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October 12 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15717 diggsGenius Palin supporter displays racist Obama Monkey and flaunts it outside of Palin rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on October 11, 2008.
75 diggsLONDON, England (CNN) -- You might have thought that recycling is limited to paper, plastics and glass. Well, think again. A Californian company is developing a new technique for recycling carbon dioxide, or CO2, and turning it back into fuel
441 diggsExclusive Competitive Co-Op Gameplay
226 diggsThings change so quickly on the web. When I started working at software firm Urchin in 1996, web analytics was a niche product, important to (and understood by) perhaps a handful of people at an organisation.
242 diggsMacX.cn has posted a series of higher quality images of the new MacBook Pro case that was originally posted last week. While there had been some doubts about the details of the blurry photo, these new images show every angle of both the MacBook and MacBook Pro cases. MacBook Pro caseMac...
452 diggsIn 1994’s “Republican Revolution,†the GOP swiped eight seats from underneath incumbent Democrats to take hold of the majority. In 1980, they rode Reagan’s coattails to post a 12-seat gain. But this time around, it's the Democrats' turn: they could pick up enough for a 60 seat supermajority. It would be their best showing since 1958.
110 diggsA new “beautification engine†uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form into a theoretically more attractive version. Developed in Israel the software creates a prettier you while maintaining similarity to the original form.
281 diggsThe game works by showing you a series of geometries that need to be adjusted a little bit to make them right. A square highlights the point that needs to be moved or adjusted. Use the mouse to drag the blue square or arrowhead where you feel it is 'right'. Once you let go of the mouse, the computer evaluates your move.
115 diggsHe's gonna need an icepack.
480 diggsA 106 year old American Nun who last voted for Eisenhower has re-registered to vote Obama
210 diggs“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to use a cheap Linux powered computer and you have fed him for a lifetimeâ€
401 diggsPlanetDiablo shares the improved Diablo 3/III logo due to people's complaints of the lack of colors and darkness.
233 diggsJohn McClain probably spent a fortune with OLS.
146 diggsWhen Art and Knitting Needles Collide
240 diggsLike fashion, music trends go in cycles. Artists get nostalgic for the stuff they listened to as kids and try to bring it back. That's why there are music fads from the 80s and 90s due to jump back on center stage at any moment. Ladies and gentlemen, there must be a way to stop them.
159 diggsA closeup of an erupting prominence on the Sun -- a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) -- taken on 1 July 2002 in 304 Angstrom (Ã…) emission, with a photo of Earth inset at the approximate scale of the image. The diameter of the Earth is about 8,000 miles (12,875 kilometers).
120 diggsScience is becoming a more important part of catching a killer or terrorist and keeping the innocent out of jail. A Seattle neuroscientist is leading the way with technology based on a simple fact: your brain can't lie.
130 diggsUrban Exploration:Some Sweet Pictures of an Old, Abandoned Castle. Looks Like Something Out of an Old Sci-Fi Movie.
164 diggsIt might be a 66-year-old cartoon but Walt Disney's Bambi has been named the best tear-jerker of all time ahead of other favourites such as ET and the Lion King. The tale of the young deer whose mother is shot by hunters topped a poll of films which make you weep. Find out what other movies made the list.
161 diggsUS video game magnate Richard Garriott launched into space aboard a Russian rocket on Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.
55 diggs“It is always a problem for the Cuba team,†coach Reinhold Fanz told the Washington Post. “We have security, but you can’t handcuff them to their rooms.â€
293 diggsThis is freaking genius!
92 diggsIt's time for a list of the top Houston-related sports beatdowns... (and not the usual 'Choke-City' stuff Houston is used too)
220 diggsWhat's with the weird English on all these new Advertisements?
147 diggsYou can do a lot more than search the web with Google nowadays, from reading newspapers in languages you don't speak to seeing the natural habitat of Komodo dragons.
158 diggsThe economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming. Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate, and both presidential candidates, continue to rank tackling global warming as a chief goal next year. But has the green bubble burst?
352 diggsAn Apple support file unearthed on the weekend confirms that at least two portables will get an update in short order.
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222 diggsThis fascinating device, The Phonographantasmascope is an extension of the Zoetrope principle. It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use.
154 diggsMaking sure you've got a reliable backup solution is a must for any user - and more so for an administrator. Why? Well, mostly because your users probably aren't very good at remembering to back up their own files. And so it falls to you to provide the right software for the job!
176 diggsA wildfire burned about 500 acres (200 hectares) of forest Sunday, threatening hundreds of homes and an animal sanctuary north of Los Angeles, authorities said.
171 diggsWhen Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.
