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September 1 2008 1 2269 diggsThe iPhone’s growing presence on the Web, having leveled off before the introduction of the iPhone 3G, surged in the month and a half since, according to preliminary data released today by Net Applications, an Aliso Viejo, CA-based Web service company. 163 diggsMost of the history that happened in Beijing over the past few weeks took place in gyms, in the pool and on the track. But there was also history in the air, specifically the best summer air quality this city has seen in 10 years. 354 diggsLet’s start with the simplest of facts: in 2004, 18 electoral votes would have swung the election to John Kerry. This time around, Obama is cruising in every single Kerry state, as well as three states that went to Bush in 2004. Plus, he's dangerously close to snatching four more Bush states right from underneath McCain's nose. 299 diggsFree trade used to seem like a good thing for U.S. businesses and consumers. Now we're not so sure. 315 diggsThe visual effects, the story lines are so different from the original movie that it's like a whole new film. I now know where the Matrix bros got their inspiration. This remake is a must see, and get in in BluRay the effects are killer. 530 diggsDutch paper says country's intel service has called off an operation in Iran due to looming air-strike. 316 diggsBattery manufacturer Ener1 just announced that they're foreseeing an 50% drop in the price of lithium ion batteries as production increases. Where exactly this price drop will be coming from, we're not sure. 189 diggsThe analysis, of more than 500 million junk messages, revealed those letters that get more junk than average. It found that e-mail addresses starting with an "A", "M" or "S" got more than 40% spam. By contrast those beginning with a "Q" or "Z" got about 20%. 314 diggsOur spicy, siesta loving friends over at Engadget Spanish just nabbed a hands-on with Hama's iPod nano 4G case on the floor of IFA. The tip came in anonymously about an hour ago and sure enough, there it is, buried in a mountain of iPod accessories and sharing the same smooth arc of the Kevin Rose nano -- as it will from henceforth be known. 154 diggsTWO foreign women have been jailed for a month for kissing and fondling each other and engaging in "indecent acts" on a public beach in Dubai. 174 diggsIrving Kofsky is 84, an ex-nuclear physicist and current retiree. So what does a Depression-era guy make of the desert festival famed for sex, drugs and self-indulgence? 300 diggsI’m no expert — the comment section here at FSR has proven that time and time again — but I would be willing to go out on a limb and say that the folks over at Lionsgate, the studio currently distributing Transporter 3 here in the states, are getting a little lazy with the marketing. A few days ago, the gentlemen at JoBlo debuted the final poster 174 diggsSorry, but no matter how many drugs you consume before watching this movie, there is NOTHING that can make you leave the theater without wanting to beat the living $H!T out of all nearby innocent bystanders. This review will hopefully prevent you from buying tickets to this sad excuse for a parody film. 274 diggsAt $6.55, the federal minimum wage is worth 40 cents less per hour, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was a decade ago. 283 diggsGone are the days when the only source of Linux distribution was the web. 133 diggsThe interactive layers displayed here will be updated regularly during Gustav's approach and landing on the Gulf Coast. 360 diggsOn Thursday, you would have seen Michael Phelps, still basking in the glow of his olympic triumphs, presented with a copy of Call of Duty: World At War. A game that's months from completion. Turns out Phelps didn't receive the game at all; what he got instead was a box of lies. An Activision PR rep has confirmed that Phelps was presented with an em 192 diggsHere are some photos of the ongoing preparations for the launch of this mission, STS-125, some of the people involved in making it work, and the crew, who will assume the risks to help keep Hubble alive. 722 diggsHow much does Sarah Palin love America? She loves it so much that she once belonged to an Alaskan political party, the Alaskan Independence Party, that wanted to secede from the Union. She loves America so much that she preferred not to be a citizen of America, but a citizen of an autonomous Alaska. There's video proof of this at the link. 241 diggsHollywood has a dilemma. Its blockbusters are all written by men, but to make the real money, they have to sell some tickets to females, too. What to do? Let a woman write a blockbuster? Ha! Of course not. Just insert a feisty woman into the story who won't take any crap from men in a really formulaic way! That should please the feminists, right 606 diggsTroopergate. It's a political he-said, she-said that has dogged Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for nearly two months and is likely to do so for another two months leading to the Nov. 4 presidential election. 424 diggsIn this collection, you’ll find some (45 of them to be exact) of the most attractive, creative designs by talented designers who push the limits of WordPress theming and raise the bar for the rest of us. 300 diggsThe noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds are at an altitude of 47 to 53 miles (76 to 85 km), where meteors and bright aurora lights are not uncommon and the atmosphere gives way to the blackness of space. The clouds remain a scientifically baffling phenomenon more than 120 years after their discovery. 