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It's the most circulated number of the week. Sixteen hexadecimal digits that unlock the wonder of most currently released HD-DVD titles from the surly clutches of the AACS revenue content protection system. Sixteen digits that have been posted in so many places -- and in many cases, removed only to be reposted -- that they're hard to avoid.

Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel will be on The Colbert Report Wednesday, May 2nd, to talk about his campaign and last week's debate! Make sure you tune in!

I wrote this song today using the HD-DVD code as the lyrics, I thought it was pretty funny. Let me know what you think!

Here is this thing that does stuff in iTunes. There is magnetism, there is gravity, but on top of all of that, there is awesomeness. Watch as all the dots and ribbons go bouncy bouncy when you play music and trigger this mo-fo of a visualizer. This is the future of visuals...

How do you get rid of the body of a dead astronaut on a three-year mission to Mars and back?When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? NASA is looking into all these questions.

"We are mischaracterizing terrorism. Terrorism has been with civilization from the beginning. And it will be there to the end. We're going to be as successful fighting terrorism as we are fighting drugs with a war. It doesn't work. What you have to do is to begin to change the whole foreign policy."

The forest was found in the ceiling of a working coal mine, 250 feet below the surface. It was drowned 300 million years ago in an earthquake, its discoverers speculate ? here is a graphic of its formation. Geologists are excited because the huge fossilized forest, over 25 square miles in extent, preserves trees and other plants upright.

They're calling it the Demi Moore effect. According to a study done in April of this year by the dating site PlentyofFish.com, more and more women aged thirty and over are looking to date guys five and ten years their junior.

"I just wanted to explain what some of you have been noticing around some stories that have been submitted to Digg on the HD DVD encryption key being cracked."

The rumors swirling around Dell and Ubuntu are unstoppable now. Although nothing official has been announced (ye), more and more evidence is appearing of the impending cooperation between the two companies. Now, Dell has a new (and rather spartan) page explaining how to install Feisty on Dell computers. It's short but significant!

George W. Bush, 4/9/99: Victory means exit strategy, and it?s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

May 1, 1978: The first piece of unsolicited bulk e-mail (what will come to be known as spam) is written. When it's sent two days later, more than 400 people with an Arpanet address receive a promotional message sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer for Digital Equipment Corporation. It's been pretty much downhill from there.

Resources and How Tos, Applications and Scripts, Tricks and Tips, and information on manipulating the Desktop and Appearance.An essential bookmark for every Ubuntu beginner - and even an experienced pro is bound to find something of interest or use in this list.Enjoy!

Ever wanted to know what your cell phone's battery life is? Search by your manufacturer and find out.

Knowing that AACS is a total failure, all that the AACS licensing authority can do is control who links to the information on the crack. What's now needed is to spread the word about the AACS crack using a viral campaign.

A broad coalition of groups is urging members of the public to submit comments rejecting the illegal national identification system created under the Department of Homeland Security's REAL ID program. Stop REAL ID!

A new YouTube video flaunting the personal information of Chase Bank customers is getting a lot of attention. The video shows a person holding numerous confidential financial documents of bank customers, and pointing out information that is supposed to be protected by the bank!

A LeMoyne College/Zogby International poll shows that high numbers of troops serving in Iraq believe that the war is a response to the now discredited belief that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 or had substantial links to al Qaeda.

I guess flooding CNN with emails and phone calls wanting to see more Gravel does work.

Scientists are using nanotechnology to mend the broken spinal cords of mice. The results of their research could signal the end to diseases in humans, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and crippled people may walk again.

Gritty, Irreverent Rockers Nine Inch Nails Portray a One World Nightmare-- Degenerate Totalitarian Police State Under Absolute Surveillance; OpenSourceResistence.net gives means to spread message and use your voice. Consuming or spreading this material may be deemed subversive by the U.S. Bureau of Morality.

"25% of those in Australia do not believe in God...as many as 44% of those in Britain...44% in France...64% in Sweden...48% in Denmark...24% in Russia...31% Norway...28% in Finland...42% in the Netherlands...18% in Austria...34% in Bulgaria...61% in the Czech Republic...35% in Slovenia...32% in Hungary...49% in Estonia......6% in the United States"

Following the wide spread publicity of the AACS hack, especially with working out the HD DVD processing key, the AACS LA has started sending out Cease and Desist letters to various blog sites as well as the search giant Google for publishing the key to simply linking to the Doom9 threads about the crack.

If you thought refrigerators with built-in TVs were cool, then check out these five technologies. Continue reading to view them all.

This month we present you with the lovely Posh Suicide designer and Suicide Girls model, who in addition to being a video game junkie, is also a total Mac Geek....Also a Serious Digg Fan herself!!

Reliance on abstinence-only sex education as the primary tool to reduce teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases ? as favored by the Bush administration and conservatives in Congress ? looks increasingly foolish and indefensible.

The current market share of CFL bulbs in the United States is about 6 percent, up from less than 1 percent before 2001. But that compares dismally with CFL adoption rates in other wealthy countries such as Japan (80 percent), Germany (50 percent) and the United Kingdom (20 percent).

The Wii Blaster is a third-party device made by Core Gamer. It looks longer and more shotgun-like than the Sharpshooter, and will cost $20 when it is released on June 26th.

Some bureaucracy known as the "Health Service Executive" did not let her travel for the abortion unless she presented as a suicide risk. The fetus is severely disabled.

Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe are at it again, this time taking on medieval England instead of ancient Rome. It seems like they're going the same route as "Wicked," that is, making the story from the "bad guy's" point of view.

After the premiere in NYC last night, Fox 411 reporter (Roger Friedman) got the inside scoop, director Sam Raimi said "There will be a SpiderMan 4"

Estonian Channel 2 has reported that Russian-speaking youth in Estonia plan to revolt on May 9, Victory Day in Russia. According to the television channel, the youth intend to launch a protest on May 1 and begin a general strike the next day that will turn into a revolt on May 9

Murtha revises: Impeachment is 'on the table'

Hendrix, McCarney, Cobain -- don't underestimate the power of lefty guitarists. Got a twitch to take your Guitar Hero licks southpaw? Check out Engadget reader Kevin M's handiwork; not really a how-to in the vein of our own Ben Heck.

On Thursday May 3rd at 4:00 AM EDT, four new Gears of War maps will be hitting Xbox Live Marketplace as part of the "Hidden Fronts" Multiplayer Map Pack. Running you 800 Microsoft Points, you'll be able to do battle on Process, Garden, Subway, and Bullet Marsh.

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the Dynamic Language Runtime is largely based on lessons learned from developing IronPython, an implementation of the Python

On May 1, 2003, President Bush stood underneath a ?Mission Accomplished? banner and announced that ?Major combat operations have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." Here?s a by-the-numbers look at the situation then, compared to the situation now. So much better than another scandal. Real numbers here.

Sure, product designers are trying to make webcams look sleek and modern, and integrate them into our PC environment; they still look like eyesores most of the time. Others, like Apple, are trying to hide the cams altogether, reducing them to a barely-there little eye. But how about making them "fit" into our workspace instead? Enter Bubble Head

Pretty good overview of the happenings in Episode 20, Five Years Gone.

Peter Gabriel shocks the monkey music industry by funding a new startup called We7 that plans to offer free music without DRM in return for listening to 10 second advertisements.