202 diggsNative American tribes in South Dakota are hoping to build turbine farms to take advantage of some of the country’s strongest and most reliable winds.

212 diggsIf you thought that whole spiel Walmart gave about ditching DRM sounded too good to be true, you'd be right this time around. The world's largest retailer has decided to maintain its digital rights management servers for the present time “based on feedback from [its] customers.” No joke—that's what they said. Who exactly are these customers?

79 diggsAn investigation is under way into the disappearance of a computer hard drive containing the personal details of about 100,000 of the Armed Forces.

286 diggsThis is the sweetest article I read this week :D

252 diggsThese LCD HDTVs will be fully networked, with the ability to stream all your iTunes content from your Mac or PC. In fact, Calacanis told me they'll function like a standard TV with an Apple TV box, only without the need for the box.

251 diggsGoogle continues its supremacy, despite the clamor over emerging search engines attempting to dethrone it. These providers approach search from different perspectives (semantic, social, community-based) and present their results in fresh forms (design, layout, structure) in the hope that their new package will appeal more to the masses.

87 diggsThe fallout from the economic downturn could be a significant threat to mental health, according to a survey.

397 diggsThe sites that revolutionised the way we lead our lives

187 diggslobal stocks plummeted Friday after the rout Thursday on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 7.3 percent, or 678 points, closing below the 9,000-mark for the first time since 2003.

164 diggsFormer Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari has won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday. The committee cited Ahtisaari's "significant" part in establishing Namibia's independence and his "central" role in solving the question of the Indonesian province of Aceh in 2005.

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873 diggsJohn McCain howled in protest when Barack Obama predicted the GOP attack strategy, but it turns out that Obama knew McCain better than McCain knew McCain. I guess we can call him "Nostrobamus."

185 diggsFrom relative obscurity, Textbook Torrents, the world’s largest BitTorrent index of textbooks, found itself in the world spotlight during July 2008 and was forced to close down by its host. The site returned weeks later, growing massively in the process, but now, just a couple of months on, the site has closed for good.

79 diggsA TEEN tennis star James Doherty (13) who 'died' for 15 minutes after suffering a massive heart attack during a game has stunned doctors by making a miracle recovery.

186 diggsBlizzCon is right around the corner, and the smart money is on Diablo III being the biggest news-maker of the show. Let's kick things off with our humble list of 10 things we'd love to see in Diablo III...

108 diggsGoogle's new satellite has beamed back its first picture, taken the moment the on-board camera was switched on.The crystal-clear image promises to make the internet giant's photographic atlas,The satellite went live for the first time two days ago following its launch last month from a U.S. air force base in Ca

280 diggsPrologue: I have a time machine.

283 diggsKevin Rose has told TechRadar that he wants to make sure that the diggers who pick out the most popular stories continue to have a major influence in the site – despite the steady move into a more personalised experience.

201 diggsA few months ago Fabio had published a tutorial showing how to create a nice typography effect, the Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography. That effect was inspired by the work of other famous artists like Si Scott, Tom Lane, Marian Bantjes, and many others. So in this post I will list a huge Frilly Bits Typography Inspiration.

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188 diggsOpenOffice.org 3.0 Final has already been uploaded to a variety of mirror download sites ahead of the official announcement Monday 13.

235 diggsIn the first part of our interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose at the Future of Web Apps conference, CNET News asked the Web start-up poster boy about everything from the company's Series C funding round to whether he's concerned about when those election stories stop rolling in.

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140 diggsIt is perhaps unsurprising that an ice cube tray entitled, “The Bullet Ice Cube Tray” makes ice cubes shaped like bullets. What is surprising is how damned realistic these things look. I am assuming that the molded the real deal for authenticity and the icing on the cake is that the tray is shaped like an AK-47 magazine.

232 diggsThis Christmas season is jam-packed with a few very interesting titles and sequels to some of the most popular games already on the market for both the PC and console game systems. Here are our recommendations as a guideline which games you can expect to appear on most wishlists of gamers...

