The Dreamcast Devkit

The machine that casted awesome games for the dreamcast

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Stupidest idea to skip work EVER!!!

Detectives Say Man Asked Friend To Shoot Him In The Arm So He Could Skip Work

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Mastering digital photos

Like many leisure activities, photography inspires creativity, challenges minds and rewards the photographer with treasured images of captured moments in time that can be shared with others.

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The Future of the Film Industry in the Age of Wikinomics

More than 350 international media experts attended the second Berlinale Keynotes organized by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Berlin International Film Festival and held in the Palmenhof at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz on Tuesday. Under the motto "The Age of Collaboration,"

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Azaria Looks Towards Treehouse Of Horror For Next Movie

“I think a fun format for the next ‘Simpsons’ movie would be a ‘Treehouse of Horror’ feature,” voice star Hank Azaria offered. “That might be fun. It’d be fun to do three fantasy or horror stories.”

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Nintendo to have extra Wii Wheels available

We know that Mario Kart Wii is coming soon, and you’ll of course get an official Nintendo Wii Wheel when you buy the game. However, will people have the same dilemma as when Rock Band came out?

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FreeLoader Disc Makes Nintendo Wii Region Free

Gamers who crave games outside of their local region have long found ways to modify their consoles to accept foreign software. For the Nintendo GameCube, importers didn’t have to resort to voiding their console’s warranty by installing a chip, but rather only a boot disc was required to run foreign-region games.

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Top Five Basketball Movies

This time, though, Ferrell's film competes against a pantheon of great movies in the basketball genre. I haven't seen Semi-Pro, but here are my top five basketball movies.

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How Photoshop helped aid Chinese propaganda

About antelopes, trains and a state-run news agency

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10 tips for effective use of OpenPGP with GnuPG

Using a private encryption system based on the OpenPGP standard can provide a great improvement to the security of your sensitive data. To maximize the value of that improvement, however, you need to make sure your OpenPGP system itself is secured against the efforts of malicious security crackers.

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Facebook And Netvibes Now Optimized For The IPhone

Both Facebook and Netvibes launched new iPhone-optimized versions of their sites yesterday. Netvibes, the customizable homepage widget site, offers a slightly more spare version for the iPhone with slimmed-down text-only widgets to speed load times on the EDGE network.

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4 Steps for Choosing Your Next Lens

I would like to share the process I went through for selecting my next lens to purchase. I am not sure if the process was the best process that one can do to choose a lens, I post it here to help others in their choices.

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Controlling your home with your PSP

The PSP has a lot of potential in terms of just Web Apps. With minimal effort, Sony can unlock browser functionality on everyone's PSP's in the form of a network update. Until then we wait, and hope Sony does the right thing

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An Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

JavaScript Object Notation, or JSON for short, is a lightweight data-interchange format which may prove to be a viable alternative to XML for IT developers. It's easy to read and write by people as well as for machines to parse and generate.

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Celebrity Tombstones

For celebrities, it's even more important to be remembered. Sure, some go for the understated simplicity of a plain tombstone. But the real celebrities like to go all out. They get the custom-made tombstones with all the latest features, or sculptures of themselves or of objects that were associated with them.

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Nintendo Opens Up to Downloadable Games

The new Wii firmware version 3.2 adds a new feature where users will be able to see information from their Disc Channel from the main menu. The new functionality operates in a similar way to the Wii Shop Channel’s display of new releases for download.

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Settlement reached in PS3 shooting case

Officials in New Hanover County said Wednesday that both sides agreed to a $2.45 million settlement in the shooting death of 18-year-old Peyton Strickland.

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Sound filtering... with the Gimp!

Gimp is universally used for image manipulation. However, with a bit of creativity and a couple of tricks, it can also be used as an audio filter! Here is how…

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Create your own information space with Ajax and del.icio.us

Design an Ajax "super page" to maximize your del.icio.us experience

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XAMPP: The PHP Developer's Dream

Regardless of whether your production server is a System i or a System p, or if you run x-Series servers, z-series mainframes, Solaris, or HP, your dream development machine for building dynamic PHP applications needs to have XAMPP from Apache Friends.

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The Linux Command Directory Index

Click on any of the 687 commands below to get a description and list of available options. All links in the command summaries point to the online version of the book on Safari Bookshelf.

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Make A Security System That Calls Your Cell

Gadget Freak Bill Bowden has created a security system that calls you when an alarm is triggered.

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DIY Universal Wireless Repeater

This How-To provides step-by-step instructions for creating a Universal Wireless Repeater appliance: a device that you can place anywhere and it will wirelessly repeat the strongest signal, onto another wireless network (with or without security).

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Test-build your LEGO masterpiece digitally

Do-it-yourself magazines like MAKE and basement-brewed steampunk anachronisms might be at the forefront of home engineering projects, but 50-year-old LEGO is still the name builders know best. Now you can play with them on your computer in the official freeware program LEGO Digital Designer.

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Interfacing VIM with GnuPG Encrypted Files

Over the years the editor I have become the most familiar with is vim. It provides features that allow the software development process to go smoothly, such as split screens, syntax highlighting, integration with cscope tags, function folding, and more.

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Get Some Hot skills: Python

According to the Tiobe Community Index - based on hits on major search engines - Python is now the seventh most popular language, well behind Java, C, Visual Basic, PHP and C++, but catching up rapidly with Perl. By Tiobe's measure, Python had the largest increase in ratings of any language in 2007.

