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May 4 2008

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73 diggsA front seat car passenger was photographed baring his backside at a speed camera in Northumberland.The "mooning" man was snapped by the mobile camera as the black BMW X5 drove past on the A1171 Dudley Lane in Cramlington last month.
258 diggsnot the jokerized bootleg version either
78 diggsThis is so true! They always make sure they have pictures taken while kissing babies, when in reality most of the time their kids grow up totally fucked up. Can we stop with this already?
95 diggsAn invasion of thousands of British students at a small Spanish resort for a sports tournament has left locals reeling from their drunken antics. But so many spent their days drinking instead of competing that locals said the tournament was more about being drunk than sport. They said beaches were left littered, revellers kept them awake...
164 diggsGrand Prix circuit racer Roger Williamson crashes hard on lap 8, rolls his car and catches fire. Yards away stood a fire tender, but no order was given to stop the race. Worse, marshals with fire extinguishers merely watched as friend and colleague David Purley fought a lone battle to right the upturned car. What happens next will break your heart
136 diggsMany of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they used to be — often because of some combination of higher premiums, less extensive coverage, and bigger out-of-pocket deductibles and co-payments.
332 diggsIf we’re to judge black candidates on their most controversial associates we must judge white politicians by the same yardstick.
230 diggsNo man is an island, but his house can be. Kenny Leitner mows what little grass he has that’s not under water Monday in the 1300 block of West Main Street in Grafton as the Illinois River rises out of its banks.
256 diggsWe are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.
148 diggsAre you bald? Because men living in polluted areas are more likely to go bald than those breathing cleaner air, a new study suggests.
35 diggsNo matter how quiet we try to be now it's too late to prevent alien invaders. So says Alexander Zaitsev of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics in Moscow, Russia, who points the finger at astronomers. "We are all doomed!..." Somebody shouted.
265 diggs"These test results reveal the functioning of several mechanisms when the laser is used to destroy a target: thermal heating of the high explosive to ignition; increased material removal due to combustion of certain materials from the increased oxygen during air flight; and aerodynamic forces that literally rip the membrane from the annealed..."
196 diggsAfter experimenting with free BitTorrent distribution on their last album, ‘Ghosts’, The Nine Inch Nails are today releasing their latest single ‘Echoplex’ for free, to tens of millions of Facebook users. Also,everyone should check out NIN.com tomorrow - apparently a “surprise” awaits.
83 diggsDemonstrations are rare in stoical Iceland, a country of only 300,000 people. But the threat to jeep habits is just too much. Alfred "Spotti" Bergisson, a 26-year-old plumber who drives a beefed-up Toyota Land Cruiser, is willing to fight for his right to party.
174 diggsApproximately one in 10 U.S. children uses one or more cough and cold medications during a given week, according to new research from Boston University. While cough and cold medications for children are widely marketed in the United States, how frequently they are used had not been scientifically studied.
59 diggsFrom boutique favourites such as Agent Provocateur and Joe Bloggs to icons of the global hyper-mall such as Diesel, Yahoo!, Audi and Coca-Cola, brands have awoken to music’s potential as a powerful communication tool, and a content gold rush is on. Under the “lifestyle” umbrella, household names are seeking out, signing and promoting music.
52 diggsWhen a song perfectly complements a movie's on-screen action it creates a magical moment. CNN pick their favorites -- but do you agree?
72 diggsIt's true China is booming, Russia is growing more assertive, terrorism is a threat. But if America is losing the ability to dictate to this new world
59 diggsJamie offered to eat the illicit ham on the spot, but the official was having none of it: "Can't I just eat a couple pieces of it now?" she asked. "I really can't let you do that," he replied.
112 diggsUsing the Freedom of Information Act, the Houston Chronicle analyzed 451,000 charges (totaling more than $265 million) made on NASA credit cards between Jan. 04 & July 07. NASA employees have used government credit cards to ring up iPods, video games & clothes, despite that the cards are supposed to be used to buy items essential to NASA's mission.
324 diggsDuring an appearance on Fox News Sunday this morning, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said that Fox's news coverage has at times been "shockingly biased, and I think that's wrong and I just say so right up front." Dean also said he agreed with the netroots campaign to boycott the Democratic debates on the network.
452 diggsShe continued the line of attack, criticizing "this mindset where elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantage the vast majority of Americans." But one member of the town hall was unconvinced. When given the chance to ask a question, a woman told her: "Call me crazy but I listen to economists because they know
373 diggsEveryone that does this gets pwnd.
84 diggsAudi, the luxury unit of Volkswagen (VOWG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), sees great opportunities in electric cars and will offer automobiles with no exhaust emissions within ten years, its top executive told a German weekly. Rupert Stadler told Welt am Sonntag in an interview published on Sunday that he expects diesel and battery technology to dom
100 diggsAh the Wiimote. An elegant weapon, not as clumsy or as random like a blaster. Paired with the Nunchuk, it's pretty awesome too, according to this video from G4, which got an exclusive hands-on with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Wii's duel mode.
295 diggskitty is hiding a deep dark secret
444 diggsIn Houston, a Texan protesting amnesty for illegal immigrants argues that anyone who can't master English doesn't deserve to live in America. Excellent point.
