121 diggsWorking with one hand.

149 diggsNASA postponed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour early Wednesday because of a liquid hydrogen leak. It is the same type of leak that caused the postponement of an earlier launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

79 diggsTalk about a recession double whammy. It's bad enough that you've been working harder with less prospect of getting a raise. Now it feels as if you can't even afford to get sick.

285 diggs'Shopped...Pixels.

68 diggsOn May 13, Beijing lawyer Li Chunfu went to the southwestern city of Chongqing with a colleague to meet with the family of a man who died in a labor camp. While meeting with the family, Li and lawyer Zhang Kai were detained by police. Li was chained to a chair and punched, while Zhang, also roughed up during their arrest, was locked in a cage.

386 diggsWhat if you had the photoshop skills and the balls to walk into your boss's office and give him photographic evidence of why you were late for work.

223 diggsWhy Obama isn't showing more outrage about the Iranian election... The U.S. position can't be explained in sound bites, and Obama doesn't want to talk, anyway.

159 diggsDemocrats have spent years arguing that corporate tax rates don't matter to U.S. competitiveness. But all of a sudden one of their favorite arguments for government-run health care has become . . . U.S. corporate competitiveness. Political conversions on this scale could use a little scrutiny.

140 diggsAbout 10 minutes into Joe Buck's interview with Brett Favre, the quarterback began to speculate on his prospects with the Minnesota Vikings. "We should be pretty good," he said. We. Hold up. We? In that moment, Favre gave himself up. For all his down-home, "aw-shucks" charm, the once-beloved quarterback came across as something of a schemer.

100 diggsPoliticians have realized that in the internet age, a good conspiracy theory can work wonders. So why not just start one? You know, like ...

98 diggsProve you're human

104 diggsThen 8-Year-Old Shane Kelly hits the ramps at Rye Airfield and practices his 360’s and Backflips into the foam pit.

183 diggsA Swiss company with major operations in West Chester, Pa., illegally tested its bone cement on about 200 people, three of whom died, according to a 52-count indictment issued Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia.

217 diggsYour 40-page term paper is 20 pages short and due today. Would you pay $3.95 -- plus your self-respect -- for more time? The operator of Corrupted-Files.com says he's taking orders daily. The corrupted (unreadable) files are submitted in the hope a professor won't discover "the problem" for a few days, by which time the real paper should be done.

312 diggs"The Lam/Suen family was allegedly using click fraud to make more money for their site WoWMine.com—mainly by clicking competitors' ads until their competitors' ad budgets were exhausted. Thus, Microsoft is suing them for $750,000."

67 diggsOur ancestors used to drill holes in the skull to expel demons – now the technique is making a comeback as a cure for dementia.

129 diggsImagine stepping into an elevator and looking through a viewport that reveals your ascension to heaven or—if youre on your way to the street—your descent to hell (appropriately enough).

133 diggsIf you have a purpose in life — lofty or not — you’ll live longer, a new study shows.It doesn’t seem to matter much what the purpose is, or whether the purpose involves a goal that’s ambitious or modest.The study found that people who reported a greater level of purpose in life were substantially less likely to die over the follow-up period.

424 diggsThe man who leaked the real election results from the Interior Ministry - the ones showing Ahmadinejad coming third - was killed in a suspicious car accident, according to unconfirmed reports.

74 diggsI am not a scientist of any sort. I don't know how or why certain phobia's develop in people so I am not going to sit here and try to speculate why certain people are scared of things that other people laugh at. I just know that seeing fear in other peoples eyes can be a hysterical thing.

241 diggsThis frightening image of crater-like hole in the middle of a towpath makes Britain's pot holes pale into insignificance. Thankfully, it is just a three dimensional drawing of a canyon, all in the name of pavement art... and to make careless cyclists slow down.

73 diggsOur brains get a first impression of people's overriding social signals after seeing their faces for only 100 milliseconds (0.1 seconds). Whether this impression is correct, however, is another question. Now an international group of experts has carried out an in-depth study into how we process emotional expressions.

71 diggsThe Pre, Palm's first device to run the brand new webOS mobile operating system, just hit the U.S. market, but application developers are already working studiously away on Pre apps to populate the company's equally new app store, the Pre "App Catalog."

