The most expensive TV in the world The really expensive bit is the workmanship, the design and the fact it’s plated in white gold and studded with 160 diamonds (4 gm) of diamonds. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Saw III Given a free pass by the MPAA Many folks have pointed out that the latest installment of SAW is easily in the NC-17 slot with its depictions of graphic violence... From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
AdsBlackList v2 - Increasing your AdSense Revenue up to 200% After 2 months of hard brainstorming and even harder programming, AdsBlackList v2 beta goes LIVE. If you're adsense publisher looking for higher revenue, this is the service for you. Made for Adsense webmasters: watch out, for end is near! From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Smash a Virtual Boy to get a Wii? This guy is going to smash his Virtual Boy and then go buy a Nintendo Wii! I can't believe he'd destroy such a classic piece of Nintendo history. It is a sad day for our little red friend... From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Bungie: About Leaked Halo 3 Scans & Says More Exculsive Images To Come Bungie Studios comments on the leaked Halo 3 magazine scans from a Swedish magazine, and says there is still more exclusive images and insight to come from next month's EGM magazine among other outlets, including their website. They even tell us to expect a few more new Halo 3 surprises to come later this year. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Stephen Colbert Portrait Sold for $50,605 The portrait of Stephen Colbert that adorned the set of The Colbert Report for all their first year, was just sold in an eBay auction to user "colbertnationalist1" for the whopping price of $50,605.00, amount that will go directly to the "Save the Children" organization From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Profilactic Aggregates Your Online Profiles With so many social networking services on the Internet, keeping track of them can become tedious. Profilactic hopes to solve that problem by aggregating all the information you need from any social network that provides you with a URL or RSS feed. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Is Emerging Threat Strains of tuberculosis (TB) that are resistant to both first-line and second-line drugs could threaten the success of not only tuberculosis programs, but also HIV treatment programs worldwide, according to an article published online this week in The Lancet. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Apple Ready To Say Bye Bye to the iPod's Click Wheel? Apple had explored replacing the click wheel with a virtual one as part of a touch-sensitive display, but are now looking at a third option: a touch-sensitive frame surrounding the display. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..
Gaming's High-Definition Future As the HD market matures, most games will likely be offered in that format. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..
Yahoo Bookmarks uses Symfony PHP Framework The release of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks Beta has been on all the news portals lately. Yahoo! Bookmarks has 20 million users, and is available in 12 languages (and counting). But the real news about the new Yahoo! Bookmarks is that it was built with symfony; one of the most popular PHP frameworks. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..
'South Park' creators haven't lost their edge Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made 'South Park' the cornerstone of Comedy Central. Here's how they keep it outrageous. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..
Is this painting worth one dollar or one million dollars? See if you can guess which one is a masterpiece or just a painting by an 11 year old... From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..
Japanese under-floor inspection bot announced Our robot-breeding friends over in Japan -- at the Chiba Institute of Technology and the University of Tsukuba -- have announced the development of a crawling robot that can slide across dirt floors and lift itself over plumbing and other pipes. It's designed to fit spaces 500 millimeters (19.68 inches) wide and 300 millimeters (11.8 inches) tall, From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..
Consumer RSS Readers a Dead Market Now, Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with Pluck's focus in other business areas, the venerable RSS readers are set to be retired from our product line. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..
SED Next-Generation Flat-Screen Display. The best of CRTs and LCDs in one. For simpletons, this explanation will do, but for those who are brave, read on for more details on what will undoubtedly revolutionize display viewing. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..
Turn a $1 Bill into $12 on Ebay...literally This shows how you can turn $1 into $12 on ebay. AKA how stupid people are in the world. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..
Google AdSense for Audio Coming Google plans to release Google AdSense for Audio to monetize podcasts sometime this quarter, according to sources. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..
Wii Interface tour, System Code, WPA and more! It seems after much griping, IGN has gotten his hands on a Wii, and in the latest IGN Weekly Episode he runs through the interface of the Wii, and by trolling through the settings finds some much needed clarification on issues I know we have wanted answers to such as the Wireless Encryption Method, Friend Codes (good news) and more From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..
