214 diggsPhotographer: KenHeld

97 diggsI bet the fastest ones are extra crispy.

156 diggsBusinesses like salons and dog walkers are feeling the pinch as the economy makes more Americans self-reliant.

140 diggsSeventeen years ago, federal investigators questioned for the first time whether Bernard Madoff was connected to a Ponzi scheme. They didn't get far.

128 diggsThe youth league of the Swedish branch of file-share and copyright reform advocacy group, the Pirate Party, has received millions of kronor in state support.

120 diggsKerberos and LDAP are designed to allow for a master/slave setup. In a centralized environment, user and group management can be handled through the LDAP/KRB5LDAP (Kerberos LDAP) protocol. This article explains how to configure KRB5LDAP (Kerberos LDAP) master/slave for KRB5LDAP clients.

183 diggsIt's more fun to play together

156 diggsTHE eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they also make pretty good peepholes into the brain. Thanks to an optical version of ultrasound, it is becoming possible to locate and monitor the growth of brain tumours, and to track neurodegenerative conditions like multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease - all by peering into the eye.

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228 diggsOUR universe may have arisen from seeds preserved in a universe that existed before the big bang - all thanks to dark energy.One of the models put forward to explain how the universe began proposes that it is just the latest phase in a never-ending cycle.

89 diggsPolice evacuated The Grand 18 Four Seasons Station cinemas Friday just after 9 p.m. after a shooting. According to police, a gun went off in a theater hallway. Jamal Woolard, the star of "Notorious" a film about the life and death of rapper Christopher 'Biggie' Wallace, was at the theatre.

222 diggsNorth Korea has ''weaponised'' enough declared plutonium stocks to produce four to five nuclear weapons, said Selig Harrison, a U.S. expert just returned from talks with officials in Pyongyang. Harrison, speaking...

157 diggsThere are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.

155 diggsMore pics and videos in the comments.

112 diggsA father and son have made history by successfully completing an unsupported trip to the South Pole.

385 diggsA whirlwind of the last 8 years under George W. Bush that has left so much demolished.

163 diggsOn the sudden removal of 3 seasons of full episodes of ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'': "We gave no notice to our users that these episodes would be coming off the service. We screwed up royally. We have just re-posted all of the episodes that we had previously removed."

127 diggsSend your messages from space with new photo platform. The notion comes from Japan, where a non-profit called Kansai Space Initiative (KSI) has been set up to build a tiny satellite that anyone can use once it's in orbit.

129 diggsNASA, the ubiquitous name in space exploration hadn’t always intended on always using regular rockets to fling space-shuttles or cargo in space. For a few decades starting at 1960, to the early years in 2000, NASA had its sights set on “poster child” mission where they would use a nuclear-powered space-shuttle.

153 diggsWith a seemingly endless collection of add-ons, extensions and extras, Firefox is one of the most customisable browsers. But you can take your customisations even further by changing the graphics and adding your own add-ons and extensions.

134 diggsThe Jaunty Jackalope Chronicles

133 diggs"I am happy to announce that Patrick Swayze is home after a brief hospitalization for pneumonia," his rep Annett Wolf tells PEOPLE exclusively.

70 diggsUK politicians want to create more environmental jobs but their green policies are hindering, not helping

239 diggsCarmakers around the world are cutting production as inventories build up to unprecedented levels. Storage areas and docksides are now packed with vast expanses of unsold cars as demand slumps.

160 diggsColumbia won an auction late Thursday for screen rights to "Foundation," Isaac Asimov's ground breaking science fiction trilogy. The film will be developed as a directing vehicle for Roland Emmerich.

150 diggsThorium-powered Cadillac is created by Lorus Kulesus and is meant to last for a century.

180 diggsClint Eastwood has become a living monument of Hollywood. He is to film what Chuck Norris is to roundhouse kicks: the founding father and ruling king. But everyone knows he’s a badass, and everyone knows he’s as talented behind a camera as he is behind the trigger of a .44 Magnum. But there are some things you might not have known about him.

