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293 diggsIt’s official. Call of Duty: World at War has sold more units on the Xbox 360 than Gears of War 2. The latest worldwide charts reveal that the latest offering in the famous war shooter series has managed to sell 4.34 million units since its release (and that's not including other formats), with it just now eclipsing the 4.30 million units of Gears

192 diggsEvolutionary biologists don't know much about how mothers might influence the gender of their babies, but they've got lots of ideas.And increasingly, they've got studies. A recent paper titled "You are what your mother eats" found that women who ate lots of breakfast cereal, salt and potassium were more likely to give birth to baby boys.

108 diggs"One of game's absolute greatest players, holds Major League record for runs scored, stolen bases and (almost certainly) referring to self in third person."

146 diggsAdministrators at an Indiana hospital said one of the three numbers listed for the hospital in the latest AT&T phone book connects callers to a phone sex line.

323 diggsThe exchange starts at minute 3:33. It's also worth watching the beginning, where Jim somehow argues that his reporting was spot on. (If the video has been removed, Gizmodo has it here).

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89 diggsWomen living in poor countries are 300 times more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than if they lived in rich countries, UNICEF said in a report released Thursday in Johannesburg.

109 diggsA WOMAN has tattooed a permanent advertisement for Queensland's Great Barrier Reef on her arm in her bid to score a $150,000 tropical island dream job.

113 diggsDraw the line in the sand! It's the showdown the tech world has feared: Microsoft's upstart Windows 7 versus Linux. We've seen plenty of volleys back and forth from both camps over the past few days, thanks to the beta launch of the Windows 7 operating system. The new OS has a lot going for it--features that directly target the growing Linux...

201 diggs"Dawn White riding Vapor Trail takes a dramatic rotational fall into the water at fence 14a (Log Drop into the MacNaughten Water Hazard) during the Adequan USEA Gold Cup Series Combined Training at the Advanced level in the Spring Event at Woodside Horse Park on May 24, 2008 in Woodside, CA [California, USA]". Photographer: JC Dill

90 diggsFrom Saturn hiding its enormous rings to grand meteor showers to the longest total eclipse of the sun in the 21st century, you can bet on an exciting year in the night sky.

143 diggsThe court handles sins so grave only the pope can grant absolution

132 diggsOutfits from a zone where cotton is as rare as spice but slinky latex is abundant...

219 diggsScientists can now pinpoint many specific genes including being lean, living a long life, improved self-healing, thrill seeking behavior, and having an improved memory among many other incredible traits. Many believe that these genes can be manipulated in ordinary humans, in effect creating Super-Mutants.

187 diggsDigg founder Kevin Rose and Revision3 producer Alex Albrecht know how to throw a party, having already held meetups in San Francisco, Chicago, London, Austin, and New York City. With over 700 people in attendance, the critical mass factor of Digg fans is a formidable force...

100 diggsI say that is that Ubuntu and Linux/FLOSS in general needs advocates on behalf of students, educators, and the next wave of technolgy users. People generally tend to stick with the OS they first learn so one of the best ways to make Linux maintstream is to get it into schools.

245 diggsAmid reports that a U.N. building had been hit, Israeli shelling sent panicked residents fleeing, witnesses said.

269 diggsAs Barack Obama decides between a Labradoodle and a Portuguese water dog, let's look back on a time when Presidents owned pets that were perfectly capable of devouring a human.

259 diggsThere might be a reason the neighbors never have you over for dinner.

199 diggsCar collectors with discerning eyes and deep wallets cruised the Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale. Their prey: hundreds of glistening vehicles waiting to go home with the highest bidder. And we mean high. Consider these images of car porn not safe for wallets.

293 diggsJust in case you’ve been living under a rock for the last several months, on February 17th, 2009 television broadcasts will no longer be transmitted in analog, presumably under penalty of death.

95 diggsIf coach Tom Coughlin has anything to do with it, troubled New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress might not be back, WFAN radio in New York reported on Wednesday

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223 diggsThe unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis.

514 diggsCould our three dimensions be the ultimate cosmic illusion? A German detector is picking up a hint that we are all mere projections.

