155 diggsThe divisions the immigration debate creates on the right are deeper, more passionate, and much more destructive to GOP unity than the divisions created by immigration on the left. Events of the last week or so have underscored this fact of political life.

127 diggsHow fat can you get?

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133 diggs"Don't mess with Mossad".T-shirts with hard-hitting messages relating to the Israeli spy agency have been selling like hot cakes throughout Israel.

57 diggsAt least 63 people died at a crowded temple in northern India Thursday when a gate crashed to the ground, triggering a stampede, police said.

129 diggs5 reasons thinks might not be improving anytime soon.

367 diggsThe GOP has signed up woefully few female candidates this year. But CPAC hero Ron Paul is helping to close the gap.

105 diggsMicrosoft releases its first mobile application for phones running the Android operating system from rival Google.

151 diggsThe elders at Ecclesia Church were expecting something tame from Jackson Potts II for their annual Stations of the Cross art display.Instead, the 10-year-old produced a photo of his kid brother being beaten by a police officer. Jackson says it's a modern-day interpretation of Roman soldiers beating Jesus.

130 diggsNorth Korea has reportedly developed its own version of the Linux operating with a graphical user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Windows.

111 diggsCritics of evolution are gaining ground by linking the issue to climate change, arguing that dissenting views on both should be taught in public schools.

169 diggsDo you feel like your life is four hours too long? Do you need an outlet for your Avatar depression? Do you like it when famous people wear ribbons? Are you prepared to clap for Michael Jackson? You're in luck! It's the 82nd Annual Academy Awards!

203 diggseaked Ingame Exploration of the Ruby Sanctum - World of Warcraft's new raid instance! The instance is intended to be a prelude to Cataclysm and should provide some advancement for the new expansion's storyline before the 4.0 patch. Video provides high definition footage of the zone and Blizzard's under development testing areas surrounding it.

111 diggsFreak waves that smashed into a Mediterranean cruise ship flooded people's cabins, broke windows in a restaurant and terrified many travelers in an ordeal that claimed two lives, a passenger said Thursday.

123 diggsThe Baylor freshman made famous for her dunking ability is about to get a LOT more attention for decking a girl in the jaw, most of which she probably doesn't want.

113 diggsWhy do domestic dogs vary so much in size, shape, coat texture, color and patterning? Study of the dog genome has reached a point where the molecular mechanisms governing such variation across mammalian species are becoming understood.

175 diggsThe devastating earthquakes in Chile and Haiti this year have North American seismologists looking again at the potential for similar quakes here at home. After all, the U.S. lies on several major fault lines, and has suffered strong earthquakes throughout its history.

96 diggsSpeaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European director of Google online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they will become more important than desktop PCs. In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs, he said.

165 diggsA former Florida high school student who was suspended by her principal after she set up a Facebook page to criticize her teacher is protected constitutionally under the First Amendment, a federal magistrate ruled.

134 diggsAs the Daily Show and Colbert Report leave Hulu, they reveal the video streaming site's greatest weakness.

133 diggsPaddling across the sky, 13,000ft up in a kayak has become a new daredevil craze dubbed Skyaking.

100 diggsWhen the Academy decided to dilute this year’s best picture pool with an extra five nominees (making for a total of 10), a lot of Oscar pundits predicted it would make the outcome of the race more challenging to predict.

173 diggsNets are the worst team in the NBA and are having trouble convincing fans to come to games. So Roni Deutch Tax Center will provide all New Jersey residents who attend the Nets game on Friday, March 5 with preparation of a free state tax return. Wow.

325 diggsThat's the sorry state that befell California state Senator Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) early Wednesday.

124 diggsIf you have been blogging for more than a few months, you have undoubtedly had to deal with content theft on more than occasion. Since it has been a couple of years since I have written about online content theft, I felt it was the perfect time to write an up-to-date post outlining some of the ways you can catch someone stealing your content.

144 diggsMore than anything, Sony's lost its spirit, spending too much time telling us it's the greatest electronics company in the world and not nearly enough showing us.

