NBA alters format for rookies-sophomores All-Star game
League takes a page out of NHL playbook and will hold a player draft to select teams
Gary Player says McIlroy is as good as I’ve seen
The South African great said the only imponderable about U.S. Open champion was his desire
The latest weight loss tip: cake for breakfast
A new study finds that people who have dessert with breakfast lost 40 more pounds than those who did not
California gay marriage ban is unconstitutional, court rules
Bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court
DARPA Investing In Electric Brain Stimulation To Train Snipers Quickly
New submitter Morganth writes "According to New Scientist, researchers at DARPA are investing efforts in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) machines to cut the time it takes to train snipers. From the article: 'a 2-milliamp current will run through the part of the brain associated with object recognition — an important skill when visually combing a scene for assailants.' The story also gives a nice explanation on the psychology of 'flow' — the state that experts tend to enter (e.g. programmers, tennis players, pianists) when focusing on their work." We covered similar research done on mice to improve their memory in September.
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Bills re-sign Lindell; hire Metzelaars to coach tight ends
Lindell, the team's second leading career scorer, was eligible to become an unrestricted free agent next month
Aw shucks: a simple technique for an elegant dinner party
Learn how to suck an oyster and impress your guests
Watchdog says controversial Sun News interview acceptable
Broadcast standards council finds interview with dancer Margie Gillis did not violate ethics code
ryanweal: no dice. Hidden from view in Canada or not available in French. Boo-urns.
no dice. Hidden from view in Canada or not available in French. Boo-urns.
School board sorry after Nfld. teacher sprays kid with air freshener because of fish lunch
Teacher has been put on paid leave while board conducts investigation
New documentary explores the stylish paradoxes of Bruce Lee
Vancouver-based filmmaker Pete McCormack (Facing Ali) lines up a star-studded list of acolytes to reflect on how Lee has influenced them and their craft
ryanweal: I use this too, I especially like making the keyboard taller.
I use this too, I especially like making the keyboard taller.
RIM CEO pitches BlackBerry growth story in Europe
Company’s first ever software conference in Europe aimed to woo critical app software developers
Delayed Outrage Over A Censored Site; What's a Better Way To Spread News?
Bennett Haselton is back with a thought provoking essay about not just an incident of Internet censorship on an American university campus, but a proposed method of propagating news, so that relevant stories aren't buried as easily by chance or time. Bennett writes: "The real scandal in the story of Arizona State University blocking students' access to the Change.org website, is not just that it happened, but that the block persisted for two months without being mentioned in the media. As a card-carrying member of the 'outrage grapevine,' I surely think we need a way to respond faster." Read on for the rest.
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LPGA season begins with more events, optimism
Along with adding four tournaments, there no longer are large gaps in the schedule
Fresh 2011 numbers rekindling Canada’s love affair with census
Some Canadians are giddy about the tranche of fresh data coming out on Wednesday about everything from age, poverty, housing and income
ryanweal: Interesting. Probably English-only... but why another webkit browser? I guess I'll have to try it out.
Interesting. Probably English-only... but why another webkit browser? I guess I'll have to try it out.
ryanweal: ok, I caved into face unlock. It is awesome but it does not like hats. #funlock is faster than making typing errors
ok, I caved into face unlock. It is awesome but it does not like hats. #funlock is faster than making typing errors
ryanweal: hmm, café time might get delayed while I trim this !beard... it is out of control.
hmm, café time might get delayed while I trim this !beard... it is out of control.
Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Achieves OpenCL Support
An anonymous reader writes "The Nouveau driver project that's been writing an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver via reverse-engineering has moved forward in their support. The Nouveau driver now has OpenCL acceleration support to do GPGPU computing on the open-source community driver for several generations of GeForce GPUs."
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