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50 Cent, the rapper, is an interesting character, who actually supports President George W. Bush. He may have only actually been shot, three times, not nine.
Is gangster rap good for the economy, and does it help fight poverty through the trickle down effect? Maybe.
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Middle men exist to be provide services, and be annoying. Now the Internet is transforming the real estate industry.
What industry will the net effect next?
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Microsoft says its experience in building platforms, ability to deliver ‘compelling’ user interface ‘experiences’, partnerships with developers, & ‘thousands and thousands and thousands’ of partners mean it will unleash a ‘disruptive’ change on the industry, despite coming shockingly late to the internet, search, and software as a service.
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Google is scheduled to announce hosting for open source projects on Google Code today during Greg Stein’s talk at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). Can we say Sourceforge?
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The Underground Blogosphere is an intricate web of hundreds of thousands of emails that bloggers send to each other every day, pitching each other’s stories, seeking feedback and traffic.
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Here are a ton of tutorials (and links to resources) on getting starting with making electronics projects
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Even as consumers shift more and more of their daily tasks and chores to the Web, one famous form of online communication is losing its luster.
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Understanding the financial health of a company is essential to prudent investment. If you want to understand a company’s financial health, it’s important to be able to make sense of its balance sheet. Consider the ubiquitous coffee purveyor Starbucks.
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The West is running out of diplomatic options. It is becoming clear that the radical Islamic terrorists don’t want peace. If terrorist regimes don’t turn to peace soon, they may feel the real unforgiving wrath of western military might in a conventional war, without compassion or nation building.
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With the ease of installation, maintenance, and use of many recent Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Fedora, some are left wondering why Linux still isn’t more widespread. Here’s my theory. First, the home computer. People at home generally want to use an OS compatible with what they use at work. Linux isn’t at work, so it isn’t at home.
Linux also needs much better media and hardware support. If you could install Ubuntu and not have to fuss with video, sound or hardware settings, it would really take off.
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“Peace” movements are among those who take advantage of a widespread inability to see beyond rhetoric to realities. Few people even seem interested in the actual track record of so-called “peace” movements — that is, whether such movements actually produce peace or war.
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Imagine a nuclear industry that can power America for decades using its own radioactive garbage, burning up the parts of today’s reactor wastes that are the hardest to dispose of. Add technology that takes nuclear chaff, uranium that was mined and processed but was mostly unusable, and converts it to still more fuel.
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As studios slash jobs and restructure to boost profits, Hollywood’s creative and executive ranks are having a collective anxiety attack.
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Ambassador John Hanford said Saudi Arabia is already making sincere progress in cleansing its textbooks from bigoted references. He said that they have not removed all objectionable material, and that they plan to complete a comprehensive review within the next two years.
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The blog that connects the voices of the Lebanese and Israelis.
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Pictures from the deep dark regions under Russian streets.
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Designing a surveillance device to look and act like a maple tree seed is Lockheed Martin’s task under its latest Department of Defense contract.
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Here it is.
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Topics include: Spiritual Warfare, Psychic Powers, Virtual Worlds, Thoughts on Dune, How to Learn and World Domination.
There’s wierd stuff out there.
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The MIT team has become particularly interested in the soft-bodied snail Trochus niloticus and the inner layer of the shell that protects it. The inside of the snail’s shell is made of nacre which contains a soft, pliable material called biopolymer. The secret of nacre’s strength is in exactly how the gluelike biopolymers stick to the plates.
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The book publisher HarperCollins has begun testing book trailers that can be seen in theaters, on TV, and online. The publisher hopes that the trailers will help them better market their products to readers of the MTV generation.
Yeah, yeah yeah.
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While scientists have made great strides in recent years in understanding and predicting the weather, the idea of taking control of the weather and making it rain has remained within the realm of mysticism and religion. With the potential to alleviate the hunger problem in the world, the Geshem Project hopes to turn myth into science.
Wow.
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The Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology published a paper today showing how consumer preferences for a brand can be increased over the competition by techniques used to manipulate memory.
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Why Net Neutrality is Good for Innovation
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This is very good because, currently, a lot of not-so-bright Americans fall victim to cleverly worded mainstream scams that promise big returns on investments, but seldom ever do.
The implications of this are that it will be easier to find legitimate self-employment opportunities.
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Colleges like UCLA are doing this in hopes of serving another market segment.
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“That crisis began June 25 when Palestinian militants dug a tunnel out of the Gaza Strip and attacked an army position inside Israel, seizing Cpl. Gilad Shalit and demanding the release of 1,500 prisoners held by Israel.”
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For a long time now, advertisers have been wanting Nielsen to do a better job; now they will. This could mean lower advertising revenue for TV. This could have a lot of interesting implications, like funneling ad dollars away from television and into other mediums like the Internet and billboards.
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