Move over Jason Bourne!

Master these 15 simple techniques and hacks, and Jason Bourne will have some serious competition!Knock someone out with a matchbox; create a complete new identity; burn holes through one inch thick steel; open any door; listen to conversations hundreds of yards away... Real Bourne Identity stuff which has been tried and tested.

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How to Get 6,312 Subscribers to Your Blog in One Day

Here's a great 7-step case study on getting a large amount of blog subscribers right at launch.

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Ever Wondered Who Really Owns the Media?

Check out these resources to learn how big Big Media really is.

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122 VERY Vivid and Splendid Photos

So colourful it looks unreal

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Body tricks everyone should know!

If your throat tickles, scratch your ear!

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Quiet Structure: Consistent, Clear Web Design

How create a very neat, clean and clear presentation of information on the web.

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Hack an elevator, go straight to your floor.

A very simple hack that lets you skip all the floors and gets you to your meeting on time. Try it out on Monday

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Who has conquered the Middle East over the past 5000 years?

See who has controlled this region over the course of history with this killer animation. 5000 years of History in just 90 seconds.

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How to build a sweet gaming PC for $538

The guys at The Tech Report have put together a new system guide, and in it they show how to put together a nice little gaming system with nothing but quality name-brand parts for just $538. There are also system recommendations for $1,000, $1,500, and $3,000 budgets.

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Hack Amazon For Deals Up To 90% Off

Why go to the trouble of manually hacking Amazon's URLs to search for bargains when we've got all the messy work done for you?-Consumerist

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10 Richest People in Tech

"Let’s take a look at the current list of top 10 wealthiest people in IT."

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Hi-res downloads of FHM's infamous bikini campaign

Have at it, you sexist bastards.

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Download the iPhone Ringtones

Don't want to shell out $600 for the iPhone just yet? Download the iPhone ringtones to trick out your current phone!

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Apple applies for multi-touch mouse patent

"Ooo la la, what's this? Apple filed a patent application for a "mouse with optical sensing surface." That's right, a multi-touch mouse building upon the touch-sensitive mouse patent app we've already seen from Apple."

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The world’s only ‘on-the-fly’ free translation service tool

Forget Babelfish - this is the best one I have used yet. Translates in real-time on a per-word basis as fast as your text is entered. You can also put in up to 2000 characters at once.

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Amazing Jessica Biel Photo Gallery

80 spectacular photos of beautiful Jessica!

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Time for Another Revolution, by Frank Chodorov

It all began, as you know, with the Declaration of Independence. But the biggest mistake the Founding Fathers of America made was to write of independence from one particular government, when what is needed is independence from government itself.

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5 Obscure Facts About the Declaration of Indepence

Very interesting and appropriate for today.

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Steorn's Orbo "free-energy" machine demonstrated tomorrow!

Here we go, after months of doubt over claims of a magnetic machine promising "infinite clean energy," Steorn will be putting their wares on display for public scrutiny in London. A physics defying perpetual machine, if you will. Starting tomorrow, the Kinetica museum will host the Orbo device for a ten day long public demonstration of the technolo

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Activate iPhone Without AT&T

A little hex editing of iTunes, a little hostfile hacking, a little program called Phone Activation Server v1.0, and you're on your way to an AT&T service free iPhone

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Could you pass the U.S. Citizenship test?

MSNBC has a quiz with actual questions from the citizenship test. Not as easy as you might think...I got an 85% and I'd like to consider myself pretty well versed in history. Take the quiz, see how you compare.

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30 free HTML email templates to get you started

Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so we've done the hard work for you with these 30 free email templates. We've tested them in all the major email clients, so add your own content and you're all set.

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450+ Designer Business Cards for Inspiration

A gallery of lots of good looking business cards from some design agencies... you may even score a few good email & phone numbers from the cards.

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Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs

Over 60 elegant, usable and impressive designs with a well thought-out color scheme, typography and visual structure. Their beauty lies in the way both information is presented. Their usability lies in the way they communicate presented data. That's what make them different.

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Energy Map of America

Map overlays showing US energy sources from nuclear to biomass. Very interesting stuff.

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Marijuana will be legal in New Mexico starting Sunday

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.

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Vaccines cause autism? It's a myth. Get over it.

It is difficult to challenge a mother's knowledge of her own child. And also to fight off the staying power of the vaccines-cause-autism theory and other such notions that verge on the irrational.

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Building a BitTorrent Box - A Complete How-To

An article detailing the complete walk through of building a dedicated, headless BitTorrent client computer. Using Ubuntu, Azureus, Hamachi, and Samba, you'll be able to build a box capable of downloading BitTorrents and sharing the files complete ease. There's even extra steps to show you how to save them directly to an external USB hard drive!

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iPhone Costs A Mere $220 To Make

An analysis from teardown firm Portelligent estimates that the new must-have smartphone costs Apple a mere $220 to make

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Pownce: Up close and personal

We've mentioned Pownce previously on DownloadSquad, but instead of just a little preview, here's an in-depth look at the Kevin Rose start-up that is the object of desire right now for invite-junkies everywhere.

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iPhone: Prepay the right way

Here's what I learned: If you want to set up your iPhone as a prepaid account, do not--no that's not emphatic enough--do NOT, DO NOT attempt to set up the account in advance with AT&T. Just don't. Trust me. Here's how you should do it...

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Tada! The 6th Gen contract-free WiFi-enabled iPod

"What did I discover? I found that your activated iPhone is a lot more flexible and powerful than AT&T and Apple admit. Pop out the SIM or put an inactive SIM and your iPhone works pretty much like a contract-free WiFi-enabled 6th Generation iPod." Tested without SIM, with invalid SIM, with activated SIM from pay-as-you-go phone. WiFi & sync work

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Engadget reviews the iPhone

We've gone into serious detail here: After years of rumor and speculation, last January that device was finally announced at Macworld 2007 -- and here we are, just over six months later -- the iPhone, perhaps the most hyped consumer electronics device ever created, is finally here. And this is the only review of it you're going to need.

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Last.fm Stream Ripper; The Last Ripper

Freeware app TheLastStream saves and parses Last.fm streams into MP3s. But that's not all! It also automatically downloads album art, assigns ID3 tags, creates playlists, and organizes recordings according to artist, album, and track.TheLastStream requires that you have a Last.fm account and the Last.fm client. Both free. (Windows, Mac, Linux)

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Latin Phrases You Should Know.

