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January 23 2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15885 diggsMetallica's Enter Sandman redone with cats.
177 diggsIn the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Ask the residents of Titty Ho, North Piddle, Spanker Lane or Penistone.
358 diggsFox News is really scared about what might happen, and oblivious to what already has.
252 diggsNobody pretends that polluted air isn't terrible for your health. Clean up the skies over any dirty city and the people who live there will all but certainly become healthier. That, at least, has been popular wisdom, but until now, no one had ever put it to the statistical test. Now someone has and the results are striking.
101 diggsGoogle says the vast majority of the 1 million businesses that use Google Apps opt for the free advertising supported version. To make the free option less attractive they’ve been quietly lowering the number of user accounts that can be associated with a free account. As businesses grow, they’ll be forced to move to the paid version more quickly.
417 diggsAn incredibly detailed panoramic picture of the inauguration, zoom in to the some of the small details.
138 diggsThat depends on what lights your diodes. But judging by the quality of today's — "teledildonics," some things (hooray!) will never change.
128 diggsWASHINGTON -- Troubled financial institutions and the Detroit auto makers continue to spend heavily on lobbying Congress while accepting billions of dollars in U.S. government money
145 diggsIndividuals with the so-called “warrior gene†display higher levels of aggression in response to provocation, according to new research co-authored by Rose McDermott, professor of political science at Brown University.
147 diggsSatellite Antenna Enables Discovery Of Buried Glaciers On Mars
90 diggsInsults, punches and then chairs were thrown at Melbourne Park on Friday during fighting between Serbian and Bosnian spectators after the third-round match of the Australian Open between Serbian Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, and Amer Delic, a Bosnian-born American.
229 diggsEver since Tim Cook made his non-specific, veiled threats in response to a direct question about how the Palm Pre "almost directly emulates the kind of touch interface" found on the iPhone, the entire tech community has waited for the next move. Now Lynn Fox, a Palm spokesperson has stepped into the fray: "Palm has a long history of innovation...
104 diggsThe Orioles signed their best player, Nick Markakis, to a six-year, $66 million contract yesterday, confirming that he's their star. The team had to make the move, but the question remains: how low can the Orioles go? In the MLB's toughest division, they seem headed for another last place finish.
125 diggsImitation is the highest form of flattery: Starting tomorrow, the Encyclopedia Britannica will be adding user-submitted content to its website in a bid to give Wikipedia a run for its money.
140 diggsSecurity at the Australian Open was again under scrutiny on Friday when a male streaker interrupted a doubles match involving the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena.
70 diggsProperty in New York: Bling’s still king in Manhattan
318 diggsTwenty-five years ago, the landmark commercial paved the way for big-budget television advertisements and brought Apple into the mainstream.
229 diggsEntertainment and good advice rarely cross paths. This is partly because most good advice (don't run with scissors, watch your money, don't bring a bong to a job interview) isn't fun to watch. Here are five of the most entertaining purveyors of awful advice to be found on television.
118 diggsMore than 2,000 football fans held a minute's silence for one of their amateur team's greatest stars after reports of his death, only for his 'widow' to tell them he was alive and living in Kent.
215 diggsThere may be less than meets the eye to the executive orders President Obama issued yesterday to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and prohibit the torture of prisoners in American custody. Those pronouncements may sound dramatic and unequivocal, but experts predict that policy towards detainees could remain unchanged for months or even years.
272 diggsPolice officers arrested Tina Turner this week on suspicion of arson, reckless endangerment, and insurance fraud, following allegations that the legendary R&B singer burned down her legs for financial gain.
253 diggsIn what could further define the rights of same-sex couples in Texas and beyond, a Dallas man has filed for divorce from his husband and longtime partner.
175 diggsFor decades, Brenda Rowlands wondered what her husband Dewi kept locked away in the wooden chest he stored in the shed.
285 diggsIn 2004, the German Language Association posted an auction for the German language, with a starting bid of 10 million Euros. If that sounds a little high, that was the point: it’s valuable, the Association wanted to point out, and being corrupted by the increasing use of Pidgin English in everyday German conversations.
