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439 diggsBiomechanical research reveals a surprising key to the survival of our species: Humans are built to outrun nearly every other animal on the planet over long distances. From our abundant sweat glands to our Achilles tendons, from our big knee joints to our muscular glutei maximi, human bodies are beautifully tuned running machines.

223 diggsLake Mead, which supplies most of the water to the Southwest of the U.S., is in danger of trying up. During the last 7 years the water level at the lake decreased by almost 50 per sent, threatening to cut the water supply for 25 million people in the U.S. and Mexico. Documentary about water scarcity becoming the world next big environmental crisis.

314 diggsThe city of tomorrow takes to the skies in an incredible new concept from Beijing-based MAD Architects. Although its spires may look menacing, the aptly named Superstar is a completely self-sustaining city that is capable of producing all of its own power and food while recycling all of its waste.

170 diggsAs Texas Stadium's time runs out, Dallas Cowboys fans' affection for it does not.Texas Stadium has always been more than Irving's most famous feature, more than the home of sports heroes, more than the centerpiece of football fans' Sundays.

215 diggsScientists have figured out how tuberculosis tricks the immune system, a discovery that could lead to new anti-TB drugs, according to a study published Sunday. In experiments with mice, they identified a key mechanism whereby TB bacteria provoke a form of death in host cells that enables the infection to spread through the lungs, they reported.

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347 diggsElements in the Iranian state are sending weapons across the border to the Taleban in Afghanistan, a BBC investigation has uncovered.

898 diggsRon Paul, so, who you voting for now? OPEN YOUR EYES, we are not enemies, now we will all suffer together.We were all caught up in the glitz and glam of this current elections, we didn't see the real facts infront of us because we have been fighting with each other!p.s: He agrees that marijuana is only illegal because it can't be taxed. ...

402 diggsAre you looking to trade in your old PC for the latest all-singing, all-dancing model? If you haven't yet earmarked it for a role in your household, don't rush to bin it: we Britons produce over 1.8 million tonnes of electric and electronic waste every single year, and even if you don't care about the environment per se, we're fast running out of l

696 diggsreally nice...

527 diggsIn this post, I am listing down 13 Amazing Firefox Add-Ons To Make Designers Lives Easier.You are welcome to share if you know more amazing firefox add-ons that will save time which our readers/viewers may like.

271 diggsCheck out an extended scene from is a remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

567 diggsEarlier this spring Japan looked like one of Apple's most promising markets for iPhone 3G (AAPL). But even a price cut isn't helping the gadget take off there. This doesn't seem to be a problem with the iPhone per se: It's a problem with the Japanese handset market, which has a ton of high-end phones at competitive prices.

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247 diggsFor its third anniversary, the highly portable 4G iPod nano gets a new tall and slim design, Genius Playlists, audio recording and other new software features, twice the RAM at the same price, and a new array of colors. It continues to offer high quality audio, and plays video games, podcasts, TV and movie downloads, and movie rentals

518 diggsFrank Newport, head of Gallup, admits that they temporarily changed to a likely-voter model for a poll that showed a large jump and lead for McCain, in the same breath that he admitted that the likely-voter model is less accurate than the registered-voter model, and that the likely-voter model was temporarily skewed Republican.

927 diggsThose e-mails could shed light on how Gov. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, runs the state. And they could also help reveal what role Todd Palin, who the state Legislature's special investigator called a "central figure" in the governor's firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, played in his wife's administration

261 diggsIn May, Napster openly challenged Apple's iTunes Store when it launched an a la carte download service filled with DRM-free tracks that are compatible with both the iPod and iPhone. The service offered 6 million songs and was billed as "more than 50 percent larger than any other MP3 store" and not only the "largest major label MP3 catalog in the in

328 diggsStocks on Wall Street fell after the opening bell as investors grappled with a financial landscape vastly different from the one they left behind last week.

