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Neighbors of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown reported police SWAT teams and at least one armored vehicle converging on a field near their Plainfield home this morning.

A short interview on a San Francisco-centric news blog with Kevin Rose of Digg, wherein he talks about living in the Bay Area and how Digg's affected his life, among other things.

"Cell-phone and laptop batteries could last up to 50 percent longer, thanks to a new type of display technology. It could allow cell-phone, digital-camera, and laptop makers to develop power-saving displays that could dynamically adjust their backlight and color intensity based on the color and brightness of the content."

The people at Full Circle Magazine (on digg a bit earlier, too) have released Issue 1 of Full Circle Magazine, an Ubuntu e-magazine. Take a look!

Marine scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by bizarre photographs that appear to show the skeleton of a large mammal jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland's east coast. The six pictures show what looks like a brown rib cage and spinal column, slightly bent, sticking out of a crust of ice.

“I thought long and hard about it, and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an `Indiana Jones’ film. I love working with Steven and George, and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison as my son,” he said. “But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun.”

The Committee on Science and Technology is losing its patience with file sharing on US college campuses, but witnesses at a hearing warned against entering into a technology arms race with students and the purveyors of piracy tools.

The HD DVD combo disc may look like an innovative and interesting idea at first glance, but in reality, it simply adds more cost to an already higher priced HD DVD movie title. The worst part of this deal is that most combo format titles are not available as a ’standard’ HD DVD, which means that you are forced to cough up the extra $5-$10.

From the largest bank robberies in the world, to art-stealing con men, to backwoods bull semen theft, to fishermen jealousy -- here are 13 of the biggest, most profitable, strangest -- but most importantly, real -- heists from around the world -- one for each of Ocean's new crew.

A laptop for those of us who just want to take notes and surf the web while in class. The price? $199 USD

How Japan Sees the USA ...

"Many of us are lusting after the iPhone, but are all of us? Are you one of the people most likely to buy a phone when it's released on June 29?"

Hours after Paris Hilton was sent home under house arrest Thursday, the judge who put her in jail for violating her reckless-driving probation ordered her into court to determine whether she should be put back behind bars.

Here’s the story behind one of the most peculiar (and most popular) grave sites in the entire United States. More than 60 years after it was completed, it still attracts tens of thousands of visitors a year.

Windows Vista has seen significant changes to its security model, networking capabilities, storage support, and more. In our continuing technical exploration of Vista, we explain and assess these improvements, plus we look at what didn't make the cut, and why.

A group of Moscow geeks have opened a museum of Soviet-era arcade games. The physical design of these things is incredible -- heroically ugly, radiating un-fun like a potato studded with razor-blade splinters. I want a laptop that looks like this.

We always knew Tesla was right: MIT physics professor Marin Soljacic and his team of researchers behind the latest wireless electricity scheme have reportedly demoed their magnetically coupled resonator technology on a 60-watt lightbulb that wasn't plugged in.

Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

Get it while you can.

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.

The RIAA's campaign contributions are hard at work this week as members of Congress threaten to cut off federal funding to educational institutions if they don't stop file sharing on their networks.

What do you think â€" meat grows on trees? Maybe not, but how about in Petri dishes? Scientists in the Netherlands and the United States are working (separately) to create edible meat in the lab from animal stem cells.

Wellington Grey, tired of what he's seen done to his subject of physics, has written up his complaints.

Looks like the upcoming verison of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon has reached Alpha 1, the wiki page contains information and also download links for people to try out. Here is the link to the screen shot tour: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=833&slide=1

Boeing has just completed their firing tests for the stunning X-51A WaveRider Scramjet and if you want to know what hell looks like, this is it.

Capable of detecting both the concentration of motile sperm as well as a hormone which indicates egg quality, Fertell promises to give fairly accurate results for both him and her in under a half-hour

Parallels is a Windows virtualization software that allows you to seamlessly run Windows applications on Mac OS X without rebooting your machine. Version 3.0 allows you to open both Windows and OSX applications from within either OS: both OSX and Windows! It also supports 3D hardware graphics acceleration, making it way more compatible with games.

Transformers producer Tom DeSanto has secured the film rights to NCsoft and Cryptic Studio's video game City of Heroes, Variety reported.

Gentlemen and gentlemen, there is an evil upon us. A perversion of everything just and right in the world that threatens to invade our very homes and shake our gender to its very foundation. This threat â€" this thing that poses such danger to our race of men â€" is simple. Small. Seemingly innocuous. It is guyliner. That’s right â€" eyeliner for guys.

Hopefully, these specific examples will spark your imagination so you can build up your blog subscriptions. But first, let’s hit the beer.

For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine. There are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient.

Podcast of Grant Robertson and Alex Hung, two guys with a boatload of Windows and Mac experience, who have been trying out Ubuntu Linux. We hope to offer you a little insight and advice. But mostly, we hope that you can learn from our mistakes.

The disgraced criminal defense attorney facing prison for leaking grand jury testimony in the BALCO steroids investigation blamed alcohol, drugs and depression for his downfall, according to court documents filed by prosecutors Wednesday.

Finland is attracting species better-acquainted with warmer climes, including a moth (Calyptra thalictri) that binges on human blood. The bloodsucker is the first moth species in the world with the proven ability to fill its stomach with human blood; a puncture by a vampire moth can cause your skin to swell, turn reddish, and ache for several hours

… The Origins of the Illustrious Judge Dredd! I will forewarn you now and say that this is NOT a spoiler. Moreover, an opinion on what is potentially the story that fans have been waiting a long while for.

"From a journalistic point of view, news junkies should feel reassured by the success of ABC's less-is-more style. There has been too much clamor over "fake-news" shows like "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," and the trend favoring in-your-face hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and Keith Olbermann."

This is really cool â€" astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and Hubble have discovered the most massive star ever found… and it’s a bruiser, weighing in at 114 times the mass of the Sun. This blows away the previously most massive known star, which had a mere 83 solar masses. Cripes. That’s a whopping huge star!

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I feel that if you sit under this table and rub your legs against this the wrong way, you're going to get stabbed.

It's a little scary to think of how games may have developed if this product had been successful. Instead of the 3D boom, would we all be playing FMV games now? Or 2D platformers with really good music?