414 diggsLook! No hands!

170 diggsAs you become an accomplished photog, something interesting happens along the way..

296 diggsAfter an injury at birth, my father's passion and perseverance guaranteed that I walked and played sports. But my last memory of him is a mixture of love and pain.

198 diggsFrom the satisfying click of its keys to its no-nonsense layout and solid steel underpinnings, IBM's 24-year-old Model M is the standard by which all other keyboards must be judged.

117 diggsPatients who are conscious but almost entirely paralysed could be aided by French research that reads their mind to help them communicate.

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91 diggsRecord numbers of people descended on Stonehenge this morning to mark the summer solstice.

107 diggsTHE bride wore white and earrings resembling tiny planets, the groom a tuxedo and cuff links shaped like spacecraft, and the wedding party attended in blue jumpsuits.Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor floated into matrimony yesterday thousands of metres above the Gulf of Mexico in what organisers said was the world's first zero gravity wedding

78 diggsThere are some good reasons not to choose a Mac when you buy your next computer, though in the last few years one of those most often given for sticking with a PC – that Macs are simply too expensive – has been rather inaccurate.--- Mac desktop prices rise while PC prices fall - why?

107 diggsScores of complaints can be found at WickedFire, where advertisers are complaining of massive click fraud and an indifferent Facebook. A few of the recent posts (excuse the language):

85 diggsHirschfeld was born on this day in 1903 and lived to be 99 years old (he passed away in 2003). His legacy of drawing Broadway stars was so strong that they named a theater after him, and he honored his only daughter Nina by sneaking her name into each illustration (often doing it several times).

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74 diggsLet's face it, people will say anything to get out of going to jail. For instance, stats show that less than one percent of insanity pleas actually work, since for every one guy who truly has something broken in his brain, there are at least 99 scumbags who're just making shit up.

427 diggsIn a recent interview, Megan Fox lashed out at the media for comparing her to Angelina Jolie. This is like a five dollar box of wine freaking out because someone tried to store it in a wine cellar. Take it from a former poor man's version, Ms. Fox...

164 diggsIn Pascagoula, Mississippi, in November 2008, Cirila Baltazar Cruz gave birth to a baby girl. Soon after, her daughter was taken away from her because she could not communicate with the hospital attendants.

130 diggsA list of 23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action. When you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it

134 diggs Iranian authorities on Sunday blamed ''terrorists'' for clashes in which at least 10 people were killed and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United States and Britain to stay out of unrest...

90 diggsA thief made off with a caravan in Skovde in southern Sweden on Saturday night. To his surprise he later found that the caravan's owner was asleep inside at the time.

274 diggsIranian authorities have asked the BBC's correspondent in Tehran to leave the country within 24 hours.

155 diggsAn independent panel was mostly in listening mode during today's first hearing on the future of America's spacefaring effort, but the fact that so many perspectives were heard suggests that the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee is really going to review a wide spectrum of options.

134 diggsIranian state television yesterday broadcast the soap operas and covered the news about Rafael Nadal's withdrawal from Wimbledon and Pakistani operations against the Taliban as if they were the most...

232 diggsCartoon by Frederick Deligne.

179 diggsHow sloppy is that triple Whopper with cheese? It has 1,250 calories, or 62.5% of the recommended 2,000-calories-per-day diet. The Fried Macaroni and Cheese from the Cheesecake Factory? Try 1,570 calories--according to health experts, you're better off eating a stick of butter.

109 diggsAfter 9 days of protest the Iranian people are still fighting for their cause.

118 diggsPlan was to paint a US spy aircraft as a UN plane and deliberately fly it into Iraq's airspace. Memo also reveals that the Iraq invasion was planned months before it started. Can you say treason?

118 diggsThe injured Marlins reliever Scott Proctor says he is a recovering alcoholic whose career with the Yankees was affected by his drinking.

