DO NOT Use Your PS3 for Next 24 Hours

Yes, you'll either have to be productive or slum it with your XBox for the time being




For the last day or so, many users around the globe have reported problems with their PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, particularly when trying to get online with them. Error codes, lack of PlayStation Network service, and disappearing trophies are some of the symptoms plaguing gamers.

Sony has now released a statement saying they've found the problem and are working on a fix. For gamers who have the PS3 Slim model, released last fall, you're okay to keep on playing, same as before, and can relax. For those who have the original larger-formfactor console, Sony advises you to not use your console for the next 24 hours while they complete the fix.

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Elements of Firefox overhaul arrive for testing

Please don't suck, please don't suck




Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox.

First is a new JavaScript engine that--with a transfusion from the project behind Apple's Safari--should run Web-based programs at least 30 percent faster. Second is a new graphics engine for Windows that will take advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics and text. And third is a programming tool to help bring to fruition a new system for Firefox add-ons.

Mozilla made notable gains against the dominant Internet Explorer since Firefox's launch five years ago, but for much of that time, Microsoft's browser barely budged. Now Google's Chrome has burst onto the scene, Apple is marketing Safari for Windows as well as Mac OS X, Opera development is moving fast, and, potentially most significantly, Microsoft is showing signs of serious interest in rejuvenating IE.

Firefox could use a shot in the arm, too. Its share of global browser usage crested in November at 24.7 percent, according to Net Applications, and has slid to 24.2 percent according to preliminary statistics for February released Monday. In that same period, Chrome grew from 3.9 percent to 5.6 percent.

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Austerity - a word you should get to know...

Austerity - is when a government reduces its spending and/or increases user fees to pay back creditors. Austerity is usually required when a government's fiscal deficit spending is felt to be unsustainable.

Austerity is beyond the fake "left wing"/"right wing" paradigm. It's NOT the typical argument of spending cuts vs tax hikes, it is both AND it is worse than you can imagine. It is a society in which taxes are beyond reasonable, almost feudal and services are nonexistent and may actually cause you harm

*Austerity in New York

*Austerity in Los Angeles

*Austerity in Greece

*Austerity in UK

*Austerity throughout the US?

Farewell Vancouver. Are you ready for some Sochi?

USA and Canada top the final medal count. We are sure that NBC is already hyping the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. What's Sochi? A Russian shithole that will spend itself into debt to be a little less shitty, for 16 days, in 4 years




The 2010 Winter Olympic Closing Ceremony packed 60,000 people in the coliseum at Vancouver, Canada to watch the entertainment ending that sends up the 2010 Olympics. More than three billion people are expected to watch from all over the world with everyone wanting to share their support for all the athletes from the 96 countries represented.

The ceremony came together as a combination of beauty, athletes and audience participation to share a beautiful presentation with the world. Leaving the crowd on the edge of their seats, the entire show was well balanced, bringing the world's focus on Canada and her native people. The show highlighted actors, comedians and even bands that call the Maple Leaf state their home.

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Unemployment benefits for many expire today

One Senator blocking extension. Democracy?


Richard Jones of Brookfield spent four months in Louisiana helping communities rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. Now, he needs a little help himself, but a lone U.S. senator is blocking the way.

Jones, 29, is among the 15,000 Illinoisans whose unemployment benefits expire today because of a filibuster by U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Bunning is using Senate rules to block a vote to fund extended benefits for people nationwide who have exhausted the basic 26 weeks of coverage.

Even with an unemployment check, it has been hard to make ends meet, said Jones, a former trucking supervisor jobless since January 2009. "All my savings is gone," he said. "If I hurt myself, I can't even go to the doctor."

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Dogs should Just Say No

CoOlDiGgY's Hot Women in History: Victoria Woodhull

March is Women's History Month. Victoria Woodhull was a fighter for women's voting rights, she fought against organized religion and for free love. Hell, she even ran for President--IN THE 1800s

US military spied on Planned Parenthood, civilian phone calls

Thanks, G.I. Joe, I didn't know you were spying on my family planning. And knowing's half the battle


United States military intelligence spied on Planned Parenthood and other domestic groups as part of US security preparations for the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, according to a recently declassified military document obtained by a civil liberties group Thursday.

The document (PDF - page 98), drafted by a Pentagon Deputy Inspector General whose name is redacted, was included in more than 800 pages released to the Electronic Frontier Foundation as part of a Freedom of Information Act Request. They include reports from the Pentagon's Intelligence Oversight Board that were submitted to the Defense Secretary from 2001 to 2007.

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