Minimal Shoe Update Since moving to the mountains, I’ve been more inclined to go out on trail runs and hikes. Coupled with the unfortunate loss of my hand crafted huaraches from Invisibleshoe.com while floating the river this summer, and recently finishing the book Born to Run, my interest in minimal footwear has been reignited. I [Read More]
Courtney Thorne-Smith: I Like Botox Many women – and men – in Hollywood deny it, but Courtney Thorne-Smith is more than willing to admit to using Botox. “It’s never been a secret in my personal life – I’ve just never been asked by the press,” says Thorne-Smith, 44, the new celebrity face of Botox. “I’ve [Read More]
Nearly Unrecognizable Axl Rose Gives Lackluster Performance Axl Rose isn’t looking anything like the lithe rock star he was at the height of his fame. When Guns N’ Roses played at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil this week, the 49-year-old sole original member cut a figure that was a far cry from the [Read More]
Lady Gaga Named Fashion Icon at 2011 CFDA Awards Lady Gaga Fashion icon It is safe to say that Lady Gaga’s fashion sense is an acquired taste. You either love it or you hate it. Well, the 10th Annual Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards were held tonight in Alice Tully Hall at NYC’s [Read More]
The beautiful White Pigeons Have you ever seen white pigeons An introduction to white pigeons White pigeons are quite admired by people because of their dazzling looks. The advantage of keeping white pigeons as a pet is that they will surely come back if you let them fly free. The physical appearance of white Pigeon [Read More]
Steller’s Sea Cow: the defenseless beast (extinct since 1768) Steller Sea Cow : failed to survive An introduction to Steller Sea Cow Formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea, it was discovered in in 1741 by the naturalist Georg Steller, who was traveling with the explorer Vitus Bering. The sea cow grew up [Read More]
A fish with teeth like humans , STRANGE !!! Its this strange for a fish? An Introduction to this fish Anyone hoping to sink their teeth into a fish like this better make sure it is battered thoroughly beforehand – or it could bite back.Caught at Lake Wylie in South Carolina by angler Frank Yarborough, [Read More]
Octopuses – The solitary, eight-armed animal Octopuses pile rocks to block the front of their den An introduction to Octopuses The Octopus: The word octopus means “eight feet.” Octopuses are solitary, eight-armed animals that live on the ocean floor. There are over 100 different species of octopuses. The Giant Octopus is the [Read More]
Scorpions – The venomous arthropods Are all the scorpions poisonous An introduction to scorpions Scorpions are arachnids (and not insects); they are related to spiders and ticks. These ancient animals have been on Earth for over 400 million years (long before the time of the dinosaurs). There are over 1,500 species of scorpions worldwide [Read More]
Jellyfish – Beautiful and deadly The most poisonous fish – Jellyfish An introduction to jellyfish Jellyfish are fish-eating animals that float in the sea – only a few jellyfish live in fresh water. They have soft bodies and long, stinging, poisonous tentacles that they use to catch fish. Venom is sent out through stinging cells [Read More]
Chimpanzees , The Mammal Most like a Human Chimpanzees- Humans or Animals? An introduction to chimpanzees Chimpanzees have very long arms (the arms are longer than the legs), and a short body. Hair and Skin:Chimpanzees are covered with black hair on most of their body (except their fingers, palms, armpits, and bottoms of their feet). [Read More]
Yeti- The Abominable Snowman Does Big Foot/Yeti Exist? An introduction to Yeti The word “yeti” is believed to have come from the Sherpa phrase “yeh-teh”, meaning “rock thing.” Yeti are large anthropoid creatures, covered by fur that is generally white. Their faces and chests are hairless, their heads are [Read More]
King Cobra, The Largest Venomous Snake King Cobra, Among the most poisonous snake in world An introduction to King Cobra The King Cobra is the largest venomous snake. The solitary King Cobra lives in rainforests, tropical deciduous forests, tropical scrub forests, and tropical grasslands of India, southern China, and southeast Asia. Several of [Read More]
‘Twilight’s’ Robert Pattinson discusses difficult breakup ‘Twilight’ star Robert Pattinson may be completely happy in his relationship with Kristen Stewart, but there is one relationship he is having trouble with. Pattinson revealed that finishing filming the franchise is like a difficult breakup, states The Chicago Sun Times. “It does [Read More]
Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright in New Rolling Stone Cover Story The new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands and in the digital archives on April 15th, features an interview with Adele in which the British soul singer discusses a defining romantic relationship, her childhood and reveals that she doesn’t [Read More]
Wozniacki wins third title of 2011 World number one Caroline Wozniacki captured her third title of 2011 Sunday, launching her clay court season with a victory over Elena Vesnina in the Family Circle Cup final. The top-seeded Dane defeated Vesnina 6-2, 6-3 to add the title to those she won at Dubai and Indian Wells, [Read More]
