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Judge arrested in Aruba case | Judge arrested in Aruba case Fifth suspect in custody after U.S. teen's disappearance Paul Van Der Sloot was arrested after being questioned by police as a witness over the weekend. RELATED Gallery: Missing Aruba teen Texas team to aid search Publicity a concern for tourism Was race a factor in arrests? Interac... | [
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eBay sets up open-source community | eBay has begun providing open-source code for some of its search and access applications to expand its external developer community. The software will be available under a new program called Community Codebase, which was announced at the eBay Developers Conference in San Jose, California, on Tuesday.
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NextAdvisor with TIME | Erin Lowry
Erin Lowry helps millennials “get their financial lives together” by offering advice on how to make more money, get out of debt, and build savings, through her “Broke Millennial” blog.
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del.icio.us direc.tor: Delivering An AJAX Web Service Broker | What is it?
del.icio.us direc.tor is a prototype for an alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us. It leverages the XML and XSL services of modern browsers to deliver a responsive interface for managing user accounts with a large number of records.
The main features are:
In-browser handling of del.icio.us bookma... | [
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Three missing boys found dead | Three missing boys found dead Father finds young friends in car trunk Sheets were hung around the car where three boys were found dead Friday night. YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Police Crime, Law and Justice or or Create Your Own CAMDEN, New Jersey (CNN) -- Three young boys missing for two days were found dead Friday night in th... | [
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Iran hardliner sweeps to victory | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented himself as a humble alternative
Mr Ahmadinejad won 62% of votes, defying predictions of a close race, to defeat the more moderate ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
After his win, Mr Ahmadinejad said he planned to create a "modern, advanced and Islamic" role model for the world.
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Prosecutor: New Jersey boys' deaths accidental | Prosecutor: New Jersey boys' deaths accidental Bodies of missing boys found late Friday in car trunk YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Police New Jersey or or Create Your Own CAMDEN, New Jersey (CNN) -- Autopsy results show three boys found dead in a car trunk suffocated, and their deaths have been ruled accidental, Camden County Pro... | [
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Moving: How to Avoid Being Scammed by Moving Companies | The number one question MovingScam.com receives is “Can you recommend a good moving company?”. If the answer to that question was easy, then there wouldn’t be a reason for maintaining a web site called MovingScam.com (see our article “How to Find a Reputable Moving Company” for more information).
Currently moving comp... | [
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U.S. Has Plans to Again Make Own Plutonium | Plutonium 238 has no central role in nuclear arms. Instead, it is valued for its steady heat, which can be turned into electricity. Nuclear batteries made of it are best known for powering spacecraft that go where sunlight is too dim to energize solar cells. For instance, they now power the Cassini probe exploring Satu... | [
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Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest | This past Saturday, a friend and I hit the Wired NextFest down at Chicago's Navy Pier. The event promised visitors that they could "experience the future," and as a tech writer I couldn't pass that opportunity up. I kind of wish I had, though, because after spending a few hours at the NextFest I'm sad to report that th... | [
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Video game sales up, but are they at the expense of sports ratings? | Previously, we have reported that kids these days prefer playing video games to taking part in sports. Not really any surprises there when it's 90 ºF outside I'd rather be on the couch with the PS2 or Xbox than whacking a ball with a stick. But according to a report in the New York Times, the video game culture isn't... | [
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File-sharing suffers major defeat | Millions of people swap music via file-sharing networks
The surprise ruling could start a legal assault on the creators of file-sharing networks such as Grokster and Morpheus.
The case was brought by 28 movie and music makers who claimed that rampant piracy was denting profits.
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Oilman, investor T. Boone Pickens sees $3 gas, oil shortage | NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Gasoline prices, reversing a two-month slide, are again approaching records and at least one expert thinks they could hit $3 a gallon soon in the United States.
"We'll see it within a year," T. Boone Pickens, head of the billion-dollar hedge fund BP Capital Management, said on CNN's "In The Mone... | [
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Google passes $300 | Shares of the popular search engine pass $300 for the first time and are now up 260% since IPO.
