Ever wonder what Digg.com users are listening to?

Well now you can know with the last.fm group. I didn't start it personally but I thought is should be posted when the group has only 74 members and there are over 10000 users on digg there is a problem.

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Banned Discovery Channel Documentary now on Google Video

On Tuesday May 3, 1994 this program was scheduled to air on the Discovery Channel. Influential members of congress applied pressure to the cable industry to stop the airing of the program and destroy all copies. The Discovery Channel was reimbursed for the 1/4 to 1/2 million dollars production costs. This is the program they didn't want you to see!

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Cool kitchen design puts everything in an island

Called the "White Wing," this design concept uses a modernistic island to house (and hide when not in use) a refrigerator, dishwasher, induction cook top, oven and sink. Several images show how the concept works.

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iTV: What you need to know

Its not every day that Apple gives use a preview of a piece of hardware thats not going to arrive for at least three months, and maybe as long as six. But the release of the new iTunes Store, including the sale of full-length motion pictures, wouldnt have had as much impact ....

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Create and Store your own Buttons

Nice drop and drag web buttons, Share your designs with the community.

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MacRumorsLive Stats : Digg vs Slashdot

MacRumors.com posts statistics from their coverage of the Apple keynotes in the last month - they peaked at 97,000 simultaneous visitors this time and they include a comparison between the referrers from digg and Slashdot during WWDC.

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Inventing The Future: 10 Radically Innovative College Programs

The next 20 years of American innovation will be shaped by these 10 cutting-edge science and engineering programs. But before they change the world, these undergraduates will have to finish their homework.

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Want a faster Windows XP? Here's how!

A recent study of our team on how to better our Windows XP systems led us to investigate a countless number of details on how to better your performance and machine. Some of the working tweaks you can do to your Windows XP can really be a blessing to your system â??s speed. So visit us to know how to get a faster Windows XP step by step.

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"Smart buildings" include IP phones, touch screen to control lights

Residents of this upscale property on the Upper East Side of Manhattan can use an IP telephone and touch screen to control lighting, play music and raise the temperature in their units. That's because the complex runs a single IP-based network for building-management systems and IT.

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Free Portable Apps for your USB memory stick! Must see!

A perfect directory of Free Portable Applications for your USB Memory Stick! Great apps which can be taken with you.

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100 years of phone books online

People searching their ancestry have been given an online boost after BT launched more than one hundred years of their phone books on the web. The company hopes to tap into the nation's huge interest in genealogy by allowing users to trawl through millions of names, addresses and phone numbers covering the period 1880 to 1984.

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Top five GPS Navigation Systems

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) have finally become affordable and user-friendly. However, there are so many brands and models available that it's easy to get lost in technical details. Here are the pros and cons of 5 systems at different price ranges.

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Download The First Release Candidate Of Firefox 2 RC1

This is the first release candidate for Firefox 2 RC1, which is due for release on September 26. A portable version is also available for those people who want to test it out real quick.

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Python Programming for Beginners

In this tutorial, you will learn how to write applications that use command-line options, read and write to pipes, access environment variables, handle interrupts, read from and write to files, create temporary files and write to system logs. In other words, you will find recipes for writing real applications instead of the old boring Hello, World!

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Apple Continues to Win Massive Market Share

These statistics tell it all. Apple's growth into the PC OS market, especially since the transition to an Intel platform, is staggering, and keeps improving. Are we on the edge of a massive shift to a new, better PC platform?

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Chat Bot: Computer Program Smart Enough to Carry on Conversation

If this year's winner of the Loebner Prize is on the right track, call-center data could be what's needed to achieve the ultimate goal of artificial intelligence (AI): creating a computer program smart enough to hold a natural conversation.

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Send An Email To Yourself in 2036! (Send it now, recieve later!)

http://futureme.org/ automatically sends you an email of what you said on whatever date you specify. For examply i could send my self an email reminding me to get married in 2036!

