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• From Washington to Mexico on 12.4 Gallons of Diesel
  3 Sep 2010 at 8:00am
  Craig Henderson achieved 119.1 mpg in a car he designed in 1984.

  
  

  
  
• Best Exploitation Flicks: 'Machete' and Its Over-the-Top Ancestors
  3 Sep 2010 at 8:00am
  From bad girls and zombies to circus freaks and killer cars, the shock-and-awful recipe for grindhouse movies' tasty cinematic sausage never fails to satisfy. As Robert Rodriguez's timely homage hits screens, we look back at several decades of surprisingly influential B movies.

  
  

  
  
• Sept. 3, 1976: Viking 2 Lands on Mars
  3 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
  Viking 2, the second mission to Mars, lands on the planet and begins transmitting pictures and soil analyses.

  
  

  
  
• Jargon Watch: Synthia, Teabonics, Flash Crash
  3 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
  Learn the nickname for the first synthetic organism and a derisive term for ungrammatical Tea Party signs.

  
  

  
  
• Alt Text: Make a Nasty World Nice With Virtual Rewards
  3 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
  Using Foursquare to stamp out sexually transmitted diseases is just the beginning of a brave new war on bothersome reality. Just think of all the amazing problems we can solve with the proper mix of badges, exclusive offers and unbridled optimism.

  
  

  
  
• 'Impossible' Soccer Kick Leads to New Physics Equation
  3 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
  A group of French scientists have come up with a new physics equation to help explain how Brazilian soccer star Roberto Carlos scored his "impossible" kick in 1998.

  
  

  
  
• Shopping Site 'Thefind' Finds Its Facebook Way, Carefully
  3 Sep 2010 at 12:00am
  The increasingly popular online shopping site Thefind has finally found a way to connect with Facebook, without being creepy. It?s not a technical breakthrough ? plenty of sites now work with Facebook to let users log-in ? but Thefind has been grappling with how to integrate with Facebook in a way that?s relevant and privacy-respectful.

  
  

  
  
• Molecular Pantry: Ingredients From the Kitchen of the Future
  3 Sep 2010 at 12:00am
  See what your food could be composed of in the most future-forward kitchens.

  
  

  
  
• Murdoch Reporters' Phone Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds
  2 Sep 2010 at 6:30pm
  A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted. The British Prime Minister's current media adviser is accused of having encouraged the hacking.

  
  

  
  
• Win Your Fantasy Football League
  2 Sep 2010 at 6:00pm
  If it's September, it's football season — which also means it's time for millions of fantasy football drafts around the world to commence. Maximize your in-season points while dealing with the setbacks that are bound to occur by following our guide.

  
  

  
  
• Video Artist Transforms YouTube's TOS Into a Paranoid Nightmare
  2 Sep 2010 at 5:59pm
  The video site's ever-evolving terms of service drive an observer mad in this arty clip by Carlo Zanni. No charge for the 1984 references.

  
  

  
  
• Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech
  2 Sep 2010 at 5:00pm
  This week?s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV?s relative lack of, well, TV. Out of all of the hundreds of channels available on cable and satellite, only ABC and Fox agreed to offer their programs for rent on Apple TV. The fact that Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder in, and on the board of, Disney ? owner of ABC ? perfectly illustrates this digital divide.

  
  

  
  
• Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
  2 Sep 2010 at 4:45pm
  Unlike infectious disease and information, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it. "There has been a lot of theory about the difference between information and behavior spreading," said economic sociologist Damon Centola of MIT and author of the study published Sept. 3 in Science. "We've assumed that they are the same, but you can imagine that behavior is not really like that, that you need to be convinced."

  
  

  
  
• Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio
  2 Sep 2010 at 4:13pm
  A new batch of sharp Martian close-ups from NASA's HiRISE camera were released, and we've gathered some of the best in the gallery.

  
  

  
  
• Evil Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Google Privacy
  2 Sep 2010 at 4:10pm
  A creepy caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt driving an ice cream truck is being displayed on a Times Square jumbotron and on YouTube. The video was produced by a consumer group targeting the search giant for its data collection practices.