86 diggs“Halo: Reach” revolves around the events detailed in the 2001 novel, “Halo: The Fall of Reach.” It’s a prequel to the main “Halo” storyline (again, alluded to in the trailer). The book’s protagonist was a younger Master Chief, who, along with a squad of SPARTAN soldiers, tried to defend the planet from the first Covenant invasion.

109 diggsQuantum cryptography has been a Holy Grail for security researchers since the idea was proposed, the promise of a new standard in absolutely unbreakable communications. But it's a new standard in the Microsoft sense: "Use our brilliant new system, because we're making sure the old one doesn't work anymore."

198 diggsMassive storms hit Britain, mainland Europe, the US and Asia.

86 diggsAfter several victories in Danish courts, the entertainment industry is now trying to get The Pirate Bay blocked in Norway. The country’s largest Internet provider ‘Telenor’ is now being dragged to court by IFPI, after it refused an earlier request to disable customer access to the world’s most prominent tracker.

167 diggsI’ve been giving a lot of thought lately to what brings out most geeks’ inner Klingons. Last week, I came up with a list of what I called the “Top Ten Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument,” and I got lots of good suggestions from geeks everywhere, so I thought there was room for a followup.

152 diggsThe Einstein of the fish world may be the nine-spined stickleback, suggests new research that determined this common European fish possesses an unusually sophisticated capacity for learning not yet documented in any other animal, aside from humans.

120 diggsMembers of the public are being stopped and searched under controversial anti-terror laws to racially balance the overall official figures, the Government's watchdog over the issue said today. Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC, has said there was evidence that people are being stopped by police to produce a racial balance for the official statistics.

150 diggsCrazy cat attacks Rottweiler and its owner on the street.

80 diggsAs summer thunderstorms loom across the U.S., MNN sheds some light on lightning -- one of the deadliest and least-understood weather events on Earth.

88 diggsIn a press release following the defeat of their “three-strikes” plan to disconnect accused file-sharers from the Internet, French Culture Minister Christine Albanel said that instead of disconnecting users, they will “now solely be in charge of the preventive and educational component of the fight against piracy.”

69 diggsIs the medic going to need a stretcher too? Even the announcer can't stop laughing.

219 diggsAlthough the 21st century is still young, many of its events have changed the world and defined a generation. Worldwide news sources feed us information about disasters, social ills, and remarkable figures, yet it is often the street artists, and the youth with spray paint and markers who offer us more emotive, artistic interpretations of events.

83 diggsAndrea Peyser hears a few jokes about white people, then writes an op-ed declaring a race-war. But somehow the same logic doesn't apply when a New York State GOP staffer sends a racist image of President Obama, Michelle Obama is compared to a gorilla or a New York Post cartoon depicts President Obama as a dead chimpanzee.

241 diggsWe've buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet and if you're the first one to find it, you get to keep it. If you want a serious shot at the ten grand, upgrade your browser to Windows Internet Explorer now. Then follow @tengrand_IE8 on Twitter for daily clues that point you to the buried loot!

150 diggsGovernment efforts to curb climate change could soon spur an oil crisis more severe than those already experienced, the head of ConocoPhillips said. "We're very concerned that if we don't keep the supply up we're going to see another crisis." We're not against alternatives and renewables. But to say we want to get off fossil fuels is unrealistic.

212 diggsWhenever you got into gaming, we're sure you were impressed by it at the time. It can be tough to remember, but over the last 30 years, we've moved from simple shapes floating around black screens pretending to be spaceships, all the way through simple sprites, full-screen cartoons, full-motion video and early experiments in 3D...

177 diggs After seeing precisely bugger all of the game at E3, Blizzard's released a batch of new Diablo III screenshots for us to gawk at... and dream dreams. There's still no release date for the long-awaited three-quel, though with StarCraft II supposedly arriving first - and that only going into beta this summer (maybe) - a 2010 release for Diablo ...

225 diggsThe Watchmen come face to face with their greatest opponent: nudity.

155 diggsIn a new craze sweeping the world, iPhone and iPod Touch users are producing extraordinary 'paintings' on their Apple devices. All the images were created using an application called Brushes and 'painted' freehand using fingers and thumbs

138 diggsMore than 40,000 Web sites have been hit by a mass-compromise attack dubbed Nine Ball that injects malware into pages and redirects victims to a site that will then try to download Trojans and keylogger code, Websense said today.

217 diggsWhen picking your recruits for high class reunion officers probably makes sense to do a little homework first. Pretty funny email exchange.