233 diggsWhen it comes to tall buildings, all eyes are on the Burj Dubai. That's because this month it became the tallest structure in the world—and it's not even done yet. But across the world architects have already come up with mega engineering plans vying to be equally mind-blowing. From shortest to tallest, here are our favorite 10 favorite skyscrapers

199 diggsJohn McCain may want to refine his economic message a bit more during this potentially disastrous week for the financial sector. On the campaign trail in Florida, the Senator declared this morning that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," despite what he described as "tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street."

936 diggsOn Fox News today, host Megyn Kelly called out McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for the campaign’s lies about Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) tax proposals.

189 diggsWhat do you do if your Windows installation suddenly just doesn't want to start up? All those important files and pictures, can be easily recovered using the Ubuntu Live CD without installing anything or damaging any of the files. Easy step-by-step instructions with screenshots.

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416 diggsSylvester Stallone has just signed on to direct Rambo 5, due to start filming next year. What’s more, Sylvester Stallone is also thought to be writing Rambo 6. Plus Stallone wants Rambo 7 to be an animated cartoon, and Rambo 8 to be a musical, and Rambo 9 to be a stageplay. All true. Except for the last 26 words.

313 diggsThe music industry has been spending its summer making it harder for music fans to encounter new music online. Just one part of a long laundry list of the record industry's self-inflicted path of destruction.

1354 diggsSpeaking in Florida this morning — the very day that two of Wall Street’s major banking institutions collapsed — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared he “still” believes “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”

580 diggsUnauthorized silent Dracula movie from 1922. #202 on the IMDB top 250 with a rating of 8.1

131 diggsGeorge Takei has gone where no famous man (but two plenty famous women) has gone before, tying the knot with his partner of 21 years, Brad Altman.

457 diggsThree Chinese men purchased a glittering 274kg (~600lb) stone for $2,000 while visiting in Kyrgyzstan. They brought "treasure" back to China hoping to make a fortune by selling it. They sliced off a piece and took it to Beijing for expert analysis. Geologists at Tsinghua University concluded that it was depleted uranium and called the police...

216 diggsBest Buy announced today that it has acquired Napster for $121 million in cash. The company said that it will keep Napster’s executive team and will leave the Napster service and its estimated 700,000 users in place without changing much in the near-term.

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487 diggsThis is exactly why we send astronauts to risk their life to service Hubble: in a paper published last week in the Astrophysical Journal, scientists detail the discovery of a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Get your tin foil hats out, because it gets even weirder.

388 diggsPink Floyd founder member Richard Wright has died at aged 65 after battling cancer

306 diggsI know I have been evangelizing the PA comics lately but this is a good one.

563 diggsIn December 2000, Gramm, while a U.S. Senator, snuck in a 262-page amendment to a government re-authorization bill that created what is now the $62 trillion market for credit default swaps (CDSs). Gramm's "The Commodity Futures Modernization Act" freed financial institutions from oversight of their CDS transactions.

509 diggsIn its brief lifespan of only 13 days, Hurricane Ike wreaked great deal of havoc. Affecting several countries including Cuba, Haiti, and the United States, Ike is blamed for approximately 114 deaths (74 in Haiti alone), and damages that are still being tallied, with estimates topping $10 billion

251 diggsSo its not just the customers they are pretty bad with their employees too

650 diggsFascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter...

522 diggsOfficials in Washington have discovered that marijuana growers are concealing illegal crops among grapevines. Vineyards are the latest battlefield in a long-running war between law enforcement and drug-trafficking organizations in the Pacific Northwest.

586 diggsTroopergate - Palin lied to ABC

182 diggsGoogle may have started with the wrong desktop platform in trying to create a groundswell for its Chrome browser.

222 diggsHere are some of the top tiers brand in the technology industry with their website on the Internet for more than a decade. Let’s take a look how their website looks like 10 years ago, comparing with that they have now. Full list after jump.

250 diggsA review of Linpus Linux Lite that comes pre-installed with Acer Aspire One Linux edition.

