New Tech May Make Batteries Obsolete

Breakthrough Power Technology Claims to Deliver 500 Miles on 5-Minute Charge

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Save and Open SSH Connections from the Panel

As is often the case, I found something better than SecureCRT - a panel applet for GNOME that gives me a drop-down list of SSH connections.

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Ubuntu sponsor seeks feedback

User input is being sought on a planned 2008 release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, according to an official at the project's sponsor company.

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Newest Ubuntu dubbed 'Hardy Heron'

The first version of Ubuntu to be released next year has been unveiled, and in the tradition of affable alliterations ascending the alphabet, the OS has been codenamed "Hardy Heron".

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An example of simple but effective advertisement

Simple is better.

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10 Print "Hello": Posting to Blogger via Ruby

TextMate has what seems to be a very nice blogging bundle for programmatically sending posts to your blogging engine of choice. Except that it doesn't work for the new Blogger API. Or at least it didn't the last time I checked. Mostly I just wanted to see if I could write my own script to send to Blogger.

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You are more productive using Python than Java, period.

A programmer can be significantly more productive in Python than in Java. How much more productive? The most widely accepted estimate is 5-10 times. On the basis of my own personal experience with the two languages, I agree with this estimate.

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Steal bandwith from Pocketfactory and get embarrased big time //PIC NSFW

Don't steal bandwidth else you will unleash the wrath of the web admin.

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DIY Night Vision

Homemade Night Vision, Enjoy!

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DIY Hungry Paper Bat

An easy prop hack for Halloween.

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Offline Applications: A Brighter Future Than You Think

Despite a lot of disagreement about the value of moving web applications offline, I’m starting to believe that there will be a big future for offline apps.

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Film & Video Lighting for Low-Budgets

the difference between something that is well lit and something that isn't can be the difference between a film that's great and one that's totally pants.

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Half-Life developer: Wii more valuable than 360, PS3

Half-Life creator and founder of Valve software, Gabe Newell, strongly hinted at plans to develop games for Nintendo Wii, calling his current exclusion of games on the system as "an obvious hole in our strategy."

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Some Users Critical of Revamped Digg.com

At TechCrunch Duncan Riley blogged that the "overall look feels a little more feminine. The inclusion of videos on the front page seemingly interrupts the flow of Digg stories as you scroll down the page.

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Blast from the past: Funny GameBoy ad

This also makes a great come back line....

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Google Cellphone Launching in Two Weeks

Call it the most-anticipated product launch circulating in the rumour mill: Google is expected to debut its mobile phone in two weeks in India, according to Indian news site Rediff.com.

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Technology at the service of mankind? Cellphone used to 'lure' robbers

A police officer used the cellphone of an armed robber wounded during a robbery to lure his fellow gangsters to spots where waiting officers arrested them.

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Sony Vaio LT19U - It’s no iMac killer

When I think of an all-in-one computer, my mind immediately goes to the iMac. I honestly have never seen another company pull off the all-in-one quite as well as Apple does. If you’re not a big fan of running OSX, you might just want to check out Sony’s new AIO system that might just give the iMac a run for its money.

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Sony admits PSP needed more games at launch time

Videogame console maker Sony has admitted that they made a mistake by not having much content for their Playstation Portable gaming console at launch time.

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Sony Ericsson PSP Phone Concept, is it targeting the iPhone?

Sony Ericsson patented a PSP phone concept a while back, proving that Sony had some interest in developing a PSP phone model. At the time, it was more than likely not a priority, but that’s starting to change.

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Switch statements in Python

Python doesn’t support a native switch statement. I’ve found myself using the following coding idiom instead recently which seems to work pretty well

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A Mine of Images to post on Digg:Reddit’s Unofficial Image Section

Check out the Reddit homepage at any time and you’ll surely find a lot of those.

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Only You Can Prevent Becoming the Office Idiot

I would like to share a few pointers that once mastered, will benefit your clients, your co-workers, and yourself.

