Tiananmen Square Massacre

Never forget....

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Burger King Outsources Ordering

A funny 2 minutes and 50 seconds Google Video showing what happens when Burger King outsources their drive through orderings.

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Sacha Baron Cohen on The Daily Show

Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Borat, Ali G and Bruno) on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Hilarious

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Directed Universal Studios Employee Video

Universal asks Trey Parker and Matt Stone to make a little video for employee orientation. Hilarious take on Universal Studios new (old now) ownership.

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Lie by Lie: Interactive Timeline of Bush's Lies

In this in-depth timeline there is a history of the Iraq War which might help to resolve open questions of the Bush era. Using quotes from government leaders it tries to figure out what they knew and when they knew it? And, perhaps just as important, what red flags did we miss, and how could we have missed them?

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Census Charts: How Well Is The Typical American Family Doing?

The Census Bureau issued its annual snapshot measuring how well the typical American family is doing, and a second report comparing communities across the country. The reports look at household income, poverty levels and health insurance among other topics. Here's a look at some of the key statistics.

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World's most famous painting recovered 2 years after theft!

'The Scream,' a picture you've probably seen before which depicts a terrified figure screaming, was recovered by Norwegian police today. "The Scream" and another stolen masterpiece by Edvard Munch were recovered after having been stolen two years ago in a brazen daylight theft from Oslo's Munch museum.

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Soviet Propaganda Posters

Amazing, huge collection of cool Soviet era propaganda posters.

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Bartender gets $10,000 tip on $26 tab

Two weeks ago, one of Cindy Kienow's regular customers left her a $100 tip on a tab that wasn't even half that. This week, he added a couple of zeros. Kienow, a bartender at Applebee's, got a $10,000 tip from the man, for a $26 meal on Sunday.

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Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media

The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media. Asks companies to show how they'll "provide continuous monitoring and near-real time reporting pan-Arabic, international, and U.S. media,"

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Evangelist Drowns Trying to Walk on Water

An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus' miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa."He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus," an eyewitness told the Glasgow Daily Record.

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PhotoStory: Giant Shark Caught On Fly Rod

A software developer from Seattle, caught this enormous Mako shark. The shark is estimated at 11 feet long and well over 600 pounds in weight. After hooking the shark, it took Mason about 40 minutes to land it on his 16-weight fly rod. The fish jumped more than 10 times during the fight. This may be the largest fish ever caught on a fly.

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Top 10 Pot Studies Government Wished it Had Never Funded

8) THE "GATEWAY EFFECT" MAY BE A MIRAGE: Marijuana is often called a "gateway drug" by supporters of prohibition, who point to statistical "associations" indicating that persons who use marijuana are more likely to eventually try hard drugs than those who never use marijuana � implying that marijuana use somehow causes hard drug use.

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Global Attitude Survey: US Sucks

According to the latest Pew Global Attitude Survey, the US has become less popular on Earth than China, France, and Germany. In six Islamic countries, including Pakistan and Turkey, Iran was considered more popular than the US. Humans also believe the Iraq war is a bigger threat than Iran or North Korea. Read the entire report, lots of info.

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New ABC Docudrama Blames Clinton For 9/11, Praises Bush

ABC News is devoting 6 hours of prime-time on September 10 and 11 to a "docudrama" written by a staunch conservative that, according to Rush Limbaugh, "really zeros in on the shortcomings of the Clinton administration."

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How Would You Spend $3 Trillion? The UN wants world tax collection

The world's bureaucratic elites, including the United Nations, are demanding that the rich nations spend 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product on development aid. This is more than $300 billion a year, or well over $3 trillion over the next decade. The demand for such huge funds is given as the main rationale for global taxes to be levied

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Highly enriched uranium found in Iran

The International Atomic Energy Agency told the U.N. Security Council its inspectors have found new traces of enriched uranium in Iran.

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Going For Broke: How Ordinary Families Wind Up Bankrupt

Last year, the number of personal bankruptcies ballooned to two million as people rushed to beat last deadline for a new law that made it harder and more expensive for consumers to declare themselves broke. 90% of the families who file for bankruptcy do so following a job loss, a medical problem or a family torn apart by death or divorce.

