91 diggsA couple of questions Businessweek.com had a chance to ask Sergey Brin, Google’s cofounder and president of technology, after the demo at the Googleplex today. I had trouble with editing software, so there’s a piece of a question before my two questions, then a couple more from other reporters.

282 diggsInvespBlog has published what it claims is an interview with a top Digg user - someone who has a 34% success ratio in getting submitted stories to the home page of Digg. The Digg user isn’t named - he or she says “I have a reputation to withhold” (we know what they meant). (It ain't Mr. BabyMan, for the record.)

912 diggsMore skeletons come out of Palin's closet. Since the McCain campaign apparently didn't even bother Googling Sarah Palin before picking her to join the Republican ticket, we've taken it upon ourselves to compile some important -- and terrifying -- revelations about Palin.

311 diggsThe simple fact that Google is now pursuing its own browser could leave Mozilla scratching its head. And quite apparently, Mozilla has not quite figured out how its relationship with Google will work out over the next few years.

452 diggsWe know what you're thinking -- it's Windows Mobile 6.1 fool, we've got the developers kit already. True, but not the SDK that allows developers to create custom, interactive panels for the touchscreen QWERTY's Panel Interface.

221 diggsRip Van Winkle wakes up to find out that his only son grew up to become Vanilla Ice. He's not dealing with it well.

254 diggsThe world's first free-running world championships are taking place in London in the UK on Wednesday evening. One of the event's promoters, 'Ez', explains the history behind the sport and the aim of the contest. Among those competing and appearing in this clip are Cali, from France, Skipper, one of several representing the US and Sarge, from Mexico

305 diggs1938 underwater photography by Bruce Mozertom.

175 diggsGiant black holes sit at the cores of virtually all galaxies, and are thought to have grown from smaller seed black holes that swallowed lots of matter.

158 diggsOne thing is pretty certain: The NFL's next champion will be crowned on Feb. 1 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, site of Super Bowl XLIII. Beyond that, there are plenty of unanswered possibilities to ponder as the NFL's 89th season begins. USA TODAY tackles 10 questions … albeit without the help of a crystal ball.

109 diggsToday the GNU project celebrates its quarter-century. It was on 27 September 1983 that MIT slacker Richard M Stallman made his announcement that he intended to create a complete Unix-like system that would be completely open and hackable, giving anyone the right to modify and distribute the work.

267 diggsSnow Leopard's across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will do more than just make more memory available. It also exposes a great PC swindle and highlights Apple's lead in 64-bit computing. Here's why.

219 diggsSouth Africa's Eastern Cape coast and it's famous surf town Jeffres Bay, was battered by huge waves, causing havoc on the it's main national road. More pics below:

258 diggsAfter playing with it for a while, it’s too early to say that I’m blown away, but I must admit that I’ve stumbled onto some impressive feats which show that the team that built Chrome was intelligent, mature and forward-thinking. Here they are, in no particular order.

200 diggsThe Creative Artists Agency represents about 130 N.F.L. players. Among them are four of the first eight picks from April’s draft and four of the past five first-overall choices.

246 diggsWill drinking at a high altitude speed drunkenness?

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714 diggsA heart to heart discussion between Uncle Sam and the fears of 9/11.

285 diggsFrom getting hitched to saving the environment, here’s proof you can still be a busybody long after you kick the bucket.

172 diggsUnder every video on YouTube, story on Digg or even right here on Cracked, there is a mini-culture that forms down in the comment section. The hit-and-run nature of the comments means it's fertile ground for some really annoying personalities to thrive. Here are the eight most obnoxious (and common) personality types.

187 diggsPakistan's top security officials on Wednesday were searching for clues that a "moderately important terrorist target" may have been hit when U.S. and/or NATO forces attacked three houses in a remote part of the country's border region with Afghanistan.

549 diggsScientists say atoms are the building blocks of life. But ask any 8-year-old, and he'll tell you the truth—LEGO blocks are the building blocks of life. Even before LEGO started grabbing the license to kid-friendly properties, kids were happy enough to build cities, medieval kingdoms, pirate coves and more. Here are the 10 greatest LEGO sets ever.