180 diggsGeneral Electric Co reported a 44 percent drop in quarterly profit on weakness at GE Capital and its lighting and appliance units, as the U.S. conglomerate and economic bellwether closed out one of the toughest...
162 diggsPresident Barack Obama on Friday will lift restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush, an...
386 diggsOne day I opened my nightstand and realized that it sounded exactly like Chewbacca. I hope Darth Vader doesn't break into my apartment with a can of WD-40.
107 diggsThe Parents Television Council is livid that Britney Spears‘ cunningly titled “If U Seek Amy†is getting radio play, despite the fact that the title and lyrics essentially say “F-U-C-K Me.â€
350 diggsA brilliant ad that ran on January 20.
173 diggsIt's no secret that professional sport is a commercial enterprise. Sure, there's the love of the game, but no one would ever get to see that love in action without TV commercials and endorsements and sponsorships.
143 diggsA calm, knife-wielding man stabbed two babies and a female worker to death at a day-care centre in Belgium on Friday before riding away on his bicycle.The man, armed with several knives, was described as wearing white paint on his face and black paint around his eyes.
208 diggsThe Netflix Prize is a challenge to find "the next big thing" in recommendations. Jinni recommends movies and TV shows based on its Movie Genome. Could this be it?
174 diggsThe last thing that aging Japan can afford to lose is young people. Yet as the global economic crisis flattens demand for Japanese cars and electronic goods, thousands of youthful, foreign-born factory workers are getting fired, pulling their children out of school and flying back to where they came from. Alarmed, new programs are in place to help.
136 diggsHuman hair is a simple thing made of keratin and dead skin cells. Its function is to prevent heat loss from a person’s head, yet it also causes women to weep, men to buy Porsches and people to spend billions each year on its upkeep. So check out these 5 things you didn’t know about human hair.
168 diggsPhotographer: Vadim Onishchenko
218 diggsHere is great list of a Top 50 Linux Alternatives to Popular Apps.
269 diggsThere are two things that happen when you convert video game weapons from pixels to steel. The first is you get to see how cool they look, and the second? Well that’s usually how impractical they are to use.
165 diggsICELANDIC Prime Minister Geir Haarde, under growing pressure from a financial collapse that has led to violent protests, has announced he is stepping down and wanted an early election to be held on May 9.
166 diggsA UK Facebook group plans to protest the government's consultation into further communications monitoring by cc'ing Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on every one of their emails.
181 diggsA series of photos, showing President Obama's smart phone obsession. The Texter in Chief got his wish, becoming the first president to get portable email.
186 diggsPope Benedict has become one of the oldest people to have his own YouTube channel, and he cautioned the young to use new media wisely and to avoid online obsession that can isolate them from real life.
100 diggs"Fulham can confirm that a bid of £5m from Hull City has been received for Jimmy Bullard" & Fulham accepted the offer. After signing Jimmy in 2006 for £2.5m, he has made a total of 39 starts for the Club and at the age of 30, Jimmy made it clear that he was looking for a vastly increased contract and explored opportunities to meet his expectations.
76 diggsI for one, would not mind having a hologram monitor with a hologram keyboard conveniently placed on my desk. Having it follow me around my desk would be something else.
81 diggsWhatever you may think of him -- and few think he's a nice guy -- Kent has been consistent in his attack on PEDs from the start.
201 diggsI probably don’t have the pain tolerance to get inked with some of the designs these movie characters have, but let’s take a look at ten of the most bad ass tattoos in movies.
218 diggsGuys like Tom Friedman and Bill Kristol get paid tens of millions of dollars to fail at what Stewart does on a comedy show, and they don't even have to do it with their hands up a puppet's ass.
186 diggsBurger King and Wendy's are facing a number of rogue users on Twitter, who are registering accounts like WhopperVirgins, theBKlounge and 3conomics, and impersonating popular fast-food ad campaigns. And we get to witness the hilarity.
427 diggsHomeowner pretty clear: If you're a Scientologist, Jehovah's Witness or JERRY, don't even think about stopping by...
