Apple Sells "Refreshed" Laptop Filled With Porn To 11 Year Old Girl
Published Thursday, November 30, 2006 by Stangrunner.
An Apple customer was shocked when he bought a Macbook from the London Apple Store for his 11-year old daughter, and the desktop was full of pornographic JPGs.
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A cargo container that apparently fell from a ship washed up on the Outer Banks of North Carolina today and spilled thousands of bags of Doritos brand tortilla chips on the beach. Scavengers collected the chips, which were apparently still fresh due to their airtight packaging...
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Check it out, someone's made a Stormtrooper Mii on their Wii. Now, you can too!
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Today at the LA Auto Show, Ford officially unveiled the Giugiaro concept mustang. This Ford is the first Mustang design since the 60s that actually makes me want to own one. Pictures on this page are 1600x1200 and 1920x1200. For live pictures from the Auto Show go to http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/29/la-auto-show-live-shots-
of-the-giugiaro-mustang
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Security in airports and other sensitive areas may get a huge boost, thanks to a technology under development that is straight out of science fiction, said to be capable of looking through clothing to detect weapons and other dangerous items. But privacy advocates—and shy people—may have cause for alarm.
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"I was aboard an Air Deccan flight from Bangalore to Mumbai...looked out my window and saw a group of guys repairing the wing with some sort of duct tape. There
’s some more repairs to the left of the one they are working on with what seems to be the same technique. Crossed my fingers, tossed back a shot of Black Label, and stayed on the flight
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’s some more repairs to the left of the one they are working on with what seems to be the same technique. Crossed my fingers, tossed back a shot of Black Label, and stayed on the flight
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"One of the lawyers involved in defending cases brought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off." Right, how far up his own backside is he if he thinks that's possible?!?
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"One of the lawyers involved in defending cases brought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off." Right, how far up his own backside is he if he thinks that's possible?!?
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Bush asked Jim Webb, senator-elect from Virginia, how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing. Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home. “I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - A technology blog - Universal may try for slice of iPod sales
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And so it begins. Universal Music Group exec Doug Morris told the Reuters Media Summit that his company is interested in receiving a cut of the profits from each iPod sold.
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A 20-year-old Woodstock man was arrested early Tuesday in the shooting of a Webster, Mass., man who was wounded in a robbery while he waited in line to buy a PlayStation 3 game console in Putnam. He was being held on $1 million bond pending arraignment in Danielson Superior Court. An arrest warrant has been prepared for a second 17 year old suspect
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One awesome clip from the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The ultimate solution for those dads who lay around in their underwear watching Tv when the doorbell unexpectedly rings.
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My friend was promised a Wii, but Best Buy failed to keep the promise. Instead they will give him a free wii once they get them in.
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RIAA Tries to Extend Its Reach In Lawsuits || The iPod Observer - Now Playing
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My sister just got back from attempting to purchase a Wii only to be rejected because stock was being held until. . .
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Screenshot of the venerable Firefox browser when inundated with all possible extensions and add-ons.
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As the number one "threat" for children this holiday season, Stephen presents: the Nintendo Wii! The threat? "This is the most addictive video game ever made".
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guy makes it to work driving like he's in a video game. funny background music
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My Official Nintendo component cables arrived today. Hooked it right up and started playing. The first thing that really jumped out at me was when I launched Zelda and saw Link on Epona, the clarity. It’s sort of bitter sweet, it tends to sharpen the edges so much they become too defined, but it’s WAY better especially during motion.
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When OS X was first released, there were a number of Classic features that were left in the dust. Apple has slowly added some of those features back but there are still a number of features from Mac OS 9, 8 and even 7 that deserve to be resurrected for OS X.
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The Dilbert Blog: The One Problem with the World
Published Monday, November 27, 2006 by Stangrunner.
A masked gunman walked into a gas station and demanded money, apparently not noticing that the line at the counter included a uniformed police officer.
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Consumers are viewing Apple computer products as a user-friendly alternative to Microsoft's Windows operation system. Shipments of Macintosh computers rose 33 percent this year, almost triple the 12 percent rise in overall U.S. sales of personal computers, according to market research company IDC.
