584 diggsHillary Rodham Clinton's Rose Law Firm billing records, found in the White House residence in January 1996 two years after they had been subpoenaed by government regulators, disappeared shortly after the first lady was warned that the firm's billing problems were "very serious"....

243 diggsThe Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.

321 diggsIt's one thing to lack class, but it's quite another to deliberately try and wreck the presidential prospects of your party's likely nominee.

248 diggsDuring a drinking version of truth or dare, he told her and a group of White House staffers that his wife had died years before of breast cancer. He later asked if he could come to her room to give her a 'back rub', and that night, they had sex for the first time. Bush wrote a second letter to Navy superiors saying Stufflebeem should be promoted...

143 diggsThe very first trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe has finally arrived! The buzz for this movie is definitely going to pick up with this trailer.

190 diggsThe forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in St. Paul at the beginning of September.

176 diggsSome gadgets you can buy with your stimulus check

343 diggsThe new short film by Bluan ambiguous animation painted on public walls.Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden

349 diggsOver 70 examples of sexy, bold and experimental typography. Some examples are typographic posters, some are typographic illustrations and some are just sketches with type. In any case, you will hopefully find some inspiration for your future works.

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151 diggsRecord-holder Ryan Giggs marked a lifetime's loyalty with the best present possible as he delivered another Premier League title to Manchester United as they beat Wigan 2-0.

286 diggsSince the Star Wars universe is alive and well in today’s entertainmentlandscape with future animated films/series and live-action shows, what will the Star Wars universe look like in another couple of decades and beyond? Can a live-action TV series still create that same magic as the original trilogy and prequels?

183 diggsChina is bracing itself for a huge human tragedy: a powerful quake measuring 7.8 has struck some of its most densely populated areas and officials have revealed many children are among the dead.

46 diggsAt least 9 dead and 900 children buried under rubble. Continuous updates here.

298 diggsHow To Kiss Someone Passionately. cool funny video

225 diggsAn excellent compendium of social media sites courtesy of Chris Brogan and Alexa Scordato.

118 diggs"There is a very clear standard in the Constitution requiring not only just compensation in the use of eminent domain, but also that private property may NOT be taken for "public use."

94 diggsOne in 10 British families will live in a "millionaire household" within a decade, a report has suggested. Despite short-term fears over the economy, about 2.4 million families will have a seven-figure net income by 2017. The findings show the UK will have the seventh highest concentration of wealth in the world in 2017.

92 diggsFlu vaccine manufacturers expect to make a record number of doses for the next flu season despite concerns that demand may drop because this year's vaccine was largely ineffective.

136 diggsWhy the doubt? Motivation and money, say Bean and Cernan. Without the pressure of imminent international challenge, the astronauts say, the Constellation program — NASA's next manned mission to the moon in 2020 — will lag. "We need some kind of stimulus, a commercial or international challenge to our standing in the free world," says Cernan, 74.

484 diggsFacts tend to survive based on how interesting they are, rather than whether or not they're, y'know, true.

105 diggsThe 9-year mission of NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ended in 2000 with a plunge into the Pacific Ocean. But its spare parts are living on — as a detector of dirty bombs.

114 diggsChilli the giant cow is set to stampede into the record books as Britain's tallest bovine.The black and white Freisan bullock stands at 6ft 6ins and weighs well over a ton.

177 diggsA side by side comparison of a photo tour in New York City and Liberty City...with many accurate and crazy details!

212 diggsThe first Metal Gear Solid 4 review is in! UK Official PlayStation Magazine has written up its thoughts and even put them on paper. And for those who care about things like numbers, the game gets a 10.

162 diggsThe cake was the centerpiece in the wedding of two members of a Star Wars fan group in Alabama, which had all the guests dressed up as Star Wars characters, included the minister, who probably was wearing an R2-D2 beanie like mine.

252 diggsCurrent's news correspondent Christof Putzel investigates a growing movement in Russia where neo-Nazi groups are brutally attacking immigrants and spreading their hate by posting violent videos online. This video won both 2008 Webby Film and Video Awards and Webby People's Voice Awards nominations. An excellent piece of high-quality journalism!

195 diggsA powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported.

280 diggsTo socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month turn to social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.

104 diggsA Laser-Generated Optical Comb, a super precise measuring device, able to find the frequency of radiation more accurately than any other method. It has applications in little things like the measurement of time, probing the fundamental constants of the universe, and finding other planets.

