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The adept news program is , as of July 1 cable companies are required to transport raw cable television boxes that use newfangled bi - directional CableCards , a move mandated by the FCC to support CableCard - based alternatives such as TiVos and Vista Media Center PC . The bad newsworthiness is : Everybody ’s gon na pay for it . By next January , set - top box seat rentals may go up $ 2 to $ 3 per calendar month , and the charge per unit hike may apply to every cable television service - boxful tenant , and not just those who opt for the super - deluxe raw models ....

The USB Cereal Spoon will never get soggy in milk , because it ’s altogether cover with several layer of gum . Yum ! It works , as you may see in the video , but if I owned one of these I ’d rue the day I come home plastered from the bar and tried to eat it . So , yeah , basically every night . I ’m a writer , you see ....

There’sa gripping roundup in Varietyof all the African science fiction films in exploitation now , and the success of 2009 ’s District 9 patently has a lot to do with it . Top image from Pumzi . There ’s the flick adaptation of Lauren Beukes ’ Zoo City , whichwe compose abouta while back . And meanwhile , the author and director ofthe acclaim short film Pumziare involved in adapting Nnedi Okorafor ’s World Fantasy Award - winning Who Fears Death — which one producer describes as “ Lord of the Rings in Africa ....

More than 1,600 geezerhood ago , a papist ship full of chip at statue , bronze lamps , and loads of coins was lost at sea . Just late a group of divers stumbled upon the wreckage — and what they observe is magnificent . Highlights of the underwater dig let in a series of living - sized bronze statues of God ; a bronze spigot feature a boar carrying a swan on its principal ; and a solidify chunk of ancient coins that weighs almost 50 pounds ....

Oil in the ocean is a tender subject these days , but in the late 1800s , steam ship had stocks of oil specifically set aside to dump in the sea . This may have saved people ’s lives . We ’ll tell you why . Late nineteenth - century steam ships dribble oil colour aboard . They did n’t set themselves to one case of oil color , but made sure to stockpile vegetable oil color , mineral oil , and even , as this was the 1800s , sperm heavyweight oil color ....

Daring Fireball’sJohn Gruberwrites that “ Apple has n’t think of everything with iPad , but what they ’ve mean about , they ’ve thought about very profoundly ” and Ars Technica’sJacqui Chengfinishes the thought : … the iPad is probable to just be a starting degree for Apple and for multitouch computing in general . Likethe Gizmodo team , both Gruber and the Ars Technica team accept a close look at the iPad and play around with it for several days ....

If you ’re looking to pick up Guitar Hero : worldly concern tour when it add up out on October 26th , you ’ll have a choice between the wussy unconstipated edition and the amazing deluxe edition . While yes , we may be head for an economic depression , you ’ll still want to spend the extra $ 50 on the deluxe variant . It comes with a keychain !...

In the Person of Interest mid - season premiere , our heroes are in a seriously bad spot . How uncollectible ? You need to watch this sole magazine from tonight ’s episode on CBS to get a taste of what ’s to come . Light spoilers forwards for those who have n’t watched this season . If you recall , December ’s finale ended with the secret Control finally express up — play with cool , deadly authority by Camryn Manheim , she ’s the boss of the ISA program that buy the Machine from genius Finch and his ( now dead ) partner Ingram ....

Thingsaren’t look too unspoilt at Circuit City . It turns out , firing all of your experienced salespeople to save money termination in horrible client service ! What a shocker ! As we watch the lousy store slowly sink into the abysm , let ’s see if we ca n’t have some fun at their expense . permit ’s make some false Circuit City ads . Your advertizement does n’t have to look like the one above ( made by Mad Magazine ) , so sense free to get creative with it ....

There are prescribed 20 % few penis magnification electronic mail hitting your junk e-mail pamphlet , thanks to the efforts of the Russian government . How ’d they do it ? By making an effort . Russian authorities this weekcracked down onone Igor A. Gusev , “ suspect spam bigwig : ” Moscow law authority said Mr. Gusev , 31 , was a fundamental figure in the process of SpamIt.com , which paid spammers to advertise online pharmacies , sometimes quite obscenely ....

I commemorate Andy Hertzfeld ’s famous Apple business organisation card , back in the 1980s . His title of respect was : “ Software Wizard ” . The Apple business card above is modern and belong to Andy Grignon . His statute title is : “ F**kchop ” . And it was Steve Jobs who circumstantially gave Andy his visiting card title : In the other iChatAV days , one of the many thing Steve Jobs visit me was a “ fuckchop ” ....

When you buy through links on our web site , we may garner an affiliate charge . Here ’s how it act upon . Your canine companion might be saying more about you than you bring in , novel research finds . Owners of stereotypically aggressive dog breeds such as Germen shepherds and Rottweilers are more likely to be hostile and aggressive themselves compared with owners of typically laid - back doggy such as Labrador retriever , according to a new field of study ....

When you purchase through links on our site , we may make an affiliate charge . Here ’s how it works . Between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries , mankind killedmillions of whales for oil . They discase their blubber , spinning the iconic creature in the water and pulling off the blubber in a immense spiral like the skin of an apple . The blubber was boil into oil , then strain into barrels to be used in everything from oil lamps to industrial lubricating substance ....