132 diggsThese athletes were among the best in their respective sports, but couldn't quite come down from that competitive high when it came to the law.

197 diggsLockheed Martin's MULE is an all-terrain robotic-transport vehicle designed as part of the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems. Though it can be programmed to maneuver itself, it can also be operated from miles away via a device familiar to all gamers: an XBOX controller.

295 diggsPresident Barack Obama is set to sign into law an anti-smoking bill that will give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco.

121 diggsIt's the length and width of a credit card. It's the thickness of a couple nickels. It'll let you and a few friends get an Internet connection just about anywhere with no wires whatsoever.

205 diggsPagans and partygoers drummed, danced or gyrated in hula hoops to stay awake through the night, as more than 35,000 people greeted the summer solstice Sunday at the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge. Despite fears of trouble because of the record-sized crowd, police said the annual party at the mysterious monument was mostly peaceful.

127 diggsA three-year-old girl has been beheaded in Papua New Guinea in an attack thought to be over a land dispute.

72 diggsAn environmentally-friendly washing machine developed in Britain that uses only one cup of water to clean clothes could be on sale next year.

77 diggsThe United States military is prepared for the possibility that North Korea may attempt to launch a missile toward Hawaii, President Barack Obama said in remarks released on Sunday. ''This administration -- and our military --...

148 diggsPresident Obama took office loudly promising to be the anti-George W. Bush of foreign policy, vowing to "extend a hand" to adversaries "willing to unclench" their fists. What he has received instead is an education in the reality of global rogues, and how he responds has become a major test of his Presidency.

184 diggsA Warwickshire man is auctioning his dad's ashes on eBay - in revenge for abandoning him as a child.

87 diggsCareful not to vomit in your popcorn, we’ve hunted out the worst romantic comedies ever to hit the silver screen…

306 diggsShepard Smith tries to keep the political debate grounded, even when that means contradicting his colleagues.

98 diggsResearchers observe 340 attacks by great whites on fur seals within 2km of an island.

118 diggsThis summer two giant films based on toys are coming out, but what about all those other toy movies in the works? What will they look like, and who which directors will make them? Well, cartoonist Dan Meth has created an animated short to try and answer those questions.

234 diggsFrom Cardinal Syn to Tattoo Assassins, with a lot of pixellated blood in-between.

563 diggsUp yours, nature.

211 diggsMel Brooks and Sharon Stone have both been quoted as saying that 'Sex is like pizza. Even if it's done bad, it's still good.' But is that really true all the time? Are there other ways that sex is like pizza? We've asked our team of highly trained stock photo models to explore the studio space on this highly important question ...

76 diggsToday marks not only the anniversary of George Carlin's death, but 22 other events from the German invasion of the Soviet Union to Wal-Mart's Sex-Discrimination Lawsuit.

202 diggsDiscovered Dec28/2004 the minor planet, 2003 EL61, now known as the dwarf planet Haumea, is as big across as Pluto and 1/3of its mass.When astronomers first found it, they noticed that it was getting brighter and fainter by about 25% every 2hours. It is elongated and rotating every 4 hours. Haumea is the fastest spinning object in the solar system.

110 diggsThe worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has prompted a reassessment of how financial markets work and how people make decisions about money.

218 diggsThe Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it's retiring Kodachrome because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age. (with link to Kodak Tribute Slideshow)

59 diggs"It's probably the best June since I've been here, and I've been here most of my life," said the National Weather Service's Valerie Meyers, who is in her late 40s. "It's been really nice."

150 diggsApproved on Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will lease the MINI Es for only $10 a month. With a market lease rate of $850, automaker BMW offered up the bargain price in exchange for deputy’s feedback.

85 diggsIf just 0.3% of the Saharan Desert was used for a concentrating solar plant, it would produce enough power to provide all of Europe with clean renewable energy. That is why 20 blue chip German companies are gathering together next month to discuss plans and investments to create such a massive project.

95 diggsA Lemoore man decided he liked the Transformers so much that he built a life size replica of the cartoon version of Bumblebee in his front yard.

125 diggsYou sign a piece of paper and get 80 to 800 US dollars for just that. Only the small print says, for this much easy money you pawn your eternal soul. The document says the loan is given using, as security, “the client’s immaterial being, namely the immortal soul”.

