Fake Name Generator goes FREE

Get 20,000 real looking fake identities for free in several formats -- CSV, MySQL, Excel, etc. -- instead of paying the normal $30 fee. Works great for testing databases or signing up for online sites!

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My sister is a pornstar!

A dude recognizes his sister from Bangbros!

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10 Ways Women Judge You

"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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Profilactic Aggregates Your Online Profiles

With so many social networking services on the Internet, keeping track of them can become tedious. Profilactic hopes to solve that problem by aggregating all the information you need from any social network that provides you with a URL or RSS feed.

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YouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims

I received a couple of emails from YouTube this afternoon (see below) notifying me that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. If you visit YouTube, all Daily Show, Colbert Report and South Park clips are now gone.

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Grid Wars 2 - A deeper version of Geometry Wars for Windows and Mac

Ever want to play Geometry Wars but didn't own an Xbox 360? Or maybe you're in love with the original but you're at class and you need that Euclidean fix right now. Enter Grid Wars 2. It initially appears to be a simple clone of Geometry Wars, but ends up being much deeper and much more fun. Download link on the page, and lots of pretty pictures!

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How many seconds old are you? - What was the day of your conception?

What was the moon like on your birthday? What egyptian month was it? And your life path number? What about your birthstone? What was the population then? How much do you really know about YOUR special day?

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20 Things the average person may not know about XP

#3. You can lock your XP workstation with two clicks of the mouse. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click, and enter 'rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' in the location field. Give the shortcut a name you like. That's it -- just double click on it and your computer will be locked.

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Composite face of 15 attractive women

Face Research Lab creates the average attractive face based on ratings.

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Google’s 56 forgotten (secret) pages, part two

Some time ago I was writing Google’s Secrets part 1. Time to show everybody, other Google things that most of us don’t see/get. Again, some of these pages are indeed still public, but either have not been seen by many people, have been missed or are just very hard to find. The rest are just NOT public (linked) anymore.

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The Official Stargate SG-1 Video Community Site

Well the new Stargate SG-1 Community Site (Think MySpace meets YouTube, gone all Stargatey) has been opened, it's still in beta. You can upload video and stuff.

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Top 10 things to do with Google Earth

Google Earth Hacks has released their list of the 10 best things about Google Earth. They include screenshots and instructions on all of them, from 3D buildings to joystick controls.

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CableTV without a Tuner - FREE HBO, FOX on your PC!

With the beta release of the TVU Player, you can get live Digital cable, streaming over the Internet to your PC, for FREE. Watch HBO, Disney, FOX, ABC, all the big networks and more for no charge! WOW!

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The Simpsons seaons 1-18

Every season of the simpsons streaming.

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Male Restroom Etiquette

Short film shot entirely in The Sims 2! All men of the world can find common ground in these simple rules of "evacuation" etiquette.

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PC World Names MySpace the #1 Worst Site on the Net!

MySpace (surprisingly) tops the list!

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President Bush uses Little Richard as translator

From the Daily Show with Jon Stewart: The president 9/11 speech is explained by celebrity translator Little Richard. Brilliant!

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Microsoft's Bill Gates on Firefox

Bill Gates actually have a Firefox browser in his computer, he thinks its a good one too.

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Why windows takes so long to start up.

Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It's a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren't so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems to take forever to load.

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Daily Color Scheme

An every-day color resource. Good stuff.

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myTunes now myFairTunes6, tons of features added

new version of myTunes (now myFairTunes6 to avoid confusion with the previous myTunes), v.0.2b, which allows for a simple media library browser, play/stop track iTunes DRM stripping from the app, conversion with metadata, and a teaser about a new version with 6x DRM stripping. Well, aren't we feeling a bit cocky now, hm? Still, nicely done

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List of free celebrity stock images

Just a simple site that holds thousands of free cutout stock images in psd format, categoriezed into athletes, actors and musicians amongst some.

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The Most Insane Pixel Art You'll Ever See...

This person obviously doesn't go outside, because the detail in his pieces are absolutely amazing...

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THE Crocodile Man, Steve Irwin, is dead.

It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest. He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that's when it occurred.

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myTunes: the simplified iTunes DRM stripper for Windows

Today we're one step closer to de-DRMing iTunes with myTunes, a small (50KB), simple, graphical Windows app designed to strip the DRM off your iTunes tracks lickety split.

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What are the top 100 Viewed Wikipedia Pages?

This tool shows the articles from the English Wikipedia that are viewed most. Some results may surprise you...

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Why Firefox counts down before letting you install an extension

The reason why Firefox has a count down before letting a user install an extension is because of security. By doing this it prevents malicious software from automatically installing on your system.

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HTML Color Codes Matching Chart (Pantone, CMYK, RGB Hex)

Here's a Quick Way to select colors for your projects.

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SG-1 Ends Run; Atlantis Back

SCI FI Channel confirmed that it will not renew its record-breaking original series Stargate SG-1 for another season, but will pick up its spinoff series Stargate Atlantis for a fourth year.

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The FIRST keynote of Steve Jobs 1984 - a Legend !

By this video i have tears in my eyes. It was the first keynote of Apple and Steve Jobs. He is presenting a revolution for this time. All what you see was futuristic and emotional for the audiance and Steve Jobs self. He als was very overhelmed by the standing ovations and reactions of the people. A very rare video - and important for my archive.

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Check you website's popularity on social networking websites

Social meter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage's social popularity. Currently they scan Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Google, Jots, Linkroll, Netscape, Reddit, Shadows, Spurl, Technorati, and Yahoo My Web.

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7 Steps on How to Win Monopoly Everytime

Here's a quick guide to mastering the classic board game.

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Stargate Hits iTunes

Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis officially hit iTunes tonight. As of right now you can download the first five episodes of the shows current seasons (the episodes from last night have not been added yet).

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18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

You'll remeber these tricks that you can do with your body when the time is needed.

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A new way to test your bandwidth (and it looks pretty cool too!)

The site allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance.

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Cnet - There's a blog born every half second

According to recent statistics from blog-tracking site Technorati, the blogosphere has doubled every six months for the last three years. That's 175,000 new blogs per day worldwide.

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VERY cool collection of high speed photographs.

I've never seen so many in one place. Kept me amused for hours.

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Gallery of Most Bizzare RAINBOWs Ever!

