5 Homemade Chemical Free Bug Repellents That Work

Not only can insects be a nuisance in your garden, but they can ruin a perfect picnic or hike. Here are a few totally green, home remedy suggestions to repel insects without using toxic chemicals.

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" Movie Trailer!

As expected, DreamWorks Animation has released the teaser trailer for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

New iPhone Images Leaked

Crunchgear has released photos leaked from someone with obviously strong Apples connections of the new iPhone.

Something's Shaking in Antarctica

Team discovers twice-daily, magnitude-7 ice quakes on the frozen continent.

Extreme Ski Gliding

One mistake and all that's left is a pile of hamburger.

Religious Right Figure: Obama Could Win 40% Of Evangelicals

In a new interview with Dan Gilgoff for BeliefNet's God-o-Meter, DeMoss explains the lack of religious enthusiasm for McCain and predicts a potential major shift to Obama.

Digg Has a Message for Us [PIC]

This is why I love Digg.

The World's Hardest Video Game

I Wanna Be the Guy is a computer game based on the ancient, impossible platformers. This video shows some poor sap suffering through it.

Inside the Coast Guard's Most Extreme Rescue (w/ VIDEO)

Cool vid, audio, graphics, but sad story: Before dawn on March 23, 2008, the Alaska Ranger ship sank in America's deadliest waters. As 47 souls fought for survival, the Coast Guard launched one of the most daring and dramatic rescues in history.

Vote or eat, Robert Mugabe asks Zimbabweans to choose

Zimbabweans have been given the stark choice of eating or voting, as Robert Mugabe tightened his grip ahead of the final round of voting in presidential elections. The US ambassador to Harare, James McGee, said that President Mugabe was using food as a "political weapon", allowing members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change...

Toyota develops new fuel cell hybrid

Toyota has developed a new fuel cell hybrid, a green car powered by hydrogen and electricity, that can travel more than twice the distance of its predecessor model without filling up, the automaker said Friday.

What's new in Firefox 3? Check out this demo!

A quick (< 4 minutes) overview of some of the new features in the soon-to-be-released Firefox 3. Check it out, then head over to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord/ and sign up to be notified when the new version comes out!

The Truth About the War

A new report shows clearly that President Bush should have known that important claims he made about Iraq did not conform with intelligence reports.

The Creation Museum - America's New Mecca of Ignorance

An in-depth look at the "the crowning achievement of religious stupidity" and the anti-science ideology behind it. Includes lots of crazy pics and videos.

Sports Tech: Algorithm Predicts Celtics Will Beat Lakers...

A point-analysis metric developed by NBA statisticians and Lenovo Group Ltd. engineers predicts that the Boston Celtics will beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals based on the statistically superior play of Boston's five top players when they have shared the court in the playoffs.

iPhone 3G iPhone firmware leaked: tri-band HSDPA and GPS are

We have it from a reliable source that a version of the 3G iPhone's firmware has been released -- possibly for carrier partners currently field-testing the device -- and has since been dissected. While nothing is ever guaranteed, we think we got more than enough information the low-level hardware and drivers that run the device to make some informe

Herding Sheep with my Australian Cattle Dog..Not so smoothly

I went down to the local sheep herding school to try and teach my dog how to do something I thought would come natural to her and she ended up running me into the ground. I am out of shape and this is a great way to get in shape and bond with your dog. As you can see from the video clip we have allot of work to do.

The 5 Most Terrifying Rites of Manhood from Around

So what did you do to earn your manhood? Read a prayer or two while complaining every step of the way? These rights of passage are pretty much the same as that, but with more cliff-diving and eye poison.

Top 10 Video Games that Should Be Made into Movies

Here are the top 10 video games that should be made into movies.A movie like a video game is a form of art. Wanting a movie based on one’s favourite video game is just the inherent desire to see that piece of art in a different form, from a different perspective.

Congress Urged to Investigate ISPs over User Tracking

Charter Communications' plan to track users' web surfing and hand the data over to ad agencies is attracting increasing Congressional attention. The heads of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee have already asked Charter to stop, and a coalition of privacy groups call on them to initiate an investigation.

