241 diggsNo doubt many of us have all experienced a situation where, after long hours of trying to solve a certain problem, we give up, and go get a break, only to come back and solve the problem within moments.

620 diggsBecause all the other rich people are doing it!

183 diggsComputing power has increased massively over recent years, and for Mac users the switch to Intel processors brought new heights of speed and performance to even the most entry-level Macs. Thanks to the longevity of the average Mac, there are many thousands of older PowerPC machines still in use, dutifully chugging away day after day. And even for

422 diggsSo imagine how excited I am to hear that Tim Burton is filming a live version of Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter. They’ve just started filming here in the UK (I missed the extras casting call by a few weeks which would have been fun!) and there have already been some leaked pictures of Mia Wasikowska....

164 diggsRejected by Yahoo!, outgunned by Google and humiliated by Apple, Microsoft is fighting for its very survivalOn the face of it, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Gordon Brown don't have much in common. One is a plain speaking, unpretentious, horny-handed son of toil who, after what seemed like an eternity, took over the top job from his best friend

60 diggsA new range of bikini with a built-in alarm to warn wearers to get out of the sun when potentially deadly UV rays are too strong for sunbathing has gone on sale in the UK. The bikini works even on cloudy days when people may not be so aware of the sun's danger.

405 diggsSome 55 percent of respondents said they support Obama, compared to 37 percent for McCain. The results represent a dramatic departure from the last Star Tribune Minnesota Poll conducted in September, which showed Obama and McCain deadlocked at 45 percent.

261 diggsGreat piece in Rolling Stone detailing the life of a rich, spoiled brat who has always put himself first and country second.

150 diggsCommitted to the Kyoto Protocol, New Zealand promised to cut its emissions to 1990 levels. The country's biggest source is methane from cattle, and the issue is raising a stink among local farmers. The New Zealand government has come up with the idea of putting a levy on the global-warming emissions of sheep and cows.

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326 diggsThis is the sad story of the Sega Dreamcast. See what made this console a wonderful breakthrough and a disappointing failure at the same time. The fact that I have to submit this under 'Industry News' because there's no Sega section in 'Gaming' lets you know things have really changed in the past 10 years. Part 2/2 is posted below.

118 diggsReusable tote bag? Check. Prius? Check. Rooftop solar panels? Check. In the bid to secure your green bragging rights, you have the usual suspects covered. But what about your personal computer?

152 diggsTen years ago, selling websites was, for all intents and purposes, easy. You needed a royal blue shirt, charcoal grey pants, business cards, and a promise. Everybody needed a website but only a few companies and individuals were providing the service effectively. It was an Economics 101 lesson in supply and demand.

124 diggsA British skydiver has entered the record books as one of the first to parachute jump over Mount Everest towards the world's highest landing zone.

128 diggsIt wasn't a collapse. "Collapse" is too nice of a word. A collapse would mean the Chicago Cubs actually showed up for the NLDS.

241 diggsWant to get rich, but don't have the time or energy to start a business? Or get a job at one? Don't worry! In the era of the internet, any old dumbass can log on and make piles of cash with no effort or skill! That or all of the following programs are complete bullshit.

253 diggsMan, this has been a really weird day.

217 diggsA company collecting royalties on behalf of Hollywood studios has illegally demanded payments from kindergartens in Ireland. The MPLC requested 10 Euros ($14.00) per child per annum, so that they can watch DVDs legally. However, by doing so they breached the 2000 Copyright Act since MPLC failed to register with the Patent Office.

122 diggsGarza is getting diet advice from Manuel Uribe, a fellow Mexican who has been fighting to lose his title as the world's heaviest man. Both men live around the Monterrey area in Mexico. Neither can get out of bed. Although Garza has not been on a scale in years, doctors estimate he could weigh about 990 pounds. He got a call from Uribe...

216 diggsAre you one of those adults who keep a box of Frosted Flakes or Froot Loops hidden in the cupboard? Such sugary cereals are heavily marketed to children, to the tune of about $229 million advertising dollars per year.

139 diggsDr. Kesani advises his patients not only on their health, but their health insurance. Get your coverage lined up before you see me for a diagnosis, he tells them. Dr. Kesani knows this better than anyone…he has diabetes, and he's uninsured.

