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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.

Al Gore's home, which has been undergoing renovations for months, now boasts a solar roof. When his neighborhood in Tennessee changed zoning laws earlier this year, Gore was able to go ahead with the solar panel installation.

It makes perfect sense for Apple to release its Safari web browser for Windows, but the question is: What right-thinking Windows user would want it? Safari sucks. A lot of Mac users won't run the browser (I'm one of them), so why would anyone run it on Windows?

Already, security vulnerabilities have been revealed within just a few hours of release. So far we're seeing a handful of denial-of-service bugs and at least two issues with Apple's code that would allow remote execution by a rogue hosts. Besides, what better way to undermine an enemy than to present a concealed weapon in the form of a gift?

In a recent press release from EA Games, the company has decided to bring it's line up of hit titles to the Mac OS X platform. The first games set to release this summer include Need for Speed, Harry Potter, Command &Conquer 3, and Battlefield 2142. This is a big step for the OSX platform which has always seen limited of block buster titles.

Hello everyone! I thought I would put this tutorial together, as it seems every time I post an image that I have processed in this way, everyone wants to know how I did it. Well here it is and check it out. Enjoy.

Wildlife rangers are battling to save an orphaned baby mountain gorilla found clinging to her dead mother in the Congo. The adult gorilla had been shot a point-blank range in the back of the head.

The tentative detection of low frequency radio waves on Saturn's icy moon, Titan, could signal an underground ocean of liquid water, a new study says. If so, it would be good news for the possibility of life beneath the surface of this bizarre world.

(RICHMOND, VA, June 11, 2007, CBS/AP) The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it deems an al Qaeda sleeper agent without charge and must allow him to be released from military detention, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.

A $3 gadget that promises to quench a user's thirst for a year without spare parts, electricity or maintenance...

"Once I saw him take off running back, I jumped off my (bunk) bed and I grabbed my sword … and I just waited for him,"

Have you been interested in RAID, but wondered what it's all about? Do you have one, and think your RAID array is helping your speeds? This article from bit-tech.net takes a look at how RAID works, they types, and demystifies some of the real performance benefits.

Computer experts on Monday unveiled a digital reproduction of ancient Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power in A.D. 320 â€" what they called the largest and most complete simulation of a historic city ever created.

Brutally honest... naaahhh. Twisted, and possibly more than a little realistic... definitely. Bound to offend 'folks'...maybe. But I think it's funny as hell, and at the very least you'll find amusing

For windows users who don't know this, Safari makes one hell of a porn browser. It has a mode called "Private Browsing". It was orignally for entering secret information like credit cards because it doesn't store cookies, history, or any other thing. This is the perfect porn browser to use for your uhh.. "needs". And no one will ever find out =).

Seems these guys are traveling across the US on some slow ass scooters. The cool part is that they are allowing the people of the internet to choose their path and to meet up with them along the way.

The net's not just about eBay and MySpace. The ingenious sites here can transform your life in the real world. Want to be first in line for gig tickets, find free parking or get paid to shop? It's all just a click away

Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.

Most people just have a spare tire or a can of fix-a-flat and an auto club card when they hit the road. But as we all know, they do things bigger in Texas, so when some guy from Texas goes for a drive around Rome, he brings along a spare stretch armored limo!

Coming out of WWDC are reports that Apple has officially admitted that the Apple iPhone will not support Adobe's Flash plug-in in Safari.Flash support has been a long unanswered question about the Apple iPhone. Steve Jobs had made comments early on that we might see Flash in iPhone according to...

You might say he's one in a million -- literally. Is it just us or does he already look really regretful about the decision he just made?

This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated they did not believe in evolution, they were generally in sync with the bulk of the rank-and-file Republicans whose nomination they are seeking to obtain.