U.S. Payrolls Fall, Unemployment Rate Climbs to 5.5%

The U.S. lost jobs in May for a fifth month and the unemployment rate rose by the most in more than two decades, signaling that the world's largest economy is stalling.

Insane Office Worker - Audio Recovered

The above video of an office worker going completely insane surfaced redently, but there was no audio and no one knows what caused his wild outburst! I now present you with the audio that shows what caused this lunatic to flip out!I had a really fun time making ...

5 Diet Myths -- Set Straight

#3 - "Red wine, not white, prevents heart disease."

xkcd - Journal 5

Fast. Fiery. Feedbags. Eat More, Move Less.

"Sometimes I just don't feel like moving my arms. So this way you can just have it on your face....close to your mouth. So you don't have to pick anything up."

Wireless Social Networking To Generate $2.5 Trillion By 2020

Wireless social networking products, services, applications, components, and advertising will generate more than $2.5 trillion in revenue by 2020, according to iSuppli.

Dumb Things Baseball Fans Get Excited About

As a patron at any baseball outing you need to prepare yourself to sit with thousands of people who get charged up about the dumbest things. Allow us to play Scrooge on a trip to the old ball game.

5 Things You Didn't Know About DNA

Find out how DNA plays an important role in the caviar you eat and how genome-test shopping could appear in the very near future.

6th June1944: D-Day marks start of Europe invasion

May we never forget the thousands of Allied troops that landed on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans.

Spinning a MacBook Air on one finger! And Fire!

Guy spins a MacBook Air on one finger - and a Nintendo Wii, saw blade, board on fire...

Wine 1.0 RC4 Released!

The popular Windows implementation for Unix has reached a new milestone with their 1.0 RC4 release. This brings them even closer to the anticipated 1.0 release sometime this year.

Biggest Eyes on the Universe Get Makeover

In astronomy, size matters. And for decades radio astronomers have been able to boast that they had the largest telescopes on the planet.

Classic photographs done in LEGOs (PICS)

Flickr user Balakov has recreated 19 memorable moments from world events, photography and sports in LEGO blocks. Can you guess the source photos without looking?

NYT reports on McCain's reversal on warrantless spying

McCain's behavior on these vital issues completely negates the two attributes the media uses to define him -- his "moderate" ideology and principled independence. Whatever his BBQ buddies in the press claim, McCain is neither moderate, nor independent.

4 Reasons Early Adopters Don't Need a 3G iPhone Upgrade

The die-hards are already hawking their first-gen iPhones and preparing to line up for the new model. But fear not: Monday won’t just be about the new iPhone, it’ll be about what’s new for your iPhone. Here’s why you should keep your “old” phone (until it breaks, anyway).

CleanTech Biofuels to Turn Dirty Diapers Into Ethanol

CleanTech Biofuels is serious about turning garbage into fuel and sincerely hopes you’ll ignore the fact that your car’s fuel tank could be carrying what’s left of little Timmy’s soiled nappies.The company is investigating suitable sites for commercial garbage-to-ethanol facilities.

USA Today: "The federal government keeps two sets of books"

The federal government keeps two sets of books. The set the government promotes to the public has a "healthier" bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005.

Finally, Beer That's Made, Bottled, Transported Eco-Friendly

Adnams (a UK beer manufacturer for those dry readers) already has in place an eco-distribution center, an energy-efficient brew house, and a light-weight bottle that reduces transportation fuel requirements. But in their effort to be carbon neutral as a company, they’ve managed to get one of their beers in the zero zone.

Love Letters From U.S. Troops Increasingly Gruesome

I hope she gets her daddy back soon.

In Japan, Cellphones Have Become Too Complex to Use

Steve Jobs' new iPhone, expected to be unveiled Monday, is headed to Japan by the end of the year. But the device's famed ease of use may actually be a put off in Japan, where consumers want features, not simplicity.