January 6, 2007

The truth about Paypal Reverse Scams JOIN THE FIGHT!

Highlights the reverse charging scam when using PayPal. Very interesting video & I feel really sorry for this guy!

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My Box in a Box: A girl's music video reply to SNL D*ck in a Box

Hilarious parody reply by a girl singer to the D*ck in a Box SNL skit.

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How To Get Free Drinks At The Bar Using Geometry Trick

If you want free beers the next time you go out, here is a sure bet to win

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Richard Dawkins answers the question "What if you are wrong?"

The "most simplest" question that was asked during this lecture was brilliantly thrown back at the questioner.

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Top 10 Best Looking PC Games

GT counts down the top 10 best looking PC games of 2006 (5) and 2007 (5). Which ones are your picks?

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Subway Superman video

New York city man jumps onto subway tracks to save a stranger's life

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The second Xbox 360 revealed: codename Zephyr

And I just bought an Xbox 360... now they are going finally put an HDMI port on the back...

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Watch thousands of movies and tv shows for free.

Movie Spider, is an awesome **free** movie on demand, web site.. The company has developed technology,, that crawls the net 24 hours a day, without human intervention, looking for the latest movies, tv shows and films.. The site curently has 2000 movies, 6000 tv shows, and 3000 cartoons. their spider's are addng about 500 new shows a day.

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100 Greatest Guitar Solos (w/ Tablature)

What follows is the list of all 100 songs selected, listed with the guitarist who played the solo, the band who released the album, and the album name. Clicking on the song will take you to the guitar tab for that specific solo, and in some cases, additional notes like how to get a similar guitar sound.

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Results from EVERY myth ever tested on MythBusters!

Will a penny dropped from a skyscraper kill a pedestrian? Does urinating on an electric fence cause electrocution? Can an obese person can get stuck on an airline vacuum toilet? Will a car engine be destroyed when sugar is put in the gas tank? (Plus hundreds more results from MythBusters.)

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When Ice attacks!

Following a severe storm in Nebraska, this photographer went out and took some great photos of the aftermath of the countryside after receiving a heavy dose of ice.

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IP -Tracing...find anyone

Trace anyone with their IP address. Even gives you a Google Map satallite picture. Why not have "lunch" with your local spammer???

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Alternate Store Names

A wonderful thread of the true names of all the retail stores we shop at.

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Consumerist: How to move to New York City sane and not broke

How do you move to New York City and stay sane and not be broke? Look at this kid. That's Ben Popken on the night he moved to New York City. He just spent the past three days on a Greyhound from Denver to Manhattan. The last leg of the journey was shared with twenty just-paroled convicts. Look at his smile. He has no idea what he's in for.

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Recommended Font Resources for Web Designers

Being able to select the right font can make the difference between an ordinary web page design and a really attractive one.It's not hard or expensive to find the typeface that's right for your design. Web-design-from-scratch's recommendations for font resources...

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The Most Hated Comment on Digg

This is what happens when you 'spam' a popular digg story.

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PCs Get Set to Scream in 2007

Quad-core power and flash-memory assists will make computers faster and cooler than ever before. Here's what to expect from next-gen PCs.

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Sony disconinues ALL computer monitors

Sony, after dropping Trinitron monitors, has now dropped ALL LCD monitors.....

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The "most connected" Americans watch the most network TV

New findings from CBS Research show that Americans with a broadband connection and digital television are most likely to watch traditional network television.

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30GIGs iDisk on Macworld! Apple is upgrading the DOT mac iDisk to 30GB!

Hello! Apple is going to announce a storage upgrade on Macworld 2007. In Windows, the iDisk storage capacity is over 30GB (over 30000MB), but in Finder in MacOSX it is only 128MB big. I think Apple is trying to "hide" the upgrade until Macworld, but did not managed to "trick" Windows to hide the storage upgrade. And here is the proof.

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January 5, 2007

U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting

A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests.

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Oil Prices Face Sharpest Drop in Two Years - Good News!

Oil prices saw their sharpest drop in two years, shedding more than $2 a barrel as mild US weather led consumers to use less petrol and heating oil.

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Cancer cure patented

Johns Hopkins researchers are patenting a possible cure for cancer that causes cancer cells to self-destruct without many side effects.

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Joe's Goals - Free Online Habit Tracker

Get a jump start on keeping your New Year's resolutions with Joe's free daily goal tracker.

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20 Tools To Make your Ipod Better

Simple and to the point: Ipod managers, video converters, resource site links, and a bunch of task specific tools, most of them free. If you got a new Ipod for the holidays, check this out.

