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Live preview of a new revolutionary new software by Microsoft allowing people to tag, view and upload pictures in 3d space! 10x Better than flickr!
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All for free, this site has some excellent DHTML and AJAX code you can download. Under Drag and Drop it even has the basics of an AJAX homepage!
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Think you’re ’special’? That’s not necessarily a good thing. Young people emphasize ‘me,’ a trend some find disturbing
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For those interested more in issues than politicians, the site offers a wide-angle lens look at the big issues such as health care or criminal justice as well as tracking of legislation before the House and Senate. The site is a must stop after reading any news article to give readers access to all the information the political reporters,
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“Letchik Lekha” is a Russian commercial pilot who also happens to be an avid photographer. On his site you can find many rare shots of airplanes, the land below and the sky above…Awesome Photos
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“As a start to its long-term program to return to the moon, NASA is testing a two-room building that could eventually serve as a base for workers and explorers.” Insert Lisa Nowak joke here…
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For everyone out there claiming that you need a very high-end PC to run Windows Vista, this article shows that you don’t need to break the bank to enjoy Vista to its fullest
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Drag and Draw is a set of digital drawing tools. It consists of a multicolor ‘Brush’, an ‘Eraser’, and a ‘Magic Wand’ to bring their drawings to life and a ‘Bucket’ to project the virtual drawings onto the wall.
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Mention trash incineration to most people and the image that usually springs to mind is a dirty, smelly practice that is about as far from ‘green’ as you can get. However, this isn’t the case with a technology called Plasma Gasification, which is not only very eco-friendly, it’s also powered by the very garbage that it processes.
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Could a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem tomb once have held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth?
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Could a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem tomb once have held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth?
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February 23, 2007 There’s been a great response to Dell IdeaStorm, and we thank you for your contributions. As a result of your strong interest we’ve already learned a few things and are making (and planning) improvements. Here are the key updates so far:
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Lately OpenID has been hitting the front page of digg, del.icio.us, and many other large websites. People have been talking about OpenID quite a bit, in the last few weeks, and there are many out there, who don’t even know what OpenID is or what it’s about. So I’m here to tell you what it is, and why it’s so big.
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The need for a Free BIOS is even more pressing since DRM and Treacherous Computing have found their way into some proprietary BIOSes and EFI. This is a huge victory that enables users to have full control over their own hardware.
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BitFox is a Firefox extension that aims to make downloading torrents “as simple as downloading a file over a HTTP or FTP connection.” Still under development, BitFox is expected to offer the kind of BitTorrent integration Opera currently has.
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Amazing
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Today marks my sixth month having nothing but Linux installed on my primary computer. If you’re thinking of switching to Linux, or are a Linux user yourself, check out this success story of a great journey through Linux, which has only really just begun.
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Cape Town - Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.”All new software developed for or by the government will be based on open standards and government will itself migrate current software to FOSS,” he told a media brief
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Some pretty sweet pictures of Mexico city.
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A hard-hitting documentary on hip-hop that asks why it often shows black men as violent sex-addicts who abuse woman is sparking debate among a generation of young people raised on rap videos.
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The 0.01 kernel downloads to about 10,000 lines of C and assembler, which is fairly manageable. Note that it’s a barely functional UNIX with tons of bugs, but that doesn’t stop it being useful. Many people use it as the first step when learning to hack the Linux kernel.
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With the iconic Space Shuttle nearing retirement, the pressure is on NASA to design a new manned vehicle — one that will deliver us safely to the lunar surface by 2020 before building a lasting lunar base. From ensuring safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here’s a look at the toughest challenges facing the spacecraft’s engineers
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If you have a topic in mind that you find interesting, create a learning project or research project at Wikiversity. It is EASY! You don’t even have to log in.
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The new power, solar power!