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In scores of science fiction stories, hapless adventurers find themselves unwittingly introduced to the vacuum of space without proper protection. The ill-fated adventurers rapidly swell like over-inflated balloons, ultimately bursting in a gruesome spray of blood. Neat. But what REALLY happens if the human body is exposed to the vacuum of space?
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Smarthouse: Mac Tablet Prototype Built, Manufacturers Bidding || The Mac Observer
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SF Chronicle: Zune Reinforces Microsoft's Dorky Image || The iPod Observer - Now Playing
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Checks eBay, eCost, WalMart, Sams Club, EB Games, JC Penney, CostCo, Circuit City, Amazon and TechDepot every minute. Auto-refresh FTW.
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Apple Touch Screen Mac Tablet PC With Docking Station In Mid 2007
Published Sunday, November 26, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Apple researchers have built a full working prototype of a Mac Tablet and companies in Taiwan are now costing a product for a potential launch in mid 2007. I was told that Apple was exploring a neat new touch screen device that is that links to various source devices including a brand new media center that Apple is planning to launch next year.
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The Chicago Sun-Times does not like the Zune. At all. "Do you honestly want morons like this to have power over your music player? Then go ahead and buy a Zune. You'll find that the Zune Planet orbits the music industry's Bizarro World, where users aren't allowed to do anything that isn't in the industry's direct interests."
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1up.com editor Karen Chu (aka. bitterazngurl) tells us about her experience today at a local San Francisco Best Buy.
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It is the hi-tech tool that has revolutionised home and office alike - but a growing band of campaigners claim wi-fi is a major threat to health.
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Venture Beat Contributors » Why big high tech companies are losing the talent war
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The Examining Room of Dr. Charles - Curious Pop Quiz #6 - Turkey Coma
Published Thursday, November 23, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The new Zune digital-media player may be an all-Microsoft production, but it feels like it came from two companies.
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Al Jazeera chose cutting edge technology which includes 41 MacBook Pro and Final Cut Studio for journalists, a 70 TB Apple storage solution using 10 Apple Xserve 7 TB XRAID and 14 Apple Xsan Software Licenses, plus 12 PowerMac G5 Quad, 2 PowerMac G5 Dual Core and 19 Apple Cinema HD Display 23' for editing and design
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I guess the $295.99 Buy it Now and the Wii pictures fooled him. Time to head back to grade school and learn to read!
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How Apple's Mail can greatly reduce spam, if not make it go away completely
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I was playing with the customize toolbar feature in Mail.app when I saw a button labeled “Bounce”. After using the bounce feature on the tens of spam I get daily for 3 days, my inbox is spam free. Incredible.
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This app adds a little icon to your OS X menu bar and from it you can eject anything - hard drives, iPods, flash drives, .dmg, CDs, you name it. Eliminates the hassle of opening up Finder or going to the desktop.
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Gadgeteer Julie bought a Zune to review and found it skipped on most of her music. So she took it back to Walmart for a refund and they give her the first degree: where did she get the music, was it hers, maybe it was the music that was bad? Then her final comment: "I am going to have to call the main office Monday and find out what the deal is.."
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A newly purchased PS3 (and owner) had played Tony Hawk's Project 8 for a grand total of 30 minutes when the PS3 decided it didn't want any more of that. Maybe THP8 made the unit sick, the game doesn't exactly have a great image (pun intended). In any case, this is one unhappy PS3 consumer.
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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Replacing DRM With A Music Tax Is Incredibly Stupid
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We finally got our hands on the new Intel XServe and as we have done before we completely took it apart. Here are a few pics of the take apart. We will be adding more as the day goes on. It is a nice redesign. Do not let the outside fool you this is a completely new server.
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Here is an interesting Photoblog entry from a person who slept overnight at Best Buy to buy a new Playstation 3 [pictures]
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PS3 Line Insanity; Pregnant Woman Tries Not To Give Birth While Waiting
Published Friday, November 17, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The PS3 stories get crazier and crazier. Now it seems that a suspected rapist apparently escaped just to go get in line and wait for the PS3. No joke.
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An article that sums up how most Linux users feel after the Novell saga. Funny and well worth a read!