163 diggsArtists find mind-bending ways to bring visual illusions called impossible figures into three-dimensional reality.
86 diggs“Snow seems simple, but it’s extraordinarily complex,†Dr. Adams said. “If I set a box of snow in the refrigerator and come back in an hour, it’s changed significantly. It’s almost always in a constant state of motion, and studying it is a moving target.â€
201 diggsMonty Python's new plan to make money involves uploading a huge library of good-quality video clips to YouTube and giving them away for free. So why are so many people still buying the DVDs?
128 diggsVisitors to Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty will once again be able to climb the 354 steps from the base of the Statue of Liberty to the iconic crown that overlooks New York Harbor, the Obama administration is expected to announce Friday.
150 diggsAre health and safety rules over the top? Perhaps not, judging by the bizarre accidents we have in our own homes, frequently involving vegetables. And they don't all include using them as sex aids!
181 diggsIs the White House more of a museum than a working office? Does it even have WiFi? MSNBC has reported that on their first day on the job, Obama's White House staffers suffered from downgrades on every front. During the campaign and the transition, Obama's team was a Mac shop; they arrived in the White House to find six-year-old Windows PCs and ....
129 diggsThis week, thanks to an ingenious hoax that took in the Times of London, the soccer press has been engrossed by Moldova. Specifically by one Moldovan teenager, who is not, as it happens, a real person.
209 diggsSteve Jobs was a 21-year-old college dropout living with his parents in Los Altos, Calif, where he and two friends, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, would hang out in the garage. For other trios, this would be the beginning of a rock band; but Jobs, "Woz" and Wayne had other things on their minds.
120 diggsOf course though, Sidney Crosby is not being threatened, even though he has the same reasoning as Datsyuk and Lidstrom (injuries).
155 diggsSportscentre counts down the most creative to the downright best shootout goals from the first half of the season.
149 diggsPARIS (AFP) – A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim. In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface....so lucky..
94 diggsA new generation of postfeminist sexologists is trying to discover what ignites female desire.
150 diggsGames from Super Sundays we wish would be erased from existence.
92 diggsScientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.
187 diggsPalm, whose new Pre handset, though built around a different paradigm than the iPhone, boasts some remarkably iPhone-like features. Palm, a company who’s reinvention is being stewarded by Jon Rubinstein, once Apple’s head of hardware engineering and a guy with an undoubtedly deep knowledge of Cupertino’s R&D process.
180 diggsOh hai, I'm wearing my other costume.
129 diggsThe number of people on the Internet surpassed one billion in December, according to comScore. The actual number is probably higher than that (Internet World Stats counted nearly 1.5 billion Web surfers worldwide as of June 30, 2008).In any case, only between 15 and 22 percent of the world’s population is on the Internet. We have a long way to go.
120 diggsFrance will offer all 18-year-olds a free daily copy of the newspaper of their choice, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday, announcing a package of measures to help the beleaguered press.
133 diggsAt a time when computers were more like glorified typewriters, Apple introduced the Macintosh – and changed how people interacted with them. In exclusive interviews, Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, and Andy Hertzfeld, one of the developers, recall how it happened.
212 diggsFOR most of us the universe is unimaginably vast. But not for cosmologists. They feel decidedly hemmed in. No matter how big they build their telescopes, they can only see so far before hitting a wall. Approximately 45 billion light years away lies the cosmic horizon, the ultimate barrier because light beyond it not has not had time to reach us.
139 diggsIntel Chairman Craig Barrett will step down from his post in May, ending a 35-year stint at the tech giant, the company announced Friday. Barrett, who joined Intel in 1974, also served as the chief executive of the company from 1998 through 2005.
89 diggsBy studying the way beetle larvae wiggle to move across water, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have employed biomimicry techniques to develop a low-energy and low-maintenance system for moving small robots and boats in water.
205 diggsTop 10 Political Lines... Top 10 Scientific Discoveries... Top 10 Religion Stories...Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs... Top 10 Green Ideas...Top 10 Crime Stories... And much more!