Googly-eyed: Shares of Google have continued to soar since going public last August. More about Google and Net stocks NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Shares of Google, the popular search-engine company, surpassed the... | [
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AMD sues Intel for monopoly abuse | Intel's computer chips are used in the majority of personal computers
The lawsuit covers x86 microprocessors, used to run PC operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Linux systems.
AMD said its lawsuit alleges that Intel has coerced customers away from dealing with AMD, and is based on evidence obt... | [
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NY unveils revised Freedom Tower | The tower has been redesigned more than once
The Freedom Tower is being built on the site of the Twin Towers destroyed in the 11 September 2001 attacks.
Architects redesigned it after police expressed concern that the 1,776-foot (540-metre) building could be vulnerable to truck bomb attacks.
Under new plans it is fu... | [
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HIV drug target 'will not be met' | By Karen Allen
BBC News health correspondent
HIV is a major problem in the developing world
World Health Organisation figures reveal just one million people are receiving life saving treatment.
Senior WHO figures say that is double the number who were on drugs when the target was set in December 2003.
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News & Media | During Friday’s Board of Visitors meeting, William & Mary’s rector and president announced a path forward to rebuild trust and open dialogue with the community following the recent announcement to eliminate seven varsity sports programs.
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Roddick, at 22, Aims to Show That He Can Still Be a Factor | All England Club officials have taken time to explain their rationale to Hewitt, but he has made it clear that his seeding rankles and that he would have preferred to face Federer in the final.
"It's a strange situation," Hewitt said. "I don't know how many times it would have happened that the top two ranked players ... | [
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Taser controversy refuses to die | By Matthew Davis
BBC News, Washington
With electronic stun guns now being used by a growing number of UK police forces, BBC News examines the controversy in North America, where a series of deaths have put Tasers under fresh scrutiny.
Robert Bagnell died after police shocked him with 50,000 volts
When Robert Bagn... | [
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Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique? | Political connections and family control are more common in Asian businesses than in the United States. In addition, says HBS professor D. Quinn Mills, American CEOs tend to use one of five leadership styles: directive, participative, empowering, charismatic, or celebrity. Which styles have Asian business leaders adopt... | [
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DJ admits false tale about missing teen | DJ admits false tale about missing teen Aruba prosecutor says judge told son: No body, no case RELATED YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Aruba Missing Persons or or Create Your Own PALM BEACH, Aruba (CNN) -- A disc jockey who spent 10 days in jail after being arrested and questioned about a missing American teenager admits he lied to... | [
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Bank of America to buy credit card issuer MBNA for $35B | No. 3 bank to buy MBNA, creating the nation's largest credit card issuer; 6,000 jobs to be cut.
Video More video Bank of America is buying credit card giant MBNA for $35 billion. CNN's Andy Serwer reports. Play video
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Time Inc. to Yield Files on Sources, Relenting to U.S. | The case represents the starkest confrontation between the press and the government since 1971, when the Supreme Court refused to stop The Times and The Washington Post from publishing a classified history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers. And legal experts said yesterday that they knew of no other insta... | [
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How to Make Your Own Herbes de Provence Blend | Herbes de Provence, an essential component of French and Mediterranean cooking, is a mixture of dried herbs that adds a distinctive flavor to dishes such as chicken, roasted vegetables, grilled fish, salads, tomato-based soups, and stews like ratatouille.
Herbes de Provence originated in the southeastern region of Fra... | [
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Microsoft to Pay I.B.M. $775 Million to Settle Antitrust Claims | Microsoft said today that it would pay I.B.M., which it displaced as the world's premier technology purveyor, $775 million to settle a number of outstanding antitrust claims.
The settlement stems from the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft in the mid-1990's, in which Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson fo... | [
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O'Connor, First Woman on High Court, Resigns After 24 Years | WASHINGTON, July 1 - Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court and a crucial swing vote on abortion and a host of other divisive social issues, announced today that she was resigning, setting up what is sure to be a tumultuous fight over confirming her successor.