157 diggsOn this day in 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. 250 diggsIt happens to every wine drinker at least once. After agonizing over the perfect bottle to crack open, you realize the corkscrew has gone AWOL. Luckily, there are plenty of other tools you can use to get into (and to the bottom of) your favorite bottle of wine. 174 diggsThis is a circular-application-menu (C-A-M) prototype mirroring the same structure as the existing application menu for the GNOME desktop. This was originally just a paper prototype which I did back in March 2007, and decided to code over Christmas 2007-2008. 279 diggsAt the heart of almost all human cancers is a rogue enzyme, telomerase. Now the structure of a key catalytic component of the enzyme has been discovered, paving the way to more effective anti-cancer and, perhaps, anti-ageing drugs. 260 diggsWe've had a lot of posts about newer movies here on GeekDad, but everyone knows it's important to read classic novels in order to properly appreciate modern ones, and, likewise, it's important to watch classic movies. Now, many classic movies are too complicated or too intense for kids, so it seems appropriate to start the discussion with comedies 189 diggsWhat's the easiest way to get ahold of Steve Jobs? Don't bother calling Apple PR or looking for a quote in the business press. Just email him, apparently: Apple's super-secretive boss appears to be increasingly responding to individuals' notes, which then inevitably get leaked to the Mac/gadget sites and made public. 919 diggsThis had been rumored for some time but now it's official -- Google is working on their own (open source) browser. 330 diggsA decision to dismiss appeals against the controversial fast-track approval of a Microsoft document format has provoked six members of global standards-setting body ISO to question ISO's relevance. Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela -- countries with fast-growing IT markets -- had appealed against ISO's stamp of approval for Microsoft Office 135 diggsESPN.com's NFL experts predict the division winners, wild cards, award winners and the Super Bowl winner. 402 diggsIn November 2006, then gubernatorial candidate Sarah Palin declared that she would not support an abortion for her own daughter even if she had been raped. 468 diggsA Frank Luntz/AARP focus group of undecided voters in Minneapolis had some bad news for John McCain: they don't like the choice of Sarah Palin for VP. About half the 25-member group raised their hands when asked if Palin made them less likely to vote for McCain. They had a negative impression of Palin by a 2-1 margin. They saw the pick as a gimmick 239 diggsGerman engineering conglomerate Siemens, rocked by the worst bribery scandal in the country’s history, won a court ruling on Friday reversing a $56 million fine against the Munich-based company. 324 diggsCharles W. Sykes Jr. is expected to become the only federally licensed dealer in Washington to handle the transactions that put guns in the hands of residents. 904 diggsReuters: "The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child. 430 diggsFirefox is a fastest growing popular web browser. There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. There are lots of free downloadable extensions and add-ons available on the internet for firefox and there demands are increasing every day. 110 diggsFor doctors, having sex with a patient is completely off-limits. Yet research in the US has shown that one-in-10 family doctors has had a sexual relationship with a patient, and 40% of med students said if they were on a remote island and an attractive patient asked them out, they'd say yes. 386 diggsConfirmation today that C-SPAN 2 will cover the entire Rally for the Republic from start to finish. Watch this live everywhere via: http://c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2_wm.aspx RON PAUL 2008 - It is TIME for a real change. 324 diggsGary Vaynerchuk with his brother AJ and Digg's own Joe Stump have launched a T-Shirt search engine called PleaseDressMe. More info can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/tcpleasedressme (via techcrunch) 369 diggsThis quick tutorial will show you how to develop your own functional IM bot that works with Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and all other popular instant messaging clients. 346 diggsA seven-year-old girl with a rare illness is being kept alive by four doses of Viagra a day. 241 diggsBusy dealing with important paperwork and other vice presidential duties in recent weeks, Dick Cheney was forced to put off until the last minute a cherished annual tradition: gift-shopping for his favorite holiday,... 285 diggsCuil seems to be killing websites while indexing it. Way to go Cuil " The Google Killer " 312 diggsAmy Winehouse may have brain damage after suffering two major overdoses in the past 12 months where she binged on crystal meth, heroin and cocaine, it emerged today. 417 diggsAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state's political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. 306 diggs 328 diggsHow fast the world can change in just three years. Forbes recently had a look at the most visited sites today and compared them to the most visited sites just three years ago. Just a simple reminder on how fast things can change as well as how much of a lead MSN, AOL and Yahoo! had a few years back and how quickly Google has jumped ahead of the .. 