165 diggsBEIJING – The official Chinese translation of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech was missing his references to communism and dissent, while a live broadcast on state television Wednesday quickly cut away to the anchor when the topic was mentioned.

117 diggsAfter 34 games of skeeball, 22 games of basketball, countless rounds of Dance Dance Revolution and House Of The Dead, 13 pitches of Coke, 9 large pizzas, and a birthday cake, DVS formerly welcomed 16-year-old Robbie Russo to the team. Then it was time to hit up the San Pedro Skatepark. If you have been there you know its hard as hell to skate!

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223 diggsU.S. regulators are examining Apple Inc.’s disclosures about Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs’s health problems to ensure investors weren’t misled, a person familiar with the matter said.

163 diggsA parrot has been banished from a football ground because it kept imitating the referee's whistle during an crunch match.

173 diggs $999 now gets that newer generation 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor with faster 1,066MHz frontside bus, 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory standard (up from 1GB), integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics, and Bluetooth 2.1

252 diggsCanada's major ISPs have all turned over to regulators information about their use of deep packet inspection to throttle file-sharing apps, and one thing is clear: Canada's Internet, like its beer, is straight-up cold-filtered.

205 diggsA gym is offering its customers an unusual set of dumbbells to exercise with - including an overweight man and two dwarfs.

147 diggsWhile Americans were watching the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as successor to the deeply unpopular conservative George W. Bush, thousands of Iceland's citizens were fighting riot police around the Icelandic parliament building Althingi to try to prevent the world's oldest parliament from meeting.

165 diggsRights groups say images from the conflict prove the use of phosphorus.The Israeli army is to investigate claims it used white phosphorus illegally during its three-week offensive in Gaza.

309 diggsA police force has been critizised after spending �170,000 to arrest a stripper 22 times for impersonating an officer.

161 diggsAfter 10 Million votes counted, here they are. The best of the best.

160 diggsA B.C. man probably wishes he had given his 11-month-old son a set of keys to play with instead of a phone, after the infant accidentally dialed 911 and brought police to dad's marijuana grow operation. Mounties say a 911 call came in from a White Rock, B.C., residence Friday morning but whoever was on the other end of the line hung up.

298 diggsIf you look at the 1956 film Forbidden Planet the crew of the C-57D starship would seem at home in an Elizabethan naval vessel from the 1600s. Yet just ten years later in 1966 the crew of the Enterprise seems like they would fit right into the multicultural global village of 2009: Credit for this goes to bold visionaries like Gene Roddenberry.

181 diggsCan a dedicated Windows user make it for two weeks using only Linux? Preston Gralla tried it and lived to tell this tale.

234 diggsAn Australian woman who grew up believing she'd killed her baby sister was finally cleared after almost 50 years today when a coroner ruled their mother murdered the infant.

235 diggsThe third edition in our chronicle of jaw-dropping pics that make you shout 'FAKE!' the moment you see them, but in fact are not. Even if, in some cases, we really wish they were

101 diggsIn an effort to better understand how people use the web, Mozilla has launched a new data gathering project for usability studies called Test Pilot. It's still just a concept, but as an aggregation model, it shows great promise.

166 diggsA look inside the process of how articles are (not) made at Cracked.

188 diggsDespite all the fanfare about the new, upgraded unibody MacBooks, the old (polybody?) MacBooks are still on sale for $999. Thankfully, Apple has updated the base specs on our sad, white friend.

100 diggsCrunching the sales data from game publication Famitsu, we have a breakdown by platform of the 100 biggest selling games of last year in Japan.

192 diggsGraffiti artists have added a new tool their traditional aerosol cans - knitting needles and a ball of wool.

116 diggsIn 2009, it won’t be the “year of the desktop” for any operating system–instead, the coveted trophy seems to be “year of the netbook.”

133 diggsThe microblogging service runs the risk of becoming too prevalent without a clear path to revenue. There is a risk in becoming ubiquitous before you make money.

61 diggsTurkey does not make your tired. Really. The British Medical Journal wants to set you straight in its second study of health-related myths.