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Fix for the iTunes blues in the works

People with ties to Apple say the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is well aware of the matter and that it's toiling feverishly to rectify the issues. It hopes to release an update to both the Mac and PC versions of the jukebox software -- presumably iTunes 7.0.1 -- as soon as possible, those people say.

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Don't put "magna cum laude" in your resume, spam filters don't like it

Dylan notes on his resume that he received a master's degree in business from Babson College in 1999 and graduated magna cum laude. About three weeks ago, he sent his resume to a company and received an automated e-mail response that said his resume had contained a specific obscenity. Here are other things to watch for...

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Torrent site has servers mysteriously disappear after featured on Digg

Snarf-It, a 2.0 torrent site which was front page on Digg last week have had their servers mysteriously disappear with no indication as to why.

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Digg adds new section! (Screenshot)

Well...hopefully. One thing I've always found frustrating about the 'Popular Stories' vs 'Upcoming Stories' tabs/sections is that it's an all or nothing approach. I've often pined for a middle-ground that I can access w/ one click. If you feel the same way, digg it so that the folks at digg will listen.

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Zune's Final Price: $229.99!

One of our moles on the inside told us Microsoft just had a meeting to determine the price of the 30GB Zune. The final tally: $229.99. Microsoft was going to go $289.99 to undercut the iPod by $10, but since Apple dropped the bombshell that they were lowering prices to $249, Microsoft had to scramble to undercut the lower price as well.

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Yale University to post courses on Web for free

Yale University said on Wednesday it will offer digital videos of some courses on the Internet for free, along with transcripts in several languages, in an effort to make the elite private school more accessible.

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Web 2.0 Winners and Losers

After digging through the most awesome examples of next-generation web services on the net -- and the most useless -- we've compiled this list of the best and worst.

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MIT developing an "engine on a chip" to beat the battery

The new "engine on a chip" technology builds all the traditional parts of a gas-turbine engine using silicon, allowing for utterly tiny, reliable and efficient components. The turbine blades spin at 20,000 revolutions per second, and the mini-generator produces 10 watts of power once up and running.

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Double your Internet Speed with this 5 year old registry tweak

Many of you might know about this, but if you're like me you've reformatted your computer many times and have forgotten about this amazing little patch. Scroll down under "SG Registry Patches and older tools" and download for your OS, install, restart, poof! This has nearly DOUBLED my speedtest.net results! http://linksdirectorysubmit.com

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How to Pick a Master Lock

As it turns out, a Master lock is alarmingly easy to pop open with a simple shim, much the same way you can slide a credit card along (non-deadbolt) door locks to open them when you forget/lose your keys.

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How Tweaked Firefox Lets You Surf Internet Without a Trace

Every few minutes, the Torpark browser causes a computer's IP address to appear to change. IP addresses are numeric identifier given to computers on the Internet. The number can be used along with other data to potentially track down a user, as many Web sites keep track of IP addresses.

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ALL GMAIL USERS CAN USE WRITELY Word Processor

Just released. All gmail users can now use writely. This means that even if you have never signed up for it, if u have a google account you now can. If you dont know, writely is a free online word processor which was merged with google a while ago.

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diggNation Meets South Park

Using the online South Park creation tool, I whipped up Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht on the diggNation set! What beer are they drinking?!

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ATM Hack Uncovered

A security expert in New York has learned how to get free money from some ATMs by entering a special code sequence on the PIN pad that he found using legally obtained operation manuals.

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$2,500 DIY Car

In a world where the price of oil is trending towards infinity ,Jory Squibb decided he �d build his own fuel-miser. The vehicle, christened MOONBEAM, gets 80-85 mpg around town and under economy run conditions (max 40 mph) delivers 105 mpg. the entire project took 1000 hours (a year of 20 hour weeks) to complete.

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Send a Piece of Chocolate to somebody for free

The folks at zeropointzero.org send free chocolate to whomever you want them to. The chocolate is fair trade from Ghana. Go check it out. And don't cheat and send it to yourself, wait for the thank-you piece back.

