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HOWTO: Five steps to a more secure SSH

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If you are running Linux, chances are you are running SSH. Here are five easy things you can do to lock down your server and make SSH more secure. Includes disabling root logins, using keys to login, automatically blocking hosts who are attempting dictionary attacks, and more.

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Extreme Engineering - Ski lift goes through the mountain

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To help skiers/boarders get to the top of the mountain during windy days when the main tram cannot be run, Snowbird has installed 2 new ski lifts. One is a standard high speed lift that runs 8,000 ft and the other is a conveyor lift that takes you to the top of the mountain, through a tunnel dug into the mountain itself, check it out.

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100 million year old bee found

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Scientists found a 100 million year old bee trapped in amber. This is the premise of the Jurassic Park movies.

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While Microsoft and partners will be talking about Vista in advance of the launch of that product at CES, Apple, along with Intel, will be launching Apple's version of the Media Center with iTV and Leopard. That's right -- Leopard.

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The Dilbert Blog: Bad Day at Work

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Slashdot | Nine Reasons To Skip Firefox 2.0

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Very funny! These guys at Piratebay Fear No one!

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Windows Live Barcode Launches

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No this isn't an April Fool's joke. Windows Live Barcode enables users to store their own data in QR codes, which are already present on Spaces for markets like Japan.

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This is the most comprehensive list of mac freeware I have ever seen.

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Imagine the surprise of pulling into your local Shell station to find your car surrounded by a Ferrari pit crew led by Michael Schumacher! Find out what happens to a Shell customer in this unique, hidden-camera video!

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Shelter bans black cat adoptions during Halloween - CNN.com

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Yes, I am linking to a Blog again, but it is only because Boing Boing offers a very good coverage of the whole story unfolding right now. Read on about that "fake boarding pass guy".

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Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a fiery appearance today on the Situation Room.

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DO NOT ENTER ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THIS SITE. It is a fraudulent site and Firefox knows it. Open this link in the new Firefox 2.0 to see the anti fraud protection in action.

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Hacking NetFlix : The New Netflix "Billion" Commercials

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The man who sold the idea of drafting Albert Pujols was fired in 2003 by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2003 and now works at Wal-Mart stocking shelves.

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"True...so very true": Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gives Steve Jobs credit as the driving force behind the conception of Apple, but he doesn't think Jobs would have met with success if it hadn't been for him

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Archiving and Compression

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Although the differences are sometimes made opaque in casual conversation, there is in fact a complete difference between archiving files and compressing them. This article helps you out with the both archiving and compressing your files.

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This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.

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This one is going to shift some votes. Despite the fact that Katie Couric tilts the CBS Evening News to the right, this was a compelling interview that will move any person who saw it. Thank you Rush Limbaugh for making this an issue.

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Fried Coca-Cola Debuts in Texas

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Texas Music - Generations

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Mac OS X on AMD legally, maybe

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This picture, of course, is not legal, but another intrepid engineer is braving the wrath of Apple Computer with what he believes is a legitimate use of OS X on non-Mac hardware. Despite the fact that other OSx86 projects have been shut down, a kernel enthusiast has gone ahead and rolled his own Tiger.

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Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will want to use it.So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all. There's no

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The Dilbert Blog: Almost 60 Minutes Material

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A few members of the TWiT Army have brought you what TWiT could not this week. The result- The TWiT Army Netcast! Topics include the iPod 5 year anniversary, DVD Jon strikes back, the new browser releases, an of course what's going on over at TWiT. The final question is to every TWiT listener- Why do we listen?

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Very funny picture

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I don't even know how to describe this, just too funny.

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A roadblock made of two automatic cylinders that pop out of the street are used to give passage to buses and assigned vehicles. Unless you have your pass, do not try to follow them or else you will suffer the same fate.

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Boobkini - The Invisible Bikini (Not work safe)

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The japanese have invented what just may be the greatest invention of all time. A waterproof adhesive bikini that actually looks like the real deal. Coming to a beach near you!

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Three-year-old Robert Moore went fishing for a stuffed replica of Sponge Bob and ended up trapped in a vending machine.

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13 Foods That Kill

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And you may be eating some of them already.

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How To Make a Great Cup of Coffee

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Think you know how to make a great cup of coffee? Think again. It's all about the best beans, a careful roast and optimal brewing.

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The Dilbert Blog: Good News Day

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Dog pee caused mass blackout

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A shocked Gary Davies saw his dog erupt in flames after it peed on a live power cable. Bailey the Staffordshire bull terrier also cut power to 148 homes by cocking a leg against a faulty pylon.

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An amazing picture of the Space Shuttle, launching from Florida, as seen out the window of the International Space Station. A must see!