147 diggsGet ready to memorize new words to the national anthem. Parliament will be asked to review the original gender-neutral wording of the national anthem, says the throne speech delivered by Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean on Wednesday.

263 diggsSeems like a lot of thinking while waiting for the huge launch...

57 diggsA congressman who has played a key role in the long-running health care debate says he and 11 other Democrats will vote against the overhaul unless a provision subsidizing abortion is removed.

168 diggsStunning images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite.

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40 diggsAfter the Windows Phone 7 launch passed without so much as a mention of Project Pink, Microsoft's other new phone project started to fade into memory. Today, we can confirm: Pink is coming, and Verizon is onboard as a carrier.

145 diggsBoth services — Netflix for DVDs of movies and television shows, Gamefly for video games — rely on snail mail to get their goods into customers' hands.

263 diggsJulie Klausner has slept with a lot of losers and perverts. She is not permanently wounded by these encounters and yet she feels bad. And then she feels bad about feeling bad. Why would she be ashamed? After all, Klausner is a feminist who doesn't believe there is anything wrong with casual sex.

289 diggsI had had a very happy decade with the PS2... how about you?

135 diggsNFL free agency begins at the stroke of midnight. Which means a lot of teams are at this very moment scrambling to finalize deals with big ticket players. Due to the impending uncapped year, the list of available free agents on the open market is scant. Some of these guys aren’t worth the hype. Here are ten overrated free agents teams should avoid.

200 diggsCaptain Holly Graf was relieved of her command of a U.S. missile ship after an inquiry found she had created a hostile environment.

216 diggsHurley heads to the island where the famous ppl go, to have fun and to P.A.R.T.Y.

140 diggsDr. NakaMats has patented over 3000 inventions. That's a 3-to-1 margin over Thomas Edison. If you've ever listened to a CD, watched a DVD, or done karaoke, you've Dr. NakaMats to thank. And, at 81, he's quite the character.

200 diggsThis monkey has gotten more than I ever will. Damn.

223 diggsWhen Japan’s economic miracle imploded in the 90s, a lot of rubble was left in its wake. Two decades on, the ruins can still be found intact. Despite their abundance, finding and exploring these places can be difficult because information is guarded and trespassing is viewed with bizarre severity here.

171 diggsIn the most illiterate city in America, school board president can't write. The president of the Detroit school board, Otis Mathis, is waging a legal battle to steer the academic future of 90,000 children, in the nation's lowest-achieving big city district. He also acknowledges he has difficulty composing a coherent English sentence.

81 diggsGoogle celebrates the birthday of the great Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, best known for his composition "The Four Seasons".

108 diggsThe effort to rebuild Chile after Saturday's massive earthquake can take at least three years, Michelle Bachelet, the country's outgoing president, has said.

134 diggsNo, this is not a joke -- The fast food giant looks to slim down.

184 diggsThat headline is probably a bit of an overstatement, since this is probably the only iPhone stand made out of silverware at all. This is a pretty neat idea, and you can probably use it for eating some of the time!

174 diggsA list of real-life espionage thrillers of yore (the ones we know about, anyway); the old-fashioned international mysteries from the glory days of the CIA and MI6, when even some of the cleverest, sneakiest, and strangest spy games were sometimes undone.

214 diggsTall spires rise with the first rays of the sun over a blanket of white, gently poking through a dense cloud cover. Surreal? Yes. Photoshopped? Never.

335 diggsJon calls Fox out for their false claim that they show unbiased news from 9am-4pm and gives props to Sarah Palin's comedic chops.

91 diggs Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is in no rush to take the popular social-networking site public, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

129 diggsThe California legislature is considering a bill to create a registry of animal abusers. But there might not be enough money to fund it.

143 diggsPanelists discuss how the decline of the newspaper industry will affect the loons and shut-ins who rely on newspapers for stacking around their ramshackle homes.

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106 diggsg their upfront presentation to potential media buyers and clients this past Tuesday, Disney unveiled two new animated series spawned from the upcoming Marvel team-up movie The Avengers, and the 3D tech-world sequel, Tron Legacy.

