New Power Plant Strives to Generate Clean Coal Electricity

The town of Mattoon, Illinois rejoiced when the developers of a $1.8 billion low-pollution power plant announced the selected location. This rust-belt town will no longer be primarily known as the bagel capital of the world. The 275-megawatt prototype plant will generate both electricity and hydrogen.

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How To Crack WiFi WEP

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of articles have been written about the vulnerability of WEP (W ired E quivalent P rivacy), but how many people can actually break WEP encryption? Beginners to WEP cracking have often been frustrated by the many wireless cards available and their distribution-specific commands.

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Quite Possibly The Most Inspiring Error 404 Page You'll Ever Run Into

I ran into this page while browsing thru the Houston Web Design blog...very inspiring error page!

The page you're looking for does not exist. It's okay, we all get lost every now and then, while you are here, read the story below and I hope you find your way...

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New World Order and 911

This is a film that I made after watching some films on 'New World Order' and 911. I was experimenting with LIVE 6 as an arrangement tool, and somehow this music and the film came together.

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New World Order and 911

This is a film that I made after watching some films on 'New World Order' and 911. I was experimenting with LIVE 6 as an arrangement tool, and somehow this music and the film came together.

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6 Motivational Poop Posters

A friend of mine sent me this article on Digg and I just had to blog about it because it gave me a good laugh early in the morning....whew! What a way to start a Monday off.

It's a collection of motivational posters for poop..yeah that's right poop! I really thought I've seen it all, the internet never fails to amaze me every single day. The images are brought to you by the good folks at Oxy-Powder Colon Cleansing Product. Enjoy!!!

http://www.oxypowder.com/motivational-poop-posters.html

Paintball Tank - Great Gift for the Christmas Season

Tanks are remarkable machines, but boy do they take up space in the garage, and parking them is no small challenge. Help is at hand however with the creation of the Funtrak Mini Paintball Tank, a massively scaled down model that not only holds a single occupant in their own personal armoured division, but can also fire paintballs!

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The Turkey Boots

Some guys are just dying to get a little attention!

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Searching for One of Einstein’s Greatest Predictions

A unique observatory that is scanning the skies, involving about 500 scientists worldwide, is searching for one of Einstein’s greatest predictions – gravitational waves.

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Douchebag award of the day goes to this guy.

This guy has been sending me obscene messages on SU.

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Three boys, 8 and 9, charged with raping 11-year-old girl

Three boys, ages 8 and 9, were charged Monday with raping an 11-year-old girl last week, court officials and police said.

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Top Christmas Gift to Give to a Cheating Spouse

The perfect gifts to give your loved ones who has been misbehaving.

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Learn Chinese in 5 Minutes (PIC)

Very easy to follow instructions, you'll be speaking Chinese in no time!

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R.I.P. iPhone PXL - It was Fun Until 1.1.1

he iPhone Package and eXtension Library (PXL) was the open source community's response to Nullriver's wildly popular Installer.app. It worked with the iBrickr tool on Windows and Breezy tool on OS X.

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Chinese Spying Is The Biggest Threat To The U.S.

China is pursuing new technology "aggressively", it says, legitimately through research and business deals and illegally through industrial espionage.

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Man's stun gun death caught on tape

A video showing the last moments of a Polish immigrant, who died after Canadian police shot him with a stun gun at Vancouver International Airport, has been made public.

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Japanese Fanta Commercials

And you thought the Fanta commercials in the U.S. were cheesy, check out the Japanese versions.

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Barack Obama’s Google-Friendly Technology Platform

Barack Obama is courting Silicon Valley today, and paying a visit to Google. So what better time to release his technology platform.

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Clash Of The Titans: Tiffany & Co. is Suing Ebay

A legal battle between titans of industry began Tuesday in New York, and the outcome may have serious implications for the future of Internet commerce.

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Windows Server 2008 pricing Revealed

With Windows Server 2008 nearing a final release in the coming months, Microsoft has whetted our appetites by announcing details and pricing about each specific edition of the upcoming server OS.

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History of the Amen Break

The most sampled break in the history of music.

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Veterans Day Vandals Touch a Nerve

In the dark hours of Sunday morning, vandals kicked down thousands of the flags and left behind a cardboard sign with a single word splattered in red spray paint: "MURDERERS."

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Google Holiday Logos

We've all seen the Google logo change every time a holiday comes around, now see the logo archives, which dates all the way back to 1999.