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So What! I'm A Software Developer, Not Thomas Edison

Everyone makes mistakes, you just learn from them. That is the key.

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Ultimate Web Development Cheat Sheets

So your sitting there on Saturday morning, sipping on a nice warm cup of coffee or tea, smell the freshness of the morning, and whipping up some html, CSS and trying out some new AJAX programming. Your stuck on something, you wish you had a quick cheat sheet to get you back on track.

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Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps

Construct a highly available Apache Web server cluster that spans multiple physical or virtual Linux® servers in 5 easy steps with Linux Virtual Server and Heartbeat v2.

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Printserver to Network-Controllable Switch Hack

One day it hit me. I wanted to connect my coffee-machine to the internet. and my television...and my desk light... There are different approaches. One of the most stupid ones was to stuff a relais-board into my pc and....greeaaat idea..absolutely...."sorry, I cannot cook coffee because I first have to reboot my computer...." nope.

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Fate of a dog in an Atlanta animal shelter

This is why you should consider adopting a dog/cat.

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Greece is on fire, literally!!!

Greece`s fire brigade said it was battling 87 forest fires throughout the country.

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Introduction to HIJAX

Ivan Pepelnjak describes how you can deploy an interactive AJAX application while still supporting visitors with older browsers, users that disabled JavaScript and search engine spiders.

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Ten Tips for Optimizing a Web Page for Search Engines

Wondering what it takes to get a web page to appear in the top listing of search results in Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask? Other than paying for those top “blue” spots, how do you get the search engines to decide who goes where in the unpaid listings they return?

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Business on the cheap: Installing Simple Invoices On Debian Etch

Simple Invoices is a web-based, basic invoicing system that lets you create and manage your invoices, export them as PDF or Excel files, email them to your customers, etc. It is intended for small businesses/organizations and home users.

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1,2,3,4,5.......RAAAAAAAMBO!!!!!!!!!!

John Rambo is coming back and he doesn't look happy. For him, what happens in Burma will blow up in Burma....

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Women guide to discovering porn on thier boyfriends computer

With this guide more women will find what their boyfriend is up to: bestiality, midgets, cleveland steaming and the always feared.... GAY PORN!!!!.

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Mosquito Myth Busting

Pesky mosquitoes can make being outside a real pain. Two small-town Texas moms are trying to change that and take a bite out of the insect repellent business.

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YouTube tweaks interface, adds Digg-like features

YouTube's interface underwent some tweaks yesterday. Aimed mostly at improving community interaction with videos, ratings, comments, and search have been given more presence on the site.

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Easy On-the-Fly Task Automation in Windows

Computer use involves a lot of repetition, and I’ve found that some simple automation tools can save lots of time and hassle. In this post, I’ll discuss some of the easiest low-cost and free ways to automate workaday tasks on a Windows system.

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Python 101 cheat sheet

Python columnist Evelyn Mitchell brings you a quick reference and learning tools for newbies who want to get to know the language. Print it, keep it close at hand, and get down to programming!

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Miracles do happen: A PSP unbricker

Sorry if your bricked PSP lays at the bottom of the ocean or moved permanently to our local landfill.

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Miracles do happen: A PSP unbricker

Sorry if your bricked PSP lays at the bottom of the ocean or moved permanently to our local landfill.

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Miracles do happen: A PSP unbricker

Sorry if your bricked PSP lays at the bottom of the ocean or moved permanently to our local landfill.

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Exclusive Interview: Seth Green

Robot Chicken just returned for a third season, and I spoke to Green this week for an exclusive chat about the show, which recently received its first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program

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FCC Probes Caller-ID Fakers

If you've ever used one of the half-dozen websites that allow you to control the phone number that appears on someone's Caller ID display when you phone them, the U.S. government would like to know who you are.

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FREE Perl Cookbook

Need that piece of code to complete your project?