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The $8.6 billion gold deal

Insert Goldfinger or maybe Goldmember jokes here...but seriously what is with all the commodity consolidation recently, it's causing prices to soar.

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How to host a website on an old computer

Many people laughed at me when I expressed my desire to host websites from this old desktop. Not even a single person agreed that this old machine can be put to good use. And the result is this page! This page is being hosted from the same old desktop machine that you see in the pic above, and it confirms that even ancient computers are capable

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How to filter Gmail image spam

The latest email spammer tactic - an image attachment that contains text with a legit-looking subject and from address - is getting by a bunch of spam filters, including Gmail's. here's a fix.

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New no-installation browser enables cookie-free and history-free browsing

Browzar does not require any installation or registration and does not save information from any websites visited while using it. Cache, history, cookies and auto-complete forms are all automatically deleted, protecting your privacy while online.

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New phones run Skype without PC

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype Ltd.'s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs.

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10 things businesses should know before building a website

10 tips for organisations about to start a new website project, whether they are building a completely new website or redesigning their current one: Most people in the Web industry are clueless, You only get what you pay for, Don�t start your project with buying a CMS.

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Apple to release 23-inch Merom-based iMac

Apple Computer in September plans to unveil a new line of iMac computers with faster processors and a little surprise to boot: a stunning 23-inch model.

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Discord over guitar sites

With the fight against illegal downloading of songs starting to pay off, the music business has set its sights on a new enemy on the internet - websites which transcribe pop songs into musical notation (tab). [Actually, the fight against tab sites has to be one of the oldest on the net; I can remember Olga getting hassled even when it began.]

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myTunes: the simplified iTunes DRM stripper for Windows

Today we're one step closer to de-DRMing iTunes with myTunes, a small (50KB), simple, graphical Windows app designed to strip the DRM off your iTunes tracks lickety split.

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Wireless tire pressure monitoring coming soon from Bridgestone

According to FCC records, Bridgestone is close to releasing their wireless tire pressure monitoring system. The system uses sensors embedded just under the tire rim to sense tire pressure and temperature to a handheld device.

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Algorithms to Calculate Unusual Behavior

Scientists are developing advanced surveillance technologies including software algorithms to track "inappropriate behavior" in public places. The purpose of the project is to get away from the problem of individuals looking at monitors, which frequently induce sleep, and 90 percent of the time nothing happens at all.

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React OS: Windows done right?

Who would have thought someone would work 10 years on a project of "recreating" Windows, but React OS is doing exactly that, and it is completely Free Software. Here is a nice review with some screenshots.

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MySpace Not So Social Anymore

MySpace is no longer a social site, corporate spam-peddlers have taken over. Fake celebrity profiles, corporations posing as 13 yr-old girls to sell products, and a growing flood of ads is too much even for undemanding, noobish MySpace users. If something isn't done, it's only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL.

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Technorati Ranked Top 100 Blogger To Testify About Comment Made On His Blog

The owner of shoemoney.com currently ranked #66 on technorati's most popular blogs on the internet has been called to testify over comments made on his blog. Evidently one reader is suing another after being slandered on the popular blog. Is this going to be a landmark case or is there already case law pertaining to slander in blog comments ?

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Daring Fireball Issues A Challenge On "MacBook Exploit"

With that in mind, I �m issuing the following challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch: If you can hijack a brand-new MacBook out of the box, it�s yours to keep. Rules and challenge on the site.

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Technology Spices Up Learning for Net Generation

The Net Generation student is used to working in groups, multi-tasking, and flexibility. Even simple classroom changes can enhance learning, such as a U-shaped table rather than desks, or a restaurant-style booth in a library that fosters group work.

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Hands-on with the Sony Mylo

Holy hot damn, we got us a Mylo up in this piece. Yes, unfortunately it's only a late prototype (we haven't actually heard of anyone getting a final production unit yet) but here she is,

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Windows Vista Versus XP Pricing

We thought it'd be interesting to have a quick look at how the initial pricing of Vista may compare against the launch pricing of Windows XP (that Microsoft advises remains largely the same today as it was at launch on October 25th, 2001).

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The most beautiful flash animation ever created.

At a hefty 7.7 megs it is well worth the wait 5 minute wait. It is part of a series created by Adam Phillips called Brakenwood. Take the time to view his other Brakenwood animations, which are all of the same amazing quality. This will make your jaw drop.