35 diggsSyncrude is at the centre of an environmental debacle that killed hundreds of ducks at an oilsands tailings pond north of Fort McMurray has taken out full-page newspaper advertisements apologizing for the incident.
450 diggsThe group has landed in legal hot water in North Carolina for robo-calling voters, heavily skewed to African Americans. Notably, calls came AFTER the primary registration date, causing voters to question whether they were eligible to vote in the NC primary on Tuesday.
193 diggsGiz reader Robert Woodhead combined two things that I just can't seem to get sick of seeing: Stuffing Mentos into Diet Coke bottles and the super-slow-mo action of Casio's EX-F1 camera to create this stunningly beautiful video.
101 diggsScientists in the 1940s and 1950s, for instance, thought LSD might be the key to providing healing insight, a window on the soul, a way to transcend psychosis, mania, depression.The C.I.A. tested the drug as an aid to interrogation, a kind of truth serum. And this was all before acid met the counterculture on Haight Street in the 1960s.
69 diggsAn Oyster card for the London Underground completely melted with acetone down to the copper wiring - and it still works!
304 diggsScientists have discovered why fat people find it so hard to lose weight, which will lead to many new approaches to weight loss.
140 diggsAsk anyone down the pub what happens when you drink and they'll have the answer: you cheer up and loosen up. Yet until now no one has explored what happens in the brain during intoxication.
299 diggsWith at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations.
187 diggsMicrosoft’s dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo’s shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?
113 diggsEveryone in Japan is required to get a health insurance policy, either at work or through a community-based insurer. The government picks up the tab for those who are too poor.It's a model of social insurance that is used in many wealthy countries. But it's definitely not "socialized medicine." Eighty percent of Japan's hospitals are privately
125 diggsKevin Garnett took a behind-the-back pass from Paul Pierce, slammed in the dunk to make the lead three dozen points and then slashed his hand across his throat to signal what the Atlanta Hawks already knew. "It's over," he told the crowd. The game. The series. The surprising little scare Atlanta put into the NBA's best.
55 diggsImagine having Al Gore living in your house reminding you each time you forget to turn off the lights! The intent is to keep residents aware of how much resources are being consumed through daily activities ... and maybe guilt them into changing their ways.
133 diggsPolice have unleashed a new weapon against Britain's motorists - a speed-trap that looks like a workman's van.
82 diggsAnother film list? The same old Citizen Kane? No - this one’s different,
96 diggsThe total number of fat cells in the body remains the same throughout adulthood, researchers in Sweden reported.
222 diggsDemocrat Barack Obama appears to have rebounded from some of the damage caused by the controversy surrounding his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
101 diggsJust 18 days ahead the official premier, Paramount Pictures has released the second trailer of the long awaited “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”.
93 diggsAward-winning photographers here are "amateurs", but only through semantics. Beautiful, eclectic gallery of pics--from animals & wildlife to wilderness & landscapes. Some really nice stuff.
64 diggsThe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system.
45 diggsSun Microsystems is getting ready to talk about its cloud computing efforts, including some kind of a deal with Amazon for its Amazon Web Services, according to CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who delivered a short keynote at Startup Camp in San Francisco.
70 diggsA new, simplified family tree of humanity, published on Sunday, has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears.
62 diggsIt's really tough to build a winning dynasty in Major League Baseball, this much we know. Reeling off a streak of winning seasons is hard enough, never mind stringing together multiple World Series victories. So many teams came close to achieving immortal status only to fall short that we rolled out an entire series on failed dynasties.
609 diggsEach month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories to form the Consumer Price Index, one measure of inflation. It’s among the statistics that the Federal Reserve considered when it cut interest rates on Wednesday. The categories are weighted according to an estimate of what the average American spends, as shown
183 diggsToday in 1992, Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, and it launches a huge computer-game category. Wolfenstein 3-D may not have been the very first "first-person shooter," as the genre came to be known, but it was by far the most successful
128 diggsAsk Pellicano, whose case went to the jury last week, and offered arguably more for people who enjoy talk of encryption software, code-wiping booby traps or the low-tech secrets of phone company networks than anyone else.
54 diggsThe emerging effort to use videogames as a channel for selling music is entering its next phase with the recent release of "Grand Theft Auto IV."
97 diggsJapanese astronaut Takao Doi, on board of the International Space Station, has proved that a boomerang returns to the person throwing it even in the zero-gravity conditions. The idea came to him by request from his friend Yashuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion. The result is exactly what the science behind boomerangs predicts.
263 diggsAir pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a new study suggests. The findings may help unlock part of the mystery surrounding the current pollination crisis that is affecting a wide variety of crops.
193 diggsSharon Nunes, who leads IBM's green-research initiatives, launched IBM's Computational Biology Center. She predicted that by 2050, clean water and energy would be available to the entire planet.
110 diggsEnglishman murdered his wife before killing himself after she confessed on Facebook she was leaving him.
141 diggsEngineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and sharing the instructions online.
130 diggsA new mathematical and statistical method allows the virus population in a diseased organism to be determined quickly and economically. Using this method, medicines and vaccines against diseases caused by viral infections could be developed and deployed in a more targeted way in the future.