June 2008
Official Videos of In-Game XMB and Trophies... →
Digg Recommendation Engine Rolling Out This Week... →
“We’re launching the Digg Recommendation Engine beginning this week. The feature will be in beta and presented to registered Digg users first, based on a random sampling of logged-in users.”
Oscar Campaign Begins for Heath Ledger →
An early whispering campaign has already begun in Hollywood for a posthumous Oscar to be awarded to Heath Ledger for his brilliant performance of the villainous Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark…
Banned Ford SportKa Commercial →
Mini-Laptops look like the Next Big Electronics... →
Will Mini Laptops push Dell and HP to the brink if the become the acceptable home and/or office computer?
I Can Instantly Tell Whether Someone Is... →
I have this amazing gift. It’s called “blackdar,” and it enables me to tell whether someone is African-American without even knowing anything about them. To be honest, I don’t know where I got the…
Martial Law Is Here →
I’m not sure how we missed this one… but as of 2 days ago, the United States is now in Martial Law… don’t believe me? Straight from the Whitehouse’s own website, and GWB’s own pen.
McCain Defaulted on Home Taxes for the Past Four... →
San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response. County records show the bills,…
Nuclear explosions could be key to spotting fake... →
A Russian curator says she’s developed a foolproof method of determining whether a piece of art was made before or after 1945 as a way of sniffing out fake paintings.
John McCain →
From Colbert’s Green Screen Challenge II
Fox Hosts Outraged Al Qaeda Might Watch C-SPAN →
Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade claimed to be upset at the notion that Al Qaeda may be watching hearings about Bush Administration interrogation policies that aired on C-SPAN. Kilmeade says he…
McCains Failed To Pay Taxes On California Home For... →
Has not paid taxes is four years on one of his many houses throughout the country. Highly embarrassing.
HD Vision Glasses →
You haven’t seen the world until you’ve seen it in HD.
TOP 10 Movie Gadgets We Wish We Had →
Hold out your hands. Now, wish into one hand, and poop in the other. Which one filled up first? You’ll have the same amount of luck when it comes to getting your hands on these gadgets.
Barack Obama Reveals His iPod Playlist →
Presidential candidate says he listens to Jay-Z, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Yo-Yo Ma, and John Coltrane.
McCain Doesn't Know the Price of Gas →
Says “I don’t remember” last time I bought it, and “I don’t see how it matters.”
McCain Makes Awkward Wife-Beating Joke →
Maybe it’s the governor’s approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president? Asked Ralston in a question McCain clearly found loaded. Said McCain, chuckling, “And I stopped…
Colbert Explains Upside Of Gas Crisis →
“What’s Good For Big Oil Is Good For America”
30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions →
We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet…
Sony has lost over $3 billion on the PS3 →
Think you paid too much for your Playstation 3? Don’t expect any sympathy from Sony.
IsoHunt Goes Secure, Adds SSL Encryption →
ISPs and authorities increasingly use Deep Packet Inspection hardware to block access to BitTorrent sites, or spy on users’ browsing habits. To offer its users more privacy, isoHunt has now added SSL…
California Introduces Aggressive Plan to Cut... →
California will introduce a plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels in 12 years by capping emissions from utilities, requiring more energy-efficient buildings, lowering vehicle emissions,…
Digg the Candidates updates →
We just released a new version of Digg the Candidates today - check it out if you’re interested in following the latest U.S. presidential election news on Digg.
Hell Yeah! Another New Dark Knight Trailer! →
Just awesome.
Jason Bourne 4 is a Go, To Be Released in 2010 →
Producer Frank Marshall revealed plans to begin shooting a fourth Jason Bourne movie next Summer, for release in 2010. Universal announced the project back in February, with director Paul Greengrass…
Shocked scientists say Martian soil could support... →
“It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard.”
Steve Carell Signs For Three More Years of The... →
Today the angels looking down on Scranton, Pennsylvania are crooning “Beers in Heaven.” Steve Carell has signed on to star as Dunder Mifflin’s quasi-top dog, Michael Scott, on NBC’s The Office for…
Bill Gates Retires Today →
June 27th 2008 marks the day that Bill Gates steps out of his role as nerd-baron and into the shoes of full-blown immortal philanthropist. Thank You!
