December 29, 2006

Bush signing statement claims he can search our mail without a warrant

Today President Bush signed the H.R. 6407, the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. In doing so he added a few signing statements. One of them is particularly alarming, as it says that they can search our mail without a warrant.

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Most Important Science Stories of 2006 according to Scientific American

Brief listing: Pluto a Dwarf... new Fossil...Inconvenient Truth...Steve Irwin...Perelman Declines Fields Medal...Wine RNA...Saturn Pix...Stem Cells w/o Harming Embryos...Lucy's Baby..Overfishing.. H20 on Mars...Human Testing Gone Wrong...Dark Matter...Invisibility...Fewer Breast Cancers...Wireless Energy...Element 118...Cervical Cancer Vaccine

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2006 LifeHack Review: Best 50 hacks for your Life

"I ’ve selected the best 50 life hacks of the year, based on their popularity and contents in different categories. Invest your time - read them. Bookmark this page and mark reading them as one of your new year resolutions."

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The Universe's Dark Side: New Way To Form Black Hole Uncovered

Nature has again thrown astronomers for a loop. Just when they thought they understood how gamma-ray bursts formed, they have uncovered what appears to be evidence for a new kind of cosmic explosion. These seem to arise when a newly born black hole swallows most of the matter from its doomed parent star.

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Mac OS X start up sound volume control

I never knew how to change this or even mute it. Now I got this. It might be helpful to other Mac users.

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DIY Speech Recognition Security System

The function of this speech recognition security system is to have a system that will only unlock upon recognizing a voice password spoken by the administrator or password holder.

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Official Google Blog: How we came up with year-end Zeitgeist data

The Zeitgeist is "the spirit of time." This is why when we come up with the lists of top searches on Google.com for 2006, we do not simply retrieve the most frequently-searched terms for the period -- the truth is, they don't change that much from year to year.

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Wikipedia Page for Saddam Hussein's Execution

Confirmation of Saddam's hanging went out about 10 minutes ago and this Wikipedia page is growing as the information is made public. Nice living case study on the growth of a Wikipedia page.

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50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said. Wow.

This is the official list of the 50 dumbest things President George W. Bush every said.

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DREAD Weapon System: Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent

The gun looks like an angry flying saucer, and the ammo looks like golf balls. A flying saucer that shoots golf balls should be funny. But 120,000 rounds per minute at .50 caliber makes that not one bit funny.

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Gasoline Prices: Why $2.189 and not $2.19; Why The Third Decimal Place?

Something we see everyday but don't really care about - gasoline prices.

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VideoJug: The Online 'How To' Video Site

If you are trying to figure out 'how to' do something new you might want to search VideoJug for some visual directions.

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The NSFW Directive – An Update with Examples

An updated outline for using the REL attribute for marking content as inappropriate, with example code.

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Largest Grossing Tours of 2006

From extravagant light shows to flawless vocals, the top-grossing tours of 2006 boasted everything a fan could possibly want, from old favorites the Rolling Stones returning to the road, to friendly faces like Madonna, to other performers ranging from country stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (on tour together) to the theatrical Cirque du Soleil.

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Unabomber's Secret Code Cracked

A decade after the feds tracked him down, CBS 5 Investigates has uncovered exclusive new information about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, including a secret code he developed, and the confessions revealed as the code was broken.

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Script.aculo.us: How to easily AJAX your site

Script.aculo.us is a tiny (140KB) javascript framework that gives you the power of effects, several dynamic data components, and all you need to know is a little bit about HTML and how to read. If you already have your own website, it is not hard to do. Follow these steps to AJAX up your site in no time...

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December 28, 2006

Family Guy: Peter Griffin Takes Ecstasy

"Ha, How you doin' that? How you doin' that?"

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RIP Mitch Hedberg, on the Jay Leno Show. Absolutely Hilarious!

Mitch Hedberg clip from Google Video. Totally funny.

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Underwater CO2 bombs - Use them before the gov. bans dry ice.

Backyard pool explosions of dry ice bombs. Multiple underwater explosions, and one detonating on the surface. The explosion is so powerful ... all » it sets off a car alarm 2 houses away

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Unbelievable Thai Mui Action ~ Tony Jaa

Tony Jaa is the actor starred in "Ong Bak", The Protector. Fascinating real life fighting action!

