Darwin Awards Nominee Foiled

A 20-year-old man is accused of breaking into a small airport and trying to fill up his car's gas tank with aviation gasoline.

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Need a day off from work? Buy a sick note from the internet

AN overseas website is selling fake sick notes to Australians who want extra days off work.

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The Power of a Programming Portfolio

The time to show your portfolio is not during the initial contact with the company. A potential interviewer isn’t likely to look at a portfolio before you pass a resume screen. I know I have trashed a few resumes that tried to be both resume and portfolio at the same time (it’s very hard to do both well at the same time). That said, if your program

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Python Decorators Don't Have to be (that) Scary

Decorators modify functions. Beginning with the basics, learn how to use decorators in a variety of ways. Execute code when a function is parsed or called. Conditionally call functions and transform inputs and outputs. Write customizable decorators that accept arbitrary arguments. And, if necessary, easily make sure your decorated function has the

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Violent video game ratings 'should be streamlined'

A government report has said that the current hybrid model for rating video games is too confusing

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New US Defense Strategy Stresses Terrorism and Small Wars

The Pentagon issued a new U.S. National Defense Strategy Thursday, emphasizing the need for the U.S. military, and the entire government, to be prepared to fight global terrorism and related small-scale conflicts like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Microsoft Applauds Victory Over Linux and Open Source

Once the traditional anti-open source poster child, Microsoft is slowly seeing this aura eroding replaced as a direct consequence of the rise of new, more pressing, rivals such as Google and Apple. Furthermore, the Redmond company, once the epitome of the proprietary software business model, while still retaining its overall strategy

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Nintendo may use holographic storage in Wii

It might sound more Star Trek: The Next Generation than video games, but Nintendo is apparently looking into the growing field of holographic storage to solve the Wii storage problem.

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Hello Triangle: An OpenGL ES 2.0 Example

To introduce the basic concepts of OpenGL ES 2.0, we begin with a simple example. In this chapter, we show what is required to create an OpenGL ES 2.0 program that draws a single triangle.

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Giving Caches a Chance

Though it tends to get treated poorly, HTTP isn't a dumb file-transfer protocol. It allows you, to a certain degree, to specify an intention with your requests (GET/POST, with PUT and DELETE available, if you wish), it has a somewhat structured method for parameter passing, supports content negotiation and offers authentication. The focus of this a

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10 Cool Spy Gadgets

We've compiled a list of the ten coolest spy gadgets and gear to retrieve the secret info (or confession) you're looking for.

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Submit A Form Without Page Refresh using jQuery

In this example, we have a simple contact form with name, email, and phone number. The form submits all the fields to a php script without page refresh, using native jQuery functions (native meaning, you don't need to download any extra plugins to make it work.

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Users of Internet Browsers Analysis Matrix

Amazing profiles of your average internet peep.

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Money is not everything

Don't get lost in the big picture.

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Fix Your Web Site Performance Problems

Ivan Pepelnjak describes tools that can help you to analyze your website's performance, as well as several common configuration changes that can improve response times experienced by your non-broadband or international visitors.

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EasyInstall - The Easy Way To Distribute Python Apps

Easy Install is a python module (easy_install) bundled with setuptools that lets you automatically download, build, install, and manage Python packages.

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Distributing Python Programs

The following pages describe my solutions (borrowing heavily from others) to the problem pf distributing python apps with third party modules.

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Leonardo da Vinci was a big fat phony

"Everything known to the Chinese by the year 1430 was brought to Venice," said Menzies, a retired Royal Navy submarine commander, in an interview at his north London home.

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Microsoft gives glimpse of Sphere computer prototype

New system is designed to offer users a 360-degree view and touch-screen access

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Microsoft's trick to popularize Vista: A new name

That millions of users have, how do you say, negative impressions of the Vista OS is hardly news. But Microsoft says it has a strategy to turn things around.

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Ren and Stimpy Animators Unveil Film Project

Billy West, who lends his vocal talents to several characters Futurama, has plans to turn his filthy-mouthed character Billy Bastard into a feature film -- with the help of animators from the delightfully subversive show Ren and Stimpy.

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'Extreme Makeover' Home Howners Duped Volunteers

"It's aggravating. It just makes you mad. You do that much work, and they just squander it," Lake City Mayor Willie Oswalt, who helped vault a massive beam into place in the Harper's living room, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Thinking XML: Firefox 3.0 and XML

The popular Web browser offers more to XML developers each release and the new 3.0 is no exception

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Ubuntu Ultamatix: Install 101 Applications in One click

Ultamatix! It is actually based on Automatix, therefore it looks and acts exactly the same. The good news is that Ultamatix is designed to work with Ubuntu Ultimate Editon 1.8, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and the unstable branch of Debian Linux.This is a new automatix alternative.

