397 diggsWhat if Babbage's Difference Engine spawned a "laptop"?It's hard to find a more desirable and satisfying (in a tactile sort of way) mechanical fetish item from the age of early computing...

329 diggsA brand new video, from Metallica's "Death Magnetic" album.I think it's pretty good. I enjoy the fact they're returning to their old old form, kinda like ripping themselves off, but still good.

269 diggsPeople should cut their consumption of meat to help combat climate change, a top United Nations expert told a British Sunday newspaper. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told The Observer that people should start by having one meat-free day per week then cut back further. The 68-year-old Indian ec

444 diggsComcast Driver To Senior Citizen: "Get The F!@# Down From Your Car So I Can Kick Your Ass" Northfaceninja watched in horror as a Comcast employee repeatedly smashed his Comcast van into a car driven by a senior citizen before barking: "Get the fuck down from your car so I can kick your ass." The angry employee quickly abandoned his ass-kicking pla

197 diggsWhether they are blasting apart subatomic particles in accelerators, sequencing the genome or analyzing the wobble of a distant star, the experiments that grab the world's attention often cost millions of dollars to execute and produce torrents of data to be processed over months by supercomputers. Some research groups have grown to the size of...

139 diggsIn the past few years, the “Village of Harlem,” as older residents still call it, has become a 21st-century laboratory for integration. Class and money and race are at the center of the changes in the neighborhood. Lured by stately century-old brownstones and relatively modest rents, new faces are moving in and making older residents feel that they

486 diggsThis set was taken near Newport Station on the Melbourne-Geelong line (AU). This set features a huge wall feature by MOLOTOW - AFPREMIUM. The feature wall is untouched by taggers.

213 diggsRemember back in college when girls in boxers would chase wieners through the hallways of the dorms? That's exactly what's happening in this clever spot as this starving college cutie is set upon having a midnight snack!

303 diggsUsing time-lapse photography and real-time digital video, plant biologist Roger Hangarter and undergrad filmmaker Samuel Orr captured this remarkable life cycle in a 5-minute film complete with soundtrack and descriptive text.

214 diggsMost parents and many teachers believe that if middle-school and high-school girls show no interest in science or math, there's little anyone can do about it. New research by a team that includes vocational psychologists at UWM indicates that the self-confidence instilled by parents and teachers is more important for young girls learning math.

247 diggsExtend the way you use your Mac for phone calls, enjoying music, sleeping, and more

475 diggsIs Kim Jong-il for real? The question has baffled foreign intelligence agencies for years but now a veteran Japanese expert on North Korea says the “dear leader” is actually dead – and his role is played by a double.

435 diggsSo Google has released Chrome, its entry in the browser wars (bonus points, Google, for promoting it with a Scott McCloud comic). I know, I know, it uses the same rendering engine as Safari... but even still, Murphy's Law of Browsers dictates that weird little quirks and idiosyncrasies will somehow find their way in.

210 diggsA new trend is surfacing, as spammers have sent out millions of emails targeting BitTorrent users. The emails that claim to come from MediaDefender, warn the receiver that he or she has been logged using BitTorrent and points them to an attachment supposedly containing evidence, but which is in fact infected with a virus.

303 diggsWere you one of those guys who took Tae Kwon Do or Karate lessons as a kid? Did you learn to break little boards with your fist, and dream of becoming the baddest man on the planet? Well, consider your dreams shattered. There are martial arts taught around the world that are designed to break people, not boards.

433 diggsHey, they might mean something in a foreign language ...

169 diggsA55-year-old man who smokes is as likely to die in the next 10 years as a 65-year-old who has never smoked. Less than 1 woman in 1,000 younger than 50 will die in the next decade from cervical cancer. A 35-year-old nonsmoking man is five times as likely to die in an accident before 45 as he is to die of heart disease, and a 35-year-old woman is twi

191 diggsVirologists have a new weapon in the war against viruses – a way to tag and track individual viruses that are too small to be viewed with light microscopes.

90 diggsNow, with fertility technology or adoption, men are becoming single fathers. Statistics on single fathers by choice are few, but there are indications that while they make up a sliver of the demographic pie, their numbers are growing.