129 diggsGame developers have a lot to think about when they adapt literary works to an interactive medium.

132 diggsBest Buy Co. Inc. will soon offer a video-on-demand service to its Reward Zone Premium Silver members, the electronics retailer said on its Web site.

129 diggsFord's on a roll lately, selling more cars in the U.S. than General Motors last month. And it's vowed to achieve best-in-class fuel economy numbers for every new model it launches. So the news today that its revised 2011 Ford Mustang with the 3.7-liter V-6 engine has been rated at 19 mpg city, 31...

146 diggsVideo game weapons are a huge part of why we love gaming so much. We can harness intense firepower, manipulate mind-blowing physics, and smash heads in a way not legally possible in the real world. And for many games, the weapons are as noteworthy as the characters that wield them.

112 diggsJim and Pam are having a baby this week on The Office and, unfortunately that's been one of those TV conventions that tends to send shows on a downward spiral. Here's a look back at some of the unwelcome arrivals that put a damper on once-successful shows.

157 diggsAn issue that concerns many Americans is the national debt. We know it's huge, but many people don't know much more than that. Who does the US owe, how much and for what?

128 diggsA species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been found in rural Australian farmland.

371 diggsGadget nerds: Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness. PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements.

93 diggsTalking on the cell phone while driving? Not the best idea. Texting? Way worse. But walking your dog while driving? There ought to be a law!

92 diggsPolice take down a display of clothes RFK wore during his assassination and apologize to the family.

228 diggsFedor shows his dominance here against Kevin “The Monster” Randleman. Randleman gets Fedor’s back and pulls off the best and baddest suplex in MMA history — also known as “The Murderplex”. But Fedor being Fedor, he survives and wins

249 diggsA cop in Evesham, New Jersey went to a restaurant -- nothing too fancy; it's called Good Foods to Go -- and found a hair in his bagel. Instead of complaining like anyone else, the cop had the cook arrested.

382 diggsComedy Central officially announced today that the first new episodes of Futurama in seven years will begin airing in June with the original cast returning.

201 diggsAn alphabetical index of all Most Admired companies from the top 50 survey and industry rankings this year.

136 diggsNASAs Earth Observatory uses powerful satellites to capture the movements, evolution, and beauty of the earth, from snowstorms and earthquakes, as seen from space. Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASAs Aqua satellite.

201 diggsA new movement called the Coffee Party recently emerged as an alternative for frustrated left-leaning voters — with citizens across the country interested in starting or joining a local chapter. Here, an instant guide to the Coffee party's origins, its message, and its possible impact on the U.S. political scene.

307 diggsPatent trolls would generally disappear, because a loophole in the current patent system allows them to wait for a technology to spread before retro-actively patenting it.

89 diggsAfter being announced last July and going through 2 beta programs it looks as if the Rock Band Network has finally opened it's doors to the public.

235 diggsArrested in the slaughter of 15 college students at a party, he'sconfessed to working for a drug cartel since 2000.

140 diggsThe "Crazy" label is used to stigmatize deviation from the supremely crazy Washington establishment.

230 diggsThe FDA's reversal of its decision on BPA is one more sign that the way we use plastics today may be on the verge of a significant shift. As more studies implicate plastics in a range health problems, the FDA has vowed to be more responsive to health concerns about plastic.

115 diggsEveryone always dreams of getting super powers and using them in the eternal fight for good (or, in some cases, fame and fortune). But what if it wasn’t about the BIG issues? What if you could just use a super power to help in day-to-day life?

239 diggsWho needs bands when you have this...

248 diggsMaria Conneran and her family had worked hard to create their armless, nude snow lady in the front garden of their home in Rahway, New Jersey. But despite several compliments on their chilly version of the Venus de Milo, the family were forced to cover up her blushes after complaints from other residents.

147 diggsKorean already produce alcoholic beverages with high-oxygen concentrations, though previously there was no science to bolster marketing claims that it made your body feel better than conventional liquor.