136 diggsWindows 7 features like ISO image burning, Windows Search, and the great new Windows 7 Calculator are a big part of the new OS. Here's how you can get them--or features just as good--on your current Vista or XP system.

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100 diggsThis system reproduces exactly the calligraphic feeling adding some new features from the digital world. The system is composed of one industrial camera at 60 fps, a home made lamp and a touch screen with an interface.

163 diggsApple has thus far decided not to take advantage of these HD capabilities for video recording, as the iPhone 3G S video camera will only capture clips in VGA-quality.

122 diggsFor the first time this weekend, fake umpires Tim Williams and Joe Farrell took their show onto American soil. "There are 7 billion people on the planet. Do you know how many of them travel to another city to fake umpire a game? You're looking at 'em," Williams tells FanHouse Friday night at Nationals Park.

91 diggsYahoo!’s new CEO, Carol Bartz, has made a series of mistakes early in her tenure, and the company probably cannot recover from them.

130 diggsAn opportunistic customer seizes the moment during a robbery to do some robbing of his own.

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96 diggsAs a former Wimbledon champion, Michael Stich might be expected to have an expert appreciation for the skill and dedication required to play tennis at its highest level.But on the eve of this year’s tournament, the BBC Radio 5 Live commentator has caused outrage among the sport’s female stars by claiming their role is as much about ‘selling sex’

169 diggs"They've convinced Lydia Guevara, granddaughter of Che and a vegetarian, to pose topless for a campaign with stylistic nods to her infamous granddad."

127 diggsThe Green Bay Packers haven't been sacked by the recession despite a rough season on the field and significant financial challenges off it, but officials remain wary of the future. The NFL's only publicly owned franchise turned a $20.1 million operating profit last year, according to team officials.

126 diggsIran's revolution has now run through a full cycle. A gruesomely captivating video of a young woman — laid out on a Tehran street after apparently being shot, blood pouring from her mouth...

133 diggsGive a man Ubuntu, and he'll learn Ubuntu. Give a man SUSE, and he'll learn SUSE. But give a man Slackware, and he'll learn Linux. Well, so the old internet maxim goes, but while it's normally used with a touch of humor, there's a great deal of truth in it, too.

103 diggsVerizon told Debbie that upgrading to FiOS was the only way to guarantee uninterrupted phone service because apparently, the old copper lines are no match for the insatiable appetite of copper-munching squirrels. Never mind that FiOS doesn't work during a blackout for more than a few hours, or that the problem had nothing to do with squirrels.

123 diggsLoss of hair color may be unwelcome, but the processes that produce it could be protecting us from damaged DNA

88 diggs"I hinted at the possible unreliability of the “Michael Bay is retiring from Transformers” story yesterday - it’s always suspicious when they quote someone without saying when, where or how they talked to him - and now it looks like the story was mostly made up. "

206 diggsA discovery by a team of Canadian and American researchers could provide new ways to fight HIV-AIDS. According to a new study published in Nature Medicine, HIV-AIDS could be treated through a combination of targeted chemotherapy and current Highly Active Retroviral (HAART) treatments.

126 diggsOn Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order forbidding publication in the United States of “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye,” a takeoff on — J. D. Salinger’s lawyers say rip-off of — “The Catcher in the Rye,” written by a young Swedish writer styling himself J. D. California.

136 diggs Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets to win the Twenty20 World Cup at Lord’s.Now Pakistan is the World T20 Champions.

122 diggsThe 4,000-square-meter (yard) cavern, buried 10 meters beneath the desert near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho, was dug about 2,000 years ago and was in use for about half a millennium, archaeologist Adam Zertal said.

179 diggsCarting a crate of used CDs to your local record store so you can make rent is a rite of passage as ancient as it can be tearful. But what about those MP3s and iTunes songs you're ready to unload? Is there a way to sell those off, too, when you get tired of them or just need some extra scratch?

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229 diggsSome of these beers you are probably very familiar with, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale for example. Think back when is the last time you had an ice cold Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on a 90 degree day? This is all about rediscovering some classics and finding new favorites.

