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1.6 Million Register for 8,750 Jackson Memorial Tickets (101 diggs) Some 1.6 million fans registered for a chance at fewer than 9,000 tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service next week, organizers said. Registration ended at 6 p.m. (9 p.m. ET) Saturday. The overwhelming response prompted organizers to open the lottery to non-U.S. residents as well, a Jackson family spokesman said.

Federer Beats Roddick In Epic Final (223 diggs) Roger Federer made tennis history at Wimbledon Sunday, defeating Andy Roddick 16-14 in the fifth to claim his 15th career major and surpass Pete Sampras' record for most Grand Slam singles titles

Happy Plane [PIC] (298 diggs)

Mama, can we have a pet like this in the house? [pics] (245 diggs) There are no any law regulations on what pets you can keep and what you can’t, no PETA, no need to pick up your little friend’s poo in special bags. You can walk with your pet anywhere on the street or public park, no any single “no pets allowed” signs outside. Some call it chaos others call it freedom, you decide yourself.

World's First 'Self-Watering' Plant: Desert Rhubarb (132 diggs) Researchers have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities of rain in the desert. This is the first example of a self-irrigating plant worldwide....

MI6 chief's cover blown by wife's holiday pics on Facebook (331 diggs) The new head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, is at the centre of a security breach after his wife published family holiday photographs and other personal details on the Facebook website.

Microsoft drops vomiting ad after complaints [VIDEO] (413 diggs) A controversial Microsoft ad campaign featuring a vomiting woman has been dropped by the software company after customer complaints

Navy may discharge seaman after discovery of sex games (539 diggs) The Defense Department has confirmed it is investigating claims Australian sailors engaged in a sex-for-money competition.

OpenBitTorrent Tracker Muscles In On The Old Pirate Bay (450 diggs) On Friday Jamie King, director of the Steal This Film documentaries, speculated here on TorrentFreak that the brand new OpenBitTorrent tracker could prove to be a replacement for The Pirate Bay if certain conditions were met. Now, just 48 hours later - has that dream already become reality?

Sarah Palin Threatens To Sue Entire Internet, Via Twitter (1,906 diggs) How did you spend the Fourth of July? Batshit-insane American Quitter Sarah Palin ended her own special “Independence Day” by posting a series of desperate grammar-challenged nonsense and vicious threats on her Facebook and Twitter pages. Really.

Royal Guards Perform Thriller MJ Tribute (635 diggs) The UK's Band of the Coldstream Guards unexpectedly perform Michael Jackson's Thriller

NGC 4921, An Unusual Spiral Galaxy (444 diggs) Located in the Coma galaxy cluster, "in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices, the hair of Queen Berenice," 320 million light-years from Earth. Photographer: The People's Telescope -- the world's most beloved and greatest telescope ever -- the one and only Hubble Space Telescope, a NASA Great Observatory.

Banksy vs. Bristol Museum (1,140 diggs)

La Peste: The Plague (video) (255 diggs) A short digital movie about the plague. Directed by Olivier Dubocage and Michal Firkowski.

Bride wants divorce for taking too much time to take a dump (718 diggs) A BRIDE has demanded a divorce from her husband of just one week who left her at an airport after their romantic newlywed jaunt because she took long in the toilet.

P2P Collection Costs Man Huge Fine, Suspended Sentence (444 diggs) A man who downloaded 12,591 music tracks, 426 movies and 16 full TV-series has been sentenced in France. The police searched the 55 year-old’s house in connection with an unrelated matter and stumbled across his collection. The man was sentenced to 33,000 euros ($46,200) in damages and a 2 month suspended jail sentence.

Dirtiest Dreads You've Ever Seen (1,026 diggs)

No Deal! Jammie Thomas to Appeal $1.92 Million Fine (529 diggs) Is it constitutional to fine someone $1.9 Million for sharing 24 songs? Is it copyright infringement to merely place songs in a shared folder?

Strange Patriotism: American Flag's Weirdest Movie Moments (253 diggs) #5 America Gets A Sponsor In Idiocracy - In the future of Idiocracy, politicians have traded in their business suits for stars and stripes jumpers and the American flag has traded in its colors for sponsorships.

A brilliant reminder of what forever looks like... [PIC] (3,575 diggs) ...

Fully reveals the shocking truth (2,111 diggs)

Twitter Cops [Video] (450 diggs) An independent vigilante group fights against bad tweets. And iPhones.

What Your Gadget Really Costs (593 diggs) Market research company iSuppli takes it upon itself to tear down popular gadgets to find out the price of the component parts and the vendors supplying those ingredients. A rundown of several recent iSuppli teardowns follows...

Faults And Earthquakes In China Monitored From Space (158 diggs) China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults in China to understand better the seismic cycle and how faults behave.

Former Beatles, Stones manager Allen Klein dies (265 diggs) Record label mogul Allen Klein, who handled the affairs of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, died in New York on Saturday after a battle with Alzheimer's disease.