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Top news on 3 September 2009 |
Couple celebrate fridge's 50th birthday
A British couple said family and friends enjoyed cake, cheese and wine at their home to mark their refrigerator's 50th birthday.
Treasures of the Ancient World Carved Into Rock
It is the practice of creating buildings by carving solid rock, preferably from the top down. Unlike caves and other natural rock crevices, rock-cut architecture is all man-made. Follow us while we take a tour of tombs and cave dwellings carved into rocks around the world.
Rapper that got Warners to pay for her PhD? It was a hoax.
It was the feel-good story of the summer. According to the New York Daily News, Roxanne Shanté, a 1980s female hip-hop pioneer famous for the 1984 underground hit " Roxanne's Revenge," had finally gotten her own revenge on Warner Music, the record label sh
Can the U.S. 'Offshore' Its Afghanistan War?
Can the war in Afghanistan, as Will suggests, be fought on the cheap? "The Afghan state is too weak to handle this fight on its own right now and will collapse if we try this," counters Michael O'Hanlon, a military expert at the Brookings Institution.
Interview: Justin From Twitter's *****
We talk to the guy behind the Internet's greatest Twitter page.
10 NFL Sibling Combos Redefining the Term ?Sibling Rivalry?
The odds of becoming a professional athlete are said to be 1 in 22,000. What are the odds of you and your sibling each becoming professional athletes? Much less, that?s for sure. Though there are a handful of pro athlete sibling combos throughout sports, it?s extremely rare that a pair of brothers dominate their game.
Why hula hooping is achingly cool
Hooping has come a long way since children spun light plastic hoops in the playground. Today it's more than just a fitness phenomenon. A little bit hippy-dippy, a little bit circus-punk. ''Hooping makes you feel more positive and calmer, with a great sense of being grounded and connected to your body,''
Scientists Seek Warning Signs for Catastrophic Tipping Point
Tipping points are found in ecosystems, economies and even bodies. But they?re usually recognized in retrospect, when it?s too late for anything but regret.
The Hijack-Proof Truck
Two entrepreneurs have hit anti-terrorism pay dirt with a tiny black box that shuts down vehicles at the first sign of trouble....
Google Voice Alternative Line2 Is Now Live On The App Store
The Apple/Google Voice fiasco just got more interesting. Toktumi, a startup that lets small businesses build office-caliber phone systems with their mobile phones and computers, just had its application Line2 approved by Apple nearly three months after it was originally submitted.
50 Imaginative Fantasy Art Tutorials for Photoshop
Natural imagination is the key to creating Fantasy art. It could be a depiction of a magical and mysterious scene, a mythical or supernatural fairy, or even a horrendous blood soaked fiend.
Here's Progress: S.F. Firefighters Rescue Marijuana Grow-Op
Sometimes the biggest signs of epochal change in society are those that are casually mentioned, five paragraphs down in a story. Such was the case with Sunday's four-alarm warehouse fire in San Francisco's Bayview district, where firefighters rescued the weed growing in one of the buildings.
Donald Trump Accused of Fixing Miss Universe Pageant
So how much of the glitz and glamour of the Miss Universe pageant is real? Not much, says Michael Schwandt, a choreographer of the last four pageants. In a recent interview, he scrutinized the competition and revealed Donald Trump is allegedly fixing the competitions. According to Schwandt, Trump decides who will make it to the final six!
Can "flexible broadband pricing" fix the digital divide?
Two economists say that if consumers with the biggest taste for bandwidth don't pay "a little more" for their appetite, it will take too long to bridge the digital divide.
YouTube Wants to Offer Movie Rentals
YouTube wants to offer movie rentals and is in talks with several top movie studios about obtaining licenses to stream feature films on a rental basis.
Study reveals genetic culprit in deadly skin cancer
Drawing on the power of DNA sequencing, National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a new group of genetic mutations involved in the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma. This discovery is particularly encouraging because some of the mutations, which were found in nearly one-fifth of melanoma cases, reside in a gene already..
Actor tries to morph into an MMA fighter
Jason David Frank, who was once a Mighty Morphin' Power Ranger, is now trying to use his super powers to turn into a mixed martial artist.
Why Democrats Are Losing on Health Care
They won't debate the proper role of government.... The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
DJ AM Autopsy Finds Pills In His Stomach
DJ AM had prescription pills in his stomach and one in his throat when police found him dead in his apartment, a New York City official said Wednesday.