99 diggsBill Maher took on the entire political spectrum, accusing Democrats of selling out and Republicans of being "religious lunatics and Civil War reenactors." [painfully funny VIDEO]

110 diggsCash is no longer king in New Zealand. A report found electronic funds transfer (Eftpos) had displaced cash as the most common method used to pay for things such as groceries, power bills and mortgage.

167 diggsEinstein ordered nine copies of the photograph and signed a print for news anchor Howard K. Smith “This gesture you will like, because it is aimed at all of humanity. A civilian can afford to do what no diplomat would dare. Your loyal and grateful listener, A. Einstein ’53.”

96 diggsFlint, Mich., a former industrial powerhouse now facing depopulation and plummeting home values, is dealing with vacant housing. The solution? Some argue that we should bulldoze entire districts, returning the land to nature, and concentrate the population in the urban core.

153 diggsCombine a bad economy, a glut of abandoned homes and people in need of cheap housing and you've got rich ground for con artists posing as landlords and targeting renters.

131 diggsThousands of refugees from war-torn Iraq thought their dreams had come through when they came to America. But now there are no jobs to be had

220 diggsConcerns over the lack of men attending services year-round has led clergy to offer a range of incentives today, including free beer, bacon rolls and chocolate bars.

51 diggsShocking footage

97 diggsBrazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian firms that supply Tesco, Asda and Marks & Spencer are among dozens of companies named by prosecutors.

166 diggsSome say that it was a publicity stunt, and that the BBC almost broke its own guidelines by allowing a guest to plug a brand of rum. All we know is: Top Gear has claimed that Michael Schumacher is The Stig.

289 diggsNeda Agha Soltan was an Iranian woman whose alleged killing by Basij militia during the 2009 Iranian election protests was captured on video by bystanders. The graphic videos were posted on the Internet, and her name quickly becoming a rallying cry for the pro-reform demonstration. Neda means "voice" in Persian.

325 diggsIran's Guardian Council has admitted that the number of votes collected in 50 cities surpass the number of the people eligible to cast ballot in those areas...

124 diggsIf you’ve read either “Fast Food Nation” or “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” you won’t be surprised by what the movie shows and tells about the killing floors and soybean fields. Chances are that you’ll still be appalled, which is to Mr. Kenner’s credit. Much as Mr. Schlosser does in “Fast Food Nation,” the movie takes a look at the animal abuse....

68 diggsWhen Seesmic Desktop first launched we thought it had great potential to be a threat to TweetDeck. Then after adding Facebook integration, we were convinced that it was indeed a fierce rival.

131 diggsSome dinosaurs were the largest creatures ever to walk on land, including the classic long-necked, whip-tailed Diplodicus, but a new study suggests it and its many extinct brethren weighed as little as half as much as previously thought.

137 diggsFor patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off.

126 diggs"What happened to your mental alarm?" ~Jerry "I guess I hit the snooze." ~Kramer

219 diggsASCAP (the same folks who went after Girl Scouts for singing around a campfire) appears to believe that every time your musical ringtone rings in public, you're violating copyright law by "publicly performing" it without a license. At least that's the import of a brief [2.5mb PDF] it filed in ASCAP's court battle with mobile phone giant AT&T.

75 diggsA mother cries out curses against the police who beat her young son

94 diggsFor travel, entertainment or personal safety (domestic and abroad) here are 10 numbers to have on file in your mobile address book.

106 diggsBuzz Aldrin was answering questions on Twitter today when someone asked him who would win in a fight between himself and Buzz Lightyear. This was his response.

229 diggsAn infinite array of wisdom and understanding.

