If you like widgets, there's about to be a whole lot more of them available for use in your blog or profile page.
Doom and gloom for hubble fans? The Advanced Camera for Surveys is out of action with a power supply problem. NASA will spend the next week diagnosing the problem. The good news is that remain confident the camera can be fixed.NOOO, that isn't good, they definatly need to send up a shuttle to fix it! There is a connection to that telescope and to my family, because a relative of mine worked on the, I think the main lense for the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 90's. From that, I'm a proponent of wanting them to continue to fix the Hubble, because it still brings alot of high quality pictures from space still....
Five years ago one journey ended, and another began....June 22nd 2001: A small Czech game developer with the name Bohemia Interactive Studio releases their debut military action PC title Operation Flashpoint, published by Codemasters. None of us could have predicted just where the story would lead. Five years later we find ourselves looking back at the incredible journey that the game and company have since embarked on."The dream and ambition we had for a deeply involving, large-scale, military combat simulation game, a game which offered freedom of choice, large numbers of forces and vehicles clearly struck a chord with hundreds of thousands of gamers which swiftly led to the game surpassing 1 million units sold.""These last few years we've been busy working hard on our new PC technology, driven by our ongoing vision of an open and extremely large living virtual world that will find its latest incarnation in our new game Armed Assault."Says Marek Spanel, Project Leader of Operation Flashpoint and Armed Assault and co-founder of Bohemia Interactive.It seems its OFP's 5 year annaversery, and even today OFP is still a fun game to play, even though it has been out for about 5 years, thanks to the large ammount of mods.
Operation Flashpoint PC Release: 5 Year Anniversary
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A quick proof-of-concept Java application that lets you view the desktop of a remote computer using a just a web browser!
This a neat video showing off Sir's stunt mod that was previewed on Total Bf2, and it is a very intersting video and is worth seeing, though when this comes out, you may have to turn down the settings ingame to reduce lag...
AN INQUIRER READER attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident.
Yea, that sucks for whoever had that Dell, because its smoking, and looks burnt to a crisp. What I really hope is that this doesn't happen again, especially on an airplane, because that would be worse; at least the guy wasnt using it, it would of turned into an "explosive" report for him and the laptop. In the end it is good that noone was harmed, except for the laptop.
What's the absolute bleeding edge in Intel CPU design for the next five years? "Penryn," "Nehalem" and "Gesher"
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata revealed that Wii development kits would now cost as low as $1,732, opening the doors to even more 3rd party developers and lower game costs! For that price I might just buy one!
His project, the "Embedded Secure Network Bridge" has already attracted some attention; not bad for a sixteen year old.Now thats one talented person, and It sounds that his future is set on a good track. He must be a very talented programmer at the age of 16, and with that type of talent, he should go far in the computer hardware industry. I wonder how long until we see encryption via hardware appear commercially....
After a three week saga, that involved a taxi, a stolen sidekick, a girl from corona, a man from Manhattan, and thousands of internet fans, the stolen sidekick saga concludes.
This is my own blog entry but I feel it is important enough digg because it could be such a massive deal. Looks like telemarketing has finally invaded Skype and may already being seriously hampering its connectivity and quality.
This is an interesting video that I came across that involves the use of iPods as dominoes for an add. The advertisement isn't really anthing much...but the ipods being used as dominoes is cool.
You can build your own dual T1 wireless transmitter that serves up to 200 customers. check out the video clip.
Very impressive setup, the mess of routers and such reminds me of what I would set up, but the hilarious part is that the server for that tower is a old 400 mhz computer, doing mail, DNS, webhosting for the people, as well as ftp; naturally it has to be running linux :), alot of stuff that they throw on a such simple computer.
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"It sounds like something from a science fiction film--a doomsday vault carved into a frozen mountainside on a secluded Arctic island. But Norway's ambitious project is on its way to becoming reality Monday when construction begins on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, designed to house as many as 3 million of the world's crop seeds."Seems sorta doomsday paranoid to put all the worlds crop seeds, though, in reality, anything could happen to them, or a species of grain may dissapear. In reality it may be a good theing that Norway is doing it, we'll just have to see.
TVUNetworks let's you watch TV for free from your PC...channels include ABC and ESPNThis is at least at the moment, free, and it includes some channels including ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and CNN. The system seems to be p2p based, with some of the bandwith being distributed via other viewers. Though the bad thing is that for at least ESPN2, there is at least 30 seconds to one minute delay, so it wont really be truly live. Besides that it is a neat service.
While it's obvious that an Xbox 360 would have higher energy demands then a Playstation 1, the curious question is by how much? Even more importantly is the question of whether your console might be costing you money while you sleep. Preposterous you say? Actually quite the opposite!Well, people who own Xbox 360 might want to have there console unplugged when not in use when the read the ammount of wattage it uses in standby. This is a very intersting article that brings up points of how much power your console is really using.
GamePolitics has confirmed with her staff that Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco signed HB1381 into law last night. Under terms of the legislation, it takes effect immediately. The bill defines violent video games as "harmful to minors" in much the same way as pornography.He is really annoying, and with the government officals not understanding what needs to be acutally done to help this, they are just going to restrict the freedom of the developers of games. The raitings of games were just as a guideline, not to be a law or such, this is just all driven from both the GTA issue as well as Oblivion. If noone comes into focus that can truly help senators and representitives of state and of the national government, then this is going to continue to happen without resistance...