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FREE Python Cookbook

Need that piece of code to complete your project?

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Develop a voice-enabled RSS reader

Convert RSS feeds to voice and topic requests to voice instructions with VoiceXML

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Get started with Project Zero and PHP

This tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to get started with Project Zero, from installing the development tools to constructing an Ajax Web 2.0 sample using PHP as the back-end scripting language. Exporting an application is covered on the way, together with examples of debugging and extending a Web 2.0 application.

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19 year old guy facebook dweller runs for mayor

Don't miss his youtube video with the battlefield theme......(check the comments).

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Top 5 Reasons to Move from RHEL to SLE

These points are gathered from countless discussions, presentations, questions and even osmosis. I hope that these points are useful for our customers who are SLES-curious, our partners who are representing SLE to customers and I welcome any feedback or suggestions you might have.

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Pain-free disk space management with LVM

Managing disk space used to be a royal pain for admins and users. Running out of disk space often meant reinstalling Linux or spending a few hours with tools like Parted to resize partitions. However, using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) tools, you can grow, shrink, and manage disk space with very little hassle.

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Find out how many file descriptors are being used

While administrating a box, you may wanted to find out what a processes is doing and find out how many file descriptors (fd) are being used. You will surprised to find out that process does open all sort of files:

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Linux Myth Buster: What is difference in Server and Desktop Linux?

I have been asked a question many times by my friends and colleagues who are new to Linux or just want to learn Linux.

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Morse Code Intepreter & Synthesizer with Speech

This project implements a system that translates Morse Code to text and speech and translates text to Morse Code.

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Setting Up—And Sharing—A Wireless Internet Connection

Sharing an Internet connection is one of the easiest things to set up on a wireless network, assuming you have a fast enough Internet connection. Michael Miller shows you how to do it, including how to create your own public Wi-Fi Hot Spot.

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PIC16F84A discolight effect with bass beat control

This is an early picture of my discolight effect. Because of the AGC circuit theres no need for potentionmeters for sensitivity adjust. I replaced them with trimmers. Now the microphone is on the control electronics because theres no need to place it outside the box and the possible noises from the surroundings are reduced.

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Identity 2.0: How Attackers Break into Identity-centric Services

Identity management services such as OpenID, Microsoft's CardSpace, Sxip, YADIS, and others are here to improve the way we identify ourselves online and eliminate the necessity to register for every single service. But can we really trust them? Petko D. Petkov, a.k.a pdp, reveals the dangers of user-centric management systems.

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Sea Ice Retreat in the East Siberian Sea

These images show a portion of the coast of eastern Siberia and the New Siberian Islands, roughly 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of Alaska. Despite some cloud cover, the images show pronounced sea ice retreat over a period of 42 days.

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Scary Think Different Campaign [PIC]

Extra points if you can mention everybody on this poster.

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The Master Atlas Nerd version [PIC]

Now Mac OS X admins can be taken for serious....

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How to dress like the Mac guy // PIC

Now you can be hip like the mac dude.

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Sick of DRM [PIC]

I’m getting sick of DRM. I’m switching to Emusic. I mean, I love Apple’s stuff, but I want some freedom of choice in my life.

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Damn Scary Celebrity Clowns // PICS

Your coulrophobia will just get worse.

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Damn Scary Celebrity Clowns // PICS

Your coulrophobia will just get worse.

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Damn Scary Celebrity Clowns // PICS

Your coulrophobia will just get worse.

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Damn Scary Celebrity Clowns // PICS

Your coulrophobia will just get worse.

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Olympus releases updated firmware for E-410 & E-510 DSLRs

Olympus has updated firmware available for its E-410 and E-510 digital SLRs. The E-410 software improves the accuracy of whitebalance preview whilst using Live View and stops the filename sequence from being reset when images are deleted.

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A crovvbar for $40?, yay for capitalism.

