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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

214 diggsTroll chatroulette

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

133 diggsEnjoy a new take on the Spinal Tap hit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

160 diggsAnd look at that purple suit...

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

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

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

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

93 diggsAndre Agassi is kind of an ass

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

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

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

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

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

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

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