146 diggsYou start to pity George W. Bush until you remember the vast wreckage that stretches from the Middle East to Wall Street to Main Street.

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205 diggs25 years on from the birth of GNU, we pick the brains of three Linux luminaries.

181 diggsThere are hundreds of George Bushes, scores of Fidel Castros, and dozens of Hugo Chávezes, all with prank profiles on the social networking website Facebook, but when someone tried to pass him or herself off as the president of Guyana the real president didn't see the funny side.

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120 diggsFirst, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared. Then it took the children.

287 diggs...BREAKER!^ That was from http://digg.com/odd_stuff/I_didn_t_even_need_to_photoshop_this

201 diggsThe Czech presidency of the European Union said Israel's action was "defensive, not offensive". France, the outgoing president of the EU, has issued a conflicting statement and called for a cease fire.

257 diggsIsraeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday, bisecting the coastal territory and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas gained momentum.

172 diggsRhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.

127 diggsWe wish some fictional characters would make the leap from the movies to real life. If science actually read the dozens of letters we send them each day, they would have turned Christian Bale into Batman a long time ago.

109 diggsHilarious video from Cracked.com

139 diggsA Look Back At Some Of The President's Misunderestimated Remarks.

251 diggsA massive earth-moving project is transforming Smuggler's Gulch near San Diego from a narrow canyon used by cattle thieves, bandits and illegal immigrants into a plugged breach. For a century, the narrow canyon leading into California from Mexico provided cover for cattle thieves and opium dealers, bandits and booze runners.

176 diggsThe contraceptive pill is polluting the environment and is in part responsible for male infertility, according to a report in a Vatican newspaper. The pill has had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of the female hormone oestrogen into nature through female urine.

286 diggsAs Israel's IDF wages it's own "media war" via Twitter and YouTube, uncensored footage from Palestine has been completely blacked out in the US. Until now.

159 diggsWe could have never predicted that our coverage of the iSteam iPhone app would result in a battle between apps that let you blow air on the mic to add steam, or fog-like effects to photos and backgrounds.

280 diggsThird-hand smoke is what one smells when a smoker gets in an elevator after going outside for a cigarette, he said, or in a hotel room where people were smoking. “Your nose isn’t lying,” he said. “The stuff is so toxic that your brain is telling you: ’Get away.’”

206 diggsHundreds of thousands of years ago, giant versions of Australia's unique wildlife stalked the continent. There were kangaroos up to 3m tall and enormous wallabies, wombats and echidnas. There were also koalas: larger and weightier than the creatures sometimes seen today in eucalyptus trees.

122 diggs The U.S. Department of Defense is looking to develop virtual parents to comfort children when moms and dads on active duty aren't available to talk.

407 diggsEver wonder what cats do while we're asleep? This guy did, so he set up a time lapse camera to find out. Turns out cats spend the night climbing on us.

171 diggsWhen President-elect Barack Obama showed off Steven Chu, the Nobel-prize winning physicist he picked to be his energy secretary, you could almost hear the American scientific community exhale, loudly & deeply – thousands of researchers, from Berkeley to MIT and everywhere in between, breathing a long, satisfying collective sigh of relief.

89 diggsSo even though the NASCAR season feels like it just finished, we are, in reality, just a few weeks away from revving up once again as the sport's brightest stars prepare for the 51st running of the Daytona 500 on Feb. 15, 2009.

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129 diggsA small explosion struck a cafe in northwestern Pakistan Sunday evening and, as police gathered to investigate, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, killing six people, according to local police and the town's mayor.

342 diggsA university professor who is an expert in sound and a part-time DJ believes Stonehenge was created as a dance arena for listening to "trance-style" music.

105 diggsScientists have long blamed climate change for the extinctions, for it was 12,900 years ago that the planet's emergence from the Ice Age came to a halt, reverting to glacial conditions for 1,500 years, an epoch known as the Younger Dryas. Now the proponents of this apocalyptic scenario say they have found a new line of evidence: nanodiamonds.

