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May 10 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14110 diggsMicrosoft is launching a programme to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs but only tose with limited hardware capabilities. In its effort to undermine Linux it is condemning people to machines with poorer functionality and performance than the open source alternative 167 diggsThe Clintons should be ashamed of themselves for deliberately trying to wreck the presidential prospects of their party’s likely nominee. 233 diggsThe Clinton's have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully. Their repertoire has always been deficient in grace and class. So there was Hillary cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by “hard-working Americans, white Americans,” “There’s a pattern emerging here,” said Mrs. Clinton. There is, indeed... 67 diggsA new outpatient laser procedure could eliminate the need for radiation treatment for cancer of the larynx if the tumors are detected early. 82 diggsMoving beyond Second Life marketing, many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers, and recruiting 246 diggsThe fact they don't -- despite spending more time looking at the sky than anyone -- is what Bad Astronomy blogger Phil Plait calls *his* favorite reason for not believing that UFOs are alien spacecraft. Plait also shares another writer's "snarky" list of Top 10 reasons not to believe. Tin-foil brigade howling in 4, 3, 2, 1 ... 199 diggsIn gametrailers' recent comparison of GRID, a new racing game for the 360 and PS3, they claim the 360 version of the game does much better handling crash physics. The problem is the image they used has a triangle, R1, and R2 button explaining the control scheme in the left hand corner. What the hell? 322 diggsAn amazing series of photographs documenting the first three months of a cute panda bear's growth. 70 diggsAn online review of a coming Indiana Jones movie by Steven Spielberg has breached the film’s tight security. 47 diggs"I love experiencing the feelings that come up when you connect with each individual person," said cuddle party-goer Linda Hunter at a recent Phoenixville party. 99 diggsFort Worth defense attorney Trey Loftin told CBS 11 News, "We're a gun toting state. We have a lot of John Wayne in our blood. We're gonna shoot first and ask questions later." 113 diggsCould ancient life be living today? Locked miles beneath the Antarctic surface, these lakes have not touched our atmosphere for millions of years. What will we find there? 28 diggsA digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee's lovely song "Again & Again". The set? His Mac desktop. You sort of have to see it for yourself to understand; luckily, Dennis has dropped it on YouTube so that the world can see it in low-res glory. 229 diggsJamie Leigh Jones can take gang rape case to trial, says a federal judge. 79 diggsElyn recounts the florid visions she has experienced during her lifelong battle with schizophrenia, dancing ashtrays, houses that spoke to her, and hospitalizations where she was strapped down with leather restraints and force-fed medications...their talk is part of a conversation about mental illness, “extreme mental states...Members of the mad 185 diggsYou know SELinux is built to be virtually attack-proof, but do you know how the National Security Agency (NSA) accomplish it? Take a closer look at the SELinux kernel architecture, why this is important, and what makes SELinux one of the most secure implementations of Linux available. 113 diggsAfter falling victim to a domain and brand hijacking, Shareaza is fighting back at the scammers, assisted by the Software Freedom Law Centre, the EFF and Richard Stallman. In further great news for BitTorrent fans, Shareaza will introduce improved BitTorrent support into version 3 of the application. 131 diggsA Vietnamese man in Norway lost around 35,000 dollars after he was led to believe that mixing the cash with a special liquid would double its value. 84 diggsRhett Lamb, 3, is often irritable, but it's not just the routine growing pains of a toddler's life that has affected him. It's the fact that Rhett can't sleep. 195 diggsYou've decided to go see a movie and grab a bite to eat afterward. You're in the mood for a comedy and some incredibly spicy Mexican food. Booting up your PC, you open a Web browser and head to Google to search for theater, movie and restaurant information. 220 diggsEnergy company Sunrgi recently announced an astounding new solar system that will break our grids free from the fossil fuel lockdown. Their Xtreme Concentrated Photovoltaics promise a low-cost, high-efficiency system with an incredible projected energy pricing of 5 cents per kilowatt. This puts solar on par with the cost of coal, natural gas, etc.. 553 diggs 212 diggsOften seen as the last reliable sources for iPhones, Apple's online stores in the US and UK have stopped taking orders for any model of the device. 131 diggsThe McCain campaign recently tapped Doug Goodyear to manage this summer's GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn. Goodyear is the CEO of DCI Group, a firm that was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma's military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today. 