Drive Through Oil Change Gone Wrong Now, how many times does this happen in North America daily? we caught it on tape....while the driver should know better, look at the attendants directions. wonder if either of these two could find their ass with both hands?? From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..
Halo 3 Easter Egg Uncovered It would appear that ‘Uber-Halo-Geeks’ might have something to smile about, as the first ever easter egg in Halo 3 has been uncovered. How you ask? What is it? You’d be right to ask these questions; after all the game isn’t even out until next year. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..
Facebook To Rule Social Bookmarking? With the epic battle between Digg.com, with its 500,000 users and 20,000,000 pageviews, and Netscape.com looming over our heads, here’s one possibility we never contemplated: Facebook entering the social bookmarking arena. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..
Lessons learned from nearly twenty years working for Apple Another interesting thing that was crystal clear at Apple was that the level of paranoia was directly related to the closeness to the top floor at One Infinite Loop. I remember coming over to Steve's floor to pick up an executive VP for a briefing. He quickly suggested a route off the floor that didn't go in front of Steve's office From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
Wine 0.9.24 released Another step towards the 1.0 release of Wine has been done. Wine 0.9.24 has been released today. Wine is a compatibility layer to run Windows programs on GNU/Linux.As usual it has the regular slew of bug fixes and other goodies. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
Firefox Extension for µTorrent WebUI The µTorrent WebUI can be used to access µTorrent from an external computer. This also opens the possibility to handle your torrents from your browser window. We've discovered a Firefox extension that makes using the WebUI a lot easier. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
Pokemon Wii screens are pretty Who says the Wii can’t do some might purty graphical stuff? Who? Who I ask? Anyway, it seems like Nintendo’s most recent golden goose, Pokemon, is setting the bar for Wii games. Not only will it be the first to offer online play, but it just may be the prettiest thing on the system. Check out the screens here. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
GDrive domain transferred to Google As you know, I like watching Google domain names. Over the last couple days, Google has been the recipient of some interesting domain transfers. Remember GDrive? It is software currently being used by Googlers under the codename Platypus — giving them online storage for their files. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
N.S.E.C.T - RC Robotic Insectoid The next generation of high tech toys, features Variable Motion Technology, allowing it to move just like a spider, the creature also features a pinching claw that allows it to pick up and transport objects. However, its greatest weapon is concealed and with the press of a button, its wings rise to reveal a hidden adjustable cannon. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
Why some numbers don't compute Quirk of brain leads people to doubt truth `Anchoring' could be behind disbelief of war casualties. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
Ten events we never imagined would happen this NFL season The season is not even halfway through, and things have been wild. Some of these things you wouldn't expect to happen in a few decades. Like 6 field-goal attempts being missed, in a single game ... in a domed stadium! From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
Top 10 Unsportsman-Like Plays Including a basketball player kicking a cameraman, a football player punching the other player's crotch and a little fight between 2 football players on the same team. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
Dave's Trailer Page The best page to find any Movie trailer on the web. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 p.m..
FoxyTunes 2.0 is here! FoxyTunes is a free Firefox add-on that allows you to control your favorite media players without ever leaving the browser and more... From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..
The BBC Snubs Mac and Linux Users According to a press release from Sonos, the blokes over at the Beeb have decided to jump ship for relying on Realplayer for web content, and have switched over entirely to the Windows-friendly WMA format. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..