162 diggs"In the food hierarchy, Domino's and Subway's feud is like watching two Jerry Springer guests beat the living shit out of each other: You have no vested interest in who wins, you just want it to be entertaining. This feud just got more entertaining."
380 diggsThis poster is not a tally of African American achievements, rather it is a record of progress and setbacks. While Obama’s election is not the endgame of equality, it is a magnificent example of what is truly possible.
106 diggsAvery Johnson has turned down the chance to make a swift return to an NBA bench with the Grizzlies, according to league coaching sources.
104 diggsAmerican swimmer Michael Phelps, who made history when he won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, will not attempt to repeat the feat when he competes at London 2012.
119 diggsIn new poll, global warming came in last among 20 voter priorities, as Americans faced more imminent threats to their jobs and homes.
240 diggsJohn Stewart interviews the extremely dangerous Gitmo starts @ 4.38
173 diggsFrom frost flowers to an upscale igloo, a fascinating look at a frozen wonder...
125 diggsAdorable puppy tears up the Today show staff member Lester Holt and rips up pantyhose on set. Out of control news reporting.
131 diggsThirty-nine-year-old Shelly Koontz was arrested Thursday night on a fifth-degree theft charge. She is accused of keeping "The Freedom Writers Diary," which she checked out from the public library in nearby Jessup in April.
59 diggsA Santa Ana, Calif., company says about 120 footballs will be used in Super Bowl XLIII, and all of them will be marked to prevent counterfeiting. "The DNA ink has an astronomical 1-in-33 million chance of being accurately reproduced by counterfeiters," said Orlando, author of "Collecting Sports Legends."
204 diggsPolice could use text messages to switch off the engines of getaway cars.
158 diggsThanks to everyone who voted in change.org Ideas for change in America competition. Out of 7,847 ideas generated, Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana was voted the #1 idea for change (with 19,530 votes) in America!Now its time to direct our strong commitment for marijuana law reform at Obama's official website, where ending..
129 diggsWhether you love Windows 7 or hate it no one seems to be talking about one of its biggest problems. Many fancy business-friendly features are randomly tied to Windows Server 2008 R2 (also in beta) and won't work even with older versions of Windows Server.
163 diggsAfter months of delay, four users of the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK have been sentenced to community service and payment of court costs. One uploader and Alan Ellis, the administrator of the site, are still awaiting their day in court
65 diggsApple has agreed to a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by customers who experienced quality issues with the easily-scratchable surface of first generation iPod nanos.
99 diggs“Most of the time I was meeting with other members on the team, but I remember Jobs coming in – he was very charismatic: intense, proud of the work and a bit prickly about any criticism. He and his folks were quick to put down the IBM PC and its clones for not pushing the envelope and settling for “mediocrity.â€
108 diggsCompanies are turning to downsizing to cut costs in this troubled economy. If you were caught up in the layoffs or you simply sucked at your job and got canned, these gadgets can help.
200 diggsOne of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.
217 diggsIt has been 25 years since the original Macintosh was introduced. The Ars staff looks back at our favorite Macs and Mac moments in honor of the iconic personal computer.
368 diggs"I can't tell you how many times I've gone to the library or a computer lab and found someone still logged into their user account. It used to make me angry. It used to make me wonder what was wrong with people. I don't know if they just forget or just don't care, but either way they deserve to be messed with for their stupidity..."
221 diggsEngadget's gone and pulled together all its thoughts and impressions so far on the Windows 7 Beta into one big review, showing its true love for MS Paint in the process.
96 diggsA sleek new European Space Agency satellite set to launch this year, perhaps as early as February, aims to map out the planet's gravitational field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will gather data useful for research in oceanography, solid Earth physics, and climate change.
204 diggsA double alley-oop dunk in a boys high school game!
106 diggsGigaOM writer Stacey Higginbotham blogged yesterday that "Mobile Computing Is Killing the Desktop PC." But that's not what's happening. Not exactly. If anything, the "mobile computing" concept itself is likely to be killed off as we move to everywhere and anywhere computing.
