124 diggsAll politicians are prone to make slips of the tongue in the heat of the moment - and President George W Bush has made more than most.

170 diggsWhen physicist Kenneth Libbrecht looks out over a snowy landscape, he doesn't see a peaceful scene, he sees a laboratory. His microscopic photos show the intricate variety of snow crystals, and reveal the rigorous laws of nature that shape them.

159 diggsAt age 36, I found myself in a medium security prison serving 3-5 years for destruction of government property and public intoxication. This was stiff punishment for drunkenly defecating in a mailbox but as the judge pointed out, this was my third conviction for the exact same crime.

184 diggsThe Aérotrain sounds like a plot device from a steampunk novel: A rocket powered railroad car designed to travel at ultra high speeds. This amazing retro tech project came out of France in the 60s from their quest for a high speed rail system. Could this forgotten gem give us inspiration to reinvent public transportation in 21st Century America?

179 diggsSaturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

176 diggswe wanted to chime in with a handful of games we can't wait to get our hands on for the first time. Some of these might not arrive in 2009 but we can't wait to play them in preview form nonetheless.

108 diggsINSULIN grown in plants has been injected into people for the first time. The hope is that plants will provide a cheaper source of insulin for people with diabetes.Most insulin products are produced by bacteria in a fermenter. As this is an expensive process, Sembiosys hopes using plants will be cheaper because they do not need this stage.

279 diggsBarack Obama vows to keep Blackberry despite hacking fears

199 diggsA shopaholic pensioner was crushed to death under a mountain of unopened items she was hoarding, it emerged today.

99 diggsPhoto by Brooke Anderson. A protest over the fatal shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed man mushroomed in Oakland as protesters smashed storefronts and set cars on fire.

135 diggsInter coach Jose Mourinho and Juventus tinkerman Claudio Ranieri have spent the night in the cell of a Milanese police station after a squabble between the duo escalated into violence - leaving ‘Galliani’s’, a popular Italian restaurant, to pick up the pieces and count the costs. Please note that this story is satirical!

143 diggsOf all the honors a man can be granted--statues, tributes, whores--there's nothing like having your last name turned into a word to ensure your immortality. Unless, of course, you earned the word because you fucked up so badly the world just had to remember your horrible example.

148 diggsWhat if the things we really needed to be warned about came with labels?

101 diggsThe best top 10 American football fights you have ever seen!

209 diggsWhen Oklahoma-Florida, the so-called national championship game, kicks off in Dolphin Stadium, Randy Lewis and 40 of his closest friends will be watching at his home in Bountiful, Utah, speculating loudly about the thrashing the Utah Utes would lay on each. It's all they can do....

242 diggsPolaroid was set to announce Thursday at the International Consumer Electronics Show that it is introducing a digital camera that produces prints right on the spot. You can even call them "instant" prints, but they take nearly a minute to appear, so they're only as "instant" as the old film prints.

162 diggsThe man who accidentally ran over John Gotti's young son was allegedly dumped in a vat of acid by a twisted Gambino hit man. Charles Carneglia, 62, who is awaiting trial for five Mafia murders, once boasted of his sick specialty in a tutorial for a turncoat would-be mobster, explaining "that acid was the best method to use to avoid detection."

212 diggsThe new administration will have to be tough, much tougher than either Bill Clinton or George W. Bush were, if it's serious about Arab-Israeli peacemaking. The departure point for a viable peace deal must not be based purely on what Israel will accept, but on the requirements of all sides. U.S. national interest demands it.

144 diggsgOS, the Ubuntu-derived Linux desktop that's focused squarely on Google products and other webapps, has updated with newer versions of its core products, including the Windows-app-running WINE, Firefox 3, and support for newer Google Gadgets.

215 diggsThe Discovery Channel's more hardcore offspring, The Science Channel has put out a casting call for a new game show, and they need geeks and makers to step up and have some fun. From the casting call: Producers for a...

97 diggsFormer Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi has been sentenced to 18 months in jail on corruption charges.The controversial head of the GEA World football agency pays the price for his involvement in the match-fixing scandal which rocked Italian football in 2006.

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155 diggsA primary-school student in central China had to have 52 stitches in his face after he was beaten by his teacher for not doing his homework.

184 diggsThere are exciting new features in the pipeline for Cascading Style Sheets that will allow for an explosion of creativity in Web design. These features include CSS styling rules that are being released with the upcoming CSS3 specification.

110 diggsPop quizzes are frequent for students in Robert Proctor’s history of science classes. “How old is the earth?” “How many millions in a billion?” “Are you convinced that humans share a common ancestry with apes?”

