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Octopus skin could yield invisibility cloak? 'The molecules that make octopus skin so successful as a dynamic camouflage could provide materials scientists with a new way to make super-reflective materials. What's even more odd is just how reflective these proteins are - they reflect all wavelengths of light that hit at any angle." From digg on December 9, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


Will it Blend? Spoof We all know the BlendTec blender can blend anything, but what about a $15 dollar blender? The results are hilarious and real. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 10:32 p.m..


Lawsuit: Xbox 360 update "bricking" consoles Microsoft is the target of a new class-action lawsuit over its Fall Update for the Xbox 360, an update that caused "problems" on a small minority of systems. By "problems," of course, we mean "total system malfunction." Now, one California man is leading the legal charge against Microsoft after his own machine was "bricked" by the update. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


Trespassers Will Be Eaten Eccentric private citizens in the United States own more tigers than exist in the wild worldwide. Sipek, a former Tarzan actor, sleeps with his tigers and has a sign on his gate warning that "Trespassers Will Be Eaten." However, many activists are warning of the obvious dangers. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 9:32 p.m..


Colbert Accepts Decemberists' Counter-Challenge! Last night on "The Colbert Report", history was made as Stephen Colbert accepted the Decemberists' challenge to a guitar solo duel. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


HOWTO: Make Ginger Ale "Even though you can look at the shelves in any supermarket and find various brands of ginger ale, making your own is not only educational, but creates an entirely different taste of a refreshing and healthful drink." From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


Snow on your Desktop - Beryl Plugin XglSnow Wanna get into the Christmas spirit? Add some snow to your desktop thru the beryl plugin xglsnow. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


Richard Dawkins Brief and Effective Rebuke At the 'Beyond Belief' discussion, Tyson rebukes Dawkins for his rhetorical style, and Dawkins responds brilliantly. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


NVIDIA, AMD In Hot Water For Potential Price Fixing Turns out NVIDIA, AMD and ATI have been accused of some antitrust shenanigans, with the DoJ alleging the firms "have engaged in a contract combination, trust or conspiracy, the effect of which was to raise the prices at which they sold graphics processing units and cards to artificially inflated levels." From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


The real Leeroy Jenkins - Ben Schulz Check out this interview with him. I can't believe that I assumed he was black. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


"Oblivion" big winner at Spike TV video game awards "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion," a fantasy role-playing game, was the top winner at the Spike TV Video Game Awards in Los Angeles on Friday, taking home five prizes, including "Game of the Year" and "Most Addictive." From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


Google joins Eclipse Foundation Ending months of speculation, Google has officially joinedGoogle Web Toolkit the Eclipse Foundation as an add-in provider, according to officials at both organizations. In an interview with ZDNet, Eclipse Director Mike Milinkovich said: We are, of course, thrilled that Google decided to join the Eclipse Foundation. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 p.m..


Build Your Own Deathstar This tool lets you build your own Star Wars Deathstar and outfit it with everything from Ferris Wheels to Garbage Mashers. Unfortunately, Imperial construction and design bureaucracy being what they are, it is very likely that some of your choices will introduce certain vulnerabilities into the design. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful: From digg on December 9, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


Red Hat Fake Ad Red Hat making fun of Microsoft... If this is real, it should totally be on TV... From digg on December 9, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


Jerry Seinfeld In OZ This video is pretty hilarious if you have every watched the show OZ or Seinfield. Some of the jokes by Jerry Seinfeld are a little off color, but it is still a pretty funny clip.... From digg on December 9, 2006 at 6:32 p.m..