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Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet

Get the low down on all the Firefox keyboard shortcuts and useful hints and tips with this Firefox cheat sheet.

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Live feed from Steve Jobs' keynote address

MacUser magazine will - provided technology doesn't let it down - be providing a live text feed from Steve Jobs' keynote address at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. It's due to start at 9am PST, 5pm UK time.

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ThePirateBay Introduces New SearchCloud Feature

The popular BitTorrent site gets even more user-friendly.

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How to put together a computer

Great instructions for building your own computer, a much cheaper way to make a much better computer then buying one.

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Seagate Anounces 1TB Consumer Hard drive

Seagate Technology has just released information to DailyTech with regard to the company's upcoming highest capacity hard disk drive to date. At 1TB, if no other hard disk drive manufacturer can catch up, Seagate will have the highest capacity hard drive product to market first.

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Performance Research, Browser Cache Usage - Exposed!

"Since browsers spend 80% of the time fetching external components including scripts, stylesheets and images, reducing the number of HTTP requests has the biggest impact on reducing response time. But shouldn ’t everything be saved in the browser’s cache anyway?"

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A Simple Way to Remotely Download Torrents on the Mac

There are many ways to remotely initiate BitTorrent downloads, but most are complicated and require tweaking. Here's an easy way to remotely download torrents with only an instant messaging application and a BitTorrent client.

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Think Secret has Pictures of iWork '07s new Spreadsheet App

Apple is expected to show off new versions of their iLife and iWork suites next Tuesday at MacWorld. iWork is rumored to gain a third app for spreadsheets, and Think Secret claims to have a screenshot and the icon to be used.

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January 4, 2007

The Simpsons Movie : Trailer 2

There's a new Simpsons Movie trailer in town!

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Firefox - A $50,000,000+ Cash Cow

Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitchell Baker on Tuesday disclosed how much money Mozilla made from their Firefox web browser in 2005: $52.9 million. If you're wondering how Firefox makes any money, then this article will tell you.

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How to Use Digg, The Unofficial Strategy Guide, The Science of Digg

Many users, when using Digg, have no idea what they are doing. They try to submit their blog/website/webpage to Digg and expect to get immediate results, maybe they will submit 10-12 articles, get extremely frustrated at not being able to make the main page and quit submitting entirely. This is what most people do and it will cause you to fail.

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How ExxonMobil paid to deceive the public through science, ideology

ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday.

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Amazing Seamless Visual Integration between Windows XP and OS X

Check out this amazing screenshot of Parallels 3106 in coherence mode, with an added touch: a WindowBlinds 'Aqua' skin for XP. This creates a seamless visual presentation between operating systems.

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Six webapps to help keep your New Year's resolutions

Today there are more consumer-oriented web applications than ever before built to help you achieve your personal goals... Follow me for a rundown of the best online tools for making, tracking and sticking to new resolutions - in January or any other month of the year.

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Apple to Launch LED-based Notebooks in Q2 2007

Apple and HP are planning to introduce LED backlighting to the displays of their notebook computers. Both system builders are expected to bring portables with the new backlights to market in the second quarter of 2007 that would dramatically improve the image quality of the LCD screens attached to the computers.

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"Ten Things I Wish I Knew Before I Switched to OS X"

From the article, "So, I decided to put together a list for my brother, girlfriend, and everyone else who is new to the Macintosh operating system. I hope this list gives some good hints for newbies who might of picked up an iMac or MacBook this holiday season."

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Kottke: The Best Links 2006

"Compiling a list of the best things I've linked to from kottke.org seems to get harder each year. I estimate posting about 2400 links to kottke.org in 2006, which is roughly one link every 2.5 hours on weekdays. Which is insane." Some great stuff here.

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Search Every Word Said on YouTube [Impressive feature]

Speech-to-text video and audio search engine Podzinger just announced this afternoon that users can now search inside YouTube videos with a tab on the front page of Podzinger. The functionality appears to have been added in late December but I haven’t seen any blog coverage of it yet.

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Study: Vista's Aero user interface has little effect on performance

Principled Technologies, a North Carolina-based company that conducts technology assessments, recently piloted a study for Microsoft where the performance of Windows XP Service Pack 2 was compared to Windows Vista when performing common business operations.

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How to search Amazon for Amazing Deals

This link is essential for anyone searching for a deal. It compiles all the links necessary to flush out the best deals from Amazon.com.

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TVease: Media Centers for the Masses

Fully configured MythTV Linux in a nice set top box.

