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September 4 2008 1 2 3 4 5308 diggsCareless words can liquidate ships, so better button up those blabber lips. 217 diggsWhen he faces the most controversial decision of his career over the next few years, Kobe Bryant could find advice and inspiration from an unexpected source. David Beckham. Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar, has stated his intention to test the waters in Europe at the end of his current deal in 2011 and indicated he may be prepared to walk a 152 diggsWhat will happen in the next 10 years? 10 years ago this month, Google's first employee turned up at the garage where the search engine was originally housed. What technology at a similar early stage today will have changed our world as much by 2018? We asked some researchers and business people to speculate — or lay out their wares. 364 diggsScientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe, and they don't appear in the Oprah studio audience. New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big. T 398 diggsApple has been working in new multi-touch technology that combines touch interfaces with input from the camera and the microphone. For example: this will allow you to select text in the iPhone, say "copy," go to another application and say "paste" to make this task really easy. 127 diggsThe sport, in which participants perform balletic leaps and flips using walls, bars and any other street furniture available, was still in its earliest infancy, mushrooming spontaneously across Britain among young people who had seen films of the French urban sport parkour and wanted to adapt it into a freer and more expressive form. 323 diggsThe Good - Intuitive and comprehensive customization tools, Oozes charm at every turn Impressively broad scope, Great audio and art design. The Bad - Individual gameplay elements are extremely simple Early stages aren't very engaging. 152 diggsExperts examine common misconceptions about colds and flu. 112 diggsSo little to separate them over their careers, so little to separate them on this night. Serena Williams barely got the better of older sister Venus Williams in a U.S. Open quarterfinal that was fit for a final, coming back in each set to win 7-6 (6), 7-6 (7) Wednesday and break a tie in their head-to-head series. 469 diggsA few suggestions to overcome chronic irritants in video games. 418 diggsNo man can know what the future will look like, but we're willing to go out on a limb and say that 1) there will still be advertising and 2) it will be even more annoying than it is now. Here are 30 visions of what might be in store. 152 diggsSome of the greatest coaches, players and games in history have been dogged by rumors of cheating and outright corruption, some of the accusations so outlandish and retarded that they couldn't possibly be true. Or could they? 237 diggso, this list ranks ten superhero comic book characters that died those stupid, needless, or simply ill-advised deaths. 395 diggs 13 high speed photography images for your viewing pleasure (we’ve included a few high speed photography books on the topic at the end of this post). 119 diggsSure, Windows is expected to run on 1 billion devices by 2010. But a loud minority is making its voice heard by moving to Ubuntu Linux. In fact, Canonical’s marketing materials state that Ubuntu now has more than 8 million users. 308 diggsPhotovoltaic gadgets often get trapped in the monotonous façade of plain panels, which often leave something to be desired in the aesthetics department. Not so with Vivien Muller’s sleek PhotoSynthese charger. Resembling a potted bonsai tree, the silvery solar charger rests atop an elegant tray. 305 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 will also have a significant positive impact on performance system wide, even more than the same jump to 64-bits in Windows Vista. Here's why. 124 diggsA rare wine merchant has joined forces with nuclear scientists to develop a 21st-century tool for unmasking counterfeit vintage wines.The technique developed by French scientists for a British wine expert consists of zapping bottles with beams of charged ions generated by a particle accelerator. 285 diggsTry as hard as you like but a fan cannot live by scifi alone. That's the only explanation we have for the fact that we're all secretly also addicted to non-SF shows. But even while we watch these shows, there's a little voice in the back of our head that asks, wouldn't it be better if they all had lasers and space ships? 135 diggsWhat if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet? At the CEDIA Expo in Denver this week, Ingersoll-Rand Co.'s Schlage unit is showing off door locks that can be wirelessly set or opened via the Internet, from a mobile phone or a computer. 