150 diggsA first look into new content from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4, featuring new music, weapons (auto-shotgun, grenade launcher, pipe bombs), characters, television programming, Internet, and minigames, as well as new multiplayer modes and "superpeds". Motorcycles have also been tweaked so that they’re much easier to ride and harder to fall off of.
129 diggsMicroblog account name is changed, and bio now indicates that the account is "unaffiliated with the white house."
349 diggsLeave it to Jon Stewart to provide funny and informative information to us. Learn what Obama's STFU look is.
140 diggsThe crew forgets to activate the break cable for a plane landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The plane slips off the edge of carrier and crashes into the ocean.
152 diggsPhotographer: Willy Marthinussen
167 diggsControversial attacks across Afghanistan border are the first since Barack Obama took office; at least five casualties are suspected foreign militants.
192 diggsI've dug through countless services to find some interesting, loopy, and just plain cool tools that allow you to do more than talk to friends. From receiving tweets when your clothes are clean to tracking packages, Twitter is a great place to solve many of the day's tasks.
232 diggsMove over, Atlanta. Seattle, Microsoft and Amazon.com's home base, is now the country's most wired city.
153 diggsStudents have begun making bio diesel fuel by converting used cooking oil from the dining hall.
145 diggsYesterday we missed this in our look at the first review of Windows ever: Here's the first known photo of an Apple computer running Windows 1.0 software. Yes, Mr. Bootcamp, Windows on Apple in 1983.
311 diggsBhutan banned tobacco. Could the rest of the world follow?
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228 diggsI've never won anything on a bottle cap, but I did win the Lebron James Bubblicious Shot Challenge, which is to this day a source of pride in my ability to win random drawings.
186 diggsBest-selling author Malcolm Gladwell uses The Beatles as an example to question the existence of genuine musical prodigies.
122 diggsThe Indiana Jones star, who can normally command more than $15 million per film, has, according to industry insiders, agreed to have the fee for his next movie Morning Glory slashed by almost half. Recession, recession...
58 diggsThe Kansas City Chiefs fired coach Herm Edwards friday, along with reports that the Chiefs are looking at former Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan to fill the void. "On behalf of my family, I want to thank Herm for his service to the Chiefs," Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said in a team statement."
139 diggsOn the other side of these fears is everything we desire; from our dream job to immense success to happiness. So how do we get to the other side? We need to escape! Here are 9 ways to go about it and not let fear stop you.
220 diggsThe skull of the so-called hobbit discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 suggests its owner was an archaic human ancestor, not a diminutive or diseased modern human, according to a new study.
137 diggsNews of game developers slashing thousands of jobs this week and shutting down studios, seems to dispute the notion of a recession-proof video game industry. But video games are indeed recession proof, it’s the developers and publishers who aren’t.
73 diggsLongtime Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller's legs were amputated 6 inches below the knee on Friday. Jazz spokesman Jonathan Rinehart said Friday's surgery was the result of complications from Type 2 diabetes.
125 diggsAccording to Microsoft's quarterly statements, Zune platform revenue decreased $100 million, or 54 percent compared to the same quarter last year, due to falling device sales.
93 diggsWillie Nelson invites his good friend Snoop Dogg on stage in Amsterdam to help him perform Superman. The video footage doesn't start until about 30 seconds in, probably because whoever was filming didn't realize the lens cap was on.
122 diggsStudy shows gamers more likely to drink, smoke weed, ignore friends
183 diggsPresident Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Moscow is ready to help stabilize the situation in Afghanistan by allowing the United States and others to allow cargo for coalition forces there to be shipped across Russia.
187 diggsThe Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, has joined Missouri's "Adopt-A-Highway" volunteer litter pickup program. "It's a First Amendment thing, and we can't discriminate as long as they pick up the trash," said Bob Edwards, a spokesman for the transportation department.
431 diggsStallone has definitely been hitting the gym hard. Maybe a little too hard. Shouldn't he be getting discount movie tickets and early bird dinners?