174 diggsMicrosoft says it's changing Vista's annoying User Account Control feature in Windows 7, but guess what? You can have a better-behaved UAC right now. Symantec's beta Norton UAC tool lets you say "I don't want to see this popup again".

711 diggsThe son of William F. Buckley publically announces his support for Barack Obama for president.

101 diggsFor those hoping that the seven-day blowout on Wall Street may have created a market bottom, there are two words to contemplate: Not yet.

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140 diggsBethesda announced today that Fallout 3, has gone gold for all formats and will be arriving on store shelves and online October 28 in North America, October 30 in Europe and Australia, and just in time for trick or treat on October 31 in the UK.

210 diggsThe Wine development release 1.1.6 is now available.

137 diggsIt looks like a tiny, blue, bug-eyed alien - its miniature spine visible through translucent skin. But this fascinating image is actually a close-up of a chicken embryo and finalist in a 'small world' photography competition. It is just one of 115 incredible images that use microscopes and digital imaging software to capture views of nature.

85 diggsA select look at some large asteroids, comets, and other bodies that have come very very close to earth. Scary!

278 diggsSome popular Web companies may be vulnerable to the economic slowdown. Do they face an ill fate similar to that of the beloved delivery service of the last bubble?

144 diggs2.6.27 adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for "pure" flash-based storage devices, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation for ext4, multiqueue networking, an alternative hibernation implementation based on kexec/kdump, data integrity support in the block layer for devices that ..

149 diggsIf you still haven't made up your mind, here are the most recent Daily Show appearances by each of the four members of the two major party tickets.

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256 diggsHigh banking standards have kept Canada's financial institutions afloat and out of the kind of trouble that has sunk many of their international peers, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Wednesday.

239 diggsThe sixteenth round of the 2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing (MotoGP) season was recently held on a track on the southern coast of Australia.

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292 diggsTake that, Cox suckers!

281 diggsAlien zoo sex, vulgar language, and the horrors of war have earned this novel (which shall remain nameless) a place on many a banned books list. And it’s hardly alone.

264 diggsJordan Eisenberg, whose previous endeavor was the much safer Collar Card, recently launched PMSBuddy.com, which helps men track the menstrual cycles of wives, girlfriends, mistresses, bosses, sisters, daughters – anyone, really, whose body is capable of mass-producing that monthly, much-feared cocktail of terror and inconsolable tear-spewing.

314 diggs"We'll find an Earth-mass planet by 2010 and an Earth-mass planet that's potentially habitable by 2012," says University of California astronomer Greg Laughlin, whose team is race a French group to find the heavenly jackpot: an Earth-like planet that is home to alien life.

391 diggsby Andy Barr (Politico)“The times are too serious. The challenges are too great. The American people aren’t looking for someone who can divide this country – they’re looking for someone who will lead it. We’re in a serious crisis - now, more than ever, it is time to put country ahead of politics.”

132 diggsWhat the world's Facebook news feed might look like this week.

148 diggsMicrosoft has once again poured cold water over the latest rumour that it’ll launch a Blu-ray Disc drive add-on for the Xbox 360.

128 diggsThis unique Art Deco linerlock folder features a deep releif carved Rados Ladder pattern Impala head with 14 kt. gold horns that introduces the rear of the handle to the rest of the knife in a very gracefull and flowing fashion. Roll over image to see a magnified version.

295 diggsPalaeontologists: this could be your lucky day. Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar has just offered ten trillion lira - a mouth-watering $7.5 trillion - to "anyone who produces a single intermediate-form fossil demonstrating evolution".

309 diggsMcCain did nothing.

115 diggsThe best moment from last night's 'The Office'. Jim uses a stopwatch to keep track of Dwight's personal time at work, then baits him mercilessly.

175 diggsIf the US focused on curbing climate change as soon as a new president took office – or sooner – it could help pull the world from the financial brink, according to environmental policy experts.

295 diggsA bug which lives entirely on its own and survives without oxygen in complete darkness underground has been discovered in South Africa. Desulforudis audaxviator, or bold traveller as it is known in English, relies on water, hydrogen and sulphate for its energy.