Picture of a 5MB Hard Disk in 1956 Look how a 5MB Hard Disk was like 50 years ago!!!! From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Cool, amazing inventions I like this one.Janjaap Ruijssenaars air mattress uses a matching set of repelling magnets, built into the bed and the floor below, to support ~2,000 lbs. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Edward Norton and Brad Pitt sing 'The Penis Song' for a Fight Club trailer Edward Norton and Brad Pitt singing the "penis song" for an unreleased Fight Club trailer. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Mozilla commits to collaborating with Linux distros The foundation says it will work directly with representatives of all interested Linux distributions to manage patches, create distro-specific packages, and make collective decisions on policy. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Valve Sells Out - Counter-Strike Getting In-game Ads Following BF2142, Counter-Strike will be getting in-game ads by IGA soon. CS is already struggling, and the ads might be the final blow to an online legend. Goodbye Counter-Strike. Welcome, greedy Valve. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


The Complete Guide to Batman's Gadgets This is an attempt to catalog everything Batman has ever pulled from his suit or belt. His utility belt is a wide, goldish yellow belt with a dozen pockets separated by hollow cylindric.... From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


No Winter for Europe Central Europe is experiencing its warmest winter in 500 years and the Alps haven't been this warm in over a millenneum. Ski resorts are suffering, as are the bears. Ski resorts are marketing hiking holidays because it's too warm for snow machines to blanket the slopes. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Will It Blend? - Hockey Pucks Will hockey pucks blend in the Blendtec Blender? Watch and see. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Are left-handers quicker thinkers than righties? All those parents in the '70s and '80s who made their left-handed children struggle to use their right hands may be kicking themselves right about now. As it turns out, left-handers might have the advantage in certain areas like, say, piloting a jet fighter or talking and driving at the same time. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 p.m..


Top 10 Games to get for the Wii in 2007 "2007 is looking like a really hot year for the Wii. Many Nintendo published titles are on their way and although more titles are still yet to be announced, for now here are the Top 10 games to get next year!" If you own a Wii, or plan on getting one, look through this list and start saving your money to get these top notch games. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


The 50 Websites read most often by the Top 100 Diggers Ever wonder what websites the top Diggers are reading? This is a list of the 50 sites submitted most frequently by the top 100 Diggers. Find out which Diggers only submit from one website. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


The iTunes playlist app, Tangerine 1.0 released The iTunes plug-in that automatically creates playlists for you according to the tempo of songs in your library has reached 1.0. Tangerine 1.0 is now available for download! From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Debunking: “Google in bed with CIA” In order to make a statement like that, you just know some poor PR person had to walk around the company making absolutely, 100% sure, that Google is not in bed with the CIA. Eventually the PR person would probably end up talking to a random co-founder, just to be completely positive. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Interview with man who got breast implants for a year FOR A BET $100K The things people will do for a bet. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Bizzare Google Request Someone sends another person a email asking him to remove his site from google since it was ranking higher than him in google. Wierd From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


What Porn Can Teach Us About “Piracy” (No pornography in the article) Though this isn’t a shock to anyone who has surfed the Web, what is interesting is that, unlike the RIAA and MPAA, the porn companies have not sued any file sharing companies or individual users over this infringement. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Creammonkey = Greasemonkey For Safari Creammonkey is an open-source sourceforge project that aims to bring the power of Firefox's Greasemonkey extension to Safari. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


The 10 Weirdest Game Console Names Think you can name them all without looking? Hint: Tiger Telematics' game console came in number one... From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Mac "Quicken-Killer" Receives Impressive GUI Update Cha-Ching, the infamous so-called Quicken killer application for Mac has received a large update today putting it at beta 0.4. Most of the new features are with the GUI, which has really improved a lot since the last update. This version also includes several bug fixes. Along with the update they have added a lot of content to the website. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Blu-Ray: Losing the Popularity Contest We should all microwave some popcorn, get comfortable, and watch Blu-Ray die a slow, agonizing death. According to Cymfony, a marketing demographics and statistics group, HD-DVD has a more positive “buzz” than Sony’s Blu-Ray, because of the string of failed formats. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


Book Review: Ubuntu linux for non-geeks This book should come with every Ubuntu Live CD. It reads like one of David Pogue's excellent Missing Manual books -- a fast, crystal-clear topical tour of the amazing collective accomplishment embodied in Ubuntu. I learned something new in every chapter, and ended up with a computer that did more of what I wanted it to do, faster. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 p.m..