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How to Make a Taser from a Disposable Camera

A tutorial on how to make a taser from a disposable camera. $7, 7 minutes, and 7000 volts. Be careful! I'm not responsible for any injury you cause with this information!

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The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes

A minimalist design is not the same as a simple one. What very few designers realize, particularly the younger ones, is that most people would rather read something �actually read the words�than look at all of their lines and arrows and silly pictures they�ve screened back.

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How to Boost Your Cell Signal

If your calls end every time you cross the dining room, you need a cellular amplifier kit. These little DC-powered devices extend service from the outdoors inside by taking even a faint signal from the closest tower and sending it around your home through an indoor antenna.

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Download YouTube videos directly to iTunes

Using TubeSock you can now download Videos from YouTube, and save them directly into iTunes in a iPod video compatible format.

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Onyx - Tweak and Speed Up Your Mac

Onyx is one of the many utilities for Mac OS X that allows you to tweak some of those hidden system preferences, and preform clean up tasks that keep your mac running in its most optimized form. It �s a very powerful application, but just be careful to read the checkboxes before you run any optimizations

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Become your own radio station with Musicast

Streaming an iTunes playlist over the internet, or making it into a podcast: sounds like the mad ravings of a lunatic, right? The RIAA would never allow such a thing, people becoming their own radio stations and not playing crappy pop music?!

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FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database

The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents.

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Dabble DB Screencast: Using a Web 2.0 Database to Explore Digg

A 6 minute video showing how easy it is to suck in data from Digg and mash it up into a useful database - for example to find out how many of the hot stories were submitted by top users.

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Browse Web 2.0 News by Logo

Web2Logo.com is a visual front end for Web2List. Both are outstanding for finding and tracking various Web 2.0 startups. The logos on Web2Logo.com link off to a Web2List page with the latest news about the company, Alexa info, blog chatter volume and even a profile written by the company. Here's one for digg.

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Top Wordpress plugins

This is a great list of over 20 wordpress plugins, includes many popular and useful plugins for wordpress blogging software.

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Electric Mini: 0-60 in 4 Seconds: It Has Motors In Its Wheels

This newly unveiled electric Mini has an output 640 horsepower and top speed of 150 mph. The car uses a small gasoline engine with four 160 horsepower electric motors on each wheel. It can out accelerate a Porsche 911 Carrera.

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Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Will Launch Thursday

Barring more bugs, Firefox Beta 2 will release Thursday, Mozilla Corp. developers reported after a weekly status meeting held Tuesday.

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Transformers Details Revealed

CI FI Wire got a rare peak at the production of director Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers movie in downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 26, including the first up-close look at the disguised versions of four key Autobots: the chartreuse search-and-rescue vehicle Ratchet, the giant black GMC 4x4 Ironhide, the sleek silver Pontiac Solstice sports car

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HBO setting up 'Entourage' as their next big show; lot of episodes coming

The 3rd season finale just aired and they are already filming 8 more episodes that HBO was planning on showing in January after 'The Sopranos' (to hook more viewers), both will now likely be seen in March, with the possibility of another (5th) 12 to 13-episode season for 'Entourage' starting just a few months later in the summer!

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Review of Alan Moore's LOST GIRLS

LOST GIRLS (which will be published tomorrow) is a beautifully perverse graphic novel that elevates the pornographic tale; it is a bold, and rare, story of uninhibited sexual fantasy that succeeds at titillating as well as enlightening.

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VIDEO: Thomas Edison 1899 - Doing Mean Bike Tricks - Yes, Bike Tricks!

An EXTREMELY rare Video of the Great Thomas Edison - and as you can see .. He had quite a playful side to him :-)

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Stephen Colbert's Favorite Websites on the Internets

www.kittenwar.com Vote Tabasco!

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How to Reach 100,000 People for Under $1.00

How to video showing how to exercise your right to free speech.

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CNN news anchor's mic left on during bathroom break (Video)

CNN�s audio guy left Kyra Phillips � mic on while she went to the loo during President Bush�s speech on Hurrican Katrina's anniversary today. Whoops.