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The Power Of Video Editing Video

It's incredible what the technology of video editing can do these days!

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Watch Free TV Online

You can watch tv shows, anime, cartoons for free by using this site. Videos are hosted through different sites with links on this site.

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Jessica Biel high resolution bikini beach pictures

Jessica bending in all sorts of positions playing a beach paddle game. She's even reading a book in one pic, i had no idea she could even read.

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Cinematical's Top Ten Films of 2006

There were many films this year that went off in my head like bomb blasts, random and surprising and powerful. if desperate times call for desperate measures, then our time calls for powerful art -- films that can cut through cant and dogma and tradition and the way things have been to shock, provoke and entertain us.

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Saddam to be hanged by Sunday

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reports.

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Darwin Awards 2006

The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it. Here is the best of 2006.

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The Top 8 Earth Science Stories of 2006

Global warming as hot topic, water worlds under Antarctic ice, King Tut's alien heat source, and more...

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BREATHTAKING photos of strange cloud formations! Unbelieveable.

The most beautiful pictures of clouds I have ever seen. So amazing! A picture is worth a thousand words...

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Send Anonymous Text Messages

Ever want to text someone anonymously? Hit up AnonTxt and just enter in an alias, a subject, and the message itself, and it'll be quickly sped to the cellphone number of your choosing.

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Sniffing On Ethernet Undetected

All you need is a MAC and a device and you can sniff without sending any packets, making yourself invisible. I have been in some tight spots where I had to sniff a password or two off the wire, or sniff some packets off the wire undetected.. So I tried a few things and this is what worked..

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Keyboard Hack: Cheat sheet for typing odd characters (®, µ, æ, £, ©, ñ, ±)

No downloads or setting changes necessary. Quick reference sheet on how to type lesser used, but often needed symbols and characters.

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Basic PHP Security

Tutorial on simple prevention of SQL injections and other easy PHP security mistakes.

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Ninja Words - A really fast dictionary... fast like a ninja

Ninjas + Ajax = Ninjax?

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Torrentspy is monitored by Copyright Thoughtpolice

My coworker just got a nasty letter from his ISP (optonline) accusing him of copyright infringement. It turns out that his kid got caught downloading some warez from one of the trackers indexed by Torrentspy. It seems that someone is monitoring the Torrentspy network so be careful what you are downloading out there.

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Best of 2006: Top 10 Gadgets for the Filthy Rich

Do you travel in private jets? Decorate your foyer with real Renoirs? Use the word "foyer"? Then there's no way you're going to get your gadget fix from anything you can get at Best Buy... we're talking gear so expensive you'll have your butlers pick them up in your gold-plated helicopter.

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December 27, 2006

Intelligent Design tries to rally its base

John Timmer presents a fascinating summary—from the point of view of a scientist—of a talk given by the Discovery Institute's Michael Behe at the University of Kansas.

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Cool Photos Of Cherry Icicles & Frozen Cherry Trees From Unexpected Weather

These photos look surreal: frozen cherries on the tree that have morphed into icicles due to cold weather: "These are frozen cherry trees in a place called Ceres which is 140km from Cape Town, South Africa."

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Underwater Restaurant!

Now thats geniune! I'm thinking of a place to propose to my gf and this tops it! Too bad we don't have these restaurants where I live :)

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Big bellies tied to greater heart disease risk - Yahoo! News

The message is really obesity in the abdomen matters even more than obesity overall,

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PICTURE: The Caffeine Curve

What happens to your mood when you take cups of coffee. Quite interesting.

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How Motherboards Are Made: A Gigabyte Factory Tour

Without a doubt, motherboards are the most complex and essential part of the modern PC. Take a look at how one is made and all the steps it goes through.

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Apple granted patent for ‘hybrid low power computer mouse’

This invention relates generally to low power user input devices. More specifically, the invention describes an ultra low power computer mouse having an optical tracking engine and inertial tracking engine that cooperate to provide velocity data to a computing device.

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AllofMP3.com Responds to RIAA Lawsuit

AllofMP3 takes the Ares Galaxy approach to the music industry's $1.65 trillion lawsuit.

