Footage of a killer whale and great white shark going at it. Who do you think wins??
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March 31, 2007
NEWSWEEK: 91% of Americans believe in God, only 3% atheist
according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. Nine in 10 (91 percent) of American adults say they believe in God and almost as many (87 percent) say they identify with a specific religion. Christians far outnumber members of any other faith in the country, with 82 percent of the poll’s respondents identifying themselves as such. Just 3 percent of the publ
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Top 20 Historical Myths
Here are 20 of the most common historical myths, which have misled and misinformed people for years, decades, or centuries.
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Tweako: A Social News Site For Tutorials
Tweako is social news aimed at programmers that just launched a couple of hours ago. Tweako bears a similarity to Digg, but instead of news headlines the user submitted content is geared toward tutorials, guides, resources and services. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a Digg clone, but even if you did, a Digg clone for tutorials is a good idea.
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List Of The Most Beautiful Data Visualizations
This list brings up the most beautiful outpourings of information aesthetics. This is a symbiosis between creative design and information visualization: form follows data and evolves in such unique graphs that you can call them art.
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March 30, 2007
Cheap but Great Dates
I’m a single, college guy so how bout some articles on creative, free dates or something. I’m sure this could apply to married men as well.
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Ecstacy By Prescription!
The unapologetic hippies at 10 Zen Monkeys talk to a guy from MAPS about legal psychedelic research, and how MDMA has a good chance of becoming a mainstream pharmaceutical. Except that there's really no market for it (not taken in daily doses). Lots of other drugs are covered too, including pot, shrooms, LSD and ibogaine.
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GeekSquad Troubleshooting Guide Revealed!!
Ever wonder what the trained chimps at geek squad do? Here's the manual the Geek Squad uses to troubleshoot your computer when you bring it to Best Buy.Most of the stuff is pretty basic, "check for distended capacitors," "check for dust," "Run PC Doctor," "check for viruses and spyware." The manual seems to be from 2004.
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Help Spread The Word, And Get Your Name On The Digg Homepage!
While we are hard at work on several massive Digg features, we were able to crank out a little new friend invite feature. After your friends sign-up, Digg will display your name on the homepage as a recognition that you’ve added someone to the community. Your profile stats page will also display how many friend referrals you have completed.
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March 29, 2007
Cancer Researchers Accidentally Discover Why Hair Turns Gray
A report posted on the journal Science by the Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute traces the loss of hair color to the gradual dying off of adult stem cells, called melanocytes, that provide a reservoir for the renewal of pigment-manufacturing cells.
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How to look good when your recruiter googles you
"You were qualified, they could afford you, and they needed you. So why didn't they hire you? They didn't want to tell you, but your boss-to-be rejected you because of the best kegger of your senior year. She saw the photo with the sorority girl with -- is that a tattoo or a third nipple? -..."
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March 28, 2007
Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border.
Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. Get ready for some very high gas prices!!!
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Paving the Way for Memory Lane
Feeling like the absent-minded professor lately? Here are some memory-improving strategies to keep your brain sharp.
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Why Do We Sleep?
"How we long for a good night's sleep. More than 40 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep disorders, and this month, a National Sleep Foundation survey found that 60 percent of American women say they get enough sleep only a few nights a week (men weren't asked)..."
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"BLUE BRAIN": How scientists are simulating a brain, cell for cell
This unprecedented piece of hardware consists of about 10,000 computer chips that act like real nerve cells. To simulate a natural brain, part of the cerebral cortex of young rats was painstakingly replicated in the computer, cell by cell, together with the branched tree-like structure of the synapses.
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15 Javascript Snippets You Can't Live Without
"You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn't have to affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special."
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The Onion Launches The Onion News Network
The brilliant satirists at The Onion launched a new video series today called the Onion News Network. A send up of CNN, the ONN looks like a likely winner with anyone who likes the Daily Show, for example.
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The Seven Essential “Stations” Every Home Should Have
Great practical tips on organizing your home and family -- has stations for all your stuff when you come home, for wrapping gifts and mailing stuff, for donating stuff, and more.
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The Onion Launches The Onion News Network
The brilliant satirists at The Onion launched a new video series today called the Onion News Network. A send up of CNN, the ONN looks like a likely winner with anyone who likes the Daily Show, for example.
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March 27, 2007
Noob-friendly Tutorial to Flash Hitachi 078fk with Blaster360
"[They] have uploaded the first of [their] many new tutorials. [They] thought [they would] start off with the most talked about one - the Hitachi 078fk firmware update.
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People banned from SNL
Saturday Night Live's producers, especially Lorne Michaels, have famously and dramatically banned for life several celebrities from ever appearing on the television show. Reasons for these bans vary, as sometimes they can be seen as a rational response to a star's grossly inappropriate on-stage behavior, while at other times the reasons are . . .
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I bared all to prove nude pics were fakes
Supermodel Vida Guerra has decided to pose nude for men's magazine, Playboy, to demonstrate that her naked photographs on the internet are fake.
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New Trailer for "28 Weeks Later"
Eradication. Sterilization. Re-population. Re-infection...It all begins again.
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The Geek's Travel Guide: 26 Online Apps to Help Plan Your Trip
"Tech savvy travelers can use online apps to make sure they are getting the best gas prices in every city, find the classic rock station in every town along their route, have a reserved parking space when they arrive at their destination, and even sign up for a program that lets them text message other cars using just their license plate number."
