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One Soldier Echoes the Hearts and Minds of Millions
As John McCain plans to continue the occupation of Iraq for at least five more years one soldier stands up and says No. Sergeant Matthis Chiroux is willing to fight, but not to commit war crimes or fight in an "unconstitutional and illegal" war. As Americans it is time to ask ourselves which direction we want to go in Iraq.
Posted on 18 May 2008 | 4:40 am
20% of U.S. Population Has Never Used Email
Ezratrumpet writes "A recent PC World article notes that 20 percent of the U.S. population has never sent an email. Does this number over- or underestimate the actual number of people who know nothing of email? What are the implications of this statistic to our society? Or are these people just Luddites who mourned the demise of the telegraph and have also never used a telephone?"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted on 18 May 2008 | 3:09 am
Red Army Hip hop: the evolution of dance at work
The original dance moves from the Soviet Union propaganda of 1930s go surprisingly well with current American hip hop music. Makes you wonder...
Posted on 18 May 2008 | 2:50 am
Scary Clinton´s picture
Posted on 18 May 2008 | 1:10 am
Surgical Robot Removes Calgary Woman's Brain Tumor
Raver32 points out an article in the Victoria Times Colonist about an interesting advance in robotic surgery: "Calgary doctors have made surgical history, using a robot to remove a brain tumour from a 21-year-old woman. Doctors used remote controls and an imaging screen, similar to a video game, to guide the two-armed robot through Paige Nickason's brain during the nine-hour surgery Monday. Surgical instruments acting as the hands of the robot -called NeuroArm — provided surgeons with the tools needed to successfully remove the egg-shaped tumour."
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Posted on 18 May 2008 | 12:01 am
Most Unique and Interesting Review of a Pen (Pilot G2) Ever!
If a pen could ever be described in more eloquent prose I have never seen it. This blogger makes reading about pens fascinating with her latest blog post about the Pilot G2.
Posted on 18 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Limbaugh Busted: Uses 10th Grader’s Essay To Attack Obama
It’s no secret that the right STILL hasn’t figured out how to effectively use the internets, so it comes as no surprise that the Grand Poobah of right wing radio douche bags, Rush Limbaugh, has made a complete fool of himself by using a 12 year old essay by a 10th grader to attack Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama.
Posted on 18 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Is Better Than Cable or Satellite
Microsoft's Mediaroom is the company's IPTV solution that brings TV into to your house (much like cable and satellite) over the internets. You might be familiar with it in its commercially released service forms such as AT&T U-Verse here in the US or BT Fusion in the UK.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 11:30 pm
Robin Williams Explains How a Drunk Scotsman Invented Golf
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 10:40 pm
It's still good to be Mr.BabyMan!!
C'mon, a show of support for the maestro!
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 10:00 pm
Dag Wieers Scoffs at Coordinated Linux Release Proposal
Nic Doye writes "Dag Wieers responds to Mark Shuttleworth's recent request to ask major Enterprise Linux distributions to synchronise releases, claiming that it 'is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise space.' He's confessing to playing Devil's Advocate here, but it is an interesting view from someone with a large amount of experience in the Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS space."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 9:12 pm
Asian Photography 101: Catching the Upskirt [pic]
Hilarious picture encompassing what it takes to be a kickass Asian photographer... :)
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 9:10 pm
Playing Xbox 360 Dashboard has never been this fun (PIC)
Employees at Google's office having a blast - playing Xbox 360 Dashboard with Guitars. Noobs...
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 8:50 pm
Clinton May Not Return to Senate
With the end of the race for the Democratic nomination, it's not just decision time for Barack Obama, but also for Hillary Clinton. And with the way things have turned out, it's possible she may opt to retire instead of returning to the Senate.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 8:40 pm
Clinton Campaign Acknowledges "It’s Over."
"She has changed her rhetoric and for the first time now her people, her closest aides ... are acknowledging she is not going to win this."