Why do you need these Latin phrases? Well, like Latin teachers always say, Latin lives on in plenty of English words and phrases. But mostly, it’s worth learning a bit of Latin because omnia dicta fortiori, si dicta Latina: everything sounds more impressive when said in Latin.

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Putin Advanced Team Caught Using Counterfeit U.S. Money!

Portsmouth police received a call from the liquor store that the man and his friends were on foot, headed to the nearby Holiday Inn. Police responded to the scene. A dispatch message on the police scanner said diplomatic immunity might be involved.

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10 Tips on How to Successfully Work the Room

Tips on 'Social Graces' - the one thing you need that an MBA can't give you. Avoid permanently joining a “rock pile.” Be a good host while you’re someone else’s guest...etc.

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Israel's president resigns over sex crimes

Israeli President Moshe Katsav resigned today, a day after admitting to sex crimes against women employees in a case that has brought unprecedented disgrace on an Israeli head of state.When his resignation from the largely ceremonial post takes effect on Sunday, the speaker of parliament will be president for two weeks.

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10 Tips on How to Successfully Work the Room

Tips on 'Social Graces' - the one thing you need that an MBA can't give you. Avoid permanently joining a “rock pile.” Be a good host while you’re someone else’s guest...etc.

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PICTURE: How the prohibition of Marijuana started.

Hrmmm, we were brainwashed? Not in America, no way.

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World Stats Clock

This site has stats collected from all over the world, showing population, prison growth, births, US illegal immigrations, divorces, species extinct, forests lost, barrels of oil, and LOADS more, including in depth death stats. Highly interesting.

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Top 10 iPhone applications from Lifehacker

The much-anticipated iPhone hits the streets today. While developers and users alike aren't thrilled that third-party iPhone apps are limited to the web, you might be surprised at the impressive offerings that have already been developed for new iPhone users. Today's top 10 features the best iPhone applications that should be ready for your iPhone.

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The Power of Google Gears (Part 1)

Web application development is the perfect 95 percent solution. It's very easy to develop a simple HTML frontend to something like PHP or Rails, to deliver data to and from a MySQL database. You can even give it a more desktop feel by using Ajax tools. But that last five percent, the ability for desktop applications to work offline, was missing

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How to add green screen effects to home movies for FREE!

Wanna make a movie like the pros? Using green screen editing? It's all free (besides the actual green screen itself) with this awsome program. Debug Mode's WAX is a video/picture/music editor. It hase a drag and drop time line like in Windows Movie maker, so you can add pictures and music to your video

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iPhone Disassembly

Right now, the people from ifixit are disassembling an iPhone in a live photo stream.

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Bring Out the GIMP Part 1: GIMP Basics

Maximum PC starts a series of tutorials for The GIMP

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AT&T Activation Clumsiness hurts iPhone

Apple may be smooth and polished, but AT&T has botched the great iPhone rollout. These are some of the frequent errors that people are experiencing. It is so bad that the AT&T web and phone support have shut-down at this point.

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iPhone first hands-on video

Here's a brief feel for what you can expect fooling around (after already having activated).

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iPhone Stress Tests - PC World Video

Can you scratch it? What happens when you drop it? PC World's Eric Butterfield takes the iPhone through a grueling set of tests to check how the device handles abuse.

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[PIC] MTV Has First Pic of Spike Jonze's "Where The Wild Things Are" Film

Spike Jonze's adaptation of the classic book is still many many months away, but in the meantime, here's a great pic to whet your appetite.

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(Rolling Stone) The Record Industry's Decline -- How It All Went Wrong

Record sales are tanking, and there's no hope in sight. The major labels are struggling to reinvent their business models, even as some wonder whether it's too late. "The record business is over," says music attorney Peter Paterno, who represents Metallica and Dr. Dre. "The labels have wonderful assets -- they just can't make any money off them."

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Led Zeppelin To Reunite?

Led Zeppelin are in talks to reunite for a memorial concert. The band are apparently in discussions to reform for a one-off gig in London for their late record boss Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. It is thought singer Robert Plant guitarist Jimmy Page and bass John Paul Jones will re-group alongside late drummer John Bonham's son Jason.

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50 Cent busted lip syncing

RAPPER 50 Cent has suffered an embarrassing blow at the BET awards, when he was caught lip synching live on stage, watched by millions of people.Entertainment site MediaTakeOut.com report that 50 Cent was caught out from the beginning of his performance, after being ceremoniously lowered onto stage on a podium.

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Hilarious: Actual Airline Complaint

This is an actual airline complaint filed by a passenger. Absolutely hilarious.

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Top Indonesian MP says dope in food 'okay'

INDONESIAN Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who opposes legalising marijuana, doesn't mind the drug being used in cooking, a newspaper reported today."It's alright to use it as a food seasoning, but it should not be fully legalised,'' Mr Kalla was quoted as saying...

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Benoit's Death Posted to Wikipedia 14 Hours Before Bodies Found !!!!!!

An anonymous user operating a computer traced to Stamford, Conn. — home to World Wrestling Entertainment — posted an entry to pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia.com biography announcing the death of his wife Nancy more than 14 hours before police in suburban Atlanta said they found her body.

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Build Up Your Best Body -- in One Hour

Whether the goal is a bigger chest or tighter abs, your workout needs to yield great results fast. Use this plan to maximize your time—and your muscle.

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First artificial life 'within months'

Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacteria into another.

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BREAKING: Double-blind Study Proves Cannabis Has "Clear Medical Benefits"

Smoking Marijuana, significantly increases daily food intake and body weight in HIV-positive patients, is well tolerated with no discomfort, and does not impair subjects’ cognitive performance. The study compared Marinol to smoked/inhaled Cannabis, in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial, and found clearly more benefits when inhaled.

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Gallery: Full-resolution iPhone interface screen shots- Think Secret

Think Secret sources have passed along a number of full-resolution screen captures of the iPhone's interface, including shots of the calendar, email, alarm clock, timer, and RSS reader functionality.

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Pownce could finally add private messaging to Digg!!

Private messaging has been the gaping hole in the Digg experience since launch. How can you expect to sustain a community, where members can’t contact each other? The same interface principles used in Gmail to implement Google Chat could be applied to Digg. A Pownce buddy list, populated with your Digg friends, could appear right on the home page.

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PC World - 100 blogs we love

Here are our favorite stops in the blogosphere, covering everything from high tech to low comedy and all manner of pursuits in between.