232 diggsWhile attendees at the Penny Arcade Expo didn't see much new from StarCraft 2, the demos given to the press and public sent a strong message: you will be getting more of what you love.

146 diggsWhen Comcast announced last week that it was instituting a formal usage cap for residential customers-- a total of 250 gigabytes of data transfer (uploading plus downloading), as described here-- I didn't think much of it, except to be happy they finally defined a critical element of their service guarantee. The previous level of ambiguity was anno

488 diggsLooks like the runner is related to Devin Hester or Barry Sanders. Either way, very embarrassing for the catcher.

415 diggsAfter a successful run on PBS with "Bill Nye the Science Guy," the multi-hyphenate comedian-TV host-science educator-mechanical engineer is now finding out how "Stuff Happens" on Planet Green's new half hour show. In it, Nye traces where the things we eat, wear, and use come from, and what impact that has on our entire planet.

229 diggsNow that technology is everywhere and ever evolving, people don’t know how to conduct themselves in public. The gizmos themselves are innocent, but the users are not. Here we list five gadgets that should be banned until people learn to use them.

670 diggsPalin fired the whole state Agriculture and Conservation board in July 2007, and replaced it with her loyalists. As a result, the dairy lost more money than it had in twenty years. The dairy, an Alaska icon, closed two months later. Millions of dollars in dairy equipment ended up, at a steep discount, in the hands of a local Palin ally.

437 diggsSwedish company Home Energy recently revealed an innovative wind turbine that spins in a spherical formation.

233 diggsA giant spider has been spotted on the skyline of one of Britain's biggest cities - but arachnophobes need not fear.The huge insect spotted in Liverpool is in fact entirely mechanical and part of a new piece of street theatre organised to mark its year as Capital of Culture.

303 diggsHot cheerleaders + crazed fans = a great way to get in the spirit for the regular season.

200 diggsFacebook takes advantage of its users' insecurities to sell advertising. With the knowledge that I was engaged to be married, the site splashed an ad across the left side of the screen playing into a presumed vulnerability. "Do you want to be a fat bride?"

170 diggsEver wondered where Epic Games drew from when designing “Gears of War”’s over-the-top blood and guts? We have the answer: cult classic 80s horror films.

160 diggsChanges to the formulations of several candy bars has chocolate lovers buzzing, and not in a good way. Cocoa butter is fat derived from cocoa beans. Like other commodities, cocoa prices have skyrocketed in recent years. In 2006, one metric ton of African cocoa butter cost less than $4,000. Today, it costs more than $8,100.

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439 diggsThis week, Yahtzee hits the final frontier in search of a truly different MMO. Instead, he finds Eve.

204 diggsWith oil prices heading toward $100, that should be good news for consumers. But some think there won't be true relief until crude hits $80 again.

410 diggsLooks like he still prefers IE8.

201 diggsFor the last decade, Bowe has led her classes of 30 students into morgues, hospice bedrooms, and penitentiaries for an unusual course called "Death in Perspective."

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155 diggsThere's a new computer program that knows all about your history - but don't worry, it's not going to report those parking violations. It cares about the evolution of your DNA. And it's open source.

177 diggsWho are the seventy-five most influential people of the 21st century? Who made our register of the great and angry and inspired and obsessed -- famous, notorious, powerful, and not -- who will have something to say about the rest of our lives? This here, this is just a little hint.

415 diggsWe've previously put the major browser releases to the speed test, but today we're measuring Chrome against the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, as well as the beta of Firefox 3's next iteration, 3.1. We tested tomorrow's browsers on startup and page-loading times, JavaScript and CSS performance

293 diggsThree times in recent years, the Arizona senator's lists of 'objectionable' pork spending have included earmarks requested by his new running mate.

796 diggsJohn McCain's campaign on Wednesday angrily called for an end to questions about Sarah Palin's background, calling it a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president.

644 diggsOver five years since it began, the war in Iraq continues, but with some recent notable progress. Here are some scenes from around Iraq (and a couple from here in the U.S.) over the past several months.

254 diggsWith his choice of Sarah Palin -- the Alaska governor who has advocated drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and does not believe mankind is playing any role in climate change -- for vice president, John McCain has completed his makeover from the greenest Republican to run for president to just another representative of big oil.

