<link>http://www.thephotostream.com</link> </image> <link>http://www.thephotostream.com</link> <description>news at a glance</description><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThePhotoStream" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><title><![CDATA[The 5pm Quiz: Where Is That School?]]></h1> <article> <h1>The 5pm Quiz: Where Is That School?</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Here’s a companion to J-Plautz’s NCAA Hoops quiz from this morning. Tonight’s quiz features 12 schools that participated in last spring’s NCAA Tournament. Can figure out where they are located? Take the Quiz: Where Is That School?]]> </article> <article> <h1>Clicker Is a One-Stop Shop for Streaming Television [Streaming Television]</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Web site Clicker aggregates streaming television from all corners of the internet into one clean, simple-to-search interface designed to help you find any show you want to watch online, no matter whos hosting it. Between Hulu and the various network-specific streaming television sites, youve got ple]]> </article> <article> <h1>John Mayer — ; [Quote Of The Day]</h1> <br/><![CDATA[responding to a New York party reporter who had asked for his opinion on the health care debate.]]> </article> <article> <h1>Flavoring coffee</h1> <br/><![CDATA[The last and final day of the coffee series. I really am quite sad about this actually. It turns out that not only do I love to drink coffee but I love to talk to you about it too. Although we’re not standing face to face, this world is indeed a crazy place and just as [...]]]> </article> <article> <h1>Show your true colors with this crossbones decal</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Arrrr, I be an Apple pirate. I download me OS X even though it only costs $29. Arrr []]> </article> <article> <h1>Nanodreadlocks inspired by sea urchins</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Above left are "nanobristles" inspired by the surface of sea urchins. Harvard materials scientist Joanna Aizenberg makes them out of resin. Each strand is about 100 nanometers in diameter, or 1000 times thinner than a human hair. Eventually, this stunning example of biomimicry could lead to a new ki]]> </article> <article> <h1>Medical Researchers Working on Regrowing Breast Tissue after Mastectomy</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Scientists at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, Australia, are developing an implantable device that they hope will regenerate lost breast tissue. In The Daily Telegraph, Bonnie Malkin writes: During the world-first trial surgeons will implant a chamber containing a ]]> </article> <article> <h1>RIHANNA! “I’M NOT SCARED!”</h1> <br/><![CDATA[churning with the hope of moving forward! The new tracks were written in the wake of her assault by ex Chris Brown, so Rihanna has some butterflies in her stomach. HOTT NEWS! As it will never hurt record sales! RIHANNA will release her new album Rated R later this month, and she’ll debut a sl]]> </article> <article> <h1>Openshop Studio</h1> <br/><![CDATA[by Andi Teran The typical architecture firm would never tell a client, “We don’t know what we’re doing,” or describe its method as “DEEP PLAY” (yes, all caps). Openshop Studio, however, is anything but typical. Headed by Adam Hayes and Mark Kroeckel, the nine-year-old studio is an enviro]]> </article> <article> <h1>Pingdom Says People Are Tweeting 27 Million Times A Day</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Twitter may be having trouble finding new users in the U.S., but its existing users in the U.S. seem to be putting out a majority of the Tweets, which are now averaging 27.3 million a day. According to data provided to us by Pingdom, the pattern of Tweets follows waking hours in the U.S. (see chart]]> </article> <article> <h1>Dr. Oz About To Beat Dr. Phil In The Ratings!</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Its the battle of the TV doctors! The Dr. Oz show premiered in September and has only been picking up steam since then! Averaging 3.5 million viewers, Dr. Mehmet Oz is poised to surpass Dr. Phil in viewers as hes only 200,000 behind right now. Industry expert Brad Adgate says: "Dr. Oz has momentum,]]> </article> <article> <h1>sneak peek: patrick connor of fossil</h1> <br/><![CDATA[ok, there are officially too many fantastic sneak peeks from the team at fossil and now we’re adding one more. all you need to do is type in “fossil sneak peek” in the search toolbar on the top right to see the homes from the whole crew (it’s a great resource for the entire s]]> </article> <article> <h1>Google's SPDY To Make Websites Load Twice As Fast [Google]</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Googles working on a new application-layer protocol dubbed SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") which is intended to improve how content is transported over the web. In initial lab tests, theyve already managed to speed up page loading times by 55%. While the lab tests arent the best reflection of how the pro]]> </article> <article> <h1>Sharon Osbourne Sorry She Called Susan Boyle A Hairy Arsehole (VIDEO, POLL)</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Last week Sharon Osbourne said on Sirius radio that Susan Boyle looks like a "hairy arsehole" who was "hit with the f***ing ugly stick," and now she is reconsidering her choice of words. Osbourne took to her Facebook wall to apologize. Her fans are largely supportive. Read her apology and watch he]]> </article> <article> <h1>Comcast TV Everywhere launch details: December, free for existing subs, really goes anywhere</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Comcasts Amy Banse just hit the stage at NewTeeVee Live and announced key details about the companys new On Demand Online launch. If you cant check out the video (embedded after the break) heres the important stuff: It will be available at no additional cost to existing subscribers and allow the aut]]> </article> <article> <h1>CDC: Swine flu has sickened 22 million in 6 months (AP)</h1> <br/><![CDATA[AP - Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children, according to startling federal estimates released Thursday.]]