OS X Leopard TextEdit to support Office 2007? "Is this true? Will the TextEdit application included with OS X Leopard support Office 2007 documents? That’s what the above screenshot is boasting. Credit to Mark for sending the link to the full size image. Does anyone with the latest seed of Leopard care to comment? The font looks a little questionable in the screenshot..." Continued at source. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..


EA only using 20% of PS3 power! "Was it more complex than we were expecting? Yes, probably; there were some challenges that we didn't expect. We've got tremendous confidence long-term that it's going to be a phenomenal games machine." From digg on December 9, 2006 at 3:32 p.m..


MS Word to OOWriter There's an old phrase you may have heard, “There are some things that money can't buy”. A recent advertising campaign has appended, “For everything else...”. Clichéd as it is, the phrase can be turned on its head to neatly sum up the differences between Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..


Top 10 Most Unusual Buildings Man, these are weird! From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..


This is why you shouldn't shoplift My friend was walking past the LCBO where he saw store security beating and torturing someone suspected of shoplifting... From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 p.m..


IGN Guide for Early '07 Wii Games Everyone's heard enough about the Wii launch day titles, so IGN looks at the next wave of Wii games and gives you a bit of info on each. Notable titles include Battalion Wars II, Metroid Prime 3, WarioWare Smooth Moves, Super Paper Mario (previously a GC game,) and Mario Party 8. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..


Eat this Google Earth - NASA World Wind 1.4 promo The video shows off many of World Wind's new features from sun shading to more scientific features like NRL (near realtime weather), the new compass, scale bar and more. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..


Wii hardware mod: pulsing disc slot light While many of us were disappointed upon learning the disc slot lights would not act as we had hoped, some were so much so that they went ahead and modded the light to work all the time. With several different settings, some just pulsating slowly, others reacting to sound, these folk have managed to make the Wii more visually appealing... From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..


The 15 Best Bond Gadgets of All Time From 007’s jetpack in Thunderball to his iconic laser-equipped Omega watch, the James Bond movie franchise has always had its finger on the pulse of its audience’s gadget lust. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 p.m..


Verizon Employee Exit Interview This person wasn't too happy with Verizon as an employer. "I'd rather walk in on my best friend sodomizing my brother rather than explaining 'Dell' isn't a version of Windows." From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..


Latest Firefox build passes Acid2! The Firefox Acid2 bug (bugzilla #289480) has officially been marked as FIXED and VERIFIED, and merged into the official development build (to be part of Firefox 3). Hurray! Thanks goes especially to David Baron for his hard work on the reflow branch. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 p.m..


Microsoft's new search icon has soft-porn past Ms. Dewey is a new, humanized search engine from Microsoft. An animated figure, played by actress Janina Gavankar, knocks the screen to remind the user to type a search query. The only problem with human search engines: they're human, and they did anything to get ahead, when young... From digg on December 9, 2006 at 11:30 a.m..


Toyota Hybrid Battery Factory Turns Landscape to Poisoned Wasteland So many plants and trees around the factory at Sudbury in Ontario, Canada, have died that astronauts from Nasa practised driving moon buggies on the outskirts of the city because it was considered the closest thing on earth to the rocky lunar landscape. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 9:32 a.m..


New in GMail - "Get mail from other accounts "Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail." In limited release, but coming soon. Looks cool! From digg on December 9, 2006 at 9:32 a.m..


Washington D.C. Argues That The 2nd Amendment Doesn't Apply to Individuals Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press reports: "In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals."The case is Shelly Parker et al v. District of Columbia, case No. 04-7041 From digg on December 9, 2006 at 9:32 a.m..


Firefox use continues to rise in Europe According to research, the browser is now used by some 23.2 per cent of European PC web surfers - up from 19.4% in April. A detailed percentage-by-country map is at the link. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 9:32 a.m..


