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Top 10 Horticultural LOLcats

No meme is too niche for us to cover on The Drill Down, so in the spirit of “Awwww…” combined with pure “WTF?”, here are the top 10 plant, garden, and flower-related LOLcats.
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Best Buy Adds Rental Service Bloatware To All Net Gadgets

This is a guest post from Tom Cheredar,  a staff writer for Geeks of Doom and freelance journalist who covers technology, comic books and geek culture. You can find links to more of his work on his web site tomcheredar.com.

In an effort to compensate for slumping DVD sales, the largest consumer electronics retail store Best [...]

How to Accurately Predict the Lottery on Live TV

Most Americans aren’t familiar with Derren Brown, the mentalist-cum-magician-cum-con man, but in the UK, he’s been boggling the minds of  TV watchers for years, with his oft-unexplained feats of psychological tomfoolery, such as reading minds, performing live séances, and predicting horse races. In the first of series of live specials for UK’s Channel 4, he [...]

La Cañada Station Fire Time Lapse Videos

The Los Angeles wildfire known as the Station Fire has consumed 42,500 acres of land, burned down 18 homes, and it’s only 5% contained as of this writing. Being as this fire is going on about three miles from The Drill Down recording studios, I thought I’d take this opportunity to share with you some [...]

Why Teens Are Twitter Shy

Ahoy! This guest post by 17 year-old blogger extraordinaire Tanner Godarzi (of Apple Matters, iPhone Matters, and his own blog, Tech Blot) is a response to both this July post in The Guardian and this recent post in the New York Times.

A recent article by a Morgan Stanley intern has some across the [...]