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Sexy Diggnation Girls

As a fashion photographer and a diggnation fan, I thought that I could share with all listeners photos of some of the beautiful models I shoot, wearing the diggnation shirt. I started this project inspired on episode 57 of diggnation. I'll be posting twice a month I hope, so subscribe to the rss if you like it. Enjoy!

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Price Shock: US Homes (Graph)

REAL bubbles pop. They are fully formed one moment and gone the next. Financial bubbles rarely meet with such a definitive end, which has always been the biggest problem with the metaphor. They let out their air in unpredictable bursts, and it �s usually impossible to figure out whether they have finished deflating or are just starting to.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to a live TV Debate

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the US and UK of abusing their "special privileges" and said a debate would let both sides air their views uncensored.

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Bush Seeks Retroactive Laws To Protect Himself From War Crimes Prosecution

Bush and his Attorney General agree that under existing laws and treaties Bush is a war criminal together with many members of his government. To make his war crimes legal after the fact, Bush has instructed the Justice (sic) Department to draft changes to the War Crimes Act and to US treaty obligations under the Geneva Conventions.

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U.S. Calls Iran `Central Banker Of Terror'

Terrorism has become a major industry around the world and its central banker is Iran, according to a top U.S. official. "Iran is like the elephant in the room, if you will. ... They are the central banker of terror. It is a country that has terrorism as a line item in its budget," said Stuart Levey, with the U.S. Treasury Department.

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Raytracing - could it be with us sooner than we think?

After years of slow moving, it seems the whole industry went into a tizzy in July. Has this world lost its mind? The author of this article doesn't think so, and he thinks he's found the key that makes it all come together. Could Raytracing be the future, and will it be with us sooner than we think? Really insightful read.

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Grow a beard in 15 min!(Painting ultra-realistic hair & fur with Photoshop)

Here's a great tutorial on using Photoshop's built-in advanced brush functions to paint dynamic, realistic-looking hair or fur onto any image.

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TiVo Series 3 to be released September 17th, for $799?

According to a tipster Todd who works for Best Buy, the TiVo Series 3 might be out of beta soon and is now showing up in their system. According to the computer It is scheduled to be in stock on September 17th with a Best Buy SKU of 7974418 (UPC of 400079744186 and Model TCD648250B). The price is listed at $799, but the street date field is blank.

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Core 2 Duo notebooks reviewed and benchmarked

Here's a review of Intel's new Core 2 Duo mobile chip, along with tests on two retail notebooks running the new processor. It shows both ends of the spectrum with one machine using a 1.66GHz chip and the other a 2.33GHz processor.

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MSNBC: Apple Mac Pro is the ultimate desktop computer

"The new Mac Pro desktop is a thing of beauty. Inside and out this box looks like it is the ultimate desktop computer on the market today," Gary Krakow reports for MSNBC.

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Is Apple's MacBook rotten to the core?

Four of the CNET Australia editorial team have bought a new MacBook since its release and every one of them has had to -- or will shortly -- spend some time in the Sydney AppleCentre. Are their experiences of the MacBook representative or have they just been extremely unlucky?

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Don't buy that MacBook Pro just yet! Is Next-Gen Apple Laptop Coming Soon?

If you were planning on buying an Apple notebook, you might consider waiting until Sept. 16. By this date, Apple will have held its annual Paris Expo, an event known for new product announcements -- and this year, those announcements are rumored to include that of a newly, upgraded MacBook Pro

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iTunes 6 finally cracked

Remember Hymn? You should, back in the day (like, um, 2004) it allowed you to strip the FairPlay DRM right off iTunes Music Store bought files just like that; well, it's been a long time in coming, but a new app called QTFairUse looks like it can now be used (with some amount of difficulty) to dump iTunes version 6.0.4 - 6.0.5....

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101 ways to organize your life

Project Management (and life) Wisdom straight from a project managers.

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84 Google Adsense alternatives

Wanna try adsense alternatives to make more money from your website or blog. Here are 84 alternatives for google adsense.

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Federal student loan program exposes data on 21,000 users

The U.S. Department of Education has disabled its Direct Loan Servicing System, the online payment feature of its Federal Student Aid site, because of a software glitch that exposed the personal data of 21,000 students who borrowed money from the department, said Education Department spokeswoman Jane Glickman in an e-mail to Computerworld.