149 diggsChristoph Rehage walked 4646km from China to Germany and pictured himself every day for one year.You will see in the video that he grew a “mighty long beard” throughout that time.

308 diggsIf you have any doubt that CNN is on the cutting edge of news gathering, look no further than their persistent use of Twitter and Facebook. It mst mak Waltr conkite so jealoos, u guyz. he probs lik ZOMG!

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178 diggshe trick to how they're getting the jailbreak hasn't been revealed yet for fear of Apple making a fix at the eleventh hour, but if everything goes according to plan, the new hacking software should be out Friday in time for the iPhone 3G S

92 diggsCBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports that Iranian authorities appear to have successfully blocked all access to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter Wednesday morning. Access had been intermittent since the election.

213 diggsGrilled chicken competitor El Pollo Loco is launching a new ad campaign in which they call out KFC for using "beef powder" and "rendered beef fat" in their new grilled chicken, says the LA Times. "The use of beef ingredients in grilled chicken just seems wrong to me," said Steve Carley, CEO of El Pollo Loco.

144 diggsSneak peek at the Air Force roadmap to better airborne drones — flying multi-missile hitmen, floating multi-target guidance systems, flapping suicide bombers — and how they can zero in on Al Qaeda without costing civilian casualties, or costing Hillary her job.

96 diggsThis week, Zero Punctuation shares some thoughts on games hyped at e3 2009.

151 diggsFrom creepy music to the infamous "I'll be right back", these horror movie clichés just won't go away.

179 diggsSmugglers tried to pass more than a ton of cocaine off as a preservative for 20 shark carcasses. But the Mexican Navy wasn't fooled.

283 diggsGraphic anti smoking ad out of Australia - rated M!!! Produced by the Cancer Institute NSW.

192 diggs"Uh, I was told I could listen to my radio at a reasonable volume."

152 diggsAn Oklahoma state Trooper is under fire, after possibly picking the wrong vehicle to pull over. Last month, Trooper Daniel Martin was responding to a call for backup when he says an ambulance failed to yield to him. So he pulled over the ambulance for failing to yield. But that's when things may have gotten a bit out of hand....

117 diggsThe batteries, iPod, and GPS are all fed by the bike's 20-watt solar panels. The bike holds cargo, four people and his dog.

144 diggsCraig, a workaholic lawyer, never made time for relationships. Alone and depressed on his 40th birthday, he wonders about the life he could have lead. But be careful what you wish for; you might end up in diapers! When a wizard gives Craig a second chance at his youth, he discovers that sometimes it takes becoming a baby to learn how to be a man.

180 diggsMeet Alice and Kev, a father/daughter pair of homeless Sims, struggling to survive in a Sim city that wants nothing to do with them...

126 diggsPresident Barack Obama appears to have convinced many South Korean skeptics of the United States' commitment to the defense of South Korea during his White House meeting Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung Bak.

173 diggsThere's a reason why Apple called this the iPhone 3GS for Speed and not the 3GC for "compass" or 3GV for "video recording." Speed is the central upgrade here, and probably is the single biggest reason you would upgrade to a 3GS from a 3G. Here's an in-depth, hands-on review of the new iPhone 3GS.

245 diggsIf it ain't broke, don't fix it -- right? We know countless reviews of the iPhone 3G S may begin with that cliché, but there's little chance you'd find a better way to describe the strategy that Apple has just put into play with its latest smartphone.

132 diggsFor current DS owners on the fence about upgrading to the DSi, look no further than the current suite of DSiWare games and applications -- Nintendo's answer to Apple's iPhone App store.

166 diggs"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."

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98 diggsIn an interview with the Washington Time’s right-wing radio show this morning, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) declared that she would break the law and refuse to answer the 2010 Census questions, beyond noting the number of people in her household.

285 diggsAs expected, the update is out. You can click on the "Check for Update" button right now to get your iPhone updated.

182 diggsWhile news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

81 diggsThe Earth is not the nurturing mother of life of James Lovelock's famous theory To two NASA scientists, James Lovelock and Dian Hitchcock, this came as no surprise - in fact, they would have been amazed to see any evidence of life on Mars. A decade before Viking, Lovelock and Hitchcock, both atmospheric scientists, had used observations of the Mars

141 diggsTop 10 most amazing dog breeds – ranging from the most dangerous, loyal, fascinating, popular and expensive breeds that you can buy.