Can you drink the water on Mars? Water has flowed on Mars within the last few years, researchers announced on Wednesday. Images of Martian gullies show what appear to be the deposits left by little spurts of water as they trickled downhill. If an astronaut could bottle up some of this extraterrestrial water, could he drink it? From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Bungie Talks About Halo 3 Commercial Bungie answer questions about what was seen in the Halo 3 commercial and talks to Digital Domain, the creators of the commercial, about it's creation. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


YouTube allows users to record directly to site YouTube quietly added a new feature today to its popular user-generated video site today called Quick Capture, which allows users to record video directly to YouTube from webcams plugged into their computers. This new feature eliminates steps in the process of producing video content, making it easier than ever to publish videos to the web. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Homeless Guy = Genius? Two guys walk upon this man panhandling and it turns into a deep philosophical lecture about the meaning of life and the ultimate truth. Warning: Very Long. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Wiimote damage Nintendo's fault? - Absolutely not! Just as if a baseball manufacturer would not be liable if you threw a baseball at your TV, Nintendo holds no accountability for the damage people do with the Wiimote. And many of the pictures I've seen are quite suspect and are probably fabricated by scam artists looking for a quick buck. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Barbie Declares War on Bratz Just in case you thought it couldn't get any worse, Barbie and Co. are declaring war on the Bratz. You see, Mattel alleges that Isaac Larian, father of the Bratz, and his colleagues have stolen Mattel's trade secrets and have run off to Mexico in order to work unhindered. Good thing that Ken's Dad is a lawyer. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Woman, 75, Douses Alleged Thief With Gas Carjacked at knifepoint while pumping gas, a 75-year-old woman didn't give in without a fight. Mary Gean Smyth opened the door of her sport utility vehicle and doused the assailant in gas. "I'm sure he was burning like mad," Smyth said of the Tuesday carjacking. "I mean, I drowned him right in the face." From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Geek Squad .. SUCKS! An undercover operation in which folks from this news channel, simply took out the IDE cable and guess what the Geek Squads tell them, ITS A POWER SUPPLE ISSUE. Way to go Geeks! Even compusa/circuit city correctly diagnosed the issue. whew! From digg on December 9, 2006 at 8:30 a.m..


Y2K+ 7: Or Why the Shuttle Isn't Supposed to Fly on Dec. 31 Forget the foam. The problem that has many at NASA scratching their heads is YERO — or year-end rollover. NASA doesn't want Discovery and its seven astronauts in space on New Year's Eve, when 2006 rolls over into 2007. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


Six of 1,000 speak Arabic fluently at U.S. embassy in Iraq After more than three years in their country, the U.S. military still can't understand Iraqis. The Iraq Study Group said the lack of Arabic speakers has hurt U.S. intelligence collection and analysis. The bipartisan panel said the U.S. military and government rely too much on non-U.S. translators, who fail to provide context. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


New TMNT Trailer released! This is the trailer for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie that will have a darker tone like the original comics it is based on. It is set to come out March 23, 2007. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


SC: 09/12 Adobe Reader - download Manager has vulnerability - update available Adobe Reader (which is installed on most computers as a utility) comes with a separate 'download manager' module which makes the downloading and updating of the software automatic; there's a flaw in this component which should be removed without delay as it contains a vulnerability which can lead to exploitation of your system by a remote hacker with malicious intent ... From MCS Safe Computing Bulletins on December 9, 2006 at 5:31 a.m..


The Project Babylon Supergun Early in the war with Iran, the Iraqi government engaged Canadian artillery expert Gerald V. Bull, whose lifetime obsession was the construction of a "Supergun," a huge howitzer able to fire satellites into space or launch artillery shells thousands of miles into enemy territory. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..


The Infamous Ghetto Indoor Swimming Pool This person actually put a 3100 Gallon above ground pool in the middle of their living room. It's a actually a really hilarious story, documented with pictures. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..


Despite Growing Scams, U.S. Secret Service Pulls Agents Out of Nigeria Despite massive counterfeiting of U.S. currency and checks in Nigeria, the American law enforcement agency with principal jurisdiction, the Secret Service, has closed its office in Lagos, Nigeria. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..