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OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

Rich asked me recently how my move to Ubuntu was going. It’s been almost a month, and he says he has a vested interest in keeping me happy with it. I’m not sure why, but I use this as leverage for tech support, e.g. when I upgraded the Linux kernel, the Cisco VPN client stopped working.

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Mr. Gadget's Top 10 Annoying Things About iPhone

After about two weeks of using his iPhone 3G, Australian blogger Arnold Aranez has compiled a list of "10 of the Most Annoying Things About the iPhone." At 1,400 words, it's thorough, to say the least. Since we know you Gadget Lab readers love things short and sweet, here's a cheat sheet

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Real 'Joker' accused of trying to steal Batman Items

Three Rivers police have arrested a man who they say tried to steal posters and other items related to the new Batman movie from a cinema lobby while dressed up as the Joker.

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Locals try to keep the coffee flowing at doomed Starbucks

"This is the kind of grassroots activism I like, the kind that helps sprawling corporate behemoths," Colbert said. "And to think, I was about to sign this petition to end the violence in Darfur. What was I thinking? They don't make Frappucinos."

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Dell Introduces Slick Studio Hybrid PC

Desktop PCs are, to be blunt, not particularly eye-catching. But Dell's new Studio Hybrid does just that, making an impression with its style and decidedly un-PC-like design. And its price will make you take note, too: A basic configuration starts at $499, without monitor; with monitor, $689.

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FCC to rule against Comcast in BitTorrent scandal

Regulators at the Federal Communications Commission are planning to meet on Friday and declare that Comcast violated Net neutrality principles when throttling BitTorrent traffic on its network.

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NASA "The Weather Man" of the Cosmos

NASA's THEMIS project combines IT with satellite technology and cutting-edge research to give scientists new insights into what causes the undulating lines of glowing color known as the northern lights.

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Is there really such a thing as "programming IQ"?

I thought I'd put in a plug for my "Programming IQ Test," which went live Monday morning. The list of twenty questions is designed to puzzle and confound -- or, as one reader observed, it's "remarkably weird."

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The Anatomy of a C++ Program

The difficulty in learning a complex subject, such as programming, is that so much of what you learn depends on everything else there is to learn. This chapter introduces the basic parts of a simple C++ program.

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Trampoline Fail

That has to hurt.

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This house doesn't call 911

But double A support line is on speed dial.

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Foxtrot meets Wall-E

With nothing but Quince-E

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Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL

Great video to get your MySql ninja skills to level.

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A Redneck's Half Pipe

Looks cool though.

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An ass kicking PSP

It' wont happen cause Sony is way nearsighted.

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Perl 6 to be first truly extensible programming language

Version 6 of the Perl will be the first truly extensible programming language, promised Perl creator Larry Wall during his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), being held this week.

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Microsoft puts up $100K to support Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft Friday said it was contributing $100,000 in sponsorship money to the Apache Software Foundation in what the software giant called an endorsement of "the Apache Way" and made its first code contribution to an Apache project.

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Drama in the Google Digg Acquisition

The two companies had reportedly been in the final stage of talks to bring Digg into the Google News group for $200 million. Some sources said the trouble was due to technological incompatibilities, while another said it was more about a clash of personalities. Digg was informed of Google's decision late this week, according to the report.

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More IT Shops Plan to Wait for Windows 7

Despite cheery statements about increasing adoptions, new surveys show IT is still skeptical about deploying Vista in the enterprise.

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How To Block WebPages Based On Keywords Or Phrases

Keyword Filtering allows you to block web pages, depending on the words and phrases found in the page's title, meta tags and body. Keyword filtering in SafeSquid uses a 'weighed keyword scoring' method. It analyzes web pages, and searches for specified, unacceptable words or phrases.

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Rising electricity prices scuttle the electric car

The hype around electric cars continues to grow, but just as the first wave of electric vehicles are reaching the market, they could crash head-on into soaring electricity prices.

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The Simpsons Limited Edition Apple iPod Nano 8GB

The ultimate Simpsons collectable. Catch up on Simpsons episodes anywhere! Now the world�s most popular music player lets you enjoy episodes of your favorite show, watch movies, video podcasts and more.

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Create an Ajax-based IM client

Turn IM traffic into Web traffic using Jabber and a Web page

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Understanding SPARQL

Create journaling micro-blogs with the semantic Web

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Super Hero Knowledge Matrix

Great to have it handy if you meet a hot chick at a comic con.

