September 24, 2008 – 11:07 pm
Sony brings visual add-on to PlayStation 3. The new touches come as an upgrade to Folding(at)home, an earlier PS3 feature that benefits Stanford University’s protein research project. Users donate a bit of their PS3’s processing power when they’re not gaming to help researchers study the effects of protein folding on diseases.
Using the new program, “Life [...]
September 24, 2008 – 5:02 pm
A television news anchor in Maine who looks a lot like Sarah Palin says she’s been getting “hate mail and nasty phone calls.”
Cindy Michaels from WVII-TV has long brown hair that she sometimes wears up in a style similar to Palin’s, and she also wears glasses on occasion.
September 24, 2008 – 1:21 am
Richard “Ric Ric” Henyard, 34, was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m. He had been condemned for the death of 7-year-old Jamilya Lewis and her 3-year-old sister, Jasmine.
The execution had been scheduled for 6 p.m. but did not start until 8:06 p.m. The doctor pronounced him dead 10 minutes later.