69 diggsAn ancient burial site linked to two little-known civilizations has been discovered in southeast Bogotá, Colombia. The site includes one set of remains that seems to have been buried alive -- "Her mouth is open as if in terror, and her hands seem contracted as if she had tried grabbing hold of something."

176 diggsThe public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews conventional keyword technology and instead is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages.

173 diggsBournemouth has become the first town in the UK to get super-fast internet connections - via the sewerage system. More than 88,000 homes and businesses in the Dorset town will benefit from internet speeds up to 100Mbps under the scheme, considerably faster than consumer broadband speeds on the market.

153 diggsHiring managers don't want to hear a lot of things during an interview -- confessions of a violent past, a cell phone ring, a toilet flush. Yet job seekers have committed these interview gaffes and worse, according to CareerBuilder.com's annual survey of the worst interview mistakes.

147 diggs If you didn't work in IT, where would you go? What could you do?

206 diggsROME (Agencies) - The Vatican has bought Palm Inc in a $800-million cash, stock, and souls deal, a move that analysts are calling a bold bid to reconvert the Catholic Church into the number one mobile operator for communication with God. The purchase is the culmination of Pope Benedict XVI's new push into the mobile arena.

100 diggsCan America afford a presidential candidate who has to bring along an economic adviser in order to be coherent on the subject? Not after the last few years of Bush Administration arrogance in the face of failures, it can't.

135 diggsA technology that beams sound directly into people's ears has advertisers salivating, but as Vito Pilieci writes, critics fear yet another invasion of privacy.

89 diggsVariety of nice shots. Especially good (pic # 2): speck of a guy collecting sulfur on "smoky" fumes-filled face of Java volcano. Mix of pics: long shots; mineral close-ups; & aerial of mineral-extraction operation.

161 diggsMen, concentrated in the weakest sectors, are losing jobs in this downturn, while women make gains...

377 diggsAT&T Wireless, Apple's exclusive iPhone provider in the United States, is now listing a second model of the iPhone in its device database called "iPhone Black," AppleInsider has been informed. Screenshots after the jump.

111 diggsThey finished building it on Saturday evening, and the following morning, as mom was about to wake up the boys and have them go out to play in their new play center, this is what she saw from the upstairs window.

247 diggsIn a stunning example of biomimicry, Scottish architecture firm ZM Architecture have come up with a brilliant scheme to provide solar power to the city of Glasgow - and do so in a way that is provocative, creative, and aesthetically appealing. Large lily-shaped discs which harness solar power could soon be seen floating on the River Clyde.

92 diggsOnce upon a time, people bonded with their co-workers on office softball teams and traded gossip at the watercooler.

355 diggsBlue likes to multitask. Can you keep up with him? This quick and fun brain-twister tests how well you can keep both sides of your mind focused on simple but changing tasks.

124 diggsAccording to a recent study by the RAND Corporation, nearly twenty per cent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are suffering from P.T.S.D. or major depression. Almost half won’t seek treatment. If virtual-reality exposure therapy proves to be clinically validated, it may encourage those in need to seek help.

291 diggsEnvironmental & Farm Worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals. The suit challenged the EPA's 2006 decision to reauthorize the use four pesticides in California.

329 diggsRotate these nutritious, easy-to-find foods into your diet for a simple and tasty health boost.

89 diggsSprint this morning reported its results for the first quarter of 2008 and has revealed continued severe losses in its cellular business. The carrier says its net revenue declined nine percent year-over-year to $9.3 billion and that it lost a total 1.09 million wireless customers in the most recent period.

295 diggsApple's stock is likely to go higher than expected based on a spate of iPhone agreements the company has forged, says analyst Shaw Wu of American Technology Research. Wu in fact suggests that the potential market could "more than triple" in 2008, from 150 million people to approximately 470 million.

167 diggsBroadcast television remains the dominant medium for advertising, as the $9 billion upfront market attests, but its prime-time audience is gradually shrinking. Time-shifting has cushioned the declines, but in ways that are trickier to measure and pitch to marketers.

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447 diggsA list of what CameraPorn considers to be some of the best photo-related content out there. Read on for more photo link porn than you can shake a stick at including 25 blogs, 20 AMAZING photographers, and some other fun stuff that will make those days you feel stuck at your desk wishing you were shooting go a bit smoother…

114 diggsIn January, the Brazilian government announced that the rate of deforestation in the Amazon jungle had soared in the last half of 2007, just months after officials had celebrated three years of steep falls.

