258 diggsMakover Time!

1001 diggsSubmission for the 2009 NORML Ad Contest.Producer, Writer, Director, Editor- Jason DrussDirector Of Photography- Jon BoalSound- Dan LehnerFirst Assistant Director- Greg LewisKey Gaffer- Derrick J. HortonKey Grip- Alex HomanGrip- Nick CarrollMusic by Loomer

235 diggsTwo Japanese boys have brought a World War II bomb to class, flustering teachers on the island of Okinawa, which was the scene of the Pacific conflict's bloodiest battle.

252 diggsLife goes on around body found in vacant Detroit warehouse.

229 diggsThe world's largest, most powerful particle smasher probably won't generate any planet-gobbling black holes, according to a new analysis.That's contrary to suggestions in a news article Wednesday that invoked a possible doomsday scenario and said black holes created by the collider could stick around longer than predicted.

132 diggsWhatever the reasons, there are certainly remakes and sequels that took forever to arrive but ultimately made us wonder, "why did they even bother?!" Here are our top 10 worst offenders:

278 diggsSketch loans, financial blunders, and a string of bad bets have left America's banks nearly insolvent. How an industry collapsed — and why only nationalization might solve it

157 diggsThe Sexy Ladies of B Squad bring their A-game and D-cups.

160 diggsIn an equipment regulation change calculated to increase viewer interest in professional football's championship game, National Football League officials announced Monday that the footballs used in the Super Bowl would be somewhat bigger than their regular-season counterparts.

262 diggsDEARBORN, Mich. – Ford Motor Co. says it lost $5.9 billion in the fourth quarter but it has no plans to seek federal aid unless economic conditions worsen.The second-largest U.S. automaker says it burned through $5.5 billion in cash during the quarter. The company said Thursday it lost $2.46 per share, compared with a loss of $2.8 billion..

281 diggsDespite calls from the public, pressure groups and ISPs, the New Zealand government has refused to withdraw the planned Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, meaning that those simply accused of file-sharing are disconnected from the Internet.

134 diggsWhile some chief executives' jobs may be in peril, these 10 have stuck it out long enough to partake in what's left of the global economy. These have made our annual list of the world's wealthiest CEOs.

171 diggsAn international team of researchers, led by investigators at Columbia University Medical Center, has uncovered the first gene linked to the most common type of epilepsy, called Rolandic epilepsy. One out of every five children with epilepsy is diagnosed with this form, which is associated with seizures starting in one part of the brain.

303 diggsEveryday life would look a lot cooler. Also, nothing would work.

270 diggsThe Wall Street Journal's excellent columnist Daniel Henninger argues that Timothy Geithner, despite howls from Republicans, deserved to be confirmed as Treasury Secretary. Henninger deplores the witch-hunts that have defined Washington since the Watergate era, a slash and burn effort from both parties to discredit men and women.

206 diggsA father allegedly threw his four-year-old daughter off a bridge in front of the girl's two young brothers and scores of motorists during rush hour in Melbourne

273 diggsIraq said Thursday it will bar Blackwater Worldwide from providing security protection for U.S. diplomats because its contractors used excessive force, sanctioning a company whose image was irrevocably tarnished by the 2007 killings of 17 Iraqi civilians.The move will deprive American diplomats of their main protection force in Iraq.

191 diggsGuitar World ranks the 50 greatest solos in rock and roll history. Do you agree or disagree, and how about number one?

246 diggsA brain surgeon performed what he called a "life-saving" surgery on a teenager by removing a large brain tumor using a method he read about on CNN.com just three days earlier.

92 diggsRoger Federer moved within one victory of his 14th Grand Slam title with another dominating victory, ousting Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-5, 7-5 Thursday to reach the Australian Open final.

326 diggsThough few officers will confess to lying -- after all, it's a crime -- work by researchers and a 1990s commission appointed to examine police corruption shows there's a tacit agreement among many officers that lying about how evidence is seized keeps criminals off the street.