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HD DVD Encryption Hacked!

It looks like someone finally did it! "BackupHDDVD is a tool to decrypt a AACS protected movie that you own, so you can play it back later using an HDDVD player software."

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The Crossing - Valve's New Game

Single Player! Multiplayer! Crossplayer?! Valve is coming out with a new game, yes it's an FPS, but there's something different about it. Any ideas? See this trailer and check out this week's 1up show.

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Nintendo's Wii Breaks the 3 million sales mark worldwide!!

Due to strong sales in Japan and North America in the build up to the holidays, Nintendo's Wii has now sold over 3 million copies worldwide, over twice as many as Sony's Playstation 3 in a similar timeframe.

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First Ever XFPS 360 Review - Keyboard & Mouse Really Comes to 360!

The first ever review on the XFPS 360 has been completed - a peripheral that allows a keyboard and mouse on the Xbox 360. The positives are that it works as promised, is programmable and even allows the use of Playstation/2 peripherals. The downsides are that it requires the use of a wired controller and no has no in-built headset support.

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Pirates of the Caribbean 3 images of Keith Richards with Jack Sparrow

Keithe Richards in his Pirates of the Caribbean 3 outfit next to Johnny Depp, plus a glimpse at Keira Knieghtley and Barbossa, as well as one of the Asian pirate roles' outfits. Can't wait!

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Company Logos and Their Meanings

From FedEx to Sun Micro

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Original Pledge of Allegiance Didn't Mention God

Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. In his Pledge, he is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897).But there is no "One Nation Under God"

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The 25 BEST things ever said, by anyone

My favorite: Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little security shall soon have neither --Benjamin Franklin

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Cheap Eats

Your guide to eating cheap including tips, recipes and techniques.

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Inventor Of Water Powered Car Murdered

Stan Meyer's had spoken repeatedly about how he was being threatened by oil companies, but refused to bow to their wishes of abandoning the project...

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Soda Can: Healed & Sealed Revealed!!

Learn how to take a crushed and empty can and make it refill and seal itself infront of your audiences eyes....!! One of David Blaine's best tricks!

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McCain's Plan Might Be Sending His Own Son to Iraq

For McCain, push for troops in Iraq is personal, the Senator ’s son, now a Marine, could be deployed if Bush OKs ‘surge’ plan

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50 Things We Know Now, That We Didn't Know In 2005

16. A new planet described as a "super-Earth," which weighs 13 times as much as our planet, exists in a solar system 9,000 light-years away. Is my favorite

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35 most outrageous fees (and how to avoid them)

CNN lists 35 most outrageous fees (and how to avoid them)Pretty neat

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US follows Roman Empire lead, Gives citizenship foreigners if they serve

The Roman Empire used this tactic in the latter years of the Empire. The Roman Army was made up of foreigners from provinces distant to Rome, who gained Roman citizenship after completing their term of service. The US has just announced the same policy.

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10 Steps to Becoming Stress Free

Bertha snapped at Ted because he did not wash out his coffee mug. Bob yelled at Lisa for not putting paper in the copy machine. Darcy left a nasty note in the ladies room explaining to all the women the proper way to replace toilet paper after finishing a roll. Sound familiar? Ten steps to becoming stress free

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Researchers identify a 'heartbeat' in Earth's climate

A few years ago, an international team of researchers went to the middle of the Pacific Ocean and drilled down five kilometers below sea level in an effort to uncover secrets about the earth's climate history. They exceeded their expectations and have published their findings in the Dec. 22 edition of the journal Science.

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On Creation

Not that I necessarily agree with the author, but this article makes for a *very* interesting read for both Christians and Atheists . Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to a so called creator of human intelligence, especially when there's no reason to believe one even exist...

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Holy crap, the first giant squid ever caught alive today in Japan!

A Japanese research team has succeeded in filming a giant squid live — possibly for the first time — and says the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed, a researcher said Friday.

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40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation

Now I am no grammar whiz but I know a good resource when I see it. Purdue University maintains an online writing lab and I spent some time digging through it. Originally the goal was to grab some good tips that would help me out at work and on this site, but there is simply too much not to share.