263 diggsCivil engineers at MIT are currently developing a new breed of concrete that will be able to last for 16,000 years. Concrete is one of the most frequently used and widely produced man-made building material on earth, with over 20 billion tons produced per year globally.

112 diggsA black hole created by Israeli scientists won't destroy Earth, but it could make our planet just a little bit more less noisy.

223 diggsWith rumors of a lame ret-con for Captain America—who, you may remember, was "killed" by a sniper about a year or so ago—involving "magic guns" and "parallel dimensions," here are some of the absolute lamest explanations for super-resurrections.

122 diggsThe worst recession since the Great Depression will officially end sometime in the next 3 months, according to economists at the nation's biggest banks. The American Bankers Association expect that nation's GDP to grow in the 3rd quarter of 2009.But most Americans will still feel as though they are living through a recession well into 2010.

326 diggsMartin needs a job...

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108 diggsArnold Schwarzenegger is The Man, pure and simple. What Arnie has accomplished in his life is staggering. Even in his downtime he makes it a point to be incredible, in 2004 he saved a drowning mans life during a Hawaiian vacation.

93 diggsAfter a public lashing here and on Rolling Stone's Web site, LiveNation has responded and cut the fees from hundreds of shows for the rest of today, which can save anywhere from $13-20 compared to buying Thursday. Don't forget to get the discounted price you need to order before midnight tonight.

196 diggsAnd perhaps more disturbing to the country music industry is the news that 42 percent of those ardent fans who do not have home Internet access have no desire to remedy the situation.

141 diggsMicrosoft Security Essentials is the name of Microsoft’s latest Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware software for Windows operating system. It is already being tested internally at Microsoft and is rumored to launch in September of this year. Check out this Amazing Review of the app itself.

216 diggsEddie Murphy is no longer the edgy and fearless comedian that he was in the 1980s. The Eddie Murphy Rollercoaster illustrates his ups and downs.

140 diggsWe scoured the Interweb for the best, well...okay, really the creepiest babies we could get our cursors on for your enjoyment. Think of this as our own free advertisement for safe-sex.

221 diggsA Google Maps response to tengrandisburiedhere.com to show more users exactly where the treasure is.

115 diggsAaron Tru, of the website MMA Worldwide, asked female fighter Cris "Cyborg" Santos how long it would take for her to choke out her rival Gina Carano, and Santos answered "three seconds." Then she surprised Tru with a personal chokehold of his own.

123 diggsA side by side comparison of the Kayuga satelite and the far more expensive Lunar Recon Orbiter.

186 diggsNow and then, we have the need to have people around who, if the occasion ever called for it, would definitely be the ones who we would want to have our back if a barroom brawl were to ensue. Here are some characters that could certainly fill that role, and a few doorframes.

95 diggsBest Man Speeches are very important, and equally tricky. If they're not properly executed they can ruin weddings and reputations. With that in mind, we decided to create a helpful flowchart to guide you through the daunting task of delivering a Best Man Speech at a Wedding.

102 diggsDuring a chat with ComingSoon, Tony Scott revealed plans to produce a film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s first book Hells Angels, to be scripted by Steven Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana). Gaghan does good work, and hopefully Tony Scott will be too busy with other stuff to F this up.

290 diggsMost of the time, it is just you and your beer, watching your prized flat screen television. So you two might as well be honest with eachother, and bravely face reality...12 ounces at a time.

120 diggs"It’s movie night, and you’re looking for something to watch. Or perhaps you’re looking for new stuff to add to your Netflix queue."

86 diggsHealth officials in Los Angeles said Friday that 22 actors in adult-sex movies had contracted HIV since 2004, when a previous outbreak led to efforts to protect employees in California's multibillion-dollar pornography industry.

79 diggsUniversity of Michigan researchers said they found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the red planet. The bolts were dry lightning, Professor Chris Ruf said.

51 diggsArtisan Ben Lewry of Visionary Instruments talks to GETV's Irina Slutsky about his custom video guitars that can run visualizations or movies.

153 diggsThink that solar power can't power data centers? Think again. i/o Data Centers, an IT infrastructure provider in Phoenix is in the process of deploying a massive array of solar panels that will help power the 80 megawatt data center.