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DIY Darth Maul LED light saber

Create a cheap yet effective dual ended light saber for a sci-fi fancy dress party.

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Hacker holds onto ill-gotten gains thanks to US courts

Oleksandr Dorozhko made almost $300,000 in stock-option trading by using insider information that was obtained after someone hacked into a financial network and stole confidential information concerning a company called IMS Health. Now, the Ukrainian resident is exploiting a loophole that may allow him to keep the ill-gotten gains for good.

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The Atari that would be forbidden by today's standards

Battery operated, hand-held game from the 80s. Kind of like "Simon" I think. What I remember most is trying to steal it from my sister. I think "Atari Touch Me" would make a good name for a band.

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Microsoft's Richard Weiland Donates 65 Millions

The sum, $65 million dollars, will go to the Pride Foundation, based in Seattle, advocate for the rights of LGBT people, and provide support for HIV/AIDS organizations.

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Move over Wii, here comes HP's GPS-based platform

If you thought it was cool tying a video game to the physical world via consoles equipped with MEMS accelerometers--the technique Nintendo used to make "Wii" a household name--wait until you see what GPS can do to expand the future of video gaming.

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Creating Your First Website in Django

Learn the steps of creating a functional website called iFriends. Although this website will be basic, it will be the basis for future hours to build on as you are guided through the various aspects of the Django framework.

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Boeing 707 barrel roll

Boeing 707 doing a barrel roll at an air show around about the late 1950's (

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If You Keep Your Cool, You May Heal Faster

A great message the the irate prone digger.

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Geek heaven at WonderCon //PICS

As cons grow in popularity, though, WonderCon is seeing its fair share of cosplay (costume play), movies, and anime, as well as growing attention given to manga and other forms of sequential art storytelling.

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Slider Using PHP, Ajax And Javascript

Improve the usability of your web app with this great piece of code.

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If you watch NASCAR races you might NOT be a redneck

This presentation shows all the physics and math involved in a NASCAR race, and how understanding them can give teams the bleeding edge.

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Korean Professor Wins Patent Lawsuit Against Microsoft

A Seoul court ruled that the world's largest software giant Microsoft illegally used patent-covered software technology developed by a Korean professor, ending an eight-year-long legal battle between the scientist and the U.S. company.

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Tips for writing FaceBook applications in Java

You’ve added the Developer application to your FaceBook account and downloaded the Java client library. And now you’re kind of stuck. Where are the tutorials, examples and proper documentation? Frustration turns to anger, which as we know leads to the dark side.

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LEGO Universe Could Be The Big-Next Thing in MMO

LEGO Universe, the upcoming LEGO-branded MMO, can best be described as "LEGO Star Wars multiplied by a million," according to Mark Hansen, the Director of Business Development for the LEGO Group.

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Monster burger gives new meaning to the term supersize meal

'Record-breaking' hamburger weighs in at 60kg.

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Prison Break by Dog

The dog breaks free from the prison build by the man.

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Devry: Before and After

Do you remember those before and after ads?

I don't believe in coincidences, but I know how to "read the signs" :o).


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Pirates had “democratic” ways

Sur­pris­ing­ly, that’s not very far from the truth, a new study sug­gests. Al­though real-life pi­racy was and is a vi­cious form of or­gan­ized crime, the study found that pi­rates in that era some­how over­came their viler in­stincts to rule them­selves ef­fect­ive­ly through mini-de­mo­cracies.

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6 Firefox Tools That Monitor Your Time Online

Do you know exactly how you spend your time while surfing the web? Do you spend too much time on a given site, and you think you should cut back

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Is Silicon Valley the new Detroit for electric cars?

Silicon Valley is sparking a revolution in alternative-fuel autos, but it may take awhile--too long perhaps--to effect change in Detroit, according to a panel of auto executives.

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Facebook with a twist, and my friend DVD Jon

A new application called doubleTwist is designed to make it easier to share your digital media with friends. It’s worth checking out because of the savvy way it integrates with Facebook. End of Pownce?

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Time to buy a high-def DVD player? Maybe not

It'll also pay to wait. High price-tags of next-generation home entertainment generally fall over time, and the new players are no exception. Newer models will include features not found on older ones, such as picture in picture and Internet access. What's more, regular DVD players are dirt cheap and look perfectly fine.

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Gigabyte UMPC U60, Compact PC Bundle of Joy

The initial impression was that it resembled the Sony VAIO U series which also had a slider design, though the Gigabyte U60 has a much larger 6.5-inch screen compared with the 4.8-inch VAIO. Similar to the Roan Digital Everun, the U60 is priced at S$1,549 (US$1,019.08), although it has a faster processor and greater expandability.

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Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D is Awesome

I can't tell you how great it was to see a movie whose creators and fans had no illusions about what it was: a super fun eyeful of spectacle.

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Easy GUI development with PythonCard

PythonCard is a GUI construction kit for building cross-platform desktop applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, using the Python language.

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Arghhhh This IS ODD: Parrot to be fitted with a wooden leg

A one-legged parrot that keeps slipping off his perch is to be fitted with a 'wooden leg'.

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Man accused of multiple Lego thefts

A Boca Raton, Fla., man has been accused of stealing several thousand dollars worth of Lego toys and selling the items on eBay.

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The Tablet PC: Five years later

“The vision is there,” he went on, “but not all of the pieces are in place: form factor, processors, energy consumption, battery life and weight. It will take some time to ramp up. And we need more vendors to build applications to support the Tablet. I think we will slowly get there, but as it stands, it's still predominantly a niche product.