Entirely new footage from the upcoming first person shooter Crysis. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far Cry. A must view for any serious gamer or anyone with an interest in where 2007 will take gaming.Now this game is looking good, completely destructable environments, ablity to punch down walls and people using a "strength" mode, customizable weapons and more! I'm definatley looking forward to this game...
The design is pretty simple and uses gravity for downward movement, so you don't have to worry about a motor slamming the head into the desk.It may look crude, but I think its cool!
Here are a pair of homemade headphones, all the way from the Takoradi Technical Institute, Takoradi, Ghana.Now this is neat, if your a DIY person this may be in your alley, for anyone else, the instructions to make your own headphones seem pretty simple, but the end result looks neat also!
"Got a box of old hard drives doing nothing? Put them to work housing your new computer components."Now this guy was creative, using old hard disk platters as a decoration/case mod, somebody really does have some time on there hands, and alot of spare hard drives :).
It's back, after youtube deleted the old video, I cropped together the exploding blue danube back together, enjoy!
I ran into this while reading a post on the xfire fourms. This guy really has everything but the kitchen sink there. This, at least in my opinion, is the longest signature I've ever seen.
Don't get all PETA on us, we're just the messenger, but a University of Texas scientist has grown a living "brain" in a petri dish using 50,000 nerve cells from a dog. We're sure there are many noble things to be done with a brain in a dish, but this scientist has instead opted for a bit of Quake 3: Arena. Sure, he says it's all about "how the brain makes decisions based on enormous amounts of real time information," so that "we can design adaptable computer systems capable of better pattern recognition." But we know he just wanted a better alternative to getting completely pwned in Online multiplayer. The brain is hooked up to the game via 120 electrodes, and while at first the neurons in the dish are separate and unconnected, over time they start to naturally form connections and fragging like only a brain in a dish can. Be sure to check videos of the Quake 3 action, which track the progress from 4 hours of learning all the way to 9 days of learning.Interesting.....though I also went to the offical page of the experiemnt, which shows videos of its progress, and it seems to be improving quite abit, after 9 days it does pretty good with combat. What would be neat if they would allow people to actually fight the brain in quake, to give it some more varied learning from other human competitors. The offical article can be found at this location.
Dog brain in a dish plays Quake 3: Arena - Engadget
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Tokyo's futuristic image as the world's most technologically advanced broadband internet-enabled city is under attack from a vicious but decidedly low-tech foe: the crow.Now this is hilarious, the most simple crows are bringing down Tokyo's infanstructure.....I didn't think crows would be that fixated in "eating" fiber optic...
"They can be shocked for behaviors including ’failure to maintain a neat appearance’, ‘stopping work for more than 10 seconds’, ‘interrupting others’, ‘nagging’, ‘whispering and/or moving conversation away from staff’, ‘slouch in chair’ ''I've heard of this place before, of them using techniques to treat disorders including Asburgers Syndrome, or Autism, and I was disgusted when I read this on wikipedia. I personaly am AS, and I'm even more disgusted by what they are doing to help them, including shock therapy, and threating them with various things. Now with public, and viral networking, they will finally be attacked for the things that they have done, because people with Autism and Aspergers syndrome are still human, and should be treated as such, not to be tortured.
Apple's Windows page on their 'Get a Mac' site now mentions Parallels Desktop instead of Boot Camp.Odd that they would shelve boot camp, because parallels can only do so much, while boot camp allows native boothing, so GPU and other things that are not able to be emulated well, work better, though the trade off from that is that you have to reboot, obviously. Maybe they have something under there sleeve with parallels, we'll just have to wait and see what they are doing.
Some crazy and useful computer setups.Some of these look just plain weird, and there are other set ups that look really neat, especially the super Quake 3 setup. There is even a computer in a whisky bottle! This article is definatly worth a look.
The Chairman isn't always right.A good article, that tells of the many microsoft products that floped, with, you guessed it, BOB at number one, and a whole slew of others down the list.
While Microsoft's outgoing Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has been ahead of the curve in predicting many technology trends, he also has backed some notorious flops.
We already know that the entertainment industry loves to try to get people to pay for every possible use of their content. Remember the filmmaker who almost couldn't release his documentary because there was a four and a half second clip of The Simpsons playing in the background in one scene? It seems that with the rise of user-generated video, a lot more people are learning about the fun of licensing rights. The RIAA is apparently sending out cease-and-desist letters to YouTube users who dare to put up videos of things such as themselves dancing to music they haven't licensed.
Neowin.net - The RIAA Says No Dancing To Music On YouTube
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June 15, 2006 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is one of those games that's going to have a lot to prove when it's finally released. In development before we wrote our first article on the game back in 2002, the game suffered delay after delay and had pretty much disappeared off of the radar until this year's E3, where THQ demonstrated, behind closed doors, what's been done with the game. We were lucky enough to be invited to participate in the showing. Unfortunately, we had to wait until today to share our thoughts. The sad news is that the engine, one of the original selling points, while certainly still decent, isn't quite as lovely as it once was. The good news is the game looks to be on track, thanks to a little guidance from a THQ producer more familiar with working on large-scale products. Features have been shuffled in a positive way, goals have been realigned, and entertainment has become the focus. The most painful thing was having to sit four feet from a screen and watch someone else play instead of getting our hands on the game ourselves.A very intersting reviwe, getting into the details of a game that his sort of gone off the radar for many years, because I remember when they were saying that STALKER was at the pinnacle of graphics technology, and that was when the Radeon 9700 was mainstream. From the description of the game, it still looks promising, though there are some factors that could lead to its downfall..
