Thousands watch as parachutist plummets 876 ft. to his death FAYETTEVILLE, West Virginia (AP) -- Thousands of people watched a participant jump to his death from a bridge during a popular festival Saturday when his parachute opened too late, a sheriff's office official said. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Winner of Chicago Marathon Slips, Falls At Finish Line "As he crossed the finish line of the 2006 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, elite runner Robert Cheruiyot slipped and fell, hitting his head on the ground." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Rally co-driver gets a stone up his ass Timo Rautiainen finds himself in a painful, yet hilarious accident. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Google Finance gives us a new chart "In what seems to be an attempt to catch up to Yahoo! Finance, Google has rolled out a new version of their stock chart....Besides the new comparison feature, you can also customize some display settings for the charts. These settings include news flags, dividends, splits, volume, default zoom and verticle scale." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Nvidia bans overclocking for its G80.. "NVIDIA told all of its partners that it simply won't allow the overclocking of G80 cards. It doesn't want another Geforce 7900 GT overclocking fiasco that caused a too high return rate for the cards..." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Red Hat boosts CEO's salary to $600,000 Red Hat Inc., which distributes the open-source Linux operating system, this week raised the annual base salary of its president and chief executive officer by 50 percent to $600,000, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Microsoft working on a Secret Vista Product: "The Best Windows Application" Keep your eyes peeled for some big software announcements to coincide with Windows Vista’s release. Microsoft said several developers are working on products to make the most of Vista’s advances, and we were told that Microsoft bigwig Jim Allchin, co-president of its platforms and services division, described one as "the best Windows application" From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Two Bacteria Remain Living Despite the Absence of Genes By all accounts, they shouldn't exist. But two bacteria are beating the odds, living despite the absence of genes considered to be essential for life. Scientists are still not entirely sure how these bacteria and the insects that house them continue to survive. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 8:31 p.m..
Rap Mogul Jay-Z Gets Into The Beer Business As if overseeing Rocawear, running a record label, part-owning the New Jersey Nets, and coming out of retirement to rap wasn't enough, Jay-Z is also now Co-brand Director for Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser Select, which hopes his celebrity and entrepeneurial expertise will influence young adults to choose the beer over other brands. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..
Smartest Dog You Have Ever Seen This dog, Skidboot (yes, that is his name), is probably the smartest dog you have ever seen. He has paid for two dually pickup trucks for his owner, who himself is a plain and simple cowboy, a good soul you might say. Together they make quite a pair. The clip is from a news report done for Texas Country Reporter. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..
YouTube: You Win Some, You Lose Some Sometimes things go your way, sometimes they don't. Just as a Japanese entertainment group has asked YouTube to pull nearly 30,000 copyrighted video clips, CBS has launched its own sanctioned channel on the popular video sharing site. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..
34 Scandals From Bush's First Year of Presidency Remember scandal fatigue? It was an affliction supposedly either turning voters against Democrats or, alternatively, a weariness in the body politic preventing Republicans from pursuing even more grievances against Clinton. After four years of Bush's presidency, the entire nation should be suffering from utter scandal exhaustion. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..
National Geographic: The Incredible Human Body Originally broadcast on PBS, this science documentary from National Geographic investigates the miraculous machine that is the human body. Learn about the body's extraordinary capabilities through personal stories coupled with in-depth scientific explorations. Technological breakthroughs are shown concerning surgery, brain development, conception.. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:10 p.m..
