Volcanoes in Pictures

From Uberly, this story shows us the awesome beauty and terrible wonder of volcanoes. They are ever so destructive, but the pictures in this story lend more towards the idea of beauty and grace.

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Earth's Most Extreme Conditions

This compilation from MediaCaffeine takes a look at the most amazing physical conditions that have been recorded on Earth.

From the hottest places to the coldest, the strongest winds to the longest bolts of lightning, this gives a visual and written description of the most extreme the world has to offer.

Extreme Weather Conditions

Pictures of 5 Strange World Record Holders

One of the things that really freaks people out is when they see other people who have strange attributes. Super long hair, extraordinarily long tongues, 25 digits - all weird stuff that freak people out. This story picks out 5 of the strangest people you will ever see. They have something in common - they are all world record holders for their particular traits.

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Atomic Computer Memory

This one did not hit the front page, but it sure looked like it would. With 70 diggs in the first couple of hours and a headline that appealed to a good portion of the Digg crowd, I was already counting it as a victory.

Somewhere along the line around 120 Diggs it just disappeared. Buried. Mysteriously. Oh well. It happens.

It's an interested story, though, as it details a recent breakthrough in science that is nothing short of brilliant - storing computer data in the nucleus of an atom.

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Rick Astley WILL be Performing, One Way or Another

With over 300 Diggs and nearly 400 comments, the popularity of Rick Astley and his Rickrolling phenomenon cannot be overstated. He is the definition of an Internet meme beyond any that the world has ever seen or ever will again. What makes this story so special is that... well, we'll get to the special part later.

For now, suffice to say that Rick is most likely going to perform at the awards ceremony on November 6th, at least according to a good source.

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Stephen Hawking Discusses His Disability

This one is a touching piece written by Stephen Hawking a few years ago and posted to his site. It's amazing how he is able to keep a sense of humor through his personal struggles with his disability.

It was submitted to Digg and Reddit and made it to the front page of Digg with over 1200 diggs and 74 comments.

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Car Dealer SEO Video that I made

For those who don't know, by profession I am Executive Director of Marketing for TK Carsites. We use clean and accepted methods to help our clients move up in the search engines.

Below, you will find a video that I made a while back that talks about Car Dealer SEO. Feel free to take a look at it, have a chuckle, eat some popcorn, and let me know what you think.

Wishes "Funner" was a word. It's so useful. Cute to say when you're 4. Not cute to say when you're old but act 4.

Tomatoes: After $500 million in losses, the FDA appears wrong

Please check out this story:



http://ping.fm/HKJXy



It is likely that, after huge losses, the FDA may have been wrong about declaring tomatoes as the source of the current salmonella outbreak.



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THANKS!

oboy

Was Oil the real "WMD" that put us in Iraq?

http://ping.fm/lONqN - Great story that I found on NowPublic.

Testing Ping.FM on Blogging

This is the first test of the http://ping.fm blog posting feature for my blogs. If this pops up on Plurk or Twitter or anything, please disregard as ignorance.

Don't Leave: ‘Iron Man’ Scene After the End Credits

A quick warning -- there is a bonus scene after the credits in Iron Man. FYI. The full story from Geeks of Doom is linked below.

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Newspapers - Adapt or Die

Some of my best times in youth were spent sitting down in a lawn chair with a cup of coffee in the day or a beer at night reading a good newspaper or one of the old school magazines like the Atlantic Monthly or The Newyorker.

I haven't read anything from a paper publication in forever, unless it's online, of course. Still, it saddens me that we are seeing these venerable old rags failing. They need to adapt. They need to take their great writing and figure out how to expose them to the world of the Internet. Simply putting up a website is just not enough anymore.Thanks for listening for my rant.

JD Rucker - oboy

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We are paying $4 per gallon. What is Exxon doing?

Making money. Simple. I know there are those who will say it isn't their fault, that they're the beneficiary of Cheney or Iraq or whoever, but when you look at a 30% profit gain for a company that is already the most profitable in the universe at a time when people are making drastic changes in their lives to cope, I just can't feel that Exxon is exempt from any blame.

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Makers of Dove buying palm oil from suppliers who destroy Indonesian rainforests

This is just stupid! Is it so bad that major companies have to cut corners just to make an extra buck? The link below leads to the greanpeace story itself -- not much there other than the facts -- but the real kicker is the video and the open letter at the bottom of the page that goes to Unilever, the makers of Dove products. Please help. Do your part. It takes a minute.

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Wow. Desperation at work, but at least it's clever.

One of the most amazing displays of "Is it clever or is it just plain dumb?" I guess that will depend on if it works or not, but either way, I have to say that I like the attempt. The fact that it will probably get over 10k diggs is just absolutely mind-blowing.


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Pondering the Potential of a Web 3.0: Social Hybrid

This is a well thought-out post about the potential that is (hopefully) coming. Web 3.0 has been bubbling for a long time. Many have claimed to have started it, but nothing has really been different enough from Web 2.0 to really make a mark. What we really need is something fresh, something different. You would think that it wouldn't be that hard, but hey -- it's the Internet. Everything seems harder on the Internet.

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Toys "R" Us Gives more evidence that society is stupid

I normally get annoyed when I see "kids" under drinking age with lower back tattoos. How did they get them, why did they get them, yadayadayada. This absolutely blows my mind that society finds it okay when a major retailer for children is even willing to offer "slut advertisement" on their shelves. I'm not a prude -- just a concerned parent.

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Furniture Recycling - Fun, Functional, and Fabulous

Sorry -- just a must see. No worries about reading it -- I barely scanned it -- but the pictures are enjoyable and may actually spark some ideas for your... garage? Home? Office? No, probably just the garage, but still cool, nonetheless.

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Where is the "Algorithm Justice" on Digg

This one blows me away. Here is a good story from a great source, arstechnica.com. It has been on Upcoming Hot in All for several hours now. It has as of the time of this blog post 218 Diggs and 20 comments. It wasn't shouted or anything like that. Yet, it has been passed over by the following titles with the following number of Diggs:

1) Possibly the Greatest Invention of this Millennium - 25 Diggs, link died after 2 minutes on front page

2) Living Upside-down Shapes Spiders For Energy Saving - 65 Diggs, a good story by a great submitter, but definitely not a better story

3) Fighting with spouse can be good for your health - 25 Diggs, unreliable content

4) Hillary's - 106 Diggs, good source, but what's up with the headline?

5) Bad Fashion - 40 Diggs, picture that isn't exactly Digg front page material. I hate whining, but this is ridiculous. I have 4 stories on the Upcoming sorted by Most, and it looks like this is the only one of them that will hit. Oh well. It's just Digg.

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