The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

I hope this article doesn't create panic as did Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, but I bet there are lots of Americans who are keeping their rifles loaded just in case

"i herd on the news that rusia has invaded but i dont see them no where wats going on."

Big Brother has new techniques for watching you

Fingerprint test tells much more than identity

With a new analytical technique, a fingerprint can reveal much more than the identity of a person. It can also identify what the person has been touching ? drugs, explosives or poisons, for example.
Writing in the Friday issue of the journal Science, R. Graham Cooks, a professor of chemistry at Purdue University, and his colleagues describe how a laboratory technique known as mass spectrometry could find a wider application in crime investigations.
The equipment to perform such tests is already commercially available, although expensive. Smaller, cheaper, portable versions are probably only a couple of years away.

Test your knowledge of what's where

I was surprised at how little I really knew about Middle Eastern geography when I tried to identify the countries on this map. The only thing that would make it better would be if the page kept track of how many correct answers vs overall attempts - then I would know if I was learning anything.

Creep - The Chorale version

Here is an unusual take on this popular song by a Belgian female choir.

Why waste a coin when you can do this?

This child's mother is incredibly calm given the circumstances. I hope they have redesigned this machines to prevent this from happening again! LOL

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Typical day in a Canadian lawn-sprinkler

Inspiring Inventions

I can think of a number of situations where these bike tires would have come in handy!

Mood Lighting for us creative types

Getty Images, one of the world's leading stock photography sources, has created Moodstream. An innovative idea which offers creative types the opportunity to let their computer screen help them select photos based on various adjustable emotional scales. Play with it for a bit and you will see how cool it is even for non-creative types.

Web Browser of the Future?

Welcome to the future ? well, one possible future, anyway.
This is Part 1 of Aurora, a concept video created by Adaptive Path in partnership with Mozilla Labs. With Aurora, we set out to define a plausible vision of how technology, the browser, and the Web might evolve in the future by depicting that experience in a variety of real-world contexts.
Visit the Adaptive Path website to view this video in high definition
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

Uri Geller and skeptics settle copyright dispute

The "Rational Response Squad" is dedicated to debunking what it calls irrational beliefs. One of the videos that RRS uploaded challenges Geller's performance techniques using video of Geller on Johnny Carson.
CUT TO: [ Geller vs. "Fair use for criticism purposes" ]

VERDICT: Video does not infringe Geller's copyrights, and Geller must license the eight seconds of the over thirteen-minute video under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, and pay money - thereby preempting future legal battles over the fair use of the material.