TUAW interviews the dealer whose customer got soap instead of an iPod "I was amazed at how many people mentioned that similar - and worse - things had happened to them so I decided to ask the reseller at the heart of this particular story just how much of a scourge this really is. Don Mayer, CEO of Small Dog Electronics, had a lot to say on the matter." From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Bruce Campbell as Fourth Spiderman Three Villain? Crazy but true. Bruce Campbell will appear as Mysterio in Spider-Man 3, but not how you might think... From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Hostel Part 2 Teaser in HDTV DIVX If you hate the movie, you'll at least appreciate the fact that there is 53mb of bloat between the Quicktime version of this clip and the Divx version, with IMO an undetectable quality difference. If you love Hostel, you'll like this clip... but get counseling. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
The psychosis of Rush Limbaugh. I once had a friend who listened to Rush Limbaugh three hours a day. He was a Republican operative. He sat in my apartment, wearing headphones, while I worked. He swore that if I put on the headphones for 10 minutes, I'd be hooked. So I put them on. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
McDonald's Getting Classy? As part of its 'Forever Young' campaign, McDonald's will be installing leather sofas, armchairs, flat-screen TVs and WI-Fi Hotspots in all 13,000 of their US restaurants. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Firefox 2 Downloads Outpace IE7's More than 2 million people were using Firefox 2 in the first 24 hours. Compare that to IE7's 3 million downloads in 96 hours. Looks like the people have spoken. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy, will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law. The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables". From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
Putting Hydrogen on Ice Researchers looking for better ways to make and store hydrogen have accidentally discovered an entirely new kind of ice. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
Digg v3 - fluid width, tweaks, fixed right sidebar [WOW] This style gives Digg v3 a fluid width! Now people with smaller screens can use Digg without getting horizontal scrollbars. Also removes the ads. Also makes textboxes and menus look like the ones on the submit page, makes the comment box font normal size, makes the comment edit box bigger so you can see what you're typing. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
Getting ready for Wii's Red Steel? Have the Sensei call your friends! I'm sure everyone remembers getting calls from Samuel L Jackson...but this one is pretty darn cool too. What it allows you to do is actually program the Sensei to call you friends and rip them a new one. (They need his training you know.) Best part about it? It's FREE!!!!!! From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
Bush's Onscreen 'Death' Applauded Actors posing as administration officials and secret service agents were digitally grafted into some images of the president and his entourage. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
Parenting Social Networks: Parents Connect & Share Advice Online Joseph Morgenstan once said, "Children are gleeful barbarians." So how do parents handle "gleeful barbarians?" Parenting is not an easy task but parents are no longer alone. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
Yahoo's dilemma: Deal or no deal? Overshadowed by Google, CEO Terry Semel needs to make a move. Now he's flirting with AOL, Fortune reports. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
New Adobe Soundbooth The new application designed for people who aren't in a band, aren't with the band, and frankly would prefer that the band keep it down so they can get some work done. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..
A mother of 6 children gunned down while holding her childs hand. Religious hate seen as motive in killing Fremont slaying: Muslim leaders and relatives of Afghan American mother shot at point-blank range say only motive they can imagine for anyone wanting her dead was the garment of her faith, her head scarf. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..
Amish couple sue over Homeland Security photo rule An Amish couple filed a lawsuit - something that runs counter to their principles of nonresistance - to safeguard another cherished belief, that having their photo taken is against the Bible. The couple are suing the federal government because immigration officials require photos. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..
The real reason Greenpeace was ejected from MacExpo It turns out that Apple wasn't the sole complainant. In fact, it was Greenpeace's refusal to play by the rules that got them escorted out From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..
Metal Gear Solid 4 Coming to Xbox 360???!!! Here is the front cover from this month's Electronic Gaming Monthly, featuring Halo 3. But look at the top right corner where it says that MGS4 may be coming to the Xbox 360. EGM and other gaming magazines are often the ones to break new information like this... From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..
Rumor: First Wii game scores from EGM Unconfirmed but check out that score for Zelda: Twilight Princess! Twilight Princess (Wii version) 9.5/9.5/10 - Red Steel 8/8/5 - ExciteTruck 7/7/7.5 From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..
Medicinal Ecstasy Ecstasy could be beneficial to Parkinsons sufferers. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..
NYC Real Estate Agent Revealed as Haitian Warlord A Haitian warlord who had been living in New York City as a real estate agent was ordered by a U.S. court on Tuesday to pay $19 million to three women who say they were raped and had their breasts slashed by his men. U.S. District judge found that Emmanuel "Toto" Constant was liable for torture, attempted extra-judicial killing and other crimes. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..
David Letterman vs. Bill O'Reilly, Round Two David Letterman didn't try to hide the fact last night that he just plain doesn't like Bill O'Reilly. When O'Reilly tried to suggest that Dave believes "Bush is an evil liar" and that "America is a bad country" Letterman came back with the line of the month "You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head." From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..
A Better Way to Build a Face Scientists are poised to perform the first full-face transplant, but a group of Stanford surgeons hopes to eliminate the need for the drastic surgery altogether by learning to regenerate the skin on the face. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..