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"Then, with a chill, it dawned on me. Dave had come from the midnight launch. These guys followed him across town." The guy breaking into the car acted as if it were his own, patting his pockets as if checking for keys, then with a sigh retrieved a smallish sledgehammer and proceeded to smash the window open and then checked the trunk. Wow...
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It doesn't get much bigger than this! The Extreme UltraKing measures an astonishing 12 feet wide by 10 feet long! Yes, that is a girl at the edge of the bed.
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Ever wondered exactly who was sending you all that spam? Well now you can put a name to the anonymous scumbags who pollute your inbox as the spammers get named and shamed!
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While a TV crew was outside a store a "truck used to transport the men from the homeless shelter returned with food for the men. Abdul Salem said he and a friend came up with the idea. They said they plan to pay the men $100 a day to stand in line for a ticket to purchase a PS3 unit that costs around $600."
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Some European highways are designed for speed and there is no speed limits in certain areas. This Lambordhini Police Car is probably the best way to discourage anyone from a police chase.
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Murray Newlin, a dentist in Columbus, Ohio, wants to buy 15 PS3s this holiday season for his grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. So he set out to do the impossible by paying 60 different workers to take eight hour shifts waiting in line in at four different Wal-mart stores in the Columbus area. "This is the only way I can get what I want."
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Quite possibly the smallest USB flash drive on the market...
Published Wednesday, November 15, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Carrying your car keys around is twice as hard as carrying this six gram monster around. That is right, it weighs six grams which is lighter than a soda cracker.
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You will have access to easy direct links to tons of these websites. Plus, the filter tool allows you to navigate thorough these websites, compare Black Friday Special prices, and obtain additional information for the shopper to save money such as rebate and early bird special.
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If you're like me, you probably have all your songs on a single playlist in your iPod. Here's some tips for making your listening experience a more enjoyable one.
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Two boxed Zune players sat ignored on the top shelf of a Plexiglas showcase packed with iPod accessories in a Virgin Megastore and by mid-afternoon, the store had sold one Zune player and one other person had inquired about them.
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80 percent of the viagra, nigerian scams, and stock trades come from the same 10 people. Someone needs to find them and send them away...
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Doin' my annual website cleanup and I find a leecher using my wedding video stills. Let's see if if anyone wants their bridal packages now.
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A crew of about ten guys cover three train cars with graffiti in around two minutes. Clearly a case of quantity over style.
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus - A technology blog - Apple Teams Up With Six Airlines to Deliver iPod Integration
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We hoped installing the Zune software and getting our player running would be as seamless and painless as getting iTunes and an iPod running on your machine, since that is, after all, what it's up against. Unfortunately, the reality of our experience with the first version of the Zune software this afternoon is that is SUCKS!
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How the Zune Will (Try To) Defeat the iPod; Not through Coolness Factor
Published Monday, November 13, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The way to dilute this is not to come out with a cool device. Rather, one wants to make the portable music player a humdrum commodity device. The same people who disparage Apple, its philosophy, and latest TV ads are the very same people who don't want to be cool. Microsoft knows how to appeal to the roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-to-work crowd
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Some say Redmond is crazy to take on Apple's popular iPod
—and crazier still to put limits on what Zune can play. Here's how the approach could work.
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—and crazier still to put limits on what Zune can play. Here's how the approach could work.
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Plenty of people have credit cards and they understand the concept of purchasing items with them. So, how, you ask, could Microsoft screw this up? No, first you might ask, what is there to screw up? I mean, the system already works. All you need your customer to do is show up with a credit card? Right? Wrong!
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A great way to figure out the combination to a lock that you had forgotten what it was. This is intended for information purposes only.
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We intentionally created conditions in which the Li-ON battery pack would explode inside a generic portable. The results are dramatic.
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Build this Skype server to provide 24/7 phone service through regular phone handsets in your home—and save a bundle of money in the process!
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The report was triggered by the radioactivity measurements reported on a crater probably created by an Israeli Bunker Buster bomb in the village of Khiam, in southern Lebanon. The measurements were carried out by two Lebanese professors of physics. And as of Nov. 2nd, two British labs have confirmed their findings.
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"So much subliminal information is conveyed in those first seconds of contact," says Carol Kauffman, Ph.D., a relationship therapist and psychology instructor at Harvard medical school. Okay, so you're on the clock. Make every second count. Below are 10 ways - in rough chronological order - a woman judges your fitness to be her proverbial daddy.