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Apple looking to hire iPhone hacker

According to this job listing, the company is looking for an iPhone Security Engineer capable of, among other things, developing “proof of concept” attacks on the device’s current security mechanisms.

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Digital Comics Coming to the Wii in Japan

Four of Japan's biggest comic book or 'manga' publishers are coming together to bring digital versions of their magazines to Nintendo's Wii console.

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New Zealand students offer reward for Condi Rice arrest

New Zealand students protesting the Iraq war offered a reward to anyone who carries out a citizen's arrest of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to the country Friday.

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Bot Detection with PHP

Bots or Crawlers, are basically search engines crawling around the internet. This is how you get your pages on search engines (well, a major way). Bot Detection isn't something super vital, but if your CMS or website already has practically everything, then you need Bot Detection.

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MoocherHunter - Geo-locate and hunt down wireless moochers

MoocherHunter™ is a mobile tracking software tool for the real-time on-the-fly geo-location of wireless moochers and hackers.

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The Death of A Spammer King

Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide.

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Javascript - Event compatibility tables

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

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Marvel Heroes Galore

All your favorite Marvel heroes on this great poster.

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Google App Engine sort of getting Perl support

Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it's not really an official project.

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Bluetooth innovators prep for higher speed

even though 10 years have passed since the formation of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the technology behind Bluetooth is by no means stagnant, as designers strive for better performance, lower power consumption, increased range, and decreased size and costs.

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Bluetooth innovators prep for higher speed

even though 10 years have passed since the formation of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the technology behind Bluetooth is by no means stagnant, as designers strive for better performance, lower power consumption, increased range, and decreased size and costs.

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Digg To (Finally) Integrate OpenID

When Digg's Lead Architect Joe Stump took the stage at the Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco earlier today, something in one of his screen shots caught our attention.

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Join an Aryan Group And Get Your Rent's Damage Deposit Free

"The Aryan Guard is always seeking new brothers and sisters, if you are interested in relocating to our Calgary area, we will pay the damage deposit for your residence," says the posting, which was made earlier this month.

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Yahoo Optimistic, Sharks Circling

Despite the numbers, CEO Jerry Yang remained doggedly optimistic, saying that "Yahoo! ...is well positioned for long-term growth and maximizing stockholder value...We are seeing validation that we have the right strategy."

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Dad Leaves Toddler Locked In Car As He Watches Batman

A father who left his two-year-old son inside his car while he watched the latest Batman film has been charged with child abuse.

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NimbleX : Portable Linux That's Ready to Rock

How much awesome can you cram into a 200MB live CD? A whole lot. NimbleX comes with 550 packages preinstalled, and you'll find the usual Linux apps here: Firefox, K3B, XMMS, MPlayer, Gimp, Kopete, Transmission, Klam AV, and K Office, to name a few. Boot times are wicked fast, even from CD, and installation to a hard drive or USB flash drive is dead

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Things to do after sex, Human vs Mantis

Some statistics you can rely upon.

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Apple Up For A Pwnie Award

Quicktime and Safari are in the short list for this web award.

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Cool Underwater ROV Project

Easy to build and lots of fun to have.

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Mixing A Podcast In Ardour

The first of a 13-part series created by Tony Whitmore detailing how to mix a podcast in Ardour on Ubuntu. It was created initially so that members of the Ubuntu UK LoCo team could take part in the Ubuntu UK Podcast. However it was decided to release it because it may be useful to other podcasters, or those wishing to learn more about mixing in Ard

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Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins

How to be a more productive Linux systems administrator

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The stateless state on HTTP

Remembering what you were doing five minutes ago on the Web

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Deal with errors in XML parsing

Handle errors in XML parsing with SAX

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2600's Last HOPE

I made the trek to a steamy hot NYC this weekend to attend one day of the three day Last HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania. There was too much going to adequately cover it here (or even take it all in), but a few things stood out.

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The Batman Box-Office Legend Grows

Final numbers released today show The Dark Knight amassed $158.4 million in its opening weekend, up $3.1 million from Sunday's estimates.

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Bam, zing! Moviegoer starts fight in Batman flick

Batman and the Joker weren’t the only ones throwing punches at a Halifax cinema Sunday.

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Why Is My Web Site So Slow for Global Visitors?

Ivan Pepelnjak explains why a high-performing website can slow to a crawl when accessed from distant locations.

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10 Struck by Lightning, and Survived

It may seem as if some Zeus-like creature is hurling real thunderbolts these days. At least 17 people have been struck by lightning so far this month, and seven of those people have died.

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Geotagging on Linux

This page is geared at people who like to host and run their own pages. It will be useful to you if you at least have your own web page with photos, even better if you host a picture gallery, and perfect if you happen to use Rig, Ralf's image gallery (sf.net link if main site is unreachable).

