but, in making the argument to a woman, isn't Oprah good enough :)



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How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning

Uberblogger Robert Scoble has mindboggling information management skills. He currently reads 622 RSS feeds a day — it used to be 1,400 feeds a day! How the hell does he do it? This interview, taped over his shoulder in his office, shows how it's done.



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CBS "48 Hours" Special On The CULT Of Scientology

Watch it here.



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Breaking down 52 ways to speed up your Mac - A great list of tips.

"It looks like I may have to make debunking Mac speed tips a regular feature. I already criticized a list of 11 things, finding a large portion that were really not helping. With a list of 52, I’m going to be doing a lot of typing. Follow me down the extended section for the smackdown." - Macuser



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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Lists and CSS

Step by step CSS list tutorials, this takes you through the process of building background image lists, rollover lists, nested lists and horizontal lists.



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Your Digg Entourage [tool]

Great little Digg-API web app looks at yours (or whoever you like's) last 25 submitted stories' diggs to determine who has your back on Digg. Free as in Beer.



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Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email

"Apple’s stock promptly tanked on massive selling, going from $107.89 to $103.42 in six minutes (11:56 - 12:02). This wiped just over $4 billion off of Apple’s market capitalization. A lot of people lost a lot of money very quickly."



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Honda Plans to Introduce an Entry-Level Hybrid in 2009

Hot on the heels of Toyota's announcement that they'll be streamlining hybrid production and offering every vehicle in its lineup with the gas-electric option, a Honda sales exec has confirmed that beginning in mid-2009, a new hybrid will be launched.



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National Average Gas Price Ties Record High

A day before the so called “National Gas Boycott,” the national average gas price has jumped to $3.11, tying the record set in September 2005 shortly after Hurricane Katrina damaged oil refineries in the Gulf Coast area. Currently, the national average gas price is over 6% higher than where it was at the same point last year.



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Half-Life 2: Episode Two preview + new screenshots

During a recent trip to Valve, we were able to get some hands-on time with Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the cleverly named followup to last year's Half-Life 2: Episode One. With Episode Two, Valve is taking something of a different direction for the Half-Life series, working in more expansive locations and nonlinear battles.



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Top 20 Craziest Wardrobe Malfunctions of All Time

Caught in a fashion faux pas? Blame this amusing little phrase -‘wardrobe malfunction.’ Let the show stop for a bigger show! As you get flashed with bits of sexy peeks! Why the Oops…! The fleshy show might be genuine in some cases, but in others, it is very deliberate. While the show is hot, do enjoy…



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Did you see that? Top 25 TV Moments

In 1982, the top TV series were 60 Minutes, Dallas and M*A*S*H, cable news was in its infancy and MTV still played music videos. In the years since, seismic changes have altered the broadcast landscape. USA TODAY's television critic Robert Bianco lists his top 25 .



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Top 10 F-Bombs Dropped on Live Television

Nice collection of amusing F-Bombs dropped on live TV, from Sienna Miller, Scarborough, Tom Brady, Bruce Willis, and of course, Richard Simmons. Definitely one of those 'holy f____', I can't believe they did that, moments.



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Lindsay Lohan: "I have my first sex scene."

Lindsay Lohan, despite her wish to never do a sex scene on the silver screen, has let Chris Silverton, the director of “I Know Who Killed Me,” coerce her into taking her career to the next level - a very sexual level



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Optimize your Buzz: How to Stay Where you Want to be

Drinking alcohol can make you feel great, but it can also make you feel terrible, sick or even dead. This article shows you how to drink the right amount to stay where you want to be.



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The 10 Best Places To Find How-To Videos

Once upon a time, how-to guides were all about numbered lists and badly-drawn diagrams. Now those guides have gone multimedia, with a slew of new sites offering video how-tos from the users themselves. Here are 10 of the best.



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Razr 2

Motorola releases the Razr 2



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iTunes 7.1.2 DRM cracked

This utility will scrub DRM from YOUR music files and make a backup copy of the originals for safe keeping. Great for iPod owners who now have another brand of music player - iTunes will convert your AAC files to MP3 when you're ready to run away from Apple. I'm sure this story will be buried by DMCA lovers.



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Five Google Tricks You Probably Didn't Know About

Did you know you could search Google without ads?



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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) LAMP Server in about 15 min Including Screenshots

Automatic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) In about 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Feisty Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.



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Who needs Apple TV? Stream MOVIES from iTunes directly to Xbox 360!

Nullriver Software has released version 3.0 of its popular Connect360 program, which previously allowed streaming of music from iTunes, photos from iPhoto and limited WMV only movies to Xbox 360. This new version (coupled with the Spring Update for your console) allows movies to be streamed directly from iTunes. Forget blowing cash on tv!



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Marijuana does NOT cause cancer

The largest study of its kind surprisingly finds that smoking marijuana, even frequently, does NOT cause cancer. With no realisitic overdose, no cancer, and no physical addiction, marijuana is now CLEARLY less harmful than alcohol and cigarettes. LEGALIZE in '08 - and which candidates will do so: Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and Ron Paul!



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Memorizing the Periodic Table

Tips and tricks for remembering those easy-to-forget elements.



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14 rules for fast web pages

"Steve Souders of Yahoo's "Exceptional Performance Team" gave an insanely great presentation at Web 2.0 about optimizing website performance by focusing on front end issues. [...] the Web 2.0 talks have just been put up and the ppt is fascinating and absolutely a must-read for anyone involved in web products."



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