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It hasn't been released to anyone outside Microsoft, and Vista RTM has already hit the pirate boards, along with an activation hack.
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Oscar winner Jack Palance dead at 87 - CNN.com
Published Saturday, November 11, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Google accidentally sent out e-mail containing a mass mailing worm to about 50,000 members of an e-mail discussion list focused on its Google Video Blog, the company said Tuesday.
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Funny skit featuring the host of Diggnation that starts out with just a typical game of Rocks Paper Scissors that goes horribly wrong...or horribly right...
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The scientists have developed a simple 'air shower' device which, when fitted into existing showerheads, fills the water droplets with a tiny bubble of air. The result is the shower feels just as wet and just as strong as before, but now uses much less water.
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GoW projected onto a 20-metre-high screen by a 12000 Lumens Projector, in gloriously loud 5.1 Dolby surround sound. Thilo, the projectionist, told us “This is the first time we’ve ever hooked up an Xbox 360 to a cinema projector and the effect was insane … like a total cinema experience but also interactive.”
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After the screen opens, there is a Bradley to lower left of screen and near the building will be a US Tank. The Insurgent can be seen laying on the rooftop near middle of building exchanging fire... then boom!
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How stupid do you have to be to try to launch a firework out of your arse? "Paramedics found the 22-year-old, bleeding and with the firework lodged inside him, after receiving reports of the incident in Sunderland. He was taken to hospital with injuries including a scorched colon caused by the Black Cat Thunderbolt Rocket. "
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A little app I wrote (automatically snaps pictures from the iSight when the computer wakes from sleep and uploads the images to flickr) caught the facility and staff of an Apple authorized repair depot in Tennessee in action! Surprise!
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A little app I wrote (automatically snaps pictures from the iSight when the computer wakes from sleep and uploads the images to flickr) caught the facility and staff of an Apple authorized repair depot in Tennessee in action! Surprise!
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"Nicolas built a USB-Cable for the new super-tiny iPod shuffle. Pinout and pictures here."
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A Trip to the Dentist May Look Like a Scene from Star Wars
Published Wednesday, November 08, 2006 by Stangrunner.
The next time you go to the dentist you may be facing a "plasma needle" rather that a drill.
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One of the most frustrating things about installing or upgrading programs on certain operating systems is the constant need to have to reboot. This is especially true with drivers or system files. Why is it that linux can be upgraded without rebooting? Read on to find out.
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HONOLULU - The world's only known whale-dolphin mix has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.
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The teachers I've talked to tell me that they will be offering Macs to their students as well. It looks like we are back to the original Apple days where Macs were the dominant platform.
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"Are I.T. Workers Blue Collar?" Interesting question. I was recently asked this by some executives who were concerned with improving the productivity of their I.T. departments. I asked them to explain why they thought this way. They contended their I.T. people (e.g., analysts and programmers) exhibit a lot of blue collar characteristics.
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Surprisingly, cats falling from lower floors have been found to suffer greater injury than those falling from higher. In fact, when given prompt medical attention, cats which sustain a fall from two to thirty-two stories have a 90% survival rate! The highest a cat has fallen and survived was forty-six stories.
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When Jairo Moncada pulled up to the drive-through at Wendy's in Burbank, Calif., for his usual cheeseburger, fries, and soda, he knew things looked different. There was an extra lane. But the 25-year-old could not see the biggest change: The woman taking his lunch order was sitting 3,000 miles away at a computer terminal in Nashua.
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Instead of spewing out lovely messages, this twisted cousin of the Care Bear we all grew up on has suffered from an error in chip design, hence enabling him to churn out various profanities such as “Eat sh*t and die”, which is one of the tamer phrases to come out from him.
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" Why do birds fly in a V formation? I have been told that the bird in the front works the least because of upwash generated by the birds to his side. Is this true?"
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PageAddict is a Firefox extension that gives you a summary of how much time you've spent visiting different sites.
