The Humphrey Institute hosts many guest speakers throughout the year and these special events will now be made available online for anyone to download at no cost.

Watch The Crimson Permanent Assurance, Monty Python’s hilarious parody of 1980s corporate America.

Batman and Spider-Man tag-team bitch-slapping an apparently innocent civilian in front of the Chinese Theater on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, as a crowd watches in amazement.

The Pocket Films Festival in Japan, which organizers say is the first in this nation, marks yet another use for the omnipresent portable phone here, already used to exchange e-mail, surf the Internet, read novels and navigate on miniature digital maps.

JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.

Drew became an outcast after she participated in a hoax in which a fictional teenager by the name of "Josh Evans" exchanged online messages with 13-year-old Megan Meier. Megan received cruel messages from Josh that apparently drove her to hang herself in

More than 800 years later, about 17 copies survive, and one of those, signed by King Edward I in 1297, will go up for sale Dec. 18 at Sotheby’s.

"Look" suggests the cameras that increasingly blanket society are both a blessing and a curse. Rifkin’s cameras catch people cheating on their spouses, criminals murdering a police officer and attractive women farting in elevators

Analysts say Dell must expand its presence in stores because consumers increasingly see computers as an extension of their personality, and want to touch them before buying.

As her performance began, the room filled with electronic beeps and buzzes of a 1980′s video game pulsing to a danceable beat, as if Mario were hosting a rave. As heads bopped in the audience, Kim proudly held up her instrument: a Nintendo Game Boy.

Gatorade in a jelly bean. Who knew?

Coke is introducing its online island within a larger virtual world site called there.com that tries to filter out unsavory content.

An online virtual world.

This is a remarkable oral history by a man who was stationed at Hickman Field next to Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

GreenMark provides customized services in green strategy, sponsorship, policy development, branding and communications.

An open source search engine project.

Unleash Homeland Security on Harold & Kumar and throw a little Doogie Hauser in for good measure.

Housing markets from Punta Gorda, Florida, to Stockton, California, will crash and suffer price drops of more than 30 percent before the housing crisis is over, a report from Moody’s Economy.com said on Thursday.

A lawyer for preacher Creflo Dollar of World Changers Church International said the investigation should be referred to the IRS. Creflo DOLLAR. Nice.
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Newspaper publishers, entering 2008 with some of the worst economic conditions in many years, said Wednesday they hope to bring even more readers — and ad spending — to their Web sites with expanded offerings of news, advertising and video.

News Corp.’s Fox Entertainment Group has acquired Beliefnet, a Web site catering to faith communities, in a move designed to boost online marketing and distribution of Fox’s film and TV programs. Is this a LifeTargeting move by Fox?

A forecast released Thursday by analyst firm IDC calls for the worldwide information-technology market to grow 5.5 percent to 6 percent in 2008, the lower end of what has become a usual range. In the U.S., the market is expected to expand 3 percent to 4 p

Is there a way to apply crowdsourcing to the symptoms of diseases in order to more efficiently advance medical science?

A support social networking site: Meet new friends through shared life experiences.

Examples of theaters defying smoking bans for artistic integrity.

No criminal charges will be filed in the case of an Internet hoax that ended in a teenage girl’s suicide in a St. Louis suburb last year, the local prosecutor said yesterday.

In a program called Transmissions, MySpace is inviting musicians to choose a studio and select the songs they want to perform. MySpace will show and sell videos of the performance.

The campaign uses advertising on teen TV networks, the Internet, online social networks, appearances at concerts and other methods to spread the message.

An anti-Big Tobacco PSA campaign.

Who will win the battle of the brands online, the NFL or the cable companies?

the 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast.

Quantcast is the only open internet ratings service. We provide advertisers with audience profiles for millions of websites and services.

In the collective patter of profile-surfing, messaging and “friending,” academic researchers see the resurgence of older patterns of oral communication.

By unchaining video watchers from their TV sets, inexpensive broadband access has opened the floodgates to a generation of TV producers.

But when it comes to online retail traffic, Thanksgiving itself outperforms both days — and has been the busiest day of the entire holiday season for the last four years, according to Hitwise, an online research firm.

Many of the new features, like better feeds to users of aggregation sites like Digg, were made with young adults in mind.

Facebook tried last week to force the magazine 02138 to remove some unflattering documents about Mr. Zuckerberg from its Web site. But a federal judge turned down the company’s request for a court order to take down the material, according to the magazi

These businesses lack the huge marketing budgets of their bigger peers, of course, but they are unearthing cheap advertising methods that, in some cases, help them compete with million-dollar promotions.

The owner of LiveJournal, a blogging and social-networking site, agreed yesterday to sell the company to SUP, a Russian online media company, in the latest example of deal-making in the social-networking sector.