165 diggsThis is the beginning of the America's dark future.

86 diggsI wish Google didn't make me think of tentacles. It never did before I tried avoiding it for 24 hours -- a doomed exercise that began as a challenge and morphed into a horror show.

239 diggsHalloween fog machines? Been there, inhaled that. Bubble machines? Still pretty cool, soap in the eye or not. But what if humanity had created a machine that combined the venerable fog machine with bubbles? Interest piqued? Consider it done!

95 diggs Returning from a long layoff, UFC star Chuck Liddell had the crowd. He had the momentum, chasing Rashad Evans around the Octagon on Saturday.With one punch, Evans changed all that, landing an overhand right that instantly dropped Liddell. Referee Herb Dean rushed to stop the fight, and doctors immediately jumped in the ring to tend to Liddell.

287 diggsArchaeologists have unearthed the mysterious remains of what first appears to be a couple buried together arm in arm more than 1,000 years ago.

293 diggsThe Treasury Department is poised to announce it will takeover Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together back roughly half of all outstanding U.S. mortgages. The government intervention comes after the companies lost billions in the housing market turmoil, with no sign things are getting better.

152 diggsHuge creatures that went extinct, and other big animals that still roam this planet for now anyway.

173 diggsTwo mountain peaks in Africa, each capped with an impressive lenticular cloud.

266 diggsSince accepting Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) offer to be his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has lied about her supposed opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere in nearly every single campaign appearance:

319 diggsGoogle Military-Controlled Satellite Reaches Orbit, We Don't Feel LuckyAccording to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now. It reached orbit yesterday, but in reality, it's not an ordinary commercial satellite: it's fully controlled by the Department of Defense's U.S.

188 diggsWe here at Project Lore.com are happy to announce the launch of Random Heroes, our new WoW comic! Check out the first run now...

230 diggsRick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."

190 diggsHow people spend their discretionary income – on clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol – depends a lot on where they live. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything. This shows the power of marketing in USA.

97 diggsThe man in the cheap brown jacket stood slumped in line, staring at the ground. His hands were fidgety, reaching repeatedly into his inside jacket pocket, or patting it from the outside. A momentary look of anguish, just 1/15th of a second or so, occasionally flashed across his face

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239 diggsLesbians rate Rachel Weisz as their top sexual fantasy, a new poll has revealed. The British actress took the number one spot in the 'Women We’d Love To Love' poll of 4,000 gay women.

267 diggsA leading osteopath has some simple exercises for all ages to help you fight soreness and stiffness.

131 diggsHamilton was given a 25-second penalty for cutting the Bus Stop chicane during his wheel-to-wheel battle for the lead with Kimi Raikkonen during the closing laps.

310 diggsA high school football team pulls off an awesome trick play making their opponent look really really stupid. Theyll never fall for the old Wrong Ball Coach trick again.

110 diggsIt has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday. Whatever the case, the most powerful atom-smasher ever built comes online Wednesday, eagerly anticipated by scientists worldwide who have awaited this moment for two decades

197 diggsA loophole in the first-ever medicinal marijuana guidelines issued by California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown last month opens the door for patients using medical marijuana to extend their doctor’s recommendation without the doctor knowing it. A physician’s recommendation will grant a patient access to medicinal marijuana, as will a state-issued card.

273 diggsThis is the breathtaking moment a humpback whale was caught on camera leaping from the sea. The extremely rare photograph of the 50ft mammal was taken by wildlife enthusiast Ross Newham just two miles off the Isles of Scilly, near Cornwall.

269 diggsHistory has made a genius out of all who bet on Larry and Sergey - the investors, the employees, journalists who were enthralled by their story. In reality to those who built Google, it was the only option.

189 diggsThe government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems in an effort to better inform doctors and patients.

391 diggsCanada's prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election next month in hopes of strengthening his Conservative minority government's hold on power.