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Universal signs deal to offer free music downloads

Universal has signed a deal with Spiralfrog to offer free music downloads to anyone in the US and Canada. The service will launch in December and will be ad-supported. They aim to offer a simple, easy-to-use, free alternative to iTunes.

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HOW TO: Hack a Diebold Voting Machine

�Remember, don �t try this at home. You�ve got to do it at a polling place�

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Calculate how many Miles Per Dollar your car gets.

Stop thinking about how many MPG your car gets and start thinking about how many MP$ it gets.

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Wal-Mart Aims To Change How We Light Our Homes

In the next 12 months, starting with a major push this month, Wal-Mart wants to sell every one of its regular customers--100 million in all--one compact fluorescent bulb. In the process, it may change energy consumption in the United States.

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LOST TV Series: Hanso Foundation Exposed

YouTuber timdorr has been piecing together miniclips from the "Lost" website hansoexposed.com. So far, he's managed to find and stitch together 53 clips.

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The Top 50 Independent Films

The formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate: weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) � R + (m ÷ (v+m)) � C

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Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless

Bob Dylan says modern recordings sound "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc. Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."

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Live Rattlesnakes Released In 'Snakes On A Plane' Theater

Authorities said pranksters released the young venomous rattlesnakes in a dark theater at the AMC

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South Park Creators to Make New Film: "Giant Monsters Attack Japan"

GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK JAPAN, a film that will combine live-action with "man in suit" action, is apparently going to be made with Nickelodeon films, which is assumed will be a family friendly film. Which is just bizarre. What would a Trey Parker and Matt Stone family comedy look like?

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NY's oldest bartender still mixing martinis at 90

A man who mixed martinis for Marilyn Monroe and poured Scotch for John Lennon was feted as New York's oldest bartender when he turned 90 this week, and he vowed to keep working. Hoy Wong is known simply as Mr. Hoy at the historic Algonquin Hotel where he has served Manhattans and martinis for the past 27 years in the dimly lit Blue Bar.

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NY's oldest bartender still mixing martinis at 90

A man who mixed martinis for Marilyn Monroe and poured Scotch for John Lennon was feted as New York's oldest bartender when he turned 90 this week, and he vowed to keep working. Hoy Wong is known simply as Mr. Hoy at the historic Algonquin Hotel where he has served Manhattans and martinis for the past 27 years in the dimly lit Blue Bar.

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How Music Gets you High

A neuroscientist explains why women want rock stars to father their children, and how melodies can work like Prozac.

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Drug Companies Plan Assault Against Michael Moore

Michael Moore's upcoming 2007 documentary "Sicko" -- aimed at the $1.5 trillion healthcare and pharmaceutical industry -- has mobilized many companies within the medical industry to try to discredit Moore and the film. They are attempting to discredit Moore's film by trying to spin the filmmaker as biased and one-sided.

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Music sales slump "to be eased by online boom"

The explosion in online music sales is set to continue and will start to halt the decline in overall sales of recorded music in Europe, but not until 2010, according to a report on Thursday.

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Spider-Man 4 Confirmed

"There will be many more Spider-Man films to come," Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige reveals. "We already have stacks of ideas for the next one because of the wealth of stories in the comics. We could be making Spider-Man movies for the next 20 years, based on the 50 years of Spider-Man history we have."

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"Office Space" director Mike Judge's new movie out September 1st!

"Idiocracy", about an average man who is put to sleep for hundreds of years and wakes up in a country so dumbed down that he is literally the smartest man on Earth, is set for limited release in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and Toronto.

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FairUse4WM strips Windows Media DRM!

A new app called FairUse4WM can be used to strip Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 (i.e. PlaysForSure, but not WM DRM 9). We tried FairUse4WM and we can verify that it quickly and easily stripped the DRM from our Napster To Go tracks, and made them freely available to play on our Mac.

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Producer ordered to pull early Taylor Hicks songs from iTunes

"American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks won a preliminary injunction in federal court in Birmingham this week against a Nashville music producer who allegedly sold 5-year-old recordings by Hicks via Apple's online iTunes Music Store.

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How Mike Judge got screwed by Fox on "Idiocracy"

Once photography was finished, the real problems began: So-and-so executive hasn't had a chance to see it, so everything was put on hold. Then Fox started nickel-and-diming him over a few special-effects costs. "I've never experienced anything like this," Judge says.