176 diggsAs money floods in for UK breast cancer and leukaemia research, 80 per cent of people with lung tumours are dying within a year of diagnosis. But, patients suffering from "unfashionable" cancers are being neglected by scientists in spite of record spending on cancer research, according to a new report by the National Cancer Research Institute.

112 diggsTo observe server performance I have a separate monitor on my desk that I use to SSH from terminator with split screen. I usually use trafshow and htop to monitor and occasionally tail -f log messages. Which are mostly enough for basic server monitoring.

163 diggsLosing access to your GMail account is tantamount to banishment from the internet, but Google's non-existent customer support makes it nearly impossible for rightful owners to regain control of their accounts. The New York Times asked Google why they couldn't afford to offer phone-based customer support, a simple question Google needed three people

193 diggsThe oldest-known tracks of a creature apparently using legs have been discovered in rock dated to 570 million years ago in what was once a shallow sea in Nevada.

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189 diggsAtmosphir is a third person, 3D, platform/adventure game that runs on Linux.

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104 diggsWhen doctors urge overweight kids to pick up more activities, reading probably isn't what they have in mind. Yet a new study by obesity researchers at Duke University finds that the simple act of reading — depending on the choice of material — can spur weight loss in tween-age girls.

102 diggsTake a look at the two blurry images below. Can you see an object hidden in each one? Before I give the answers, here’s another question: Do you feel a certain lack of control over events right now?

249 diggsUnbeknownst to most of the world, the late super rich adventurer Steve Fossett had started work on an amazing flying submersible that would one day theoretically touch the stars. More importantly, however, was that the design would have allowed adventurers and scientists alike to venture into the deep ocean

322 diggsFree minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today.

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150 diggsHe was a unique player in the history of the NFL. When the 49ers retire Steve Young's No.8 jersey today at halftime of their game against New England, it will bring his career in San Francisco full circle. He came here via a Bill Walsh-inspired trade in 1987 as little more than a promising oddity and ended up in 1999 as one of the best quarterbacks

554 diggsBy claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign. And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John...

474 diggsHere's the good news: Stephen Colbert is running for president in the Marvel Universe. And, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, the unhinged television superstar is gaining serious momentum.

455 diggsAppearing on NBC's Meet the Press, conservative columnist Peggy Noonan said that the "populist" tactics being deployed by Sarah Palin was "not helpful to the country" and painted her candidacy as built on class warfare.

196 diggsJERUSALEM (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has urged Israel not to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday Kouchner, in the region for talks with Israeli and Palestinian...

457 diggsWe've all been there: you've downloaded an episode of your favorite TV show to watch on your commute or stream to your living room, but the file you downloaded isn't supported on the device you want to use it with. Once a significant obstacle to enjoying your media anywhere, this problem is easily solved by any number of free media converters.

132 diggsWhen you first start hypermiling, I find, you really wish you had someone to ride along with you to show you the ropes. Sadly, that's not yet an option for most people. Until then, we can learn from some of the best.

119 diggsPopWatchers have spoken: Their dream festival would include Driveshaft, Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, Sexual Chocolate, Fingerbang, and lots more

94 diggsPerformance venues love blockbuster events, but not the kind that are currently affecting their naming-rights partners. The stunning takeovers of big banks like Washington Mutual (WaMu) and Wachovia are forcing venues with long-term naming-rights deals with these institutions to grapple with unexpected branding challenges.

325 diggsAn Australian scientist has developed a new method of manufacturing solar cells using nothing more than some nail polish remover, a pizza oven and a standard inkjet printer. The iJET technique is so easy and cheap to carry out that it could revolutionize access to solar technology in the developing world.

344 diggsYou have never distanced yourself from a radical secessionist movement aimed at the breaking up of the Federal Union. You, Governor, have never stated a single time that the AIP is not only wrong-headed, but outright dangerous. Instead, you have videotaped welcoming comments for their annual conventions. Instead, you have a "close association" with

294 diggsPaul Begala responds to McCain/ Palin attempts to associate Barack obama with 60's radical William Ayers. John McCain sat on the board of the ultra-right wing racist group, US Council for World Freedom, described as a point of contact for extremists, racists, and anti-semites.Does McCain really want to play the "guilt by association" game?