10 Games that SHOULD be on the iPod The Video iPod could be a very fun gaming platform with the right titles on the device...but not every kind of game will work with the click wheel interface...with that in mind, Apple Gazette has created a list of ten games that would be great for the iPod. Some I would have guess...others, not so much... From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Man about town - Amazing Stop Motion Video A day in the life of some guy... in a Super cool stop motion music video! From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Dirty Voter Indimidation Tactics Backfiring on 2006 Elections Finally the right kind of reaction to voter tampering: Law Enforcement. If only we were handeling it this way six years ago. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Bush: "We've Never Been Stay The Course" (Video) President George W. Bush tries to rewrite history on ABC's This Week. Bush told George Stephanopoulos, "We’ve never been stay the course, George!" Actually, he's used that phrase to describe his policy for years. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
After 1400 Years, the World's Oldest Business Has Shut Its Doors The oldest company in the world, which was founded in 578 in Japan by a group of people from the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje, will go into liquidation in January. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
A First Look at Call of Duty 3 No holds barred, this game blew me away. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Tom Cruise to “Purify” London with new Scientology’s HQ Last year, Cruise announced a scientology programme to “purify” firefighters still suffering from smoke inhalation after September 11, 2001. The project advises them to dispose of their medication and inhalers and opt instead for exercise, saunas, and vitamin, mineral and oil supplements. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Trapped Monkey Escapes the Jaws of a Crocodile Never give up!!! From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Sorry Blockbuster, But I love P2P Here's a message to Blockbuster, one of the largest chains of movie rental stores in the world. It's an original way to cancel you membership. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Google tells it's engineers to slow down Over the past few years, Google has been pumping out product after product, most of which are still in "Beta" stage at the time they are released. Eric Schmidt admits that Google has been so aggressive in introducing "a blizzard" of new products that "it's confusing to almost everyone." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
How to Install Internet Explorer 7 Bypassing Genuine Windows Validation... Internet Explorer 7.0 is the long awaited tabbed web browser by Microsoft. Nearly four years after the release of Internet Explorer 6.0, in the face of growing competition from Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft has finally given the old IE platform a facelift. Optimized design along with new cool interface, favorites centre, search box, RSS feeds and... From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Collection of 25 Absolute Crazy Innovations Do you need extra money? Collection of 25 absolute crazy innovations will save some extra money,German guys made all this Crazy innovations maybe for Life Insurance who knows !You cat use it in real life and don't need to spend extra money to stupid things :) From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Recover a dead hard drive using dd The Unix program dd is a disk copying util that you can use at the command line in order to make a disk image. It makes a bit-by-bit copy of the drive it's copying, caring nothing about filesystem type, files, or anything else. It's a great way to workaround the need for Norton Ghost. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
IMAGE of a Snowflake magnified to 300um This is a featured picture, which means that members of the community have identified it as one of the finest images on the English Wikipedia. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
DiCaprio vs. De Niro Martin Scorsese has replaced his old protege, Robert Deniro, with a younger model. So how does Leonardo Dicaprio compare to old Bob? From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Digg / Google used in BESTBUY Playstation 3 Ads section for online browsing Source: http://www.bestbuy.ca/marketing/ps3_minisite/en/online.asp From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
112 Cars Burned Every Day In France "An average of 112 cars a day have been torched across France so far this year and there have been 15 attacks a day on police and emergency services." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Photos: Space Invader Skateboard Deck Design made from Rubik's Cube Tiles There's only one per edition and they're made with actual tiles. Matrix duplicates the original design, adding mirror eyes, while "Above the City" is made of black and white mini tiles and "Rubik" continues Invaders' more recent habit of repurposing Rubik's cubes From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
PS3 Claim Wrong, Nintendo Wii Online Confirmed As Free There were many people who wound up confused after reading Sony's recent console comparison chart. After all, the chart stated that the Nintendo Wii online functionality will only be free for six months, which direclty contradicted reports from the Big N. Everybody can now breath a deep sigh of relief. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Turn Your iPod Into an Expensive Flashlight The $29.95 Blinkit snaps into any iPod's dock connector, and can provide a steady stream of light from its two LEDs -- or, if you fiddle with its buttons, the lights can pulse at different frequencies. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
