Thousands to join anti-Putin demonstrations

Terrified of any form of open opposition, the Kremlin is preparing the toughest of responses. Both marches have been banned and 9,000 anti-riot police drafted into the capital.



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No to extremism: Tens of thousands protest in Pakistan

Tens of thousands of people have protested in the Pakistani city of Karachi against a radical mosque and its religious schools in Islamabad. "Islam is a religion of peace and there is no place in it for using force or terrorism." Includes video.



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Fox News Presents Malicious Obit for Kurt Vonnegut

I suppose it shouldn't be surprising but Fox did a spiteful obit for Vonnegut that is distasteful at best.



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What happens when you click on "Send Error Report" ?

Ever wondered what happens when you click on "Send Error Report" whenever a software crashes on your computer? Here is an insight into what people at Microsoft do when someone submits one such report.



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The Worst Movies by the Best Directors

Keep in mind that many of these films are quite good, in their own rights: they just suck when compared to some of the better work by their respective director.



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PHOTOS: Tarzan's Chimpanzee Cheeta Celebrates 75th Birthday

Cheeta the chimpanzee, the animal star of 12 Tarzan films, celebrated his 75th birthday yesterday.The famous animal star, who appeared in the 30s and 40s jungle blockbusters, is the world's oldest chimpanzee.



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bitch slap

guy doesn't have his pimps money and.....



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Solar Powered Bikini! With Pics.

Whilst lying in the sun and baking, you can charge up your cell phone, ipod and digital camera. It comes with a USB drinks cooler—once plugged in it will act as a chiller for your can of organic lemonade. The cells terminate in a female USB connection and whatever circuitry necessary to ensure proper output voltage.



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7 Little Known Ways To Drastically Improve Your Learning

Whether you’re heading into exams or haven’t seen the inside of a textbook in years, how you learn is going to have a big impact on your life. Unfortunately most people have pretty ineffective strategies for learning. Here are a couple tips for how to maximize the amount you learn so you can use more of it later.



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Update on Girl who was beaten for looking 'Chinese'

Everyone's fussing over what Imus said, but there are worse race related incidents out there. Apparently you can't look chinese anymore



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Your IQ

If you want to know your IQ but don't want to spend hours and hundreds of dollars this is the website for you. This free IQ test is as close to the real thing as you can get! Enjoy I can't wait to here your IQ's!



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Water gushes out of a manhole

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water spewed forth from a manhole in the center of a highway. This is like nothing you've ever seen before. Really. Ever.



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Inhaling Alcohol (from the experts)

This is an instructional video from some grad students who wanted to see the full effects of inhaling alcohol using the scientific method. You really have to see this to believe it.



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Turn Any Picture Into 3D Image

Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs, will turn any image into a 3D model. In a week or so, the company says, users will be able to upload a picture and have an animated 3D image returned to them in an embeddable Flash widget.



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TIME TRAVEL: Experiment May Prove It's Possible

This test could tell us whether particle interactions do indeed move both backward and forward in time, a phenomenon known as retrocausality. If they do, we’ve taken a step forward in working out what could one day become the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity...



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Study: In Nude Photos, Men Look at Faces First

You might expect men and women to look at sexual photographs differently. But a new study unexpectedly found that men are more likely than women to first look at faces rather than other parts of a nude body.



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Why should we have eight hours' sleep?

A tiny minority of us get eight hours' sleep a night. But do we really need that much?



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Diabetics cured by stem-cell treatment

In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.



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Ten Things We Guarantee You Didn't Know About Sex

With American society ambivalent (to say the least) about pushin' it, countless factoids are left out of sub-par sex education classes nationally. These shocking facts, presented with a humorous twist, are sure to serve as bangin’ (pun intended) conversation pieces around the water cooler. Learning has never been so taboo- guaranteed.



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The Top 5 Viral Videos That Changed Someone's Life (For the Worse)

5) Gray Brolsma's "Numa Numa" 4) The Howard Dean Scream 3) George Allen's "Macaca" 2) Michael Richards' N-Word Tirade 1) The Star Wars Kid



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