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100 million go online in China | Millions of Chinese go online via internet cafes
Only the US now has more web surfers as young and old Chinese take to the internet in record numbers.
The figure is expected to grow rapidly in the next few years.
China's economic boom is behind the dramatic rise as increasing personal wealth means more people are ab... | [
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Bnoopy: It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur | « Personal - Joining the EFF Board | Main
June 29, 2005
It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur
There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one. Here’s one example.
Excite.com took $3,000,000 to get from idea to launch. JotSpot took $100,000.
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For 5 months 'I stayed in the box' | As a Marine Corps officer, I spent five years and five months in a prisoner of war camp in North Vietnam. I believe this gives me a benchmark against which to measure the treatment which Sen. Richard Durbin, Illinois Democrat, complained of at the Camp of Detention for Islamo-fascists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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New Boeing boss needs old guard | SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- With an outsider moving into the top spot at Boeing, analysts caution that the new boss needs to make sure the managers of the company's defense and commercial divisions don't head for the door in a huff.
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Soul singer Luther Vandross dies | One of the leading romantic singers of his generation, he sold 25 million albums and won dozens of awards.
Even after his stroke in 2003, he kept recording, winning four Grammys for his final album Dance With My Father.
Tributes from stars such as Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson poured in after his death, at the ... | [
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Business of Life: Free advice from a lawyer | Free advice from a lawyer
Handy advice from a lawyer who writes from his own experience, a passalong email.
Your checks
When next you order checks, have only the initials of your first name printed. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name... | [
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Conservative Groups Rally Against Gonzales as Justice | "Let me not get into any nominee, but Gonzales is an excellent human being," Mr. Hatch said. "He's done an exceptional job as White House counsel. He's brought additional stability and peace to the Justice Department. I know the president is interested in trying to find people of diversity -- he's really bent over to d... | [
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USATODAY.com | Saturday, July 23 Ullrich, the 'Infernal Second' PARIS Poor Jan Ullrich. Another year, another disappointment.
By Laurent Emmanuel, AP Jan Ullrich is comforted by a team trainer after placing second in the 20th stage. Second to Lance in the time trial and probably third overall. "I'm dead, I'm completely dead," he... | [
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Attack of the $1 DVD's | THE scientist in the 1959 horror film "The Killer Shrews" is not only mad but also cheap. Monstrously cheap. To solve the problem of world hunger, he tries to breed humans down to half their normal size. Rather than increase the food supply, he reasons, he will decrease demand. But his penny-pinching plans go awry, nat... | [
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125th Anniversary Issue: Science Online Special Feature | Online Extras
Be sure to check out these online extras related to our 125th Anniversary Issue:
Your Turn
Did we miss your favorite scientific conundrum? Visit our special online forum to comment on our 125 questions or nominate your own choice.
Anniversary Editorial
Science Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy celeb... | [
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The Falling Woman Screensaver - Or, select someone else to toss around:
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Font guide for webmasters | Fonts for the Web
Until font downloading technology is perfected, Web designers must normally restrict themselves to fonts that are available on most users’ computer systems.
So which fonts are installed on everyone’s computers? Your best bets are the ones that come with the Internet Explorer (MSIE) browser and the W... | [
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Germany heads for early elections | Mr Schroeder is taking a huge political gamble, say analysts
Mr Schroeder had urged deputies to vote his government down, so he could seek a new mandate for controversial reforms.
President Horst Koehler must now decide if there are grounds to call elections a year ahead of the original schedule.
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Beijing buying spree sends Uncle Sam into shock | The enemy has landed. One of the worst nightmares of 'patriotic Americans' may soon come true. An unsolicited $18.5 billion offer from state-owned Chinese oil firm CNOOC to buy Unocal, America's ninth largest oil firm, has given a nation obsessed with energy security a shock.
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How Brief Drop in Cars Can Trigger Tie-Ups, And Other Traffic Tales | If you plan to hit the roads like the zillions of other drivers this holiday weekend, Avi Polus has a word of advice: patience.