304 diggsThinkProgress heralds the conclusion of the Bush 43 presidency by bringing you our list of the top 43 worst Bush appointees.

150 diggsCarla Dove and her team at the feather-identification lab at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, study "snarge" -- the goo that is wiped off an aircraft after it's hit by a bird.

157 diggsAt least 21,000 jobs were targeted for elimination yesterday as employers from Hertz Global Holdings Inc. to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. grappled with recession-choked demand.

179 diggsTo remember Heath Ledger -- Jan. 22 marks the one-year anniversary of his death from a prescription drug overdose at the age of 28 -- the late actor's closest friends and colleagues talk.

136 diggs“He went ahead and hit me with the taco and I got taco all over my shirt and kitchen. I’ve threatened to call police before. But anyway this time, I thought he went too far so I called police and he's in jail now.”

139 diggsAlabama was colder than Alaska, water fountains froze into ice sculptures in South Carolina and Florida shivered through a brush of Arctic air blast that deadened car batteries in the Northeast and prompted scattered Midwest power outages.

129 diggsThe U.S. Interior Department, acting in President Bush's final days in office, proposed on Friday opening up 130 million acres off of California's coast to drilling for oil and natural gas, including areas off Humboldt and Mendocino counties and from San Luis Obispo south to San Diego.

178 diggsHundreds of activists opposed to a third runway at Heathrow today staged a 'flash mob' protest at Terminal Five. The action, which saw environmentalists gather with local residents and climate change groups at the airport, was the first major demonstration since the Government controversially gave the go-ahead for the expansion.

118 diggsThe Xbox 360 is the best console you can buy. Except it's inexplicably missing something the Wii and PS3 have: Wi-Fi. You could buy Microsoft's $90 dongle. Or you could follow our guide.

89 diggsNetwork neutrality, which prevents carriers from blocking traffic or manipulating the speeds of traffic from certain Web sites, became a hot-button issue several years ago when carriers suggested they should be allowed to charge content providers more for using faster lanes on their networks.

185 diggsDomain name registrar and web hosting provider GoDaddy.com, was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday affecting thousands of its shared hosting customers for several hours. GoDaddy’s Communications Manager Nick Fuller confirmed the attack originally speculated to be an “outage”, and responded to several questions about it.

90 diggsWell, those prudes in Tampa got their way, and the Lingerie Bowl won't be tainting their apparently pure city. Instead a nudist resort in Pasco County stepped in and saved the day. The joint is appropriately called the Caliente Clothing Optional Resort, which should fair well for the Miami Caliente team.

152 diggsAfter being rejected entry into the App Store, Catamount Software renamed its port of the cult classic DopeWars game to CandyWars (iTunes, $0.99) and it was promptly approved.

152 diggsRealtyTrac reported this week that in 2008, the U.S. had a total of 3,157,806 foreclosure filings — default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions — on 2,330,483 U.S. properties. This was an 81% increase over 2007, and a 225% percent increase from 2006.

114 diggsAdmit it---it's stupid, but fun. Something silly for today.

187 diggsThe installation used laser tracking to project a green illumination onto the chimney emissions of the Salmisaari power plant. The illumination adjusts its shape and size to the contours of the vapor, reflecting the electrical consumption of residents in Ruoholahti and neighboring Lauttasaari.

252 diggsOne of the UK's largest hauls of Iron Age gold coins, which would have been worth in today's money up to £1m, has been found in Suffolk. The 824 so-called staters were found in a broken pottery jar buried in a field near Wickham Market by a local man using a metal detector.

226 diggsA look ahead to some of the great games coming out for the PSP in 2009. Several of those games are high-class RPG titles including Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Star Ocean, and Kingdom Hearts.