As Real Violence Escalates in Iraq, Hillary Prepares Violent Video Game PSA Hot on the heels of the release of the Iraq Study Group Report and a day in which 10 US servicemen were killed and at least 84 Iraqis were blown up or shot, prospective presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will join with Joe Lieberman to hold a press conference today to announce the launch of a television PSA campaign about...video game ratings. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 4:32 a.m..


Youtube Gets New Style and A New Streaming Service Youtube received a new update of its theme, mostly making the tabs and some buttons on their site different. Also a new service rolled out that enables you to stream what people are streaming called 'Youtube Streams.' I'm not sure about the new theme, but the new service looks good. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..


Firefly Convention Cancelled at Last Minute! Flanvention, the Firefly/Serenity fan convention to be held in Burbank, CA this weekend, was cancelled by the organizers just hours before the event was to begin! 500 fans have already starting showing up and PREPAID over $75 each, plus many prepaid for extra autographs or photo ops. BEWARE OF THE GROUP THAT ORGANIZED THIS: "BOOSTER ENTERTAINMENT" From digg on December 9, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..


COKE - WHAT GOES AROUND, Coolest Commercial I've ever seen! Hundreds of actors of all playing the same character. Sort of a stop motion live action combo all mashed together. I really can't explain it, just take a look. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..


Scerri vs Preacher UCLA Professor combats fundamentalist Christian preacher. Classic quote: "I teach logic, motherfucker". From digg on December 9, 2006 at 3:32 a.m..


ACLU sues Rumsfeld for authorizing torture Suit by Iraqis and Afghans claims Rumsfeld ordered torture From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


Bush Approval Rating Reaches New Low - 30% The national job approval rating of President Bush has plummeted to 30%, an all–time low in the latest Zogby International telephone poll, sinking below the 31% approval rating he dropped to in early June. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


What's it Like to be Face Blind? This is the world's first (and to date only) book about face blindness. It has been published on the Internet so people in all lands can have access to it readily, and so it can be continuously updated. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


Divorcing the iPod This may be shocking to some, but not everyone is wedded to the iPod. Some people would like to know about iPod alternatives they can use without giving up their Mac. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


Bill O'Reilly hates YouTube Ol' Bill attacks a YouTube video that has more sense than his show has ever had. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 2:32 a.m..


Microsoft Kills Front Page According to FrontPage’s own home page, “After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006.” -quote from dvorak.orgThis comes as microsoft prepares to release its vista operating system along with office 2007, o well for microsoft's attempt at html editing From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


4 -year-old Accused of Improperly Touching Teacher A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in-school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


ObscureTags.com -- a museum of strange and rarely used HTML tags Old tags never die. They just go to Hell and regroup. At ObscureTags.com. From reversed text to marquees, acronyms to quotes, there's a lot of weird stuff hidden in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Some of them are even useful... but most of 'em are just kind of inexplicable. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


CS professor trading grades for cash and wine A computer science lab instructor changed students' grades for cash and wine and told a student to lie before a grand jury in an attempt to cover up his lucrative scheme. In exchange for better grades, students gave him cash payments ranging from $200 to $2,500 or items such as wine and alcohol. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


The $55 Mac And Cheese. Even fancy restaurants aren't above ripping you off This guy goes to the Waverly Inn and orders a mac and cheese, the night's special, as an appetizer...mistake! From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


Wired's HDTV Tests for the Holidays Helping those choose the right one for Christmas From digg on December 9, 2006 at 1:32 a.m..


