Cool Katamari Damacy Costume [PIC]

Hey There,

Just got this picture from the Calgary Comic Expo. This year some people really took the time and effort to come with great, high quality made costumes like this Prince from Katamari Damacy. Think the king was also around but couldn't catch him, anyways, hope you enjoy it.


Kudos to the girl in the costume, Good Job!!!

Bonlebon

BSG: Gaeta's Lament (Music+Lyrics)

Who knew Gaeta could sing that good.

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Ghostbusters 2008!!! [PIC]

Reloaded and ready for action.

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They say girls mature way faster than boys ;)

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This lunatic dives into the ocean with some meat on a line and patiently waits for a shark to take the free meal while he hitches a ride. This seems awful dangerous! [and wreaks of something if you ask me]

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How To Add PHP To WordPress Widgets

One of the reasons I managed to setup my new WordPress theme so quickly was because I used WordPress widgets for the first time. I’d always assumed in the past that you would lose control by using widgets as they were aimed at ‘basic’ users, but I couldn’t have been more wrong as widgets allowed me to quickly build the new site up one widget at a t

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10 things you should know before making plans for summer

We're on the brink of the summer travel season, and 10 recent developments or events might affect your travel plans:

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Facebook's Glass Jaw

Facebook finally has a real problem to deal with - an exceptionally rational and well-thought-out strategy by Google that puts the leading social media cloud in the path of a wave of angry users. The only thing Facebook has going for it is that said users don't yet know they're angry.

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Cars Reliability Survey

If you are going to by something just by the brand, follow this chart.

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Ubuntu's need to catch a wave

Let me play devil's advocate here. Mark Shuttleworth's recent pledge to join a synchronised release plan for Enterprise Linux distributions is no more than a wish to benefit from a lot of work that Novell and Red Hat are already doing in the Enterprise space.

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Pack a starter pistol to deter luggage theft

It was really dumb of me to put a camera into a piece of checked luggage, but I did, and now an airport baggage handler somewhere is one camera richer. It’s my fault, of course. My only excuse is that I almost never check bags, so when I packed this one I was thinking carry-on, not checked.

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Revealing new Starbucks mermaid logo gets mixed reviews

The logo -- which offers a more revealing look at the coffee chain's mermaid symbol and goes with brown instead of green as its color -- is getting mixed reviews from marketing and public relations experts.

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You can achieve this much with an ATV.

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Video Game Stocks Fall On Disappointing Sales Data

Shares of video game makers saw pressure in early trading Friday following the release of data showing strong growth in game sales for the month of April that nevertheless fell short of most projections.

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Why is Burger King Spying on Student Labor Organizers?

The fast-food company tries to hide its anti-labor practices.

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'Secure' PayPal My Ass

A serious scripting error has been discovered on PayPal that could enable attackers to create convincing spoof pages that steal users' authentication credentials..

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Creating and Destroying Java Objects

Java expert Josh Bloch discusses creating and destroying objects: when and how to create them, when and how to avoid creating them, how to ensure they are destroyed in a timely manner, and how to manage any cleanup actions that must precede their destruction.

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C is not for Cunt

C is no longer used in as many places as it once was, but it still remains popular with people looking to get close to the hardware. David Chisnall looks at the limitations of the current C standard and produces a wish list for the next version.

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Gun Tooting Old Timer Criticizes Obama & Clinton

Senator John McCain reached out to the National Rifle Association on Friday and warned 6,000 people at the group’s annual convention that a President Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton would put the rights of “law-abiding’’ gun owners at risk.

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Drawing with PHP: array to graph

Well, today I will show and explain the script that generated this beautiful graphic.

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Output Buffering in PHP

How to capture content for server-side caching in PHP.

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Javascript: Introduction to the Document Object Model

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How to make a repeat pattern

I thought it would be fun today to do a little tutorial showing you how simple it is even with a very complex drawing. And you don’t even need a computer! (I usually do my repeats on the computer but today I’m doing it the way I was first taught.) Here’s the old fashioned way of making a tile-able design

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How to Clean a Fish Tank

The main reason people give up on their fish tanks is do the fact that many people buy their aquariums from the big “Box Stores” where nobody knows a damn thing about keeping fish.