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Get a Free Upgrade to First Class How To

Because of this the check-in attendants wont give free upgrades to anyone, you have to look like the kind of guy who would shell out that bit extra for first class. BTW. Most Billionaires don't flight commercial carriers.

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24:Exile The Trailer

The first trailer of the prequel's for Fox's top drama 24. Jack is Back and he doesn't look happy.

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Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t smart

The digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate

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Toddler sneaks her way into a crane game machine

This little miss found a way to beat the crane game and it takes more brains than agility.

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Missing the Broken? Citizen Engineer is Here

A great podcast with lots of awesome projects.

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Plane diverted after naked passenger scare

An American Airlines passenger jet was diverted in mid-flight after a passenger stripped naked and later attempted to open an emergency exit, it was reported Friday.

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Facebook sues German rival

Social networking giant Facebook has filed a copyright infringement suit against a German counterpart, according to the Financial Times.

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ASUS Eee PC 1000H 80G gets $100 price drop

Hackers of the world enjoy!!!.

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Has the new Batman plundered its plot from 9/11?

Batman versus the Joker now reads the war on terror goes superhuman

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No one's a winner in E3's console wars

I wasn't expecting much, but what transpired in Los Angeles at the annual video-game conference this week was a pretty big waste of time.

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Yahoo proxy may come down to battle of big funds

It looks like the bar room tete-a-tete in Sun Valley, Idaho last week may have helped one of Yahoo Inc.'s biggest institutional shareholders make up his mind.

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Microsoft posts search gain over Google

OK, so it wouldn’t do to make too much of one month’s worth of data. But credit where it is due: Microsoft in June finally managed to take back a small amount of market share from Google in the US search business, according to comScore.

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Phishers keep stolen data in MySQL database

Phishers have found a new way of storing the data they steal - in a MySQL database.

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Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil

Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday.

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LED Sphere – Your Cool Home Disco LED Light Ball

If you’re looking for the Home disco LED light ball, then you’ve come to the right place.

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American Airline’s Missile Defense System

Soon, laser-based missile defense systems may become standard equipment on passenger aircraft. American Airlines is planning to add these missile deterrents to some of their cross country flights, in response to what they believe is a very real terrorist threat.

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Chinese artist sues Dreamworks about Kung Fu Panda

A CHINESE ARTIST is suing Dreamworks in a Beijing court, demanding an apology from the Hollywood studio for the cartoon film Kung Fu Panda 's depiction of China's national symbol.

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Blackberry getting it's ass whooped on eBay

The Blackberry had a bright future till the iPhone came along.

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Batman wasn't the first to use the Skyhook in Movies

Read more about this cold war system and what superhero used it first.

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How to beat 60% rise in gas prices? Wear two jumpers

One of the UK's biggest energy suppliers came under fire yesterday after one of its senior executives said consumers struggling with record-high gas prices should keep warm by putting on two jumpers.

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Midnight stampede to 'The Dark Knight'

Nothing dark about Batman's first night at the box office. "The Dark Knight" lit up cash registers during its midnight debut, stealing away with a record $18.5 million from 3,040 theaters, distributor Warner Bros. said Friday.

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Pigeon: Impossible Pixar quality animation with OSS

Blender is the free 3d modeling/animation software used to bring Pigeon Impossible into fruition.

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Superbad: Top Movie Supervillains

Without a fearsome, memorable villain, your average superhero just doesn't have the opportunity to shine. With the release of The Dark Knight, featuring Heath Ledger's very creepy Joker, here's a closer look at some of the most evil and powerful supervillains in movies.

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Get Reel: Mow Your Lawn for Free

Save gas, reduce pollution, and get fit, all at the same time

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Making Music with Lasers

A floor-to-ceiling virtual instrument that can rock for real

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iPhone's Location-Aware Apps

The iPhone's location-aware APIs are being used by developers for all sorts of applications. I wrote some of my initial thoughts about the implementation on Friday. I've downloaded a ton of applications, but these are the ones that I have so far found to be most noteworthy. I am sure that by the end of the month I will have an entirely new list.

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Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak econ.

Google’s second quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates and executives moved to allay concerns about the company’s ability to weather a dicey ad environment.

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DVDs for Gas? e-Play Kiosks Make It Possible

Cash-strapped consumers facing high gas prices may soon be able to clear out their DVD catalogs for vouchers at Exxon Mobil gas stations.

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Kaboom: Make a Plastic Hydrogen Bomb

It sounds like the perfect terrorist weapon, but it is a toy that teaches the principles of electrochemistry. It's also a high-tech squirt gun.

