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OOPS! This guy spend $300 on a Nintendo WII EMAIL ADDRESS! I guess the $295.99 Buy it Now and the Wii pictures fooled him. Time to head back to grade school and learn to read! From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


How Apple's Mail can greatly reduce spam, if not make it go away completely I was playing with the customize toolbar feature in Mail.app when I saw a button labeled “Bounce”. After using the bounce feature on the tens of spam I get daily for 3 days, my inbox is spam free. Incredible. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


Sessler stands in line for Wii Say what you will about G4, X-Play, or any of that…but I give Adam Sessler credit. Rather than using his connections to get a Wii, he was out there with the rest of us. Good for him man…good for him. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


Real time graphic equaliser made from FIRE! This is insane, this guy has created a device that shows a visualisation of music via fire. Looks pretty easy to make too. Be sure to watch it until the end - he plays music through the thing. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


VIDEO: Downloading The Original Zelda from Wii Virtual Console Looks like a pretty easy process! Sweet! From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


UK RFID Passports Cracked Already There's been an odd rush by governments to move to RFID passports, even though there are serious concerns about how secure they really are. Over in the UK, where many RFID passports are already in use, a security researcher and a reporter were able to crack some aspects of the passport. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


Ejector - Eject ANYTHING from your Mac This app adds a little icon to your OS X menu bar and from it you can eject anything - hard drives, iPods, flash drives, .dmg, CDs, you name it. Eliminates the hassle of opening up Finder or going to the desktop. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


Belmont, CA bans all smoking ANYWHERE Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


Spectacular Meteor Caught on Video during Football Game Although there is no sound, it's still remarkable nonetheless. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


CIA finds no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program (Seymour Hersh) A classified CIA analysis finds no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It is based on intelligence collected by satellites, radioactivity measurements of water samples and plumes from industrial plants, and data gathered by high-tech radioactivity-detection devices placed by American and Israeli agents near suspected sites in Iran. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


How To Solve A Rubik's Cube In 5 Steps No clever tricks. When you break the solution into 5 layers. it'll help you solve it quicker than any trick. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth Available Online (Full Length Film) This is a link to part 1 of the movie..(hosted on Daily Motion)Part 2: http://www.dailymotion.com/0jam0/video/xlryp_an-inconvenient-truth-part-2-of-2 From digg on November 19, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


Jon Stewart Slams Glenn Beck for His Comments to Muslim Congressman (Video) Jon Stewart and The Daily Show team tackled just a few of the more interesting stories that came along our C&L news desk. From General Abizaid's testimony about General Shinseki being correct about the need for more troops in post-Saddam Iraq to Glenn Becks despicable interview with incoming Congressman Keith Ellison. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


BIZZARE Moving Optical Illusion Warning: This could make you pretty dizzy, so watch it with a light on in your room. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


Democrats To Reinstitute Military Draft Wow... didn't see that coming From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


Yahoo’s Brad Garlinghouse Makes His Power Move Brad Garlinghouse, the Yahoo SVP who owns massive pieces of the overall organization (front page, mail, IM, etc.) wrote an email memo to senior staff about his views on the state of Yahoo. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


FYE Bait And Switches Wii Buyer, Gamer Calls For Boycott In June, this gamer pre-ordered his Nintendo Wii from FYE. When it came time to pick it up on November 16, FYE made him buy two additional games and a $25 gift card. These additional purchases were not disclosed when he made the pre-order. He complained to the manager who said, "you're just one person, you won't make a difference." Will you boycott From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


[Video] Nintendo Wii Smashed! (SmashMyWii.com) 2 people dressed as Mario and Luigi buy a Nintendo Wii, and destroy it in front of a huge lineup at a Toronto Futureshop. Check out http://www.smashmywii.com for more info! From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


21 Science Books That Will Prepare You For The 21st Century These books are based on hard science but written for a wide audience. In other words, you don't need a PhD in astrophysics to start learning. Their writing style is engaging and the information they present is mind blowing. It's a good list of books to check out the next time you are in a bookstore. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