IGN: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Preview
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Paul Stamatiou reviews the latest beta from Flock and even shows a few screencasts of nifty features. It's definitely something worth checking out.I've been using the new flock beta, and it is very promising and is worth it if you use flickr. I honestly perfered useing the orignal flock blogging tool, but the one that they have now is actually stable, which makes me interested because, now I can select text and tell it to blog it and put tags into it, which blogger does not have. So overall if you use many of the web 2.0 sevices, it is worth getting flickr.
GamePro.com recently compiled a list of the most influential, revolutionary, and just downright ground-breaking video game controllers ever released. Did your favorite controller make the list?Intersting collection of controllers, alot of them are recent including the Wii remote, the XBOX small controller, and more. Its worth a look.
BusinessWeek Online's Stephen Wildstrom is recommending a Mac over Windows for the first time. Thought you might be interested.
By Stephen H. Wildstrom
Advice to Students: Pack a Mac
Apple's software has improved, but Windows has been stuck in a rut
AMEN to that! Though the only problem is the price, and convincing my parents to get me one for that purpose :).
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Now this is a very interesting device. InflightPower.com has announced its InFlight Powe USB Unit which allows you to charge small electronic devices via a standard headphone jack found in most airline seats.
Now this is neat, I didn't know that the headphone jacks sent power through them to charge usb items...worth a look if you fly alot, and have to recharge alot of items.
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In addition to adding a speaker, there have been numerous usability changes to the Nintendo Wii remote, and the overall shape and size has been tweaked a lot as well. Check out these overlapping photographs.A good comparison of how the original prototype Revolution controler has evolved into the more mature, streamline Wii Remote. It is worth it to look at the comparison shots.
Which ones are your favorites?An interesting article, though many of the items could be considered novelties (Like Toshiba’s Micro Hard Drive), and others are neat. Though, I woudn't want a micro flash drive, I would definatley loose it easily :).
It can sureley be hard to see the connection between heavenly buns, some crazy people from Stockholm, a bunch of retards in a car and dinner from McDonalds, right?But just stay calm and read on, and you will find answers to your questions!On Wednsesday June 7:th around lunch, we all arrived to DICE:s office on Maria Skolgata 83 to, as many of you already knew, test an early alpha-version of Battlefield 2142.
BF2142.se - BF2142.se previews BF2142
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According to latest EGMVery interesting revelation, if it is true. If it is not a rumor, then its one of the many nails that will be hammered into the coffin that is the PS3. From many articles that I've read, the trend of what analyists and many major tech news sites is that the PS3 isn't going to do so well, but we will have to wait and see about that.
"The MacBook effectively defies it's own ancestry and surpasses all anticipated performance levels for a sub-14" laptop. It has even outclassed the MacBook Pro on more than one occasion. Best of all, the MacBook is one of the most affordable high-performance laptops on the market today. "Good for Apple, that there laptops are getting these great reviews. Though there is one that that I'm curious about, is when they are going to release the new power macs with the intel chips, they have been pretty quiet about that. Though I heard something either on TWiT or on the web that it may sometime in the fall come out, though I'm not sure.
For the week ending May 28 Japanese hardware sales figures show that the Nintendo DS outsold the PSP by a factor of 10. The DS Lite sold 295,103 units, while the PSP managed to sell 27,191.It still bugs me that there are still people who praise there PSP for certain things that is its weaknesses. Actually, the only good thing it has is the large homebrew community, and easy installing of homebrew (with the right firmware), the DS on the other hand is slightly harder, requiring certain hardware, though not that hard. I'm personally a die hard DS person, though the PSP was an interesting product. Though in this battle of the portable consoles, it seems that Innovation has beat pure horsepower, for now at least.
TwitchGuru explores the video game industry's development hell to find the greatest games never published.Very interesting article mentioning about many games that have not come out. Sam and Max: "Freelance Police" was one of the games on that list, as it was good that it did get on the list, as well as Duke Nukem Forever. There are some interesting other games, including something called Sim Mars, which I didn't know existed, apparently it was under development while Maxis was being aquired by EA in 00'. I'm not going to spoil any more about the article, and some of the other interesting titles that didn't either come out, or come to the US....
Sony's online gaming service will likely feature free online play, according to comments from SCE president Ken Kutaragi. Article also talks briefly about Sony's content distribution plans.
One thing in that article that interests me is that they are not going to charge for people to actually play the games, while the Xbox360 forces you to pay for that right. This one characteristic may swerve there chances in the console market, though there are other factors, if the other elements of the online are really bad, it may still fail. Though it is too soon to really see, with all indications, minus this, Sony is going to have a shaky start with the PS3. What they really need to do to bring more confidence to the console is to reveal some more info about it, so people are relying on rumors or secret sources, so the rumors dont go flying out of proportion. Because of there secrecy, most of what we know about the console, is mainly rumors, and stuff exrapolated from interviews with people who work with Sony. What we need is some more offical announcements, as well as them finally releasing the beta kits to developers to give them enough time to make high quality games for the system, in order for the PS3 to overcome the many hurdles, including its price, that it has now.