167 diggsThe company says employees can opt for between one and four weeks' unpaid work, with the salary deduction spread across between three and six months' pay. CEO Willie Walsh is asking all employees to "play their part" as the company fights to stay afloat through troubling economic times.

266 diggsJammie Thomas-Rasset took the stand for the final time today in a tearful piece of testimony in which she disparaged opposing witnesses, attacked the record industry, claimed "extortion," and finally offered some alternative scenarios for what might really have happened.

170 diggsFifty grand for texting? Remind me why I went to college again.

491 diggsGoogle, now helping you get laid.

232 diggs"Today, in a country that for the last eight years has been defined by questionable intelligence-gathering techniques and interrogation methods, the U.S. government is no more restricted in carrying out nonconsensual, classified research on human subjects than it was after World War II. Some officials still have the power to waive regulations..."

213 diggs"Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one" ... it's amazing what you can conclude with checkmarks.

74 diggsAriel Wade, a wheelchair-bound ex-stripper, can't drive her mobility scooter through the White Castle drivethru at 11 p.m. when she wants delicious mini-cheeseburgers. White Castle only allows automotive vehicles in the drivethru, for fear that someone like Wade would get run over by an SUV. But Wade cries discrimination.

163 diggsOn last night's Colbert Report, Stephen suggested Mir Hossein Mousavi could be the Martin Luther King of Iran.

107 diggsScientists have constructed a new memory cell by taking a particle of iron just a few billionths of a meter (nanometers) across and placing it inside a hollow carbon nanotube.

86 diggsA major online warez release group has been severely disrupted after a police and music industry investigation. A contender for the most prolific in its field, the group has suffered arrests, with the latest coming yesterday after police and the BPI conducted an early morning raid.

83 diggs26-year-old Miami wunderkind Lee Cipolla called The Juice from Los Angeles, where he recently sold two of his independently made films to Grindstone Entertainment, with DVD distribution by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

105 diggsAs The Hangover hangs on to the box office’s top spot in both the US and UK, we raise a glass to some of movieland’s best drunks. Watching someone get blitzed is far more entertaining than witnessing the aftermath…

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250 diggsPresident Obama said he was looking for a "careful balance" when sketching his blueprint to stabilize the nation's financial sector and wring from the system the kind of risky practices that propelled the country into economic turmoil.

124 diggsThe New York Times seems hard-wired to rarely identify any Windows malware as Windows malware, but only "computer malware." They seem to share this illness with other people too, such as researchers and professors. Can it be that all these educated people ...really don't know that are other computer operating systems ?

166 diggsThis newly-released image shows the sun rising over Spaceport America. It hasn't been built yet, but construction starts this Friday. Spaceport America will be the first spaceport in history, and it will host commercial operations by private space travel companies, like Virgin Galactic.

189 diggsIf an e-mail popped up in your inbox promising a house for $100, you'd expect to see it sent from a guy in Nigeria asking you to wire him several thousand dollars first. This depressed housing market dream is real. And Detroit, Michigan, artist Jon Brumit and his wife Sarah are living it.

168 diggsSen. Dianne Feinstein sees no evidence that the NSA overstepped its bounds in its warrantless wiretapping program. And A-G Eric Holder now refuses to call the NSA's actions "illegal," even though that's what he called them before.

150 diggsA tiny fish common in European streams may learn in a more sophisticated way than has ever been recorded among animals and which mimics human learning. In a study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology, scientists found that the nine-spined stickleback fish used the success and failures of their peers to gauge where they should seek food.

143 diggsThe Internet is by far the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers and radio, according to a new poll in the U.S. But just a small fraction of U.S. adults considered social Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace as a good source of news and even fewer would opt for Twitter.

228 diggsAbsolutely hilarious mocking of Hoekstra's idiotic comment that Iranians twittering is analogous to House Repbublicans shut down by Democrats.

228 diggsThe app allows users to view up to 20 show clips, create custom video mixes and instantly buy full episodes through an embedded link to Apple's iTunes. Special features, such as "Stewie Pin-up" and "Peter Toss," are also included.

90 diggsA step-by-step breakdown of the most portable parts & peripherals for portable productivity.

76 diggsThere’s just something about the classics - something about the men who fought in previous generations that demands respect. Something about seeing guys - that resembled average joes more than they did ‘roided out bodybuilders - duke it out in leather gloves on black & white film reels. These are 10 of the very greatest classic KO’s from the glory

353 diggsThe Hammer Pants flash mob breaks into public dance one again. This time they chose Santa Monica Blvd to perform their rhythmic ritual. That old guy is their Kobe Bryant.