107 diggsGolfers face going deaf from the "sonic boom" created when their clubs strike the ball, doctors have warned.

353 diggsWhen it comes to big money industry disaster spills, the media takes a "safe until proven toxic" attitude contrary to common sense. The coal ash sludge which has devastated the Tennessee River now shows to have elevated levels of arsenic.EPA says water safe, but arsenic at levels "considered harmful to humans"... so the H2O is safe but harmful

134 diggsMike Smith of the Atlanta Falcons has edged Tony Sparano of the Miami Dolphins by one vote Sunday for The Associated Press 2008 NFL Coach of the Year award.

184 diggsNew Twitter services Mr. Tweet and AutoPack help you find people you should be following.

117 diggsAn Indiana girl would be allowed to try out for the high school baseball team under an agreement reached after her family filed a federal lawsuit over an Indiana High School Athletic Association rule that barred her from trying out.

153 diggsWhere you sit on a bus can define your personality, according to a psychologist. Forward-minded people tend to sit at the front of the top deck, according to Dr Tom Fawcett of Salford University, the independent-minded in the middle and those with a rebellious streak at the rear.

151 diggsNew Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state.

211 diggsWhen hunting is severe enough to outstrip other threats to survival, the unsought, middling individuals make out better than the stronger alpha animals, and the species changes. "Survival of the fittest" is still the rule, but the "fit" begin to look unlike what you might expect.

186 diggsIf you’ve been staring at the Sun lately, then you may have noticed it looks a wee bit bigger today than it did a few days ago. That’s not because the UV light from the Sun is frying your retina; it’s actually true. Today is perihelion, the time when the Earth is closest to the Sun in its orbit.

286 diggsThe horse walked down a corridor before turning round and fleeing through the exit as movie-goers looked on.

345 diggsAren't animals just great?

180 diggsIt started out as an experiment in creating an editable newspaper wiki, and ended when it was overrun by people with quite different motivations... Despite the utter failure, journalist Michael Kinsley still believes technological changes are the key to saving newspapers.

175 diggsScientists at the University of Nevada, Reno, researching the prospect of extracting oil from used coffee grounds report that the process is not that difficult.

162 diggsStars using Twitter to post minute-to-minute updates for fans have given an inadvertent insight into their surprisingly mundane lives.

187 diggsIs anyone surprised that album sales - the music industry's main source of revenue - dropped for a fourth year?

132 diggsJohn Travolta's lawyers -- who are close family friends -- reveal to Usmagazine.com that Jett may have died in his father's arms Friday. "Yesterday was the worst day of [John's] life,"

349 diggsFormer pastor spends a year trying to answer the question, what would Jesus do? Ed Dobson read the bible, ate, talked, prayed and even voted as he thought Jesus would.

325 diggsIf you don't get punished, you didn't go anything wrong, right?

182 diggsMayor Michael Bloomberg arrived in Israel to show solidarity with Israelis threatened by Hamas. During the visit to the embattled town of Sderot, Bloomberg and his party got a first hand feel of this threat as a missile siren went off and they were rushed to a bomb shelter.

213 diggsThe Cognac time-line gives a nice outlined synopsis of "the Mother of Brandy's" history.

157 diggsArchery on horseback. Not an Olympic sport. But if rhythmic dancing & synchronized swimming are, why not this.

172 diggsA bloodstream 'cleaner' which could save thousands of lives a year by quickly disabling poisons has been invented by British scientists, and and may even provide an instant hangover cure.

163 diggsSamsung Electronics plans to unveil a flat-panel TV that’s as thin as just 6.5-millimeters at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it said Sunday. The TV set, few details of which were immediately available, is between 6.5mm and 7mm across its width and has an LED (light emitting diode) backlight.

141 diggsA red colored iPhone has been on the rumor mill for some time, but today French blogger Steve Hemmerstoffer sent us some photos of one. He told us ...

118 diggsNew backgrounds in 3...2..

146 diggsApple as early as Tuesday will introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a fixed internal battery and a new version of the Mac mini, both of which will feature chipsets from NVIDIA, AppleInsider has been able to independently confirm.