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Google-Powered Hacking Makes Search A Threat

Over the past few years, cybersecurity professionals have watched as the cinematic cliche of police with pistols being outgunned by thieves with automatic weapons has become applicable to their industry. Increasingly, they find themselves defending against automated attacks that can easily overwhelm the technologically underequipped.

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SWFIntruder helps you hack Flash based applications

SWFIntruder (pronounced Swiff Intruder) is the first tool specifically developed for analyzing and testing security of Flash applications at runtime. It helps to find flaws in Flash applications using the methodology originally described by Stefano Di Paola in Testing Flash Applications (May 2007) and in Finding Vulnerabilities in Flash Application

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Google To Hold JavaScript-Centric Hackathon

Food, prizes, and time at the Googleplex are all good things. So, if Mountain View isn't inconveniently far away, keep the "Google Developer Hackathon: JavaScript APIs" in mind when you're making plans for Friday, February 29th.

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Connecting GPRS From Ubuntu Gutsy

Connecting to GPRS using a Nokia Phone is not too tough in Ubuntu Gutsy. This is because the default udev rules does install the required drivers and map most of the Nokia devices to /dev/ttyACM0.

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Is PHP ready for enterprise?

Zend's recent successes and partnerships with Microsoft, Rackspace and others may be signalling that open source programming language PHP is ready to take on Java in the enterprise market.

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Java increasingly threatened by new app dev frameworks

Scripting languages and new application development frameworks are doing work Java once shouldered in its prime

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The hands-free way to steal a credit card

Adam Laurie, an RFID security expert, used the Black Hat DC 2008 conference here, to demonstrate a new Python script he's working on to read the contents of smart-chip-enabled credit cards.

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A Good Reason To Fear Clowns

Calling him a child "predator in clown's clothing," FBI agents last week arrested Walter Homan, also known as "Skates the Clown."

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Efficient JavaScript

This article will show several simple changes that can be made to improve the performance of your Web applications. Areas covered will be ECMAScript - the core language used by JavaScript, DOM, and document loading.

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CSS text shadows and background sizing

CSS3 offers advancements in how Web designers can apply design touches to their designs. One of the most often wished for properties - text-shadow, which allows easy creation of drop shadowscode - looks to be popular as new versions of popular browsers are starting to support the property.

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50 Coolest Websites

A great compilation of sites that shake the internet, and yes, digg is on the list.

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Turning a Chapel into a Home

Dutch firm Zecc's sacred design vision comes to fruition with this old chapel-turned-apartment commission. Making sure to retain the character of the original building and the heritage of its past, the team radically transformed the feel (and use) of the space by whitewashing the interiors and sticking to a modern, minimal look for the new fittings

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(Slightly) Advanced Python Topics

Defining a regular expression is to provide a sequence of characters, the pattern, that will match sequences of characters in a target.

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Nintendo and Microsoft unveil indie games services

Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd unveiled on Wednesday new online services for their video game consoles to showcase games by independent developers, part of a push by the companies to tap enthusiasm for so-called casual games.

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Blast from the past, HBO Intro: Behind the Scenes

A Behind-the-scenes documentary on how the "HBO Starship" intro from the 1980's was created. Taped off HBO in 1983 and captured from an old VHS tape.

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Make Gears of War Lancer from a Nerf Gun

Got a few Nerf guns laying around, perhaps a toy chainsaw here and there? Us too. You could gut them, put a bunch of LEDs inside, install sound effects, a quick paint job, and there you have it, your very own Gears of War Lancer.

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How to burn (backup) Nintendo Wii games that you own

This page is aimed at someone that has not followed the modding scene for the Nintendo Wii and wants to be caught up in one quick de-briefing.

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Why and How We Need to Sleep

The truth is that we spend more time in sleeping than in eating or playing or studying; and we are wise in this because the work the brain does is more important than the work of any other part of the body, and sleep is the only thing that rests it.

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Social Networks Evil Twin Attacks

What will happen if someone impersonates you on a social network? Will that person be able to fool your friends and as such gain access to resources, which only you are entitled to? Or are social network protected enough to guarantee the credibility of the social participants.

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Do donkeys commit suicide?

Official & emotional: “A donkey, who decided to end his miserable life, ran towards the Nile...plunged into the river that swept it to a watery grave”

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You Used Python to Write WHAT?

Python is a powerful, easy-to-use scripting language suitable for use in the enterprise, although it is not right for absolutely every use. Python expert Martin Aspeli identifies when Python is the right choice, and when another language might be a better option.

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25+ Tools For Taming Python

Python is one of the most popular languages out there, and some say the easiest. We’ve gathered 25+ tools to help you with the language no matter what your skill level.

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Creating PDFs using Python

ReportLab has a library for generating PDFs from Python. The following example will show how a PDF can be created using this library. The PDF will contain a title and a table.

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15 Cool Things About PHP That Most People Overlook

Here's what I think are some of the more interesting features of PHP.

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Linux, How Do We Love Thee?

As we bid goodbye to Valentine's Day and all its associated romantic pressures for another year, it seems entirely natural to turn our thoughts to more comfortable ground and the question of why, exactly, we love Linux so much. "I could go on and on about things I love about Linux," Slashdot blogger yagu told LinuxInsider.

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Toyota Debuts First VI Car

Japanese automaker Toyota has unveiled a new Toyota Crown sedan, made under the ambitious "Value Innovation" plan, a cost-cutting plan that was implemeented three years ago.

