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Survey: Job satisfaction takes a plunge Fewer Americans are happy with their jobs and more are willing to go elsewhere than was the case two years ago, according to a report by Reston, Va.-based jobs site Careerbuilders.com.
Cancers obey universal law of growth A universal law that describes the growth of animals also seems to describe the growth of tumours. Though the work is only in its early stages, researchers are already using it to explore the way cancers invade healthy tissue.
Jay-Z bows out Rap star Jay-Z has been hinting that his next album would be his last ever since his first album, Reasonable Doubt, hit the streets in 1996. But this time he’s serious.
Fitness Top 10: Most Unhealthy Snacks It’s 4 p.m., and it seems like your lunch hour was ages ago. You’re hungry and you need to eat something right now. But before you grab whatever is most readily available, read the following 10 most unhealthy snacks, and make sure that you choose to scarf down something […]
Fold US dollars into pictures that reveal the September 11 Attacks http://foldmoney.com/
Holy crap! you can stream all of Sirius online! Thats cool! Woohoo! Check it out here
As students power up, colleges spend on upgrades In Steve Leslie’s dorm room at Miami University, there are bunk beds, posters of Led Zeppelin and the Simpsons, and an inflatable palm tree. There’s also a plug for every outlet.
Soy supplements cut sexual behavior in rats Soy supplements can decrease normal sexual behaviour by as much as 70 per cent, a study of female rats has shown.
The Heliodisplay projects full color streaming video into free space (i.e. air). It is plug-and-play compatible with most video sources (TV, DVD, computer, etc.). These non-holographic images can be fully interactive, allowing a hand or finger to select, navigate and manipulate — as if it were a virtual touch screen. http://www.io2technology.com/ (Thanks Bart)
Plasma vs. LCD TVs Expert advice on which flat-panel deserves your attention and cash.
10 Things I Bet You Didn’t Know about Google (Thanks Dirk)
Single speaker unit creates surround sound A home theatre system that produces surround sound using a single speaker unit has been unveiled by a US company.
First flush of love not emotional When you first fall in love, you are not experiencing an emotion, but a motivation or drive, new brain scanning studies have shown.
Advances in car technology bring high-class headaches A California salesman says he had owned his 2003 BMW 7-series a few weeks in the spring when it stopped starting. When he hit highway speeds one evening after it was serviced, compact discs spit out at his passenger and the engine began sputtering and lurching until it […]
Are girls really crazy ’bout a sharp-dressed man? Metrosexuals bore me.
Rackspace Managed Hosting named to InfoWorld 100 InfoWorld magazine honored Rackspace Managed Hosting for its use of technology to enhance its business, making it the only organization from San Antonio to be named to the InfoWorld 100.
Hot Wheel We love reading about new products and designs from Bombardier, mostly because besides building things like airplanes and subway cars, the privately held, Quebec-based company also builds fun stuff like Rotax karts, Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Bombardier ATVs, Sea-Doo sport boats and Johnson and Evinrude outboard engines.
It’s a deal: Toll tags will work in Houston and Dallas Tollway drivers soon will be able to take the fast lane in both Houston and Dallas.
“What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child” Hardcover Book at Sharper Image In this landmark book, Glenn Doman brings hope to thousands of children, many inoperable, to live in a sometimes dangerous world. I wasn’t sure if this was a legit book, but Amazon.com has it too!
A Peek Behind Microsoft’s Firewall at ‘Wallop’ Microsoft Research is looking at how to leverage blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and other social-networking tools.
Sarah’s Windows Tweak Tip: Text-Only Outlook Email The newest version of Outlook, Outlook 2003, has a built-in feature that lets you view all incoming mail as plain-text messages, whether or not they were ever sent as HTML messages. Previous versions of Outlook don’t have the feature. YAY! Finally!
What’s Up With Metrosexuals? With so many buzzwords making their way onto, across, and off the scene before you can say “supercalafragilisticexpi” — okay, before you can say “boo” — you’ve probably already noticed that you need help keeping up with today’s hippest terms. One of the latest to confuse alert readers is metrosexual.
Retail giant Wal-Mart faces challenges on many fronts Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott remembers a labor-relations lesson he got from founder Sam Walton about 24 years ago.
FCC cuts cord on phone numbers Cutting the cord on your home phone will get easier next month, thanks to a Federal Communications Commission ruling Monday that will let consumers switch their wired “land line” numbers to cell phones.
Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups Microsoft plans to add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer next year as part of its Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP, a move that would go far toward stamping out the Web advertisements.
Big clue to human pheromone mystery Researchers may have taken a big step towards solving the mystery of how humans detect pheromones.
Drifting tries to rev up U.S. fans If young hot rodders in Japan love it, surely America’s car-crazy youth will too. A flash demo of how drifting works is here
US kids show early signs of heart disease Early signs of heart disease have been found in US children. About one in seven US schoolchildren has three or more risk factors of “metabolic syndrome” – a precursor to heart disease and diabetes.
Ten most overpaid jobs in the U.S. Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what we deserve.
Kasparov to play virtual-reality match The world’s top-ranked chess player is facing a high-tech challenge: playing a game invented more than a millennium ago, against a computer, with voice-activated moves posted on a virtual board
Tax strategy has changed Year-end tax strategies usually come down to one time-tested principle: Accelerate deductions, defer income. But 2003 hasn’t been a typical tax year.
A frank steward reveals ‘Plane Truth’ On a recent Europe-bound flight, a woman and her travel companions— who happened to be three stuffed animals — settled into four full-fare first-class seats. Flight attendant James Wysong asked her if they’d each like a menu, and she responded yes.
Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight chuckpeters writes “A total lunar eclipse will soon darken the full moon for most of North and South America, Europe, and Africa. The Moon rises about five p.m. EST and the eclipse will be in penumbra. Totality begins at 8:06 p.m. EST. and ends at 8:31 PM EST and the partial […]
I am “Moo-pheus”…. Enter the MEATrix (Thanks Chris)
Five reasons not to buy an iPod For the past year, the media has been clamoring about iPod killers on the horizon–new MP3 players with more features, longer battery life, and designs nearly as svelte as the iPod’s. However, this oversimplifies the situation; in truth, while the iPod rocks, it’s not now, nor has it […]
The results are in: what the carriers are charging each month for portability # As promised, here’s what we could find about what each of the different carriers’ monthly fee for cellphone number portability, which they’re charging even for customers who aren’t planning to switch carriers. (Thanks Dirk)
Nickels get first redesign in 65 years Coin collectors, get ready for another change. Drawing on the enormous popularity of the state quarter program, the U.S. Mint on Thursday unveiled two nickels it hopes will lure as many collectors as the 25-cent pieces.
San Antonio continues to violate Clear Air Act San Antonio’s air quality continues to worsen with the city recording 11 days of pollution exceeding federal clean air standards.
RAID – the holy grail of data safety? Read this: Baffling Blown Hard Drives Dept.: I recently visited with the folks from DriveSavers (www.drivesavers.com), the California-based specialists who fix blown hard drives. They told me some horror stories about how a lot of big companies lose all their data in a recurring scenario I met […]
Human trial of HIV vaccine starts in South Africa South Africa’s first human trial of an HIV vaccine will start this week, researchers have announced. The new vaccine is being tested for safety and its effects on the human immune system in 48 volunteers split between South Africa and the US.