Milkscanner V1.0 - Scan 3D objects

The Milkscanner is a tool that allows the scanning of objects and creates a Displacement map for use with Moviesandbox or any other 3D App that would allow for displacement mapping.

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How to Edit, Merge, Split and Convert PDF Files

Many people consider all PDF files as unbreakable documents set in stone. They couldn’t be more wrong.

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The iPod Death Clock

When will my iPod Croak? Depending on how you use (or abuse) it, we can take a guess at how long your little friend has left in this world. Curious? Type in your serial number.

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Global Warming Could Be Reversing A Trend That Led To Bigger Brains

Early humans developed larger brains as they adapted to colder climates, according to University at Albany researchers.

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Cockroaches are Not Morning People

Cockroaches learn new tricks well in the evening, but they're lousy students in the morning.

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PDF Processing with Perl

This article shows how to use PDF::Reuse, by Lars Lundberg, for combining different PDF documents and adding bookmarks to them.

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Algae Against Climate Change?

Research into the use of algae to capture carbon dioxide from the air is changing the negative reputation of these organisms, often seen as a plague associated with agricultural fertiliser run-off.

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NASA Rover Reaches First Stop in Crater

NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.

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The Lego NXT Mindstorms Toilet Flusher Robot

Tired of flushing your own toilet? Build a RoboFlush! RoboFlush is a simple Lego NXT Mindstorms Robot designed to flush a toilet automatically. It also comes with a manual flush option! Check out these instructions to build your own. Mike D'Amour came up with the idea, and Will Gorman built and documented RoboFlush.

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First Nike shoes designed for native americans

Nike has invented a new sneaker designed for especially for the feet of Native Americans - no joke.

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Sloppy Wii controls: how long will players put up with them?

Every Wii owner will have come across blips in communication between their motion-sensing gestures and what actually occurs on screen at some point. The first is likely to have been in a haphazard bout of Wii Sports boxing, and it’s an issue that almost always rears its ugly head in any title that demands a number of varied arm waving movements. Ho

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How to solve Blender's smoothing problems

In this article, we will go through many ways of dealing with smoothing, be it smoothing issues or smoothing strategies. It is intended to be short and straight to the point. Why would you be concerned? You certainly will, anyway, if you decide to model in Blender manufactured, lathed and/or milled objects, e.g.,

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Google looking at privacy protections for users

Google Inc, the world's Web search leader, told U.S. Senate lawmakers on Thursday the company is pursuing new technologies to protect the privacy of Internet users as it seeks to acquire advertising company DoubleClick Inc.

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Bush loses in Iraq and will lose to Global Warming

Bush Seeks to Change US Image on Global Warming Among Major Polluters

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No need for dissection as see-through frogs jump in

Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing see-through frogs, letting them observe organs, blood vessels and eggs under the skin without performing dissections.

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Guinness world record for the largest swimsuit photo shoot has been broken

1010 bikini-clad women, posed on Australia's iconic beach on Wednesday.

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7 Tips for Learning the Declutter Habit

The roots of clutter come from the same social forces that said collecting comic books and stamps were an “investment”. I don’t know if it comes from corporate greed or from a post-World-War-2 generation where things were so scarce that suddenly everything had value and hoarding became a way of life.

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Oxygen on Earth May Be Older Than Thought

Date of First Appearance of Oxygen on Earth Is Pushed Back Millions of Years

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Surveillance in Chicago May Be Most Advanced in U.S.

Chicago Supercharges Its Video Surveillance System With Automatic 'Anomaly Detection'

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An Introduction to HTTP Fingerprinting

HTTP Fingerprinting is a relatively new topic of discussion in the context of application security. One of the biggest challenges of maintaining a high level of network security is to have a complete and accurate inventory of networked assets.

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Starting with PHP and AJAX

This tutorial will demonstrate how to write form submission using PHP and AJAX.

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Open LINA, run linux on windows and mac

With LINA, applications written for Linux run with native look and feel on Windows, Mac OS X and UNIX operating systems. LINA is a thin virtual layer that enables developers to write and compile code using ordinary Linux tools, then run that code on a variety of operating systems.

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Using the Wii Remote to correct perspective

The Wii Remote is a landmark in the history of user interfaces. It is not its novelty that sets it apart, but the fact that it has integrated in a cheap, small device, several different sensor whose measurements can be relayed to a computer via bluetooth.

