Yikes, the fanciest sushi in NY loaded with mercury.

When even one of the Nobu restaurants is caught up in a New York Times study of mercury in tuna in sushi, you just know that there will be freak-outs all over Manhattan today. But even for us regular peeps in other cities, what exactly is in that sushi we think is so healthy?

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Steve Jobs lost $219 million since Macworld.

Owning 5.4 million shares of Apple stock is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, you have a huge fortune. On the other, you can lose a $219 million in a week. This is just one of the reasons I have chosen not to own 5.4 million shares of Apple stock.

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The 27 Most Hilarious Album Covers Of All Time With Pictures

The Handless Organist Truly Is A Miracle of God, mostly because it led to me looking for other bad album covers. And I found lots. So many it was tough to narrow down the list here, but here are the best (worst?) 27 of the bunch (we'’ll count Ms. Organist up top as number one).

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Story of the Year: The October Surprise

With Radiohead, Madonna, and Nine Inch Nails leading the charge against major labels, one month in 2007 may be remembered as birthing a revolution that shook the industry to its core. But have they truly created a brave new world?

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Napster goes back to MP3s

Napster has announced that it plans to convert its non-subscription music purchases over DRM-free MP3 files. It has yet to finalize agreements with some major labels, but it hopes that the early announcement will give it a competitive edge.

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How to cultivate mad-hot creative flow

When was the last time you loved working on a project so much, you became completely absorbed in it? Time stood still. Minutes became hours. Hours became days. And, it all felt like seconds. As creative professionals, we drop into this ultra-creative blissful zone here and there.

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Apple's Year-End Report Card

Somewhere between 2006 and today, I stopped considering Apple an underdog. And I'm not just talking about their iPod numbers nor am I talking about their no-where-close to Windows marketshare. I mean, screw marketshare, really: Does Porsche outsell Honda?

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Like it or not, Apple wants to save you from loud music

Is Steve jobs turning into an overprotective nanny in his old age? As Apple continues its attempt at world domination through well-designed products and heavy advertising, it's good to know that the company is looking out for our eardrums. Your next iPod could calculate how long you've been listening to music at high volume, and reduce the volume.

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Life Line - Apple Product History & Its Effect on the Stock

Apple Computer was the walking dead. In the mid 1990’s, there was no life left in the company that started the personal computer revolution.Popular perception was that even if Steve Jobs changed his name to Dr. Frankenstein, there would be no way to breathe life back into this company. Epitaphs were already being written

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Sonic The Hedgehog iPod Game Released

The game, made by Sega, currently does not have any accompanying information, but is available for all iPods that are game-compatible, including the 3rd generation iPod Nano, the 5th generation iPod, and iPod Classic.

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10 Greatest Gaming Moments in '07

"There's a reason middle school history students are taught about the Seven Wonders of the World. And that reason is so they better appreciate the opening level of "God of War 2," which features an assault on the ancient city of Rhodes by the brought-to-life massive statue that stood astride the city's harbor."

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Jiggy: Roll yer own iPhone apps

Simply put, Jiggy is the easiest way to create applications for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). JiggyApps run natively on the iPhone, so there is no messing around with HTML and the limitations of Mobile Safari. At the same time, you don't need a compiler or even a Mac, because JiggyApps are written in JavaScript.

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Nintendo Year-End Report Card

It's been a gigantic year for Nintendo. It reclaimed the living room console throne for the first time in forever with the Wii, and continued to dominate the portable gaming space with its DS. But how did it do on a scale of A to F? Did it earn good marks for quality games or did it get points off for truancy?

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MS targeting iPhone Safari in next Win Mobile?

The next version of Microsoft's mobile OS beyond Windows Mobile 6.1 will be the first to directly tackle advancements brought about by the iPhone, according to statements the company has made at the recent Mobius conference and echoed by Engadget. The unnamed update will effectively port a desktop version of Internet Exp

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FireWire to climb to 3.2Gbps in 2008

A future version of FireWire will quadruple the speed of today's fastest version, the IEEE 1394 Trade Association has revealed. Officially known as S3200, the format will build on the same connectors and technology used for today's FireWire 800 but operate at a peak of 3.2 gigabits per second, or 400 megabytes per second.

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Color in Nature: Parrotfish, Colourful and Helpful

Parrotfish are probably the most colorful living things on the planet. Not only are there 90 some species of them, male and female parrotfish sport different colors and have the ability to change their coloration and patterns and sex repeatedly throughout their lives.

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How To Read and Understand a Histogram

What is a histogram and what does it tell us about a photograph? A histogram is the graphical version of a table that shows what proportion of cases fall into each of several or many specified categories.

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18 Christmas trees you probably won't see at Grandma's

'Tis the holiday season. While not everyone busts out the real or fake tree, it is always a symbol of the beginning of winter and the end of the calendar year. With the latest generation of kids striving to avoid conforming to the traditional ways new ways of displaying the traditional Christmas tree have exploded and taken the holiday by storm.

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16 Secrets the Restaurant Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

We scrambled behind the counters, dug under the drive-thrus, and plunged into the deep fryers to find out what's really going into our meals

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Netherlands adopts Free Open Source Software

The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software, the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.Government organizations will still be able to use proprietary software and formats but will have to justify it under the new policy, ministry spokesman Edwin van Scherrenburg said

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Wine 0.9.51 Released

This is release 0.9.51 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new in this release: A bunch of WinHelp improvements. Better Japanese font support. A ton of rpcrt4 fixes. Several Alsa capture fixes. Improved support for screen resolution changes. Lots of bug fixes.

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