scratchings: January 21, 2007

January 26, 2007

Isaac Hayes blasts "South Park", denies Scientology was the reason he left

Despite the wishes of his fans, Isaac Hayes will not be returning to "South Park," where he contributed his basso profundo to the character Chef. "I just moved on," Hayes told The NY Post. Hayes said the big reason he left the show last year was, "They didn't pay me enough." And, "They weren't that nice."

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A killer Aeriel photo of the USS Iowa firing its big guns.

You've got to see this, it's pretty amazing. And I don't use that word lightly on Digg. Just check out the shockwave over that water, too cool.

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Guy gets Forgotten Cannabis Sent Back from Hotel

Hotel used the "V.I.P. channel" to send it to him! Can anyone use that?

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10 Amazing Things You Didn't Know about Animals

From whale nipples to elephant smarts, a host of wild surprises.

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NASA to Slam Rocket into the Moon (on Purpose)!

NASA has bold and visionary plans to send humans to the Moon by 2020 where humans will learn to live and work on another planetary body in our Solar System. But before we get there NASA really needs to know if there is lunar water that we might be able to use – and to help answer that question, NASA is going to slam a rocket into the Moon!

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Quitting Smoking May Be Harder If Mom Smoked During Pregnancy

Quitting smoking may be more difficult for individuals whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, according to animal research conducted by Duke University Medical Center researchers.

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Ancient Turkish site to be destroyed for dam building

The Allianoi archaeological site could soon be underwater if authorities carry out their plans to flood a newly constructed reservoir. Constructed during the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian during the second century AD, only 20% of Allianoi has been excavated and "is in an absolutely astonishing state of preservation."

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URL Fixer: Firefox extension automatically corrects common URL typos

URL Fixer is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com -asking first, if you enable confirmation. (via DownloadSquad and LifeHacker)

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Your New iTunes PC! Listen and Share your Apple iTunes Music from ANYWHERE!

The "beta" version of the Avvenu Music Player lets you share up to 250 songs. When you choose playlists from your PC to share, the playlists and songs are automatically copied to Avvenu's secure media center for reliable, streaming playback. Once your songs and playlists are copied to Avvenu ’s media center, you don't even have to leave your PC powe

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Windows Vista Performance Tests

Since Vista's public betas began to circulate, there have been rumors and evidence of decreased performance under Vista as compared to Windows XP. And here's the proof: TechGage compares the results of several demanding benchmarks on the same machine. When it comes to Windows Vista, should performance junkies keep their wallets in their pockets?

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Forbes Thinks Web Photographers Don't Matter

...On the other hand, where they lifted photos from the amateurs they used photos in violation of their license. Of the all of the non Getty photos that they used not a single credit was given.

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Rumor Smashed - Iphone Will Not Come With 1.5 Year Contract

Sad, I might have bought one.

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Coolest Creative Photos You Will See Today (LITERALLY)

Its amazing what you can do with a camera and a creative imagination!

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How to host your iTunes library on Amazon S3

Using JungleDisk, a free app for Windows and Mac, Matt mounts his S3 drive on any net-connected computer and listens away. This seems like a good solution for those who don't want to stream iTunes from their home computer, but Matt says, streaming tunes over the 'net can "make your music may not sound as immediate as if it was on your local drive.

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What software slows Windows down the most?

This guy did a cool test and if you have Norton on your PC, you might want to take a look at this. Norton slows down the computer so much it was mind boggling. I always knew Norton was a hog, but this is ridiculous.

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Google - Build Your Campus in 3D Competition

Today the Build Your Campus in 3D Competition begins. This spring, you and your (presumably equally artistic) friends can honor your campus turf as you hone your 3D design skills just by modeling your school's campus buildings in Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in Google Earth, and submit them through the competition website to earn lasting...

