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June 14 2009

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151 diggsMax payne has changed quite a bit since the last sequel back in 2003. The new issue of Game Informer has 10 pages of details on the hot upcoming sequel, check out the scans for more details.
142 diggsIn a huge setback, Ray Mercer walked out to the center of cage and dropped the “Maine-iac” with a thundering right hand that sent the 310-pound Sylvia crashing to the canvas. It took just 10 seconds.
52 diggsAlonzo Mourning, all 6-foot, 10-inches of him, returned Wednesday to Tallahassee to watch Gov. Charlie Crist sign into law a kidney transplant bill named for the former Miami Heat star. Mourning, himself a kidney transplant recipient, had visited the Florida Capitol in April to seek support from Crist and lawmakers for the bill.
106 diggsBusiness in the front, party in the rear - the mullet is a hairstyle that is seen the world over.
251 diggsYou’ve designed your site but you’re having a little trouble turning your design PSD into a coded layout. Here i’ve listed 20+ Best Tutorials to convert Psd to Html/CSS.These tutorial should help you learn how to find the best way to code it.
146 diggsBut - empathy being the strong suit of women - I am feeling bad for the middle-class white males these days. They can't seem to catch a break, either in Connecticut firehouses or Supreme Court short lists.
121 diggsWe live in a world surrounded by Times New Roman, Arial and Helvetica, typefaces so functional that they have long since become boring. In this article, you will find very creative fonts that surely push the limits of uniqueness.
259 diggsA critical election yields disputed results, and bloody consequences.
154 diggsLook carefully at the lid to your coffee cup or the handle of your disposable razor. A recent ruling on an obscure, century-old statute has opened the door for people familiar with the finer points of patent law to sue companies that stamp their products with expired patent numbers.
100 diggsIn what a U.S. military official calls an "inadvertent encounter," a Chinese submarine hit an underwater sonar array being towed by the destroyer USS John McCain on Thursday.The USS John S. McCain, left, anchored at the port of Inchon 40 km west of Seoul, Korea in March 2004.The array was damaged, but the sub and the ship did not collide
78 diggsJust because a film’s lead gets all the screen-time and budget, it doesn’t mean they automatically get to bag all the thunder; some lesser-know actors just have that knack of waltzing in from the sidelines and stealing the scene from right under the star’s nose.
74 diggsAlaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local bird population. After dropping poison onto...
124 diggsNature is disgusting, but it also gives rise to medical breakthroughs that benefit mankind. Nauseating, repulsive breakthroughs.
100 diggsThere is perhaps nothing that Star Trek content creators fear more than the collective power of Trekkie nerd rage when the universe's canon is altered. Cryptic Studios is well aware of this and wants to clarify where Star Trek Online falls in the IP's timeline, and they frame this in reference to the latest (and eleventh) film and the deviation fro
105 diggsA 22-year-old woman collapsed and died after being injected with an experimental anti-aging drug by her sister.
177 diggsAmazing video of Iranians rioting in the streets after the election. Don't miss this!
90 diggsA beautiful Desktop Wallpaper for CSS Developers.
73 diggsNext year, Intel plans to introduce a new version of Atom thatis even more power efficient than the one we have today. CalledMoorestown, this upcoming chip will begin targeting the smartphonemarket. In 2011, Intel plans to introduce an even smaller and lesspower hungry version of the chip known as Medfield.
153 diggsA new technique for detecting signs of life on distant planets by analysing light could soon lead astronomers to extra-terrestrial life.
143 diggsMicrosoft's plan to dump Internet Explorer (IE) from Windows 7 for the European market is a move to discredit antitrust regulators by tying its proposal to a failed enforcement effort from 2005, a noted antitrust expert said today. Microsoft Windows internet explorer legal"It's sort of a puckish thing to do, when you think about it," said William
85 diggsReligiously devout Jews barred by rabbis from surfing the Internet may now "Koogle" it on a new "kosher" search engine.
168 diggsOld school meets Web 2.0 with the C64 Twitter client.
133 diggsEach week, “Live for the Moment”… will send a different person with a terminal disease diagnosis on an uplifting adventure related to an unfulfilled wish, like and exotic trip or hoped-for reunion. Having shot the pilot episode earlier this year, starring a man with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Probst says, “It’s the best thing I’ve ever been a part of."
68 diggsSome people use Twitter to organize street protests in Tehran. Some people use it to share their daily thoughts and observation. But it is increasingly becoming clear that one of the most common ways people use Twitter is as a social information filter and link distributor.
101 diggsGet a sneak peek at some of the possibilities in Star Trek Onlines alien creator! Play as one of the races you know and love from the Star Trek Universe, or create an alien that no one has seen before! There are literally thousands of combinations available in the alien creator, which will offer an unprecedented level of customization options.