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Albert Einstein's Riddle

Are you in the top 2% of the intelligent people in the world? - Einstein claimed that 98% of people wouldn't be able to solve this riddle.

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What's Your Energy Footprint?

We now demand more of the planet than of any other time in history. Care to see exactly how we are measuring up, and how the drive for renewable fuels is becoming inevitable? Take a look at where we are now and where we hope to go.

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The World As I See It - An Essay by Einstein

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people..."

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An Amazing Chart of Foods that Heal.

This a very comprehensive chart of foods and their specific medical benefits. Eat well !!

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Asteroid to pass within 22,000mi of Earth in April 2029, NASA Brainstorms

NASA is drawing up a shortlist of ideas to be unveiled early next year for diverting a 40m-ton asteroid that is on course to pass dangerously close to Earth.

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SETI has made ET contact

"On May 9, 2006 in Toronto, Steven M. Greer said that SETI had made contact with extraterrestrials, and that the signals were being jammed by either the NSA or NRO." Check out http://www.disclosureproject.org for more info.

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PICTURES: Sun's Surface From 5000 Kilometers

High-resolution pictures of our star, the Sun, seen from 5000km.

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Cup of tea may help boost memory!

"Drinking regular cups of tea could help improve your memory, research suggests." Both green tea and black tea inhibit enzymes that help produce protein deposits in the brain which are associated with Alzheimer's disease. Green tea's inhibitive effect lasts longer. Good news for those of us who love to drink tea, particularly green tea.

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Awsome space wallpapers set

Kick ass collection of high resolution space walpapers for you on Xmas :)

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101 Amazing Facts of Earth

The following list of Earth's extremes and other amazing facts is presented in Q&A format, so you can cover the answers to test your knowledge of the home planet. Sources include the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with other reporting.

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Aurora Borealis from Space

This amazing image of the Aurora Borealis was photographed by an STS-116 crew member aboard Space Shuttle Discovery last week. City lights and stars are also visible in this image from space because of the long camera exposure.

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Awesome video of a Meteor going through the sky, very bright...

Very cool, I'm not real big into science, so I dunno if this would be considered a good video or what, but I thought it was really cool...

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Parasite turns Women into Sex Kittens

Apparently this happens with 40% of the world's population...

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Spiders on drugs

These are pictures of webs of spiders that were given drugs, the diffrent drugs are - LSD, mescaline, hashish, and the worst caffeine

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12 Secrets to Being The Perfect Human

Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 days. He does 200 miles just for fun. He'll race in 120-degree heat. Here are 12 secrets to his success.

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12 ideas to keep off holiday pounds

The Twelve Days of Christmas bring holiday foods meant to be enjoyed, but no one wants a weight problem when the merriment ends.

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The mathematics of cloaking

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behaviour of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, enabling it to hide even actively radiating objects like a flashlight or cell phone.

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Very Cool - 40 Ink Blot Test Wallpapers (black & white and color)

"The Ink-blot Test, also known as The Rorschach Test was originally invented by Hermann Rorschach. (1884-1922) as a psychology/personality test used by psychiatrists on their patients. A patient will look into a series of 10 inkblots (Some in color and some in black and white) and say what they see.

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Incredible CGI Special FX

This guy makes incredible CGI Special FX with his home computer. Why can't Hollywood match this guy's abilities and quality?

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Find Out if Your Brain is Male or Female

Find out more about 'brain sex' differences by taking the Sex ID test, a series of visual challenges and questions used by psychologists in the BBC One television series Secrets of the Sexes.

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Cool Star Wars Graffiti: I Am Your Father

Really cool looking star-wars inspired graffiti done on mangy old thug-corners. You see now, there is a star-wars nerd among everybody..even hooligans and crooks who lurk in the shadows.

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Google Notebook Search: Go through people's notebooks

Google Notebook Search is still a Google Labs service, but it's open to the public. It lets you search through everyone's public notebooks. Fun.

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Top 10 Wired Colleges

The most high-tech campuses in the country.

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AJAX for n00bs

Take a look on the net and you'll see endless pages of AJAX Frameworks: libraries which promise to do all the trivial and dirty AJAX work for you, leaving you free to code without actually understanding how the application you're writing really works. So lets pull back the smoke and mirrors and see what AJAX is and why it's just a simple evolution

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Don't Fire A Gun In Minneapolis, They're Listening

Minneapolis, police claim to have made an arrest within hours after installing a new system which detects and pinpoints the sound of a gunshot. Cool and frightening Technology.

