digg.com: Stories
on Mar 29, 2011:
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xkcd: Lamp
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/g3K9umZ9HlU/xkcd_lamp
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Unemployment Rate, Gas Prices Predict Vehicle Demand
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/jYr1kdAqFIc/unemployment_rate_gas_prices_predict_vehicle_demand
At first glance, the auto market can look fickle from one month or season to the next. Some months Americans are more into thirstier vehicles; other months?like this one?we put down our wont toward trucks,
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Movie Posters Get the Pictogram Treatment
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/71l2wV97dEI/movie_posters_get_the_pictogram_treatment
You may recall the brilliant Viktor Hertz from our earlier post ?Clever Graphics That Make You Think.? Well he?s back with a new series that re-imagines famous movie posters in his own simplified style? and what better way to communicate simply than by using pictograms? With this ongoing project, he?s striving to find a balance between the current minimalist poster trend and not being boring? even in black and gray, we think he?s right on target.
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Badass Denver Store Clerk Disarms Robbers [Video]
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/pcLZ7YdmMmY/badass_denver_store_clerk_disarms_robbers_video
A YouTube Video captures a Denver store clerk lunging for a robber's handgun and wrestling it away. Winning!
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Why You Should Care About Cricket
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/OLeBzuhevp4/why_you_should_care_about_cricket
Meet the Michael Jordan of cricket...Sachin Tendulkar.
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Roger Ebert predicted the future of the movies in 1987
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/9WFl3EISG5A/roger_ebert_predicted_the_future_of_the_movies_in_1987
It would be hard to find anyone who would argue with the notion that Roger Ebert is perhaps the most influential film critic of our time (and with all of his tweets, blog posts and freelance essays, one of our most prolific too). But it turns out that Ebert has also had an uncanny knack for predicting film's technological future too.
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As Its Paywall Launches, Times Pitches 4-Week Subscription for 99 Cents
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/HtYI_JTH3FA/as_its_paywall_launches_times_pitches_4_week_subscription_for_99_cents
In an effort to wean its online readership off of the idea of unlimited free content?and on to its new metered pay model?The New York Times is offering deeply discounted digital subscription rates for the start of its new paywall. The discounted rate is 99 cents for the first four weeks of any digital subscription package.
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Is All of Human Knowledge on the Internet? : Discovery News
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/yrgjD8ym514/is_all_of_human_knowledge_on_the_internet_discovery_news
One of the primary roadblocks to expanding comprehensive, digital libraries is copyright.
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Americans' Appetite for New Gadgets Outpacing Energy Savings
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/r9jixzsbSEQ/americans_appetite_for_new_gadgets_outpacing_energy_savings
Americans are becoming more efficient. But those gains are being eclipsed by consumers purchasing more electronics and appliances.
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'Undercover Boss' features Synagro waste-treatment company
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/frPIw8EicAw/undercover_boss_features_synagro_waste_treatment_company
Synagro President and CEO Bill Massa gets dirty on the CBS TV show, "Undercover Boss," to better understand his business and his employees.
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The Difference: SMBC
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/ntT0wv2NBOY/the_difference_smbc
A wise man vs an educated man
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Palm: The Rise, Fall, and (Hopeful) Rebirth of a Legend
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/fMvB-o1WToo/palm_the_rise_fall_and_hopeful_rebirth_of_a_legend
Perhaps the most convoluted soap-opera in the history of technology...
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"Ain't Gonna Pee-Pee my Bed Tonight" Song
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/o25K6zEXsKw/ain_t_gonna_pee_pee_my_bed_tonight_song
I like this better than the follow-up, "Gonna Change my Sheets Before Anyone Else Wakes Up."
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Britain has fewer high-tech medical machines than Estonia and Turkey
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/K94WhXTaXrk/britain_has_fewer_high_tech_medical_machines_than_estonia_and_turkey
Hospitals in Britain have fewer high-tech medical machines than those in poorer countries such as Estonia and Turkey, according to the public spending watchdog.
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Camera skills: When you can make your sister mimic a statue and get a photo like this
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/lj-txSx59js/camera_skills_when_you_can_make_your_sister_mimic_a_statue_and_get_a_photo_like_this
Nice...