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Mashable: Against All Odds, Pownce Blew Us Away

Described as a mishmash of existing services (Twitter, chat, file sharing) that has only attracted attention because its founder was behind Digg, things didn’t look good for Pownce. We expected the worst: but like the iPhone, Pownce miraculously lives up to the hype. Don’t judge it before you test it.

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BitTorrent Survival: The Way of the Hydra

As more and more people hear about BitTorrent, each day the major sites get bigger, with more and more visitors, members, seeds and peers. Mainstream awareness of P2P is driving this new surge but with copyright and law enforcement agencies clamping down hard, some are considering tactics for survival.

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Google Gadget Ventures - earn $100,000 from Google to develop gadgets

Marissa Mayar, VP of Google, announced a Google Gadget Ventures where they pay developers $100,000 to build gadgets.

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Megan Fox Gets Ready for Transformers Debut By Hanging out in Her Underwear

Try as we might to refrain from posting shots of Transformers co-star Megan Fox again, it was just too much. I mean, part of her little ass canyon is showing in one of these. Plus, we have the blessing of those generous souls at FHM, fine purveyors of pics featuring the female form. Transformers? To hell with all those pictures of silly robot toys.

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List of 745 High Paying Jobs that Don't Require a College Degree

The list weighs hundreds of careers, looking for those which combine decent salary, a good job growth rate, and a relatively low requirement for a college degree (what we called here "degree not required").

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Sweet, flavored cocaine now in U.S.

SACRAMENTO, June 26 (UPI) -- Police in California report a growing trend in cocaine traffickers adding flavors to the powder and charging 40 percent more for it.

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A Unique Look at What the World Eats

This is a fascinatingforay into what's on people's dinner tables across the globe, and is a telling visual of why the health of the Western world is in rapid decline from all our prepackaged, chemically processed and sugar-laden goods, and how much we're actually paying for the privilege.

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25 Sites We Can't Live Without - TIME

Time Magazine Article, title says it all. I'm pretty sure I can live without a few of these. Cool to see digg, technorati, and del.icio.us on there.

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Kevin Rose’s New Startup: Pownce

There have been rumors that Digg’s Kevin Rose has been working on a new startup for some time, but he wasn’t talking. I spent a good amount of time this last weekend at FOO Camp trying to get some of the details out of him, but all he would say is that he’d be contacting us soon.

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Screw Your Travel Agent - DIY Flights on the Cheap

Don't get screwed over by airlines. Know how to play the travel game at your best. Comprehensive travel planning guide with how to use Kayak, Sidestep and other sites you may not have have heard of to get the lowest price flights.

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1,000 films to see before you die

There are more than a million films out there, here are 1,000 of the best.

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Secret Habits Of the Super Rich

The best things in life aren't necessarily the most flashy objects but instead discreet, meaningful experiences. Luxury goes undercover in the lives of the rich and famous.

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How to build a better, tastier and juicier burger

Looking to spice up your summer barbecues? Chef Jeffrey Starr kicks off the season with Sutter Home's Build a Better Burger competition, which celebrates the best, most original recipes for the juiciest and tastiest burgers. Get ready to fire up the grill with these easy-to-follow and delicious dishes.

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Republican Whistle Blower's House Burned Down and Car Run Off The Road

[Dana Simpson has] been smeared as “crazy” and as a “disgruntled contract bidder.” And something nastier: after her intention to speak became known, Simpson’s house was burned to the ground, and her car was driven off the road and totaled. Clearly, there are some very powerful people in Alabama who feel threatened.

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George H. W. Bush claims Athiests aren't Citizens and can't be Patriots.

Bush: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?Bush: Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on athei

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TDS: On Dick Cheney

John Stewart and John Oliver discuss Dick Cheney's self-exemption from oversight.

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Top 10 Uses For Used Coffee Grounds

"10. Deodorizer. Dry them out on a cookie sheet and then put them in a bowl in your refrigerator or freezer, or rub them on your hands to get rid of food prep smells. 9. Plant food..."

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uTorrent for Mac is Coming: An Early Review

When BitTorrent Inc bought uTorrent, the most popular Windows BitTorrent client, they announced that they would begin porting it to both the Mac and Linux. They have. Here’s a preview of the “soon to be released” Mac version of uTorrent.

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Internet Chefs - An expose thats been a long time coming

Despite all the reality cooking shows, TV's not where the innovative cooking action is at. The real stuff is going down on the net. Because while Rachel Ray's pocketbook (and jowls) get bigger by the second, the unknown, unsung heroes, those Internet Chefs, are creating outlandish meals with no fame or fortune in sight--just for the love.



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3 Famous Psychology Studies That Would Be Illegal Today

What happened to the good old days, when a scientist could just rustle together some test subjects and let loose in the lab? You know, without having to worry about petty humane things…like ethics!



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Activate iPhone from home, not in store.

From Steve himself, you will not have to wait in store to activate your iPhone.



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Bye Bye TorrentSpy and ISOHunt, Both to Filter Copyrighted Content

TorrentSpy and ISOHunt plan to use a hash-based system called FileRights to automatically filter BitTorrent trackers that link to pirated content from its search results to help satisfy a suit brought against them by the MPAA for the illegal facilitation of copyrighted material.



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Vista Transformation Pack 7.0 Released

It's been a long wait for some of you, and after several delays, we are pleased to announce to you today, the release of Vista Transformation Pack 7.0, Windows X's latest customization pack to give you the Vista experience without the hassle of a new OS!



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Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About RAM for Macs

RAM upgrades are the best way to get a performance boost from your computer. Mac OS X loves to hog up all the RAM you've got, so the more you have, the better! Here are a few often asked questions and their answers regarding RAM and Macs.



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The Million-Dollar Waitress

A woman who has never bought a stock in her life appears to have bested the financial pros in CNBC's stock-picking contest



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Have you heard of Credit Triggers? You should

I just heard a piece on NPR about Experian selling your credit history to collection agencies. They constantly monitor your credit activity and if you start to pay off your credit and are getting back on your feet, they notify the collection hounds and let them have at you. This sounded pretty damn wrong to me so I got on Google



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The Top 21 Cities Where Rent is Cheap

Some rents in major metropolitan areas rose more than 10% this year, but apartments in the Midwest and South remain easy on the pocket



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NBC News: 'Has the vice president gone too far?'