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Meet the Anti-Nmap: PSAD (EnGarde Secure Linux)

This article will walk the reader through an EnGarde Secure Linux implementation of psad, from the initial iptables rules setup to the deployment of psad on the server side. By the end of the article, the user will be able to detect certain Nmap scans and have psad respond to these scans by blocking the source.

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Tesla to raise $250m for electric cars

Tesla Motors, which this month launched a battery-powered roadster based on the Lotus Elise, plans to raise $250m in equity and debt to fund a push into production of electric sedans.

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The Patron Saints of Graphic Design

If you work in graphic design, you'll want to have the help of these Saints handy.

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YouTube Comedy Contest Announced, $25.000 For The Winner

As everyone who's watched "The Boondock Saints" can appreciate, it's hard to be funny on demand. YouTube isn't so much demanding humor as offering users the opportunity to provide it, however, and although the deadline of a just-announced contest isn't too far off, the winner will get $25,000 for his (or her) trouble.

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Go to war and you may get free laser surgery

Combat troops who wear contact lenses and struggle to cope in the dusty conditions of Iraq and Afghan-istan may be offered free laser eye surgery, The Times has been told.

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Metro of Paris from A to Z

As you might have already heard, Paris has the best public transport in Europe, if not in the world. It is excellent, it covers the whole city and is wonderfully frequent but it has more than efficiency.

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Social media marketing is not a quick fix

Most visitors don't even stick around for a minute let alone come back another time. Even the links you get are probably not going to shoot you up to the top of Google in the space of a few weeks.

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A Salute To The Founding Hackers, Thomas Jefferson

While serving as George Washington's secretary of state (1790-1793), Thomas Jefferson devised an ingenious, and secure method to encode and decode messages: the wheel cipher.

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Bubble-Wrapped "Water Cube" for the Beijing Olympic Games

Beijing’s iconic structure, The “Water Cube,” has been unveiled recently just in time for the Olympic games in 2008. The honeycomb structure appears to be a pool of water from an aerial view, and purposely created with the intention to host the national swimming events.

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Create an AJAX Web site using dhtmlxGrid to present data

dhtmlxGrid is a JavaScript grid control that you can use to create an AJAX interface to a relational database server. The grid view provided by dhtmlxGrid offers actions that one would expect from a desktop grid control, such as sorting by columns by clicking on them, resizing columns, rich cell rendering, keyboard navigation, themes, and drag and

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Create an AJAX Web site using dhtmlxGrid to present data

dhtmlxGrid is a JavaScript grid control that you can use to create an AJAX interface to a relational database server. The grid view provided by dhtmlxGrid offers actions that one would expect from a desktop grid control, such as sorting by columns by clicking on them, resizing columns, rich cell rendering, keyboard navigation, themes, and drag and

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Create an AJAX Web site using dhtmlxGrid to present data

dhtmlxGrid is a JavaScript grid control that you can use to create an AJAX interface to a relational database server. The grid view provided by dhtmlxGrid offers actions that one would expect from a desktop grid control, such as sorting by columns by clicking on them, resizing columns, rich cell rendering, keyboard navigation, themes, and drag and

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Syncing the Next n Unwatched TV Shows to your iPod, AppleTV

What you can do though is run a little AppleScript voodoo that’ll do the job for you.

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Super Mario Bros. 3 Coaster Set

You won't find cooler coaster anywhere else.

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FoxTrot Meets Guitar Hero

Now this is a game many parents will approve.

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Amazing Olympic Posters from Team Italy

Incredible posters for Team Italy and the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.

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10 Killer Sneaks for Geeks

These awesome sneaks and shoes go high tech, with features like GPS navigation and cleaning power.

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Weird and Wonderful Computer Furniture

With prices ranging from $200 to $6500, they're not cheap. But if you spend 40 hours a week in your workspace, isn't it worth splurging for a cool setup?

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Using Virtual Private Network Connections in Vista

Virtual Private Networks offer secure access to a private network over a public connection. Paul McFedries explains the background and operation of VPNs in Windows Vista.

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Troubleshooting Tools Included with Windows Vista

Paul McFedries describes Windows Vista's new diagnostic tools, collectively known as Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure (WDI), that help troubleshoot and even prevent common problems.

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Transparency in Ajax Applications

In terms of security, the increased transparency of Ajax applications is probably the most significant difference between Ajax and traditional Web applications. Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan explain why it's in your best interest to keep as much business logic as possible on the server.

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Life at Microsoft - The Truth Revealed

"you don't have a problem with your x-box, you don't need tech support"

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DIY Gun Robot

This Gun Robot project can monitor the entrance to your fortress and ward away any enemy attacks! The servo action seems nice and smooth, next step would be to make it IP based so that you could have the unit at work and control it from home.

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An affordable Ferrari for the digg community

Berg Toys is pitching its new Ferrari FXX pedal car as something special for the kids. But it undoubtedly will attract a lot of adults who can't afford the seven figures for the grown-up version.

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Private Investors Resuscitate The SCO Group

The SCO Group, which claims to own the UNIX code used in the Linux operating system, is poised to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the help of private investors.

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Freelancers Happy but Underpaid

There are plenty of freelancers among the ranks of web workers, myself included. The web makes it easy for us to work with clients located all over the place, as well as to make the connections that lead to new clients.