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163 diggsAn international group of scientists has developed a polymer-based solar cell with an ability not yet seen in similar cells: almost every single photon it absorbs is converted into a pair of electric-charge carriers, and every one of those pairs is collected at the cell's electrodes.

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323 diggsNo doubt Michael Cera is good at what he does. And one great thread runs through all his films: Cera's making one hell of a living being perpetually confused.

130 diggsIf you visit the Google homepage today, you will find, beyond the nifty Firebird ballet logo, a link that says “Discovering the web: Explore the world of Google search.” The resulting page, “Explore Google Search,” explains an array of Google’s blended search capabilities. It’s almost certainly a reminder by Google that it is also a “decision engin

87 diggsThis is an interesting question raised by the folks over at BoingBoing, and prompted by a letter from four senators to the head of the FCC. They ask whether it's fair to consumers that phone manufacturers can enter into exclusive contracts with certain cellular providers.

172 diggsSharing an obscene sexual fantasy over e-mail is a federal crime that enjoys no protection under the First Amendment, a federal appeals court said Monday, in a decision that drew sharp dissent from one judge and potentially set the stage for a Supreme Court appeal.

92 diggsWe've covered several utilities that have found fun and creative ways to analyze Twitter messages, but TweetPsych takes the cake. This one looks at your past 1,000 Twitter posts and gives you a "psychological" profile including how much you talk about yourself, work, money, and "negative emotions."

64 diggsPhoto snapped by Mark Von Raesfeld while attending the California International Air Show 2008 in Salinas, California, U.S. of A.

216 diggsAtty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that about one-fourth of the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be tried in U.S. courts -- a number lower than the Pentagon previously had estimated. A fourth of the current population of 229 would be about 57 people. The figure is lower than previous Pentagon estimates.

150 diggsOur list of the highest-paid athletes looks at earnings derived from salaries, bonuses, prize money, endorsements and licensing income between June 2008 and June 2009 and does not deduct for taxes or agents' fees. Overall the top 20 earned $789 million, down 1% from last year. The cut-off to make the list was $30 million.

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208 diggsOpen for decades (some more than a century), steeped in tradition and visited by the rich and famous, these restaurants are institutions in their respective cities. When in town, you'll want to make room on your itinerary for a visit. (BTW, Gumbo Shop ftw! Nom!)

105 diggsAn inside look at how some members of the Celebrity 100 made their money this year.

144 diggsApple's new MacBook Pro has a hard drive interface half the speed of the previous model, which will limit solid state drive performance as well potentially affect any external drives attached to the laptop.

105 diggsA new dinosaur unearthed in western China has shed light on the evolution from dinosaur hands to the wing bones in today's birds.

96 diggsVideo highlights of Kobe Bryant's appearance tonight on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on the same day of the Lakers Championship parade. Conan teases Kobe about his "Game Face".

127 diggsSure, the employment market is tough to live through, tougher to crack, and tougher still on the horizon. But a leading (and occasionally hilarious) futurist offers hope: Thirty years from now, we'll be wearing silver pants and making money with (hypothetical) positions so easy they'll blow your mind, if they're not already doing the work for you.

237 diggsBefore getting into the actual process, let’s look at a couple of real-world situations that explain why you may want to turn your home computer into a web server.

172 diggsA performance and price comparison may have you wondering why anyone would spend so much more for an SSD.

87 diggsI don't know about you, but i'm damn excited about the upcoming version of Ubuntu. As usual, there will be tons of bug fixes, updated packages, tighter integration, as well as increased stability and usability. All talk so far. Aside from a new Ubiquity slideshow for new users, what are the specific things to look forward to?

183 diggsWho are these people?

92 diggsScientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander in the hope its ability to regenerate body parts will one day help human amputees.

148 diggsThomas McGuire and Adam Trenk each won 660 votes in an election last month for a seat on the Cave Creek council. A recount was considered too expensive and insufficiently entertaining. Previous deadlocks have been decided by gunfights but the pair opted to draw cards instead.

51 diggsAn eco-warrior has been evicted from the cave he lives in on his allotment patch in Brighton, East Sussex, because it doesn't have a fire exit.