Military Mom Says She Was Brutally Raped in Iraq

Yet another woman has come forward saying she was brutally raped in Iraq while working for the U.S. contractor Kellogg Brown Root (KBR). Dawn Leamon, who has two sons on active duty, says she was raped earlier this year by a U.S. soldier and a KBR colleague. She will tell her horrific story to members of Congress today at a hearing.

Comfy IKEA Train Makes Me Want to Move to the Subway

IKEA has outfitted a train in Kobe with sofas and curtains probably named things like Oompa-loompa, Svenssonjohansensson, Frida, and Bucarest. Unfortunately, the makeover is temporary, to mark the opening of a new shop in the city

Pedophile Beards by Jon Lajoie

From the makers of "Rapist Glasses," comes a new product. Pedophile Beards give you that creepy sex face that women can't resist.

New Liverpool Observatory Aims for Carbon Neutral

Invoking the shape of myriad objects, this futuristic architectural design is shortlisted in an international contest to create a new observatory in Liverpool, England, reminding us that space-age proposals have a great way of stirring the imagination.

'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig

Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site was built.

Hillary Want PLEDGED Delegates to Go Against Voters

Comments made about 5:30 in. She also invokes the "obvious" double-standard in this election, claims Obama supporters are against a re-vote in Michigan, and states that Obama wants to "short-circuit" this election and make sure the remaining states don't count. Telling delegates to ignore the voters and go for her anyway? That's disenfranchisement.

Cops bust school principal with pot, porn and 2 teen sisters

His name is Daniel Markofsky, 47, of Spring Grove Elementary School in Glendale Wisconsin.Now charged with sexual harassment.

WSJ.com - Opinion: The Trouble With Brand Hillary (4/9/08)

Mrs. Clinton risks being branded a serial exaggerator, and worse.

The Vitamin Myth

While some vitamin supplements can boost your health, others may actually harm....

The 5 Most Ill-Advised Dating Sites on the Web

Prisoners, psychopaths, egomaniacs, ogres and syphilitic temptresses. Take your pick.

The Man Who Lost His Name -- and his Genetic Identity

Eric Drew miraculously recovered from both cancer and identity theft.

'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Cast Tell Breakup Stories

separation of church and state only happens for some schools

A PUBLIC school in MN that is apparently based on religion.

Student Faked His Way into Yale University, Gets Arrested

With straight A's and a strong recommendation from a Columbia professor, Akash Maharaj had no trouble transferring to Yale. He managed to get through a full year at the university before anyone realized that his application was a fraud. Students had already gone home for the summer when Yale quietly revoked Maharaj's admission last spring

50 Cent, Universal sued for pushing ''gangsta'' life

By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hip hop mogul 50 Cent, Universal Music Group and several of its record labels were sued on Wednesday for promoting a ''gangsta lifestyle'' by a 14-year-old boy who says friends of the rapper assaulted him. The...

The surprising similarity between LOST and World of Warcraft

The structure of the narrative reminds me, in many ways, of a computer roleplaying game. This is the LOST formula in a nutshell. During each show you gain a little experience in the form of new information: about the island, the characters, or both; every four episodes or so you level up, as some major piece of the overall puzzle falls into place.

BREAKING NEWS: Bad Company Boycott Successful?

DICE COnfirms that there will now be NO CHARGE for Bad Company DLC Weapons. A Boycott is over, and the world is saved.

Jesse Ventura Talks 9/11 on Hannity and Colmes

Jesse speaks his mind, Hannity tries to speak clear words.

Defendants: RIAA's private eyes are watching us—illegally

Do RIAA investigators need a license? The group says no, but some states appear to disagree. Judges may settle the issue in the next few weeks.

Random Defense Game

Random Defense is a slick new Tower Defense game featuring 10 different maps and loads of levels on your turrets. If you've never played a TD game before, you're in for a treat. If you're a TD vet, you'll still be pleasantly surprised and challenged. Beware the pumpkins!

Portal meets World of Warcraft

What happens when you take two amazingly popular games and put them together?

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The new media culture

Seriously WTF!?

Gun, ammo, mags, guitar hero controller, gun, gun, gun, rock band guitar, ammo, gun, gun, weird guy

"I am going to make you an offer you cant refuse" AMAZING.

The godfather made from the entire movie script.

Rush to judgment: Comcast not blocking web traffic after all

Over the weekend, a group of researchers at the University of Colorado reported evidence that Comcast's traffic management had extended beyond the realm of BitTorrent to plain old HTML traffic. The results caught Comcast's eye, not because it was doing anything to throttle non-P2P traffic, but because the company wasn't.

East Texas Girl Was Lying About Attack

The girl who said she was attacked at school for her history project was lying. Digg it and eat it.

Paging Dr. Freud: 8 Unusual Mental Illnesses

There are only a certain number of ways to go crazy, and you can find most of them listed in the psychologist’s bible, the DSM-IV. But along with psych-ward greatest hits, the DSM lists some less-than-common conditions.

This is What I Call a Close Call // Pics

Few more inches would have probably changed his life.

New Compiz Fusion effect: Cylinder

After a lot of preparations in the last weeks, that resulted also in the “curve” expo mode, I’ve finally finished my idea to implement a cylinder deformation for the cube plugin. The code is in the cubeaddon plugin, that is the cubereflex plugin with this new feature.

Veronica Belmont Joins Tekzilla as Co-Host

Great news, world! I’m very pleased to announce that Veronica Belmont has joined the Revision3 family as Patrick Norton’s co-host on our tech-centric show Tekzilla, and we couldn’t be happier to have her on board.

Hillary can’t run a campaign, so how can she run a country?

If Clinton can’t even run a successful campaign with all of her built-in advantages, how can she be expected to successfully run a campaign against John McCain, let alone run the USA?

Huge collection of Mindfuck pictures

Report: Israel Is Secretly Importing Iranian Oil

An Israeli energy newsletter has revealed Israel is secretly buying oil from Iran despite an official boycott.

Astronomers discover our 'twin' solar system

Astronomers have discovered a distant "twin" solar system which looks very similar to our own. So far researchers have identified two planets very similar to Jupiter and Saturn, which orbit a star about half the size of the Sun around 5,000 light-years away.

How Hillary lost my vote

I really wanted you to be the Democratic candidate and the next president of the United States. In order to do that, I needed you to be the person I felt you were capable of being.

Self-assembling Nanofibers Heal Spinal Cords

An engineered material that can be injected into damaged spinal cords could help prevent scars and encourage damaged nerve fibers to grow.

UK to Ban Food Additives to Reduce Hyper Activity in Kids

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) wants six artificial colourings to be removed from products after an official study branded them as damaging to children's brains as the lead in petrol.

Gas could hit $4 soon

Retail gasoline prices pulled back slightly from record levels Tuesday and gave some consumers a small break, but a new government forecast said gas could reach as high as $4 a gallon during the summer driving season.

Why Superman Will Always Suck...

Superman's always been written as an incorruptible, indestructible, indisputable force for "good" in Metropolis...very one dimensional and very boring. Here's why.

What you need to know about Intel's Nehalem CPU

Intel recently revealed substantial new details about its forthcoming 45nm processor, codenamed Nehalem. Nehalem marks a major turning point for Intel's flagship processor line, and Ars tells you what you need to know.