Science and Technology

Monday, Yahoo! announced that it has over 20 billion indexed web pages and web files in its search engine. In a huge expansion effort, Yahoo! almost doubles its capacity over that of Google’s roughly 11 billion web elements. “Of the 20 billion elements in Yahoo’s database, 19 billion are documents, …

President Bush will sign a new energy bill today that will extend Daylight Savings by four weeks – it will start three weeks earlier and end one week later – in an attempt to save energy and money. The problem is that most consumer electronics rely on the daylight savings …

Last night, a small group of the editors of Blogcritics huddled around their respective monitors waiting for SiteMeter to tell them that the ten-millionth visitor to the site had arrived. Fleeting though it was, it was a pretty nifty moment in time. Blogcritics publisher Eric Olsen commemorated the occasion here. …

About a week before our third anniversary (August 12), tbomedia.co.uk — our little “sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics” — has hit the 10 million unique visitors mark. This is a nice big fat round number that speaks volumes toward the talents …

Two-thousand years ago grieving Egyptian parents put their young child to rest in the customary manner: they removed all of the youth’s organs except for the heart, packed the remains in salt to cure them, and wrapped them in linen coated with perfumed resin. They were certain that their careful …

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Wal-Mart employees have reportedly leaked the price for the new Xbox 360 due to come out November 4. Story here. Please remember that this may or may not be true since Microsoft has not yet officially announced the price for the Xbox 360. But if anyone else would know the …

Dear Prince, NPGMusicClub Ever since I was introduced to your music, I’ve been a keen fan of your work. It was back in the day when I worked at what used to be one of the great Independent record companies, Rough Trade. I was talking about music with one Bob …

There are countless peer directories that exist in order for people to meet new people and connect with their own friends. Friendster was the first real popular one. TheFaceBook supplanted it for a while as it publicized itself to the college crowd. Now MySpace has supplanted them all to create …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.