226 diggsSpanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through Second Life designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem. "This idea started as a way to connect real health professionals and adolescents and to give internet users a reliable space to get health advice." 107 diggsWho are the neoconservatives? The first generation were ex-liberals, socialists, and Trotskyites, boat-people from the McGovern revolution who rafted over to the GOP at the end of conservatism’s long march to power with Ronald Reagan in 1980. 259 diggs 142 diggsJohn McCain refuses to support the highly popular and necessary New GI Bill for veterans and has proposed a very watered down version, which is strongly opposed by VETERANS. This story details why John McCain is wrong on this issue and wrong for VETERANS. This is one thing McCain needs to FLIP-FLOP on for VETERANS and America. 189 diggs"Give me an inch, and I'll take your yard" 73 diggsIt seems like a peculiar case of genomic overkill: a single-celled bacterium has been found that keeps tens of thousands of copies of its genome. 140 diggsSign on front yard. Odd mother’s day gift? Or (as imagined in caption) fed up mom finally asserting herself? Or simply strange family with complex parking issues? Whatever, seems an appropriately amusing & enigmatic pic for Mother's Day... 477 diggsPoor goat. 108 diggsThe History of Computing Project is a collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the computer and its roots. The timeline covers prehistory, ancient, pre-industrial (1886-1946), and industrial (1947-present) 110 diggsA newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail. This may facilitate e-mail delivery, but it also makes it easier for spammers to reach their intended targets. 117 diggsWe've all heard of Pavlov's dogs, the famous canines trained by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov to associate food with the sound of a bell. Now, scientists have found that bacteria may be capable of similar behavior--an ability never seen in such simple organisms. 85 diggsA gang of teenage girls may have blown up a house with a home-made liquid bomb, which killed a man in a neighbouring property, after arguing with another girl about a love rival. Purple liquid was poured through the letterbox of the Victorian house before the an explosion destroyed three houses. 196 diggs"They didn't give me any options, but to go to jail or go home.” 81 diggsWhile Scarlett O'Hara stayed cool at home, Dorothy Gale took a year out to go skipping down a digital yellow brick road in a Hollywood film lab. 219 diggsTwo kittens playing around on a treadmill. Just too damn cute. 149 diggsA picture taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Terra satelliteon shows dust blowing northward out of the Sahara Desert and over the Mediterranean Sea. The Sahara became the world's biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green. 64 diggsThe first time they found one, authorities dubbed it "Big Foot." They had heard rumors that such things existed, but nobody had actually seen one. 213 diggsSee it to believe it, this is gonna be huge 335 diggsIf you are a huge fan of Freddy Krueger and Friday The 13th, this is totally up your alley. This is a custom pair of Nike sneakers decorated in a Nightmare on Elm Street theme. These shoes are pretty sweet. Not too loud, not ambiguous to the theme they are supposed to represent. 212 diggsMicrosoft is still toiling away at the Zune, but there isn't a whole terrible much to show for it so far in regards to market impact. They just broke the 2 million mark, almost a year after they hit 1 million in May 2007. That means growth has hardly accelerated since the second-gen players hit the scene. 125 diggsBarack Obama can fully accept Hillary Rodham Clinton’s terms on Michigan and Florida and still win a majority of pledged Democratic delegates on June 1, allowing him to lay claim to the nomination under the New York senator’s own rules. 108 diggsInteresting article about painkillers and the body. 121 diggsCheck out this screen shot from the world's first Web site, http://info.cern.ch/, which went live 15 years ago. Note the multicolored diagram in the background. That's an early schematic of ATLAS, one of two enormous particle detectors recently installed at the Large Hadron Collider, set to fire up later this year at CERN. 264 diggsIf Barack doesn't look cute to you in this picture, you're a heterosexual male with too much to prove! 181 diggsWith all the money Big Oil is making -- the top five pocketed more than $120 billion in 2007 -- and with an election on the horizon, it's easy to see why politicians are eyeing oil profits. But analysts tell Money.com that going after oil profits could backfire on consumers. 84 diggsOrchids that mimic female wasps may not only waste the time of the male wasps they lure into spreading their pollen -- they also seduce them into wasting valuable sperm, Australian researchers reported on Wednesday. 120 diggs1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It's also the birthyear of a 25 year old UNIX bug, squashed only a few days ago. 161 diggsThe man picked by the John McCain campaign to run the 2008 RNC resigned Saturday after a report that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in Myanmar. Doug Goodyear chief executive of DCI Group resigned and issued a two sentence statement. after Newsweek reported online was he paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Myanmar's junta. 