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10 Vampires Who Will Turn Your Skin White (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
I hate to break it to you all, but not all vampires are the hunky, suave guys (and girls) you see in movies today (i.e. the late Aaliyah and company in Queen of the Damned, Gerard Butler in Dracula 2000, etc.).In fact, I remember a time when vampires were not only ugly, but terrifying. Really, really terrifying.
Well: News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Study after study has failed to show that regular vitamin use prevents heart disease and cancer.
Unlocking the iPhone 3G With Proxy SIMs (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
In the interests of all those readers who need to unlock their iPhone 3G?s for use on different carriers andtested an iPhone 3G unlock that really seems to work. While the iPhone Dev Team plunder the secrets of the mysterious baseband in search of the ever elusive software unlock, some of us regular users just can?t wait.
Unholy Alliance [PIC] (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Ultra-wideband radio rides a beam of light (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Multiple high-definition videos and other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by European researchers.
The Sexiest Vampires in Movie History (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
In honor of "Twilight," the folks at Rotten Tomatoes have compiled a list of some of the hottest bloodsuckers in film.
StumbleUpon Readies for Another Version Release (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Around 8:00 pm last night, November 19, 2008, StumbleUpon made an announcement in their Beta Group discussions area that they have rolled the majority of their users back to V2 ?to prepare for upcoming changes that will add new features and optimize many existing ones.?
Life of a Geek [PIC] (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Let's Put the Economic Blame Where it Belongs: On Ourselves (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
As the American economy continues its impressive and chaotic downward spiral, there seems to be an increasing sentiment throughout the nation that the government and Wall Street executives are to blame for all this, and the average American consumer is just another hapless victim
LA Auto Show is Sad, Spooky WIthout GM and Chrysler (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
With their customary prime event slots handed over to foreign manufacturers, this year's LA Auto Show offered a grim glimpse of what our world might be like if the Big Three disappeared.
Japanese Are Irked by U.S. Interest in Pitcher (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
As the first high-profile Japanese baseball prospect to spurn his nation?s leagues to entertain offers from the U.S., Junichi Tazawa has strained relations between leagues on two continents.
GotGame Releases Integrated Web Browser For Gamers (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Browse Digg and any other website while playing your PC video games!
Four men. One Summit. (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Ecuadorean Dwarfs May Unlock Cancer, Diabetes Clues (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Twenty years ago, when Dr. Guevara began treating and studying the dwarfs of southern Ecuador, it was because he wanted to help them. But an interesting and quirky pattern started to emerge. He realized that there has never been a single incidence of cancer or diabetes among them.
Dogbert Explains Fox News (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Digg Meetup San Francisco (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Digg Meetup San Francisco -- The Photoboof at the Digg Meetup In San Francisco
AMD Sneak Peeks Phenom II, Overclocks To 5+GHz (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
We?ve been spending some quality time with the folks at AMD today in sunny Austin, TX today. The team here has been giving us a run-down on their upcoming Phenom II processor along with the enthusiast platform they?re calling ?Dragon?. In short, the Dragon platform is a combination of an AMD Phenom II X4 processor, Radeon 4800 Graphics cards...
A Straight Man's Non-Ironic Love Affair with NKOTB (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
The New Kids' music blew, plain and simple, but it didn't matter, because I was 'bout it 'bout it from the get-go. They had me at Hangin' Tough. I covered my walls in photos of the boys: ridiculous pics of the fab five torn from the pages of Tiger Beat, NKOTB by train tracks, NKOTB rocking hats and vests while feeding the elderly.
A Photojournalist's View of Mississippi A Year After Katrina (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
A year after the storm the majority of these families were still living in this temporary housing. The storm eroded social differences-thousands of people were facing the same challenge of trying to get their lives together again.
20 Store Signs That You Just Can?t Make Up (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
You gotta hand it to those people that have such a sense of humor about their business. On the other hand some of these places have you wondering what the hell goes on inside the store. And on occasion, there?s just bad luck, like a busted light that screws up the wording. Whatever the case, here are 20 store signs that you just can?t make up.
"The Dark Night" to become the most pirated movie of 2008 (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
The Batman sequel The Dark Night was a smash hit at the box office, with $400 million in U.S. ticket sales in its first 18 days after release and more than $1 billion in sales globally so far. But the title achieved another significant milestone: It amassed over one million illegal downloads on BitTorrent in less than seven days.
