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Catwoman Leads Razzie Nominations for Worst Picture of the Year

January 25th, 2005 at 7:38 am » Comments (0)

Catwoman leads the nominations for this year’s Razzie Awards – a spoof version of the Oscars.
Catwoman has seven nominations, among them worst picture, worst actress for Halle Berry and worst supporting players for Sharon Stone and Lambert Wilson.



Naked Builders Reality TV Show

January 25th, 2005 at 7:32 am » Comments (0)

Building workers in Chile became a local sensation after accidentally staging their own naked reality show.



Sell Side Advertising

January 25th, 2005 at 7:25 am » Comments (0)

Seth Godin:
Fred Wilson talks about John Battelle’s “new” idea for sell side advertising.
It’s been around for a lot longer than you might think.
Here’s how I see it:



What is a CableCard?

January 25th, 2005 at 7:17 am » Comments (0)

I hope you’re not too attached to that TiVo, or your TV for that matter. The government has a plan to nudge consumers into the digital age; but we’re going to have to make a few sacrifices. The CableCard is an actual card-like device that will insert into your TV to provide digital cable. However, [...]



Making Memories Stick

January 25th, 2005 at 7:10 am » Comments (0)

Scientific Americans looks into the human brain, trying to figure out why some events just tend to stick in our memories forever, while the others are gone: “How does a gene “know” when to strengthen a synapse permanently and when to let a fleeting moment fade unrecorded? And how do the proteins encoded by the [...]



The 53 Key New Standard Keyboard

January 25th, 2005 at 7:04 am » Comments (0)

There are two keyboard standards today – QWERTY and DVORAK. QWERTY, the one we usually have, was used on the first commercially produced typewriter in 1873. Ironically, QWERTY was actually designed to slow down the typist to prevent jamming the keys, and we’ve been stuck with that layout since. New Standard Keyboards offers new “alphabetical” [...]



Sex Map Shows Chain of 300 High School Lovers

January 25th, 2005 at 12:41 am » Comments (0)

The first “map” of teen sexual behavior gives new meaning to the old warning that you don’t just have sex with a person, but with everyone that person ever had sex with, researchers said on Monday.



Human-like Learning Machines

January 25th, 2005 at 12:29 am » Comments (0)

A computer that learns to play a ’scissors, paper, stone’ by observing and mimicking human players could lead to machines that automatically learn how to spot an intruder or perform vital maintenance work, say UK researchers.



The Connected Get More Connected

January 25th, 2005 at 12:25 am » Comments (0)

In the world portrayed by New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell in his best seller, “The Tipping Point,” our shopping and consumption habits are tethered to the tastes of people called Connectors.