Top Stories From Digg - Wednesday 12th july -(1)

Loathsome child abuse and incest perpetrated by the "gentle people"

submitted by dirtyfratboy 16 hours 25 minutes ago (via http://www.legalaffairs.org/is...)
Impressed by their piety, courts have permitted the Amish to live outside the law. But in some places, the group's ethic of forgive and forget has produced a plague of incest—and let many perpetrators go unpunished. More…
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The Smoking Airline

submitted by zepequeno 5 hours 46 minutes ago (via http://www.gizmag.com/go/5857/)
Smoker ’s International Airways (SMINTAIR) is planning to take to the skies in March 2007 catering just for smokers. the first SMINTAIR 747 will fly between Dusseldorf and Narita (Tokyo). More…
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HotSoup: MySpace For The Politically Obsessed

submitted by BloodJunkie 10 hours 9 minutes ago (via http://today.reuters.com/news/...)
A team of U.S. political strategists is creating an Internet forum for debating hot-button issues, hoping to connect the politically obsessed the way MySpace.com hooks up hypersocial teens. More…
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Cool Cigarette Tricks

submitted by ualj 17 hours 39 minutes ago (via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...)
Japanese magician performs some cool tricks with a cigarette More…
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Ultimate House of Dominoes!

submitted by Tricky 12 hours 5 minutes ago (via http://youtube.com/watch?v=tL6...)
Those crazy Japanese have done it again! Make dominoes from EVERYTHING in the house. More…
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Drunk Jackie Chan disrupts concert, insults audience

submitted by ozmodiar 7 hours 3 minutes ago (via http://ca.entertainment.yahoo....)
An apparently intoxicated Jackie Chan disrupted a concert by Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jonathan Lee in Hong Kong and exchanged insults with the audience. More…
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The mathematics behind the soccer ball


submitted by dirtyfratboy 16 hours 5 minutes ago (via http://www.sciencenews.org/art...)
Mathematics suggests that the older, 32-panel design can itself be modified in various ways to yield a variety of new patterns for spherical and even doughnut-shaped soccer balls. "To a mathematician, a soccer ball is an intriguing puzzle," mathematician Dieter Kotschick of the University of Munich writes. More…
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Alan Kotok, designer of the first video game controller, dies at 64

submitted by JibberJabber 13 hours 54 minutes ago (via http://arstechnica.com/journal...)
When we talk about video games it's always important to remember the people who brought us here. Today we should all bow our heads and remember Alan Kotok, one of the forward-thinking people who brought us Spacewar!, one of the first video games ever made. More…
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Foolproof way to solve any Sudoku by yourself, without even thinking!

submitted by bentrop 14 hours 54 minutes ago (via http://www.instructables.com/i...)
A step by step instruction to solve any Sudoku. All you need is the puzzle, a pencil and an eraser. It's fast and pretty much foolproof. This isn't really a new technique (it's called "candidate elimination" and is almost as old as Sudoku itself) but this is one of the nicest guides explaining it to the casual player. More…
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The Seduction Of Sales

submitted by curtissthompson 21 hours 50 minutes ago (via http://msnbc.msn.com/id/138126...)
With market teams focusing of the psychology of sales seduction, many Americans need to learn how to avoid the discount splurge. Here we'll talk about why this is and give you some tips on how to avoid the seduction of sales. More…
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9 Yrs Prison for WiFi Credit Card Hacker

submitted by SearchEngines 5 hours 57 minutes ago (via http://wired.com/news/technolo...)
Though there's no evidence either man saw a single stolen credit-card number, and despite cooperating to help Lowe's boost its security after his arrest, Salcedo was sentenced to what the government described at the time as the longest U.S. prison term for a hacker in history. A federal appeals court upheld the nine-year prison term... More…
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Microsoft warns of 5 "critical" security flaws

submitted by schestowitz 9 hours 1 minute ago (via http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/...)
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday warned of five "critical" security flaws in its Windows operating system and Office software that could allow attackers to take control of a computer. More…
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Biology and the Engineer

submitted by p9s50W5k4GUD2c6 23 hours 42 minutes ago (via http://www.technologyreview.co...)
John Mills fiddles with the knobs on a microscope, but instead of looking into the eyepiece, he stares at a sphere displayed on a laptop's screen. The laptop is connected to a video feed coming from the microscope, and Mills watches as fluids on a slide flow past the sphere, a tiny silica bead. More…
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A chat with Michael Dell: Alienware and XPS to stay separate

submitted by hemphill81 19 hours 44 minutes ago (via http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07...)
Michael Dell talks to reporters about keeping Alienware and Dell XPS separate. He states both brands have done well, but at the same time they each have their own customer base. More…
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If artificial sugar is so splendid, why aren't we thin?

submitted by johndi 5 hours 38 minutes ago (via http://www.time.com/time/magaz...)
More than half of Americans using sugar free products, but our waistlines keep growing. Some studies have suggested that artificial sweeteners interfere with our ability to gauge calories from foods containing real food. That wouldn't be good considering even foods like peanut butter and soup come loaded with sugar these days. More…
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