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Nintendo: Wii Outsells Xbox 360 In U.S.

The Wii has officially outsold the Xbox 360 in the U.S., making it the number-one console in America, Nintendo said Thursday.

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Facebook bug leaks members' birthday data

A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week.

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Jijab's latest 2008 Elections Escapade

"Animation so good that looks like Pixar"

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The pickpocket duck

Because any mother will walk any distance to feed her family.

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Eee PC Hacks Galore

Jam pack your Eee with these awesome goodies.

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Python Ninja wanted, must know how to play Guitar Hero

Is this a cool job or what?

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Python Ninja wanted, must know how to play Guitar Hero

Is this a cool job or what?

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Fire Sale of Hollywood memorabilia

The Holy Grail is up for sale - along with the Ten Commandments and Superman's tights.

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Rendering a rock under various game engines

Nice perspective on the capabilities of various game engine.

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Nintendo Spurning Hardcore Gamers

Nintendo's conference left me personally underwhelmed, but then I'm generally a hardcore/mainstreamer who only occasionally dabbles in casual fare. Nothing wrong with that, just like there's nothing wrong with Nintendo catering predominantly to the casual crowd.

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PlayStation 3 Price Slashed $100 & sales won't go up

At the E3 Media & Business Summit, Sony announced it was introducing a new PlayStation 3 model with a built-in 80 GB hard drive for $399, replacing Sony's current 80GB PS3 which retails at $499.

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Digg Moving Rapidly Toward News: Sign of an Acquisition?

Digg is shifting more toward news content and less toward entertainment, according to new analysis released today.

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How much does it cost to become Batman?

When that movie came out, Forbes imagined how much it would cost to become Bats.

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Holy Smokes Batman, two Digg clones sell for $3 million

Ballhype and Showhype, two Digg clones focusing on sport and pop culture respectively have sold for $3 million, according to Louis Gray and others.

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E4X: JavaScript on steroids

Learn to use ECMAScript (aka JavaScript™) for XML (E4X), and discover the capabilities of the E4X enhancement, which was designed to facilitate simple and easy parsing, calculating, editing, and related activities on XML data.

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Integrate encryption into Google Calendar with Firefox

This article provides tools and code needed to add basic encryption support for user data in one of the most popular online calendar applications. Building on the incredible flexibility of Firefox extensions and the Gnu Privacy Guard, this article shows you how to store only encrypted event descriptions in Google's Calendar application, while displ

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Integrating Flex into Ajax applications

This article introduces the Adobe Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge), a code library that enables an easy and consistent method for integrating Ajax and Flex content. By the end of this article, you'll be able to take advantage of the rich features available through Adobe Flash assets.

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LEGO Wall-E

NXT Mindstorms hacker BlueToothWiki created a working Wall-E trash collector robot and uploaded build instructions to the NXTLog.

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Difference Between A Gold Digger And a Hooker

Know how to spot a gold digger.

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Thinking about career in Linux?

One may not use all of the tools/applications mentioned in this article on daily basis, but these are some of the widely used applications in Linux administration and related Linux jobs.

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JavaScript and HTML Tricks

In this article you'll learn about a wide variety of tips: from storing and using hidden data to making HTML forms and lists look great. Each topic contains a brief introduction, then details on how to apply the technique. By Joseph Myers. 0711

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New Batman movie makes technical history

In no way could it be called an ordinary shooting day when the makers of The Dark Knight arrived on a downtown Chicago street last year to begin filming the action-filled prologue for their new Batman adventure.

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Who should be the next Batman villain?

Christopher Nolan has a serious vision, and some bad guys just don’t fit

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A Career Changer's Checklist

Warren Wyrostek helps you probe what you are passionate about and what pleases you as he asks the question: What do you like to do? It is critical to come to terms with what you want to do AND what you like to do.

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Regular Expression Solutions to Common Problems

Ben Forta offers a collection of useful regular expressions, along with detailed explanations of each. He uses practical real-world examples and gives you a leg up by providing commonly needed patterns that you can use.

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Family Guy's Cleveland Spin-off Details

"The Cleveland Show" revolves around Peter Griffin's pal Cleveland Brown, who decides to take his son and move to Stoolbend, Va., where he moves in with his high school sweetheart and encounters a new cast of characters.

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Robot chef gets a boost from wireless kitchen

Go on, put your feet up. A new household robot that keeps track of the contents of your kitchen and can learn simple tasks could soon be making you dinner while you relax.

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Funkytown Remixed with Old Computer Equipment

The printer sometimes caused the harddrive head to shake out of sync so I inserted a screw into the mechinism and this some what helped.

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Creationists Science Fair

Don't open it if you easily get offended by the creationist debate.