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In buildings that receive USGBCs “platinum” certification, its highest rating, natural light permeates the entire floor. Sometimes, cubicles have their own thermostats, so employees can control the temp. The roof of Hicks’ building, has a garden so workers can take a relaxing break. And by the way, the urinals don’t flush, but they still smell good
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Today, NVIDIA announced the release of beta versions of the SDK and C compiler for their Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) technology. The C compiler includes a set of C language extensions that will enable developers to write C code that targets NVIDIA’s GPUs directly. These extensions are supported by software libraries and a special CUD
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In the wake of the U.S. House of Representatives passing a resolution that amounts to a vote of no confidence in the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq, a new national survey by Alexandria, VA-based Public Opinion Strategies (POS) shows the American people may have some different ideas from their elected leaders on this issue.
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Develop GNU/Linux software that works the way users expect it to. Write more sophisticated programs with features such as multiprocessing, multi-threading, interprocess communication, and interaction with hardware devices. Improve your programs by making them run faster, more reliably, and more securely.
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“BAGHDAD enjoyed a single day of relative peace on Saturday, with police reporting that only five bodies had been found in the Iraqi capital, against a more usual 50 or more.”
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“Wikimedia Foundation Inc.’s popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia cracked the top ten list of most popular Web sites in the U.S. for the first time in January, according to comScore Networks Inc. Wikipedia sites ranked ninth with 42.9 million unique visitors last month, ahead of the sites from The New York Times (number 10), Apple Inc….”
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Tesla Motors, America’s premiere and most legitimate electric automobile manufacturer is going to open up a factory in Albuquerque New Mexico.
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“Ultimately, the goal is just to chuck a bunch of stuff into a bucket and have it self-assemble into a battery,” says Jeff Dahn, professor of chemistry and physics at Dalhousie University, in Canada.
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Tesla Motors, America’s premiere and most legitimate electric automobile manufacturer is going to open up a factory in Albuquerque New Mexico.
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The American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said a security crackdown against militants in Iraq was bringing “new hope and optimism” after meeting Iraqi leaders in Baghdad today.
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This is double their previous temperatures of 20 million. Temps of 100 million degrees Celsius are needed to create a self sustaining fusion reaction that creates more energy than it consumes. Good job, China.
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One of the most complete write ups of Google’s Co-Founder that I’ve ever read. “How the Moscow-Born entrepreneur co-founded and changed the way the world searches”
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According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), 2006 was another banner year for new wind energy developments. In a recent report, the GWEC announced that the total amount of installed wind energy capacity increased from 59,901 megawatts (MW) in 2005 to 74,223 MW in 2006
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Human Immortality: A Scientific Reality? From the moment of birth, we begin the battle against death — against the inevitable. Statistics say that a newborn child can expect to live an average of 76 years. But averages may not be what they use to be
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At a time when user-generated content and other Web 2.0 trends are all the rage, one lawmaker is harnessing the Internet “for its ability to cut out the middleman.” He posted upcoming legislation on a wiki to get the people’s input.
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Women have high expectations for nearly every area of their lives, but when it comes to sex, they settle for less. And most women keep their dissatisfaction with sex a secret, leaving their partners (let alone their doctors) in the dark, said Anita Clayton, a psychiatrist who focuses on women
’s sexuality at the University of Virginia Health System
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Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Empires seem to rise and fall with surprising regularity.
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Overall use of illegal drugs among young people is down 23 percent from 2001 but abuse of prescription drugs is up. The pain reliever OxyContin as one of the prescription drugs most abused.
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Men will be able to buy impotence treatment Viagra over the counter in Britain for the first time from Valentine’s Day, chemist chain Alliance Boots said on Sunday. Three Manchester Boots pharmacies will sell the prescription-only medication made by U.S. drugs group Pfizer in a pilot program from February 14.
