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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January 26, 2007
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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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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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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