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96 diggsWeight-loss surgery could help women - but not men - reduce their risk of cancer, research suggests.

108 diggsMoms might want to hang on to those Mother's Day cards they got last month. There may not be much more familial goodwill forthcoming — at least not after kids get wind of a new study released by Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and published in the online journal PloS One. Turns out that your mother's feelings for you may not be the..

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191 diggsCheck red button for extra panel awesomeness

135 diggsLin Zongxiu, from the southwestern province of Sichuan, heard in 2008 that soup made with a man’s head could help cure her daughter who had suffered from psychiatric problems for years. Lin and her husband decided to enlist the help of a man in December who knocked unconscious a drunk 76-year-old passer-by before beheading him.

78 diggsAwesome bike jumps.

176 diggsLittle Khagendra Thapa Magar is the world's smallest man - in waiting. He can't wait until his 18th birthday in October when he can officially claim the title.

181 diggsAre social networks such as Facebook (Facebook) and MySpace (MySpace) doing enough to protect their users’ privacy? In the European Union, they might need to do more.

92 diggsThrough some URL trickery, we've managed to unearth several details that confirm the previous rumors. Hero includes the new HTC Sense widget-based interface that puts at-a-glance info right up front on the home screen where it belongs. A new Scenes profile feature lets you transform your phones focus from business to weekend mode. Viewing your cont

158 diggsMore troops will be trained as unmanned airplane operators than as fighter or bomber pilots combined, the U.S. Air Force said.

134 diggsCarrying a little extra weight may actually be good for you, according to a Canadian study that showed a few pounds appear to protect people from an early death.

307 diggsPlease note that we were not allowed to take photos of the numerous military we saw on our trip, poverty that was everywhere in the south of the country and many other things — so this is not a balanced look at the country. But at least it lets you see some of the nicer things inside North Korea.

177 diggsThe Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet. The court obliged and fined Rapidshare $34 million.

80 diggsKobe Bryant's 5-on-1 Basketball (from the makers of NBA Live), Jon Gosselin's Escape from Family Hell (from the makers of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell) and more.

150 diggsIn mid-June of 2009, the first pre-production Chevy Volts have been completed at the GM pre-production assembly plant in Warren Michigan. The next era of personal transportation has begun.

266 diggsThe Iranian football players who wore green wristbands to protest against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have reportedly been banned from the team for life.

231 diggsJammie Thomas-Rasset was held liable to sharing 24 songs, including one by pop crooner Richard Marx. But the lawsuit wasn't done in Marx's name

103 diggsThe Sam's Club in Salisbury, MD is promoting its pharmacy by handing out pill bottles filled with candy to kids. As a pill recipient notes, "Now my 3 year old thinks all prescription pill bottles are just tasty snacks".

177 diggsAll the evidence suggests there is a supermassive black hole lurking in the center of our galaxy. We’ve known as much for quite some time, but it wasn’t until recently that we’ve been able to confirm it. As it turns out, most galactic nuclei are predicted to contain supermassive black holes in their cores.

205 diggsTed Bundy in a box, and more!

139 diggsApollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has a problem with NASA’s current manned space plan: Namely, the five-year gap between the shuttle’s scheduled retirement next year and the debut of the Ares I rocket and the Orion spacecraft, which will take us no further than the moon—a place we’ve already been. Aldrin thinks NASA can do better.

89 diggsThe Pentagon will create a Cyber Command to oversee the U.S. military's efforts to protect its computer networks and operate in cyberspace, under an order signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates on...

59 diggs“Weird Al” Yankovic has been pumping out parodies before there were CDs. Yes, young padawans, I listened to him on cassette tape. So, with a shout-out to one of my favorite artists (and a hat-tip to big-time fans), I present the Top 10 Weird Al songs – GeekDad style.

255 diggsTransformers 2 rolls into theaters today like a slow motion fireball. By now, we pretty much all know what to expect from his movies, but what if your day to day life was directed by Michael Bay? Would all of the fantastic tits be worth the third degree burns covering most of your body?