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Browser, mount that folder, thank You!

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Gamer's Hell [PIC]

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Best Year Book Photo [PIC]

This group picture will last forever, yours will end up in the trash,

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Perl Pragma Primer

A bug in my Simple Comments script got me thinking this week about the use of pragmas in Perl; specific instructions that we can embed in Perl code, depending on our needs and preferences, that allow our scripts to be compiled and behave differently than they would otherwise.

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Software Engineering for Ajax

This chapter looks at how to use the Java software engineering tools in GWT to build nontrivial high-quality Ajax applications.

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100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library

There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our perspective on politics, religion, money, and love. Some will even become a source of inspiration for the rest of your life.

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Violent Mario Cameo In New Xbox 360 ‘Banjo Kazooie'

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Linux Coming to Cell Phones

Verizon Wireless is backing a free operating system that competes with programs from Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. and expects it to become the "preferred" software on its network.

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Six Million Wii Consoles Sold in Japan

The Wii is popular, that's a given, but even Nintendo must be ecstatic about the news that sales of the console have now passed the 6 million mark in Japan, less than a year and a half since its launch.

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Writing Secure PHP Applications

What security ramifications do we need to consider in our design?

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New peace plan for the middle east by Obama [PIC]

Let's get this over with in a week.

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Performance Ajax tools

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Build Web services with PHP in Eclipse

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Archaeologists Debunk 'Indiana Jones'

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Reinventing the Java Application Server

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PS3 not competing with Wii, Xbox 360 (SONY's lamest excuse)

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10 Steps for Digg Success When You're the Villain

If you're using Digg as a linkbaiting tool then you're perceived as a villain. Everyone from Digg itself, to the community, to other self-proclaimed social media experts thinks you're the bad guy.

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So why hasn't Nintendo come up with a solution that can allow owners to expand the storage capacity?

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It's was payback time at 11:00.

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Remember, any lady showing her ankles is a whore, kill her.

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Javascript: Session variables without cookies

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This is how some girls have a head start in life

Morally incorrect? maybe, but some people just don't care about it.

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Apple settles suit with Canadian iPod

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Best Wii knock-off ever, The MiWi

So full of s**t, so crappy, it's the MiWi.

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Awesome Obama Bust

Wish For Change And It Will Happen

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How to Assure a Well-Formed Website

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How a typical discussion goes on on Digg

Take any "discussion" thread and see how good this model is.

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Trial to imitate works of Great Bob Ross. It takes 46 minutes to paint this.

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Tot dies after Internet 911 call fails to reach dispatchers

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Facebook CTO to leave company

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Anatomy of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)

Architecture and implementation

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Renault's electric car debuts in Tel Aviv

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Does Enterprise Development Have to Be Painful?

I decided that my best approach would be to build a simple, self-contained application with their system, writing as little code as possible and using as many of their tools as I could.

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French Fry Holder

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Sun: Java ubiquity an advantage in RIA battle

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Neil Young: The Old Man Uses Java

In his 1972 hit song "Old Man," rock legend Neil Young sings out: "Old man take a look at my life. I'm a lot like you ..." Indeed, it is Young who is now an "old man" of sorts and has compiled 45 years of archives about his music career on Blu-ray discs using Java technology.

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Pirates maker to turn BioShock game into film

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc said on Friday that "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski will make a movie version of "BioShock," its hit video game about an underwater utopia gone disastrously wrong.

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Anatomy of a small chage in the code request

Yeaaah, I’m going to need you to make that little change to the code. It’ll only take you a couple hours, right?

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How To Convert Movies to Flash or Silverlight with c#

Looking for a fun software development project? Want to build your own YouTube? Ya me either, but how the heck do you convert videos to flash or Silverlight? It's not that hard actually as long as you use FFmpeg and some c# code. FFmpeg is a free video and audio converter.

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PSP lacks of (GOOD) games

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves has admitted PSP needs more games to be released for it here in the west.

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Debug and tune applications on the fly with Firebug

Save time when you monitor, analyze, and edit live Web pages

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Why Threesomes are a BAD Idea [PIC]

The smart guy uses condoms, the fool gets the hiv treatment.

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Hey!!! Now I can see bitches Online, Thanks Bro!!! [PIC]

A great way to keep your best friend happy.