Hidden XP Theme A theme that was developed by Microsoft while developing the Media Center theme. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Shuttleworth on Firefox and Ubuntu vs. Debian Mark Shuttleworth explains how he got Firefox (TM) into Ubuntu. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
More Sexy Diggnation Girls Awesome that the guy is still taking pictures of the girls with the diggnation shirts. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Apple dumps Scroll-Wheel, replaces with Scroll-Strips? The latest patent to emerge from Cupertino is what looks like a small-form-factor device predominantly taken up by a display, the edge bezel of which is touch and scroll sensitive. Looks kinda cool. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Amazon fails to notify customers of Wii pre-order for the second time Once again Amazon put up the Wii for pre-order without first emailing it's customers which signed up to be notified. Amazon community is angry. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Why Facebook Won't Accept $1 Billion from Yahoo A Facebook insider claims that the Facebook founder will hold out for more than $1 billion. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Top 10 time waster games from scratchpad to line rider and sift heads - top online flash games with screen-shots From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Rumor: Ultra Portable Macs? Speculation: Is it the next iMac? "While I don’t think we’ll be seeing one at Macworld ‘07 (I think the iTV and the iPhone will be quite enough for one event), I do think ulta-portable Macs are in Apple’s future. The real question is not so much, “will we see them” as it is, “why do we need them”?" From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Fake boarding pass guy reports he was visited by FBI Yes, I am linking to a Blog again, but it is only because Boing Boing offers a very good coverage of the whole story unfolding right now. Read on about that "fake boarding pass guy". From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Is the GOP a Conservative Party? No Way The GOP is not now, never was and never will be a conservative party. It is what it has always been – a representative of the rich and of big business. A true conservative is fiscally responsible. Laying debt and interest payments on posterity is neither conservative nor liberal. It is just obscenely irresponsible. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Democrats Hold Double-Digit Lead in Competitive Districts With less than two weeks to go before the midterm elections, the Democrats not only continue to maintain a double-digit advantage nationally, but also lead by the same margin in the competitive districts that will determine which party controls the House of Representatives. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Hilarious read - Thirteen-year-old tries to steal a Steam account A kid tries to contact someone over MSN in an attempt to coerce him into dropping password details, and gets a little more than he bargained for. Hate to be a bringer of cliché... But this is a must read. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..
Remember the Fake Boarding Pass Generator? Congress Wants Him JAILED! "The Bush Administration must immediately act to investigate, apprehend those responsible, shut down the website, and warn airlines and aviation security officials to be on the look-out for fraudsters or terrorists trying to use fake boarding passes in an attempt to cheat their way through security and onto a plane," Markey said in a statement. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Six Wii Misconceptions Wii is not for epic games, it's only a party console, it's way too expensive, it's a repackaged cube, it's kiddy and weak third-party support. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Detailed analysis of Web 2.0 in education Analysis and real-word examples of Web 2.0 used in the classroom covering blogging, photo sharing, podcasting, wikis, video sharing, and more. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
$200,000 To Attend Nine Meetings While reading the 2006 Microsoft Shareholder's proxy statement, I discovered the 10 members of the Microsoft Board of Directors gets paid $200,000 each, to attend a grand total of nine board meetings. Pretty good gig huh? From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Microsoft surprises Wall Street, looks strong going forward The Redmond giant reported strong results last night, and will be looking even stronger once Vista and Office 2007 are released. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Colloids in Russia: Have Plutonium, Will Travel Among the list of environmental disasters created by Soviet central planning, Mayak must rank high. Commissioned as a plant in southern Russia to manufacture plutonium for bombs in 1948, it soon segued into a long life as a reprocessing center for nuclear material from reactors and decommissioned weapons... From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Rosewill and NewEgg: Ridin’ a LITTLE dirty… This is sooo not cool. It makes me wonder whenever I buy a product, based on a product review, if it was really a review, or an advertisement. The nerve of some companies asking to "check over" reviews and "reserve the right" to allow them to be posted. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
AMD Showcases "Quadfather" Wear For Upcoming 4X4 Campaign AMD is making the most out of their marketing departments brain-child for the new upcoming AMD 4X4 platform that enables a pair of dual core Athlon 64 CPUs in a dual socket motherboard. Tee-shirts with a green emblazoned mug-shot of Don Vito Corleone and a sleeve branded "In The Family" -- you get the feeling AMD means business, capiche? From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Ubuntu 6.10 MythTV Guide With the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), installing MythTV is now easier than ever. Ubuntu is a great basis for a general purpose MythTV box and now comes with the latest version of MythTV (0.20) in its standard packages. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Throw the Bums Out! Your elected officials didn't seek office to serve you Do our schools work? No. Does FEMA work? Ask the city of New Orleans. How about Social Security? Will that be there for you when you retire? No way. Does the government protect us and keep us safe? Fact is, what we have in Washington is a whole bunch of slimy bastards. Government officials are so totally incompetent, they can’t even sell themselve From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..