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Underrated Web 2.0 Search Engine
This search engine grabs results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It also allows you to develop your own widgets and algorithms based on your searches. You can put weight into domain age, Alexa rank, del.icio.us links, and even whether or not it hit the Digg front page.
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Are Private BitTorrent Trackers Safe?
There is a statement you'll often see on p2p forums, and in IRC channels. It usually comes in a discussion about “getting caught” or “letters been sent” and it goes something like “the safest thing is to join a private site.
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30 Stunning One-Page Websites You Should See
Who said websites need more than one page ? The one page website can be very effective - especially when used as a portfolio website as they let the site take a back seat and let the work shine through. Here we take a look at some examples of the best one-pagers ….
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Why a $100 XBox can be better than the Apple TV
Apple TV certainly has its uses, but the original XBox is easier to hack, cheaper, and has much more support from the hacking community right now than Apple TV. If you've not looked into XBMC, it's absolutely worth it.
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PICTURES : Most Dangerous Roads in the World, Part 3
"Since our last installment in this highly popular series (Magnificient Tunnel Road, November 2006) we have received many tips and pictures of the roads that are no less intimidating, and in some cases just as dangerous."
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10 CSS Tips to Make Your Life Easier
This article shares 10 CSS tips to help make your web development life easier.
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March 26, 2007
Color matching sphere (Great for people that need color schemes)
It matches colors that fit well together. This is really helpful when designing anything. You can pick a color that you want to use, then it will give you colors that go good with it.
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popuri.us: check your site popularity
A quick, simple yet effective AJAX based tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc)...
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New artist talent for KDE
The Oxygen project is an impressive example for the artist skills some people of the KDE project have. Now a newcomer came up to help the Kalzium project and showed his first drawings which are of a high quality.
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Low Start-up Costs Make Launching a Web Business Easy
Ten years ago, starting a web-based business would have cost roughly $5 million to $10 million just to get the technology, such as servers and a fleet of software developers, before an entrepreneur could get an Internet company off the ground. Today, about $125 and your free time.
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March 25, 2007
Colbert Dares Democrats to Impeach Bush
Colbert doesn't think issuing subpoenas is enough. On last night's Report, Stephen challenged Democrats, saying that if they really want to go toe-to-toe with President Bush they should grow some balls.
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The Office(US) -- New Video!
Listen up Office fans! A funny & sweet look back and never seen footage of what's to come! Will Roy really kill Jim? Can't Wait! The Office returns April 5th of this year.
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Lightning Strike - Upclose
I captured this lightning strike yesterday (23rd march 2007). It was just across the road in a parking lot. The funny thing is, I was pointing the camera in the same direction at the time of the strike. I just wish I kept the camera still, but I guess its a normal reaction to something so sudden.
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Shooting star in mexico. brilliant video!!
looks absolulty perfect you can clearly see the shooting star across with an orange sky a must watch!!
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Carl Sagan: toking astronomer says what everyone else is afraid to
"I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, un-available to us without such drugs."
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How to Design Your Own Home
"If you've already decided to design as much of your home as you can without the help of an architect, this planning scenario takes you through the beginning steps required to gather the information, resources and examples necessary to enable you to design your own home."
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Apple.com profiles South Park Studios
Today on Apple's Pro site, find about the South Park's rendering process and what software and hardware is used to create the show.Direct Apple.com link: http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/southpark/
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Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen in Real Life
A few people have put together the classic Calvin and Hobbes snowmen in real life. Here's a collection of photos of those snowmen placed side by side with the cartoons they were based on.
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Assesing the harm of illegal drugs
A new study in The Lancet has come up with a rational and scientific scale for drugs based on their actual levels of harm.
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10 Things You Never Knew About SEX
1. The typical lovemaking session lasts around 15 minutes: roughly 10 to 12 minutes of foreplay and around 3 to 5 minutes of intercourse.2....
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Drugs and Toxicity: "The least toxic drug known to humans is now illegal."
The least toxic drug known to humans is now illegal. The most toxic is available at Safeway. None of this makes any sense at all. And yet we continue to imprison people for ingesting substances far less harmful than others freely available. One has to wonder what the prohibitionists are smoking. Maybe nutmeg.
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Focal Length and Aperture Explained for the Photography Novice
The focal length of a lens determines its angle of view, and also how much the subject will be magnified for a given photographic position. The aperture range of a lens refers to the amount of light that the diaphragm can let inside the camera to reach the sensor. Here are some pictures explaining this functions very clear.
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13 Applications to Install on Ubuntu/Linux running on Slow Computer
This article helps install some light weight applications on Ubuntu Desktop to perform common tasks like Word Processing , making Spread Sheet , File Manager , Audio Playing , PDF viewing , Light Search tools (Meta Tracker ), Light weigh eye candy(aDesklets),Web Browser ,XFCE and more to make Ubuntu more responsive on less feature rich computer
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What Should You Expect from Ubuntu 7.04
New installer with Windows migration and new partitioning tools. I think most of the Windows users who are thinking to give Ubuntu a try this April, have their eyes pointed on "Windows migration" words right now and I should let them know that Ubuntu can now migrate Firefox bookmarks, wallpapers, Internet Explorer favorites, Yahoo Messenger and ...
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