iPhone 3GS prototype scooped up at airport, now on eBay
Seriously folks, what's up with these prototype iPhones falling out of nondescript white vans and ending up on eBay in the shadiest of manners? Just months after we saw an original iPhone prototype (ancient OS included) pop up on The ...

Glenn Beck gets all worked up about an obscure French book ...
Glenn Beck was frothing at the mouth this week -- just before he went on an obviously much-needed vacation -- about an obscure French book that is hard to obtain and which no one appears to be reading, aside from a handful of anarchist ...

Make: Online : Eensy weensy robot picks things up
Mikey77 writes: Build a 1/20 cubic inch robot with a gripper that can pick up and move small objects. It is controlled by a Picaxe microcontroller. At this point in time, I believe this may be the world's smallest...

Hybrid sale up despite another down month overall, Prius leads charge
Compared to May, hybird sales were up two percent, according to data released by the automakers and complied by Green Car Advisor. This was the sixth month where hybrid increased in sales volumes. Potential reasons for the increase ...

Coworkers At UP Eatery Claim $12M Lottery Jackpot - Detroit Local ...
Newberry, Michigan -- Just in time for the Fourth of July, 14 coworkers have won a measure of financial independence by sharing a $12 million Michigan Lottery jackpot. Saturday, July 4, 2009.

UK Libertarian Party: The game is up!
"The perfect storm: arrogant preachy leftists throwing money at useless things - and rational but amoral capitalists running around picking up the money. The only loser is the taxpayer who is on the hook for all that money." ...

EcoVelo » Blog Archive » Upside Down at Outside Up North
In response to my “Extreme Panda” post, Tamia at Outside Up North put together her own collection of extreme pandas for your viewing pleasure. Outside Up North → Outside Up North @ Zenfolio →. Posted by Alan in Fun & Games | Bookmark ...

The AMA and Sermo break up, and how it's getting ugly | KevinMD.com
When the online physician discussion site, Sermo, and the American Medical Association joined forces in 2007, it was heralded as a promising partnership for.

Colleges gear up to aid influx of GI Bill vets - Army News, news ...
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — With a fattened GI Bill covering full tuition and more, the number of veterans attending college this fall is expected to jump 30 percent from last year to nearly 500000. That's left many universities looking for ...

Shut Up Sanford: Stewart Begs The S.C. Gov To Zip It (VIDEO)
As Jon Stewart pointed out last night, Mark Sanford is the luckiest man in the world: After confessing to an affair that could kill his political ambitions, several celebrities died (including the King of Pop) and his indiscretions were ...

UK sales: Wii and DS up top; 360 besting PS3 at the bottom
And here, courtesy of UK retailer GAME's first-half fiscal statement, we find data from GfK Chart-Track for sales up to June 27th, 2009. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo is in the lead with the DS, having sold 2.7m in the past year, ...

S.B.A. Lending: Down, but Looking Up - You're the Boss Blog ...
The good news is that the stimulus appears to be working, at least as far as the SBA's slice of the economy is concerned.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Unemployment creeps up to 9.5%
The nation's unemployment woes continued in June as the rate moved up a tenth of a percentage point to 9.5%. The US lost jobs across all sectors, with the exception of public employment in government, education, and health industries. ...

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Unemployment creeps up to 9.5%
At the start of the 2008 season, she had worked her way up to the F1600 series, and was showing enough talent that if the series was included in the Toronto undercard, she could realize that goal. So she was crushed when the merger of ...