A transportation engineer at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Prof. Polus's concern isn't drivers' collective blood pressure but traffic flow. Like the growing number of othe... | [
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Increase in the Number of Documents Classified by the Government | But across the political spectrum there is concern that the hoarding of information could backfire. Thomas H. Kean, chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and a former Republican governor of New Jersey, said the failure to prevent the 2001 attacks was rooted not in leaks of sensitive information but in the barriers to sha... | [
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Senate Bill Strives to Balance Oil and Alternatives | WASHINGTON, June 28 - The Senate overwhelmingly passed broad energy legislation on Tuesday, with its authors hoping the bill strikes a balance between traditional and alternative sources of power that can break a four-year Congressional stalemate over energy policy.
By a bipartisan vote of 85 to 12, the Senate approve... | [
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Case of Mad Cow in Texas Is First to Originate in U.S. | The Agriculture Department is now trying to trace any animals born on the ranch in the same year or in the years before or after, as well as any offspring of the cow born in the last two years. All will be tested for the disease, which will mean killing them because parts of the brain must be scooped out to do the test... | [
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What Other People Say May Change What You See | A new study uses advanced brain-scanning technology to cast light on a topic that psychologists have puzzled over for more than half a century: social conformity.
The study was based on a famous series of laboratory experiments from the 1950's by a social psychologist, Dr. Solomon Asch.
In those early studies, the su... | [
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Germany plans C02-free power plant | By Tim Mansel
BBC News
The search for a coal-fired power station that does not give off any carbon dioxide has taken a step forward with the announcement of plans to build such a plant in Germany.
Vattenfall already operates a coal-fired power station in Germany
Vattenfall, a Swedish company, which owns mines and... | [
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:: Astromech.net :: R2 Builders Club Official Website :: | Welcome to Astromech.net, the Official Website of the R2 Builders Club. We are an international community who build their own replica robots from the Star Wars universe. Join us today to learn how to build your own! | [
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State Weighs 2 Bills Requiring Bullet Marking | With a zealot’s enthusiasm, Randy Rossi has been firing bullets into lots of things lately. Car doors, Sheetrock, wood walls, gelatin with the consistency of human bodies.
On the base of each mashed slug is a series of tiny, mostly legible numbers that have been inscribed by a laser. To Rossi, head of Atty. Gen. Bill ... | [
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Wikimania | Wikimania is postponed until 2021.
A letter from Katherine Maher to the Wikimedia Community
18 March 2020
Dear everyone,
As a part of the Wikimedia movement’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are postponing Wikimania Bangkok 2020. This decision was made with the full support of the ESEAP host team and ... | [
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Steven Spielberg Baffled By Lack Of UFO Sightings | SPIELBERG CONFUSED BY DECREASE IN UFO SIGHTINGSOscar-winning director STEVEN SPIELBERG is baffled that fewer UFO sightings are made now than were made twenty years ago - because the technology to record would-be aliens is so commonplace today.The 59-year-old film-maker has made a string of alien-themed movies - CLOSE E... | [
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Handywrite: An alternative handwriting system. | Overview
A handwriting system that used the simplest possible strokes for letters would, of course, be faster to write with than longhand, which uses several, sometimes as many as four, strokes for each letter. And if the system were phonetic, words couldn't be misspelled!
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Bush rejects Kyoto-style G8 deal | Bush says new technologies are the way forward
Speaking to British broadcaster ITV, he said he would instead be talking to fellow leaders about new technologies as a way of tackling global warming.
But he conceded that the issue was one "we've got to deal with" and said human activity was "to some extent" to blame.
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2 Are Charged With Murder in IPod Theft | "We sent him out there to get away from this horrible life," Christopher's father, Errol Rose, said yesterday. "All these years -- seven and a half years -- I've been back and forth from Pennsylvania with this boy. He didn't last too long before they rubbed him out."
