Obama: The Best And The Brightest?
"What difference does it make if our policy-makers think they are above criticism? People who lack skepticism and the capacity to grow beyond their certainties are the sorts of people who are likely...
View ArticleChongqing: The biggest city you've never heard of (w/pics)
Chongqing, home to 32 million people and growing so quickly its maps are already out of date by the time they are printed. The bursting municipality--a dense urban core ringed by rapidly changing...
View ArticleThe History of Digg (Infographic )
A hot girlfriend and a house or a geeky programmer and a social news site ? That's an easy one for many of us however the same can't hold true for Digg founder Kevin Rose. This infograhpic gives us a...
View ArticleSaudi Arabian judge asks hospitals to paralyse man
A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals whether they would punitively damage a man's spinal cord after he was convicted of attacking another man with a cleaver and paralysing him, local newspapers...
View ArticleObama's Numbers Are Actually Pretty Good
Obama's job approval ratings aren't that bad when compared with other recent presidents who took office amid a recession.
View Article15 Facts About Net Neutrality [Infographic]
Net neutrality has taken up a lot of headline space over the last two weeks. There was the Goggle and Verizon thing, and then something happened with the FCC and some Congress members, and the French...
View ArticleHow to Travel 12 Countries with No Baggage Whatsoever (+ Cool Giveaway)
Starting tomorrow, travel writer Rolf Potts will embark on a trip that will take him around the world without using a single piece of luggage. This post will explain how hes going to do it, and theres...
View ArticleHousing Crisis a Symptom of Capitalism's Failure
This capitalist crisis resembles a certain kind of serious disease. Different symptoms keep flaring up at different locations. It began with sub-prime mortgages in residential housing.
View ArticleMexican Police To Patrol NY?
In a series of events which has caused wide notice and a storm of protests, the government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling...
View ArticlePolitics 2010: Immigration issue plays big in Arizona races
Lightning-rod issues such as immigration and border security have candidates in Arizona scrambling to position themselves as right of their opponent.
View ArticleHoping for good news in Tuesday's AZ Dem Senate primary
by Doug Tudor. If you’re unfamiliar with the AZ Dem Senate race: Ravishing Rodney, the Denatured Boy, is a spoiled, immature rich kid from Fresno, California, who moved to Arizona and became a...
View ArticleHow to Install Animated [Live] HD Wallpapers on iPhone 4
One of the things which iPhones and iPod touches are still missing over Android devices is the animated or live wallpapers option which were first introduced with Android 2.1 on Nexus One back in...
View ArticleCovert Operations
The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. David H. Koch and his brother Charles have funded campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies that their ideological network is...
View ArticleThe History of the word "Dude"
Dude! This article charts the evolution of the gender-hopping, meaning-changing, spelling-flexible word, dude. Awesome!
View ArticleJohnny Cash mashed up with Eazy-E
I hope I don't need to explain to you why this mashup is completely amazing. Other than that a friend just posted it on Tumblr I know nothing about it, if you have any details, let me know. Otherwise,...
View ArticleAs Many As 200 Women, BabyBoys Gang-Raped Near Congo UN Base
As many as 200 women were systematically gang-raped by Rwandan and Congolese rebels over a four-day period last month less than 20 miles from a U.N. peacekeeping base in the eastern part of the...
View ArticleThe Crises of Capitalism (Animated)
In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be...
View ArticleStewart: FOX Failed To Mention Co-Owner Is One They Accuse O
Jon Stewart continued his coverage of the "Ground Zero Mosque" debate last night, focusing on Fox News' incongruities harder than he ever has. In a segment called "The Parent Company Trap," Stewart...
View Article'Beat Whitey Night': Iowa Police Probe Racial Attacks
Police are trying to determine what led to a series of attacks outside the Iowa State Fairgrounds that included the assault of two police officers.
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