I've been eyeballing this aptly named tool for a while. My new house has a few extra walls, so I finally had an excuse to buy one. There are actually two versions of the 'Functional Utility Bar' made by Stanley.

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`Daily Show' to air reports from Iraq FOR REAL

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," whose phony news coverage has long included phony "remotes" from war-torn Iraq, will be reporting from Iraq for real next week.

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How To Save Traffic With mod_deflate On Lighttpd 1.4 Debian/Ubuntu

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure mod_deflate on a lighttpd 1.4 web server on Debian Etch. mod_deflate is included by default in lighttpd 1.5, but not in 1.4 where mod_compress is used instead. The advantage of mod_deflate over mod_compress is that it can compress static and dynamic files (such as PHP files), whereas mod

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Compact discs turn 25

It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany.

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Development Issues Delaying PS3 Games?

An industry analyst claims that PS3 development is lagging because of performance and optimization issues compared to the Xbox 360.

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Analysts disagree on important PS3, Xbox 360 issues

Industry analysts sound off on what really matters in gaming at the moment. Is the PS3 in trouble because Xbox 360 delivers a better Madden experience, or will gamers avoid the Xbox 360 until Microsoft solves the 'three red rings of death' error.

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Oracle Ships 11g Database For Linux

The first major upgrade to the database in two years offers many significant features, but Windows users will have to wait.

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Generating functions rather than lists in Python

Since I wrote about list comprehensions in Python a few weeks ago I've been getting feedback from people impressed with their power, and looking forward to re-factoring their code using comprehensions rather than explicit loops.

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IIS Outserves Apache on Fortune 1000 Web Sites

IIS Outserves Apache on Fortune 1000 Web Sites While ASP.NET Deployments Grow

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Apache: The engine that powers the Web

Beyond Linux, the most famous and widely used piece of open source software is the Apache Web server. Once by far the most dominant Web server software on the Internet, Apache still powers about half of the Web sites you'll run into. One of Apache's key benefits is that it runs on a multitude of operating systems.

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Will Ruby kill PHP?

The short answer is: no.

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Spell check text file from terminal w0W!!!

This blog entry is here to do spell check of text file(s) remotely via terminal or without using X. This can be done non-interactively and interactively using linux spell and aspell binary.

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Hackers Clone E-Passports, What nationality you wanna be?

A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year.

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Accelerometer data without a Wiimote

This little board demonstrates the capabilities of the MMA2260 +/- 1.5g X-Axis Micromachined Accelerometer. As you tip it back and forth, LEDs light up to show the magnitude and direction of the G force

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How to Paint With Smoke

Beginning with Wolfgang Paalen, visionary artists, including well-known surrealists such as Salvador Dali, practiced the fine art of "painting with smoke," otherwise known as "fumage." More delicate than charcoal, providing intriguing textures and patterns, fumage can serve as a standalone media or as an innovative approach

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Universal identity and single sign on using openID? No Thanks

Universal standards and open data formats are the holy grail of modern information technology. With different vendors creating competing products they always try to lock users into walled gardens where they use their product and only their product.

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How to make fake heads

A cool project for your Halloween apps or the scare the beejesus out of the neighbors

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'Monty Python's Flying Circus' voted 'most influential comedy'

'Monty Python's Flying Circus' has been polled the most influential Brit TV comedy, conjuring 26 pct of the votes in a survey conducted by UKTV Gold channel.

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Facebook's PHP leak SNAFU (and kuplamuovi)

No bubblewrap was harmed in the making of Tuesday's IT Blogwatch: in which Facebook suffers a self-inflicted source code leak. Not to mention, uhhh, the harming of bubblewrap...

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The ultimate users guide to hacking a CoinStar machine

So, you go digging through your couch and you find somewhere around $200 in loose change and you REALLY don't want to count all of that yourself. Fortunately, god invented CoinStar to do that for you. Unfortunately, CoinStar charges you somewhere around 9% for its services. This is why you want to learn how to hack a CoinStar.