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Can US nuke plants handle blackouts?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/xeBaSqpiyJo/can_us_nuke_plants_handle_blackouts
Regulators will review whether the nation's 104 nuclear reactors are capable of coping with blackouts like the one that crippled the Japanese plant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says.
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APOD: 2011 March 30 - NGC 5584: Expanding the Universe
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/lRN6KXJY21A/apod_2011_march_30_ngc_5584_expanding_the_universe
Explanation: Big, beautiful NGC 5548 is more that 50,000 light-years across and lies 72 million light-years away toward the constellation Virgo. The winding spiral arms of this gorgeous island universe are loaded with luminous young star clusters and dark dust lanes. Still, for earthbound astronomers NGC 5548 is not just another pretty face-on spiral galaxy. Home to some 250 Cepheid variable stars and a recent Type Ia supernova explosion, key objects for astronomical distance determinations, NGC 5548 is one of 8 galaxies used in a new study that includes additional Hubble Space Telescope observations to improve the measurement of Hubble's Constant - the expansion rate of the Universe. The results of the study lend weight to the theory that dark energy really is responsible for accelerating the expansion of the Universe, restricting models that try to explain the observed acceleration [...]
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Look Your Best While Cycling...with the 'Hair Helmet'. Whaaa?! [PIC]
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/xXq3qnmf8hg/look_your_best_while_cycling_with_the_hair_helmet_whaaa_pic
Finally, a crash helmet with style, for all occasions...including those irritating aggressive and violent parties?
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Boyz Gone Wild: Nude Irish Breakdancing In Public (video)
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Kf129h8hmqg/boyz_gone_wild_nude_irish_breakdancing_in_public_video
This video is hilarious, yet weird as hell. Two guys challenge each other to a breakdance contest out on the cobblestones in Ireland in front of a crowd of hundreds. The two guys show each other up until one strips down and bears all while humping the pavement. Don't think that is the freakiest moment of the video. See what I mean.
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The Trouble With Humanoid Droids
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/alyQGLSVbMQ/the_trouble_with_humanoid_droids
The trend in robo-aesthetics is a bad idea. Anthropomorphized bots in war might actually encourage bloodshed.
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Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' Guitar Duel...Awesomeness Ensues!!!!
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/fJbQ09imzjc/vivaldi_s_the_four_seasons_guitar_duel_awesomeness_ensues
Two guitarists perform a rock version of Antonio Vivaldi's famous concerto.
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Former Apollo astronaut calls on the US government to 'open up' about aliens
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/wJ4Pk653-JE/former_apollo_astronaut_calls_on_the_us_government_to_open_up_about_aliens
The truth is out there. And a former Apollo 14 astronaut wants you to know about it. Edgar Mitchell, who made the longest moonwalk in history in 1971, says alien life does exist and the US government is blocking the information from getting out.
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NASA - First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Wc7FiH2Iokg/nasa_first_image_ever_obtained_from_mercury_orbit
Early this morning, at 5:20 am EDT, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet.
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Is social media overvalued?
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/WESmsHNtBvI/is_social_media_overvalued
Analysts are warning investors that while the social media scene may appear to be chock full of innovation, company valuations...
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Explained: How to measure radioactivity
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Fn3cHSfXDnc/explained_how_to_measure_radioactivity
A guide to terminology about radiation exposure
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EU Working to Ban Gas and Diesel-Powered Cars by 2050
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/Jro8AyCx7uc/eu_working_to_ban_gas_and_diesel_powered_cars_by_2050
According to new reports, the European Union will announce plans to ban all fossil fuel-powered cars in Europe by 2050. The detailed plan will be outlined in the European Union's Roadmap on Transport, which will come out on Monday. By 2030, the EU plans to have reduced fossil fuel traffic by half, particularly in urban areas.
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Your Next Car Could Be Made From Bananas
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/n_d_iGjknuQ/your_next_car_could_be_made_from_bananas
Researchers in Brazil have found a way to make stronger, lighter automotive plastics out of bananas and pineapples.
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Acer's dual-screen tablet behaves like a laptop
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/mpmntaOMVzI/acer_s_dual_screen_tablet_behaves_like_a_laptop
Acer's dual-screen tablet ? the Iconia-6120 Touchbook ? just became available for pre-sale and it is one very curious device.
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