NBC News reported on Monday that "Dick Cheney is back in a very uncomfortable place for him: the headlines." Both a Washington Post series on the vice president and Cheney's feud with the National Archives over his handling of classified information are drawing attention to his style of governing.



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If your clueless like me about spices, this guide is for you.

Spices are the basis for flavoring your barbecue. They are many and are everywhere in the world. In days of old they were a sign of wealth. They were traded, and the quest for them has spawned new nations and caused wars. Once you learn how to work with spices, you can make your own spice mixtures, to season your barbecue, and even more...



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British 2-Year Old has IQ of 152 = IQ Steven Hawkings

Georgia Brown, a young British girl with golden locks, has an IQ of 152 — which, proportionate to her age, puts her in the same intellectual league as the famed physicist Steven Hawkings.



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'Virgins rare, drug use common'

JUST four per cent of US adults are virgins, but a fifth have tried hard drugs such as cocaine and crack, a new study shows.What most alarms researchers is how young they start.



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How Much Will It Really Cost You To Own An iPhone?

Apple's iPhone will carry a $499 to $599 pricetag, not including taxes, depending whether you choose the 4 gigabyte or the 8 gigabyte model.But that's not how much it will cost to own one. AT&T has still not published the rate card for its iPhone service plans or indicated whether there will be any rebate on the hardware.



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Giving your passwords the finger: a review of fingerprint scanners

Tired of trying to keep all of those passwords straight without resorting to pen and paper (or passwords.txt)? Ars reviews four fingerprint scanners with an eye towards ease of use, reliability, and the ability to be fooled by a finger made of Jello.



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10 Great Books, and 40 Others I Love

Excellent selection of good books.



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IRAN WAR WILL BE NUCLEAR- Gen Pace gave us a warning dont ignore it

US-Isreal attack against Iran has been finalized and Isreal is training their troops for an air attack right now. Bush Pentagon rewrote US war doctrine to PERMIT use of Nuclear weapons regardless of their illegality and immorality- why REWRITE unless serious about it?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17902.htm- Use this link



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Results from every single myth tested on MythBusters

Can you get better gas mileage by drafting a semi? Will your stomach explode if you drink diet coke and mentos? Can you open a pad lock by shooting at it? Can you trick a bloodhound by crossing a river? Plus hundreds more myth results from MythBusters.



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12 of the Best Music Social Networks

Internet radio may be facing uncertain times, but many musical social networks continue to thrive. If you’re in a band, these sites are essential for promoting your music: take note, and sign up for as many as possible to maximize your reach. For fans, meanwhile, we’ve included some great places to just listen to music.



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Jessica Biel Bikini Spread In GQ [PICTURES]

GQ is featuring an exclusive Jessica Biel photo shoot in what they deem to be "the Summer of Jessica Biel".



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Why Flight of the Conchords Will Fail Despite Being a Pretty Funny Show

HBO aired the first episode of its new comedy series on Sunday, although it had already released the episode on its website as well as on other sites, presumably to generate internet buzz. Unfortunately, the show is destined to fail. There are no fewer than four reasons why this Kiwi folk-comedy duo won’t be seeing a second season.



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First Image Of Harrison Ford As Indiana Jones Since 1989

Check out the first official image of "Indiana Jones 4" of Harrison Ford as the man himself! I have to say, he’s looking pretty good for a guy in his 60s. You can definitely tell that he has aged, but I think it’s a good look.



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'A' List Film Producer Dana Brunetti's Smackdown for "On the Lot"

"Compared to 'On The Lot,' Project Greenlight was Emmy material. On the other hand, the production of 'On The Lot' itself is like watching a train wreck..."



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Top 20 Movie Insults

“I seen your mother kicking a can down the street. I said ‘What you doin’?’ and she said ‘Moving’”



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Images That Changed The World ?

If the image has a link it will take you to a video/documentary about the history of the image.



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Girl's Feet Cut Off At Six Flags

Police confirmed that a girl's feet have been cut off at Six Flags' Kentucky Kingdom....



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Boulder High Student, Jesse Lange, Calmly Exposes Bill O'Reilly's Hypocrisy

Jesse Lange, did an admirable job confronting O'Reilly calmly and rationally. In fact, he riled Bill so much , he got branded a pinhead which he considers a badge of honor.



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███ to declassify cl█████ied do█████ts

THE CIA says it it has decided to declassify most of a voluminous 1973 file known as "the family jewels", which details some of the agency's most notorious operations.



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'Mile-wide UFO' spotted by British airline pilot

One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands. An official air-miss report on the incident several weeks ago appears in Pilot magazine. Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as a cigar-shaped brilliant white light



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The Weird Things People Eat Around the World

"Half the fun of traveling is getting out and enjoying all sorts of foods you're not used to eating. A simple trip to the corner market or grocery store in a foreign land can keep you amused for hours."



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Digital Da Vinci Codes: Thousands of Leonardo's Papers Go Online

The Leonardian Library in Vinci, Tuscany, is making the Madrid Codices and the Codex Atlanticus -- two collections of scientific and technical drawings -- available as a free digital archive called e-Leo.The EU-financed project will also digitize the Windsor folios and 12 notebooks from the Institut de France for a total of 12,000 pages.



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The Perfect Shave

If you’re going to ready the razor every morning, you ought to know the tools, products, and tricks you need to achieve the best shave imaginable.



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Government gags scientists, GAO finds

The GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, surveyed 1,811 randomly-selected researchers at three agencies. It found that 102 at NASA and 76 at NOAA have been barred from publicizing their research results.



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Christians Cause Ban On Alcohol Inhalers Because They Prevent Hangover

Alcohol inhalers, which have been banned in 22 states since they were introduced to American consumers in 2004, will soon be illegal in North Carolina, home of Spirit Partners, the U.S. distributor of AWOL (Alcohol Without Liquid) machines.



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Absolutely identify plants before using them as food. A great guide.

At times you may find yourself in a situation for which you could not plan. In this instance you may not have had the chance to learn the plant life of the region in which you must survive. In this case you can use the Universal Edibility Test to determine which plants you can eat and those to avoid.



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LifeHacker's Top 10 DIY office projects

Anyone can drop cash on spendy office gear, but it takes a little ingenuity to rig up your workspace just right with stuff you've already got around the house. Today's top 10 looks at a few dead easy do-it-yourself office projects that reduce clutter and organize the cables, gadgets and office supplies in your workspace.