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Microsoft + Danger = iPhone competitor

How long have we been reading these Zune Phone rumors? Microsoft still hasn't officially announced any plans to build an iPhone, but yesterday's corporate reorganization clearly points that way.

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Incredible Autonomous Armatures //VIDEO

This artist creates mechanical armatures that get their energy from the wind.

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Install firefox 3 beta 3 on ubuntu

I’ve been testing ff3b3 for a few hours now and I haven’t got the famous flash crash yet.

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Free software and 2-D barcodes

2-D barcodes (as they are known) are getting more common, working with them is still a bumpy road for the Linux and free software crowd. Fortunately, several options exist for reading and generating them with open source software.

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Password Hasher Firefox Extension

Password Hasher is a Firefox security extension for generating site-specific strong passwords from one (or a few) master key(s).

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Wanna a light? Make a Fire Glove

Instructions for making one after the digg.

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$150,000 for a pet dog, just like your last one

A Californian dog-lover has agreed to pay $150,000 to have her dead pit bull recreated in the world’s first commercial pet cloning project.

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We love Digg because we like to be part of a flock

Have you ever arrived somewhere and wondered how you got there? Scientists at the University of Leeds believe they may have found the answer, with research that shows that humans flock like sheep and birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals.

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Why zombies still matter

Sure, the undead exist to devour the living, but in “Dawn of the Dead” (George Romero’s ’78 original and Zack Snyder’s ’04 remake) they represent a consumer culture taken to extremes — a shambling society of drones who are always hungry, always consuming. Small wonder that the best zombie movies are set in shopping malls.

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A Point-and-Shoot Camera Wrapped in a Suit of Armor

Neither rain nor sleet nor controlled drops from a height of 6.6 feet shall deter the Olympus 1030 SW from taking snapshots. This 10-megapixel point-and-shoot camera is waterproof, freezeproof and, interestingly enough, crushproof.

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A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems

The goal of the research presented here is to estimate and visualize, for the first time, the global impact humans are having on the ocean's ecosystems.

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Introduction to Perl

A brief introduction to getting started with Perl. This is not aimed at getting you proficient in writing CGI scripts, but to help you decide on when and how (not) to use Perl.

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10 Gmail Search Tips, and Then Some

Learning to search effectively in Gmail can save you quite a bit of time, and you would expect Google to make the search robust in its e-mail client, which it is. In this post, I’ll round up several ways to become much more efficient at it.

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Using Subversion, NetBeans IDE, and Sun Java Web Server

A great deal of software is available to developers, even in what many would consider the small Java Platform, Mobile Edition (Java ME) space. With so much choice, it's difficult to determine which software products provide a real benefit.

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Piracy costs Nintendo $1 billion last year

Nintendo of America Inc. said piracy of its games around the world cost the Redmond, Wash. company, as well as its game developers and publishers, nearly $1 billion last year.

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The Pownce Worm (Yet Another Potential AJAX Worm)

Yep, and is this is the kind of worm you cannot take care of by taking your pet to the vet.

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The Short, Deadly Story of a Kid and his M5

And the top of the cake: "Let me say I am a beginner when it comes to high-performance cars as I am only 18, so take it easy on me."

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Mr. Burns USB Webcam

"A good worker, is a monitored worker. - Excellent.

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Step by step CSS float tutorial

This takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.

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Creating a Pure CSS Template in Joomla

In this chapter, we'll go through the steps of creating a Joomla template. Specifically, we will create a template that uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to produce a layout without use of tables.

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Yahoo! to Jump in Bed With Murdoch?

Yahoo Said to Be Discussing Possible Partnership With News Corp. to Thwart Microsoft

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Using the ’service’ command in Ubuntu

Here’s how to get handy equivalents of the RedHat service and chkconfig commands on Ubuntu.

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Take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression

The mgzip tools that can take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression, while pbzip2 uses multiple cores for both compression and decompression.

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GPS Meets Wi-Fi: An interesting How-To

Record wireless network strengths along a walking path and render data points automatically

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Role-based access control in SELinux

Learn your way around this admin-friendly security administration layer

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Dress made out paint [PIC]

Elegant and tantalizing.

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Executive Producer Surnow leaving '24'

Co-creator and producer exits to focus on new projects

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Valentine’s Day and Porn

Valentine's Day is not about chocolate or flowers. Valentine's Day is about porn.

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Did a Shark Really Bring the Internet?

Just who was behind the recent cutting of several fibre optic cables in the Mediterranean a few weeks ago? The mysterious episode cut off nearly 73 million people from their Internet, telephony and other services - and now forms the basis of the hottest conspiracy theory.

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Yahoo buys Internet video platform firm Maven Networks

Yahoo announced Tuesday it has bought Internet video syndication specialty firm Maven Networks for approximately 160 million dollars

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Evil Robot of Doom!

I made this thing today using parts from 2 hard drives, a old Sony CD player, an RC car, sim cards, a lighter and a pinewood derby car.

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A Better Way to Python main() functions

For Python programmers, I've got some suggestions on how to write a main() function that's easy to invoke in other contexts, e.g. from the interactive Python prompt when you feel like experimenting.

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FREE Python Book: A Byte of Python

‘A Byte of Python’ is a book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you.

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More Street Fighter 4 Gameplay Details, Artwork

Capcom has issued concept artwork of all the nine combatants revealed thus far along with new gameplay details.

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Court rules web trolls can stay anonymous

An appeals court in California has ruled that the individual behind anonymous posts on a Yahoo message board cannot be identified.