289 diggsNVIDIA is launching yet another high-end 3D graphics offering, an optimized version of their top shelf GeForce GTX 280 single GPU card, dubbed the GeForce GTX 285. This new GeForce is a 55nm die-shrunk version of the legacy GTX 280 with lower power consumption. Its performance is shown here in Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Far Cry 2 and Mirror's Edge.

172 diggsA woman has been banned from driving for 20 months after being caught on a 2.4mph supermarket mobility scooter trying to get home after a drunken night out.

110 diggsCyber-squatter fails to bag $55 million for domain.

176 diggsThere's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush. Over the past eight years, Bob Woodward interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 hours, spent hundreds of hours with his administration's key players and reviewed thousands of pages of documents and notes.

173 diggsIf anyone close to you has lost their mind recently, we might be able to help. Hidden off the beaten track within Parque Nacional de Doñana (Doñana National Park), Andalucía is something that bears a remarkable resemblance to the human brain.

156 diggsMaine residents braced Thursday for readings down to 40 below zero. And in the Midwest, Iowans were warned that temperatures could drop as far as 27 below zero, matching a Jan. 15 record set in 1972.

216 diggsAs Hollywood continues to produce more and more remakes every year and as moguls like Jeffrey Katzenberg's claim that every movie will eventually be made in 3D, what's a filmgoer to do other than embrace the inevitable. This article asks "What other movies could actually be enhanced by the inevitable 3D remake bandwagon?" and offers up some ideas.

229 diggsYou know 9/11, Iraq, and all the rest. Almost. Come on, did you remember that Google only went public in 2004?! Before we consider what's next, an abbreviated history of the last eight years of our lives.

307 diggsIn honor of Jon Stewart's tenth anniversary as host of The Daily Show, a look back at his very first show.

144 diggsThe Orlando Magic combine to set an NBA record for three pointers in a single game with 23.

111 diggsCFLS are energy efficient, environmentally friendly and they give off quality light. But they have problems. These pricey bulbs go out with an occasionally smoky, smelly bang, and, like any other product, they can fail well before their promised lifetime. But if you treat your CFLs right, they’ll give you long, energy-sipping lives.

199 diggsHollywood film star Will Smith has staked his claim to play Barack Obama in a movie about his rise to become US President and America’s first black leader.

268 diggsPerhaps Jack Bauer spent the two-year break due to the writer's strike watching action flicks because the first four hours of the new season played like a greatest-hits of two Die Hard sequels, Panic Room, and The Bourne Ultimatum.

128 diggsVarious web-talking heads offer their views on the announcement out of Cupertino yesterday that Jobs would take a leave of absence until the end of June.

105 diggsAnd as I gaze over the amber waves of grain to the line that divides land and sky, I sometimes wonder how far away that line is. The horizon is a semi-mythical distance, used in poetry as a metaphor for a philosophical division of some kind. But in fact it’s a real thing, and the distance to it can be determined.

335 diggsPACIFICA – About 700 Israelis have been arrested for protesting against the war on Gaza since the beginning of the deadly offensive, said Neve Gordon, chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel on Monday.

107 diggsHah! A Kenyan cellphone company has released a Barack Obama-branded cellphone. It's decked out in red and blue, with fun phrases like “Yes We Can"

226 diggsThe "Super Size Me!" myth is disproved. Don't blame fast-food restaurants for why America seems so supersized. This new economic study from Northwestern University and UC Berkeley seems to disprove the common nutritional myth.

225 diggsA lot of us had these systems growing up as kids, this is a painful trip down memory lane looking back at the 10 ugliest gaming system of all time.

153 diggsA major third-party publisher will reportedly release an online Wii game in 2009 that is unrestricted by Friend Codes. The developers of the title discovered that it was possible to access the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection without them, and built a custom engine that did so.

79 diggsChina's attempts to bring more contact into the domestic game is behind the increase in violence on court and has contributed to a rise in crowd disorder, the country's basketball chief said on Thursday.

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130 diggsIf you've visited a bookstore this month, you probably weren't able to avoid the giant pyramid of diet books that magically appears right after Jan. 1. Whether you find those titles inspiring or just guilt inducing, one thing is certain: many of them sound too good to be true. And often they are. These popular weight-loss fads usually aren't all...

