113 diggsA shot taken early last year by lake Mývatn up in northeast Iceland. The "smoke" is actually steam coming from a geothermal plant near Námaskarð.

78 diggsCrop biotechnology giant Monsanto goes under a microscope Friday at Justice Department hearings on concentration in U.S. agriculture.

166 diggsThousands of Americans turned out today for the launch of the Coffee Party, a political movement whose goal is to facilitate a more responsive dialogue between people on how to move the country forward. It was held in over 350 locations and has could potentially reignite the movement for change and reform.

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151 diggsMore than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.

163 diggsA row is brewing over separate projects to use the web to bring people closer to their local police forces.

69 diggsMost rock albums are motivated by drugs. But a few are motivated by good old fashioned revenge and mindfuckery.

134 diggsThe nursing student who joined a European terrorist murder cell was brainwashing her 6-year-old son into a hate-filled Islamic fundamentalist zombie, her family said. The terror mom's stepfather said he talked by phone once with the boy at his Muslim school in Ireland, and the boy said: "We are building pipes [pipe bombs], like the Fourth of July!"

117 diggsAn Albanian priest from Detroit is apologizing for comments made in 2007 where he referred to some Muslims as "dogs."Friar Anton Kcira delivered a sermon in Albanian at the St. Paul Albanian Parish in Auburn Hills. (The Albanian-language video is above.) Video of the sermon quickly spread around YouTube.

245 diggsPresident Obama has said he wants to emulate Reagan's political success. Here's how he can.

104 diggsGoogle Street View, which has now been expanded to cover more than 95 per cent of Britain’s roads, is being seen as a “service for burglars”, according to new research.

82 diggsA brilliant music video by the band Hold Your Horses for their new song 70 Million. The band acts out these famous paintings throughout the course of the video. How many of these historic paintings can you name?

78 diggsIsrael is launching a potentially trailblazing experiment in organ donation: Sign a donor card, and you and your family move up in line for a transplant if one is needed. The new law is the first of its kind in the world and authorities are eager to see if it boosts organ supply which is relative low in Israel due to religious objections.

167 diggsU.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.

164 diggsFrom the guy hacking up phlegm to the woman giving herself a facial, the top 10 worst airplane passengers:

97 diggsThey say there's two, maybe three stories worth telling, at least one of them being of the boy-meets-girl variety. After a while, one yearns for something less predictable, and over the years, I have lost interest in most of the movies at my local cineplex because so many of them are predictable to the extreme.

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117 diggsMost of the news media is calling any inclusion of a price on carbonemissions impossible but it’s clear that the authors of the bill,along with President Obama are forging ahead with their proposals onemissions. Senator Graham noted on Tuesday that Obama deserves creditfor including nuclear power and clean coal technology in his proposal.

240 diggsIs there some sort of fetish out there for porn actors to be pissed off while they’re f*****? If there is then I am definitely missing something. Cause when I see a porn of a guy yelling and screaming and foaming at the mouth while he’s banging a hot porn actress all I can think is, “Dude, chill the f*** out.”

136 diggsAmericans spend billions on foods and supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids. Not all of it is money well spent.

126 diggsThere's a battle brewing in the marketing world, one that smells of a manly-musk and is being fought for the glistening - and sometimes hairy - skin of the modern man. This year's Super Bowl had Unilever promoting its new Dove Men+Care. Old Spice has launched its own series of commercials, satirically shaming men into buying its body wash products.

162 diggsA strange trend has emerged that violates the more-is-better ethos of American consumer culture. Some products and services are touting limitations as desirable "features." And consumers are loving it.

210 diggsAt GDC, Epic demonstrated the first ever tech demo of Gears of War 3 and some really slick Unreal Engine updates.

122 diggs"This was an affront, it was an insult but most importantly it undermined this very fragile effort to bring peace to that region," said David Axelrod, one of President Barack Obama's closest advisers.

169 diggsMen and women are doubtless acquitted of auto burglary in cities across the U.S. every day. But we're guessing that few do so based on such marvelous exculpatory stories as 28-year-old San Francisco resident Weston Reynolds.

108 diggsWife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court.

231 diggsScientists at MIT have discovered an energy source that you can see only through a microscope. The researchers devised a process for generating electricity using nanotechnology. They plan to refine the process in hopes of creating a new eco-friendly battery, among other products.

