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Pistol-packing woman, 85, forces intruder to call 911
rockymountainnews.com — An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said...More… (World News)
vick3ii
Bus Gets Slammed By Tornado
youtube.com — Not to worry folks....ummm.....it's all part of the ..uh...tour!More… (Environment)
DeathWish808
10 Helpful Ways to Recycle Used Books
thedailygreen.com — When you consider that only 24 books are produced for every tree felled, it makes sense to spread the love by passing our books onto other people.More… (Environment)
msaleemCompact Disk (CD) Turns 26 and It Still Won't Die
maximumpc.com — Another birthday for the CD has come and gone and yet the damn things just won’t die. On Aug. 17th, 1982, the Compact Disc was born into an age of rampant consumerism that was the 1980s. Big hair was in, big vinyl and the big snarls of tape from cassettes was out.The CD of course wasn’t without its drawbacks. More… (Hardware)
optimusprime01
8 Easy Steps to Banish Bad Breath
webmd.com — Bad breath is embarrassing, unpleasant, and all too common. These eight easy tips will sweeten your breath for good.More… (Health)
chris1234Japan Is TOTALLY Sold Out of Xbox 360s!
kotaku.com — Next shipments won't hit store until next month! The situation is so bad apparently that Microsoft even released a statement apologizing. Guess Japan doesn't hate the Xbox 360 so much anymore...More… (Xbox)
bashcraft
How big is the universe - we are closer to finding out
nytimes.com — How fast the universe is growing, how big it is and how old it is all depends on an elusive number known as the Hubble constant that has led astronomers on a merry chase for three-quarters of a century.More… (General Sciences)
pcgenome
Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain
sciam.com — If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything—or any responsibility for what we do?More… (General Sciences)
lekahe
Project Hovercraft
sdss.jhu.edu — The goal of this project was to build a working remote controlled hovercraft while spending as little money as possible. I was successful, as the hovercraft works (mostly) and the only money I spent was on the batteries and propellers.More… (Mods)
bonlebon
Cloned Puppies: Sure, They're Cute, But at What Cost?
wired.com — When skin cells from a dead pit bull named Booger gave rise to five healthy-looking puppies with a $50,000 price tag, it marked the formal beginning of a commercial dog-cloning industry. But for all the attention given to these and other clones, little was paid to the behind-the-scenes science.More… (Pets & Animals)
MaGCoL
The Riff: What's Up With That Tropic Thunder Controversy?
motherjones.com — The buzz about Robert Downey Jr.'s edgy portrayal of an over-eager actor putting on blackface for his part has me intrigued: how will he walk that high-wire?But the biggest controversy to emerge before the film's release turned out to be something else: its use of the term "retard."More… (Political Opinion)
Army Moves Ahead with Mobile Laser Cannon
blog.wired.com — The Army is moving head with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 31-ton-plus truck.More… (Hardware)
MrBabyMan
Massive New Object Discovered at Edge of the Solar System
dailygalaxy.com — The Oort Cloud is a spherical cloud of comets believed to lie roughly 50,000 AU, or nearly a light-year, from the Sunm which places the cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. The Kuiper belt and scattered disc, the other two known reservoirs of trans-Neptunian objects, are less than one thousandMore… (Space)
mpind176
Bush Officials Plan a Sneak-Attack on America's Wildlife
salon.com — In the excitement of the Olympics, the run-up to the presidential conventions and the flurry of late summer vacations, it was easy to miss the Bush administration's stealth attack on the Endangered Species Act last week. A proposed regulation would simply eliminate independent scientific reviews that have been required for over 30 years.More… (Environment)
MakiMaki
Olympic Torrents More Popular Than Ever
torrentfreak.com — This week, close to two million people have downloaded the Olympics opening ceremony, which makes it the most pirated TV-show of the week - again. The International Olympic Committee is not too happy about it, and they are urging the Swedish government to take on The Pirate Bay.More… (Tech Industry News)
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