Kucinich: 'We went to war for the oil companies' →
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced measures to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, said Thursday that oil executives who secretly met with the vice president in 2001 should be held…
CNN's Beck: Don't Detain Terror Suspects, Just... →
Today on his radio show, CNN host Glenn Beck expressed his disdain of the recent Supreme Court ruling granting terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts, exclaiming…
DIGG's Kevin Rose #5 - 15 People Who Enhanced the... →
A list of 15 people who have made the internet what it is today. This list includes the starters of Digg, Google, Ebay, Craiglist, Facebook, Napster, Wordpress, BitTorrent, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Youtube,…
Childhood Poverty Costs the U.S. about $500... →
Persistent childhood poverty costs our country about $500 billion a year by way of lost productivity, school drop-outs, crime, and growing numbers enrolled in nutrition and public assistance…
Volcanoes could supply up to 25 per cent of US... →
As fuel prices soar, Alaskan officials announced the exploration of the state’s volcanoes, saying they could be exploited to provide energy for thousands of homes.
Nvidia PhysX runs on AMD Radeon 3870, scores... →
Haifa (Israel) – This one did not take long: We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others. Eran Badit of…
McCain event draws record number of protesters →
A John McCain campaign event in Santa Barbara drew about 100 protesters. The protest is considered to be the largest yet against the McCain campaign…
5,000 Lightning Strikes Cause 842 Wildfires →
More than 840 wildfires sparked by an “unprecedented” lightning storm are burning across Northern California, alarming the governor & requiring the help of firefighters from Nevada and Oregon. “This…
Gen. Wesley Clark: McCain Gives Us 4 More Years of... →
As Americans, we must ask ourselves which candidate will bring about the change our country needs. In my opinion, Barack Obama is the only candidate with the judgment to move our country forward. The…
Author Of 'Obama Can't Win' Book Doesn't Believe... →
The book hit the shelves in December of last year, and isn’t available in paperback yet, but there appears to be need for a revision: as it turns out, Steele isn’t nearly as certain on that whole…
The Sneakiest Goal in the History of Soccer →
Dude has some mad skills, sneaks up behind the keeper and hammers in a goal. You wonder why the keepers teammates don’t let him know…
Virgin’s Awesome Digg Swarm Clone →
Virgin programmers seem to be digg swarm fans; they’ve launched a real-time news visualization experiment. The tool listens to 5000 news sources for any mentions of the brand and then displays them…
ArsTechnica: Rockstar Games patches Grand Theft... →
Today Rockstar has released a patch for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. Online play should become a little smoother; Check out the change list after the jump.
McCain to raise half of general election budget... →
John McCain is portraying himself as an advocate for eliminating private funding from the general election when truth is that about one-half of his general election campaign will be financed by…
Attack Of The iPhone Killers →
It’s like a scene from a bad horror movie. Samsung and Research in Motion are among the companies trundling down the steps into the basement. And down there, waiting for them, is Apple Chief…
Antro Solo: Awesome UFO-Like Vehicle Gets 150 MPG →
Hungary is not the first place that comes to mind when thinking about cutting edge green vehicles, yet. If the creators of the Antro Solo have their way, the country will be synonymous with green…
Mercedes, Smart to Sell Electric Cars in 2010 →
Daimler has announced that it is jumping on the growing electric car bandwagon, with plans to roll-out a Mercedes-Benz and Smart EV in 2010.
Fox Erased McCain Saying He "Really Didn’t Love... →
MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn’t love America until I was deprived of her company.
Preview: CNET's new, improved look →
After more than a dozen years of bringing you our content surrounded by yellow and green, CNET is getting a new look. As you can see below, the carnival of colors is being replaced by a cleaner look…
'Dark Knight' Director Shuns Digital Effects for... →
For director Christopher Nolan, reality beats the hell out of gee-whiz special effects. But keeping it real doesn’t come cheap: The $180 million flick is Warner Bros.’ biggest summer tent pole, and…
Stop the Bush Cuts to Public Broadcasting →
The Bush administration has slashed the proposed public broadcasting budget by 56% — putting at risk vital news, educational & cultural programming that millions of Americans say they prefer to…
Thomas L. Friedman: Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave! →
Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. The new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.” It’s as if our…