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Rare Will Farrell Picture

This guy is odd but funny.

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Photos from a redneck wedding

If you are seen looking like this at a wedding... you might be a redneck.

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A Chinese "Sunday" Cartoon

This guy truly have a sense of humor.

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U.S. Banks in the poor house

U.S. banks will unleash a tide of poor quarterly results over the next two weeks, yet investors may choose to focus instead on when a recovery might be at hand and how much more capital raising and dividend cutting will be needed to achieve it.

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'Greenest' plane will be built in Quebec

The aerospace giant announced the launch of the new CSeries regional jets at London's famed Farnborough Air Show. The plane will be the "greenest aircraft in its class," according to the company.

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World-famous bypass surgery pioneer dead at 99

Dr. Michael DeBakey, the world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who pioneered such now-common procedures as bypass surgery and invented a host of devices to help heart patients, died Friday night at The Methodist Hospital in Houston.

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HP demonstrates mega-memory concept

Research work on HP's never-ever-forget Memristor concept is proceeding apace. Memristor technology could provide a new type of computer memory that's much faster than flash memory.

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wattOS: Light weight, Ubuntu-based Linux distro

WattOS is a new Linux distribution that's based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware.

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Linux in the real world - in the wild

Some companies are open about their products running Linux (and generally they have to be thanks to the GPL). Sometimes hackers just make Linux run on the device.

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Lotus Building a Hydrogen Taxi and Hybrid Limo

Lotus, the go-fast gurus who brought us the wonderful Elise and helped Tesla Motors with the Roadster, is developing a hydrogen fuel cell taxi that could be on the road by 2012 and hybrid Jaguar limo.

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My move from VB.NET to C#

Over the last few years, I've been ashamed that I stuck with VB.NET rather than moving to C#. I know... it is completely irrational. To be frank, I never could justify moving to C#.

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How do I Make C# or .NET Framework applications accessible

Learn to use the system tray with C# and the .NET Framework, to incorporate icons for easy access to these applications.

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Please don't masturbate in the showers

A message from your friends at Georgia Tech.

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Major failure at subliminal messaging NSFW

The idea is to hide the suggestion, not to expose it full frontal

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Photoshop Sweded

You can swede software too.

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Companies Trying to Improve Americans Image Overseas

Some labels can contain some insightful messages.

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Aircrack + Windows EEE PC 701 How To

Below is a simple way to get aircrack to work on the Asus EEE (windows). In the past year I have had to send this to multiple associates trying to get this to work. So here it is if anyone needs it.

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Will Kevin Rose Admit is Still Gamed?

We all know that you can't get on Digg front page just by writing a great (newsworthy, breaking actually, stylish - whatever) piece of content that someone will choose to submit to Digg.

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Beware of hidden iPhone costs

After months of hype, the great Apple iPhone rip-off is now in full swing.

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Gadget overload can undermine vacation travel

The hassle of air travel is often one reason. Anyone who has been through airport security with much more than a laptop knows the pain. Gadget freaks, er, lovers, can face delays. At worst, they could soon be undressing for strangers.

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A Guide to Persistence Technologies: Apache OpenJPA

This chapter explains how to code against the OpenJPA APIs, map entities, and configure the system for your applications.

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Ubuntu Command Line Quickstart

Andrew Hudson and Paul Hudson looks at some of the basic commands that you need to know to be productive at the command line.

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Master Data Management: An Introduction

This article introduces the concept of Master Data Management (MDM), the discipline to provide an authoritative source of trusted master data.

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More Movies to Include Anti-Smoking PSAs to Protect Children

The American Legacy Foundation(R), a national public health foundation dedicated to reducing tobacco use in the U.S., applauds the state of California for joining in the nationwide effort to educate youth on the dangers of tobacco use. Moreover, as young people continue to be exposed to tobacco images on screen and on television, the effort to reac

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Canadian open source community upset over copyright law

The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country's open source business model.

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The Truth About PHP Variables

This article examines how PHP handles passing of variables internally, as well as how this relates to memory usage. This information is very useful for any professional PHP developer as it shows how passing variables by reference will normally result in more (not less) memory being used.

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Image Effects : Image Rotate with CANVAS

CANVAS is a new HTML element which can be used to draw graphics using JavaScript. This script will rotate an image a varying amount of degrees: 90, 180, -90, and back to 0. Can be used in many different ways.

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DBA Insider - Useful PL/SQL Packages

Oracle actually supplies quite a large complement of pl/sql stored procedures, packages, and functions, which can help with some of these day-to-day needs.

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The ABCs for the techno baby geek

Nothing like learning at an early age.

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When was the last time you really let loose?