193 diggsAt the Game Business Law summit at SMU's law school today, Valve's Jason Holtman addressed the business models behind the company's popular Steam service. Valve talked about Steam, digital distribution and the PC market. Interestingly, Valve sees pirates as "tons of undiscovered customers."

190 diggsDude tries to reenact the Ninja Cat video and gets owned.

499 diggsWar is cruel. But sometimes, a story comes along that redefines what cruel really means.

155 diggsPost traumatic stress disorder, nerve pain and Hepatitis C could soon be added to the list of ailments treated by medical marijuana in New Mexico.

197 diggsIsrael declared a unilateral cease-fire in its 22-day offensive that turned Gaza neighborhoods into battlegrounds and dealt a stinging blow to the Islamic militants of Hamas, but the government said its troops will stay in the Palestinian territory for now.

52 diggsAlonzo Mourning is sprinting, jumping and dunking. That doesn't mean the former All-Star will soon be playing. The former and perhaps future Miami Heat center said Saturday he still doesn't know if he can return to the rigors of the NBA, even though his recovery from devastating knee and leg injuries 13 months ago is going far better...

154 diggsA young woman's visit to the wondrous(ly dirty) world of New York City was sullied by the loss of her iPod to a cabbie, thanks to big-city intimidation. The crime remains unsolved, but it brings up an interesting point: Can we use Apple products as currency once our money isn't worth the ink used to print it? Are iPods the new gold standard?

130 diggsHolman Jenkins, one of the smartest financial writers in America, describes how Citigroup fell from an innovative company that valued retail customers to a behemoth where one hand couldn't tell what the other was doing. A brilliant analysis of a victim of the 2008 crash.

197 diggsUng Pirat, the youth organization of the Swedish Pirate Party received over 1.3 million Krona from the Swedish government yesterday. The money - government funding to political youth organizations - was heavily criticized by anti-piracy lobbyists.

100 diggsThousands of so-called soft-story apartments in California remain vulnerable to earthquakes, experts say.

470 diggsPresident-elect Barack Obama said Friday he wanted legislation in Congress to permit federal funding on stem cell research and overturn a ban imposed by President George W. Bush.

172 diggsScientists have claimed a breakthrough in the fight against Aids with a pioneering stem cell treatment that protects the immune system from the virus that causes the disease. Results of a preliminary trial have raised hopes of a new form of therapy for people suffering from Aids, which occurs in the latter stages of infection with HIV.

360 diggsUsers are paid 65 cents for every positive review they leave on an Amazon.com listing for a Belkin router which has consistently gotten bad reviews in the past from users who say that the product is “loaded with Bugs, goes on & off whenever it feels like, and comes at a hefty price.”

108 diggsWith gigabytes of storage, dimensions comparable to traditional note cards, and a full color screen, the iPhone is the ultimate study companion.

278 diggsIs there a good reason I am amused by this comic?

125 diggsThe assets of Death Row Records, said to include master recordings of Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, were auctioned yesterday for $18 million.

597 diggsFirst ever episode of an all-new gaming audio podcast from some of the talented ex-1UP personalities who brought you shows like GFW Radio, Legendary Thread, and Sports Anomaly.

202 diggsIt’s hard to believe that Google Knol’s 6th month anniversary is fast approaching. The Wikipedia direct competitor, which launched to the public back in July of 2008, is reporting that Knol users have collectively produced 100,000+ knols. That’s no small feat for a site that most of us wrote off almost immediately.

96 diggsTotally not because it creates a five-day weekend with MLK on Monday and the Inauguration on Tuesday. Move out to be costly.

124 diggsEver since I found out that Sonic Team was little more than a big blue sweatshop, I have come to terms with the fact that anything coming from that studio will just be a disappointment. Sonic games come from a place that has no soul, and expecting any more than mediocrity from people who have been forced to only assemble and not create games is exp

199 diggs"First off, let's dispel a couple of things. I have sat in meetings with principals and school administrators and listened slack-jawed as system administrators (mostly MSCE's) told their employers that it was illegal to remove Windows from their current computers. They didn't say it violated their contracts or licenses...they said it was illegal."