Discovery of gamma rays from the edge of a black hole! The astrophysicists of the international H.E.S.S. collaboration report the discovery of fast variability in very-high-energy gamma rays from the giant elliptical galaxy M 87. The detection of these gamma-ray photons - with energies more than a million million times the energy of visible light from one of the most famous extragalactic objects. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..
MacHeist: The Next Project of The My Dream App Team(Teaser Page Included) "This is one of the several exciting projects I’ve been working on lately. Seriously cool events and software freebies coming for Mac OS X users, you won’t want to miss it out (trust me on that.)". I am so excited for this! Check out the teaser page : macheist.com From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..
Tom Green Live Is Officially On itunes Tom Green Live is now on itunes. This should have been done a long time ago but ever since Kevin Rose suggested that the show should be on the itunes podcast section, it finally happened. Check it out. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..
Rocketboom: Almost 10X Ze Frank’s Downloads Videoblogger Ze Frank is in what he calls a nerd fight with Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron. Frank says that Baron’s numbers are inflated and make it difficult for he and other video bloggers to sell advertisements with much lower numbers to offer. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..
iSight indicator on new MacBook Pros now invisible until activated The iSight indicator -- the green LED that lets you know when your integrated camera is activated -- has now been integrated directly into the bezel. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..
Web 2.0 and Higher Ed There has been a lot of talk about Web 2.0 over the last year. I stated in a previous blog post that the University of Arizona is going to be offering courses in conjunction with IBM about web 2.0 and the integration therein with the business world. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..
Wikipedia Mulls Copyright Purchase Plan Open-source encyclopedia's founder asks users: What do you want for free? From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..
American Nuke Secrets Traded for Drugs Justin Stone, who was arrested at the trailer after police executed a search warrant for suspected drug paraphernalia, told the Los Alamos Monitor he gave methamphetamine to a man in exchange for one of the flash drives. He would not disclose the man's name From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
How did you blow your Nintendo cartridge? Only those that grew up with the original 8-bit Nintendo will remember all the different tricks we used to get games to work. But for those of you that remember Excitebike and the original Zelda, the question is, How did you blow into your Nintendo Cartridges? From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
Is one MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo worth two Dells? The guys over at dealnews say you can buy two Dell C2D laptops for the price of one (nearly) identical MacBook Pro. The "PC vs Mac" feud is as played as "the internet as tubes", but here's the latest round. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
White House procurement official Safavian sentenced to 18 months in jail David Safavian, was sentenced in federal court today to 18 months in federal prison. Safavian, a former top White House procurement official, and also the one-time chief of staff of the General Services Administration, was convicted in June of lying to investigators about his dealings with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
Why Japan Refuses to Go Nuclear Japan is an economic superpower, with a large and complete civilian nuclear cycle, more than 20tonnes of plutonium (though not weapons-grade) and the financial, engineering, electronic and rocketry capabilities to go nuclear quickly. The Japan Defence Agency has secretly or unofficially examined the possibility at least twice, in 1970 and 1994 From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
China Makes a Sexy, Slutty Robot We were wondering when the first sexy robot was actually going to be sexy. What with the Karaoke android, the robot monkey, the Chinese beauty robot, and Korea's Ever-1 android all looking a might less than sexy, our hopes for a Human-Robot mating ritual were at an all time low. No longer! From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
NFS bit with real cars Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Honda, Mercedes Over 8 minutes of utter madness race, with some of the most expensive cars on planet... And some of the fastest cars... but that does not stop drivers to go to the edge and risk crashing those wonderful cars From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
Thug Posts Crime on YouTube and Gets Busted An 18-year old kid in Wales had his friends film him as he swiped a pair of glasses off a charity worker on the street. He then posted the video on YouTube and got busted by the cops, which let him get away with a "caution." Video after the jump. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
Apple removed 10.4.8 Darwin sources from their public source tree. Approxily 15 minutes ago, Apple removed 10.4.8 Darwin sources from their public source tree. Until now, it is unknown why this happend, the previous public sources are gone and there was no statement given about the removal From digg on October 28, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..
