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The Bush administration on Thursday blasted a congressional proposal that would shield a broad swath of news gatherers, including some bloggers, from revealing their confidential sources.

Developer Chad Upton discovered recently that Google's YouTube video player is loaded with some colourful debug comments. Comments include gems such as "F**k bandwidth detection script its taking too long or not working so f**k it hard," "HACK HACK HACK HACK HACK this scuks,"

When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favorite fishing haunt without adult supervision. Fast forward to 2007 and Mr Thomas's eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom.

DIGG, DIGG, DIGG. It's a circular world we are living in and what better way to show it off than with a Digg button that shows the Digg count of the Digg story you Digg on a giant Digg button display in the Digg offices by the cousin of Digg (Revision3's Systm) at diggthediggbutton.com.

An article about the most interesting prisons on earth - smallest, most valuable, strangest, most secure etc - with photos, videos, links.

No matter how meek they might appear, most people are endowed with the same self-confidence, new research reveals. For some, however, that confidence is buried deep inside. “A given person with high implicit [or inner] self-esteem may be outwardly self-promoting or may be outwardly very modest,” said study team member Anthony Greenwald

You’re feeling lazy right now, and reading blogs instead of doing what you’re supposed to be doing. That’s OK â€" we all do that. But let’s look at how to make that laziness work for us, and how to turn lazy into productive.

This is release 0.9.39 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. What's new in this release: Many MSHTML improvements. Several improvements to the sound support. A number of Winsock fixes. Several new supported constructs in the IDL compiler. Many Direct3D threading fixes. Lots of bug fixes.

See title.

Another hilarious take: Stewart catches Tony Snow telling yet another series of lies about fired US attorneys. "Don't they know we're all recording this stuff?" he asked incredulously, before announcing a new segment on candidate websites, http.//.indecision.2008.net/clusterf@#k.html.

"Die Hard" was named the best action film ever by Entertainment Weekly magazine -- two weeks before the series' fourth installment, "Live Free or Die Hard," hits theaters. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was No. 3! Hmmmm...

An ID theft victim recognizes a woman walking down the street from the bank security camera footage of her account being stolen-and then chases her through the city for almost an hour.

Really cool.

All modern operating systems are able to run many programs at the same time. For example, a typical Linux server might include a Web server, an email server, and probably a database service. Each of these programs runs as a separate process. What do you do if one of your services stops working? Here are some handy command-line tools for managing pr

A 73-year-old man who failed his 10th grade high school exams for the 39th time vowed today to try again next year in the hopes that an education will improve his job and marriage prospects.

Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16×16px box. Designing favicons, it’s necessary to work with miniature images, and every extra pixel can be the wrong one. A good favicon is original, beautiful and - in best case - fits to the logotype and color schemes used in the web-site.

In statements made this week, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) has staked out several radical positions on abortion rights and reproductive health issues, positions that are far more conservative than even those of President Bush.

We have all seen, heard, and read no end of press that focuses on the negative aspects of video games. Personally I'm a little tired of it, especially when my own experience has been exactly the opposite. If anything, killing people online with my dad has improved our relationship.

A great 1 minute ad on the iPhone based around NYC.

Funny!

I guess this is what you have to do when your family only has a motorcycle for transportation and there is no room for a child seat..

A very good article on ways to invest money and becoming moderately wealthy.

Officials with the contractor that runs Los Alamos National Laboratory sent top-secret data regarding nuclear weapons through open e-mail networks, the latest potentially dangerous security breach to come to light at the birthplace of the atomic bomb, two congressmen said.

Wow, just, wow, I thought they couldn't top themselves with these Transformers posters so far, but they just did. Soak it up in all its glory. There are only 20 days left till this thing finally hits theaters, and boy is it going to make one hell of an impact.

BioWare’s promising new space opera Mass Effect is shaping up to be one of the years must-have exclusives for the Xbox 360. Myarcadeplanet.com talks about some of the innovative features that will cause this title to stand out.

Here's my second app for the iPhone... instant messaging. Its still a little rough, but check it out. Its server intensive, so I'm limiting sessions to 10 minutes for now. Source is available, though its a little tricky to configure.

Two New Jersey housemates got a bit of a surprise late in the night last Friday when they discovered a burglar, naked except for socks and sneakers, surfing pornography on their computer. (As shocked as they were, imagine how shocked they would have been if he had been surfing DIGG ;-)

It happens.

"Here’s a tip for those of you that stay in Marriot hotels. Marriot has installed a PPV system nationwide called “On Command”. As far as I can tell, there is a radio frequency module attached to the TV that signals some master hotel unit to order movies and add charges to your hotel bill." An interesting proof of exploit... ahhheemmmm

Pretty incredible detail of the galaxy far, far away...

A London tube driver took a train in the wrong direction through a tunnel and nearly ran head-on into another one on the same line. The driver has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.

For the true TV Junkie, DirecTV had worked out a deal with WNBC in NY that is allowing certain zip codes in LA the ability to get the east coast channel for just $6 a month. A violation of the "must carry" law? Ehhhhh. Let's go watch SNL 3 hours early!

If your clunky old Windows Mobile phone is just sitting around collecting iPhone jealousy dust, you can either scrounge together 500 leafy Sacagaweas, or you can customize your Windows Mobile phone to emulate several of the iPhone's more interesting features, like the iPhone's home screen, flick-scroll contacts, and the fancy slide-to-unlock.

NEW YORK--At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written "I NEED AN APP" in thick black marker on his name tag.

The new up-to-725 HP and $70,000-plus Shelby-upgraded GT500 "Super Snake" was caught getting ready for its first showing at the Mid-America Ford Performance and Shelby Meet in Tulsa, OK this weekend. This crimson serpent gives more HP for your buck than probably anything else on the market. The Cobra Commander helmet's extra.

Andrew Dubber, who is on faculty at the University of Central England, blogged a link to a story critical of RIAA lawsuits. Paul Birch, a British record exec wrote him an angry letter, telling him that he wasn't allowed to post that kind of thing to his personal blog, because he works for a university that is funded by the government.

NewsWeeks N'gai reports that MS's rampage of exclusives continues, with Beautiful Katamari now in the mix.

It appears that Nintendo have withrdawn the game so they can concentrate on more "mainstream" titles. The website at http://wii.nintendo.com/games_hammer.htm has also been taken down.

This document describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes that have been made to the language.

What would it be like to stand atop the tallest mountain on Earth? To see a full panoramic vista from there, scroll right. Visible are snow peaked mountains, tremendous cliffs, distant plateaus, the tops of clouds, and a dark blue sky. Mt. Everest stands 8.85 kilometers above sea level. Locals call it "Sagarmatha" meaning "forehead of the sky".