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Roughly a quarter of U.S. high schools require students to take computer science courses, due in part to a misperceive that computers are for video games and surfing the Internet, says a new report.A sad statistic to see, and I've already been aware of this, from both my AP Computer Science A teacher, and from average scores here in the US on the exam. I'm personally grateful that the high school I go to has a computer Science program beyond that of other schools, though its still locked into the AP guidelines in a sense, but not completely. Sadly what we need is to shake up this issue, if we can get some good programmers to come out of United States, to get rid of this stereotype once and for all. I'm hoping to become one those, with my obsession of programming, as well as my other talents, not to brag or anything. This will take more than one good programmer to bring it up, and if this issue isn't brought up, its going to be like the Cold War all over again, just instead of the Russians, other countries have more talented programmers, as well as better mathematics and other fields we are lacking in. If we do not wake up to this, the US will not be the technical country it once was. That era brought us Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Linus Torvald, and other great people, that could be attributed to the past of us trying to out educate children better than the Soviets. Unfortunately we've been lazy and have not kept up to those high standards, though that isn't always true. The high school that I go to has strong math programs, as well as a strong CS program, though the math and the CS could be stronger. Unfortunately if the teachers and administers of high schools do not wake up and understand that if people aren't trained, even decently to use computers, and get people who are interested in them, involved with programming, we won't continue to be a tech hub, Japan, for example, will. This issue isn't something to shove back, nor should it be ignored, we need to bring this into the open and solve this quickly, so we don't loose our lead in the Technology Industry.
Today at 3 pm PST they are releasing their first public beta version, available for Windows, Mac and Linux machines.
Nintendo released an E3 CD that has a Wii on the cover with the front flap open. It looks like there is some sort of eye behind the slot!Well It seems Nintendo is actually following one tech fad, video cameras in consoles. With the Xbox360's camera, and the reportedly PSP upgraded version with a camera, Nintendo has apparently jointed the ranks of consoles with webcams. The only question that hasn't truely been answered is what will it be used for?
Inside the Lake Braddock Symphony Orchestra: And now for something completely different.....
The Exploding Blue Danube!, because it is just that funny...Enjoy!
Extracts from a British newspaper about the people that make iPods. One plant has 200,000 workers!Wow....sometimes people just don't understand that the things that we tried to overcome during the turn of the century, have now just seemed to move over to third world countries, though there conditions may not be as bad as the workers of the past, but to the standards of today, there conditions are still not great.
Blizzard, in an effort to crack down on cheaters and gold farmers, announced that they banned another 30,000 accounts from the game last month. Will their efforts prevail, or is the problem too big to handle?Hmm, Blizzard has been critisized by there means of catching these cheaters, because of there use of a program called warden, which runs on people who play WoW, and scans the active processes to see if any program are suspicious. Though with the huge popularity of WoW, or any game of this type, they are bound to have a decent ammount of gold grinders, as well as cheaters, many mmo's have had this problem, inclusing Star Wars Galaxies, thought not at this extreme.
Japanese Airline (JAL) is now offering passengers DS Lites to pass time on flights. The DS Lites's WiFi capabilities have been gutted as wireless devices' use is prohibited on planes.Now that is nifty, enjoy your flight and get to play there free DS's. Though I've taken my DS, and played on it on an airplane, and they didn't stop me from using it....though, there will be an airline soon (I forget who exactly) who will have WiFi in there planes, now thats something I can't wait for.
Another post about "Digg Spam", which is a continuation of the series of posts on options and reactions to what many, and I have been doing since the feature appeared on digg...
After much discussion about this topic, in the comments of this particular blog post , a good way to stop the leeching of traffic from Digg has possibly come together in a great way. The commenting system of Digg, after a recent update allows people to thumbs up or thumbs down a comment, if there are enought negative posts on a comment, its burried. This is exactly how the blog system should work, though instead of it being collapsed a certain threashold of negative votes would first determine a suspension of the blogging feature, and then if another ammount of negative votes of a blogged digg article appears, he would be permanently banned from using it. It shouldn't be so hard for this to be implemented. If anyone has comments on this, feel free to speak your mind via comments :).
When davechan asked his sister for a Macbook for his birthday he got what he wished for, sort of. The height and width are actual size but sadly it doesn't run Mac OS X. Mmmmmmm Macbook.
This may seem random, but I really enjoy using Flickr :). As you can see, I have a large Flickr collection, but that is mainly because I prefer using it over other hosts like webshots. For one thing it uses a tag based system like many blogs use, and other Web 2.0 services. Also it allows of seeing of EXIF data, multiple sizes of screenies, and the fact that the design of the site makes it slick. This may be a little skimpy of a description of Flickr, but if you have a burdening collection of photos that you want to describe more than just a title or a description, using Flickr over other sites is worth it. I just wanted t o bring this up, seeing that many people I know don't really know about the site, which is sad, and its sort of a promotion, or a plug for the site...
After reacting and commention about that recent article, as well about digg spam and blogs has brought many things to lite. From looking at the blogs that post the articles on digg, many are just the same format, as mine was most of the time. I think this has happend because of mainly people reaping the benefits of a dugg article. The digg blog it link needs to be updated, with having the original description, forced in blockquotes, with a box with required ammount of commenting to be added, so that people would haveto write a comment to be able to blog it though diggs automatic way. This, even to my option seems harsh, but it mabe the thing to stop this feeding frenzy, that Even I got into, sadly, though the idea of Digg is still good, it may be killing unique blog content with people just filling there blogs up with the news...The use of the blog feature, has been miss used when, we perfectly have a digg profile that shows this, though it seems to be usually ignored, though mine can be found at http://digg.com/users/compuguy1088. Also from this start, less articles will be posted, unless I have something to say, so my digg profile will be linked to this blog as well.