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170 diggsThe news suggests the world's largest software maker may be giving up efforts to rehabilitate its often-maligned Vista operating system, which was released worldwide in January 2007.

146 diggsAngry protests turned to rioting last night in response to the January 1st shooting of an unarmed man at a subway station in California's Bay Area. Police made over 100 arrests, after cars were vandalized, store windows were smashed, and fires blazed out of control on the streets...

155 diggsTomorrow, the legislature of New York will again consider allowing mixed martial arts in the Empire State.

149 diggsI’ll be honest: I wasn’t too crazy about the scores to Christopher Nolan’s Batman films at first. I probably own more of composer Hans Zimmer’s albums (in CD form) than anyone else I know, and I’ve always admired Zimmer’s ability to weave in soaring themes in the midst of intense action happening on screen.

218 diggs"Palela Alderson" is a 26-year-old Italian who works in communications. She likes sports, skiing, shopping...and selling herself as an online escort in the virtual world of Second Life.

152 diggsSony is finally firing back at remarks about it lackluster sales compared to the Wii and Xbox 360. Sony's all-star statement from the release: "So as PS3 continues to evolve without the need for additional parts or expenses, expect the competition to continue peddling add-ons in an effort to keep up with the Jones'." Ouch...

175 diggsSen. Kit Bond (R-MO) announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection in 2010, giving Democrats a shot to pick up a seat in a state that has emerged as a major battleground. The announcement is a blow to the GOP. Four incumbent GOP senators may retire in 2010, a sign that next year could be another tough year for the weakened GOP.

189 diggsArizona State University’s Flexible Display Center & HP recently announced a prototype of a flexible lightweight computer screen that stands to revolutionize computers and electronic devices. Created in a similar roll-to-roll manufacturing process as thin-film pv, these new computer screens are printed onto plastic sheets - virtually indestructible

159 diggsConservatives are at it again. Obama just announced his bold American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan to put our economy back on the right track and rebuild America from the ground up, and they are already attacking, obstructing, and spreading lies. We can't sit back while history repeats itself. To fight back, here is the mythbusting you need.

133 diggsThis is another one of those cases where you say to yourself “what the hell are these guys spending so much time creating these major works with Legos?”I guess it’s not my place to ask why these guys never get laid. But it is my place to know that the sculptures they are creating are pretty interesting to look at.

231 diggsLove it or hate it, we all had our high school experiences – and lived to tell about it. Check out Movie Crunch’s list of the 25 Best High School Movies of All Time. Did we leave any of your favorites off the list?

148 diggsThe details of the torture that Bush authorized have been dribbling out over the years in books like Jane Mayer's excellent The Dark Side. But the most definitive official account was released by the Senate Armed Services Committee just before Christmas...

275 diggsRachel Maddow was on The Daily Show last night, and she said she doesn't own a TV, which is crazy, even perhaps Un-American. I mean, how does she fulfill her civic duty of casually flipping around looking for something to kill half-an-hour and then accidentally watching seven hours of a Brooke Knows Best marathon?

158 diggsEverybody's expending a lot of air guessing at what Obama's first 100 days will be like. But only Mad Magazine has the guts to speculate on his first 100 minutes, in this exclusive preview for Indecision.

194 diggsThe soaring level of violence in Mexico resulting from the drug wars there has led the United States to develop plans for a “surge” of civilian and perhaps even military law enforcement should the bloodshed spread across the border, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday.

251 diggsI–your faithful blogger—have actually worked on a pot farmer in Mendocino County (part of the Emerald Triangle) and the fantasy isn’t always the same as the reality. So here are 5 truths and fictions about working on a pot farm:

653 diggsHow about a look at a month of email spam? Almost as many words of spam as in War and Peace.

159 diggsTo kick off the new year we’re partnering with our friends at Revision3 for a Digg Meetup and Live Diggnation at the infamous Knitting Factory Hollywood next Wednesday, January 14th, in Los Angeles, CA. Hope to see some of you there! - Kevin

334 diggs"What might be called a modern unicorn has been produced by Dr. W. F. Dove, University of Maine biologist. From a day-old bull calf, Dr. Dove removed the two small knots of tissue which normally develop into horns. These horn buds he transplanted in the center of the bull’s forehead, thereby inducing the growth of a single massive horn."

366 diggs'I have yet to see any widespread nationwide coverage on the New Year's execution style murder of Oscar Grant by a Bay Area Rapid Transit - BART - police officer. Somebody told me that they saw 5 minutes of coverage on CNN last night. I would think they would syndicate it across all networks by now.'