Some odd and funny answers for the #1 party talk topic.

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Bricksmith play with unlimited virtual LEGO bricks

Bricksmith allows you to create virtual instructions for your Lego creations on your Mac. The magic is based on the LDraw library, a collection of 3D models of Lego building blocks created by enthusiasts from around the world. With Bricksmith, you never have to worry about running out of parts!

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Track spatial objects with an Ajax-driven radar screen

Maybe you're trying to keep track of the traffic waiting for you on the commute home, or perhaps you're tracking the objects and people floating around Second Life or another virtual world. Wouldn't it be nice if you could track that kind of thing right from your browser? This tutorial shows you how to use Ajax to create an animated, self-updating

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Integrate your PHP application with Google Calendar

Use PHP to process and integrate data from Google Calendar into a custom application.

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Annotating the Web with Atom

Open up the whole idea of user participation

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Python best practices

Sometimes even good programmers at their first tries of Python use less than optimal solutions and language constructs. In the years Python has accumulated few redundancies and few warts (and some of them will be removed with Python 3.0), but it's a generally clean language still, so with a page like this you can avoid the most common ones.

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Man arrested after running into burning house to save PC

A Winona man could not save his house from burning down, but he was determined to rescue his computer.

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R2D2 USB HUB in Action!

It's animated like the Darth Vader hub and provides nifty R2D2 Star Wars sound effects.

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The Next Generation of Cars: Gas-Free

For big auto companies, the thought of a gas-free vehicle that actually resembles a car seems worlds away.

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12 steps to an action movie's success

Playing a hero in these movies isn't about saving the world. It's more about dumb luck and steel-hearted will. And, most importantly: Don't mess with my family. That's what it comes down to. You've got to make it personal.

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Beer Pong Wii Game Stirs Drinking Controversy

Amidst a flurry of controversy regarding its WiiWare title Beer Pong, developer JV Games has renamed the forthcoming downloading effort to Pong Toss.

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Netbeans will support Python!!!!

In a not-so-surprising revelation, Sun plans to support the Python and Jython scripting languages in future releases of the open-source NetBeans IDE, which has been expanding beyond its Java origins lately.

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I'm TRULY happy to see you both

Remember the guy has been riding a bike in the middle of nowhere for days.

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Best Cobra Commander Costume Ever

And the gal by his side takes the cake CO BRA!!!!!!

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Creating the Baroness Costume from GI JOE

Simple, cool and sexy.

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Best Cobra Commander Costume Ever

And the gal by his side takes the cake CO BRA!!!!!!

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Mass Duplicating USB Drives

How do you give away marketing materials? If paper is your only option, and you sell a service or product for a price that can absorb at least a few dollars of marketing cost per sale, start thinking USB.

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Why Google Has Lost Its Mojo

Google has become just another fat, happy, and even arrogant company.

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Automate backups on Linux

The loss of critical data can prove devastating. Still, millions of professionals ignore backing up their data. While individual reasons vary, one of the most common explanations is that performing routine backups can be a real chore. Because machines excel at mundane and repetitive tasks, the key to reducing the inherent drudgery and the natural h

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Five more PHP design patterns

PHP V5's object-oriented features give you the ability to implement design patterns to improve your code's design. When you improve your code's design in this way, it becomes more readable, more maintainable, and more robust to absorb changes.

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Stimulus checks spent on porn oh yeah baby!!!

Something is being stimulated and is not the economy.

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Game On Scalpel, Forceps, Wii-mote? Video Games for Surgeons

Imagine performing a circumcision with the Wiimote

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Steve B Jobs iPhone guerrilla marketing

Never underestimate apple's persuasive tactics.

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The real meaning of the world's flags

Irony or coincidence?

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How-To: Access Control Lists

Linux has the ability to use access control lists at the file level. This allows file owners and system administrators to define who has access and what level of access they have beyond the level of fliesystem permissions.

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God's practice target

Whatever ammunition he is going to use, it must be huge.

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Dr. Martin Luther King was Republican

True but he got killed in cold blood too.

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Five humor hints on how to take control of your life

Literary critic Swifty Lazar lived well into his 80s with the motto: "Everyday I wake up and expect something wonderful to happen. If it hasn't happened by lunchtime, I make it happen!"

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Tiny Bill and his puny X-Box

This town is too small for all of us.

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Tiny Bill and his puny X-Box

This town is too small for all of us.

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Incredible Wasp Cake

A Cake so real you'll give your guests the heebee-jeebees.l

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Wall-E Knock Off at Legoland California?

It's funny to find this kind of creatures.

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The Building Blocks of PHP

This chapter covers some of the nuts and bolts of the PHP scripting language.