There are really only two reasons these sorts of blogs exist - advertising and pagerank. By taking Digg's content and putting their own ads around it they can suck a little traffic and earn from ad clicks. With any pagerank they aquire they can boost their own legitimate or other spam sites.
Here are 50 digg users' and their spam blogs. :)
Here is a tip to get rid of these undeletable files.
It has become an addicting thing to just post digg news and mabe slap a comment on, and it may be that I just try to do too many things at once...but I'm actually goint to try to put more comments into my postings, as well as other content. The intesting thing is that not many people have commented on this, except for him, and his opinion is eithier an hoteaded one, or a strong one to convince me to change it, in a sense, its a semi thanks, to pointing this error out...though he does it pretty much bluntly. Though I've also realized why I blogged more digg things than posted other articles: more hits from it, which now I've understanded is annoying. My other blog, that involves orhestra, has great unique content, but it is viewed quite rarely, and most of the traffic comes from this blog...and that traffic comes from digg. What really needs to be solved, is to find a way to digg content, but mabe a way to encourage unique content, that a blogger writes truely, but can be promoted to get more hits and more people looking at the site, and would not have to become desperate to use digg content, or other means to attract content....which I think from a quick thought Is why i've been digging more, so people would actually look at it, though it has a negative effect to make it look cookie cutter....though I hope there can be a way to solve this pattern of blogs, though this is a level up from the...*shudder* myspace blogs that I've seen, AND THATS a story for another post....
Recently, I decided to break away from playing endless shooters including BF2, as well as other games like that and get into anotehr MMO, from the recomendatoion of a friend of Wilowah. That game is EVE online. The game in a nutshell is completely in space, and involves space combat. The initial newbie tutorial and the gamplay for a decent of time seems to be simple, but from what I've heard, expands into a bigger perspective as better certs for bigger ships come, then the tactical part of the game comes into play. The game is alot more complecated, and I could go on and on to describe it, but grabbingt the 14 day trial may be a better way to experience it, without me prattleing on (still annoyed at the 50 digg flavoured Spam blogs; though I did get sort of...well addicted to posting them up, I just try to do too much at a same time.) Googleing Eve trials should get you some links to trials. The site for Eve Online can be found at this location.
Using a specially designed skull cap fitted with electrodes, scientists are now able to control a computer, and write characters onto the screen.
As Dr. Brunner concentrates on the "B" of "bonjour" in a keyboard-like grid of letters and symbols taking up half the screen, a computer randomly highlights lines of characters in rapid succession.
Each time the row -- vertical or horizontal -- containing the letter 'B' is illuminated, Brunner's brain emits a slightly stronger signal. It takes the computer about 15 seconds to figure out what letter he is looking at. The system is doubly adaptive, with both the software and the person using it becoming more efficient over time.
Apparently one person has labeled many blogs, inlculding this one as "Digg spam blogs" labeling that I and other people are too lazy to write our own articles. But I personally many of times blockquote digg hashes and respond to them in different ways, sometimes I may not add anything because I just think its interesting, and emphazize it as a post. Sometimes I may get so aggrevated that I comment about something quite abit.
This person thinks that these exist to:
There are really only two reasons these sorts of blogs exist - advertising and pagerank. By taking Digg's content and putting their own ads around it they can suck a little traffic and earn from ad clicks. With any pagerank they aquire they can boost their own 'legitimate' or other spam sites.
These blogs are of no or negative value to Digg, and just dilute the value of Digg's unique content. Search engines generally penalise sites for having duplicate content, there's no guarantee G/Y/M will find Digg's original version first.
Here are 50 chumps who cannot write content for themselves. :)
Digg, the collaborative tech news site, will soon branch out beyond geekdom.
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The Nintendo DS Lite is officially unveiled in the US tomorrow. Is it worth your time to wait in line?
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The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower. In the impact at the same time as colliding The earth's crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off.
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It's called HelenOS, and it's based on the SPARTAN kernel, licensed under the BSD license, and they've just released version 0.2.0.
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Sony execs Richard Brunois and Phil Harrison claim the PC is dead, long live the PS3. As well, they claim that Nintendo is essentially for kids and they are the true innovators.
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"Wouldn't you know it, last night instead of going out and getting our social life on, Paul and I cruised over to Rockefeller Center to the Nintendo World Store for the official DS Lite launch event (it being the eve of June 11th and all)."
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Mario greets you differently on the DS lite when booting up Mario Kart DS. Are Nintendo DS games aware when they're on a DS Lite?
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A very well compiled FAQ of almost everything to do with modifying the Sega Dreamcast.
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"According to a leaked script, three of our favorite consumer electronics are going to do a little "transforming" in the new Transformers live action movie courtesy of Michael Bay."
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PopSci ran this article on how Lumenlab is simplifying LCD projectors for DIY'ers using standard parts. The best part is that it's a Hi-def (you pick the resolution based of the LCD) and then illuminate it with a $30-50 dollar bulb that lasts 3 times as long as a normal projector bulb!
