117 diggsDallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones got into a fight with one of his security guards at a downtown Dallas hotel on Wednesday morning... coincidentally Commissioner Goodell visited the Cowboys Wednesday as well.

308 diggsAfter reading an XKCD cartoon about a youtube "virus", Google actually decided to impliment it for real.

206 diggsThe Inquisitr claims that some Apple retailers have already been given price lists for Apple's upcoming laptops and that there are 12 price points ranging from $800 to $3100. Current laptops are said to have only have 8 retail price points: 3 Macbooks (starting at $1099), 3 Macbook Pros and 2 Macb...

168 diggsA team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon.

650 diggsI'm already tired of hearing these guys talk, but that caught my ear. A $3 million dollar projector? What does that even look like? Gearlog did some digging and found out that appropriation was requested by the planetarium to replace an awesome (but obsolete) 40-year old Zeiss Mark VI star projector with a newer model. . .

139 diggsPHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies are running around the clubhouse busy with playoff preparations. There are scouting reports to pore over. Videotape to watch. Last-minute ticket requests.

196 diggseBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people %u2013 10% of its workforce %u2013 redundant, it has had to own up to a serious breach of trust with its Internet telephony program, Skype.

235 diggsDigg founder Kevin Rose has admitted he is hugely excited about the role technology is playing in the US presidential election race - telling TechRadar he can't wait to see how much more important it will be in four years time.

143 diggsSo, if biofuels are here to stay, how can the global community prevent millions of people from falling into famine due to competition of food land with biofuel land when biofuel land turns out to be more profitable?

405 diggsDespite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.

459 diggsDigg founder Kevin Rose said the social news recommendation site is not doing enough to reach people with niche interests, which will be key to keeping users engaged. Over the next two years or so, Digg's engineers will focus on ways to link users with similar interests and create tools that allow them to share news that's not necessarily of broad

101 diggsIn the arena of politics, celebrity endorsements are everything. Take out mudslinging, avoiding policy questions, rhythmic chanting, photo ops and hollow rhetoric, and what’s left? Just pandering, fear mongering, and celebrity endorsements. Clearly, getting whiny, shallow actors to say they like you is a key part of the process.

364 diggs"Any assumption that the military vote is overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican Party -- based on demographics alone -- is suspect," said retired Navy Capt. Don Inbody. Enlisted personnel mirror the general population, which could result in a 2:1 advantage for Obama in military communities if his campaign isn't "tone deaf" to the potential.

158 diggsA German farmer who received the world's first complete double arm transplant is recovering well and able to perform some basic tasks, though doctors said Wednesday it still could take up to two years before he relearns how to use his hands.

503 diggsAt the debate Tuesday, John McCain was full of big promises and slick talk. He told us he could fix bad mortgages with a snap of his fingers, fix health care at no net cost, and maintain the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, all while cutting taxes. He tried to reassure us about Osama bin Laden, saying, "I know how to get him." Huh. So where's he been?

173 diggsA photo of a mysterious notebook leaked on the Internet Wednesday is indeed one taken of Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro casing, AppleInsider can confirm. Meanwhile, some additional photos of a similar, but still unauthenticated 13-inch notebook have since surfaced.

83 diggsIt seems like the inevitable comedic summit of this fall's presidential campaign: the real Sarah Palin coming on "Saturday Night Live" to meet her look-alike impersonator, Tina Fey.

458 diggsSt. Petersburgh Times editorial, after the McCain/Palin hurricane blew through: McCain recklessly floats unfocused big ideas and leaves them hanging in the air without explanation. He repeated his pledge from the first debate to freeze federal spending ... but said he'd ask taxpayers to foot the bill for bad lending practices. Eh?

285 diggsThe BBC has announced that iPlayer is now compatible with an impressively wide range of portable devices – pretty much any portable media player (PMP) that supports Windows Media-protected content. This is the first time that we can play BBC iPlayer TV programmes on a range of portable media devices.

200 diggsScientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we don't know about the secrets hidden in our genome and that of other animals.