248 diggsWithin just a few hours today, three scandals involving New York politicians emerged, each with its own twist. In the last month, New Yorkers have had to wrap their heads around years worth of scandals.

318 diggsa picture's worth a thousand words...

297 diggsInfographic.

110 diggsMono Lake has a bizarre, extraterrestrial beauty. Just east of Yosemite National Park in California, the ancient lake covers about 65 square miles. Above its surface rise the twisted shapes of tufa, formed when freshwater springs bubble up through the alkaline waters.

117 diggsYou just need to take a look for it.

87 diggsFloods in Uganda displace 20,000 as rains hamper search for landslide victims

106 diggsDr. Drew Pinsky hired a team of cyber security experts to monitor an alleged stalker -- and they're the ones who blew the whistle on the guy's whereabouts.

175 diggsAll hail King Kong of Mars! Eagle-eyed experts spotted this gorilla in one of the pictures sent back by the Spirit Rover. Of course, NASA's trying to cover it up. But it's not the weirdest Martian we've found so far.

227 diggsChina must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.

152 diggsIt's been a while now since fans of "Perry Bible Fellowship" have been able to enjoy regular - or any - updates of the brilliantly twisted webcomic, and while we wish creator Nicholas Gurewitch the best in all his other endeavors, we must admit that the absence of the once-weekly strip has left a skub-shaped hole in our life.

187 diggsAren't you just glad we have alarm clocks with snooze these days?

135 diggsAllen Iverson and the Sixers parted ways on Tuesday, and most assumed that the time spent dealing with his young daughter's illness was the primary reason.

172 diggsI'm just glad that Tom Cruise is not on the list for top earners in Hollywood.

228 diggsI work at Whole Foods. I found this message taped to a bottle of Fiji water in the store on Thursday.

104 diggsWhy is it that so many kids movies seem to be made for adults? In fact, some of the films marketed at kids are downright creepy! Here is a list of the 7 most inappropriate kids movies in recent memory:

122 diggs"These days the guys who like Weezer are pretty much a part of ourtarget audience," says Bubbles, who runs StripperTweets. "And by thatI mean guys who were GIANT DORKS about 15 years ago and now havemoney."

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130 diggsHome video captures the sudden wave that struck a cruise ship and killed two people. (No translation)

169 diggsFish, fire ants and mice have been behind a host of computer network outages over the years. This evergreen story even quotes Jay Adelson, then with Equinix but now Digg's CEO

174 diggsThe Olympic gold medalist is back on the cover. According to the magazine, a lot of White's recent success on the half-pipe and off can be attributed to a new addition to his life: "Getting into music has changed my personality and my way of doing things ... I"m far more open now."

195 diggsProfessional and collegiate athletics have become less about the performace and more about the show.

117 diggsIn all the messiness of life's day-to-day, one tends to forget the majesty that is the universe in a grand scale. Let this stunning time-lapse of the Milky Way over Hawaii remind you of your insignificance.

91 diggsDish Network DVR owners won't see any impact just yet as EchoStar appeals the latest decision, but TiVo is a step closer to $300 million and a crippling blow against EchoStar.

109 diggs Palin has already met with executives at ABC, Fox and CBS, with Thursday plans to pitch her show to NBC

124 diggsAuto-captioning launched in limited beta in November of last year. It was for select partners to test out the system, where Google’s algorithms would parse words within videos and transform it into captions — speech-to-text, a technology used on he Nexus One and Android.

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98 diggs"Two years ago, I played, and I was good," Bradley told The Times. "I go to Chicago, not good. I've been good my whole career. So, obviously, it was something with Chicago, not me." ... Obviously. ... It's your turn Seattle.

182 diggsThe launch of the iPad—and the digs that ensued—got WD thinking about the worst names out there. From Pee Cola to Krack Nuggets, try to wrap your head around these off-the-wall labels.

