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May 11 2008

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86 diggsA former MTV executive reveals a homosexual subculture in an aggressively male business.
107 diggsThe asteroid linked to dinosaurs' demise 65 million years ago slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula with such force it pulverized Earth's crust. The result was a veil of airborne carbon beads that blanketed the planet, a new study finds. Spanning about 124 miles (200 kilometers), the giant indentation left by the asteroid impact continues to ...
122 diggsSome patients’ noisy artificial hips are interrupting daily life and raising questions about more serious problems.
216 diggsProfessor Stephen Hawking, who has devoted his career to finding the origins of the universe, is to begin a new search – for Africa’s answer to Einstein.Despite suffering from motor neurone disease which has left him almost completely paralysed, Hawking, 66, has made the journey to South Africa to launch the project today.
214 diggsThe state of transport and communications infrastructure is a symbol of a nation’s economic development and the US is starting to look like a third world country.
320 diggsOne of Windows Vista's biggest selling points was that it was the only way you could DirectX 10, the software component that would be required to play the very latest video games in their full glory. Sure, you could still play games in DirectX 9, but the differences with DirectX 10, Microsoft promised, would be striking.
98 diggsA Better Place, run by Israelis Shai Agassi and Idan Ofer have funded and are testing an electric car for the first time. take a look in the revolutionary car that may change in 2 years the fuel industry.
486 diggsHow quickly SNL turned on Mrs Clinton!
451 diggsNot evenz a lil one?!
102 diggsHere Niko Bellic and Vlad Glebov appear on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" to complain about the negative image the game gives to Liberty City.
191 diggsThe look in Jesus' eyes. You may say baleful, but I see your baleful and I raise you pure, unadulterated, naked hurt. A lot of humble pie was eaten that night. I vowed to change, so I came up with a ten-point plan with which to sink my irrational plastic jealousy.
49 diggsIt's not just humans who succumb to peer pressure - rats do too. Brown rats have a tendency to disregard personal experiences and copy the behavior of their peers.
225 diggsRepresenting the first media of the game to arrive since its 2006 announcement trailer, the images provide an in-game glimpse of the first Banjo effort to hit a home console since the Nintendo 64 release of Banjo Tooie in 2000.
193 diggsWarner Bros' Speed Racer won't crawl past $20 million this weekend. That's half what the studio hoped, even with lowered expectations. The anime actioner also is doing dismally in key areas of its 30+ day and date opening foreign territories. The Wachowski siblings' pic which cost at least $160M pic could finish the weekend battling for No. 2 spot.
106 diggsThis could be the Supreme Court term, one court watcher joked recently, that Justice John Paul Stevens remembers he is a Republican. A 1975 appointee of President Gerald Ford, Stevens is regarded as the anchor of the court's liberal wing. But he has joined with his more conservative colleagues in three high-profile cases...
229 diggsTogether with the charity Childnet, IFPI recently launched a campaign to educate kids, teachers and parents about the dangers of filesharing. Ironically, the legal alternatives they suggest direct the kids to LimeWire, Kazaa and sites that sell hardcore adult movies.
145 diggsThe Washington Times, a conservative newspaper, calculated that McCain had garnered no more than 45 percent of the Republican vote since January. Some vote for libertarian Texan Ron Paul, who has refused to quit the race and has racked up more than one million votes...
90 diggsConstruction of the new zero-emission city started last week. It will eventually house 50,000 people & 1,500 businesses. The energy efficient buildings and infrastructure will require less energy to start with, and what little energy they do require will be supplied entirely from renewable energy sources.
283 diggsThe FBI has raided Spectrum Labs, the company that partially owns and is distributing the film a/k/a Tommy Chong. The feds are being tight lipped.
103 diggsRefugees from the Burmese cyclone face second battle for survival
177 diggsApparently, the folks in Bournesmouth, UK, didn't get the joke, as they're laying fiber optic cable through the sewer system. The intended result: blazing fast connections that don't require digging up anything...
126 diggsScientists have created what is believed to be the first genetically modified (GM) human embryo.A team from Cornell University in New York produced the GM embryo to study how early cells and diseases develop. It was destroyed after five days.
