California May Ban Lightbulbs by 2012 to Cut Out the Blackout Middle-Man.

A California lawmaker wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs as part of California's groundbreaking initiatives to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
And he calls it the "How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb Act." End of the lightbulb, a political career, or both?

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Man bets wife in card game and loses

A Russian man lost his wife in a game of cards after putting her up as a stake instead of cash. Forget that idea between XBox vs Girlfriend... I'll see your 200 and raise you my wife!

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Super Bull! Myths and big fat lies about the Super Bowl.

Like other myths some of these have a grain of truth, but when you dig down into the details the Myths of the Super Bowl start to quickly unravel.

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What REALLY happened when Bill Gates was leaving The Daily Show set!

Jon Stewart just revealed "unedited" footage of Gates storming out of the set. We all suspected what really happened, and it makes perfect sense...

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Women gives birth, wakes up without arms or legs

A young lady goes to the hospital to give birth and wakes up without arms or legs. The hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee. In a letter, they wrote that she would have to sue them to find out what happened. She can't even carry her newborn child. Help bring attention and digg it up, please.

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Bill Gates on the Daily Show promoting Windows Vista

In case you missed it, here is Bill Gates on the daily show. He talks about Windows Vista, jetpacks, IPTV, robots, and other topics. He's no Steve Jobs, but I know you want to see this.

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City of the future?! [Pics]

Pictures of island that was comfortable and peopled, but now is fully disused.

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Richard Hammond Crash Footage

Here is the crash footage from the first episode of the new series of Top Gear.

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How nutritional science ruined the way we eat.

Thirty years of nutritional science has made Americans sicker, fatter and less well nourished. A plea for a return to plain old food.

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7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA

...all bad of course. Interesting facts.

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Photos of Dumbasses that don't know the meaing of "Safety First"

Some of these may have been 'shopped' but I've seen some of these before and many seem legit

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Lion attacks idiot hunters.

Too bad the lion didn't kill all three of them.
"Ah, I'm a sportsman because I hide in the bushes with a gun and kill animals for fun!"
Go get a bow and arrow or perhaps a spear and hunt the lion, them come talk to me, you pieces of human garbage.
P.S. If you hunt for food because thats the only way you can eat, no problem. But this is BS.

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The story of BA flight 009 and the words every passenger dreads

Displaying the stiff-upper-lip spirit that built an empire, he uttered the words that are every air passenger's worst nightmare: 'Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.'

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Top 10 bills awaiting passage in Congress that could make a real difference

1. Healthcare / 2. Counting Every Vote / 3. Healthy Families Act / 4. The Right to Organize / 5. No Permanent Bases in Iraq / 6. Stop Outsourcing Torture / 7. Access to Higher Education / 8. Free and Independent Media / 9. Public Financing of Campaigns / 10. Clean Energy

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The Dalai Lama uses a Mac!!!! WOW!!!

I captured this shot on a recent trip. How's this for enlightenment?

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We Care!

The United States Postal Service Really Cares. I got this today in the mail and I my letter was ripped in half and it was in this bag and it said this.

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Retard gets tattoo of Chevy Cavalier on his arm

I wanted it on my forearm so if anyone pisses me off, I can hit them with my car and not get vehiclular assault.

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Finally: the Mac Vs PC debate is rationalized

I'm sure someone will chime in that it's a repost but it's new to me! :)

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Do You Know What Lives In Your Eyelashes?

you don't wanna know.

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Antarctica Erupts!

Dodging "lava bombs," an intrepid photographer documents the strange, icy world of the continent's most active volcano. (Also, watch the volcano erupt)!

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Ted Kennedy lashes out against the GOP’s opposition to the minimum wage

What is it with Republicans and their refusal to help the working class?
"Do you have such disdain for hard-working Americans that you want to pile all your amendments on this? Why don
’t you just hold your amendments until other pieces of legislation? Why this volume of amendments on just the issue to try and raise the minimum wage?"

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Hi, I'd like to buy a copy of Vista (Image)

Which one would you like?

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Evolutionary musical organism

Bacterial Orchestra is a self-organizing evolutionary musical organism made of audio cells. Every cell -consisting of microphone and a loudspeaker- listens to its surroundings and picks up sounds trying to play them back in sync with what it hears.

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Freakin Awsome : Your Desktop on Steroids.

You have to see this....

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This fish is HUGE!

Straight outta Captain Nemo, this fish isi 2.4 metres long and 340 kilograms.

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Top 10 Flickr Hacks

Thomas Hawk reviews the top 10 Flickr Hacks. Some you've never heard of, but they all look useful.

