Experts: Obama-Ayers Ad May Be Illegal

A new ad raising Barack Obama's ties to 60s-era radical William Ayers may violate election law, according to campaign finance experts interviewed by the Huffington Post.

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Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World

Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every day of the week.

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Fed. agency: 'New phenomenon' caused WTC 7 collapse

Metal expanding due to heat -- aka "thermal expansion" -- is a "new phenomenon," according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Yet their report on how World Trade Center 7 mysteriously collapsed is drawing criticism from a large group of professional architects and engineers, who want to know what the agency is covering up.

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PSP-2001 vs PSP-3000

Differences between the PSP-2001 (ie the PSP Slim) and the PSP-3000 (ie the new one) may not be as big as those between the Slim and the original, but damnit, there are still differences. Famitsu are the first to compare the new PSP model with its predecessor, and as you can see, the changes are fundamental! Innumerable! Look at those streamlined e

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Mozilla Announces Best New Firefox 3 Extensions

Mozilla just wrapped up its Extend Firefox 3 contest and, after reviewing over 100 entries, its team of judges has announced the winners for Best Add-ons, Best Updated Add-on, and Best Music Add-on.

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How Are Madden NFL 09's Player Ratings Decided?

I look at a couple of things. First is public perception—everyone knows a certain player can do one thing, so he has to be rated as such. Second is what he did last year and what I think he can do this year. We now do roster updates every two to three weeks, so at home I have several TVs along with my laptop documenting everything players do.

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GTA 4: PC vs. Console [Comparing Screenshots]

PCGH compares screenshots of the PC version – published by Rockstar Games – with official screenshots of the console version. Most interesting: Are the texture on the PC really that much better?

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10 Tantrum-inducing Terribly Annoying 8-Bit NES Enemies

#7. 'Red Demon' from Ghosts N Goblins -- As early as in the first stage, a red demon appears. He sits as you approach, sitting cross-legged and contemplating which positions he'll do when screwing your girlfriend after he knocks off your armor, revealing your silly boxers and humiliating you forever.

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US Company Sues Nintendo in Wii Wand Patent Suit

Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company. Hillcrest Laboratories, based in Rockville, Md., has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington D.C., and a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court.

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The Early History of LEGO

Simple, block-shaped toys have been around for hundreds of years, but it took a 20th-century Danish genius named Ole Kirk Christiansen to invent the interlocking pieces we know today as LEGO bricks. It all started in 1932 in the village of Billund, long before LEGO had achieved world domination as a brand.

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Kratos To Play Hot Shots Golf Tomorrow

The Playstation Blog revealed that the all powerful god of war, Kratos, will pack his bags to play some golf on the 21th of this month in the form of a downloadable character for Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds.

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Megaman now available for Wii!

Megaman is now available for the Wii via Virtual Console and WiiWare. A true classic on all counts and a must have for any gaming enthusiast.

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How big is the universe - we are closer to finding out

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.

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Copy and Paste for iPhone

Like its says. Not the best but will get the job done for now.

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Massive New Object Discovered at Edge of the Solar System

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 thousand

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Microsoft: All Our Instruments Cross-Compatible Too

Yesterday we reported Sony's annoucement via the PlayStation Blog that all the major upcoming PS3 music games (Rock Band/Guitar Hero) will be able to share instruments. Not wanting to be outdone, Chris Paladino from Microsoft used the Gamerscore Blog to confirm that the same was true of the XBox version of those games.

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Is Apple shooting in the dark to fix iPhone 3G issues?

Some upgraders are actually reporting just the opposite, though -- for these lucky few, 2.0.2 seems to be making reception somehow worse than it already was, and what's more, there are intermittent reports cropping up of broken third-party apps, too.

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Pistol-packing woman, 85, forces intruder to call 911

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...

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Bus Gets Slammed By Tornado

Not to worry folks....ummm.....it's all part of the ..uh...tour!

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Compact Disk (CD) Turns 26 and It Still Won't Die

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.

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Hack Your Wii for Homebrew Apps and DVD Playback

Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken reason, the Nintendo Wii doesn't support DVD playback—until last week, that is, when a homebrew hacker released a tool that enables DVD playback on your Wii.

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Scientists Create Universal Blood From Stem Cells

Scientists have used embryonic stem cells to generate type O-negative blood, a rare blood type prized by doctors for its versatility.

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Patient dies after being left in chair for 22 hours

A psychiatric patient died at a North Carolina mental hospital after nurses left him in a chair and didn't give him any food or water for nearly a day.

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Sony Readies New Hardware Onslaught With PS3, PSP Refreshes

Sony gets ready for the holidays with a new PS3 bundle featuring an even-large 160GB hard drive, and a series of PSP bundles featuring a better screen and out-of-the-box Skype support with built-in microphone.

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New iPhone owner finds pictures already on device!

Pictures taken during the phone's assembly at a production plant were found on a new iPhone owner's device. Foxconn's finest!

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Christina Applegate Is A Bad Ass

Christina Applegate made a hardcore choice to get in front of her cancer and thwart any chances of it coming back. She decided to have a double mastectomy even though she only had cancer in one of her breasts. Such a hard decision to make all the while she is able to have a laugh about it.

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Sony officially announces PSP-3000

Sony has taken the opportunity of the Leipzig Games Convention to reveal the brand-spanking new PSP-3000, arriving Oct 15 in Europe for €199 (around $250), according to our main man Jem Alexander who's currently on site at the press conference.

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Stryde Hax: Hack the Olympics!

There's been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women's gymnastics team recently. I have an Internet connection, that means I should be able to verify the age of the gymnasts in question with primary state-issued documents and find out for myself if someone's cheating, right? Right. Let's go to work.

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