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jZip - a free alternative to WinZip

FREE as in BEER.

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The Super Mario Bros Sound Effects Plush

These two pillows are a part of series 2 of the plush toys offered from National Console Support. Each pillow when pouned on make mario themed sound effects.

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3 Charged in PC Magazine Editor's Death

Three men have been charged with murdering a senior editor for PC World magazine in what police said was an attempt to steal marijuana that the victim's son grew in their home for medical use.

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Caltech's spin on DARPA's robot race

Even in a collision between robot cars, size might make all the difference.

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OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems

Security experts have discovered TIFF-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers.

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OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems

Security experts have discovered TIFF-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers.

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Graffiti vandal banned from top deck of London buses

A persistent graffiti vandal from South East London has been given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) banning him from the top deck of buses in England and Wales for three years.

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Oracle finally taking Linux plunge?

Rumors are swirling yet again that Oracle wants to get cozier with Linux and at least one financial analyst says customers can expect a tighter Linux-based appliance from the database and application vendor by the end of the month.

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Grand Theft Auto Meets Anime

Cool mod for anime fans

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Deep-Voiced Men Have More Kids

If you want to have lots of kids, look for a Barry White instead of a Justin Timberlake. Men with a deep voices have more offspring, a new study suggests.

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Steve Bass's Tips & Tweaks Add Free POIs to Your GPS

Did you know you could add "Points of Interest" databases to many GPS models? I didn't (you're right -- I'm not as close to the cutting edge as I thought) -- and a neat, new world just opened up on my GPS.

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Digg, Pownce Have Gender Issues

A seemingly angry post on Digg by Pownce developer Leah Culver about a duplicate feature in Digg's new profiles, and a peek at that feature, made us wonder about the fuss.

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Wii Remote Controlled Robot

This robot is composed of Legos and uses a handyboard as the control hardware. It has 4 wheel drive each controlled by a lego motor, and a pan tilt mount for directing light and the video camera.

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A great Mime is dead, farewell Mr. Marceau

Marcel Marceau, the master of mime who transformed silence into poetry with lithe gestures and pliant facial expressions that spoke to generations of young and old, has died. He was 84.

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Blender gets the top of FREE apps on the net

If you build it — and it's cool — they will come. The business model to support it will come later. That's the new economics of the free lunch: Giving away a product or service builds the kind of customer attention and loyalty that rack up earnings. Take a look at Firefox, MySpace, Ubuntu, YouTube, and countless other new-breed products and service

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Milestones in LucasFilm history

Miles Perkins gives us a tour of the LucasFilm corridors and talks about some of the key moments in their visual effects history.

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ILM's processing power

LucasFilm's Kevin Clark gives us the low-down on the tech-specs of the Industrial Light and Magic render farm dubbed the Death Star.

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Creating CGI film characters

Click's Spencer Kelly goes behind the scenes at the world famous Industrial Light and Magic to find out how computer generated characters are created.

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Every student dream becomes nightmare

- Police are looking for two men seen near a Liverpool school where a home-made nail bomb exploded inside a teacher's car, reports said on Saturday.

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Lego NXT Tutorial

Welcome to this multimedia tutorial for the NXT-G graphical language of the LEGO® Mindstorms® NXT system.

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MySQL Database To Get Replication Monitoring, Multiversioning Concurrency

The 5.1 MySQL prerelease beta code will be able to detect and monitor replications of a central database and track their performance in real time.

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SQL Maestro for MySQL

SQL Maestro for MySQL is the premier MySQL GUI admin tool for database management, control and development. SQL Maestro for MySQL provides you with the ability to perform all the necessary database operations such as creating, editing, copying, extracting and dropping all the database objects includung events, table partitions, views, stored proced

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MIT robotic exoskeleton struts out of the lab, carries grad student with it

MIT researchers have created a wearable robotic exoskeleton to help soldiers carry heavier loads on their backpacks. Powered legs like those could one day help elderly and disabled people gain more mobility and carry things around more easily, but since this is DARPA funded work soldiers have priority. Sorry, grandma.

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The Nintendo Wii downfall?

how much more are gamers really willing to take until they ask for some games of substance?

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100 million turtle eggs in 5 days

More than 100 million eggs are laid by turtles on the beach during a five-day period.