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Scientology STFU!!! [PIC]

Stick it to Scientology.

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Ask.com Launches (Not So) BigNews

New rumours doing the rounds last week, hinted at a possible collaboration between Ask.com and Digg have come true. The two have jointly launched a portal called BigNews, which is a social news site not very different from Digg, Propeller, NewsVine, TechMeme or any of the other news aggregator sites that are already popular.

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Is Jerry O'Connell The Leader of Anonymous?

Actor/comedian Jerry O'Connell appears to take great delight in parodying Cruise in this video, in which he extols the virtues of not being a Scientologist.

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The 50 Best Robots Ever

They're exploring the deep sea and distant planets. They're saving lives in the operating room and on the battlefield. They're transforming factory floors and filmmaking. They're - oh c'mon, they're just plain cool! From Qrio to the Terminator, here are our absolute favorites (at least for now).

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Eee PC: Reality Sets In

After some time, once you see it as a tool and not an innovation, you can start to fine tune your opinion of the Eee PC and notice which parts of it really bother you and which you have learned to live with.

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iPhone Faux-GPS Hack Works and is Awesome

Whoa, the iPhone just got GPS. Well, its actually using peer collected GPS data linked to cellular tower, which Navizon describes as peer to peer location detection.

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5 Helpful Windows Vista Tips

For those in the eternal struggle.

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Open-Source Movement Turns 10

The past decade has been marked by enormous achievements and some serious setbacks, says Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative.

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The Strangest Hand Shake You'll Ever Have [PIC]

A hand shake with yourself.

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Japan Customs To Remove Your Fingerprints On Arrival

If it really is notice of a further tightening of Japan's recently changed and much derided immigration process, I just hope you get your fingerprints back on departure.

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The Dusk Of The Arcade Age Is Coming

Amid news that Sega Sammy Holdings expects to lose 26 billion yen ($243.9 million) during this fiscal year, the firm announced that they will be cutting 400 jobs from their videogame software group.

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Pros and Cons of Facebook activism

In a discussion after the talk, people speculated that Facebook might be more anonymous than blogging, suggesting that the Facebook operators would be loath to release information on Burmese users posting information on Facebook.

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Facebook About to Crash and Burn

Annoyed with the ad deluge on social networks, many users are spending less time on the sites

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10 Wacky Wi-Fi-enabled Products

Laptops and smartphones are typical Wi-Fi-enabled devices, but not these 10 products, like a plastic rabbit that gives you the weather and a T-shirt that detects signal strengths.

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Programming the Windows Script Host

If you're looking to automate a wider variety of tasks in Windows, you need to supplement your batch file knowledge with scripts that can deal with the Registry, shortcuts, files, and network drives, and that can even interact with Windows programs via Automation. The secret to these powerful scripts is the Windows Script Host (WSH).

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Introduction to GUI Programming with Python and Qt

This chapter covers three tiny yet useful GUI applications written in PyQt and discusses PyQt's "signals and slots" mechanism--a high-level communication mechanism for responding to user interaction that lets you ignore irrelevant detail.

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The Belgian Version of the Russian Rullette

If you don't know Belgians, this is your time to meet them.

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A Mac in an envelope? Big Whoop!

Wait a minute… my old iBook already fitted quite nicely in an envelope! In reality I’ve been using envelopes (with bubbles) as sleeves for my iBook and PowerBook and that (still) works for me.

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Stolen Identity problems now translate to frogs

WILDLIFE experts are trying to save a green tree frog almost kicked to death by children who thought it was a cane toad.

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All About Converting From Several Video Formats To DVD

This is a tutorial for converting from different video formats (AVI, Real Media, Mkv, Ogg, etc) to a DVD format, playable on any DVD player.

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Subtitle manipulation tools for Linux

Subtitles may not mean much for the English-speaking part of the world, but for the rest of us, they are the difference between truly enjoying a movie or just watching the screen, trying to decipher the events. While Windows has a nice variety of tools to manipulate subtitles, Linux applications too can accomplish such tasks. From editing to rippin

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Blow a Hole in the Chest Special FX

What do you do when you need a "Hole in the Chest" effect? DUH! Build a "GORE BOX"....obviously!!!! I never thought I'd see the day when we'd need some called a "Gore Box" for an effect, but...what else would you expect for a...

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A 'life-size' U.F.O.

i will instruct you how to make a 'life-sized' U.F.O. it can be modified easily, from a full spaceship to a half ship, crashed into the ground or a building (my original plan was a crash site)

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How to Use PHP To Dynamically Resize an Image

Some blogs automatically resize the pictures for you into a thumbnail - like the image to the right. What if you want the image a different size, though? You could allow the browser to resize it for you, or - better yet - write your own php script to resize the image dynamically.

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Cleveland is Dying, and is Beautiful

The 7th most dangerous city in the USThe poorest city in the US.Tens of thousands flee every day.

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A GREAT PHP Cheat Sheet

Emezeta PHP Card is a PHP reference cheat sheet. You can download it in two formats: PNG and PDF, ready for print. Please, consider make a donation if PHP cheat sheet is useful.

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Biofuel: Bad for the Environment?

Researchers Say Biofuels Could Do More Harm to the Planet Than Good

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The Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal: A User's Guide

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer couldn't coax Yahoo! boss Jerry Yang into a deal, he went hostile. But smooshing together MSN and Yahoo! would be difficult. What would their mutant love child look like?