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 8:30 pm
The Universe From The Big Bang
A diagram explaining the expansion of the universe since the Big Bang.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 7:07 pm
Survivor Buddy, a Friendly Robot Rescuer
Roland Piquepaille writes "The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion to a person who may be trapped after a car crash or in building ruins following an earthquake, or someone pinned down by sniper fire.' As said Murphy, 'robots can provide not only a sense of being a 'buddy' by playing soothing music or providing other entertainment, the robot also can be the audio and video link between survivor and family.' Murphy will develop this robot with some money coming from Microsoft. But read more for additional references and a picture of Murphy with her robot rescuers."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 7:07 pm
20% of U.S. Has Never Sent E-mail
Roughly one-fifth of all U.S. households are disconnected from the Internet and have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates.A recent phone survey of U.S. households by Parks found 20 million households are without Internet access, approximately 18 percent of all U.S. households.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 7:06 pm
The Top 7 Secrets to Writing a Cracked.com Top 7 List
A former Cracked.com writer reveals all of their link-whoring secrets in 8 hilarious, easy-to-digest nuggets (with boobs!).
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 5:52 pm
Canadian ISP Ordered to Prove Traffic-Shaping is Needed
Sepiraph writes "In a letter sent to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers and Bell Canada on May 15, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) have ordered Bell Canada to provide tangible evidence that its broadband networks are congested to justify the company's Internet traffic-shaping policies. This is a response after Bell planned to tackle the issue of traffic shaping, also called throttling, on the company's broadband networks. It would be interesting to see Bell's response, as well as to see some real-world actual numbers and compare them to a previous study."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 5:47 pm
Namco Bandai In SHOCK Soul Calibur Breast Cover-Up
Yes. Shocking. For your submission, the picture, showing Soul Calibur's Ivy as she's depicted on the game's official website. On the left, how she appears on the Japanese site. On the right? How she appears on the American site.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 5:35 pm
Embarrassing U.S. Border Patrol Traffic Stop
The Benny Hill music probably doesn't make the footage any easier for the officer to watch.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 5:35 pm
Developers Prefer XP Over Vista Survey Shows
Besides avoiding Vista developers are still writing for the older version of Microsoft Office.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 5:04 pm
John Carlin on why Iceland has the happiest people on earth | World news | The Observer
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 4:59 pm
US oil shipments canceled
Responding to congressional pressure, the Bush administration on Friday said it is suspending oil deliveries into the government's Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the remainder of the year.President Bush to temporarily halt shipments into the reserve in hopes of lowering gasoline price.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 4:50 pm
Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail
bughunter writes "Internet consultant firm Gartner claims that only 1 in 10 commercial virtual worlds succeeds, and most fail within 18 months: 'Businesses have learned some hard lessons," Gartner analyst Steve Prentice said in a statement released Thursday. "They need to realize that virtual worlds mark the transition from Web pages to Web places and a successful virtual presence starts with people, not physics. Realistic graphics and physical behavior count for little unless the presence is valued by and engaging to a large audience."'" Hard to believe it's even as high as one in ten -- most "virtual worlds" with obvious commercial trappings certainly don't inspire much besides mockery.
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 4:29 pm
How A Magnet Turned Off My Speech
Roger Highfield recalls how he could not utter a nursery rhyme as part of his brain was turned off by a magnet.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 4:23 pm
What Digg Has Become.
I am a fan of Digg, and a fan of American politics, but is Digg the new political strong-base?
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 4:01 pm
Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards
Asus is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 3:53 pm
Logarithmic Spirals: Hurricanes and Galaxies
Uncomfortably close Typhoon Rammasun and 25 million light-year distant galaxy M101 don't seem to have much in common. But they do...
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 3:32 pm
Global Warming Claims South Florida
South Floridians might be losing ground to global warming. Climate change is the biggest challenge the district, and all governments, must face, board member Shannon Estenoz said."We don't have the luxury of waiting," Estenoz said.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 3:10 pm
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices
Stating the obvious: "Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,' write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 3:08 pm
Jeffrey Feldman: For Assassination Joke, Huckabee Should Be
off TV....MSNBC are you listening?
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 2:50 pm
5 Great Ways to Contribute to Social Media - ReadWriteWeb
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 2:23 pm
Examples of Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
This is a list of examples of Fibonacci Sequence in nature
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 2:22 pm
Why Did Touch Take 4 Decades to Catch On?
theodp writes "You probably saw media coverage of Bill Gates showing off touch-screen technology to his CEO play group last week. With the introduction of the iPhone and iPod Touch, touch (and multi-touch) technology — which folks like Ray Ozzie enjoyed as undergrads way back in the early '70s — has finally gone mainstream. The only question is: Why did it take four decades for its overnight success? Some suggest the expiration of significant patents filed during '70s and '80s may have had something to do with it — anything else?"
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 1:54 pm
Is the polar bear predicament a sign of things to come?
