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October 5 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6241 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 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. 191 diggs 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. 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. 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. 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. 541 diggs 189 diggsAtmosphir is a third person, 3D, platform/adventure game that runs on Linux. 309 diggs 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. 209 diggs 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... 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. 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. 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.... 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. 712 diggs 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: 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. 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. 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. 1563 diggsAn amazing true story of how Obama helped a complete stranger. 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. 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. 344 diggsUmmm When you pull into Burger Kinf this is not the kind of sign you want to see? Epic Fail x 2! 154 diggsThis weekend Bill Maher's "Religulous" earned three times the per screen average of Mark Zucker's Michael Moore parody "American Carol". 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. 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 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. 360 diggs 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. 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." 230 diggsThe Planck length is another thousand or two pixels below the comic.
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