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Distributed administration using SSH

Use Secure Shell (SSH) to run commands on remote UNIX® systems and, with some simple scripts, put together a system that enables you to manage many systems simultaneously from one machine without having to log in directly to the machines themselves. Also examine the basics of a distributed management system and some scripts and solutions using the

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iPhone development with PHP and XML

The Apple iPhone is the hottest new device on the market. Discover how you can develop an application for it using your existing Web tools.

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Try to hack this: The electric chastity belt

Or in other words: Male management and boyfriend training unit

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EA, Sony respond to PS3 criticisms of the week

EA and Sony each responded to criticisms today that the PS3 lacks in smoothness and artificial intelligence when compared to the Xbox 360.

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CDN military wanted to inform, entertain and seduce "action focused males"

Last fall, the Canadian Military launched an aggressive recruitment campaign in an attempt to bolster its numbers by more than 20,000 people over the next ten years. "Keywords will be purchased on Canada’s major search engine networks (Google, Yahoo, MSN), "based on gaming searches & other target-age interests ( Halo, MechAssault, MoH)

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Top 20 Ways to Save Money at the Grocery Store

Great tips when you are short on cash and need to feed yourself.

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Time Warner Cable Tries to Turn Back the Clock on DVRs

Cable companies may hate TiVo, but at least they've come to accept that digital-video recorders are here to stay. Or have they? Time Warner Cable is introducing a DVR-like service called Look Back that lets viewers time-shift shows but doesn't let them fast-forward through the ads. (Time Warner Cable is a sister company of my employer, Time Inc.).

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Half of Web time spent viewing content

ontent online is king. Internet users spend nearly half their time online viewing news or entertainment content, surpassing activities such as sending e-mails, shopping or searching for information, according to a study released by the Online Publishers Association on Monday.

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COP Watching 2.0: Its time to turn the cameras on the PIGS

This is an awesome example of web community. Watching what cops do is more necessary than ever. Don't let the pigs get away with it. Have your video camera ready and get back your rights as citizen. Power to the people!!!.

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DHS suffered more than 800 cyber attacks in two years

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) suffered 844 attacks in the last two years, according to senior officials who testified before a House subcommittee Wednesday.

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Painting Programs for Linux

Are you an artist, graphic designer or something like that? Well, then you maybe know, if you use Linux, that there’s no really professional program in this category of software… sadly.

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A 3D Animation/Modelling Career Path, Learn all about Blender

Learn one of the best FOSS 3D animation/modeling software with this career path.

From How-tos, news and forums you'll learn all the necessary to become a 3D animation/modeling master.

The best part is you can apply all what you learn to other software suites with little effort.

A Blender Career Path

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Merv Griffin dies at age 82

Merv Griffin, the entertainer turned impresario who parlayed his "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, has died. He was 82.

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'Use It Or Lose It': New Theory About Preserving Erectile Function

Erectile dysfunction after surgery to remove the prostate (radical prostatectomy) has traditionally been attributed to nerve damage that theoretically should heal over time. But it can take as long as two years for the nerves to recover enough for a man to have an erection without the aid of drugs or devices.

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The Speed Racer Movie Script Review

It feels like they're making a live-action family film that parents wouldn't be embarrassed to watch with their kids, and with crap like BRATZ and DADDY DAY CAMP clogging the cinemas right now, that's saying something.

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[PIC] The kicking ass Gamecube design that never happened.

Many people thought that "Revolution" was going to be an upgrade of the Gamecube (they weren't wrong on that one) and they came with this great idea.

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Let's Have A War: Nintendo vs Apple?

The New York Post has a rather interesting article up about a possible battle between Nintendo and Apple for the handheld casual games market. It seems that Nintendo has applied for a patent for tilt sensitivity on the DS, a move which the NYP says is tantamount to a declaration of war.