138 diggsHere’s a look at 7 new logos from cities applying for the 2016 Summer Olympics. I think the 2016 games should be done online with various games in different cities. Maybe thats a stretch, but it would be cool to see one day. 205 diggsAn all-star gathering of legendary American astronauts appeared in Cleveland Aug. 29, 2008 to celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, Jim Lovell, veteran of two Apollo missions, and Kathryn Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space joined 15 other astro 133 diggsA Chicago man made the papers last month for suing a restaurant that allegedly served him a parasitic tapeworm along with his undercooked salmon. So what about the sushi or sashimi that hungry buyers pick up to go during the lunch hour rush? 916 diggsJon Stewart at his absolute best running circles around cable news douchebags. 212 diggsGoogle's minimalist Chrome browser is built for a future that blurs the lines of Web and desktop. Google argues that current Web browsers were designed before so many of the developments that characterize today's Web. 67 diggsSpy satellites could soon be able to identify someone from space by looking at their shadow.They would use a computer program that searches for the movement of shadows on the ground, and then identifies their owners from the way they walk. 218 diggsIf you want to turn your lady friend into a gaming fan, here’s some advice from Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips: Don’t be a jerk and don't make her play "Halo". 233 diggsA team of researchers have demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. Caloric overcompensation following intellectual work, combined with the fact that we are less physically active when doing intellectual tasks, could contribute to the obesity epidemic currently observed in industrialized countries. 339 diggsThe Republicans are holding their convention in Minnesota for the clandestine gay sex. The Daily Show News Team reports from the Larry Craig bathroom, and Fred Thompson speaks at the RNC. 94 diggsIn this story you can find be idea like What would you do if you impaled yourself with a large, sharp, piece of wood? If your tooth fell out? If you fell from a high ladder? If your friend had a severe allergic reaction? 299 diggsSeptember is National Mushroom Month, and while organizers presumably want to honor the shiitakes that jazz up salads, we can't help but think of the kind you eat in your parents' basement that makes your friends' faces melt. 275 diggsOne of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans. But when Vanity Fair priced out Cindy McCain's Monday Night Convention outfit, the total price was staggering to say the least.... between $299,100 and $313,100 148 diggsNearly seven years after Osama Bin Laden disappeared, US intelligence agencies are still chasing his shadow. And shadows are precisely what they should be looking for, says NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. 354 diggsA former heroin addicted elephant has emerged from rehab clean after a three-year detox programme. 306 diggsLast night, Sarah Palin gave a speech that was in theory meant to get people like me excited about the Republican ticket. This was one that should have gotten me back on board and excited about the McCain/Palin platform. Instead, it sickened me in a very deep and personal way. 211 diggsSaving for tomorrow is still a largely ignored and unappreciated skill. In the past few years, it has become increasingly frequent, as we make less than we spend, eating up the equity in our homes, borrowing from our 401(k)s. The national savings rate is declining. And the situation seems to be getting worse. Here's how to change that. 849 diggsSays that it sounded the same as Bush speeches, because it was written by a Bush speechwriter. 492 diggsIn a Thursday morning conference call for reporters organized by the Democratic National Committee, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius pushed back against the idea that Republicans have cornered the market on small-town America. 412 diggsJohn Renehan spotted his father, John Delaney, by chance on a programme about missing people. Unknown to his family, Mr Delaney had spent the intervening years living in a care home just a few miles away from them, using a new name because he could not remember his own... 191 diggsEmbattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty today to charges resulting from a sex scandal and is to resign from office, a prosecutor said. The mayor pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick will go to jail on October 28 and serve 120 days, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said 215 diggsLast month, VG247 had a super secret Rockstar source telling them that the Grand Theft Auto IV DLC wouldn't be available until January. Now, Eurogamer has a different super secret source saying that things are still on track for a November release. We don't know which one is telling the truth, and we don't care ... we just want one of them to love 107 diggsUntil Jack Weil created his shirts, there was no distinctively western look in American couture. His shirts though became extremely famous. The Premium Blue Flannel Plaid was worn by Ronald Reagan, and the Pink Gabardine by Bob Dylan. They defined what it was to be a "western cowboy", even if you actually lived in a city. 629 diggsYou can get this information by logging on to the Library of Congress website http://thomas.loc.gov/ and conducting a search under Barack Obama. This posting organizes and categorizes the Bills sponsored and co-sponsored by Senator Obama, and highlights those that have been passed into US Law. IL State Legislature accomplishments are summarized. 