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Photo: Clever Life-sized Sculpture of 'Melting' Ice Cream Truck on Beach
Published Tuesday, November 07, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Breaking the ice...a melting Mr Whippy van spills onto Tamarama beach as two sunbakers pose alongside the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition
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"Instead of advice for gamers in peril, this month FHM asked me for my 20 greatest games of all time." Also, check out the hot pics of her in a bikini!
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Many of you may have seen this segment about Gregg Valentino, in a documentary called The Man Whose Arms Exploded, which aired once again yesterday on TLC. Watch what happens when you literally abuse of steroids.
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Phishtank, a service run by the good folks at OpenDNS, have published their first set of phishing statistics. Interesting stuff, showing that Paypal and eBay continue to be the most targeted organizations in phishing attacks, but some German banks are climbing up the scales.
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Quentin Tarantino is considering "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs" sequel starring Travolta and Madsen as angry Vega twins seeking to avenge their brothers' deaths
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In 25 years, we won't be obsessing about Atkins or South Beach. Nutrition will have changed in ways to make us healthier and happier about what we eat. Some of the changes will be modest. Dark chocolate, long recognized as both a rich indulgence and a health food, will dominate stores and homes alike. Milk chocolate? gone.
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The theory of relativity predicts that masses being accelerated should emit 'gravitational radiation' in the same way that charged particles (like electrons) emit electromagnetic radiation when they are accelerated. Simply put use of gravitational wave in higher dimensions easily produce thousand time faster speed than light.
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Tammie Marson of Palm Desert, California responded to a lawsuit from the RIAA by stating that her wireless router was not secure, and that therefore the file sharing seen on her network could have been from any passerby. The defense worked, and the RIAA dropped the case.
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"You've got to find what you love," Jobs says. "Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories." The first story is about connecting the dots. My second story is about love and loss. My third story is about death. Jobs concludes the three stories with this precious gem, "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."
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Five years after the Taliban were ousted from Kabul, the number of Afghan women setting fire to themselves because they cannot bear their lives has risen dramatically... More than half of all girls are married off before the age of 16, some as young as six. The women are regarded as commodities rather than wives and are often treated like slaves.
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This LARGE FORMAT Macintosh 20th Anniversary Commemorative Poster features the "Original Macintosh Packaging Concept" and Apple's Philosophy of the Art of Packaging. Nice Side Article to read and Great Photos
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The whole 10 minutes clip. Presented at MIT on November 4, 2006, Jamie and Adam show two experiments that Discovery Channel didn't want to air.
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Up here in NorCal someone broke into a kiosk and stole a PS3. As you can see from the pics, it's not the test system sent to game sites and magazines such as IGN, where the PS3 will say "test" on the cover
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This is the funniest thing iv seen on the net all year.
"Simply spray the area around your computer. Usually five or six sprays is all it takes. As your computer sends data, each bit also carries hundreds of invisible WiFi Speed Spray
™ "scrubbing" molecules. It works at the speed of light. and even penetrates lead walls"
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"Simply spray the area around your computer. Usually five or six sprays is all it takes. As your computer sends data, each bit also carries hundreds of invisible WiFi Speed Spray
™ "scrubbing" molecules. It works at the speed of light. and even penetrates lead walls"
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SI.com - More Sports - Armstrong meets goal in NYC Marathon debut - Sunday November 5, 2006 2:01PM
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The Guardian interviews Kevin Rose, calling him one of the smartest and the luckiest entrepreneurs who demolished the old internet and built a brand new one.
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No question about it: Apple's new iPod Shuffle is minuscule: It's smaller than a matchbook, slimmer than a microcassette, and light enough that you could clip it on your shirt and not even stretch the fabric. In my first hands-on experience with the updated Shuffle, I found it a worthy player for the price--provided that you'll be happy with..
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This is one of the biggest motorsport crashes of the year. Take a look at what Joey Hand did to his BMW in the GT class of the Rolex Series at the Mid Ohio Sports Car course earlier this year .... and he walked away !!!!!
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To publish this kind of scathing critique in all four US Military Times magazines, on the eve of the most important election in modern American history, will go down as the boldest statement our military has ever made. Make no mistake - this is as close to a coup as we have ever seen in this nation.
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"Gizmodo reader/potential vampire Shaun just popped this interesting graph in our email this morning, comparing the price of HP ink to other various fluids, some bodily in nature".
