Healthbolt » Mountain Biker Jumps The Tour de France!
Published Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Stangrunner.
She did NOT give birth and wake up with no limbs. She contracted Strep A and was given the choice to amputate and live, or keep her limbs and die. Her choice was to amputate. She wants to know HOW she got the strep, but the hospital can't legally release info on who, is anyone, near her had strep. That's where the patient privacy laws come in.
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The Amazing 3D desktop on Linux, This makes "Aero" look like a cheap toy !!
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Hey all, this had been around for some time ... but in time for the Vista by M$, here is a look on a "REAL" 3D desktop that is practical !! I installed something similar to this (without the transparency) on an "old" AMD pc (athlon 2200+ ,512MB , 128MB 5200) ... it's amazing, and it's not just eye candy !
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Flickr is taking a beating in two key forums right now over their decision today to force "old skool" flickr users to merge with Yahoo accounts and new limits on both number of contacts and tags allowed on Flickr. Check out some of the quotes here. Warning, some offensive language.
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Julius Dixson, Jr., 53, says there is no way his father should have starved to death in a hospital. "I'm outraged. I'm hurt by it," he said. Family members say before the surgery, a hospital staffer removed the elderly man's dentures, but after the surgery the dentures couldn't be found.
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The answer lies at the back of the brain in an area called the cerebellum, which is involved in monitoring movements. Our studies at University College London have shown that the cerebellum can predict sensations when your own movement causes them but not when someone else does.
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Women gives birth, wakes up without arms or legs
Published Tuesday, January 30, 2007 by Stangrunner.
A young lady goes to the hospital to give birth and wakes up without arms or legs. The hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee. In a letter, they wrote that she would have to sue them to find out what happened. She can't even carry her newborn child. Help bring attention and digg it up, please.
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Think eBay is safe for sellers? Think again, two items auctioned, both hijacked by Nigerians....further proof that eBay is now nothing but a e-cesspool of scams. oh, and any response from eBay? Nope....nothing.
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Last week we took a big step toward improving your MP3 collection by leveling the track volume. Now it's time to focus on album art, which is less of a practical improvement and more of a fun one. If your music library was built from a variety of sources chances are good you've got some missing or messed-up artwork. Fortunately it's not hard to fix
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Various sex positions as demonstrated by LEDs and resistors - SFW PICTURES
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In case you ever wanted to see some light emitting diodes and resistors demonstrate various sex positions, here's a gallery. Don't worry, there's no nudity or anything gross, they are just integrated circuits for god's sake!
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The Most Famous Mac Switcher, Ellen Feiss talks about Macs, Drugs, and Fame
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A large part of your mythology seems to stem from the internet’s obsession with the idea that you were “high” during the filming of your Switch ad. We’ve read past interviews where you attribute your slightly dazed look and red eyes to a late night shooting and your allergy medicine...However, you are now in college… Ever tried marijuana?
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This is what Alex and Kevin were talking about, fiber right to your house.
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I recently had fios installed at my house, 30/5 megs for $55/month, cant beat that. The service is amazing, and I thought I would share a few screenshots. The fiber comes right up to the outside of my house, and a fios installer in my neighborhood said that they will be bumping us up to 50 megs in February to compete with COX. No drop outs..ever.
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Biggest LAN-PARTY ever:7,752 people & 7,788 computers in one network(+pic)
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At Dreamhack Winter 2006 the organization succeeded in beating the existing world record for the biggest LAN party.Their goal was to get 10,000 people there.The official world record that was verified by Guinness World Records is 7,752 paying attenders and 7,788 computers in the network.The calculated attendance of DreamHack 2006 was 10,638.
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The high court of Italy ruled that downloading files - be it software, music, or movies - is not illegal if profit is not the motivation. The case was a lawsuit against two students who set up a p2p file-sharing network, and who were initially convinced to one year in prison. The highest court in Italy overthrew the decision, and set them free.