217 diggsApple Inc sold more than 1 million units of its newest iPhone, the 3GS, in the first three days of launch, the company said on Monday. The news sent Apple shares up nearly 1 percent, after the stock had been trading down about 1 percent following a Wall Street Journal report over the weekend that said Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs had undergone

186 diggs10 nifty Mac OS X Dock replacements Refine or replace the clunky Dock and boost your productivity.

150 diggskids will do anything

72 diggsIf Mary Sullivan, wife of Patriots founder Billy Sullivan, had had her way, the New England Patriots might never have been. Sullivan persuaded his wife to wait on getting her summer home on Cape Cod as he and nine partners invested $25,000 to purchase the start-up AFL's final franchise charter in 1959.

211 diggsA role model on Father's Day...

155 diggsPsychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.

259 diggsBOSTON–Thirty minutes into dinner with co-worker Natalie Cooper, Matthew Rolen, a marketing manager at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, realized Tuesday that what he thought was a date was actually a work-related get-together.

80 diggsFrom piece: "Like never before, the challenges of staying alive and staying out of jail have become as crucial for athletes in the Boston schools as honing their sports skills, according to coaches, players, and youth advocates."

150 diggsI actually saw this movie already at the Cannes Film Festival. I don't care what any review says, the movie was freaking awesome. Great trailer here.

64 diggsA prison has agreed to give Muslims their own cells after they complained about sharing with other inmates. They were said to be unhappy at praying and eating near non-Muslims at Birmingham’s Winson Green jail. It is thought to be the first time inmates have been segregated by religion.

269 diggsA hangover is the price you pay in pain and suffering for the fun you had the night before. The Danish call it “Hammering Carpenters”, the Germans call it “Wailing Cats” and the French call it “Wooden Mouth” but it all means the same thing, you feel like something the cat puked up on the carpet after dining on alley scraps all night.

308 diggsIn 50 Iranian cities the number of votes cast in this month presidential election exceeded the number of eligible voters, the state's election watchdog admitted today. The surprising admission by the Guardian Council was, however, designed to undermine the claims of the defeated candidates that the vote was rigged.

191 diggsPARIS (AFP) - With 33 Iranian journalists and bloggers in jail, Iran ranks alongside China as the world's biggest prison for journalists, the press rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Sunday.

161 diggsMost textures and patterns don’t look attractive in raw or when they are standalone, and these metallic ones are certainly no exceptional. However, with the right mixtures (and some creativity), these raw materials could output you some of the nicest metallic-themed design. Here’s a collection of Metallic Textures, Pattern, Brushes etc.

150 diggsUsers of BitTorrent and other file-sharing networks are increasingly seeking solutions to hide their identities from the outside world. With pressure from anti-piracy outfits mounting on ISPs to police their networks and warn those who share copyrighted content, many file-sharers have decided to negate this by going anonymous.

172 diggsBecause one, two, three, four, five hymenoplasties weren't enough, a Russian woman named Natalia underwent six different surgeries to "restore" her virginity as a present to her husband. Now, she's in the hospital after surgery-related complications from her latest operation...

160 diggsThe number of hate and terrorist websites has increased by a third in the past year, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

299 diggsPresident Nicolas Sarkozy lashed out Monday at the practice of wearing the Muslim burqa, insisting the full-body religious gown is a sign of the "debasement" of women and that it won't be welcome in France.

376 diggs"The City of Toronto apparently didn't think their ethnically-ambiguous stock photography was diverse enough. They did a poor job of adding a happy African-Canadian to the mix."

131 diggsNot all celebrities are created equal though. Despite the fact that most celebs are somewhat attractive, many of them are unquestionably NOT. Here are 25 celebs that we are definitely not trying to see release a sex tape anytime soon.

139 diggsIn 1981, a 37-year-old factory worker named Kenji Urada entered a restricted safety zone at a Kawasaki manufacturing plant to perform some maintenance on a robot. In his haste, he failed to completely turn it off. The robot’s powerful hydraulic arm pushed the engineer into some nearby machine, making Urada the first recorded victim killed by Robot

82 diggsAt the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways. Particles can exist in "superposition," in more than one state at the same time (as long as we don't look), a situation that permitted Schr�dinger's famed cat to be simultaneously alive and dead;

123 diggsThe sky might literally be the limit for wind power — rotors spinning miles high could help supply electricity worldwide."There is a huge amount of energy available in high-altitude winds," said researcher Ken Caldeira at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, Calif.