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More Casinos Blame Software 'Glitch' And Not Pay Out Big Prizes

A new casino in Pennsylvania had a slot machine tell a player that he had won $102,000, supposedly "the big jackpot" of the day. Various casino staff came up and congratulated him, until someone else came over and offered him two free meal coupons, saying that the jackpot message was a software glitch. Bastards.

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Amazing HDR Image of Chicago Nightscape

This is what happens with $4000 camera, the Chicago skyline at night, and an HDR lens. Unlike the Tokyo version this looks just as stunning full size.

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Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and Much More

200 hand-picked references to Ajax, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML, ASP, C++, Perl, Python and Java tutorials. Handy and useful.

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Graphic Design Hero: Tells off Craigslist

This disgruntled designer puts the God's honest truth down for all to read.

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January 25, 2007

Do You Know Who Is Actually Creating All Those Games You Play??

We all know that Square Enix makes the Final Fantasy games or that or that Capcom makes the Resident Evil games, right? Well, not exactly. One game development studio -- one the biggest in the world, actually -- has secretly been behind a lot of the games you've played. And you've likely never even heard of it.

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Ohio election workers convicted of rigging ’04 presidential recount

Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio’s most populous county.

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Fun Facts About The End of the World: Cults & Religions' Different Views

Whether it ’s two billion years from now, when the Sun will no longer provide enough heat to support life on earth, or two hours from now in a nuclear holocaust, life on earth will inevitably come to an end. All religious traditions grapple with this fact. Here’s what they’ve come up with so far

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Making a Message Board in PHP: A Tutorial

This is a tutorial describing in detail how to code your own message board using purely PHP and MySQL.

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LEAKED PICTURES: MOTORIZR Z8

'Sorry we don't yet have any hard info on this thing, but you know what a front-facing camera means, right? Say hi to the 3G MOTORIZR (or RIZR, if you will), the Z8."

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A Day at Digg

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8 Technologies That Can Save The World

1. Home Hydrogen Fueling Station 2. Environmental Sensor Networks 3. Toxin-Eating Trees 4. Nuclear Waste Neutralizer 5. Autonomous Ocean Robots 6. Sonic Water Purifier 7. Endangered-Species Tracker 8. The Interactive, Renewable Smart Power Grid

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URL Fixer: Firefox extension automatically corrects common URL typos

Worlds Greatest Macro Photographer.

The man calls himself "Lord V"....and he is the finest Macro photographer I have ever seen anywhere on this planet. His full gallery is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/ Prepare to be awestruck.

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10 Unconvential Diet Tips: How to Lose 50 Pounds in Three Months

Author: "The following are 10 unconventional weight loss tips that worked for me. Between January 4, 2006 and March 31, 2006 I lost fifty pounds. These tips work well because almost every tip is focused around completing a small goal."

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20 Hottest Gadgets From the Consumer Electronics Show

"This year's Consumer Electronics Show included plenty that was new, significant, or just plain bizarre -- we selected the best of it for our multimediatastic gallery of what CES had to offer."

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CNN: Ray gun makes targets feel as if they are on fire

The military's new weapon is a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they will catch fire. The technology is supposed to be harmless -- a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons. Military officials say it could save the lives of civilians and service members in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

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iTunes + Netflix = Cancel Cable?

A blogger over at ZDNet realized that he could cancel part of his cable, order his shows on iTunes, watch movies on Netflix and save $300 a year.

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January 24, 2007

Virtual Knee Surgery

Fun/educational game where you do surgery on a mans knee. This is an animation so anyone with a weak stomach can play also.

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Xbox360 2858 to 1888 Kernel 'Downgrade' Confirmed, not working with 4552+

Robinsod confirmed his hack to downgrade the kernel of an Xbox360 from 2858 (or lower) to the 1888 'Base Kernel' by being able to boot the 'Kiosk disc' from recordable media (which is blacklisted in kernel 2858). However it was discovered kernel 4552 and above can't be downgraded anymore, probably because Microsoft blew eFuses in the CPU.