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Candirú is the Amazon’s most notorious fish, and the only known vertebrate to parasitic humans. Attracted to the smell of urine, Vandellia cirrhosa will follow the urine’s path, swim into the penis, and, with it’s umbrella-like spines, lodge itself inside the urethra. Removal is grim.
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Displaying the stiff-upper-lip spirit that built an empire, he uttered the words that are every air passenger's worst nightmare: 'Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.'
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Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
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WEIRDEST PICTURE IN JAPAN!!! I found it outside the Apple store in Tokyo...
Published Saturday, January 27, 2007 by Stangrunner.
On a recent business trip to Tokyo, I happened to stop by the Apple store. There was this guy selling magazines or something right outside the store...I happened to take a photo.
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This tutorial shows how you can back up Linux and Windows systems with BackupPC. BackupPC acts as a server and is installed on a Linux system, and from there it can connect to all Linux and Windows systems in your local network to back them up and restore them. Supports full and incremental backups and comes with a powerful web frontend.
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If the term "Apple fanboy" were in the dictionary, a line drawing of Jeremy Mehrle could well appear beside it. Chip Chick says the St. Louis resident has 74 Macs on display, including 30 that adorn the bar pictured here. "His collection contains 18 different CRT-based iMacs, a Next Cube, four different Apple II computers,
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Link to a picture of what looks like to an Apple invite. Shows a picture of the Earth and the Moon. Also says "Should old acquaintance be forgot..."
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Lucasfilm open up the doors of its data center to reveal an impressive array of servers and storage devices.
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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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This video of 1007 Miis marching in a Mii Parade is demonstration of one extremely impressive feat. I've yet to see more than 15 Miis gather on my Wii; they're lonely and scared.
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Julie Amero, a substitute teacher in Norwich, Connecticut, has been convicted of impairing the morals of a child and risking injury to a minor by exposing as many as ten seventh-grade students to porn sites.
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"One of the best things about ILM's studios in San Francisco is that scattered throughout are posters and props from films the company has worked on."
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A strange vision in the desert: The Bizarre Baobab
Published Thursday, January 25, 2007 by Stangrunner.
If you travel in the remote deserts of Australia, Africa or Madagascar, you may from time to time spot a solitary tree that looks as if it is growing upside-down, with gnarled roots sitting atop a huge, smooth, trunk.
It is well worth taking a closer look at this oddity, which is one of the oldest and strangest living things on our planet.
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It is well worth taking a closer look at this oddity, which is one of the oldest and strangest living things on our planet.
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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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Needing a liver transplant, Richard Brown nearly died on Sunday, January 21st, thanks to reckless callousness and indifference by a Southwest Airlines ticket agent. The ticket agent refused to let Richard fly unless he bought another ticket due to his weight (caused by water retention from his failing liver).
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A blogger tried out both services and describes why Blockbuster Total Access was inferior to Netflix's online rental service.
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An American soldier in Iraq who e-mailed a U.S. company to ask for a shipment of floor mats got a brusque reply: "We would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq." The response quickly circulated on the Internet and led to threats against the Muslim-owned business, including demands for a boycott.
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The military's new weapon is a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they will catch fire.
The technology is supposed to be harmless -- a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.
Military officials say it could save the lives of civilians and service members in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The technology is supposed to be harmless -- a non-lethal way to get enemies to drop their weapons.
Military officials say it could save the lives of civilians and service members in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Apple has an idea of how to make your ultra portable Mac Book much thinner and smaller. Let's put the Optical Disc Drive on the bottom of the notebook. And it isn't as stupid as it sounds.
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After the iPod came out on top in our Zune v. iPod battle royale, we decided to keep on using the Zune so we could get a long term evaluation on how Microsoft's player stacked up. After nearly three months with the thing, we think we've got some new light to shed.
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Under Washington Administrative Code 246-16-020, your dental hygienist and your optician are "health care providers." This means that, under Washington Administrative Code 246-16-100, they "shall not engage, or attempt to engage, in sexual misconduct with a current patient."