114 diggsThe stats guru crunches the numbers on geography as politics and discovers that the direction of the great American migration that helped create the Red State-Blue State divide may be changing — and that it may significantly hurt the GOP in the next election.

147 diggsImplementing a nice and user friendly tooltip using jQuery plugins is fast and easy. Today, we are going to see 15 jQuery plugins to implement tooltip.

86 diggsMethods used at Guantanamo 'never intended to be used against detainees in our custody'

87 diggsA new study found that by 2050, most African countries will experience temperatures they have never before encountered over at least half of their crop-growing areas. But three-quarters of these will see temperatures that currently occur in at least five other countries and so could take advantage of crops grown there.

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133 diggsThe launch 40 years ago of Apollo 11 brought Americans together during a time of nationwide unrest. Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to Florida in 1969 to watch the launch.

364 diggsA full 95 percent of the opinions held by Justin Wilmot, 26, were kept to himself Sunday during a Father's Day visit with his family.

163 diggsIf you're looking to explore the surface of another planet and lack the wherewithal to check it out in person, you're going to want to bust out an unmanned rover. After all, remote-controlled robots tend to rush in where humans fear to tread.

180 diggsPresident Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry's agreement to help close a gap in Medicare's drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for overhaul of the health care system.

165 diggsMore women are turning to sex work in a bad economy. Does it beat working at McDonald's?

164 diggsScientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), led by Professor Christian Joachim,* have scored a breakthrough in nanotechnology by becoming the first in the world to invent a molecular gear of the size of 1.2nm whose rotation can be deliberately controlled.

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126 diggsHere’s the new trailer for the TV movie “Battlestar Galactica: The Plan,” which chronicles the same story as the TV show from the viewpoint of the Cylons.

128 diggsA few days ago, Yahoo! released a new version of their browser toolbar and this time, they've made it available for Firefox users, too, albeit in a beta format. There's only one problem with the software (besides the fact that toolbars in and of themselves are incredibly passé): it doesn't work on Windows 7.

218 diggsHollywood Reporter: Here's the first-look at the most expensive TV project of all time. "I believe in ammunition!"

82 diggsHere's your first look at Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's twisted 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.

151 diggsA new internet data map offers a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at HIV cases in the U.S. and finds the infection rates tend to be highest in the South.The highest numbers of HIV cases are in population centers like New York and California.

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130 diggsA generation of down-on-their-luck brokers are trading in stocks for Plan B—online poker....

152 diggsFilm junkies may find themselves daydreaming and placing some of the greatest movie characters of all time into real-life workplace showdowns. So which "Star Wars" character would make the best CEO?

110 diggsHooman Majd, author of "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ," talks with Nisid Hajari, Foreign Editor of Newsweek, about Iran and the role of its people in influencing its politics.

180 diggsBelieve it or not, Jim Henson made 179 hysterically violent (for the time) Wilkins Coffee commercials from 1957-1961. Staring Cheerful Wilkins and Grumpy Wilkins. Even today, this formula is comic gold (just ask South Park). The commercials were actually wildly popular at the time...

155 diggsWere you sad the U.S.S. Enterprise was such a sausage-fest in the most recent Star Trek? Then there's good news: co-writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman say the next film could feature one of Trek's most iconic women .Yeoman Janice Rand only appeared in a handful of Trek episodes before disappearing (reportedly because star William Shatner)...

97 diggsHe didn't totally dominate, but thanks to poor finishes by Mickelson, Barnes and Duval, Lucas Glover walks away from Bethpage Black as the surprising 2009 US Open champion.

158 diggsBOSTON — A New Hampshire postal worker is getting his own special delivery.George Knapp and his wife, Dani-Jean Stuart, of Weare, N.H., have adopted the two-pound, 8-week-old kitten that was dropped in a public mailbox in Boston.

83 diggsIn the previous 12 months there have been many disasters, here we have pic's of some that you may remember,and some you may want to forget....................................

50 diggsBiology 101: Brought to you today by Home Depot!