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Movie Cops Lurking in the Darkness of the Theater

When Gene Harris showed up at a Lombard theater for the premiere of "Miami Vice" last month, seeing the movie wasn't his priority. He hoped to catch a film pirate in action.

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Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson Speaks Out Againt Ozzfest

"Ozzfest is a corporate rock event at which they sell the front 10-12 rows to corporate seats and not to kids. Most of the bands pay a lot of money to be on the Ozzfest, they get paid next to nothing." Maybe he was upset by the lack of cowbell?

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Best mistakes with pictures

This page shows the top rated mistakes which have pictures - an easy way to check out the most glaring gaffes onscreen. Just click the film titles to go straight to the relevant picture.

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Man Rides Skate Park.....In a Wheel Chair!!

Cool video of a man in a wheel chair pulling of tricks on everything in a skate park.

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Using Sound Waves to Create Antigravity

By applying a continuous resonant(600Hertz) sound wave, and by adjusting the amplitude and phase relationship amongst the 3 speakers; I was able to control levitation and movement in all 3 (x,y,z) axis of the ambient space. This research was used to show the effects of micro-gravity conditions that exist in the space shuttle environment in orbit.

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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the 2006 Emmys

Jon and Stephen present the 2006 Emmy Award for best reality show. Jon tries to keep it professional, but the problem is, Stephen is really upset at Barry Manilow. Hilarity ensues.

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Cool Optical Illusion Makes You Hallucinate

OK at first I definitely thought this was going to be one of those stare in the center and turn your speakers up maze scare things. But turns out it's actually legit and kinda cool. Stare in the center and after a minute look away. You will hallucinate!

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Learn to Shave the Correct Way: Video Tutorial

Learn how to turn the daily shave from an annoying chore into an enjoyable luxury. This video, the first in a currently 3 part series with more on the way, teaches you how to reduce irritation, razor burn, and ingrown hairs, all while increasing the closeness of the shave and having fun.

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McDonald�s Chicken Salad Packed with More Fat and Calories Than a Big Mac

To think they promoted these as healthy.

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Israeli-Style Air Security: Could Become Trial Program In US

Eleanor Schwartz is 78 and has trouble walking. Yet every time the Neponsit, New York, resident flies on El Al Israel Airlines Ltd., security agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport go through her medications and question her for several minutes. In the U.S., screeners start at $23,600 per year and can be high-school dropouts.

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Unsuccessful mission: Bush fails to sell war

Even Republicans are increasingly skeptical about U.S. odds of success in Iraq

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Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod

LibriVox is the largest of several emerging collectives that offer free or inexpensive audiobooks of works whose copyrights have expired, from Plato to �The Wind in the Willows.� The results range from solo readings done by amateurs in makeshift home studios to high-quality recordings read by actors or professional voice talent.

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World's oldest person dies at age 116

QUITO, Ecuador - Maria Esther de Capovilla, believed to be the world's oldest person, has died at 116, her granddaughter said. Born on Sept. 14, 1889, Capovilla was married in 1917 and widowed in 1949. She always ate three meals a day and never smoked or drank hard liquor, her family said.

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An Enron twist: convicted but not guilty?

If someone is convicted of a crime and dies before exhausting all his appeals, is he innocent? That's the question now challenging federal prosecutors in the latest twist of the Enron case. A legal precedent could clear the record of Enron founder Kenneth Lay, even though he was found guilty of six counts of conspiracy and fraud.

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Bin Laden Still Not Charged For 9/11

Bin Laden has only been charged with U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa on Aug. 7, 1998. Another more infamous date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- is nowhere to be found. The curious omission underscores the Justice Department's decision, so far, to not seek formal criminal charges against bin Laden. Strange, isn't it?

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Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774-2004

So many to choose from but Scott Trask picks ten of the most glaring economic errors that have bespotted the history of American economic policy.

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Scientists have found a way to trick cancer cells into committing suicide

The novel technique potentially offers an effective method of providing personalized anti-cancer therapy. Most living cells contain a protein called procaspase-3, which, when activated, changes into the executioner enzyme caspase-3 and initiates programmed cell death, called apoptosis...