113 diggsThe Yankees aren't done. Even after adding CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett and Damaso Marte, the team continues to explore the markets for both starters and relievers. And if the prices are right, they should give strong consideration to signing free-agent right-hander Ben Sheets as their fifth starter and righty Juan Cruz as a setup reliever

276 diggsTwo men who spent 25 days lost at sea in a giant icebox survived their extraordinary ordeal thanks to rainwater from tropical storms and fish spat out by passing birds, a report said Wednesday.

85 diggsAfter high-level discussions on the piracy situation in 2008, the Italian government has announced the signing of an agreement which will see it collaborate with the French on the issue. Of concern to those sharing files online, Minister of Culture Sandro Bondi says Italy will follow the “French model”.

185 diggsHormones may explain why woman are more likely to coo over babies than men, scientists said today.

248 diggsThere were so many balls last night. And they were big and lavish and right in my face. Also, they threw a bunch of parties for President Obama.

214 diggsThe 23-year-old allegedly broke into the Laneway Adult Shop in the northen Australian city of Cairns on several occasions, having sex with a doll named "Jungle Jane," the Cairns Post reported.

111 diggsCouldn’t make it Washington DC yesterday for the inauguration, or didn’t get hold of a front row seat? Nobody needs to know.

370 diggsSeason five of Lost premieres tonight after an eternally long wait, and I wanted to take a look back at the long road of WTF that it took to get to where we are. Some of these moments’ mysteries have been resolved, while others we might be waiting until the final episode for an answer. Here are the ten most Lost-ish moments in this history of Lost.

192 diggsLinux is a very secure operating system, immune to Windows viruses and trojans. Instead, the potential security threat lies in running malicious code - by accident or voluntarily. It's easy to avoid the most common attacks by knowing what to look for. Here are a few guidelines and examples of commands that Linux beginners should treat carefully.

476 diggsPresident Obama's Inaugural speech included a clutch of promises and observations that will have scientists, medical researchers and environmentalists in the US and around the world breathing a sigh of relief.

60 diggsDespite close family ties between Clemens & Bush, pardon would've been too dicey for the ex-Pres.

280 diggsGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt says despite the political debate, we should consider renewable energy over nuclear because "it's cheaper." He goes on to highlight new innovations in wind and solar thermal production.

166 diggsThe 2008 Razzie nominations have been announced and Paris’ "NOTTIE," Myers’ "GURU,"Shyamalan’s "THE HAPPENING," "DISASTER MOVIE," and Uwe Boll (who will also receive the Worst Career Achievement Award) rank among 2008 worsts. Here's the list of this year's nominees. What do you think of the selections?

114 diggsArchaeological evidence suggests a double life for many homes in ancient Greece.

254 diggsChrysler thanks America for the bailout on their blog, hunderds of readers leave negative comments.

262 diggs Police say an 8-year-old boy seen wandering around a Romulus, Mich., apartment complex was living with the corpse of his mother, a Hurricane Katrina survivor.

166 diggsEuropean countries, oil-rich Arab kingdoms and the UN have all pledged money or aid for Gaza reconstruction, but none of the donors wants to deal with Hamas, the Islamic movement that controls Gaza but is considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the EU and the U.S.

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95 diggsHere's a look at 15 up-and-coming bands, predicted to gain major steam in '09. I can't believe Friendly Fires isn't already considered huge?!

93 diggsHow are we doing today? How we doin'? Great, great. You're looking good. Love the shirt. Let me guess: Christmas present? Knew it. Great. Hey man, whenever you get a sec—and it's no biggie—I was hoping you could just pop on over to my office real quick so I can fire you.

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184 diggsMore than 500 million applications have been downloaded from Apple's iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. The BulletFlight sniper rifle application for the iPhone and iPod touch is the latest in a long line of weird and wonderful apps available.

116 diggsThe frozen desert interior of Antarctica was thought to be the lone holdout resisting the man-made warming affecting the rest of the globe, with some areas even showing signs of cooling. Some global warming contrarians liked to point to inner Antarctica as a counter-example. But climate researchers have now turned this notion on its head,

151 diggsThe far side of the moon could have been visible from earth billions of years ago, a new study suggests.

140 diggsThe Big 7 are previewed here along with other players to watch. Who will get a jersey for the Olympics in Vancouver?

186 diggsLady, I don't think "fisting" means quite what you think it means. Good work, FOX!

179 diggsDeputy Zoo Director Paul Grayson says the sharks died when a cleaning system released too much ozone into their tank Monday, damaging the sharks' gills.