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150 middle schools in West Virginia have started using Dance Dance Revolution in Gym Classes. They are trying to reach today's overweight, yet technologically savvy, kids. Maybe next year they will add Wii Tennis?
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Nobody likes to be told that they are wrong but we are. It all started 150 years ago when Lady Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm (table of instructions). We have been doing it wrong ever since.
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A simple web site for seeing what the world is doing at this very instant. Simply enter what you're doing, and it will show up.
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The film starts on a picnic blanket in Chicago and zooms out 10x every 10 seconds until the entire universe is visible. And then they zoom all the way back down into the nucleus of an atom. A timeless classic.It is a classic, I've actually saw it this year in Physics, and it is a neat video. It may be old, but it has that element of neatness of going to the ends of the universe and back. If you haven't seen it, shame on you! Its on both Google Video and Youtube, so check it out!
The connected PS3-party wet blanket who brought us covert info on the PlayStation 3 has dug up some dirt from a phantom insider who claims the PS3 may see even more downgraded specs.
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Want to know how to fight DRM?
Purchase a number of DRM'ed disks,
then walk out the door then back in and
return the merchandise, it would cause
havoc in the retail world for that day.
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You will no doubt find some old favourites in the list, and probably a lot of other titles you've never played or even heard of. There are MP3 files for each one of the songs.
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Stock plunges after dismal earnings report; SEC filing reveals 3D Realms has a $500,000 incentive to finish infamously delayed PC game by year's end. Duke Nukem Forever due by Dec. 31?
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After a few false starts I have finally got a working Vista up and running on my MBP. This is assuming you already have a working copy of XP installed using BootCamp. Here is what I did:
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A hacker has stolen a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department's nuclear-weapons agency in Albuquerque.
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"As upheld in a 2-to-1 decision, companies like Vonage and Skype would have to open up to authorized government intrusion, the same as any landline phone provider -- private networks (like those on college campuses), however, will theoretically remain legally secure from the wiretaps."
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I just downloaded Norton Internet Security 2006 and noticed that the fine print reveals that I will automatically be charged for a renewal next year. Why are so many companies sticking it to their customers with this kind of crap. I did not have an option to say yes or no to an automatic renewal.
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A video on YouTube that finally answers the old Internet forum question of: Who would win in a battle between the Enterprise and an Imperial Star Destroyer? Very clever editing of the original movie/show footage and dialog, combined with CGI.
Now this is definatley worth a look. We can finally put this question to rest, hopefully....
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The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman has ruled that the Apple iTunes service breaks the law, and has given the company two weeks to fix the problem.
Vista beta 2 will be available to download today.
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Today in Japan, Nintendo gave its Management Policy Briefing in which company President Satoru Iwata stated that the price announcement would be this September.
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A site with a video with of a playable work in progress of Quake 1 ported to the nintendo DS.
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Michael Arrington discusses Google and how everyone jumps and screams everytime they launch a new product. What Google product has really changed our lives, other than Search and Gmail?
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Nintendo said on Wednesday it is unlikely to lose much money on the launch of the Wii, in sharp contrast to Sony, which expects a hefty loss on the debut of its PS3.
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Dark Alex has released a new beta ISO loader which enables you to run UMD files from a hard drive (or just USB flash disk), leaving plenty of space free in your limited memory sticks for other media. Hopefully Duggmirror gets ahold of this before it gets "Dugg."
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A site with a video with of a playable work in progress of Quake 1 ported to the nintendo DS.
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Another week, another Google product launches. Or almost launches in this case. Google hasn't opened up Google Spreadsheets, an Ajax spreadsheet, to the general public yet but they have published a tour of what the product will look like once it actually does launch, and you can request an invitation to try it out.
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Iwata revealed that games for Nintendo's "virtual console" that will allow Wii owners to play old titles on their consoles will be priced at ¥500 and ¥1,000, roughly US$4.50 to US$8.99. For reference, classic retro games for the Nintendo GameBoy sold for upwards of US$35 for some titles, US$19.99 for others.
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Historical prices and sales suggest the PS3's price may cause it to fail. Will this trend continue... or will games, graphics, etc. bail out Sony's new console?
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"The database problem is actually...so many new users and the current hardware setup isn't tuned perfectly," "It takes a while to get everything right in a complex system like The Pirate Bay.... We've had some 404 problems with torrent-downloading, but that is due to overload and some bugs in our software. They will be fixed in a couple of days."
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Several articles outlining in detail how Blizzard Entertainment (makers of World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, etc) have gained power, how they are wielding power, and the how the entire game industry has changed because of them. Especially how the rest of the world has changed views of people that play multiplayer games.
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Not content to merely hit back at Creative with one copyright suit in exchange for being dragged into court over possible interface patent infringements, Apple has thrown down another lawsuit to make 'em really sorry.
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Of all the great DIY projects at this year's Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router....
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The Russian music site AllofMp3.com fires a return salvo on its legality, royalties, and the WTO.
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It happens all too often that some website owner in the US is sued with claims of libel over comments on that site in an open forum.
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"They push us to think about things that we may not always think about," said Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's sales and marketing group. "We were hoping for that to happen and that certainly happened," he said
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"Their concern is more about technology: Can the computer network of "Second Life," using an unusual configuration that dedicates each server to a sliver of virtual real estate, scale with growing demand?"