Worlds Highest Website Welcome to the World’s Highest Website! Currently, it’s 18.939 kilometers high (that’s about 11.769 miles), and an enormous pleasure to scroll. Enjoy.For fine print and technical details, either scroll down by yourself or take the elevator, which offers light speed hypertext transportation for free. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


Diggnation "Holiday Clip Show Special" Is Out! Featuring Kevin on a Zune! http://diggdown.net to download. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


Report: Cubs agree to $136M deal with Soriano "The Chicago Cubs' ownership is showing new manager Lou Piniella that they are serious about winning. Chicago radio station ESPN 1000 reported Sunday that the Cubs have signed outfielder Alfonso Soriano to an eight-year contract worth approximately $136 million." From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:32 p.m..


Al Jazeera International chooses Apple Technology Al Jazeera chose cutting edge technology which includes 41 MacBook Pro and Final Cut Studio for journalists, a 70 TB Apple storage solution using 10 Apple Xserve 7 TB XRAID and 14 Apple Xsan Software Licenses, plus 12 PowerMac G5 Quad, 2 PowerMac G5 Dual Core and 19 Apple Cinema HD Display 23' for editing and design From digg on November 19, 2006 at 7:30 p.m..


Is Fox News Flatlining? CNN, MSNBC Gaining Post-Election On election night, the Democrats swept Congress, and CNN swept to a surprise victory over Fox News in the all-important 25-54 demo, beating out the perennial frontrunner to win the total day and coming within a hairsbreadth of meeting their total primetime numbers. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 7:30 p.m..


Joe Buck Must Go!!!! For the love of football and all things holy, the powers that be at Fox must pull Joe Buck so that he cannot ruin any more NFL games!!! Joe Buck is a baseball announcer, and baseball is where he should stay. To give you some idea of how bad a commentator Buck is, he's as bad as Dennis Miller or Jimmy Kimmel, neither of which would you allow to commentate a game! From Undesignated Blog on November 19, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


"PS3 looks like a vacuum cleaner" CNN reviews the PS3 and the WII. See who really gets the attention and hear the run out of the mill comment you have heard about the PS3 one more time. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


The easiest way to send Super Large Files! Or create embedded media players for your webpages! From digg on November 19, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


PS3 Fans: "Wii are a bunch of idiots" More than a thousand fans lined up in Times Square for the Sunday launch of Nintendo's entry into the holiday season's field of competing video game consoles, the cheap but innovative Wii. Despite the throngs, the midnight launch event went smoothly: No shootings, no riots and no stampedes. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


Walmart getting a lot of Zune returns? Gadgeteer Julie bought a Zune to review and found it skipped on most of her music. So she took it back to Walmart for a refund and they give her the first degree: where did she get the music, was it hers, maybe it was the music that was bad? Then her final comment: "I am going to have to call the main office Monday and find out what the deal is.." From digg on November 19, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


Boston Mayor Bills Sony after PS3 Riots Require Twelve Police Cruisers During Fridays PlayStation 3 release at Copley Plaza the city was forced to call in twelve police cruisers when a frantic crowd of 500 rushed the doors of Sony store at 5 a.m. Menino is now calling that Sony pay for the extra security that they failed to provide. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


Microsoft Lied to Novell. See a Patten Here? "Novell filed an 8-K recently in which it said that you (Microsoft) have agreed not to do a similar deal with another Linux vendor to encourage the adoption of Linux and Windows virtualization solutions through a subscription certificate program." From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


First Wiis Recorded on NexGen Wars Counter A screenshot of the very first Wiis to be accounted for on the NexGen Wars sales counter. 450 Wiis show up at about 12AM CST, as the 360 passes 7 million and PS3 creeps up on a quarter of a million. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Google Web Search - Sexy Dark Blue Redesign and more! You'll need to download and install the Stylish Firefox extension, and paste them into a newly created blank style. Alternatively, you can paste them into your userChrome.css file located in your Firefox profile folder. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Nintendo Wii: Your www.radioshack.com order has been received Radio Shack has open pre-orders for the Nintendo Wii. I just pre-ordered one from Radio shack via their website. Ships 6-8 business days. Received my confirmation email with order tracking #. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Amazon Wii Launch Day Orders... arriving WHEN? WTF??? --w/ SCREENSHOT-- If you are a lucky soul and can actually see the coveted order now button on Amazon for Nintendo's Wii... you may be in for a surprise as to when the blessed contraption will actually arrive on your doorstep.Screenshot included for the non-believers! From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