147 diggsNew research from Telegeography only confirms what we've been saying for some time: the Internet backbone isn't drowning beneath any kind of exaflood. In fact, backbone capacity has grown faster than Internet traffic in the last year—for the second year in a row.

411 diggsMost of these signs are the creation of local and state governments that seem to lack the time or sophistication to make clear ones. Although these are the 10 most confusing traffic signs we could find, feel free to add photos and descriptions of awful signs you've found in your own travels.

504 diggsA new source comes forward w/this info: (this is consistent w/everything I've heard)iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don't already have. [...]

316 diggsPassed by the Congress and signed by the president more than a month before Palin took office in December 2006, critics on both sides of the aisle deemed it a federal power grab

528 diggsGUYS: have you got a hot mom? Chances are your wife will be a looker, too. The same goes for daughters of hunky fathers.

155 diggsKevin Smith may have won the war a few weeks ago when he successfully appealed his new film’s rating from an ‘NC-17′ to a commercially viable ‘R’, but he’s apparently lost the battle. The MPAA has officially rejected the new poster for Zack and Miri Make a Porno for its sexually suggestive imagery, and EW.com caught up with Smith to get his thought

186 diggsWomen typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, researchers said Tuesday.In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks more than a dozen years earlier than women who don't smoke, Norwegian doctors reported in a study presented to the European Society of Cardiology.For men, the gap is not so dramatic.

418 diggsWhile we've seen countless story regarding children using Grand Theft Auto as their inspiration to do wrong, it's extremely rare that we see news about GTA being cited as a cause for good. It happened on August 27th around 9pm, as the Norris family of five was heading to Diamond, Illinois to visit relatives. Their 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved o

92 diggsSo-called 'intelligent' computer-based methods for classifying patient samples, for example, have been evaluated with the help of two methods that have completely dominated research for 25 years. Now Swedish researchers at Uppsala University are revealing that this methodology is worthless when it comes to practical problems. -BJS

266 diggsFor a while now scientists have thought a dense, massive object lurking at the center of our galaxy is likely a giant black hole, but they haven't been able to prove it. New observations offering the closest view yet of the heart of the Milky Way present strong evidence for the black hole theory, and even hope of finally settling the question soon.

347 diggsMaking a photograph of a person look amazing adds an extra dimension of professionalism to your design. These photoshop body enhancement tutorials will help you transform your people pictures to stunning models in next to no time. Most techniques involve similar use of the photoshop tools.

163 diggsI don't know about you, but I wish there could be major party presidential nominating conventions every day. There's just so much great fodder for comedy. Maybe we should just elect a new President every Saturday. No, I know, that's stupid. Elections are held on Tuesdays.

313 diggsI just liberated a comic character. All hail freedom for the fictional!

250 diggsI have just found some applications that are so mind-numbingly useless but after playing with them for a while, I’m starting to enjoy them. These sort of applications probably gets ignored by most people but bear with me here, hang on to them and they might brighten your day or impress some friends!

381 diggsAlgae fuel is getting another boost with the announcement of a $3 million grant to create kerosene-based aviation fuel derived from the substance.

710 diggsWhat would Google do?

323 diggsHere are some screencaps from the new dragonball movie trailer that's suppose to come out next month. And your first look at Piccolo.

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405 diggsA video that explains your options as an unskilled player.

698 diggsDilbert offers the best definition of management I've read so far.

339 diggsAs the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

263 diggsA pair of Modesto police officers who stopped to help a motorist Tuesday morning ended up helping the man's wife give birth to a baby boy, who was later named, Jesus. After the mother and baby were transported to the hospital, the two officers thought the logical next step would be to buy Jesus some gifts. =)

264 diggsThe story of the day out here in Minneapolis is the McCain campaign's war against the press. This has been building for some time. Those of us who have criticized

209 diggsDetroit Lions running back Rudi Johnson says his luggage was taken from the team's practice facility by Tatum Bell. Johnson was waived by Cincinnati, met with Lions president Matt Millen on Monday and signed a free-agent contact. During the meeting, his two duffel bags were taken from the team's headquarters.