Emails Between Mark Cuban and SEC Attorney Jeffrey Norris (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Now comes the strange tale of Jeffrey Norris, trial counsel for the SEC in Fort Worth, Texas. His emails to Cuban critical over Cuban's involvement with Loose Change are at the center of Cuban's claim of bias.
WSJ.com - Opinion: The Obama Health Plan Emerges (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
"Universal" government-run health care proved too ambitious even for FDR, who stripped it out of the Social Security Act of 1935." With Obama, Baucus, Clinton and Daschle, it may be just around the corner for the 47 million uninsured Americans.
Verizon Wireless bets on Storm for holiday season (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T Inc.
Vengeance is Mine! (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
My 1984 Cadillac Eldorado had been broken into for the fourth time, and its interior had been stripped of pretty much everything except a few swaths of fine faux wood paneling. I had to take action. Immediately.
The Seven Most Surprising Things About This NFL Season (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
We're only two-thirds of the way into the regular season and this has already been one of the most bizarre, most ludicrous seasons on record. Read why.
The Creatures That Ate Hollywood (PICs) (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
When a giant sperm whale rammed a whaling vessel in 1820, the deadly encounter inspired Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick. Melville's story, inspired by real-life man-versus-beast mayhem from the 1800s, made it to movie screens in the 1950s. Here are some of the best beasties ever captured on celluloid.
Scientists find way to calculate people's 'real age' (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
You are only as old as you feel, it is said. But soon scientists will be able to calculate your real "biological age". Researchers studying genes believe they can now detect exact "physical age" by looking at a number of clues - or biomarkers - in DNA. They believe that the tests will be the first time doctors can accurately predict someone's age.
PlayStation 3 Costs 5x As Much to Operate as the Wii (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
According to a new Natural Resources Defense Council analysis of the energy consumption of popular video game consoles, the Playstation 3 uses the most energy. More than 40% of American households have at least one video game console, and a staggering 50% of users leave them on all the time, even when not actively playing a game.
New Star Trek Will Be Younger, Faster, Louder (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
LOS ANGELES, California -- Director J.J. Abrams continued the worldwide roll-out of his new Star Trek prequel Wednesday, showing four extended preview clips to a capacity crowd of stars, executives, press, crew, studio employees and their various entourages at the Paramount Pictures studio theater.
New Quantum Weirdness: Balls That Don't Roll Off Cliffs (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
A good working definition of quantum mechanics is that things are the exact opposite of what you thought they were. Empty space is full, particles are waves, and cats can be both alive and dead at the same time. Recently a group of physicists studied another quantum head spinner.
Message to the Religious Right (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
GLBT blogger speaks on all of this nonsense about lgbts attacking people, about them using intimidation and violence to oppress people, about us somehow being ugly aggressors...and is angry. Rightfully so.
J.P. Hayes- Most Honest Man in Sports (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
J.P. Hayes played a nonconforming ball for a single hole of the second stage of Q School last weekend. He realized it more than a day after the "violation," called it on himself, and thus disqualified himself from Q School ... with some severe, career-altering effects down the line.
Did Asteroid Cause Ancient New York Tsunami? (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
A giant asteroid may have triggered a tsunami that struck New York more than 2,000 years ago. It was 2,300 years ago. The Palisades that frame the Hudson River were whisper-quiet, the sandy beaches of Long Island and New Jersey empty, and Manhattan was still just an unbroken sylvan carpet.
Crude Oil Tumbles to Lowest Since May 2005 as Consumption (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Crude oil fell below $49 a barrel in New York for the first time since May 2005 as a recession in the U.S., Europe and Japan cut global energy demand.
Backpack saves the life of 11 yr old schoolgirl (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Ayse Kinsman was walking home from school with her twin sister, Jasmine, when she was hit by a blue Peugeot 206 estate.It struck her on the hip, throwing her over the bonnet. She escaped with cuts and bruises because the bag took the full impact.