13 more things that don't make sense
Strive as we might to make sense of the world, there are mysteries that still confound us.Here are thirteen of the most perplexing. Cracking any one of them could yield profound truths.
America, A Nation Obsessed With Tech [INFOGRAPHIC]
Tech lovers used to be dubbed geeks and nerds. According to a new report, we're all geeks and nerds now.
Report: Russia Hijacked Its Own Ship
Ynet probe reveals Russian intel used secret agents to arrest the Arctic Sea vessel, thought to have been hijacked by Israel, after getting tip it was violating international accord by carrying 'destabilizing' arms to Syria or Iran.
Chicago's Olympic Bid Flawed: IOC Report
City's initial hedging over financial guarantees may have hurt our chances.
Irish ISP Begins Blocking the Pirate Bay
Eircom customers were greeted to a rude reality yesterday morning as the ISP formally began blocking access to Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, its related domain names, IP addresses and URLs.
Will Sluts Be The End of Twitter?
It's an age-old tale: site becomes popular, slags and hags use it for financial gain, the olds get mad. And Twitter is not immune. Thus, Business Week's Sarah Lacy warns the company to clean up its act.
"Electronic Tongue" Mimics Human Taste Organ
A digital tongue that can measure the human taste of sweetness has been created, a new study says. The technology may someday be used to detect diseases in people.
Rap Music's 10 Most Unintelligible Songs
Below is a list of songs that, for better or worse, broke outside the box and created waves that we wish to forget.
Britain and Denmark top alcohol list
The latest statistics from the OECD show Britain and Denmark at the top of the youth drunkenness chart.
WTF Apple! Vonage App Approved For iPhone / No Google Voice
Apple has approved an app for Vonage's VOIP technology, Vonage announced on Tuesday. Why am I not surprised!
Palin Offered To Adopt Baby, Talked About Resigning for $$$
Johnson, says that Palin didn't like being governor, thinking that it was too hard, and immediately after the 2008 election she began to think about resigning in order to pursue something more lucrative. Johnston also says that when Bristol became pregnant, Palin repeatedly tried to hide the matter by offering to raise the child as her own.
French Spider-Man in Trouble Again [Pics/Vid]
Alain Robert, better known as 'that dude on that building there' and sometimes known as Spider-Man thanks to his penchant for climbing up giant structures ...
Recent Changes to NOFOLLOW on External Links
We?ve made a few changes to the way Digg links to external sites that may impact some folks in the SEO community.
Comedy in the Obama Age: The Joking Gets Hard
The crowd sitting elbow to elbow in the basement performance space at New York City's Comedy Cellar on a recent Wednesday night had pretty much had its fill of sex jokes, gay jokes, rants about New York cabdrivers and time-filling banter with the couple in the front row who had just gotten married a week ago.
Teen crying blood pleads for diagnosis
A teen is dealing with a medical mystery. Without warning, he cries blood. Now, his family is making a desperate plea for help.
Demonoid to go down during the next few days
Demonoid remains one the most popular BitTorrent sites on the Internet, despite a fairly colorful and turbulent past. Sadly its thousands of users could soon find themselves without their favorite site, as technical difficulties are set to cause possibly extended downtime.
Should We Bank Genes of Extraordinary People for Cloning?
Human gene banks sound futuristic and maybe even creepy, to be honest. Find out if human gene banks already exist and what their pros and cons are.
The Movie Watcher?s Guide To September 2009
It?s time now to turn our attention to the fall though, and what?s traditionally known as Awards season, but nestled between the blockbusters of summer and prestige films of fall is a little dumping ground Hollywood calls September?
The Supersonic Car That Could Break 1000 MPH
A series of recent rocket tests marked another step in the development of the 1000 mph car. The British team Bloodhound Supersonic Car is comprised of legendary racers who hold impressive land speed records: We met with them recently to learn about the Bloodhound project and the challenges that lie on the road to 1000 mph.
Laser Pulses Control Single Electrons in Complex Molecules
Predatory fish are well aware of the problem: In a swarm of small fish it is hard to isolate prey. A similar situation can be found in the microcosm of atoms and molecules, whose behavior is influenced by 'swarms' of electrons. In order to achieve control over single electrons in a bunch, ultrashort ...
Sugar cane waste makes power
"Ballina Snow" - that layer of choking fine black ash that falls across northern NSW in Australia every year as farmers burn off sugar cane fields after the harvest, will be a nuisance no longer after local farmers developed a world-first process to turn sugar cane waste into electricity.
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