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Stretch your battery life with Powertop

Getting longer battery life out laptop PCs is the holy grail of mobile computing. Powertop is a Linux tool to eek out those precious minutes of battery life by eliminating unnecessary power wasting processes.

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Mandriva signs FOSS deal with Angola

Mandriva Linux today announced a deal with the National Commission for Information Technology (CNTI) in Angola to provide technology solutions, training and consulting services in the African country.

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Ping Tunnel - Send TCP traffic over ICMP

Ptunnel is an application that allows you to reliably tunnel TCP connections to a remote host using ICMP echo request and reply packets, commonly known as ping requests and replies. At first glance, this might seem like a rather useless thing to do, but it can actually come in handy in some cases. The following example illustrates the main motivati

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Your Very Own Podcasts–The Easy Way

So you want to be a star? You don’t actually have to want to be a star to begin recording and distributing your very own podcasts. Increasingly, businesses and web sites of all stripes are turning to podcasting for everything from online marketing to tutorials.

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CMake Cross Platform Make

CMake, the cross-platform, open-source make system. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files.

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Intel pushing low-power Linux development for laptops

Everyone wants a blazing fast PC. But if you've got a laptop, you also want long battery life. Oh yeah, and if you care about the environment or your home electric bills, you might want your desktop to suck electricity from the power grid a little slower too.

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Legal Suicide for Web 2.0 start-ups: A beginner's guide

"Half the companies you blog about have copyright or privacy legal issues simmering just under the surface. Since most of them are thinly capitalized, when they get into trouble, they're likely to call EFF for legal advice. Several already have."

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Global Invasive Species Database

Invasive species have been recognised globally as a major threat to biodiversity (the collected wealth of the world’s species of plants, animals and other organisms) as well as to agriculture and other human interests.

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Even Astronauts Commit Suicide

On July 23 2006, Dr. Chuck Brady, an Eagle Scout who started out in medicine, became a North Carolina football team doctor, went on to join the Navy and become a Blue Angel, flew into space as a US Astronaut in 1996, then returned to being a Navy doctor died of apparently self inflicted knife wounds in the woods outside his home.

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Physicist shows how steroids can fuel home runs

Steroids can help batters hit 50 percent more home runs by boosting their muscle mass by just 10 percent, a U.S. physicist said on Thursday.

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'Metroid Prime' Developers On Pushing The Wii

'We really had to prove the controller, and I think that's what this project became,' says game director Mark Pacini.

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Hijacking DNS as a Cheap Content Filter

Restricting access to specific Internet web services is a challenge shared by all network administrators. Whether the reason for restricting access is based on security, bandwidth, or productivity, installing and maintaining proxy and content filter applications may be outside the budget of a small IT department.

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Peruvians become ill at meteorite crater site

Dozens of people living in a Peruvian town near Lake Titicaca reported vomiting and headaches after they went to look at a crater apparently left by a meteorite that crashed down over the weekend, health officials said on Tuesday.

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PHP developers get Eclipse boost

Eclipse PHP Development Tools 1.0 provides editing and debugging tools and can also work with a variety of plug-ins

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Sony Coy on Rumors of PS3 Chip Division Sale

Sony is denying reports that it will sell its production facilities for advanced chips used in the PS3 to Toshiba. A deal reportedly would likely include lines for fabricating the Cell, which Sony co-developed with Toshiba and IBM for the PS3, as well as image-processing chips for game consoles and camcorders.

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Sony Coy on Rumors of PS3 Chip Division Sale

Sony is denying reports that it will sell its production facilities for advanced chips used in the PS3 to Toshiba. A deal reportedly would likely include lines for fabricating the Cell, which Sony co-developed with Toshiba and IBM for the PS3, as well as image-processing chips for game consoles and camcorders.

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'NYT' Ends Pay Policy on Web Site

The Web site of The New York Times is ending its practice of walling off part of its offerings in a pay channel, TimesSelect.

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Search structured LDAP data with a vector-space engine

Use Perl and a vector-space search engine to search and display records from your Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) database. Use inflected letters and numbers to create a useful vector space from structured LDAP data. And compensate for typographical and spelling errors automatically while showing the most appropriate match for any quer

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Are Wind Farms an Eyesore?

How do you feel about wind farms? Would you live next to one? Do you consider them an eyesore?

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Losing Money on the iPhone and Making It up on Volume

Apple is likely to make so much money from its share of iPhone usage fees paid to wireless phone companies that it can sell the product at a loss and still make money. It can even cover the cost of its $100 rebates to people who bought the phone before it cut the price to $399.