306 diggsHip-hop and video games have always had a symbiotic relationship whether it was rappers rapping about beating each other down in NBA Live, participating in Madden and Street Fighter tournaments or actually sampling game music for their tracks. Songs that only had soundbites, like a "Fatality!" or a Mario coin drop, weren't considered.

270 diggsPolar bears and other rare species are in danger of dying out, scientists fear, as latest figures show the Artic sea ice is at record lows.

217 diggsA north suburban family says they will never know for certain if a tumor removed from a young woman two years ago was cancerous, since Children's Memorial Hospital lost the tumor.

306 diggsNintendo, as a developer, has a good grasp on the importance of setting. Here's a list of the ten greatest Nintendo levels (or areas).

828 diggsJust now in Florida McCain offered the most contorted retraction ever of his oft-repeated "strong economy" line -- he changed it to be a reference about workers (!). Another interesting thing to note: McCain stole Obama's "Enough is enough line." There's something hilarious about seeing that guy say "enough is enough" without any apparent sense of

715 diggsIn a statement released by his campaign, McCain called for greater "transparency and accountability" on Wall Street. If McCain wants to hold someone accountable for the failure in transparency and accountability that led to the current calamity, he should turn to his good friend and adviser, Phil Gramm.

267 diggsLehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, said it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after attempts to rescue the 158-year-old firm failed.

199 diggsIf you're a Nike+iPod Sport Kit fan, you may eventually find yourself being restricted to using it with Nike-branded sportswear, thanks to a recently-published Apple patent.

248 diggsThere were 42 complaints over a show in which Gordon Ramsay was "sky fishing" for puffins and eating its fresh heart. The regulator said the sequence was not in breach as it occurred in Iceland, where the puffin forms a popular part of the national diet. It also noted the birds were killed in a humane way with minimal suffering.

411 diggsThey gave him goggles and told him not to look directly at the flash. Five decades later, Joe Cohen let out a rueful chuckle as he recalled his role in secret atomic-bomb tests held in the Nevada desert in 1955. "I wish I was making this up because, when I talk about it, people think I have a vivid imagination," the retired 74-year-old said.

212 diggsBarrons reports on an analyst note from Citigroup's Richard Gardner who claims to have received confirmation that new MacBooks are shipping.The report cites "field checks" as the source of the information and describes the new MacBooks with a "very thin aluminum casing, an LED-backlit display and an aggressive entry-level price point."

527 diggsIn Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires, they ban billboards. In America? They pass laws to chop down trees that might block their view. In Florida, they passed a law in 2006 that gave billboards guaranteed views. And the problem is spreading--several states now have laws that give billboards precedence over beautification projects.

180 diggsThe production of Google Earth “artifacts” seems to be a popular task nowadays in Russia. This time a whole crowd of people has been aware of the exact timetable of the “QuickBird” satellite passing over the Chelyabinsk city and planned to make a big yellow smiley face of their bodies for Google Earth.

237 diggsHow can ice freeze without bringing it to freezing temperature? Make instant hot ice, of course. Impossible? Possible!

505 diggsFor 18 months, Obama has wagered all his chips on the (quaint? idealistic? brilliant?) idea that the American people are tired of the same old sleazy and divisive politics. McCain has now chosen to bet against him. And we are the cards.

250 diggs"if you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well then I've got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska."

553 diggsA definitive oral history of the greatest sketch comedy show of all time.

249 diggsBy Andrew Gray BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The new U.S. military commander in Iraq must find ways to keep improving security while American troop levels are falling, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday as two Baghdad bombings underlined the scale...

1315 diggsThese picks are pretty good! Any better casting suggestions? Let's hear them!

621 diggsIn 2006, Congress passed the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act." The bill was vaguely written and voted on months before the '06 election. The bill's political purpose failed-- Republicans lost control of Congress, and the bill's primary House author, Rep. Jim Leach, was defeated in his reelection bid. Unfortunately, the law lives on.