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Whether it’s two billion years from now, when the Sun will no longer provide enough heat to support life on earth, or two hours from now in a nuclear holocaust, life on earth will inevitably come to an end. All religious traditions grapple with this fact. Here’s what they’ve come up with so far
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A blogger over at ZDNet realized that he could cancel part of his cable, order his shows on iTunes, watch movies on Netflix and save $300 a year.
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About 10 seconds after liftoff from runway 19R something happens with the left engine. Alot of smoke and fragments of metal and other material falls down on the runway. At first the pilots don't get any indications in the cockpit and plan to go on to Kuala Lumpur.
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Smart Folders in Mac OS X…What They Are and Why You Should Use Them
Published Wednesday, January 24, 2007 by Stangrunner.
One of the most underused features in Mac OS X is the use of “Smart Folders”. So…what are they? In a nutshell, a Smart Folder contains items in the folder based on search criteria that you set in the preferences of the folder instead of grouping the contained items by location, like a regular folder. This makes it very easy to be organized.
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The police department has issued about 60 slingshots to officers in the violent border city of Tijuana, where soldiers confiscated police weapons two weeks ago on allegations of collusion with drug traffickers.
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Long gone are the days of OS 9, watching our Macs boot up with a series of extensions and control panels that we could always identify. Today with the Unix underpinnings of OS X, many users are entirely unaware of what is going on behind the scenes. So what exactly happens during the Mac OS X boot process?
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"I picked up a box full from the Ballarat site earlier today, and inside were a few M&Ms packs, in unusually good condition. Halfway through them I found these... In each bag there are three or four M&Ms with the Apple logo stamped on them."
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A recent research study has checked over one hundred and fifty retailers to find out what proportion has the PlayStation 3 in stock. Over 58% of the retailers questioned had at least one unit but a mere 3% had Nintendo’s Wii in stock.
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Very cool satellite image of a SR71 Black Bird on an Aircraft Carrier via Google Maps!!!
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It's the real life encounters of PSP (Product Service Plan) at Best Buy. Only this time, this customer is not your average bear.
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A new study finds 65 percent of Americans spend more time with their computer than their spouse - and, on average, wastes 12 hours a month fixing computer problems.
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This is the moon and not the sun! when it started to come up it was totally red and then became orange (which was at the time I took this shot) and then turned to white/blue when it was higher in the sky.
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FreeNAS is a small, powerful, full-featured implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage device. It's powerful enough to be used in the enterprise, but it's friendly enough so that even a typical home office user can take advantage of it.
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Hot new management book released "Just Do Your F'ing Job" [image]
Published Monday, January 22, 2007 by Stangrunner.
When you stop laughing think about what she could do on the road!
What seems to be an easy task, become a disaster, but she is still alive :)
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What seems to be an easy task, become a disaster, but she is still alive :)
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At a cool $40,000 per day (just a 20-hour day, at that), the 9,000-square-foot, Hef-themed suite at the Palms is the priciest palace in a town unabashedly full of indulgent extremes.
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Ever want an USB-Powered Butt Cooler? Prob not, some funny products not to be seen with!
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Photo: The Next time your (Future) Kid screams for a Doll, get them this...
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They may never ask for another Doll again!....either because they are too Scared to see the next one or 'this one' you just gave them is TOO COOL and can't imagine a better one out there
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The QuickTime HD version of the trailer for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Silver shows what the Silver Surfer is packing. (possibly NSFW).
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Employees at the 1755 29th St. business told police they noticed a 2-foot-by-2-foot Plexiglas display case was missing from a table about 10 feet inside the front door at about 5 p.m. Jan. 9. The case, which weighed about 30 pounds, contained 42 of the new 4-gigabyte iPod nanos
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Mini-Microsoft: Thinking About the Microsoft 2007 Mid Year Career Discussion
Published Saturday, January 20, 2007 by Stangrunner.
"As part of our current series of software roundups, here are our must-have utilities for OS X. These range from maintenance to productivity, simple and useful to downright powerful."