106 diggshe Kung Fu king who uses his finger to smash coconuts is retiring the digit to enjoy life out of the limelight. Ho Eng Hui has been delighting audiences in Malaysia every weekend by using his index finger to smash the tough shells of coconuts but now the martial arts master says everything points to an easier life.
84 diggsResearchers at Columbia University Medical Center have illuminated a window into how abnormalities in microRNAs, a family of molecules that regulate expression of numerous genes, may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizophrenia and possibly other brain disorders.
963 diggsAwww how cute!
225 diggsThis is an update to Kawther Salam’s story about the Palestinian Orphanage in Hebron.At 1.00 in the morning on the 30th of April, the Israeli Army raids orphanage in Hebron, home to 110 girls, seizing all equipment from community sewing workshop.
592 diggsThis lady does a spot on Hillary Clinton impression!
82 diggsAn insular industry built on horses and gambling is out of step, out of touch and out of sync with contemporary American culture.
667 diggsHere she goes again.On Sept. 1 2007, she accepted and signed the DNC rules barring any other states having a primary earlier than the specified date. She did agree upon it before the election and now because she is losing, she wants them counted?What about your signed pleadge? - LOL -on MI and FL votes.DNC Chairman Howard Dean Letter...
57 diggsA new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol.
109 diggsMany of nature's deepest mysteries come in threes. Why does space have three spatial dimensions (ones that we can see, anyway)? Why are there three fundamental dimensions in physics (mass M, length L and time T)? Why three fundamental constants in nature (Newton's gravitational constant G, the speed of light c and Planck's constant h)?
106 diggsPrinceton researchers combined data and came up with a computer model that accurately predicts how many different species of fish will inhabit any given sector of the river basin. Their research shows that the habitats richest in the diversity of species are areas where multiple streams are close to one another.
214 diggsWow. Apparently, life really does become meaningless when you’re at the top of your game, you’ve got the house, car, wife, kids and whatever the f*ck else you want. None of that means sh*t compared to the free gift of pain–or so says these Silicon Valley desk-jockeys, who’ve set up their own “fight club,” in an attempt to return to the roots...
157 diggsSince they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest -- dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.
587 diggsThis collection contains television news programs recorded live from ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and NBC around September 11th, 12th, and 13th, 2001 by the non-profit Television Archive to help patrons research this important part of United States history.
98 diggsIt takes a certain mindset to drive in Dubai: a take-no-prisoners attitude coupled with nerves of steel. This Gulf city, which boasts stunning wealth and spectacular skyscrapers, is also home to an alarmingly large number of suicidal drivers, and one of them was at the wheel of my taxi as we careened off a Dubai highway and onto a side road...
546 diggsSome people are just too ignorant to be allowed to vote. However, Hillary proudly calls them her "base".
298 diggsDespite this, the profile of the typical gamer has changed drastically over the past decade, with middle-aged housewives now as likely to play games as teenage boys. The average gamer in Australia is now 28 years old, up from 24 just two years ago. And despite being largely ignored by the game industry, 41% are female. Women and. . .
179 diggsGet this, my cousin works is a production assistant for the crew that shoots MythBusters for Discovery and he just told me that to commemorate and celebrate the release of this highly-anticipated movie, Myth Busters is planning something very special.
784 diggsYou didn't know this because most of Obama's legislation was enacted in Illinois and it has been largely ignored by the media in a kind of Washington snobbery that assumes state legislatures are not to be taken seriously. This is how the man with more years in a legislative position than Hillary came to be labeled "inexperienced".
264 diggsHere's a link that I received through email. This is a massive and quite stunning 65-picture panoramic HDR image in full size and resolution. (As big as Flickr will allow).
69 diggsChart showing price and market penetration of consumer electronics over the past 50 years.
80 diggsThe Brits thought Yank Malcolm Glazer was crazy when he paid $1.5 billion for Manchester United in 2005. We then valued the club at $1.25 billion. Today, we peg Man U's worth at $1.8 billion, making it the top dog in our latest annual ranking of the world's most valuable soccer teams.
307 diggsI've seen pretty bad goalkeepers but this is by far the worst I've ever seen. He looks like he was drunk!
