ShadyURL – Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.. This is hilarious! Do check it out….
BUENA PARK, Calif. — Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits.
Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed.
Call them the new poor: people long accustomed to the comforts of middle-class life who are now relying on public assistance for the first time in their lives — potentially for years to come.
Yet the social safety net is already showing severe strains. Roughly 2.7 million jobless people will lose their unemployment check before the end of April unless Congress approves the Obama administration’s proposal to extend the payments, according to the Labor Department.
Nothing can really prepare you for the latest online phenomenon, Chatroulette.
The social Web site, created just three months ago by a 17-year-old Russian named Andrey Ternovskiy, drops you into an unnerving world where you are connected through webcams to a random, fathomless succession of strangers from across the globe. You see them, they see you. You talk to them, they talk to you. Or not. The site, which is gaining thousands of users a day and lately some news coverage, has a faddish feel, but those who study online vagaries see a glimpse into a surreal future, a turn in the direction of the Internet.
Israel unveils new drone fleet that can reach Iran.
At what age do children recognise the difference between sarcasm and irony?.
Few differences in outcomes between open and laparoscopic prostate surgery .
10 things you should do to improve every new Windows PC, from TechRepublic – Downloads – .
US authorities knew Toyota had ‘unintended acceleration’ problems since 2003 .
I just found this picture and sort of liked it:
The Story the New York Times Won’t Touch .
Playing musical instruments can improve a child’s mind .
AAAS: Needing less sleep as you age is a myth claims scientist and could do you harm .
Pictured: amazing ant that carries 100 times its body weight – .
How Technology Will Defeat The Taliban .
Black & WTF – Great pictures every day, like the one above.
Vitamin D cuts risk of heart disease .
Aids ‘could be under control worldwide in five years’ .
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why People Really Watch Figure Skating. It’s the spills as much as the skills, with the bonus of those silly ice-dancing costumes.
10 Astounding Actions Earning A Medal of Honor. These are the stories of ordinary men in extraordinary situations who did what they had to do, and did it better than anyone else. (via Gorilla Mask)
Why Bowie and the Grateful Dead are the web’s real visionaries
If you want to know our online future, ask a musician
Psst: want to know the future of cyberspace? You could try asking a rock star. Why? Well, some of them have turned out to be perceptive futurologists. Eight years ago, for example, David Bowie said this to a New York Times reporter: “I don’t even know why I would want to be on a label in a few years because I don’t think it’s going to work by labels and by distribution systems in the same way. The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing.”…