193 diggsSurgeons have for the first time repaired an injured donor lung and transplanted it into a patient.

102 diggsIf risk-taking behavior looks like addiction, there may be a biological reason for that: both behaviors involve the brain's feel-good chemical, dopamine.

165 diggsA team of UK scientists have discovered a natural process that could delay, or even end, the threat of global warming.

137 diggsNerd World's look at goals for this year :)

180 diggsHot food for your hotrod? According to a Maplin Electronics spokesman, "The In-Car Microwave ensures you can get a heated meal whether you are out for a day in the country, off to the beach or working at a remote site."

108 diggsMany dream researchers think that understanding your dreams can lead to significant improvements in your waking life.

177 diggsCalifornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger explains how the state of California forged new ground in measuring total carbon emissions and setting goals for reductions ahead of the federal government.

137 diggs2008 had some fine albums, but it's unlikely they'll measure up to 1968's...Both were turbulent years with watershed presidential elections, unpopular foreign wars, and major upheaval - social then, financial now. 1968 saw the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., racial tensions, and the ensuing riots; 2008 we voted our first African-American

375 diggsA new trojan popped up at several torrent sites a few weeks ago, one that blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, while informing its victims that “downloading is wrong.” The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load.

186 diggsIn a rather odd move, Long stars in a new short film entitled “Hunger Relief” in which he talks ON HIS iPHONE while HOLDING A BONG.

428 diggsThe tragic death of John Travolta's teenage son Jett could spell the end of Scientology, sci-fi author L. Ron Hubbard's loopy, medicine-hating cult from the 1950s...

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99 diggsSome lucky and literary D.C. middle and high school students could write their own ticket to a front row seat at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural parade

97 diggsPatients who leave operating theatres with surgical equipment accidentally left inside them are being awarded millions of pounds in compensation.

181 diggsIs evacuating a school bus full of children because of a lone peanut on the floor a smart precaution, or overkill?

179 diggsComedian Ricky Gervais has caught flack over comments he made about overweight people in an audio, and has taken to his blog to defend himself.

164 diggsSometimes modern design and minimalism go a little too far and it’s hard to figure out exactly what the products are. We’ve tracked down 19 products that look quite cool but leave you wondering wtf?

168 diggsKatie Holmes has singlehandedly come to the rescue of New York's economy, spending $14 million in the city since she moved there six months ago, it has been claimed.

270 diggsObama is considering as much as $310 billion of tax cuts to individuals and businesses, a move aimed at attracting Republican support for a stimulus package. Tax cuts + more spending = disaster waiting to happen.

205 diggsAs Republicans struggle to determine the future of their party after a tough election, intraparty tensions have flared over three forums next week that may prove crucial to determining the winner of the six-way race for the chair of the Republican National Committee — a post that will hold considerable sway over the direction of the GOP.

310 diggsYou haven't heard George Bush speak like this in a long time.

94 diggsThousands of friends and family gathered in the tiny western Canadian coal-mining town of Sparwood Sunday to remember eight snowmobilers killed in avalanches.

92 diggsThe Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Minnesota Vikings 26-14 led by QB Donovan McNabb's 300 passing yards, including a late 71-yard touchdown to Brian Westbrook. They will now face off against the reigning super bowl champion Giants in a heavyweight match-up between two NFC East rivals.

344 diggsPat Hingle, known to film audiences as Commissioner Gordon in the "Batman" movies, has died at the age of 84. Family friend Michele Seidman says Hingle died at his home in Carolina Beach shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday.

399 diggsEarly in the campaign trail Obama sent mixed signals on his support for manned exploration and as a NASA supporter I admit that I was fearing the worst: But now the good news is that it turns out that not only is Obama dead serious about not only going back to the moon, but trying to beat China. The second Space Race has begun!

227 diggsSen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the just-departed chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, declared Sunday that Al Franken has won the Minnesota Senate recount against Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). “With the Minnesota recount complete, it is now clear that Al Franken won the election. The Canvassing Board will meet tomorrow to wrap up.