92 diggsNot all of us own land for farming, but even urban dwellers can grow gardens and plants. There are more and more fantastic green living concepts being designed for people who want to try out their green thumb.

172 diggsFive incredible retro posters which cast Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Precious, Up in the Air, and An Education in a new light. It works especially well with The Hurt Locker, which in Coburn’s hands, could just as easily have taken place on the moon.

121 diggsReality TV is taking on a new target: closeted gay men. April 2 is the premiere of a new reality show, "Get Out Of The Closet", featuring men nominated by their friends or family being forced to admit they're gay on television.

207 diggsModular homes have been around since the first trailers sheltered migrant workers in the 1920s. But the stigma of double-wides and flimsy suburban boxes is being blown away for the money-conscious Lexus set, who can now order their dream homes off the shelf.

82 diggsUC Davis physics student Austin Sendek is petitioning the International System of Units to declare hella as the official designation of 10 to the 27th power, or, a trillion trillions.

184 diggsWhat Apple or Microsoft have so they deserve that category on Digg.com and Google doesn’t? When you do all the comparison, you’ll see that Google has almost everything what those two giants have and probably much more.

118 diggsThe 'Attack of the Show' host snags a juicy new role...

258 diggsAn Australian 19-year-old working as a police officer was kicked off the force for conduct unbecoming a police officer. The reason she was fired: Attempting to have sex with every man in uniform. Oh and lying about witnesses and being generally crazy. But mostly the sex thing.

161 diggsLong before Avatar and Titanic were the two most profitable movies ever created, Cameron was piecing together the C-grade horror flick Piranha II: The Spawning.

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137 diggsSony has announced the latest in their line of SOCOM games for PS3

225 diggsRep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.) this week introduced the "Taking Responsibility for Congressional Pay Act," which would cut senators' and representatives' salaries by 5 percent starting Jan. 1, 2011. The measure would enact the first pay cut for Congress since 1933.

153 diggsScientists in Canada are using the bodies of dead pigs, diverted from the butcher's shop, in their undersea laboratory. Strapped with cameras, they find out more about life in the ocean.

99 diggsApple's push into the mobile advertising space could include tools to allow developers to simply integrate advertisements into App Store software for the iPhone and iPad in the same manner that they add other graphical or interface elements to their apps.

314 diggsIf national security or social policy were at the center of debate, the Wisconsin congressman wouldn't be nearly as prominent as he is today. But President Obama wants to reshape the American economy and welfare state so that it looks more like a Western European social democracy.

96 diggsStarbucks CEO Howard Schultz may get heat for selling the NBA's Sonics to Oklahoma, but Native American author Sherman Alexie praises the coffee mega-chain for being accepting. "Nothing will make you happier than when you're driving through the Midwest and you see a Starbucks sign--especially if you're a minority in areas that you don't know."

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130 diggsThe last three seasons have been loaded with historic moments in Major League Baseball. Especially from the plate. Check out these milestones that might be set by players in 2010.

295 diggsProbably the weirdest shit you'll see today...

264 diggsPolice said he used a pocket knife to carve his name into the woman's chest on the morning of February 19th. Lt. Jim Hutchins said, "They did find that he had carved, 'I luv Mike Welliver,' carved in with a heart." Michael Welliver says stupidity and cocaine made him do it. (video included)

79 diggsThe Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potentially life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.

121 diggsThis Google Monster was created by Asaf Hanuka for an article about groups protesting Google's plan to scan every book.

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95 diggsIn this video, rappers Rick Ross, Cassidy, Paul Wall, video vixens and industry insiders shed light on why dark-skinned girls get less love in the casting world for music videos.

110 diggsJohn Wayne, best actor, “True Grit,” 1969. It’s a big, fun, self-parodying performance. But his work in “The Searchers” and “Red River” is far more moving, and complex. A purely – if richly deserved – honorary prize......

166 diggsWith Wall Street II coming up, we decided to examine the history of Shia LaBeouf, and uncovered a secret that goes back generations. Behold...the curse of the LaBeouf family line.