218 diggsTens of thousands of bare-breasted virgins competed for Swaziland King Mswati III's eye on Monday in a traditional Reed Dance. Walking through the dense crowds in a leopard skin loin cloth, Sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch was expected to choose his 14th wife. 264 diggsThe old adage that one can't lose money on Manhattan real estate doesn't seem to be holding up. Recently released city records indicate that apartments in prime Manhattan neighborhoods are selling for less than their purchase prices — a phenomenon that until now was virtually unheard of in the seemingly invincible New York City real estate market. 237 diggsAtlantis is scheduled to launch on October 8, equipped with all manner of instruments, batteries and gyroscopes for Hubble. Pictured above is one of the massive Atlantis engines being moved to the main bay for installation. That's just one engine, though—there's plenty of space-related tech porn to be found in the rest of the spread, too. 116 diggsMr McCain will not run a “safe” foreign policy. He adores rolling the dice. His decision to select Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate typifies the man. It is a big risk. Or it might turn out to be a disaster. But it is not “safe”. His instinct is always to take the radical option and to march towards the sound of gunfire. 138 diggsAuthorities say a Michigan man survived after his hot air balloon plunged thousands of feet at a South Carolina festival because the basket caught a tree limb 10 feet before it hit the ground. Great Southeast Balloon Fest officials say pilot Chuck Walz, of Munith, Mich., broke his leg and pelvis Sunday morning, but has undergone surgery... 410 diggsObama vows to fire any campaign staffer that stokes the Palin pregnancy story, and obviously isn't happy with the implication his campaign had anything to do with it -- a smear that anonymous McCain aides are peddling to the media. 464 diggsWomen definitely have a thing for bad boys and tough guys. 254 diggsIn response to a Nov. 7 referendum, Kansas lawmakers passed emergency legislation outlawing evolution, the highly controversial process responsible for the development and diversity of species and the continued survival of all life. "From now on, the streets, forests, plains, and rivers of Kansas will be safe from the godless practice of evolution" 105 diggsThe sewers of Dhaka, Bangladesh's overcrowded and polluted capital city, are as unpleasant as you could imagine. But they are also an incredible source of income for a small group of men who do not mind getting their hands dirty. They earn their living by finding tiny specks of gold that are accidentally brushed into the open sewers. 290 diggsIf the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated. 447 diggsThe third generation of Microsoft's Zune portable media player product line has been talked about and speculated for quite a while now, but very little has managed to leak out of Redmond, until now. 199 diggsThe man with the big ideas wasn't so good with the details. Albert often let his intuition overrule flawed proofs and shaky math. Maybe you'll feel a little better about your own flubs. 145 diggsWhile owls and foxes have earned a reputation for wisdom and cunning, the humble goldfish has become popularly known for its ignorance, swimming contentedly around its bowl as its memory was wiped every three seconds. But scientists now claim fish are as intelligent as rats. 148 diggsLatest polling data looking strong for them. 331 diggsWell, saving the environment from the comfort of our computer chairs felt good while it lasted. Google has ended its partnership with "green" search engine Forestle, saying that the site offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links. 563 diggsAs you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries. 243 diggsWhat does steak taste like after twenty-two years of red meat abstinence? A.J. Jacobs heads to Peter Luger's -- the steak lovers' mecca -- to find out. 173 diggsStanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. The result is an autonomous helicopter than can perform a complete airshow of complex tricks on its own. 254 diggsSo, it would appear that Google has plans to shake up the browser ecosystem by releasing an open source browser of its own. What does this mean for the other browsers. 303 diggsI wouldn't call getting hit by a car lucky by any stretch of the word, but this guy is very fortunate to still be alive after this accident. Even more amazing than the fact that he didn't die is how quickly he bounces up and begins to walk it off. 494 diggs 370 diggsAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, has hired a private practice attorney to defend her in the investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner. 229 diggsElectrons have something in common with people: the more information they acquire about their setting, the more they become aware of their individuality and the more belonging to a group loses its importance. As a result, the coherent harmony that binds the electrons into a fixed relationship with their environment is lost. 188 diggsThe genes of a European person can be enough to pinpoint their ancestry down to their home country, claim two new studies. By reading single-letter DNA differences in the genomes of thousands of Europeans, researchers can tell a Finn from a Dane and a German from a Brit. In fact a visual genetic map mirrors the geopolitical map of the continent 169 diggsA 3-year-old girl that authorities have been searching for since July is likely dead, the Orange County, Fla., sheriff's department told a Florida TV station over the weekend. "We clearly have evidence that indicates there was a dead body in the trunk of Casey [Anthony's] car, and that body was Caylee [Anthony]," said a Sheriff. 