Saturday, August 19, 2006
PS3 Manufacturing, falsly reported, it hasn't begun yet!?!
Apparently the large amounts of sites (even forbes) reporting back in July that Asustek and Sony had begun production of PS3 units in the range of 200k units and wanted to push forward for the november launch, however in a recent interview Kaz Hirai, apparently let some interesting details slip.
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Arab secularist tells it like it is on Al Jazeera - gets called a heretic
An arab woman tries to explain that this is a war between people who are thinking with a 21st century mentality and those that are living in the Middle Ages. She explains that this is simply about women's rights and allowing people to believe in whatever they want without infringing on others by blowing them up. BRAVO!
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Arab secularist tells it like it is on Al Jazeera - gets called a heretic
An arab woman tries to explain that this is a war between people who are thinking with a 21st century mentality and those that are living in the Middle Ages. She explains that this is simply about women's rights and allowing people to believe in whatever they want without infringing on others by blowing them up. BRAVO!
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Breastfeeding mothers detained away from babies.
Immigration officials have been accused of flouting several UN conventions by detaining mothers away from pre-weaned infants in at least two cases this spring.
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More Threats for Videotaping Police
Massachusetts state police and prosecutors are threatening a woman with criminal sanctions for posting video of an arrest on her website. Not only that, but state prosecutors are apparently threatening other websites for merely linking to the video. (Note: multi-blog story)
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Ultimate-Guitar.com: The Last Stand
The time has come for Ultimate-Guitar.Com to get an MPA letter. Surely, that was not something good, but the request to remove all tabs in 10 days. What does it mean? Nothing. We are legal. We are not going to shut down the website.
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In Pictures: Seven Amazing Robots That Will Change Lives
We present the masters of robotic innovation who are fusing advances in biomechanics, software, sensor technology, materials science and computing to create new generations of robotic assistants. Learning has been key, both for robots and for their designers. Robots are about to be unshackled from forced labor. Expect them everywhere.
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In Pictures: Seven Amazing Robots That Will Change Lives
We present the masters of robotic innovation who are fusing advances in biomechanics, software, sensor technology, materials science and computing to create new generations of robotic assistants. Learning has been key, both for robots and for their designers. Robots are about to be unshackled from forced labor. Expect them everywhere.
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Putting Google-Fi to the Test
Google launched its citywide Wi-Fi service here this week, and Wired News decided to put it to the test. Our first stop: Off the freeway at the southwest end of town, and the coverage was not bad.
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
Federal judge orders end to wiretap program
DETROIT - A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.
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3 Mexican Fishermen Survive 9 Months in Pacific Ocean
A day fishing trip turned into a nine month ordeal of survival. These guys drifted 5,000 miles west across the Pacific Ocean, eating only raw fish and seagulls and rain water. Fortunately, the didn't have to resort to cannibalism and were picked up close to the Marshall Islands on 9 August.
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Research finds 'unique human DNA'
Scientists say they have discovered a gene sequence which appears to play a central role in giving humans their unique brain capacity. The area, called HAR1, has undergone accelerated evolutionary change in humans and is active during a critical stage in brain development.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
What's taking up my hard disk space? Awesome FOSS app will show you!
Disk Inventory X is a great little FOSS app that will display all the data on your hard disk visually so you can see what is taking up space. Each file is represented by a block, its size determined by the file size and its color determined by its file type. Great for finding large, unnecessary files you don't know about to save disk space!
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The US Constitution: Anybody Remember It?
It's a quaint little document, really. One of its major problems, of course, is that it was written by white males and as everyone knows, there must be ethnic and gender diversity in anything worth keeping these days. And so it goes out the window, this little document that's been holding our country together for a couple of hundred years...
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Nintendo of America Prez. Says Online Play Free, Shares Overall Strategy
Reginald Fils-Aime says that free online play is an integral part of the Wii experience and that they're out to get new customers, not recycle us old gamers.
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Voyager 1: 'The Spacecraft That Could' Hits New Milestone
Voyager 1, already the most distant human-made object in the cosmos, reaches 100 astronomical units from the sun on Tuesday, August 15 at 5:13 p.m. Eastern time (2:13 p.m. Pacific time). That means the spacecraft, which launched nearly three decades ago, will be 100 times more distant from the sun than Earth is.
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Pres. Clinton Speaks Out On The The Politcs of Terror
Taking a break from his work at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday, former President Clinton warned Republicans not to politicize the London terror arrests, slammed Sen. Joe Lieberman, whom he campaigned for just a couple weeks ago, and tackled some of the controversies surrounding his work to fight AIDS.
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How to Get Away with Doing Nothing at Work
Tired of actually working at your job? Use these tips to help you breeze through your day while doing the least amount of work possible.
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CBS to start streaming prime-time shows
CBS will begin showing episodes of several new and returning prime-time shows for free on the Internet, becoming the second network to do so. The network said that starting next month it will begin streaming episodes of a new show, "Jericho," along with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI: Miami," "CSI: NY," "Numbers" and "Survivor."
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Secrets of the Pirate Bay
Copperfield says he's found Fountain of Youth
Master illusionist David Copperfield says he has found the "Fountain of Youth" in the southern Bahamas, amid a cluster of four tiny islands he recently bought for $50 million.
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Memorex begins shipping HD DVD-R discs, 20 bucks a pop
They started shipping today but are very expensive right now: "The 15GB single-layer discs will cost $20 apiece."
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Samuel L. Jackson on The Daily Show
Monday, August 14, 2006
9/11 Detainee released after 5 years of not being charged with any crime
The date was Sept. 12, 2001, but Benemar "Ben" Benatta was clueless about the death and destruction one day earlier. About a week before, Canadian officials had stopped Benatta as he entered the country from Buffalo to seek political asylum.
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Concert Ticket Generator
Now you never have to admit you missed the show. Just enter some text and click the 'Go' button. A picture of a concert ticket will be generated for you. Collect 'em, trade 'em, put 'em on your website, or e-mail 'em to your friends.
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More fat people than starving people in the world...
Gullible Americans
Paul Craig Roberts (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration -- known to many as the father of Reaganomics -- and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal) talks about how Americans have a penchant to believe whatever they're told.
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We have snakes on a plane, now there is snakes on a blog
Lamont Hits Back At Cheney, Lieberman.
"My God, here we have a terrorist threat against hearth and home, and the very first thing that comes out of their mind is how can we turn this to partisan advantage. I find that offensive," Lamont said in an interview Sunday with The Associated Press.
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HUGE Comic Books Archive - 2861 comics online
HUGE Comic Books Archive - 2861 comics online
CEASEFIRE has Officially Gone into Effect Minutes AGO: 1am EST
The Israeli army said in a statement the military was told not to initiate any action after 8 a.m. (1 a.m. EST), but "the forces will do everything to prevent being hit." There were no immediate reports of fighting continuing in southern Lebanon.
WILL IT LAST? Let's hope
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WILL IT LAST? Let's hope
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Firefox runs for prom queen (but who will be its date?)
A group of high school kids campaign to have Firefox (yes, the web browser) run for prom queen at their school. The advertising is incredible, and they're almost successful--until the school bans browser candidates.
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Pirate Party Launches High-Capacity Darknet
The Swedish Pirate Party has launched a commercial, high-capacity darknet, on an unprecedented scale and bandwidth. This service lets anybody send and receive files anonymously without being tracked or traced, and can pump data well over 10 megabits per second.
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