Guard Deron Williams eager to stay with the Nets While he cannot comment on any new contract extension due to the pending end of the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement in July, Deron Williams(notes) would like to remain with the New Jersey Nets. Williams, who had wrist surgery Monday after playing just 12 games with the [Read More]
Kelly Slater’s quest for 11 world titles is now official…or is it? Kelly Slater claimed his 46th elite world tour victory at the Quiksilver Pro in Australia Wednesday,becoming the first surfer to win the event three times. And after beating defending champion Taj Burrow in the final, Slater has now jumped out to an early-season [Read More]
Steve Nash ends an incredible streak For the most part, we think of individual streaks in basketball in terms of personal stats like points, rebounds, assists and the like. But it’s often the case that a player’s true worth can only be measured by team-wide stats. Not surprisingly, for all his individual accomplishments, Nash is [Read More]
Earth is shaped like a lumpy potato A sleek satellite orbiting Earth has confirmed that the planet is not the simple squashed sphere we often imagine it to be. It (earth) is, in fact, more like a lumpy potato. Nearly a year’s worth of gravitational measurements from the European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State [Read More]
What to Eat for Acid Indigestion when you are suffering from an acid indigestion. If you are looking for what to eat for acid indigestion, you will find some useful information for the same mentioned in the article below. Read on… Acid indigestion is also known as heartburn or pyrosis, and is defined as a [Read More]
Hair Loss Condition: Male Pattern Baldness Hair Loss Solutions Exist for Male Pattern Baldness Unlike hair loss in women, male pattern baldness is patterned and predictable. Overview of male pattern baldness Male pattern baldness is a phrase that is used a lot, but beyond understanding that our fathers’ or grandfather’s hairlines [Read More]
Synaptics’ New Touchscreens Can Detect The Touch Of The Head Of A Pin (Source: TechCrunch) Synaptics is the company whose products you probably interact with every day without knowing. They’re always advancing the science of haptics and touch-detection, and their latest work is the most impressive yet. What they’ve done is integrate the [Read More]
RadiumOne Unveils Social Ad Format With Likes, Shares And More (Source: TechCrunch) RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads, is unveiling a new ad format today that aims to bring social elements within the actual display ad. Spawned from gWallet, RadiumOne mines social data, uses this [Read More]
Top Prospect Connects with LinkedIn to Turn Your Talented Friends into Cash (Source: TechCrunch) The American labor market is as schizophrenic. While the bulk of the country struggles with 9% unemployment, in Silicon Valley the ease of starting a new company and huge hiring goals of companies like Google and Facebook have lead to a [Read More]
Scan Bar Codes To Search Consumer Reviews In Store With SearchReviews (Source: TechCrunch) In the same space as Buzzillions and Viewpoints, a new consumer review aggregator SearchReviews unveils itself today, allowing users to tailor searches to its over 40 million consumer reviews for over 4 million products from 1,011 retailers like ebay, [Read More]
New Micro-VC Lool Launches in Israel. Can Better Mentoring Boost the Country’s Returns? (Source: TechCrunch) Israel has had an amazing track record of producing startups and raking in returns– better than most countries many times its size. The problem is the returns have fallen off dramatically in the last ten years as industries Israel [Read More]
Roqbot Is A Jukebox On Your iPhone (Source: TechCrunch) Roqbot, a unique iPhone app that allows you to pick the music playing at a bar. Like a combination Pandora and traditional jukebox, Roqbot allows you to control the tunes without getting up from where you’re sitting. The inspiration for Roqbot came when one of the [Read More]
App Filters What Pages You’ve “Liked” On Facebook: Why Isn’t This A Facebook Feature? (Source: TechCrunch) The meaning of a Facebook Like has been getting more and more vague ever since Facebook changed the wording from “Become a fan” to “Like” on its Fan Pages. What’s even more frustrating than this is that there’s no [Read More]
Search Still Sucks (Source: TechCrunch) Everyone, those who tried Google for the first time a decade ago, said it was magic – the result I wanted was right there at the top. For someone who’d been using AltaVista for years before that it was a very pleasant experience. Anyone who was on the Internet before [Read More]
Lissn Strips Down To Its Skivvies: Three Anonymous People Chat While Others Listen (Source: TechCrunch) When Lissn launched on stage at TechCrunch50 in September 2009, they described it as sort of a “broader Twitter meets a simpler Google Wave“. Well, like the latter, the idea behind Lissn never really caught on. By March of last [Read More]
Vodafone Releases Webbox $100 Web-Surfing Keyboard For Emerging Markets (Source: TechCrunch) Emerging markets need the Internet. Whether they’re looking up commodity prices or contacting loved ones overseas, users in developing countries like South Africa and Ghana need a way to get online and this unique device from Vodafone looks like a [Read More]
Nokia’s Road Ahead Will Be Rough But Not Impossible (Source: TechCrunch) Nokia had years to get things right. They had billions of dollars in revenue and, quite literally, the ear of the world. iPhone? Feh. For the longest time iPhone was a Cybiko compared to the reach and influence of Big Sininen. So what the [Read More]