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waiterrant.net » Bread and Circuses

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Only the bloodshot white of his left eye gives any sign of how close Richard Hammond came to death after crashing a jet car at 288mph. Speaking for the first time of the horror smash just 33 days ago, the Top Gear star and Mirror columnist said: "I was upside down inhaling a field. My nose and eyes were full of earth. I'd gone ploughing on my head.

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The Dilbert Blog: Top the Cynic

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The Dilbert Blog: Quitting Iraq

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Newsvine - YouTube Purges 30,000 Copyright Files

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Mini-Microsoft: Ba-Da-????

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Article that explains how to setup DirecTV at a football tailgate.

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Beating Speed Monitoring Cameras

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This video proves those speed monitoring cameras can in fact be beat. Its ironic that the only way to beat them is to exploit the very thing they are trying to prevent.

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A nice photo and brief capsule about the donation of two computers to a nursery and breakfast/after-school club in Lincolnshire, England. "The kids absolutely love them; most are from underpriviledged backgrounds and many of them have never used a computer before."

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Microsoft Ticked off at Apple for Blaming them for iPod Virus

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"That Apple would blame Microsoft demonstrates a lack of understanding of remedial security and manufacturing processes. Virus was only a symptom of the problem. Apple didn't know what they were shipping," Abrams said

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The iPhone is a black device that is nearly featureless on the front...The most remarkable feature of the iPhone is the display is breathtaking as it emerges from behind what appears to be black plastic. The whole front with exception to a couple of millimeters along the edges of the iPhone are touch sensitive...

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One guy in england decided to slowly overhaul his 1972 Voxel Vectra, not what most people would think as a mean machine. What he ended up with was a 9.3 liter v8, 2200 horsepower beast that can go from 0-60 in ONE second. And its street legal!

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It's remarkably easy to hack LEDs into Lego minifigures to make awesome, creepy, and tiny decorations for Halloween. In what seems like a miraculous coincidence, a standard LED fits exactly into the head of a Lego minifigure. It's that easy: grab an LED and a head, slip it in, and it fits perfectly

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Grisoft a few weeks ago released AVG 7.5 but I refrained from posting about it because they did not update the free version at that point. They finally upgraded the free version to AVG 7.5 which is great for people looking for a free anti-virus solution.

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Excerpt:

'SANTA ANA, CALIF. — State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said.'

Newsvine - AG: Voter Warning Linked to GOP Campaign



So far as I can tell, these are the real deal. Meaning that they've been sifted through with a fine-tooth comb by people who know photography and have withstood all scrutiny. These are the pictures that simply can't be explained, or at least haven't yet according to anything we can explain currently.

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Slashdot | What Earth Without People Would Look Like

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One of the most unheralded new features of the latest 5G iPod software update is one of the most impressive: some massive improvements in battery life.

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#2 Ignore all emails: If you let them sink to the bottom of the pile and go unanswered they will eventually become irrelevant.
#16 Ignore consultants: A consultant is someone in business with an ego so large it takes more than one company to support it.

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MojoPac allows you to have the same apps and files that are on your PC and bring them with you on a iPod, PSP, or Thumb Drive. Listen to your music library, watch videos and download podcasts. Surf from your own Firefox browser. Even play World of Warcraft off of your computer at work.

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The Dilbert Blog: Cockpit

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Drop A Quarter In The Funnel Prank

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Here's a great new prank that's easy to pull off and pretty funny. These guys told their coworker that the object of the game was to drop a quarter from her forehead into a funnel stuffed in her pants. I dont think she saw it coming.

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The 40-Million Dollar Elbow

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Billionaire casino owner and art collector Steve Wynn accidentally put his elbow through a $140 million Picasso while gesturing in talking about the painting.

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TechTV reborn... UndoTV launched

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Leo Laporte and Chris Pirillo (along with others) have launched UndoTV.com in an attempt to bring the fans of TechTV/ZDTV the programming they all loved.

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Celebrity Bra Size List

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I was watching The Fifth Element and my friend said that Milla Jovovich had an A cup. I was pretty sure they were a B so I looked around and found this page. It's a pretty good list of cup sizes, if you're curious or just as a reference. I know digg likes boobs so here you go. Oh yeah, Milla's a 32b.

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ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A woman who was ticketed for having an obscene anti-Bush bumper sticker filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against a county in the state of Georgia and its officials.

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At least a quarter of long-term smokers will develop the incurable lung condition chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a study suggests.

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Gazing through the telescopic sight of his M-24 rifle, Army Staff Sgt. Jim Gilliland, leader of Shadow sniper team, fixed his eye on the Iraqi insurgent who had just killed an American soldier...