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How they steal your card AND pin at ATM's [PHOTOS]

Using black film which blends with the black plastic of an ATM theives can steal your card along and capture your pin number.



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DARPA Looking Into Invisible, Shoot-Through, Self-Healing Armor

Yeah, we're talking armor that soldiers can see and fire through on one side, but is invisible and impenetrable on the other.



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How To Make Money on Facebook

One developer's story of the challenges faced trying to generate revenue from a Facebook-only application



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The Technology that Powers Digg

A slideshow all about the technology (PHP, MySQL, Apache, etc.) behind Digg.



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126 Essential Freelancing Resources

The web is such a big and wonderful place, packed with tools and resources which you all too often don’t know about. So to help all you freelancers out there we have compiled a gigantic list of resources, categorized up for your benefit.



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iPhone guided tour from Apple

Watch a 20 min guided tour video from Apple



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PHOTOS: When advertisers get ridiculously creative

My favorite is the ad-war between Audi and BMW



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How To Get Aquired By Google

The Zenter.com guys explain how they did it.



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73 Great Debt Elimination Tips

Based on user feedback, Zen Habits has compiled a pretty impressive list. It is not a step-by-step guide. It is a list of ideas and advice from different people. As he says: "Find the tips that will work best for you, and try them out."



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80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding

Long list of Ajax techniques & tutorials: Auto-completion, instant field editing, menus, calendars, interactive elements, visual effects, animation, basic javascripts, as well as an extensive developer’s suite should give you a useful and powerful toolbox you can use every day, without a need to go through hundreds of AJAX-related bookmarks.



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Why Didn't Americans Adopt the Metric System?

Feet, yards, inches, miles, gallons, ounces, these may mean something to some people around the world, while others struggle with online converters or, worse, software designed to convert these values, that are not reliable most of the times.



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0 To 12,000 RSS Subscribers In Seven Months: 10 Techniques

"...launched at the end of October 2006. ...by June 2007, I had 12,000 RSS readers and was generating enough traffic that I had to switch hosting plans twice."



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OJ "Did It" Manuscript Leaked Online

Wow



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Farmers sue DEA to allow them to grow industrial hemp

Two farmers granted the first licenses in the nation to grow industrial hemp filed a federal lawsuit to get final permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration. "What they say is hemp, we say is marijuana," said Garrison Courtney, a spokesman for the DEA in Washington.



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Chris Matthews gets caught on camera saying what we all were thinking

Didn't think he was on camera. He was.



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Top 20 Magic Trick Tutorials Of All Time

Be the life of the part, or get the interest of that girl. These are the 20 most amazing magic tricks tutorial videos that you will find anywhere.



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Jon Stewart Approached by NBC

His contract with the Daily Show is up for renewal next year. With that in mind, NBC is putting out feelers to see what it would take to get Stewart to switch networks, potentially to replace either Conan on Late Night or Leno on the Tonight Show.



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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup

Good description from Marc....



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Video Editing 2.0

There are a bunch of other online video editing tools, and we'll take a brief look at some of them below (though again, don't expect Avid).



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LifeHacker: 13 book hacks for the library crowd

Today, in the interest of lifehacking your bookshelf, I'm rounding up my favorite 13 "book hacks" for getting the most from your bound literature. The first three hacks provide ways to integrate your computer with your local library, from a web-based notification tool to a Firefox extension to a killer Mac-only menu bar app.



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Mininova.org TV Torrents organized for you!

Basically a frontend for mininova.org. It organizes all the TV show torrents into different series with links to that episode database listings, newest show and much more. Check it out!



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Keep Track of TV Torrents with TVTAD

"TVTAD is an RSS feed reader with support for unlimited feeds. It will automatically download newly released TV episodes that have been added to your favorites." It's free and It works with any BitTorrent client (like uTorrent).



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33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online

It's time to toss the old tube to the dumpster. Well, not if you have one of those 47'' plasma ones, but...you know what we mean. Instead of browsing through the channels with your remote, you could be browsing through the free online TV providers on your computer.



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Nations who have not yet adopted the metric system (pic)

How many could there be?



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The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes

Learn how to take better photos by reading about the 10 most common mistakes most people make. Some are obvious some aren't.



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DIGG: Site Downtime / New Features

"Hey everyone - quick post to let you know that in the midst of going live with some back-end upgrades as well as our new comments system, the site has had a longer than expected outage tonight..."



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Get Rid Of Spyware Using Sysinternals Tools (Definitive Guide)

As it turns out, you can delete all malware manually. But it requires good tools to delete files protected by malware running inside critical Windows processes and renewing its hooks. Anyway, sysinternals rock!



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Apple announces iPhone now delivers up to 8 hours of talk, 250 standby

In a press release today, Apple has revealed a number of significant upgrades to both the iPhone's battery life and touch screen.



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Tech capitals of the world

Want ultra-fast broadband, free internet 'hotspots' across town and all the latest gadgets? You won't get it in Sydney - but where would you go for the best there is to offer?



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Ten CSS tricks you may not know

Cascading Style Sheets are the foundation on which many of the best websites are built. Using CSS allows developers to describe the common style for the website, in terms of colours, fonts and layouts. In this tutorial, Trenton Moss of Webcredible shares some of his top tips to help you get the most from your CSS.



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Wait in the self-check line? That’s so last month

Stephanie Cerneck doesn’t go through the checkout line at her supermarket anymore. Or even the self-checkout line. She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she’s done, she pays at a terminal at the front of the store.



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8 Practical Tips to Cure Your Internet ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)

You know you have it - every nerd does - the tickling sensation in the left hand to press Alt+Tab or Cmd+Tab to switch apps, Internet browser tabs or windows, to go from your email to Firefox, Instant Messenger, Twitter, your current work and back to Firefox.



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New 20- and 24-inch iMacs on track for mid-to-late summer - AppleInsider

Apple Inc.'s hotly anticipated iPhone device will have a few weeks to bask in the limelight before the electronics maker returns focus to its Mac business with a pair of redesigned iMacs positioned to catch the tail end of the educational buying season. People familiar with plans for the next-generation consumer desktops say Apple hopes to unveil..



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Categorized Best Wordpress Themes

A superb source for wordpress themes, they seem all categorized from business to travel and sorted by downloads, tests, rates and votes.



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Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew

Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Unfortunately, many gotchas await the new programmer. Now that I have a few rails projects under my belt, here’s my shot at sparing you the suffering I experienced when first getting started.