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The Pirate Bay is back with a vengeance, and back with its search! Order has been restored!
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It was, without doubt, one of the finest minds of all time. Now scientists have proved that Albert Einstein's brain was not only unique in its ability to process concepts: it was also physically different.
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After 40 years as one of the biggest franchises in television and movie history, CBS Paramount Television is opening its archives to the public and letting Star Trek fans own a piece of the cult favorite.
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"Do not mess with this man - or his mates"
This guy, his brother, and 3 'henchmen' tracked down an awkward ebayer, escorted him to a cash machine and convinced him to pay for the goods...
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Hacker extraordinare "Dave" has managed to squeeze that beast into a custom case, along with a battery, screen, and front mounted controls.
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If you haven't received your invite yet but you want to know the look & feel of Google Spreadsheets, take a look at the screenshots and videos.
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GameDaily reports that Japanese magazine "Ultra One" has discovered PS3 will include the PS2 chipset hardware to provide hardware-based backwards compatibility until a software-based emulator is complete, upon which PS2 hardware will cease to ship PS2 hardware within the PS3, possibly allowing for a small price reduction.
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"Never heard of SIRA? That's the way Big Copyright and their lackeys want it, and it's bad news for you. Simply put, SIRA fundamentally redefines copyright and fair use in the digital world. It would require all incidental copies of music to be licensed separately from the originating copy."
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[Toshiba] is coming out with a 2.5-inch drive for notebooks later this year with platters that hold 178.8 gigabits per square inch, which will likely be a record when the drive hits shelves. The current record for areal density for a commercially released drive is 133 gigabits per square inch.
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Review and benchmarks of NVIDIA's 7950 GX2 - a pair of circuit boards, 2 GPUs and 2 sets of memory chips, an "SLI setup on a stick", which fits in the same PCI Express space as other top-end graphics cards. Although DIYers are prevented by NVIDIA from doing Quad SLI with 2 of them, it's still a monster performer that uses less power than expected.
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This is a real court case report based in Virginia. Basically a police office decided something was not right based on the assumption of home-made Cd's viewable in drivers car.
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Get a small piece of land in Australia for $40. You can't do a lot with it, but it's still pretty cool I think. Better than buying a couple of pixels :-)
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If you want your voicemail in the same inbox with your email, GotVoice is an excellent choice.
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Tim Lord has written up his experiences installing and using the hottest MP3 jukebox player software package on the planet -- RockBox -- on his iPod. He loves it and explains why.
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This article shows you how to quickly and easily install two additional operating systems on your iPod (RockBox and Podzilla aka iPod Linux) with a startup menu to choose between them.
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The CIA's website has surprisingly detailed instructions (and pictures) for making smokable opium and heroin. Oh and you can can legally buy and grow papaver somniferum in the US. It only becomes illegal when after you derive opium from the poppy pod.
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This article from the upcoming Game Informer magazine focuses on the pros and cons of the development environment of the upcoming Nintendo Wii. As well as revealing the last big secret concerning hardware functionality
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A Norwegian newspaper asked users to send in their Google Earth findings. Look at what they got. Pretty cool.
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Extremetech tests Vista's ability to run the latest games. Games in the article included World of Warcraft, Splinter Cell, Half Life2, Battlefield2, Fear and a few more. Conclusion, Mr Vista got a B- rather than a full A+.
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"Dell computers ship with the software tools, which are activated by service reps with the permission of customers. By commandeering the computers, technicians can often find and correct problems faster than trying to talk the customer through the fix."
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Apple computers has decided to close its India software operations. The company had commenced operations in April and hired about 30 people for its subsidiary, Apple Services India Pvt Ltd. The employees will be given 2 months pay as a severence package. This could equal about 1000-5000$ based on salaries in bangalore.
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A big and successful pirate demonstration with ~500 people in Stockholm demanding the servers back and changed laws etc.
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The pictures are kind of blurry, but this is what engadget had to say "An anonymous tipster sent us a bunch of pictures he shot last night from the outside of the Saturn Cafe in Santa Cruz.. this guy claims the pics depict the filming of a commercial of a possible "iPod killer" from Microsoft"
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Pretty insane footage - enjoy :)
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"I just opened a letter sent to Boing Boing from some fools at Dewey Cheatem and Howe LLP in London."
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Mark Colling is aiming for a world record with a 19ft-long ship, complete with an 8ft match model of the iceberg which sunk the Titanic in 1912. Mr Colling is building the model in his garage in Llanelli.
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Summertime, and the living is easy -- or at least it should be. Unfortunately, between packing bags and keeping up with busy kids' schedules, sometimes it feels anything but. We've compiled 17 hot products in four separate categories that will aid and assist you in countless ways this summer.
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The purported problem of violent and sexually explicit video games has resurfaced on politicians' agenda as the November election draws near.
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This is an editorial from the good folks over at Linux Today. It makes sense to me, here's hoping their right :)
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American trade negotiators have threatened to scuttle Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization unless the country shuts down the AllOfMP3.com website
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Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is reporting an exclusive interview with an unnamed 17 year old high school student who claims it was him that took down the Swedish Police website as revenge for the raids against the Pirate Bay.
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Interfacing older, non VGA displays to systems with VGA hardware without the help of a hardware scan converter.Almost every linux embedded project out there today uses some form of LCD text or graphics display. CRTs have been abandoned as bulky and obsolete. But not all are. Forgotten are the tiny portable b/w televisions.
