News aggregator

The 13 Most Important Fights in UFC History

digg - 20 min 35 sec ago
These legendary cage battles put the winners on the road to stardom...and the losers in an ambulance. Take a hard hitting look at the 13 most important fights in the history of UFC.

Analyst: Ubuntu, Community Distros Ready for the Enterprise

digg - 20 min 37 sec ago
At the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, a 451 Group analyst said that companies are adopting free, community-driven Linux distributions like Ubuntu and CentOS. We look at what this means for the commercial Linux landscape and the future of Ubuntu.

Judge: Denver can restrict protests at convention

digg - 40 min 37 sec ago
Protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Denver can be restricted to fenced-in areas, federal judge ruled on Wednesday, saying that security needs outweighed curbs on their rights.

Breaking: Brett Favre Demands Trade To 1996 Packers

digg - 50 min 25 sec ago
Early reports had indicated that Favre was so upset that his team failed to close a draft-day deal for Randy Moss with the Oakland Raiders that his agent called Packers GM Ted Thompson and requested a trade to a team with capable receivers.

82% of Americans Want Major Health Care Reform

digg - 50 min 35 sec ago
The vast majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the U.S. health care system, and 82 percent think it needs to be overhauled, a new survey found. "There is a broad view by the public that our health care system needs a full overhaul, either to be totally rebuilt or reformed."

11 Baseball Legends Who Were Legendary Assholes

digg - 1 hour 10 min ago
Any group is sure to have a certain number of assholes and baseballs greatest are no different. Probably a lot worse, in fact.

10 Things You Don’t Want To Miss At The 2008 Summer Olympics

digg - 1 hour 20 min ago
The Summer Olympics start this Friday, and it's sometimes dizzying and tough to know what to watch with the hundreds of events, and NBC's 3600+ hours of coverage this year. Here are 10 must see events at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics

15 Awesomely Futuristic Green Designs [PICS]

digg - 1 hour 40 min ago
Some of these structures will debut as early as the fall of 2008 while others present a view of what 100 years from now may hold, but all represent amazing leaps in green technology that push the boundaries of what we've ever thought possible.

VMware joins Linux Foundation

digg - 2 hours 9 min ago
Virtualisation giant VMware has announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation, lining up alongside existing members such as Adobe, Google and IBM.

Metallica Try To Recapture Old-School Hunger, Ignore Fans

digg - 2 hours 20 min ago
'If we start writing songs for our fans, something's gone wrong,' frontman James Hetfield says.

Go Figure: Bush White House Has its Own Interrogation Room!

digg - 2 hours 20 min ago
In Ron Suskind’s new book, Suskind describes a disturbing case in Washington, D.C., where security officials detained and interrogated Usman Khosa, a Pakistani U.S. college graduate, because he was “fiddling” with his iPod near White House gates. Officials took Khosa to an interrogation room “beneath” the White House

Scary: Your Fingerprint Can Now Show if You Smoke Weed

digg - 2 hours 40 min ago
Fingerprints could be used to detect traces of drugs or explosives in one of the most significant improvements in the technology for years. Police now have the ability to analyse the traces of cannabis, cocaine and other drugs, or explosives, in a fingerprint itself.

Apple challenges <em>Reg</em> to patent duel

The Register - 2 hours 50 min ago
New invention has familiar ring

Apple will fill in some long-awaited missing features from its iPod and iPhone mobile players, a patent application published this week suggests. There's just one problem: Much of Apple's "invention" was dreamed up by Reg readers several years ago - and one embodiment is already on the market.…

Insane & Comical House-For-Sale Sign. Times are Tough!

digg - 2 hours 58 min ago
Definitely a novel way to "sell" your house. If it catches on, Sellers are in huge trouble. Funny, ridiculous, sign captures frustration & growing desperation out there in housing market.

Stretchy 'bucky-gel' promises touchscreen video-stockings

The Register - 3 hours 18 min ago
Interactive nano-Spandex iPants for all

Japanese boffins have developed a material which they believe could be used to make stretchy, highly flexible electronic circuitry. It goes almost without saying that their elasto-conductor miracle sheet is based on fashionable carbon nanotubes.…

Top 25 Athletes In Bewildering Uniforms

digg - 3 hours 20 min ago
With Brett Favre headed to the Jets less than a week after Ken Griffey Jr. joined the White Sox and Manny Ramirez packed his bags for Los Angeles, now is as good a time as any to take a look back at some images of star athletes clad in absolutely bewildering uniforms.

Do you know what the shocker is?

digg - 3 hours 40 min ago
I bet he does and these cheerleaders don't.

U.S. Attorney Scandal Probe Enters White House Circle

digg - 3 hours 40 min ago
The Justice Department investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys has been extended to encompass allegations that senior White House officials played a role in providing false and misleading information to Congress, according to numerous sources involved in the inquiry.

11 Redeeming Qualities of the Star Wars Prequels

digg - 3 hours 50 min ago
The simple fact of the matter is, that a large majority of the prequels were horrible. That being said, and as the title would suggest, I didn’t completely hate the prequels. And so, without further ado, let us begin a countdown of the 11 reasons that I didn’t completely hate the Star Wars prequels.
Syndicate content