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January 3, 2007

Every South Park Episode- For those who don't torrent

The title says it all. Just click Episodes at the top of the web page.

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Mindblowing Panorama of New York City (PHOTO)

Huge (5186x500) panorama of NYC taken from Brooklyn. Probably one of the best depictions of a true mega-city.

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WTF? 4,500 Year Old Tablet Depicts ALL the Planets With Sun In the Middle?

How would anyone know this then? Link goes to picture of the tablet.

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40 Photos of Abandonned Amusement Park

Tottaly cool a Must see , reminds of a Stephen King book not sure why , really good photos

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How to Think Like a Genius

Even if you're not a genius,(though most diggers probably are.) you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future.

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Four out of five smokers 'hate the habit'

I just quit AGAIN. I quit last new years for 8 months but made the mistake of "having just one". I quit again this news years, what a nasty and addictive habit. F you Marlboro.

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Top 7 Most Anticipated Games of 2007

2007 is a great year for gaming and especially for PC Gaming, we will see new great titles in the gaming industry. The best of most-anticipated games are reviewed in no particular order below.

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Firefox extension can avoid "digg-effect"

The Anti-Digg/Slashdot Effect Extension provides, in the right-click context menu, options to open the Coral/Google cache versions of a link in a new tab.This is the first version posted —Google and Coral are working, but the next release will try to include DuggMirror for Digg links and possibly any other caches people recommend.

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Diggometer Script Released

"This little script, once inserted into your pages, will track when a story has been submitted to digg and display the digg it button to digg users. Not only that, it will also display how many digg users are viewing the page at the current time and also how many unique visitors from digg have gone to that very page through that story!"

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A Handy Little CSS Cheat Sheet

Great for CSS newbies, especially the diagram on the box model. A good reference while you get your style feet off the ground.

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How to hack network passwords in 13 steps

This instructional tutorial shows how easy it is to sniff people's passwords in plain-text form on a wired network. Common applications for this would be on a university, school or otherwise large network. This tutorial is for educational purposes only and should only be used to demonstrate the security weaknesses of common networking systems.

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Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites

Here you are the most interesting web 2.0 site all over the internet, please if you have more sites add them to the comments

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Slyck's P2P Wrap-Up 2006

A year of shock, amazement, disappointment and a whole lot more.

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Amazing Monasteries Around the World

Life as a monk could never be cooler. Check out these amazing monastery photos.

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Apple Mac Pro and Macbook Pro Win Infoworld Technology of the Year

Apple's Mac Pro and MacBook Pro have been selected as InfoWorld's 2007 Technology of the Year Award winners in the "hardware" category.

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Ultimate List of over 150 (!) Free Windows Software from Microsoft

Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download -- finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now. My favorites: FolderShare (a P2P application to synchronize folders with other users (or your devices)), Virtual Desktop Manager, Alt-Tab Replacement (however I think that TaskSwitch XP is better) and ISO recorder

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Windows Vista Ultimate, A Hands On Diary by Toms Hardware

To get my input on Windows Vista, Microsoft offered to loan me an Acer Ferrari 1000 with the release to manufacture (RTM) version of Vista Ultimate, a Vista pizza with every feature of the OS included. The notebook would also come with the RTM version of Office 2007. Who could resist? I told them to send it with all due speed.

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Worlds largest cover archive - new and improved, with new AJAX navigation

Suddenly, navigating this website and finding your CD/DVD covers is not painful at all...

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10 Useful Firefox Extensions That You've Never Heard Of

Just because these extensions don't feature in the top 50, doesn't make them any less useful! Here are 10 great extensions that don't get glamorized

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Click Test! Do you click like other people?

8 different rectangles with shapes inside, just simply click anywhere in the box and go to the next one. At the end see which spot got clicked the most and where you clicked in comparison!

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Month of apple fixes

Looks like someone's out to fix the bugs released by the month of apple bugs. The first one is already fixed!

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BitTyrant: A selfish BitTorrent client that improves performance

Researchers from the computer science department at the University of Washington have released BitTyrant, a new BitTorrent client that is designed to improve download performance via strategic selection of peers and upload rates. The client is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

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Pictures of PIXAR's rendering farm

Well seriously, would you expect anything less.

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A Top 10 guide to accessing blocked websites from work

More and more companies restrict your access to certain websites. Usually it's for a good reason, however if you're pretty tech savvy and not worried about having the website "steamysingles.com" in the log file associated with your system, then this little tip site is for you.

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Other websites the designers of digg.com have done!

Ever wonder what kind of other websites the designers of digg (SilverOrange) have done? Here is a direct link to their portfolio!

