Digg |
| England's only whisky is hit in Japan Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT Japan makes more single malt whisky than Scotland but has developed a taste for the tipple from St George's Distillery near Thetford, in Norfolk, and is importing 400 bottles every month. The only whisky distillery in England is exporting its spirit 6,000 miles to Japan.  |
| Obama's Iraq Surprise: More Like Bush Than He Ever Imagined Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT He's wise to praise U.S. achievements there... The most pleasant surprise has been Mr. Obama's near-about face on Iraq since becoming President.  |
| New Orangutan Population Discovered Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:50 PM PDT Ecologist Erik Meijaard of the The Nature Conservancy posted on their site last week about the discovery of up to 1000 or slighly more Borneo Orangutans, which are an endangered species.  |
| 10 Special Purpose Linux Distributions Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT One of the several advantages of having many Linux distributions is that there is always one distribution that meets specific needs for a group of users with similar interests.  |
| Dead animals left on paper editor's porch after harsh story Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT The Hillsdale Collegian ran a harsh editorial about the school's baseball team. Then the editor found his front porch covered with one and a half deer, several large rodents and a black goat with alleged gunshot wounds to the head and sternum. Under the goat, perpetrators placed a copy of the April 2 edition of The Collegian sports section.  |
| What the Smart Grid Can Learn From Facebook Connect Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT Federating energy-saving applications could provide more secure privacy for consumers than aggregating them in the data flood that impends.  |
| Killlers Working as Truckers Have Murdered 500 Women in US Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT Serial killers working as long-haul lorry drivers have murdered at least 500 women across America, the FBI believes. The women – a mixture of prostitutes, hitchhikers and stranded motorists – have been killed along popular trucking routes over the past three decades. Their bodies have been dumped on highways and at rest stops or motels.  |
| How-To: Survive the Recession Like It's 1933 Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT Here are 16 Depression-era money saving tips and how they can be utilized today.  |
| 15 Years Later: Reflections on Kurt Cobain & Nirvana Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT As many of you probably know, April 5, 2009 marked fifteen years since Kurt Cobain committed suicide.  |
| 'Go Raiders!' Most Outrageous Last Words Before Executions Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:30 PM PDT and some that are just sad...  |
| Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not by the Usual Suspects Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:20 PM PDT It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend. More specifically, 45-54 year olds are 36 percent more likely than average to visit Twitter, making them the highest indexing age group, followed by 25-34 year olds, who are 30 percent more likely.  |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT *****  |
| First NVIDIA Ion Win Announced, Acer AspireRevo Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:40 PM PDT NVIDIA and Acer collectively took the wraps off the very first NVIDIA Ion-based design win, with a sleek new SFF PC (Small Form Factor PC) called the AspireRevo. Built on the NVIDIA Ion platform, the AspireRevo consists of NVIDIA's GeForce 9400 chipset with integrated graphics in support of Intel's Atom processor.  |
| First Drive: 2009 MINI Cooper/Cooper S Convertible Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT BMW's highly acclaimed remake of the MINI Cooper is now in its second generation, and the convertible version is finally here as well. The roofless version of the nimble compact was a smash hit in its last generation, having sold 164,000 units worldwide, and is now based on the sleeker body and stiffer chassis of the latest MINI Cooper.  |
| Racial Breakdown of Four Major Sports (INFOGRAPHIC) Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:30 PM PDT It's baseball season again, but what you might not notice amid the crack of the bat and roar of the crowd is that—a half-century after Jackie Robinson's historic entrance into the game—the number of black players is at the lowest level in almost 20 years. In our latest Transparency, we take a look at the racial breakdown of four major sports.  |
| The Dark Knight Meets Superman and the Justice League Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, and an ordinary human in a bat suit save the day!  |
| Woman calls 911 over lack of shrimp in fried rice Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT A woman called 911 to report she didn't get as much shrimp as she wanted in her fried rice at a Fort Worth-area restaurant. Police on Tuesday released the taped emergency call, in which the customer is heard telling the dispatcher, "to get a police officer up here, what has to happen?" The customer also said: "He didn't even put extra shrimp in the  |
| Study Finds Amazonian Parks Deter Fires and Deforestation Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT Protected areas can rapidly become parks only on paper if their status as reserves is not backed by the authorities and supported with cash. But a study by scientists in the United States suggests that efforts to protect parts of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest could be working.  |
| Probably the worst place to stop your car... Ever! (PIC) Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:41 PM PDT 10 lions, 1 car... Can you come up with a clever caption for this photo?  |
| What 23 Famous Movie Characters Would be Doing Today Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT We like to assume that the characters from our favorite movies will never change. They'll go on triumphing over adversity, snapping off funny one-liners until the grave. Right?  |
| Stars line up for New Bedford guitar hero, age 10 (w/VIDEO) Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT All musicians can recall the moment when they fell in love with their instruments. For guitarist Quinn Sullivan, that moment came when he was 4. He and his dad were watching a performance of the Toe Jam Puppet Band Zoo. Quinn decided he would rather join the band than watch. He took the toddler-size guitar he had brought along and got up on stage.  |
