Dan Snyder—having possibly forgotten that his team is called the “Washington Redskins”—is feeling offended. Snyder is suing the Washington City Paper for $2 million for an unflattering story, which was accompanied by a picture of Snyder with added goatee, mustache, and devil horns, Gawker reports.
Continue reading …We’ve been ribbing the Pre 2 lately for being so far past its prime that a launch of any kind on Verizon is starting to seem implausible — but it looks like these guys might still be willing to throw it out on shelves for a little while. The latest rumor, via an internal product page at a third party retailer, says that the phone will launch in “all channels” on February 17th… just in time for it to be made even less appealing by whatever new gear HP shows off at its event on the 9th . Wrong place, wrong time, wrong hardware — but hey, if you absolutely must have webOS 2.0 as soon as possible on a carrier-branded device on the States, this thing is still your only way to ride. [Thanks, anonymous tipster] Palm Pre 2 launching on Verizon February 17th? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9%, the lowest level in nearly two years. But the economy added only 36,000 new jobs, the fewest in four months. The unemployment rate has fallen by eight-tenths of a percentage point in the past two months; that’s the steepest two-month…
Continue reading …Display companies like Mitsubishi still don’t make a big-screen OLED we can buy, yet look at this, a curved display created by the company that looks to be about four feet tall and maybe 10 feet around. Okay, so a 3mm pixel pitch wouldn’t look too great standing anywhere within about 20 feet of the thing, but that’s why it’s designed for malls and big stores, places where its 1,200 nit brightness can shrug off ambient light. It was unveiled at ISE 2011 and there’s a video of it doing its thing after the break, but surely it won’t be long before they’re all over Las Vegas. Continue reading Mitsubishi creates giant curved OLED, probably won’t fit in your living room (video) Mitsubishi creates giant curved OLED, probably won’t fit in your living room (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Click here to view this media Apparently someone wasn’t too happy with some of the “pinhead” bloggers who took him to task for saying that the tides were proof of the existence of God . It’s a good thing Bill-O had Stephen Colbert there to defend him. COLBERT: Worse yet… worse yet the leftie blogosphere has ridiculed Bill by pointing out that the moon causes the tides and that we’ve known that for centuries. Well it’s humble pie time, people who took ninth grade science. Father O’Reilly, take ‘em to Sunday school. O’REILLY: How’d the moon get here? Look, you pinheads who attacked me for this, you guys are just desperate. How’d the moon get here? How’d the sun get there? How’d it get there? Can you explain that to me? How come we have that and Mars doesn’t have it? (inaudible) How come? Why not? How’d it get here? COLBERT: Boom! Take that gravity huggers! Huh? How come we have the moon and Mars doesn’t? Except for the two that it has? How’d the sun get there? Where does it go at night? How’d the moon get there? Why does the cow jump over it? What time is it? How come I have two faucets? Hot comes out of one; cold comes out of the other; never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain that. In fact, where does Bill O’Reilly come from? He’s on my TV, he’s off my TV. Then he’s back. Where’d he come from? Sometimes he’s on the radio and I’m watching him on the TIVO at the same time. You can’t explain that. I don’t want to give away all of the punchlines, so just watch the rest. Mediaite has O’Reilly’s entire response to his critics here — Bill O’Reilly Responds To ‘Pinhead’ Critics By Asking ‘How’d The Moon Get There?’ . Needless to say they were a lot kinder to him than Colbert was.
Continue reading …Images via Yanko Design Solar cookers for rural communities and villages in developing countries are a hot topic among designers. They can help cut down on the GHGs emitted by burning typical fuels, from wood to dung to kerosene, but they are often inefficient or impractical. It doesn’t stop designers from trying, however, and Yonggu Do and Eunha Seo have created the Hot Liner, a flexible solar panel that can be formed into a cooking surface. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …EA Games and DICE Studios have challenged Activision’s Call of Duty juggernaut by making a long-awaited announcement: Battlefield 3 is coming, marking the first true sequel in the series since 2005′s Battlefield 2. DICE’s next-generation game engine, dubbed “Frostbite 2,” is powering the new first-person-shooter, and the developer is promising cutting-edge visuals with “earth-shattering destruction”… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Forever Geek Discovery Date : 04/02/2011 14:11 Number of articles : 5
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