Woot Contest 192: The Only Thing We Have To Woot Is Woot Itself

While you were reading this sentence, approximately 38 major global finance firms have collapsed, merged, or been converted into drive-thru fried-chicken franchises. While we still have electricity, let's take a fond look back into a fictitious history where Americans, despite being battered by economic collapse, pulled themselves up by their own LeakFrogs: Show us how past or current Woot product... (continued)

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Hack your litter box

Cat poo stinks.  We all know it. Those of us who have cats, though frequently amazed at the sheer magnitude of stench our cuddly friends are capable of, do little to remedy the situation.  Sure, sometimes we buy the fancier kitty litter or the special food.  [agraham999] decided to be a little more proactive.  He [...]

Russia : Car Takes Evasive Action To Avoid Accident.

Car avoids colliding with other car but crashes into wall, other car does a runner..:)

Best video to scientology from anonymous yet. You won't regret watching it. Youtube will be censoring it soon.

submitted by dezman2003 to reddit.com [link] [387 comments]

New election low: distorting the fact-checking

News outlets and independent truth squads seem to agree that the McCain camp's distortions on Barack Obama have gone too far.

Texas faces 'catastrophic' storm

Texas faces "potentially catastrophic" damage when Hurricane Ike hits in the next few hours, a senior US official warns.

Bethesda Software - Sold out: PS3 Survival Edition (Fallout 3)

Bethesda Software: "Just a head's up, we've received word from the folks at Amazon that the Fallout 3 Survival Edition for PlayStation 3 has sold out. So if you're looking for it on their site, now you know why it's not there. For those wanting to order the Survival Edition on Xbox 360 or Games for Windows, we're told these are expected to sell out soon as well."

Commuter train collides with freight train in LA

A Metrolink commuter train collided with a freight train Friday, toppling one of the passenger cars and the freight train's engine onto their sides.

Full Guitar Hero 4: World Tour song list revealed. See the complete 86-track set list including videos!

Activision has revealed the complete 86-track song list for Guitar Hero 4: World Tour. The set list is entirely made up of master recordings instead of cover versions. For the first time there will be other instruments to use besides the guitar, namely the microphone and drums to give a full band experience. The popular [...]

Classy!

This has got to be our favoritest picture of the week!!!! Danity Kane's breakout star, A-lister Aubrey O'Day, works what her momma gave her at the Nico & Adrian's fashion show in New York City on Thursday night. Such style and sophistication! She's a role model to young girls everywhere!!!! [Image by Vinnet Bradshaw via Genius Hates Company.]

Happy Birthday Wil

Happy 19th birthday to Wil Andrews of *Farewell* (http://absolutepunk.net/farewell).

Tetris Party Looks Awesome

I was still in high school when Tetris DS came out. I played it so much that while I was in class, I would see tetris pieces falling in front of my eyes. Not only is it one of the few games that made me hallucinate, but it’s also one of the few games that [...]

Nvidia pumps hybrid graphics to laptop makers

Sylvie Barak the Inquirer, Friday 12 September 2008. 22:24:00 Sony, Fujitsu Siemens and Benq flip chips SONY, FUDGEPACKER Siemens and Benq have announced notebooks using hybrid graphics that allow users to “dynamically switch” between Intel’s Centrino 2 integrated graphics and a discrete Nvidia Geforce GPU. The switch can be made without the need to reboot, giving the user the choice of whether to... (continued)

Plushie Higgs Boson

Cuddly particles. Aw. Physicists need hugs too. There's a whole ton of them, too. (Via Crafty Crafty)

2old2type Ep 48: 20 Questions (or 26)

2old2play.com is proud to provide, for your listening pleasure, Episode 48 of 2old2type Radio, the official podcast of 2old2play.com. Read on for more information.DSmooth and Codemonkey cover feedback from last weeks show, as well as tackle a boatload of listener questions. In addition to all of that, they also cover this weeks new releases and some of the more interesting gaming news stories of ... (continued)

