Clips: Freight Tycoon Inc.

How the fuck have we not heard about this until now? Trucks, offices and ledgers? Be still my beating heart.

Lego salt and pepper shaker

Designer Joel Hesselgren put together these salt and paper shakers using nothing but Legos. And - I don't think I'm supposed to tell you this - human skulls! Dum dum dum!

Yahoo Still Can't Close Search Gap With Google

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Brands matter in search, now more than ever. Recent adjustments to both Google's and Yahoo's search algorithms were made to push rich brand-marketing sites up the page of paid search results. But unfortunately for Yahoo, the initial boost Panama provided brands appears ...

Divorcing Larry David

Larry David's marriage has officially been curbed. The "Seinfeld" mastermind's wife Laurie filed for divorce last Friday, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason to...

Nominations for 59th Annual Emmy Awards

The complete list of nominees for the 59th Annual Emmy Awards.

Charging: Bedford Smart Recharge Station is Something Your Wife Would Like

Although the Gomadic charge station, the Chargepod, the Mahogany charge station, or even the DIY charge station are good enough for us males, our wives may have something entirely different in mind. For them, the Bedford Smart Recharge Station from Pottery Barn could be just the thing to charge your ...

National Geographic Distributes Video Games

The deal calls for two of Big Fish Games' most popular products to be delivered through National Geographic's online and physical contacts.

Bots Driving Click Fraud

Click fraud due to botnets doubled from the first to second quarter this year, says Click Forensics. And overall click fraud rates are up.

Today's good things in small packages video: LittleBigPlanet (PS3)

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Online, Puzzle, Simulations, Video, Casual, Galleries We've played LittleBigPlanet twice and are waiting for its Spring 2008 release to get unlimited time with the final game. Even as a casual game, there have been rumblings between Joystiq writers that this could be ...

Nerd Links

Nerd links for nerds: Perian - a giant codec pack for Quicktime users that enables the viewing of just about any format you may encounter. Supports file formats I've never even heard of. Who needs VLC when you can just update your native QT environment with a codec! Embedding YouTube videos in Flash ...

Joystiq impressions: Clive Barker's Jericho

Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, E3 "Seen any great games so far?" It's a question that's constantly passing between members of the press during the E3 Media Summit, with answers including the likes of "Assassin's Creed," "Halo Wars" and, in what surely ...

Good Eats: In-N-Out-N-NYC?

As Eater mentions, plutocrat magazine Departures recently ran a story on burgers in which it is written "Los Angeles burger haven In-N-Out is rumored to be planning a New York debut, but burgers have...

Steam Explosion Causes Scare in NYC

First Swim at the North Pole

Lewis Pugh took the plunge and became the first man to swim at the North Pole! The 36-year-old Londoner spent almost 19 minutes at minus 1.8C as he front crawled for a full kilometre - more than half a mile in the coldest water a human has ever swum. "It was like jumping into a dark black [...]

Short sex offender's probation upheld (AP)

AP - A judge had valid reasons for sentencing a 5-foot-1 sex offender to probation, even though she cited the offender's height as part of her rationale, the Nebraska Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

What is Facebook worth?

There's been a debate raging on Techmeme, the website that turns the tech blogosphere into a mail list, about the value of Facebook. I have two answers to the question: 1. A lot. 2. Or very little. Depending on what they do. The next evolution of the web is to deconstruct social networks ...

Google Earth Strange Sights

Plug-in produces bookmarks of strange sights in Google Earth

Can Fans Save Business 2.0?

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Can Business 2.0 become the "Jericho" of magazine publishing? "Jericho," of course, is the once-canceled CBS show that was revived after fans deluged the network with pleas to continue it. Now a self-described avid reader of Time Inc.'s Business 2.0 has ...

Need a passport in a hurry? Good luck (AP)

AP - Need a passport in a hurry? Good luck!

Man learns he didn't father child, but he won't get child support back

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