8Gb Flash Cards are now small enough for your wallet. For anyone needing large amounts of memory and easy portability, the Mega-Kart would be a very smart buy. Although it costs a bit more money, you have to remember the capacity it is squeezing into its small package. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


Road Kims Took Was Unlocked By Vandal, Officials Say "The remote logging road that James Kim and his family drove down before getting stranded deep in the Rogue River Canyon is normally blocked by a locked metal gate, but it was open the night they got lost because a vandal had cut the lock, authorities said Friday." Caused a terrible turn of events . From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


Music Industry Shuts Down Guitar Web Sites Music publishers are pursuing legal action and shutting down amateur Web sites that post chords and finger positions for songs, claiming they help people steal copyrighted sheet music -- another manifestation of an industry struggling to combat what it sees as Internet piracy. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


(Video) Girl's Can't Be Trusted! Funny video, written by Kevin, Directed by Kevin, and Starring Kevin. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


ESPN.com - MLB - Source: Pettitte returns to Yankees with one-year deal Many thought Andy Pettitte should have never left New York. It looks like that issue has been rectified. The left-hander and the Yankees have reached an agreement on a one-year deal that will pay him $16 million in 2007 with a player option for 2008, sources close to the negotiations told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney on Friday. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


Incredible Original Photos Of The Aftermath Of The Pearl Harbor Attack The fellow who sent these received them from an old shipmate on the USS Quapaw ATF-110.ATF-11O. Interesting as he's never seen them anywhere else. I think they're spectacular. You must see them for yourself to see how astonishing these photos are. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


Town in PA To Vote On REQUIREMENT That EVERY Household Have A Gun In written comments, Henry Statkowski said homeowners have a right and a responsibility to defend against intruders rather than calling police and waiting for help to arrive. Believe it or not, this would not be the first town where every person is required to own a gun. Kennesaw, GA enacted a similar law in 1982. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


Bonds to Sign with Giants $16Mil 1-Year Apparently prepared to leave the Bay Area, free agent Barry Bonds has instead agreed in principle to stay with the San Franciso Giants, MLB.com reported Thursday night. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


A Terabyte of Data on a Regular DVD? This is the promise of the 3-D Optical Data Storage system developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This technology allows to record and store at least 1,000 GB of data on multiple layers of a single disc. By using several layers, this technique will increase the storage capacity of a standard DVD to more than a terabyte. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


`Truthiness' Is Named Word of the Year After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness." The word _ if one can call it that _ best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


Scientists Spot 'Tsunami' on the Sun A major flare on the Sun earlier this week generated a destructive shock wave. From digg on December 9, 2006 at 12:32 a.m..


Wii Power Glove: The ultimate act of nerdom I've seen a lot of nerdy crap in my time on this earth, but this one just may be the ultimate act of geekitude. Try to ignore the fat cat trying to escape the nerd's lair, and focus instead on the fact that this guy has absolutely no life whatsoever. How long until Nintendo sees this and gives birth to the ultimate Wii peripheral? From digg on December 8, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


Super Mario 3 Stop-Motion Video Made From LEGOS! I originally found this through WIRED's Game|Life blog by Chris Kohler: http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/12/stopmotion_lego.html#comments. Chris writes, "Reader Jaime Wells sends along some stop-motion recreations of video games made with Lego blocks. I think I may have linked the Donkey Kong animation here before, but I'd never seen Metroid." From digg on December 8, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


Three New iPod Models to be released in intervals by Apple in 2007 A source often familiar with the Cupertino, Calif.-based company's music plans says a copy of its current roadmap calls for three distinct models to make their debut at various intervals throughout the new year. First and foremost is said to be a video-centric model that will either replace or supplement the aging fifth-generation iPod From digg on December 8, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


RIAA Petitions Judges to Lower Artist Royalties Aggressively litigious group has claimed to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for "innovative" music distribution. From digg on December 8, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


Use a MacBook tilt sensor to control a Roomba A video demo and Perl script to use a MacBook's tilt sensor to control a Bluetooth-enabed Roomba. Why? Because you can. From digg on December 8, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


Amazing CG Sphere Gallery Some really beautiful stuff in there. Worth a look. From digg on December 8, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


BREAKING: Congresswoman McKinney Files Articles of Impeachment (for Bush) "At the heart of the charges contained in McKinney’s articles of impeachment, is the allegation that President Bush has not upheld the oath of presidential office and is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors." From digg on December 8, 2006 at 11:32 p.m..


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