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Indie labels combine to form a "virtual fifth major"

Independent music labels from around the world joined forces this week to create a virtual record label that can compete with the Big Four, and they've already signed a deal with SNOCAP to sell music on MySpace.

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Breaking: Senate blocks minimum wage hike

On a vote of 54-43, Democrats fell six short of the 60 needed to end debate and go to passage of the House-passed measure, which would raise the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour from $5.15 per hour over two years.

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The Metal in the Penny is worth 5 cents. Start hoarding those pennies

Nickel and Zinc used to make each penny is worth 5 cents. Government worried about shortage in near future.

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Obama comes out swinging against Fox News

After the Fox News false report on Obama attending a Madrassa as a child, Obama decides he's not putting up with it and rips the station a new one.

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Diebold Posts Image of Master Key to Website; Hackers Make Real Master Key

In what has got to be both the stupidest move by Diebold and the most hilarious hack ever, Princeton students take an image of the master key to the Diebold voting boxes on the Diebold website and use it to create a real master key that will open any Diebold voting box. Clever.

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Mitch Hedberg on That 70's Show

Mitch's guest appearance on That 70's Show...

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How to fake a Web 2.0 logo

Design Web 2.0 graphics the easy way.

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I Got My Job in SecondLife

People are getting hired in SecondLife without ever meeting in person. Who needs a FirstLife if it pays the bills.

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Choosing the Right Sunglasses for Your Face Type

These tips must not be taken as rules but they can help you to choose your right sunglasses.Very useful !!!

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Photo: Japanese Engineer invents Star Wars "AT-ST Scout Walker"

Masaaki Nagumo, an engineer at Japan's machinery maker Sakakibara Kikai, gets into a 3.4-metre tall, two-legged robot called Land Walker for a demonstration as part of an art exhibition. Looks like a prototype Star Wars "AT-ST Scout Walker" or some kind of small Mech.

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One Hacker Kit Accounts For 71% Of Attacks

A multi-exploit hack pack was responsible for nearly three-fourths of all Web-based attacks during December. Tagged with the moniker "Q406 Roll-up," the attack kit was behind 70.9% of last month's attacks, reported Atlanta, Ga.-based Exploit Prevention Labs. Up to a dozen different exploits make up the kit...

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HOT TIP - Always pay your designer in a timely manner

or at least remember to change the password before you shaft them.

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New schizophrenia treatment possible

Canadian researchers have discovered a dopamine signaling complex in the brain that might lead to a new treatment for schizophrenia.

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Nobel Prize genius was on LSD when he discovered the secret of life

Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalize-Cannabis group. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling for a reform in the drugs laws.

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The world doesn't trust the US - at all.

LONDON, Jan. 23 -- Global opinion of U.S. foreign policy has sharply deteriorated in the past two years, according to a BBC poll released on the eve of President Bush's annual State of the Union address.

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The Moon over the Beach that looks Like the SUN! [pic]

This is the moon and not the sun! when it started to come up it was totally red and then became orange (which was at the time I took this shot) and then turned to white/blue when it was higher in the sky.

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Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall to Nixon's Level (Actual Headline)

"Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's approval ratings are now the lowest for any president the day before a State of the Union speech since Richard Nixon in 1974, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll."

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Google Gets 1,000,000 Applicants a Year, Denies 99.5%

In 2006 they hired approximately 5,000 new employees, a small percentage out of a total 1,000,000 applicants. Here is a portion from the CNN Alina Cho story. Must be nice to be able to pick the best and brightest from 1,000,000 applicants each year.

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Detailed illustrations made entirely with words

This took A LOT of work on somebody's part. Full, detailed illustrations made entirely of the words used to describe objects. Words, ironically, can't describe these sketches better than looking at them. Check it out!

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$8,685,890,924,101.29 our national debt

This is by far not my favorite national debt clock, but your share as a family of 3 is $57,708.86 for Breadwinner(s) in Family of 3 (snapshot 1/23/07). How did the General Fund (gross national debt) end up $8 trillion in the hole? Tax cuts and spending increases--largely military spending increases, plus there is a little debt left over from WWII.

