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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