These are actually Natural Rainbows - not some Photoshop Abstract finger painting.

What would you think if you look up and saw THESE in the sky????

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The REAL Stephen Colbert: Interview on 60 Minutes

See the real Colbert. This is part one of the 60 Minutes interview with Stephen Colbert. Part 2 is located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R-rBwrTHss

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Top 4 Common Misconceptions About The Big Bang

An explanation of what the Big Bang is, and isn't, for the rest of us.

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Television Commercials (1950s-1960s)

25 minutes of various television commercials from the 50s and 60s. Commercials include: Coke, TWA, Colt 45, and VW.

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FREE Movies - Fallen out of copyright :)

Watch & Download Hundreds of free movies. It's awesome archieve for classical movies. Enjoy:)

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How to Win Against the RIAA in Court

This techdirt article suggests that the RIAA "will drop cases if you point out that an IP address isn't a person," and links to actual cases where the defendants won using this strategy. The logic behind this is that an IP address only points to who paid for the internet access, and not to who used it.

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Sneak Peek At The Simpsons Movie

During the annual Comic-Con Simpsons panel, creator/exec producer Matt Groening and fellow exec producers James L. Brooks and Al Jean thrilled the crowd with some first glimpses at the eagerly awaited The Simpsons Movie.

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YouTube Sued For Copyright Infringement

A Los Angeles video news service sued YouTube Inc. on Friday in federal court for allowing its users to upload copyrighted video footage onto the popular Web site.

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People's photos of International Space Station

A number of amateur astronomers and Space Station enthusiasts regularly take photos as ISS rises above the horizon in westerly direction and sets towards the East. In response to a recent article on this website, you sent us some of your ISS images. A selection of your photos is presented.

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How to Dodge a Blue Shell in Mario Kart DS (with video)

Good at snaking but still getting creamed by blue shells? Take this tutorial to heart and increase your already ridiculous first place lead to even greater levels.

P.S. snaking isn't cheating

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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Sleep

#16 - Dreaming is connected to bursts of electrical activity that blow through the brain stem every 90 minutes during REM sleep. Over a lifetime, an average person spends more than six years dreaming, clocking more than 136,000 in all.

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Google Video Secret Categories

Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.

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Great "LOST" map

HUGE "Lost" map and timeline with everything that's known to date. Pretty cool, dial-up beware

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Amanda Sets the Record Straight

Tired of speculation and discretion, the Awesome Amanda has just posted some correspondence between her and Andrew Barron from this past week. Nothing like the facts to set the record straight.

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Rocketboom: Losing the Boom

Rocketboom, the most popular video blog covering internet news, has let go its charismatic star anchorwoman Amanda Congdon. She has posted her own video giving information on what happened on her own "Unboomed" website. I'm hoping she gets going with her own thing; her writing, performances, and personality were the best part of the show.

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Every cool secret or great landmark you've ever missed in Google earth!

Check out this site its got a bunch of files that open up ge and bring u directly to cool places on the globe

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Easy way to get a @MSN.com email address.

Microsoft normally doesn't allow people to have an @MSN.com account without purchasing their MSN internet service. This unpublished link takes you to a registration page on Microsoft's website that allows you to register for an @MSN.com email and Passport account.

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iPod Updater 2006-06-28 Now Available

iPod Updater 2006-06-28 includes iPod Software 1.1.2 for iPod, iPod Software 1.2 for iPod nano, and iPod Software 1.1.4 for iPod shuffle. iPod Updater 2006-06-28 contains the same software versions as iPod Updater 2006-03-23 for all other iPod models.

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16000 firecrackers = big bang!

This is mad. Were they still exploading in water?

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A Lego Crossbow!

A semi-automatic pump-action lego crossbow that took four blocks in the handle and one in the chamber. It can fire a standard lego brick about 20 yards. It's not terribly accurate, but believe me, you don't want to fire this thing at the family pet.

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The Ultimate Video Site Cheat Sheet

"Confused about all the sites out there offering video sharing services? For consumers, though, the real question is: What does each site offer and what does it cost? To help, I've made an attempt to put all these video sharing sites into some kind of digestible format."

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Verify that your virus scanner is working

The EICAR virus test is a harmless text file that is detected as a virus by most AV vendors. You can use it to verify that your local virus scanner is working (just copy the string into a plain text file), check to see if your email server scans for viruses (email yourself a copy), and test if scanners detect viruses...

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We will be able to live to 1,000

Life expectancy is increasing in the developed world. But Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey believes it will soon extend dramatically to 1,000. Here, he explains why.

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New Digg v3 Launched

It's was live just right now. The midi was fun to hear.

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The majority of web surfers use 1024x768

The screen resolution 800 x 600 pixels has signficantly decreased since July 2005. More and more internet users choose for screen resolution 1024 x 768 or higher. The finding has important implications for web site designers because most web sites are designed for a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. 1280x1024 is #2 in the world.

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World's 2nd Richest Man Give Away Fortune: To Bill Gate's Foundation

Warren Buffett: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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ULTIMATE Wii Size Comparison Photo Guide

Not lucky enough to see this elegant piece of design work in person? This guide compares a slick homemade mock-up in side-by-side photos with a long list of gadgets new and old. So much awesome in such a small package!

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Digg 3 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats

"Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST. The launch is being announced this evening, and Digg has made a number of screen shots available to me which are included in this post."

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Futurama Renewed for 13 New Episodes

Comedy Central has ordered 13 new episodes of the animated series that Fox canceled two years ago. Billy West, Katey Segal and other stars signed deals this week to return the show to TV. In getting a second life, "Futurama" is following the path taken by "Family Guy," which also found post-cancellation success on DVD and cable reruns.

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Digg-like for Design Tutorials

There are some pretty good tutorials in there, mainly in Photoshop but it touches to many web design facets. Be sure to check the Tools section, as there are some nice links there.

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Watch 120 live online TV channels for free

Here is a web site www.live-online-tv.com where you can watch over 120 free live online TV channels in your browser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari. These tv channels are about: news, weather, education, music, funny, entertainment, games, reality, lifestyle, sport, cartoon, movies, travel, fashion, adult +18.

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Bill Gates' Piracy Confession

At the end of a Wall Street Journal interview, the Microsoft executive admitted to watching pirated videos on YouTube. What he says exhibits how ubiquitous copyright infringement has become.