526 diggsIf John McCain is as serious as he says about running a "respectful" campaign against an opponent he considers "a decent person," word hasn't yet trickled down to his newly opened storefront field office in Gainesville, Virginia.
267 diggs"This, my friend, is the Mitsubishi LaserVue-65 in. of blazing, high-definition fury," I said. "Is it a cheap LCD, like the one in your Man Cave? No, it is not. Is it a somewhat better plasma TV, like our neighbor has? Wrong again. The LaserVue is the first HDTV to be powered by lasers!"
183 diggsDeputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology Thomas Killian has one word for you: "nanobot." He's thinking about how to sell that idea - along with many other potential methods of futurewar - to futurearmies, and the answer may be at Army Experience Centers, where yesterday's superhero movie becomes the soldier of tomorrow.
166 diggsInstalled next to the walk-through scanners at Ben-Gurion airport in Israel, "MagShoe" announces within two seconds whether the footwear of the passenger standing on it contains unusual metal that might be a knife for a hijacking or a bomb detonator part. The TSA is currently assessing MagShoe's feasibility for the USA so expect to see this soon!
185 diggsFacebook's recent redesign was in response to that idea, Zuckerberg revealed, and there's more to come in future versions of Facebook:
94 diggsGolf legend Seve Ballesteros has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and will undergo a biopsy on Tuesday. The Spaniard was admitted to Madrid's La Paz hospital on 6 October after briefly losing consciousness. The hospital said on Friday he had left intensive care, having been "admitted because of a partial epileptic fit".
92 diggsAl Davis is the cause, he is the cure, he is the Oakland Raiders’ dilemma and, ultimately, must be the franchise’s solution.....
364 diggsThe statement by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari refutes a recent published report and a statement by Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin that Obama tried to influence Iraqi politicians negotiating with the United States to score political points.
182 diggsResearchers at McGill University, King's College London and GlaxoSmithKline Inc. have identified two genetic variants in caucasians that together produce an astounding sevenfold increase the risk of male pattern baldness. Their results will be published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Genetics.
346 diggsMuch security coverage focuses on malware, hackers, and the dangers both pose to unwary companies, but there's evidence to suggest the problem lies a good deal closer to home. How close? Try one cubicle over.
159 diggsThe researchers, led by Dr Rachel McKendry and Professor Gabriel Aeppli, developed ultra-sensitive probes capable of providing new insight into how antibiotics work, paving the way for the development of more effective new drugs.
592 diggsConservatives are scared of a progressive majority. And they're going to lie, cheat and steal to prevent it from happening. But they can only be successful if we let them.
215 diggsElectricity provider RWE will install 500 power-points, where electric cars can charge up. Daimler AG and Smart are partnering in the project, which aims to have100 electric Smart Cars on the streets of Berlin by the end of 2009.
372 diggsIn this collection, you’ll find 30 brilliant illustration/drawing tutorials using Adobe Photoshop from top-notch Photoshop tutorial sites.
163 diggsHere's one in the plus column for the looming robot uprising: a prototype developed by University of Maryland professor Jaydev Desai could one day diagnose, hunt, and destroy breast cancer cells all in one sitting, and in a much more efficient manner than we ham-handed human beings.
216 diggsA study published online by the journal Nature reveals the atomic structure of this weapon – an enzyme known as APOBEC-3G – and suggests new directions for drug development.
195 diggsSo we've been told that the writers of next year's Star Trek reboot want to "bring more Star Wars" to Gene Rodenberry's brightly-colored vision of America's interstellar tomorrow. But what does that actually mean? We've given it some thought and come up with five ways in which the crew of the Enterprise should model themselves after Luke Skywalker,
94 diggsThe NBA has formed a joint venture with Anschutz Entertainment Group to design and develop about 12 multipurpose arenas in major Chinese cities. The project was announced Sunday at the O2 Arena in London, where the New Jersey Nets and Miami Heat played a preseason game. AEG runs the O2, and the venture will be equally owned by the two parties.
187 diggsAs Tokyo Games Show wraps up for another year, Edge looks at the 20 Japanese games that we feel represent what's best about Japanese development right now. Here are our favorite games of the show...
101 diggsOliver Stone's film portrait of President George W. Bush was always going to be controversial given the director's liberal leanings.
143 diggsTexas rode its resounding Red River Rivalry upset right to No. 1. The Longhorns leapfrogged No. 2 Alabama on Sunday and sit atop The Associated Press Top 25 in the regular season for the first time in 24 years after beating Oklahoma 45-35.