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A peek under the floorboard of a fuel cell car

pics of hydrogen vehicle with a link to explaining article. from the article: "But the reality is it's a car that, in most ways, behaves like nearly every other car out there -- it just fuels up a bit different, sounds a bit different, and is a bit different."

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The RIGHT way to convert your Photoshop design to XHTML and CSS Layout

How to Convert your Photoshop design to XHTML and CSS div based layout.

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Five Hackers Who Left a Mark on 2006

Five hackers who contributed critical work in 2006. From uncovering the Sony rootkit, to pointing out security flaws Apple tried to hide.

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How To Build A Spam Filtering Mail Gateway

"You can use filtering software loaded on all your users computers, but that takes a lot of time to install and maitenance can be real drag on your time and resources. A better way is to use a centralised device which filters your spam before it enters your enterprise. This is called an Anti-Spam Gateway."

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January 2, 2007

Sexy Foreign Batgirl, Catwoman, Wonder Woman Ad

I'm not sure what's being advertised but they got the comic nerd audience's attention. Should be safe for work mild bra exposure.

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Colbert Let's Down His Guard in a Harvard Student Forum

Video of Stephen Colbert participating in a forum at Harvard's Kennedy School of Politics. He discusses many aspects of his show, personal life, political views and his take on the 24-hour news media. It is a rare, candid and self-effacing glimpse behind the smug character he plays on the Report. Fastforward through the first 4 min of Report clips.

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Top 15 Movies in 2007 to look forward to before the summer

Some of the best movies that will be coming out before May in 2007 - enough said!

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Hostel II takes gruesome graphics a step over the line

Take your kids to the theater to see the barnyard fable Charlotte's Web and you might find yourself confronted in the lobby by a jolting new poster that is pure slaughterhouse — and the latest example of pop culture looking more and more like an autopsy photo.

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20 Animated things to look forward to in 2007

2K7 should be a banner year for animated movies; Aqua Teen Hunger Force the Movie, The Simpsons Movie and more.

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Science proves celebs really are different

Do the stars find themselves as fascinating as their fans do? Yes, says a forthcoming psychological study of Hollywood ’s celebrity class. It is not just money or career that makes them seem different: it is their extreme levels of self love and their compulsive need for public attention.

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2006 - 2007 Cancelled Shows: Lots of Missing TV Series and Upset Viewers

What a TV season it's been so far. The networks each debuted a number of promising new shows, many of them serial dramas. They looked very promising and lots of viewers were hooked -- more were not. From the beginning of the season, the networks have pulled shows off the air quicker than ever before, leaving viewers with television whiplash...

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The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age

The faith in truth was short-lived. Today propaganda is everywhere in the ascendency.

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Photo retouching, how far should you go? Amazing before and after shots

Marketing firms have been doing this for years, with Photoshop or with a variety of tools at their disposal. But the before and after pics are, well striking. Just mouse over any picture to see the dramatic changes.

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World Map of Countries where Marijuana is Legal

Now you'll know how to plan your next vacation.

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PBS tells the truth about Bush & company's lies

This video is an excerpt from the PBS' Independent Lens' episode DEMOCRACY ON DEADLINE that shows and reveals some of the Bush Administrations lies.

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Gas cooker blows up island (with AWESOME aerial pic)

Cool aerial photo of what happens when a faulty gas stove blows up on a tiny Carribean island

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The 100 Most Annoying Things of 2006

Another year and another list of things that bugged the crap out of us. We've been doing this for six years, and our crack team of annoying specialists have uncovered a virtual bushel and peck of mind bendingly awful items for your annoying pleasure.

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January 1, 2007

Marijuana-good for you?

Story suggests that marijuana might actually be good for you. Huh..who would have thought.

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Is it better to shave with or against the grain?

"Are you supposed to shave AGAINST the grain, or WITH the grain? The latest Gillette Mach3 Turbo is advertised to work well BOTH ways, but doesn't say which way people were shaving before... (I)s it better to rinse your razor with hot water or cold water? A friend maintains that one must use cold water in the tropics..." You may be surprised...

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Archaeogenetics:Reunited at last!

This is David, the brother I lost just 1,000 years ago

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14 "Superfoods" that Everyone Needs to Stay Alive and Healthy

"You'll hear about all these special diets for special health needs, but really, the same diet and the same lifestyle choices prevent the same diseases. You don't need 20 different preventive modalities -- just one really good diet, which should be founded on these Superfoods:" (I sill stand by my diet of Mountain Dew and Ice Cream Sandwiches.)

