Larijani’s stunning return to center stage in Iranian politics makes two things clear: President Ahmadinejad’s hold on power is slipping badly, and next year’s Iranian presidential election race is now wide open.http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1810456,00.html
Google-owned FeedBurner is set to launch AdSense for RSS next week according to a post on the company’s blog. Much like the AdSense for Web sites, AdSense for RSS will show contextual text advertising in publisher’s RSS feeds. In other words, if you’re reading a blog post about mobile phones in Google Reader, you might […]
Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman, two long-time open source gurus now plying their trade at Google believe in open source projects that maintain a small “bus factor.” That would be the number of contributors who could be hit by a bus before a project collapses. A simple means of maintaining a small bus factor is baring names […]
“Many of the devices first seen in movies and on TV actually came about,” says Robert Wallace, former head of the CIA’s covert skunk works, the Office of Technical Services.http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/multimedia/2008/05/pl_print
eat your heart out Kung Fu Pandahttp://www.thecutest.net/Details.aspx?AlbumID=6&Page=0
Japanese man steals a car sitting idle outside of a post office. Guess he really was that tired!http://www.weirdasianews.com/2007/02/10/tired-japanese-shopper-steals-police-car-to-get-home/
It seems the dog of Duck Hunt fame has quite the lucrative side business going for himself.http://the-minusworld.com/2008/05/30/where-did-all-those-hunted-ducks-go/
Well, ultimate fighting is now officially an acceptable sport for mainstream America. Tomorrow night, CBS is showing a live fight featuring none other than the Miami headcracker, Kimbo Slice.http://gawker.com/tag/media-darlings/?i=394348&t=middle-america-embraces-kimbo-slice
After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella, the tens of thousands who couldn’t be there ran to YouTube for a peek. Everyone was quickly denied — even Radiohead. “Really? He’s blocked it?” asked Thom Yorke, “Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our … song.”http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_en_mu/music_radiohead_prince
After last night’s mind-bending episode, it’s a question only this heady physicist could answer: How do you move an island, then show up halfway across the world? Let’s just say the Looking Glass has nothin’ on Ben.http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4266335.html