August 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm in: Internet (No Ratings Yet)  Loading ... Rest easy, Google… The much-hyped new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”), purports to index more Web pages than any of its rivals. But based on its Monday debut, the new site poses little immediate threat to industry leader Google, or even its nearest competitors, Yahoo! and Microsoft, in either relevance or breadth of results it delivers. “Anybody who thought [Cuil] was this Google killer can really see now... Read Full Story

August 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 pm in: Weird (No Ratings Yet)  Loading ... A lot of you are probably reading this at work and despite that, a lot of you are probably also drunk. That’s because most of us have jobs where, if you maybe screw up here and there, it’s not the end of the world. Or at least that’s what we’d like to think. It turns out some of the biggest, costliest disasters have resulted from some random employee making a single tiny mistake. Such as … #5. One Leaked File... Read Full Story

August 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 pm in: Movies (No Ratings Yet)  Loading ... As the Joker in the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight” reignites fascination with the celluloid psycho, “The Screening Room” has compiled a list of its favorite on-screen monsters. Don’t agree with our list? Think we’ve missed one? Share your views by using the Sound Off box below and we’ll publish the best responses. 1. Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) “Sexy Beast” (Jonathan Glazer, 2000) Glazer casts Kingsley completely... Read Full Story

August 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 pm in: Woman (No Ratings Yet)  Loading ... Culled straight from the experts, Cosmo has the wall-shaking, earth-quaking moves that’ll make your bed end up across the room. Sure, your sex life rocks, but you still catch yourself wondering if there isn’t a tip or two that could catapult your carnal life from all right to out-of-sight. Well, there is. Cosmo picked the brains of five of the top sex pros in the country to glean sneaky, seductive, and superhot... Read Full Story

Inside Google (Behind-The-Scenes) We already knew that working for Google had certain advantages, but, believe me, this giant of the search motor takes the welfare of its employees seriously … As shown by this decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light … Moving around: A slide allows quick access from different floors … There [...] Read Full Story

iPhone 3G battery results: Music and video Our CNET Labs team has unveiled their battery performance results for music and video playback on the iPhone 3G. We’re still working on iPhone talk time testing and we’ll be doing another round of audio and video tests with 3G disabled–but at least we have another piece of the [...] Read Full Story

August 3rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm in: Sport (1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)  Loading ... 1.Rafael Nadal | Roger Federer Federer and Nadal have met in each of the past three Wimbledon and French Open finals — Federer winning on grass and Nadal on clay each time until Nadal’s five-set Wimbledon win this year. Since 2003, only three other players have won Grand Slam events, with the pair taking 17 of the past 20 championships. 2.Ted Williams | Joe DiMaggio The centerpieces of the Red Sox and... Read Full Story

August 3rd, 2008 at 5:21 pm in: Funny (No Ratings Yet)  Loading ... Although some might argue that they have jumped the shark, lolcats seem to be everywhere these days, having spread far beyond the imageboard 4chan in 2005. They appear regularly all over the Internet, from social news sites to chumby ads, and have been covered in Time. Some 61% of the Bible has now been translated into lolspeak. Although lolcats are based on animals (and the form of expression evolved beyond cats long... Read Full Story

August 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm in: Science, Weird (No Ratings Yet)  Loading ... From mildly eccentric to downright wacky, these 10 hyper-intelligent characters didn’t just march to a different beat, they each played their own tune altogether, all while changing how we look at the world. 10.Johann Konrad Dippel Born and raised in Germany’s Castle Frankenstein, 17th-century alchemist Johann Dippel became noted as the inventor of Prussian Blue, one of the first synthetic chemical dyes, but... Read Full Story

August 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pm in: Movies (No Ratings Yet)  Loading ... The title of this story is of course, a gross generalization. There are indeed people out there who do care about the new X-Files movie. In fact all ten or twenty of them are rushing to this website right now and plotting ways to send me death threats. Yes it’s a generalization to say no one cares about the X-Files movie, but like all good generalizations, it’s one that rather accurately reflects the sort of non... Read Full Story