No Charges for Woman Who Self-Aborted A Virginia judge has dismissed charges today against a young woman who shot herself in order to kill her unborn child in a case that has angered anti-abortion activists. Tammy Skinner was a poor, desperate 22-year-old with two young children and another one on the way. She said her boyfriend wouldn't pay for an abortion so she did the unthinkable. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Apple's EU sales more than in 2002, 2003, 2004 Combined! Apple's EU sales are thrice as nice: The European business of Apple Computer had sales of $4.1 billion (£2.2 billion) in the 12 months to the end of September — more than the combined total for its 2002, 2003 and 2004 financial years. “It’s an indication of the exponential growth of this business,” From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Why Bush's Wire Tapping is Defeated by VoIP Networks Bush claims he needs NSA wire tapping to break up terrorist networks but terrorists are not using the phone network Bush is tapping. They ... all are using private voice over IP internet phones (VoIP) that can't be tapped. This video explains how it works. And, how you can set up your own. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Olbermann: "Rumsfeld Gave North Korea Nukes" Keith Does it again. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Online World SUDOKU 2006 Compionship Play head to head Sudoku. The official arena for the Online World Sudoku Championship 2006 From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
The Art-O-Meter "Art-O-Meter is a device that measures the quality of an art piece. It bases its evaluation on the amount of time that people spend in front of an artwork compared to the total time of exhibition. The measurements are graphically represented by comments and a 5 star rating system." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Automate windows tasks with this simple scripting language AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). From digg on October 22, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
International School Library Day, 23 Oct 2006 The theme for 2006 is Reading. Knowing. Doing. Send a message to other schools through the Email Around the World project and let others know how you are celebrating. International School Library Day is on the fourth Monday in October each year. From EdNA Online on October 22, 2006 at 6:30 p.m..
Utah Education Network (UEN) The Utah Education Network website provides education tools, activities, lesson plans, curriculum guides and professional development for teachers and educators across the school and college sectors in the state of Utah. UEN resources include professional development calendars, UEN-TV channel 9, EDNET, and distance learning resources. From EdNA Online on October 22, 2006 at 6:30 p.m..
Colbert's Painting is for sale - again. After someone went crazy with the bidding ($99 Billion?!) on the last auction, Colbert's famed painting is on sale once again, for approved bidders only. As of posting, the bidding is at $4,350. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
Orionid meteor shower to brighten the sky tonight Anyone willing to brave the cold to patiently watch the sky tonight and perhaps for the next few nights will see the Orionid meteor shower, a sprinkling of tiny shooting stars that come from the debris left over from the passage of Halley's comet through the inner solar system. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
Moronic Martial Arts Instructor Want to make a video touting your martial arts skills? Don't make one until you're at least better than this guy. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
Uncovering the Black German Holocaust "At a time when the fight for justice for Jewish Holocaust victims continues to make front-page news, the horrific experiences of Black people in Nazi Germany are virtually ignored. These experiences are brought to light in a documentary film entitled Hitler's Forgotten Victims, directed by David Okuefuna and produced by Moise Shewa From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
5 must-have php tools 5 must-have tools for php developers! From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
XBOX 360 and High Speed Internet Bundle! This is sweet! It was just announced that Bell Canada will partner with Microsoft to offer high speed internet access and an XBOX 360 Pro Bundle for a low monthly fee! This is a nice way for Microsoft to penetrate even more in the home market! Will U.S. internet providers follow? I sure hope so! From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
Flyers GM Clarke resigns; Coach fired after terrible start Philadelphia Flyers general manager Bob Clarke resigned and coach Ken Hitchcock was fired Sunday in a major shakeup with Philadelphia off to its worst start in more than 15 years, a person in the NHL with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Sunday From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
How to Draw Cute Characters >> Manga Just as much as looks matter in making someone cute, it's also in the body language. Shy or quiet girls contain themselves closely. Outgoing are big and bold. Arms and feet apart. Heros are in the middle. They don't always keep their limbs in, nor do they get too loud...for the most part. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
ACTUAL difference between 720p v. 1080i v. 1080p Simply put, for a 1080i/p game the console has 55% less time per pixel to render any special effects, anti-aliasing, illumination, etc. than for a 720p game.Is it really harder for a developer to make a game for 1080p as opposed to 1080i? No.Read on for more information From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..