Y Combinator Backed Chirply is Threadless for Paper Goods (Source: TechCrunch) You’re probably getting tired of going back to Hallmark time and time again for the same staid cards you’ve been sending granny for years, and I’d be surprised if you’re not running out of occasions that demand a card bearing a cheesy one-liner or [Read More]
OpenX Upgrades Ad Technology Platform, Takes Groupon, Others Along For The Ride (Source: TechCrunch) OpenX, provider of digital advertising technology for Web publishers around the world, has updated the ad technology platform currently in use by online juggernauts like Groupon, Orange-France Telecom and Excite Japan. The true strength of the [Read More]
Appbistro Announces Appstores.com White-label App Store Platform (Source: TechCrunch) App marketplace for Facebook pages, Appbistro has expanded its scope today and launched Appstores.com. Like a non-enterprise Appia, Appstores will offer publishers the ability to create their own app stores like a (hypothetical) http://apps.techcrunch.com or [Read More]
Wheretoget.it is Quora for shoppers (Source: TechCrunch) So now that everyone is pretty much in agreement that Quora was the hottest startup of 2010, we’ll definitely start to see a lot of Quora-inspired platforms and services for niche markets. Like fashion. Wheretoget.it is a brand new platform launched last week that is essentially Quora for [Read More]
ipadio secures £1m investment to take phone-to-web audio into businesses (Source: TechCrunch) While many ‘social audio’ startups like Audioboo, SoundCloud and Cinch continue to battle each other on the consumer field, there is one company that, while offering a consumer service, is starting to get a considerable amount of traction in the [Read More]
The King’s Speech (Source: TechCrunch) The King’s Speech is worthy of the Best Actor award Colin Firth will likely garner at this year’s Academy Awards as a proxy for Best Picture going elsewhere. The Oscar voters are younger these days and will overlook the story of Queen Elizabeth’s stuttering father and how the reluctant prince [Read More]
Search Underdog Blekko Sees Over 30M Searches In January, More Than 110K Slashtags Created Since Launch (Source: TechCrunch) Nowhere has the need for a more diverse search market been more apparent than this week’s revelation that Bing was cribbing Google’s notes. While Microsoft VP Harry Shum and Google’s Matt Cutts squabbled on a panel [Read More]
Ze Frank’s Star.me Is Like Being In Kindergarten All Over Again (Source: TechCrunch) Every once in awhile you come across people who are entirely original, and Ze Frank is one of those people. While many people as eccentric as Frank end up with not so amazing lots in life, Frank, who originally studied Neuroscience at [Read More]
Can Android beat the iPad? (Source: TechCrunch) Honeycomb Is The First Shot Fired Along Apple’s Bow. Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb means Google is now officially at war with Apple. The lines are drawn. The sides chosen. This is going to get nasty, but there doesn’t have to be a clear winner for consumers to win. [Read More]
First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google’s iPad Rival (Source: TechCrunch) This morning Google held an event to showcase Android Honeycomb, the new version of the mobile OS that is focused on tablets. There wasn’t much news around the OS , but the team did show off some of Honeycomb’s slickest features, like widgets and an [Read More]
Low Cost Health Insurance Programs For College Students - You Can Acquire It For those who don’t know, health insurance is just the policy of medical claims of a person, against the medical fees. Like many others you could not be capable to afford an costly insurance policy – however you’ll be able to eliminate [Read More]
Try To Imagine Times Square With No Ads. Can’t? Then Use This App. (Source: TechCrunch) Close your eyes and picture Times Square in New York City. What do you see? Probably an insane amount of ads. Sadly, that’s the defining characteristic. But what would it look like without ads? A few groups have teamed up [Read More]
Machinima: The Most Impressive LA Tech Company since MySpace (Source: TechCrunch) Long California’s digital also-ran, Los Angeles may have its first bona fide new media hit brewing. It’s called Machinima, it did 2.3 billion video views last year, 350 million in December alone, has 45 million uniques, and is still growing. These numbers [Read More]
Usage-Based Billing Hits Canada: Say Goodbye To Internet Innovation (Source: CrunchGear) O, Canada, what have you done? The country’s Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the CRTC, has passed sweeping new regulations that will force Internet Service Providers to switch to so-called usage-based billing—metered pricing, in less [Read More]
Portland Bookstore Will Trade Your Soulless Kindle For Real Books (Source: TechCrunch) Hey, man, what’s your problem? You drink kombucha and ride a fixie, but what the heck are you doing with that capitalist corporate DRM-laden Kindle? Head down to Microcosm Publishing in Portland, man, and they’ll give you like a hundred books for your [Read More]
“Apple Is Evil! Boycott The iPad! – Sent From My iPad” (Source: TechCrunch) Here we go again. It has been a few weeks since we had a story about how Apple is evil, or how the relatively closed system the fuels the iPad and iPhone will be the downfall of society. And tonight we got [Read More]