232 diggsThe young man being hailed as the next Tiger Woods slipped back into New Zealand almost unnoticed last night - toting a huge golf bag and a shy smile. 333 diggsThe final episodes of Season Four of Battlestar Galactica may air very late, according to Aaron Douglas. 606 diggsMcCain's campaign likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which has been pushing for a legal vote on whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the U.S. 212 diggsThe best informants are generally very bad people — ruthless criminals — and while their information helps the FBI crack cases, the practice of using these informants is fraught with risk. A single case in Boston changed the way agents work with these criminals..... 552 diggsDemocracy Now's Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan. 192 diggsMozilla Not Worried About Google new browser 249 diggsMen who have two copies of a "long life gene" triple their odds of living nearly a century, according to a study published today. The advantage is all down to having two "letters" of the 6 billion letter human genetic code that are the same. Scientists believe that this kind of understanding could have important implications for living longer. 329 diggsThe site provides the screenshot above, plus a set of demonstration videos that can’t actually be played because they have either been removed or set to private. We’ve uploaded the splash screens to these videos so you can at least get a fuzzy sense of what Chrome’s features look like. 344 diggsLast year, curious over the hype that was flooding the internet in the wake of the release of Windows Vista, I decided to turn masochist and inflict a 14-day Vista trial on myself. I found the operating system much worse than even its worst critic. 243 diggsThe Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch next month (October 8th), carrying new instruments, batteries and gyroscopes to the Hubble Space Telescope. This will be the final servicing mission to Hubble, the 30th flight of the 23-year old Atlantis, and one of the final 10 flights of the Space Shuttle program, which will be retired in 2010. 141 diggscheck out this pic which explains the difference between geek 1.0 and geek 2.0 (and you dont have to be a geek to understand this) 387 diggsCampbell Brown proves Palin has no National Security Experience, and if she does, McCain's campaign (as well as everyone else) doesn' t know about it. 303 diggsBrewer Vaune Dillmann stands near the metal entry arch in downtown Weed. Dillmann, whose family has deep roots in the community, helped erect the sign back in 1988. 114 diggsIf you love your country, you won't be afraid to criticize it or work to make it a better place for everyone else. 332 diggsA man should know his meat. We can help. We tell you everything you need to know on steak types, grades and cooking times. 170 diggs750,000 television spots, 5,000 movie trailers, 1 voice, Don LaFontaine has the most recognizable voice in the game right now. Here is the legend's story told by none other than the legend himself. RIP, Don, the moviegoing world will miss you. 112 diggsWhen actor David Duchovny made headlines for voluntarily entering rehab for sex addiction, fans of the "X-Files" star were left wondering: How can someone become addicted to sex? 666 diggsWith a whole lot of media out there with nothing to do now, interest in the Ron Paul event has risen. Paul's press spokesman, Jesse Benton, tells me that they will not cancel and have received an additional 50-60 new requests for press credentials since the Republicans announced their truncated schedule yesterday. 290 diggsPaul is expected to deliver a dynamite speech Sept. 2. “If they expected us to retire quietly ... they’re in for a surprise,” Paul said. He pledges to “shake up" the political establishment. This will be the largest organization for peace, freedom, the constitution and sound money in American history.” 195 diggsThree children were left home alone for two weeks while their mother, a trainee teacher, went on honeymoon. 356 diggsDoe-eyed Bristol Palin, 17, and ruggedly handsome Levi Johnston, 18, have been dating for about a year, locals in their hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, told the Daily News..."They've been together quite a while, more than a year," she said. "I hope everything comes out well. These are local kids." 157 diggsStanford Professor invents a green cement that could eliminate the huge amounts of carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by the mfrs of the everyday cement used in concrete for buildings, roadways and bridges. His vision of eliminating a large source of the world's greenhouse CO{-2} has gained traction with both investors & environmentalists. 324 diggsA reader sent us this fan created poster. I wonder how long this took to do? I hate talented people. He probably has a tricked out MySpace page that makes all of ours look really crummy. 371 diggsPhotographer Laura Peters went behind the scenes at mortuaries, funeral parlours and crematoria to find out about the 'death industry'.Her exhibition offers a glimpse into what lies just beyond when we "shuffle off this mortal coil".
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