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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Etch

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Debian Etch server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

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NASA Gets Closer Look at Gash on Shuttle

stronauts worked Sunday to give NASA a closer look at a troubling gouge on the Endeavour's protective heat shield to help determine whether they need to repair the 3-inch wound on the space shuttle's belly.

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Nintendo Launches Wii Trailers with Metroid Previews

The first downloadable Wii trailer--for the game Metroid Prime 3: Corruption--launched today.

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Sony Rumored To Have Egg-Shaped MP3 Player with Motion "Choreographies"

Step aside, dancing Coke can in sunglasses; Sony's apparently working on a Walkman MP3 player with integrated speakers and far more complex dance moves -- codename Rolly

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Horrific Multi-Vehicle Accident captured on Google Earth

This double-decker bus appears to have crashed and then toppled over, actually crushing a car underneath itself! (Look carefully at the roof of the bus and you’ll see part of a car protruding.)

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Buffaloes Vs Lions Vs Crocodiles

Out of modesty this is the best video you are going to watch this year. Unscripted..., impromptu..., this is the best reality TV ever. And the ending is out of this world.

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Ajax Construction Kit: Creating Responsive GUIs with Real-Time Validation

This chapter digs into real-time validation and explores when and where it makes sense to inject such functionality into your own applications.

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Cops nail Oscar Mayer

Cops hit the major company right on the sausage.

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DIY home surgery

Removal of small lipoma. no anesthesia or pain medication. old school.

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Ultimate Machine Gun Has Everything You Don't Need

In addition to shooting a flurry of bullets, this machine gun also comes equipped with a MAG light, dinnerware set, Swiss Army knife, high intensity flood light, and even a bird sculpture to stare at when not in battle.

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Simple Game Programming In JavaScript

This time we'll make some adjustments to the CSS and the document object model (DOM) to create a simple ping-pong game. We'll also be using keyboard input and events. With these tools you'll be able to create different games in JavaScript, such as Breakout, Tetris, Frogger or your dream game.

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The ULTIMATE Microsoft Paint Tutorial

In this class you’ll learn the basics of how to use Microsoft Paint to open, edit and save an image file (such as a scanned image that you create with the scanner, or an image that you draw or "paint" digitally from scratch).

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Mentos+Coke Bomb Warfare

Did you know you can turn your boring mentos bomb into a missile?.

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Veoh files pre-emptive copyright lawsuit

nline video sharing site Veoh has pre-emptively sued Universal Music Group, asking a federal judge to prevent the giant music label from filing its own copyright infringement action.

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What are the odds of dying?

The table below was prepared in response to frequent inquiries, especially from the media, asking questions such as, "What are the odds of being killed by lightning?" or "What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?"

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Linux-powered PS3 helps pilot autonomous SUV

A private R&D company in San Diego, Calif., has definitely proven the "Repo Man" axiom that "the more you drive, the less intelligent you are." Axion Racing is using a Sony PS3 running Linux in an autonomous vehicle said to have driven Colorado's Pikes Peak.

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Custom Linux Kernels with Debian and Fedora

An easy way to fit your Linux kernel to your needs.

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Digg: The New Gulag

'It's the wisdom of the masses that makes up our front page,' says Kevin Rose. He is the founder of a Web news site called Digg that rates stories, videos and other content on the basis of how many people like them. Editors need not apply; Digg is proud to have none. Of course, the "wisdom of the masses" produced a few 20th-century bummers...

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Images from the Vietnam War

Photographers gives us their view of a cruel war.

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Jamp! Easy Java/Apache/PHP/MySQL install in one click

Counting times I have installed Java, Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc, changed configuration, setup additional modules and so on, I decided to summarize my knowledge in this area and help myself and others to save our time. I created the installer, which primary goal is to provide the developer with command-line tools for basic Apache/PHP/MySQL management

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Squash bugs in PHP applications with Xdebug

The Xdebug extension for PHP helps you autopsy your application when an error or crash occurs. Learn how to use Xdebug to trace the call stack, analyze memory usage, and comb through the contents of arguments and variables.