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Firefox Cheat Sheet

This page lists most of the basic functions Firefox has, and how to access them. Great for those who forgot how to access a certain menu, or for somebody who just switched to Firefox.

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The COMPLETE command line list for Linux, Windows, Oracle, and MacOS

Complete list of command line tools you would need. Check it out!

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Animator vs Animation

It's a struggle between a stick figure and his creator, using items on the Flash toolbar!

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Watch TV for free

TVUNetworks let's you watch TV for free from your PC...channels include ABC and ESPN

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371 Useless Facts

useless, but good to know!

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GameSpot Readers' Choice Top 10 NES Games

GameSpot asked readers to send in their choices for the top NES games of all time. After tallying almost 12,000 votes, these were the victors. (Note, this list is different from the other top 10 list, not a dupe)

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A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives

Sometimes you need to QUICKLY erase your Hard drive. The article explains how to do it when you only have seconds, and the data needs to be 100% unrecoverable.

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Sin City Style Photoshop Tutorial

Photoshop tutorial for how to get the Sin City art style in your images.

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Over 9 years of events since Duke Nukem Forever was announced.

Mario has appeared in 58 different video games, the the price of gas has doubled, and the International Space Station was constructed. The list contains tons of other fun facts and events that have taken place during Duke Nukem Forever's development. How much longer will it go on? Only George Broussard knows for sure.

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Bill Gates Leaving Microsoft in 2 years

Bill Gates will move to the Gates Foundation full time in 2 years.

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The 11 Most Ground-Breaking Controllers of All Time

GamePro.com recently compiled a list of the most influential, revolutionary, and just downright ground-breaking video game controllers ever released. Did your favorite controller make the list?

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The evolution of the Nintendo Wii remote: Before & After prototype photos

In addition to adding a speaker, there have been numerous usability changes to the Nintendo Wii remote, and the overall shape and size has been tweaked a lot as well. Check out these overlapping photographs.

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Written by a chronobiologist, this is a detailed guide to human sleep cycles, how to alter them, what they are...

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DS Lite Sells 10 Times More Than PSP

For the week ending May 28 Japanese hardware sales figures show that the Nintendo DS outsold the PSP by a factor of 10. The DS Lite sold 295,103 units, while the PSP managed to sell 27,191.

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Report: High Schools Fail To Meet Needs Of Tech-Driven World

Roughly a quarter of U.S. high schools require students to take computer science courses, due in part to a misperception that computers are for video games and surfing the Internet, says a new report.

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Top 13 Improvements to the New DS Lite

This review lists the top 13 hardware and design changes made to improve the DS Lite. The "External Extension Connection" sure looks interesting.

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Nintendo DS Lite: Huge Pictorial Review

Nintendo's popular dual-screen handheld goes on a diet and gets a makeover. Do we really need another Nintendo DS so soon after the release of the first one?

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How Holograms are Made

I always wondered how they made holograms. Cool video explaining the process.

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DS Games Respond to DS lite Hardware?

Mario greets you differently on the DS lite when booting up Mario Kart DS. Are Nintendo DS games aware when they're on a DS Lite?

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Pirate Bay's popularity DOUBLES after 3 days of being shut down

The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most popular websites for illegal downloading of movies, has doubled its number of visitors after Swedish police shut down the site for three days.

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Big Gallery of Hubble Heritage

These photos are amazing to check out. They are worth it just save as your desktop wallpaper.

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Best Firefox Extensions volume 1-3 by c-net

Three volumes of best firefox extensions by cnet

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INSANE Mosaic! Check this out... crazy.

This is crazy. It goes on forever... please. I'm begging you. Check it out...

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Nintendo's DS Lite launch party in New York

"Wouldn't you know it, last night instead of going out and getting our social life on, Paul and I cruised over to Rockefeller Center to the Nintendo World Store for the official DS Lite launch event (it being the eve of June 11th and all)."

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Star Trek vs. Star Wars

A video on YouTube that finally answers the old Internet forum question of: Who would win in a battle between the Enterprise and an Imperial Star Destroyer? Very clever editing of the original movie/show footage and dialog, combined with CGI.

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Pioneer spacecraft are slowing down for unknown reason

There's a mystery at the edge of our solar system: Two spacecraft, Pioneers 10 and 11, which were launched to Jupiter and Saturn more than 30 years ago, are hurtling towards the edge of our solar system - but at a slower than expected rate. Called the Pioneer Anomaly, the effect of this slowing is small, but measurable, and so far unexplained.

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Rare Nintendo Prototypes Discovered

This lucky person has put up the collection for sale on eBay a piece at a time, releasing new copies of the Star Fox Championship Weekend game pak into circulation as well as prototype versions of Tetris and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past plus the second known copy of the English version of Earthbound for the NES.

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Family Guy Voice Actor's Speech @ Harvard (VIDEO)

Seth MacFarlane spoke at this year's Harvard Class Day. It's pretty funny. I am surprised he got away with some of the stuff he said.

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Astronomers Find Nearby Galactic Highway

Astronomers have discovered a long, slender stream of ancient stars racing across the northern sky. The stream is about 30,000 light-years from Earth and flowing high over the Milky Way at some 230 kilometers per second, or more than half a million miles per hour.

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Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge

This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves.

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New! Mario Kart Source

A new mod has arrived on the HL2 engine, Mark Kart Source. It is still in production, but it looks pretty cool. Can't wait to get some good ol' kart action when it is released.

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MPAA Decides Not Enough People Know About ISOhunt

A week ago, they were crowing about how shutting down Pirate Bay was such a huge victory for the entertainment industry. Instead, the site was back up two days later, and only suffered additional outages because so many more people started using the site...

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The Wii Virtual Console: How it will change everything.

The Wii Virtual Console has the potential to be one of the biggest things to hit gaming in a long time. Imagine having a huge library of great games all available to you at any time. The controller is not the only part of the Wii that is truly revolutionary. This could mean big things if Nintendo plays its cards right.

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Photoshop, Flash, Programming, & Web Tutorials

Hundreds of tutorials on photoshop, flash, css, asp, php, javascript

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Complete List of Civil Rights Violations Regarding The Pirate Bay Raid

This is a complete list of currently known civil rights violations that happened during and after the raid on The Pirate Bay, translated to English by Rickard Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party.