217 diggsThe 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 has been revealed ahead of the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. With a base price of $112,200, one would expect it to deliver some walloping technology. It doesn't appear to disappoint.

569 diggsAn amazing picture of the invasion of Normandy on Utah Beach

153 diggsYes, getting to the Super Bowl is hard enough, but these five jocks take that notion to a whole new level. Also, Ronde Barber talks Tiki.

272 diggsIn his new series Better Know a Beatle, Stephen gets Paul McCartney to accuse the Dalai Lama of cannibalism.

152 diggsNASA wants the public to determine where in the universe it will next aim the powerful Hubble Space Telescope. The space agency is encouraging Internet surfers to log onto the Hubble Web site and vote for one of a six astronomical objects for the renowned telescope to examine for the first time.

361 diggsThis portrait of President Barack Obama was created by artist George Vlosich using an Etch-A-Sketch toy. The picture took 80 hours to draw using the two dials in one, unbroken line. In addition to this piece, the artist has...

134 diggsThe Technology hunters at Inventables collect and sift through thousands of unique materials every year. Then they drop details about the best ones into an enormous database with suggestions for how they could be incorporated into new products. Here are their coolest and quirkiest new technologies.

92 diggsWhen someone swallows his or her first antidepressant, it may come as a surprise how the psychiatrist chose that particular pill to prescribe: It's a best guess out of dozens of antidepressants on the market. Now, a few psychiatrists have set out to bring some order to this educated guessing game. By looking at 117 studies of the 12 most popular...

461 diggsWith its partners on this project, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium. M-Lab is designed to be "an open platform that researchers can use to deploy Internet measurement tools. Google will work with researchers to help them develop relevant Internet measurement tools.

247 diggsAs wind industry claimed that vertical turbines are ineffective, inventor Adam Fuller developed a project to prove this theory wrong.

88 diggsOne of the most watched and biggest moneymakers in the world of sports and entertainment is taking a major hit due to the economic crisis

221 diggsJamal Reed of 'vocal play' group, Naturally 7 demonstrates his amazing ability to mimic the sound of an electric guitar using only his voice.

269 diggsIs it just me, or does it seem like every retail establishment these days feel its necessary to send one of their low-level employees to dance around like an intoxicated hobo on the street corner holding a sign? What the hell is the going on with this, and when did awkwardly dancing and flailing your arms about become an acceptable advertising ...

78 diggsTriceratops used their horns to get their point across—literally—a new study finds. Dozens of dinosaur species had bizarre structures on their heads, ranging from horns to crests to lumps. But what these features were for has been a subject of much debate.

267 diggsFalling in love with someone is one of the most exhilarating feelings, when love ends, it feels as if you've been dropped like a rock in mid-air, shattering on the earth below. What can we do when love ends? This article dives into the healing process.

123 diggsThis article presents 50 more examples of beautiful and original 404-error-designs. Some of them look beautiful but are not user-friendly; the other ones are user-friendly, but are not really beautiful. Please use these examples as a source of inspiration - hopefully, this showcase has something for everybody.

212 diggsClick on the guy's pants in the third panel for a hidden comic.

102 diggsThe "Notorious" screenwriter is attached to adapt Bill Adler's "Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC

220 diggsShelby SuperCars (SSC), the company behind the world’s fastest production car, has announced plans to launch an electric supercar that is four times as powerful as the Tesla Roadster later this year.

131 diggsPeople love Twitter, and they love Firefox, so it only seems natural that there would be quite a few tools to merge these two items.

225 diggsThe biggest employer in the Illinois city announced massive global job cuts, shaking its Midwestern residents to their core

206 diggsA video showing the Pandora's hardware being demoed running various tests. The DS-sized unit uses a beastly next-generation OMAP3 ARM Cortex-A8 processor, with WiFi, Bluetooth, 256MB of RAM and runs Linux.

117 diggs"He's encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks," the caller phoned to tell this reporter. It turns out that this person last week was playing hockey on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, he said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.