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MASSIVE SECURITY BREACH reveals credit card data: TJ Maxx, Marshalls, etc.
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The TJX Companies, a large retailer that operates more than 2,000 retail stores under brands such as Bob
’s Stores, HomeGoods, Marshalls, T.J. Maxx and A.J. Wright, said on Wednesday that it suffered a massive computer breach on a portion of its network that handles credit card, debit card, check and merchandise transactions in the US, Canada, and..
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’s Stores, HomeGoods, Marshalls, T.J. Maxx and A.J. Wright, said on Wednesday that it suffered a massive computer breach on a portion of its network that handles credit card, debit card, check and merchandise transactions in the US, Canada, and..
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It's the Wii laptop! We spent the last few weeks (including much time spent over the holidays evading relatives) slaving over this bad boy and finally it's complete.
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For the first time, the Boeing publicly unveils the interior of its forthcoming 747-8 Intercontinental.
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Ok, so now we know that it is indeed possible to backup and distribute your HD DVD videos (and Blu-ray Discs will probably soon follow suit). But does it matter? Is there actually a demand for HD DVD video files? Do pirates care about HD DVD rips or HD video files? Let
’s take a look at some of the reasons why pirates do NOT care about HD DVD rips..
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’s take a look at some of the reasons why pirates do NOT care about HD DVD rips..
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When my son was born, I imagined how I would teach him about life. Little did I know that he would be the teacher.
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AppleInsider appears have gotten their hands on photos of an unreleased version of Apple's Xserve RAID storage solution -- codenamed Q57 -- that uses SATA drives instead of ATA drives and packs 6 fibre channels instead of two. It's reportedly running version 2.0d32 dev/A3.10 of the device firmware, rather than version 1.5.
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Best Buy is fighting against "devil shoppers", or *20%* of their customers!
Published Friday, January 19, 2007 by Stangrunner.
" These shoppers account for as many as one-fifth of Best Buy's 500 million customer visits each year, and according to Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson, 'They can wreak enormous economic havoc.' " But are the shoppers really the problem, or does the problem lay with Best Buy's shoddy business practices?
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Diggers might remember that Steve Jobs took a call on the iPhone during the Keynote. Well there was a unique ringtone there. A reader extracted the audio from the presentation, cleaned up the static, and removed the sound of 1,000 fanboys wetting themselves. Here it is, for use in your own cellphone.
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According to iSuppli Corp., the 4GB Apple iPhone costs only $245.83 to manufacture, with the 8GB model checking in at $280.83. What are your thoughts? View the breakdown here on digg!
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A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police and a man claiming to be her father said Thursday.
The woman - believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who would now be 27 years old - cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been
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The woman - believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who would now be 27 years old - cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been
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I've just stumbled across this ad for a game store in Omaha ...featuring a masturbating gameboy.
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Pictures taken after an ice storm in Michigan - everything totally covered in ice - breathtaking.
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Video: Steve Balmer 'Explodes a Laugh' at the iPhone during CNBC Interview
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Word of Advice for Steve Balmer: You can Criticize but Never Laugh...you may just find yourself in another embarrassing Monkey Boy Video
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With the imminent release of Windows Vista to consumers this month, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has claimed Microsoft's latest desktop effort is over-hyped and not a revolutionary advancement. "I don't actually think that something like Vista will change how people work that much," Torvalds told Computerworld.
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Neowin.net - Retail breach may have exposed card data in four countries
Published Thursday, January 18, 2007 by Stangrunner.
"I've run into some very strange products at Japanese markets, but this one trumps them all."
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A deal between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps to bring the legendary music catalog of The Beatles to iTunes could see an announcement in the form of a Super Bowl commercial, according to a report published Wednesday.
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Here is a person's experience with Best Buy. Just another example of how this company attempts to screw you every chance they get.
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A 13-year-old girl's father and stepmother were arrested after the teen told police she had been locked in a room for nearly two years, allowed out only for meals, chores and one-minute timed bathroom breaks, authorities said.