276 diggsThe Clintons are used to loving and supporting minorities – as long as the minorities know their place and see the Clintons as the instrument of their salvation. Obama rejects that dependency. And thus the Clintons strive to destroy him. But in that venture they are destroying themselves and their legacy. 386 diggsn attendant at a Canadian restaurant who was sacked for giving a bite-sized doughnut, worth 16 cents, to an agitated toddler. 444 diggsWe ask state troopers what they most want drivers to do during a traffic stop. 309 diggsThe full version of: http://gameroom.mlgpro.com/view/LQMNlp0PsulpgE.html 115 diggsSometimes it's best not to ask "what if"... 70 diggsMicrosoft Corporation is underwriting an online movie-making contest to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of its Windows Vista operating system. 112 diggsIn interviews with small donors around the country, the same message comes through: These donors feel they've taken ownership. They believe they're helping to set Obama free from the tug of big-money corporations and special interests. 322 diggsClues spread throughout the final dungeon of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask hint that there's far more to the story of this Nintendo 64 game than what made it to the surface. An ancient rebellion against the Goddesses of the Triforce may be tied to the falling moon that spells doom for the world of Termina. 116 diggsHere are some shots from the install. I will not go into detail when it comes to these. One thing that has changed is the encryption option (i did not test this), that allows you to make and install to an encrypted partition.uname -aLinux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux 63 diggsEven if the primary is settled by the time Recount airs (or by the time you read this), some Democrats will feel bitter and cheated and will invoke the powerful language of 2000 all over again. If Barack Obama gets the nomination, the anger will center on the primaries in Michigan and you-know-where. (Democrats! Disenfranchised! In Florida!) 196 diggsEarlier today we posted a screenshot on our iPhone section that claimed to depict an new On/Off option to enable 3G speeds. This new preference was found in the latest iPhone 2.0 Beta 5 distributed to developers. Be default, the preference is hidden, but one developer claims to have activated i... 154 diggsIt's undetectable at normal speed, but I was editing this footage in Final Cut Pro and going through it frame-by-frame when I saw this. 234 diggsSenator Barack Obama picked up three more superdelegates today. While Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton earned a new one, one of her opponent’s pick-ups was a defector, so, at this point, today is a wash for her. 147 diggsSo you’ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn’t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an 11-watt light bulb for an hour… 81 diggsThe US military's famed scientific wingnut farm, DARPA*, has released full details of its planned "National Cyber Range" - a mighty network which could be configured to simulate the cyberspace battlefields of the future. This would allow America's fighting nerds to train for the net conflicts of tomorrow, mounting attacks on simulated enemies.. 120 diggsBarack Obama had not been in politics for long when he got his tail whipped by a veteran Chicago Congressman in his own backyard. Obama couldn't win any of the black vote. The only ward he won was the White, Working-class Irish Catholic 19th ward- a conservative community of cops, firefighters and schoolteachers. 45 diggsUnofficial results from the New York Democratic primary reported that not a single vote was cast for Senator Barack Obama in about 80 election districts. 71 diggsChoosing Hillary to be Obama's vice-president would hurt the Democratic party! 69 diggsWhy would Mars appear to move backwards? Most of the time, the apparent motion of Mars in Earth's sky is in one direction, slow but steady in front of the far distant stars. About every two years, however, the Earth passes Mars as they orbit around the Sun. 32 diggsPost-doctoral researchers at American universities might benefit from a service like Mr. Hall’s, she said. “We have an abundance of scientific expertise that is not necessarily attached to industry,” she said. “We need to support them in developing their translational skills to get the benefit from the research funding that we have in the U.S... 66 diggsHalf a century ago, Laos became a cockpit of the cold war. The Hmong, led by a charismatic soldier named Vang Pao, sided with the United States in the fight against Communism in Southeast Asia. They lost everything — their land, their way of life, their country. Last year, the United States indicted the 78-year-old general as a terrorist. Thanks - 150 diggsGoogles 2008 logo for Mothers Day - Happy Mothers Day to all the moms! 168 diggsOne of the most misused buzzwords finally gets defined. Now we can stop people from labeling everything on the internet as Web 2.0. Please stop the madness. 132 diggsThe future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods. 204 diggsAn examination of bills championed by Barack Obama uncovers impressive evidence of his character and ability.
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