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Ten Products Google Should Develop

Ten new tech products Google should develop. Based on existing technology. Screenshots included!

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Nintendo Wiimote prototypes

Interesting prototypes for Nintendo's Wii controller, noticeably one has an analogue stick and another a rounded style d-pad.

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Mars Rover photograph of the earth.

Title says it all, A photograph of the earth taken by one of the mars rovers.

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How to Write FireFox Extensions

Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that!

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Unbelievable golf hole in one

Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a ball into the rough, but yet it is a hole in one. One of the most amazing golf shots you will ever see.

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10 Highest-radiation Cellphones

"set down your Moto and slowly back away..."

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Video from the pirate bay raid

Video from the ISP that hosted the pirate bay. The intro text says that this copy can't be used as evidence. Why are the police covering the cameras one by one?

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What is in Your Bottled Water?

What has driven this consumer demand for bottled water? Is bottled water safer than the water that comes out of our taps?

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That's one small step ... on Mars?

Red Planet footprint turns out to be not all that alien - Apparently some (conspiracy-hungry) people actually thought this photo was a staged one.

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USA: Russia Can't Join WTO Unless it Shuts Down Allofmp3.com

American trade negotiators have threatened to scuttle Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization unless the country shuts down the AllOfMP3.com website

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Find DS Lites with frappr Map

It's been reported by a number of sites that the DS Lite can now be had pre-street date at some big box stores. Here is a frappr map tracking where they can and cannot be found

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Teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant

...And that caused a can of Sure deodorant to explode with such force that it not only blew out windows but cracked a wall and even, briefly, lifted the roof off the bungalow.

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MPAA Gleefully Issues Press Release Detailing the "Sinking of Pirate Bay"

[PDF] The MPAA celebrates: "Huge Worldwide Supplier of Illegal Movies Told No Safe Harbors for Facilitators of Piracy!"

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Apple Named Hardware Company of the Year by PC World Magazine

PC World magazine on Wednesday issued its 2006 Hardware Company of the Year award to Apple, which had five products land on its list of the 100 Best Products of 2006: the iPod nano (#4), Boot Camp (#10), the Mac mini (#35), the iPod (#36), and iTunes (#43).

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Wall Street says sell your Sony stock

Ok, it's an upgrade from their previous advice of 'Strong Sell,' but it's interesting to note the phrase "a lack of visibility in Sony's games division."

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Nintendo DS Lite US Street Date Broken: Now Available

Reports from several site say Nintendo DS Lite units are available at some Walmart, Target and other stores and shown by these posts.

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isohunt under litigation by MPAA + CBC Interview

Quoted "I'm glad CBC gave me the opportunity to voice our stance, what we do and why the MPAA is after us. Media distributions are converging and decentralizing at the same time on the internet, and it's an issue the general public should be aware of, many of which doesn't know what P2P or BitTorrent is yet."

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Levels of HTML knowledge

6 levels of HTML knowledge among people, spanning from next to nothing to those who write the actual HTML specifications. Quite a funny read and not to be taken to seriously.

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AOL subscriber has mail & $1,595.69 bill!

A broadband subscriber is convinced by an AOL rep to remain with AOL for the low price of $4.95 a month. What he wasn't told was that the $4.95 plan only covered the first three hours of service!

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MintyBoost! - Small battery-powered USB charger

This project details a small & simple, but very powerful USB charger for your mp3 player, camera, cell phone, and any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge!.The charger circuitry and 2 AA batteries fit into an Altoids gum tin, and will run your iPod for hours: 2.5x more than you'd get from a 9V USB charger!.

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The Pirate Bay Raided: Exclusive Interview

Rickard Falkvinge, head of the Swedish Pirate Party talks with WiredFire about today's raid and what really happened.

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How Big Is Your Console?

For all those size queens out there, here are the dimensions for all current consoles. The 360, PS3, Xbox, PS2, PS2 slim, GameCube, Wii and Mac Mini (?) all put in facetime. Conclusions? The waffle iron isn't that big, and the Wii could fit in a large man's pocket. Hit the jump for the measured machines.

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"PS3 too expensive," 88 percent say, as Wii dominates Japan

88 percent of gamers surveyed by Famitsu believe that the PlayStation 3 is too expensive, with 69 percent saying that that they are most looking forward to the Nintendo Wii this fall and winter. In the quest for who gets to be #2 in Japan, 21 percent said that they were looking forward to the PS3, while only 7 percent cited the Xbox 360!

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Wii + 360 is the Preferred Package

Joystiq is running a poll with interesting results: at last count close to 50% of gamers will run with a Wii and a 360, and another 25% will go with just a Wii. The PS3 is taking a hammering it seems after E3. Is it price, functionality, delays, or all of the above?

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35% of Software in the World is Pirated

35% of the packaged software installed on personal computers (PC) worldwide in 2005 was illegal, amounting to $34 bln in global losses due to software piracy.

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X-Men 3 earns $107 mil in fourth-biggest opening weekend

X-Men: The Last Stand takes in a startling amount in its first weekend, including $45.5 mil on Friday, the second-biggest opening day in history.

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9800 Free Fonts

9800 fonts free to download with a nice preview feature.

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25 Worst Tech products of all time

25 of the worst tech products ever made. Topping out the list was AOL!!

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Mario Through The Years: The Building of A Nintendo Legacy

GameDaily tribute to the world-famous stereotype, Mario, taking a brief (yet detailed) look back at his gaming history. They track Mario through the years of Platforming, Karting, RPG'ing and all the other random Mario franchise game genres. A really good read...

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14 year-old charged $22,000+ library fine for six-day overdue book

Thanks to a merger of two library computer systems, a 14 year-old boy was charged $22,840 for a book that was overdue by six days. Solid work by the QA dude on that merger!

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XBox 360 - HD-DVD Pics

IGN got some new HD-DVD pics of what the device will looks like. From what can be seen, it looks like the device will run off of USB 2.0 and be powered via AC. Not too stylish, but if it's cheap, I'm on board! :)

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Schools block MySpace access; kids fight back with Hacks

"This particular student, despite having some glaring writing deficiencies, is correct to point out that students can hack their way around most such blocks "whit the right research," and entire websites have sprung up to help them do just that."