202 diggsPrivacy mode, address bar changes to come later, but Beta 1 slated to ship next week

732 diggsPierre Omidyar, the one-and-only founder of eBay, didn't much appreciate John McCain's tip of the hat in last night's debate to Meg Whitman, eBay's former CEO. "Meg Whitman was CEO of a company which started with 12 people," McCain said, which rather riled Omidyar. Omidyar started the company by himself in September 1995; Whitman joined in March 19

56 diggsIn 2012, Vega will carry ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle into space. The vehicle will then return to Earth to test a range of enabling systems and technologies for atmospheric re-entry. A new video with computer generated animations of the vehicle and its mission is now available.

99 diggsScientists from the Universities of Bath and Exeter have developed a rapid new way of checking for toxic genes in disease-causing bacteria which infect insects and humans. Their findings could in the future lead to new vaccines and anti-bacterial drugs.

145 diggs

95 diggsA scientist in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt believes he has uncovered tracks from the world's oldest dinosaur. But the footprints at the center of the find have sparked a major debate among scientists...

1114 diggsFile this one under the "give 'em enough rope" column. A pro-Obama blogger in Ohio caught McCain-Palin supporters as they streamed into a rally and asked some of the most salient questions of the day. Like, "is Obama a terrorist?"

303 diggsPalin connection to Alaska Independence Party - Radical hypocrit

291 diggs

239 diggsWhich frivolous items actually see an increase in sales during an economic downturn? You may be surprised by the results.

693 diggsA Canadian man who was attacked by a bear while walking his dogs survived only after crushing the creature's skull with a stick. British Columbia resident Jim West needed 60 stitches on his head and body to close wounds from the terrifying attack.

405 diggsMan, how about that new South Park last night? So much rape and dick-shooting. I couldn't even count all the rapes and the dick-shootings. I had a score-card for rapes and dick-shootings and I ran out of check-boxes.

634 diggsThe rumors were true folks. Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in San Francisco next Tuesday, October 14th. It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops.

164 diggsDARPA is soliciting concept proposals for a submersible aircraft.

102 diggsSo ABC will take millions of dollars from oil companies to run misleading energy ads, but they refuse to run one truthful ad from the Alliance for Climate Protection’s Repower America:

247 diggsIf the U.S. sinks into a depression, you might want to think about spending the next ten years elsewhere. Why suffer needlessly? Our new series will explain, Maher-style, where you might want to go next.

144 diggsAs the pro-hockey season begins, many rookies face a moment of truth: Have they made the cut for the National Hockey League, or will they be sent down to the development league? For one rookie, the answer comes after months of work....

563 diggsJust thought you should know...

165 diggsThe US Department Of Energy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.2 million contract to construct a thermal piping system to capture the ocean’s absorbed solar heat. The energy produced could be used to generate electricity or to fuel desalination.Scientists developed the concept in the 70’s, but the technology has not been commercially viable so far.

193 diggsIn the next week or so, we’ll be closing down the podcasts section and folding it into the video section of Digg. We’ll also be retiring the old Digg Spy. Both of these features have become outmoded as Digg has grown. Read the blog for the full story, explaining why both features are being removed.

135 diggsWhat with all the athletes and C-list celebs getting arrested recently, the network has decided to create a jailhouse version of "Dancing With the Stars." We've discovered the list of competitors, including OJ Simpson, Mindy McCready, Quinton Jackson, Heather Locklear and Reby Sky.

206 diggsWriter/director David Goyer gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a, you guessed it, hottie.

174 diggsNASA's been tracking the thinning of the ozone layer the south pole for nearly 20 years. In this slowed-down animation, you can watch the ozone hole's averag...

307 diggsAfter word dropped that Rickrolling phenomenon Rick Astley had been included in MTV Europe's laughable Best Act Ever category, to be decided by online polling and awarded at the network's gala in November, some resourceful individuals wasted little time in scripting stratagems designed to stuff the virtual ballot box to secure his victory.

330 diggsIf you're going to market your expertise by inviting 1,200 IT professionals to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information, it's probably a good idea to protect their personal information. On Tuesday, Verizon forgot that advice and blasted each of the1,200 e-mail addresses to everyone on the list … 17 times. Oops.

237 diggsGreen Day are working on new material with former Nirvana producer and Garbage drummer Butch Vig, according to Vig's bandmate Shirley Manson.

