141 diggsThe full tracklisting for the upcoming Guitar Hero: Metallica game has been revealed, with songs such as Battery, One, Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Orion and Seek and Destroy being included. Slayer's "War Ensemble, Mercyful Fate's "Evil", Mastodon's "Blood and Thunder" are among the Non-Metallica songs to make the cut.

134 diggsA new report finds that much of that money does not go directly toward educating students. At public colleges, tuition has generally been driven up by rising spending on administrators, student support services, and the need to make up for reductions in government subsidies.

146 diggsResearch has found that consuming two glasses of apple juice a day could delay the onset of the brain disorder, which affects more than 400,000 people in the UK. Scientists made the discovery through laboratory tests on mice, which showed that those fed apple juice performed better in maze trials.

164 diggsThe number of men seeking corrective surgery for "man boobs", or "moobs" is expected to hit a record high, according to a new report.

101 diggsVisiting one of his favorite Chicago restaurants in November, Barack Obama was asked by an excited waitress if he wanted the restaurant's special margarita made with the finest ingredients, straight up and shaken at the table.

195 diggsWhile Apple may currently be cooler than a Slush Puppy cocktail in an ice hotel, it hasn't always been that way. Not all that glitters was gold for Apple, especially in the 1990s

199 diggsGoogle laid off full time employees for the first time ever earlier this month. But those new ex-Googlers shouldn't be unemployed for long. Not if a pair of aggressive Facebook recuriters have their way, judging by an email they sent to an email list for former Google employees this morning:

99 diggsThe American President's data can't be trusted to Canada-based RIM, says Microsoft.

132 diggsI used to be a KDE user. I thought KDE 4.0 was such a disaster I switched to GNOME. I hate the fact that my right button doesn't do what I want it to do. But the whole "break everything" model is painful for users and they can choose to use something else.

237 diggsIn his first weekly address since being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, President Barack Obama discussed how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will jump-start the economy.(This video is public domain per White House copyright policy.)

305 diggsA Brazilian model and Miss World finalist whose hands and feet were amputated to fight off a little-known disease died early Saturday morning, CNN has reported.

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137 diggsPresident Barack Obama on Saturday laid out more pieces of an economic plan he says would add 3,000 miles of electrical lines, increase security at 90 ports and double the United States' renewable energy capacity within three years.

85 diggsBring your hair back to life

296 diggsTake a man. Add eye work (unisex glasses if eye wear is needed) and Botox. Mix in a bad haircut or unfashionably long hair--if possible a dye job. And there you have it: The winning formula to become a man who looks like an old lesbian.

63 diggsSome of the best pictures from day six's action in Melbourne

133 diggsAwesome. If it works as well as the auto-brightness on my iPhone I'll have to stop using my Church's free wi-fi to catch up on Fleshbot posts during Sunday service.

73 diggsIf a film festival is held in the woods and nobody hears it, is it still a film festival? The 2009 Sundance Film Festival opened with a whisper that grew more hushed with each passing day.

161 diggsIST Energy Corp. launched a waste-to-energy system into the consumer market that cleanly converts trash into electricity and gas heat.

163 diggsPresident Barack Obama is staffing his Justice Department with some of his predecessor’s fiercest critics, among them lawyers who were fired by President Bush or who quit jobs working for his administration. “They have alarmingly narrow views of executive power,” said a former Bush aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

94 diggsGrand Prix auto racing is the pinnacle of motorsports. Nowhere are the cars so technologically advanced or success so dependent upon talent, bravery and money. Lots and lots of money. So here we stand at the cusp of a Formula 1 season that has seen some huge changes in the rules. What does it mean for the cars we'll see on the grid?

223 diggsThe clean-up of a decommissioned US nuclear weapons plant has unearthed one of the oldest known samples of man-made plutonium.

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112 diggsThe polar ice caps are melting – but how much ice is left? Three British explorers will set out on a three-month trip to measure this and will present their findings ahead of global climate change talks in December. Here is a collection of photographs of the preparations for the trek.

135 diggsWanna see weird and bizarre animals? Few more heads, legs, tales, or few less? Never mind, it is just enough too see some mutants.

352 diggsIn a scenario that sounds like the ramblings of a conspiracy theorist, former NSA analyst and now-whistleblower Russell Tice unveiled a massive NSA spying and wiretap program, which he claims vacuumed up an astonishing amount of communications and financial data on journalists and innocent Americans.

96 diggsDid you ever think about the animals PETA?

77 diggsSeveral studies have shown that an extension of copyright on sound recordings is a bad idea. It will lead to less competition and higher prices while only the record labels benefit from it. Next Tuesday, the Open Rights Group will be hosting a round-table event to discuss performance copyright extension in the EU.