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Italian Spiderman Trailer

This guy is a spidey meatball.

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“Wii Fit” — no way!

As we approach the release of Nintendo’s “Wii Fit,” I know that, for the first time, I’m going to completely pass up trying something innovative and important in the game world. For me, there’s no recreation, entertainment or motivation in being classified by software as “obese,” but that’s exactly what will happen if I get on the “Wii Fit” balance

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Are we too clever for our own good?

IQ levels rocketed in the last century, but argument still rages about how our brain power should be tested, and the roles played by genetics, social conditions, culture and even race.

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Linux On The PSP

A great useful port of uClinux for the PSP.

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Do you hate digital photography? DIY film

In this set you will find random photos and information on a project a friend has undertaken - a machine to make his own camera film.

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What a vagina is not [PIC]

Who to "blame": the father or the mother?

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How Microsoft has won the Software Wars

A great map of this new century battle.

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Return Lap for Peter Fernandez, the Voice of Speed Racer

“I keep saying to myself, ‘Of all the things you’ve done in show business, this is the one thing that’s recognized,’ ” Peter Fernandez said. He was talking about his voice work for the hero of “Speed Racer,” the time-honored anime imported from Japan in 1967.

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Advanced Debian Configuration for Automated Repository

Confused when trying to configure Debian? Automated installation and upgrades with Debian are simple out of the box, but going past the basics on configuration isn’t easy. A. Lizard straightens you out by showing you how to set up an automated repository.

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Bluetooth Security Risks in Business

Bluetooth was just a buzzword a few years ago, but now it is a feature that many look for in their next cell phone or gadget. We all welcome new wireless gadgets that make our life easier, from wireless hands-free devices to wireless keyboards. Yet with the growing number of Bluetooth devices in the corporate environment, are we ignoring or just un

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Another Google Executive Leaves for Facebook

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'Speed trap' email is a hoax

An email has recently been circulating ‘warning' people about an upcoming 21-day initiative to write as many speeding tickets as possible in the Portland metro area to generate revenue.

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Disk Drives Survived Columbia Disaster

Data-recovery specialist's top new war story: salvaging info from disk in shuttle accident

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GTA way too much for Iron Man

Take That, 'Iron Man': 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Owes Largest Launch Ever to Game's Price Tag

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Under the Hood: Oracle Berkeley DB XML

Storing an XML document in a relational database has its limitations. XML's hierarchical structures of elements and element attributes do not necessarily map well to relational database structures, which is where an embeddable (non-relational) XML database has its advantages over a relational database.

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Embedded Linux is DOOOOMED!!!

If embedded Linux champions are saying that embedded Linux is terrible, why would anyone want to risk their products or their company on it?

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A PHP Guy’s Look At Python

Against all odds, I found myself with a little spare time this week. Rather than do something sensible like clean the garage or get some exercise, I took the opportunity to learn a new programming language: Python.

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This is how pythons get their take-outs.

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Help a Cylon foundation [PIC]

While you are in your couch watching TV or digging, a Cylon who lost his job to a CGI character has no roof upon him.

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The pictures that horrified America

What frightened America before the Grand Theft Auto time.

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Become a Greasemonkey Ninja with jQuery

jQuery will turn a 700 line Greasemonkey script into a 12 line Greasemonkey script. I

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A Little XPCOM Magic - JavaScript Callbacks

XPCOM is, currently, a core Mozilla technology. Developers use XPCOM for a variety of reasons, many of which result in XPCOM components being accessed from JavaScript. XPCOM uses IDL to describe interfaces. This can make XPCOM components a bit rigid and not feel right in JavaScript. Recent support for optional parameters in IDL has helped a little.

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Nintendo's Wii makes Yamauchi Japan's richest

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Mozilla: Firefox Plugin Shipped With Malicious Code

Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months.

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Let the prostitutes killing continue

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This is what the judgment day would look like [PIC]

Repenting will be futile.

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Awesome: “Yes, we can,” Cobra Commander Edition

Coooobra!!!!

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The Nintendo Channel Review

Available in Japan since November, today marks the North American release of the Wii’s Nintendo Channel. Freely downloadable from the Wii Shop Channel (with which any content-hungry owner has certainly already become familiar), this one appears resplendent with promise.