“V” Makes A Mark In DC - Vendetta Protest Continues! We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, “V for Vendetta.” From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Can't get the Wii? Watch someone play it for a week straight LIVE! That's right, this guy is going to play his Nintendo Wii for a straight week straight. Even though I'm getting mine, I can't stop watching him play. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Customers Angry about no Nintendo Wii on Amazon.com Amazon.com sent out an e-mail stating that the Nintendo Wii would be available at Midnight PST. This did not happen and throngs of people waiting got angry and flooded the item reviews. Over 300 review posts in less than 2 hours. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM The more people know the arguments against DRM, the more likely we can turn the tide against the RIAA and get content producers and record labels to make their content available DRM-free. Here's an article listing 10 effective arguments and describing why faulty DRM systems like the Zune are doomed to fail. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


1043 programming exercises Need to sharpen your skills, or perhaps that shiny new python/ruby/c++/java book didn't come with any programming exercises? You can't learn a new language by simply reading about it. Here you will find over 1,000 exercises ranging from easy to hard. Have fun! From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


What caused this accident? A racing accident occurs, nothing new there, but what caused it? HILARIOUS From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Optimus-103 keyboard pre-orders start December 12 The latest piece of news from the Optimus project is an announcement that the company will be taking pre-orders for the Optimus-103 on December 12. That will hopefully also mean an unveiling of the price, and if we're lucky, some specifications for the keyboard. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..


PS3 Running NES Emulation Not sure if this is real, but someone has already put an NES Emulator on their PS3 using Linuxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIWwcGCI_nY From digg on November 19, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..


Wikipedia is more popular than... This page by Wikimedia compares Wikipedia's traffic with that of other websites as recorded by alexa.com. Includes up-to-date monthly rank, weekly rank, and every other statistic and chart imaginable. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..


7 million Xbox 360s SOLD! According to NextGen Wars, Xbox 360 has sold its seven millionth unit tonight! Check the statistics a little later when the Nintendo Wii comes out... From digg on November 19, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..


How to Configure an $80 File Server in 45 Minutes Step-by-step directions on how to quickly and easily configure a cheap Dell GX150 into a fully functional headless file server using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) with Samba for accessible network shares, phpMyAdmin for MySQL administration, and TorrentFlux for BitTorrent transfers. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..


Innovative Business Award presented The winner of the Innovative Business Award presented at the recent Australian Training Awards was a joint nomination from C.Y. O'Connor College of TAFE and WA Country Health Service - Wheatbelt, in Western Australia. The Innovative Business Award is awarded to an organisation that demonstrates excellence in integrating technology in the operation of its business for the benefit of its clients as well as the education, training and skilling of its employees. The award winners had developed an e-learning aged care training program to address a significant demand for skilled aged care worke From EdNA Online on November 19, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..


RSS for Developers From the MSDN XML Developer Center this site provides RSS resources including the Microsoft Simple Sharing Extensions Specification and Microsoft Simple List Extensions Specification. It also offers news and advice for RSS developers with the aim of realising the potential of RSS to improve integration of information delivered across software and services. From EdNA Online on November 19, 2006 at 1:31 p.m..


Absolutely Breathtaking Pictures! I have no idea what language this is or who they are from, but these are some really stunning pictures. Most taken from high altitude. My favorite is the huge volcano. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..


Online Lectures: MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton.. Title says it all. Educate yourself. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..


