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National Lampoon's 72 Virgins. Two idiot college students unwittingly join an Al Qaeda cell in order to get the 72 virgins promised to terrorists when they die. What do you think, should they release this movie? Vote now at NationalLampoons.com

Gmail users who get Microsoft PowerPoint attachments in their in-boxes can now view them without having PowerPoint installed on their machines. Google appears to have flipped the switch to allow this feature as of last night. We originally reported on this last month, although at that time it appeared that only a handful of accounts had access. Thi

In lieu of an iPhone SDK, we can emulate the interface with JavaScript... this is my one-night proof of concept. If its popular, I'll develop the interface into a class or template. It works best in Safari, of course. Source code is available for download.

"The CSS Zengarden is a great project and helped the web standards cause. Today I’m going to be taking a look back over the hundreds of submissions and choose some of my favorites."

Perian, the swiss army knife of QuickTime codecs finally hit version 1.0. But don't run over to the Perian Home Page right away. It hasn't been updated yet. Instead, as TUAW reader Jason P tipped us off, point your web browser to this MacUpdate page instead. The new version of Perian is a Preferences pane that you double-click.

Rockstar Games sent out an e-mail teasing the second Grand Theft Auto IV trailer with the words "Looking for that special someone" at the top. Below the words "Coming June 28th, 2007" was an image, which leads to the future page of trailer 2.

While the Leopard improvements to come in October do indeed look cool, OS X still lacks functionality provided by third party applications. oday's special Leopard top 10 lists software applications we wish Apple would buy, build or bundle to improve Mac OS X even more.

Taking parts from over one dozen cars ranging from 80's BMW's to a 1990 Toyota Tercel, Jalopnik has a two-part series on how they created a fully-functional boombox with an 8-track player, FM, AM, aux-in, retractable bunny-ear antenna, a cup holder, plug-in battery and yes, even brake lights. They've even got instructions for how you can do it too!

A "near-zero" carbon emission-certified home is the first eco-friendly family home to be mass-produced in Britain. With many green features, this home is designed to cut energy bills by 80%, it has solar panels and wind turbines on its roof, and an efficient insulation envelope. See a detailed photo of the house!

While hugging and grasping at the adulating crowds in Albania, our feeble minded President gets ripped off. Keep your eyes on the watch, and see if you can figure out who takes it.

Gionee is launching a handset specifically targeted toward purveyors of NES roms. The phone is a pretty ordinary slider, except for the NES-style B/A buttons.

With the number of people living on earth growing exponential (6 billion in the last 100 years), there's no room for cities to expand on the ground, especially in the big overcrowded areas, and that's why architects are planning many ways of expanding through the air. So here's how the top 10 highest structures top will look by 2010

Good way to get inspired to go to the beach...

Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we’ve also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. To install and use the script, it’s often enough to include the JavaScript library in the source code and provide the hint as plain text within the “title”-attribute. Sometimes you can also insert URLs, images, tables...

Yes, yes it is.

Deep sea thingies

The technology, developed by engineers at YouTube-owner Google Inc., will help content owners such as movie and TV studios identify videos uploaded to the site without the copyright owner's permission. The so-called video fingerprinting tools will be available for testing in about a month, a YouTube executive said.

Fears the U.S. government will try to confiscate it after part of it was filmed during an unauthorized trip to Cuba.

There it is, right on the table!

Children should be allowed to play dangerous games and risk minor injuries as part of a wider lesson in life, the organisation responsible for avoiding accidents has said. By scraping knees, grazing elbows and getting bruises, children learn “valuable lifelong lessons” that will help them to avoid more serious injuries in later life.

Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt told the Examiner "that the newspaper ad he took out last week offering a million-dollar bounty for evidence of illicit sexual activity with lawmakers has yielded about 200 tips so far. He said he'll let them continue to trickle in over the next two weeks or so before his team begins to follow up on them."

Madison Avenue ad agencies are finally opening their eyes to the power of YouTube. Check out the commercial that finally woke up the industry and have a little fun at their expense with a YouTubers take on it.

Destructoid brings you the first word on the 8 tracks Activision revealed early in the morning of June 12th.

What struck me at the June 11 WWDC was the excitement by the 5,000 WWDC attendees about many technologies in the forthcoming Mac OS X “Leopard” release that already exist in Windows Vista.

A Pizza Hut worker says she was fired after reporting finding 6 live mice stuck to glue traps at a North Carolina Pizza Hut where she was employed.

The day has finally come for the actual unveiling of the new Saab 9-3, and it's accompanied with more high-res pics than you can wave a white flag at.

A gentle kiss on a South London street captured on a mobile telephone camera sealed Banaz Mahmod’s fate. When the photograph, taken by a member of the Kurdish community, was shown to Miss Mahmod’s uncle, Ari Mahmod, a family meeting was called where it was decided that the 20-year-old woman and her boyfriend, Rahmat Sulemani, must be murdered.

"I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there," he says of the final scene.

Google Video may be exposing the username and passwords of users who post videos to their MySpace accounts and serving this information over unsecure Internet protocol, with an http URL and not https.

It’d be one thing if they were twelve or thirteen. While the majority of children at that age are, indeed, douchebags, they at the very least understand what they are seeing, will only verbally react to certain parts of the film, and they are easily controllable by any parent with half a brain and a desire for silence. Not so with your children...

Police blame a woman named Butts for stealing toilet paper from a central Iowa courthouse, and while they're chuckling, the theft charge could put her in prison.

The HD DVD Promotional Group says that its rebate program is paying off, with sales doubling near the end of May.

This list is all about the most shocking, bloody and unbelievable gut-wrentching cinematic adventures in the history of film. It’s not just about slashing up unsuspecting victims, it is about leaving a lasting imprint of terror in the minds of audiences.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), in Troy, NY, and semiconductor maker Crystal IS, in Green Island, NY, have developed a new type of nanostructured coating that can virtually eliminate reflections.

Congress has spent more than $63 million on an experimental aircraft that has never flown more than a few feet and that the Pentagon has repeatedly rejected. Designed as a plane that can take off straight up and then fly at 700 miles per hour, the craft has never attained a height of more than a few feet in tests before crashing to the ground.

The spammers behind last year’s destruction of Blue Security are back with a vengeance, using a variant of the ‘Storm Worm’ malware to launch a sustained distributed denial-of-service attack against three anti-spam services. The ongoing attacks successfully shut down the Web servers that power the Spamhaus Project [...]

Never again will mankind have to look for RSS info in more than one place…ok, we’re kidding, but we’ve aimed to create a near comprehensive list of all the RSS readers, tools, browser plugins, tips, hacks and directories available on the web.

Two Thai street mutts who became ace sniffer dogs at an airport near the notorious "Golden Triangle" opium-producing region have been fired for urinating on luggage and sexually harassing female passengers.

Amazing lamp! "The Alien Abduction Lamp consists of a metal UFO containing the light (complete with an array of alien pilots) which is supported entirely on a frosted glass tractor beam. The cone shaped beam serves to diffuse the light..."

Evidently, one of the world's dullest (yet most doable) superheroes in the DC universe will come to CW's Smallville next season. The writers will have their work cut out for them in their attempt to add some depth to the character, but the producers seem pretty confident.