233 diggsThe Army is buying five of the truck-mounted systems for $25 million. But the energy weapon may face new hurdles, before it's shipped off to the battlefield; a new report details how the supposedly non-lethal blaster could be turned into a flesh-frying killer.

146 diggsOK, so the stock market might be leaving you with empty pockets these days. But there just might be a few people feeling bad for you, who are making it cheaper and easier to find something that puts a smile on your face

116 diggsA Hillside weakened by heavy rain gave way in Portland Oregon causing a house to slide 300 feet down a hillside into two other homes. A frantic neighbor called 911.

166 diggsUniversity of Queensland researchers are working to tap into a wealth of natural gas resources located in distant, deep-ocean fields off the coast of Western Australia. Stretching hundreds of kilometers long and positioned in waters of almost a km deep, the ultra-long pipelines will carry oil & gas from the remote reserves directly to the shore.

147 diggsFrom the dystopian corridors of BioShock's subterranean "paradise" to the Strogg-infested space stations found throughout the Quake franchise, First Person Shooters have found countless ways to establish themselves as rich, enjoyable experiences, capturing the hearts and trigger fingers of gamers worldwide. Here are the Top 28 FPS Games!

258 diggsA great collection of Linux Desktop Theme.

78 diggsMost of these guys aren't on Heisman voters' radars, but what do they need with a trophy, anyway? You say valuable, Sporting News college football expert Matt Hayes says indispensable. The players most essential to their teams, ranked in order of importance in relation to national title and conference championship races.

396 diggsConsidering how obsessed the nation is with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, it was only a matter of time before someone created a love doll in her likeness.

218 diggsToday, President Bush gave an eight-minute speech on the economy, which was meant to reassure the markets.

150 diggsHey, if my doc smokes 'em.....

274 diggsOur beloved Dwight Schrute, lover of bears, beets and Battlestar Galactica faced the toughest geek challenge from Jim Halpert on The Office this week. Watch as he painfully listens to Jim slaughter the plot of his favorite TV series and is restrained from correcting him. We feel your pain Dwight.

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209 diggsWith shares of Research In Motion among those that have seen a massive drop in recent months, Reuters on Friday made the case that the company could make a juicy acquisition target for Microsoft.

248 diggsWe like heated seats and high-end stereos as much as the next car shopper, but some of today's automotive features provoke more fright than delight.

85 diggsPretty spectacular image. Dolphins surfing & jumping the waves off the South African coast.

473 diggsThe McCain campaign is defending crowd members at its recent rallies who have called Obama a terrorist, accused him of treason and even screamed "kill him" when his association with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers has been broached.

480 diggsMany of the professional economists who formally endorsed John McCain's economic plan are expressing bewilderment with his most recent proposal to rectify the home mortgage crisis. In interviews with the Huffington Post, roughly a dozen of McCain's economist supporters said they disagreed with the Senator's recent proposal.

336 diggsThe discovery at a Virginia aquarium marks the second time scientists have used DNA testing to verify what would have been a "virgin birth"—if the pups hadn't died.

74 diggsFirst pictures of Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes!

302 diggs"Apparently it’s a virus and, in the last weeks of the election, it’s raiding the computers of some pretty different types of people"

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365 diggsAssociated Press - A judge has ordered the state of Alaska to preserve any government-related e-mails that Gov. Sarah Palin sent from private accounts, including her recently-deleted Yahoo email addresses.

65 diggsFrom the Cherry Bombs to the Rhinestone Cowgirls, these hardcore roller derby girls aren’t just hot, they could kick your ass with their eyes closed. So be careful - with names like Polly Urethane and Evilynn Carnit, these aren’t your run-of-the-mill hot chicks.

155 diggs"I guess I should've seen that one coming..."

192 diggsWe've been looking forward to Dead Space for quite a long time now, and I had the entirely terrible task of spending most of last night and today playing the game. While I won't talk much about specifics until we run our feature review, I will say one thing: the game is scary.

436 diggsPalin would be proud.