68 diggsApple and NBC Universal engaged in one of the more spirited feuds of 2007, when the two companies parted ways over pricing at the iTunes Store. While NBC programming remains absent from the US version of Apple's online store, the two companies could be taking steps to resolve their differences--at least on the other side of the Atlantic

179 diggsYou don't have to mod your classic Xbox to run the best free media center application around anymore: Dedicated developers have ported the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software to the Mac, and its killer features will convince you to abandon Front Row forever. The latest XBMC on OS X beta dropped last week, and it's as stable and useful as ever.

112 diggsAfter coming from three shots down on the final day to win the Players Championship, Sergio Garcia thanked the man who made it all possible: "First of all," Garcia said, "I want to thank Tiger for not being here. That always makes things a little bit easier." Tiger rehabbing a surgically repaired knee...

153 diggsThousands of people have been killed by Monday's powerful earthquake in just one affected region of central China, its government said, with the toll expected to keep rising as bodies are retrieved from schools, homes and factories.

101 diggsAs promised, WiiWare has finally launched today. Wii owners can now head to the Wii Shop Channel and start downloading any of the six previously announced launch titles. With the launch of WiiWare, there won’t be any releases on the Virtual Console today, but the normal Wii-kly Update schedule will resume next week.

166 diggsHector Delgado didn't make the Joe team but at least Snake Eyes & Storm Shadow found a ninja mentor!

97 diggsImmune cells adjust their function like a radio dial, not an on/off light switch; a discovery that hints at how autoimmune disease may develop late in life.

354 diggs"The antivaccination movement purports to try to save children. Instead, if it is successful it may be condemning millions of them to terrible ailments, and a significant fraction of them to death.It is that simple."

192 diggsMany entrepreneurs, activists, and marketers are leveraging the social web for positive change. In the process and by its very nature, they are giving each of us the tools to change the world and make it a better place. There are thousands of examples, which is precisely why Max Gladwell exists. Here are 10 worth exploring.

325 diggsNow that the outcome of the battle for the Democratic nomination has been settled beyond a reasonable doubt, it's worth looking systematically at the major factors that gave victory to Obama. After all, fifteen months ago, conventional wisdom viewed Obama as an audacious long shot.

253 diggsThe village’s forty houses and the school all have large solar panels covering their roofs. A typical roof will have a two kilowatt solar installation. In 2004, the government subsidized the solar systems in Donggwang, paying 70% of the installation fees.

258 diggsSen. Barack Obama has surpassed Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for superdelegates, according to CNN's latest count.

98 diggsA robotic system designed to care for millions of biological samples in sub-zero temps & shed light on debilitating diseases has been chosen as a finalist for a top engineering award. Frigid will guard 10 million blood and fluid samples at -80C for 25 years, whilst allowing scientists access 24/7. The i-Limb [Pictured] another of 4 finalist.

206 diggsA Canadian law clinic has asked the country's Privacy Commissioner to take a closer look at the deep packet inspection being used by Bell Canada and others. While the technology also raises net neutrality concerns, in this case the issue is privacy.

141 diggsAs he held his 16-pound bowling ball in his hands and looked down the lane toward the pins standing before him, 78-year-old Dale Davis saw only a blur. He couldn't see the lane. He couldn't see the pins. He couldn't see the people who had gathered behind him to see whether the blind man could accomplish something no one else at this alley ever had.

277 diggsOur Veterans deserve not only our respect - but also our action in their behalf. John McCain has shown that he may be a war hero but he is no hero to this generation of American Veterans. Read what Barack Obama has just said on this this subject. It's a call to action to the American people on behalf of their Veterans.

180 diggsI wonder how much traffic Myanmar sends to google anyway.

103 diggsStudy: With locked crust, Earth could become another Venus HOUSTON, May 12, 2008 -- A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place.

226 diggsImagine my delight at discovering an absolutely epic experiment to turn your household vacuum cleaner into a bazooka. Word. Yay kids, this is where science helps you to shoot your friends in the gonads.

127 diggsAwesome geek and gaming stuff you can wear, from the Pac-Man hat to the Space Invaders jacket.

168 diggsThe following pre-death monologues are (mostly) given by characters who know that it's all about to come to an end. When faced with the ultimate loss, are they rebellious? Resigned? Relieved? These monologues are by turns hilarious, saddening, moving, and profound.