97 diggsBuffalo, N.Y., gets cold during the winter. Really cold. Yet the typical Buffalo family will spend $333 less to heat a home this year than families in Boston do or ones in Washington, D.C. Read why...

237 diggsLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's commander in Afghanistan has said the war against the Taliban cannot be won, the Sunday Times reported. It quoted Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith as saying in an interview that if the Taliban were willing to talk....

136 diggsPaul Newman was deeply involved in the business of winning races as a car owner, but he never quit driving.

94 diggsA legislative mandate to educate student athletes about the dangers of performance-enhancing drugs will bolster New Jersey’s school steroid testing initiative.

147 diggsIf you have some spare cash and are looking for that final piece of Brett Favre memorabilia to complete your collection, the former Green Bay Packers quarterback’s home is on the market.

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123 diggsPages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.

858 diggsRick roll'd

917 diggsShe added that Palin decided to "give a stump speech" instead of a debate, and that there's "little a moderator can do" to stop that. Watch:

263 diggsThese common mistakes can ruin your computer or invite identity theft

202 diggsGround control to Major Tom

142 diggsA new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.

127 diggsApparently the dictionary needs to make room for 2,000 new words. They must be trying to embrangle us with that many new words I think. Or, maybe it will just make us all more nitid?

232 diggsEntry showing that John McCain questioned whether Osama bin Laden was a bad guy in September 1998, right after the August 7th, 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda.

196 diggsIt was just a matter of time before Kimbo got exposed. He was little more than a character out of central casting, a bunch of addictive YouTube videos and a lot of insane hype by CBS, which made him a headliner before he made himself a fighter...

151 diggsWas browsing Flickr when I came across this awesome looking cake. Don't know much about cake designs but I thought this was pretty well done.

180 diggsMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven Iraqis were killed on Sunday during a U.S. raid on a home in northern Iraq in which a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among civilians inside, the U.S. military said. A U.S. military spokesman said it was not...

394 diggsCan a presidential candidate justify a long and friendly relationship with someone who, back in the '70s, extolled violence and committed crimes in the name of a radical ideology -- and who has never shown remorse or admitted error? When the candidate in question is Obama, McCain says no. But when the candidate in question is himself, he's not sure

354 diggsBugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned - as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms.

270 diggsSony's PSP is currently getting its butt handed to it by the Nintendo DS, but don't tell that to Sega. With its upcoming Sega Vision PMP

141 diggsRussia is a big country and trains are widely used all across it. See some of them from Russia and nearest ex-Soviet states.

346 diggsKevin John Pinto, a 37-year-old investment executive has been charged with 10 counts of robbery. The vice president and compliance officer at Paradigm Capital

119 diggsThe good news and the bad news. The good news is that Linux can do Hibernate fairly well. AND there are even GUIS to help you configure Hibernate. The bad news is that Linux is a ways away from any sort of reliable Suspend.

1563 diggsAn amazing true story of how Obama helped a complete stranger.

199 diggsA woman had a rude awakening when she discovered a hidden camera in her room. Since reporting the incident it has been revealed that a suburban Philadelphia landlord secretly videotaped 34 female tenants over two decades after hiding cameras in their apartments.

120 diggsLast month Adam showed you six Firefox extensions that enable Chrome's best features, but today reader Asian Angel takes it a few steps further and creates an almost identical-looking Chrome clone using 10 Firefox extensions and one theme.

230 diggsFear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) is one of the oldest, and perhaps most effective anti-piracy strategies. MPAA’s “You can click, but you can’t hide” campaign is perhaps one of the best known examples. Today, we take a peek at how FUD is used by universities to counter campus piracy.

222 diggs"When indie musician Todd Baechle married Orenda Fink, he made a decision that rocked some worlds. He took his wife's last name."

154 diggsGreat mix & gallery, from multiple sports. From Johan Santana (NY Mets, 2008), Curt Schilling (Red Sox, 2004) to Michael Jordan (1997), Kirk Gibson (1998), Willis Reed (1970), Ben Hogan (1950), a lot more.