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Research shows that you can make yourself more alert, reduce stress and improve cognitive functioning with a nap. Mid-day sleep, or a “power napâ€, means more patience, less stress, increased learning, better health, better reaction time, more efficiency and many athletes find a daytime nap further increases their body’s ability to build muscle…
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Sophisticated aerodynamic shaping muffles eardrum-blistering sonic booms, permitting the QSST to fly over land at supersonic speed. If you
’re ever lucky enough to fly a Quiet Supersonic Transport between New York and Los Angeles, you’ll have just enough time to get through a movie—a short one. Instead of the usual six hours, it will be at 1100mph.
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A new reason to vacation on the islands.
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When it comes to hulking server designs, IBM’s forthcoming Power6 chip one-ups its predecessor’s multiprocessor abilities by a factor of two.
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“The only video player you need.” This version has an overhauled interface, better bittorrent support, proxy support, and lots of other features. Basically, it kicks ass.
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They said they were going to do it, they did it and they demonstrated it. Quantum computers are on there way. Now the real question will it take off?
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Overall use of illegal drugs among young people is down 23 percent from 2001 but abuse of prescription drugs is up. The pain reliever OxyContin as one of the prescription drugs most abused.
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Point your iTunes here. The U.S. federal government has tons of podcasts. NASA, NOAA, State Dept., Homeland Security, statistics, culture, health care, law enforcement voting, elections, consumer safety and more. All updated regularly. Keep up with feds, straight from the source.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates expects an AIDS vaccine will be developed while he’s around to see it, he told CBC News in an interview Friday.
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It supposedly creates 90% more energy than it uses, which is damned impressive. Alright, when can this be ready for consumer use?
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I’ve seen my fair share of LED bulbs, but usually the lumens they output are fairly modest. This bulb, however, outputs 308 lumens using 150 warm white LEDs, and is rated at 9 Watts.
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Bill banning iPods and cellphones on New York City streets coming
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Have you heard about OpenID? The simple idea that your web address is one form of identity, just like your email adddress or even your physical address? Well, back in December, we mentioned how OpenID has been gaining momentum like crazy, but today, things just went to a whole new level.
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Web design can be incredibly frustrating. You’d think that with all the infinite possibilities of what-goes-where it’d be pretty easy to land a design that works, yet somehow we’ve all been there: stuck working on a design that refuses to look right. These 8 tactics are what I use to get out of that sticky spot.
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The farmers must get approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration, which treats hemp much the way it does marijuana and has not allowed commercial hemp production but has said it would consider applications to grow it.
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Archos wasn’t joshing around with this whole WiFi bit, and while that 604 WiFi of theirs might’ve gotten dinged a bit in the reviews, it seems that they’re back for more with this new 704 WiFi that the FCC so kindly has revealed to us.
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The world’s fastest DDR-2 memory has been tested – can Corsair XMS2 Dominator PC2-10000 memory justify itself for the price? Or is it just a gimmick worth a load of cash?
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In September 1991, when Linux Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, released 10,000 lines of code on the Internet, nobody could have believed that it would spark off a revolution. In the 15 years since then, Linux has grown into an enormously capable operating system that contains more than 100 million lines of code.
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Without a public debate or formal policy decision, contractors have become a virtual 4th branch of government. On the rise for decades, spending on federal contracts has soared during the Bush administration, to about $400 billion last year, fueled by a philosophy that encourages outsourcing almost everything government does.
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A material that is stiffer than diamond has been created by mixing particles of the mineral barium titanate and molten tin. Diamond was previously the stiffest material known.
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Imagine a world with no land at all, merely the impenetrable depths of a seething ocean. Models of planet formation predict the existence of such worlds, even though our own solar system has none. Indeed, their formation should actually be rather common — and new satellites may soon detect them around other stars.
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Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative opened the nation’s first “terror-free” gas station.
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Nearly 150 years ago it was no more than a concept by a visionary scientist, but researchers have now created a minuscule motor that could lead to the creation of microscopic nanomachines.
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Great idea! Divide the oil money up between Iraqis - a la Alaska!!
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