Best of Digg Daily Thursday, July 22, 2010

Alien Swarm is Free, Fun, and Full of Potential hellmode.com — Every once in a while a video game company does something worth telling the world about. Released yesterday, Valve's new game Alien Swarm is one of those such things–and it wouldn't have been possible without Steam and its large audience of varied gamers to distribute to. 1248 Diggs in Gaming - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 09:36 am iPhone 4 "End Call" Decal Adds Function to Form gizmodo.com — I hope someone makes the "End Call" iPhone 4 decal for real, just like the iPhone 4 antenna bandaids. It looks to me like a more stylish solution to the antenna problem than the free Apple bumpers. 871 Diggs in Technology - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 09:26 am Man Rapes Girl On Her 16th BDay, Calls It "Rite of Passage" blogs.seattleweekly.com — The 50-year-old man fed the girl shots of vodka to get her drunk. Then he told her this was what everyone did when they reached that special age. 529 Diggs in Offbeat - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 09:22 am Oil spill in Dalian, China (PICS) boston.com — Five days ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours, destroying several structures - the cause of the explosion is under investigation. 510 Diggs in World & Business - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 09:21 am Tarp Surfing is Hilarious [Video] video.mpora.com — Scoring mega-slabs somewhere up North 441 Diggs in Sports - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 01:01 pm Half Life 2: Episode 3 found in the Alien Swarm SDK! [PIC] gamingbolt.com — Guess what? We just smiled like the 'Grinch'. 438 Diggs in Top Image - Submitted Jul 22, 2010 12:57 am StarCraft II - Ghosts of the Past Trailer gamevideos.1up.com — This extended trailer was released as the final unlockable reward from Blizzard Entertainment's Join the Dominion! 365 Diggs in Top Video - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 03:41 pm 10 Things You Didn't Know About Ghostbusters neatorama.com — The 1984 film Ghostbusters starred Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and Dan Akroyd as paranormal exterminators in New York City (later joined by Ernie Hudson). The movie was #1 for five weeks straight that summer, and became the most successful comedy of the 1980s. But you already knew all that, didn't you? Here are ten things you might not know... 305 Diggs in Entertainment - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 03:25 pm 5 Ways Air Pollution Can Hit Hard on a Hot Day biofriendly.com — Hot days are bad enough but when you add in a batch of air pollution, as can be found in most major cities, the air quality only seems to get exponentially worse. Major cities have a tendency to form a sort of "heat island"....Therefore you might want to be aware of these 5 ways that air pollution can hit hard on a hot day: 286 Diggs in Science - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 12:12 pm Flying Pasties Hide Your Privates from Full Body Scanners gadling.com — More and more airports are implementing full body scanners and more people are crying foul as they fear that their right to privacy is being disregarded. Now, a creative company has introduced a product to protect travelers' privacy, modesty and genitalia. 278 Diggs in Lifestyle - Submitted Jul 21, 2010 01:42 pm