159 diggsThe United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming." The "Child Safe Viewing Act" (S. 602) was sponsored by Senator Mark Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas.

236 diggsAn interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web. Right now the Chrome Terms of Service prevents Google from indexing private data. But when you consider that Chrome was initially presented as a browser for applications, instead of just web pages, this theory begins to make more sense.

344 diggsUmmm When you pull into Burger Kinf this is not the kind of sign you want to see? Epic Fail x 2!

81 diggsIn a nearly flawless performance, Eli Manning threw two touchdowns, Brandon Jacobs ran for two more and the unbeaten Giants scored on their first five possessions in a 44-6 victory that embarrassed the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.

154 diggsThis weekend Bill Maher's "Religulous" earned three times the per screen average of Mark Zucker's Michael Moore parody "American Carol".

313 diggsOnce again, there were dueling rallies here in Anchorage. The McCain-Palin rally was held in the just-completed Dena'ina Convention Center in downtown Anchorage. The Obama rally was held outside, just a couple blocks away, at the Delaney Park Strip.

312 diggsMore contaminated Chinese candy was discovered in the U.S. on Wednesday, this time in Connecticut, where consumer protection officials issued a public warning against eating the sticky sweet. In China, meanwhile, a couple filed a lawsuit against the company at the center of the scandal despite efforts by the authorities to keep it out of the courts

352 diggsThese women do not exist. They each are a composite of about 30 faces that I created to find out the current standard of good looks on the Internet. I collected some photos from Hot or Not, sorted them by rank and created multi-morph composites from them. What can be concluded about good looks from these virtual faces? Read on...

166 diggsA Russian cosmonaut says alcohol should be allowed in space. Salizhan Sharipov, who has just returned from the International Space Station, said an occasional tipple would help cosmonauts relax. Speaking at a press conference, Sharipov said it would be 'desirable' to have 50mm of wine or cognac per day.

146 diggsATI gave a glimpse of where it's headed in 2009 at Japan's Ceatec conference, and the company has big plans for 2009. DirectX 11, 40nm GPUs, improved GPGPU support, and a free monkey with every Radeon HD purchase.

209 diggsIn real life, plenty of mad and not-so-mad scientists have played with human and animal bodies (and body parts) to gain a greater understanding of the limits on life. Here are 8 real-life scientists who have performed shocking experiments on the nature life and death.

249 diggsWelcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together.

333 diggsWhile there are real celebrities who have used Twitter, everyone from singer Sarah Bareilles to former Star Trek star Wil Wheaton, there are even more celebrity accounts that don’t really connect to real famous folks. And in honor of the faux stars of Twitter, I would like to present a list of the 8 Most Entertaining Fake Twitter Users.

188 diggsIn this edition of our Monday Inspiration series, we present 60 examples of beautiful smoke photography and smoke art: a round-up of some of the best examples of photos and artworks where smoke dominates.

184 diggs"Sarah Palin's debate performance, reduced to its essence.""Here's my latest video remix, this time of America's latest sweetheart/demagogue." from http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/05/sarah-palin-in-30-se.html ...

414 diggsIt sounds like something you'd have to be a pro to attempt, but taking pictures of the heavens is easy to do with the even the simplest of set-ups. Here are some tips for getting the best results when you tilt your camera towards the heavens.

232 diggsChemicals used in the environment to kill bacteria could be making them stronger. Low levels of these chemicals, called biocides, can make the potentially lethal bacterium Staphylococcus aureus remove toxic chemicals from the cell even more efficiently, potentially making it resistant to being killed by some antibiotics.

421 diggsFor all the doubters out there, photographic evidence of His return. Hooray up and get your ass to church now, before you seem like you're just jumping on the bandwagon.

91 diggsSo it was in 1978 that when the proton beam entered Anatoli Bugorski's skull it measured about 200,000 rads, and when it exited, having collided with the inside of his head, it weighed in at about 300,000 rads.

267 diggsA £200m floating fortress: An artist's impression of the new yacht displays its impressive size and defence capabilities

339 diggsAn appropriations bill signed by President Bush last week allows the controversial National Applications Office to begin operating a stringently limited version of a program that would turn military spy satellites on the US, sharing imagery with other federal, state, and local government agencies.