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This is a pretty cool video of a pilot opening bottles of beer with a helicopter. You gotta see it!

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Deleted scene from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

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"The voices in Charlie's head are nothing compared to the cacophony coming from his dashboard. Take a look at this video, where you can hear the voices of four GPS units as he test which tell us to turn soonest."

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Girl ATTACKED By Killer Whale

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In what seemed to be a "harmless" ride on the back of a killer whale, the whale decides he's going to add a bit of spice to this girl's day.

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Newsvine - Dog Saves Owner, Dies Trying to Save Cat

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TV Week today is reporting that the cable giant Comcast Entertainment Group has decided to fold the G4 brand. "I do agree with the vision of going after young men more than just going after gaming," E! and Style chief Ted Harbert told the trade pub. "Gaming has been demonstrated as being too narrow." The magazine is reporting that layoffs at G4 are

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Cat Versus HP DeskJet

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Marcus the cat fiercely attacking an evil printer. That is absolutely hilarious!

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1. Open the curtains to see if anything has changed over the past 2 years. 2. Reintroduce yourself to your immediate family. 3...

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When you open the box, a big slip of paper falls out first, preceeding any discs or manuals. The slip of paper says, essentially, that 2142 includes monitoring software which runs while your computer is online, and records "anonymous" information like your IP address, surfing habits (probably via cookie scans), and other "computing habits" in order

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Apple Computer plans to introduce two iPod-based cell phone models in the first quarter of 2007. One model will be a smart phone, including integrated keyboard, video and music capability, while the other model will be a slimmer phone with just music functionality.

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waiterrant.net » Cold Autumn

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The Dilbert Blog: Affirmations

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Kevin Rose doing something quite stupid. Is he just not smart or is it the effects from the alcohol? You decide!

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How to Remove ANY Ink Stain

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So your Bic blew up in your pocket again. Not to fear - check out Sarah Aguirre's housekeeping blog for tips on de-inkifying your threads.

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Clublife: Nightmare Square

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The Dilbert Blog: Career Path

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Proof that your car is the safest place during a lightening storm. A Minivan traveling along the 401 during a thunderstorm is struck by lightning and the strike is captured on tape by a trailing vehicle.

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ever wonder how they paint jets? here's a time lapse video of a Virgin America Airbus A320 getting is paint on.

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This is a video from dove's campaign for real beauty where you see a girl get a heavy makeup and then "fixed" in photoshop before she's beauty enough to fit the ad.

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What Is Telstar Logistics? The short answer is that it's a scam for parking illegally in loading zones. The nerdy answer is that it's an ongoing experiment in corporate phenomenology, urban camouflage, and identity development. The tale unfolds something like this:

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Chupacabra Captured!

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A farmer captured a chupacabra in a trap he set after something was killing his livestock

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New Red Logo for Apple's 5th Avenue Store

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Apple's cube store has changed its traditional white Apple logo for a red one. Perhaps this is in anticipation of the oft-rumored Red iPod.

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iPod Red Nano Site

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Looks like all the rumors were true: here's the red nano. Apple will donate $10 for every one purchased to help fight AIDS

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Unrest Over MacBook Shutdowns Grows || The Mac Observer

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New video surveillance systems store video digitally on networked computers, which makes remote monitoring a cinch. The boss might be off on vacation, but as long as the local watering hole has an Internet connection, keeping tabs on the office can be as easy as browsing to a secure Web site and typing a password.

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10/12/06: To celebrate the end of the Green Screen Challenge, Stephen Colbert gets in a lightsaber battle with George Lucas during the closing credits of his show... ok, is not the "duel of the fates", but is really geeky fun!

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Three New Yorkers are singing a different tune after a run in with police. The suspects allegedly stole 39 iPods and several Playstation 2 games from stores in Riverdale. But it's how they pulled off the robbery that has police scratching their heads.

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CoRD - Cocoa Remote Desktop

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"CoRD is a remote desktop client for Mac OS X ported from the UNIX program rdesktop. It is a Universal Binary, and allows you to connect to multiple servers concurrently."

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North Korean Body Guard - WOW

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An interview with an former body guard to the dictator. Man the guys are well trained.

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The Dilbert Blog: In Over My Head

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waiterrant.net » Hellion

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Kate Bilo of "Most Fliratious Avatar" Fame: "I've been Dugg!!"

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"I'm laying on my couch in a post-operative Vicodin-enhanced daze, and I get a phone call from my fiance telling me to check out a site called www.digg.com. Apparently, someone saw my blog picture and bestowed upon me the title of 'Most Flirtatious Avatar'! Now, I wasn't consciously TRYING to be flirtatious in the video reel, but..."