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AT&T Quietly offers $10 DSL Plan

Without any sort of fanfare, AT&T Inc. has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, half the price of its cheapest advertised plan



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Want something more substantive than YouTube? Here's how to find it...

While YouTube has captured a great deal of attention and traffic for its vast collection of mostly goofy videos, a growing number of sites are providing more-cerebral alternatives: documentaries, speeches, panel discussions, research reports and more.



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Jawbone Headset to be sold alongside iPhone

When Apple fans across the country flock to their neighborhood Apple Store to pick up their shiny new iPhone next Friday, they'll also have the opportunity to buy a Jawbone Bluetooth headset to go along with it.Designed by Yves Behar and decked out with military-grade noise-canceling technology, the Jawbone is certainly no slouch...



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Great Spy Shots Of Audi's 2008 V-10 Powered RS6. Will It Have 600 HP?

Winding Road Magazine has captured some shots of Audi's 2008 RS6 sport sedan without disguise! The V-10 powered bahnstormer is expected to have 550-600 horsepower from its supercharged powerplant. It will be interesting to see how the battle shapes up against BMW's M5 and Mercedes-Benz's E63 AMG.



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Lost: Real-time Airplane Crash edit

A Must SEE! Someone took all the footage of the plane crash from seasons 1,2 and 3. Put it together as it happened. it's really awesome stuff, brings back a nostalgic feel. Hope its hold you over till season 4!



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Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime

The FBI estimates that, 16,000 Americans are murdered every year. Compare this to the 56,000 Americans who die every year on the job or from occupational diseases such as black lung and asbestosis and the tens of thousands of other Americans who fall victim to the silent violence of pollution, contaminated foods, hazardous consumer products...



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How to Build the World's Best Paper Planes [W/PICTURES]

Slip the surly bonds of earth with a folded sheet of A4. Jonathan Glancey, who spent his childhood manufacturing squadrons of paper aviation, offers some tips.



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Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!)

So, you don’t mind being followed and tracked? You don’t care if your friends can see what websites you’ve been to lately, what software you’ve been running, or even what music you’ve been listening to? Below, we round up 12 services that want to track your every move - voluntarily.



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6 Ways to Download Torrents with your Web-Browser

Wouldn’t it be easier if people can download .torrent files with their web-browser? This is a question BitTorrent novices often the ask. Last year Opera was the first browser to add BitTorrent support, soon followed by BitFox, FireStorm, FoxTorrent, AllPeers, and Wyzo/FireTorrent. Here’s a overview of these applications and extensions.



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Digital Cameras: The Top 10 Things You Need to Know

Title says it all



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Introducing iPhone Developers Camp

Created by BarCampers (Raven Zachary, whurley, and Chris Messina) iPhone Developers Camp is an upcoming gathering to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. The event is being held the week following the public release of the iPhone.



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Star Wars: Spectacular High Resolution Galaxy Map

Pretty incredible detail of the galaxy far, far away...



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Must Watch: Pixar’s Wall-E Movie Trailer

The trailer for Pixar’s 2008 movie Wall-E is attached to Ratatouille. But you don’t have to wait until June 29th to see it. Watch it here right NOW!



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Interesting animation of how Americans voted from 1960-2004 (Pic)

Now you'll know where to hate people.



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22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager

A former Dell kiosk manager writes us to share helpful tips about doing business with Dell. He has no particular problems with Dell, he just wanted to share some helpful tips for consumers looking to get the best deal. He includes info on getting the best deal from the website, different kinds of promotions the Dell offers, insider details



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List of oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world

And to think, America's only been around for about 400 years.



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nice introduction to bonds,stocks and mutual funds

A very good article on ways to invest money and becoming moderately wealthy.



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Jon Stewart: Don't they know we're recording all this stuff?

Another hilarious take: Stewart catches Tony Snow telling yet another series of lies about fired US attorneys. "Don't they know we're all recording this stuff?" he asked incredulously, before announcing a new segment on candidate websites, http.//.indecision.2008.net/clusterf@#k.html.



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Ten Surprising Nutrition Facts

"The American diet circa 2007 is a disaster - but positive change has begun. Those were the twin themes of the "Fourth Annual Nutrition and Health Conference" held in San Diego, Calif., May 14-16, 2007."



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Human Genome further Unravelled. Its far more Complex than first Thought

The study, which was carried out on just 1% of our DNA code, challenges the view that genes are the main players in driving our biochemistry. The Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements (Encode) study was a collaborative effort between 80 organisations from around the world.



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Nanotechnology Now Used In Nearly 500 Everyday Products

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world’s first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.



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Panel of Anonymous Doctors Tell of Mistakes / Deaths They've Caused

An interview with several anonymous doctors who tell of mistakes they've made and deaths that they have caused.



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Do You know Self-effacing People are Secretly Confident? Study reveals

No matter how meek they might appear, most people are endowed with the same self-confidence, new research reveals. For some, however, that confidence is buried deep inside. “A given person with high implicit [or inner] self-esteem may be outwardly self-promoting or may be outwardly very modest,” said study team member Anthony Greenwald



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Are you Lazy? How to Make Laziness Work for You!

You’re feeling lazy right now, and reading blogs instead of doing what you’re supposed to be doing. That’s OK — we all do that. But let’s look at how to make that laziness work for us, and how to turn lazy into productive.



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The Hottest Female Podcasters of 2007

Ever wanted to see some of the women behind your favorite podcasts? Make sure you don't check this link out while at work, things could get awkward!



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Thinking Outside the Design Box

Check out the work of 10 professionals working at the very edges of their disciplines in order to redefine their industries.



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How to: Get Safari's best features in Firefox

As we're all aware by now, Safari is now available for Windows. So the question is, is there any compelling reason you might want to switch from the venerable Firefox to Safari? To its credit, though, Safari does have several enviable features. Rather than suggesting anyone move, here's a list of it's best features and the matching FF extensions



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Hello, from the car in front

Researchers are turning cars into nodes that 'talk' to each other, forming a new type of wireless network. As cars enter the mobile network, drivers can download multimedia - including movies, images and songs - or get real-time information about traffic.



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Exclusive: Details on Justin.TV's Live Video System

The idea behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. The hardware behind the idea wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called up a friend, Kyle Vogt, to hand build version 1.0 from some off the shelf and homemade parts, a grip of EVDO cards, and some "borrowed" tools from MIT.