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Worst Website Ever? Why? Cause this is my WEB DESIGN TEACHERS site.

We have all had 'that teacher'. This guy didn't understand ANYTHING, and he is a DOCTOR. Now, personally, I am a really bad web designer. Why? Because this guy was my teacher! A favorite quote from this guy (in a South African accent): "Web designers work for peanut money." (What he meant: They work for peanuts)

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A killer Aeriel photo of the USS Iowa firing its big guns.

You've got to see this, it's pretty amazing. And I don't use that word lightly on Digg. Just check out the shockwave over that water, too cool.

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Photos: In the shadow of 'Star Wars'

"One of the best things about ILM's studios in San Francisco is that scattered throughout are posters and props from films the company has worked on."

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The Difference Between A Tightwad’s Brain and A Spendthrift’s Brain

“We were frankly shocked at how clear the results were,
” said Brian Knutson, the Stanford psychologist who led the experiment. “It was amazing to be able to see brain activity seconds before a decision and predict whether the person would buy it or not.”

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The Difference Between A Tightwad’s Brain and A Spendthrift’s Brain

“We were frankly shocked at how clear the results were,
” said Brian Knutson, the Stanford psychologist who led the experiment. “It was amazing to be able to see brain activity seconds before a decision and predict whether the person would buy it or not.”

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The Big Red Button

Take-Your-Child-To-Work Day never made much sense to me. Unless you're someone cool like Tony Hawk or Batman, showing kids the reality of the workplace just seems outright cruel. Cubicles, meetings, TPS reports -- I mean really, while you're at it, why not just crush all of their hopes and dreams...

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Terrible F1 Accident [Image]

Excessive downforce during a shunt lead to damage of key suspension resulting in going off, leaving horriffic wreck. According to The Prof getting help was no longer possible.

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How to look like an idiot on Digg..

I think this guy called the Colts-Patriot game a little too early...

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FOX has a new reality show coming: "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"

This is gonna be good, real good.

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Teen Dyes hair, head swells to football size. [Pic included]

TEENAGER Jack Taylor was left looking like an ‘elephant boy’ after trying to dye his hair black.

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Cool Game : Squares

If you need something to realx for a few moments ... try this game.

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Beautiful Coloured Smoke Pictures

Very impressive blog. Check out the other galleries as well!

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Black Google Would Save 3,000 Megawatts a Year

An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. See what happens when you do the math on Google's home page. Astounding.

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How to Make a Real Zombie

Making real zombies the Hatian voodoo way is easy and this article teaches you how to use 3 naturally occuring chemicals to do it.

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Reaction to the iPhone reveals how the electronics industry failed...

To many observers it is one of the great mysteries of the electronics world. Not how the iPod became such a huge success, but how other manufacturers have still failed to effectively compete against the white ear bud toting little player from the company formerly known as Apple computer.

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TV "psychic" Sylvia Browne told parents of Shawn Hornbeck he was dead.

Montel Williams' psychic pal Sylvia Browne told the family of missing Shawn Hornbeck he was dead shortly after the Missouri boy vanished - and later allegedly offered to help locate his body for $700 per half hour.

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Visualizing Pi (π)

Nice way to visualize Pi...

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Gravity Launch

It took a bit of figuring, but I beat it.

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Are Girls Getting Meaner?

No, parents are just getting crappier. MSNBC investigates...

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Students do not give up their constitutional rights at the door to schools

If anyone is unclear on these rights, the U.S. Department of Education sums them up this way...

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The Lonely Tree of Ténéré: Only Surviving Tree within 400km Radius...KILLED

the 3 meter tall tree was one of the few interruptions in the landscape of sand. Visible from a considerable distance, it became a landmark for desert travelers. In 1973, a truck was driven by a Libyan, allegedly drunk, and despite the flat, wide-open expanse he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into the only tree in the entire region. The

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A Generation of Atheists? Studies Show Church is Losing It's Young

All about pentecostalism, but still interesting.

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Jeep's amazing "ink-jet" waterfall

Jeep uses this waterfall for its displays. According to the waterfall's builder, the system works like an ink-jet printer, with 3,000 valves organizing the droplets via computer program into visible logos and other messages, which appear as the droplets descend 24-feet into a trough. Talk about attention-getting!

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What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy

The human mind isn
’t very well equipped to make sense of a figure like $1.2 trillion. We don’t deal with a trillion of anything in our daily lives, and so when we come across such a big number, it is hard to distinguish it from any other big number. Millions, billions, a trillion — they all start to sound the same.