137 diggsA severe U.S. recession will bottom out this year, but any recovery will be weak due to anemic markets and shrunken consumer wealth, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said on Wednesday. ''In this...

253 diggsGrindelwald, Switzerland

174 diggsRon Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) now has 242 co-sponsors, and the numbers keep growing! At the same time, HR 1207's companion bill in the Senate, S 604 ...

105 diggsNo it isn't Festivus already! Here are some odd human feats of strength....these are all so bizarre that there was no point in ranking them

155 diggsOrangutans, not chimpanzees, are the closest living relatives to humans, a controversial new study contends. The authors base their conclusion on a close physical resemblance between orangutans and humans, which they say has been overshadowed by genetic evidence linking us to chimps.

358 diggsNKorea threatens US; world anticipates missile

92 diggsThe division of labor by the two cerebral hemispheres—once thought to be uniquely human—predates us by half a billion years. Speech, right-handedness, facial recognition and the processing of spatial relations can be traced to brain asymmetries in early vertebrates.

75 diggsThe "Cash for Clunkers" program is finally becoming law. Once President Obama signs it, thousands of car owners may be eligible for a voucher for as much as $4500, that they can use toward the purchase of a new car. It's potentially a great deal, if you qualify. Unfortunately, theres a good chance your old car won't.

86 diggsWant proof that Greenpeace activist campaigns actually make a difference? Look no further than this week’s announcement from Marfrig, the world’s fourth largest beef trader, that it has put a moratorium on buying cattle raised in newly deforested areas in the Amazon.

85 diggsNews is just being released about a lawsuit being laid by SportsFuzion, Inc. against Nike, the NBA Hall of Fame and Leroy Smith over the manufacturing and sale of Michael Jordan Hall of Fame sportswear.

114 diggsUse Boxmans Friends to get ahead in this funny puzzle platformer.

104 diggsA simple idea for adding fast search functionality is to use bookmarklets, since they live in your browser bookmarks but consume no system resources or slow down the browser. Here are 40 bookmarklets for general search, images and video, news and reference and social search.

245 diggsWhat the heck is BK thinking??? What heterosexual male would even consider eating one of these after seeing this ad? And it's a bloody shame, really, because it looks like it could be a pretty decent sandwich otherwise.

104 diggsA chance recording by astronauts on the International Space Station has captured the moment a volcano explosively erupted, sending massive shockwaves through the atmosphere.

209 diggsOn last night's Daily Show, Jason Jones quizzed people on the streets in a country whose education system is in shambles and where no value is placed on understanding the outside world. He also quizzed some people in Iran.

167 diggsThink "hearse" and a long black Cadillac is what usually comes to mind. Toyota has a better, greener idea however: the Prius Hearse.

102 diggsRaise you hands if you had really cool parents who, despite their evident distaste and lack of love for one another, avoided dragging you into their twisted web of lies and deceit by showering you with toys and stuff.

87 diggsWith gems like Octopus' Garden it's a wonder why Ringo didn't write more!

177 diggsArchaeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday.

329 diggsSouth Carolina Governor Mark Sanford returned to the United States on Wednesday from a secret private trip to Argentina, ending days of speculation over his whereabouts and raising questions about his...

197 diggsHow many zombies would come after you under an attack? Take an IQ-styled quiz that determines how many zombies your brain can feed.

275 diggs Helpful set of tips to conceal your happiness at the beach.

222 diggsOver a ten-year period, the PalmOS grew to support about 29,000 apps. The App Store passed that mark about 10 months after launching, and by now has probably doubled it.

154 diggsImagine a planet dominated by cities like Mega-City One, a megalopolis of more than 400 million people across the east coast of the United States, featured in the Judge Dredd comic. Don't hold your breath: The 21st century will soon have 19 cities with populations of 20 million or more.