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Virgin America Inaugural Flight: Getting your dignity back.

Today I had the pleasure of going on Virgin America's inaugural 'California Dreaming' flight number VX0846 from LAX to SFO.

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Like Digg but local, multilingual and flexible

A social news platform allowing users to filter aggregated news by locality, create on-the-fly reporting and contribute collectively to stories and newsgathering has launched its services in 13 languages.

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This is what will happen to you when the world comes to an end

Money sure won't buy you a way out.

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The ultimate geeky site: The Paper Airplane Museum

Welcome back to 1995.

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O.J. Simpson ordered to pay Goldmans over game

Relatives of murder victim Ron Goldman won a court order on Tuesday seizing any money O.J. Simpson earns for lending his name and likeness to a football video game with a fictional team called the Assassins and a knife-wielding mascot.

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Check Website Uptime Automatically

When you start managing hundreds of web sites, it becomes critical to ensure your web sites are live and performing well. Even if you only have one Blog that you care about, it's nice to know if the site is actually up and running.

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Bill Gates Demonstration Disaster

I've done hundreds of live software demonstrations throughout my career, and I have never really had as bad a demo as Bill Gates did at CES 2005 in Las Vegas. At least Conan O'Brian was funny and able to keep the crowd laughing.

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Underused Google Tips and Hacks

Google is nearly universally popular as a search tool, but there are a lot of under-the-hood features and extensions that people don’t make use of. In this post, I’ll explain some unusual features and extensions that Google offers, which can help you work more efficiently.

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JavaScript Map API comparison

In this post I'll compare performance and developer friendliness of JavaScript mapping APIs and dissect choices made by each platform that may affect your website.

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How Do People Use Google Reader with Internet Explorer?

Any computer geek worth his salt has been through the drill: you go to visit a family member for dinner and eventually they mention some arcane problem they’ve been having with software you long ago expunged from all of your computers. Common culprits are the Unholy Triad: Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer and Norton Anti-Virus.

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An Introduction to Linux Audio

Linux has come a long way in the last 10 years. At that time, if you were looking through the main audio and music applications on other operating systems, you would have struggled to find comparable, fully developed, apps on Linux. Nowadays, while no one would say the job was done, they could point to an assortment of high-quality applications tha

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Hello Kitty to punish bad-boy Thai police

Officers who speak too aggressively to civilians, who fail to turn off their engines when they park their cars, or commit other minor violations of proper conduct will be forced to wear bright pink Hello Kitty armbands as punishment, police Colonel Pongpat Chayaphan told AFP.

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The Solution to Social Network Site Fatigue

Social network site fatigue is when you’re sick and tired of trying to find your friends when everyone jumps ship to the Next Big Thing (Friendster to MySpace to Facebook, Twitter to Pownce, etc).

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Disturbing statistics of the day: The BlackBerry

The ultimate enterprise tool has some awkward uses.

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DIY Sprinkler control with embedded linux

Arek combines a wireless router, NAS, and a USB Bit Whacker to take control of his sprinkler system. Reflash the router and NAS with linux, add some PHP and USB controlled phototriacs to the sprinkler controller and control it all from the comfort of your PC.

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Self-Destruct Bombing Button USB 2.0 USB Hub, end the world!

It's a BOMB Switch-like Gadget to burst all stress you have to the sky! But another main identity of the BOMB Button is USB Hub port. Yes, it works well regardless of dropping Bomb! The Bomb part is created by CUBE Co.