Ten reasons Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows - Part I I know that some Microsoft fanboys are probably hitting the Send button on their flames as they read the title, but you can't ignore the truth. Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows in every way. Don't believe me? Read on, my friend. Read on and realize the folly of your MS ways. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 a.m..
Free full-length horror films on BitTorrent.com In the mood for some Halloween horror? If so, you're in luck, because BitTorrent.com has put together some of the greatest cult & horror movies and is offering them for free download. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 10:32 a.m..
Calling Steve Jobs: The auto industry needs a hero with a new approach "We need Steve Jobs to start an auto company. Hey, Steve, come on. You're probably a bit bored with Macs and iPods and Pixar, so give it a shot. I'll place an order for one of your cars right upfront, and I bet there are plenty of others like me." - STLToday.com From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 a.m..
Was Mars Life Discovered 30 Years Ago? A positive on one experiment intended to determine if the red planet harbored life was considered false mostly because the accepted thinking of that time was that nothing would be found. Now, scientists who are more open to the idea of life on mars are taking another look at the results. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 9:32 a.m..
A Photo History of LED Calculator Watches Most of these still retain a retro-cool feel, except for the 1977 Sinclair Kit, which just looks awkward. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 a.m..
The Linux Action Show gets the latest details on KDE 4 and Plasma! The Linux Action Show interviews KDE developer Aaron Seigo and asks him the question on every ones mind, "just what is Plasma?". Then they get the low down on some of the slick new features coming for KDE 4. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 a.m..
Get Applecare Executive Customer Service Reach the highest levels of Apple Customer Service. These guys report directly to Steve Jobs. Names and Numbers. Use this information for good, not evil. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 8:32 a.m..
Will Smith Involved In Potential 76ers Purchase Actor/rapper Will Smith could be the latest entertainer to hold a stake in a professional basketball team. The Philadelphian is among a set of investors interested in purchasing the Philadelphia 76ers from Comcast-Spectacor, according to The Philadelphia Daily News. The current owners emphasize that "no decision has been made to sell the 76ers." From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 a.m..
A society that does not allow crosses or veils in public is a dangerous one So the ideal of a society where no visible public signs of religion would be seen — no crosses around necks, no sidelocks, turbans or veils — is a politically dangerous one. It assumes that what comes first in society is the central political “licensing authority”, which has all the resource it needs to create a workable public morality. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 7:32 a.m..
What your pet is thinking Everyone has stories about their pets intelligence, but now scientists are going a step further. Researchers around the world are providing tantalizing evidence that animals not only learn and remember but that they may also have consciousness - in other words, they may be capable of thinking about their thoughts and knowing that they know. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 6:32 a.m..
Blade Runner Documentary - On the Edge of Blade Runner Documentary on the Sci-Fi movie Blade Runner.Interviews with everybody involved except Harrison Ford and Sean Young of course, who hated each other's guts during the making of the film. We even see Philip K. Dick before he died. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..
Photo Gallery: New Glowing Mushrooms Found in Brazil Like a black light poster come to life, a group of bioluminescent fungi collected from Ribeira Valley Tourist State Park near São Paulo, Brazil, emanates a soft green glow when the lights go out. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..
Saddam Hussein verdict postponed until two days before US election Nation Institute fellow Tom Engelhardt noted that the media, in reporting on the postponement, failed to mention that it had been postponed until two days before the midterm elections, writing, "It's the sort of thing that - you would think - that any reporter with knowledge of the US election cycle would at least note in an article." From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..