402 diggsVirtual instruments may be going the way of recorded music: free and online. We've seen plenty of sites that let you make or mix music in a rudimentary way, but none that offer the deep feature set of Hobnox AudioTool. This free online electronic music studio lets you compose...

110 diggsThe image, taken on April 5, 2007, is part of a campaign to examine more than two dozen candidate landing sites for the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover, which is scheduled for launch in 2009.

306 diggsHow New Voters Could Redraw The Electoral Map

328 diggsMom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials

171 diggs"Video of a pet monkey that works at a bar in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture. Apparently he learned how to bring things to customers through observation. I’m guessing that’s also how he learned to dance." - JapanProbe

387 diggsIt's funny because it's true! See the real drivers behind why you use each of today's most popular internet sites!

255 diggsStrippers and porn stars traveled to Sacramento Monday for a hearing on adopting a large tax increase on porn and other adult entertainment.

276 diggsJason Cull, 37, is a lucky swimmer that managed to escape a ferocious shark attack. A 16 foot Great White, attacked him while swimming at the Middleton Beach on Australia’s southwestern coast on Sunday

77 diggsRural families can slash their energy costs, improve their health and help preserve local forests by harvesting natural gas from rotting manure, researchers argue.

102 diggs"You have liquor, fire and robots," said Johannes Grentfurthner, Roboexotica organizer and member of art collective monochrom in Austria. "How could we go wrong?"

96 diggsLeave it to the tone deaf GOP to find a way of attaching themselves to this election cycle's "change" mandate that simultaneously reinforces the fact that their failed policies have messed up the world to such an inhuman extent that many Americans now live their daily lives in a state of free-floating panic and paralyzing anxiety.

327 diggsThe original Spiral Island was the talk of the world: a man-made floating island constructed from 250,000 plastic bottles that could drift and relocate as needed ... until it was destroyed by disaster. Now the new amazing Spiral Island is finally finished and slated to open to the public within the next few months in Laguna Makax near Isla Mujeres.

278 diggsDigg CEO talks about recent events and Digg's past and future. He also talks about the Time 100, Webby Awards, and Sarah Lacy's Book.

78 diggsIn order to determine the fastest fictional cars, we required that candidate vehicles belong to a popularly known fictional work, and must be known, within their fictional universe and by their audience, for being fast. Flying cars were deemed ineligible. Vehicle details and top speeds were based on an analysis of the fictional source material;

280 diggsEvery once in a while, a film comes along that takes an assumption about how American movies are supposed to be made and changes it, sometimes resulting in something truly memorable. The reward for taking the chance is recognition for being a really interesting experiment, or, in some cases, taking your place among the greatest films ever made.

441 diggsRather than reducing his membership cards to just one club card, he scanned his membership cards to his computer, then synced them to his iPhone as an album called WalletCards.

533 diggs6 popular website logos transformed...

100 diggsThere's been a lot of controversy surrounding GameTrailer's 'PS3 vs PS3' comparison video of Race Driver: GRID. Is the site "teh bias"? On Microsoft's payroll? We spoke with GameTrailers Editor In Chief Shane Satterfield to clear up the matter.

53 diggsHistoric ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past. The Blockbuster Video Living Museum offers tourists a glimpse of how Americans rented movies before the advent of services like Netflix and iTunes.

46 diggs-These strange clouds were videotaped from the window of a Japanese airliner over the sea of Okhotsk last summer, they stretched over 100 Klm's.-

73 diggsGuitar Hero IV will follow closely in the footsteps of Rock Band, offering new instruments including a bass, microphone, and six-piece drumset that includes two cymbals.

211 diggs In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.

346 diggsThough she was a tiger lady, our hero didn’t have to fire a shot to floor her. After one look at his Mr. Leggs slacks, she was ready to have him walk all over her. That noble styling sure soothes the savage heart! If you’d like your own doll-to-doll carpeting, hunt up a pair of these he-man Mr. Leggs slacks.

465 diggs"Five years ago Greg Lasrado drove a $500,000 black Lamborghini Diablo, rubbed shoulders with people such as Bill Clinton, lived between multimillion-dollar penthouses and bought racehorses for fun. Today his sole asset is a rusty ute, he lives in his parents' spare bedroom and spends most weekends helping his mum with the housework." A great read.