138 diggsPolice have charged the tour manager of the Black Eyed Peas with assault after he allegedly gave celebrity blogger Perez Hilton a black eye outside a Toronto nightclub. Hilton said he got into an argument with band members Fergie and will.i.am at the nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside by Polo Molina, the band's tour manager.

99 diggsWhy neighborhoods and not cities? Even the cities with the highest crime rates can have relatively safe neighborhoods, and thus it is less useful to generalize about an entire city.

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346 diggsYour facial hair (or lack thereof) can say a lot about you, but sometimes there's a difference between what you think you're saying with it, and what it's actually telling people.

161 diggsAfter using a mechanical grabber that extended their reach, people behaved as though their arm really was longer, they found.

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275 diggs"Like you, we get enough of the crappy ones shoved down our throat while we're actually watching TV. Luckily, we've taken time out of our busy gaming schedule to bring you the funniest commercials video game history has to offer - you can thank us later."

146 diggsWe’ve all heard of clothes horses, dark horses and equines named Charlie, but horse legs for humans to wear has got to be a horse of another color if there ever was one, Read all about Seattle artist, Kim Graham, and her latest, one-of-a kind creation.

72 diggsCompany has launched another 'Get the Facts' advertising campaign and is blocking users from downgrading to XP--two signs that the company is losing its way in the face of real competition. Read this blog post by Matt Asay on The Open Road.

115 diggsEverybody dies, but not everybody dies an unnatural death, and very few people are famous. Those criteria combined make for some interesting headlines, and even more interesting history. These 20 celebrities died unusual, even bizarre deaths under equally strange circumstances.

100 diggsOut of work? That doesn’t mean you’re also out of opportunities. Any single one of the ten methods below will help you stay marketable. If you try all ten suggestions, you’ll dramatically increase your odds of landing a new job, client, or key relationship.

118 diggsThis past January, three 8th grade teachers—Jared Beloff, Chad Dictenberg and Chris McLaughlin—received a $2,500 UTF Mini-Grant to integrate Media Arts with their English and Creative Writing curriculum. Because they are awesome, they had their students use the money to make a zombie movie.

132 diggsThe Atlanta skate scene has been blowing up over the last year or so. One native Floridian that has relocated to ATL is Element flow rider Matt Fink.

74 diggsLast summer, many Americans stayed home. This summer, we might buy one, if the science of economics is better at predicting our emergence from this financial crisis than it was in predicting its onset. The U.S. housing slump is at or near bottom, at least one researcher says, and other predictions of real estate stabilization made by a group...

87 diggsJust because you can't run, paint, play ping-pong, and host a call-in talk show all at once doesn't mean you don't like getting in shape. It just means you're not as idiotic about fitness as these guys.

142 diggsRather than just recycling his old trusty iPod Mini when Josh got a new one, he decided to take care of a little mini project he had been meaning to do for some time. He took apart the Mini, removed the original cover and designed a new hardwood case using the original guts of the iPod.

135 diggsThe Tonight Show's Triumph The Insult Comic Dog was everywhere at Bonnaroo '09 -- backstage, onstage, Tent City, the Discotheque Arcade, Scratch DJ Academy.

188 diggsJust days after Norway’s data protection department told ISPs they must delete all personal IP address-related data three weeks after collection, it’s now become safer than ever to be a file-sharer in Norway. The only law firm with a license to track pirates has just seen it expire and it won’t be renewed.

99 diggsThe faux metal band that sprung forth from Rob Reiner's 1984 'mockumentary' is back with a new album (its first in 17 years) and a one-off 'world tour.'

242 diggsiPhone 3.0 software works well when pre-installed on the new 3G S. When users download and install it themselves on older versions of the handset, however, things are apparently taking a decidedly different turn.

132 diggsBefore Adam Walsh, Etan Patz and Madeleine McCann, before the first Amber Alert, before a young face stared back from the side of a milk carton, there was Danny. Danny Barter vanished in 1959. He was on a family camping trip to Alabama's Perdido Bay. He was playing with his dad one minute, gone the next.

209 diggsAn Ohio eighth-grader pulled of a stunt shot that has to be seen to be believed. He runs forward, does a forward somersault/flip using the basketball to push off the floor, and then hurls the ball towards the basket at the opposite end of the court, 60 feet away.