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‘Tetris’ License Holders Want You To Win Some Dough

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Monkey on Monkey Violence has Started

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Facebook Chat is pretty lame

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Logos on your clothes could incriminate you

This is not anti-capitalism BS; Is Big Brother at work.

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Six downloadable boot discs that could save your PC

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Grand Theft Auto sales top Hollywood movie

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Useful stuff you can do with your fingers

You can thank the creator of this guide on your wedding night.

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That little bitchin' Smart Car

Puny this car is not.

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IT's THE PAPER GPS!!!

If You Get Lost, Blame The Directions!

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How a WiMax iPod Touch could be a non-AT&T iPhone option

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THESE days it seems like every physicist is an Indiana Jones on the hunt for the Holy Grail, a theory that can unite the fractured worlds of quantum mechanics and general relativity - Einstein's theory of gravity - and bring order to the universe.

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$2 Billion For a Home?

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Ruby faces off against PHP, Java

CommunityOne conference panelists focus on scripting language attributes

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Who uses Java SE 6 for Mac?

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Beware of Finland, They'll kick your butt at War

Ask the Russians for more details.

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Oh the huge manatee [PIC]

Maybe that was what that famous guy said.

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Debian leader on not being in it for the money

* Print this * E-mail this * Leave a comment * Clip this * Close Please login or sign up to clip this article. E-mail Password Remember meLogin Log in | Sign up | Why join Builder AU's community? See the benefits.

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Infogrames to buy up Atari for $11 million, CHEAP!!!

Infogrames Entertainment SA, Europe's third-largest video-game publisher, plans to buy the 49 percent of video-game pioneer Atari Inc. it did not already own for $11 million.

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Aussie men 'a nation of pansies'

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Film fans say old ones are the best for action heroes

OLD favourites Bruce Willis and Harrison Ford have tied for top spot in a poll of the greatest big-screen action heroes.

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Yahoo! Stock Expected to Plunge on Monday

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Internet serves up 30 years of spam

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the computer phenomenon - spam email.

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UML 2 Class Diagram Guidelines

A class model is comprised of one or more class diagrams and the supporting specifications that describe model elements including classes, relationships between classes, and interfaces

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Israeli private investigators used spyware to steal

Businesses should be on their guard against agencies who offer them information on their competitors, following the jailing of a team of private investigators who used spyware to steal information on behalf of legitimate companies.

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Top 5 tricks for taking professional looking photos

wouldn’t it be great if there were some simple tricks you could use to make your photos look better? These are the cherished memories of the people you love (most of the time), after all. They deserve to be good. If that’s the way you feel, try out these basic techniques to take your holiday snapshots and party memorabilia to a whole new level.

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The Katamari Damaci effect [PIC]

This is what Namco did to their competitors.

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Titanic re-enactment gone wrong [PIC]

Everyone that does this gets pwnd.

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Very slick BMW ad [PIC]

Way to make a point about traveling.

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Digital Camera Prototype [PIC]

They used everything they had back in the days.

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Ten things I hate about Perl

brian d. foy says that you can't be an effective advocate for a language unless you can think of five things that you hate about it off the top of your head, the reason being that if you can't, then you don't know enough about the language to advocate it effectively.

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Guarding in JavaScript

After looking at JavaScript programming sessions by Douglas Crockford (here), I couldn't stop but admire JavaScript. There are many many impressive things in JavaScript but one of the eye-catchy thing was guarding operator in JavaScript.

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10 things you MUST know before you register a domain name

A domain name insider speaks out and blows the lid off of the hidden "gotchas" domain registrars use to leverage your domains, your traffic and your money to their advantage.

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Guide to adding a new partition or drive to an existing sys

Imagine that we have a server running RHEL 4 and our supervisor comes over and wants a 10 GB partition created for the data processing department. This is in addition to what the server currently has allocated, so we can either create a partition out of unpartitioned space on the existing disk

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Facebook App Categories Ranked By Usage

We have been tracking the usage in each individual Facebook application since the launch of their platform, so I have been following the discussion questioning the utility of the majority of applications published to date.