Google flexing political muscle Google, a global economic force but a latecomer to Washington politics, is trying to boost its influence in Congress with the first campaign contributions from its new political action committee. Alan Davidson, a Google lobbyist, said the PAC is ``a logical step toward building long-term relationships with policy-makers." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..
Awesome Nintendo-Themed Tattoo A beautiful full sleeve tattoo featuring Link, Donkey Kong, Mario with Samus on the bicep and topped off with some Yoshis. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..
Boy find message in a bottle from Iraq war vet A boy finds a long-ago message in a bottle from a dead Iraq war vet. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..
Jack Black's Anti-Piracy PSA This 'public service announcement' from Jack Black, international sensation, supermega rock and roll god and superstar, can be found on the website for the upcoming Tenacious D movie, but here is a direct link. Very funny stuff. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..
The Linux 101 Required Reading List So you want to learn Linux? The best way, the only really good way, is to get a distribution, load it on a computer and give it a try. However, you may need or want to read some materials about Linux to get up to speed. Here are some that will help you out. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..
Video: A very young Bill Gates Praising the Apple Macintosh We won't see this again from Bill any time soon... From digg on October 22, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..
RUMSFELD caught in a LIES by 27 year CIA VET!!!! MUST SEE!!! 27 Year Vet of CIA asks Rumsfeld about WMD's in IRAQ and he LIES!!! Click on the Link! Also shows how Main Stream Media won't ask any real questions!! It is Funny, BUT NOT!!! And at the end of the clip, Rumsfeld refers to a piece of 9/11 as "Wonderful" as if he enjoys what had happened. Love to read your comments? DIGG IT UP...MUST BE SEEN!! From digg on October 22, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..
9/11 : Press for Truth Have you ever seen the NBC News interview with the 9/11 hijacker who turned himself in to the FBI and confessed to the plot a year prior to 9/11/2001? Probably not but you can now. The first part of this documentary deals with family of the victims but it's the second half that is most shocking. And it comes directly from mainstream news sources. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 10:54 a.m..
Apple may inegrate XM Satellite Radio into iPods....Why not Sirius? If you're a Sirius Subscriber and/or Howard Stern Fan...this may make you take notice From digg on October 22, 2006 at 10:54 a.m..
Help get your Favourite Games ported to Linux. Tux Games is determined to see all of the major commercial games ported to Linux. Before this can happen, the major game companies must be made aware of the demand. That is where we come in.Tux Games is asking for all of the Linux gaming community to sign our petitions to have games ported. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 10:54 a.m..
Biologists want to drop the word 'cloning' Don't say cloning, say somatic cell nuclear transfer. That at least is the view of biologists who want the term to be used instead of "therapeutic cloning" to describe the technique that produces cloned embryos from which stem cells can then be isolated. This, they argue, will help to distinguish it from attempts to clone a human being. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 10:54 a.m..
UNIX ownership and permissions provide for privacy and participation... "This article looks at user privileges and, in particular, examines how to manipulate file permissions to restrict or share your directories and files with others. Understanding permissions is crucial if you want to speak UNIX fluently..." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 10:54 a.m..
Sony to miss PS3 production mark again? Sony has reportedly indicated that it may once again have to reduce its PlayStation 3 shipment targets for 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 and once again Blu-ray is the culprit. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 10:54 a.m..
32GB USB Thumb Drive!!! Small Portable HD!! would you risk losing that much info? From digg on October 22, 2006 at 10:54 a.m..