569 diggsHave you tried Crysis? I bet that it ran “ok, right? It was runnable, but you were either unable to play it with a decent framerate or only at low quality settings.

152 diggsAs if the announcement of a high-speed rail line that will go from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2 hours and 40 minutes isn’t exciting enough, Navigant Consulting now claims that the bullet train can run with zero greenhouse gas emissions.

237 diggsAge of Conan and Warhammer Online were supposed to mark the end of the World of Warcraft, but they failed. Meet the game that will really kill World of Warcraft once and for all...

199 diggsDid the 2.1 firmware do everything it promised? Oh yes.

564 diggsWith these five easy tricks, you'll have no trouble springing from the sheets rested and ready.

234 diggsThankfully, with the release of Death Magnetic, Metallica has finally put an end to the debate over old Metallica and new Metallica. Death Magnetic is not only an album that sees the band return to their Metal and Trash roots as much as they possibly could over two decades removed from Kill 'Em All.

285 diggs"Yesterday" is a pop song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. According to the Guinness Book of Records, "Yesterday" has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 3,000 recorded cover versions. Here are some of the best.

365 diggsA rudimentary form of natural selection likely existed in the primordial soup even before life arose on Earth. If so, the complex "ecosystem" of prebiotic molecules may have made the eventual arrival of life much more probable.

133 diggsFunny video on how NOT to use PowerPoint. Funny and true.

151 diggsWell, this was predictable: a soccer game in Congo was interrupted when one team’s goalie began practicing witchcraft on the field, yadda yadda, eleven people died.

362 diggsIf there was one major disappointment of the past console cycle - that of the Xbox and PlayStation 2 - it was that it was over so quickly.

142 diggsThe Milwaukee Brewers have fired manager Ned Yost in the midst of a late-season slump that has jeopardized the team's chances of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982. Third-base coach Dale Sveum will become interim manager for the remainder of the season. The Brewers have lost seven of their last 10, and share the NL wild-card lead

737 diggsApple on Monday released Mac OS X 10.5.5, a recommended update for all users of Mac OS X 10.5.x Leopard that includes over a hundred bug fixes and enhancements.

329 diggsThe NFL will look into the inadvertent whistle rule that required officials to give the ball back to Denver in the final seconds of Sunday's game with San Diego.

910 diggsGoogle Street View gets up close and personal.

306 diggsCornell researchers created a "tree" that simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive capillary action that allows trees to wick moisture upward to their highest branches. It also may lead to new passive heat transfer technologies for cars or buildings, better methods for remediating soil and more effective ways to draw water.

328 diggsHappy headlining!

230 diggsAs part of his viral video-powered campaign, Pickens wants to put $160 million behind his case for natural gas-powered vehicles and the so-called Standard Taxi, which looks sort of like a London taxi made from Lego blocks. But, yo, T. Boone! Wake up and smell the coffee. There's little need to spend on developing an all-new CNG vehicle, because the

223 diggsGeneral Motors at its centennial celebration in Detroit on Tuesday is expected to showcase the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid electric car that carries the heavy expectations of reversing GM's slide and slashing consumers' fuel use. Buzz around the Volt picked up last week when photos of the production car were captured, showing a less sporty...

196 diggsCheney Turned Down Request To Oversee Katrina Recovery Because ‘He Doesn’t Do Touchy-Feely'

162 diggsOn Saturday in Andover, as activists, scholars and legal experts gathered in the Wyndham hotel, the building suddenly went dark. Electricity had been cut off just prior to the start of a landmark war crimes conference which would plan the prosecution of Bush Administration officials. But at 7 a.m., the program was in flux, if only for a few moments

318 diggsNanotechnology seems to be invading all facets of modern life, from the pills you take to the batteries that power your iPod. Pretty soon, carbon nanotubes may even filter your water.

377 diggsRickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner.

153 diggsTony Hawk is skating a massive ramp set up in the Mojave desert and is battling the sandy elements. I think the helicopter was there to make things that much more extreme and kick up a little extra dust.