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War against spam rages on as botnets win high ground

The date should be circled in black on your computer’s calendar: internet spam is 30 years old today.

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Mario Kart Wii Tournamets Begin

Nintendo is offering tournaments for Mario kart Wii players worldwide to compete in. The tournaments appear in the Mario Kart Channel, which can be installed via the Mario Kart Wii game disc. Each tournament will take on a unique shape, requiring the player to perform different feats to the best of their ability.

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Walmart.com using Wii Fit to boost Mom's Day sales

Wal-Mart Stores Inc's online division is trying to persuade shoppers to order the game as "a perfect gift" for Mother's Day.

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Wii Pole Dancing Game Intended For Fitness, yeah right!!!

A few weeks ago, Peekaboo Pole Dancing, the company behind the Carmen Electra pole dancing kit (the “Electra-pole”), announced that they are seeking a partner to license a pole dancing game for the Wii.

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How Grand Theft Auto IV Threatens The Wii

Since the launch of the Nintendo Wii videogame console in November of 2006, the Japanese videogame company had not missed a beat. That is, until the release of Grand Theft Auto IV this week.

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A BIG Carrier made out of LEGO

This guy sure has a lot of time to spare.

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Cartoonizing Photos With The GIMP

Play around with Layer mode settings, desaturate the top layer, blur or otherwise mess up the bottom layer. Endless fun can be had! Feel free to post links to your own creations in the comments below!

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Make a cartoon out of yourself

This can be done using Photoshop or Flash. For this tutorial, I am using Photoshop. This tutorial requires patience; although its not very hard, its a long process. First, open a picture of yourself or someone else you wish to "cartoonize".

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Mario Kart Wii Skids Way Off The Road

Until now. Mario Kart Wii looks great at first blush, adding motion controls and online multiplayer to the non-stop frantic racing action of the classic games. I can understand that the gameplay has been dumbed down a bit for the Wii audience, but in the process, they arbitrarily yanked out the series' best feature.

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Mock Web services with Apache Synapse

Do more with Apache Synapse Enterprise Service Bus

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Use XQuery from a Java environment

XML data format can be hard to search, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java™ programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for Java is a welcome addition to the programmer's toolkit.

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The Seinfeld Wars

A great pic of the Seinfeld characters a la Star Wars.

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Top Ten Top 10 Quotes Against Work

Seems like bum your way through life is a better idea.

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Four Trick Tips for Cell Phone Owners

Pull a Harry Potter or two with your handy dandy cell phone.

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Linux 101: Enable DVD Playback in Ubuntu in Two Commands

Most guides and tutorials for Ubuntu newcomers can help you get commercial DVDs playing on your system, but only through a series of terminal commands that install new repositories or through the use of Automatix or other automated tools that can sometimes mess up your system's dependencies.

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Javascript - Event compatibility tables

On this page I give a quick overview of events browser compatibility.

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What Is Service-Oriented Architecture

Einstein made that famous statement many decades ago, and it's still relevant today for building superior software systems. Unfortunately, as anyone who has been in the IT industry for long can point out, far too many software systems have failed Einstein's test.

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Screencasting from Your Desktop with ScreenFlow

When I reviewed Steinberg Sequel, an entry-level music production suite, I created a short video to demonstrate a useful UI feature from that software. In hindsight, I wish that ScreenFlow had been available back then, as that would have made creating that movie so much easier, and the movie itself would have been more compelling.

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Does a boomerang thrown in space return to its pitcher?

Does a boomerang thrown in space return to its pitcher? It does if it was thrown inside an airy environment like the International Space Station, a Japanese astronaut proved last week. But scientists say he would have had different results if he had tossed the boomerang outside the orbiting outpost.

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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.

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Westin Hotels Want More Rocking in Their Rooms

Redmond-based Nintendo said Wii games were introduced at Westin Hotels in Bellevue and New York City on Thursday. The Wiis feature Nintendo's Wii Fit games and will be used at Westin workout programs at 10 of the White Plains

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Finally the Geico Gecko Gets It

You don't save that much with Geico after all.

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Freaking Big Rain Cloud [PIC]

This this was just about to explode when they took the picture.

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Freaking Big Rain Cloud [PIC]

This this was just about to explode when they took the picture.

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