111 diggsBack in 2007, Hollywood was suffering from serious battle fatigue. But a new surge of war movies has come out — Green Zone takes on the search for WMDs; The Hurt Locker follows a bomb squad; and The Pacific is a 10-hour HBO World War II epic.

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187 diggsThe term "Social Gospel" has been considered a dirty phrase by conservatives for a while now. But if that's what Beck meant, he has quickly learned the consequences of sloppy language. And in any event, he has certainly discovered the dangers of publicly practicing theology without a license.

160 diggsFeb 27th was the last day to formally enlist candidates for the regional elections at the end of this month. PdL delegate Alfredo Milioni was entrusted with signing up 41 local candidates from Rome and 121 neighboring towns. He missed the deadline because he went out for a sandwich.

98 diggsSometimes it's better to NOT find what you're looking for...

136 diggsIt's not every day that the NPR crowd falls for a heavy-metal band, but then Acrassicauda isn't your average group of headbangers. Meet the Arab world's best-known metal heads.

85 diggsMarin and her neighbors are part of a pilot program to install solar water heaters in the houses of low-income families. For Chile — a country with stark economic inequality and few fossil fuels — it's a way to help the poor while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

95 diggsLong Island Lolita Amy Fisher plans to strip for an effort to raise money for victims of the Haitian earthquake.

336 diggsThis Starship Enterprise NCC-1701D of Star Trek was fabricated in one-billionth scale by 30 kV Ga+ focused-ion-beam CVD using phenanthrene gas. It is 8.8μm long

202 diggsSuper Mario Bros Played on an 8 x 8 LED Video, Carnegie Mellon student Chloe Fan wired an 8 x 8 LED matrix to play a 64 pixel version of Super Mario Brothers.

86 diggsTeddy Tamgho of France has set a new world record distance to win the triple jump at the world indoor championships.

143 diggsWhat better way to celebrate Pi Day?

174 diggsIt took 35 ice sculptors, flown in from around the world, six days to carve the 28-foot-tall northern Swedish import into a tableau of floating ice caps on a glittering Arctic sea—in reality, a 5,300-square-meter box garnished with a thin layer of water. The Grand Palais itself was kept at subzero temperatures.

98 diggs7 marriages at 7 different retail stores/restaurants -- from Waffle House and KFC to Taco Bell and Walmart. Memories, no doubt, that will always be cherished (and laughed about?)....

130 diggsJudy Haim, who is suffering from cancer, tells Access Hollywood that the city of Toronto will help her by covering the cost of Corey Haim's funeral, which is set for Tuesday.

280 diggsLast night, during Digg's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes to Digg. Among the changes Adelson announced are a streamlined submission process, a personalized homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools.

216 diggsSaw this on Fark. Photo: Does that dude have boobs? Story: Drug-related violence left 25 people dead Saturday (local time) in Mexico's southern Guerrero state, including four people who were decapitated. Two bodies of decapitated men were found overnight on Scenic Avenue in downtown Acapulco and the two decapitations were found west...

48 diggsAccording to the FBI and the IC3 Web site, the popular scam trends for 2009 included hitman scams, astrological reading frauds, economic scams, job site scams, and fake pop-up ads for antivirus software.

132 diggsJust about everyone gets injured at some point, whether a sprained wrist from slipping on the ice or a stressed ankle tendon from overdoing it in that friendly game of basketball. Here are four things to take into consideration...

171 diggsThe technology that allows authorities to plot your comings and goings by the transmission towers that pick up your calls offers police an investigative tool that can crack alibis and connect co-defendants, but it also raises constitutional questions about privacy and police tactics.

154 diggsFor centuries, people have wondered how the world was created. We may never know how we came to be, but there are many different theories on the subject.

105 diggsMaterials scientists have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.

132 diggsTear up the settlement for the 9/11 workers and revive that rarest of government programs, one actually efficient and responsive to the needs of those it was supposed to serve. The fund was prepared to continue indefinitely, rightly predicting that people might not fall ill until years after exposure to the Pit's poisons and carcinogens.

169 diggsCrafting a successful superhero movie is easier said than done.