160 diggsAC/DC will release its new album ‘Black Ice’ worldwide on October 20th, in physical format only since the band doesn’t sell its music online. However, the upcoming album has already been digitized by pirates, as it leaked to BitTorrent five days. In that time it has taken the trackers by storm, racking up a staggering 400,000 downloads.
244 diggsBy using the tools of evolutionary theory and new approaches to mathematical modeling, researchers are drawing a clearer picture of how and why rumors spread. As they do, they are finding that far from being merely idle or malicious gossip, rumor is deeply entwined with our history as a species.
261 diggsFirefox Mobile looks to be coming to a Windows Mobile device near you very soon. With a reported Acid3 Test score of 88/100, the mobile web browser looks nearly complete in the screenshots that have surfaced.
1008 diggsA feature comparison between a stone and an iPhone.
477 diggsIt looks like McCain has some issues with...McCain. Maybe if he knew how to use a computer he would understand that places like YouTube exist to capture these great moments of ugly/scary inconsistency.
216 diggsListen to Ron Paul's remarks. Get ready for the economic earth quake of a life time. Ron Paul comments on World Bank and Poverty."Forgive and Forget" Won't Fix Third World DebtWhen the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings open in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2001, officials will point proudly to the roughly $20 bi...
530 diggsHigh Voltage urinal dares you to piss on it
160 diggsAn article that describes how a person can take on the Big Oil Companies and win. A David Vs. Goliath. Lets give the oil companies a scare! Dig. Dig. Dig. Improve Gas Mileage.
151 diggsLoose lips sink ships.
168 diggsTorrentFreak is proud to present the first episode of ‘TorrentFreak TV’, a recap of some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. The show is directed by none other than Andrej Preston, who some people might remember as the founder of the legendary Suprnova.org.
205 diggsWired Science heads to the National Ignition Facility, where an enormous 192-beam laser bay may become capable of fusing 2 Hydrogen atoms - creating an endle...
361 diggsIn this post we present you a showcase of 50 beautiful movie posters. We went trought different decades of movie history and different genre, different graphical approach, colors and style. Movies the posters are about may be famous or not, this is not the point.
437 diggsWhile I'm sure the marketing wizards had great reasons for this, to me it sounds like they're just admitting their pizza isn't so great...
241 diggsJeremy Mayer is finding new ways to turn trash into beautiful robotic art. He's been making robots out of typewriters for more than a decade now, and the results are pretty amazing.
263 diggsPound Sterling will continue to slide against the dollar as long as financial turbulence persists, analysts say, as international investors dump the pound and euro.
281 diggsSo far this year Obama leads McCain 22-9 and has already picked up at least three papers that endorsed Bush in 2004.
83 diggsBritain has been accused of trying to wreck Europe's plan to tackle climate change by lobbying to remove aviation from renewable energy targets.
102 diggsThe women who were entered for the event had been sheltered from the kind of milieu which had developed in the west around porn shops, prostitution and - well beauty shows. They were intelligent, articulate women who were out of place, received by an audience who were there for the flesh show.
559 diggsNone of these websites can admit what is patently obvious to even Republican poll watchers right now: Obama is over 270 outside the margin of error. The inability of these big media sites to simply admit reality--reality that is evident in their own reporting about McCain playing from well behind right now--is pathetic.
107 diggsUS billionaire Warren Buffett call them the real 'weapons of mass destruction'. This market is worth more than $516 trillion, roughly 10 times the value of the entire world's output: it's been called the "ticking time-bomb".
178 diggsAn experiment has been taking place in Berkshire to see if robots are capable of intelligent thought. Scientists at the University of Reading tested five machines to see if they could pass themselves off as humans in text-based conversations with people.
44 diggsThe report said that those who listened for five hours a week at high-volume settings exposed themselves to more noise than permitted in the noisiest factory or work place. Maximum volume on some devices can generate as much noise as an airplane taking off nearby.
120 diggsThis could take a while...
221 diggsBeing the Ya-ttitude blog, the direction I am going to take on all this recent social media and digg-specific nonsense will of course be a positive one. The best way I know to be and stay positive is to give full disclosure and be as transparent as I can. So I will share with you all the knowledge I have gained over the 6-8 months of my digging.
266 diggsIn a passionate speech introducing Joe Biden at a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania this afternoon, Hillary Clinton gave a strong endorsement to Barack Obama by celebrating the end of the Bush administration.
284 diggsA video that illustrates the influence of a group's behavior on an individual.
166 diggsTux, the world famous symbol of Linux, can be seen all throughout the interwebs. Some Linux enthusiasts are just crazy about this cute penguin that they posted images of Tux in all forms and sizes. So, it is only appropriate to give them proper credit by showing some of those images here.
