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sprout man

May 2 2008

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148 diggsUp, up and away! Inspired superhero casting.
836 diggsIf you are undecided about the upcoming democratic presidential nomination, watch this video. It is very honest, and insightful. Gives a indepth look at each candidate, and the different campaign strategies. More insightful, and fair, than anything you are likely to get from the MSM.
303 diggsLook, I'm not normally one to get all hot and bothered by the stuff people that don't play games say about game. But this rant, by CNN's Glenn Beck? As a gamer I'm stumped.
107 diggsYesterday in this spot, we bemoaned the state of the summer blockbuster, and explored why the blockbuster-season films coming up in May and June might finally help kill off the blockbuster concept. (Or save it, but how likely is that?) Today, in true summer-movie style: the inevitable sequel.
209 diggsSomeone at channel 9 has absolutely no friggin' clue or is a genius prankster. Check out what's on the home page of that iPhone seen on the Friday 6PM channel 9 news in Melbourne. There's even a button for Parallels on the iPhone's dock which isn't even out for the iPhone until 2009. The image they lifted originally sourced from kottke.org
131 diggsInvented in 1975 by Steven J. Sasson. It weighed eight pounds, was the size of a toaster, and produced a 0.01 megapixel image that took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape.
146 diggsWhile Microsoft chases Yahoo, Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO and chairman is seeking a stronger relationship with IBM, something in which Big Blue's chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, appears very interested.
360 diggsMADISON, Wis. - A college student apparently called 911 from her cell phone shortly before she was killed but a dispatcher hung up, failed to call back and never sent police to investigate, authorities said Thursday.
55 diggsAkhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children.In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead.So concludes a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten
83 diggs"We're live, babe!"That's horse trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.'s stable-speak, his way of telling friends he expects his colt Big Brown to win the 134th Kentucky Derby on Saturday. For Big Brown, undefeated but having raced only three times, the Derby (4 p.m. ET, NBC; post time 6:04) is a chance to validate the hype
898 diggsBill Clinton Campaign Chairman and Hillary Clinton '08 Advisor Mickey Kantor tells George Stephanapoulos and James Carville: "Look at Indiana...it doesn't matter if we win. Those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white ni**er?"
179 diggsThis no-nonsense machine from EDR Solutions does exactly what its name says, destroying a hard disk in as little as 10 seconds. "It basically 'drills' through the hard drive's spindles which physically creates ripples in the platters making it impossible to recover any data," OhGizmo says.
240 diggsWell here's an interesting one. French iPhone blog iPhon.fr got these pics from an anonymous and unverified source, and while there's no way of telling if the shots are legit, they certainly have a truthy ring to them.
69 diggsThe casual encounters section of Craigslist is packed with requests for no-strings-attached nookie. Here are the ten least likely to get responses, and most likely to leave you wondering, 'What the hell is wrong with people?'
134 diggsAn amazing song, set to a fan-made slideshow.. it is very deep..don't let Van Helsing keep you down.
100 diggs“Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes,” says Dr. Pamela Takayoshi, Kent State University associate professor of English. “IM is a separate language form from formal English and has a common set of language features and standards.”
141 diggsAn Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin. The South African-based scientists who witnessed the incident say it is the most unusual case of mammal mating behaviour yet known. Interspecies homosexual violent sex? Alriiight!
221 diggs"Could we build our own Iron Man suit? Not just a costume, but a functioning apparatus that could perform the miracles the spectacular marvel in the movie does?"
129 diggsRising rates of the bacterial infection Clostridium difficile, known as C. diff, are sparking worries about a virulent form of the bug that can cause severe diarrhea — and death.
64 diggsSEATTLE (AP) — A man who was denied a liver transplant because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died.
166 diggsAt concerts these days you have to brace yourself for an experience easily ruined by the fans themselves, who have become a rude and unruly lot entirely unaware of everyone else's personal space. Here are the ten rules of concerts that people blatantly disobey.
117 diggsHarper's February cover story was one of clear-eyed financial journalism. Eric Janszen explains Americas devolution from goods-production to paper shuffling. The FIRE economy (for Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) concluding it can only survive by blowing ever-bigger bubbles. Veteran political analyst show government has systematically distorted
82 diggsLake Baikal is known as the “grand dame” of all lakes. UNESCO declared it a World Heritage due to its stunning bio-diversity. Most of its 2500 some odd plant and animal species, like the freshwater seal, evolved in pristine isolation and are found nowhere else on the planet. The 25 million year old lake predates humans, but it may not outlive us.
150 diggsThe world's first exhibition of 'extinct and impossible' smells is under way, from the metallic fallout of the first atomic bomb to the aroma of cloves and oranges from first aid kit of a medieval plague doctor.
445 diggsWe don't believe him! "A former aide to President Bill Clinton, and current informal adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, expressed outrage and shock on Friday after a videotape from 1992 surfaced apparently showing him describing Indianans as "white n---rs."
116 diggsTheft? Hookers? Melting down Iraqi gold to make cowboy spurs? All in a day's work for private military contractors in Iraq.
81 diggsIt was May Day and the schools were out for the holiday but Tatenda Makura had come to St Peter’s Secondary School anyway, looking for the headmaster. He joined the queue of other boys in the corridor, hoping to win a place at the sought-after church school. “This is the only one that has enough teachers,” Tatenda explained...
64 diggsCubans are getting wired. Computers went on sale to the general public on the communist island on Friday and potential consumers were lining up outside store windows to gawk and consider buying.President Raul Castro's government had authorized the sale of personal computers to average Cubans more than a month ago, but they were not available...
45 diggsIn the early days of PC gaming, trendsetters like Infocom and Sierra On-Line took game packaging from minimalist to majestic; in recent years, however, we've witnessed a decline in quality when it comes to common packaging practices. In This article, we examine a few of the most memorable (and notorious) PC game-packaging trends.
154 diggsThe Marvel icon's inaugural foray onto the big screen is not only Certified Fresh and Rotten Tomatoes' best-reviewed film of the year so far -- it's also potentially one of the highest-rated superhero movies of all time.
171 diggsAutomatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory, many RichEdit fixes, IME support improvements, more quartz fixes, implementation for many more Gdiplus functions, and as usual, lots of bug fixes.
95 diggsReports from around the Internet as well as here on the forums indicate that EarthBound has been given an E-rating for the Wii at this time. Details are still coming in, but on the surface, this means one of two things: either EB is due for an imminent release on the VC, or the big N is tantalizing us yet again (like they did with Shining Force II)
84 diggsWe asked women around the country to share their tales of being the ultimate captive audience for aspiring comedians or just otherwise awkward practitioners of the vaginal arts. These are their stories.
187 diggsDC Madam: "No, I do not plan on committing suicide, I plan on going to court." But we already knew this didn't we? Dick Cheney was a client.
81 diggsWashington Wizards reserve forward Darius Songaila was suspended by the NBA for Game 6 of a playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night for hitting LeBron James in the face with his hand.
452 diggs“I will have an energy policy which will eliminate our dependence on oil from Middle East that will then prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the ME”McCain is essentially saying that our quest to “spread democracy” throughout the Middle East is a sham. Not about WMD or al-Qaeda. Only oil.