Scientists believe that at least two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone within 40 years. But some say adding them to the endangered species list is just lip service and ignores the real issues.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 1:49 pm
George Lucas Has Idea for More Indiana Jones Sequels
“I haven’t even told Steven or Harrison this,” Lucas told Fox News. “But I have an idea to make Shia [LeBeouf] the lead character next time and have Harrison [Ford] come back like Sean Connery did in the last movie. I can see it working out.” Harrison Ford told USA Today in April that he also might consider a fifth installment of Indiana Jones.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 1:26 pm
2008 Google Summer of Code Highlights
andrewmin writes "SoC 2008 has begun, and with 175 organizations and 1125 students it looks better than ever before. Here's a quick run-down of a few programs that, if they are finished, will definitely be making their way onto your machine."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 12:41 pm
Now that's gonna hurt! [PIC]
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
Will Smith Opens Scientology School
Contains 6 Scientologists as teachers and offers "Study Tech" which was developed by L. Ron Hubbard and is used worldwide by the Church of Scientology. No longer the prince of Bel-Air, but rather a slave hubbard.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 12:12 pm
Hillary Finance Committee Member Makes Illegal Donations
No person shall make a contribution in the name of another person or knowingly permit his name to be used to effect such a contribution, and no person shall knowingly accept a contribution made by one person in the name of another person.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 11:50 am
Examples of Fibonacci Numbers in Nature
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 11:38 am
Touchscreen BlackBerry "Thunder" Due by September
"The Wall Street Journal confirms all of the details unearthed a few days ago about BlackBerry's touchscreen Apple killah: Dubbed Thunder, it's only got four physical keys and it'll be exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone abroad. "
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 11:34 am
Robotic Camera Extension Takes Gigapixel Photos
schliz writes "Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a device that lets a standard digital camera take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels). The Gigapan is a robotic arm that takes multiple pictures of the same scene and blends them into a single image. The resulting picture can be expanded to show incredible detail."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 11:31 am
The Dark Side of Social Networking: An Interview
Last summer, a local San Diego CBS affiliate television station, News 8, aired a story about a website called BumFinder.com. The website solicited users who would spot people who appeared to be homeless and plug in their location coordinates using a Google Map. The station interviewed San Diego's most famous homeless advocate, Father Joe Carroll...
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 11:10 am
Wikimedia Censors Wikinews
An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia Foundation Board (which controls Wikipedia and Wikinews) has killed off a Wikinews report into the Barbara Bauer vs. Wikimedia Foundation lawsuit. Wikinews is a collaborative news site and is meant to be editorially independent from the WMF. The WMF office also suppressed a Wikinews investigation into child and other pornography on Wikipedia, which was independently covered by ValleyWag and other outlets this week. The US Communications Deceny Act section 230 grants providers of internet services (such as the Wikipedia and Wikinews) immunity from legal action related to their user-generated content provided they do not exercise pre-publication control. In deleting articles critical of the WMF prior to publication, Wikileaks says the Wikimedia Foundation may have set a dangerous precedent that could remove all of its CDA section 230 immunity (at least for Wikinews, where the control was exercised)."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 10:18 am
10 Books You Should Read Before Seeing The Movie (in 2008)
That’s why I’ve compiled a list of 10 movies coming out this year which were adapted from book/graphic novels, along with related source material to get you ready for the 2008 mega-movie season.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 10:11 am
Cannibalism Is Healthy?
Who Knew Man Eating Could Be Healthy For You?
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 9:50 am
Disconnecting Distraction
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 9:29 am
Exclusive: Help us examine the lost JFK files
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins announced this week that documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were found in a little-known vault in his office.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 9:20 am
Removing the Big Kernel Lock
Corrado writes "There is a big discussion going on over removing a bit of non-preemptable code from the Linux kernel. 'As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptable BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a spinlock and thus turned it into non-preemptable code again. "This commit returned the BKL code to the 2.6.7 state of affairs in essence," began Ingo Molnar. He noted that this had a very negative effect on the real time kernel efforts, adding that Linux creator Linus Torvalds indicated the only acceptable way forward was to completely remove the BKL.'"
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 9:13 am
How To: Learn to Play an Instrument Online
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 9:09 am
Gorgeous new Theme Pack for Ubuntu introduced - FutureLooks!