209 diggsThe French government today earmarked a massive €400 million ($549 million) in state support for the development of electric and hybrid cars. The news comes hot on the heels of electric car committments from Renault and Peugeot-Citroen that signal a major shift in green transport policy across the country.

538 diggsShouts of "terrorist" and even accusations of "treason" aimed at Barack Obama have echoed around Republican rallies, whipped up into alarming, hate-filled frenzies against the Democratic White House hopeful. One banner in the crowd declared: "Go ahead, let the dogs out."

373 diggsBritain's oldest virgin has revealed the secret of her longevity on the eve of her 105th birthday - no sex.

260 diggsThis map shows areas on the globe where there are disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field. Here, red indicates a stronger magnetic tug, and blue a weaker one (white lines are the edges of tectonic plates).

142 diggsThe RIAA sends out pre-settlement letters and lawsuits to all manner of students accused of file-sharing across the US. Some schools, as we’ve covered in our Tackling College Piracy series, have capitulated. Others, like University of California Santa Cruz, have fought back.

162 diggsWith "Quantum of Solace," the much-anticipated follow-up to "Casino Royale," hitting theaters on November 14, here's an Interesting and entertaining article that discusses how so, SO many spy movies have derived the majority of their style and premise from James Bond's iconic image. Enjoy!

168 diggsLeaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have finally released their highly-anticipated draft legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

184 diggsWe all know that this is one of the best selling video releases of all time, but should you empty your wallet for the super duper extra expensive "Ultimate 2-Disc Edition"? Or should you stick to the regular plain old opposite of ultimate 1-disc normal edition?

197 diggsCan an adaptation be too faithful to its source material? It's clear that fans of the graphic novel will likely love Snyder's adaption, but will a mainstream audience unfamiliar with the book get it?Here are 10 reasons I think mainstream audiences will ignore Watchmen.

196 diggsI’m amazed how much money these bank bailout guys can burn through.

502 diggsApple on Thursday sent out press invitations with the tease, The spotlight turns to notebooks -- and all signs are pointing toward the launch of a sub-$1,000 Mac notebook.

291 diggs

162 diggsChina successfully launched three taikonauts into Earth orbit and, on September 27th, the first Chinese national (41 year old fighter pilot Zhai Zhigang) walked in space. It can therefore be expected, as with space flight achievements by the US and Russia before, there will be some conspiracy theories out there…

271 diggsCollegeWikis secures $2 million to make old-fashioned email groups a thing of the past

126 diggsWe’re used to seeing stunning images of cascading waterfalls in all their fluid glory, but have you ever wondered how they would look if Jack Frost was let loose on them? Well, you need wait no longer as we have compiled a range of fantastic frozen waterfalls.

143 diggsKevin Rose is one of the co-founders of Digg, the hugely popular social news site. I interviewed Kevin about his expansion plans and we chatted about what sort of content makes it big and what his view of the best way to get noticed is. So what makes The Perfect Digg Story? Here is a list of top tips

596 diggsThis is what's wrong with America ;-)

222 diggsThe media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do ...

428 diggs"When she came into office, they made this big deal out of her firing all the corrupt people. So who gets the jobs that were just all opened up? It ends up, it’s all people from her church. They get the jobs at the hospital and they get abortion out of the hospital; [they] pretty much enforced their own rules."

311 diggsRight from the General's lips to your ears.

85 diggsUbuntu's always been popular with users, but not so much with server managers. Now, with Wikipedia moving from a hodge-podge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS that may be changing.

95 diggsFor the first time, it is possible to actually watch the initial 24 hours of the life of an embryo at the cellular level. pwh

492 diggsStocks have stepped up their selling in the final hour of trading. The Dow Jones industrial average is off more than 600 points, dropping below the 9,000 mark for the first time in five years.

95 diggsThe Winners: Marlins and Rays, The Losers: Yankees and the Mariners

1295 diggs-_-

1366 diggsHe's gonna be thinking long and hard about what he's done...

280 diggsThe more we reflect on the pleasures of life, the more we miss the greatest consolation that used to be provided by religious belief: the promise that our lives will continue after death. As religious belief weakens, more and more of us know that after death there is nothing. Living without God isn't easy. But it offers an important consolation.

