Saturday, September 09, 2006

The top-secret warplanes of Area 51

"Stealth jets? Hypersonic bombers? What's really being developed at the military's most famous classified base? "

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Beautiful 2-story home w/4 story below ground 'fortress' - for sale! (pics)

" The Underground Fortress is an 8th wonder of the world! ...The Fortress goes a total of 45 feet under the house! That is below sea level! The fortress has over 1600 sq. ft. of living area, plus hundreds of more square feet of passages and secrets rooms." Reminds me of the bunkers in 'Lost.' Many photos.

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Heck..Even Sony holds doubts of PS3

"After a recall involving millions of Sony-made personal computer batteries and yet another delay for the PlayStation 3 game console, even one of Sony's top executives is questioning whether the company is on the right track."

Click link for more info and quote from exec.

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BREAKING NEWS - Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off from Kennedy Space Center

NEW: Controllers give space shuttle 'go' for launch
â?¢ Fueling completed, weather appears cooperative
â?¢ If no launch Saturday, mission must be delayed for weeks
â?¢ Shuttle carrying new parts for space station for 1st time since Columbia disaster

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Original Signal outdoes Digg -- with Digg's own content

In many ways it's a better Digg front page than Digg itself. It displays more content than Digg's own site, and also has sections for top headlines from different time periods (recent, today, and the week).

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First fully programmable Linux phone (w/PICTURES)

Trolltech announced the Greenphone, which is thought to be the first fully reprogrammable Linux phone. CEO Haavard Nord says, "It's kind of mind-boggling for developers, everybody usually wants to protect the software in their phone, but we want to let the developers experiment and innovate."

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BMW begins testing hydrogen combustion engine

BMW was not kidding when it said it would offer a 7-Series with a hydrogen combustion engine within two years. The company is now testing actual production prototypes. The cars can run on both gasoline and hydrogen. No electric motors are involved. When running on hydrogen, there are no emissions.

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The Gamecube is Outselling the Xbox 360 in Japan

Microsoft has sold 75,837 Xbox 360 units in Japan in 2006 so far, according to Enterbrain's data. Nintendo, meanwhile, has sold 77,124 GameCubes during the same period.

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Friday, September 08, 2006

You Thought Canceling AOL Was Hard, Just LOOK at IGN!

From customer service where you never talk to a human to hidden auto-renew options that automatically bill you without your notice, IGN is a staple in Customer Dissatisfaction. Don't believe me? Just see and hear for yourself.

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Xanga Zinged !!!!

Xanga.com, a rival to the popular MySpace.com, allegedly permitted creation of 1.7 million accounts by users who submitted birthdays indicating they were under 13.

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Nintendo DS is Expected to Outship Sony PSP By as Much as 30% This Year

Even a drastic price cut will not allow Sony to change the PSP's feature set or quickly create a new killer application to boost sales: UMD-based movies have enjoyed early success, but are slowly disappearing from the market. And the PSP lacks true blockbuster game titles such as Nintendo's Super Mario Bros.

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Opinion Polls are Garbage - Pollster Pleads Guilty to Fraud

The owner of DataUSA Inc., a company that conducted political polls for the campaigns of President Bush, Sen. Joe Lieberman and other candidates, pleaded guilty to fraud for making up survey and poll results. Tracy Costin pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Costin, 46, faces a maximum of five years in prison.

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Facebook Creator admits "We really messed this one up."

Mark Zuckerberg: "Somehow we missed this point with Feed and we didn
â??t build in the proper privacy controls right away. This was a big mistake on our part, and Iâ??m sorry for it. But apologizing isnâ??t enough. I wanted to make sure we did something about it, and quickly. So we have been coding nonstop for two days to get you better privacy."

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Thursday, September 07, 2006

FBI Agent Consulted On Path to 9/11 Quit B/c â??They Were Making Things Up'

James Bamford, an author and journalist who has written about security issues, appeared on MSNBC to discuss â??The Path to 9/11.â?? Bamford revealed that an FBI agent who worked as a consultant to the film quit halfway through production of the mini-series because he believed the writers and producers were â??making things up.â?? (Video at link)

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Ron Goldman's Dad Asks for Rights to O.J. Simpson's Image

The father of murder victim Ron Goldman asked a court Tuesday to give him the publicity rights to the name, image and likeness of O.J. Simpson, who has failed to pay a $33.5 million judgment in a 1997 wrongful death lawsuit.

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Use Gmail Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is pinkyrocks@gmail.com, and you want to automatically label all work e-ma

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ALARM ONLINE CLOCK - one word: BOOKMARK!

Get up on time was never that easy. software out, Web based applications, IN!

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Put that in your mousetrap: mice don't like cheese!

Mice, contrary to popular belief and cartoons like Tom and Jerry, don't actually like cheese, British researchers said Wednesday after studying their diet and those of other animals.

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Ben Affleck iPod 'Slip' on "The Tonight Show": illegally Rips DVD?

On The Tonight Show, actor Ben Affleck revealed that he used his video iPod to watch the Original Superman Series, unavaiable through iTunes. He may have acquired DVDs of the series and "ripped" them into iPod-compatible format but the movie studios' claim that the act of ripping a legally purchased DVD into a computer is a violation of the law

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AOL still using deceptive practices to prevent you from canceling

The Consumerist received a tip from an anonymous AOL call center employee with information about the new cancellation procedure. What did it contain? It showed that AOL still won't cancel your account when asked, rather opting for a deceptive practice of telling them they've canceled the billing but the account remains open.

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Become a del.icio.us Power User

"Del.icio.us can be used as a place to store bookmarks, share bookmarks, and discover web sites, blogs, downloads, and more, that would otherwise largely go unnoticed. Here are some of the ways to really harness the power of del.icio.us."

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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Crikey! Crocodile Hunter news devours bandwidth

News that Australia's own crocodile hunter Steve Irwin has died had Web site traffic in overdrive today with many news sites operating on low bandwidth mode due to high traffic.

The spike spread across a number of news sites as Internet users were unsure if the sad news was a possible hoax.

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Nazi secret messages in fashion illustrations

Nazi agents relayed sensitive military information using the dots and dashes of Morse code incorporated in the drawings. British secret service officials were aware of the ruse and issued censors with a code-breaking guide to intercept them.

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Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's worst places to cast a ballot

Here is a list -- partial, but emblematic -- of American democracy's more glaring weak spots. #1 The New Poll Tax, Atlanta, Georgia; #2 Machine Meltdowns, Beaufort, North Carolina; Fort Worth, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (tie)... read on for more.

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The Republican Party Owes You $20,000

"If middle-class income had merely kept pace with economic growth, your $32,000 job would instead be paying you $52,000. But it's not. And the reason is that virtually all of the economic growth of the past three decades has been funneled into the pockets of the well-off, the rich, and the super-rich."

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Tobacco Companies Raising Nicotine Dosage on the Sly since 1998

While most of us thought the country was trying to curb smoking, and the rapacious habits of the tobacco companies, it turns out the industry has been sneakily making cigarettes more addictive.

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