232 diggsNobody really expected Lego Star Wars to be as good as it was, or to sell as well as it did, when the game dropped in 2005 - but developer Traveller's Tales surprised us all by turning what should have been the ultimate crappy licensed game into a fun, well-designed runaway hit. Here are 10 other lego games we'll love to see.

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618 diggsNow, Google tells Ars that it's a mistake, the EULA will be corrected, and the correction will be retroactive.

526 diggsFrom incognito browsing and the streamlined download manager to URL highlighting and improved search, let's take a look at how you can bring some of Google Chrome's best features to Firefox.

76 diggsAfter being denied access to the stage at the Ripple Effect festival, a day-long event held today on the MN State Capitol's Upper Mall to promote non-partisan progressive politics in the shadow of the Republican convention, Rage picked up a megaphone and sorta said f-it, we're doing it live. Rage was supposed to be the surprise closer of the fest.

1455 diggs2 conservative commentators forget the Mic is still on, and get caught saying what they REALLY think about Sarah Palin.....

199 diggsWhat has happened is a clear evolution of a community that has grown up and produced intelligent, cutting-edge technologies with an eye on making computing faster, smarter and cheaper for corporate users. Companies like Openmoko are challenging the mobile device market with its notion that users should control what applications are installed.

363 diggsIt’s a foreboding sign of what may be to come for the entire world as we battle global warming and experience its full effects.

376 diggsMozilla CTO and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich has posted the results of benchmarks which indicate that Firefox's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine outperforms Google's new V8.

193 diggsTalk about flip flops! By now you have no doubt caught up with the Peggy Noonan (and Mike Murphy) "open mic" problem at MSNBC today, in which Noonan said of the GOP race "it's over" and referred to the "bullshit" narrative around Palin.

190 diggsThe Los Angeles City Council today approved a $500,000 reward to help catch a serial killer believed responsible for 10 slayings in South Los Angeles and Inglewood over the last two decades. The first known killing occurred in 1985, when Debra Jackson, 29, was shot three times in the chest; her body was found in an alley near West Gage Avenue.

354 diggsCenturies of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras at his family’s country home. It's pretty cool, check it out.

417 diggsOne of the the biggest selling points of Nintendo's Wii video game console since its launch nearly two years ago has been that it was the lowest-priced of the trio of next-generation machines, which also includes Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

174 diggsThe stars who rose to fame while in their teens through one or more TV series.

388 diggsAs a superhero, maintaining your secret identity is paramount to a happy and healthy crime fighting career, and the same can be said for other vocations that utilize alter-egos. Unfortunately, all too often this clandestine identity isn't taken serious enough, and the people employing its use don't go far enough to shore up their secrets.

231 diggsRon Paul on Your World with Neil Cavuto. 9/3/08

253 diggsDisney, inventors of childhood itself, told Daniel they would foot the bill after he got injured on their California Adventure ride. Then when Daniel and his wife Jane tried to collect, they got strung along for months by Garth Steever in guest claims. By this time, the medical bills had already been sent to collections

270 diggsSecurity guards break in their nightsticks on a banner-waving soccer fan running across the arena, prompting players and fans to storm the field and beat up the guards. Great justice.

311 diggsThis rider went to the Harley Anniversary Rally to show everybody that he was bad. Bad to the bone. Maybe he should have brought a bigger bike.

639 diggsIn 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community.

372 diggsIf it seems like disasters are getting more common, it's because they are. But some disasters do seem to be affecting us worse — and not for the reasons you may think.

163 diggsJohn McCain's presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against the National Enquirer over a print edition story the tabloid ran today alleging that Gov. Sarah Palin has had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner.

156 diggsThe auto-suggest feature of Google's new Chrome browser does more than just help users get where they are going. It will also give Google a wealth of information on what people are doing on the Internet besides searching.

325 diggsGoogle issued major upgrades to both Picasa 3, its photo management software, and Picasa Web Albums, its online sharing competitor to Flickr. Ars Technica takes the two new products for a spin around the studio.

470 diggsNever thought it could get worse? Think again.

110 diggsJason Choi tries to Ollie the famous Canadian Embassy 21 stair in Washington, DC. but can't quite stick the landing. Better luck next time! The guy had more stones than most to even try it.

