Wednesday

• Bush to nominate Petraeus as commander of Central Command
• Iran's agreement to talks on nuclear programs raises hopes
• Denmark evacuates embassies in Algeria and Afghanistan
• U.S. Congress to be briefed on possible nuclear ties between North Korea and Syria
• Toyota takes world sales lead from General Motors
• Delta and Northwest post huge losses on soaring fuel prices
• Yahoo profit tops expectations

• Petraeus Gets Promotion; Odierno Gets Iraq (Updated)

  Breaking: "Army Gen. David Petraeus, the four-star general whose led troops in Iraq for the past year, will be nominated by President Bush to be the next commander of U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. Gates also...

  04.23.08 | 1:20 PM From Danger Room

• Unsellable Xbox 360 HD DVD Players Stack Up

  TOKYO -- Will anyone buy this Xbox 360 HD DVD player? Anyone? Anyone? Stacks of the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player are to be found in a sales bin these days, illustrating that the HD DVD format is as dead...

  04.23.08 | 1:08 PM From Game | Life

• Craigslist's Feelings Are Hurt; Lashes Back at EBay

  Love is so fragile -- here today, gone tomorrow. And so it goes for eBay and Craigslist. What started out as a casual relationship (eBay has a 25 percent, minority stake in the classified site) has turned into an ugly...

  04.23.08 | 1:06 PM From Epicenter

• Hong Kong Cross-Border High Speed Rail Receives Green Light

  New high speed rail lines are speeding ahead in Asia. The bullet train in Taiwan opened last year, and China started the construction of the high speed rail link between Beijing and Shanghai last week. Now, Hong Kong and mainland...

  04.23.08 | 1:00 PM From Autopia

• PR Stunt Roundup: Xbox In Hospitals, Jason Priestley

  There's never a slow news day in the videogame business, because game makers are always ready to go for some publicity with a well-arranged public relations move. Following up on yesterday's announcement of a guy in a Mario suit hailing...

  04.23.08 | 12:40 PM From Game | Life

• Free Comic Book Day Countdown: He Is Iron Man!

  Our next stop on the road to Free Comic Book Day is, oddly enough, at your local multiplex. The inaugural FCBD took place a mere day after the release of the first Spider-Man movie, and, while not all Free Comic...

  04.23.08 | 12:39 PM From Geekdad

• These Pants are Made for Typin'

  If you're desperate to up your geek cred, I suppose there's no better way than to rock a keyboard on your crotch. As luck would have it, designer Erik De Nijs' "Beauty and the Geek" jeans feature just such a...

  04.23.08 | 12:39 PM From Gadget Lab

• Team Ladybugs | Project Ladybag

  http://www.ladybag.official.ws/ Link: Team Ladybugs | Project Ladybag. (((It's a conceptual gadget purse that scans its contents for your arphids and then reports if you've got all your tagged valuables by "smiling" or "frowning."))) (((I found this gadget-watch spime-watch arphid-watch gizmo...

  04.23.08 | 12:34 PM From Beyond the Beyond

• Scanning Laptops at the Border | Threat Level from Wired.com

  (((This is one of those legal decisions that make perfectly coherent sense in a legal brief, and have real-world implications that can spiral wildly out of control. For instance, suppose that border agents from Upper Slobovia henceforth decide to scan...

  04.23.08 | 12:24 PM From Beyond the Beyond

• Faulty Cutter: Only 2,816 Dings

  The Coast Guard's year-late, over-budget National Security Cutter Bertholf -- the ship with the notorious leaky network -- has been inspected by the Navy's hard-ass "INSURV" board. They found only 2,816 problems (aka, "trial cards"), which the Coast Guard says...