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Web Development Cheat Sheets

A nice assortment of cheat sheets for web developers/designers, including CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, and more! You can print them out easily to use as a quick reference.

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Windows System Requirements from 1990-2006 (v3.0 - Vista).

TechWeb compiled the Microsoft's stated requirements for each major Windows release since 1990's Windows 3.0. It also lists the average prices for desktop computer -- monitor included -- and portable PCs have been noted for all releases except Windows 3.0...

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TV Theme Songs (Open Directory)

Includes such classics as Monty Python's Flying Circus, Futurama, The Jeopardy 'thinking' music, and the Super Mario Bros. show.

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Watch 900+ live television channels and 3800+ online radio stations

"If you want to watch Online TV, or listen to online radio stations, of a simple and FREE way you are in the correct place, our live Television channels database is the biggest worldwide."

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Time Dilation: Frontiers of Time Perception

When a person's life is in danger, a phenomenon known as 'time-dilation' can occur. This is when, during a car crash for example, time seems to slow down or become frozen. In these cases the internal clock speeds up when facing a potential catastrophe, so as to take in more information more quickly and function more effectively in an emergency.

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Coolest photo you will see today

Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This is a five minute exposure taken from about 7 miles away from the pad. Taken with a borrowed all-manual Nikomat camera, 24 mm lens, f/16, Kodak Royal Gold 100 film. When the exposure was stopped in this shot, the shuttle was approximately 229 statute miles downrange.

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about your URL

Providers all sorts of information like loading time, uptime, Cacheability, Readability etc. Its a Keeper...

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The biggest hacking incident in the web-hosting history

Yesterday the Turkish cracker going by the handle "Iskorpitx", succesfully hacked 21,549 websites in one shot (plus 17,000 as our last update) and defaced (on a secondary page) all of them with a message showing the Turkish flag (with AtaTurk face on it) and reporting...

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How-To access your PC from school or work with a thumb drive

A how-to that shows how to use a remote access program called UltraVNC and a USB thumb drive to bypass school and work PC restrictions. Also includes a pre-made portable app. setup for your thumb drive.

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New Vista Photo Gallery Screenshots!

The Microsoft Blog has some new screenshots and an overview of Windows Vista's Windows Photo Gallery, which houses both photos and videos. Vista's Photo Gallery is also full of wizards for all of the important media management tasks. It will have wizards for mobile device synchronization, CD/DVD creation, photo printing, and e-mail. - ars

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Historical Sounds in MP3 Format (Excellent)

Great historical speaks and ounds in MP3 Format (include Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein,Robert Frost, etc)

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Google Video to get fine tuned - finally

Google plans to announce on Tuesday changes to its Google Video service that will make it easier for people to submit video. Now people who want to post their video clips can do so through a Web-based system without having to use special software. Hopefully their next change will be to overhaul the crappy look of the site.

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"LOST" with No Repeats Next Season

It's a plight that Lost fans know all too well — you tune in on a Wednesday night praying for a new episode only to find a random repeat from nearly a season earlier, or else a lengthy and unexpected clip show. ABC is hoping to eliminate that experience.

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Picture history of Yahoo's home page (1994-today)

CNet has a picture history of yahoo's homepage transformation over the past 12 years. Interesting to see how they implemented newer technologies over time.

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The DOD to release video of Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on 9/11 today.

Judicial Watch announced today that Department of Defense will release a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that allegedly shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on 9/11. what will the tin hat foil wearers have to say? i can't wait to see.

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Firefox continues to gain ground

The Firefox and Safari Web browsers are gradually becoming more popular, while Internet Explorer (IE) may be starting to lose some of its lead, according to experts.

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Timeline of the use of CGI in films.

Pretty cool actually...shows a cool evolution of technology in general, if you think about it.

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Hi-Res Photo: The International Space Station (3032 x2064)

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. After departing the ISS, the crew of Discovery captured this spectacular vista of the orbiting space city high above the Caspian Sea.

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Sony's Blu-ray Goof

A reporter from PC Magazine showed up at a Sony event in NYC where the company was displaying their new AR laptop and mobile pc. While there, Sony was playing a Blu-ray DVD, "The House of Flying Daggers." But when the reporter ejected the DVD, it was really a DVD-R! Sony wasn't too happy.

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Digg Office Complete

Kevin Rose has just posted some pictures of the new Digg office on flickr. The office looks amazing, check out these pictures for a behind the scenes look at Digg.

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BBC: Nintendo Steals the Show at E3

If success was judged by the size of the queues at this week's E3 games expo, then Nintendo would win hands down.

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Sony Executive Recommends Wii As Second Console

GamePro sat down with Sony Computer Entertainment executive Phil Harrison at E3 earlier this week, where he re-iterated a sentiment made by Microsoft's Corporate Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Peter Moore, where he said that buyers of of a next-generation console should also buy Nintendo's Wii system.

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Internet Explorer usage keeps going down worldwide

OneStat.com today reported that Microsoft's browsers have a total global usage share of 85.17 percent. The total usage share of Microsoft Internet Explorer decreased 0.65 percent since January 2006. The total global usage share of Mozilla is 11.79 which is 0.56 percent more than at the of of January.

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49% of MP3 player owners own an Apple iPod

In-Stat consumer survey data shows 49 per cent of MP3 player owners own an Apple iPod. The rapidly growing worldwide market for Flash-based and hard disk drive (HDD)-based players is to jump from 140 Million units in 2005 to 286 Million by 2010.

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Joystiq Video of Wired Spore event featuring Will Wright and Robin Williams

It's a big honking file, but we have video of the Spore Wired Event from last night as well as interviews with both Robin WIlliams and Will Wright. Enjoy!

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Nintendo signals death of Game Boy

It may have occupied the sweaty palms of nearly 200 million more people than the Nintendo DS, but it seems the Game Boy family has finally reached the end of the lineage.

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Video: Duck Hunt on the Nintendo Wii

nuts, they should've added the gloating dog .

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Do 15 Things to Live Until Age 129

Live to 129. "Take heed: Your lifestyle choices are very significant. While there is no way to ultimately defy death, that isn't an excuse to start indulging in vices and neglecting your health. There are plenty of ways to keep the grim reaper at bay — and many of these "secrets" result in an improved quality of life."

