Jan 24 2009

Songs can cue specific memories

Thinking about a particular song — no matter if the music of your life was doo-wop or disco — can cue vivid memories of the past, U.S. researchers found.

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Jan 24 2009

Apple to pay $22.5M in suit over scratched iPod nanos

Apple has agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by customers who experienced quality issues with the easily-scratchable surface of first generation iPod nanos.

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Jan 24 2009

Teleportation Milestone Achieved

Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the “Star Trek” feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.

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Jan 24 2009

Man kills 2 babies, adult in Belgium day-care attack

A calm, knife-wielding man stabbed two babies and a female worker to death at a day-care centre in Belgium on Friday before riding away on his bicycle.The man, armed with several knives, was described as wearing white paint on his face and black paint around his eyes.

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Jan 24 2009

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, theUbuntu 8.04.2 LTS released second maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

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Jan 24 2009

Obama to Reopen Lady Liberty’s Crown to Visitors

Visitors to Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty will once again be able to climb the 354 steps from the base of the Statue of Liberty to the iconic crown that overlooks New York Harbor, the Obama administration is expected to announce Friday.

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Jan 24 2009

‘He Cut You!’ Killer Puppy Draws Blood From Today Show Host

Adorable puppy tears up the Today show staff member Lester Holt and rips up pantyhose on set. Out of control news reporting.

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Jan 24 2009

Good-Bye Bush

A brilliant ad that ran on January 20.

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Jan 24 2009

Chiefs fire coach Herm Edwards, Shanahan in the mix

The Kansas City Chiefs fired coach Herm Edwards friday, along with reports that the Chiefs are looking at former Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan to fill the void. “On behalf of my family, I want to thank Herm for his service to the Chiefs,” Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said in a team statement.”

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Jan 24 2009

Newspaper Claims Suspect Transformed into a Goat

One of Nigeria’s biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.

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