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January 23, 2007

Setting Up A News-Voting Website With Pligg

This article shows how to set up your own news-voting website with Pligg. Pligg is a content-management system published under the Affero General Public License, and it is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storing its data. With a little work you can create your own community and let users vote news to the front page.

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The Pixar Story: George Lucas, Steve Jobs, Dick Shoup, Alex Schure, Disney

Steve Jobs still wasn't terribly interested in what was happening at Pixar, but as November 22 neared, he perked up. At a Disney gala in New York, hosted by Rudy Giuliani, Jobs was witness to the dramatic reactions to Pixar's stunning work. He soaked up praise as the night wore on

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101 Free Games: The list is live

If you're tired of being burned by piles of $60+ games and just want to relax this Sunday, playing something for a lot less money, this list is for you. Here's an idea of what the staff of Games for Windows has put together for the discerning gamer:

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free: xbox live diamond card

a little card that's free for all gold members of xbox live. it gives discounts on some everyday items you buy, like Micky D's and other cool stuff. another little reason why xbox 360 is king of the this generation. why the hell not, its free!

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Blizzard: Next MMO "not another WOW"

After hinting at new Diablos and Starcrafts, Itzik Ben Bassat says his company's next MMO game will be more "innovative" than its current cash cow; WOW movie still in development.

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Crackdown demo finally available on Xbox Live !

It's time for a Crackdown. Download the Crackdown demo today - featuring both single player and online cooperative play. Gold only for 1 week.

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"Ghost in the Shell" live-action movie one step closer to reality

The Japanese animation company Production I.G. has acquired the rights from publisher Kodansha to sell the animated SF film Ghost in the Shell for a live-action remake. Kodansha published the Ghost in the Shell manga by Masamune Shirow in 1989. Production I.G. then made it into a cult hit animated feature in 1995.

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Announced! Here are the OSCAR nominations for 2007

The peppy musical "Dreamgirls" led Academy Awards contenders Tuesday with eight nominations, but surprisingly was shut out in the best picture category for which it had been considered a potential front-runner. The sweeping ensemble drama "Babel" was close behind with seven, including best picture and acting honors for two newcomers...

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Ten big mistakes people make when trying to improve their credit score

You can hurt your own credit score pretty badly just by trying to improve things. This is a list of things you can do to battle the draconian practices of companies like Experian and beat them at the credit score game.

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Interview with an LA Medical Marijuana Cardholder

my favorite part- What is the best/worst thing about having a medical marijuana card? The best thing is always having the best weed. The worst thing is spending all my money on always having the best weed.

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I created a woman so beautiful she made me melt

Your hyper-attractive face will actually be made by a very clever web site run by two psychologists. You ’ll help by choosing the “ingredients” (a few or many faces), and the program averages them into a final product. This averaging process downplays imperfections and results in exquisite symmetry.

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SNL - Weekend Update: Really!?! with Seth & Amy

Seth and Amy have some questions for Michael Vick in this new Weekend Update segment. The funniest thing on SNL since D*ck in a Box.

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Mindblowing list of Full Length Documentaries

Very intense list of full length documentaries, online for your viewing pleasure

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Absolute, worst American idol audition EVER: Bohemian rhapsody

The following is possibly the worst audition ever for American idol. You know that high pitch ringing in your ears after a concert? Take that and put it to the tune of Bohemian rhapsody and you have the worst audition ever.

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Conan Shoots Colbert, Very Near the Heart

Typical East-Coast, Ivy League educated response.

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LA Times Confirms RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE reunion for Coacehlla

Direct link here: LINK. Digg said that was an invalid link for some reason. Submitting bug report... anyway, RAGE! I'm excited.

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The Food Network is now running McDonalds subliminal advertisements.