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Continual Unfounded, Random and Childish Attacks Keep Coming

There is something within many environmentalists that gets irked off very easily. I know for a fact that I wouldn’t be able to get away with telling you that I’m not easily angered.

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Proof that MSaleem is the King of DIGG - (PIC)

I see all spades!

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Proof that MSaleem is the King of DIGG - (PIC)

I see all spades!

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DJ Mixing using videos - WOW!

This is DJ Roonie G demonstrating Pioneer's new SVM-1000 mixer at the launch event last night, which brought out big names in electronic music like BT and Tommy Lee. The SVM-1000 adds a new layer to traditional DJing by letting the artist mix both audio and video on as many as four channels. Hit the jump for more info and a gallery.

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Instant iPhone jailbreak site offers many new features

Sure, firmware release 1.1.2 is just around the corner -- expected to launch along with the European iPhone in just a few days -- but that hasn't stopped the guys at jailbreakme.com from updating their software and enhancing your jailbreaking experience.

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Man almost tosses 4-carat diamond

Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park, but on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.

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Radar Turns Mobile Pictures Into Conversation Starters

There are plenty of mobile apps that let you snap a picture and share it with your friends or the world—Zannel, Umundo, Mocospace, Pikki, MobyPicture, Yahoo Go—but one that does an especially good job at just sharing pictures among your friends is Radar.

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Car owner mangles his $500K Maybach car.

Steaua Bucharest soccer club owner, Gigi Becali, had a car accident. He was in a hurry so he started to do the repairs himself. People around him advised him against him but he didn’t give up. Take a look at what little brains but a lot of determination can do for a $500,000 luxury car.

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Dog The bounty Hunter drops the "N" word - Now Asking Al Sharpton for Help

Nobody ever accused bounty hunter and reality TV star Duane "Dog" Chapman of having the sharpest fangs in the pack, but yesterday he proved that while this dog can certainly hunt, he can also bark too loudly, and then foolishly sit up and beg. By doing so, he treated us all like fire hydrants.

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Google launches UK carbon footprint calculator

Google has launched a series of tools to help you estimate and reduce your carbon footprint -- if you live in the UK. The UK Carbon Footprint Project is aimed at making it easier for you to track how your actions impact the environment.

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Don't fall for this Jury Duty Scam!

I know this is old news but apparently it's still happening, I just wanted to help spread awareness.

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10 Digg Avatars I Wish I Had

The Digg avatars are probably one of the most ignored feature on Digg but it happens to be one of the important. Your avatar is your visual representation of your online identity, so why not give your identity a lasting impression?

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iPhone Named Time's Invention of the Year

Here are his five reasons: it's pretty, it's got a touchscreen, it'll make other phones better, it's a development platform (not just a phone), and it'll be upgraded for years to come.

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Singapore Lands Largest Solar Production Complex

Renewable energy is big, big, big: Josh just wrote about the world’s largest wind farm possibly going up in South Dakota (yahoo!), California could see the world’s largest solar power plant, and now Singapore is in the foray with landing the largest solar manufacturing facility the world’s ever seen.

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Running out of Application space on your iPhone or touch?

Both the iPhone and the iPod touch include relatively limited space on the OS partition (the part of your iPhone's memory that stores the operating system and associated files).

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Digg Spammer Alert

And today's Spammer Alert goes to clipstubeNET

Check out all the meaningless submission at: http://digg.com/users/clipstubeNET

The 5 Best Presidential Candidates to Address Climate Change

With all respect (and perhaps some thanks) to Mr. Gore, taking action on climate change is now a major political issue as well as a moral issue. This is particularly true for U.S. voters this year, who are trying to decide on their nation’s next president.

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Top Digg User banned from Digg

I'm sad to announce that one of the top Diggers (cGt2099) have been officially banned from Digg. It really sucks because he is one of the few who actually submitted good quality contents. And the reason? Well he simply posted a rather obscene yet funny picture. If you missed the picture, get with him on StumbleUpon.

And what can we learn from this? Well do not submit pics of topless fat ladies walking in the beach! LOL...thanks Greg you will be missed!!!

UPDATE - Looks like this little post is slowly getting momentum at Digg. Let's keep it going guys, help us get this story to the front page! Digg this story for our fallen friend...

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Top_Digger_Banned_From_Digg

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Old Skool iPhone found (PIC)

Meet the Newton iPhone.

