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| Is this the worst job in the world? Posted: 30 Mar 2009 05:02 PM PDT The next time you are tempted to complain about your job, spare a thought for this guy. Ramesh Sahu works in the sanitation department of Calcutta, cleaning out the city's sewers. Despite a rise in the number of deaths of manhole workers every year, workers regularly go into the manholes without any protective gear.  |
| Man killed sisters on 5-year-old's birthday Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:52 PM PDT A man on a rampage fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his 5-year-old sister during her birthday party and then headed toward his 9-year-old sister before officers shot him amid what their chief described as "a killing field."  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:21 PM PDT PETA's "Animal Record" report for 2008, filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 95 percent of the 2,216 dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2008, PETA found adoptive homes for just SEVEN pets.  |
| Rak Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort Defies Nature Posted: 30 Mar 2009 04:00 PM PDT The Rak Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort is a new master planned tourist village in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. Designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, this future resort will be built on the top and the sides of a mountain range, defying nature and the mountains with its extravagant design  |
| New Extended Star Trek TV Spot! Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:50 PM PDT A new extended TV Spot is online for J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" movie.Check out the new TV spot here.  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:40 PM PDT The CPSC is left cleaning up the House Speaker's messy child-safety law. Now, confusion over how the rules affect children's books has led some libraries to rope off kids' sections.  |
| New Theory Claims Dinosaurs Were Killed By Salt Lake Fumes Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:40 PM PDT The largest mass extinction in the history of the earth could have been triggered off by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition so dramatically that vegetation was irretrievably damaged. At least that is what an international team of scientists have reported in the most recent edition of the "  |
| Mystery Flash and Big Boom Rattles Virginia Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:20 PM PDT A mysterious flash of light and loud boom occurred over the skies of Norfolk and Virginia Beach on Sunday night, but just what caused the phenomenon is still unknown. Calls from local residents to 911 began coming in at around 9:45 p.m. EDT, with some people reporting their doors and windows rattled when the boom went off, according to reports.  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2009 03:10 PM PDT When they said "Tuesday," they meant it. Not long ago, the clock struck midnight in the Land of the Rising Sun, and sure enough, the bona fide Skype application (v1.0.0.63) for Apple's iPhone has gone live. It's absolutely free to download, too! We're fully expecting it to roll out elsewhere as Tuesday (March 31st) arrives in various time zones.  |
| When Dad Banned Text Messaging Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:50 PM PDT Text messaging is a dominant form of teenage communication, but reports of cyber bullying and texting-related driving accidents have some parents questioning whether to allow their kids to text. North Carolina parent Debbe Geiger writes about the challenges of banning text messaging and whether parents should even try.  |
| Ruh roh. Netflix raising rates for Blu-ray subscribers ~ 20% Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:40 PM PDT In a move that will undoubtedly cause an incredibly raucous stir, only to fade away as movie renters realize that Netflix is still the best deal going, America's most adored by-mail rental service is hiking the price of Blu-ray rentals once again.  |
| Will My Device Work with Windows 7? Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT Vista's driver support was a mess when the OS first launched. Will Windows 7 have the same compatibility issues?  |
| Chrome for OS X: State of the Browser Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:30 PM PDT The open source Google Chromium repository now has an OS X Cocoa shell. We downloaded and compiled the latest OS X build of Google's browser, and we talked to the developers to get a sense of how long it will be before Mac users can get their hands on a working beta.  |
| Funcom Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures MMORPG is Dying Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PDT Funcom Age of Conan is Dying: Subscribers Under 100K, $23 Million 4q Loss, CFO Resigns - Plus AoC Combat Tutorial Video and Gameplay Footage.  |
| The Top 9 Video Game OCD Moments You Know You’re Guilty Of Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:20 PM PDT We are addicted collectors. We leave no item box unsmashed. We are trained killers. We leave no enemy standing. We are gamers, and we have horrible obsessive compulsive disorders when it comes to gaming.  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2009 02:00 PM PDT Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour quickly grew into a global observance. More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 29th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change  |
| Hard-to-Cure TB Poses New Global Health Threat Posted: 30 Mar 2009 01:50 PM PDT TB is caused by germs that spread when a person with active TB coughs, sneezes or speaks. It has evolved into stronger forms: multidrug-resistant TB, which does not respond to two top drugs, and extensively drug-resistant TB, which is virtually untreatable. One of the culprits: health care systems that lose track of patients.  |
| What If Critics Ranked Jim Carrey's Top Ten Movies? Posted: 30 Mar 2009 01:40 PM PDT Rotten Tomatoes puts together Jim Carrey's best reviewed movies by Tomatometer. Goes to show you that the critics don't always get it right. Let the debate begin...  |