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Hack any flash animation/program out there

Flare processes an SWF and extracts all scripts from it. The output is written to a single text file. Only ActionScript is extracted, no text or images. Flare is freeware. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux versions are available.

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Foremost: The utimate file recovery/forensics tool

Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving.

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A sub-$100 gyro-stabilized camera

Once again I started a weekend with a crazy idea and once again I had it working by Sunday evening. (Needless to say I'm not going to win any parenting award until this particular obsession runs its course).

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Nokia's N95: Worse apple's nightmare come true

It's a multimedia smartphone that does much of what an Apple iPhone can; plus, it takes digital pictures and surfs the Internet on both a 3G wireless network and Wi-Fi. About 1.5 million were sold in the second quarter alone -- at a suggested retail price of $700, nearly double that of the discounted iPhone.

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The Next Best Thing: The Humble PC

One of the hottest tech products around right now is none other than the humble personal computer.

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Burningman 2007 Time-Lapse

Time Lapse Video of the 2007 Burning Man festival as viewed from the Block Rock Solar "Powertainer".

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The best DOS programs you can find

Here are several links to various DOS software and other DOS related websites. Most are freeware but a few are shareware and commercial programs. I welcome any comments and/or suggestions you may have about this webpage or other DOS programs for me to know about. Also, do email a thank you to the authors of any of the programs you use.

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How to stay safe on social sites

Millions of people have posted photos and personal thoughts on social networking sites. But do these sites provide rich pickings for identity fraudsters, or are they just a bit of fun?

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Unique Photography for Unique People

A great photography site. The best is he shares his creations is the creative commons license.

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LucasFilm show off its secrets

Star Wars Episode IV may have recently been named the most influential visual effects film of all time but its director, George Lucas, was unsatisfied with the technology available in the 70s.

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Digital cameras record baby's every move

For her 30th birthday, while she was still pregnant, Lindsay Nie received from Mom an album filled with her baby and childhood photos.

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Famed '$100 Laptop' Now $188

The vaunted "$100 laptop" that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.

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Canada Tax Agency Hits a 12 grader with $20,000 bill

Taxes in Canada are high but this is just plain ridicule.

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Arctic ice melt opens Northwest Passage

Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.

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Why Do Men Pee Standing Up?

God and Eve watched him with amusement and then God said to Eve, "Well, I guess you're kind of stuck with the last thing I have left." "What's it called?" asked Eve. "Brains", said God.

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What Not To Do When Writing Python Software

Please do not do any of the following when writing Python software. I have done all of these things at one time or another, FWIW:

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Bluetooth Programming using Python

Bluetooth is a way to connect devices wirelessly. This technology has a variety of uses. Python is an easy to learn scripting language that has been growing in popularity. The two can work well together, as will be explained in this article

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Writing Your Own Toy OS

This article is a hands-on tutorial for building a small boot sector. The first section provides the theory behind what happens at the time the computer is switched on. It also explains our plan.

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Parallel Python

Parallel Python is based on a functional model; you submit a function to a "job server" and then later fetch the result. It uses processes (just like I requested in my previous post) and IPC (InterProcess Communication) to execute the function, so there is no shared memory and thus no side effects.

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How to make a photo booth for your wedding

Give professional touch to photos at big events.

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Firefighters save donkey trapped in well

A donkey is happily eating grass again after falling down a dry, abandoned well and being freed in an intensive rescue effort. It appeared that the animal wandered away from its farm and onto some boards covering the well, which broke, said Bruce Huseth, fire chief in this western Minnesota town.

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Create custom maps for your GPS

AddMagmap is a program with simple interface to add custom objects (lines, area, points) to MapSend maps. To use the program you should have at least one MapSend installed on your computer. The program works on object-by-object basis: not necessary create a full custom map in one step, simply add object-by-object any time and to any map. The progra

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Happiness is a Warm Electrode

The most promising new treatment for severe depression isn't a pill. It's a permanent implant that shocks the brain. Is this what joy looks like?

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Ubuntu not ready for prime time, says Walt Mossberg

The Wall Street Journal has had a another look at Linux.

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Larry ans Sergei still haven't found what they are looking for

Google's dynamic duo spoof.

