Thursday, August 31, 2006
Lie by Lie: Interactive Timeline of Bush's Lies
In this in-depth timeline there is a history of the Iraq War which might help to resolve open questions of the Bush era. Using quotes from government leaders it tries to figure out what they knew and when they knew it? And, perhaps just as important, what red flags did we miss, and how could we have missed them?
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Wal-Mart and Apple Battle for Turf
The retail behemoth isn't happy about the iPod maker's plans to offer movie downloads through iTunes. Has Wal-Mart met its match?
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"This Film is Not Yet Rated" attacks Hollywood's "censorship" system
When director Kirby Dick wanted to learn the identities of the most secretive group in the film industry, he resorted to a time-honoured Hollywood tradition. He hired a private eye to follow them and go through their garbage.
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Sen. Stevens is 'the Secret Senator'
Action Comics, No. 1: Superman's birth
Girls Achieve Rare SAT Scores
For the first time in a generation, girls outperformed boys on one section of the exam, edging them out by 11 points on the writing portion of the test. "I can look at the question I am being asked and put my own knowledge and thoughts in the essay, rather than filling out a bubble," said one tester.
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It's Official: Netscape is a Sinking Ship
Now that the hype surrounding Netscape's social bookmarking endeavor has died down, reality is setting in. According to Alexaholic, after Netscape's initial buzz, it has been progressively losing its user base. And is in fact now at an all time 5 year low, with its traffic rank down 137 spots in just the last three months.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Download YouTube videos directly to iTunes
Using TubeSock you can now download Videos from YouTube, and save them directly into iTunes in a iPod video compatible format.
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How to Make a Taser from a Disposable Camera
A tutorial on how to make a taser from a disposable camera. $7, 7 minutes, and 7000 volts. Be careful! I'm not responsible for any injury you cause with this information!
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Conservative Family Group Protesting 911 Documentary For Bad Language
The Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association has urged members to protest against CBS's decision to air an updated version of its 9/11 documentary in which firemen and other emergency workers are seen swearing.
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Become your own radio station with Musicast
Streaming an iTunes playlist over the internet, or making it into a podcast: sounds like the mad ravings of a lunatic, right? The RIAA would never allow such a thing, people becoming their own radio stations and not playing crappy pop music?!
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Who's the secret senator blocking S.2590?
Porkbusters wants to know...at least one senator has blocked S.2590, legislation that would create a 'google-type' search engine that would track how our tax dollars are being spent. Who's the secret senator(s)? Hmmm? Forty have checked in to deny it. Sixty haven't replied yet...here's the list
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Fox News Calls In Katrina 'Experts': Richard Simmons and Don King
Today on Fox News, Neil Cavuto devoted much of his show
â??s coverage to the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. To give the real picture of whatâ??s going on, Cavuto brought in two â??expertsâ?? on back-to-back segments â?? exercise guru Richard Simmons and boxing promoter Don King. (See photo at link)
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â??s coverage to the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. To give the real picture of whatâ??s going on, Cavuto brought in two â??expertsâ?? on back-to-back segments â?? exercise guru Richard Simmons and boxing promoter Don King. (See photo at link)
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Monday, August 28, 2006
Homeowner Horror: Identity Thieves Sell Owner's House
An 89-year-old man has been left both heartbroken and betrayed after his North York bungalow was stolen from him in the rising wave of title fraud. Paul Reviczky, who fled Hungary in 1957 is one of the latest homeowners to discover that Ontario law favors banks, mortgage companies and purchasers over victims of fraud.
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Back-to-Schoo Dept.: Class Notes Meets Social Networking
mynoteIT is a fairly new, online resource for students that allows them to organize their class schedule, class notes, and group their work in such a way that it can be easily shared and referred to with the click of a mouse.
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Gadget Allergy: Computer Allergy Man Needs Binoculars
Ryan Warne says he suffers so badly from electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) that he has to view a computer through binoculars. He cannot use a mobile phone and, when he goes outside, he wears a special "hairnet" to protect himself from phone mast electromagnetism. A new study is examining the effects of electromagnetic fields on 264 people.
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Japanese Analyst Says Sony Will Only Deliver 50% of PS3s Promised for 2006
Japanese brokerage Mitsubishi UJF Securities has said in a report that they do not believe that Sony would be able to deliver the number of PS3 units they plan to ship at the launch time. In fact, the firm believes that the company would face a 50 per cent shortfall on their launch estimates.
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Jimmy Carter: Iraq invasion subverts fight against terrorism
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said the Iraq invasion had subverted the fight against terrorism and instead strengthened al-Qaeda and the recruitment of terrorists. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Carter said that if he had still been president, he would never have considered invading Iraq in 2003.
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Using Sound Waves to Create Antigravity
By applying a continuous resonant(600Hertz) sound wave, and by adjusting the amplitude and phase relationship amongst the 3 speakers; I was able to control levitation and movement in all 3 (x,y,z) axis of the ambient space.
This research was used to show the effects of micro-gravity conditions that exist in the space shuttle environment in orbit.
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This research was used to show the effects of micro-gravity conditions that exist in the space shuttle environment in orbit.
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Cool Optical Illusion Makes You Hallucinate
OK at first I definitely thought this was going to be one of those stare in the center and turn your speakers up maze scare things. But turns out it's actually legit and kinda cool. Stare in the center and after a minute look away. You will hallucinate!
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Will the Hobbit (Homo floresiensis) Argument Ever Be Resolved?
For the past two years, researchers have been hotly debating (and coming dangerously close to fighting over) whether the fossils of a diminutive hominin found in Indonesia are those of a previously unknown species. The publication this week of some long-standing doubts over the 'hobbit' fossils show the debate is far from over.
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Mastering DNS: How To Set Up Your Own DNS Servers
In this tutorial two Bind DNS servers will be installed, one as the master and the other as a slave server. For security reasons Bind9 will be chrooted in its own jail. Using two servers for a domain is a commonly used setup and in order to host your own domain you are required to have at least two domain servers.
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An Enron twist: convicted but not guilty?
If someone is convicted of a crime and dies before exhausting all his appeals, is he innocent? That's the question now challenging federal prosecutors in the latest twist of the Enron case. A legal precedent could clear the record of Enron founder Kenneth Lay, even though he was found guilty of six counts of conspiracy and fraud.
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Bin Laden Still Not Charged For 9/11
Bin Laden has only been charged with U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa on Aug. 7, 1998. Another more infamous date -- Sept. 11, 2001 -- is nowhere to be found. The curious omission underscores the Justice Department's decision, so far, to not seek formal criminal charges against bin Laden. Strange, isn't it?
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Revolutionary LED Fabric
Philips has come up with a way to weave flexible LEDs into fabric to create wearable fabric displays, which it has named Lumalive. These light emitting textiles make it possible to create materials that can carry dynamic messages, graphics or multicolored surfaces. Imagine the possibilities!
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ICANN proposes massive increase in domain name prices
Today is the last day for public comment on a new ICANN proposal that would allow domain name registrars to charge "market value" for your domain upon renewal. Got a valuable web business or domain? You might be facing a $1,000 or $10,000 - or an unlimited number - boost to your domain name renewal fee. Here's what you can do about it.
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Five Reasons You'll Use Google Office (And Five Reasons You Won't)
Google launched today a hosted software package of productivity tools that places it closer into competition with Microsoft's Live products...
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