117 diggsIn a paper in press for the journal Icarus, geophysicists postulate that our natural satellite was once rotated 180 degrees, with the current far side of the moon facing Earth.

93 diggsLivescience.com - The Americas were the last (well, second-to-last if you count Antarctica) continents to be inhabited by early humans. Archaeologists estimate that people entered North America by crossing over the Bering Strait, which back then was a wide swath of land, about 15,000 years ago...

212 diggsThe hunt for Osama continues by Obama

199 diggsCalifornia technology firm NetApp has taken Google's crown as best company to work for in 2009, according to an annual Top 100 list published by Fortune Magazine.

120 diggsThe Linux Foundation — the Oregon-based non-profit responsible for promoting Linux and keeping developer-in-chief Linus Torvalds off the dole — is about to launch a contest aimed at filling the Linux gap left in the "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" commercials, and as one might expect, have set out a competition that highlights the collaborative nature of the

175 diggsA man is facing assault charges after deputies said he hit a state transportation worker and continued driving several miles while the man clung to the hood of the car.

129 diggsA Wal-Mart employee has been charged with embezzlement after allegedly ringing up a sale of $5.25 for more than $500 worth of merchandise.

180 diggsTens of thousands of children in the Gaza Strip returned to school Saturday, less than a week after Israel ended its military attack against the Hamas-ruled territory. But some buildings are still housing refugees, and some parents said their kids were too afraid to return to class.

158 diggsThis week in gaming brought us the inauguration of the 44th president Barack Obama as seen from Fallout 3, the release of an unexpected first-person gem for the DS in Moon, and more industry drama as Microsoft and Sony trade words.

230 diggsObama has made a clean break from the Bush legacy in his early going, undertaking a number of actions that the former President would never have considered. We've compiled a report documenting Obama’s record so far:

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275 diggsCar Shopping on the Offensive: 8 Aggressive Buying Tactics

196 diggsPolice chiefs in China have been slammed for hiring actors to rob a bank as a training exercise - without telling anyone else. Only the director and the deputy director of the Zhenzhou police department knew it was a drill - everyone else, including the bank, thought it was a real raid.

72 diggsTeam Finland and Pete Hardman and Sami Makinen from AMD, use a combination of liquid nitrogen and liquid helium to reach CPU tempertures of -232 degrees Celsius in order to attain CPU clock speeds of 6.5GHz and smashing the world record for 3DMarks with 45,474 3DMarks in a test.

155 diggsBy Kim Hart Key senators have reached a compromise on a bill that would delay the nation's switch to all-digital television from next month until June 12.

112 diggsA Boston terrier stopped a rape attempt in Pompano Beach, sheriff's deputies said. Kudos to man and woman's best friend...

282 diggsComcast charged Robert a $24.95 "Customertroublecall" fee after he called to ask why they were taking over a month to restore his service after Hurricane Ike swooped in and caused over $3,000 worth of damage.

151 diggsBorn at a time when people assumed desktop computers were all about text, the primarily visual Macintosh is marking its 25th anniversary on a mostly high note with some of its best-ever sales and influence beyond just desktop computers.

169 diggsThe PlayStation 3, despite having one of the rockiest starts in gaming history, is constantly being improved, expanded and retooled. Still, things do need to change

186 diggsAccording to study, urologists affirm that 85% of women are pleased with partner’s penis size, but 45% of men wish theirs were bigger.

123 diggsDyscalculics fail to see the connection between a set of objects and the numerical symbol that represents it

235 diggsIt's sleek. It's beautiful. And VW's latest roadster saves you $$$ on fuel. Oh, did I mention it has a 177HP diesel engine?

178 diggs". . . Did not Christ tell Pontius Pilate: 'My kingdom is not of this world' (John 18:36)? Which of these seven words is so hard to understand? Yet the clarity of Christ's statement hasn't stopped mankind from trying to bring heaven to earth ever since -- mostly through political tyrannies of the collectivist utopian variety. . ."

102 diggsAs we’ve seen in this week’s spate of the Mac at 25 coverage, plenty has changed with the Mac platform since 1984. The same could be same of gaming for the Mac.The first game I played on my Mac was a Missile Command homage called Ground Zero. Like all Mac games at the time, it featured bitmapped, black and white graphics optimized for the tiny Mac

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172 diggsCharles Darwin, the scientist whose theories have become a corner stone of modern biology, was motivated to carry out his famous research by a desire to rid the world of slavery, according to a new book.

97 diggs"He Cheated On Me in His Heart" After three kids, she gained some weight. He suddenly became a gym rat with his female workout partner. When he confessed that he tried to kiss his gym buddy, his wife was floored. And furious…

108 diggsVideo-game cutting creates fights that happen in a dramatic vacuum. The editing is the subject, not the characters or the story. If we get involved, it's because we're playing out a pre-existing fantasy (Batman -- yay!) or responding to the audio montage.

