DiggDiggDon't Trash It! 15 Great Uses For Your Old PC- September 17, 2008 Are you looking to trade in your old PC for the latest all-singing, all-dancing model If you haven't yet earmarked it for a role in your household, don't rush to bin it: we Britons produce over 1.8 million tonnes of electric and electronic waste every single year, and even if you don't care about the environment per se, we're fast running out of lhttp://digg.com/hardware/Don_t_Trash_It_15_Great_Uses_For_Your_Old_PC Police Return Pot To Patient Three Years Later- September 17, 2008 Jim Spray giggled with glee as he tore into brown paper bags as if they were presents. These bags, however, were filled with jars of his medical marijuana and other paraphernalia that had been stored for nearly three years at the city's police department. A court order today forced officials to give it back.http://digg.com/health/Police_Return_Pot_To_Patient_Three_Years_Later Adobe AIR Beta Now Available for Linux- September 17, 2008 Adobe AIR has graduated from alpha to beta for Linux mdash specifically Fedora Core Ubuntu and Open Suse Linux usershttp://digg.com/linux_unix/Adobe_AIR_Beta_Now_Available_for_Linux 12 Craziest Movie Casting Close-Calls- September 17, 2008 What if your favorite film of all times main star was played by someone completely different I found myself asking this question and I was surprised at just how many massive characters were almost played by other actors.http://digg.com/movies/12_Craziest_Movie_Casting_Close_Calls Apple Update Finally Fixes Important DNS Bug- September 17, 2008 Apple has released a security update for its Mac OS X operating system, fixing a critical Internet security flaw that the company had failed to properly patch in late July.The Mac OS X v. 10.5.5 security update was released Monday, fixing security bugs in Apple's software as well as several open-source components that ship with the operating systemhttp://digg.com/apple/Apple_Update_Finally_Fixes_Important_DNS_Bug The Bike that Rides on Water- September 17, 2008 We love it when people take a familiar idea and turn it into something completely new. Take the good old pedal boat a simple vehicle powered by human motion, not unlike the trusty bicycle. What if one could create an amphibious human-powered vehicle that could move from land to water with the ease of a salamanderhttp://digg.com/odd_stuff/The_Bike_that_Rides_on_Water SA Goons Are At It Again - Giant Pixel Art City- September 17, 2008 I found waldo.http://digg.com/odd_stuff/SA_Goons_Are_At_It_Again_Giant_Pixel_Art_City New Energy Project Will Be Even Larger than the Pickens Plan- September 17, 2008 Australian developer Babcock and Brown has announced that it is working on a 79.5 MW wind farm in the Texas Panhandle but the company has much larger ambitions than a single farm.http://digg.com/environment/New_Energy_Project_Will_Be_Even_Larger_than_the_Pickens_Plan Move Over Al Gore, McCain created the BlackBerry- September 17, 2008 Al Gore may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain created the BlackBerry.A top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Move_Over_Al_Gore_McCain_created_the_BlackBerry |