177 diggsThey're completely different mediums - lovely on their own - but they're used for different things and that often makes translation difficult or impossible. Games are about playing. Movies are passive. And the makers of these games have room temperature I.Q.s.

156 diggsThere are a lot of Windows XP users who are hoping Windows 7 is their operating system salvation. Even though it's pretty obvious that Win7 is more like Vista than XP, but there is still heavy interest from XP users.

174 diggsEver been to get ice cubes out of the freezer and found spikes rearing out of them? Or noticed spikes towering out of your bird bath? Here's a gallery of images of some cool ones, plus how to do it.

328 diggsNapoleon wasn't that short (for his time), The Salem Witches weren't burned?

136 diggsIn the midst of a frantic week in September filled with auditions and deadlines, New York casting agent Michael Cassara had zero down time. So one day, when he felt a sore throat coming on, Cassara had his doctor beamed into his office.

219 diggsPsychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain.

137 diggsTeen surfers frolic just feet from a man-eating Great White shark – after their teacher decided not to raise the alarm as “it would only have worried them”.

159 diggsOver the past 25 years, Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield have established themselves as metal’s quintessential guitar alliance. In this epic retrospective, Kirk and James take a walk down Metallica memory lane and critique some of the key songs in the band’s harsh, noble history.

154 diggsWith their smoothly engineered curves, their expectant lips, and, yes, their eternal willingness, RealDolls are—there's no getting around it—hot. They are also, according to the company, resistant to heat, water, staining, and stretching, but there is one "real" aspect of the dolls that doesn't get a lot of play. Every now and then, they get 'sick'

391 diggsListeners to TFM Radio were left in shock after a caller admitted live on air that she was once an unwitting cannibal. BTW, she won the "What is the most unusual thing you've ever eaten?" contest.

273 diggsA postman told today how he sank into depression and debt after losing �130,000 in an internet scam involving Nigerian fraudsters.

162 diggsFor a medium that lets us chainsaw faces off, punch presidents in their plums and slaughter endangered species; it's amazing how sensitive some of us get when developers do things we don't agree with.

146 diggsGardening really can help you make the earth move, according to a new study which found it improves men's sex lives.

149 diggsApple Inc. founder and chief executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming.

244 diggsMartin Ryan, 43, who had Down's Syndrome, was admitted to the hospital after having a stroke, which left him unable to swallow. He should have been fitted with a feeding tube, but a catalogue of errors meant he went for nearly four weeks without adequate nutrition.

145 diggsThe list gathered below is nothing like the PS3 Mods collection or the PS3 Covers list, for these cool Playstations are truly on the drawing board only. It isn’t like the mods that were actually made by some PS3 fans but actual dreams that stayed so.

160 diggsReady to be eaten by a Grue? Jolt Online Gaming on Wednesday announced Legends of Zork, a Web browser-based game based on the Infocom text adventure game classic.

173 diggsThis brought back some memories. Remember that Apple ad from 1984?

119 diggsWhite either has a super shrewd manager directing his business decisions while he floats in his own jet stream—a strong possibility considering the world of star athletes as check cashing product pushers. Or less likely, the 22-year old skate and snowboard phenom runs his own show and employs what I imagined to be an entourage with a brain.

199 diggsEach day that passes guarantees more innocent civilians will suffer. Tell Congress to act swiftly to help more humanitarian aid and workers enter Gaza and to suspend all transfers of weapons to Israel.

109 diggsThe bones of a Haast's eagle, the largest eagle that ever lived and a killer of moa, have been found at the Wairau Bar in Marlborough. Canterbury Museum's Paul Scofield unearthed the bones during an archaeological dig aimed at returning ancient Maori bones to their original graves.

115 diggsSome scary movies are so gruesomely great, Hollywood makes them again. Sometimes the results are screaming successes; others aren't just horror, they're horrible. With the sequel to the remake of The Hills Have Eyes coming soon, we take a look at what happens when scary gets a makeover.