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Microsoft bribing bloggers with free high-spec laptops

W...T...F... Microsoft has been sending out free top-of-the-line laptops pre-loaded with Vista to bloggers. "No strings attached". This is of course right before the launch of Vista to consumers. Make no mistake -- these weren't loans, they were 'gifts'.

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December 26, 2006

How To Boot iPod Into Secret Diagnostic Mode!

Use this video tutorial to learn how to boot your iPod into the secret diagnostic mode used for hardware testing.

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Ever Wonder How They Mod ATM Machines To Steal Your Card # And Pin?

The equipment used to capture your ATM card number and PIN is clevery disguised to look like normal ATM equipment.

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WiiRoomba

People have come up with numerous ways to control their Roombas and now that the Wiimote has been hacked to operate several non-Wii devices -- computers, home automation systems, and even an RC truck -- it's no surprise that some clever modder would make theses two great tastes taste great together.

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2006's Best in Online Video

Here's a look back at the year in online video, when people from all walks (and dances) of life put themselves in front of a camera and captured the eyes, minds and clicking fingers of millions. (Article features embedded YouTube, of course, for all videos)

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How Hackers Are Using Google To Pwn Your Site

Its wild how easy Google has made it to find hackable code and websites...

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December 24, 2006

Top 10 Point-and-Shoot Cameras

Easy to use, point-and-shoot cameras are a great choice for the casual photographer. Ratings and rankings can change due to pricing and technology changes, so check back frequently for the latest info.

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Creating fake 'Miniature' environments In Photoshop - Skill Level: Easy

Very simple but effective photoshop tutorial to make real images look like miniatures, takes 2 minutes. You will need Photoshop CS2 or better.

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Facebook creator turns down $1.6 billon offer from Yahoo

ROFL, what an idiot.

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Swiss man takes to the skies with wings and a jetpack.

The wings which have a 3 metre span have two kerosene-powered engines attached which propel the passenger. Yes please.

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67 of the Most Amazing Optical Illusions You Will Ever See

Awesome site with 67 illusions along with dozens of variations, each illusion also comes with a description of what exactly is happening.

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What the heck are these services running on my Mac and how can I kill them?

Ever wonder what all those services are when you bring up Activity Monitor? Well, wonder no more. Here is a comprehensive list of all those services that are running on your Mac with a description of what they do. Find out which services are just slowing you down and how to get rid of them permanently.

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Inkless pen- will last forever!

A stainless steel pen, 8cm long. However when you unscrew the top, the 'nib' is a solid piece of metal. There is no ink, yet this pen will write on virtually any type of paper.

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Spray Paint Art

Spray paint artist from Potoroz, Slovenia doing sci-fi paintings in less then 10 min.

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Digg Enters Top 20 (Most Visted Sites) In Alexa Rankings

Digg has officially broken the 20 mark for most visited websites in the United States. Digg now comes in at 19th place in the rankings where can be found here. Digg falls just behind Microsoft and IMDB while it beats out some very big names which include: The New York Times, Wal-Mart, Weather.com, Mapquest, Best Buy, and much more.

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Permanently Activate Windows Vista

"Until now, Microsoft has an upper hand, with no permanent or foolproof ways to crack or bypass Windows Vista activation request emerged."..."Now, there is new crack method that able to permanently stop the countdown timer of time left to activate Windows Vista, effectively running Vista OS in full functionality evaluation mode forever. "

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Google Predictions, 2007

Google had an exciting year in 2006 — stealing headlines with almost everything they did, even if the news wasn't particularly exciting. Will the excitement carry forward in 2007? Like most of you, I don't know, but I have a few predictions about what we can expect to happen in the coming year.

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Make your license plate disappear at the flick of a switch!

If you were all wondering how that Bullrun Lamborghini did it. This cool product allows you to hide your license plate from inside your car. Using some kind of electric glass, which is connected to your car battery. When the switch is pressed it makes your license plate invisible to all law enforcement vehicles, and cameras.Legality Questionable =]

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