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I downloaded Real Genius. The 1 hour, 40 minute flick took about 16 minutes to finish on my 6mbit connection, which was being tapped at about 2mbits. And the stream started playing almost immediately. Quality was outstanding, with very few compression artifacts visible in either solids or motion. I'd guess it was about DVD quality.
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In this video, Jeff Han demonstrates how his touch driven computer screen will change the way we work and play.
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Group accuses Wal-Mart of organic mislabeling - Jan. 17, 2007
Published Wednesday, January 17, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Jeep uses this waterfall for its displays. According to the waterfall's builder, the system works like an ink-jet printer, with 3,000 valves organizing the droplets via computer program into visible logos and other messages, which appear as the droplets descend 24-feet into a trough. Talk about attention-getting!
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Healthbolt » What Big-Pharma Hopes You Never Find Out About Wal-Mart Medicine
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5 year old boy knocks on doors after parents are slain
Published Tuesday, January 16, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Answering her doorbell just after 10 p.m. Friday, Mary Jo Cooney looked through her peephole in San Francisco's Mission Terrace neighborhood and saw nothing. She didn't realize her late-night visitor was too short to see. It was 5-year-old Oscar Limon, spattered with his parents' blood and clutching a Nintendo video game, trying to find some help.
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Dr. Mac: Rants & Raves - Reporter's Notebook: Part II -- Hands-on with iPhone || The Mac Observer
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Netflix Will Deliver Movies On-line -- But Not for Macs || The iPod Observer - Now Playing
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Report: Apple to charge some Mac users for wireless technologies | News.blog | CNET News.com
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This is a recount of my 15 days of employment at the local burger king. After working there, I must warn all of you never eat at a fastfood joint where the manager is an obese tub of lard named Al. Funny read!
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Apple has created a podcast page on the iTunes Store for the Macworld San Francisco 2007 Keynote Address.
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"The employees of that store and others report that while they’re still fielding a high number of Wii-related calls during each day, they can go an entire day without any inquiries at all about the PS3.One store showed me a scratch pad they kept by the phone one day, making marks for each Wii call and PS3 call they received..."
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This is an old article. I'm submitting it because of the picture, which is worth your time.
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Nintendo claims that its Nintendo Wii is more in demand now than it was when it launched last month.
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The photo is from an actual test of a single U.S. nuclear missile holding at least 8 dummy warheads. Each line shows the deployed warhead striking the ocean at well over 4,000 miles per hour.
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The Daily Cup of Tech computer help site put together a USB-drive based collection of software that'll help you resuscitate any ailing PC. All wrapped up into one convenient, 14.2MB zip file, the USB PC Repair System contains 37 fix-it utilities (via Lifehacker)
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This is picture of AT&T Headquarters Network Monitoring room. It features 144 screens monitoring all of AT&T's voice and data lines worldwide. If I didn't know better, I'd say it was a movie set or fake but it's real. Pretty amazing, I wonder what the overall screen resolution of their screens is? 1,000,000,000x100,000?!?!?
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Will Apple release a version of its Safari browser for Windows? The Mozilla Foundation seems to believe such a move is a distinct possibility. The outlook is buried in the wiki information the Mozilla Foundation posted this week about its future plans for Firefox.
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Axiotron, Inc., together with distribution partner Other World Computing, is drawing huge crowds at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week, as attendees flock to take its new Mac OS X-based "ModBook" tablet computer for a test run. Unveiled on Tuesday the $2,279 device is an after-market hardware modification to Apple's MacBook notebook line.
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PirateBay Plans to Buy Sealand and Become Own Country
Published Thursday, January 11, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Bittorrent tracker PirateBay.org, currently based in Sweden, plans to purchase the man-made island-country, Sealand, off the coast of the UK. Sealand is its own country, and the PirateBay would not be subject to the jurisdiction of any nations if it relocated to the island. TPB is seeking donations to help go through with this plan.
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Apple, Inc's Phil Schiller shows John Blackstone of CBS the many features of the iPhone.