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114 diggsUS News & World Report Interviews Cong. Ron Paul about the Fed and his bill to Audit the Fed (HR 1207)President Obama's financial regulatory plan has created controversy over the role of the Federal Reserve in our economy like rarely before. The person in Congress with perhaps the most unconventional point view on these issues in American

77 diggsA four-year-old boy in Turkey has miraculously escaped injury after being hit by a runaway car. The car mounted the pavement after swerving to avoid a puppy in the road. Video footage shows Muhammet Dirlik being struck by the vehicle as it careers down a flight of steps, with the boy tumbling down the stairs in front of it.

149 diggsNinjas vs. Pirates is my fav

124 diggsThe problem with sites that track the top links on Twitter

92 diggsA new project in California will dig deeper than ever before to capture geothermal energy from hot bedrock. But the rock has to be broken up to extract the heat, a process that creates earthquakes. NYT's James Glanz explains the science behind the fears that the project could possibly set-off large earthquakes.

258 diggsThis week, Zero Punctuation reviews Prototype in a head-to-head cage match against inFamous.

260 diggsPicower Institute study strengthens link between sleep, memory formation

319 diggsFollowing one game from conception to death.

166 diggsGoogle are expected to unveil a social-networking mobile phone today, which integrates online-sharing sites Twitter and Facebook and Flickr into its software.

122 diggsA movie about the duo behind Facebook is in the works, with Aaron 'West Wing' Sorkin writing. However, the rumour mill is a churning and some interesting names have been attached to the project.

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79 diggs(Reuters) - Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the...

66 diggsThe Ingber Lab at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston has developed a magnetic blood filtering system to get rid of microbes from blood in situ. This system works by adding plastic-coated iron-oxide beads that are coated with antibodies for a specific pathogen. The beads will then strongly adhere to the pathogen in the blood

123 diggsThe thing that intrigued me most about the new iPhone was the ability to take better stills and to record video. When I found out I was eligible for the upgrade, it was a no brainer. In the past few years I had narrowed down my mobile devices down to three, I thought the new iPhone would narrow it down to one.

156 diggsMaybe they will, maybe they won't... but their track record sucks and it's all about the money so fuck you California thanks to AltaRock Energy, will begin using methods that have previously set off earthquakes in Switzerland to drill deep into ground laced with fault lines in an area two hours’ drive north of San Francisco.

138 diggsBut that doesn't mean we cant ridicule them unrelentingly, especially when they happen to make mistakes so unnerving that the only thing to do is to construct a list chronicling the incompetence in a historical light......................

71 diggsMichael Bay may never win a Best Director Oscar, but he has created the biggest explosion ever caught on film in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, which opens on June 24. As millions of people line up to see the biggest blast ever, we look back to rank the ten greatest explosions in movie history.

169 diggsWe love the idea of video game characters being everyday people. We think it would be funny to see Soda Popinski walk into a bar, Mario actually trying to fix a pipe, or Duke Nukem being held up in traffic. With that in mind, we did an impromptu photoshoot of Halo's Master Chief getting his senior photos taken and thought we would share.

155 diggsStarter kits are great time savers for web designers; if you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets. These icons and graphics in a single file are particularly useful for designers who often create mock-ups for project pitching.

100 diggsA study by the EPA shows that Americans could enjoy cleaner air, save money on utility bills, and see substantial job growth for about ¢25 more in taxes a day, but the GOP and industry lobbyists are not buying it.

38 diggsAwesome dissection and explanation of an optical illusion by Phil Plait. What we see is not always the truth.

136 diggsJust yesterday On June 23rd, the City of San Francisco signed into effect the nation’s first law mandating that all residents and businesses separate their recycling and compost material from normal trash. While many other cities in the US require recycling, no other city requires separation of food scraps and foot material to be composted.

150 diggsTo needlessly expose the wide gulf between video game physics and the laws of the real world...

158 diggsSummer isn't quite in full swing in the northern hemisphere, but with nearly a full year's data on power usage, power generation and cost of the solar installation it's easy to determine whether it's worth it.

128 diggsThe Sears Tower will undergo a $350 million green remodeling effort at the 110-story skyscraper, including wind turbines, green roofs and solar panels.