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You are brushing your teeth, then house gets struck by lightning and the charge enters your mouth and exits your butt. All because of the rubber shoes.
Who else is going to start brushing thier teeth in rubber shoes?

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A Ukrainian scientist has invented a condom that plays music during sex. A miniature loudspeaker and motion sensor implanted in the condom's upper cuff provides a range of musical tones during sex. Music volume depends on intensity of love-making and tone varies based on the sexual position.

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Watch this clip of BMW car racing from the UK!. A car loses a wheel and it keeps rolling down the strait, then bounces over the road in a chicane missing all of the cars, and bounces up to sit neatly on top of another pile of tires as if it were sat there on purpose!

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The Masked Blogger

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An Apple employee begins to blog in the spirit of "Mini-Microsoft".

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"At first glance the features seem compelling but my prediction is it will be the biggest flop of 2007 with less than 50,000 units sold worldwide." Also, says Robertson, "I've been looking for a good verb to describe losing all of your music to DRM because it's increasingly common and I think I have one: zune."

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Apparently the art of pulling 2 for 1 Cokes from vending machines is the lightly guarded secret of a whole underground network of amateur videographers. Here is a clearer, more interesting video of the hack - that we don't condone, mostly because you look like a total ass with your arm up a Coke machine and also because pop tastes horrible out...

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So McDonalds Started the monopoly / Best buy bucks (1$ or 5$) again this year, with a little work you can score up to 200$ per round trip to best buy! a good case scenario you can earn up to 500$ without touching a burger or drink!

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Most people haven't heard of QNX Software, though they've likely come in contact with it. The real-time operating system is used where software failure can lead to catastrophic consequences, even death - from high-speed trains to air traffic control towers to highway toll systems. It's also used in more than 100 different types of cars on the road.

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All rooms and objects were created by the German artist Lars Stroschen. Much more appropriate than "hotel" is the designation "living in a work of art".
30 rooms with an absolutely unique and personal ambience. "Unique" is meant literally, for the entirety of all furnishings and other objects you will discover here are custom-made.

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South Korea reports the test...

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If Microsoft thinks you're cheating, you'll be locked out. You'll first lose Windows enhancements and spyware/virus protection. If you continue to use Vista after that, you'll eventually be forced to work in "reduced functional mode". The start menu and desktop icons disappear, and you are immediately logged out after 60 minutes.

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Apple has recently released an excellent primer to shell scripting covering shell dialects, flow control, regular expressions and tools. "Writing a shell script is like riding a bike. You fall off and scrape your knees a lot at first, but once you are sufficiently experienced, you'll understand why people drive cars."

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waiterrant.net » Fellatio?

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Huge Lego Star Wars Ship

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Freaking awesome.

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Fred Munk yesterday lost his job for excessive perl programming. Munk was hired for categorization and review of links to pornographic websites for Yahoo's Erotica department. He allegedly spent more time programming perl-scripts than looking for porn.

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"Today, a barrel of oil is worth half a barrel of Coca-Cola (Charts). So you should put things into perspective," he said, adding that the fact that consumers had not significantly changed their behavior proved that they were not particularly feeling the pinch.

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Enable iPod Screen Saver

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1) Create a new folder named Demo Mode on the iPod.
2) In iTunes, rename any video file as Demo.
When your iPod is charging and left untouched for two minutes the movie you renamed "demo" will play and repeate. Just like a screen saver.

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Interesting story. Too bad the guy's voice is so annoying.

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These guys are hitchhiking to all 50 state capitals in 50 days or less. Their position will be updated on a Google Map every 15 seconds, as well as geocoded photos, podcasts and videos. The cool thing about this project is that it's all built using off-the-shelf technology - in particular a $50 GPS enabled phone. Drop by and offer them a ride..

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The Dilbert Blog: Your Ancestors Disgust Me

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no not a motorcycle, a bicycle!! crazy end part too. this guy is flyin'

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Star Wars THX Animation

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This is a THX animation that was created by Pixar. You have to check this out.

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Pretty funny offering of knowledge and wisdom from some old guy.

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Sexual Consent

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the best sex scene i have ever seen

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A pistol about the size of a postage stamp

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Swiss watch making meets COLT Python. Don't be deceived, this little pistol can kill. It is easy to hide, won't show on most airport screenings, and is untraceable. Put close to the temple and fired - it will kill in an instant.

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TCAS System Explained

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Clublife: The Hedgehog

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An amazing idea by Cameron Westland at MDA: Realistic seasons, weather conditions, daytime or night, moon phases etc. make your desktop resemble your real life environments. Fully customizable. Check out the beautiful concept artwork!

