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Mastering the Internet in 1997

Posted: 28 May 2008 09:20 PM CDT

Order today!

Foreclosure, Do Not Walk Away, Investors do not want it.

Posted: 28 May 2008 09:00 PM CDT

You just might still be able to get your house back.

Kobe Comes Clean Over Snake-Soaring Slam Dunk

Posted: 28 May 2008 08:40 PM CDT

Anyway, we all fondly remember Bryant's death-defying jump over a moving Aston Martin. And our good buddy John Ireland from KCAL-TV caught up with Kobe to get an explanation about his awesome aerial.

Whitehouse.org, Serving Malware

Posted: 28 May 2008 08:20 PM CDT

You never know what web site is going to get hacked and serve you malware. Even the fake White House web site. It's come to this.

Carriers Have the iPhone 2, But Leaked Images Are All Fake

Posted: 28 May 2008 07:50 PM CDT

Yesterday I was talking with a contact in one of the European carriers that will be selling the iPhone 3G in June. I asked: "really, do you guys have the iPhone 3G?". "Yes, we have iPhone 3Gs to test with their network and services. However, they are not the actual iPhones".In other words: their engineers got the guts, but not the iPhone itself

Tornado warnings: Can there be too much of a good thing?

Posted: 28 May 2008 07:50 PM CDT

An F5 tornado is coming: How could 60 seconds advance warning be better than 20 minutes? That's what a pair of Texas researchers have suggested. And even the CTO of Weatherbug, whose company makes a living from its severe-weather warning network, agrees that it's possible in some cases.

I Was Considering Putting Sand In My Engine, So I Googled It

Posted: 28 May 2008 07:40 PM CDT

Thank god is all I can say!

Firefox community to set Guinness World Record

Posted: 28 May 2008 07:30 PM CDT

Firefox community to set Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours

Clinton's Two-State Two-Step

Posted: 28 May 2008 07:20 PM CDT

Making Florida and Michigan's delegates a cause for democracy and feminism makes a mockery of both.

Obama May Turn Montana Blue

Posted: 28 May 2008 07:10 PM CDT

Recent polling suggests that Barack Obama is behind John McCain in Montana at the moment, but some key Obama voters are being left out of the equation and this November Barack Obama may be able to pull off an upset in the "Treasure State."

Beautiful, Eerie Dark Clouds of the Carina Nebula [APOD]

Posted: 28 May 2008 07:00 PM CDT

What dark forms lurk in the mists of the Carina Nebula? These ominous figures are actually molecular clouds, knots of molecular gas and dust so thick they have become opaque. In comparison, however, these clouds are typically much less dense than Earth's atmosphere. Pictured above is part of the most detailed image of the Carina Nebula ever taken.

EcoGeeks Get All the Girls

Posted: 28 May 2008 06:50 PM CDT

In case you needed another reason to care about the environment...turns out girls dig guys who dig environmental technology. According to a study done by GM, almost nine in 10 women say they'd rather chat up someone with the latest fuel-efficient car versus the latest sports car. But maybe with the Tesla/Karma/etc., you can have both!

i cant believe this was on digg

Posted: 28 May 2008 06:40 PM CDT

wtf?

Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at DNC meeting

Posted: 28 May 2008 06:30 PM CDT

Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at crucial DNC meeting

History's 9 Most Terrifying Beauty Tips

Posted: 28 May 2008 06:11 PM CDT

You can say the world is shallow and vain these days, what with our fake tans and breast implants, but the truth is, we've always been that way. In fact, when you see the lengths to which people used to go to make themselves look or smell a little better, it makes Botox look downright rational.

Scientists: Why So Many Tornadoes?

Posted: 28 May 2008 05:50 PM CDT

The brutal numbers for the U.S. so far this year: at least 110 dead, 30 killer tornadoes and a preliminary count of 1,191 twisters (which, after duplicate sightings are removed, is likely to go down to around 800).

'Indiana Jones' gold cup may be worth £500,000

Posted: 28 May 2008 05:50 PM CDT

John Webber was left the 22 carat gold cup by his grandfather and is now planning to sell it for £500,000. Fortune: This metal cup has turned out to be an ancient treasure and dates back to before Christ

The Sport with One Rule: No Murder

Posted: 28 May 2008 05:33 PM CDT

They call it rugby on rabies: 1,000+ players; 2 full days; played in the streets of an entire town. The purpose: to tear and claw one's way 3 miles to perpetual glory. This is Royal Shrovetide Football.

A Design is Finished when... 23 Pro Designers Opinion's

Posted: 28 May 2008 05:33 PM CDT

One of the most important and hardest things to overcome when designing is to understand when the piece you are designing on is actually finished. while creativity is sometime boundless the end result should always be the result of a clear objective, the end result. I often get caught between creativity and completion and from the emails I've recei

Ex-White House spokesman: Bush used 'propaganda' to sell war

Posted: 28 May 2008 05:33 PM CDT

In a new tell-all memoir on sale next week, former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan writes that the president depended on propaganda to sell the Iraq war to the American public...

Man steals $50,000 by taking a few pennies at a time.