291 diggsI've been tracking the distribution of Oscar-nominated films every year, culminating with the release of six years of piracy data last year. I've updated those spreadsheets with this year's 26 nominees, for a total of 211 films from the last seven years.
91 diggsWhen they hit a dead end in their research, scientists unraveling the mysteries of memory turned to an unexpected source for help. Do taxi drivers grow bigger brains by remembering routes?
106 diggsRichard O'Connor, the Vice President of Marketing for Aetna, might want to rethink how his department handles its customer retention program in this economy, particularly when it comes to telling people that they're still valued even though they've been let go.
139 diggsOne of the great promises of software is its infinite malleability: software can be whatever you want, so long as you have the skills necessary (and legal rights) to modify it.
112 diggsBen Cahan wishes he hadn't damaged his old snapshot of a person in a prosthetic alien suit sitting with his Macintosh. Luckily, he still has a late-1980s picture of actor Kurt Russell with his boxy Mac desktop.
107 diggsThe number of abortions performed on teenage girls who have had at least one before has risen by almost 70 per cent since 1991, fuelling fears that terminations are being carried out for lifestyle reasons.
113 diggsWeeeee!
301 diggsIGN - Stand back or Yoda gets it
125 diggsThe crash happened in Twickenham after a Jaguar careered into the back of the parked car. Witnesses said the £20,000 Jaguar ploughed into the Mini Cooper, forcing it under the back wheels of the family car, smashing its bonnet and leaving the 4x4 upended in the air.
181 diggsHarley-Davidson Inc. has announced it will close its Wauwatosa, Wis., plant in 2010, eliminating several hundred jobs.
144 diggsThe original masterpiece that is Starcraft is still played 10 years later to this day among tens of thousands of players, and with that, comes skepticism that Starcraft 2 won't be able to match the greatness. Innovation, price, and multiple-building selection top the list of worries, but here are reasons why you should keep the faith in Blizzard.
106 diggsA new tradition on Digg begins today. I promise to find one, relatively funny, stand up comedian every Saturday in an effort to combat the "economic doom and gloom." If you don't think this guy is funny "you might [as well] suck on a cheerio for nourishment." ; )
70 diggsThe U.S. Geological Survey said the 3.4-magnitude quake hit at 7:42 p.m. near the Venice boardwalk, a popular recreation spot for tourists and residents
71 diggsGiven the popularity of RPG music outside the realm of the games themselves, we decided to acknowledge the best of the best with a Top 10 list celebrating the works of the core composers of the genre.
329 diggsIf everyone would just combine their Jedi Powers it might just work and remove the obstacle blocking the damn view!
152 diggs"I'm a capital 'D' Dumbass," says Howell, who has practiced law for 23 years.
116 diggsMajor new clues regarding J.J. Abrams’s new “Star Trek†movie emerged Wednesday with the publication of Star Trek: Countdown's first issue, an IDW funnybook (billed as an official prequel to the Abrams movie) which swells my withered Trekkie heart.
131 diggsWomen with symptoms of heart trouble are more likely to be delayed while in the care of emergency medical personnel, reaching hospitals later than men, according to a new study.
127 diggsOver 90 percent of Chinese families with children stricken by toxic milk have taken a state-backed compensation deal, a dairy industry association said, days after a court gave death sentences in the scandal.
103 diggsThinking about a particular song -- no matter if the music of your life was doo-wop or disco -- can cue vivid memories of the past, U.S. researchers found.
81 diggsHome-grown rap, an avenue of self-expression for young Chinese, cannot get broadcast but its fan base is growing.
88 diggsThe world economy is deteriorating more quickly than leading economists predicted only weeks ago, with Britain yesterday becoming the latest nation to surprise analysts with the depth of its economic pain.
137 diggsThe Apple TV has had some time to mature since hitting the scene years ago, and while its functionality has certainly grown, it's still one of the most low-key products to ever emerge from Cupertino...
270 diggsDating excuses, when the truth hurts.
95 diggsThe European Commission was preparing an appeal on Friday to wealthy countries — and to the United States in particular — to adopt carbon trading to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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