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PS3 to be $830/$999 in Australia at launch

CNet reports the official pricing of the two PS3 SKUs in Australia - 20GB version will be $830AUD and the 60GB version will be $999AUD. This is compared to $499/$650AUD for the Xbox360. With a probable price for the Wii being $350-$400AUD you could almost buy 2 consoles for the price of one.

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Gamers Not convinced of Price vs. Performance of Playstation 3

The system "is as expensive as I expected, and that is to say it is outrageously expensive," Chris Kohler, a free-lance video game journalist and avid game player who lives in San Francisco. He said that Sony had not made a sufficient case that the console's features justified the cost

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Nintendo Wii Virtual Console Images

Gamers Reports have some images of the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console interface and say it works very well. It even makes games like Mario 64 look better than usual.

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Take a Tour of Nintendo's E3 Booth

An extensive tour of Nintendo's booth at E3. A lot of new pictures of The Wii and some of its accessories.

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First Super Smash Brothers News for Wii!

Pit, Solid Snake, Zero Suit Samus, Meta-Knight all playable in Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii.

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Bill Gates Unveils Live Anywhere at E3

Engadget's live coverage of the event details Bill taking the stage to introduce Live Anywhere, an Xbox Live interface for Windows Vista and cellphones

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Sony PS3 $499US version will NOT have HDMI port

Link is to a PDF document hosted on Sony's site. The third page lists the differences between the two versions. The cheaper version does NOT have Memory Stick, HDMI, or wireless.

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First picture of the new PS3 controller!

New PS3 gaming controller.

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Nintendo Comments on PS3 Controller!

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

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PS3 price announced.

Today at their pre-e3 press conference Sony announced the price of the PS3. It is $499 for a 20 GB HDD and $599 for a 60 GB HDD.

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PlayStation 3 Controller Loses Vibration

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 controller has lost its vibration functionality because it interfered with its sensors.

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WhoLinks2Me.com Shows who is linking to you + more

Great little site, saves you typing separate queries in all se's. Shows ranking in other sites aswell

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Error Message Gallery

Various user-created error messages from Windows. Read if you need a good laugh!

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EXCLUSIVE Vista Build 5381 Screenshot Gallery

Exclusive and extensive! View the screenshots from Windows Vista Build 5381!

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Write anything you want on a LED SIGN

One day, Ian was given a LED sign. From January 2000 to May 2000, Ian and his friend Dave reverse-engineered the sign and put it on the Web. This sign allows you to write text and upload small images and get it displayed on the net through a web cam. Similar to the HP Laser Jet cam featured on digg before.

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Exploding Flowers

Watch wildflowers burst open at faster than .3 milliseconds, spraying their pollen everywhere! The flowers have a trigger hair on one petal that insects set off when they land. I just saw a talk about this tonight, and had to share the amazing videos! More videos are available from the journal Nature.

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Females Don't Always Go for Hottest Mate

According to Darwin, a female will choose a high-quality male in order to inherit dad's allure. However, this is not always true.

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Superman - The first issue (1938)

In June, 1938 Action Comics comes out with the first issue of Superman. Here you can see it in 15 pictures. Rare and fabulous.

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Bill Gates Doesn't Want to Be Richest Man

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told an online advertising conference Wednesday that he'd prefer not to be the richest person in the world.

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First ABC, Now CBS announces that it will ALSO offer shows online!

This time, CBS has joined the party by unveiling a service called "innertube"—an ad-supported video channel available directly from their web site.

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Top 5 Dead Hard Drive Projects

What do you do when your hard drive dies or is so small it is no longer useful? Easy, rip it apart and make something cool out of it! Here are 5 ideas to get you started. See project VIDEOS and PICTURES. (Includes the never before seen Hard Drive Oscilloscope)

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Download Google Videos As AVI Files

You can download Google Videos as AVI without additional programs or extensions.

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Pre-E3 Nintendo Wii Round Up

E3 is creeping right up on us now, and when May 10th finally hits us we'll be overflowed with Gaming news, especially coming from Nintendo's direction. And we at Gamers Daily thought it'll be best to create two articles, one article what we know about the Wii before E3 and another article after E3.

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Bluray vs. HD-DVD To Be Decided by Porn Industry

Just as in the 1980s, when the Betamax and VHS video formats were battling it out for supremacy, the pornography industry will likely play a big role in determining which of the two blue-laser DVD formats — Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD — will be the winner in the battle to replace DVDs for high-definition content.

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Convert HTML to PDF with PHP

Handy for PHP developers looking to generate PDFs from their HTML content: dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter written entirely in PHP5. It has no dependencies on external libraries (e.g. html2ps) and it supports CSS 2.1.

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How to make your own version of Star Wars

Tutorials on how to do different effects such as light sabers, cloning, energy balls, and so on using After Effects. Brought to you by the guy behind Ryan vs. Dorkman.

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Jon Stewart Praises Colbert for Speech

"It was balls-alicious," Stewart said. Colbert made fun of his mixed reception at the dinner, re-running the tape of one of his jokes with the audience barely reacting. He described this as "very respectful silence."

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Sony expects loss of 100 billion yen loss on PS3 launch

With the expensive Blu-ray drive and Cell processor technology Sony can't help but lose a lot of money on each console sold. Sony expects the segment to hemorrhage 100 billion yen ($871.6 million) in operating losses during the business year as it prepares the PS3 for launch.

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See what the US looks like when the oceans rise 3.5 meters

Say half the Greenland ice sheet melted in the next 100 years, the oceans would rise 3.5 meters. Say goodbye to South Florida and the southern tip of Manhattan.

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Abandonia - Home of Abandoned DOS Games

A throw back to the games of yesteyear. Here you can find and play some of the best games from the world of DOS. Enjoy.

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ABC Launches Free Online Episode Streaming

Starting today, you can stream episodes of ABC's LOST, Desperate Housewives, Commander in Chief, and Alias for free at ABC.com. The ad-supported episodes will be available for at least a two-month trial period.

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Transforming pictures into fantastic HTML (With Source)

This is real eyecandy. And best of all it is free. With source. Look at the stunning results.

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How to Prolong your iPods Battery Life

Good power saving tips to keep that iPod running as long as you need it to.

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Amazing hi-res image of the Sun (2100 x 2034 pixels - 3143k)

Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) image of a huge, handle-shaped prominence taken on Sept. 14,1999. Prominences are huge clouds of relatively cool dense plasma suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures.