97 diggsStewart also reveals the worst guess he ever had... and there's a clip of THAT interview too.

118 diggsThe crash occurred on the outskirts of the city. At least nine people died and at least 75 were injured, emergency officials said.

154 diggsVANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian police were on the search on Monday for a brazen thief who snatched a take-away meal while making a naked run past a fast food restaurant's drive-though window. An employee of a Langley, British...

193 diggsJim Cameron screened 24 minutes of footage from Avatar at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam last night, moistening fanboy panties the world over. /Film collected some reactions to the footage reported anonymously to other websites (yes, we went there. welcome to the internet). Set phasers to “breathless”:

127 diggsWe could say we know that a big proportion of all economic activity is social or altruistic, we just don’t know how big.

261 diggsI'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me with any news or thoughts. Send me instant messages at nico.pitney@gmail.com or njpitney on AIM. Scroll down for news related to the front-page headlines. Local Iran time is 8 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time.

125 diggsWith his hair half-braided - and half in a huge bushy afro - Marcus T. Bailey could easily win an award for worst hair day of all time. The 25-year-old had been halfway through a visit to the barbershop when he stepped outside allegedly to sell crack cocaine to two addicts.

141 diggsNo matter what part of the country you spent your childhood, you likely grew up hearing the same easy-to-recognize sound of the neighborhood ice cream truck.

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184 diggsThis is a collection of all the gameplay footage shown so far for The Old Republic.

52 diggsAn Iowa high school football coach died Wednesday after he was shot inside the school as athletes were lifting weights, the district superintendent told CNN.

157 diggsBy finding an HTML tag that allowed Google to offer ads on the right hand side of its search page without delaying page loading times, Google was able to cash in without harming the user experience, said Marissa Mayer, vice president for search products and experience, at the O'Reilly Velocity 2009 conference.

208 diggsThe new 3G S iPhone has a coating that helps you leave no, well hardly any, prints–-fingerprints. The glass screen is coated with a polymer, a plastic that human skin oil doesn't adhere to very well. People in the chemical bonding business like to call the finished surface "oleophobic."

123 diggsThose inspired crazies at Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, built a giant, working coding cryptex. The device was built for a demo at the RSA Conference, held at the Mascone Center in SF, in April. Now the pair...

213 diggsNickelodeon Compound is the name given to several molding substances created and sold by Nickelodeon (TV channel) and Mattel in the 1990s. Like most molding compounds, they could be kept in their container to retain plasticity, or molded and allowed to harden overnight. They featured a wide variety of compounds with different attributes.

203 diggsThis is beyond belief!The world must stand up against such brutality!Women of Iran: remove your head scarfs in silent peaceful protest!Men of Iran: Refuse to work! Hold your girlfriends hands in peaceful protest!

146 diggsJimmy Ruth Martin, 73, who sells real estate in Louisville, Texas, said she gives her border collie Samantha table food: chicken, steak, potatoes, salad, ice cream. "She'll eat anything I'm eating," she said. She then also stated that her dog has gotten so fat, she can't climb up on the bed.

73 diggsIt is cool to see the game before it was played by cyborgs.

174 diggsThe Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, is staging an exhibition of some of the finest images of Saturn captured by Nasa's Cassini-Huygens probe since its mission began in 2004. Saturn, the second largest planet in the Solar System, is famous for its stunning rings and boasts more than 60 moons.

168 diggsBerlin artist Aisha Ronniger started the project, Papergirl, in 2005 when the police force was intent on cracking down on street art. Ronniger started brainstorming about new ways to show and distribute art in public spaces. A friend told her, “You should be throwing your art around, like the paperboys in America do.”

74 diggsThe company who also own's Bethesda's stable of powerhouse franchises now includes Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, and RAGE

86 diggsSo please take some time to review these 20 great tutorials on PSD to XHTML Conversion. Hope you like them all.

177 diggsA choked-up South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford issued a raw apology to his wife, family, staff, friends, in-laws, people of faith, and South Carolinians for "creating a fiction with regard to where I was going" and cheating on his wife.