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Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Apple iPod shuffle 2G Review
Published Saturday, November 04, 2006 by Stangrunner.
Wow! This is a pretty thorough review! From the site: "Microsoft was kind enough to get us some hands-on time with the Zune, not batting an eye as we eagerly slided the player down our pants, enjoying the material it was made out of. Our thoughts first, then a gallery later."
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Macworld runs comprehensive benchmarks on the new Core 2 Duo Macbook Pros. The results are kind of surprising.
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US Airforce will be guarding cyberspace with an ambitious plan to guard civilian and military networks with a new command led by the 8th Air Force. They will be going live in October 2008. For some reason all I can think of is isn't this the plot behind the Terminator films?
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Google up "ringtones" and you'll get tons of sites that will charge you a few bucks per tone. Pshaw! With some free software and a few minutes, you can make as many custom ringtones as your heart desires out of any MP3 in your music collection without paying a dime. Here's how.
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Behold the car that could displace the Toyota Prius as the eco-ride of choice. The new natural-gas-powered Honda Civic GX uses domestically produced fuel that costs as little as one third the price of gasoline. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy calls it the cleanest-burning internal-combustion vehicle on Earth.
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Christmas came a tad bit early for employees of Apple Computer this year, each of which received a new iPod shuffle digital music players with the company's compliments.
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I put a little video together to show people who don't use Macs or what the big deal is or even if they're thinking about getting one but aren't sure because they don't know what to expect. It's 28 minutes long and covers most of the basics. I could have gone on and on for 24 hours talking about all the cool things, but I hope this satisfies.
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With instructions! iFixit took apart the new iPod Shuffle and posted pictures of the ultra-compact design, logic board, Li-ion polymer battery, and new headphone/USB jack.
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About a week ago I flew to Rhode Island on business. I was forced into the 'security threat' line because I refused to remove my sunglasses at the second of four TSA checkpoints at LAX.
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these guys have the best ipod costume I've ever seen. They have the 2nd most amount of votes for the colleghumor.com costume contest. It is out duty to honor their amazing costume by voting for it.When ipods win, we all win.
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Two guys first go through university and then come to library, approach to the window and jump out.
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Some kid's dad just got a brand new 2007 Mustang "Eleanor"....of course his son who is 14 is way too excited and with the car in the driveway for 5 minutes asks for the keys, gets in, and proceeds to plow it through the garage wall. Watch dad and friends' reaction.
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Contrary to popular belief, both males and females have Adam's apples, a chunk of bony cartilage that's wrapped around the larynx. In grown men they just stick out a lot more because of their larger voice boxes—also the reason why dudes speak in deeper tones.
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As we get ever closer to the official release of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, we have to ask ourselves what comes next
—or is this the end? I think it is the end, for a lot of reasons.
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—or is this the end? I think it is the end, for a lot of reasons.
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Every iPod owner passes through seven distinct phases, this illustrated guide depicts the journey all iPod owners must undertake (and does it through funny little stick figures)
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This is a real clip from a real cartoon. He mashes his thumb with the hammer, and cries, "Son of a b-b-b-, son of a b-b-b-, son of a b-b-b-... gun!" He then turns to the camera and says, stutter-free, "You thought I was going to say 'son of a bitch', didn't you?!"
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"I received my brand new MacBook Pro 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to learn that it runs 25 percent cooler than my previous MacBook Pro."
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Today's top-of-the-line computers have dual-core processors, by next year, major chip makers Intel and AMD will have rolled out quad-core systems. Although multiple processors are theoretically faster than a single core, writing software that takes advantage of many processors--a task called parallel programming--is extremely difficult.
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The wife of U.S. Rep. John Sweeney called police last December to complain her husband was "knocking her around" during a late-night argument at the couple's home, according to a document obtained last week by the Times Union. The emergency call to a police dispatcher triggered a visit to the couple's residence by a state trooper from Clifton Park.
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Apple began shipping out the new iPod shuffle's this weekend, and some customers have already received theirs and shared the unpacking...
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While the media is obsessed parsing the ad libs of someone on no ballot this fall, something truly ominous has just happened in Iraq. The commander-in-chief has abandoned an American soldier to the tender mercies of a Shiite militia.
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