457 diggsWe noticed last week that it was awfully peculiar that Colorado’s U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid, had so airily dismissed conspiracy charges against the three white-supremacist tweakers who were caught planning to assassinate Barack Obama at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. Now it turns out that those suspicions were fully warranted:

397 diggsIowa City police said a man who was driving drunk tried to bribe a police officer - with a sandwich.

161 diggsCitigroup Inc. will pay nearly $18 million in refunds and settlement charges for taking $14 million from customers' credit card accounts

306 diggsSkaters usually learn lessons the hard way. After learning his lesson in this video, maybe the little skater should consider wearing a chest pad to the skate park.

502 diggsThe Republican Party is gathering in St. Paul, to put forth its vision of the future. And over the next few days, you'll be hearing a lot about the horrendous futures that could take shape if gormless liberals were allowed to run the show. Which makes us wonder: what does science fiction, the literature of the future, have to say about liberal-run

494 diggsAdam Savage's widely circulated YouTube video account of a pack of credit card industry giants pummeling Discovery Channel into deep-sixing a Mythbusters investigation aimed at RFID is now taking more of a beating than Buster the dummy absorbs on a typical episode of the show. And the knockout blow of that beating is coming from Savage himself.

440 diggs(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at a tiny angular scale of 37 micro-arcseconds - the equivalent of a baseball seen on the surface of the moon, 240,000 miles distant. These observat

139 diggsThe 'anti-cloak' could overcome one major limitation of the invisibility cloaks being designed and built in physics laboratories across the world: when you're invisible from the outside, the outside is invisible to you.

740 diggsI was arrested with my two colleagues, Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, while reporting on the first day of the RNC. I have been wrongly charged with a misdemeanor. My co-workers, who were simply reporting, may be charged with felony riot.

199 diggsWatch him look at the girls first (guy in back)

255 diggsTwenty thousand light bulbs were added to the Eiffel Tower to mark the new millennium, and because people like things that sparkle, the tower is lit every night for 10 minutes. However, Paris officials have decided to cut back and light the tower for just five minutes per night.

224 diggsI would be sad too if I lost X-Ray vision.

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334 diggsIt’s always good to consider all of your options before settling on a JavaScript framework that’s right for you and/or your team. This article showcases 10 alternative and capable JavaScript frameworks/libraries to explore. Links to some of their demos (when available) are included in the entry so that you can see the framework in action.

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320 diggsFUCK FOX NEWS

417 diggs"The speech that [Alaska] Gov. Palin made was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we've heard from George Bush for the last eight years," said Bill Burton, the campaign spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama.

135 diggsHe worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."

260 diggsComedy duo the Flight of the Conchords figure heavily in the nominations for the 2008 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. Now working stateside on the second season of their HBO sitcom, the Grammy-winning, Emmy-nominated musical comedy duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are vying with rock and hip-hop acts in this year's Tuis Music Awards.

226 diggsAlaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.

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1072 diggsOn behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry. We have asked mean questions like: How well did McCain know Palin before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? It is not our job to ask questions. To hear from the politicians at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support their decisions.

101 diggsAlex Rodriguez crushes a ball down the left field line and the umpires use instant replay for the first time in Major League Baseball history to determine whether or not it was home run.

546 diggsOnly 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago. Each night, the overwhelmingly white audience watches a series of white politicians step to the lectern.

121 diggs"You have such full lips, just like my mom." That pickup line probably won't get a guy many dates--but it's likely to be true. A new study of facial features adds to mounting evidence that a man tends to choose a girlfriend who resembles his mother, and a woman picks a boyfriend who looks like her father.

458 diggsThe long rumored, long awaited "Eee PC Killer" from Dell, now called the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, is now shipping! The Windows XP version, available now, costs $399. The Ubuntu Linux version, available in "a few weeks," will cost just $349! These prices are actually much lower than ASUS's for comparable systems.

146 diggsSleep specialists may also describe a sleep problem based on its underlying cause, such as a medical condition or a psychological issue. To do this they use the 11 classifications of insomnia below, developed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

219 diggsIn an industry celebrated for its spectacular failures, the Edsel still takes the cake. Although as mechanically sound as other Ford products, the car was criticized from Day One for being too ugly, too expensive and vastly overhyped.