116 diggsDrugs derived from cannabis may help treat chronic pain by binding to CB2, a receptor for cannabinoids.

255 diggsComputer maker Hewlett-Packard said it will lay off 24,600 employees, or 7.5% of its workforce, over the next three years in a plan to integrate tech outsourcer Electronic Data Systems, which HP bought late last month. HP said the workforce reduction will result in annual cost savings of about $1.8 billion. Of the nearly 25,000 layoffs, HP said a

303 diggsThis is a really cool collage of the past 8 years the republicans gave us, and then read the caption.

700 diggsGo Daddy contest where the prize is an episode of Diggnation shot in your living room!

446 diggsExactly a year ago, the anti-piracy company MediaDefender was put to shame after a hacker gained access to their systems. Many of the deepest secrets of the company were published online, and now, twelve months on, the company is walking the plank to bankruptcy as its shares are worth less than one cent each.

129 diggsA new species of blind, subterranean, predatory ant discovered in the Amazon rainforest by University of Texas at Austin evolutionary biologist Christian Rabeling. It belongs to the first new subfamily of living ants discovered since 1923, and is a descendant of one of the first ant lineages to evolve over 120 million years ago

336 diggsAs governor, Palin vetoed $275,000 in Special Olympics Alaska funds, slashing the organization’s operating budget in half

2108 diggsuncanny!

273 diggsSo you're standing in the election booth. You look at the names in front of you: McCain and Obama. Chances are, by now you know who you're going to vote for. But what went into that decision?

147 diggsA long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed. Some astrophysicists have recently questioned whether that is true, and now new simulations show that, at least in galaxies similar to our own Milky Way, stars such as the sun can migrate great distances.

297 diggsFirefox 3.0 displays a EULA when it's first installed, and that has some Ubuntu users hopping mad. It's also sparked debate over the role of licensing in the open source community.

377 diggsIf office gremlins are making off with your daily meal, innovative designer Sherwood Forlee has a clever solution: the Anti-Theft Lunch Bag. Simply put, Anti-Theft Lunch Bags "are regular sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides." With your sandwich inside, the bag simulates mold and makes the contents look disgusting.

366 diggsA breast cancer vaccine completely eliminated HER2-positive tumors in mice - without any toxicity. It was suggested the vaccine could treat women with HER2-positive, treatment-resistant cancer or help prevent cancer recurrence. The researchers said it might potentially be used in cancer-free women to prevent initial development of these tumors.

419 diggsAccording to a new study, vegetarians and vegans are six times more likely to suffer from brain shrinkage than meat eaters.

285 diggsLos Angeles Times spoke to Capt. Kirk about JJ Abrams' "Star Trek" remake ("I am very happy for Leonard..."); his new comics venture with Blue Water Prods. in stores March '09; what keeps him in the limelight ("Look at at Lance Armstrong and Brett Favre, these guys that keep coming back."); and forgetting his wallet ("Will you buy me coffee?”).

646 diggsBest Buy employee who regrets selling all those extended warranties now that he's actually trying to use the one that he purchased.

701 diggsJewish voters are complaining of a poll that, after confirming their religion, asks a series of questions that appear aimed at alarming Jewish voters, including linking Barack Obama to Palestinian terrorist groups.

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392 diggsA Google patent application filed two years ago but published this fall is getting some new attention because it's just too interesting to ignore. The patent is for putting data centers on ships at sea and harvesting the energy in waves for power. The biggest benefit for the company, though, could come from changed legal and tax status.

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413 diggsMichiels discovered the glowing-red fish by chance during dives in Mangrove Bay in the Red Sea (the salt water inset between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula), where he was investigating how deep red light penetrates into the water

507 diggsMichael Phelps is just the most recent tip of a very un-funny iceberg worth of bad SNL hosts. Some of them are just plain unfunny and some of them were hosts at bad times. Some were both! Did you know Steve Forbes hosted SNL the same day Rage Against the Machine was the musical guest?