261 diggsFast-food chain Burger King has created "Whopper Sacrifice," a Facebook app that will give you a coupon for a free hamburger if you delete 10 people from your friends list.

120 diggsThose awesome rag doll guys (in the animated film 9) may be able to defeat a whole army of killer robots. But now they're facing the most unlikely adversary — another movie, called Nine.

165 diggsMost people think of Google Maps in terms of finding a place or business, or getting directions from one point to another. Others use the satellite images and terrain mapping features. But there are tons of other uses out there for Google maps.

265 diggsArguing that Bernard L. Madoff’s bail should be revoked, prosecutors cited more evidence that he was hiding assets.

178 diggsThe tuner world's quest to modify every Nissan GT-R ever built continues as Zele International announces the introduction of their R35 GT-R ‘Complete Edition,' which comes in at an eye-watering, SpecV-crushing $205,000.

101 diggsFollowing in footsteps of Sudoku, Kakuro & other number-logic puzzles, Slitherlink is a group of popular loop-forming puzzles originated in Japan & played internationally under variety of names (from Slitherlink to Takegaki, Loopy, Fences, many others).

68 diggsConservative documentary filmmaker John Ziegler is determined to prove that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because of media bias, and that "the media assassination of [Sarah Palin], her character and family, was one of the greatest public injustices of our time.” Ziegler has now released clips of a January 5 interview with Palin.

310 diggsThe new-ness is underway, and Palm just debuted its latest handset, the Palm pre. It's a touchscreen phone with a trackball and a slide-out keyboard.

129 diggsBecause having a tattoo that says 2-14 or 3-13 just doesn't have the same ring to it. Goes to show you that if you do something stupid you are bound to get on the news as long as your timing is right.

119 diggsProgDVB offers a complete alternative for watching TV on the web. With this incredible desktop application you can instantly watch hundreds of channels, listen to the radio, and record high definition quality videos, all via satellite. With access to several hundred channels worldwide you’ll barely ever run out of something to watch.

270 diggsGrant Robertson from Download Squad has proposed to his girlfriend Christina Warren (TUAW and Download Squad) on TWITTER. That's right. On Twitter. Social networking has come a long way.

183 diggsIn the past week or so, some 400 earthquakes have added to the already precarious land at Yellowstone National Park. Although the area is the largest supervolcano in North America, the rumbling is a bit more than normal.

145 diggsWhen someone steals something from you in the UFC, the only appropriate response is unmitigated revenge in the form of a swift kick to the head.

288 diggsBoxee, a service which lets users play and view their music, videos and photos on a connected laptop, HDTV or Apple TV, has officially stepped out of private alpha and into the public eye. Users can now sign up for Boxee on the company’s website, as they claim “you are now free to be entertained.”

184 diggs"First impressions matter when you want to build a lasting trust," said study researcher Robert Lount of Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. "If you get off on the wrong foot, the relationship may never be completely right again. It's easier to rebuild trust after a breach if you already have a strong relationship."

326 diggsPresident-elect Barack Obama has asked Congress to stop the shut down on analog TV broadcasts, due on February 17. The main two reasons: "Inadequate funding" and problems with the converter box program. But there's more.

233 diggsChemists have created a group of synthetic enzymes that self-replicate, compete, and evolve like a natural ecosystem -- just minus the life (as we know it).

214 diggsThere are a lot of lies, misconceptions, half truths, and completely WRONG statements out there to make people think many different things about the anime industry. Thanks to your self labeled Weeaboo, Otaku, Fanboys, Moe Fans, whatever you want to call them, information tends to get passed on ear to ear, and much like a badly played phone game, th

374 diggsFor the first time anywhere, the "Watchmen" producers have their say on the lawsuit that threatens to derail the movie.

253 diggsOn top of the world, just below the more than 29,000-foot high peak of Mount Everest, a team of four British medical researchers braved the elements and took their own blood samples. What they found was staggering—their oxygen levels were the lowest ever recorded, well below levels that would normally prove lethal on the ground.

211 diggsMore than half of teens who use the social networking site MySpace have posted information about sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence, new research shows.

168 diggsAn increasing number of musicians are experimenting with giving away their music for free on BitTorrent. This trend has led to the formation of a new Netlabel, CXCR6, which specifically targets the BitTorrent community with new album releases. We got in touch with its founder about his motivation to promote free music.