Apple's Steve Jobs to go to Jail?.......Jobs still not in the clear "I don't think there is anybody who is too big, too important or too rich to go to jail. That applies to Steve Jobs as well," said Paul Hodgson Sr., a senior researcher for the Corporate Library. "If he has done something wrong, he has got to go, regardless of the situation." From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
Steve Jobs declares 2007 to be "one of the most exciting" in Apples history During last week's conference call in which Apple announced preliminary 4th Q earnings, Mr. J apparently also declared 2007 to be "one of the most exciting new product years in Apple's history. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
Foley Keeps Pension Despite Scandal Former Congressman Mark Foley may have stepped down in disgrace, but he will be eligible for his congressional pension no matter what, even if he faces jail time, according to Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayer's Union, a non-partisan taxpayer advocacy group. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
America in 2043 Now that the United States officially numbers more than 300 million, what next?What will 400 million look like? If demographers are right, we'll hit that mark by 2043. They and other futurists envision a typical American neighborhood that year will be something like this: From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
The Pumpkinputer Nice mod for the Halloween addicted geek. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
Learn To Say "Hello" In Over 800 Languages This site contains lists of greetings such as hello, goodbye, and how are you from over 800 languages, including 14 versions of English and 42 versions of German. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
Photos from the war in Iraq All of the photos were taken in 2003. Very cool site with some great photos. Bravo to this guy for all his hard work. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
Pixel Blaster Intense physics based space shooting action. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
First benchmarks of the ext4 file system Even though the ext4 file system is still in the early stages of development, it's already showing better performance under some workloads. ReiserFS 4 is also a nice surprise. And both are running stable for development file systems. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
Close up image of a cat's toungue Close up image of a cat's toungue From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
Hackers' project disguises security-busting code The software, called VoMM (eVade o’ Matic Module), uses a variety of techniques to mix up known exploit code so as to make it unrecognizable to some types of antivirus software. Using these techniques, VoMM "can create an endless number of variants of an exploit," said Aviv Raff, one of the developers behind the project. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 7:31 a.m..
US Tortures Man Once Tortured by Taliban Arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan in January 2000, Rahim says al-Qaida leaders burned him with cigarettes, smashed his right hand, deprived him of sleep, nearly drowned him and hanged him from the ceiling until he "confessed" to spying for the United States. Now same thing is happening to him at Gitmo. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Rotating 3D animation of EXACTLY how a car engine works. (VIDEO) A great way to show someone the workings of the internal combustion engine.At 3:45 you can see the moving valves and piston close up.I only had stupid diagrams to learn from in engineering class.This is so much better. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Firefox 2.0 coming your way on Tuesday The world's second most used Web browser is set to unleash the final build of its new version on Tuesday. Firefox 2.0, from the not for profit open source Mozilla Foundation, will be available for download from the Firefox website at getfirefox.com. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Woman Earns High School Diploma At 82 Years Of Age "Now that she has her high school diploma, an 82-year-old Brevard County woman plans to keep going. Kathy Berger never finished her senior year of Tyner High School in her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. But she never gave up hope of receiving her diploma." Read on From digg on October 22, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
SpaceShipOne Mystery Solved Google did not acquire SpaceShipOne. But they did acquire a full scale replica of the ship and have indeed installed it in building 43 at Google... Read on for more info. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
The 20 Worst Video Games of All Time It takes a special kind of failure to make it into this list. A game has to be more than boring or poorly executed. To become one of the 20 Worst, it starts as a bad idea and ends by actually lowering the quality of life of people who haven't played it. WARNING (Game #15 NSFW) From digg on October 22, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
The best of "illegal websites" There are only a fraction of the illegal websites there was not more than 5 years ago. It is so easy to get software now a days from torrents and IRC sites it’s ridiculous. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
Borat Clips on IGN There's a 22 minute Borat press conference (with him in character), plus a small clip from the movie. Enjoy. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Yikes!! Photos showing Scary Civilian Aircraft Landings in Hong Kong No autopilot stuff here...hand-fly that sucker, and don't screw up...!!! From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Can you hear me now? Uh-oh Tony Utegaard wears a Bluetooth wireless headset roughly 12 hours a day. But is he damaging his hearing? A test of one Motorola model produced a maximum volume of 106 decibels, enough to damage the hair cells of the inner ear even if used only five minutes a day, a new law suit claims. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