319 diggsThe year is 1982 and Star Trek is all but finished — the first movie was a disaster of bland storytelling and had no life at all. Yet Paramount decides to take a chance and allows Nicholas Meyer to direct Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. To be blunt about it: Ricardo Montalbán's performance was so good that it saved the franchise.

169 diggsScreenshots for various alpha Office 14 applications have leaked. Here they are.

161 diggsApology-Bot 3000 saves the day again.

115 diggsMany torrent sites come and go, but few are as large or enduring as Mininova. Today, the BitTorrent giant celebrates its 4th birthday, after the first public version of the site went live in January 2005. For those who work hard to fulfill their dreams, from little acorns, mighty oak trees grow.

265 diggsAlthough Brian Doherty criticizes President-elect Obama's "disrespect for personal gun possession rights," he believes the new administration will do little in the near future to enforce stricter gun control laws.

152 diggsSouthern California quarterback Mark Sanchez, coming off a spectacular performance in the Rose Bowl, said Thursday that he's passing up his senior year to become available for the NFL draft.

98 diggsMiddle-aged people who consume modest amounts of coffee can significantly lower their risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by Finnish and Swedish researchers released on Thursday.

88 diggsUsing Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (the most recent name everyone believes to be extra wordy) as the baseline for “long ass name,” we present a list of long-winded games in increasing orders of multi-syllabic magnitude. How many colons, dashes and conjunctions can you spot?

167 diggsFrom David Fincher and Brad Pitt to Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, this is a great film list.

121 diggsItaly tax office has fined fashion designer Valentino 33 million euros (aprox $43 million US), rejecting his claim that he had transferred residence to London 10 years ago, the weekly Diva reported.

138 diggsEngadget digs through the iPhone's current shortcomings and what Apple should beg, borrow and steal from the Pre and webOS.

79 diggsPics from Diggnation live in Hollywood.

152 diggsCritics are attacking the Internet, charging that it's making society collectively dumber. In fact, humans are "natural-born cyborgs," and the Internet is our giant "extended mind."

110 diggsThis DVD teaches autistic children how to recognize emotions like happiness, anger and sadness through the exploits of vehicles including a train, a ferry, and a cable car.

307 diggs"Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville was cited at Los Angeles International Airport this morning for allegedly trying to bring an inert grenade into a plane.

112 diggsNo, according to this NY Times editorial. The Times has generally supported Yankees' requests for public assistance in their new Versailles-like stadium. But yet 1 more Yankee request has finally crossed the line. If you can afford CC Sabathia you can afford to pay a decent share of your stadium costs.

285 diggsWithin 5 months of suing to keep polar bears off the U.S. threatened species list, Sarah Palin announced that Alaska has filed a notice of intent to challenge the Fed's decision to list the beluga whales in Cook Inlet as a threatened species. Palin has demonstrated either a complete lack of understanding or lack of concern for endangered species.

215 diggsYou can make serious bank! If you believe that video games are toys, prepare to change your mind.

243 diggsPhosphorus shells are legal to use as a battlefield obscurant, but are banned from use where civilians may be harmed. Human Rights Watch says it has observed "dozens and dozens" of white phosphorus shells being fired by Israel at the Gaza Strip - a heavily populated civilian area where its use is prohibited.

138 diggsIn spite of all of the talk, New York fans shouldn't get their hopes up - cause it's not happening.

135 diggsBritish Fantasy award winning author Graham Joyce, writer of such novels as "How to Make Friends with Demons" and "The Tooth Fairy: A Novel", has signed on for the next game in the Doom franchise. Nothing is known about where the series will go next, though it's presumed that Doom 4 will continue where Doom 3 left off.

479 diggsKrist Novoselic: "I knew the bass line to the song, of course, but I couldn't quite master this new, different way of playing it.The game reminded me of Space Invaders. I tried to hit the notes cascading down the screen, but could barely keep up. Meanwhile, this kid was watching me fumble with the game..."

110 diggsWhat makes a player clutch? Are there clutch coaches? Are there clutch teams? When someone says that there isn’t a mathematical equation for clutch, is there an inferential chart that may help identify it? Or does it just give fodder for people to read what they want into the data?