70 diggsAuthorities in Britain said a marijuana-smoking postal carrier burned thousands of letters that the weed made him too lazy to deliver.

100 diggsThe footage begins in the middle of the verbal altercation outside an after-party for a music award show in Toronto -- moments after Hilton claims Will went after him like a "heat-seeking missile" and unleashed a verbal tirade at him.

119 diggsjust check it out greatest surf trick ever

118 diggsLet the unhealthy digg debate begin.

140 diggsA group of U.S. climate scientists is urging Congress to quickly pass a strengthened version of the House global warming bill, saying the legislation would provide a basis for stronger federal policies.

26 diggs"...I thought it'd be a good time to find a bunch of stuff that the Bible bans... stuff that's a lot LESS convenient. Don't worry, though... just because I'm pointing it out, that doesn't mean you now have to follow it. It's a lot easier to keep discriminating against gay people for no particular reason than to stop eating bacon, after all."

142 diggsWith all distractions that modern life brings, it’s not easy to keep your productivity up. Whether you’re an enthusiastic procrastinator, or just happen to have very little time at hand, there are a lot of people who really can’t afford to lose sight of business. A Great Guide for Geeks.

97 diggsIn a Q2 audio press release, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed that Adobe will release a beta version of Flash Player 10 for a number of smartphone browsers, including Windows Mobile, Google Android, Palm WebOS, and Symbian devices, in October.

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92 diggsMethane from cows and pigs won't be regulated under proposed legislation aimed at limiting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Even though the EPA has said it has no plans to regulate the gas, worries over the idea of a "cow tax" prompted the exclusion of a specific gas from the legislation.

130 diggsGeneral Ali Fazli, who was recently appointed as a commander of the Revolutionary Guards in the province of Tehran, is reported to have been arrested after he refused to carry out orders from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to use force on people protesting the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

130 diggsWhat would cinema be without those infamous nutjobs? Pretty darn boring. Like the prophetic crooner and supermodel seducing Seal is fond of saying, “we’re never gonna survive, unless we get a little crazy.”

163 diggsAnimal encounters on our turf are on the rise—and it's not just big animals like mountain lions, bears and alligators. Here, TheDailyGreen.com's Brian Clark Howard revisits the time a rabid skunk attacked him while he camped in a friend's yard, just 1 hour away from New York City.

84 diggs"Visualize three tons of moldy bread." It's not the most appealing image, but it's a description of the moist mound of growth media at a biofuel facility in Butte, Mont., that could help cut ethanol costs at the pump. The special enzymes allow lower cost ethanol production by replacing some of the high-priced corn with cheaper corn stover "waste".

169 diggsNoone knows all of that thanks to the sensor system, called Nike+. After each run, she can sync her iPod to the Nike+ Web site and get a visual representation of the workout—a single green line. Its length shows how far she's gone, and the peaks and valleys reflect her speed.

242 diggsThe Obama administration's most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place.

123 diggsCatholic dissenter John Gerard fled on a rope stretched from the Tower roof to a getaway rowboat.

173 diggsDirector of Firefox Mike Beltzner gives a quick video preview of what’s new and exciting in Firefox 3.5, coming soon from Mozilla.

155 diggsEveryone suspected dinosaurs were giant birds; then one researcher produced 68 million-year-old protein to prove it. Critics rejected those findings as statistical junk. How a femur sparked a new field of biology—and a scientific smackdown.

70 diggs[Infographic] The Pirates who prowl the Somali coast aren't just buccaneers, they're businessmen.

230 diggsPrepare to get educated....

178 diggsTwo Metro subway trains collided between stations north of downtown Washington, D.C., during afternoon rush hour Monday, killing at least two people, a Metro representative said.

257 diggsIn Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now.

167 diggsIn it's quest to find the perfect Hooters girl, the Clearwater-based restaurant chain brought beautiful women from all over the world for the 13th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

70 diggsThe funny thing about waste is that it's all relative to your sense of scarcity.....

148 diggsThe facts are that when I requested through AC Propulsion to meet Eberhard, he had no technology of his own, he did not have a prototype car and he owned no intellectual property relating to electric cars.

