206 diggsFemales are capable of providing quite the distraction for any male athlete.

235 diggsWalMart fired a cancer patient and former Employee of the Year for using medical marijuana, as advised by his doctor, in a state where it is legal. How do you teach a big, dumb corporate beast? You hurt it in the only way it understands. It's time to teach WalMart that mistreating medical marijuana patients is very, very bad for business....

147 diggsFrom 10 to 24 March 2010, IKEA develops an interesting event in four important metro stations in Paris. Furniture collections are currently displayed in high-traffic spots, giving the potential customers a chance to interact with the brand by checking out the products.

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166 diggsSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is on a search-and-destroy mission for anything that comes from the Democrats. This especially applies to health care, where he has decided that opposition boils down to one word: No. Is this a winning strategy? McConnell and his GOP colleagues are betting on it.

167 diggsPresident Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.

80 diggsCoolidge High School in Washington, D.C. did something on Friday that ordinarily wouldn't be a big deal to anyone other than the kids at Coolidge. What Coolidge did is actually extraordinary: It hired Natalie Randolph, who is now believed to be the only female head football coach at any high school, anywhere in the United States.

122 diggs"At least I won't be nominated anymore," Pop said, laughing. He believed The Stooges would never get into the Rock Hall "right up until the day before somebody called me. I kept telling the guys over and over: 'We're not gonna get in, guys.' Yeah. I was absolutely sure of that."

144 diggsTalks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.

109 diggsJamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.

214 diggsTroll chatroulette

122 diggsSpectators cheered as the Paralympic cauldron flared to light in Vancouver, marking the start of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games which get underway here Saturday. More than 500 athletes with disabilities, from 45 countries, are due to compete in alpine skiing, biathlon and cross-country skiing, wheel chair curling and ice sledge hockey.

156 diggsLondon looks set to raise the bar even higher with plans to blow Vancouver’s achievements out of the water in 2012. The London Olympic Authority have stated that they are aiming to make London 2012 the first sustainable Olympic Games, setting a precedent for future events.

143 diggsThe mysterious mechanism was discovered in 1900 in the wreck of a Roman vessel off the Greek island of Antikythera. The ship held other treasures that were taken over by the Greek government, but one of the items retrieved by the divers was an odd-looking corroded lump of some kind.

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183 diggsA week after alerting residents about a fake FBI agent roaming around Kissimmee, FL, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that their suspect turned out to be a real agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

150 diggsFormer U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday with a stomach virus, a doctor told CNN.

224 diggsThe only person to ever be rejected from the Guido Shore for being too tan.

176 diggsWhile no operating system is perfect, Microsoft appears to have made significant security improvements with the release of Windows 7.

111 diggsReports from this week's Game Developers Conference make one thing clear: Games on mobile phones are not just a niche category anymore.

175 diggsWhether they serve as the marquee name on a network show or edify an ensemble with fast-deployed zingers, these women of primetime substantiate 2010 as a golden age of comedy. In this countdown we embrace live performers, scripted superstars, supporting cast members, new talent, veterans, and cable outlaws.

166 diggsA very strong start for the latest Final Fantasy title with two thirds of sales on PS3 - now updated with the figures for Other Regions as well.

123 diggsA new banking phone system will identify those with low credit approvals and put them through to a call centre in India.

197 diggsList featuring some of the most beautiful weird places that you have probably never visited.

122 diggsFor some people, the United States Census is a too long, too cumbersome questionnaire that is a once-a-decade hassle. That attitude, however, can be very harmful to our cities' futures. The census

123 diggs'Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob'. That Facebook message, sent last fall between co-workers at a large U.S. financial firm, rang true enough. Alice had, in fact, attended a picnic with Bob, who mentioned the outing on his Facebook profile page.

191 diggsCriminals with connections to the Black Cobra network are suspected by police of pilfering 120 boxes of almond tarts, punch rolls, apple crowns and brownies from a delivery truck in southern Sweden on Thursday.

184 diggsBlake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O'Gara, saying "I need you to send a jab PJ's way," and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone. A la the HP scandal. She got fired for doing it the way she did...

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281 diggsA Conan O'Brien fan posed for a photo with Jay Leno last night with the letters "Coco FTW" written on his hand

172 diggsThis is Burrito, and although he’s not very good at golf, I love him because he at least dresses the part. Where did his owner find such tiny golf clubs? I don’t care: all that matters is that he has them.

132 diggsDrinkers who are overweight face a "double whammy" impact on their liver, research suggests.

127 diggsGoogle's Apps suite for domain owners and businesses has finally received some star treatment with the launch of the Apps Marketplace. Which Google-friendly apps are free, worth the cost, and entirely useful? These 10 are definitely worth a look.