1154 diggsThe plane is a US Airways plane.The plane went down near 57th street around 3:30 p.m. Rescuers are on the scene.There is no word on injuries or cause of the crash at this time.

198 diggsPlane crashes in the Hudson River.

198 diggsEven the recession can't stop Tay ...

173 diggsListen to these with caution. Half are already stuck in my head.

128 diggsJanis Krums from Sarasota, Florida posts the first photo of U.S. Airways flight 1549 on Twitter from his iPhone.

117 diggs The worm that has infected several million Windows PCs is causing havoc because nearly a third of all systems remain unpatched 80 days after Microsoft Corp. rolled out an emergency fix, a security expert said today.

338 diggsOne obvious way to take a big chunk out of the deficit - without closing schools or putting the sick and elderly out on the streets - hasn't even been discussed. Tax marijuana. The marijuana crop is valued at $13.8 billion annually - nearly double the value of our vegetable and grape crops combined. Our state is the nation's top marijuana producer.

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87 diggsA prominent fashion designer has sparked outrage in Chile by dressing up models like the Virgin Mary -- in some cases with ample, near-naked breasts.

102 diggsThe UK Government, through the BERR, commissioned a public consultation last year into illicit file-sharing, and how to deal with it. The responses should have been published in December, but due to a holdup concerning a freedom of information request, it was delayed until today. Despite this, some will still be kept confidential.

476 diggsGeorge Bush bought his "ranch" down in Crawford in 1999 shortly before he started running for president. And now that he's done with politics, he is moving out of there as soon as he possibly can. The Bushes have bought a new home in a tony neighborhood in Dallas. So, what happened to retiring down to the Ranch?

117 diggsLongtime Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz is the new head coach of the Detroit Lions, taking over the first team in NFL history to go 0-16.

97 diggsThe newest Extreme sport from the good folks at ESPN

144 diggsA new light-bending material has brought scientists one step closer to creating a cloaking device that could hide objects from sight. Beyond possible military applications, it also might have a very...

210 diggs"The calls we're getting now are from those people who are waking up and saying, `Oh my God, what do I do?"...Hawaii was moving to all-digital TV before the Feb. 17 date set for the rest of the nation because of an endangered bird, the Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel. Broadcasters and park rangers want to take down analog transmission towers

131 diggsKAKA has given the green light to join Manchester City after the club increased their offer to a phenomenal £243million.

234 diggsthis is the update to the earlier post about the girl that was so close to becoming a rocket scientist that she had to drop out of school because her laptop had Ubuntu on it. Now the problem is now all us Linux users out here that are just haters, make your own call on this.

122 diggsA team of researchers reported Thursday that methane emissions on Mars appear to come in large, brief bursts and that in 2003, the bursts originated from three specific regions in the northern hemisphere, where it was midsummer.

163 diggsThe Famous Los Angeles Radio Station has suddenly stopped broadcasting!

190 diggsHow to perform a two-step wall-flip and live to enjoy the high-five that will follow. Good for impressing friends and escaping pursuers…

90 diggsBasically, if the birds get too close to the engine's intake, it's like a vacuum - the birds just get sucked in. "The initial stages of a jet engine are made up of a lot of compressor blades. Those aren't very big and they can be very easily damaged," Oderman told LiveScience.

241 diggsFilm critic Kevin Lee found his YouTube account closed and his video essays removed after a third DMCA notice. Content owners have jointly professed great respect for fair use, but Lee's story shows just how many problems remain.

175 diggsThe english trailer for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has been released, featuring appearances by Cammy, Vega, Balrog and Bison. Ryu and Ken, two of the biggest faces of the Street Fighter franchise, will not be present within the film.

205 diggsA Portuguese businessman cut off one of his fingers in court with a butcher's knife in an 'act of despair' after a judge refused his offer to settle a 170,000 euro debt and said part of his farm must be sold.

370 diggsWhen it comes to design, there’s a plethora of free web-based tools to help you accomplish tasks such as color palette selection, creating unique fonts, editing images, and testing typography. In this article, you’ll find a bunch of handy online utilities for designers.