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Brain's Filing System Uncovered

While much is known about how the brain processes simple visual features such as colors, angles, and motion-directions, less is known about how the brain learns and recognizes the meaning of stimuli. The process of grouping related visual images into categories allows the brain to organize stimuli according to their meaning.

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10 Top Tips For Protecting Yourself At Hot Spots

Great tips for securing your assets in Wi-Fi hotspots... Really helpful!

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Gmail is officially headed for the office!

Starting Monday, Google will offer Google Apps for Your Domain, a free package of programs for businesses, universities and other organizations. Companies will be able to send e-mail with Gmail, but messages will carry their company's domain name. The package also includes Google's online calendar, IM, and Page Creator.

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Mastering DNS: How To Set Up Your Own DNS Servers

In this tutorial two Bind DNS servers will be installed, one as the master and the other as a slave server. For security reasons Bind9 will be chrooted in its own jail. Using two servers for a domain is a commonly used setup and in order to host your own domain you are required to have at least two domain servers.

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Save gigs of data by removing unnecessary language files from your mac!

I don't know about you, but I use my computer in only one (human) language � English. Enter Monolingual

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What are the top 100 Viewed Wikipedia Pages?

This tool shows the articles from the English Wikipedia that are viewed most. Some results may surprise you...

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Turn Panoramas into Planets

Tutorial at Photojojo shows you how to use the Photoshop Polar Coordinates filter to turn a Panorama or Landscape photo into a really amazing planet. Examples of San Francisco, New York, and Venice included.

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Has Zoho Got Google & Microsoft Beat?

While Google is in beta, and Microsoft crawls along with their Windows Live deployment, Zoho already has a free full-featured, fully-operational online collaborative office & communications suite. And unlike Live & Google, you can even add your own custom apps to it. Why isn't the industry taking notice? Maybe Google & Microsoft should.

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New York to L.A. in Two Hours

A new generation of supersonic private jets could trigger a boom in luxury high-speed flight -- without the sonic boom normally associated with breaking the sound barrier. Lockheed Martin's advanced Skunk Works unit is designing a small, 12-seat passenger jet that would travel at 1,200 mph (Mach 1.8) but which would produce only a whisper.

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Law enforcement want ALL drugs legalized (video)

LEAP needs more attention. This is an organization of 5,000 current and former law enforcement officials who recognize the failure and the damage effected by the war on drugs. And it has grown to 5,000 from just five founding members a few years ago. Seems to me that that's pretty newsworthy. So pass this video on.

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A new kind of Graffiti done on a Massive Scale with Light + Projector.

A cool vid. A guy projects "light" graffiti on the side of a large building. It is also interactive with the surface that it is projecting on.

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LOST TV Series: Hanso Foundation Exposed

YouTuber timdorr has been piecing together miniclips from the "Lost" website hansoexposed.com. So far, he's managed to find and stitch together 53 clips.

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Laptop Laser Engraving (digg logo)

Phillip Torrone from MAKE magazine helps me engrave the digg logo into my laptop. Thanks to Dylan for the video.

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One Year Later: A Comprehensive Katrina Timeline

To mark the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the White House is planning a "public relations blitz" to counteract the charges that it bears some responsibility for the reconstruction mess. This timeline counteracts the spin with facts, documenting all the key events over the last year.

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CNN.com to Replay 9/11 Attacks Coverage

CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network's coverage of that day's events.

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The secret Starbucks coffee - it's all about product sabotage!

Really interesting article about how companies intentionally sabotage their best products in order to get richer customers to buy more expensive products that are often worse. Starbucks have a cheaper, better coffee that doesn't appear on the menu. Read it, and realise how much you're played by these businesses! Get a better deal for yourself

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Circuit City unveils Firedog, the answer to Geek Squad plus more

"Firedog, Circuit City's answer to Best Buy's 24-hour computer-support task force dubbed the Geek Squad. Firedog, which will be launched in September, will cover much more than computers." Basically Geek Squad for anything you buy at Circuit City, TVs, DVD players, etc...

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Damninteresting: The Trans-Atlantic Cable

The story of the communication breakthrough that brought early communications between Europe and America

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U.S. may bypass U.N. on Iran

With increasing signs that several fellow Security Council members may stall a United States push to penalize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, Bush administration officials have indicated that they are prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade.