514 diggsNew regulations at U.S. supermarkets are giving consumers the knowledge they have been asking for—where the fresh food they buy originates.

129 diggsEveryday we see many beautiful WordPress themes, many are good and only a little are just one of a kind. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. Today we present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive.

65 diggsDeveloped for the Foresight Tackling Obesities project, this causal loop map was designed to provide systemic insight into the multiplicity of factors contributing to the obesity epidemic.

230 diggsConsoles, cartridges, and a host of game-related media will be preserved for future generations.

318 diggsReal has been ordered to temporarily suspend distribution of its new DVD ripping and archiving product, RealDVD, thanks to a lawsuit filed by the MPAA claiming that it facilitates copyright infringement. In the meantime, consumers will continue using the countless free DVD-ripping applications available online.

121 diggsFood vs. biofuel, with a new twist! Now that biodiesel is cost-competitive with its petroleum cousin, algae-farms have been popping up all over Arizona and other warm areas. But this Arizona shrimp farm has an advantage: his shrimp already eat algae, so he knows exactly how to grow it.

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220 diggs“The sun is the biggest and therefore smoothest object in the solar system, perfect at the 0.001% level because of its extremely strong gravity,” says study co-author Hugh Hudson of UC Berkeley. “Measuring its exact shape is no easy task.”

499 diggsThe current economic crisis demands that we understand John McCain's attitudes about economic oversight and corporate influence in federal regulation. Nothing illustrates the danger of his approach more clearly than his central role in the savings and loan scandal of the late '80s and early '90s.

257 diggsSenator Herb Kohl is worried about the impact of Yahoo's deal with Google, which will see the latter place ads on the search results pages of the former. The two companies have decided to delay the deal's implementation until Justice finishes its investigation.

119 diggs"The $20.2 billion NASA budget for 2009 includes $2.6 billion more than President Bush requested. The additional funds will pay for at least one more shuttle flight than currently planned . . . The legislation also extends a waiver allowing the United States to purchase seats for astronauts on Russian Soyuz spacecraft until 2016."

269 diggsSee the full-length video at http://KeatingEconomics.com starting @ noon Eastern on 10/5. KEATING ECONOMICS: The story of John McCain and the making of a financial crisis.

230 diggsThe Planck length is another thousand or two pixels below the comic.

168 diggsFrom 2010 to 2015, the U.S. will have no human space flight capacity of its own, and will rely on Russia to carry its astronauts to space.

266 diggsThe basic proposition behind the science of climate change is so firmly rooted in the laws of physics that no reasonable person can dispute it. Adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere will make it warm up. The world's most outspoken climatologist argues that today's carbon dioxide levels are already dangerously too high. What can we do?

233 diggsPlans to construct what could become the world's tallest building, at more than 1km high, have been unveiled. Dubai developer Nakheel said the structure will be the centre-piece of an inner-city harbour set to become the emirate's new capital.

469 diggsSeven aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have reversed course and agreed to testify in an investigation into whether the Republican vice presidential nominee abused her powers by firing a commissioner who refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law.

136 diggsYou want the scoop on this autumn's best gaming experiences, and we have it. Check out PC World's list of 15 don't-miss games and the reasons why our experts picked them.

248 diggsThe post break-up period can be terrible. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the eight best musical albums to listen to while you put your ex behind you. You want a soundtrack for your sadness, but what should you put on? Coming from an indie-rock prick who faces this dilemma all too often, here are some suggestions:

688 diggsSeemingly a laughing matter...

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351 diggsA cab driver did a double-take when a customer asked to be driven 1,200km (740 miles) from Portsmouth to Munich. The cab driver agreed to take the passenger in his 30s on the 17-hour trip – at a cost of £1,950. The passenger explained he had to get to the Munich beer fest as soon as possible as he had missed a flight for his friend's stag night.

170 diggsIt’s always the simple things that get me.OK, maybe you don’t find that equation as fascinating as I do.But I also get distracted by shiny objects and Wheel of Fortune.