APOD: Endeavour in the Moon (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
11 Life-Saving Health Habits We Can All Follow (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
We?re constantly being bombarded with different do's & don?ts for living longer and preventing cancer, heart disease and other ailments?which makes being healthy alot of hard work! But the truth is, a few simple habits can have a big impact. These 11 tips are something we all can do, without drastically changing our routine.
Maggot Therapy Gains in Popularity (digg.com: Stories / Popular)
Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers.
Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project (Slashdot)
TRS-80 writes "Apple has sent a DMCA takedown notice to the IpodHash project, claiming it circumvents their FairPlay DRM scheme. Some background: Apple first added a hash to the iTunesDB file in 6th-gen iPods, but it was quickly reverse-engineered. They changed it with the release of iPhone 2.0 and a project was started to reverse the new hash, but weren't successful yet. My guess is Apple used the same algorithm as FairPlay for the new hash, so Apple could use the DMCA to prevent competing apps like Songbird and Banshee from talking to iPods/iPhones. BTW, don't tell Apple, but the project uses a wiki, so the old page versions from before the takedown are still there."
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Micro Persuasion: Making Gmail Your Gateway to the Web (Delicious popular)
TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL: The 7 Deadly Linux Commands (Delicious popular)
iSerenity - Environments (Delicious popular)
46 Tips for the Business iPhone User - Inside CRM (Delicious popular)
How Obama Got Elected (Delicious popular)
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28 Powerful Photoshop Lighting Effects | Web Design Ledger (Delicious popular)
Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle (Slashdot)
destinyland writes "For decades, people have been asking this brain teaser: 'What's the longest word you can type with only the left-hand letters on a keyboard?' The answer is supposed to be 'stewardesses,' but grepping the standard dictionary that ships with Unix reveals a much better answer. There's nearly 2,000 shorter words that can typed with only the left hand — including one word that's even longer. (The article also quotes a failed novel attempt using nothing but words typed on the keyboard's left side.)"
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Kaminsky Bug Options Include "Do Nothing," Says IETF (Slashdot)
netbuzz writes "Meeting in Minneapolis this week, the Internet engineering community is debating whether to aggressively fashion and apply fixes for the so-called Kaminsky bug in the DNS discovered this summer, or to simply let its threat stand as motivation for all to move with greater speed toward DNSSEC, which is considered the best long-term security solution. Problem with the latter approach is that DNSSEC has been in the works for a decade already, no one is confident it will be universally embraced, and the Kaminsky flaw is causing real problems today.
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Network Neutrality — Without Regulation (Slashdot)
boyko.at.netqos writes "Timothy B. Lee (no relation to Tim Berners-Lee), a frequent contributor to Ars Technica and Techdirt, has recently written 'The Durable Internet,' a paper published by the libertarian-leaning CATO institute. In it, Lee argues that because a neutral network works better than a non-neutral one, the Internet's open-ended architecture is not likely to vanish, despite the fears of net neutrality proponents, (and despite the wishes of net neutrality opponents.) For that reason, perhaps network neutrality legislation isn't necessary — or even desirable — from an open-networks perspective. In addition to the paper, Network Performance Daily has an interview and podcast with Tim Lee, and Lee addresses counter-arguments with a blog posting for Technology Liberation Front."
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CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads (Slashdot)
pparsons writes "Bell Canada Inc. will not have to suspend its practice of 'shaping' traffic on the Internet after a group of companies that resell access to Bell's network complained their customers were also being negatively affected. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission today released a decision that denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers' request that Bell be ordered to cease its application of the practice to its wholesale customers."
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Google Terminates Lively (Slashdot)
FornaxChemica writes "In a surprise move, Google announced today, both on-site and in its blog, that it will permanently shut down its 3D virtual world, Lively, by the end of the year. This makes Lively one of Google's few scrapped products, and one of the most short-lived, too, barely lasting 6 months. No official reason was given, only that Google wants to 'prioritize [its] resources and focus more on [its] core search, ads and apps business.' Lively might have taken too much and given back too little, even by Google's standards."
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Studios Sue Oz ISP Over Allowing Piracy (Slashdot)
Da Massive writes "Leading Hollywood film studios Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Disney Enterprises are suing Australia's second largest ISP, iiNet, saying it's complicit in the infringement of their copyrighted material. According to a statement of claim, 'the ISP knows that there are a large number of customers who are engaging in continuing infringements of copyright by using BitTorrent file sharing technology.'"