| Study:Anorexia Risk 'Could Be Predicted' Posted: 30 Mar 2009 01:10 PM PDT Thousands of girls are predisposed to develop anorexia because of the way their brains developed in the womb, says a major new study.  |
| Google Street View raising hackles in Canada Posted: 30 Mar 2009 01:00 PM PDT An Ottawa-area MP is calling for an investigation of Google's massive photo database it's collected. he says there are privacy concerns that have not yet been addressed.  |
| Back in the Day: 16 Hip Hop Stars When They Were Young Posted: 30 Mar 2009 01:00 PM PDT Lil' Jon - Now it makes even more sense why he stays scruffy and never takes off his sun glasses...  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:50 PM PDT Vampires and mortals are forbidden from making love. Unless she's into kinky stuff.  |
| The 7 Most Horrifying Parasites on the Planet Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:50 PM PDT As soon as your doctor says you've got parasites in your body, you don't need to hear any more details. They're all horrible, right? How can it get worse than little tiny worms or something feeding on your insides? Actually, it can get way, way worse.  |
| Tree Of Childhood: The Story Of Stolen Teddy Bear Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:40 PM PDT Debut animation by young Russian director Natalia Mirzoyan. Awesome!  |
| Western Internet Censorship: The Beginning of the End? Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:30 PM PDT Australia and Germany are the only liberal democracies proposing a mandatory internet censorship regime. All of the schemes operate, or are proposed to operate, through multi-million dollar national networks of censorship machines. The machines spy on the nation as each citizen attempts to read on the internet.  |
| Sources: GM has 2 months to restructure, Chrysler Has 1 Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:30 PM PDT The Obama administration plans to give General Motors Corp. enough government aid to restructure over the next 60 days, while Chrysler LLC will get up to $6 billion and 30 days to complete an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat SpA.  |
| MPAA Slaps Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno' w/ NC-17 Rating Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:20 PM PDT "Bruno" got an NC-17 rating on its first submission to the MPAA. Among the objectionable scenes is one in which Bruno, a gay Austrian fashionista played by Baron Cohen, appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor.  |
| Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:20 PM PDT They say seeing is believing. And while in this day of digital image manipulation that might not be as true as it once was, these photographs are considered by many to be the real deal - photographic evidence of ghosts.  |
| Court hears Khmer Rouge testimony Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:10 PM PDT Prosecutors have started to outline the case against a former Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia, 30 years after the brutal Maoist regime fell.  |
| A local runner logs his 100,000th mile after 34 years Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:10 PM PDT Robert "Raven" Kraft will put your training-for a-half-marathon goal to shame.That's because 34 years ago Kraft decided he was going to run eight miles a day until he reached 100,000. He reached that goal today.  |
| Why Russia's New Draft Won't Find Enough Good Men Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:10 PM PDT On April 1, Moscow begins its biggest peacetime conscription program, looking for 305,000 men to serve in its military. It may have trouble meeting the quota.  |
| Is a one-time flu shot on the horizon? | Bad Astronomy | Dis Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:00 PM PDT The Boston Globe is reporting that scientists may have found an Achilles' heel for the flu virus, one that would allow a vaccine to be prepared that need only be given once, not once every season!  |
| Newsweek's Unintentionally Revealed, Central Truth Posted: 30 Mar 2009 12:00 PM PDT A new article by Evan Thomas(on Paul Krugman) describes perfectly the role of that magazine, its reporters, and our media stars generally.  |
| Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:50 AM PDT An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain's ability to learn more closely than any other machine.  |
| Nazi Codebreaker Shortened the WWII by 2 Years [w/pics] Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:40 AM PDT The rows of dials and wires look more like a telephone exchange. But it cracked 3,000 messages a day sent on Nazi Enigma machines.  |
| Eee PC Gets a 'Super-Multi Optical Disc Drive' (DVD) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:20 AM PDT Last week it was a rumor. Today it's a fact. The Eee PC (model 1004DN) will be the first Eee with a Super-Multi optical disc drive.  |
| Announcing Digg Dialogg with Trent Reznor Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:10 AM PDT I'm honored to announce music icon Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) as our next guest. I will be asking him the top questions as submitted and voted on by the Digg community. Submit and vote for your favorite questions by Saturday, April 4th at 12noon PT and we will post a link to the interview on Tuesday, April 7th at 10am PT. - Kevin  |
| Toxic Assets: Why Berlin Says U.S. "Bad Bank" Plan is Bad Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:00 AM PDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her finance minister Peer Steinbrück have spent months saying that they will never let irresponsible German banks off the hook by taking their toxic assets and putting them into some sort of government-backed bad bank..  |
| 17 Adobe AIR Apps That Can Save Your Time Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:00 AM PDT Opensource, Free and Usefull Online Resources for Designers and Developers  |
| How To Make Your Television Play Anything in 3D Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:00 AM PDT It could be a while before studios release home versions of big pictures like Coraline and Monsters vs Aliens in 3D. But you don't need to wait. Provided that you have a 3D-capable HDTV, turning it into a 3D home theater that is capable of playing any off-the-shelf DVD in 3D is surprisingly easy. Here's how to make the conversion.  |
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