> </article> <article> <h1>The End of Weis, The Redemption of Jim. And Ohio State vis-a-vis Can’t Hardly Wait</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Do you remember when you were in high school, and there was that one kid? Mike Dexter personified him for many. Landed the hottest girls, then stuff would come out like “He has herpes” or “He f*cked his girlfriend’s dog” or “He got herpes from f*cking his girlfrie]]> </article> <article> <h1>Sarah Palin Invites Levi Johnston Over For Thanksgiving</h1> <br/><![CDATA[You’d think that if your daughter’s baby daddy was showing his junk for money in Playgirl and shit-talking you on national television while disclosing family secrets, you probably wouldn’t want to sit around a table with him talking about how moist this year’s turkey is, but ]]> </article> <article> <h1>Pressure Peers (link roundup)</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Doesnt make me want to buy The Economist, but I like the message of "Pressure Peers." Via.And a few more links:1. Jared Diamond tries to answer the question, "Where did the Japanese come from?"2. You can download the mp3 of White Gold and Strawberry Summers singing "Almost As Beautiful As Me" her]]> </article> <article> <h1>Perfect Balance game</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Rotate and stack pieces to keep the balance. Click to launch. I got stuck @… level 3, how about you? -Quang- @ haha.nu Related posts:Perfect Balance gameWooden Path gamePipeTwister GameSuper Stacker 2 gameThe World Hardest Game Related posts:Perfect Balance gameWooden Path gamePipeTwister]]> </article> <article> <h1>The Public Option Fight Isn’t Optional</h1> <br/><![CDATA[<p></p> <h3>How climate change legislation and financial reform depend on the health care debate.</h3> <p><strong>For most of 2009</strong>, the public option—a hypothetical government-run health insurance plan that, if created, would compete with profit-d]]> </article> <article> <h1>Words Watch</h1> <br/><![CDATA[I use FuzzyClock on my laptop, and love it. Why not on a real watch?3 Vote(s)]]> </article> <article> <h1>The First Time News Was Fit to Print: Disneyland, Search Engines & Texlahoma</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Welcome to another edition of The First Time News Was Fit To Print, the semi-regular feature where we travel into the archives of The New York Times and find the first time the paper covered various subjects. If you have a suggestion for a future installment, leave a comment. Disneyland May 2, 1954]]> </article> <article> <h1>Do You Use Twitter? [Reader Poll]</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Theres no question that Twitter has received all kinds of hype this past year, but Lifehacker readers have generally been a touch wary of the micro-blogging service. So were wondering: How many of you actually use Twitter? Even if youre not keen on using Twitter to keep your friends and family updat]]> </article> <article> <h1>Ford’s using wheat straw in a 2010 Flex component</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Here’s a little known fact: Henry Ford used natural material like hemp and stray to reinforce plastic components in his cars. Now, Ford is at it again with a small quarter trim bin found in the third row of the Ford Flex made out of wheat straw bio-filled polypropylene. Wheat straw! Sure, it&#]]> </article> <article> <h1>Dress made with 24,000 LEDs</h1> <br/><![CDATA[This crazy-looking dress, created by two designers in London for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, is made of silk chiffon and 24,000 full color LEDs. Its called the Galaxy Dress. It runs on tiny iPod batteries woven into the fabric so no one part becomes extra-bulky or heavy. The catch]]> </article> <article> <h1>Once upon a time</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Every morning at about 9AM Chuck wanders upstairs having spent his morning doing WHO KNOWS WHAT in the dark corner of our bedroom. Something to do with candles and a tattered copy of Twilight probably, but he instinctively knows that its precisely that time of the day that I like to take pictures. A]]> </article> <article> <h1>1970's Prison Stay Furnished with Director's Chair for Polanski [Polanski Watch]</h1> <br/><![CDATA[While jail is no fun for anyone, its least fun for movie directors, accustomed to playing dictator over a set of hundreds. But in the 1970s in California, incarcerated directors dont have to just spend their days dreaming. While locked away for the first time on the still pending child rape charge, ]]> </article> <article> <h1>DC SNIPER! EXECUTED! IN VIRGINIA!</h1> <br/><![CDATA[capital punishment! … well deserved! “He died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims,” said Prince William County prosecutor Paul Ebert HOTT IN THE HEADLINES! JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday as relatives]]> </article> <article> <h1>Fist Hammer</h1> <br/><![CDATA[Photo: Martus & SilvioWith this fist warhammer, you’ll be the talk of any LARP session that you attend. The design studio Martus & Silvio in Grand Rapids, Michigan made this fist-styled, three foot long, cast iron hammer. They’ve got other cool items of metal work at their si]]> </article> </main></body></html>