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The seven rules of unobtrusive JavaScript

I've found the following rules over the years developing, teaching and implementing JavaScript in an unobtrusive manner. They have specifically been the outline of a workshop on unobtrusive JavaScript for the Paris Web conference 2007 in Paris, France.

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How To Silk Screen T-shirts

The best way to learn how to transfer your designs to T-Shirts.

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Ten XML Schemas you should know

In this article, look at some top XML schemas that provide solutions for all sorts of problems, from the basics of Web services to data description. You'll also cover database-like solutions that involve contacts and invoices..

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Gun Knocks Out Criminals With Noise

The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) – exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull

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The Digg treehouse: no robots allowed, not even made-up ones

The mysterious "Techno News" is reporting that a Nagasaki man was arrested on June 28th for pulling off a Digger's dream: being able to vote for news stories all day, everyday.

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An introduction to the Kismet packet sniffer

Monitor mode ability is critical to fully utilizing Kismet, because it allows Kismet to examine all the packets it can hear, not just those of whatever access point (AP) -- if any -- you are currently associated with.

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Craiglist Creeps Hall Of Fame

Meet Jo, he invented a variation of the clue board game you might like.

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Stop Being a Block Head Be a Rubiks Cube Head

A cool hat to build.

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Revolutionary way to edit and manipuliate video

Dials and scroll bars are a thing of the past with this new way to manage video.

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The biggest flying spaghetti monster you'll ever see

This thing is surely massive.

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Best use of XML

Maybe is missing the attribute but who cares?

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Scientists warn that there may be no ice at North

Go and get your ice cubes at the convenience store. Thank you come again.

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Wii nunchuck data logger

I wanted to use the wii nunchuck accelerometer for some measurements. I didn't really want to drag my computer around, so I built a little data logger. The nunchuck accelerometer data gets written to an eeprom. Then later I can download the data to my PC.

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Chicagoans’ legendary antipathy toward ketchup

Chicago is the only city you won't be able to paint red.

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Does Osama bin Laden Still Matter?

Usama is not important anymore.

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How to encrypt user info with php

Encryption is very easy to do with PHP in fact all you need to perform a “one way encryption” is the function crypt(). As an example say that we have the variables $user and $password and we want to encrypt the $password variable before we store it in the database. To do this we use the following function:

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Don't let the conservatives hate speech divide us

United we stand.

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Great Internal Complains Report For The Pussies At Work

Cut the crap of the cry babies at work.

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Darwin Awards Nominees

Close but no cigar.

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Netflix Player source code released

Netflix released the gpl code of their media player.

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Cheapest Apartment You Can Afford

And if you don't like the neighbors just drive away.

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Build Ajax applications with Ext JS

Easy as Pie and fast as lighting.

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Phillippines Marines Sing R.E.M.

If R.E.M. retires anytime soon, at least we'll have these guys.

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Getting graphic with PHP

Imagine creating Web-page graphics dynamically using just code and no complex graphics program. Creating and manipulating images is yours for the doing with the power of PHP.

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Keep your Beaver Cool This Summer

Now that the temperature is hot, humans aren't the only ones who suffer from overheating. Dogs and cats actually have a harder time than their owners staying cool.

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Extending the Borland legacy to Ruby and PHP development

If you're having trouble making the case for Ruby on Rails or PHP in your environment, take a look at CodeGear's 3rdRail and Delphi for PHP. Justin James explains why he can't wait to get his hands on evaluation copies of these products.

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Why Digg's new recommendation engine is a step backwards

I'm afraid in the current state the upcoming section is certainly more targeted, but it's pulling users away from some of the discovery that makes Digg so fun and engaging, which is what keeps users like me coming back. Without that, it's just another popular link site.

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Data Theft: How Big a Problem?

Michael Miller discusses how data theft happens, where the data goes, and to what extent it is a problem.

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Managing Database Objects in SQL

This chapter discusses what database objects are, how they act, how they are stored, and how they relate to one another.

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Five Do's and Don'ts for Managing UI Time Perception

Here are five application features that are notorious for eating up not only user’s time but also user’s tolerance.

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Anatomy of an Ajax Application

Learn the building blocks of an Ajax application and how they work together.

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Pylesystem: A Realtime Metadata Engine in Python | O'Reilly

Last weekend I started an Open Source project, pylesystem, that scratched an itch I had about having having an up to date API to the filesystem on linux in Python. There are really a few different things going on in my prototype and my plans for the eventual direction of the project.

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Where is a map to mapping maps?

Is there a Web site that lets you create a map showing multiple locations?

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A mouse and a snake fell into a hole...

You won't believe what happened...

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