187 diggsApple’s iPhone 3G made its official debut at Best Buy stores nationwide today. Just as at the phone’s launch in late July, people were standing in line. But there was one distinct difference: Best Buy is advertising the iPhone 3G with its “regular price” and “instant savings”, interestingly highlighting Apple’s misleading advertising for the iPhone

276 diggsKay Jewelers deformed Lisa's wedding ring during a routine cleaning and refuses to provide a replacement ring Lisa first noticed.

163 diggs"How many New Yorkers does it take to change a light bulb? Two - one to call the electrician and one to mix the martinis" or "How many therapists? Only one but the light bulb has to really want to change." I recently found another in an old notebook: "How many economists does it take to change a light bulb? None; the market will take care of it."

597 diggsAccording to McClatchy's report, in 1996, McCain was met in the Senate office halls by a group of family members of POW-MIAs who had been pressing him topursue more information on their relatives. Six people present have written statements describing what they saw.

243 diggs"It makes Titanic look like a picnic," Cameron said recently during an interview from Los Angeles, where he is working furiously on the new film.

141 diggsVideo by option8 shows "how Apple could (or should) implement copy and paste on the iPhone: a demonstration of how they got it right 15 years ago on the Newton MessagePad."

307 diggsThe technology will be utilized in the development and creation of various algae species targeted to high yield per acre and high levels of usable alternative oil for heating and fuel.

231 diggsThe table below lists the names of products and potential signals of serious risks/new safety information that were identified for these products during the period January - March 2008 in the AERS database.

583 diggsPeople thought 9 diggs in 1 minute was bad? This is 3 times as many!

313 diggsChad Johnson has changed his name, but his jersey remained the same Sunday. The Cincinnati Bengals receiver legally changed his name from Chad Johnson to Chad Ocho Cinco, but the NFL decided against allowing him to put his name on his jersey.

121 diggsEnough of this practical advice and useful downloads! I know you've been working hard, and you're probably itching for some fun and excitement. If you've read some of my previous Time Wasters, you'll know that I've got a soft spot for old school gaming. Grab your browser, and get ready for some classic, low-fi action!

479 diggs"I guess I imagined it being like in the movies: drinking champagne, hot-tubbing with honeys, and cruising in customized Escalades while watching the cash roll in. But here I am, freezing my ass off. I've got to say, these drug-dealing scumbags really earn their pay."

296 diggsColin and Mia had been together two years when they hit their first dry spell. "We hadn't had sex in a few weeks, and one night before bed she asked me how I was dealing with it," says Colin (not his real name), a 38-year-old vice president at a Web start-up in Boston. "I told her I was masturbating," he says. "She asked me where and how."

145 diggsSix physicists weigh in on the impact of the LHC and where science goes from here.

161 diggsMany of the components of Will Wright's highly anticipated evolution game started out as small concept projects that are now available to the public. "The earliest prototypes were making strange topology creatures and seeing if we could teach the computer to make them move plausibly, and later, show emotion and behavior,"

210 diggsThe sun may set early on anyone trying to take advantage of expiring solar-energy tax credits this year.Many solar manufacturers and installers say they can't take on more jobs for 2008 because they're either out of panels or out of time."From the manufacturing perspective, we're sold out," said Tom Mueller, a spokesman for BP Solar in Houston.

188 diggsRyan, the third overall pick out of Boston College, hooked up with Michael Jenkins on the third play of the game against the Detroit Lions.

320 diggsThe iTunes App Store is becoming a trendsetter for other companies in the mobile market. With a thousands of apps to choose from with over 60 million downloads total, what more could you ask for? Apparently a lot. Users still aren't satisfied with the offerings nor the apps that Apple is choosing to not let into the App Store.

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114 diggsThe Ministry of Defence is storing more than 28 million explosives from cluster bombs, the BBC has learned.

263 diggsCall us crazy, but we suspect most Xbox 360 owners are by now well familiar with the dreaded Red Ring of Death.

180 diggsThe top flick in the land was the lone new release this week: Nicolas Cage’s piece of junk Bangkok Dangerous. Yet it only made something like $7.8 Million. Not even eight freaking million dollars for a first-place movie!! Now that really is sad, folks. A showing like that makes the whole movie industry look like it’s in a depression.

416 diggsApple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod. Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.

