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92 diggsIF YOU like potatoes, chances are you will one day owe some measure of thanks to the Quechua Indians of Peru. That's because they will be making sure that potatoes continue to be available whatever the vagaries of future climate change. Importantly, the move could provide valuable options should the world find itself in another food crisis.

197 diggsLast week, Microsoft's Shane Kim told us that the launch of the 360's motion-controlled camera system - Project Natal - would be as big as a console launch. Maybe he was onto something with that. Because 1UP are reporting a rumour that while Natal will be released next year for existing 360 consoles, it will also be released next year as a...

102 diggsMicrosoft has endured a lot of flack over the past few years because of the various failures of Vista. At the same time, however, one of its operating systems has been quietly scooping up a lot of praise, thanks to its seamless interface, speed of interaction and general suitability for purpose.

128 diggsA nude painting of Mona Lisa has surfaced that looks much like the original, sparking debate over just how far Leonardo Da Vinci took his iconic painting.

96 diggsFacebook has just hired Greg Badros, a Google Senior Director of Engineering, we've learned. Badros joined Google in early 2003 and has worked ...

167 diggsIf it can get started, the California high-speed train would almost certainly be the most expensive single infrastructure project in United States history. And if it is completed, the train will go from L.A. to San Francisco in just under 2 hours 40 minutes and from L.A. to Sacramento in about 2 hours 17 minutes.

89 diggsThere are countless tools for improving your pictures, storing them, sharing them and even turning them into works of art. Here's some ideas for starters....

145 diggsPerhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul Revere was a Civil War casualty.

132 diggsThe company is reportedly trialling free anti-virus software internally and said the beta version would be released "soon".

178 diggsCongress loves Big Tobacco enough to regulate it... To sum up, this bill is largely an exercise in political and financial self-interest masquerading as public virtue. Another day at the Washington office.

358 diggsTattoos are reverse time machines: with time travel you can send a warning back to your younger self, with tattoos you send a mistake forward to your older self.

50 diggsA federal judge has ruled that John Yoo, who wrote memorandums justifying harsh interrogation techniques, will have to answer in court to accusations that his work led to a prisoner’s being tortured.

151 diggsThree judges are currently reviewing the judge that handled the Pirate Bay trial to discover if he was biased or not. No decision has yet been made but the New York Times and several other publications report inaccuracies and plain wrongs that claim otherwise. Time to get the facts straight.

146 diggsThese two young tortoises have been fitted with plaster casts to help repair their shells after they were attacked by a dog.

76 diggsWe look at Nani, Karim Benzema and Frank Ribery and a few maybe more unlikely names and figure out who’ll be the right man instead of the new most expensive soccer player in the world. Can he even be replaced with just one player?

41 diggsA player and coach get into a fight and demonstrate not only the most pathetic headbutt I have ever seen but also a sad acting job.

158 diggsSecurity officials and riot police engaged in violent clashes with demonstrators in Tehran today in what one reporter called an "unprecedented scene" in Iran in recent years.

123 diggsA killer acting alone rarely tells anyone what he's planning, let alone when or how. That makes it hard for authorities to determine who is prepared to commit a criminal act in furtherance of a perceived cause. "It could be anyone. It could be the guy next door, living in the basement of his mother's place, on the Internet just building himself up

214 diggsA defiant North Korea on Saturday vowed to build more nuclear bombs and to start enriching uranium for a new weapons programme after the UN Security Council imposed sanctions over last month's nuclear test. The North, describing Friday's sanctions resolution as a "vile product" of a US-inspired campaign, said it would never abandon nuclear weapons

103 diggsVideo clips of the Top 10 amateur dunks from the various cities having hosted the slam dunk showdowns. These amateurs are throwing down way better dunks than the NBA players do in the dunk contest at all-star break.

154 diggsThe US carrier's internal sales system is asking staff to tell customers that any pre-orders made on Saturday the 13th or later won't ship on launch and instead will reach retail locations between 7 and 14 days after the order is made, overshooting the release date.