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Brazilian Drug Users Who Don't Engage in Dealing Won't Face Jail

The law, which went into force this week, no longer calls for the imprisonment of people caught with small quantities of narcotics for personal use. Instead, they will be subject them to alternative penalties such as community service and could be required to undergo drug treatment, the justice ministry's press office said.

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Who Destroyed the Constitution? The Biggest Special Interest Group of All

Unlike the neocons who surround Judge Andrew Napolitano during his appearances on the FOX News, he understands that freedom comes "from God and is inherent to our humanity". The government can now break into your house, steal your checkbook, put an electronic bug under your kitchen table, and make it look like it was a house burglary.

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How State Farm Insurance Systematically Denied Katrina Claims

Kerri Rigsby says her suspicions grew in November after finding a handwritten note attached to an engineer's report that read: "Put in Wind file � DO NOT pay bill. DO NOT discuss."

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U.S. and Venezuela at Odds: Seized Cargo Is Just the Half of It

Government officials from the United States and this country are intensifying their verbal sparring after Venezuelan customs authorities this week seized diplomatic baggage from the United States that contained military hardware. Venezuela �s attorney general began an investigation on Friday into whether the American Embassy violated the law.

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Iran test fires long-range missile

Iran test fired a long-range, radar-evading missile on Sunday from a submarine in the Gulf as part of war games that began earlier this month, state television reported. The missile was called Sagheb, which means Piercing, but the report did not give the missile's range.

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NSA Wiretapping Whistleblowers Found Dead in Italy and Greece!

"Two whistleblowers � one in Italy, one in Greece � uncovered a secret bugging system installed in cell phones around the world. Both met with untimely ends. The resultant scandals have received little press in the United States, despite the profound implications for American critics of the Bush administration."

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Trust your instincts

The evidence seems to be that the conscious mind isn't much use in making hard decisions .

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Fossils of new dinosaur species unearthed in China

Fossils of a new dinosaur species have been unearthed near Lingwu City in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, said experts on Saturday afternoon. Eight sauropods, or huge, long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs living in the middle Jurassic period some 160 million years ago, were unearthed in a 3,000-square meter area,

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Report: One third of Chinese landmass bathed in acid rain

With Chinese factories discharging more and more sulfur dioxide, one third of China's territory was soaked in acid rain last year. More than half the 696 Chinese cities and counties monitored had experienced acid rain. In some regions, every rainy day was an acid rain day, according to the pollution control inspection report.

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Scientists Find Memory Molecule

They demonstrate that by inhibiting the molecule they can erase long-term memories, much as you might erase a computer disc.

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Official Merom (Core 2 Duo) Launch on Monday?

PC manufacturers (Including Apple) are expected to announce availability of new Core 2 Duo (Merom) notebooks on Monday August 28th. According to Intel, the Core 2 Duo processors fit into existing notebook systems with only a system software update required to work. The new chips are to range from 1.66GHz to 2.33GHz.

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How S-L-O-W Will Vista Go?

The complaints about sluggish performance in Windows Vista keep growing. While it's unfair to point to beta software apps--or whatever Microsoft wants to call them--the warning flags are already evident.

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Free Starbucks Iced Coffee Through September

Just thought I'd share this with my fellow diggers. Bring this coupon to your local Startbucks between 5-9pm, and get a free Iced Coffee. Coupon works till 9/30. Enjoy!

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25 things you must know before buying digital camera

very-very important things that u might forgot when you buying your new digital camera

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Best Buy are selling cybershit

Search for "cybershot 7.2" at bestbuy.com. We did not find any matches for "cybershot 7.2", but we did find the following matches for "cybershit 7.2". 247 items found for "cybershit 7.2" in All Categories.

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Class Notes Meets Social Networking

mynoteIT is a fairly new, online resource for students that allows them to organize their class schedule, class notes, and group their work in such a way that it can be easily shared and referred to with the click of a mouse.

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Reference library of O'Reilly eBooks

Simply an awesome collection (180+) of O'Reilly books available online.

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Free energy

Mobile phones will never need recharging, cars will never have to be refuelled. This hard-to-believe vision of a free, energy source was announced in an advert in the Economist and first reported by the British press in last week's Observer.

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