524 diggsKevin Rose talks at FOWA 08 (London) about where Digg has gone wrong and highlights unanswered questions in social news

381 diggsIn the 1960s the space race created a fascination with science and great technological advances. To find alien life we need to take back up that mantle, says astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, and send people further into space.

160 diggsAtheist, beware.

389 diggsThe only man accused of Britain's biggest bank robbery walked free from court yesterday after the collapse of his trial.

207 diggsWe know what you're thinking: "Why start now?" But seriously, 2008–2009 might have enough going for it to convert those who don't end every sentence with "eh?"

155 diggsDC Comics President Paul Levitz gives a brief update on Superman, Batman 3 and Green Lantern movies.

348 diggsWith some games, ESRB ratings can be either too damning, or not restrictive enough. Mass Effect gets an M rating for fictional alien violence, but Call of Duty doesn't? If the ESRB wants to properly police video games in the future, we have a batch of NEW ratings that should be implemented immediately. Too bad, these 10 ESRB ratings don't exist yet

164 diggsPaul Kedrosky , financial blogger and strategist at Ten Asset Management, posits an interesting thesis. Because this whole crisis came about because of a lack of financial transparency, he says, there's going to be a big push for financial information democratization. And who better to benefit from that than tech companies?

156 diggsThese are not the first banks in the world, which trace back to early lending from priests to merchants in 18th century B.C. Babylon and up through the Roman empire, but rather these are five of the oldest surviving banks in the world, and they each tell a story.

199 diggsEven the most environmentally-conscious among us use batteries containing toxic heavy metals on a daily basis. But a discovery made by chemists at Oxford University could one day lead to cleaner batteries for everyone.

329 diggsWhy so serious? Because Woody as the Joker is even creepier than Heath Ledger.

233 diggsThis August The Pirate Bay was “censored” in Italy following a decree from a public prosecutor. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court case. Earlier this week the Court of Bergamo detailed its decision, and ruled that no foreign website can be censored for alleged copyright infringement.

177 diggsIn a move that mimics the huge decline in energy prices over the summer, food prices are now falling off and providing some much needed relief to downtrodden consumers.

187 diggsLinux has come a long way in those intervening 17 years, which are a bit like dog years with respect to how computer technology (both hardware and software) moves at an accelerated pace compared to other technologies and areas of the economy. It is hard to say if Linux is middle-aged or not, since the successors to OS/360 are still around...

261 diggsnly China is has a greater thirst, but they also have an extra billion people's thirst to quench so with only one fourth of the population, we certainly hold our own.

166 diggsThese tips and others on ocean-friendly sushi are now available in pocket guides that are being published this month by three conservation groups. The sustainability guides are the first specifically for sushi, listing fish by their Japanese and English names.

305 diggsPhotographer: Eric Rolph

101 diggsTony Hawk recently got to spend some time with Iron Man director (and star of Swingers) Jon Favreau while shooting for a new season of Iconoclasts. He managed to snag my own footage (and interview) with Jon and visit the Stan Winston visual effects studio responsible for the actual Iron Man suits and almost every other awesome movie ever.

93 diggsThe following 5 games will make you think, as they are just TOO bizarre to sit comfortably with our sense of what’s acceptable, observe...

211 diggsWe all know about Lewis Caroll and his habits but some of these might come as a surprise.

236 diggsWho's a cute penggy....

475 diggsThis has not been reported by the mainstream media. DailySource has found a video of Palin lying about her reason for firing the police chief in Troopergate. A clip shows Palin claiming she fired Monegan for his weakness in one area; another shows her saying she offered him a new job right after firing him because he was strong in that same area.

159 diggsLost among the flurry of speculation surrounding new MacBooks are a number of noteworthy observations about the portables that may lend insight into their design.

71 diggsStealing a page from Bill Clinton's book I suppose.

184 diggs9 amazing Flash created sites featured in Adobe Edge.

313 diggsParker and Stone tried to warn Spielberg and Lucas from even making a fourth "Indiana Jones" flick. Back in 2002, the series took the two to task for re-editing their films for the worse, hoping to prevent a ruining of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." But was continually, and graphically, having Spielberg and Lucas rape Indiana going too far?

