WHEN Nintendo released the Wii 18 months ago, it upended the notion of what video games could be. Moving beyond the sunlight-deprived young men at gamings core, Nintendo appealed to the rest of the world with an intuitive, family-friendly entertainment experience.
Shira Weiss, a 33-year-old mother of two who works out of her home in Teaneck, N.J., as a publicist for small businesses, wants Wii Fit because it fits both her lifestyle and her doorway. “Before having the kids, I used to work…
Some people collect stamps, others collect comic books. The people on this list, however, collect things that are far, far stranger. Behold, Neatorama's guide to the 25 Strangest Collections on the Web:
Alex Boese probably has the strangest collection of them all: he collects stories about and examples of scams and hoaxes! In 1997, Alex created the Museum of Hoaxes as research notes for his doctoral dissertation, and the website quickly became…
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More color advice then you ever thought you needed!
Many monitors still display only 256 colors, and this is why Web-safe colors still remain an issue for many designers. However, as those monitors slowly meet their demise (thanks to age more than anything else), other newer monitors…
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Like a good gambler, Daphne Koller, a researcher at Stanford whose work has led to advances in artificial intelligence, sees the world as a web of probabilities.
“Daphne is one of the most passionate researchers in the A.I. community,” said Eric Horvitz, a Microsoft researcher and president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. “After being…
Similarities between half-billion-year-old and recent food webs point to deep principles underpinning the structure of ecological relationships.
The researchers compiled data from the 505 million-year-old Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada and the even earlier Chengjiang Shale of eastern Yunnan Province, China, dating from 520 million years ago. Both fossil-rich…
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The substance at issue was dioxin, a pollutant that infests the site of a former lumber mill in this town 130 miles north of San Francisco. And the method of cleanup being proposed was a novel one: mushrooms.
The mill, owned by Georgia-Pacific, took up 420 acres, a space roughly half the size of Central Park, between downtown Fort Bragg and the Pacific Ocean. Among several toxic hot spots discovered here were five plots of soil with high levels of…
Everyone loves a good tip, right? Here are 55 quick tips for search engine optimization that even your mother could use to get cooking. Well, not my mother, but you get my point. Most folks with some web design and beginner SEO knowledge should be able to take these to the bank without any problem.
Mr. Burckhardt: Excellent list! I thought it was very comprehensive, and can’t think of much else to add. I thought of something regarding tip #9 though: if Flash absolutely must be used, locational Flash (a single Flash file vs. a…
In the age Online shopping, shopaholics are having more trouble keeping their addiction under control. The Internet provides another whole new playground for their addiction to grow. Husbands, take your credit cards back or you might end up with one of these as your next birthday present. Well, at least it isn’t another tie…
This website is quite well-known by some people because it has appeared in the news, but for those who don't know it, here it is with a short description: these people sell NOTHING, yes, nothing for $9.95. It sounds kinda weird, and it IS…
The New York Mets announced that “Never Gonna Give You Up” had received 5 million online votes to become the winner of the team’s eighth-inning sing-along song, thanks to sites like Fark and Digg that stumbled upon the vote and urged users to pick the Astley croon.
“It's gone from silly Internet prank to entering the mainstream, so a lot of people are being elitist about it, saying it's beating a dead horse, and it has kind of lost its appeal,” moot said. “At the end of the day,…
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