119 diggsThey’re currently at the tip of an industry controversy; respectively because of the companies Infinity Ward crisis. However, during this fiasco, Activision revealed that Sledgehammer Games, a newly formed studio led by former Visceral Games executives...

188 diggsOkay, we're in love with this delightfully evil Mattel Mindflex hack, which delivers an electric shock if you don't remain calm.

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215 diggsPretty cool machine -- vid shows it hovering, flying...doing hover/flying things. Inventor wants to market and sell it (potentially for around $13,000 each). No idea about its marketability, reliability or safety -- but definitely looks like a fun ride...

146 diggsUbisoft does get a point or two, however grudgingly, for acknowledging supreme customer unhappiness and patching its ridiculously penalizing DRM scheme but unfortunately neither the medical community nor gaming developers have ever found a way to patch stupid.

167 diggsA two-year-old girl is in a St. Louis hospital recovering from a surgery that removed 18-feet of her intestines following a severe beating allegedly delivered by the hands of her mother's boyfriend. Doctors say the toddler also suffered a broken arm and bruising about her body. She may have to eat the rest of her life through a feeding tube...

95 diggsFresh controversy over aid to Ethiopia erupted today after an investigation concluded that millions intended for victims of the 1984 famine was diverted to anti-government rebel leaders – including the current Ethiopian Prime Minister.

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318 diggsAn Italian passenger of the Louis Majesty, Ervino Curtis shot the wave hitting and breaking the glass of portholes, killing two people and wounding many others.

133 diggsA single asteroid impact near the Yucatan remains the best explanation for the massive Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, scientists conclude in a new, deep review.

74 diggsLocal agency to cast show, looking for a South Side Snooki.

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160 diggs"He looked like a single black king moving across a chessboard of so many white pawns. Our first glimpse was puzzling until we drew closer and realized that this was not some other bird but indeed another penguin of a different color."

153 diggsWhat started as a joke is becoming an unlikely success story. Gringo Bandito is now available at Albertsons, Food 4 Less and Whole Foods across S. California; dozens of restaurants across Orange County—and increasingly, the Southwest. Last year’s Warped Tour used the sauce during catering, and Metallica just asked for a big order for its tours.

70 diggsDirector Spike Jonze cuts Vice founder Shane Smith’s hair and discusses the making of Where the Wild Things Are.

98 diggsTwo police officers were injured by a gunman firing shots outside the Pentagon tonight and a suspect was in custody, a police spokesman said. Initially, hundreds of employees at the Pentagon were ordered to go into "Code Red" -- the entire building locked down, with no one allowed to enter or leave.

178 diggsThe leaked RNC fund-raising memo was roundly criticized. But the GOP's biggest worry may be the reaction among Tea Party leaders who were not amused.

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161 diggsIt’s official: Twitter has surpassed 10 billion tweets. The milestone shows that Twitter’s still growing at a rapid pace: it broke 1 billion tweets in November 2008 and 5 billion tweets just four months ago.

300 diggsThe House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly passed a measure Thursday recommending that the United States recognize the 1915 killings of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.

128 diggsDon't be surprised if you see hockey star Wayne Gretzky's son Trevor in a Hurricanes jersey some day. No, not the NHL team in Carolina, the original Miami Hurricanes. And we don't mean the school is starting up a hockey team either, we're talking football.

136 diggsThe frozen sub-sea deposits of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf are now destabilized and venting as much methane as all the oceans of the world combined. Methane, if you didn't know, is a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

267 diggsThe Cold War-era Soviet ekranoplan--Russian for "sea skimmer"--was one of the most ridiculously awesome high-speed cargo-movers ever devised. Capable of carrying 544 metric tons (that's 2.4 million pounds, or 1,200 tons) in its most extreme form, the ekranoplan is basically a ground-effect aircraft crossed with a ship and now you can build your own

102 diggsGet the misinformation about cholesterol, exhaustion, STDs and more.

84 diggsYou're not crazy, and neither are we: The touchscreen on the Apple iPhone really is more responsive than the screens on the BlackBerry Storm, the Motorola Droid, the Nexus One..