167 diggsThe drummer of rock band Metallica has welcomed an internet leak of their new album, ahead of its release next week. Speaking on San Francisco radio station Live 105, Lars Ulrich said: "If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days." "It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days," the musician added. 328 diggsA cyclist who pedalled the world for more than 40 years, braving raging rivers, soldier ants, a lion and enjoying the hospitality of an Eskimo princess, has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in Greece. 169 diggsStrike your whimsy with this latest German tourist attraction; a house built and furnished completely upside down! 88 diggsScientists have invented technology that allows people to interact with their TV with a wave of a hand. 148 diggsgdgt is the new consumer electronics site by Peter Rojas and Ryan Block -- the guys behind Engadget and Gizmodo. We're still prepping things (no, this isn't the final site!), but we've got a weekly podcast you can listen to in the meantime 551 diggsU.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that the McCain family's appearance at the Twin Cities Habitat For Humanity build site on Thursday has been canceled. How anti-press is the McCain campaign? They just canceled a Habitat for Humanity PHOTO OP because it has to do with "houses"? Go figure! 249 diggsHere’s a bunch of bunch of corporate logos infested with gamey nonsense. Because it’s fun. 169 diggsNCsoft’s Operation Immortality has added three of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated minds to the growing list of notable names who are sending their digitized DNA into space. Kevin Rose, creator of the social-bookmarking website Digg, Robert Scoble, one of the world’s most popular tech bloggers and Tim Draper, are sending their DNA into space. 519 diggsOur hats are off to you, sir or madam, as you have struck comedic gold with your handicapped vanity plate. 317 diggsDavid Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff -- a measure of their arousal -- after hearing the revving exotics, but the amount the women had was off the charts. 461 diggsIt was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing. 271 diggsComcast has done the utterly expected: asked the DC Court of Appeals to review the recent FCC decision against its P2P traffic-shaping solution. 296 diggsPalin & Giuliani: Mocking & making fun of a young man's decision "to serve a cause greater than himself," in the words of John McCain. They were mocking McCain's favorite message. Obama served the poor for 3 years, then went to law school. To describe this service- first thing he did after college as anything other than noble is cheap and tawdry. 236 diggsTwo major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers. BT has confirmed it is involved while Virgin Media was less direct in admitting that lawyers Davenport Lyons, working with Topwear Inc., are about to start threatening thousands more people. 300 diggsHave you ever considered just how funny a lot of movies could be, if only the producers had cast Muppets instead of humans? I mean, if you think the Terminator movies couldn't get any more awesome, imagine them with Animal playing Schwarzenegger's role. Hear Animal saying "Come with me if you want to live" in your head, and try not to laugh. 382 diggsFor a website that prides itself on its democratic approach to news selection, Digg has a tricky line to walk when it comes to silencing and banning its users. As the number of Diggers increases -- the site says it had 29 million visitors last month -- its moderators are finding that banning rogue users is becoming a frequent occurrence. 285 diggsWhen asked to compare Michelle Obama with Sarah Palin,GOP Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said:"Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity." 421 diggsAnd I have one more recommendation for energy conservation — let’s keep Al Gore’s private jet on the ground! ThinkProgress contacted Gore spokesperson Kalee Kreider, who replied, “Gore doesn’t own a jet.” Ooooopppps 257 diggsFor those subway riders who get off before the last stop — almost everyone — the end is just a sign on the train. What's there, anyway? It turns out there is often mystery, lonesomeness and beauty. Explore through photographs and video below. 175 diggsA new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. 