92 diggsIt's the latest must-have cosmetic miracle - the New New Face, wrinkle-free and plump as a baby's. But to get it, you must enter a pact with the eerily smooth Dr Frederic Brandt - the King of Collagen. Heather Hodson watches in horror

517 diggsPiece of art......

197 diggsIncluding Asbestos Man

382 diggsElizabeth went out and bought a Mac after Dell twice sent Windows XP replacement CDs to her old address. After each failed delivery attempt, Elizabeth called Dell, which repeatedly promised that they'd get it right next time. One CSR even claimed that he personally called DHL to change the shipping address. (He didn't.)

441 diggsThis is footage from late spring 2008 in Samara, Russia that shows you two things. 1) Russian potholes are no joke. 2) Spring in Russia is no joke.

380 diggsYeah, nuclear power. The Ford Nucleon concept car was designed to be powered by a miniature nuclear reactor. Simple, safe, and eco-friendly, right?

156 diggsBefore there were Lopez twins at Stanford, the Collins twins ruled Maples Pavilion. They, too, had contrasting appearances and personalities. Now, with Jarron playing for the Jazz and Jason for the Timberwolves, the two towers will run into each other once in a while in the lane. And that's almost 600 pounds of Collins family clogging up the paint.

746 diggsReason: Cheating the System

138 diggsNEW YORK (AP) — Andy Murray finished a stunning, rain-interrupted victory over No. 1 Rafael Nadal 6-2, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-4 at the U.S. Open on Sunday to reach his first Grand Slam final.

403 diggsAs far as cosmic questions go, it's as good a one as any: When will our great universe cease to be, and shuffle our great^10^75-grandchildren off the mortal coil? This concern goes beyond the death of the Sun in 5 billion years, or even the theorized crash of the Milky Way into the Andromeda galaxy in 7 billion. No, the death of the universe is tru

220 diggsFRONTLINE: An investigation of the CIA and its role in international drug dealing. - #613 Original Air Date: May 17, 1988 - Produced and Written by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn - Directed by Leslie Cockburn

388 diggsWe’re about to take you on a whistle-stop tour through the ins and outs, highs and lows, the laughter and tears of videogames’ most prolific forefather. From playing cards to Pokémon: we'll even show you how Mario can improve your sex life! Here’s the complete history of Nintendo.

535 diggs28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet.

236 diggsSix months after Favre began a brief retirement, he made a stirring debut Sunday as Broadway Brett. Favre's new beginning had a happy ending when Darrelle Revis intercepted Chad Pennington in the endzone with 5 seconds left, and the Jets won 20-14.

309 diggsBuffalo, New York in fall.

357 diggsBlack Flag frontman Henry Rollins has revealed that he exchanged letters with the serial killer Charles Manson. Rollins said the pair wrote to each other a few times in the '80s after Manson took a shining to Rollins after seeing him on MTV.

248 diggsNeed I say more? Watch it and die laffin'!

283 diggsMatthew Bumpus, a staff sergeant in the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, was sent Dec. 23, 2003, to guard the Al Muthanna Chemical Weapons complex in Iraq and spent two nights there. After returning from Iraq and falling gravely ill, Bumpus was concerned he might have been exposed to something at the weapons site that could have long-term effects.

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255 diggsYou may be waiting with baited breath for JJ Abrams' Star Trek reboot to see what kind of new light can be shone on Gene Rodenberry's most famous creation.But you don't have to wait until next summer to see a modern take on the 23rd Century-Trailers for the German SciFi Channel show why Abrams isn't the only game in town when it comes to knowing..

272 diggsBelow we present over 35 beautiful examples of rain photography. This post is supposed to provide you with some inspiration for rainy motifs and is not supposed to be the ultimate collection of best photographs. There are definitely thousands of beautiful “rainy” photos &ndsash; feel free to share links to them in comments to this post!

162 diggsThe turquoise waters of Miami, Florida, gleam underneath the International Space Station as it floats some 240 miles (390 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. The orbiting lab has hosted a rotating international crew since November 2000.

466 diggsWhat you talking about Willis?

234 diggsTesla coils, superconductors, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about physics. Here are some of our favorites.