343 diggsFor the first time, professional-grade single-lens reflex cameras are gaining the ability to record high-definition video. That capability, photographers say, has the potential to transform both still photography and moviemaking

227 diggsHow will our generation handle a Great Depression?

137 diggsEven the recent $900 billion bailout package included $1.5 billion for clean coal. Because coal is so plentiful and relatively cheap in the US, the notion of clean coal is particularly appealing. Unfortunately, clean coal is a myth.

178 diggsQuick! Cut the red one!

422 diggsKentucky Governor Steve Beshear is trying to seize the domain names of 141 offshore Internet poker and gambling sites, claiming that they're "stealing" business from Kentucky's horse racing industry. He plans to hold these domains hostage to force these companies to pay millions in damages. Fortunately, many freedom-lovers are fighting back!

255 diggsWe hope you got tickets ...

165 diggsThe Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the hugely successful Wikipedia project, is migrating all of its server infrastructure to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. This move reflects the growing viability of Ubuntu for enterprise-scale server deployments.

200 diggsFor years scientists have tried — and failed — to engineer materials that would enable robots to mimic the gecko’s ability to scale walls, windows and seemingly any other surface.

164 diggsA very nice collection of work that might inspire new designers as well as established ones.

282 diggsExtremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. "Her door was open," says Chryson -- and still is.

315 diggsQuick list: UrlbarExt, Errorzilla Plus, Picture in Picture, FlickrSendr, You Old Enough?, TV Manager

117 diggsThe rumors are true: Banksy is — or was, or has been — in town, and he’s doing more than just painting, or hiding. For the last few weeks aficionados of street art have been atwitter with sightings of work by this secretive British artist. Several of his murals, all featuring giant rats, have popped up on walls and billboards in Lower Manhattan.

117 diggsWhere there are eyeballs, there are usually ads. And the most eye-catching gadget of late has been the iPhone, which can now run thousands of software programs available at Apple's App store.More than 100 million apps have been downloaded since the store launched in July, according to Apple Those numbers have caught the attention

115 diggsIt’s official - I’m buying one. After just a single ride on Zuumcraft’s new Zuumer Electric Scooter, I’ve just put my $250 down payment for my very own unit. Why? Because the Zuumer is the single most innovative, most useful, and most fun VLEV (Very Light Electric Vehicle) that I’ve ever ridden, and I’ve tried a few. Check out the review.

270 diggsOxford, United Kingdom: The potential health risks associated with cannabis are less than those associated with alcohol and do not justify the continued criminalization of the plant or its users, according to a report published last week by The Beckley Foundation - an independent British think-tank that analyzes drug use and drug policy.

103 diggsAs if riding a unicycle wasn't embarrassing enough, this idiot screams out before he faceplants onto a short deck.

163 diggsPhillies power past Dodgers in Game 1

189 diggsThings are changing in the Mortal Kombat universe. The game has been through quite a few iterations over the last 15 years, but the upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe will be the most jarring: It adds superheroes, and eschews the game's traditional Mature branding.

527 diggsWe didn't even get to the continued fractions!

204 diggsIrregular galaxy NGC 55 is thought to be similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). But while the LMC is about 180,000 light-years away and is a well known satellite of our own Milky Way Galaxy, NGC 55 is more like 6 million light-years distant and is a member of the Sculptor Galaxy Group

116 diggs“There is a global meltdown coming. It is global depression. And one world currency and one world financial system is the endgame.” Glen Beck Says, “China said last week they want one global currency. France said yesterday … they want one world order - a new world order at the end of this event.

189 diggsJust how do you best monetize the strikingly popular social network? The CEO reckons they'll have that problem licked in about three years.

228 diggsA team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon.

380 diggsThey aren't the only people that play the damn guitar. In fact, there are several artists who, on any given night, can burn any given venue to the GROUND using nothing more then their guitar shredding abilities.

433 diggsThe grunge movement in design combines rips, tears, decay, smears and scratches to form a dark and gritty result. Here we've collected fifty of the best ever Photoshop grunge tutorials for your enjoyment and education.