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The head of the One Laptop per Child project says he must be doing something right if he's upsetting Microsoft and Intel.
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Scot Finnie, Computerworld: "I have no problem with Microsoft copying Apple's or any other company's best interface designs. We all win when that happens. What's really strange is when a company lifts good ideas and makes them worse, not better."
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The FBI found a baby jar full of Ricin and several pipe bombs. Ricin is a poisonous protein ; as little as 500 micrograms, enough to fit on the head of a pin, will kill an adult.
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JetBlue Airways Corp. won a wireless license to offer high-speed Internet and other communications services on commercial aircraft in a U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction that ended on Friday. The company's subsidiary LiveTV LLC bid $7 million for a 1 megahertz wireless license.
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The one Laptop Per Child Project last week produced a first working prototype. This site has a movie where Red Hat's Christopher Blizzard shows off the device's features and then boots it up, showing it running Fedora.
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Video from the ISP that hosted the pirate bay. The intro text says that this copy can't be used as evidence. Why are the police covering the cameras one by one?
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"BellSouth officials denied Friday that they had blocked consumer sites MySpace and YouTube, although customers in Florida and Tennessee said that they were unable to access them."
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This is good news because perhaps we will get some good non-bias reporting in the US. Jeremy Hillman, the new editor of BBC World said: "We really feel there's actually a huge vacuum for us to fill in terms of global, responsible, impartial reporting,"
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One of the biggest concerns that people have expressed with Office 2007 is the cost of training. Thanks to a completely overhauled user interface, businesses could be concerned that they may need to shell out quite a bit of cash to get the entire office trained. Businesses need not worry; Office 2007 was designed with Erma from Processing in mind.
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In an interview with GameDaily John Swinimer from ATI hinted that the Wii is capable of a lot more than what we've seen so far. Many reported Gamecube-level visuals at E3 even though Wii is supposed to be 2-3 times more powerful.
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Google insider selling has become so fast and furious over the past month that it's completely off the charts. That's not just a figure of speech. It has LITERALLY gone off the charts- take a look for yourself.
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The Web site of Sweden's national police was shut down after a hacker attack that investigators on Friday said could be a retaliation for a crackdown on a popular file-sharing site called The Pirate Bay. ...after a so-called denial of service attack....
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Turn on a switch by waving your hand by an antenna.
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Simple guide for getting your wireless card working in linux without Ndis or Madwifi
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A Samsung exec last month ran off at the mouth, revealing that Samsung's PortalPlayer would drive the next-gen iPod Nano...It is not surprising that Apple would "punish" Samsung for commenting publicly about the iPod Nano follow-on, and we believe that SigmaTel is likely to be the resulting beneficiary of the Samsung executive " gaffe"
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Bridgestone has just unveiled the world's thinnest 2 color e-paper display. The display is fully bendable and text/images will not distort due to its special ribbed structure. Practical applications include billboards, electronic books, and name tags.
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"Our friendly anonymous source at Microsoft has provided us with a few more details concerning the 360 accessories announced back at E3." "If you'd like information on what other peripherals are coming out and at what price, read on for more."
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"Check out these instructions on how to to turn an old monitor into a trash can. I use one of these at my office and it gets a lot of compliments from visitors. Fits a standard 13 gallon trash bag. This is a fairly dangerous project for anyone that lacks a healthy dose of fear for the power of CRTs. Wear safety gear including gloves & goggles."
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Check this, bellsouth is blocking youtube, facebook, myspace and probably more in Florida. Link goes to technorati where people are blogging about it like crazy. The war has begun. The war of net neutrality.
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According to the web site MMOGCHART.com, it has hit a new milestone by moving past the 50 percent mark for market share of massively multiplayer online games.
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Firefox 1.5.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. The new version features improvements to product stability and several security fixes.
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According to the creator of 'DSRobot', you can soon turn your Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite to a powerfull programable Robot. Here is a video of prototype for a DSRobot.
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A dev team from Redhat has created an open-source project called Mugshot that some are touting as MySpace on steroids. It isn't. But here's what it really is...
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A fresh look a the tag structure of websites, in a visual way.
This is really neat, and also very artistic. Its pretty neat to see what any website looks like in a graphical form.
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Very interesting post that I was reading on the LOA Fourms, of people being at the wrong place at the wrong time....
Almost in the wrong place at the wrong time...
As most people know, Tass is getting married tomorrow.. So Tami and I run down to the mall to get clothes for the wedding (all our stuff is still in storage from our house fire).
We run down to the cingular store to replace my phone and hit JC Penny's. We are just inside the Penny's door when we hear a gun shot. I tell Tami to hit the floor (she doesn't of course - not realizing it was a gun).
A few seconds later we hear another shot that was A LOT louder. Now she hits the floor. hehe
This all went down about 30 feet from us.
What happened....
2 guys get in a fight in the mall.. right in front of Penny's and the arcade. There are tons of people and small children around. One guy pulls a hand gun and shoots at the guy that he was fighting. Now the guy was running away though the crowd in the center of the mall. The shooter hits the other man he was fighting. A Sherrif was having lunch in the mall and pulled his gun. The shooter turns to go after other kids that was with the guy he shot.
The sherrif one shots the guy in the head. Killing him instantly..
I think that sherrif should get a medal. The potential for this to have been real bad. His qucik thinking I feel saved lives.