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Write your own NES game

If you are just interested in learning how to make your own version, scroll down

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Use dvdisaster to protect backups on optical media

Dvdisaster aims to help you recover the information off scratched and aged media.

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As Wii changes gaming, video arcades pull back

The Wii, the popular game console from Nintendo, may be a major headache for a rival like Sony, but for operators of game arcades the pain is proving just as intense.

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THQ to Bring Band Mashups to Wii

THQ announced the development of Band Mashups for Wii today. This original music game is set to be released in April.

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Sacramento Police Unmanned Aerial "Raptor"

The mini airplane on display was one of two aircraft in the development stage designed to enhance the department's existing airborne technology program.

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The BEST FREE Python Quick Reference Card

For the structure, this quick reference tries to group informations about same subject, eventually mixing data from different sections in Python documentation. It can then be used easily without going throught Python libraries documentation to identify the requested feature

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NodeBox: Animations & Graphics on the Mac with Python

NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented. Read more »

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Principles to Becoming a Master Designer

Limit Your Colors. Sounds a lot like the last rule of limiting your fonts right? Exactly! We want to limit our colors for the same reason we want to limit our fonts. Reducing the number of colors we use in our design will make the piece feel consistent.

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10 Best-designed web sites in the world

This is my pick of 10 outstanding web sites. It's my personal preference, and you don't have to agree, but I'll try to explain why these designs are great.

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Zope vs Django - Here’s some gasoline to put out the fire

This started out as a small comment to Paul Everitt’s post “Python, web frameworks, acts of good faith, making the case”, but it quickly became a long rant deserving its own space.

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Web 2.0 how-to design style guide

In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web ("2.0") design style.

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Slashdot beats Digg at the tech news game by doing nothing

At the beginning, Digg was a real fountain of tech news and industry information and that was good reading. It has changed so much that I don’t even recognize it today.

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Spielberg + Miyamoto + Wii, the next big thing

Last week, we talked to Electronic Arts game maker, Louis Castle, known for his work on the Command & Conquer game series, to get more details about the game and Spielberg's vision for BOOM BLOX.

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Money can't buy happiness, for REAL

Rich, dysfunctional families are back in vogue on prime-time television with new shows like Cane and Dirty Sexy Money. But these fictional families have nothing on the real-life tales of feuding billionaire clans, wracked by generational schisms, sibling rivalries, jealousy and greed.

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Take that Steve Jobs

Linux creator Linus Torvalds recently blasted Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard for having a file system that is "complete and utter crap"

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DIY Time Lapse Photography

Chris Thompson came up with a cheap and fun Time Lapse Photography project. If you build one of those please leave a comment here.

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NASA Plans To Launch Up To Six Space Shuttles In 2008

NASA plans to carry out up to six space shuttle launches in 2008, including a flight to service the Hubble Space Telescope

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The Man the Conservative Elites Love to Hate

And it’s not Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, it’s...

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Firefox Plushies Available NOW!!! Get Yours....

By popular demand, the long-awaited Firefox plushies are now available in the North American Mozilla Store. They’ll be in the International Store in about two weeks, at which point I will triumphantly close this bug.

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'Addicted' to Halo? You're Likely a Guy

Can't stop playing Halo 3? If you're a guy, you may be able to blame your time spent playing on your gender, according to new study.

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Top 3 Brands That Refuse To Support Linux

Why is it that we can manage to sway countless hardware manufacturers into looking our way yet those who work in other business circles continue to ignore Linux to the point of almost being laughable? Today, we will highlight these companies, just to remind them how their decisions are costing them money.

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Aggregate RSS and Atom information using XQuery

Speed your merging and filtering of RSS and Atom info with XQuery

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Real Web 2.0: Linking open data

Discover the community that sees Web 2.0 as a way to revolutionize information on the Web

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Jump-start your PHP applications with the Eclipse

Need a PHP class, but don't know where to start? Let Eclipse build one for you

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Develop your own weather maps and alerts

Process radar data with open source image processing tools to create custom alerts

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Alien, all time scariest movie

Alien is the scariest movie monster of all time, according to a new poll.

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EA Predicts PS3 to Outsell Xbox 360 in 2008

According to the publisher, Sony’s console will make major gains in Europe, where it expects between 5 and 6 million PlayStation 3s sold in the year. In contrast, EA thinks the Xbox 360 will sell just 1.5 to 2.5 million units.

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Something better than a Wiimote is coming, ORLY?

Motus Corporation hopes its Darwin game controller (above) can transplant the popularity of the Nintendo Wii's motion control to other consoles and PCs. Slated for release this fall, the Darwin is intended to feel more realistic than the Wii Remote.

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LED Light Drawing Pens: Tools for drawing light doodles

I went hunting for parts at the local electronics and hardware stores and came up with what turned out to be a simple and versatile tool that resulted in some incredible art.

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Hail Satan: Create Realistic Demon Makeup

Do you need to look like the devil in "Legend"? How about Hellboy? Well you've come to the right place. All you'll need is $35 dollars and some patience.

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And the Best Superbowl Commercial is...

A great commercial is memorable, not corny or sappy, actually funny when it is trying to be funny, appeals to a broad audience, product focused and has people talking about it afterwards, and not in a bad way like the Sales Genie ads. I think out of all this year's crop of commercials, the Jackie Moon commercial does this the best.

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Latest World Wind Java Released

I downloaded and ran the latest released version of the WWJ SDK available for download at the World Wind Java site - 20070817. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the 2D location map and the distance meter added to the window by default.

