There are over a dozen people working at our fair Gizmodo, but as a Windows user, I’m in a definite minority. I still rock XP, and I’m pretty happy with that. Why haven’t I switched to Macs? Plenty of reasons, not least of which being that I’m just too smart to switch to a Mac.That’s [...]
Obama And Race: Most Whites Open To Black President, But Hate Groups Growing
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Legendary comedian George Carlin passed away Sunday night at the age of 71. He will be missed, but never forgotten.
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Finally, a modern file system on a consumer OS As if Grand Central weren’t enough bad news for Microsoft, now they have ZFS to contend with. Building a reliable, high-performance file system takes years and Microsoft doesn’t have years to respond. The formal announcement is for Snow Leopard server, which is how Apple introduces new [...]
“In this pod Muslims of a local shrine in western India throw newborn babies off the top of a tower in hopes of giving that child good luck. Dont worry though, a couple of guys are below to catch the babies with a sheet of cloth. The tradition is over 500 years old.”
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The latest in a series of recent high-profile media “mea culpas,” CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan told Jon Stewart she’d “blow her brains out” if forced to watch what passes for TV news coverage in America.
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We’re kicking off four days of cartridge-based nostalgia with our guide to the consoles of the 70s. Before you roll your eyes - hey, we saw that - keep in mind these were the first consoles ever created. And without our decrepit forefathers, we wouldn
’t be enjoying digital ambrosia with the likes of Mario or [...]
Learn how to paint Jack Sparrow out of a skull. Digital speed painting of Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) with: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Wacom Intuos3 A4 Recorded with: autoScreenRecorder 2.0 Free Produced with: Adobe After Effects about 3 hours painting.
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The rising Mississippi River has broken high-water records up and down the Iowa and Illinois shore, cresting as high as 12 feet above flood stage in some places. Estimates place the cost of the damage at over $1 billion dollars, and concerns are rising over crop damage, toxic remnants that were washed into neighborhoods & [...]
I have new respect for this magazine.
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