261 diggsWindows only: If you're on the look out for a new trick to teach your PSP, using it as supplemental monitor for your Windows rig is pretty sweet trick indeed.

164 diggsColors – it sets the tone (no pun intended) and message of a website. Designers often spend hours, even days, researching and coming up with a harmonious and usable color scheme. In this collection, you’ll find 30 brilliant (alright - pun intended) web designs with vivid and colorful themes that evoke feelings of vivacity and dynamism...

290 diggsIsrael stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on a village in southern Gaza last week in which 14 people died.In testimony collected from residents of the village of Khuza'a by the Observer, it is claimed that Israeli soldiers entering the village:

225 diggsJust a quick take on several different passengers and what they did as the plane crashed on the Hudson River.

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169 diggsWondering why she seems a little distant, her friends aren't quite as friendly, or why she's hitting the gym with a vengeance? It may be nothing, but all three could be signs you're about to get kicked to the curb, amigo.

89 diggsTACOMA, Wash. – Debris flew into the grandstands at a monster truck show in Washington state, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring another spectator, witnesses and fire officials said Saturday. A red truck came apart while doing doughnuts during the freestyle competition of Friday night's Monster Jam show, the witnesses said.

164 diggsStack the magnetic towers to collect the same colored magnets and avoid the others. Warning: Very addictive, you should only play if you have time

171 diggsI wanna break and pop like Carlton!!

251 diggsIn a feat that until recently was thought impossible, a team of scientists have captured the first ever visible-light image of a planet orbiting another star.

98 diggsThe points Wozniak makes about Apple’s product pipeline, and how they have long roadmaps sometimes stretching 1 or 2 years ahead, may be enough to reassure people that whatever products are released over the next 6 months, have been planned for quite a while. They aren’t being rapidly conceived and developed without Jobs’ overseeing vision.

157 diggsEleventy billion times more bad-ass.

285 diggs“When Obama won, my colleagues played a practical joke on me — they made me wear a suit, a tie, and took pictures of me posing as Obama,” said Ilham.

297 diggsWikipedia is gearing up for an explosion in digital content with new servers and storage designed to handle larger photo and video uploads.Wikipedia has since scaled up from 2TB to 24TB and now 48TB of storage for its primary medial file server, and recently raised file upload limits from 20MB to 100MB.

412 diggsadios!

111 diggsThere comes a time late in games when Louisville players believe they can spot the tipping point.Their opponents, gassed from constant pressure and harassment, begin to get weak

289 diggsThe drives are freezing up or failing. Seagate admits to firmware issue.

270 diggsDirector Brett Ratner made a prank on Pierce during the shooting of After The Sunset

136 diggsJohn Rempel said he quit his job, lost friends, borrowed money and crossed the globe in pursuit of a non-existent inheritance, after he was contacted by e-mail in what is known as a Nigerian 419 scam.

184 diggsAs the multitudes arrive for the historic inauguration of Barack Obama, the most high-tech security bubble ever created is in place to protect the him from any foreseeable act of God, nature or man. Officials say that a lone wolf could still slip through protective measures and cause chaos but that contingency plans would keep Obama safe.

258 diggsAnimator Kirsten Lepore's tale of a little cupcake who had to get away from it all to find a sweeter life. Cute! Please watch in "high quality" mode.

238 diggsThe government grind.

233 diggsShown in this screen shot is an ad for StumbleUpon which is running on Digg. This is a brilliant move by StumbleUpon! After you click through on the ad they have a very slick video on how easy it is to place an ad with their service. By the way Reddit has a similar program too with sponsored links.

176 diggsA Colorado bakery has combined breakfast and dessert with their chocolate and bacon cupcakes.

153 diggsHe should've taken them by himself.