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Linux doesn't break laptops

PC World claims a customer who'd been told that the store wouldn't repair his laptop screen because he'd installed Linux on the system was simply the victim of a "misunderstanding."

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Class Inheritance with PHP

There are many benefits of inheritance with PHP, the most common is simplifying and reducing instances of redundant code. Class inheritance may sound complicated, but think of it this way. Consider a tree. A tree is made up of many parts, such as the roots that reside in the ground, the trunk, bark, branches, leaves, etc. Essentially inheritance is

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PHP in contrast to Perl

Perl expert take on PHP

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McLaren out of Constructors, but drivers safe

McLaren have been booted out of this year's Constructors' Championship, however, their drivers are free to race for the World title.

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Crazy Cow Picture

"I took this photo of a cow sticking out his tongue at The Farm on vacation."

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The geekiest watch you'll ever own

And it only has the number nine.

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Is this Astroboy? Robot maker builds artificial boy

David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno. It can't speak or walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can track people and a face that captivates with a range of expressions.

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Quit picking on the guys that speak funny

France has become the fourth country to speak out against hackers in China following an attack on French government systems.

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Improve Software Installation with AntInstaller

Does the thought of creating a cross-platform installer fill you with dread? Would you prefer to use a simple open source package that takes care of knotty installer details such as directory creation and file copying? A smart open source package called AntInstaller does all this and more. Stephen Morris tells you how to create a basic installer in

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An Introduction to .NET for Beginners

Starting with a brief historical overview, Tim Patrick explains all about .NET, from the concept of objects to typical development processes.

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Enrich Your HTML Tables with JavaScript Progressive Enhancement

Tabular headaches. Ever had one? Ivan Pepelnjak can relate because he has struggled with table formatting for years. But he has figured out how to use the JavaScript Progressive Enhancement technology to simplify the formatting of web pages and make lively, good-looking HTML tables.

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Why Is Steve Fossett So Hard to Find?

Input from the digg community is welcomed.

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DIY Internet Enabled Coffee Machine

As a homage to RFC2324 we decided that we'd take a common coffee machine, enhance it a little and connect it to a WebBrick 6.1. Here's how we went about the task

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Drug raid finds ninja climbing claw

Police have uncovered ninja weaponry and World War Two commemorative medals during a drug raid in central Victoria.

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Terrorist organization logos, inspirational source for your next FPS mod

Terrorist groups, like any organization, need brand identities. With so many groups claiming credit for terrorist acts, and so many videotapes being put out featuring men in ski masks, it’s hard to keep track of which group committed what violent act. So terrorist organizations have logos. It recently occurred to me that someone had to actually des

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How image compression works

In this article, we'll study the JPEG baseline compression algorithm...

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Awesome photo of the moon //PIC

Is like the sky is smiling for you.

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Ubuntu expands into virtual appliances

Canonical has released a special version of its Ubuntu Server Linux distribution that is tailored to run as part of a virtual appliance.

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Bank Robber Uses Own Check In Robbery

A man robbing a bank demanded the money by writing a note on one of his own checks, authorities say. Not surprisingly, he was caught soon afterward

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DIY Cheap GPS logger

GPS logger with PIC 16F628A and two EEPROM 24LC256 (64 KB).

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Propeller Will Be The New Netscape Digg Clone

AOL has announced that Propeller.com will be the new home for the Netscape social media experiment. What was once considered a possible Digg-killer is now relegated to the backwaters of AOL.

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The Tech Battle in Seattle

Competition in the tech job market is heating up in the Seattle are and its showing in the office real estate market. In the past couple of months both Google and Microsoft have announced the intention to open new Seattle offices, Amazon is opening a new building, and Yahoo is moving north as well.

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Wii Zapper Packs New Zelda Game on Nov. 19 (Confirmed, Reorganized)

Nintendo fans, brace yourselves for a one-two sucker punch. The big N has unveiled the software that will be included with the $19.99 Wii Zapper when it arrives in North America on November 19, and it's not the modern rendition of Duck Hunt many have been expecting.

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Wii giving PlayStation 2 some body-image issues

Wii envy: One thing I love about video games - things really are black and white. Consider Sony's latest spasm of Wii envy. In November, the PlayStation 2 will be available in a Wii-like ceramic-white finish. The limited-edition bundle includes the slimline, network-ready PS2, a matching controller, a copy of karaoke scream-along SingStar Pop and a

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City Unveils Grisliest Antismoking Ads to Date

New York City health officials have taken their gross-out antismoking campaign one step further. They are in the midst of a three-week television blitz with a pair of the most gruesome and grisly advertisements in the city’s war against cigarettes.