This theme combines elements of all 3 Desktop OSs to create a seamless, modern appearence for Ubuntu and any other Debian derivatives.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 8:40 am
Myspace “Outrage Indictment” Perverts Justice
Who does not feel sorry for the family of Megan Meir? I certainly do but.....
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 8:20 am
Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken
An anonymous reader writes "Websense Security Labs explains the spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and mass-mailing strategies. Apparently spammers are using combination of different tactics — proper email accounts, visual social engineering, and fast-flux — representing a strategy, explains their resident CAPTCHA expert. It is evident that spammers are working towards defeating anti-spam filters with their tactics."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 8:10 am
16 Tips For Getting Good Sleep
There's a lot of advice out there about getting good sleep -- it's VERY important. We quickly adjust to being sleep-deprived, and don't notice that we aren't functioning at a normal level, but lack of sleep really affects us. If you're feeling blue or listless, try going to sleep thirty minutes earlier for a week. It can really help.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 8:07 am
Mars Harder and Colder Than Previously Thought
coondoggie writes "Turns out that the surface of Mars is stiffer and colder than previously thought. New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that any liquid water that might exist below the planet's surface and any possible organisms living in that water would be located deeper than scientists had suspected. NASA made the discovery while using the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument on the Orbiter, which revealed long, continuous layers stretching up to 600 miles, or about one-fifth the length of the United States. The radar pictures show a smooth, flat border between the ice cap and the rocky Martian crust, NASA said. On Earth, the weight of a similar stack of ice would cause the planet's surface to sag. The fact that the Martian surface is not bending means that its strong outer shell, or lithosphere, a combination of its crust and upper mantle, must be very thick and cold."
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Posted on 17 May 2008 | 7:06 am
Firefox 3 RC1 Out Now
Jay writes "Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out now. If yours didn't auto-update, then get it while it's hot! The release came a bit early, with Computer World noting: 'As recently as last Saturday, Mozilla's chief engineer said that although the company had locked down RC1's code, it was planning to publicly launch the build in "late May."'" My copy just downloaded — restarting after I save this story. God I hope it's better than the last beta.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 5:56 am
70 Fresh And Modern Blogger Templates
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 4:09 am
HOWTO: FutureLooks - A "next-gen" Desktop Pack. - Ubuntu Forums
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 12:48 am
GmailにカレンダーやGTalk、ノートブックetcを統合するグリースモンキー『Gmail Addons』 | Google Mania - グーグルの便利な使い方
Posted on 17 May 2008 | 12:01 am
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - 11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation
Posted on 16 May 2008 | 11:18 pm
50 Free Icon Sets - The Web Squeeze
Posted on 16 May 2008 | 11:29 am
36 Cool Business Cards You Should’ve Seen
Posted on 16 May 2008 | 11:02 am
Gretchen Rubin: 16 Tips For Getting Good Sleep - Living on The Huffington Post
Posted on 16 May 2008 | 10:16 am
jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu | Filament Group, Inc.
Posted on 15 May 2008 | 6:45 pm
Wuapi: your life in high definition
Posted on 14 May 2008 | 1:44 pm
Google Doctype - Google Code
Posted on 14 May 2008 | 9:56 am
How to Geotag Your Photos | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Posted on 12 May 2008 | 6:18 pm
Cubescape - Your own digital landscape
Posted on 12 May 2008 | 2:45 pm
Foreign Policy: The List: The World’s Most Dangerous Gangs
Posted on 12 May 2008 | 9:44 am
(function() { : YCodaSlider 2.0 (BETA)
Posted on 12 May 2008 | 4:22 am
How to find images on the internet « Random knowledge
Posted on 10 May 2008 | 5:40 am
Make fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique
Posted on 10 May 2008 | 4:36 am
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-22859295
Posted on 8 May 2008 | 8:19 pm
Fastest Online Dictionary in the net - DefineItFast.com
Posted on 4 May 2008 | 11:03 am
AppAppeal » Reviews of Web Based Applications
Posted on 18 March 2008 | 12:27 am
http://www.cubeecraft.com/
Posted on 15 February 2008 | 11:22 am
Eye of the Goof: The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org
Posted on 29 August 2007 | 7:25 am
James Howard Kunstler on the Tragedy of Suburbia
Posted on 19 June 2007 | 7:20 pm
Scribd
Posted on 26 February 2007 | 12:09 am
Video Tabs Archive
Posted on 10 December 2006 | 11:53 pm
introduction to digital filters with audio applications
Posted on 31 August 2005 | 2:46 pm