103 diggsDesigned and hand-built by Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the Apple I was Apple's first product, and went on sale in July 1976 at the distinctly unsettling price of $666.66. Only 200 units were produced, and unlike many other computers of the day, the Apple I came as a fully assembled circuit board containing around 30 chips.

197 diggsSmaller-than-normal piles of trash at Puente Hills and other landfills throughout California can be seen as an indicator of widespread consumer concern about the economy

226 diggsTwo things are clear in the YouTube/Warner Music scuffle. First, neither side is 100% right. And second, users are very, very angry that their videos are being pulled down or muted when they contain background music owned by Warner Music.

98 diggsFox has picked up a pilot episode of a U.S. adaptation of the British comedy "Absolutely Fabulous," industry sources say.

291 diggsI'm serious, they don't.

295 diggsReally cool video of volcanoes erupting through sheets of ice.

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140 diggsWith about a month until this years Oscars on February 22nd, here are some of their most questionable decisions which show that they can get it very, very wrong.

176 diggsMozilla Labs, the research arm of Mozilla Corp. , wants 1% of Firefox users to allow it to watch how they use the browser -- and the Web in general.

140 diggsThis week, millions of people watched Obama’s inauguration on the Internet through one of the many sites that offered a live feed. CNN’s broadcast was without doubt one of the most used viewed streams, with a peak of more than a million simultaneous viewers and also one that was using P2P technology.

223 diggs“It is time that we end the politicization of this issue,” President Obama said in a written statement which accompanied an official presidential memorandum canceling Bush’s abortion-related restrictions on American aid money, referred to by critics as the “global gag rule.” The new president promised “a fresh conversation on family planning.”

122 diggs JAP s another tool which gives users the ability to stay anonymous online. Some have said that this one is the best out there.

242 diggs1.4 million people visit San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island each year, which adds up to a considerable carbon footprint when you factor in all of the gallons of fuel used to power those ferries. To help reduce this environmental impact Alcatraz Cruises recently launched their very own green solution - the Hornblower Hybrid ferry.

207 diggsMore interestingly, considering this week’s leaked images purporting to be of the keyboard-free T-Mobile G2 by HTC, there’s also a shot of the new on-screen keyboard, which Arron reports will appear for every edit box.

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130 diggsGedit is the default text editor for most of the Linux distributions using Gnome as the desktop environment. As it turns out and as we shall see shortly Gedit supports plugins and there are some very useful plugins for Gedit.

99 diggsEarlier this month, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Raymond Odierno, issued a waiver allowing military to drink beer on Feb. 1 -- a break from rules prohibiting alcohol that were established in light of occupying an Islamic country.

118 diggsIT managers should start familiarizing themselves with a new security tool -- the paint brush -- as Japanese researchers have come up with a paint that they say will block high-speed wireless signals, giving businesses a cheap option to protect their wireless networks.

236 diggsDemo of the first Apple Macintosh by Steve Jobs, January 1984, in front of 3000 people.

150 diggsFord Motor Co has enough liquidity to fund its restructuring plan and despite the deep downturn in auto sales still sees no need to ask for government loans, Chief Executive Alan Mulally said on Saturday.

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236 diggsA nice way to start the day.

96 diggsI can't believe he wasted time for the props, ahahaha. I'll have the other stuff submitted too.

111 diggsA man accused of helping a Mexican drug kingpin dispose of hundreds of victims by dissolving their bodies in acid was arrested in the border city of Tijuana, authorities said Friday. A Mexican military statement said Santiago Meza Lopez confessed to disposing of at least 300 bodies over a decade, but authorities provided no further evidence.

199 diggsAs the WiFi workforce expands and growing numbers of the unemployed, self-employed, even fully employed punch the clock at cafes, competitive and petty behaviors once confined to the office have been outsourced to the corner coffee shop.

93 diggsWhy hasn't John Q. Public become enraged over government's giving taxpayer dollars to non-performing manufacturers?Why?

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223 diggsNASA's twin STEREO spacecraft are offering the first glimpse of the far side of the sun, the space agency announced today.

112 diggs10 great photoshopped images about the human-fruit "relationship"

188 diggsCheck out the rest of her photos from her 365 day project as well.

161 diggsBoy Who Couldn't Sleep Undergoes Risky, Life-Changing Operation

115 diggsMacs are known for the intuitive software that makes them great for non-geeks, and Apple has always been consistent in pioneering new technology, but the ability to bundle it all into one super sleek package has given Apple an edge over the rest. Today, as the Mac turned 25, we thought we'd take a look at how its changed over the years.

224 diggsAdrian Eden snapped this picture of Vancouver blanketed in cloud.

38 diggsLos Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson is planning to retire after the 2009-10 season. Reports of his plans followed comments he made in a recent television interview.