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ARS Technica's Do-It-Yourself Computer Building Guide

If your looking to build a custom PC soon you should definitely check out arstechnicas' PC building guide. In it they'll help you build any level of hardware from a 'Budget Box' to a 'Hot Rod' or for those with the cash a 'GOD MACHINE'.



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Fantastic New App That Syncs iTunes with ANY MP3 Player!

Do you have iTunes? Do you have an iPod? I have iTunes, I don’t have an iPod, but I wanted to be able to sync my MP3 player with iTunes, regardless of what brand it was… and so iTunes Sync was born. In just a few easy steps you can synchronize any iTunes playlist with any MP3 Player. It's like iTunes Agent on Steroids!



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HTML5 differences from HTML4

This document describes the differences between HTML4 and HTML5 and provides some of the rationale for the changes that have been made to the language.



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Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful | Smashing Magazine

Their beauty lies in the approach a designer has chosen to put something really unique inside of the 16×16px box. Designing favicons, it’s necessary to work with miniature images, and every extra pixel can be the wrong one. A good favicon is original, beautiful and - in best case - fits to the logotype and color schemes used in the web-site.



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11 Little Known Killer AdSense Tips You Wish You Knew Earlier

1 Place ads following the F (golden triangle, top-left) pattern, 2 Blend the links with your site, 3 Use a rectangle in top-left, with one paragraph over it, and a link block in the footer, 4 Use two blocks (not more) to get expensive ads, 5 Use alternative color switcher (special AdSense color code) to prevent ad blindness, 6 Read the post.



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How many people will pay the price for Bush and Ahmadinejad's tough talk?

Editorial in a Lebanese paper.



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101 Really Useful Websites

The net's not just about eBay and MySpace. The ingenious sites here can transform your life in the real world. Want to be first in line for gig tickets, find free parking or get paid to shop? It's all just a click away



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How to get rich in America: A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories

A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories: proof that you don't need a lot of money to make a go of it, but you do have to be smart about how you invest your energy.



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A Medical Marijuana Law Gains Momentum in New York

SCOOOORE!Following in the footsteps of Connecticut's Legislature, New York State lawmakers are expected to approve legislation allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes.



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The 25 Best Careers in 2007 - Is Yours One of Them?

U.S. News has sifted through trends in the economy and the workplace and has identified 25 professions that will be in growing demand as baby boomers age, the Internet becomes ubiquitous, and Americans seek richer, simpler lives.



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Scientists Demonstrate Best Way To Use Caffeine

Here is some useful news you can use. Morning "big gulp" coffee drinkers are misusing the power of caffeine.



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BREAKING: Top White House Officials Subpoenaed Over Attorney Scandal

Former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former top Karl Rove aide Sara Taylor, the White House political director who resigned last month, have been issued subpoenas over their connections to the U.S. attorney scandal.



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China Threatens War Over Bush Handshake

In an astounding development that has completely failed to register any attention amongst mainstream U.S. media, China promised to escalate preparations for war in advance of a potential conflict, after President Bush shook hands with a Taiwanese government official yesterday.



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Get Grandpa's FBI File

"Find out now by ordering a copy of their FBI files and learn a bit more about your family history. Best of all, it's free! (Well, except for the cost of a postage stamp.)"



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High-res Graphic: what happens to your body if you stop smoking right now.

A high res info-graphic of what happens to your body when you stop smoking. Free 24"x18" print-quality .pdf download available.



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The Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake

...and other such lake/island records, such as the largest island in a lake on an island. Maps and/or photos for each one.



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Shockingly Huge Wildlife Migration Discovered in Africa, What the Hell?

More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.



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See Your Car in a Crash and then again in Slow Motion - Over 150 Models

Ever wanted to see what your car would look like if a dummy drove it into a wall? Admit it, you think about it when you get a lousy trade-in price. Thankfully, there's the Consumer Reports Crash Test videos, where you can see how your car will hold up against things like short concrete walls and other typical objects found along a highway.



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Web Design-isms: 7 Surefire Styles that Work

Glossy buttons, ornamental backgrounds, futuristic interfaces. We’ve all been guilty at one time or another of committing the 7 design-isms in this article from Larissa Meek. But that’s okay, she tells us, they’re classics for a reason.



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Advanced use of Google Analytics and the new interface

This guide should help you find your way around the new system.



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40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS

Most of solutions are JavaScript- and AJAX-based, however we’ve also managed to find some lightweight CSS-based solutions. To install and use the script, it’s often enough to include the JavaScript library in the source code and provide the hint as plain text within the “title”-attribute. Sometimes you can also insert URLs, images, tables...



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The Best Commerical on YouTube and It’s Parody Hitting Huge Numbers

Madison Avenue ad agencies are finally opening their eyes to the power of YouTube. Check out the commercial that finally woke up the industry and have a little fun at their expense with a YouTubers take on it.



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15 of the Best CSS Zengarden Designs

"The CSS Zengarden is a great project and helped the web standards cause. Today I’m going to be taking a look back over the hundreds of submissions and choose some of my favorites."



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Frameworks for Designers

These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems like everyone is using some kind of framework to build their sites.



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Popular Science: RFID chips the size of pepper to protect Jewelry

Radio tags are getting small enough that they can protect Diamond Rings & Jewelry.



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The Results from Business 2.0's "Who Matters Now"

You voted, and now see the ranking of all these influential businesspeople today. Kevin Rose comes out at #2 and Jason Calacanis ends up at the bottom of the list.



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Santa Rosa comes to the Mac: a review of the 17" MacBook Pro

Intel's Santa Rosa Centrino Duo chipset makes its first appearance in an Apple portable with the latest MacBook Pro. Ars takes Apple's latest for a spin to see how much difference a slightly faster CPU and a new chipset make.



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How Google Earth Works

All the info behind the coolest mapping application to date.



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How to Format Images for Feed Readers

You’re probably accustomed to using image-handling CSS classes (like left, right, and center) on your own site, but at this time, the associated styles will not carry over into feed readers.



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Virtualize AND dual-boot the same Windows on your Mac

The problem with dual-booting Windows is the inconvenience of having to restart your Mac entirely. The problem with virtualizing Windows is that it can be unreasonably slow for a prolonged session. Now that Boot Camp and Parallels work together, you can choose between virtualizing or booting into your Windows depending on what you have to do.



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iPhone will require iTunes account to set up

Apple will require iPhone customers to have an active iTunes Store account, in order to set-up their device, the company has revealed.