130 diggsThe company’s Pre App Catalog, which has been widely criticized for its paltry selection, just reached 1 million downloads. Not bad for an app store that launched with just 18 applications and currently boasts only 30.

211 diggsCivil rights attorney and Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald discusses the success of Portugal's drug decriminalization policy 7 years in, what the United States can learn, and where Obama currently stands on the issue.

151 diggsFrom Baba Booey to Adam Coarolla.

209 diggsMicrosoft has confirmed the acquisition of 3DV Systems, an Israeli company that specializes in advanced image sensing technology. A number of patents owned by 3DV Systems and Prime Sense have reportedly been licensed by Microsoft for use in Project Natal.

170 diggsYou thought it was a coincidence the last few times it happened? Well, once again, Fox News has incorrectly labeled a Republican as a Democrat when there's some bad news about them; in this case, an affair. Fuck you very much, Fox.

135 diggsIn a shock to be heard round the world of people who find this sort of thing simply fascinating, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that they will be expanding the Best Picture category from a meager five nominees to a full whopping TEN nominees.

72 diggsSpeaks for itself.

110 diggsAn SF officer concludes distinguished career while being investigated by the FBI.

115 diggsThis is no joke. There are still Internet Service Providers (ISPs) out there offering free service. We’re going to look at a few ways to find totally free unlimited Internet access, legitimately and legally.

156 diggsMichael Bay has never been one to embrace or even read film critics, and with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, those aggrieved legions are returning the favor. And while the film is altogether review-proof, that’s not going to stop some of its most determined foes from attempting to smother it in its crib...

268 diggsLet’s be clear: Sony hasn’t let a word slip about any game system to follow the PlayStation 3, but it’s never too early to begin peeking down the pipe at what’s to come.

114 diggsJackie Cox made millions from her diet plan, but this photo has to make you wonder...

166 diggsThe Palmetto State could certainly do a lot worse.

82 diggsCameron previewed 24 minutes of his new movie, Avatar, to over 1,000 industry attendees at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam. 24 minutes of footage was shown from the movie, all unreleased. All attendees were required to sign non-disclosure agreements, but anonymous reports have already leaked online, so far its unanimous -Avatar is blowing people away

173 diggsHealth insurers have forced consumers to pay billions of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should have paid, according to a report released today by the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee.

302 diggsWhat started as a steady flow of water from a flooded river took out an entire road in just 4 minutes and created a 25 foot gap in the road in less than half an hour.

82 diggsWe never, NEVER thought we'd hear ourselves saying this, but, dear lord, we need a good sequel and we need one NOW. Fine, the movie sequel has gotten a pretty bad rap over the years - deservedly so - but, even though we've been hurt by sequels before, there's just something about a part two, prequel, or next chapter...

332 diggsClint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore each score goals as the U.S. snaps Spain's winning streak in the Confederation's Cup. They will face the winner of Brazil-South Africa in the final.

171 diggsRIAA member Universal Music Group this past weekend was forced to settle a music file sharing lawsuit it had filed against New Hampshire resident Mavis Roy. The label dropped its case after evidence provided by anti-piracy snooping firm MediaSentry was successfully challenged by the defense's expert witness Dr. Sergey Bratus.

324 diggsRead it and weep, Governor Sanford. It's in South Carolina's Code of Laws, Title 16--Crimes and Offenses, Chapter 15 "Offenses Against Morality and Decency"

105 diggs“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” contains the kind of stupidity that can't be properly expressed without spoilers. If you're already seen it, then you'll need catharsis. A way to vent your frustrations, to have someone say: “I feel your pain!” Consider this simple breakdown of reasons the film really and truly sucks as a form of therapy.

198 diggsAt just two feet tall, Khagendra Thapa Magar is just four months away from being named the world's smallest man.

175 diggsAll of these people think they're incredibly original, but in the end they all fit the mold

63 diggsBreckin Meyer and Zac Efron have had issues recently, Breckin talks to Zac the only way he's learned how to from the Perez Hilton and Will.I.Am battle.