PSP Guitar Tuner v0.1

Here's a little something for guitar lovers out there. Ktix007 comes with his PSP Guitar Tuner v0.1. It's pretty cool, actually, as it's described as an application that will "turn our PSP in a 'guitar'."Although its just in it's very initial version, it's looking promising as it is. Ktix007 also promises that there'll be more to come. So just keep it posted here for more updates, and do enjoy.Dow... (continued)

Microsoft fires game test contractor who talked to VentureBeat

Microsoft fires game test contractor who talked to VentureBeat

The Rocchi Review -- Live from Toronto with David Poland of Movie City News

Filed under: Festival Reports, Podcasts, Interviews, Toronto International Film Festival, The Rocchi Review: Online Film Community PodcastIt's hard to imagine for the few exhausted stragglers still going from film to film, but the end is in sight for the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Joining us this week on The Rocchi Review is critic, journalist, analyst and man-about-town David Polan... (continued)

iTunes 8 causes Windows Vista BSOD

Filed under: iTunesSome Windows Vista users are having significant problems using iTunes 8, which crashes the operating system with a "blue screen of death" when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC. Apple today released a tech note, suggesting to uninstall Apple Mobile Device Support, restart the computer, and re-download and re-install the iTunes 8 installer. It's unclear what about Apple Mo... (continued)

Samurai Showdown Anthology set to heat up winter

Filed under: News Before there was Soul Calibur, there was Samurai Showdown. Fans of the weapons-based fighting series may remember the early days -- a time when all the cool kids had Neo Geos. Those were some good times, huh? Since then, the series has grown and spread its seed onto other platforms.Gathering the SS titles together, SNK is taking the aging IP and putting all six appropriately numb... (continued)

Judge rules probable cause of criminal activity needed to get cell location data

Filed under: Cellphones A federal district court judge in western Pennsylvania made what could possibly wind up being a precedent setting ruling this week, with him stating that the government must obtain a warrant based on probable cause of criminal activity before asking a carrier to provide cellphone location data. The ruling specifically addressed historical cellphone tower location data, whi... (continued)

"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser

Privileging the lie Earlier this week, The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wrote that there was "[n]o blowback" against the McCain campaign for its repeated false claims about Sarah Palin's role in stopping the Bridge to Nowhere. Ambinder explained: [T]he electorate doesn't seem to penalize campaigns for deliberately distorting the record of their candidate and their opponent. It's probably an artifa... (continued)

Are You Registered To Vote In This Year's U.S. Presidential Election?

Are You Registered To Vote In This Year's U.S. Presidential Election?

Sophie Can Walk: documentary on babies born without ability to walk.

Sophie Can Walk is a tour-de-force of cinematic advocacy greater than An Inconvenient Truth and a Michael Moore montage combined -- a film that speaks out bravely, albeit in a cute little googoo voice, against the prejudice faced by baby-Americans born without the ability to walk. Above, the YouTube low-rez; here's a better quality version. (thanks, Sepideh!)....

NeowinCAST In Depth: The Web in a Business Context

Neowin.net presents a new series of interviews in NeowinCAST In Depth. In this edition, recorded on September 11 2008, Rob Wright (Rob) interviews Mia Walczak, a web developer working at Thomson Reuters in London who researches new technologies and applies them to innovative web applications in the business sphere. The following topics are discussed:Cloud Computing - its uses within corporations... (continued)

Hi-Res Look at Meagan Good in 'Saw V'

Inside you'll find a hi-res look at Meagan Good in Lionsgate's forthcoming Saw V (trailer), which arrives in theaters October 24th. In the fifth installment of the popular SAW franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.

RocketBowl - Perfect Strike Gameplay

Bowl a perfect game.