System management app, MainMenu 1.7 released For all those system maintenance junkies out there, MainMenu 1.7 - “Your Make My Day System Management App” has just been released. MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simplistic interface. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..
Neuropsychology of hypnosis Seed Magazine discusses how researchers are exploring the neuropsychology of hypnosis to understand this curious state of mind. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..
Microsoft To Meet Xbox 360 Goal of 10 Million by End of 2006 The company is "confident" it can meet its target to ship 10 million of its next-generation game consoles by the end of 2006, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said in an interview. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches The heart of Maya’s Mom is their “Talk” section. Rather than following the article format of Minti, Maya’s Mom allows you to post about any questions you have publicly, anonymously, or to specific friends. Users can subscribe to the most recent questions via RSS. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Hawaiian Teen Named America's Top Young Scientist A Hawaiian teenager has won a $20,000 scholarship and the title America's Top Young Scientist of the Year in The Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge for students grades 5 through 8. Nolan Kamitaki, 14, entered with a project analyzing the affect arsenic in local soils has had on Big Island school children. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Slamball Tryouts: Guy SNAPS His Foot From His Leg at the Ankle A guy is trying out for "Slamball" (basketball with trampolines around the nets); when he literally breaks his foot from the rest of his leg at the ankle. Ow. Must see. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Mozilla Wants Your Super Powers Mike Shaver, co-founder of the Mozilla project, believes that everyone has a super power that can be used for open source good.Don't worry if that super power isn't big. Though Mozilla is a big project, it wants people to start small. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..
Global citizens for change�� Global Citizens for Change is dedicated to education and action for a better world. The site contains learning modules, personal stories from volunteers talking about their experiences in the field, activity-based, experiential lesson plans that can be used with students and adults, and resources for students, teachers and volunteers who want to find out more about issues of aids, human rights, cross-cultural understanding, conflict resolution and globalisation. From Recent Items on October 28, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..
Global cooling, again The ice age is coming, the sun’s zooming in / Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin /A nuclear error, but I have no fear /’Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
VIDEO: Lynne Cheney Unhinged On CNN Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a fiery appearance today on the Situation Room. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
31 Proven Texas Holdem Strategies Teddy Silver explains how to win at Holdem: luck has nothing to do with it. "It not only takes mastering the basic and advanced strategies of the game itself, it takes the ability master one’s self." From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
Diggitizer - Diggitizer analyzes the millions of most successful Digg title Nobody diggs lame titles, so we decided to help out. Using the most sophisticated AI engine the all-powerful Diggitizer analyzes the millions of most successful Digg titles and combines this knowledge with your keywords to create the fool-proof title to drive your entry to the very top of digg.Type any lame title in the text box! From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
Days of no oil are nearing What's worse than $3-a-gallon gasoline? No gasoline. If New College of California Professor Richard Heinberg is right, we'll be dealing with "no gasoline" as early as 2010 and definitely by 2030. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..
Test screens at Newark Airport fail to find 'bombs and guns' Screeners at Newark International Airport failed 20 of 22 security tests conducted by undercover U.S. agents last week, missing an array of concealed bombs and guns at checkpoints throughout the hub's three terminals. The tests, conducted Oct. 19 by TSA "Red Team" agents, also revealed significicant failures by screeners to follow procedues. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Harvard Mac sales surge 30 percent Macs are continuing see a resurgence on college campuses, solidifying the company's foothold in the education section. In the September, Apple executives told investors that the company experienced its most successful back-to-school quarter ever for its higher education business. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Yet another Star Trek: TNG review from Wil Wheaton This time he's reviewing the episode 'Where No One Has Gone Before'. He's got some interesting behind-the-scenes looks at his experiences on this episode and others. Best review yet. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
Most Realistic Multiplayer Flash Tank Game Ever It's like paintball with miniature tanks. You've got to play this to believe how good the graphics are for a flash game. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 2:31 a.m..
CNN interviews Borat CNN's Becky Anderson got up close and personal with Borat at the UK premier of his new film. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:31 a.m..