109 diggsPing-Pong In China Is Serious Business
135 diggsIn January 2002, then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales sent President Bush a memo saying that denying Geneva Conventions protections to al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners it “substantially reduces the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act” and “provide a solid defense to any future prosecution.”
326 diggsA federal judge says that a convicted terrorist can sue a former Bush administration lawyer for drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture
203 diggs"Firefox 3.5 will be able to smoothly resize videos on the fly within the page. The interesting part, though, is that these videos are in OGG format - in other words, entirely open"
99 diggsCNN's Christiane Amanpour asks Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the status of his rival, Mir Hossein Moussavi.
134 diggsIf you’ve seen The Wrestler, you’re probably aware that the world of professional wrestling is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Well, truth is always stranger than fiction, and the following five real tales of grappling depravity would make Mickey Rourke pass out in his cheerios. It’s a dirty world in the squared circle – read on and enjoy.
131 diggsHollywood Reporter: The left-leaning Bill Maher is tired of Obama the TV star and has some 'new rules' for the President. Does Maher go too far or is he hitting the vein?
182 diggsThe man was out with two others that day and four deer were found dead along the snowmobile trail. A fifth had to be euthanized.
131 diggsEurope's new billion-euro Herschel space observatory, launched in May, has achieved a critical milestone. The telescope has opened the hatch that has been protecting its sensitive instruments from contamination.
316 diggsSan Fransisco has 8,000 city/county employees making $100,000 a year?
169 diggsIn the movie "Moon," an astronaut (Sam Rockwell) oversees a robotic mining operation that digs up lunar helium-3, a key ingredient for Earth's nuclear fusion fuel. It's a lonely job, and a great premise for a science-fiction saga, but is mining helium-3 on the moon a realistic enterprise? What other business opportunities could the moon offer?
143 diggsIf you've got a kid with ADHD, you've probably spent countless hours pleading with him to sit still. Children with ADHD fidget in order to focus. Teachers who require them to stay still are in effect forcing them to not think.
208 diggsCriminals who murder, torture and grift their way through their golden years.
112 diggsChefs are replacing the luxury signifiers of haute cuisine with more humble ingredients
203 diggsA look from many different channels in the Houston area as the switch went down
79 diggsCIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."
120 diggsMost of us have, at one point or another, found ourselves staring at the spinning beachball of death and wished our Mac was just that little bit more powerful.
162 diggsCIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."
104 diggs" . . . This photograph of my friend Kenichi Ode climbing the strenuous vertical route was taken in October [2008] . . ." Photographer: Lukasz Warzecha
84 diggsCraig Ferguson, who has quietly been gaining popularity mocks NBC declaring Conan "The New King of Late Night" After all, it's just words...
111 diggsIf Marvel really wants to make four movies a year, then they're going to have to dig deep into their toybox to find enough characters to fill them. Luckily, we're here to help out with some suggestions.
104 diggsAstronomers believe they may have discovered the first planet ever detected in another galaxy.
72 diggsFour little words make living in dorms so much more enjoyable – “I dare you to.”
203 diggsA prospective corporate client was told that booking Miss Boyle, 48, who was second in the competition behind dance group Diversity, for just three songs lasting about four minutes each would cost a staggering £115,000.
98 diggsAre We Alone? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer discusses the possibility of life in the universe, and how to set-up your computer to possibly detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.
194 diggsMicrosoft is donating the equivalent of eight meals to the Feeding America Network for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8.
252 diggsMan oh man how time flies.
126 diggsNew Super Mario Brothers Wii will allow novice players to skip challenging levels.
217 diggsFollowing a request from the entertainment industries, a French court has ordered the P2P news site Numerama to cover the cases of 27 convicted file-sharers. For their efforts the site receives 10,000 euros which they promise to spend wisely by supporting a pro file-sharing cause.
165 diggsOK, even I think this one's gross. The first time I've seen anything with bacon that didn't appeal to me, I think. A pizza consisting of Thousand Island dressing as the sauce, topped with a family size bag of chicken fingers, a container of bacon bits all smothered in sliced mozzarella cheese.Blerg.
38 diggsIn its first dry run before World Cup 2010, South Africa says it is fully prepared to host the games.
231 diggs"Severe Weather" sign on truck says it all. Beautiful pic, enlargeable, wallpaper.
121 diggsSo you’re an Oscar winner. You’ve also directed two (crappy) franchise movies that have grossed billions worldwide. What’s your next move? Turning a long forgotten Hasbro toy into a cheesy family film, of course!
70 diggsUnlike the government's temporary ownership stake in automakers and major financial companies, the regulatory changes set to be announced Wednesday are designed to be permanent. They could result in a major realignment of power and authority among government agencies that set the rules for banking, lending and investing.
51 diggsA new analysis of the current swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus suggests that transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the existing outbreak.