116 diggsJohn Wall scored seven of his 15 points in overtime, and No. 2 Kentucky rallied from five down with 2:28 left in regulation to beat Mississippi State 75-74 on Sunday for the Wildcats' 26th Southeastern Conference tournament championship.

113 diggsDetroit --City employees with a strong aroma of perfume, cologne or any scented products will soon be in for a warning. City officials have plans to place placards in three city buildings detailing scented products to avoid due to a settlement in a widely publicized federal lawsuit.

151 diggsUm . . . men, I've been waiting for the right time to ask you this but figured now is just as good a time as any. What in the world is a man cave? And what exactly do you do in there?

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99 diggsIt's a brave new world. Unfortunately--continuing the literary allusion--Big Brother is watching. As technology makes more information more accessible, it also threatens to expose information that is not intended to be shared. Privacy is a concept that is caught in the middle of the struggle.

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137 diggsWith 11 kids at home, the 79-year-old man gave blood for more than 56 years in order to afford season tickets. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the man’s doctor later discovered he had a rare disease, which caused iron to build up in his blood stream. The only cure? Giving blood.

262 diggsI would greenlight an Epic Beard Man cartoon series in an instant-- mainly to avoid getting my face punched in.

496 diggsPhotographer Jon Beard, who normally photographs broken light bulbs at the exact moment the filament burns altered this still because, "What can I say? I grew up gaming and learned that if you break enough objects you'll eventually find one of these. Lesson reinforced." Check out the rest of his amazing photographs.

105 diggsI can’t remember exactly what it was in my life that started me off reading Michael Jackson erotic fiction. It certainly wasn’t a lifestyle choice I made consciously...

119 diggsThree choices, and you only get to pick one: the building of the interstate highway system; the blanketing of the United States with coast-to-coast television; the introduction and spread of the Internet.

61 diggsUpdated live as the field of 65 is announced, this post breaks down the entire bracket for the 2010 NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament, including the TV schedule, announcer lineups, and point spreads for each March Madness game.

113 diggsIn Colorado, the situation is different. The state's new law doesn't link paying the tax to the presence of affiliates; instead, it requires out-of-state retailers to help enforce collection of the 2.9 percent state tax that online consumers in Colorado are technically supposed to pay already, though few know about it or do it.

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137 diggsVenezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.

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109 diggsUnhappy with the culture on Wall Street? Angered by the behavior of the banking giants? Then move your money to a community bank or credit union.

70 diggsThe uTorrent team released the long-awaited version 2.0 of their popular application last month. The overall reception has been very positive, but critics have labeled the new release as unfair, which has resulted in the client being banned from several private BitTorrent trackers.

169 diggsJerry Seinfeld dropped by "Saturday Night Live" last night in attempt to make up for the train wreck that is "The Marriage Ref."

107 diggsGunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate, an attack U.S. President Barack Obama said "outraged" him.

181 diggsSid Meier knows how gamers think. He has been making hit games such as Civilization for decades. Today at the Game Developers Conference, he shared his insights on gamer psychology and how he has had to change his assumptions about how players behave. More often than not, he said, players just don’t act logically.

110 diggsDavid Beckham suffered an Achilles tendon injury before Clarence Seedorf scored in the final minute to give AC Milan a 1-0 win over Chievo on Sunday, a result that moved them to within a point of leaders Inter at the top of Serie A.

94 diggsAs he approaches the cameraman, Zach Van Orsdel loses an edge and goes tumbling by. Thankfully (for us, not Zach), the game was televised as part of the popular Minnesota State Prep Hockey Championships.

199 diggsMeet the graduating Texas senior class of 2020 and beyond. This group of students has some unique identifying characteristics, products of an education based upon textbooks crafted with an agenda. If you were to test them on their knowledge, here's....

111 diggsActivision threw a party for the press at GDC, complete with women working the poles and a flowing bar. Camera crews filmed, pictures were taken... as a marketing stunt this was genius. So why does it feel so dirty? The game was demoed for me in a private suite, played live, and talked up by the developer. Mixing the best parts of Stranglehold...

112 diggsFor the game developer that needs a title quick, a thesaurus and a random word generator may be a good idea, but these did not come out right...