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Commentary from Mark Chandler, Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, on Apple's infringement of Cisco's iPhone trademark. "Most importantly, this is not a suit against Apple’s innovation, their modern design, or their cool phone. It is not a suit about money or royalties. This is a suit about trademark infringement."
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This guy connected couple of aqariums with "transparent tubes" - the effect is awesome. Check out photos!
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Answer: A 132 ton glider.....unbelievable but true story of Air Canada Flight 143, known ever since as the Gimli Glider.
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Here are some photos taken at Macworld 2007 of Kevin and Alex at the live Diggnation podcast recording. The show was awesome!
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"As I was running down the street to dive into the throngs of nerds at Moscone South, I ran into Steve Wozniak. Yeah, you read that right... Woz, on a Segway... he talked about the iPhone and Apple, Inc."
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Best Buy is taking a bold advertising campaign to its limits this week by announcing discounted game titles for the Sony PlayStation 3 as well as the Nintendo Wii consoles.
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A gallery of 50 photos of the iPhone up close as it is displayed in the display case. 360 degrees of photos! AMAZING!
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Could a little bit of hacking be the only thing holding the AppleTV back from being the perfect Linux Multi-Media set-top box? It's Intel based and has a hard drive. Sounds a lot like a computer that may be able to boot Linux at some point in the future. With all it's video ports, it would make a perfect MythTV Frontend or similar Linux device.
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When Don arrived at one particular location to setup the network, he discovered that the project manager had a slightly different interpretation for "a secure and well-ventilated location": The Men's Room.
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How the Mac was born, and other tales | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
Published Tuesday, January 09, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Forming a good skating surface isn't as simple as making a tray of ice cubes. Freezing a rink correctly takes no less than a dozen stages, with some stages laying ice that may be as thin as 1/32 of an inch (0.8 millimeters). Some layers require paint to create an attractive background and, in the case of hockey, provide clear markings.
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" Nightline said that they would be talking to Jobs on Tues. night's show. ABC, 11:35 PM
I'm sure he'll be on other shows as well, but this might be a little longer interview and may include a short profile as well. Just guessing based on what I often see as a regular viewer of the program. Certainly seems to portend something major!
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I'm sure he'll be on other shows as well, but this might be a little longer interview and may include a short profile as well. Just guessing based on what I often see as a regular viewer of the program. Certainly seems to portend something major!
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This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with Ghost4Linux. Ghost4Linux is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost.
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We bathe with it, clean with it, play with it and eat off it. Plastic. It's a petroleum engineer's dream and a product manufacturer's best friend. It allows for lighter, tougher and better packaging and provides cheaper options for gifts and merchandise. Yet, the very substance that revolutionized consumer goods may actually be harming us.
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As news filters down to CES of the iPhone, Nokia's head of Nseries Computers (the multimedia phones most threatened by iPhone) gives his views, saying that it's good competition, confirms what Nokia's been preaching etc etc. And then slyly points out that the iPhone is 2G, not 3G. I reckon they're worried though.
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During a radio appearance, Geraldo Rivera called Keith Olbermann “a coward — specifically a ‘pussy who wouldn’t walk across the street against the red light.’ He then said he was ready to fight him, saying: ‘I would make a pizza out of him.‘” Geraldo has previously attacked Olbermann as a “lowlife” and a “schmuck."
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This has gotta be one of the most intense coasters in the world. Named the "Eejanaika" at Fuji-Q Highland in Japan, it has a top speed of 126 km/h, an angle of descent of 89 degrees! and 14 inversions (apparently, a new Guinness record). But that's not all; the individual seats can rotate 360 degrees, flipping the rider!
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Starting Monday, patrons of the Dallas-based Pizza Patrón chain, which caters heavily to Latinos, will be able to purchase American pizzas with Mexican pesos. So much for fighting immigration if our businesses want their money after all.
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Everyone knows that polar bears are furry and cute, but few know that sometimes they can also be invisible.
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In a recent interview with the UK's Sunday Times, Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay calls the MPAA a bunch of "rabid, obsessed lunatics."