230 diggsBecause George W. Bush did so many great things for America...

155 diggsTechnology can make us the master of our universe. Technology can also make us into major jerks. As 2009 ushers in a new year, it's time to usher out some of our bad tech habits.

162 diggsForget sex tapes, sometimes a CD is the most embarrassing thing a celebrity can release.

86 diggsDigg Dialogg with Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner happens this week. Be sure to submit and vote for your favorite questions on the Digg Dialogg page.

699 diggsPresident Barack Obama announced on his first day in office Wednesday that he is freezing the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 a year.

301 diggsPromising "a new era of openness in our country," President Barack Obama signed executive orders Wednesday relating to ethics guidelines for staff members of his administration.

128 diggsWhat in the world did John Madden draw here? Live footage taken from Super Bowl XXI (1987).

234 diggs"Yeah, I said it. The Windows 7 taskbar is the most important Windows UI change since Windows 95, and it will dramatically change the way you use Windows. And it's better than the Mac's Dock."

261 diggsStephen is sorry he's not angry about Barack Obama. He wishes he could be, but his heart is full of rainbows.

196 diggsThis whole new-President thing got us thinking about gaming promises that were made by large companies that have gone tragically unfulfilled. From small game features to hefty hardware claims, these are the promises that never came to fruition...

191 diggsAntarctica, the one continent in the world that scientists thought was cooling, is actually getting hotter according to new evidence that has serious implications for climate change.

194 diggsEvan Reynolds, 19, got his hand and part of his arm ripped off in a car accident and has since been fitted with an i-LIMB, a robotic hand developed by an Apple/Star Wars fanboy.

142 diggsSeems a little pointless to me, but whatever.

289 diggsHuman beings, animals and plants were not created by God, but are the result of evolution. Charles Darwin published this revolutionary theory 150 years ago. It's been a huge success with scientists, but it was never popular. Is the human brain wired toward supernatural belief?

127 diggsThe Tribune Company is to announce the buyer of the Chicago Cubs baseball team this week.

122 diggsMicrosoft's post-Vista Windows experience is more than the obvious Taskbar and user interface updates; there are plenty of hidden features and shortcuts that haven't been advertised. But fear not: we've compiled a list of every known Windows 7 tweak and secret.

359 diggsKara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe that God alone has the ability to heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor.

448 diggsMost people think the flub while saying the Oath of Office was John Robberts' fault, but not Chris Wallace. Birthers, move out of the way, the Oathers are coming!!!!

159 diggsIts backers claimed that the 1998 Child Online Protection Act was a constitutional way to protect children from Web porn. The courts have not agreed, and the law was permanently put on ice this week.

70 diggsNetApp founder Dave Hitz writes in his memoir: "My youth was spent hitchhiking and cutting the testicles off bulls. I sold my blood for money. I am an ordained minister and an atheist. I once ate dog meat and the still-beating heart of a snake. I made a billion dollars and I lost a billion dollars. I am presently employed as a shaman."

201 diggsHouse Republican leaders have asked for a meeting with President Obama on Thursday to offer major changes to the $825 billion economic recovery package urged by the president and proposed by House Democrats last week.

126 diggsAmbitious plans to send probes to the outer planets are being considered by US and European space officials. One proposal envisages sending an orbiter to Saturn which would also drop a lander and a balloon on to the haze-shrouded moon Titan.The other sees two separate orbiters dispatched to investigate Jupiter and its icy moons - Europa & Ganymede.

114 diggsClean air doesn't just give Americans a pleasant, smog-free view. It's added an average of five months to our lives. In a study of three decades of health data from 51 U.S. cities, researchers found that people are living about three years longer than they did before. Controlling for changes in income, education, demographics and smoking, about ...

76 diggsLONDON - The government released hundreds of millions of pounds of contingency funds on Wednesday to keep work on the London Olympic 2012 venues on track amid a worsening credit crunch.

131 diggsToday, 150 years after Darwin’s epochal “On the Origin of Species,” many questions about the molecular basis of evolution are still waiting for answers. How are signaling pathways changed by genes and by the environment enabling the development of new species?

121 diggsNot only has the average global temperature increased in the past 50 years, but the hottest day of the year has shifted nearly two days earlier, according to a new study by scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University.