According to M:Metrics, which tracks mobile use, a total of 14.3 million users ages 18 to 34 went online from their mobile devices in the three months ended in September, followed by 9.2 million users ages 35 to 54.

Don Imus returned to the airwaves Monday before a live studio audience, introducing a long list of cast members on his new morning show, including a black woman.

One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching a live dino.

A list of the top 30 social bookmarking sites with links to their demographic profiles

Tracks blogs, forums and social networks.

Nokia’s latest study, ‘A Glimpse of the Next Episode’, predicts that within five years a quarter of all entertainment will be created, edited and shared within peer groups rather than coming out of traditional media groups.

Seniors at North High School in North St. Paul have used the video-sharing site to invite presidential candidates to speak at their school.

The Minnesota Vikings all of a sudden are a dangerous team; what has changed?

Video sharing/social networking site.

In a deal that creates the biggest independent video game publisher in the world, Vivendi announced Sunday it plans to acquire a controlling stake in Activision.

Based on the weather reports and restaurant listings you check out online, Yahoo Inc. has a good idea where you live. Based on searches you’ve done, the Web portal might also know where you want to go.

AOL on Friday scrapped its year-old pay-for-download service in favor of Web retailer Amazon.com Inc.’s technology for selling movies and TV shows online.

Site devoted to the legacy of former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, his 1967 anti-Vietnam War presidential candidacy, and the contrast of that run with today’s opposition to the Iraq War.

Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer. It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and p

Women may have a reputation as the chattier gender, but research into the matter shows that men may actually be a little more talkative than women—though it all depends on the situation.

Under the changes outlined late Thursday, Facebook’s 55 million users will be given greater control over whether they want to participate in a three-week-old program that circulates potentially sensitive information about their online purchases and other

Google Inc. will apply to bid for wireless spectrum in an upcoming government auction, the company said Friday.

The math is way beyond me but this is pretty damn cool nonetheless. From the description at YouTube: "A short film depicting the beauty of Moebius Transformations in mathematics. The movie shows how moving to a higher dimension can make the transformation

Japan showed off its cutting-edge robots Wednesday at the country’s largest robotics convention, a dazzling display of the technologies that make it a world leader in both service and industrial robotics.

A YouTube clone for students.

Content guidelines for videos uploaded to SchoolTube.

The service marks the first time Adobe has allowed dynamic ads into Portable Document Format, or PDF, documents.

The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access.

The federal government has never printed a million-dollar bill

A top Nintendo Co. executive said holiday sales of the Wii game consoles have gotten off to a "fantastic start" but warned Tuesday that Wiis would be scarce through the end of the year.

The Supreme Court will consider today whether federal law bars Maine from imposing handling requirements on delivery companies, a case that could undercut similar laws in other states. When Maine officials tried to crack down on Internet tobacco sales to

American consumers jammed online shopping sites on Monday, the official start of the holiday season for e-tailers, resulting in robust sales, according to an Internet research company.

Watch a first wedding dance that is not at all what you’d expect.

Nearly a decade ago, computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a project with an astonishingly lofty goal: Digitize the published works of humankind and make them freely available online.

Digitized books put online by Carnegie Mellon University.

Code for recording and sharing Facebook users’ online actions with their friends.

Easy steps for editing DotNetNuke skins.

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died early Tuesday, a day after the Pro Bowl player was shot at home by what police say was an intruder. He was 24. Family friend Richard Sharpstein said Taylor’s father told him the news around 5:30 a.m.

Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue in the contentious negotiations.

Writers Guild’s MySpace page.

Writer’s Guild stike site.

Retailers are hoping last week’s strong start to the holiday shopping season at malls and stores translates into a busy buying season online, which officially begins Monday.

Of the $13 million that the BSA reaped in software violation settlements with North American companies last year, almost 90 percent came from small businesses, the AP found.

When ‘tweens beg for a pair of Hollister jeans or "Guitar Hero" for the holidays, they’re asking for more than an item of clothing or electronics. They’re trying to shore up their self-esteem.

With an overall holiday season that is expected to be the weakest since 2002, and the number of new online customers leveling off, Web retailers are dangling even more incentives to keep them buying online, from fat discounts to free shipping without mini

A combination of Spiderman, grade-B movies, Italian TV, and 1970s production values.

FLV Player is an attempt to create a standalone player for the Flash Video fromat (.flv).

The Legacy of the Former Senator and Anti-War Presidential Candidate

Eugene McCarthy’s political legacy will forever be defined by 1968, when McCarthy turned his opposition to the Vietnam War into a crusade for the presidency.

Browse the whole globe, from your hometown to your favorite place, or places you’ve never even heard of…

Flickr’s map/photography mashup.

Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online to help lawyers, landowners and historians.