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The British Standards Institution could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favor of Microsoft’s Office Open XML becoming an International Organization for Standardization standard–having previously voted against.

The four-wheel bike that drives like a car!

Compared with bonobos, chimpanzees are more patient, waiting longer to get their hands on a delayed treat.

English: An attraction of the Banff National Park in the canadian province Alberta: the turquoise Peyto Lake seen from a viewpoint at Icefields Parkway.

A Chechen man prays during the First Battle of Grozny, January 1995. The flame in the background is coming from a gas pipeline which was hit by shrapnel.

A diagram showing the parts of a tugboat, a boat used to maneuver large ships in harbours, over the open sea, or through rivers and canals.

Annie Oakley, a 19th century sharpshooter and exhibition shooter who performed as part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, demonstrates her rifle target skills in this 1894 film.

Finally, a board game that we would want to play, courtesy of cool comic book creator Brandon Graham.

The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called – a bit lamely – We Tell Stories. The basic idea is that six authors will tell six stories over a period of six weeks.

Why did Starfleet start interfering more, even as America was throwing less of its weight around?

Ridley Scott is returning to science fiction, the genre he spurned, for the first ever movie adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s classic false-utopia novel Brave New World.

A Chronicle examination of top salaries in the Bay Area’s three biggest cities last year indicates that employee compensation and perks in those cities are similar to — and in some cases more lucrative than — those blamed for pushing Vallejo to the

Well folks, it looks like Boondock Saints 2, (or “Twondock Saints,” as it is called by no one), is seriously on the road to production.

Your tax money is right now funding the Fed’s unprecedented and rather shocking multibillion-dollar bailout of rich bankers and fund managers .