links for 2007-08-02

One sure-fire way to get attention from socially driven sites is to write a really good list. Here are 7 things you should know about making lists, writen by one of our top diggers msaleem.

I started sewing my wedding dress when I was 14 years old. Most girls would never think of marriage at such a young age, but some of my peers were already wives and mothers. I knew it wouldn’t be long before I was married off, just like my mother had be

In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.

There’s nothing quite as uniquely irritating as a great franchise with only two installments. Our love of trilogies is a perfectly human and understandable one – three as a magic number has been hammered into our collective subconscious since the days

One of the earliest and most influential Jesus freaks was Lonnie Frisbee, a tripped-out young man who grew up in Orange County, Calif., saw God on LSD, and became a Christian in the Haight.

This pretty much clears everything up.

The Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft has made good on its promise for an RDC update, and has issued a 2.0 beta today as a Universal Binary. As a bonus, the Mac BU has also released an update to the Office Open XML file format converter that has improv

Maybe they’ll throw a washing machine in too.

The only description that I have to enter is : “Enjoy the pics !!!”

The Hubble Space Telescope is 17 years old

(AP) — Federal customs agents Wednesday raided more than 30 businesses and homes, looking for devices that let pirated video games play on Sony’s PlayStation 2, Microsoft’s Xbox and Xbox 360, and Nintendo’s Wii.

$500,000 from the space agency for building a robotic climber that can hoist itself up on a thin carbon tether, under its own power source, 100 meters within 50 seconds