232 diggsMozilla Corp. on Friday launched the second alpha of Firefox 3.1,adding new video support and boosting the speed of some JavaScript computations.Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, code named "Shiretoko," will be the last in a short series of alpha editions; Mozilla has set a late-September code freeze for Beta 1, & will be available for the general public in Oct

217 diggsI use these “hacks” myself (in this case, “hacks” refers to workarounds or tricks to reach your goal), and I’ve found them to be effective in many cases. Please note that you might have read some of these once or twice (or thrice) on this blog before, but I thought it would be a useful resource to gather them all into one post.

548 diggsNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is expected to miss the rest of the 2008 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, according to a source familiar with the injury.

108 diggsThe tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person's mouth into a virtual computer...

432 diggsSomething I thought only the big bad wolf did in Cartoons... Definitely worth checking out.

142 diggsFor a man widely believed to have 'got away with murder', former American footballing legend OJ Simpson has hardly been keeping a low profile.

225 diggsAn ex-Gamestop employee explains how Gamestop truly operates.

351 diggsTornado? Well, it’s OK on Cuba, Haiti, in Florida, Louisiana or even Texas, but tornado in cold cold Siberia? Noway! But not in this year, already a few of the have been spotted slashing through Siberian woods. Something is changing in the climate, really.

203 diggsAs a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up!

53 diggsWorld record for high speed skating at over 256 km/h

431 diggsThe Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an "enthusiasm gap" that has dogged the GOP all year.

190 diggsTuesday, September 9 descends upon us, and Apple fans know what that means: it's almost time for Apple's traditional fall iPod event, this time dubbed "Let's Rock." The event, which Apple indirectly announced last week by sending out invites to media contacts, has been widely expected for several months now, as the company has held special events

345 diggsThese three videos showcase about 8 awesome minutes worth of 'Toss stomping action courtesy of the Terran. Viewing tip: Try to ignore the comments from the people in the background if you value your sanity.

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83 diggsSerena Williams saw off a valiant display from Serbia's Jelena Jankovic to win her third US Open title and regain the world number one ranking. The American, 27, came through 6-4 7-5 in a fantastic match to secure her ninth Grand Slam title.

285 diggsHaskins, the Hall of Fame coach credited with helping break color barriers in college sports in 1966 when he used five black starters to win a national basketball title for Texas Western, died Sunday. He was 78.

153 diggsWe actually divorced once over the airplane/treadmill argument.

482 diggsYou know how hard it is to find a picture with a spider sitting on a frog sitting on a turtle? Let's just say it's not easy

389 diggsWhile the media focuses on the antics of McCain's chosen VP battleground states are purging their voter rolls.In Colorado, one fifth of all voter registrations were dropped.Florida is refusing to accept 85,000 new registrants -- overwhelmingly blacks.Ohio & Nevada are scrubbing tens of 1000s of voters who lost their homes.

381 diggsWith Spore, Will Wright intends to make you an Intergalactic Galactic ruler who begins life as a bottom-feeding primordial soup dweller. When I first saw the game back in early 2006 I wondered, would Wright and his team over at Maxis be able to pull this off?

217 diggsA teenager has developed a rare allergy that sends her into exhausting sneezing fit if she so much as smells a glass of wine.

109 diggsThe secret to successful flirting is simply to let someone know that you find them attractive, according to scientists.

174 diggsThe future looks bright--maybe too bright. The sun is slowly expanding and brightening, and over the next few billion years it will eventually desiccate Earth, leaving it hot, brown and uninhabitable. About 7.6 billion years from now, the sun will reach its maximum size as a red giant: its surface will extend beyond Earth’s orbit today by 20%

294 diggsAdd external storage to your TiVo, beef up your Xbox 360, rip DVDs to your media player, play your iTunes purchases on any device, and use your standard cable remote to skip commercials

127 diggsPoor Mr Baby Man...

555 diggsThe MPAA, the film ratings organization that keeps you and I safe from dangerous movie guns pointed directly at our innocent eyes, recently banned the following poster for Kevin Smith's upcoming movie, Zack & Miri Make A Porno.