169 diggsMany are doubtful that another Slayer-centered movie without any of the TV show’s characters or plot developments could work. In a battle between the TV and movie versions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who would come out victorious and who would be left in vampire dust?

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107 diggsAfter whinging loudly about not having access to the Google Wave preview, Santa GOOG dropped me an invite. Last night I held a Wave Q&A on Twitter; here are the results, complete with screenshots.

69 diggsAccording to the Daily Kos, Iran's opposition leader has been placed under house arrest as rioting is becoming out of control.

112 diggsTwo state legislators are separately calling for the removal of the judge who oversaw the controversial plea agreement that gave David Earls just one year in jail,instead of 20.

154 diggsAwesome set of 1700+ long exposures and other night photography.

129 diggsNearly 700,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts that occurred Friday.

219 diggsThat's one way to get the job done :)

170 diggsHere's a glimpse from Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder of life with the U.S. Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

159 diggsWord of mouth has the Vegas-set comedy on a torrid pace, capturing first place in it's 2nd week of release at B.O. despite stiff competition from Pixar's "UP" and "The Taking of Pelham 123"

249 diggsAs you no doubt heard last night, the whole Facebook vanity URL grab thing was big. Within seven minutes of the service being available last night, 345,000 users grabbed one. Within 15 minutes, over a half million had, Facebook spokesperson Larry Yu told Bloomberg. But who got the best one?

154 diggsMan Bear Pig in Left 4 Dead 2?... Sure! Why not!

130 diggsI generally have lots of windows left open on my desktop whenever I am working. Call me lazy for not closing the unused ones, or call me overworked.

105 diggsGreat themes for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty jackalope, are very nice and the installation quit easy , just add the repository and install the them by using the command apt-get install

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74 diggsA group trying to extend on Tesla's initial attempts to transmit electricity without wires shows some of their current efforts.

145 diggsCool collection of motel signs around the U.S.

157 diggsThe myriad problems at DHS means that the United States is no safer in many areas than it was before 9/11.

193 diggsIs the Twitpocalypse nigh? Is the end of Facebook right around the corner? And if so, how on earth are you going to fill eight hours a day at work?

157 diggsLast night, we were live at Facebook headquarters when they launched Facebook usernames to the public. The numbers were astounding, and so was the celebration..................

112 diggsAJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way.

149 diggsMySpace founders have been pushed aside and there is speculation layoffs are coming. As Facebook and Twitter watch what's happening at MySpace, they should be worried and heed the warning of potential problems to come. Social-networking sites grow like weeds and, well, die like weeds too.

130 diggsApple started experimenting with using custom lithium polymer batteries instead of the industry standard lithium ion. Lithium polymer cells are rectangular so there’s no wasted space. Not only does this make the batteries more compact, but it also gives you greater capacity since you’re using all available chassis volume for the battery.

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101 diggsMicroblogging has become a very popular way for people to share news and information or even live-blog in real time, but if you have ever tried to search through services like Twitter using only Google, the Twitter native search or any number of other services, you know how difficult it can be to find exactly what you're after.

134 diggsA disgruntled artist (or maybe an international coalition) has set up a clone Pirate Bay site selling anti-Pirate Bay T-shirts. While it looks like The Pirate Bay, the site is much less useful than the original and doesn’t have any torrents. What it does have though, is a sense of fun, humor and irony - all topped off with a truckload of fail.

70 diggsThis just goes to show that the idea that every person in the world has a twin out there also applies to furry things… well, sort of…

155 diggsGPS coordinates led them to that address and the house matched the description they had. A terrible mistake resulted in a house that Byrd’s father built himself in 1950 and still held family heirlooms being completely leveled.

169 diggsAn inspiring showcase of the beautiful typography of rare and original vintage sings.

178 diggsAlan Colmes (former co-host of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes) makes a great a catch regarding the current feud between David Letterman & Governor Sarah Palin. While Palin has been blasting Letterman all over the airwaves for joking about Yankees star Alex Rodriguez "knocking up" her daughter, Jay Leno told an extremely similar joke ...

97 diggsA closer look at the fine print on sexual health boxes.