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During the reception the bride steps outside with the best man, only to have the groom follow. This is pretty funny if you're not the groom!

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waiterrant.net » This House is Ours!

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Check out the world's smallest [legal] swimsuit!

What happens if she sneezes you might ask? Well the secret is, it's not just a set of pasties but an actual bikini held in place with clear fishing line.

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Number of Americans who believe the Bush administration has deliberately misled the American public about the war in Iraq, according to a new CNN poll.

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Wired: Zune Won't Kill the IPod

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Microsoft's new MP3 player has a lot going against it, even without the iPod around. It's not cool, the DRM will be a pain and wireless sharing is just another way for people to lie to strangers.

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Many children have recently been victims to the spontaneous combustion of innocent Hello Kitty Toys

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"This visualization represents a macroscopic snapshot of the IPv6 Internet topology collected around March 4th, 2005. Topology data gathered from 17 monitors probing approximately 860 globally routable IPv6 network prefixes include 2,913 IPv6 addresses and 7,905 IPv6 links (immediately adjacent addresses in a traceroute-like path)."

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Breast Implants Save Woman In Car Crash..

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A Bulgarian woman driver escaped relatively unscathed from a head-on pile-up with another vehicle when her 40DD breast implants absorbed most of the impact, Ananova reports. A police expert explained: "[The implants] worked just like airbags - protecting the victim's ribs and vital organs from damage."..

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Words fail me ... Reporter: Congressman, do you mind asking the children to leave the room so we can have a frank discussion of this, because it's an adult topic. It just doesn't seem appropriate to me. Reynolds: I'll take your questions, but I'm not going to ask any of my supporters to leave.

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So, basically, I got hacked by my own host. No, it wasn't a mistake. No, the server didn't just go down. They hacked it so that they could upsell me on some $2000 security audit and package! So here is the evidence.

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Burger King is looking to encourage more quick dining by offering original Xbox and Xbox 360 games for $3.99 with the purchase of any value meal. Three titles, rated E for Everybody, will be released: Pocketbike Racer, Big Bumpin', and Sneak King.

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Here's a close up of the metal business card Woz shows Colbert..

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Women's Skin Ages Faster Than Men

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Men become more distinguished as they age and women, well, we just keep getting older. And if this isn't bad enough, a new study shows that the female skin actually starts to age faster than the hides of men.

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Why do we kiss?

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The title says it all...

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Thomas Devine, a materials science and engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, provides this answer.

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DRM-buster DVD Jon has reverse-engineered Apple's Fairplay and licensing it to companies who want their media to play on Apple's devices. Instead of breaking the DRM (something he'ss already done), Jon has replicated it, and wants to license the technology to companies that want their content (music, movies, whatever) to play on Apple devices.

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The Dilbert Blog: Holy Cop Killer

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Clublife: Apathy

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Photo shows a view from the cockpit just before touchdown, known as a "trap" on the U.S.S. George Washington. The four arresting wires can be seen on the deck. This plane is just barely above glide slope because the meatball is slightly above the datum lights. The plane might be a little high or the ship might be a little low...

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waiterrant.net » Void Codes

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Dual boot OSX 10.4.8 on your Windows computer!

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It only 2 days since Apple released OSX 10.4.8 and it's already available on the hackintosh scene! This guide clearly describes how to create the HFS+ partition on your computer and install OSX without messing up your Windows partition.

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This man decided to interrupt her "on location" recording three times, the third time... well, let's just say that the sound tech. had to chase after her. A hilarious must see!

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The same man who admits he doesn't know what "outrages upon human dignity" actually means. The same man who's war in Iraq, an intelligence estimate found, has made the threat of terrorism worse. Watch this interview with Keith Olbermann.

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A Laptop Powered by a Jet Engine

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With a micro-engine about the same size and weight (as a laptop battery), you could end up with somewhere between 15 and 30 hours of battery life. Epstein and a team of about 20 colleagues and students have already created and tested wafers that would make up the miniature compressor, combustion chamber, turbine, generator and the like.

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Apple's market share used to be 5% as declared by Steve Jobs in a keynote last year. Around the same time, they introduced the new intel-based computers, and they've been selling like hot cakes ever since. The result: Apple now has 10% of market share! Apple's dramatic move to Intel architecture is producing the rewards now!

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Norton anti-virus sucks, and the world despises it. Why is it around? Because Compaq bundles it with their PCs. Geek Squad at Best Buy hands it out to old ladies who can't even get their monitors on; With the history laid, here are the top twenty reasons that the world despises Norton

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