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FEMA PR chief loses new job after fake news briefing

The man who oversaw public affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it held a fake news conference last week will no longer be taking over as head of public relations for the director of national intelligence.

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Coolest TRANSFORMERS costumes ever.

Wow! These guys might never get laid, but they win hands down for any costume contest this Halloween.

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Recalled: 1 million baby chairs from Bumbo

Bumbo has announced a recall of about 1 million baby chairs in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). If the baby seat is placed on a table, countertop, chair, or other elevated surface, a young child sitting in it can arch his or her back, flip out of the seat, and fall onto the floor...

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California Fires and Climate Change: A Match Made in Hell

A match made in heaven it surely isn’t, but global warming has definitely played its part in the recent tragic events hitting California.

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Leopard on an 8 year old G4 Power Mac -- can it be done?

It's no surprise to hear that Leopard smokes on the latest Intel box, right? That's all fine and dandy for new Mac owners but what about the rest of us (the majority) who are still pumping that legacy PowerPC architecture beneath Cupertino's OS? How does Apple's OS of tomorrow run onm say, an 8 year old Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics)?

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RIP, Classic Mac OS: 1984 - 2007

It's not a huge surprise, but Apple's gone ahead and posted a note confirming that Leopard will not support Classic, even on PowerPC machines. Of course, Intel Macs have never been able to run Classic anyway, so only like Hypercard user groups and the three printshops still running QuarkXPress 4 and will be affected by this...

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Eco-Effective Art: Green Graffiti

Our common perception of a graffiti artist is a vandalistic rebel who works through a free venue to spread his message. Although there are many incredible artists who sprinkle our streets and alleyways with colorful, astonishing work, they don’t expect much respect from the common passerby for the work they do- until recently.

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Gun problems in America just got worse. (PIC)

Say hello to my little friend!

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Woman learns that husband declared dead in 1999 is alive

A woman fighting to regain widow's benefits that were cut off long after her husband was declared dead has learned that Social Security Administration officials were right — he really is still alive.

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Run EDGE on iPhone using T Mobile's $5.99 plan.

Easy to follow tutorial on getting T Mobile's $5.99 Internet access plan to work with the iPhone.

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Let the unbricking begin-iPhone Elite team announces "revirginizer" release

Over at Google Code, the iphone-elite team has released their revirginizing tool, which is designed to rebuild your iPhone's seczone lock table. After using this tool, the team suggests, your 1.0.2 unlocked iPhone will return to its pre-unlocked state and be safe to upgrade to 1.1.1.

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Wi-Fi SD Card Gets FCC Approval

The Eye-Fi 2GB SD Card that can wirelessly transfer pics to your computer just got FCC approval. There's an 802.11b/g Wi-Fi chip on board, allowing you to upload shots that you've taken without plugging in your camera.

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Terrorists who say no to terror

These killer jihadis once hell-bent on destruction and mayhem are now campaigning to stop others following in their footsteps. Ali Imron, one of the key Bali bombers, is haunted by his actions and is working from his Indonesian prison cell to prevent others from following in his footsteps.

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Consumer Reports says Toyota slips in reliability

Consumer Reports said today it was reversing a practice of recommending all new Toyota cars and trucks after two models earned below-average rankings in a closely watched reliability study.

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iPhone programming 101: full header documentation released

With a few months yet to go before the official, blessed, sanctified Apple SDK for iPhone makes an appearance, all TUAW readers know there's already a thriving community of iPhone developers coding away with glee and gusto.

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14 of the Worlds Strangest Alarm Clocks for Those Early Morning Risers

How would you like to wake up with a bomb going off next to your head, or how about your alarm clock flying around the room.

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How A Guy Became A Millionaire Selling Antenna Balls.

It all started when Jason Wall saw a Jack In The Box fast-food commercial in mid-1997 that said the company had sold more than 3 million antenna balls. Sensing opportunity, Wall came up with a few designs he thought would penetrate the auto accessory and novelty industries. The designs stuck.

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10 Ways To Speed Up Digg!

Sometimes Digg can be amazingly frustrating%2C especially during rush hour. Here are 10 tips for Kevin Rose on how to make Digg faster!

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Did Web-only development fail the iPhone?

A thoughtful post over at FactoryJoe.com asks whether the Web failed the iPhone. Apple's initial decision to support only Web 2.0 third-party apps on the iPhone gave the web-based community a huge shot of creativity and incentive to see how far they could push the iPhone and Safari in terms of delivering a new kind of third party development.

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