99 diggsEd Diment has completed his minfig-scale HMS Hood. Packed with incredible details, this is my favorite of the big ship builds, which have included the USS Harry S. Truman and the Titanic, among others.
118 diggsThe internet is a competitive market place, there is no such thing as one web site having a corner on a particular niche (tell me if you find one). When a web site, any web site, is not treating its customers fairly, there are usually ample alternatives that the masses can utilize to that do the same thing.
417 diggsFor years, books and articles and blogs on productivity have been showing us how to be more productive: crank out the tasks, multi-task, work faster, be organized. In short, they’ve taught us to be a good part of a corporation that wants more out of us. But that’s old-school productivity Today let’s take a look at Productivity 2.0
124 diggsOn this page we pay tribute to the film designs of the Bond series from drawings on paper to their 3-D reality, and to the men who thought "outside the box" to present a slightly futuristic world of glamor, intrigue, and hidden surprises!
157 diggsBuzzing about in a compressed air-powered car will be an option for environmentally conscious Kiwis later this year.
173 diggsNot to be outdone by all the hype surrounding “Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe,†Marvel and Activision have unleashed an all-new trailer for the upcoming “Spider-Man: Web of Shadows†and…wow, clearly Web-Heads will not be disappointed.
489 diggsOn Fox News Sunday today, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol implied that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran before leaving office if he believes Sen. Barack Obama is going to win the election because he is confident that Sen. John McCain will continue his Iran policy for a third term.
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249 diggsEverybody had a story to tell about trying to take the keys from an elderly driver.
420 diggsWith the presidential campaign approaching its final stretch, Barack Obama finds himself in an enviable position.
377 diggsDefense contractors who received millions of dollars in government earmarks arranged by Rep. Duncan Hunter are now helping to fill the campaign coffers of his son. Officials at several companies have benefited from the pet project spending requests that the veteran Republican lawmaker inserted into often-unrelated legislation.
216 diggsWashington D.C. joins an already sizable number of organizations to make the transition from Microsoft Office to web-based office suites.
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233 diggsGetting past the 32nm feature size will be a challenge for chip companies looking to keep Moore's Law on track. Recently, researchers uses a low-flying array of plasmonic lenses to demonstrate fast, maskless lithography that could keep the train rolling..
212 diggsFox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel "The Forever War," and Ridley Scott is planning to make it into his first science fiction film since he delivered back-to-back classics with "Blade Runner" and "Alien."
230 diggsHome should not be shown at trade shows. Absolutely not. Not under any circumstances. Why? Because it is boring. Home is not a game. It's not even a user interface. It's a...thing. Once Sony get around to deciding what that actually is will probably be the time they decide to release it, but until then - and especially in the state it was in for...
341 diggsA World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages for more than a decade.
652 diggsI spent more time trying to get an audible.com audio book playing than it took to listen to the book. I have lost every other piece of DRM-locked music I have paid for.
216 diggsSecurity firm predicts scammers will try to use exploits to manipulate the stock market. Also: Expect more social engineering that piggybacks on big news events.
199 diggsHow can Obama cut taxes for 95 percent of tax filers when 33% of filers pay no taxes? That's easy: he does it through equivocation or you could call it redefining the meaning of "tax cut" or you might just call it lying through his teeth. This con, ignored by the MSM, is on a par with the infamous "That depends on what the meaning of is is."
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91 diggsDodgers jump ahead early, get back into NLCS with Game 3 win.LOS ANGELES -- Tired of getting brushed back in the NL championship series, Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers came out ready to fight their way back against Philadelphia.
345 diggsA Fox News Channel program last week thrust Andy Martin, widely credited with starting a cyber-whisper campaign about Barack Obama, into the foreground.
393 diggsBecause this or a similar incarnation of this will happen.
396 diggsDumb managers like this need to refresh their training. He leaves the lift up going through a doorway, tipping over the cab and throwing himself out.
521 diggsWhile we have seen glimpses of how the F-35B—the short take-off vertical landing variant of the F-35 Lightning II—works, here's an amazingly detailed video showing its transforming capabilities in flight, which was posted anonymously in YouTube last week. According to Flight Global, this sophisticated war machine—which is now in its testing phase—w
252 diggsSelf-driving cars will never be drunk, tired, or inexperienced. In short, a car that drives as well as the best human drivers would save tens of thousands of lives in the United States and hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. And most likely, we'll be able to do even better than that.
162 diggsFewer people are downloading music from the internet illegally because they are frightened about having their connections cut off, according to new research.
169 diggswhatever works... works
320 diggsCreative melted sings street art in Leeds, UK by FinalFrontier Design.
756 diggsAt just the right height for kids!
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