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"Grand Theft Auto" Sequel Delayed, Renamed "GTA: Forever (to complete)

Millions of hard core gamers felt their worlds crashing down around them last Friday as Take Two Interactive announced a significant delay in the release of their hotly-anticipated sequel in the Grand Theft Auto series. Far more troubling is the reported involvement of 3D Realms co-founder George Broussard who, rumor has it, has convinced Take Two

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"Grand Theft Auto" Sequel Delayed, Renamed "GTA: Forever (to complete)

Millions of hard core gamers felt their worlds crashing down around them last Friday as Take Two Interactive announced a significant delay in the release of their hotly-anticipated sequel in the Grand Theft Auto series. Far more troubling is the reported involvement of 3D Realms co-founder George Broussard who, rumor has it, has convinced Take Two

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Websense Protects Web 2.0

Defcon sees the debut of a new threat detection system called HoneyJax.

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"Doom" creator unveils its new video game, "Rage"

The creator of classic computer game "Doom," id Software, unveiled on Friday its eagerly anticipated next game, "Rage," in which players fight an oppressive government in a post-apocalyptic world.

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Hillary will sell to out to anyone with an economic interest, WTF!!!

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals with a rare defense of the special interest industry.

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Hillary will sell to out to anyone with an economic interest, WTF!!!

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton refused Saturday to forsake campaign donations from lobbyists, turning aside challenges from her two main rivals with a rare defense of the special interest industry.

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Firefox Profile Tutorial

This tutorial aims to describe the profile system used in Firefox. We will learn what a profile is, what one is good for, how to create new profiles, and how to make use of them. That being said, take note

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Balmer and the never released Zune commercial

The always reliable hacks at The Register claim that a Microsoft employee made this video and got fired for it. Sadly, that sounds about right

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The Dictionary For Corporate Bullshit

A brief primer from "The Dictionary For Corporate Bullshit" by Lois Beckwith from Broadway Books. Get your MBA in CBS

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Clusty Mobile

Now Clusty is optimized for mobile devices.

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Monty Python Killer Rabbit Stapler

This makes that old red stapler, a thing of the past.

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How to Profit from Other People Articles

If you are not a writer you can still profit from article marketing. The theory still holds true content is king and the way you use content can make you big money.

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Good Idea: Attend this year's Defcon

Bad Idea: Trying to outsmart a room full of smart guys.

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Portrait of a Linux iPhone-killer wannabe

In the race to be the first “iPhone killer,” the most unlikely but perhaps most intriguing candidate is based on a new Linux platform with the peculiar name OpenMoko.

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The Homer Simpsons of the DIY Realm

D'oH, that had to hurt.....

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[IMG] What the Google Phone Could Look Like

Follow this digg for some of our favorites designs.

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M.C. Escher's Waterfall Illusion Now Available in Sculpture Form

This nifty M.C. Escher Waterfall Desktop Sculpture from ThinkGeek is the perfect accessory for any desk. Continue reading for a 3D video explanation.

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Move On Mentos Bomb, here comes the Exploding Soap

This video shows how three simple ingredients (soap, Hydrogen Peroxide, and dissolved Potassium Iodide) is all it takes to make a pretty neat, but safe, chemical reaction.

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Share Your Music Collection With gnump3d

If you are a Windows user you might often share your files, perhaps including your music files via SMB protocol, just as simple as right click, properties, sharing, checking several boxes and it’s ready to be shared. It might be different if you are UNIX or perhaps simply Linux guys, you might share your collection via NFS. Y

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Get Latitude and Longitude values from Google Maps

Google Maps do not display latitude and longitude values, but there is an easy trick to get these numbers. This technique will provide the latitude and longitude coordinates of the center of the map displayed by Google Maps.

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Acer installing Linux on notebooks, but not Ubuntu

Acer did not preinstall the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but instead is installing a different version of the open source operating system, local dealers said.

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Log from Blammo!!! now plays music

It's better than bad, it's good. Take that apple.

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Making the Most of MS Outlook

Here are eight Outlook tips that have helped save me lots of time and boost my efficiency.

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Think of the children: Fisher-Price toys tainted with lead based paint

Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys — including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters — because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.

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