114 diggsWhen the Supreme Court decided the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, henceforth allowing corporate soft money to influence U.S. elections, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) cynically opined that it would lead to the election of the "congressman from Wal-Mart." Turns out, he may be right. -=W/ VIDEO=-

133 diggsEnjoy a new take on the Spinal Tap hit.

172 diggs"Buried below the tundra of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a type of frozen natural gas containing methane and ice crystals that could supply energy to China for 90 years"

177 diggsAs House Democratic leaders advised their members Friday to prepare for a legislative battle over health care that could stretch through next weekend, four additional rank-and-file Democrats have come out against the Obama administration's signature domestic priority.

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72 diggsCheck out the company's opening line: "If your iPad requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge, Apple will replace your iPad for a service fee." Hear that? REPLACE. Better back up your iPad data before sending off into the land of no return!

151 diggsWhy do we move our clocks forward in March? Learn about the origins and why we change the time.

167 diggsA series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.

92 diggsThese vampires suck (no pun intended). However, they still kick the shit out of Twilight's sorry excuse for the bloodsucking undead.

164 diggsTo get the funny part of this picture you have to enlarge it and go through it!

278 diggsIt's vital for a hard-hitting action game to have appropriately powerful guns, but it's also important to have weapons that are fun to wield, require in-depth strategy to use, and don't look and act like the same old thing from every other game.

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115 diggsK'NAAN's hit, Wavin' Flag, has become the theme song for Young Artists for Haiti. The Canadian hip-hop artist's, signature tune was re-worked and recorded by a cross-section of 57 of today's biggest Canadian music stars. They gathered to record the song in an effort to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

106 diggsSure we love them... But, aren't there, like, a LOT of them? A lot of them seem pretty.... similar? Surely we could do without a lot of them. Here are some that really need to stop publishing beacuse they are either A) Evil or B) Superfluous. Here's the definitive list.

221 diggsFrom being a devoted dad and husband to mastering his craft, why Jeff Bridges rocks.

155 diggsJob losses, home foreclosures and the worst economy in decades have forced many Americans to cut back or do without. But not members of Congress, who voted themselves a 5 percent increase in their own budgets last year.

120 diggsWith more Southeast Asians flouting cultural prudishness by speaking openly about sex, condom companies in Indonsia and Thailand, such as Thai Nippon Rubber hope to raise revenues here in 2010. But that's proving to be a challenge due to deeply engrained social and cultural views that associate condoms with extramarital sex, prostitution and sin.

317 diggsReplica of big skull from 28,000 years ago suggests human brains have started to shrink. Scientists, who claim to have produced one of the best replicas yet of an early modern human�s skull, say it is up to 20 per cent bigger than ours.

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160 diggsAnd look at that purple suit...

238 diggsJene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.

90 diggsIt might sound like the start of a bad joke, but how many Venezuelan soldiers does it take to change a light bulb? When the country is in the midst of its worst electricity crisis for 50 years, the answer is lots. In fact, an entire army's worth.

185 diggsUltra Conservatives approve radical changes in Textbooks that will be used by millions of students in the coming decade. Cutting out Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton from the History pages and inserting Religious figures instead.

187 diggsThe company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday. The result, according to the Norwegian company, would be a browser up to six times faster than the iPhone's default Web tool, Safari. The open question is is whether Apple will approve the application.

150 diggsDave DeGobbi's mind-blowing Crawler Town should have its own moviewritten around it. If there are any fans of Borderlands out there,it's heavily reminiscent of Baron Flynt's massive rig-turned-city, theThor.

113 diggsThe revisionist history peddled by Liz Cheney and Karl Rove must be aggressively refuted, and we must remember who really failed to keep America safe.

214 diggsA landslide triggered by torrential rains in northern Pakistan has created a massive artificial lake in the Hunza valley, inundating several villages.Thousands of people are stranded in the highly mountainous region and forced to use boats to get around on icy waters.

106 diggsGuiding a car through the treacherous turns and switchbacks of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb course is a test for top professionals, but a team of Stanford researchers is preparing to tackle that challenge with a driverless car guided by GPS tracking.

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259 diggsNintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime had a stern assessment of Sony and Microsoft's rush to motion controls, stating "I think we would have been embarrassed to do what our competitors are currently doing"

233 diggsLong gone but not forgotten, these candies bring back memories.

157 diggsCops say story is a lie. The 50-year-old told cops he killed the woman and two men and had already chopped up his rivals' bodies and dumped them in New Jersey. Cops found the body of Deborah Blount, 51, in her Brownsville apartment Friday morning and arrested her boyfriend, John Brandon, at the scene.