I was watching the end of today's Iron Chef and noticed the screen quickly blink red. A few seconds later I start thinking, "Was that the McDonalds logo...?" Thanks to the magic of my Dish Network DVR, I rewind, and put it in to slow motion. Sure enough, Food Network is running subliminal advertisements for Micky D's!!!

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A Ton Of New Images From Spiderman 3!

New Images from Spiderman 3!

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O'Reilly, Colbert Both See Ratings Spike On "Showdown Day"

Both Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert saw substantial boosts in their respective ratings as a result of last Thursday's heavily-hyped showdown. Colbert's presence gave O'Reilly a 67% boost in viewers age 25-54 for the evening, with a 46% increase among total viewers. Colbert, meanwhile, saw a 50% increase compared to fourth quarter averages.

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"I TAKE ILLEGAL DRUGS FOR INSPIRATION" - Susan Blackmore

The famous British psychologist and scientist Susan Blackmore is speaking about her experiments with illegal substances and promoting the stance that calls for legalization of all drugs.

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HOW TO: Get all the tech news you need (in 20 minutes a day)

The tech industry is huge and ungainly, but it's not impossible to get a grasp of its daily news. There are ways to deeply understand tech through hours of reading per day, but for the busy pro with only 20 minutes for tech news, use the following daily process.

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January 22, 2007

37 professional photoshop tricks that take less that 2 minutes to do

a compendium of advanced photoshopping techniques. each can be performed simply in 120 seconds.

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howto: .htaccess Based Authentication On Subdirectories

.htaccess is used to provide facility of changing configuration per directory basis, this file can contain one or more directives that are going to be forced on the directory that contains the.htaccess file.

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Google finds Digg stories Faster than Digg

Finding your old stories with Digg’s Search vs. Google. Guess who wins?

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The Power of Food Blogging

Food bloggers, and the power they're having over restaurants and food culture, are making a huge change in the amount of power normal people have over food. "Nowadays, with the advent of the food blog, the nobodies no longer need a champion. At the click of a button, the nobodies can champion themselves."

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The Mystery of Consciousness

You exist, right? Prove it. How 100 billion jabbering neurons create the knowledge--or illusion--that you're here.

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Myers-Briggs Personality Test

Online test based on Carl Jung's personality types.

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Top 20 scientific myths of all time.

1. Chickens can live without a head 20. It takes seven years to digest gum ETC.

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Become a Babe Magnet with this simple photo tip

Using photo's paired with and without women in them raises the attractive ratings of men based on this study

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How do people come up with these crazy Web 2.0 names

Flabbr, Glabbr, Bebo, Jipo, rutmug, blutplug. This is where it all comes from

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How to achieve a better client > designer relationship

A post from a designer’s point-of-view on how the perfect client > designer relationship should be, and how to achieve closerness to client utopia.

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New Startup booBox Has Serious Cash Potential For Blogs

A startup called booBox allows bloggers and other websites to sell items from Amazon and other etailers directly from their websites, without actually leaving the blog/website. Clicking on an image in the blog simply brings up a lightbox with the item on Amazon. Readers can then go through the checkout process and return to the original site.

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Technical Difficulties at Times Square(pic)

The largest BIOS screen you'll ever see.

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The Leonardo Da Vinci Notebook purchased by Bill Gates

"I was so surprised when I read in a blog of Bill Gates, the richest man in the world had purchased a very old notebook. Bill Gates paid $30.8 Million dollars for this Fifteenth century notebook of Leonardo Da Vinci's. The notebook is some 72 pages of all his thoughts and ideas and scientific ideals on gravity, refraction and even biology."

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Next-gen MacBook Pro to feature significantly brighter backlit display

A forthcoming update to Apple's MacBook Pro line will usher in a generation of more vibrant and uniformly-colored notebook displays thanks to some new underlying backlight technology. Confirming an earlier but widely discounted report, faithful industry sources say the new pro-oriented systems will mark the start of a gradual transition.