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198 diggsA new study shows that pollution from automobiles and coal-fired power plants is contributing to the melting of mountain snowpacks up to a month early, exacerbating water shortages and polluting streams in the arid West.

132 diggsInvestors may not be happy with the performance of bank executives and their top employees these days, but, apparently, compensation committees are satisfied.The NYT kicks off its business coverage today with some numbers that are hard to swallow. New York's financial institutions paid out a gaudy $18.4 billion in bonuses in 2008

159 diggsSuper Bowl Sunday comes just once a year. The only thing that counts is how you watch the game.

182 diggsTraffic management company Ipoque has just released a whitepaper, detailing pros and cons of different methods of dealing with piracy on P2P networks. Surprisingly, the conclusions in the paper are not straight adverts for their own products and services. We will highlight some of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly conclusions.

149 diggsAlternately praising and upbraiding those who will decide his political fate, Gov. Rod Blagojevich today urged the Illinois Senate not to remove him from office, saying he has "done absolutely nothing wrong" and "never, ever intended to violate the law."

124 diggsor isn't epic, I don't care.

167 diggsNew data has revealed a turning point for our green energy future. In 2008, wind industry jobs jumped to 85,000, a 70% increase from the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday from the American Wind Energy Association. In contrast, the coal industry employs about 81,000 workers.

71 diggsThis can be done very easily because when you watch a video on any of those sites they save a temporary file on your computer of the video. So from there you will need to just find the file and rename it.

176 diggsPlayboy boss announced that due to economic crisis the traditional Super Bowl party called Sextravaganza, held every year before the biggest game in the NFL, will be cancelled this season. I feel sorry for all the celebrities...

322 diggsIt's not that the GOP will disappear from politics as we know it, but certainly, it would take them a decade or more to claw their way back to the top of the electoral heap. When the GOP lost the House in 1954, it took forty years to return to the majority. A third-straight round of losses in 2010 could push the GOP into a long term minority.

104 diggsBentley will be using the upcoming Geneva show as a launchpad for a biofuel powered GT that Bentley’s PR reps promise will be the fastest and most powerful production car in the company’s history.

96 diggsWho wouldn't read a financial column from the man behind Appetite for Destruction?

255 diggsThere are more bees in America now than in the previous 3 years.

162 diggsApple has yanked a software update that was intended to fix graphics-related issues with its latest notebooks just two days after pushing the patch to users via its Software Update mechanism

169 diggsThe more “wired” a hospital is, the lower its rate of patient deaths and complications, a new study finds. Not only do wired hospitals save lives, but automating hospital information systems also saves centers money.

85 diggsCable TV channels, pay-per-view shows and over-the-air broadcast networks deliver fights to millions of viewers each month. Many of these new viewers are still learning about the sport and the fighters. We’ve created a list of the best fighters to watch regardless of weight class, nationality or promotion.

181 diggsThe NBA, and basketball in general, is still relatively young. The league evolves with each generation. While it has had its share of legends, these 12 have impacted the sport on and off the court the most.

213 diggsThese haunting, hybrid images of past and present St Petersburgh – formerly known as Leningrad – are the works of Sergei Larenkov. After studying old images of the city, Larenkov visited the same spots, capturing them on film. He then digitally superimposed the old image over new, producing these eerie and thought-provoking shots.

165 diggsOnce upon a time, 4.6 billion years ago, something was brewing in an unremarkable backwater of the Milky Way.

304 diggsUsing the Web, you can learn how to do just about anything in Photoshop, and either become great at it or just get really good at faking it. Either way, you’re doing cool stuff.Here are ten sites to get you Photoshopping like a champion

208 diggsIT IS the very opposite of family resemblance: three groups of strikingly different-looking fish that turn out to be males, females and young of the same family.

377 diggsIf it's 'shopped, it's hilarious. If it's real, that's amazing.

267 diggsA TV Shop themed demonstration of a Turing Machine made in LEGO Mindstorms. It was made as part of a project at computer science at Aarhus University.