207 diggsHira Punjabi "photographed this rare behavior of an elephant killing a monitor lizard in Corbett National Park, India."

161 diggsThe genteel debate in right-leaning intellectual circles about the conservative movement’s future will be buried by history if these insistent alarms are met with silence.

174 diggsLaser Cat shall not be constrained by your pathetic flimsy doors. PIC

228 diggsGod bless Joan Walsh. She finally did what I thought no one in the media was capable of doing: She shoved Bill O'Reilly's vicious words back in his face. Or more correctly, she smacked him with the evil consequences of his reckless & irresponsible rhetoric, manifested in the case of Jim David Adkisson, the Knoxville shooter he inspired.

177 diggs". . . Early one morning," writes photographer Harold Ables, "I walked the hotel [Mena House Oberoi Hotel, Egypt] grounds with my camera in hand and was lucky enough to spot this Least Weasel raiding the snack shop adjacent to the hotel swimming pool. It was apparently delivering food to its offspring. Each trip required about 15 minutes. . . ."

69 diggsThe Windy City is one of America's sports meccas: home to the Bears and the Bulls, the Sox and the Cubs, and, Chicagoans are only recently willing to admit, the Blackhawks. But can it become Surf City, U.S.A.?

108 diggsThis year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won. “We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle told me.

471 diggsA 12-year-old boy’s lung was punctured when a fellow sixth-grader stabbed him after school Wednesday afternoon. The stabbing occurred after the victim was told the other boy, who is 13, had inappropriately touched a female friend of the victim. The victim confronted the older boy about the incident and told him not to touch the girl again.

87 diggsThe cult known as the Church of Scientology has made many victims over the past years and perhaps even more enemies. Most notable are the attempts of Project Chanology that educated the public about the wrongdoings of the self proclaimed religion.

140 diggsMock not. As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter survived. With some remarkable results. Those rooftop chants that were becoming deafening in Tehran? A few hours ago, this concept of resistance was spread by a twitter message.

81 diggsDear Iranian People, Mousavi has not left you alone, he has been put under house arrest by Ministry of Intelligence

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201 diggsThe president of Iran's own election monitoring commission has declared the result invalid and called for a do-over.

257 diggsn00b asks if it's possible to download Facebook so he can use it on an airplane with no Internet connection. Hilarity ensues.

285 diggsIf the rumors are to be believed G.I. Joe the scored the lowest test screening score ever from an audience in the history of Paramount.

394 diggsHow many people know the various rules of Fight Club? I suspect most of you fall in line with this graph.

414 diggsWhile a massive uprising happens in Iran in the wake of a nakedly stolen election, CNN MSNBC and FOX all remain virtually silent.Here's an amazing report out from the BBC if you want to see what real journalism looks like:

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104 diggsLast Sunday, I was lurking at the local Apple store, poking at laptops and feeling a mild bit of concern for my fellow shoppers.

110 diggsMetal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is, undoubtedly, one of the best looking games of this generation, however, it seems that the upcoming Metal Gear title Metal Gear Solid: Rising won’t be utilizing the Metal Gear Solid 4 engine.

98 diggs The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas. But in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras, penetrate much of the dust revealing the stars of the crowded galactic center region. [...]

118 diggsControversy about the judiciary's proper role is again at a boil because of a Supreme Court vacancy, and conservatives are warning against "judicial activism." But the Chrysler and GM bailouts and bankruptcies are reasons for conservatives to rethink the usefulness of that phrase and to make some distinctions.

125 diggsVideo Security tape vindicates brothers who were falsely accused of dealing coke. Turns out the NYPD police seem to make a lot of things up when they do undercover drug busts.

86 diggs...and we're going for it again in 2010~2011.

82 diggsTwitter users were posting “#CNNfail” on thousands of tweets Saturday night saying that their coverage of important news like the Iranian elections were downplayed by the cable network.

156 diggsThey say that your bedroom says a lot about you as it is the place where all your belongings are kept, where you can shut yourself away from the rest of the world and be your true self…whatever that may be!

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