316 diggsA Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than $10 million to locate 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files.(But no one's seen them yet.)

292 diggsThe Senate voted 94-2 to confirm Clinton -- a day later than Obama had hoped, but a lopsided vote nonetheless. The only opposition came from Republican senators who expressed concern about Bill Clinton's Foundation fundraising efforts from foreign sources, given Clinton's role as the nation's chief diplomat.

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143 diggsApple's focus on high-end consumer electronics could have spelled bad news for the company in tough financial times, but it largely held its own despite a big drop in iPhone sales.

224 diggsSeconds after BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant, police immediately began confiscating cell phones containing videos that have yet to see the light of day. In fact, the only videos that have been seen by the public were filmed by people who managed to leave the scene before police confronted them.

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93 diggsHuman male fertility may be impacted by long-term exposure to marijuana, researchers in the United States and Japan suggest.

491 diggsThis explains your slow commutes lately: How low sun creates a traffic 'shockwave'

166 diggs"A $50,000 cash award goes to one filmmaker whose short film (10 min max) exemplifies the theme of "Sacrifice" or "Perfection. This contest is unlike anything the site has ever offered. Films will be uploaded, rated by the community, and the Top 10 highest rated eventually go to a panel of entertainment industry leaders who will chose the winner"

48 diggs>...Kennedy cited "personal reasons," according to sources. Her stunning move comes as sources revealed that Paterson had intended to appoint her to the now-vacant seat on Thursday......>>

143 diggsLivescience.com - Young women are much better than men of all ages at spotting a cute baby, finds a new study. The younger women beat older women at the task, too. Past research has shown that the chubby cheeks, big eyes and oversized foreheads of infants can trigger child-caring behaviors in mothers. [Guys, men rules! even to spot cute babies!]

142 diggs20 years later, we visit the man responsible for one of gaming's most memorable soundtracks.

70 diggsThere are 10 sports stars whose careers have been tainted by admissions of recreational drugs use. Eight out of ten preffered cocaine.

146 diggsCaroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from consideration for Hillary Clinton's vacant Senate seat, citing "personal reasons".

191 diggsThe Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a final tally of the casualties of the 23-day war in Gaza. They way 1284 Gazans were killed and 4336 were wounded, the vast majority civilians. Israel says these numbers are inflated. The two sides disagree on the death toll, particularly the ratio of combatants and civilians.

254 diggsA survey sent out to Windows 7 beta testers indicates that Microsoft is considering developing a software center for Windows. Who wouldn't want to be able to search for software locally or on the Internet, look at reviews, check requirements, download, install, keep up-to-update, and repair any piece of software from one control panel applet?

100 diggsThese sucky words are not of the four-letter variety. These words are common. They are accepted. They litter the average resume with buzzword badness. Hiring managers can identify sucky words in seconds, leaving your resume work worthless.

500 diggsWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama retook the oath of office at the White House on Wednesday after a blunder during Tuesday's inauguration.

172 diggsAn online music store recently took a very close look at its sales versus fans' reactions across various communities and file sharing sites. They shared the results frankly and in detail. Apparently "loving" music doesn't necessarily mean supporting the artists in any way, nor the people who make it all possible.

200 diggsAs Obama's team revises TARP, it faces dissatisfaction with the program's implementation so far. Some politicians, including Barney Frank, have used leverage to try to direct millions to their home-state banks.

152 diggsA French woman scammed thousands of people in Chile by selling them kits for producing 'magic cheese', according to French officials.

131 diggsA group of transvestites got into a fight with employees of a Tennessee McDonalds.

121 diggsA stellar quarter in the face of one of the weakest holiday shopping periods in recent memory has Apple executives and investors feeling fine. But the waters are still choppy.

197 diggsDocuments Show Caylee Anthony Was Left in Laundry Bag, Had Duct Tape Around Mouth, Newly-released documents in the murder of Florida child Caylee Anthony show that she was buried in a laundry hamper bag and had silver duct tape around her mouth.

99 diggsDespite a down economy, the average IT worker received a 4.6% increase in 2008, according to a Dice.com survey.

206 diggsJohn Travolta is the centre of an alleged extortion plot that is said to involve a photograph of his son Jett that was taken as he was dying. He was contacted by a pair of alleged extortionists who demanded 'millions of dollars' or threatened to sell the photo to the highest bidder.