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$120 Cheaper 8800 GTS 320MB Beats Up On $409 Radeon HD 2900 XT w/New Driver

HardOCP had hoped the newer ATI driver revisions would improve performance on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. Sadly the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is not even a match for even the much less expensive and much less power hungry 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS when it comes to real world gaming at 1600x1200 resolutions and above.



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100 Most Beautiful Women In the World According To Lesbians

"Let's face it: Maxim doesn't cater to lesbians. In fact, you could say it flies in the face of all that we hold dear, especially when it declares Lindsay Lohan the hottest of them all, as it did when it published The Maxim Hot 100 List last month. So we asked you, our readers, to create your own list of hotties" - Awesome



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"30 Days Of Night" Trailer Hits The Net

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction.



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CSS layouts "for those who want to start a css-driven website quick"

I placed a comment with a link to CSSeasy.com in another story and you're all digging it up so I thought it would be good to write a story about this simple site for people who want to start a css-driven website quick or for those people who want to start learning CSS by trial and error.



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25 Most Popular Blogs June 2007 (Ranked By 5 Traffic Data Sources)

A complete list of the top 25 most popular blogs ranked by a combination of Inbound Links (Yahoo Site Explorer), RSS Subscribers (Feedburner), Alexa Rank and Compete and Quantcast traffic data. The data gives you a real insight into these blogs success which will allow you to judge the relative success of your own blog.



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Essential HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP etc., via Marc Andreessen

There are a ton of free cheatsheets, quick references, and downloadable resources for programming languages and related technologies online -- in this post I've tried to organize and list some of the best for web development.



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iPhone Details from AT&T's Sales Training Workbook (Scans)

We've gotten copies of the full iPhone Training manual provided to AT&T employees that gives us a few more details about Apple's iPhone. This sales guide presents iPhone features and benefits, tips, comparisons, qualifying questions, and objectio...



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How to Track Digg Submittals By Username With Yahoo Pipes

How to video and instructions on using Yahoo Pipes to sort Digg frontpage stories via the Digg RSS feed by submitter.



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Which movie reviews should you believe? This site will tell you!

check out this quick little utility that will match you with the movie critic who's reviews are closest to your tastes... once you know who you should trust, you can focus on their reviews to get great recommendations for future movies.



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Hilton Ordered Back to Jail

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I Am Legend Trailer!

Will Smith's new vampire/end-of-the-world action flick is due to be released this December. And it looks pretty sweet.



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How much does a NY cabbie make? How about drug dealers or sex shop owners?

You can’t live in New York—arguably, you can’t spend an hour in New York—and remain oblivious to the machinery of profit pumping away under every surface. This city makes money, loses money, houses money; lately, with luxe condos stacking up like casino chips along the waterfront, the city looks like money.



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Just add water - students invent alcohol powder

Dutch students have developed powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors. The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gramme packets that cost 1-1.5 euros ($1.35-$2). Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.



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How the Presidents Stack Up - A Graphical Look at Approval Ratings

this takes you from Truman through Bush. It ws updated in 2006 so... It's rather surprising.



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Deep Hole Found on Mars (with Pic)

A very dark spot on Mars could be an entrance to a deep hole or cavern, according to scientists studying imagery taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The hole might be the sort of place that could support life or serve as a habitat for future astronauts, researchers speculated.



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Astronomers find most massive star ever discovered

This is really cool — astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and Hubble have discovered the most massive star ever found… and it’s a bruiser, weighing in at 114 times the mass of the Sun. This blows away the previously most massive known star, which had a mere 83 solar masses. Cripes. That’s a whopping huge star!



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An iPhone Insider's Hands-On & New Details

•"It does have email and it is already setup for AOL/GMAIL/HOTMAIL etc.. and you can use your own POP email address." more..



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How Mainstream Is Your Music?

The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.



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Porn 2.0 is stiff competition for pro pronographers

The adult industry has grown alongside the Internet for so many years, it may come as a surprise that it has suddenly hit a wall... at the whim of the Internet itself. Now, the industry is fighting to maintain growth.



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10 Things to Know When Starting A Facebook Application

By releasing a development platform, Facebook's enabled developers to create some amazing applications riding off their social network. It's not too hard to get an application of your own up and running, but it's nice to have some help, as the documentation's not complete. Here are a few tips to help you get started!



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Interactive paper, this stuff is amazing, and you've gotta see the video.

"The result looks and feels like paper but has electronic, interactive features," says Gulliksson. Changing a display is as simple as removing the two outer paper layers, and adding new ones that also connect to the power supply and electronics." You can even add printed speakers, too cool.



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Everything you ever wanted to know about video codecs.

Puts the nuts and bolts of the most popular video codecs under the microscope; then pits the codecs against eachother.



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20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches

For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine. There are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient.



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The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year

Lots of people ask about what it takes to write on a successful blog and one of the keys to it is to make your mistakes early on and learn from them fast. eMoms at Home offers 10 mistakes that were made the first year of blogging, the lessons learned and how she overcame them.



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Trent Reznor on 'Hurt': 'It's Not My Song Anymore'

Johnny Cash did a stark cover of this song with a striking video. In the video, the 71-year old Cash appears very fragile as he sings this from his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Cash wore no makeup, & there was no attempt to make him look younger. Trent Reznor was very impressed by Cash's take on his song & quite moved by the video (The Video)



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The contact lenses that could restore 20/20 vision

You wear lenses while you sleep, then wake up with perfect vision.



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Build your own server

"Have you wanted a full-functionality web-server, media host, bit-torrent client and NAS box, all fully remote-controlled? Want to build it out of spare parts? Well then..." The guys at bit-tech have their Linux guru explain a complete networking solution built from old junk. Contains scripts, step-by-step instructions and lots of pics.



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Apple Interview: Details on the New LED Macbook Pro

Apple's elves gave me more details about the Santa Rosa Macbook Pro. Here's some stuff you don't know about the revision.



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Talking paper made by scientists

Digital paper that can speak to you has been created by scientists. Researchers from Mid Sweden University have constructed an interactive paper billboard that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch.



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Tips on how to not get busted for file-sharing

Top tips on how to keep your identity safe from prying eyes and keep out unwanted visitors.



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A 10 minute tutorial for solving Math problems with Maxima

A practical tutorial for solving common high school and calculus problems with Maxima. It provides plenty of examples to get you started in no time.



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