164 diggsThe Weeds-like drug ring bust was almost blown after an internal leak, and a prominent Chinese restaurant owner -- his food beloved by President Bush -- was implicated.

215 diggsBoulevard of broken wings.

79 diggsBritain has become Europe's cocaine capital, a bombshell United Nations report revealed yesterday. More than one million Brits use the drug regularly - making us the biggest market for the drug in Europe.

111 diggsMillions of people use BitTorrent daily, but little is known about the market share of the available clients - until now. An objective sample of more than 150,000 unique IPs shows that uTorrent is the client of choice for more than half of all BitTorrent users. Vuze is in second place with close to 17 percent followed by the mainline client with 12

360 diggsProfoundly sick society?

207 diggsSan Francisco’s Broadway tunnel is a highly traveled thoroughfare in the heart of the city. Over 20,000 cars, trucks, and motorized vehicles pass through it per day. Its walls are caked with dirt and soot, and lined with patches of paint covered graffiti from days gone by. It set the perfect canvas to create a beautiful work.

72 diggsWe have collection some very beautiful photos in motion. These photos displays human beings, animals and other objects in motion in respect to either their background or in motion itself. Enjoy this cool collection of photos.

105 diggsIf you want to be a real Heavy Metal band and not some poseur, you MUST follow these rules. Or else.

97 diggsIn this web design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a professional web design with an illustrated "vector" header in Photoshop. You’ll see many techniques here including how to draw using the Pen Tool and a excellent type treatment using layer styles.

128 diggsThe proliferation of blogs, social media and other social networks like twitter are opening up meetings to those not actually there. Does that mean there is too much access to science in the raw?

105 diggsYou can't beat the Bollywood classics for their overt romantic tension, where intimate touching (yes, even kissing!) was replaced with the poetic, polite innuendo of hot rain and wet clothing.

110 diggsCyclist crashes into car during race

47 diggsOnly a few months ago, Coach Bruce Weber praised Jordan's defense and said the 6-foot-1 guard had a chance to earn more playing time next season.

139 diggsFrom BioShock to World of Warcraft, see what games lead our list of ground-breaking titles that rocked the gaming world to its core.

94 diggs# When an elementary school required students to wear radio frequency IDs, some parents saw the specter of Big Brother.By Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer LATimes, SUTTER, Calif. - This little Northern California farm town is blissfully unaccustomed to turmoil. But recent weeks dished up a hopper of dissent. RFID chips

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104 diggsIt's easy to think you're young and invincible. You're not. Find out which diseases may hit you sooner than you'd think.

154 diggsDigsby has been a rising competitor in instant messaging. Its social client can not only link to your Gtalk and AIM, but to your Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Gmail. But it faces stiff competition from competitors like Meebo, Trillian, Pidgin, and dozens of other web and desktop-based IM clients.

109 diggsA woman pukes all over her husband after rooting through his browser history. The moral is that he should be using IE8 for private browsing... Because IE8 is the only browser on earth that does that, right?

194 diggsA bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.

96 diggsThe mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth's atmosphere, says new Cornell University research. The conclusion is supported by an unlikely source: the exhaust plume from the NASA space shuttle launched a century later.

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117 diggsIt's time to bail YOU out. The number of customers unable to pay off their credit card each month is swelling. And credit card companies, facing the possibility of customers defaulting entirely, are now willing to come to a settlement for substantially less than the amount owed.

116 diggsBooks, once considered the the pinnacle of human civilization, have slowly gone into retreat. Whether it’s technology, modern society or time, the reason behind the demise is widely debated, but what we know for sure is that books today, are still a great way to experience adventure thrills, learn about faraway places and contemplate the future.

128 diggsThe following are some of the most famous porn offers, and other porn-related situations involving celebrities. Some are hilarious and some are awesome, some are just absurd.

191 diggsTripAdvisor's messy, user-generated system is increasingly under fire for fomenting propaganda. The objections are piling on so quickly that the Web site has placed disclaimers on at least 92 hotel pages.