153 diggsThe AirPod seats three (one facing backward) and the "playful and futuristic" design allows for an extremely light-weight and inexpensive vehicle. The top speed of the thing is just over 40 miles per hour and it has a range of only 130 miles before a refill is needed, so...obviously it will be just for city use.

219 diggsVirtualization software can help you run programs that your native Linux distro wouldn't. While Linux users have many virtualization options, none comes close to the all-encompassing VMware Workstation 6.5. Introduced last month, VMware Workstation 6.5 continues the tradition of outshining and outpacing the competition with a host of useful new fea

152 diggsAs Election Day approaches, many musicians are stepping up efforts to rally voters to the polls come November 4. The latest to vote with their instruments? Hip-hop luminaries the Beastie Boys, staunch Obama supporters who just unveiled a handful of "Get Out and Vote" shows.

109 diggsIt’s way more likely that a lightening bolt will strike McCain instead of a black hole swallowing him up. It’s much cheaper to make a Tesla coil…

152 diggsEach water bottle you recycle may seem like a drop in the bucket, but don't undervalue your efforts. America is recycling nearly 33 percent of its waste

264 diggsSpecial Thursday Weekend Update: One of the funniest I've ever seen. The 'Really!?!' with Seth and Amy drops around the 2:15 mark.

321 diggsBlizzard just announced that StarCraft II's single player campaign would be split o three separate products! The scope of the single-player experience was so huge they decided to deliver three different products. The first product will focus on the Terrans, with the Zerg next and finally the Protoss. The story will stretch across all three titles.

98 diggsInfoWorld was the first to report that Microsoft has released a new Touchless SDK to help developers kick the tires on multi-touch technology.But it was TechCrunch that pointed to perhaps a more significant aspect of the release: it's open source

143 diggsIn June, after gunning down 14 adult wolves from a helicopter, officials from Governor Palin’s Department of Fish and Game rounded up 14 orphaned wolf pups and methodically shot each one in the head in clear violation of a state law.

151 diggsthis recession will be great for free and open source because of the shortage of cash. Last recession saw the mainstream legitimisation of open source operating systems (youngsters, take note: there was a time when it wasn't automatically okay for an IT department to use Linux) because it was clear and away the most cost-effective choice.

139 diggsThe folks over at 20th Century Fox have released an international poster and a new poster from two of their anticipated films, The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly. The other poster is for the film Australia, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. The film is directed by Baz Luhrmann.

240 diggsBillboard is reporting that Chinese Democracy, the delayed Guns N’ Roses album, will finally be released Nov. 23, exactly 15 years to the day since their last release, The Spaghetti Incident.Their new song Shackler’s Revenge will debut on the soundtrack of video game Rock Band 2 ahead of the album release...

162 diggsNVIDIA will be releasing the GeForce 9400/9300 chipsets based on the MCP79 design on October 15th, just one day after Apple's announcement. This would agree with my logic that Apple was holding back NVIDIA on releasing anything about the product until after Apple had its chance to show off.

214 diggsIf you have a new 4th-gen nano and a decent ear, you may have noticed something funny: After putting it to sleep, if you wake it up by inserting headphones, the left and right channels switch. I tried this with the most obvious stereo mix of all time, David Bowie's "Space Oddity," and it's really easy to duplicate yourself.

270 diggsThere’s at least one topic the candidates in the US elections won’t be wrangling over: so-called “clean” coal. That’s because they all support it.

354 diggsThe anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is acting to tamp it down. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama's character, he described the Democrat as a "decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States."

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86 diggsDespite Manny's amazing home run in the bottom of the 4th inning the Phillies beat the Dodgers 8 to 5 in the second game of their championship series. Game 3 will be at Dodger Stadium on Sunday.

237 diggsAs a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective.

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182 diggsRon Paul in 1983 getting on their ass as usual about destroying our economy, currency and country - why, how and what was going to happen - and that at some point something has to be used that has real value and not this fiat paper money which is now nothing more than the ink and paper that it is printed on, and the only reason it has worked thi...

843 diggsANCHORAGE- A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner. The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.