It’s North vs. South in doughnut civil war Will Southerners give up their love of Krispy Kreme for a Dunkin' Donuts? From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
10,000 coins topple like dominoes Cool commercial for a new reality series shows 10,000 coins topple like dominoes. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Greet your Friends with a 'Binary Welcome Mat' Your UPS delivery guy is going to think it's just a cool, funky, retro pattern. And he'll be right. But your uncle from NASA will see that pattern as a collection of seven other patterns at which point he'll quickly decode the message, chuckle, and slap the knocker on your door From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Digg For Torrents! Another Digg Clone, With It's Own Unique Use. This One Is For Torrents! From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
CCleaner: The Best Windows Clean up Software. CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Is Bush Deliberately Provoking Iran? Remember the Eisenhower On 10/21, a naval battle group led by the USS Eisenhower will arrive in the Gulf of Hormuz, just off the coast of Iran. There is every good likelihood that such a deliberately provocative act will lead to what will be termed as an Iranian attack on an American vessel. This Tonkin-like incident will be used as the justification for a US military From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Why Apple Failed Why Apple's market share always been low, and why it failed to make any progress in the 90's. Here's an interesting look at why the Mac fell into crisis, and why the solutions of PC analysts--to be more like Dell, HP and Microsoft--didn't work, leaving Apple to find its own turnaround strategy. Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted Magazine From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Who Had It Better: Our Parents or Us? Much adieu was made this week about the U.S. population crossing the 300 million mark on Tuesday, Oct. 17. The latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau sparked a flood of news articles on the population debate and not a few discussions on how our present standard of living has changed over the years. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Microsoft to Finance 'Halo' Movie Those pessimistic enough to think that simply because Fox and Universal backed out of financing the film that the movie would be scrapped are wrong. Microsoft is now venturing into the realm of the movie studio business, starting with their new film: Halo. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
LEGO Flamethrower LEGO builder Mark Puustinen created this nifty flamethrower that “works by winding a little round knob which pulls the string which pulls the lever which pushes the bottle of butane against a holder with a hole from which butane shoots out from. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..
Don’t exaggerate the dangers of cannabis Not that cannabis is a safe drug, because there is no such thing, but it is not "more dangerous than heroin" (Melanie Reid, October 19). We assert that even though one of us has published work showing heroin not to be as dangerous as commonly thought. It is not even true that cannabis is more dangerous than alcohol. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:31 a.m..
Scrybe Could Set a New Standard In Office Applications Scrybe looks to be a unique online calendar application that works just fine when you’re offline, too. Just open the site in the browser as if you were online - the app will sync the next time you are online. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:31 a.m..
Is Internet Explorer 7 Spying on Me? Windows validation in the Internet Explorer install references Microsoft websites and checks : * Certificate Information * Machine Unique IDs * Session Information * System Architecture * Processor Type and Model * Logon Server * Internal Domain Name * Machine Nameand more.. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:31 a.m..
Aerial view of 'Giant Oak Tree Illusion' A combination of logging and hurricane damage made this fascinating image of a giant oak tree, photographed from the sky by Swedish photographer Jocke Bergland From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:31 a.m..
Democracy: the free and opensource Internet TV platform - New Version You've probably watched hundreds of tiny videos on websites. It's tedious. Democracy Player makes video on the internet way less frustrating and way more enjoyable. You can subscribe to channels of internet video, download videos, and watch them fullscreen, one after the other, all in one application. Internet video becomes internet TV. It's free. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:31 a.m..
TIME Magazine: The Next YouTubes For budding internet entrepreneurs, the moral of Google's $1.65 billion purchase of video start-up YouTube is simple: Build a real, functioning company, then sell it to a bigger one. During the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, garage innovators could peddle imaginary businesses in initial public offerings. From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:31 a.m..
Replace the Income Tax? History provides wonderful guides for how to do it My name is Charles Adams, author of a 20-year study, entitled, For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization. History reveals that most great empires taxed themselves to death, while others became great because of the right kind of taxes – taxes that stimulated growth, peace and commerce. If the Congress decides it is time to From digg on October 22, 2006 at 12:31 a.m..
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