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How to become a web designer

Finally a full guide on how to be a perfect web designer. Maybe now some people will actually develop some good skills. I can only pray. God be with you.

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The Fake Ads Generator

The Ad Generator is a simple site that ’s kind of fun to watch. The site uses words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans and remixes them to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from Flickr to generate fake advertaisments.

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10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know

10 things you (probably) didn ’t know about PHP A few obvious items in this list, but a number of gems too. Even PHP experts should take a quick look—there ...

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GoDaddy-SECOND denied superbowl commercial (VIDEO!)

GoDaddy got denied again, watch the video and you'll see why...

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How to solve Rubik's Cube

The world's most famous puzzle, simultaneously beloved and despised for it's beautiful simple complexity, the Rubiks Cube has been frustrating gamers since Erno Rubik invented it back in 1974.

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How Digg Works! Courtesy of HowStuffWorks

The folks at HowStuffWorks.com attempt to explain the world of Digg.

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Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part I - Level the volume

If you've been playing the MP3 game for more than a few years, you've probably amassed a library that's both sizable and eclectic. It's probably a bit messy, too, with inconsistent volume levels, missing or incorrect album art and messed-up metadata. Fortunately, these problems aren't difficult to correct. Let's start with volume leveling.

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January 21, 2007

Top 5 Most Creative Uses for the Mac Mini

The sheer size of the Mini alone allows for some pretty clever mods, as seen here. Check out the guy who made it into a portable office in his DeLorean!

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Overclocking Guide Part 3: How To Gain 81% For $27

"We did a risk to benefit analysis, considered some of the best values in overclockable platforms, and now we're ready to "do the deed": pushing a low-cost Core 2 Duo system to its maximum performance level."

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Got a Mazda 3? It can be broken into by just punching the passenger door.

You should probably get that checked out ASAP. The sad part is, Mazda has known about this for some time now. Numerous people report missing items but no signs of a break-in. Canadian website MobileMag.com got the skinny from an anonymous Mazda dealer that if one hits the passenger door hard in just the right spot it will open right up.

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Skype to launch domestic calling plans

The Internet phone service Skype is introducing new domestic calling plans for 24 countries, plus Hong Kong, where users will pay a monthly subscription and a connection fee but no per-minute charges.

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Flying manta ray boat raft toy lets you actually fly

Someone made a toy manta ray raft that you can attach to the back of a boat. Once he boat reaches high enough speeds it becomes air born and you can fly around at about 30 feet in the air or more. Looks dangerous in the video but fun as heck.

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Thermal Images of a Macbook, Xbox 360, and 38" HDTV

A FLIR Systems P65HS thermal camera was used to view a black, non-upgraded Macbook before and after yes > /dev/null was run for 5 minutes. The Macbook battery gets hot... 113-116 degrees Fahrenheit.

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The coolest 10 keyboards ever made

The title says it all.

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Online Image Editors Compared - Comparision Chart

A not uncommon request my web team receives is to do some sort of simple image editing for a staff member. I also sometimes hear that someone is getting Photoshop installed so that they can edit images and add them to their intranet site themselves. Full Article: http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000267.html

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CRAZY cool javascript : Edit whatever you want on ANY page : Images, Text.

This is cool! GO to any web page, clear the address bar, and paste this: "javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0" (without the quotes) and hit enter. Feel free to edit whatever you want on the page!

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Building a Simple Search Engine with PHP

A little while ago, I was working on an intranet site for a mid-sized company. As the site grew in both size and popularity, the assigner requested me to extend the site with a search feature. Since one of the rules of the intranet was that all logic code should be written in-house, using an existing open source engine was not an option.

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Copy music from iPod to your computer [freeware]

YamiPod will let you finally get rid of iTunes. The KILLER feature. You can copy music from iPod to your computer, bye bye stupid DRM rules that do not let me copy music i bought from my iPod to another computer (at work for example) Works on mac/linux/windows

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