On Deadline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jennifer Sharpe sold 17,328 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in Dearborn, Mich. The group doesn't keep records, but if it did, people in the know say that this 15-year-old would have set a new benchmark for cookie sales. How did...
remove the labels | Gadgets & Life (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Creative’s new USB MuVo T200 is a tiny MP3 player with quite a sleek look. The 25 x 77.7 x 11mm music gadget weighs in at only 20.6 grams and comes with a 128 x 32 65k color LCD display. It is tiny, it looks good and it records. Formats are limited to MP3, WMA [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Here’s the Vado from Creative. It's basically a clone of the Flip but it looks less chintzy. Creative even goes as far as saying that the Vado is “dramatically thinner and lighter than competing video cameras.” I actually wouldn't mind trying one of these. It records up to two hours of video and has [...]
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
It is a natural reaction to believe that when a massive airplane falls out of the sky, intact with all systems, crew, passengers and complete records that it would be easy to resolve the cause of failure . Modern aircraft are immensely complex machines, so when they fail investigation can prove to be problematic. The Air Accidents Investigation Board have published a 3rd Special Bulletin on...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Source: [b]WCBS-TV[/b] In a flash, a police officer draws a handgun from its holster. Less than two seconds later, a red laser and bright light shine at whatever is in the gun barrel's path while a mini-camera records it all. That's how mini-cams on police handguns would work under a proposal g...
Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The price of oil continues to set records - it's now reached nearly $126 US Dollars. While some of that can be attributed to the Pacific Peso-ization of the greenback, by most measures the oil price has reached a record. Against the Euro, it's still a record. Inflation-adjusted, it's still a record. [...]
First Read (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones BEND, Ore. -- This election year has already broken fundraising and voter participation records, but it could also break the mold for how campaigning is done during a general election. Think of hand-to-hand combat, but with words, something akin to a rhetorical duel on policy that plays out right before voters’ eyes, in state after state, without the interruption...
Learn To Duck (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Over at the Lijit blog we are running a poll around a new feature. Here is a repost of the post and the poll. Feel free to vote here or over at Lijit, either way it records your vote. REPOST: At Lijit, we are constantly developing and testing new features for the product, the search results and [...]
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Hot Grits It's Too Drunk To Be This Early (Monkey Records) It's Too Drunk To Be This Early is the second release from Auckland funk band The Hot Grits after their 2006 Champion Sounds EP, which had a swag of student radio hits (including "Say I Love It"). With a helping of influence from Afrobeat performers like Fela Kuti, The Hot Grits are first and foremost a live act, best experienced...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The power provider said Thursday it lost $152 million, or 18 cents per share, compared with profit of $14 million, or 3 cents per share in the same period last year.
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
New York - Digital music service eMusic has been forced to remove early Rolling Stones albums and other repertoire from ABKCO Records it has been offering since early April, due to legal issues, Hypebot reported. In a post on its forums, the company said it "triple and quadruple-checked" the licensing issues involved before going ahead and offering the ABKCO catalog. "But this was not enough....
Rock Music News (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
British punk-rockers MY AWESOME COMPILATION have added a number of extra dates to their UK tour which kicks off NEXT MONDAY!!! , Gearing up for the release of new album ‘Frontiers', due out on May 26 via Small Town Records, it will be preceded by single ‘Ghosts On The Underground’ on May 19. , Produced by Hundred Reasons’ Larry [...]
computing (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Angelica Mari, Computing , Wednesday 7 May 2008 at 17:30:00 Technology infrastructure master plan foresees unprecedented range of global services The Beijing Olympics are the most IT-enabled yet, with 4,000 IT staff compared with 3,600 in Athens four years ago managing venues across cities up to 2,340km apart.... > Read the full article
Wisconsin Technology Network (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The 2008 Digital Healthcare Conference kicked off Wednesday with a look at personal health records, but it is the myriad of issues surrounding clinical electronic health records that many attendees are focused on.
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The Coma Recovery has posted a new song, "Hearts of Man," from their upcoming EP, Man Ascend . The disc is slated for release via Failed Experiment Records , though it seems the band is currently unsigned. According to a MySpace blog posting , it will be out in July or August. You can check out the song, as well as cover art, at their MySpace page . Man Ascend will be the band's first new material...
