Sep 13
Well this thing is weird, but then again there is no shortage of strange on Etsy. If you have $8,000 burning a hole in your pocket, please consider the Deep Sea Angler Fish lamp. More »
Sep 13
That Stupid Ass Expensive iPhone Adapter Won’t Support Video and iPod Out (Updated) [Iphone 5]
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The iPhone 5 is using the new ‘Lightning’ port which means we all need to buy dumb, expensive adapters if we want to keep using our old accessories. Unfortunately, those adapters don’t support video and iPod out. It’s okay, it’s not as bad as it sounds. More »
Sep 13
Republican critics have taken issue with the Federal Reserve’s stimulus measures in the past. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) believes it’s time for voters to stop taking them seriously.
“[Republicans’] bitches and moans about the consequences of quantitative easing have been as inaccurate as the similar predictions they’ve made about same-sex marriage,” Frank told The Huffington Post in a phone interview on Thursday. “None of the negative consequences they’ve said would happen have.”
Frank, who became the first sitting member of Congress to marry someone of the same gender in July, said that the Federal Reserve’s new quantitative easing measures will boost the economy through the “wealth effect,” in which higher stock prices spur consumers and companies to spend more by making them feel wealthier.
Sep 13
Julian Connerton, Boy Who Quit Football Team Over Pink Gloves, Returns After Coach Apologizes (PHOTO)
Posted in: Today's ChiliA 12-year-old boy who quit his youth football team after he was banned from wearing pink football gloves at a game has reportedly returned to play after his coach offered him a formal apology.
According to The Press of Atlantic City, Julian Connerton of Egg Harbor City, N.J., had decided to leave his team after his head coach, Paul Burgan, banned him from wearing a pair of pink gloves during a weekend game.
Sep 13
Prison Gangs Force Officials To Adopt New Methods For Handling Violence, Some Are Skeptical
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis article comes to us courtesy of California Watch
State corrections officials are moving forward with a plan for handling prison gangs and other violent groups, including changing rules that have kept some inmates locked in special isolation units for decades.
Sep 13
Halliburton Co. (HAL) is scouring a 130- mile swath of West Texas oil fields for a lost seven-inch cylinder with radioactive material used when drilling natural- gas wells by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Pickup trucks outfitted with detection gear retraced the route of a vehicle that carried the radioactive rod before it was reported missing on Sept. 11, the Houston-based company told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The trucks drove at 10 miles an hour between Pecos, where the device was previously used on a well, and Odessa without finding the unit, according to an NRC incident report today.
Sep 13
Atari games redesigned in HTML 5 may bring back a flood of nostalgia, but they leave out a key part of the gaming experience: the classic hardware. Hard Drives Northwest filled that void by gutting a limited number of authentic Atari 2600s and stuffing them with modern PC components. Packing a Core i7 3.4GHz processor, the retro console now boasts 22,857 times more processing power than it did in its heyday, according to Microsoft’s calculations — more than enough oomph to handle the recent remakes. Other internals include 8GB of RAM, a 120GB SSD and a Radeon HD 6570 graphics card with 1GB of video memory. With support for USB 3.0 and 2.0, eSATA, DisplayPort, DVI and HDMI, the system is well stocked on the connectivity front. Finally, the signature of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell acts as the cherry atop the faux wood grain-toting package. While the souped-up machines aren’t up for sale, a pair of them are slated for a giveaway. Glamour shots and the full set of specs await you at the source.
Atari 2600s get PC innards, 22,857 times more processing power originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sep 13
Disabled Mom Hospitalized After Alleged Beating From 11-Year-Old Son In California
Posted in: Today's ChiliELK GROVE, Calif. — An 11-year-old boy was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse after his disabled mother was beaten so severely with an extension cord that she was hospitalized, authorities said.
Prosecutors said the boy appeared to be the primary caregiver of his 51-year-old mother and prepared meals and did laundry in the home they shared.
Sep 13
Danny Danon, Israeli Knesset Deputy Speaker: ‘Today We Are Not In Gaza Anymore’ (VIDEO)
Posted in: Today's ChiliDeputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Danny Danon joined me on HuffPost Live Thursday for a discussion about his new book, Israel: The Will To Prevail, in which he advocates for Israel to annex all the Jewish-occupied and uninhabited land in the West Bank to its Arab neighbors, and for Israel to be unafraid to act unilaterally.
“Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel,” he said when asked about the country’s increasingly isolated existence within the region, from Europe and within the international community. “We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally the United States of America.”
Danon also denied that Israel is in Gaza, despite Israel’s ongoing aerial, land and sea blockade on Gaza and its control over the movement of goods, people, water and electricity in the region.
Sep 13
Watching your waistline and your spending? Definitely stop eating takeout right this second. And also, check out this app called Spark Recipes. More »
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