99 diggsIn the '80s, Ireland was one of the poorest countries in Western Europe, with unemployment as high as 17 percent. But Ireland had one advantage: It always invested in education, so while the Irish were poor, they were smart. Ireland was soon inhabited by companies like Dell and Intel to take advantage of the populace's potential. Cuba could be next

81 diggsThis is a BBC-translated full interview with Neda's fiancee, giving further depth to the woman who tragically died in the iconic video that has sparked grief and outrage around the world.

81 diggsChris Brown will do six months of "community labor" but no time behind bars for assaulting the pop star Rihanna under the terms of a plea agreement reached this afternoon.

183 diggsAn Oswerty ice cream vendor has been told it is offensive for him to sell his wares in front of the town's memorial gates.

140 diggsWe were devastated to learn that Apple denied permission to the developer who created a Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone. So in the hopes of getting a second chance from Apple, here is our exclusive interview with Stuart Carnie the CTO of Manomio...

249 diggsThousands Of Unpublished Cat Photos Could Be Yours

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200 diggsBut those shows are mere pups compared to the following lions of the American TV landscape. Excluding soap operas and non-primetime news programming, the following shows have been the beacons for television audiences—some for over 50 years.

122 diggsST. CATHARINES -- As scientists toil in their laboratories, trying to crack the global mystery of missing honey bees, Stan DiFruscio need only go home to figure it out.That humming Stan DiFruscio of St. Catharines can sometimes hear is the sound of tens of thousands of bees living in his home's walls. (Sun Media)

141 diggsJupiter's Europa is one of the most interesting non-Earth locations in the solar system. Never mind ice and occasional puddles; this moon has entire oceans -- and where there's water, we can't help but hope there's life.

144 diggsThere’s been a lot of talk the past few days since the launch of the iPhone 3.0 software about the lack of Push Notification apps in the App Store. Well, today brings a big one: AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).

242 diggsTHIS is the reason they say "I Love NY". Needs to be seen at Original size to truly be appreciated.

80 diggsBeggars can't be choosers. The Container Store doesn't look all that bad once you see that a job there comes with "comprehensive health-care coverage, which kicks in after one month and the 401(k) plan, available to both full- and part-time employees after 11 months with the company."

314 diggsAn amazing new picture from space reveals a volcanic eruption in its earliest stage, with a huge plume of ash and steam billowing skyward and creating a shock wave in the atmosphere.

211 diggsDon't ask Dave Chapman why he climbed into the clothes dryer, it's an answer that eludes even him.

213 diggsA 62-year-old man struck it big twice in the Georgia Lottery. Earl Fritz won the top prize of $777,777 in the instant game Super Lucky 7's. That dwarfed the $1,000 he won a week earlier in a different game. The carpenter said he felt lucky a week ago and now feels a little bit luckier.

106 diggsAn Iranian couple is trying to learn why their son was fatally shot in the head in Tehran. He wasn't politically active and hadn't taken part in the turmoil that has rocked Iran for over a week.

68 diggsA few hundred fighting gamers clutching custom arcade sticks headed for the Phoenix Convention Center over the weekend for Devastation, a video game tournament focused on fighting games, where top players take home cash and fistfuls of glory.

149 diggsYet, many a nude scene has been made that intentionally or not, lands so far on the opposite end of the spectrum from sexy that our offended eyes never want to see another naked body again.So as a cautionary tally we hope some filmmakers will heed, we've rounded up some of the most indecent, (non-pornographic) cinematic exposures.

136 diggsA 31-year-old Sheboygan man will spend no time in jail for using a webcam concealed in a heat vent to watch and make recordings as a teenage girl changed clothes, according to court records released today.

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132 diggsMassive supercomputers that devour electricity to keep them humming are not exactly the poster children for green technology. But IBM hopes to change that with its plans to build a supercomputer that will use water to keep the system cool and even recycle some of the waste heat to help heat the university where it’s housed.

247 diggsTwitter users tinged their avatars green, a colour used by reformists in the recent election, or adopted an image of a broken heart atop Neda's name in solidarity with demonstrators. Wikipedia entries in both English and Persian appeared. Images of her graphic death were plastered on protest placards around the world.

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290 diggsMy son bought a new skateboard at Van's at the Block of Orange. He thought his mom and dad would not know what the skateboard's graphic represented. When I saw it I laughed so hard that I ended up snorting. We had to explain 2 Girls 1 Cup to the wife.