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Three quarters of the country feel the nation is on the wrong track.

Arizona, one of the last States who remember that Gun Rights are Constitutional Rights.

The U.S. government has unveiled the U.S. Drought Portal last week that effectively provides a comprehensive center where anyone with an internet connection can see the current drought conditions, impacts, and forecasts.

From 'grass photographs' and 'moss graffiti' to living walls and desert lawnscapes, this is anything but typical environmental art. Check out these crazy images of everything from a grass-covered car to a patch of groomed lawn in the middle of the cracked Earth of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

So does Evan Wallach, a former judge advocate general in the Nevada National Guard, who has a must-read Op-Ed in the Washington Post Sunday. Wallach recalls a time when U.S. military leaders knew waterboarding was torture -- when they prosecuted and convicted Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American prisoners of war after World War II.

One hell of an explosion. I saw many Iraq videos before But i never seen strong explosion like this one.

The Staunton grand jury indicted a Manassas man and his company Thursday on 16 felony obscenity charges concerning adult videos that were sold in October at After Hours Video, according to Staunton Prosecutor Raymond C. Robertson.

Well all I got from this is that "Hema" is selling stuff...and that I'm way too clumsy.

Love the Wobbly Dryer and the Microwaved Melon.

College Startup profiles some of the biggest entrepreneurs that ever lived, and none of them needed College to get very far in making a name for themselves. A very impressive list including Michael Dell, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs

Study reveals link between breastfeeding and child IQ Babies who are breastfed stand a better chance of becoming intelligent children if they also inherit a version of a gene that is involved in the growth of the brain, researchers have found. 2 large studies of breastfed children confirm that mother’s milk does indeed raise IQ in later life

Charmaine Dragun, 29, plunged to her death off sea cliffs known as The Gap on Friday. She was "determined not to allow [depression] to control her", the friends wrote in The Australian newspaper. Ms Dragun was found hours before she was due to read the evening news. Dragun took her life just hours before she was due to read the 5pm Perth news.

Fight The Ko-Dan Armada — For Real! The great folks at Rogue Synapse — a resource for movie-aficionados and game cabinet builders — have not only researched the details of the game cabinet from the movie, they’ve also developed a working version of the Starfighter game!

Chemists have created a collection of molecules that may have effects superior to marijuana.

Last week, scientist John Christy wrote an op-ed disagreeing with Al Gore on global warming. In a television appearance on Monday, Gore addressed Christy's claims, then attacked the media directly, saying that "the challenge the news media has had in covering this story is the old habit of taking the 'on the one hand, on the other hand' approach."

The opening volley of official announcements from Google and the Open Handset Alliance bring good news for people sick of the carrier choke hold.

Origami artist Eric Joisel created these Lord of the Rings sculptures of the Three Hunters (Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, and Legolas the Elf) out of single uncut pieces of papers.

A new international teaser trailer for Iron Man has popped up online. The new trailer clocks in at just under one minute and contains a couple of new shots (and a comic button) featuring Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts. The movie hits theaters on May 2nd 2008.

I think we all know at least one of these people.

Gears of War is being released on the PC this week and we’ve got an exclusive look at performance and image quality in this game under Windows Vista in DX10. We test the GeForce 8800 GTX, GTS, and GT along with the Radeon HD 2900 XT. We cover DX9 vs. DX10 and best gameplay experience.