| Twisted Reality Show: You're Fired (for real) Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:30 PM PDT Hollywood Reporter - The recession has fueled a new reality *****-show. Its working title is "Someone's Gotta Go." Employees are called to a meeting and informed there will be layoffs, but with a reality show twist: The staff will be allowed to determine who is fired.  |
| A Michael Crichton Pirate Book?!? Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT When Michael Crichton died last year, he left behind a book about pirates that was discovered in his files by an assistant.HarperCollins is looking to print a million copies.  |
| Germany Fines Microsoft for Anticompetitive Office Pricing Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:20 PM PDT Germany has fined Microsoft €9 million (US$11.9 million) for illegally pressing a retailer to sell its Office productivity software for a certain price, one of the country's competition authorities said Wednesday.  |
| Space cowgirl salvages NASA junk, finds 'Pic of the Century' Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Charged with archiving 2,500 unreadable NASA data tapes from the '66 Lunar Orbiter mission, a determined Nancy Evans scoured govt salvage yards to find a one-ton FR-900 Ampex tape drive to read them. Too costly for NASA, she retired, the drives in her garage. Thru stroke of luck, space junkies found her on a blog, and restored NASA's historic pics.  |
| Chia Obamas in Walgreens? No, they can't! Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Walgreens has announced that the commander in chief will not sprout a Chia Afro on its shelves.  |
| Incredible Wall-E Case Mod (PICS) Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT This project took 18 days to accomplish. It all began after he saw WALL-E and thought, "I want to build something like that to hold my computer stuff in". A solid-metal Wall-E computer case, each detail carefully cut from metal sheets processed and put in place.  |
| Nick Lindberg's Amazing Shootout Goal [VID] Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:40 PM PDT Linus Omark, you have a challenger.  |
| Powerful Aftershock hits Italy quake zone Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:20 PM PDT A powerful aftershock has hit central Italy, nearly two days after a major earthquake caused severe damage. The 5.5-magnitude tremor brought down masonry from already damaged buildings and was felt as far away as Rome. Rescuers are continuing into the night their search for victims trapped in the rubble from Monday's earthquake.  |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:20 PM PDT Gmail turned five on Wednesday, April 1. Launched in 2004 as an invitation-only e-mail service, the Google product now has more than 100 million users. Yet it's still in "beta"—a term of art traditionally reserved for prototype software that's ready for testing. What gives?  |
| A Mean Golf Swing, And An Uncle Named Tiger Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:10 PM PDT When the world thinks of golf, Tiger Woods usually comes to mind — but there's another Woods waiting in the wings. Tiger's niece, Cheyenne, a freshman on the highly ranked Wake Forest University women's golf team, is poised to raise her profile.  |
| Facebook Blocks All Pirate Bay Links Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT At the end of March The Pirate Bay added new functionality to reach out to millions of Facebook users. Just over a week later and the world's largest social networking site has blocked all links to torrents on the world's largest and most infamous BitTorrent tracker.  |
| Cambridge University Unveiled Solar Car Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:50 PM PDT Cambridge University Eco Racing's (CUER) new solar racing car demonstrates cutting-edge environmentally-friendly technology, applicable to the next generation of electric vehicles.  |
| Wives Can't Say 'No' to Sex Under Afghan Law Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:40 PM PDT Afghan parliament recently passed a bill intended to give the minority Shia community their own identity. But critics say the latest draft strips Shia women of rights as simple as leaving the house without permission from a male relative and as extreme as allowing a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife even when she says, "No."  |
| 9 of the Saddest Pictures On the Earth [SlideShow] Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:30 PM PDT Man's Greatest Crimes Against the Earth, in Pictures  |
| Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:30 PM PDT This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.  |
| Miracle Hole-In-One (Off The Water) - Nothing But Cup Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:10 PM PDT Video was shot on Tuesday April 07, 2009 at Augusta National Golf Course during Tuesday's practice round on hole 16  |
| APOD: Unusual Dusty Galaxy NGC 7049 Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:10 PM PDT A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.  |
| In double transplant, left hand works first Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:10 PM PDT When patients had both hands transplanted, their brains re-established connections much more quickly with the left hand than the right, a team of researchers in France reports.  |
| AP Board announces initiative to protect industry‘s content Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:00 PM PDT The Associated Press Board of Directors today announced it would launch an industry initiative to protect news content from misappropriation online. AP Chairman Dean Singleton said the news cooperative would work with portals and other partners who properly license content – and would pursue legal and legislative actions against those who don't.  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from digg.com: Stories / Popular To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
Inbox too full?  Subscribe to the feed version of digg.com: Stories / Popular in a feed reader. | |
| If you prefer to unsubscribe via postal mail, write to: digg.com: Stories / Popular, c/o Google, 20 W Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
No comments:
Post a Comment