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Some things just don't ever go away. This pop-up came up and I just sat there, laughing, while it pretended to scan my computer and show up that I have trojans and what not. I'm running Ubuntu...and Vista (Boo! Vista!)You can go to http://xponlinescanner.com/2008/3/en/_freescan.php? aid=77024211 if you want to see the "anti-virus" pretend to scan.
Our gerneration's Watergate? Barack Obama's Allentown office was burglarized this week, and multiple laptops and cell phones were stolen, an Obama campaign aide said today. A police spokesman confirmed the incident, but couldn't provide details today because reports are kept in the department's records depository, which is closed weekends.
A Morton Middle School eighth-grader faces felony charges after putting crumbled peanut butter cookies in the lunch box of another student with a severe allergy to peanuts.
Danica Patrick has won the Indy Japan 300 for her first series victory. This breaking news story will be updated.
Even since astronaut Frank Bowman disconnected the HAL 9000’s holographic memory in 2001: A Space Odyssey techies have been wondering when we could buy real holographic storage. Now we know: May, 2008.
A stunt driver has crashed the car used by movie secret agent James Bond into Italy's Lake Garda during filming of 007's latest movie Quantum of Solace.
FTW...Pen and Paper!!!!!!
Yes, believe it or not, it's still quite possible. This video details the simple steps needed for Hillary to become the next leader of the free world
This poor kid just wants a nice afternoon snack, until he is completely fooled by this fake food display.
Pure irony.
Wow. It looks like Apple’s ergonomics web page predates the internet. Oddly there’s not a Mac to be found in any of their drawings. I suppose the indication here is that unlike PCs, it is impossible for a Mac to cause harm to a human.
From Billy Idol to Bono to Marilyn Manson.
A homeless man has found confidential blueprints for New York's new Freedom Tower dumped in a city rubbish bin.
A hypnotist from West Sussex has undergone surgery on his right hand without a general anaesthetic.
The invention of the microwave may have been intimately connected to the beginning of an epidemic in obesity
A single village in China is responsible for cranking out 60% of the world's paintings. The overwhelming majority of the paintings are slavish reproductions of famous paintings. The artists doing the work are very talented, however, and an organization called Regional asked some of the artists to paint themselves. The results are incredible.
If you're regularly sent TinyURLs but have been burned one too many times by clicking through to an embarrassing link at the wrong time, head to TinyURL's preview page and enable previews.
eBay has gone on the record saying that they will sell Skype if they fail to find ways of using Skype to support its core ecommerce business
Song, the star of Disney's hit "Suite Life of Zack & Cody," is featured in an escort ad in the back of this week's LA Weekly. We hear the escort company was just contacted by Disney lawyers who are none too happy with their teen queen advertising, er, adult activities. (Check out how they spell "Hawaiian." Charming.)
In 2007, there was an increase in the volume of music acquired for nothing and a sharp decline in the amount paid for, according to NPD's annual survey of Internet users. Although more people paid for digital downloads -- that market grew from 7% to 10% -- it wasn't enough to cover the fall in CD sales -- down from 41% to 32%.
On the 15th anniversary of the Waco conflagration, a catalog of the murderous and suicidal groups that stunned the world
The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there's one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Registrations of '.su' domain name have jumped 45 percent this year alone.
When they stopped at a traffic light the occupants of the two cars started yelling at them, shouting obscenities and gesturing with their hands... “They were shifting lanes, and trying to box us in..One of the bullets struck Marie directly between the eyes....It should have killed her. Instead, the bullet shattered into three pieces against
Author reveals foolproof way to pwn rubic cube in only 6 seconds.....Pay close attention to the diagram and follow the steps closely
AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.
A Japanese high school pleaded for a regional game to be abandoned after surrendering 66 runs in less than two innings, local media reported on Thursday.
The secret to this inexpensive home whitening method is malic acid, which acts as an astringent to remove surface discoloration. Combined with baking soda, strawberries become a natural tooth-cleanser, buffing away stains from coffee, red wine, and dark sodas.
I've always been curious about stuffed animals. So: armed with my childish curiousity and the spurious excuse of 'product design research,' I set out to discover what, exactly, these creatures are hiding.
Chicago water officials said they're testing Lake Michigan drinking water for the presence of pharmaceutical drugs and other unregulated chemicals.
Five real people whose insanely resourceful actions in a life or death situation would have made the bemulleted-one himself beam with pride.
Web payment firm Paypal has said it will block "unsafe browsers" from using its service as part of wider anti-phishing efforts.
Saying he wanted to unburden himself, Miguel Tejada approached Houston Astro's GM Ed Wade and asked to correct misinformation he gave the Oakland A’s when he signed in 1993. The Astros’ new shortstop is actually 33, two years older than he’s listed in the club’s media guide and other baseball records.
Spider-Pig! Spider-Pig! He's made of folders, Spider-Pig is! Can you make him into bacon? No you can't! He's foldspider pig! Lookout! Here comes Spider-Pig! Today a reader sent us an ad illustration made out of Finder folders and document icons, which gave me an excuse to organize a desktop clutter art contest for Mac and PC users,
The person who created this sign must be extremely intelligent.