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Monty Python pilgrims keep up the fun

There was no shortage of knights, cardinals and bearded ladies around the grounds of Doune Castle as fans marked the third annual Monty Python Day.

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Linux Done Right: A user’s pleasant surprise

Consider this the first in an occasional, meandering series of articles on Linux done right. These aren’t meant to boost the sales of any particular vendor, but instead are meant to show other end users, IT managers and decision makers what to look for when vetting applications and operating system migrations. It can be support, migrations ,,,

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Ten signs you're an Internet moron

Why is it that the Internet is such a big moron magnet? And why is it that social news sites such as Digg seem to attrack more than their fair share?

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City hires spy plane to map which houses are wasting energy

The city council of Haringey in the UK hired a spy plane to fly overhead and identify which households are wasting the most energy -- to try and shame them into turning their heat down.

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How Procrastination Dashes Made Me a Better Worker

The biggest problem with the Internet is that it’s entirely too easy to get distracted. We’ve all wilfed at one time or another — what started as an innocent task-related web search ended up down some rat hole of links until you’re reading a web comic about falling into a couch and confronting the dark nebulous force of Lost Things. Stupid internet

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Palm, Motorola seen most hurt by iPhone price cut

With the music-playing iPhone now selling at $399 instead of $599, its price tag is much closer to other smartphones in the U.S. market, including Palm's Treo and Motorola's Razr2.

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Kazakhstan accuses Russia over space crash

Kazakhstan, home to Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome, accused Moscow on Friday of not doing enough to ensure the safety of its space launches a day after a Russian rocket crashed in the Central Asian state.

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FCC rejects free Wi-Fi start-up's spectrum plans

A Silicon Valley start-up that sought permission to build a "free, family-friendly" wireless Internet service on a stretch of unused radio spectrum has been shot down by federal regulators.

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E-voting paper trail push stalls in Congress

A Democratic-backed contingent in Congress is still hoping to enact a requirement that all electronic voting machines used in next fall's presidential elections produce voter-verified paper trails, but a bumpy road lies ahead.

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A Tribute to the iPhone Fanboys

The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters.

Consent = Search

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Increase productivity in Java database programming

Whether you're a Java™ developer or always wanted to be one, you have come to the right place. Discover how IBM® pureQuery tools make Java programming with SQL more productive than ever before. Code SQL and Java applications in the Java editor, and be equally productive in both. Never leave your Java editor, and build error-free Java applications a

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LMAO: AOL to Drop Digg-Like News From Netscape

AOL is once again revamping its Netscape.com Web portal, dropping a year-old "social news" component in which visitors submitted and voted on news stories and blog entries to determine how they're ranked on the site.

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How To Make a Golf Ball GunThat Can Shoot 400+ yards!

Kill somebody on another block and get away with it.

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Bitch about your Boss Anonymously

Don't go postal, yet... You can bitch all you want about your boss anonymously.

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Google Search Returns 0 Results

Google Inc. is best known for finding information online, but sometimes the Internet search leader also works behind the scenes to look for missing people like renowned aviator Steve Fossett.

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Steve Jobs apologized and offered $100 credits for Iphone early adopters

We know who you are Stevo, Thanks anyways.

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FREE Python Short Course

If don't learn how to program in Python with this course. Programming is not for you at all.

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Chicago Building Blown up for Batman Movie

Film crews working in Chicago blew up a building today as part of a scene for the movie "The Dark Knight" - the latest in series of Batman movies. It's set to be released in the middle of next year.

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Richest Man in the world never had a web page till a week ago

Carlos Slim's Web site.

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The Killer Home Office—for Under $2,500

Many a web worker gets things done in a home office, and if you spend a lot of time in one, this post is for you. I’m going to run through an inventory of ultra-cool items you can get for the ultimate home office—for under $2,500. This post will assume you already have a computer and printer, but will hopefully include other items to put straight o

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HP Brings PDAs Back

The PDA isn't dead. This evening, HP announced five new iPAQ handhelds, including two straight-no-chaser PDAs, two smartphones, and one GPS navigation device. HP's aiming to retake the lead in providing handhelds to business customers.