79 diggsVersion 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel has officially been released. The new version includes the ath9k wireless driver, the UBIFS filesystem for flash-based devices, and improved webcam support.

412 diggs"They're frantically trying to get together, and that's why this is becoming international. And, boy, I'm worried about this weekend, what are they going to come up with? They're going to come up with a new idea, probably one central bank for the world."

363 diggsPeter Schiff predicted the current economic crisis with stunning accuracy over two years ago and now he is sounding another alarm bell. He is predicting that our economy will now face death by hyperinflation, which will cause a complete loss of confidence in dollar and will inevitably die from the disease. Food shortages, marshall law to follow.

115 diggsMagic Johnson criticized a pair of talk show hosts Friday for accusing him of faking AIDS but said he didn't want them to be fired. Chris Baker and Langdon Perry of KTLK in Minneapolis made the remarks during Baker's conservative radio show on Wednesday. After Johnson condemned the statements, the station said it regretted "some offhand remarks."

580 diggsANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

122 diggsIt popped up in the wee hours of last weekend on “Saturday Night Live,” and has now become one of the hottest viral clips on the Internet. But what does the real Marky Mark think of Andy Samberg’s “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals” sketch? Say hi to your mother for me.

308 diggsFiled under "doing it wrong"...

182 diggsSimple food choices go a long way when it comes to your heart’s health. Focusing on fresh foods full of heart-healthy fats and antioxidants can greatly decrease your risk of developing heart disease.

263 diggsGreat acoustic rendition of Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge"

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384 diggsRachel Maddow reports on the "venomous hate" being incited at McCain-Palin rallies.

142 diggsA Dreamworks insider said, "We just want it to go away." Unbelievably, Paramount execs were not even aware of the episode!

208 diggsOne iPhone owner got his replacement AC adapter and was surprised at the unnecessary size of the packaging. The box the tiny charger came in appears to be about three times the size of his original iPhone box. That doesn't seem to green or economically viable for Apple.

188 diggsI can't believe what I'm reading. All across the Web, reporters are saying that at Apple's press event next week, the company will unveil an $800 Mac to appeal to those looking to spend less on an Apple computer.Anyone who has followed Apple since its inception knows that the very idea that Apple could actually compete on the same level as its c

273 diggsAt the live Diggnation that was just held in London as part of the “Future of Web Apps” Expo, Kevin Rose dropped another juicy rumor. He claimed that the new and yet to be announced MacBooks will support Blu-Ray drives.

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249 diggsCHICAGO (Reuters) - A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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188 diggsThe Ultimate 1950s Space Technology, which almost made it to SaturnObviously, "almost" is a key word here, but apparently NASA still has "small secret contingency plan division" which is dedicated to preserving "Orion" nuclear propulsion technology - and reviving it in case of a killer asteroid threat.

269 diggsThe G.O.P. has masked the terrible consequences of much that it has stood for over the decades. Now the mask has slipped.

304 diggsMcCain cranks out some false and misleading attacks on Obama's connection to a 1960s radical.

194 diggsI loooooove Halloween. Halloween is like Christmas at the Conradt household. If I could keep my house decorated macabrely (I just made that word up) year-round, I absolutely would. To help get you in the mood, though, we’ll explore the guts of classic horror movies you might find yourself watching on October 31.

279 diggsTipping, its defenders say, improves service by rewarding good waiters and punishing bad ones. But economists have struggled to explain tipping. Why tip at all, since the bill is presented at the end of a meal and can’t retroactively improve service?

199 diggsTonight, some AT&T subscribers were texted with the news that AT&T will discontinue the $20/month "Unlimited" MEdia Net option as of November 12, 2008. Until now, off-service (no-plan, Pay as You Go) iPhone users could purchase Unlimited MEdia Net and use their iPhones with the service to up to 5GB of data transfer.

136 diggs(Reuters) - Google Inc on Wednesday launched technology to insert advertisements into online video games and boost revenue from the booming gaming sector. The software, called AdSense for Games, is in beta testing and allows video, image or text...