68 diggsThese are the first photos of Microsoft's Project Pink phones, snatched from deep within the bowels of the Microsoft/Verizon industrio-complex --not the Turtle, but the larger, Sidekick-like Pure. This doesn't look like Windows Phone 7, so what is it?

193 diggsAt the beginning there were Ibuka and Morita, the founders of Sony. At the end, a clusterfuckassery of blah models. And in the middle, a Big Bang of brilliant electronic gadgets, full of firsts and smallests. Here's the whole timeline.

123 diggsBMW's board member for sales and marketing, Ian Robertson, told Automotive News that between 600 and 700 units will be leased to selected customers in major global cities. Robertson said the leases will be divvied up with 200 destined for the U.S. and between 300 and 400 driving around in Europe.

123 diggsWith all the brouhaha over the rumored candidacy of The Office's John Krasinski for the title role in Marvel's upcoming Captain America movie, here's a look back at previous cases of fanboy outrage over the casting of some of the biggest genre movie properties. Some justified, others not so much...

116 diggsWarner Bros. plans to release the movie in three dimension

91 diggsDoor knob or dorr handle, can’t be more normal in our daily life… How can that be crerative or unusual? Check this post to see how those designer daring twists on a traditionally utilitarian theme and unlock your perceptions of what door knob/door handle could be....

132 diggsNerds with a social conscious-how refreshing. In this clip, a benevolent American gamer saw a plea from a blind Canadian gamer that he wanted to beat Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (aka best game of all time).

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106 diggsProving once again that the critics don't always get it exactly right...

140 diggsNew research this week estimates that food wasted by the US and Europe could feed the world three times over. Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from rotting food, impacts global climate change.

40 diggsNot more than a few hours ago, a gunman opened fire outside the Metro Entrance of the Pentagon. The suspect, John Patrick Bedell, grazed two Pentagon police officers with his spray, but the officers managed to shoot back and critically wound Bedel

119 diggsUndaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach"; to gut the credibility of skeptics.

346 diggsNearly a year after Travis Pastrana’s unsuccessful backflip, Cam McQueen completed the first successful backflip by a monster truck during a scored competition. The feat was performed before a crowd of over 70,000 during the 2010 Monster Jam in Jacksonville, FL.

90 diggsFor some 25 years, Silverman has been buying arcade pinball machines, those gaudily colored, delightfully cacophonic games of skill that involve a steel ball, a bunch of rubber bumpers amid a sea of flashing lights and a pair of electronic flippers that serve as the only thing between million-point success and hole-in-the-floor oblivion.

164 diggsA Dodge County mother and father have been accused of trading sex with their 14-year-old daughter in exchange for monthly payments on their minivan.

97 diggsHow much protein do you need? Will cutting carbs help my muscles grow faster? Could eating too much protein be dangerous? And other protein-related facts.

95 diggsWHAT does it mean to manufacture drama? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences thought it knew when it announced last year that the number of Oscar nominees for best picture would be doubled, to 10 from 5.

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108 diggsThe turmoil and political maneuvering over the future of NASA continues in the wake of the Obama administration's cancellation of the Constellation

270 diggsGoogle has defended HTC, which manufacturers the search engine's Nexus One, after Apple accused HTC of infringing 20 of its patents.

75 diggsPro Wrestling has always held a certain fascination. You know you're looking at a carnival that's basically a bizarre soap opera for men and adolescent

201 diggsThe issue is high on the agenda for American Veterans for Equal Rights, a group of gay veterans. The more conservative estimates of the cost of discharging and replacing gay and lesbian service members since 1994 is $400 million.

315 diggsIs your husband playing too much World of Warcraft and neglecting your relationship? Well, then try World of Wifecraft, the radical new therapy that’s sweeping the nation!

363 diggs"No thanks, Officers. I'm good."

98 diggsTurkey recalled its envoy to the United States following a vote by a congressional panel passing a resolution calling the killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey genocide.