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A new atheism movement being powered by web 2.0 and specifically digg and youtube.
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The Local Cooling app is spreading worldwide with more than 65,000 users in just 3 months. Local Cooling monitors and reduces PC power consumption while also raising awareness about global climate change. This site is a bid to raise even more awareness via the SEO world championship. Join us and beat climate change right from […]

PHPfr is the most comprehensive of the several PHP widgets for Apple’s Dashboard framework. It includes fast function lookups, an extensive cheat sheet, and an interactive date() formatter.
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There’s now evidence that Lindsay Lohan, the perma-bandaged actress with the notoriously accident-prone reputation is a cutter. According to a self mutilation expert the scarring in the photograph is indicative of several months of abuse, not a singular fall in some bushes as Lohan’s people are claiming.
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AboutUs.org, a new wiki-based search engine is trying to get rich by making webmasters into unpaid wiki-slaves. Just say NO! to webmaster exploitation with this handy message!
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So, you go digging through your couch and you find somewhere around $200 in loose change and you REALLY don’t want to count all of that yourself. Fortunately, god invented CoinStar to do that for you. Unfortunately, CoinStar charges you somewhere around 9% for its services. This is why you want to learn how to […]

Every year on July 17th, this family takes a picture of themselves. They started in 1976. You can see each one of their 3 boys transform into adults.
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The latest version of MacGourmet was released last week with a new UI and improved features. This details some of those improvements, which hopefully others will find interesting.
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Great read describing the recent threats toward CentOS “hacking” an Oklahoma city webserver.. And by hacking I mean apache wasn’t configured properly
Enjoy!
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The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that’ll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities (via Lifehacker)
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If you’re into gaming, you’ve probably heard of this new keyboard from Razer, with it’s ‘BattleDock’, custom removable function keys, and USB/Audio hub. Here’s some unboxing pics ahead of a video review…
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Now with universal appeal:
“Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL”
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The beginning of a popular movement to impeach. This is a remake of the 60s slogan and song by John Lennon “War is over, if you want it.” It’s in response to the Newsweek poll that found that 58 percent of Americans wish Bush’s presidency were over. There will be bill boards, songs, and other […]

This Ruby on Rails is the Ultimate cheat sheet and a reference guide for RubyOnRailsBlog.com that will be continuosly updated and improved as new features are added to rails and new cheat sheet tips are added to the guide. It is a collection of HOWTO knowledge from the very best guides, apis and source snippets […]

Pornification?
noun, 1) the art of turning a legitimate movie title into a porno by manipulating a word or group of words in the title, often employing the use of puns to create a lurid, sexually suggestive title 2) a skill to make your parents proud
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An interesting site with a few Blogger templates that has simple AJAX functions like accordion menus, smooth scrolling effects and top shelves. Some of these templates are converted from their WordPress versions. Check out demos to see them in action
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The first-ever Windows CE Shared Source contest has drawn to a close and the winners have been announced. The grand prize went to an automated video teleconference system that’s run by Windows CE and uses Berkeley “motes” as sound sensors.
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Here are 10 OS X apps that you might not know about but probably should. With literally thousands of apps out there begging for your attention, this article should help weed through some of the clutter.
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Takes the good old highlighting marker from paper to web. People get different colors and mark important sections on any homepage. Neat.
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Are networks wising up? Probably not, still an interesting read.
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Learn to make your RSS feeds a pretty as your website.
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This is an excellent, front page ESPN.com article about the teenager, Genarlow Wilson, who was imprisoned in Georgia for 10 years for having consensual oral sex with a minor while he was still a minor. Original digg story has over 3500+ Diggs.
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Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor who creates gargantuan-sized sculptures that capture details of the human body so well that they’re hard to believe. Mueck is a master at capturing human expression and recreating the detail of muscles, skin, fat and bones that we are all made of. Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck
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“Mollio is a simple set of html/css templates. The aim was to create a set of page templates that use css for layout as well as some sample basic content which has also had some css applied. It’s definitely a work in progress. More sample content and layouts are planned to be added.”
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In a recent interview, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed that she knows of a secret plan by Iran to partition Iraq and turn half of the country into a terrorist safe haven zone called the Iraq State of Islam. Bachmann has now released a statement saying her comments were misconstrued.
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In a recent interview, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed that she knows of a secret plan by Iran to partition Iraq and turn half of the country into a terrorist safe haven zone called the Iraq State of Islam. Bachmann has now released a statement saying her comments were misconstrued.
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The Debian project has confirmed December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution. The new release, alias ‘etch’, will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. This release will also be the first official release to include support for the AMD64 architecture raising the number of architectures supported to 11 in total.
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This is a story about how Zimbabwe, once dubbed southern Africa’s bread basket, has in six short years become a basket case. It is about a country that once exported surplus food now apparently falling apart, with many residents scrounging for rodents to survive.
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Delta won’t refund Charles’ money after his camera was stolen from his luggage by a baggage checker, even after he tracked the camera down on eBay and got the thief fired, arrested, and prosecuted.
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If Sun adopts the GPL3 for OpenSolaris and the Linux kernel remains with current version of the license, it could potentially stimulate the growth of the OpenSolaris community and help Sun attract community contributors who are ideologically aligned with the FSF. What does this mean for Linux??
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We wrote recently about the renewed web browser war between Microsoft and Mozilla (and some other, smaller, usually very innovative players). Our theory is that in 2006 a lot of the ground work for a major battle was laid out.
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Microcenter stores (B&M) are offering $100 rebates on Microsoft Xbox 360 Consoles from now until 12/3/06. That means you can get the Premium Bundle (wireless controller, 20GB hard drive, etc) for just $299 after rebate and the Core System for just $199. In-store only.
* $100 Premium System Rebate
* $100 Core System Rebate
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Think Progress has the video. “Straight Talk” McCain said on NBC today, “I think this is the wrong time for us to be engaging in finger pointing when in this crucial time, we need the world and Americans united.”
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Did you take care of your new made website to be tableless ?
You can validate these pages at w3tableless.com; a tableless validator that verifies if pages are a 100% tableless.
Why tableless ?
It’s more semantic, separating layout & code on the one hand and content on the other
Better readability by searchengines
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Are you concerned about where you go to arrive if you dig a very deep straight infinitous hole on Earth?
Your problems are solved!
Surf on the map below, find where you will dig your hole and click there.
After this, click on “Dig here!” and you will see the place where, one day, you will (believe me) […]