110 diggsWe've already seen the iSight indicator light "disappear" behind the bezel of Apple's MacBook and iMac computers. A recently published patent application could make the iSight itself not only disappear, but move to the middle of the screen. MacBooks, iMacs, and even iPhones and iPod touches could take advantage of the new technology.

243 diggsSanDisk’s new SSDs offer 60GB for $150 and 120GB for $250 with five times the speed of 7200RPM HDDs.

180 diggsHandheld gaming wasn't always so luxurious. Tiger Electronics was once the king of LCD gaming crap, and here's 5 horrific examples why.

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145 diggsDo not take offense at atheism as a rejection of your favorite deity, it is a disbelief in all deities and what I hate is the anthropomorphic characters described by world religions and the acts carried out in their names.

199 diggsFor the role, Rourke spent seven months training everyday with an ex-Israeli cage fighter, stuffing his face with protein and occasionally making trips to the hospital for MRIs.

117 diggsIf you subscribe to the theory that a game is as big as its biggest star, then win or lose, this is Tim Tebow's night. The story lines — almost all of them, really — revolve around him. Here are 10 reasons Florida will win tonight.

174 diggsThe mother and brother of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face charges after they cut her open and removed her fetus without sedation, it has been reported.

230 diggsI'm glad you asked, because we have this handy list of franchises that simply refuse to go away.

166 diggsThe United Nations suspended all activities in the Gaza Strip Thursday, accusing Israeli soldiers of firing on a marked UN vehicle during a three-hour humanitarian cease-fire initiated by Israel.

73 diggsLinux is hitting the consumer product big time but while doing so, it's hiding many of its most hobbyist friendly features.

159 diggsWe'd like to think they made it worth it to lose everything.

168 diggsTons of photos of the Palm Pre from Engadget

209 diggsWherein I have the most popular video on youtube and I get ranked 6th in the most viewed because I'm not a partner (and yes, they had just done an update on the chart, so its not like it just hasn't adjusted yet, I've been #1 for nearly 24 hours now and between 6-12th)

168 diggsWhen Barack Obama takes office on January 20th, he'll not only be the most powerful man in the world, but also the most powerful gamer.

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115 diggsAmazing footage of Elvis Presley singing Yesterday by the Beatles at a rehearsal in 1970. What's amazing is that the King manages to make the tune his own while having a bit of fun while doing it.

121 diggsHere's a long preview of the Palm Pre, the phone that's making Palm actually worth your consideration again.

234 diggsThe Timothy Plan, warns for parents planning to get games for their kids with a list of the 30 "most offensive" games on the market.

143 diggsThe Associated Press has reported that assuming there is no complications when he resumes a full practice routine, Woods likely will make his 2009 debut at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz., during the last week in February.

194 diggsZDNet reports that the iPhone 3.0 firmware will support quad-core processors in an upcoming iPhone hardware revision. While Apple has not yet detailed iPhone 3.0 firmware, MacRumors has independently heard from a reliable source of this same multi-core support in the 3.0 firmware which should accompany the next iPhone.

98 diggsModern civilization may be the most advanced in history – but it could still be toppled by calamity like so many before. Here are some of the more likely dangers that might take us to the brink – or beyond.

181 diggsNASA said Thursday it has performed a test of a prototype super pressure balloon that could carry as much as a ton of research equipment to heights of 110,000 feet or more for up to 100 days. The balloon, which was launched on December 28, 2008, from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, is 7 million cubic feet and is said to be the largest single-cell

175 diggsPalm, which essentially invented the smartphone category, is a shadow of its former self. Sales have plunged and Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry have stolen market share.

232 diggsParis also said that she wasn't tempted to go down the same road as Lindsay Lohan, who is in a lesbian relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson, The Sun reported.

180 diggsLight graffiti, also known as light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera.

233 diggsAre you tired of setting New Year's resolutions only to find yourself faced with the same resolutions a year later? What we need is a different approach. We need a system of designing our lives to sustainably improve the quality of our daily experience.

458 diggsSome guy builds a home made water slide from the roof of his 2 story house with a 60 foot drop and a 16 foot jump... into a Kiddie pool!

147 diggsCould this be the first look at the teaser poster for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?" It's watermark though leads to a reputable eBay seller of posters and the tagline URL (www.revengeiscoming.com) redirects to Michael Bay's official website....

150 diggsThe gOS (”good OS”) project has issued an SP1 release of gOS 3.1 Gadgets. This latest gOS release implements numerous package updates, bug fixes, and configuration enhancements, and continues gOS’s strong dependence on Google’s web-based applications.