149 diggsObama to Bush: This ain't gonna be pretty.

63 diggsLeroy Hill faces a misdemeanor charge for marijuana possession after authorities found him passed out behind the wheel at an intersection in Atlanta, according to authorities.

75 diggsOvechkin was declared the winner. He himself voted for Stamkos. IMHO, Getzlaf's move was the best, but Ovechkin put on the best show.

115 diggsThe book, which is really being published a year too late, goes into excruciating detail about the history of MySpace, its founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, and others involved in the business. Here's an in-depth look at it.

261 diggsThree state highway workers cleaning up litter picked up an abandoned tire — and found about $100,000 inside. Indiana state police suspect the cash, in denominations of $5 to $100, may be drug money. State Police spokesman Mike Burns said a drug-sniffing dog found the scent of drugs on the bills.

115 diggsJizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function.

177 diggsIt contains: variable types (numbers, sequences, sets, strings and regular expressions), basic syntax, object orientation and modules, exception handling, system interaction, input/output, standard library

87 diggsThe recent death of a Canadian senior amateur player and the hospitalization of an AHL fighter, who had a seizure after a bout Friday night, have raised concerns that fighting has become too dangerous."I always believed it is an incidental part of the game. But it is a part of the game," said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

62 diggs105.4! He's the last shooter if you want to skip on.

117 diggsTop seed Jelena Jankovic was knocked out of the fourth round of the Australian Open by France's Marion Bartoli on Sunday.

236 diggsThe sensation sweeping Denny's restaurants around the country. Never wait those extra five seconds for a refill again.

242 diggsAre games today easier than they used to be? Has the skill curve declined as technology has advanced? Here are ten old-school and previous generation games that are the source of millions of broken controllers.

113 diggsDespite the many distractions that are going on outside of the ring in Shane Mosley's life, he had no problem controlling the fight tonight.

125 diggsLabels are fragile: text and pictures have always been closely connected. From the dawn of written language to the era of microcomputers, much of human creation has explored the relationship between the literal and the figurative, the form and the function. Within this is the future site of retro, ASCII art.

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365 diggsOlly Moss is cranking out a lot of cool stuff.

109 diggsLong legs and skittish behavior are recently evolved traits that allow fence lizards in the southeastern U.S. to co-exist with lethal and invasive fire ants, according to a new study.

165 diggsI knew that was his plan all along!

78 diggsRussian superstars Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin teamed up to the delight of the Bell Centre crowd and both were winners in the NHL's All-Star SuperSkills competition Saturday night.

122 diggsTwitter, which just recently turned down a half billion dollar acquisition offer from Facebook (albeit to be paid mostly with Facebook stock), is dipping back into the venture capital market, we’ve heard from a source with of the deal. They’ve signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund to raise a new round at a $250 million valuation. We ar

106 diggsTomorrow, a few lucky people may see a "ring of fire." That's a name for the central view of an annular eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. At the peak of this eclipse, the middle of the Sun will appear to be missing and the dark Moon will appear to be surrounded by the bright Sun. This will only be visible, however, from a path that crosses the southe

143 diggsA Google glitch is giving drivers trying to reach a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island directions to the upstate city of Schenectady.

202 diggsMore explicitly than almost any inaugural in history, the 21-minute speech repudiated the attitudes and policies of a departing president. The Bush administration's scorn for internationally stipulated rights of prisoners, its disregard for science, its high-handed foreign policy, and its blind veneration of the market – Obama disowned them all.

89 diggsCalifornia could pay the price for the foreclosure crisis for years to come, thanks to Proposition 13, the 1978 voter initiative that caps property taxes.

108 diggsRaegan Booth, 16, and Aby Western, 15, say they were threatened with expulsion by David Alexander unless they dyed their hair brown. The girls claim they are being forced to adhere to the strict dress code of Rednock School in order to sit GCSE exams. But they remain adamant that their hair is a natural shade of blonde.

132 diggsThe Sundance Film Festival's 2009 audience and jury awards, presented Saturday in Park City, Utah...

199 diggsSeveral dozen Mumbai slum residents protested the award-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" on Thursday, calling the film's title insulting. The protest came amid mounting excitement in India — where the movie is set and home to many of its actors — ahead of Academy Award nominations later Thursday.

213 diggsThe "Exxon Valdez of coal ash" in Tennessee may poison wildlife for years to come, "but no one seems to be talking about it," conservationists say. The U.S. government considers the ash a health and environmental risk, but the residue remains unregulated, and debate burns over just how toxic coal ash is.

153 diggsThe dynasties are disappearing. The latest proof came when Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of John and Jackie Kennedy, dramatically removed herself as a possible replacement for Hillary Rodham Clinton -- a dynasty by marriage -- in the Senate seat from New York once held by her Uncle Bobby.