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On Sunday night, join Bill Gates at microsoftatces.com as he keynotes 2007 CES, demonstrating how the company is delivering a new generation of connected experiences. Bill will be joined by Robbie Bach in announcing several new offerings from Windows Vista, Xbox 360, Microsoft TV and more.
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Someone I know who works in shipping said they received a huge number of products that are all being sent to Apple Stores Monday Night. It is 5 times the normal amount he indicates. They weren't able to open them though because they were in all sealed boxes. The link to the story has the actual convo that took place.
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"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives." This was posted about 100 days ago, but I thought it deserved reposting.
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Mac enthusiast Dustin Bachrach has written up his picks for some of the best Mac software you might never have heard of.
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The work of popular deviantART photographer, gnato, was stolen and used as a book cover! Does anyone know a good copyright attorney?
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Setteb.it has posted photos from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA where Macworld Expo 2007 takes place.
The "Welcome to 2007" banner that was previously posted appears to be real with another angle as well as a vertical banner of the same.
Apple's booth is shrouded under black cloth to hide whatever announcements may be coming.
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The "Welcome to 2007" banner that was previously posted appears to be real with another angle as well as a vertical banner of the same.
Apple's booth is shrouded under black cloth to hide whatever announcements may be coming.
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MacBookPro bent to hell! (PICS) If you think your day sucked...look at this
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This is a sad story. I had my laptop in one of those notebook backpacks, slipped on some ice and landed flat on my back. The MacBookPro broke my fall, literally. Just wanted to get some sympathy from some fellow geeks! If you are having a shitty day, look at these pictures.
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Early last month my son, James Kim, died of hypothermia in a snowy wilderness in Oregon after setting out on foot to seek help for his family, who were stranded in a car.
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When it comes to coverage by the national media, UFOs (or Unidentified Flying Objects), generally speaking at least, are not a story topping the agenda of your more credible news organizations. This week however, was one where the mainstream media apparently never got that memo.
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Most of the time you want to avoid destroying your data. But eventually you will actually want to destroy it. For instance, if you were selling your hard drive, PC or Laptop ; you would want to make sure that person doesn’t have access to your files, email or personal info. fdisk isn't enough, so check out these handy tools and tips.
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It been eaten by millions of college students and office workers on overtime. It's been sent into space as lunch for NASA astronauts. It's the instant noodle, invented by Momofuku Ando, who died on January 6, 2007. Thank you for creating something that kept me from starving to death the last 2 years of my life. Rest in peace...
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Trace anyone with their IP address. Even gives you a Google Map satallite picture. Why not have "lunch" with your local spammer???
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Osaka University's Android Repliee Q2 pushes the edge in realism with uncanny facial expressions and movements.
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A 17-year-old boy in northeastern China was so disappointed with the looks of a woman he met over the Internet that he hanged himself after seeing her face-to-face, state media reported Friday.
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The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty.....
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This is one of the coolest things I've seen done with Google Earth! Watch a video of a guy jumping out of a car and launching a small UAV to capture real-time images to show in Google Earth.
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Last Friday, the FCC, demanding net neutrality, approved AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth. That will make AT&
T—once again—the world's largest technology company. And don't just think big. Think Goliath. AT&T will wield power over the nation's information networks to a degree unprecedented in the Internet age. So, should you be afraid?
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T—once again—the world's largest technology company. And don't just think big. Think Goliath. AT&T will wield power over the nation's information networks to a degree unprecedented in the Internet age. So, should you be afraid?
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See Page 90 of publication 17. Under the heading of 'other income'. Under 'stolen property' it says: 'If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in that year you return it to its rightful owner!'
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The note program xPad has now gone freeware after a dispute with Maczot. The xPad developer claims that the Maczot guy found loopholes in the contract and scammed him on $4000. Ouch.
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This is hilarious!! "Amazon's witty discretion on iWork '07 and iLife '07"
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OfficeMax Says "Screw You", Diggers Fight Back, FTC?, Legal Suit?