180 diggsA ton of great games are coming to the Ninendo DS this year that you just can't wait to get your hands on!

145 diggsI have created and installer and bootloader (download below) for getting Debian running on your Android (G1 at the moment) device, the whole install process will take you about 10 mins, and leaves you with access to the full plethora of programs available in Debian and let's you continue using your phone as it was intended to be

351 diggsBirdchick lives in Minnesota, where it's wicked cold right now! She shot this video of what happens when you spray hot water at -20 degrees F.

143 diggsSteve Jobs' medical leave puts the spotlight back on the other members of Apple's executive ranks, in particular chief operating officer Tim Cook, financial chief Peter Oppenheimer, and marketing chief Phil Schiller. So who's looking after Apple now?

470 diggsGreg Daniels, the big boss behind The Office, just confirmed that Amy Ryan will be reprising her spectacularly popular and quirky role as Holly Flax, Michael Scott's like-able partner in crime

357 diggsBreaking! Warner Bros. and Fox have resolved their dispute over "Watchmen," with the studios scheduled to present the settlement to the judge on Friday morning and request that the case be dismissed.

112 diggsThe Braves finalized their $60 million, four-year contract with Derek Lowe on Thursday.

958 diggsToday CNN's Rick Sanchez went after "War Corespondent" Joe the Plumber

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148 diggsThere’s Marley & Me, which strikes just the right balance of humor and emotion and Bolt which proves that not all non-Pixar made animated films have to necessarily suck. There’s even another live-action canine caper in Hotel for Dogs. It’s truly a good time to be a filmgoer and a dog person. To proclaim our appreciation of our furry companions, we

178 diggsA MAN who walked into a hospital emergency room with a 12cm blade buried in his head says he was stabbed by his father. This amazing x-ray picture, obtained by Central European News, shows the blade plunged deep into his skull.

163 diggsLisa P. Jackson, chosen to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said at her confirmation hearing that her first task would be to restore scientific and legal integrity to the agency.

352 diggsBetsson, a Swedish online betting site, has listed the odds of Obama using certain words during his inaugural address on January 20, with "banana" and "Angela Merkel" given 1,000 to 1 odds.

269 diggsTwitter...what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who've never really ...

275 diggsHere are over 45 impressive jQuery plug-ins and techniques. Smashing!

156 diggsApple's "OS X" (without the "Mac") trademark filing reveals an intention to distance the OS from the Mac realm, indicating Apple's desire to use OS X on a much broader array of gadgets in the future. Some Apple watchers are convinced we will see more OS X software platforms beyond current desktop and mobile OS X. Like a game console, for instance.

154 diggsSam Raimi will never produce a Spider-Man film that approaches the sublime awfulness of Turkish Spider-Man, where Spidey uses a face-tube and hamsters to teach a lesson. Click through to see the Turkish clone saga.

301 diggsASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft. The debut took place Jan. 15 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif.

159 diggsUPS delivers, but not always to the right address, a Denton man discovered Monday when he found a lot of green inside a package dropped on his porch by the men in brown.

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248 diggsSay hi to your mother for me.

200 diggsAn e-book submitted to Apple's App Store has been approved after the author removed language that apparently offended Apple.

134 diggsI vividly remember my first video game system, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), and the games that came with it: Super Mario Brother and Duck Hunt. Now I can recapture my youth on my iPhone because some developers have made a port of Duck Hunt for the device.

249 diggsIf we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years, this means that those who hold power are above the law and can abuse their power.

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145 diggsBack before Apple Inc. made computers that fit in your pocket, it made computers that fit on your desk. Some were big-box machines, others were not so portable portables and still others were -- literally -- cube-shaped. But the first Macintosh, the one that started Apple's rise to iconic status, is to the computer industry what the wheel was...

246 diggsThank you science! Mirror in comments.

115 diggsThat's what Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola told lawyers for the Bush administration at a hearing on Wednesday afternoon in the ongoing case over millions of missing White House emails.

202 diggsReturning Friday night for the beginning of the last half of its final season, the Peabody Award-winning television series that has so effectively woven current events and religion into its story lines also has conjured a gender-blind universe filled with female characters of genuine substance.