222 diggsJudging by the 1.0 release of Chrome in November and two minor updates that followed, uptake of Google's browser appears to have lost steam. It's as if Google lost its edge in the innovation arena.

140 diggsJohn Maynard Keynes is an unlikely hero for our time.

237 diggsWomen participating in the Kinsey study were shown 224 photos of men's faces, some of which had been "masculinized" or "feminized" using photo-morphing software. MRI scans revealed higher levels of brain response to the masculinized photos, particularly in women who were in the phase of their menstrual cycle immediately preceding ovulation.

337 diggsWould you poop in these?

204 diggs"As if the news from Wall Street, Detroit, and Starbucks was not bad enough, DigitalMusicNews.com is reporting that CD sales have now fallen to less than half the number of CDs sold in their peak year, 2000. In 2008, CD sales were down 54.6 percent from 2000, or a giant 514.6 million units less."

153 diggsBloody Disgusting has confirmed that Columbia Pictures is officially out to screenwriters for Ghost Rider 2, and star Nicolas Cage is already signed on to reprise the role as Johnny Blaze. This is shocking because nobody I know enjoyed the 2007 film when it was released.

144 diggsGoogle prides itself on the power efficiency of its data centers, and now it has a lot more to crow about. The company recently released figures that show its already efficient data centers just got a lot greener

286 diggsWith 20 new plugins, faster search, better results,animated themes, and 111 fewer bugs, your desktop's killer app just got killer-er. Oh, and then there's Docky, a whole new way to Do.

204 diggsThe San Jose Business Times reported Thursday afternoon that the car company could not get the $100 million in venture capital it needed to build the plant.

109 diggsBefore this Sunday's Super Bowl 43 kicks off, viewers will be treated to a new song by The Smashing Pumpkins in an ad for Hyundai's new Genesis Coupe. The new song is titled "FOL" and has not been released in any format prior to be featured in this commercial.

173 diggsIn Europe, Pirate Parties have quite a following, especially in Sweden where a political scientist recently described them as a “classic civil right movement”. The U.S. Pirate Party hopes to replicate some of this success, and officially launched in California today, the home of the movie industry.

256 diggsIllinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been ousted from office after being found guilty of abusing his powers.

128 diggsIt's been two millennia since the Roman Empire held sway, but it's thriving on a dozen fictional planets. Somehow, aliens love to imitate the glory that was Rome. Here are the greatest interplanetary toga parties. Note: I'm not including alternate history novels where the Roman empire never fell. Instead, I'm only including Roman Empire in space.

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73 diggsAn unauthorized tribute to Run DMC done to the images of the financial panic of 2008.

196 diggsSamples: "Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops.", "Comedy is funny", and "So where’s the Cannes film festival being held this year?"

85 diggsThe definitive list of jerseys for a die-hard black-and-gold sports fan to sport (and not to sport) around "tahn."

246 diggsA sofa-sized statue of the shoe was unveiled Thursday in Tikrit, the hometown of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Baghdad-based artist Laith al-Amari described the fiberglass-and-copper work as a tribute to the pride of the Iraqi people. The statue is inscribed with a poem honoring Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw the shoe.

183 diggsWhen fat-cat sports owners want a big new stadium, guess who they shake down?

113 diggsGreenpeace Brazil has released a report at the World Social Forum in Belém showing that up to 80 percent of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is due to an increase in raising cattle for human consumption.

236 diggsAccording to weblog Google Blogoscoped, Google Chrome is spoofing its user agent at Hotmail, Microsoft's popular but much-maligned webmail application.

190 diggsCash4Gold, the "As Seen On TV" meltdown factory that solicits baggies of your unused chains, rings, coins and earrings in exchange for a bit of quick cash, has kicked a PR field goal.

197 diggsThe United Nations is to halve the food ration to millions of Zimbabweans, bringing it below what will keep an adult alive, as the numbers of people dependent on aid rises sharply and donations from foreign governments fall well short of demand.