249 diggsWe know where brand logos come from and what they mean, but what did they look like when they were babies? Thanks to Brazilian ad agency Dentsu working for Minichamps, a die-cast scale model company, we now know what the toddler versions of logos from Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maserati and Jaguar all look like.

92 diggsTwo things about me: 1) I always have my nose buried in my iPhone. 2) I always have Google Reader open in my web browser at home. Putting those two together, you might have thought I was a heavy user of the Google Reader app for the iPhone, but I really wasn’t. I did like it a lot, but only in spurts.

121 diggsWorrying that you don’t think about death enough in your day-to-day life? Pratt student Charles Constantine is looking to change this and inject a bit of morbidity into the daily routine, with his new design for a coffee table coffin. On display in the Pratt Institute student design booth at BKLYN Designs.

63 diggsVersion of mad cow disease is decimating captive cheetah populations

75 diggsThere may be a problem with a film when a narrator constantly tells you the meaning of what you have just seen, gift-wrapping each scene with a moral. But some women don't seem to mind at all..

111 diggsThe ninth release of Fedora ushers in a number of changes aimed at making the venerable distribution a more newbie-friendly desktop, but longtime users needn't fear a great dumbing down; version 9 packs plenty of power user punch as well.

229 diggsBarack gave a speech on veterans' affairs in Charleston, WV on May 12, 2008. These are his full remarks.

503 diggsA New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Gokhan Mutlu says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom".

234 diggsWhat happens with the folks from Seinfield play D & D one day...

168 diggsThere is a suggestion below of the dazzling scope of contemporary jazz, but the focus is on the classic jazz that is Schaap’s specialty.

122 diggsNewsflash for rock stars and teenagers: It turns out everything doesn't go downhill as we age -- the golden years really are golden.

297 diggsIrena Sendler, a woman who risked her life saving 2,500 Jewish children from the gas chambers died yesterday aged 98. Records show that her team of some 20 people saved nearly 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps.

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311 diggsIn the letter, he states: "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

145 diggsMeet Daphne, the speedy new character on NBC's "Heroes," who plans to give the show's superhumans—especially time traveler Hiro and his sidekick, Ando—a run for their money when she debuts on the popular NBC series' upcoming third season, which went back into production last week.

294 diggsMicrosoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth.

139 diggsLebron James' mother intervenes in a tussle after Paul Pierce commits a foul that takes both players into her seats. Read Lebron's lips. "Happy mother's day, mom!"

273 diggsPrince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, a Democratic convention delegate pledged to support Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, said yesterday that he thinks Sen. Barack Obama has 'in a real sense' won the Democratic nomination and that he now plans to support Obama at the August convention.

185 diggsBerlin street performer Johan Lorbeer has an unusual approach to street performance. Just by "hanging out" on the side of a building, thousands of locals and tourists marvel as they walk by.

299 diggsToday, 1.7 million troops have come home from Iraq and Afghanistan, but the GI Bill no longer covers anything like the cost of college. So a bipartisan coalition of veterans now serving in the Senate introduced a new GI Bill. This bill recently got added to the war funding bill currently in Congress, but a small group of Democrats are fighting it.

405 diggsIn this print campaign, JWT Sao Paulo shows that the newspaper makes deeper analyses of the financial market and informs readers on political and social events exercising influence on the world economy. On Dollar, Euro and Yen notes, some of the most important events of the last century.

181 diggsReal shocker: the now-defunct Office of Accountability and Transparency was... an illusion?

220 diggsEpisodes of Rome and The Sopranos pop for $2.99 while The Wire and Sex and the City (yes the complete series) go for the iTunes "standard" pricing of $1.99. We just fired-up iTunes and confirmed it just like the rumor predicted. With Apple backing down from its strict, flat-rate pricing...

249 diggsBuried deep within GTA IV's high-speed police chases, vehicular homicides, cold-blooded killings and large-scale armed robberies, there lie hidden gems of wisdom that you can apply to improve your own life in the real world.

371 diggsEnlightening and seemingly simple....

179 diggsA man who allegedly photographed more than 3,000 women's bottoms as they toured Venice has been arrested. The man was stopped after police became suspicious of a large bag he was carrying as he followed women through St Mark's Square.

365 diggsA visualization that puts the scarcity of freshwater into perspective rather nicely.

128 diggsTwo-year-old girl survives falling into pool after learning to swim from just eight weeks.