228 diggsNew Jersey blogger Hal Turner has been arrested for the second time in two weeks for threatening violence against public officials on his website.

165 diggs'Dexter' season four teaser poster.

317 diggsThe culture of Tweed: With the incredible popularity of fixed-gear andsingle-speed bicycles, a subculture of tweed has quietly been gaining speed.

194 diggsHave you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google's Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome. And it doesn't look good. Search for a place, pick a weapon and press "Nuke It."

104 diggsThe companies also use different business models: Netflix pays postage for each DVD rented, so it does best when customers opt for ambitious subscription plans but are slow to watch and return movies. Redbox’s profits on renting each disc as many times as possible and Redbox rental costs just $1 per day.

108 diggsThe first teaser poster for Iron Man 2 has arrived… and it’s underwhelming. Remember all those great posters for Iron Man? It was one after another starting with a teaser showing Iron Man’s hand drawn, followed by awesome posters of Iron Man in all sorts of appropriately cinematic poses.

91 diggsWho wouldn't want their kids to play in Paul's backyard?

134 diggsA company out of Baltimore has rolled out an electric car sharing program featuring 10 small city cars that deliver as much as 120 miles per charge. While the company does not intend to compete with ZipCar’s market, there’s no reason the program couldn’t be launched elsewhere.

145 diggsA bomb ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad's main Shiite district on Wednesday, killing at least 69 people and wounding more than 100 less than a week before a deadline for U.S. combat troops to leave Iraq's urban areas.

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82 diggs27-year-old Bill Cosby talks about his early days as a ground-breaking comic.

71 diggsGoogle’s global website was blocked in China on Wednesday night, marking an escalation in Beijing’s unprecedented crackdown on the world’s leading search engine company. Attempts to access Google.com and Gmail from different computers in Beijing started failing after 9pm local time, but the websites could be accessed through proxy servers

276 diggsCheerleaders Scandals: When cheerleaders go bad...

188 diggsFounding Father's View of God

406 diggsThe 'Safari' icon is what got me.

171 diggsNyjai Hill is dressed like a debutante, but she isn't in the mood to act like one. Wearing a white dress, a tiara and gloves that reach her elbows, she can no longer ignore the pain in her feet as she balances on teetering heels.

147 diggsResearchers from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan have carried out the first international comparison of cognitive function in nationally representative samples of older adults in the US and England and discovered that US seniors performed significantly better that their English counterparts.

125 diggsLooks like Lebron will be getting a little help. Cleveland will send Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic to Phoenix for the future Hall of Famer.

109 diggsThe government estimates the Iranian blogosphere has roughly 60,000 to 100,000 active blogs and about 21 million Iranians online regularly.

155 diggsThis week it was reported that Steve Jobs, the CEO and cofounder of Apple, underwent a liver transplant two months ago. One detail concerning Jobs's transplant seemed odd: The surgery took place at a hospital in Tennessee, some 2,000 miles from Jobs' home in northern California. Why Tennessee?

90 diggsShaq is joining Lebron in Cleveland (which *should* mean an NBA Finals appearance) and he found out via Twitter. Which, I guess, is how it should work, right?

159 diggsWhat have a snake, a giant white rabbit, a life-size skeleton and an inflatable outdoor pool got in common? They've all been left behind in their rooms by British students.

96 diggsBelieve it or not, Tim Burton's 'Batman' turned twenty-years old yesterday. First of all, the sheer number of 'I can't believe this movie is twenty-years old' conversations only reminds us what a gloriously good year for movies that 1989 really was.

205 diggsA TWO-YEAR-OLD boy from the city of Tianjin in China is the world's youngest smoker. The father said his son was born with a hernia, and being too young for an operation, has taken up smoking to help him deal with the pain. He's now a pack a day toddler he won't give up, screaming and throwing himself on the floor if he's refused a smoke.

108 diggsThe United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said the UK is Europe's largest cocaine market - with more than one million regular users.