Halo 3: First Details Emerge New maps, new weapons, new SKUs, new control schemes. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:31 a.m..
The Year Of Playing Dirtier - GOP Spending 90% On Negative Ads The NRCC is spending more than 90 percent of its advertising budget on negative ads, and the rest of the party seems to be following suit. The result has been a carnival of ugly, especially on the GOP side, where operatives are trying to counter what polls show is a hostile political environment by casting opponents as fatally flawed characters. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 1:31 a.m..
Divorce Dirty Tricks As soon as the divorce papers are served, the asset shuffling begins. It's amazing what angry spouses try to do--and what they can get away with. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:56 a.m..
Ubuntu Edgy Upgrades a Disaster for Many Take a look around the Ubuntu Forums lately and you’ll see many installation and various related threads just cropping up with problems. Not just noob problems, but people that are pretty knowledgeable about Linux, about how to fix things when they break, and they’re left clueless with Edgy. I am one of them. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:56 a.m..
Exclusive!! Learn The Next Sci-Fi Series Coming to Fox!! David Self, who wrote “Road to Perdition” and heretofore unproduced screenplays for “Deathlok” and “Captain America," created a sci-fi pilot titled “Beyond.” From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:56 a.m..
MySpace Phishing Attack Appears on 3000 Pages "Earlier this week I detected many fake MySpace login pages setup for phishing login credentials. I thought there was something important to report but after further investigation I found that these pages did absolutely nothing because the HTML missed an important attribute in the post form." From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:56 a.m..
Woz still hurt over Steve Jobs ripping him off ($3150) Woz confirmed that Jobs did rip him off in the early days when Jobs got him to redesign the circuit board for the classic arcade game, Breakout. After Wos had spent 72 hours straight getting the system boards chip count down by around half. Jobs told him he'd give Woz half of what he got, $700, but Jobs had actually received $7,000 From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..
How Duct Tape is Made One of the most ubiquitous and multi-faceted manufactured items known to civilization (not to mention MacGyver), from good NAM member 3M , here is a very entertaining three and a half-minute video of duct tape being made. The narrator alone is worth the price of admission, he's quite a character. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..
Cutting onions and other eatable items in an easier way... Tired of cutting onions? It can take some time to slice them into small nice pieces.Just watch the video in next step and you will learn an easier way to do it. No further instructions are needed. Ooh,one thing... use a sharp knife :-) From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..
HDTV Reveals What's in Tigers Pitcher's Hand? As the 2006 World Series goes into Game 5 tonight, HDTV reveals every move with a eye that's significantly more discerning than in days past. In fact, that "clump of dirt" Tigers pitcher Kenny Rogers had on his left hand in Game 2 on Sunday never would've come to light if we hadn't seen shot after shot from Fox's eagle-eyed HDTV cameras. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..
Dell recommends 2 GB of memory for Vista After Samsung, Dell is the second major company that tells its customers that Vista may need more system memory than what Microsoft is listing in its system requirements. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (SPI), chief executive officer Kevin Rollins promoted an upgrade to 2 GB. From digg on October 28, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..
Frozen Bubble 2.0.0 game is out One of the most addictive Linux games, Frozen Bubble, just got updated to version 2.0.0. The new version brings you a new singleplayer game mode (multiplayer training), network (LAN, Internet) game mode (up to 5 players), fully revamped graphics, full joystick support, recording and playback of all games with non-predefined levels and more. From digg on October 27, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..
Wii Twilight Princess/Wii Case Pic of the Wii and Twilight Princess case/box together. I expect a lot of you will have the exact same picture opportunity in your house at Wii launch. From digg on October 27, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..
How Glass is Made A Video of how glass is Made. From digg on October 27, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..
The History of BEER A history of beer in America from the German immigrants of the 1840s to the micro brewers of the 1980s. Some myths vs truths and a general timeline. From digg on October 27, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..
Saddam Verdict on Eve of American Elections Given the Bush administration's history of timing national security-related actions to the political calendar, has the date for the verdict's release been set to provide maximum political benefit for the administration and congressional Republicans? From digg on October 27, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..
100 Web 2.0 Losers Review on over 100 web 2.0 companies that will fail. From digg on October 27, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..
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