Photos: Rare 1983 Apple II Jigsaw Puzzle that even Woz didn't know about Curious to find out more (about the Puzzle), I contacted the one man who knows the most about the Apple II: Steve Wozniak. He replied, in his e-mail saying: "Wow. I know nothing of this jigsaw puzzle. It's quite a surprise to me. I must have missed or forgotten it." From digg on November 19, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..


User Encounters PS3's Beep of Death After 30min of Gameplay A newly purchased PS3 (and owner) had played Tony Hawk's Project 8 for a grand total of 30 minutes when the PS3 decided it didn't want any more of that. Maybe THP8 made the unit sick, the game doesn't exactly have a great image (pun intended). In any case, this is one unhappy PS3 consumer. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..


Spad Filesystem for Linux SpadFS is a new filesystem that I design and develop as my PhD thesis. It is an attempt to bring features of advanced filesystems (crash recovery, fast directories) and good performance without increasing code complexity too much. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 11:32 a.m..


MacOS X86: Leopard 10.5 Cracked To run on a PC. Look like one of the MacOSX hackers has manged to crack Leopard to run on PC. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 10:32 a.m..


Wii Virtual Console Games Can "Suspend" & Be Played From That Point Later Basically the equivalent to an infinite pause, the Wii's virtual console will "suspend" the game which you can resume from at a later time. This is great news for those who thought the VC games wouldn't be able to save. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 9:32 a.m..


Short White Kid Dunks Off Of A Teammates Back In Game This is how a short white dude dunks...All thanks to my buddy Chip. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Top 20: Wii Launch Games Join us as we count down the preliminary best of the best in Wii entertainment, and even hand out a few "Dundy" awards along the way. Michael Scott would be proud. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


The Rising Star Of Ubuntu Given the recent Novell+Microsoft, RedHat vs. Oracle, and Sun Java Open Source news, Ubuntu is out there marching to it's own drummer. It is a grassroots effort that seems to be growing. That's a good thing for the Linux and Open Source community. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 6:32 a.m..


Live from Nintendo's Wii launch in New York Live updating photos from the Wii's launch at Toys'R'Us. 3 hours to go. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


The Full Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Trailer Very good quality, the entire trailer! From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


Wii Firmware Update? In a recent installment of Iwata Asks, Miyamoto let slip some rather interesting news... From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


Google Video gets Illegal - Pixar’s Cars They let junk slip in the past, but now they let a full fledged movie be hosted… Do they really have people look at the videos before being hosted? From digg on November 19, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


Video: Dominoes - New World Record This year, 90 builders from 13 countries came up with the domino extravaganza to break the world record of 4,002,146 dominoes. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..


Islamic Inventions & Scientific Contributions that changed the world A brilliant BBC documentary about a number of Muslim scientific Inventions and how they changed our modern World through fun to watch real-life demonstrations. Highly recommended and fun to watch. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..


George Michael of "Sports Machine" to Retire "Sports Machine," the syndicated sports highlight show that rose to popularity before ESPN dominated the airwaves, will go off the air after 23 years when host George Michael steps down in March. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..


If Linux violates Microsoft’s patents, let’s see the proof ! If there is offending code, I think Microsoft should show it and prove it. Why not set up a Web site with a few code snippets that show how Linux violates Windows patents — if such snippets really exist? From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..


Hilarious Parody of that Horrible "Be a Game Designer" Commercial! Remember that horrible commercial for Westwood College with the two guys "designing" games just by playing them? This is a funny parody of that, which proves what we were all thinking about those two guys. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..


Green Beret's final wish to family and friends: a $100K party in Vegas Before he died in Iraq, 'Toz' had an order for his Green Berets: Attend my Arlington burial, then take this $100,000 for a party in Las Vegas. "If you are getting this e-mail, it means that I have passed away," the missive said. "No, it's not a sick Toz joke, but a letter I wanted to write in case this happened." From digg on November 19, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


Keith Olbermann interviews Civil Rights Lawyer over UCLA Tasing Keith Olbermann interviews tasered UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad's lawyer, Stephen Yagman. 11/17/06 From digg on November 19, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