Published Thursday, January 04, 2007 by Stangrunner.
Talked to an attorney today. After he saw print outs of the webpage (PDFs) with the $17.98 price, and emails of purchases he said that there looks to be legal ground. He also stated that if one person receives, or has received this product at that price - Done Deal. OfficeMax has not a leg to stand. Does anybody want to press this any further?
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Check out this poor guy's cry for help over at the Apple support forums after he founds out very tiny little animals living in my screen. A whole new meaning to "buggy" computer hardware.
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Check out a huge collection of Miis from this Wii gamer in this video in the Mii Plaza. See Big Bird, M.Jackson, a Stormtrooper, Master Chief, Peanuts characters and much more.
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Dog attacks are very rare, says Miss Forsyth. What is called "dominant" aggressive behavior like barking is normal and does not make a dog likely to attack unless provoked.
More dangerous is "predatory" aggression which is unusual but means the dog can strike without any warning at all. And if a target like a person has been attacked once.....
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More dangerous is "predatory" aggression which is unusual but means the dog can strike without any warning at all. And if a target like a person has been attacked once.....
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Summer Williams works for NASA as an aerospace engineer. She's also a Houston Texans Cheerleader.
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Simple and to the point: Ipod managers, video converters, resource site links, and a bunch of task specific tools, most of them free. If you got a new Ipod for the holidays, check this out.
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Johns Hopkins researchers are patenting a possible cure for cancer that causes cancer cells to self-destruct without many side effects.
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Other World Computing to unveil MacBook tablet | News.blog | CNET News.com
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The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Bush says feds can open mail without warrant
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Pretoria - A UFO was sighted at Lephalale, where it was described as a strange object "on an orange cloud, singing like a million turbines" - hitting the earth with a bang at 04:33 on Saturday.
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This Mini has a brilliant graphic on the roof of an iPod, where the sunroof forms the screen.
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As the title says, here's a torrent of Discovery's chronicle of Steve Jobs' return to apple. Enjoy !!
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Mom gives birth to the last baby of 2006 AND the first baby of 2007
Published Tuesday, January 02, 2007 by Stangrunner.
One Boston hospital recorded New Year's births for the record books Monday, welcoming both the first baby of the year, and the last of the old year, television station WCVB reported.
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To get my input on Windows Vista, Microsoft offered to loan me an Acer Ferrari 1000 with the release to manufacture (RTM) version of Vista Ultimate, a Vista pizza with every feature of the OS included. The notebook would also come with the RTM version of Office 2007. Who could resist? I told them to send it with all due speed.
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A new study suggests why Brad Pitt's chiseled jaw makes women weak in the knees, at least for a while.
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Here are a bunch of handy OSX applications to enhance your experience with your Mac.
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Is Apple foreshadowing drastic changes to their product lines in the near future (MWSF, obviously) with a new graphic on their homepage stating "The First 30 Years Were Just The Beginning. Welcome to 2007."?
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Slashdot | The World's Most Powerful Diesel Engine
Published Monday, January 01, 2007 by Stangrunner.
A very detailed tutorial on how to take a picture of your car and use a little Adobe Photoshop magic to turn it into a car like you would see on Pixar's "Cars" movie. Very cool...definitely will impress your friends!!!
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I am at a loss for words. This has got to be the stupidest starngest advertisement I have ever seen. It has nothing to do with anything. A description can't do i justice.
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There is no possible way to say this enough times: great graphics don't make great games. Wii Sports
—a mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling—looks like ColecoVision. The little guys on the screen don't even have arms. The tennis game alone is worth the price of admission. Which is nothing since it comes free
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—a mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling—looks like ColecoVision. The little guys on the screen don't even have arms. The tennis game alone is worth the price of admission. Which is nothing since it comes free
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You'd never think that eating one chocolate kiss could provide enough energy to lift an 8,600 pound SUV over six feet into the air. After all, according to the label, there are a mere 26 calories in that one piece of chocolate...
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