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Video of an iPod Vending Machine!

In a hallway at the Hilton in Las Vegas there is an iPod vending machine. It sells all iPod models and accessories. Here is a video of it. I boght a charger for my iPod. Very cool! Here is a video.

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Massive List Of 5000 Programming / Computer / Internet Books - For Free!

Who needs to pirate books / steal from the library with a list of free resources like these?

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NYC Homicides since 2003 on Google Maps -- Where not to live!

Very morbid use of Google Maps. Definitely pinpoints where you don't want to be living.

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The Counterattack On Google

"How Yahoo and MSN are scrambling to slow its search-ad juggernaut"

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Amazing New X-Men 3 Clip Gives Glimpse at Sentinel!

A clip aired on Jay Leno gives us our first look at the Sentinels in X-Men 3.

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Hammerhead, the LEGO CD thrower

Sounds like fun to me =) "CAUTION: Hammerhead is DANGEROUS! The disk is ejected at a high speed and can harm things or people around."

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NASA Says Comet Will Not Hit Earth (Photo)!

The now broken comet that was rumored to be on a collision course with Earth on May 25th will miss. NASA says it will be a close encounter, but will miss Earth by about 20 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The comet should pass us within view of telescopes between May 12 - 28!

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Test Internet Explorer 7 Without Installing It

You can test how web pages look in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 without upgrading Internet Explorer 6.

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Hubble captures the shattering of a comet

images from the Hubble Space Telescope showing the dramatic breakup

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Top 5 Creative Uses for Your iPod

Did you know you can play Doom on your iPod? You can also load it with unusual stuff like Wikipedia and subway maps -- even dating videos! Here's a good rundown of some unconventional ways to use your iPod that go way beyond just listening to music.

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When MySpace Members Die

Awesome NY Times article about MySpace accounts serving as online memorials for people who've died. Also mentions MyDeathSpace.com, a site that tallies people with MySpace accounts that have died.

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Handy freeware programs to put on a USB stick

A list of free programs that do not require an installation and can be used directly from your USB stick or any other removable drive

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Color Wheel - ver 2.0.1

Online color wheel. Great for picking color palettes.

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Firefox is the first third party product to be featured on Google homepage

If you live in the U.S. and visit Google with Internet Explorer you will find the first third party advertisement on the Google home page. The ad highlights using Firefox along with the Google Toolbar. Looks like Google is stepping up its support for the alternative browser.

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Fascinating High Res Galactic Imagery

Stunning pictures of galaxies and nebulae. Many of the photographs are large enough to use as backgrounds for all but the largest monitors.

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How To Get Yahoo Mail Beta

Simple trick to try the new Yahoo Mail Beta before it's released to public.

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Make Photos look like Miniture Model Sets

Cool and convincing sample photos taken with a special Tilt-Shift camera lens, plus a step by step guide for the same effect in Photoshop.

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Google Maps Gets Huge Satellite Data Update from Google Earth

Last Friday Google synchronized the Google Maps data with satellite and aerial photos from the Google Earth database. Now all the recent changes in Google Earth are available to Maps users. Here is the most comprehensive list of the changes.

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What Is Good PowerPoint Design (w/pics)

A great explanation of how to design better PowerPoint presentations that get the point across.

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iPod shuffle vs. iPod shuffle clone

This german site hast pictures of a chinese iPod shuffle clone. Even complete packaging and the cd imprint is copied. The player cheap manufactured and is not supported in iTunes. It plays wma-files, but doesn't do aac or Audible-files.

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Gamers more interested in Nintendo than Sony at E3

A reader's poll at Joystiq shows that readers are more excited over Nintendo's possible offerings at E3 than Microsoft or Sony's, even with the prospect of PlayStation 3 demos.

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Woman Has Rare Case of the "Black Death"

A woman is in stable condition with bubonic plague, the first confirmed human case in Los Angeles County since 1984, health officials said Tuesday.Bubonic plague is believed to have been the "Black Death" that killed 25 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1351.

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MySpace foils school shooting

Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested Thursday after details of the alleged scheme appeared on the Web site MySpace.com

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gTranslate - Translate any text in Firefox

"With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text."

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Turn your Camera Phone into a Scanner

A new free service that allows you to take a camera phone picture (or any digital picture) and turn it into a searchable PDF file. If you have a camera phone with at least one megapixel of resolution, ScanR is great for turning things like whiteboard images and paper drawings into something more usable.

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Black holes collide in the best simulation yet - with video

The ripples in space-time created by the cataclysmic merger are captured with unprecedented accuracy – helping researchers seek the real thing.

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Beautiful Tutorial MPEG-4 Compression

Very solid information that is most likely valuble to any proffesional video creator or if you just want to make a good quality, small file sized video of your DVD on you computer.

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Apple reports 8,526,000 iPods sold in one quarter!

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 second quarter ending April 1, 2006. International sales accounted for 43% of the quarter's revenue. Apple shipped 1,112,000 Macintosh computers and 8,526,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 4% growth in Macs and 61% growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

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F-Shaped Pattern

People read in F Shaped patterns when browsing the web. Important information for all web developers.

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Comparing the Mapping Services

Since it seems that every search engine has their own mapping service, TechCrunch has done an excellent roundup of the ones out there right now and declares a winner.

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Convert any Photo into 1,024 Stadium Flipcards held by a Pixel Army

The Japanese site was translated by Google so the english may appear strange. They use the Linux Mascot "Tux" as the illustrated example...

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10 Best Designed Blogs

The particular platform (WP, Moveable Type, Typepad, Handcoded) doesn't matter. It's what you do with it that counts. This isn't about prettiest blog, or the best written blog. This is a list of the most groundbreaking, cutting edge blogs out there. You see these blogs and cry, because they're creatures of fierce untameable beauty.

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FULL List of Google Resources with Descriptions

Ever wanted to use Google to the max? This Wikipedia article lists all of the services, tools, downloads, features, programs, and even hardware offered by Google. There are many little known services and tools of great value that I'd never even heard of before.

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Gigapxl: San Francisco/Bay Bridge at Night

Double exposing in this fashion allows one to preserve a host of architectural detail which otherwise would be lost in the shadows. Below are a closer city view and detail within the city, as well as a zoom of the bridge with a close up of the far right tower.

