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• Your Chilean Sea Bass Dinner Deprives Killer Whales
  11 Mar 2010 at 2:00pm
  A unique Antarctic killer whale population is declining, and scientists think it is related to demand for Antarctic tooothfish, known on menus as Chilean Sea Bass. This could be the first sign of the ecological downfall of what some consider Earth's last pristine ecosystem.

  
  

  
  
• Help Us Review Google Maps for Bikes
  11 Mar 2010 at 1:54pm
  We can't possibly rate a tool that covers 150 cities and 12,000 miles of bike trails. We don't have to. We've got you.

  
  

  
  
• Sony's Motion Controller Underwhelms With Janky Games
  11 Mar 2010 at 1:00pm
  Unveiling the final version of PlayStation Move, Sony's Wii-like motion controller for PlayStation 3, at Game Developers Conference is a big deal to Sony. But the games aren't that hot.

  
  

  
  
• Google Reader Play: iPad-Friendly News Reader
  11 Mar 2010 at 10:51am
  Google has added an iPad-friendly version of its RSS aggregator, called Google Reader Play. According to the Official Google Reader Blog, the new full-screen slide-show is for people who ?aren?t interested in taking the time to get Reader set up?. It is also perfect for viewing on tablet PCs, including the upcoming iPad.

  
  

  
  
• Paragliding the Himalayas With iPhones
  11 Mar 2010 at 10:22am
  Five paragliders are flying and hiking the length of the Himalayas all the way through Nepal, and they?re sharing the once-in-a-lifetime experience with anyone who has a computer.

  
  

  
  
• Ear Infections Could Cause Long-Term 'Lazy Ear'
  11 Mar 2010 at 9:28am
  Some folks who don?t seem to listen may just have a lazy ear. A new study in rats shows that short-term hearing impairments at any stage of life can lead to rewiring in the part of the brain that processes sounds, making the ear seem as if it is loafing on its duty to make sense from noise

  
  

  
  
• Acorn Filmmaker's Fresh Tapes: Inside HUD
  11 Mar 2010 at 9:01am
  Conservative activist and guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe has a habit of posing as someone he's not in order to get "news" about politicians and others he wants to paint as dirty. Yes, he's the same guy who taped Acorn workers, so Andrew Breitbart, the ex-Drudge crony and conservative media provocateur, could smear the organization.

  
  

  
  
• How Andrew Breitbart Hacks the Media
  11 Mar 2010 at 9:00am
  How Andrew Breitbart -- Matt Drudge's former right hand -- infiltrated the media machine and fought the vast left-wing conspiracy.

  
  

  
  
• Arctic Reindeer Go Off the Circadian Clock
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:45am
  Arctic reindeer survive the continuous summers and never-ending winters by turning off the genes that run their circadian clock. Other species (such as humans) that can't turn off the clock often suffer from summer insomnia and winter depression in the northern latitudes.

  
  

  
  
• Minister of Truth: Meet Britain's Top Data Cop
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:00am
  The U.K. Statistics Authority's Richard Alldritt is an expert in how governments fudge the numbers. He and his math-police squad are rooting out the truth, whether it's to reveal the real gender pay gap or the actual rate of knife crime.

  
  

  
  
• March 11, 1985: ConnNet Lets the Public Jack In, X.25 Style
  11 Mar 2010 at 12:00am
  A Connecticut telephone company starts the first local, public packet-switching network. It paves the way for the always-on internet access we know today.

  
  

  
  
• Classic Videogames Mutate in 'Game Over' Art Show
  10 Mar 2010 at 8:00pm
  Street Fighter gets bendy. Ms. Pac-Man hops a tandem bike. And plenty of other classic characters get similarly strange treatments in Giant Robot's videogame-inspired exhibit.

  
  

  
  
• Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit
  10 Mar 2010 at 6:30pm
  Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?"

  
  

  
  
• Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side' Eclipses Concept Album Classics
  10 Mar 2010 at 5:52pm
  With its heady mix of heavy themes and technology, The Dark Side of the Moon remains the best concept album ever, even 37 years after its release. Plus: 10 more concept albums in Dark Side's shadow that deserve a slice of the spotlight.

  
  

  
  
• 'Galactica: Sabotage' Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup
  10 Mar 2010 at 4:58pm
  A YouTube artist whips up a precise, shot-for-shot re-creation of Spike Jonze's amazing music video using clips from the late, great Battlestar Galactica.