Marijuana's march toward mainstream confounds feds

Marijuana's march toward mainstream confounds feds: It is a moment in marijuana's history in America that is rife with contradictions.

Crops ripen quickly with sudden summer heat : 'They just burned up'

Crops ripen quickly with sudden summer heat : 'They just burned up': The sudden summer heat made for an abrupt end to strawberry season, and some farmers fear a quick season for other crops. “Some strawberries will go to waste because they just burned up, they dehydrate ‘til they look so bad no one will buy them," said farm owner Randy Henderson.

Automator workflow of the month: Powerful PDF tricks

Automator workflow of the month: Powerful PDF tricks: PDF is a wonderful format for reading documents, but once you move beyond reading, things can get complicated in a hurry. Thankfully, useful tools for working with PDF files are built into Automator, OS X's built-in workflow tool. Let’s run through a few of them now.

"Being Supermans Pal is Bad for Your Health" & More Cool Comic Covers

"Being Superman's Pal is Bad for Your Health" & More Cool Comic Covers: CSBG's collection of comic book cover themes includes the latest, a gallery of times where Superman has killed -- or is killing -- Jimmy Olsen or Lois Lane. Superman's not a bird or a plane, he's just plain deadly!

Science Fiction Novels That Inspired Change - Business Insider

Science Fiction Novels That Inspired Change - Business Insider: The great geek works of fiction inspire engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to dream their biggest dreams — or at least to muster the courage to light the way toward the future.

These great books deserve to be celebrated. If you haven't read all of them, you should.

How to extract audio from movie files

How to extract audio from movie files: Use QuickTime Player X: Launch QuickTime Player X (found in the Applications folder) and use it to open your movie. Choose File > Export and in the sheet that appears choose Audio Only from the Format pop-up menu at the bottom of the sheet. Name the file and click Export. The file will be exported as a 256kbps AAC audio file.

Supermoon will be big, bright, and full on June 23

Supermoon will be big, bright, and full on June 23: The perigee full moon, which happens once every 14 months, is happening next weekend and will likely bring with it tales of impending calamity and natural disaster.

Silver Falls: Oregon's largest state park

Silver Falls: Oregon's largest state park:

Silver Falls is Oregon’s largest State Park with 9,064 acres to explore. There are 10 waterfalls accessible by hiking trails; 4 of them you can actually walk behind and feel the mist of fresh water tickling your skin.

Review: MAN OF STEEL: 'Ambitious' But 'Lacking'

Review: MAN OF STEEL: 'Ambitious' But 'Lacking': Best Shot's David Pepose reviews MAN OF STEEL, calling out its 'lack of focus, lack of humanity and lack of warmth.'

Grim, Violent Man of Steel Sells Superman's Soul for Spectacle | Underwire | Wired.com

Grim, Violent Man of Steel Sells Superman's Soul for Spectacle | Underwire | Wired.com: And still, all of that might be forgivable if Man of Steel were otherwise a well-made movie. It’s not. In the rush to make everything exciting, Snyder has forgotten to make it interesting. There’s very little substance supporting the spectacle, narratively or artistically: it’s like walking up to a building with a beautiful facade, opening the door, and discovering that it’s a theater flat.

OS X Mavericks Tidbits: System Requirements, Redesigned Activity Monitor, App Battery Monitoring, and More

OS X Mavericks Tidbits: System Requirements, Redesigned Activity Monitor, App Battery Monitoring, and More: At yesterday's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled its next generation operating system, OS X Mavericks. While Mavericks incorporates a number of significant changes like a redesigned Finder, a Safari overhaul, and new Compressed Memory settings, there are also a number of other, smaller changes that MacRumors forum readers and other sources have unearthed.

iOS 7 Beta Tidbits: Per-App Cellular Data Usage, Live Clock Icon, Panoramic Wallpaper and More

iOS 7 Beta Tidbits: Per-App Cellular Data Usage, Live Clock Icon, Panoramic Wallpaper and More: While the most obvious change in iOS 7 is the look and feel of the user interface, Apple's engineers have packed the update with numerous changes both big and small.

Here are a selection of changes noticed by folks in the MacRumors Forums and elsewhere.

27 new iOS 7 features Apple didn't talk about

27 new iOS 7 features Apple didn't talk about: System improvements aren't always the flashiest features, so they often get short shrift at keynotes. But they're often hidden gems.

What's New in OS X Mavericks | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

What's New in OS X Mavericks | Gadget Lab | Wired.com: First, OS X is moving to a new naming path. Apple’s SVP of software Craig Federighi, who demonstrated the latest OS upgrade on stage, announced that the new versions of OS X will be named after places in California. This new version will be named Mavericks, after the famous Northern California big-wave surf spot. So goodbye kitties, hello ocean.

What Apple revealed at WWDC 2013

What Apple revealed at WWDC 2013: At its annual developers confab in San Francisco today, Apple unveiled a wide variety of new products and software updates.

Apple to stream WWDC Keynote live via Safari browser, Apple TV today at 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Apple to stream WWDC Keynote live via Safari browser, Apple TV today at 10am PDT, 1pm EDT: Apple today will stream the company's WWDC Keynote live...

Watch your Plex content on your Apple TV with the jailbreak-free PlexConnect

Watch your Plex content on your Apple TV with the jailbreak-free PlexConnect: PlexConnect does its magic by running two small servers on one of your local Macs: a Web server and a Domain Name System (DNS) server. It’s the latter that handles the magical part; you configure your Apple TV to look towards this Mac for its DNS server, and PlexConnect intercepts requests for the URL http://trailers.apple.com and redirects them to its Web server, where it provides a custom version of the Plex interface reminiscent of other Apple TV apps, like Netflix and Hulu. (DNS requests to other addresses, meanwhile, should to be passed through to your normal DNS server, thereby maintaining the rest of your Apple TV’s normal operation.)

The Smart Set: Surrender to Proust - June 5, 2013

The Smart Set: Surrender to Proust - June 5, 2013: It is a hundred years since Marcel Proust finished his novel Swann’s Way. The novel became the first volume of Proust’s seven-volume work Remembrance of Things Past. Remembrance of Things Past is now one of the accepted masterpieces of 20th century literature. But that greatness was not so easy to see a hundred years ago. Publishers initially rejected Swann’s Way.

Facebook file-sharing app Pipe goes wide Wednesday

Facebook file-sharing app Pipe goes wide Wednesday: After more than a year of working out the kinks, Pipe is set to go public on Wednesday, letting Facebook friends share files as big as a gigabyte.

Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record

Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record: But more importantly, in working to solve this problem, they've developed a new breed of software that lets you pool the processing power of potentially thousands of machines just by pointing them to a single website. They call it Supercomputer.js. It's a new breed of supercomputer built with JavaScript, the standard programming language of the web.