Here Are GTA IV PC's Recommended System Requirements [Grand Theft Auto IV]

If you plan on building (or upgrading) a PC around the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the official Games For Windows web site has a helpful rough estimate for what kind of hardware you're gonna need. To make it look as pretty as the version we saw, which ran just shy of 2560 x 1600, expect to bring some serious computing power to the table. While the minimum system requirements for the W... (continued)

Friday Night Frights

A quartet of boys attending a high school football camp were assaulted last month by broomstick-wielding teammates in a violent hazing ritual that could lead to charges against the assailants and the New Mexico squad's coaches.

Full Guitar Hero: World Tour Tracklist Released

Activision has finally announced the entire list of songs that will feature in Guitar Hero: World Tour. The list of 86 master tracks features songs by massive bands and artists such as The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, Michael Jackson, Metallica and many more. While Rock Band and World Tour share many traits, one of [...]

Pitchfork.tv: One Week Only: The Fantômas/Melvins Big Band

Hypertechnical, hard-rocking mayhem ensued when members of Melvins and Mike Patton's Fantômas played this show together as the Fantômas/Melvins Big Band in May 2006. In addition to performing songs from their prior collaboration Millennium Monsterwork, they also offer up selected versions of tracks from both bands' catalogues. Douglas Pledger, Matthew Rozeik, and Alex Gunnis filmed the... (continued)

New Xbox Experience: Games played

Today we’re kicking off a series of posts around the upcoming New Xbox Experience (known internally as NXE) where were going to go show off some some new screenshots and details. Today we are showing you what you’re games played list will look like. If you attended my demo at PAX this year, you’ll recall I spent some time on this area. If you missed the demo, head over to the Gamerscore blog where... (continued)

Race Pro Updated Impressions

Race Pro (X360)SimBin goes back to the starting line to show off its new console racing sim.

Duke XBLA reviewed: "the ultimate version"

<" alt="http://medialib" align="left" style="width: 75px; height: 75px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; border: 1px solid 990000;" /> First review appears in US edition of Official Xbox magazine. And they LIKE it. The first review of Duke Nukem for Xbox Live Arcade has hit the streets via Official Xbox Magazine US, which awards Duke's download outing an 8.5 and calls it "the ultimate version". Click here to read the full article

The Latest Microsoft Ad With Bill And Jerry

This is Microsoft's latest (and longest, at 4:30) commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. I found it moderately entertaining but ?able at the same time. What I really took away from the experience was this: if Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld ever stayed at my place, I'd rob those suckers blind. Or at least 20/100. That was a vision joke! Youtube Thanks to Doug and Popadopolis, you... (continued)

Ten Must-Sees at the London Design Festival 2008

100% Futures at 100% Design The young cutting edge talent section of the largest and most commercial show in town. Look out for "Lighten Up," [re]design's showcase of 64 sustainable lighting designs. 18-21 September, Earls Court Urbantine Project at Tent London This competition for young, up and coming architects is one of the star features of the East End show. Check out the winning...

Jenna Dewan still wearing a bikini

Jenna Dewan on the last day of her Hawaiian vacation pitching Step 3 Up, Yo: The Third Movie of Upward Stepping that's Really Dancing: "Okay, everybody wears a bikini - then does jazz hands for 90 minutes. Oh, and at the end someone dies in a gang shooting encouraging his friend to go to night school and become an orthodontist." SOLD! So, uh, where do I slide my VISA that doesn't end in Channing... (continued)

'Sigmund and the Sea Monsters'? Sure, Let's Make That a Movie

Universal has recruited Simpsons writer/producer Dana Gould to write an adaptation of Sid and Marty Krofft's Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. That's it. Movie production is officially a form of archaeology, simply looking for absolutely any remnants of past civilizations to unearth and put on display in their forgotten, deteriorated forms. Have you seen this show? This is the intro:

Review: Opoona

When their spaceship suddenly falls under attack from unknown foes, Tizian Cosmic Guards Dadeena and Mameena hurriedly secure their three children in separate life pods and jettison them towards the relative safety of nearby planet Landfall. Rescued by friendly inhabitants and taken to one of their domed cities, lucky escapees Opoona, Copoona and Poleena must form fruitful friendships, learn new s... (continued)