Magnitude 5.4 earthquake hits Illinois
On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite DVD ripping tools; today we've sifted through hundreds of comments to bring you the five most popular answers. Hit the jump for a closer look at five of the best and most popular DVD ripping tools, then cast your vote to determine the best ripper of the bunch.
The National Wildlife Federation considers global warming to be "the most dangerous threat to the future of wildlife." Here are just some of the species being dramatically impacted by global warming
It's been known for a while that restricting your diet will increase your lifespan, but now researchers have shown one reason why: Eating less causes your ribosomes (your cells' protein factories) to mutate. Biologists at the University of Washington have managed to induce the life-extending mutation in ribosomes with a drug
If there's no such thing as a perfect game, period, then why do we only reserve a 10/10 score as meaning "flawless"?
While Microsoft recently extended the date when the XP software will be available for low-cost PCs, it doesn't plan to listen to some other complaints, including that Vista is too big. "Vista is bigger than XP and it's gonna stay bigger than XP," Ballmer said. "We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still."
Here's a measurement you probably haven't thought of before: it takes between 3,000 gallons and 6,000 gallons of water to power a 60-watt incandescent bulb for 12 hours a day over the course of a year.
The real OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta is due April 30. With any version, you are welcome and encouraged to test to find and report bugs and to discover new features. The stable OpenOffice.org 3.0 release is still due September 2008.
Thieves dressed as policemen talked their way past guards at Johannesburg's High Court, then locked them in a bathroom and stole highly sensitive documents, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
A judge sentenced defence attorney Adam Reposa to 90 days in jail for making a lewd gesture and simulating masturbation while standing before a County Court-at-Law judge in March.
Rumours are circulating in Moscow that Vladimir Putin has left his wife and is set to marry a former rhythmic gymnast less than half his age. The 56-year-old Russian president is said to have formed a relationship with the beautiful Alina Kabaeva, 24, and the couple have decided to tie the knot.
Soldier told to leave combat zone after his two brothers die in the war Forced to leave the combat zone after his two brothers died in the Iraq war, Army Spc. Jason Hubbard faced another battle once he returned home: The military cut off his family's health care, stopped his G.I. educational subsidies and wanted him to repay his sign-up bonus
A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to make that happen.
Some people aren't content to get their names in the footnotes of history and then quietly expire. These brave few achieve greatness and then top it off by kicking the bucket in a way so ridiculously implausible that everyone would have talked about them for years even if they hadn't done anything else.
A woman is suing a pet shop chain after her husband died of a hamster virus
It started innocently enough: last month a friend sent me a virtual lily plant on Facebook and invited me to create a (Lil) Green Patch, a digital garden that would grow on my profile page,
"...So why does this matter? Once you enable this feature the stories you digg will not only post to your mini-feed, but also syndicate to your friends through the main Facebook news feed. This helps further our mission of spreading the news you care about, to the people you care about."
Bell Canada says it is downgrading the Internet services of bandwidth hogs, and is asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to toss out a landmark complaint by competitors
1970: Apollo 13 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa, recovering from a barely survivable explosion in space
A man who spent nearly 23 years in prison in Texas for a rape and burglary he did not commit has been set free in Dallas. Lawyers say he was convicted largely on eyewitness misidentification by the victim. Now a DNA test has shown that McGowan could not have been the man who committed the rape
The New York Yankees' value increased to $1.306 billion over the past year, according to the annual estimates by Forbes magazine, a rise of 9 percent over the past year. The New York Mets were second at $824 million and the Boston Red Sox third at $816 million
The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency — a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.
A federal prison inmate got himself listed on the ballot for Idaho's May 27 primary as a Democratic presidential candidate, the state's top election official said. As a result, Democratic voters will be able to choose between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Judd.
Council member and newly-elected superdelegate Harry Thomas Jr., initially a supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is announcing in minutes that he will cast his vote at the Democratic National Convention in Denver for Sen. Barack Obama
In their ever continuing battle to free the Internet, The Pirate Bay has now launched an uncensored blogging service, called Baywords. The service is intended to be a safe haven for bloggers who want to be able to write whatever they want, without being afraid to get shut down by their blog host.
The best souvenir to bring home is a baseball you caught. It doesn ’t cost you anything extra and it was actually used for play. It comes with real memories attached. But a ball isn’t going to simply fall into your lap; catching one takes a bit of finesse. Here’s how you can walk away from a ballpark with a souvenir baseball:
Holy Egg Freckles! A third-party developer has released handwriting recognition software for the iPhone. Similar to Graffiti, the classic writing software for Palms, you can setup HWPen from Installer.app to give you an a writing area that can take over the standard keyboard at the touch of button. The best thing: it works.
Meet the boy who didn’t duck. Luckily, the butter knife that became lodged in his head did not pierce skull...
To many people, this means nothing. But of course 666 refers to the Beast in the Bible. Heaven knows what ten sixes means.
Just a few months ago, there were plenty of rumors about Netflix coming to the PS3. That would certainly be a great score for the PS3, as many people already have Netflix subscriptions and consumers seem more open to subscription plans for movies than they do for music
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