All hyperlinked, very visual, and very shiny.
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No group is better positioned to place the right kind of pressure on our representatives than Diggers. It’s our destiny to start making a difference in the way things are run, and I propose we get the ball rolling.
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A fantastic quick reference sheet for when you are working with MySQL from the command line.
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Salary Search is a easy-to-use search engine that gives salary information for you particular occupation in any region or city that you identify. You can even compare the same job salary in different cities. Digg’s favorite tech journalist Walt Mossberg calls it “Simply a one-stop shop for job seekers.”
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Olbermann: And lastly tonight, a Special Comment, about lying. While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover
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The sofa appears to be made out of hundreds of thin, flat chair-shaped silhouettes, joined together by some kind of membrane in an accordion that can collapse down into a dictionary-think chunk or be spread out for feet on end, as a divan, chair or sofa. (via BoingBoing)
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Poor guy. A blogger calling himself Saruman has been waiting for Microsoft to ship him a box for his broken XBox for 6 weeks. Just the box. So he can mail it in for repair. 6 weeks. They still haven’t mailed it. Did we mention its been 6 weeks?!
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A Tactical Toolkit to Liberate Pay-Per Use Wireless Networks!
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Steve Jobs announces widescreen iPod.
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About a week ago I flew to Rhode Island on business. I was forced into the ’security threat’ line because I refused to remove my sunglasses at the second of four TSA checkpoints at LAX.
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Considering it seems like the top 25 users account for 60% of what makes it up onto the homepage, it appears Digg is more like a high school social clique than it is the user driven news submission site it claims to be.
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For April 1st, Woot has listed their deal of the day as a $1 million dollar Bag of Crap, which contains three “craps.” Hilarious!
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Yes, you’re right, you’ve seen it before, but it’s being updated quite frequently. Take a look. Read on
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Jason Calacanis, the former CEO of Engadget
s parent company, Weblogs, Inc., told me earlier today that the site had 10 million page views on Tuesday when they covered the iPhone announcement - ten times their normal traffic of a million or so page views per day.
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Do you know a great Sysadmin? Nominate them as Sysadmin of the year 2006. They can win great prizes including an Apple MacBook, Trip to LISA (conference) in Washington DC, Splunk Professional server and cases of Bawls. The first 2500 nominees receive a free ThinkGeek Tshirt. (Don’t forget…Sysadmin […]

AJAX and its kin are empowering developers, but with great power comes great responsibility.
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If this isn’t War Profiteering, than I’m a subterranean female reptilian humanoid. Read the History of what Truman used to do to companies that profited from war. This discredits ANYTHING Cheney says on US Foreign Policy. Absolutely nothing that comes out of his mouth can be believed.
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Got a blog you should post to more often? Need nagging in general?
Civic hackers mySociety needed motivation to update their news blog, so they built themselves the randomly nagging HassleBot. HassleMe is a general version, complete with the magic ingredient which made it work for them: semi-random choice of time and victim.
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Kotaku - “We’ve been getting a ton of tips on the Toys “R” Us pre-order madness that went down last night and today. Here are some highlights.”
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Bush on May 1, 2003, standing underneath a “Mission Accomplished” banner: “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” Tony Snow is right - where on earth did I get the idea that Bush meant “mission accomplished?” He obviously meant the complete opposite. […]

Researchers at the University of Florida have discovered what appears to be an asteroid belt orbiting a star 70 light years from Earth.
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This weakness has been known since June but no patch has yet been made available. The developers claimed to have fixed the problem in 1.5.0.5. So why did they release 2.0 without a fix? If “security” is what makes FireFox better, how do we explain known vulnerabilities unpatched on major releases?
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Since the Linux community has now launched Show Us the Code; The grassroots organization challenges Ballmer to bring it on: if Microsoft forks over the evidence by May 1st, Linux developers will alter their code accordingly to maintain freeware status.
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This is Part 4 of a series that pits Microsoft’s new Vista OS against MEPIS, a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. This episode compares the operating systems’ bundled application software, including games, browsers, and instant communications apps.
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And I just bought an Xbox 360… now they are going finally put an HDMI port on the back…
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