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UFO Spotted of O'Hare Airport!

A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon

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Judge Bars Democrat From Reviewing Voting Machine Code

"A judge ruled Friday that the Democrat who narrowly lost the race to succeed Rep. Katherine Harris cannot examine the programming code of the electronic voting machines used in the disputed election. "

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How-To Hide Files In A .JPG Image

Here is a tutorial on how to hide files in Jpg's. Please note it isn't the most secure method, because the information is stored in plain text but it's still cool to play with. A simple solution to make this more secure, is to use encryption on the RAR file when your create it, but thats not the point of this tutorial ...

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The FBI is inside every recent phone sold in US: can track and listen in

This is a shocking report that says "every recent phone sold in the US has a built-in tracking device that, once activated remotely, can be set to keep the microphone powered on even when the phone itself is switched off." Time to buy imports and unlock them.

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Meanings and origins of popular phrases/sayings

An awesome web site dedicated to the meanings and origins of popular phrases and sayings. Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over how a saying or phrase originated or whether you just enjoy words, you'll probably find something here to interest you. Very cool!

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Millions miffed at poor quality from holiday HDTV purchase

A recent report claims that "about 19.5 million consumers" who purchased an HDTV over the holiday break are now complaining about the quality. Apparently, the "plug and play" approach that has become quite common on today's electronics didn't work out so well with HDTVs, leaving customers baffled...

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Dummies Book Cover Generator

I found this neat generator, you can make your own "for dummies" book cover. I sent out a couple hilarious e-mails using this gen.

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How to Make a Light Box for DIY Studio Photography

make a light box for under $15

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Free: 1800+ premium quality web templates. Hurry!

Dream Template, a template firm is allowing everyone access to their database of 1800 premium quality website templates for the next 48 hours as part of their NY special. $1 million dollars worth of templates for free!

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Officemax- 4GB Flash Drive for $17.98

The title saids it all. Go now before they sell out.

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Can't Find the Time to Read a Book? Do it By Email.

Do you spend hours each day reading email but don't find the time to read books? Sometimes it hards carrying around those big, clunky things. Boo-hoo. Well, now you can read in bite-sized chunks. DailyLit sends books right to you inbox in small messages that take less than a few minutes to read.

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23c3: XBOX 360 was hacked - Linux Kernel coming soon.

An anonym at the german 23c3 Hacker-Congress hacked a XBOX 360 live in front of the audience without any word. There should be some pictures and a live video stream at http://debian.tu-bs.de/mirror/ccc/23C3-mitschnitte/ lightning4-t4s4.wmv. In my oppinion just a few people has realized what they saw - me inclusive.

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15 tips to choose a good text type

"...Many people have asked me about which text type it ’s better for a magazine, or a newspaper, or a poster, or a newsletter, or a publication, etc… In general, I give them the solution immediately. But I know that this is not the best answer, because they don’t learn to do this by themselves."

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How to Photoshop your car into a Pixar Car!

A very detailed tutorial on how to take a picture of your car and use a little Adobe Photoshop magic to turn it into a car like you would see on Pixar's "Cars" movie. Very cool...definitely will impress your friends!!!

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Use Your Notebook At School? -- Task List is What You Need

I use my laptop for just about every class at my university. Sadly, I just found this app today, but I know I will use it all the time next semester. For those in school this is a must have, especially if you are a neat-freak type. This thing will keep you organized. Check it out.

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Newspaper Clipping Generator.

This is just precious.

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How to Colorize Black And White Images in Photoshop

A really good video tutorial from Tech e Blog

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Customise your OS X login screen (and everything else) with Visage Login

A free alternative to the expensive DeskShade. The preference pane's simple interface contains five tabs, each of which will help you customize a different part of your Mac. You can run screen savers as your desktop background, customize your login panel, personalize system alerts, and more!

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Reprogrammable NES cartridge

Play your ROMs the way they were meant to be seen. On a real NES. "I decided to hack a cartridge to be able to reload it with the software of my choice, which may be a game, a demo, a home-made game, or maybe someday my own software. I used two AT49F002 (256K) flash chips. I program them using a universal eprom programmer."

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The Top 35 Torrent Sites of 2006

As of December 31, 2006, the most popular Bit Torrent search engine sites are listed below.

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USPS FREE Stuff

The United States Postal Service offers a wide variety of free products, from stickers to boxes. Of course these products should not be ordered unless you intend to use them for their origional purpose...... But before i can use all 5 thousand boxes i ordered (which i will) i made one heck of a box fort!

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