375 diggsWhile a debate rages over how honest Sarah Palin has been in stating her opposition to the infamous Bridge To Nowhere, another massive, widely-criticized transportation project is lingering in Alaska. The "Road To Nowhere" is a $375 million "mega-project" designed to connect Juneau to the towns of Haines and Skagway via 50 miles of new road 181 diggsSocotra Island: you have to see it to believe it! We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, Bolvian Salt Lake, or The Richat structure), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered "normal" for a landscape on Earth. 202 diggsMost people endure their fair share of tough times – the poverty of college life, relationship problems, a bad car accident, a woeful flirtation with the crack pipe, or any other equally awful experience. But film is constantly there to remind us that there are others out there who are suffering exponentially more than we could ever hope to... 228 diggsIf excessive is your motto, you’re gonna love this article. Opting to choose the path of interesting and innovative, we left out be-jewelled phones and diamond encrusted appliances to give you 17 truly expensive and truly unique devices that will surely make your neighbors and other rich cronies drool! 786 diggsGood stuff. Obama talks to the press about the Republican convention 350 diggsBarack Obama responded personally to Sarah Palin's harsh speech at the Republican National Convention in York, Pennsylvania. "You're hearing an awful lot about me, most of which is not true," he said. "What you're not hearing is a lot about you." 438 diggsThe doctoring of photos, once considered the reserve of tyrants and UFO nuts, is becoming increasingly widespread. With photo-editing software becoming ever more sophisticated, it has never been easier to create and spread hoax images. Here we present 20 of the most striking, interesting and controversial fake photos. 85 diggsTo unlock new secrets of the universe, Stephanie Majewski has to brush up on her French. The 27-year-old particle physicist is part of an international collaboration working on ATLAS, one of two experiments the size of small apartment buildings that will soon come online near Geneva, Switzerland. 261 diggsEver walk up to a urinal during an average night and get crazy bored? The newspaper or TV on the wall not enough? How about an interactive soccer game IN the urinal. Use your efforts to push the ball to the goal and make sure you score at least once on that night out... 674 diggsActivists have frenetically picked apart Palin's record over the last week, and an Obama aide told the Huffington Post that the campaign has raised $8 million since her speech last night "from over 130,000 donors - on pace to hit $10 million by the time John McCain hits the stage tonight." 243 diggsMythbusters host Adam Savage is retracting comments he made at a hackers conference 351 diggsA Muslim emirate is not the best place to mix champagne and beach romance. A British couple is facing up to six years in prison for allegedly having public sex near the surf in Dubai, a split-personality emirate that toys with Western permissiveness but is ruled by Islamic tenets. 183 diggsMichael Moore will release his new film online and for free the file "Slacker Uprising" 174 diggsChrome's launch on Tuesday confirmed a new feature as a must-have in Web-browsing software: a cloak of invisibility that hides the user's path around the Web. Incognito browsing, like a similar setting in a new version of Internet Explorer released last week, is designed to erase any trace of the sites you've recently visited, wiping away cached 197 diggsWhen he got home and found addresses saved on the phone and a few scratches he was understandably annoyed 709 diggsSo.... She's on a par with "almost last out of 850" John "Huh?" McCain. 178 diggsAl Gore's Oscar-winning environmental documentary exaggerated the likely effects of global warming on sea levels, a new study shows. ..if the glaciers continue to break up and melt like they are right now for 100 years, a two meter rise in sea level by 2100 would not be possible. 151 diggsEver since the Troopergate scandal broke one of the big questions is how exactly Palin could have legally gotten access to her ex brother-in-law's confidential police personnel file. Now the Alaska State Police Union is responding by filing a formal complaint against Palin, which may kick off another investigation into her conduct. 226 diggsIt's time to take you guys back.It's the early 90's, game consoles are still the Kings of Gaming, and computers are just finding their ways into the homes of Mr. Average American.PC games exist, but they have yet to reach a fever pitch yet.Then, in 1992, a game called Wolfenstein 3D is released by a company called id Software. This isn' 150 diggsOne of the unintended consequences of the success of the iPhone is that it has rendered the classic iPod and its diminutive sisters — the nano and the shuffle — nearly irrelevant. What do you need a second MP3 player for if you’ve already got a few hundred tunes in your pocket? 