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Here's a video of Lockheed Martin's MULE advanced robotic vehicle in action, complete with Joes and baddies shooting at each other while the MULE fires its machine gun, fires rockets to an enemy tank and pinpoints targets for ballistic missiles. It gives you a good idea of what this amazing machine would do in real-life missions, A-Team style.

Astronomers have announced they have evidence that, despite the bitterly cold conditions on the edge of the solar system, Pluto's moon Charon may have an underground ocean of liquid water, triggering speculation it could harbour marine life.

Wow, just wow. If you showed these photos to me I would never guess they came from Iran.

"There's something weird about police cars. No matter where you go, they all look somewhat the same, yet still completely different. It's one of those strange travel gems -- like grocery stores and candy bars -- that seem so familiar yet remain absolutely different and strangely interesting." - Gadling

God: "I CAN HAZ LIGHT!"

Flush with wealth from Broadcom Corp.'s 1998 public stock offering, Henry T. Nicholas III made a few additions to his estate: hidden doors and secret levers, an underground grotto. But there was more, plans for a "secret and convenient lair" with hidden entries to indulge his "manic obsession with prostitutes" and "addiction to cocaine & Ecstasy"

As President Bush and Congress debate a drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq, past wars offer cautionary lessons on how not to withdraw from a prolonged conflict.

Homer: Oh, so they have Internet on computers now!

Absolutely brilliant! Good fun to Simpsonize (potentially former) friends, family, and colleagues - And create your very own unreal-life Simpsons episode... A tip - it kept falling over when I tried to download the picture, and just failed for eternity. So, take a screen capture (press the "Prn Scrn" key), and then ctrl+V into photoshop.

Supporters of the war in Iraq -- including President George W. Bush -- claim that a withdrawal of US forces would lead to an al Qaeda takeover of Iraq. Yet according to Pentagon war games, this scenario is highly unlikely.

Becomes just 84th player in MLB history to reach 2,500.

The Chinese government has launched a campaign to limit the number of hours teenagers spend online playing games. Uh oh, if they restrict teenagers from online gaming, how is anyone in China going to get pregnant?

Beautiful.

Google Maps mashup Phone Number Geolocator takes the first six digits of a phone number (the area code plus 3) and gives you a close approximation of that number's origin on a Google map. Google has been helping us locate area codes for a while now, but some area codes cover pretty large areas. The Phone Number Geolocator goes one step further.

An analysis of thousands of skulls shows modern humans originated from a single point in Africa and finally lays to rest the idea of multiple origins, British scientists said on Wednesday.

Please, kill me now...

This guy was at his computer while his kid was playing a video game when all of the sudden, the CD in the drive exploded, making a loud POP and sent fragments flying... some even hit his leg! crazy...

If you get a chance to go entirely offline, even if it’s only for a three-day weekend, do it. You may have to endure a hellish Tuesday, abut I promise you, it’s entirely worth it. [warning: site may be NSFW]

Guy bought US iPhone, removed AT&T SIM, put it in old cell phone, took it to Vodafone store and added it to his contract (replacing phone currently on the contract & using the AT&T SIM). He then took it home, popped the SIM, put it back in iPhone, used iASign to activate. Results: UK Phone number, Vodafone contract. May possibly work in any country

He sent spam to recovering gambling addicts enticing them to gambling Web sites. Targeted people on anti-depressants to send pharmaceutical spam.

Repeat photography has become a valuable tool for communicating effects of global warming. USGS has a catalog of dozens of photos of glacier melt over the past century. It's incredible what we've lost since 1900...

Forget about digging a hole with a spoon to escape from prison. Four federal inmates are accused of going above and beyond that call.

Google introduced a set of themes for your personalized homepage (or iGoogle) a few months back. But if you're looking for a few more customization options, check out this new Google gadget. Once you install the gadget on your homepage, you can choose from a variety of custom skins, create your own, or submit themes for other users to install.

It didn’t take long for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, to send us a takedown notice for our post “The Latest Harry Potter Book Hits BitTorrent.”

Of Killing Innocent People...

"I'm not just thinking of doing it, I'm going to do it," Marbury vowed yesterday. "My wife loved it there. It's like a [David] Beckham thing."

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I grew up watching Charlie Brown, but now I been into Anime/Manga for a good few years as a hobbie. But when I saw this my jaws dropped to the dam floor!

Fox News on Wednesday presented a debate between two Iraq War veterans. John Soltz of VoteVets.org said, "Obviously the surge is like spitting in the ocean. ... We need 160,000 combat troops just for Baghdad. Unfortunately, President Bush has destroyed the armed forces of the United States."

Nintendo is the top dog, and Microsoft is holding steady. Now, Sony may have more of a chance than first thought as Microsoft deals with recent troubles. Shiny graphs inside.

By Edith Honan NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A former White House official who took top secret documents from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office and gave them to opposition figures in the Philippines was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years

"If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it." Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay told a gathering of College Republicans were included in a video produced by writer Max Blumenthal.

Recently this thread got some exposure here on digg, bringing in a short lived flood of consumer opinion, and now After 1,655 posts and almost 50,000 views someone has saw fit to silence all discussion on the issue. Well i guess i at least will be voting with my consumer dollars and taking my money elsewhere, no more wine-ing their software for me.

You tip the pizza man, you don't tip the Fed Ex driver. You tip the bartender at the pub, and you don't tip the McDonald's clerk; but you do tip the barrista at Starbuck's. The US has ritualistic levels of tip etiquette, which admittedly don't exist other places in the world but, the question remains; Why don't we tip our IT service people?

It gathers computer's IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer's registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL.

Gareth Groves bought a Hummer, parked in on the street outside his home, and less than a week after he had Washington, D.C., tags, it was vandalized with windows and headlights smashed, tires slashed and the metal body chopped with a machete-like tool. Some passerbys are horrified, others say he deserved it for owning such a vehicle.

Here are a lot of things you can do to help make research papers work for you â€" and get a decent grade in the process.

The music industry got some bad news from the European Court of Justice today, as the EU's highest court ruled that ISPs are not required to hand over subscriber info to the music industry.

Mexico wants the world to know what food is authentic...Taco Bell's vision of Mexico is something entirely alien south of the border. When the fast-food chain tried to establish a presence in Mexico City in the 1990s, consumers were so perplexed by the "burritos" that a leading newspaper helpfully included a definition.

The Patent Reform Act of 2007 may be headed to a vote by the full House of Representatives after a modified version of the bill was approved by the Judiciary Committee. The bill would, among other things, change the US to a first-to-invent patent system from its current first-to-file system.