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Microsoft Cuts Zune Price as Apple Ups Ante for iPods

It's not just about Apple's music players. Microsoft's Zune player also got a little less expensive today.

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Digg Those Pics & Only Those Pics At Digpicz.com

Every just want to see the highest rated images over at Digg? Digpicz.com has launched to serve that purpose as the "unofficial Digg Picture Browser," said Stan Schroeder.

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Perl Sucks - and what to do about it

Hang on Larry Wall... you can do it!!!!.

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2008 editions of 3ds Max and Maya unveiled

Cannabilizing a niche has never been this interesting.

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Happy birthday Viagra: Keep it up

Viagra doesn't just save sex lives, it can also treat jet lag, MS and strokes. Roger Dobson on the fifteenth birthday of a modern-day wonder drug

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Analysts: 80GB PS3 Dropping to $499 by Year End

An announcement could come at the Tokyo Game Show later this month.

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Creative thinking hacks

This essay, a high speed hack-centric interpretation of the creative thinking course I taught at the University of Washington, offers both concepts and tricks to help anyone be creative at any time.

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Bet you wouldn't drink a glass of this

Growing strong muscles can lead you to the path less traveled.

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Get your LEGO Steve Jobs today!

Ok – so there is the long tail – and then there's the looooooonnnnng tail. Internet economics mean that almost any niche is a market but come on – a site that specialises in making LEGO brick recreations of iPod-related events?

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Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Talks About His Current Love Affair

And is not a woman, remember the guy is a UBER-GEEK.

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Sun Courts Developers

To promote the popularity of its Solaris operating system, Sun must entice developers and mend rifts.

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Running Amok vs. Going Berserk: a practical guide

Yes, there are big differences between the two. Learn more about it here.

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Make your 404 pages smarter with metaphone matching

Create your own 404 error-message handler to provide useful links and redirects for the contents of your site. Use metaphone matching and a simple weighted score file to make typographical, spelling, and bad-link redirect suggestions. Customize the suggestions based solely on your Web site's content and preferred redirection locations. Catch multip

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And this is why you don't chain your dog for too long

Four members of a family required hospital treatment after being attacked by a dog after it broke loose from its chain in their yard, the Yakima County sheriff's office said.

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World recession is coming, get ready.

The subprime mortgage crisis could act to send the world into recession, it has been claimed.

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Microsoft won't sue over Linux, for now

Microsoft has ignited hostility following its assertion in Fortune magazine that Linux and other open source software infringe on 235 of the company’s patents. The software giant, which signed a controversial patent cross-licensing deal with Novell last November, is encouraging other companies to reach licensing agreements to resolve intellectual p

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Foxtrot's Take on Indiana Jones IV

Bill Amend delivers one more time.

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How To Beat Carnival Games

Tips to win a knock-off stuffed animal or dusty 2LiveCrew mirror next time you're counting mullets at the fair.

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Rails creator on Java and other 'junk'

David Heinemeier Hansson was a 23-year-old student at Copenhagen Business School when he began work on Ruby on Rails a little over four years ago. His goal was to write a simple Web application framework that would free developers from the misery of repetitive coding that he sees as inherent in widely used platforms like Java and .Net.

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Preventing Domain Expiration

you could think of this as your best shot at ruining a domain squatter's day. Either way, it's awfully good news for decent folk.

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The Credit Card That Gives Back to The Linux FOSS Cummunity

The Linux Fund offers credit cards decorated with a picture of Tux the Linux penguin to people who want to help support deserving open source community projects. Each time a cardholder uses their card, the card issuing bank makes a donation to The Linux Fund.

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HP Ships Red Hat PC in Australia

A new low-cost desktop bundle runs Red Hat Enterprise and is aimed at small and medium-size businesses.

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DIY Vacuum Cleaner Bazooka

Bubble wrap pellets and a suction powered shooter.

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Ubuntu Tips: Ubuntu Linux + Apache2 + Virtual Hosts + Syslog Server

This tutorial will explain How to install syslog server in ubuntu

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pwdump6: Never go password recovering without it

fgdump does *everything* pwdump does, only more! I highly recommend switching over as soon as possible. :)

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Uses for Baking Soda: Guidelines for Health and Beauty

Baking soda was one of the few products many years ago on the market for cleaning your teeth or settling an upset stomach. While we have many more choices today, baking soda still does the trick for these and dozens of other health and beauty tasks.

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