221 diggsAt Launch Pad 39-B, the Chandra X-ray Observatory sits inside the payload bay of Space Shuttle Columbia, waiting for the doors to close. The combined Chandra/Inertial Upper Stage, seen here, measures 57 feet long and weighs 50,162 pounds. Fully deployed with solar arrays extended, the observatory measures 45.3 feet long and 64 feet wide.

297 diggsSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a blunt warning to Republicans Thursday: Their party must regain lost supporters plus blacks, Hispanics and voters on both coasts — or risk becoming a permanent minority party with a limited power base.

208 diggsReview of 2 of the latest bad boy supercars by Top Gear. Amazing power and cars.

336 diggsIn today’s post you will find 15 incredibly useful Mac Apps for freelance web designers to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before and help them manage their project efficiently to get their job done.

168 diggsUsually sailors get knocked out by other sailors, not by their boats.

107 diggsShe is a single mom and has 6 more at home including a set of twins. WTF

359 diggsAs of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages. Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail. There is a certain bliss to this if you've got a pile of letters that demand well-composed, unplugging the Internet can be the fastest way to get things done

110 diggsAMD has just announced a new and improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. ATI Catalyst 9.1 introduces final and stable support for the Ubuntu 8.10 Linux operating system, full OpenGL 3.0 support, Hybrid CrossFire support and Multiview support.

115 diggsCheck out this very heartwarming story on how a kid overcame bullies and made new friends thanks to video games.

191 diggsThe Internet was buzzing yesterday as the new Final Fantasy XIII trailer was released. The graphics are incredible and looks to be a great sequal in the Final Fantasy universe. The One game, though, that immediately came to mind when watching the trailer is another Square title, Chrono Cross.

334 diggsIt seems that the DRM on Gears of War came with a built-in shut off date: the digital certificate for the game was only good until January 28, 2009. Now that the game fails to work unless you adjust your system's clock, what's Epic's response? "We're working on it."

174 diggsThe Forbes.com Web Celeb 25 is a list of the biggest and brightest stars on the Web. From penniless bloggers to geek entrepreneurs, these are the folks who are capturing eyes, influencing opinion and creating the digital world from the bottom up.

531 diggsKanye West rants about Paris, champagne, and Lois Vuitton -- all while holding up one shoe. Through all this, he manages to make ABSOLUTELY no sense. It seems he's finally lost his head.

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189 diggsWhy has the Obama administration been silent about one of the key promises during the campaign — the promise of guaranteed health care for all Americans?

125 diggsIf you had any doubts Microsoft didn't appreciate the advantages of Firefox's ability to accommodate add-ons, you can dispel them now. The company just released one that makes Microsoft's search service work better with the open-source Web browser.

258 diggsTonight Shaquille O'Neal passed Hakeem 'The Dream' Olajuwon for sole possession of 7th on the NBA's All-time scoring list. Includes Shaq/Hakeem Taco Bell commercial from the 90's.

77 diggsBloomberg is expected to call for a $900 million increase in the city’s sales tax on Friday, as the city confronts a loss of revenue due to the economic downturn.New York City already has one of the highest sales taxes in the nation, at 8.375 percent, and retailers are likely to fight the increase.

213 diggsExecutives of the Boy Scouts of America in California have repeatedly conducted commercial logging on scout lands in environmentally sensitive areas, sometimes drawing sharp criticism from regulators and environmentalists.

268 diggsGlider, a popular WoW bot, took another hit on Wednesday as a federal judge ruled that the product went beyond copyright infringement to being a circumvention device under the DMCA. The decision raises serious questions about the legal status of interoperability and competition in the software industry.

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250 diggsSome clever techies confused PETA supporters today by pulling a well-executed prank against their campaign to “re-brand” fish as sea kittens.

151 diggsAlthough January may have the reputation as the peak month for relationships break up, new statistics show Saturday night is due to be the year's biggest night for first dates.