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Screenshots of Teacher's MySpace page that might put her back in jail.

Pamela Rogers, the hot 28-year-old teacher that had sex with a 13-year-old student multiple times, might be going back to jail for sending him not-so-secret MySpace messages. Check out the right side of the article for the actual screenshots.

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Nintendo DS Lite Scores an 8.0/10 on CNET

"With a slick new design, brighter screens, and a growing library of fun and innovative games, the Nintendo DS Lite is an impressive improvement over the original DS--but it's still not a multimedia and graphical powerhouse like the Sony PSP."

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Mozilla 'Fixes' 24 Bugs. Firefox is NOT Vulnerable

This is in response to the false digg that Firefox is vulnerable: Secunia tagged the overall updates -- to Firefox 1.5.0.2 and 1.08, and Sea Monkey 1.0.1 -- as "Highly critical," its second-from-the-top ranking. Mozilla Corp. updated its Firefox browser to patch a mega-batch of 24 vulnerabilities, the bulk of them tagged "critical."

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New! Google Video Top 100

http://video.google.com/videoranking

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How YouTube Became Hot Property In Online Video

YouTube.com seems like a startup straight out of Silicon Valley central casting. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the web.

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Firefox 1.5.0.2 released

Firefox 1.5.0.2 provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors, and stability and security enhancements that are part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

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60% of IM users prefer MSN Messenger

What client do you use for instant messaging? According to a recent study by comScore Networks, there's a decent chance that it's MSN Messenger, which lassoed in 61 percent of worldwide instant messaging (IM) market share.

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Tenth planet as bright as fresh snow

Xena, officially called 2003 UB313, was first announced in July 2005 and lies about three times as far from the Sun as Pluto. Its brightness indicated it was larger than Pluto, but it was not clear by how much because astronomers did not know how much sunlight its surface reflected.

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Catch 'Lost' 'Alias' Online a Day Later - With Unskippable Ads

Yesterday, Disney announced details of the plan. Beginning in May, the company will begin a two-month trial that will make four popular shows from its ABC network — "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "Commander in Chief" and "Alias" — available for free viewing online the day after they are broadcast.

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Google make 12 cents for every search you perform!

...and that's a lot of cash considering;

"Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches via Google in January 2006"

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The Most Controversial Game Ads EVER

Well, I'm sure they left out a few, but these sure are controversial.

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RIAA and MPAA merge to form MAFIAA

Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) chairman Dan Glickman and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) president Cary Sherman today announced the historic merger of the two organizations. The newly-created entity is being called the Music And Film Industry Association of America, Inc.

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Nintendo DS download station finder!

Punch in your zip code, and find the nearest DS Download station, take your DS and enjoy the free demo downloads! Demo stations are currently featuring "Brain Age", "True Swing Golf" and a few others.

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Coinstar turns loose change into iTunes songs

Now in addition to Amazon gift certificates, your loose change can be used for iTunes Music Store songs.

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Get Angry, Scan Entire IP Subnet < 5 Seconds

It's Free, and Open Source.

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Hubble finds 10th planet slightly larger than Pluto

Official NASA release confirming the tenth planet 'Xena' and finds it is only slightly larger than Pluto.

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Rube Goldberg Ramen

And you thought it only took 2 minutes to make Ramen.

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TDK mass producing Blu-ray Disc media

"Japan-based TDK has begun shipping 25GB recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc media nationwide. According to the Blu-ray Disc Association, TDK is the first to market with bare Blu-ray Disc media."

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15,000 layer Photoshop file.

Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster.

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270 Free Mini Pixel Icons

"These mini icons are designed at 14x14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical)."

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Digg Tools

Large list of various digg tools/links collected from around the web. Good website to check out.

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HD DVD and Blu-ray drives cost over $400 to build

A research firm looks at the bill of materials for "blue laser players" and came up with a round figure of about US$400. This includes not only the hardware, but royalty licenses for the various codecs included in the players.

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How the DHARMA Initiative Works

For such a secretive organization, the DHARMA Initiative has left lots of evidence of its activities. Not only has it populated an island with territorial polar bears and sharks, it has defended its territory with a menacing monster that looks deceptively like black smoke.

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Study finds two supermassive black holes spiraling toward collision

"A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiraling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory."

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How dead stars make planets

Rings of debris formed in the aftermath of stellar explosions could fuel the birth of new, rocky planets around dead stars. They could also provide an alternative way to make black holes, scientists said Wednesday.

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NEW Internet Explorer Exploit

This one is VERY VERY Bad Phiser's are using it already! Digg This so Others can do the Test, Click on the Link and go to the "Start Test" link on the page

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Phoenix Mars Lander: Getting Down and Dirty On the Red Planet

The next Mars lander is undergoing assembly and testing, being readied for departure next year to explore the martian arctic. This probe is equipped to dig deep, quite literally, into an ongoing mystery—the history of water on Mars and the planet's potential as an extraterrestrial address for life.

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Digg listed as 18th most referenced site according to new study

This site is doing a study on RSS feeds and how people are referencing sites, digg.com is listed as 18th out of 1.2k million. Lots of big names in the top 20, glad to see digg is up there!

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The Simpsons Movie Crew Discovered

Though Matt Groening is a given, the article looks at who will direct, write and star in the upcoming animated film.

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Final Goodbye to Microsoft's "Clippy" the Most Hated Paper Clip Ever

Clippy, the annoying Microsoft paper clip that had nothing but good intentions, will be taken out of Office 2007 completely, with "no option to turn it back on."

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Michael Moore Talks About Filesharing

The guy some people love to hate tells it like it is.

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Map from door in LOST TV show, does it hold the key?

This is the Map from the door in lost, has lots of very interesting stuff on it. Is a must see!!!

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How I Work: Bill Gates

Quote - "I get about 100 e-mails a day. We apply filtering to keep it to that level—e-mail comes straight to me from anyone I've ever corresponded with, anyone from Microsoft, Intel, HP etc. And I always see a write-up from my assistant of any other e-mail, from companies that aren't on my permission list or individuals I don't know."

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The Official Podcast Logo?

The German website, http://Podcastlogo.com, held a contest to see who could come up with the best logo, and the winner, Peter Marquardt with an RSS feed icon with headphones on. Who knows if it will catch on...

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