68 diggsA group of enviro-activists dressed for Halloween dropped to the concrete to rather dramatically mark the end of analog television.
159 diggsSatellite broadcasts jammed; TV reporters warned about reporting ‘chaos’ - Officials take steps to control the flow of information from independent news sources as protests rage for a second day.
194 diggsI went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what I imagine fascism to have been all about. Lots of splotchy boys who can't get a date are given guns and told they're special.
188 diggsHere are some videos of the Faith No More Reunion show at Brixton Academy. All these videos make up almost the entire set list from the show. Faith No More sound amazing still, the quality isnt perfect but it is not too bad.
88 diggsComputer games have been inching their way into the medical world over the last few years and though your local hospital may not become a mini-arcade, experts say patients can expect to see more gaming in medical settings in the years to come, especially brain games.
92 diggsNow this is the hack of the weekend or the hoax of the weekend. Some intrepid hackers have run what appears to be iPhone OS 2.x on a “multi-touch” monitor with accelerometer support.
250 diggsA tiny bacterium has been coaxed back to life after spending 120,000 years buried three kilometres deep in the Greenland ice sheet.
128 diggsGlobal study finds dramatic drops in marine life over the centuries, but it also finds hope that some depleted populations can recover.
90 diggsIn making this list, we wanted to focus on people who were at one time very popular and who then sort of disappeared from view or had their work scaled back. And of course, we also chose people who we’d want to come back – Patrick Renna can stay gone.
163 diggsStudents from five classes at the school had assembled to watch a Disney Channel movie starring the Jonas Brothers. Instead the students, some as young as 5-years-old, were exposed to 45-seconds of sex acts.
122 diggsLike people, coughs come in all shapes and sizes. They can be deep or shallow, long or short, or forced or stifled. Scientists who study the ways we cough and sneeze are shedding light on how viruses like influenza spread. [With swine flu now declared pandemic, health officials say the best ways to prevent the spread of the virus is to wash your
197 diggsI don't get it...
129 diggsLast week, Opera released the first beta of Opera 10 with a visual refresh and a number of enhancements and new features. The question is, can Opera make a dent in the desktop or is Opera on the desktop just a Quixotic effort in the face of Firefox and Internet Explorer?
209 diggsMozilla said the latest version of its Firefox browser 3.0.11 was downloaded 150 million times during the first 24 hours it was made available.
235 diggsKobe Bryant finally gets his first ring without Shaq as the Magic coast past the Lakers to win the NBA Finals, 4-1.
93 diggsNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), slated for launch this week, will map the moon's surface from orbit with unprecedented detail, capable even of imaging the tracks that lunar rovers left behind.
194 diggsUP was good, in that whole animated-for-kids-but-ill-still-watch-it-cause-some-girl-i-like-wants-me-to-go-with-her kinda way. I would have preferred to see UP IRL and it looks like I just might be able to soon enough!
325 diggsWASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the...
173 diggsApple and Hollywood are a bit like Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins. They're from different worlds, they never expected to wind up together, and they frequently infuriate one another.
68 diggsI'm going out on a limb and picking this as my favorite comedy of 2009. The only thing I can forsee dethroning it would be FUNNY PEOPLE. It's original, it's funny, it has depth. The cast is uniformly funny, even if some characters could use some work. It was really a breath of fresh air, and a Mike Judge work I'd place on par with OFFICE SPACE.
132 diggsGood sex is satisfying. Bad sex is not. Same goes for sex scenes...
80 diggsForward-thinking companies, universities and municipalities are finding creative ways to run on renewable power
90 diggsJust another great example of the racism in the GOP
67 diggsElement 112 was discovered more than a decade ago. Why wasn't it given a place on the periodic table until now?
117 diggsAfter one of the best shows in years, IGN picks the greatest games of the bunch.
126 diggsRead the points, see the movie, and decide for yourself later this month. I'm seeing it next week and of course, if I hate it, I won't hold back in my review. But if I like it, you can bet your ass I'll recommend it.
135 diggsWe're going to offer up a look at what we feel are the most revolutionary products of the miniaturized transistor age – those benchmark tech-related hardware goods that have helped shape the world in which we live today. One prerequisite: Each item must have been available to the average consumer via regular retail channels.
105 diggsAustralians are now the world's undisputed beer-swilling kings - with even the Irish failing to keep the pace of our outback booze hounds. A report has shown Northern Territorians drink 15 litres of pure alcohol each year - three times the global average.
132 diggsActivision has been busy lately with a mysterious survey that will point the direction of where COD 4 will go. Also, Activision's head cheese Bobby Kotick hinted in putting a MMO element into the game.
232 diggsTo boldly go where no man has gone before, you'd need a really good starship - and to launch Star Trek, the pop culture phenomenon that entertained and inspired millions, you'd need a pretty darned good one! And that is exactly what the United Space Starship Enterprise delivered.