275 diggsLast night during her speech to the Republican National Convention, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sought to play up her experience as mayor of a small town in Alaska by mocking community organizing: 259 diggsKara Swisher cornered the Google co-founder at the Chrome launch party 366 diggsYou're doing it wrong! 525 diggsScientists working on the world's biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up. 527 diggsSarah Palin’s speech to the convention Wednesday night energized conservatives and inspired excited Republicans to donate a cool $1 million to the RNC's effort to elect John McCain. Bloomberg reported that Palin’s speech was even better for Democrats who got over $8 million in donations since Wednesday! 285 diggsSony has hired Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, writer-producers on the American version of "The Office," to script a "Ghostbusters" movie that would reunite Venkman, Stanz, Spengler and Zeddemore. 129 diggsThe UN says that 3.8 million West and Central African girls are at risk of a painful form of body mutilation know as 'breast ironing'. In Cameroon where the practice is most widespread, 50% of adolescent girls in cities and a quarter of all girls nationwide have their breasts 'ironed,' often by their mothers. It's painful even to watch. 150 diggsIntel on September 15 is expected to roll out the Intel Xeon 7400 series Dunnington processor targeted at the server market, the final member of the "Penryn" family of processors, according to sources at server vendors. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to appear initially as the Core i7 processor in the 4th quarter. 763 diggsI didn't create this but damn its pretty close to what I do online sometimes. 169 diggsIf there's a candidate for the worst future violator of your privacy, look no further than the company you pay for broadband. So says University of Colorado law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Ohm, who argues in a new article that ISPs have the means, motive and opportunity to kill your online privacy. 294 diggsThough Digg offers dozens of sub-categories under which to submit stories, political items have often dominated the highly trafficked front page in recent months. But with that sharpened political focus has come accusations of bias, leaving some of the site’s more conservative users frustrated. Does Digg have a liberal bias and is there a solution? 235 diggsMeat and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may already be part of the U.S. food supply, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week. While the cloning process is too expensive (about $20,000 per animal) to justify creating clones that will be turned into hamburgers, some ranchers have cloned animals with desirable... 118 diggsBesides the slick and probably expensive editing designed to make Jerry Seinfeld look like the more awkward of the pair, there's not a whole lot of special effects in this clip. In fact, there's not really a whole lot of anything, including laughs, info or pimping of Vista. It's kinda like Seinfeld's really long, really rambling Amex Superman ad 337 diggsRepublican convention exploits the memories of the dead on 9/11 143 diggsDecide for yourself...but IMO this was pure filth. Exploiting the families of that tragedy was completely wrong and they should be ashamed. This is my first submit but I have to get this video out there for everyone to watch as soon as possible.I sure hope Obama bashes the McCain campaign and the RNC for this. 488 diggsThe Boston Globe has reported that decency and good taste have been abandoned by John McCain, Sarah Palin and the Republican Party after they aired footage of a plane crashing into one of the towers on September 11th, 2001 in one of the videos shown at the Republican National Convention. Continue on to read the obituary on common decency... 83 diggsStorms clouds photographed from Point Clark, Ontario, Canada in August 2001. 377 diggsJohn McCain's acceptance speech got off to a rocky start on Thursday night when, on three separate occasions, he was interrupted by protesters, twice by the liberal group Code Pink and again by a Ron Paul supporter with the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. 220 diggs If the separation anxiety isn't enough, teens headed to university have to face a scary fact: They've got no choice in a first-year college roommate. But that doesn't have to spell dorm doom, according to a study from University of Michigan researchers. 363 diggs 89 diggsFor those confused, today's comic is referencing http://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764 207 diggsMeet Big Dog, a canine robot that could be used by American troops to transport supplies over rough terrain. 89 diggsA 'comedy brain cell' has been discovered by scientists, which responds to humour.The unique experiment found that an individual brain cell fires during The Simpsons, and go into action once again as a person freely recalls the same episode.The same electrodes could be used to monitor single brain cells in the brain's hippocampus.
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