114 diggsThe Project for Excellence studying The Daily Show doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart, because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.They also said it was surprised at how much The Daily Show resembles The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball and other cable news shows in regards to content.
404 diggsWatch the guy in the middle on the right side of the table.
664 diggsThe US continues to fall on global broadband rankings, even as countries that are more rural and less wealthy surge ahead. Here's how they do it (hint: it does not involve wholesale deregulation).
102 diggsCredit companies are using the Facebook social networking site to target young people, a debt charity has warned.
924 diggsThis farmer has the most popular field in town.
78 diggs .... are stored in a particularly robust way by the brain. This renders effective treatment very difficult.
57 diggsPresident Bush, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the big automakers agree on this much: They love hydrogen-powered fuel cell technology and its promise of a zero-emission, petroleum-free future.
246 diggsPolice in Russia are investigating after pupils stripped off, climbed walls or lay on the floor laughing after their school dinners were spiked with drugs.
401 diggsBlogger berni_mccoy at the Democratic Underground uncovers a GEM of a story about the latest Clinton Ad. LOL!
166 diggsThe entertainment industry has so far failed to convince Washington to impose P2P technology mandates on higher education, so it's taking the fight directly to the states. Colleges and universities are fighting back.
366 diggsClinton aides continued to insist that she will remain in the race even while confirming that she is $20 million in debt. "The voters are going to decide this," senior adviser Howard Wolfson said on "Fox News Sunday," acknowledging the $20 million figure. "There is no reason for her not to continue this process."
395 diggsDemo of the upcoming Windows 7 with new features and applications.
263 diggsWhen Hideo Kojima said the MGS4 graphics on PS3 weren't to his "satisfaction" or that he realized there were lots of "restrictions" the PS3 posed, he didn't mean it. He meant to compare it and his game to a flying car. Even if a flying car doesn't make it into space, it's still revolutionary. "I wanted to convey my thoughts like that," he says.
120 diggsCommon household dust has long been known to carry pesticides, allergens and other irritants. But the dust that coats your television sets may answer why virtually every American tested has traces of a chemical flame retardant that may be harmful.
413 diggsOne of Mark Jenkins' street art installations.
85 diggsImagine what it might have been like to be Dr. Kleenex. You invent a modern miracle, the cheap paper handkerchief, and suddenly you become the person blamed for America’s disposable culture, praised for a more convenient life, or both.
263 diggsCould there be a bigger threat than Linux to Microsoft's OS dominance? If an open-source version of Windows can be developed that is totally compatible with the abundance of Windows drivers—the idea behind ReactOS—then Microsoft will have to go back to work.
574 diggsIt's *almost* enough to make me want to redo high school.
175 diggsLarge galaxies and faint nebula highlight this deep image of the M81 Group of galaxies. First and foremost in the above wide-angle 12-hour exposure is the grand design spiral galaxy M81, the largest galaxy visible in the image. M81 is gravitationally interacting with M82 just below it,a big galaxy with an unusual halo of filamentary red-glowing gas
278 diggsWorking girls? Just hanging out on the corner? You can find the most interesting scenes on Street View.
143 diggsMichelle Duggar, 41, shown with her children and husband, Jim Bob, third from right, had her 17th child on Aug. 2. She's expecting again. She's been pregnant for 11 years of her life.
534 diggsThis is what happens when legal power lands in the wrong hands.
148 diggsBill O'Reilly freaks out because he cannot understand what the teleprompter says.
304 diggsHoly hell! That can't be real.
87 diggsEarlier this year, neurosurgeon Andres Lozano published a startling finding. He was testing deep-brain stimulation, in which electrical current is delivered directly to the brain, as a treatment for obesity.
84 diggsAnother PSA from Judd Apatow with Superbad's Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
106 diggsIf you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well.
100 diggsSince the first lunar mission in 1959, more than 65 spacecraft have been launched to the Moon — some landed, some orbited and others brought back samples. Here's a closer look at the missions that have landed successfully on the near side of the Moon. Roll over the markers on the map for more on a given mission and to see its spacecraft.
570 diggsEnjoy the pic ...and pray to never be in a situation like that.