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10 Steps to a Client Friendly Wordpress CMS | StylizedWeb.com (Delicious popular)
Seth's Blog: How to make money using the Internet (Delicious popular)
Massive Martian Glaciers Found (Slashdot)
Kozar_The_Malignant writes "Scientific American is reporting that 'data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.' Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of solid water ice. One is about three times the size of the City of Los Angeles. This certainly makes the idea of establishing a station on Mars far more plausible."
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Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply (Slashdot)
somanyrobots writes with an interesting followup in the New York Times to the earlier-reported substantial reconstruction of the woolly mammoth genome: "Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million. The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA." (The Washington Post article linked from the earlier post was much more skeptical, calling such an attempt "still firmly the domain of science fiction." The New York Times article, while describing the process in similar terms, also calls attention to recent advances in sequencing DNA, as well as recoding DNA for cloning.)
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Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End (Slashdot)
duh P3rf3ss3r writes "The Associated Press reports that, after 200 years of speculation and investigation, the tomb of Nicolaus Copernicus has been found. Although the heliocentric concept had been suggested earlier, Copernicus is widely thought of as the father of the scientific theory of the heliocentric solar system. The positive identification was made by comparing the DNA from a skeleton's teeth with that from hairs in a book known to have belonged to Copernicus. A computer-generated facial reconstruction is said to also bear a resemblance to contemporary portraits of the scientist."
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MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft (Slashdot)
Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics recently won a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design quieter, more energy efficient, and more environmentally friendly commercial airplanes. The two-million-dollar contract from NASA is just an initial step in bringing green technologies to the sky."
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Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station (Slashdot)
Garabito writes "A spider that had been sent to the International Space Station for a school science program was lost. Two arachnids were sent in order to know if spiders can survive and make webs in space, but now only one spider can be seen in the container. NASA isn't sure where the other spider could have gone. I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords."
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Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA (Slashdot)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shape up as a showdown between the Electronic Frontier and Big Music. The defendant's witness list includes names such as those of Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Author of 'Free Culture'), John Perry Barlow (former songwriter of The Grateful Dead and cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), Prof. Johan Pouwelse (Scientific Director of P2P-Next), Prof. Jonathan Zittrain (Author of 'The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It'), Professors Wendy Seltzer, Terry Fisher, and John Palfrey, and others. The RIAA requested, and was granted, an adjournment of the trial, from its previously scheduled December 1st date, to March 30, 2009. (The RIAA lawyers have been asking for adjournments a lot lately, asking for an adjournment in UMG v. Lindor the other day because they were so busy preparing for the Tenenbaum December 1st trial ... I guess when you're running on hot air, you sometimes run out of steam)."
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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt (Delicious popular)
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Study Recommends Online Gaming, Social Networking For Kids (Slashdot)
Blue's News pointed out a report about a study sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation which found that online gaming and social networking are beneficial to children, teaching them basic technical skills and how to communicate in the Information Age. The study was conducted over a period of three years, with researchers interviewing hundreds of children and monitoring thousands of hours of online time. The full white paper (PDF) is also available. "For a minority of children, the casual use of social media served as a springboard to them gaining technological expertise — labeled in the study as 'geeking out,' the researchers said. By asking friends or getting help from people met through online groups, some children learned to adjust the software code underpinning some of the video games they played, edit videos and fix computer hardware. Given that the use of social media serves as inspiration to learning, schools should abandon their hostility and support children when they want to learn some skills more sophisticated than simply designing their Facebook page, the study said."
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How To Find a Mobile Games Publisher? (Slashdot)
n01 writes "The last few months of my spare time I've been implementing an abstract strategy board game (that I invented) along with a decent AI. The game resembles TwixT in that it is also a connection game, and could be played without the need for a cellphone or computer. The implementation on the Java 2 Mobile Edition platform will soon be finished, with only some minor usability and sound issues to fix. While I enjoyed working on the game (actually more than on my day job as a programmer) I would still like to earn some money from selling the game, so I can work more on such projects in the future. What experiences have Slashdot readers made with selling their applications/games for mobile phones? With which publisher will I have the broadest audience and achieve the highest earnings? Would you try to publish the game both as a mobile game and a traditional board game?"
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