198 diggsA new study has found that certain measles virus vaccine strain derivatives, including a strain known as MV-CEA, may prove to be an effective treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The findings show that this type of treatment, called virotherapy, can effectively infect, replicate in and kill prostate cancer

97 diggsThe US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has rejected 20 patent claims on an Internet subdomain patent, ruling that the concepts were obvious and therefore not patentable. The patent owner must now decide whether to amend the claims and make them more narrow, or to give up altogether.

134 diggsAmidst a bevy of bad news in the PC market, Intel Corp. took two corrective steps this week, aggressively slashing prices on chips on Monday and announcing today that it would close four chip plants and cut as many as 6,000 jobs.

196 diggsThe Barack Obama "Hope" poster created by L.A. artist Shepard Fairey, will hang in the U.S. National Portrait Gallery on January 20, 2009.

246 diggsWith video: Rampant spying, especially targeting of journalists. The NSA had access to ALL YOUR COMMUNICATIONS, regardless of who you were or whether or not you were communicating internationally.

132 diggsThe Chicago Blackhawks lost to the Minnesota Wild Monday but one of the team's fans won big. Right wing Martin Havlat scored Chicago's lone goal at the 10:00 mark of the second period, earning a random audience member $1 million as part of a promotion with the Illinois State Lottery.

243 diggsA suspect who ran away from a traffic stop on Wednesday chose the wrong place to hide when he slipped under a parked moving truck — and then was run over when the driver pulled away.

189 diggsIf the last feature could be seen as a guide on how not to make a game, perhaps this is best viewed on the things to look out for in games for 2009 and beyond. Maybe it's appropriate, then, that this is the bigger of the two articles. There's a lot to look forward to and a lot to love about the games industry – and this is just some of it.

151 diggsThis week we've examined all the relevant stats and boiled down our top 10 NFL wide receivers so far this season. Each player on our list has distinguished himself as an all-around receiver, demonstrating the ability to both catch a high volume of passes, to rack up yardage and to put points on the board for his team.

140 diggsShelby SuperCars already has the world's fastest production car title under their belt, now they're planning to up the ante by introducing the Ultimate Aero EV: The world's fastest electric production car.

504 diggsand she startled me as well

149 diggsIf the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.

213 diggsYou've probably never heard of many of them, but chances are you'll be using some of these Web sites by the end of this year.

221 diggsAs debate over Iraq war policy grows, many are calling for alternatives to a planned increase in troops, but where will alternative plans come from? Who shapes the proposals that will influence US policy in Iraq and elsewhere?

402 diggsU.S. President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Thursday to shut down the infamous U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year.A draft of the order was obtained Wednesday by the Associated Press. While the draft was not dated, a senior Obama aide said the president intends to sign the order on Thursday.

147 diggsWhile astronomers haven't found a perfect fit yet, they have found plenty that are too big, too hot, too cold, too dense, too close to their star, or too distant.

169 diggsThe number of people on the organ donor register in the UK has hit a record 16 million, meeting a government target of doubling 2001's numbers a year early.

160 diggsA part-time plumber who regularly prowls a Riverside County riverbed found what is believed to be the 4-foot-long tusk of an Ice Age mammoth or mastodon.Experts say the tusk could date back 16,000 to 2 million years.

240 diggsThere are some jobs where one can work fewer than 40 hours per week and make more than average. The hours may not be significantly less -- generally between 35 and 38 hours a week -- but these jobs offer more value in both time and money. They all pay salaries that exceed the $26,036 median U.S. income.

168 diggsA very handy 'how to' guide for those who want to make great music in the Studio Mode of legendary music game Guitar Hero: World Tour.

182 diggsWeb-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS. Javascript makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible navigation to any website. Today we wanted to highlight 10 brilliant Multi Level Navigation Menu Techniques built using different Javascript Libraries including jQuery

456 diggsObama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government

150 diggsSpitting cobras spew blinding venom toward the eyes and face of victims with surprising accuracy, and now researchers know how they do it.

101 diggsOne man has been given the death penalty and another a life sentence for their involvement in China's contaminated milk scandal.

167 diggsAt noon EST, Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States of America. Watch as the (Twitter) world watched. Below are the tweets worldwide that included inauguration with a "positive attitude."