149 diggsGet ready for an onslaught of the cheap. With the economy more unstable than Plaxico Burress' mental state, electronics manufacturers are putting the e-brakes on their budgets,

149 diggsThe new year is wide open with comics firing on all cylinders — from the upper echelons of superhero comics to the vibrant field of modern comics.

108 diggsThis is actually very cool, not only is the song great but the idea of playing it on a Theremin is quite geeky itself.

146 diggsNeuroscience has learned much about the brain's activity and its link to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person's mind.

98 diggsLike every year, John Battelle makes 13 Solid Prediction of 2009 surrounding Technology, Social Media & the World Economy.

209 diggsBest Buy vending machine let's you buy a DS system and a couple of games before takeoff.

272 diggsTruly a sad day. Patrick Cudahy, a Cudahy, Wisc., firm, is recalling approximately 3,590 pounds of bacon bit products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

100 diggsAs companies big and small trudge into January after a dismal 2008, the movie business is quietly celebrating solid if not spectacular results at the multiplex.

188 diggsWith Macworld just around the corner, people are still clamoring and fretting over the fact that Steve Jobs won't be delivering the keynote. Lost in the shuffle, however, is the fact that Apple (via Phil Schiller) will most likely deliver some interesting announcements to its product line.

148 diggsA great review of the movie from an interesting perspective. At lot of the reviews I've read are pretty dry but I actually gained a little insight from this one.

122 diggsApparently, "lenticular clouds, technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction." In short: they look badass.

499 diggsUsing data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders. The government is assuming extraordinary powers to stop and search individuals within this zone.

176 diggsBART-Police who patrol the Bay Area's subway system came to break up a fight. They had a 22 year old man named Omar Grant in handcuffs and on the ground when an officer shot him point blank in the head.

295 diggsWith Macworld San Francisco 2009 (MWSF) beginning next week, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the event.While this rumor season started off slowly, the past few weeks have raised some interesting possibilities.

150 diggsxkcd - Converting to Metric

243 diggsMore options on the way for watching Netflix (NFLX) streaming movies in your living room: Beginning this spring, Korean electronics giant LG will build Netflix streaming directly into some of its plasma and LCD HDTVs, the companies will announce today.

107 diggs He wants to win so badly. Really, he does. He just doesn't have a clue how to make it happen. If he did, we all know Wade Phillips wouldn't still be the Cowboys' coach.

86 diggsThe Boston Celtics are aware of Stephon Marbury's reputation. They're also aware they may need more depth to win another title. So if general manager Danny Ainge and coach Doc Rivers decide the banished New York Knicks guard can help them, the Celtics players sound willing to go along with it.

361 diggs So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, textures, actions and .PSD downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next photoshop effect.

389 diggsFormer president George HW Bush, father of the outgoing US commander-in-chief, has touted another son, Jeb, for a future presidential bid. "I'd like to see him run. I'd like to see him be president some day," the elder Bush, 84 told Fox News yesterday. "I think he's as qualified and able as anyone I know," he said in an interview.

150 diggsBell-bottoms… Designer jeans… Disco… Big hair… Gas shortages. Some icons of the 1970s are emblazoned in the memories of those old enough to remember. A few styles, to the dismay of many, have come back in vogue—oil-related crises among them.

172 diggsSmart gadgets, lifelike video, and pocket versions of laptop computers are expected to be Consumer Electronics Show (CES) stars as the annual extravaganza follows its gizmos onto the Web.

117 diggs(Reuters) - Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was examined at least eight times in 16 years by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other regulators, who often came armed with suspicions, the Wall Street Journal said. SEC...

165 diggsThe Cassini space probe snapped a series of images during two hours in July that have been put together to create a full, natural color view of the planet, its rings, and six of its moons.

181 diggsFor decades, public access programming on cable television has provided a virtually free forum for community activists and aspiring entertainers, for preening star wannabes as well as serious-minded political watchdogs. But in Los Angeles and across California that forum began crumbling last week.