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136 diggsPeter Graves, star of Mission Impossible and Airplane! has reportedly been found dead in his Los Angeles area home. The actor was 83.

163 diggsAttempts by federal investigators and Toyota technicians to recreate the experience described by a San Diego driver who said his Toyota Prius raced out of control have raised questions about the driver's version of events.

91 diggsSixty-five million years ago, the vertical wall below was a muddy flat which dinosaurs walked across. Now, thanks to fossilization and plate movement, the flat is now a wall of solid stone and the footprints are beautifully preserved.

105 diggsThis cat has one message..

183 diggsClassmates.com — the website that promises to reunite people with their mullet-haired friends of youth — has agreed to pay out a $9.5 million settlement for a lawsuit dating back to 2008 accusing the company of “false advertising” through “deceptive” marketing emails.

271 diggsMario is Italian, so it would make sense if there was a game one day that featured the characters from the Mario universe in a GTA like action adventure game. 

195 diggsA new enhancement procedure uses surplus tissue from your body to enlarge your bust, with no need for a surgeon's knife...but is it too good to be true? It is the cosmetic procedure that sounds like many women's dream: increase the size of your breasts by up to a cup size, while taking inches off your tummy and thighs.

98 diggsIt’s time for America to confront China about the undervaluation of its currency, which is adding to the world’s economic problems.

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97 diggsThe First Lady writes about how we can empower parents, schools, and the community to battle childhood obesity.

109 diggsEven as a House Democratic leader admitted that Democrats are still lacking votes, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs proclaimed on CBS' "Face the Nation" that "this is the week" that the House will pass the Senate's health-care reform bill.

141 diggsTwo Britons have been sentenced to a month's imprisonment for indecency after a local woman took objection to them kissing in a restaurant.

85 diggsAccording to court records, the victim was engulfed in flames up to his shoulders; he fell to the floor and began rolling to extinguish the flames. The floor caught fire, and his frat brother tried to stomp out the flames.

135 diggsThe Dell Adamo XPS is the world's thinnest laptop and sports a design that trumps all others, but....

336 diggsHave no idea which shuttle this is but the angle this image is taken from is really cool.

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89 diggsCapping off a fairly terrible fortnight of news surrounding Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward comes word this morning that Modern Warfare 2's map pack is one of the most over-priced pieces of downloadable content we've ever seen.

100 diggsHumanity’s relationship with bamboo is extensive, stretching across a myriad of cultures and spanning thousands of years. Considered a symbol of fertility in Chinese culture and a symbol of friendship in India—has been utilized in a multitude of ways that might seem a tad eccentric, especially by North American standards.

177 diggsAn obese mother in the US is trying to put on weight in order to become the world's fattest woman. Donna Simpson, from New Jersey, ...

102 diggsAN obscure art exhibition featuring live birds “playing” electric guitars has become a runaway hit and internet sensation. Although it has hardly been advertised or reviewed, the exhibition has been drawing lengthy queues since a short video of the birds took YouTube by storm.

97 diggsDonna Simpson, from New Jersey, has her heart set on reaching her goal weight of 1000lbs in two years. Her 49-year-old partner Philippe — who she met on a dating site for plus-size people — was encouraging her to reach her goal. "I think he'd like it if I was bigger ... he's a real belly man and completely supports me." .....Best of luck to Donna.

150 diggsNo car is perfect, but here are 10 that are damn close. They are designs that have stood the test of time, and if these 10 cars were the only 10 cars ever built, there would still be something for just about everyone.

240 diggsWe haven’t heard from ET. Is it time to re-think the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

156 diggsOrganizing for America has held meetings, sent e-mails and knocked on doors advocating for health care, but it hasn't added any oomph to President Obama's top legislative priority. Now it must turn out voters for Democrats in the tough midterm elections.

99 diggsThis map (infographic) shows when and where you can watch every eclipse in the next fifteen years.

165 diggsThe best money making ideas are always the most simple. It’s a fact and the Apple iPad proves it

153 diggsIsraeli media reported Monday that the U.S. is pressing Israel to scrap a contentious east Jerusalem building project whose approval has touched off the most serious diplomatic feud with Washington in years.

186 diggsA bus plummeted 70 feet into a dry riverbed in northwestern India on Monday, killing at least 26 passengers and injuring 34 others, police said...