154 diggsNowhere in the Constitution is there a guaranteed freedom from being offended. It is not a right that comes with American citizenship, like the right to vote. Just the opposite. If the Constitution had a warning label, it would read: Caution, your right to freedom of speech means others have a parallel right, which is highly likely to occasionally

187 diggsA strip club that hired a 14-year-old as an exotic dancer is now suing the girl, saying the seventh-grader swindled them into breaking state law. “She came (into the club) with 6-inch stiletto heels and a miniskirt and looked just like a model from a Miss America’s contest,” Yaffe said. The San Antonio teen allegedly exposed her breasts there.

119 diggsPlanned changes in the rules governing car-design and spending limits and the ongoing struggle over the spoils of the lucrative sport prompt leading teams of the premier international racing series to say they'll go it alone.

166 diggsNYC's most celebrated high school basketball player since Stephon Marbury and, because of his baggage, he can't get a college to take him.

131 diggsThe relatives want to rebury the warrior, who died in 1909, near his birthplace in New Mexico but the justice department has asked a federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit.

301 diggsComparison says it all.

148 diggsThe drag queen singer known as “Big Mama Capretta” has outed himself as a practicing gay Catholic priest from Colomnbus, Ohio. Vincent Capretta, known to his flock has “Father Anthony” said in a statement that “It’s Big Mama, y’all! And I am no longer afraid to come out of the closet as a gay Catholic priest! I am enjoying my life being who I am a

157 diggsA 31-year-old Whitman native suffered life-threatening burns after pouring gasoline on a backyard fire pit in Abington Saturday night, causing an explosion.

81 diggsSavvy consumers often go online for consumer reviews of products & services: What some fail to realize is that such reviews can be tainted: Many bloggers have accepted perks such as free laptops, trips to Europe, $500 gift cards or even thousands of dollars for a 200-word post. The FTC is now paying attention & the agency may go after bloggers.

82 diggsiPhone 3G S users are still experiencing delays activating their new smartphones, but Apple apparently wants to make it up to users. As a way of apology for the delays, the same e-mail said Apple plans to offer customers a $30 credit iTunes Store credit for "the inconvenience this delay has caused."

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175 diggsThe Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.

102 diggsBefore Transformers hit the big screen, the television show paved the way to its success. IGN pieces together an excellent roadmap to the TV show.

95 diggsAccording to a new poll, only 1 in 5 people are replacing or duplicating their existing standard format DVD library with Blu-ray format, and over a third say they only buy movies on Blu-ray format that they currently do not own on standard definition.

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57 diggsAll that acting Shia LaBeouf is doing in Transformers gets in the way of the explosions. Sometimes we all want to sit back, relax, and be wowed. There’s nothing wrong with a few cheap thrills and we don’t always need actors to get them. Here are a few other movies that might have been better without actors. 1. AVP: Alien Vs. Predator

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196 diggsDirector David Yates reveals a magical secret: The spot in "Deathly Hallows" he had decided is the best place to split the story for his two-part films. Fans of the book might want to start brushing up on your reading materials.

160 diggsMore than 98% of supposedly natural and environmentally friendly products on US supermarket shelves are making potentially false or misleading claims, Congress has been told. And 22% of products making green claims bear an environmental badge that has no inherent meaning, said Scot Case, of the environmental consulting firm TerraChoice.

157 diggsT-Mobile is coming back with another attempt at an Android phone in the U.S., which it is calling the myTouch 3G — and it’s much better.

124 diggsOnce upon a time, scientists routinely found life in places where it wasn’t supposed to exist. That doesn’t happen anymore, and not because the pace of discovery has slowed. If anything, it’s accelerated. It’s simply become clear that life can exist almost anywhere on Earth.

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196 diggsA controversial law in Massachusetts could go national if Congressman Barney Frank gets his way.

248 diggsForgive the self-post, but the story is too great not to share. Technology let me be a total badass today.I'm still giggling about how that guy must have felt as he gave up the goose and waved me over to hand the phone back.

138 diggsTIME surveys Pixar's 10 feature films, and the peculiar voices that have helped these unforgettable stories take flight.

105 diggsWonderful infographic showing the history of Twitter...