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Go postal @ E3 with the tv-b-gone gun

I took 30 IR leds and wired them up, a SMD FET switches them on and off and is wired up with a pinheaded connector to the tv-b-gone. Internally the FET is connected to the output pin of the controller, which is also connected to the transistor driving the normal IR led.

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Don't hurt the feelings of a firefox extension team

You know these guys are really hurt when you see a message like this:


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Introducing Raven: An Elegant Build for Java

There's a first step that every single Java project has to go through: setting up a build system. And often before that, choosing a build system. There hasn't been much improvement in the Java world in this area for quite a while; Ant 1.1 was released in July 2000 and Maven was created in 2004.

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Dr. Gosling says the grapes are sour!

“If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff — with richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs — it really falls short.”

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Meet the cuplrit of the Internet fiber cuts

The irony can't get any better.

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Digg Can Kill You With Generosity

As the social media site Digg gains in membership, more people will try to hit links from its front page to a destination hosting a featured story. That could be bad.

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LEGO ping-pong ball clock

Helge made an interesting LEGO clock that uses ping-pong balls and Lego Technic to keep track of time. One thing that makes this clock different from the rest, is his way of transporting the balls to the top of the clock.

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Patriots Deny Another Accusation of Taping

The N.F.L. investigated rumors last year that the New England Patriots had videotaped the final walk-through by the St. Louis Rams before the 2002 Super Bowl and found no evidence that the taping had occurred, the league said Saturday.

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The Decapitator is back, this time it's newspaper

The artist known as the decapitator is back, this time he's modifying newspapers, here's a video on how he does it

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Yahoo a mere front end for Microsoft hosted apps?

Among other considerations, Microsoft is attempting to acquire Yahoo in order to use the site's built-in audience and network to push its own Web offerings

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Pownce Is Still Alive

In case you forgot, Pownce is a Twitter clone whose added value is the resale of Amazon S3 space. It's written in Python (Django) by someone who rounds floating point numbers using strings, and is only noteworthy by virtue of being co-founded by Kevin Rose of Digg.

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RapidSVN: Never Subversion without it

RapidSVN is a GUI front-end for Subversion which is available for a number of platforms; this piece of sofware makes life easy for the programmers who work in a collaborative working environment. Subversion development was started in 2000 by CollabNet Inc., with the aim of creating a 'better CVS'.

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Python Screen / Web scraping

The goal of this web scrape is to download the entire archive of web comic images from Penny-Arcade. Here we will examine how to iteratively scrape through a site using 2 different approaches.

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Would Digg Be Different Without The Digg Elite?

My guess is that nothing much will change from a quality point of view — mostly because many stories that they would have found will probably get found by someone else. Oh, and that Digg is so big, and the average user so uncaring about this Drama that none of the other numbers will likely change either.

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Donald Duck Nazi

Disney sure poked some fun at the Nazis.

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14 Words That LOSE Money

If you are using any of these words in your store, you may be jeopardizing potential sales before you even have a shot at your real goal of making money. In effect, you are asking your customers to “purchase your product” by using contradictory words that actually lose money.

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Vote for your city for next Monopoly World Edition

Bet Digg can't put Nantucket in this Monopoly Edition.

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Alienware shows off ultra-ultra-wide curved screen

At 2880×900, the resolution leaves something to be desired for such a large monitor (it’s 3 feet wide), but hopefully this is the start of a new trend.

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Zeroes

Ignore the candidates, save the world

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Americans getting affordable Dental Services in MEXICO

Shrugging off concerns about hygiene and Mexico's brutal drug war, thousands of Americans are heading to Ciudad Juarez and other Mexican border cities for cheap dental treatment.

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Convert any video format to Divx

The goal of the Dr. DivX 2.0 OSS project is to build an application which is portable and capable of transcoding as many video formats as possible to DivX.

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Arranged Marriage Funny Commercial

This is quite funny, poking fun at the Indian tradition.

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Fake Name Generator

Need a fake name, address and background? This site will help you out.

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Essential Python Reading List

I’ve tried to order the items so you can pause or stop reading at any point: at every stage you’ll have learned about as much possible about Python for the effort you’ve put in.

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Who says city lanscapes have to suck?

Architect Vincent Callebaut’s latest project balances public galleries, meeting rooms and gathering spaces over canals and abandoned railroad tracks in the 19th Parisian district. The prototype uses green technologies and techniques but is more than just an example of sustainable design. Callebaut’s ‘Anti Smog: An Innovation Centre in Sustain

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Accessing Your Windows Vista Computer with Remote Desktop

Robert Cowart and Brian Knittel explain how to remotely access your computer over the Internet using Remote Desktop.

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Why the iPhone Blows BIG TIME

The best argument against the iPhone even Steve Jobs couldn't refute.

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Man Says Motel Bed Bugs Eating Him Alive

A local man claimed he was being eaten alive by bed bugs at a central Bakersfield motel, and now said the management is taking a bite out of him. ...

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School Recess Hits the Wii

Tap Your Inner 5th-Grader With Dodgeball, Tetherball

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Linguas OS - Linux for Translators

Linguas OS is a Linux distribution created specifically for professionals in the translation industry, including Free Open Source Software tools to perform all of the tasks that professional translators must do every day in their work.

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French Police in France trade Microsoft for Linux

In a pistol-whip to Microsoft corporation, the French paramilitary police force announced in Paris on Wednesday that it is abandoning the Microsoft operating system it currently uses in favor of the free Linux operating system.

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