Posted: 28 May 2008 05:00 PM CDT

Maybe the crime of the century if you ask me. Just like in 'Hackers' and 'Office Space' a California man has been indicted for a inventive scheme that allegedly siphoned $50,000 from online brokerage houses E-trade and Schwab.com in six months -- a few pennies at a time, and using the names of cartoon characters.

Clinton Claims to Lead in “Every Poll"

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:50 PM CDT

Hillary casts wide net of exaggeration...

Beyond Good & Evil 2 announced!

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:42 PM CDT

At Ubidays 2008. Hooray!

So a rat, a cat & a dog are walking down the street...

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:30 PM CDT

Cuteness? Exploitation of mute creatures? A lesson for society? You decide.

Indy 500 Drivers Upset: Gas Prices Rose 3 Times During Race

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:30 PM CDT

INDIANAPOLIS -- The 33 drivers participating in last Sunday's 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 were distracted by sky-high gas prices, which rose three times during the race, causing several crashes and an exceedingly high number of caution flags.

You're Doing It WRONG - The better way to create 404 pages

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:30 PM CDT

Create funny custom 404 error pages for your site with this tool. Lets you select from a bunch of political figures, or upload your own images. An easy way to create a funny 404 page. Also lets you see other funny 404 pages other people created with the tool.

Edge Of The Planet

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:00 PM CDT

Olmstead Point, at 8,420' elevation is a stop on Tioga Pass, Route 120, which goes across the Sierras above Yosemite Valley. It is one of the most dramatic and rare places on this earth.

Top Censored Story: Halliburton Sold Nuke Components to Iran

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:00 PM CDT

Author Jason Leopold reports on one of the top censored stories. Halliburton sold key components to Iran as late as 2005, through an Iranian private oil company, Oriental Oil Kish. In 1996 VP Dick Cheney told US businessmen while on a trip to the Middle East, to ease sanctions in Iran & Libya to foster better relationships with them.

Toothpicks, Bras, and Seven Other Bizarre Ways to Die

Posted: 28 May 2008 04:00 PM CDT

As Grandpa Simpson of The Simpsons will tell you, "Death stalks you at every turn!" And it's not just through heart disease, cancer, and those other oft-quoted causes. Did you know you could also die by wearing the wrong bra in a lightning storm? Read on for tragic, bizarre, and downright stupid fatal tales

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.3

Posted: 28 May 2008 03:30 PM CDT

Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update today. The latest update to Leopard should appear in your Mac OS X Software Update. The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of...

Polish monastery may hold unknown Mozart works

Posted: 28 May 2008 03:20 PM CDT

WARSAW — A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery's archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lead scholar said Tuesday.

Terrorists Have To Pitch Ideas Just Like Hollywood

Posted: 28 May 2008 03:20 PM CDT

About a year or so ago, a group of terrorists tried to get together enough funding to carry out an attack on JFK airport. They had the idea, did the research, but when they pitched their idea to some larger terrorist organizations in order to get funding, well…it didn't go so well.

Before opening any exit... [PIC]

Posted: 28 May 2008 02:50 PM CDT

Hybrid Tech. Building 220+ MPG Supercar W/ 'Wild' Horsepower

Posted: 28 May 2008 02:26 PM CDT

As if the Silicon Valley sportscar darlings at Tesla didn't have enough competition from the startup pal it just sued and the company that built the world's cheapest ride, now EV gurus lurking in the hills of North Carolina are well into R&D on a new green supercar. Is your mouth not watering over the concept designs pictured above? Well, how do

Diplomatic Battle Begins Over Arctic

Posted: 28 May 2008 02:26 PM CDT

Five Arctic coastal countries will meet in Greenland on Wednesday to discuss how to carve up the Arctic Ocean, which could hold up to one-quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves, far more than Saudia Arabia's.

GTA in Real Life (PIC)

Posted: 28 May 2008 02:00 PM CDT

Pretty close to Grant Theft Auto

Karl Rove Accidently Emailed 500 Deleted Emails to Reporter

Posted: 28 May 2008 01:50 PM CDT

Greg Palast of the BBC has uncovered over 500 emails sent by Karl Rove from GOP and RNC servers that were later deleted to inhibit a justice department investigation. What Palast has uncovered is a preliminary plan to 'cage' black voters out of the 2008 election. Oh, O am proud to be an American... c'mon guys, you know the words!

Study Public Schools Just As Good as Private Schools

Posted: 28 May 2008 01:35 PM CDT

Students in public schools have math scores that are just as good if not better than those of students in private schools, according to a new national study. The research focused across several years on 9,791 kindergarten through fifth-grade students.

Cram this: a firsthand account of cramming

Posted: 28 May 2008 01:20 PM CDT

The Federal Trade Commission calls this "the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges on your telephone bill." Crammers rely on confusing telephone bills in an attempt to trick consumers into paying for services they did not authorize or receive, or that cost more than the consumer was led to believe.

First Shots of Sienna Miller as The Baroness in GI Joe

Posted: 28 May 2008 01:20 PM CDT

A lot of fuss has been made about the upcoming GI Joe movie - the most high-profile film about a man with no testicles and swivelly eyes since whatever Orlando Bloom was in last.

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