271 diggsIt happened to H. Beatty Chadwick who has been behind bars for nearly 14 years without being charged. Businessman Manuel Osete spent nearly three years in an Arizona jail without ever receiving a criminal charge. And investment manager Martin Armstrong faced a similar situation when he was held for more than six years in a Manhattan jail.

335 diggsBy now, we've seen everything we're going to see, and here is the cream of the crop, at least of products you'll hopefully be able to buy this year—here's the best of CES: Recession edition.

195 diggsAn effective palette of fonts not only makes a design attractive, but also contributes to the readability and usability of the content. In this collection, you’ll find a variety of sites that showcase creative and functional uses of typography.

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154 diggsA short film by Steve Smith.

129 diggsClimate models predict that the hottest seasons on record will become the norm by the end of the century--an outcome that bodes ill for feeding the world

101 diggsA funeral home might be a place for eternal rest, but police say an Arkansas man saw an opportunity to build a methamphetamine lab undisturbed by the living. There was just one problem - the funeral home was across the street from the sheriff's office.

173 diggsGoogle used its booth at Macworld this year to show off some of the things it was working on with Apple, particularly for the iPhone. But the coolest thing at their booth didn’t have much to do with Apple at all: A hacked Nintendo Wii Balance Board (from the game Wii Fit) used to control Google Earth.

243 diggsMono, an open source implementation of the .NET runtime, is being used to build games for the iPhone and Wii. Ars looks at how static compilation has made it possible for Mono applications to meet Apple's requirements for inclusion in the App Store.

224 diggsLogo design in today’s world is totally under rated. People do not understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business. This article outlines the ways in which you should NOT go about getting your logo designed… that is, if you are truly serious about business.

142 diggsBeards have had their moment, now it’s time for mustaches to get their 10 minutes of fame.

90 diggsClimate change has become the default scapegoat for nearly every extinction on Earth lately. But a new study lets climate off the hook for at least one dramatic event: The disappearance of the Neanderthals from Europe about 35,000 years ago.

127 diggsWeb 2.0 is pretty cool - so cool in fact that it's got its own buzzwords and lingo that not everybody knows.

342 diggsA new report by the research company has taken a look under the hood of both in-house and commercial e-mail services, and put some numbers on the per-user costs associated with a variety of options. The surprise result was not so much that Google's corporate services come out ahead, but rather how large a lead it has on every other option.

216 diggsA new e-mail that is circulating looks like it comes from CNN and links to a fake CNN Web page offering "graphic" video related to the Israel-Hamas conflict but instead hosts a Trojan that steals sensitive data....

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248 diggsThe Florida Gators have defeated the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS national championship game 24-14. With the win, Florida pretty much secures the top spot when the AP rankings come out.

339 diggsDiclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all.

247 diggsThe so-called morning-after pill is advertising on MTV.com. Emergency contraceptive Plan B has been controversial from the moment it was approved in 2006 as an over-the-counter drug available without a prescription to women 18 and older. Now, the brand's choice of ad placement is stoking debate about where --and at what age

327 diggsTim DeChristopher, the student who won over 22,000 acres of land at a Bureau of Land Management Auction, is on his way to purchasing the land, which was originally intended for sale to oil companies.

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135 diggsAt CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. PC World has been running evaluations of the forthcoming replacement to Microsoft's much-derided Vista for some time now, and we just couldn't wait to take the new version for a spin. Here's one editors take on the latest Windows 7 user experience

194 diggsUFO experts believe a flying saucer crashed into a wind turbine and that the incident could, at last, provide the evidence of other life forms they have been waiting for all their lives.

373 diggsExpansion of the International Space Station continues. Use the arrows below to follow the construction history of the ISS before the installation of Harmony, and see its planned growth over the next few years.

220 diggsAt first glance, the town of Edwardsville, Ala., with a population of 194 people, might raise a few eyebrows with its bid to receive $375 million from the economic stimulus package being assembled by Barack Obama and lawmakers in Congress.

294 diggsBy the time the United States leaves Iraq, the estimated cost of war will be more than $3 trillion

158 diggsGetting this list down to 25 was ridiculous. If this "Hall" can find room for Bobby Darin, The Dells, The Eagles, Billy Joel and The Mamas And The Papas, surely they can find a cubbyhole for the folks listed below...

128 diggsRare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals has been captured by scientists. "Despite a month's worth of trapping effort, they only ever caught a single individual." The Hispaniolan solenodon resembles an overgrown shrew, but can inject passing prey with a venom-loaded bite.

56 diggsTop snowboarders are getting ready to burn up the competition in the Swiss Alps.