93 diggsAndre Agassi is kind of an ass

367 diggsShe was probably hoping at least one, possible two, might respond. But when a Chinese student posted a message at college saying she wanted a boyfriend, they came in their droves.Instead of looking down from her balcony on a romantic scene as her potential suitor waited below, Zhang Mengqian was confronted with a huge mob.

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78 diggsDeclaring a species extinct is no trivial matter. A team of Australian researchers are trying to bring a more rigorous approach to this area with the help of the dodo.

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257 diggsUnwieldy, poorly managed companies that are supposed to be icons of British industry are being held to ransom by trade unionists—and a Labour Government, which desperately needs their cash for its election campaign, does nothing. This could be 1979, not 2010.

171 diggsThe NAACP needs to bring in a younger cadre of activists whose post-civil-rights-era upbringing has left them both more comfortable with and more committed to the idea of gay rights than their elders. No one is suggesting any of this will be easy. Sadly, the struggle for equality and justice hardly ever is.

155 diggsA 29-year-old man arrived home at his Pennsylvania flat and immediately noticed something wrong. His dog was acting strangely, and he heard a noise coming from the apartment. So he grabbed an ornamental sword from the wall...

117 diggs The discovery of Homo floresiensis shocked and divided scientists. Here apparently was a band of distant relatives that exhibited features not seen for millions of years but were living at the same time as much more modern humans

139 diggsWho is responsible for malware in ads, Web site owners or ad networks and delivery firms? Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves this week in an unpleasant position when visitors to their respective Drudge Report and TechCrunch sites were targeted by malware that appeared to have come from ads...

94 diggsValleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google ‘gets it’” and “Google must sacrifice user privacy to grow.”

95 diggsThere's bad news for NFL fans on the Sprint network. The NFL has officially taken on rival Verizon as the official wireless

85 diggsApple had a chance to own mobile advertising company AdMob for $600 million, but blew it, the New York Times reports.

91 diggsWhen cells move about in the body, they follow a complex pattern similar to that which amoebae and bacteria use when searching for food, researchers have found. The discovery has a practical value for drug development: Incorporating this basic behavior into computer simulations of biological processes that involve cell migration...

310 diggsAt the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.

161 diggsA 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

221 diggsFor nearly two centuries, runners and spectators have gathered on a steep Cotswolds hill for the Whitsun cheese rolling. The rough and tumble spectacle sees daredevil competitors chase a 7lb wheel of Double Gloucester down the 200-yard incline in one of Britain's most eccentric traditions. But organisers have been forced to cancel this year...

293 diggsLeo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming on the Internet at Diggnation Live case. As seen at SXSW 2010 at Stubbs BBQ in Austin, TX!

74 diggsGoogle responds to user feedback and quietens down Buzz inbox noise.WHILE conversation in Google Buzz, the very post appears in your Gmail inbox, but Gmail users have recently responded negatively by saying that it makes the inbox 'noisy'.

183 diggsOnLive, the streaming games-on-demand service, will launch on June 17 for $15/month, the company announced Wednesday at Game Developers

212 diggsGot some spare change laying around and want to support a good cause? The folks over at TheSpeedGamers are tearing through the entire Metroid series once again in order to raise money for the Hal...

116 diggsMicrowaves have gotten a bad rap with some people because they just don't cook some things as they should be cooked. However, according to Savory Sweet Life, it is possible to make potato chips in the microwave that taste great. Try these out some night for a midnight snack.

235 diggsGoogle’s new logo, which you can see on the top right, contains not only the famous πr2 formula, but five other uses of π: measuring the volume of a sphere (V = 4⁄3 πr3), computing the circumference of a circle (C = 2πr), measuring the volume of a cylinder (V = πr2h), Archimedes’ calculation of Pi (223/71 < π < 22/7), and even the ...

208 diggshttp://seanseo.com/ Learn how to use FireFox Personas in this step by step video. Get Personas For Firefox. NOW full setup instructions..............

90 diggsWith the biggest fight crowd in the U.S. in 17 years cheering him on at Cowboys Stadium, Pacquiao dominated a strangely passive Joshua Clottey from the opening bell Saturday night to retain his welterweight title and cement his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

566 diggsHe looks turret-fied.

140 diggsNo copyright and/or patent reform for you, American citizens!

144 diggsSWSW Interactive opened on Friday in Austin, Tex., drawing a crowd of thousands and a collection of speakers that includes director Quentin Tarantino, Twitter founder Evan Williams, and Microsoft Researcher Danah Boyd. Here's what you can expect from it.

197 diggs"Men who hate women" is the original book title this movie was based on. Why they changed it is beyond me as the original title is what made me read it. In any case this is a fantastic book remade into a movie and I am very excited to see it coming to America.