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Stephen Colbert Helps Explain the Whole AT&T Thing

AT&T just bought Cingular? Cingular was already owned by AT&T? Bell South owns who?! Let Stephen Colbert help you figure this out!

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Win A Trip To Space?!!!

Grand prize for this rad online game is a trip into space! WTF?!!

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This is what happens when you hit a bird in a Porsche at 155 mph

Ouch.

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Wii Sports Experiment, Results!

Six weeks ago, I began what has become a huge obsession of mine. It is called the “Wii Sports Experiment”. I outlined a 6 week game plan for myself, the idea being that I would continue All normal activity and eating habits, and simply add 30 minutes of Wii Sports to my day. I kept to that plan meticulously, here are the results...

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The Girl With a Boy's Brain

Kiriana Cowansage can run complex neuroscience experiments and sketch beautiful portraits. She melts at the sight of an animal, but she balks at the concept of love. Such paradoxes define women with Asperger's syndrome.

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Relieve back pain by drinking more water

"Apparently I had been turning my muscles into beef jerky by not drinking enough water. The numbness and spasms in my arms and hands have also started to fade away. It might be too early to call, but I can say that drinking that water has seemed to make a palpable difference in the way I'm feeling."

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London Food Reviewer says NO to Bottled Water

Great article on the insanity of bottled water, and what dupes we are for thinking it really is "better" than anything coming out of the tap in the first world...

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Why You Shouldn't Leave A Gallon Of Paint With Unsupervised Toddlers

A picture showing why you shouldn't leave a gallon of paint with unsupervised toddlers .

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Scientists prepare to move Doomsday Clock forward

The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" plan to move its hands forward next Wednesday to reflect what they call worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world

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Star Wars: What Really Happened After The Death Star Blew Up

"Who's 'THEY'?! What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"

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Childrens' Toy Package Art shows Logo with Dripping Blood and Fanged Demon

Who the Hell was the Graphic Design Director for this?

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Stunning Photo shows Deployed Warhead Striking Ocean at 4000+ MPH

The photo is from an actual test of a single U.S. nuclear missile holding at least 8 dummy warheads. Each line shows the deployed warhead striking the ocean at well over 4,000 miles per hour.

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Steven Colbert “Flacid with Rage” over iPhone

Need I say more?

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Steven Colbert “Flacid with Rage” over iPhone

Need I say more?

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How to cut an onion without crying

Using a knife, cut a cone out of the bottom of the onion (where the roots come out). The diameter of this cone should be about a third of the diameter of the onion, and about 1/3 deep. Take this piece and throw it away (don't put it down the disposal!). This piece contains the part/gland that makes baby Jesus and everyone else in the room cry.

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How Americans Spend Their Time

In 2007 the average adult will spend 65 days in front of the TV; 41 days listening to the radio; a little over a week on the Internet; a week reading a daily newspaper; and another week listening to recorded music.

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Price Protectr - Get your money back

Price Protectr monitors prices on items you buy from stores like Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and more, and emails you when the price drops so you can take advantage of their price protection policy. It's free and easy money. How often do you get that offer?

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The Ten Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

Some of these artifacts have been figured out buy many are still a mystery.

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Eiffel Tower Made of 7464 Matches (23 photos)

A guy from Ukraine, Alexandr Pashkevich, has made a model of Eiffel Tower from matches. The height of the structure is 3,3 ft (1 meter) and it consits of 15 000 different details made from 7464 matches. More than that there is a illumination in the tower, made of numerous LEDs.

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7 Cool Gadgets You Can Make at Home

Our editors have compiled a list of seven cool gadgets you can make at home. If you
’ve come across any other cool projects, please leave us a comment. Continue reading for the list.

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Tale of a guy who just bough a television for the first time in 32 years

"Last month, after most of my adult life without one, I bought a television. Not just a television, but a 40-inch Sony Bravia XBR LCD flat-panel high-definition, or HD, television. My only other set, which followed me to New York from college in 1974 and got lost, was 13 inches -smaller than my current laptop." Very interesting read!

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Gas cooker blows up island (with AWESOME aerial pic)

Cool aerial photo of what happens when a faulty gas stove blows up on a tiny Carribean island

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How much was this check written for?

A guy smarter than me shows his disgruntled approach toward Verizon.

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Pictures of an eagle taking on a fox

the Golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, are able to attack and kill mammals substantially bigger than they are. Some will attack and kill deer (including reindeer, roe deer and white-tailed deer) and pronghorn, and there are ridiculous, authenticated cases where Golden eagles have killed domestic calves exceeding 100 kg in weight.

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