380 diggsThe greatest science fiction heroes live on the edge, skimming the jagged maw of death every day. "Scifi hero" is a high-risk profession, so you shouldn't expect your idols to live forever. But at the very least, you can hope your hero gets a good death — a hero's death — instead of going out like a punk. So it's too bad that some of our most favor

506 diggshere are many clever and useful ways to improve a site from the user interface perspective. A developer can find nearly any snippet of Javascript to achieve what he or she wants to accomplish.

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266 diggsApple rolled out version 2.1 of its iPhone software on Friday, and widespread reports suggest that it successfully fixes numerous problems, including 3G data reception. Here's a rundown of iPhone 2.1's enhancements. Fewer dropped calls. In a survey conducted by Wired.com, 40 percent of readers report that they're getting fewer dropped calls than

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681 diggsFormer GOP governor Linwood Holton today endorsed a Democrat for president for the first time and is going to stump critical areas of the state for him. Linwood Holton is the hero of moderate Republicans in Virginia. Holton is widely regarded as the father of the Republican party in Virginia.

613 diggsIf he wants it to... The Obama Campaign should immediately release an ad that asks why McCain has been wasting his time talking about nonsense when we have real problems in our lives. If they do, they can successfully reframe the debate on the issues.

183 diggsThis means that you can now access all the Gears-enabled sites (such as Zoho office, WordPress, the new YouTube uploader and Google Docs offline) in Safari.

117 diggsMcCain's son served until last month on the board audit committee of a Nevada bank that was recently seized by Federal authorities amid mounting losses and regulatory scrutiny. This article dated just days before the resignation of McCain and the seizure of the bank.

264 diggsIke did damage all over Texas. These pictures show some of the worst damage that the hurricane inflicted.

321 diggsThe Intoxilyzer 5000EN, a breathalyzer machine used by Minnesota law enforcement, runs on a pair of Z80 processors and uses 50,000 lines of assembly code. The accuracy of that code base is now under nationwide scrutiny as defense attorneys around the country now frequently claim

395 diggsThere is probably nothing more pathetic in the world of marketing than watching a big corporation try to do something "viral"—usually they end up looking like Elaine dancing. But sometimes, they're so cynical and soulless about it that they don't just come across as incompetent, but as exploitative cheapskates as well. In 3M's case, they...

151 diggsRisking being scooped and having patents refused, some scientists are posting their data online as they produce them.

427 diggsHONG KONG, Sept 16 (Reuters) - AIG will be forced to seek out merger to avoid bankruptcy. Warren Buffet is no longer the richest man on the planet. It turns out most of his wealth was tied up in paper maché investments.

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577 diggsWashington Post columnist and former McCain fan Richard Cohen tears into McCain in his latest column. Money quote: "Karl Marx got one thing right -- what he said about history repeating itself. Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both."

151 diggsA different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

215 diggsBeautiful images from NASA of galaxies, nebula, star clusters, iridescent cloud formations, etc. Some extraordinary, inspired pics. [Most images can be enlarged, hi-res, full screen.]

310 diggsEagles rookie WR DeSean Jackson makes a rookie mistake of epic proportions and costs himself a touchdown.

296 diggsHe has become the sort of politician he once despised.

864 diggsOccasionally, even I run across a message, so clear and so profound, that design of the presentation would do little to make it any clearer.

285 diggsAfter winning a recall election last month, Bolvia’s President Evo Morales has proposed controversial changes to Bolivia’s Constitution. He wants to redistribute wealth obtained from the sale of Bolivia’s abundant natural gas resources in a more equitable way to help the poor.Violent protests have emerged that might lead to civil war.

430 diggsDigital Rights Management (DRM) sound pretty innocuous and not something that you would think could be the biggest deal breaker between consumers and the entertainment industry. After all DRM could have meant ways for you to manage all the entertainment media you have paid for.

204 diggsWhat to bear in mind the next time you visit the pharmacy counter.