3D Nvidia Linux driver under development Nvidia does not provide specifications for their hardware or a working free accelerated 3D driver for inclusion with X.org. This leaves many UN*X and Linux video card users with only a 2D driver. Pledges and donations to finance the Linux Nouveau driver project are being taken at the Pledge Bank. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


Wii Line turned into Launch party in Williston Best Buy Best Buy line for Wii launch started at 8 this morning with 1 person, it's up to 18 now, with more to come now that games are on! Someone brought a projector a gamecube and wavebirds all around! Now only if best buy would loan them the display wii..... From digg on November 19, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


Gears of War tops Halo 2 Finally, Halo 2 is not the most played game on Xbox Live. Well that took a while. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


300GB Holographic CD’s will be available this week Within advantages, I could mention the transfer rate of 20MB/s, the high capacity and the multitude of operations that could be fulfilled with the help of it, like large amounts of backups, uncompressed media (movies and audio) that could be easily edited later, and many many more. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


Man catches thief on webcam! Needs help to ID the bastard! Marshall Hayes said he got a camera since locks and burglar bars don't seem to be enough to keep his home safe. The security system senses motions, which when detected leads to an e-mail that is sent to Hayes... As the cameras were on, Hayes spotted the thief digging in his home while at work from his web camera. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


Wallpaper made out of post-it notes A wallpaper consisting of four layers of varying grey tones on a bright primary backing. Each layer is perforated in a grid format and backed with a tacky adhesive similar to ‘post-it’ notes. Pixelnotes is inspired by the way we work within a space. The walls become functional, an integrated noticeboard that documents our activity within the room. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


ZUNE can't be used as a portable hard drive as O'Reilly mentioned: You can connect your Zune to a Mac, and will even see that it's attached in the System Profiler, but that's about as far as you will go. The Zune will not mount on either the PC or a Mac and does not, unlike the iPod, have the option to be used as a portable hard drive. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


PLAYSTATION 3 - Guy Paid a Kid $3000 For His Spot In Line The title says it all.... From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


Leopard vs Vista 5: Development Challenges Interesting look at how Apple and Microsoft have followed identical development patterns -- so similar they are almost spooky -- and how those patterns play out in comparing Leopard and Vista. Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted Magazine. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


Gamers embarass self; internet. A wonderful look at the mindset of people who call somebody's opinion invalid because it disagrees with their own. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


Secret Santa who gave away $1.3 million till date reveals his identity For 26 years, a man known only as Secret Santa has roamed the streets every December quietly giving people money. He started with $5 and $10 bills. As his fortune grew, so did the gifts. In recent years, Secret Santa has been handing out $100 bills, sometimes two or three at a time, to people in thrift stores, diners and parking lots. From digg on November 19, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


$190 Puppy Linux Movie Player for the Minivan Output device of choice was the Sony PlayStation Portable or PSP. Cars are hostile environments for computers. For $190 a diskless, fanless, completely silent PC with a Via processor and 128 megs of RAM. To this a copy of Puppy Linux was added. From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


OSU 42, Michigan 39 and now the bcs fun begins....... From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


CONFIRMED! Xbox 360 Will Sell for $100 on Amazon next Week Xbox 360 Will Sell for $100 on Amazon next Week From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


It's Official - Microsoft to Sue Linux Users Check out Microsoft's Patent arsenal here. According to Steve Ballmer, "...every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability." From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


The World's Most High Tech Urinal By day, the Urilift is lowered below street level for a nice clean look. Then at night, an operator comes by with a remote and the Urilift hydraulically lifts to sidewalk level in about two minutes, and is ready to serve all the nighttime party animals who don’t mind peeing in a very exposed public urinal. From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


Holland to Muslims: get in line or get the f**k out of the country The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds. From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


Lala's had a bit too much to drink? haha at least Kevin was there to look after her lol From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


A PS3 That Sold for ONLY $10.00 There are so many PS3 on ebay that no one saw this auction except for one guy and bought it for $9.99 ! The seller even left his phone number! He better ship it or its not in accordance with ebay regulations! From digg on November 18, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


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