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A wooden house requires no heating or cooling and is powered by the sun. It can be constructed from a kit, so can be used virtually by anyone.

In a discussion about "Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3" Linus is quite pessimistic about Sun's commitment to open source: "So they want to use Linux resources (_especially_ drivers), but they do *not* want to give anything back especially ZFS, which seems to be one of their very very few bright spots)."

User icons are recreated in a Mosaic of other Twitter user icons.

Adjutant Reflex is a special user account created on the Bungie.net forums. The user is leaving cryptic messages and hints that something will go down on June 14th. I Love Bees all over again?

VH1 deleted Internet superstar TheFireman during round three of I Love New York 2. SomethingAwful has been working for months to get The Fireman to number one, who was completely eliminated despite having the most legit votes.http://ilovenewyork2.com/people/thefiremanhttp://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2518713

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A judge had to leave the courtroom with tears running down his face Tuesday after recalling the lost pair of trousers that led to his $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner.

A new Digg policy here, out of respect for the Digg community.-No badging of articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos.It's not fair when we get the Digg for someone else's work. Let's keep the signal-to-noise ratio high, dudes.

Almost $20,000

Handset maker Nokia's ultralow-power short-range wireless technology is to be developed as a new version of Bluetooth to connect devices such as watches and heart monitors, the company said Tuesday.

"That caused my underpants to come off and I found I was completely naked and in excruciating pain..."

Spy shooters have captured some fresh new images of Lexus' LF-A supercar on Germany's legendary Nurburgring. The aggressively-styled mule looks for all the world like what Darth Vader from Star Wars would drive, but it might just include a hybrid variant from Toyota when it launches. In either case, a gas-only V-10 version with 500+ hp is assured.

We put Apple's browser to the test and discovered that it falls short of Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Far from being "the world's best browser" as Apple claims, Safari 3 suffers from usability deficiencies, text readability issues, and security flaws. It's not all bad, though.

This is a horrific crime, and while I don't promote the kind of overdone sensationalism- evidenced on CNN and Fox News, this man's death should draw some notice. It should serve as a warning, at the very least. Whether Hall was or wasn't gay isn't the point. The fact that the teenagers used this as their defense... speaks volumes.

Some who have experienced this recurring phantom vibrations have wondered whether the strange phenomenon has physical roots: Is it caused by nerve damage or muscle memory? The answer is quite intriguing...

"The type of man who makes woman’s heart flutter has a lot to whether she was a daddy’s girl, according to a new study."

The sales of Nintendo's Wii console have now passed the 8 million mark worldwide. With Xbox360 sales just 2 million ahead on 10 million sold through and PS3 on 3.5 million. DS, meanwhile, is fast approaching the 45 million mark, with PSP sales around half that.

One of the most notorious spammers in the US has pleaded guilty to violating the CAN-SPAM Act. He and his partner reportedly made over $40,000 per week during the height of their activities.

You'd be surprised.

Radio tags are getting small enough that they can protect Diamond Rings & Jewelry.

Can I borrow a pencil?

A University of Warwick physicist has uncovered how female cells are able to choose randomly between their two X chromosomes and why that choice is always lucky.

You voted, and now see the ranking of all these influential businesspeople today. Kevin Rose comes out at #2 and Jason Calacanis ends up at the bottom of the list.

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Does EA's return to the Mac platform mean death for Mac gaming?

His reward from a state that heavily promotes alternative fuels: a $1,000 fine last month for not paying motor fuel taxes. He's been told to expect another $1,000 fine from the federal government. And to legally use veggie oil, state officials told him, he would have to first post a $2,500 bond.

Designer Roland Kaufmann has gone and built a bicycle out of wood. He calls this gorgeous cycle Jano, and says it's a dual bike, equally at home trekking cross-country or taking its rider to and from work every day. But wood? Really?

Two Africans appeared in a Singapore court Tuesday, accused of trafficking more than 31 pounds of marijuana â€" about 28 times the amount that draws a mandatory death sentence by hanging. Singapore has some of the world's toughest and most thoroughly enforced drug laws, with a mandatory death sentence for trafficking more than 17.64 ounces of MJ.

Similar to the arcologies in Simcity or the massive pyramid in blade runner. Straight out of science fiction!

Remember those WildCharge wireless chargers we played with back at CES? They're almost here. You'll be able to get one July 9.

It took security engineers perhaps less than two hours yesterday to introduce Apple's surprise entry in the field of Windows browsers to the big, cruel world of exploits and vulnerabilities, following its introduction yesterday morning at WWDC. As a result, much of the clout Safari had received as the secure browsing alternative is lost

The beryl and compiz merge is startign and they still don't have a name. This here is the official forum of the merge and it seems peopel are callign it compcomm untill the name is picked...

The whole affair is a f*cking joke

Former Sen. Bob Graham floated the idea of impeaching Bush in July 2003, arguing that going to war under false pretenses was a better justification than a consensual affair. In a recent interview, he said his impeachment remark “was a truthful statement at the time and it’s even more truthful today.”

Ok, it's time to coronate the Engadget mascot -- we know how you've waited to find out whose character is going to appear on Engadget (and take home the Wii). We're just as stoked as you. Whenever you're ready, the winners are posted after the break.

Mininova, one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines, experiences a massive growth in the first half of 2007, and today they server the 2 billionth .torrent download.

The very first (and very rudimentary) open-source Xorg driver for the ATI Radeon X1000 "R500" series has been released! It still needs a LOT of work, but this is a very good step for the Radeon X1000 series open-source support.

85% of the 1.3 billion citizens of China share only about 100 family names. There are 93 million people with the surname Wang! To alleviate the confusion, the Chinese government is considering new naming rules.

Technology isn't the savior for every business. Here's a list of 10 small businesses that have suffered because of technology, whether it's the Internet or in-house technology used by big store chains.

A few weeks ago, Digg announced its intentions to move into restaurant and product reviews. Cashmore was optimistic about Digg changing its demographic, citing Facebook as an example of how that is possible. But I would first point at Netscape [which] tried to take mainstream people and throw them into social media. The results speak for themselves