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How to get a job at Google

So what �s the best way to get your foot in the door? When you visit Google�s career page, you�re greeted with the question: �Can one conversation change the world?� To find out what that means, Associate Editor Richard Gincel had a meaningful conversation with Judy Gilbert, staffing program director at Google...

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Just How Random is the iPod's Shuffle Feature?

Earlier this week, Mads Haahr ordered a customized iPod with "God Plays Dice" engraved on its back. Mr. Haahr -- a random-number enthusiast -- intends to answer the question that has long bedeviled users of Apple's popular music player: Does the shuffle function really play users' songs in random order?

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Time Review: Apple iPod 80GB

There were sexier announcements made by Steve Jobs last week, like the new line of nanos. However, I thought the 80GB iPod was more situated at the center of Apple's big picture: movie downloads at the iTunes Store and a future in the living room. Once I had an 80GB iPod in my hand, the wait for a living-room option wasn't too far off.

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Burn Your New iTunes Movies to DVD

How much money have you spent at the iTunes store? And what do you have to show for it? An iPod full of music? TV shows? Those new games and movies? Too many people forget how much money they've put into their digital media. And when bad things happen-they're not always prepared to be able to recover those digital assets.

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How to create a Firefox extension - step by step tutorial

In-depth article that covers everything you need to know about Firefox extensions. From creating them to packaging them.

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Another Way to Screen Calls: Color ID

When you get a call, the number is displayed on the screen and the Color-Call unit lights up with the color you have chosen for the number allowing you to see who is calling even from across the room. But watch out for colors scrolling in a series: this means the caller is unassigned or unknow and perhaps not worth the walk over to the phone.

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Groping the Backlit Microsoft Entertainment Desktop 8000 Keyboard

The Bluetooth keyboard itself is quite nice. With a gentle ergonomic curve, it's scissor-keys give you a pleasant tactile feel that's not too sensitive, yet not too heavy. The usual bevy of multimedia buttons appear in the periphrial of the periphrial, and can be programmed to work with whichever media player the user prefer.

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Online guitar archive shut down. Freedom of speech? What's that?

Any guitarist who has ever used the internet knows Olga.net was an amazing resource for budding musicians. It has been shut down. Why? �Copyright Infringement� Why else?

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Photoshop Web2.0 style tutorials and free open-source psds !!

Newly launched photoshop tutorial blog - a place to get inspired or download the latest web 2.0 style graphics in an opensource psd file. Great designs and easy to follow tutorials.

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Simply Search Every Video Site

ScoopVid.com launched today, developed using Open Source code, allows users to search almost every possible video site on the web in a nice ajax format.

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Mac vs. Windows - It's All About The 'Maximize' Button

Chris argues over at restiffbard.com that the fundamental difference between Windows and Mac users lies not so much in the user interface in general, but only certain specific characteristics of the UI. In particular, it's all about the "maximize" button and how it affects the user's work flow. I'm interested to read peoples personal preference.

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Oct 3 - Day Against DRM - Get your FREE sticker packs delivered!

When the UK Government's All Party Internet Group reported on DRM, they made a number of recomendations, #1 was to call for "Extensive Labeling" of all DRM products. DefectiveByDesign are sending out free label and sticker packs in time for Oct 3rd. Also, join the action at kick-off events planned for New York and London on Saturday Sept 30.

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Mac user 10 minutes of SkypeOut for free

To celebrate the launch of two new versions of Skype for Mac, (Mac 1.5 Gold or Mac 2.0 with Video Beta). Skype are offering every Mac user 10 minutes of SkypeOut for free to call ordinary phones.

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List of the Best Wallpaper Sites

Finally a collection of sites that has integrity! Suggest if you more.

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Photoshop Web2.0 style tutorials and free open-source psds !!

Newly launched photoshop tutorial blog - a place to get inspired or download the latest web 2.0 style graphics in an opensource psd file. Great designs and easy to follow tutorials.

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