Archive for May, 2008

Fan’s jaw gets shattered by flying chunk of a baseball bat

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

“Your whole life changes,” Rhodes says over the phone, and she’s not looking for sympathy. Just an explanation as to how Major League Baseball continues to allow maple bats when their danger becomes more obvious by the injurious incident.

Major Disasters Around The World

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Sadly true..

Google’s Android demo shows app store, tweaks iPhone formula

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Attendees at Google's I/O Conference this week were greeted with an Android phone interface that shares yet more common ground with the iPhone from the company's close neighbor Apple, including the first evidence of a dedicated app store.

Why I fired my secretary today

Saturday, May 31st, 2008



Are Ahmadinejad’s Days Numbered?

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Larijani's stunning return to center stage in Iranian politics makes two things clear: President Ahmadinejad's hold on power is slipping badly, and next year's Iranian presidential election race is now wide open.

What the CIA Learned From Get Smart

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

"Many of the devices first seen in movies and on TV actually came about," says Robert Wallace, former head of the CIA's covert skunk works, the Office of Technical Services.

Free Speech Banned on the Plaza of the Supreme Court

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Thirty-four people were convicted yesterday of misdemeanor charges stemming from a demonstration at the Supreme Court in January in which they decried conditions at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Mutation Spells Bad News for Breast Cancer Patients

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Breast cancer patients with a mutation in both copies of the NQO1 gene have a 20% lower survival rate 5 years after treatment than do patients without the mutation, according to a new study of more than 2000 Finnish women. Those with the mutation were also four times less likely ...

Spit Can Be A Deadly Weapon

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

No one likes to become recipient of a spit projectile. That is unless of course you are swapping it with your significant other.

MySpace Music to Stage Its 150th Secret Show

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

MySpace Music launched the Secret Shows franchise in January 2006 and has since hosted such acts as Rilo Kiley, Moby, Maroon 5, the Killers, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tenacious D, Lily Allen, Ice Cube, James Blunt and Neil Diamond in cities around the world.