Digg is community based site that sets many trends in what’s hot or not when it comes to the news. The system is quite simple, an online news story is submitted to Digg, and if people like it they “digg” it. As an article receives diggs, it’s place in the site moves up giving it more exposure. There are no doubt positives and negatives to this system, but the main concern is — what are people digging?

According to this WebProNews article, a variety of things.

The most dugg article is one submitted by Kevin Rose, CEO of Digg. It involved some Blu-Ray/HD DVD encryption problem. Digg received a cease and desist order which led to a flurry of Digg users to show support for the site. Beyond that, most of what’s in the Top 10 belongs to stories concerning Barack Obama. He shares this space with a video showing off the Ninja Cat.

That’s what I love about Digg, it literally lets anything in. Ninja Cats, Barack Obama, useless Top 10 lists. Aslong as it can be listed through their system, everything is fair game.

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If you grew up playing with Legos, while also playing some of the older arcade classics then this video will be up your alley. I think my particular favorite was the Pac-Man portion. The video is quite impressive, and I can’t imagine how long it actually took to create all those different montages.

Enjoy.

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There have been some embarrassing moments in politics. There’s of course, the famous George Bush Sr. moment when he vomited on the Prime Minister of Japan. Even that incident can’t compare to what happened to Zambian president, Rupiah Banda.

Imagine you’re speaking to journalists during a news conference. You’re trying to concentrate and keep your game face on. All of a sudden, a stream of urine descends from a tree landing on you. Just picturing that leaves me embarrassed, but it actually happened to President Banda. A monkey who makes its home on Banda’s residence, let loose its urine from the tree and landed directly on the president.

So, what happened after that. Did guards swarm in, knock the president out of the way and take the monkey down?

No, in fact Banda played it off about as smoothly as possible. He yelled, “You (monkey) have urinated on my jacket,” and the playfully added, “Perhaps these are blessings”

That’s pretty impressive, to have monkey urine sprayed on you and play it cool like that. Apparently, there’s all kinds of wildlife trekking around President Banda’s state home. Can you imagine deer, and turkey running around the White House?

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Why is it that all the cool stuff releases in Japan? That’s all I could think of while reading this story about horror story laden toilet paper.

A Japanese company has gotten the bright idea to release toilet paper that will have a horror story printed on it. So, as you roll out the toilet paper, more of the story is available to read.

The first story that will appear on the rolls of toilet paper, is the novella written by Koji Suzuki. Who coincidentally wrote the horror story, “Ring”, which was widely popular in Japan. Before making its way to Hollywood for a movie make over.

Each roll will cost $2.20, and there’s no word yet if there will be an import option. Who knows, maybe you’ll be able to read some Agatha Christie when dealing with constipation in the future.

[via: AOLNews]

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It’s times like these that the people who go out for lunch look pretty smart. The fridge is a unique aspect to office life. People store food in it, often forgetting that anything is in there. Also, the office fridge isn’t anyone’s ‘responsibility’. Both of these concepts can lead to serious mess contaminating the office fridge. Just take this story for example

In San Jose, California an office had to be evacuated due to someone cleaning out a moldy, and dirty refrigerator. The fire department, and hazmat team had to enter the office to take care of the situation.

What happened is that an office worker decided to clean out the fridge, that had become really bad off. Apparently, the chemicals that were used to clean up the mess fused with the mold and created an odor that caused the office to be nauseas. A total of 28 people had to be treated for nausea, and 7 people went to the hospital.

Let this be a lesson to make fridge upkeep a team project. That way you hopefully won’t have to deal with vomit inducing mold in the future.

[via: Yahoo]

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If you’ve ever read up on the Library of Congress, then you know the history that the historical archive holds. Some of the pieces of literature, and recordings that have made our country what it is today is housed inside its hallowed walls. Matt Raymond, of the Library of Congress reports on his blog that the LOC looks to be tearing those walls down.

Meaning, that the LOC now has its own YouTube channel. At present, there are 70 videos up. The topics vary from the first known moving image, to boxing cats, and so on. In fact, both of those videos are below for your viewing pleasure. And below those is a link to the LOC’s YouTube Channel.

Library of Congress YouTube Channel

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