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Use This Phone to Find a Date. Or See Videos. Or Even Talk. | Amp'd Mobile is a new kind of cellular service, but the company's founder scarcely thinks of himself as being in the phone business. What he's out to sell is wireless entertainment.
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Copyright and the law - Rip. Mix. Burn. | AS USUAL, America's Supreme Court ended its annual term this week by delivering a clutch of controversial decisions. The one that caught the attention of businessmen, and plenty of music lovers, was a ruling concerning the rampant downloading of free music from the internet.
Nine elderly judges might have been forgive... | [
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İnfosatellite | En Güncel Kişisel Blog | Köpeğinizin güvenliği açısından tasmalar oldukça önemlidir. Köpeklerin beden yapısı ve eğitim düzeyine göre tasma seçimi de farklılık gösterecektir. Her köpek cinsine göre farklı şekilde ve kalınlıkta tasmalar üretilmektedir. Kısa boynu olan köpeklere takılan kalın tasmalar yanlış olacak ve köpeğinizin nefes almasını z... | [
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Profits, Not Jobs, on the Rebound in Silicon Valley | SAN JOSE, Calif., July 1 - Things are looking up at Wyse Technology, a venerable maker of computer terminals. Unless, that is, you happen to want to work for the company here in Silicon Valley.
Responding to booming demand in Asia and in Europe, Wyse is adding new development teams in India and China and expanding its... | [
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For the First Time, a Spacecraft Impacts With a Comet | The impact was observed by scores of telescopes at ground observatories, as well as NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra observatories in Earth orbit, and other spacecraft.
Rick Grammier, the mission's project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the encounter came off without a hitch. The flyby craft, with hi... | [
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Cure writer's block with writing prompts, exercises, generators & gizmos | Anais Nin's Collage Technique
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Champ a top dog again with 49 wieners | Champ a top dog again with 49 wieners Takeru Kobayashi of Japan downed 49 frankfurters Monday to win his fifth hot-dog eating title. RELATED YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Create your own alert to be notified on topics you're interested in.
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Man convicted for chipping Xbox | The Xbox was fitted with a 200GB hard drive packed with games
The Cambridge graduate was sentenced at Caerphilly Magistrates' Court to 140 hours of community service.
The man had been selling modified Xbox consoles which he fitted with a big hard drive containing 80 games.
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View maps from various sources on your mobile phone! | Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. MGMaps can connect to a GPS receiver over bluetooth or use internal GPS features on some pho... | [
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The Long Tail: "Pre-filters" vs. "Post-filters" | One of the themes that I'm developing in the book is the notion that "a Long Tail without good filters is just noise." But what are good filters?
To begin, I'm using the catch-all term "filters" (which I'm not crazy about; anyone got a better word?) to describe the tools that help you find what's right for you in the ... | [
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German admits creating Sasser | The 19-year-old is being tried as a minor behind closed doors
Sven Jaschan is charged with computer sabotage, disrupting public services and illegally altering data.
The 19-year-old is being tried as a minor behind closed doors as he was 17 when he wrote the worm.
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Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps | When I first interviewed him a year ago he was suspected of contacts with the insurgency. Certainly he supported resistance to US forces.
More recently, an-Ni'ami had dropped out of sight. Then, a little over a month ago, relatives say, paramilitary police commandos from 'Rapid Intrusion' found him at a family home in... | [
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Bodies of 2 Navy SEALs found in Afghanistan | Bodies of 2 Navy SEALs found in Afghanistan One member of American team remains missing
Senior Chief Petty Officer Dan Healy was one of eight Navy SEALs killed in last week's chopper crash. RELATED YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Afghanistan Military Unrest, Conflicts and War or or Create Your Own WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The bodies ... | [
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GRYNX » Build your own Chat-Cord |
In a telephone system both the mic and the speaker signal are multiplexed into one signal. To be able to connect your phone to you mic-in and line-out of your pc you have to de-multiplex these signals.
The solution of Chris was to extract the mic an speaker signal before it is multiplexed inside the phone.
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Oil 'will hit $100 by winter' | Oil prices could rocket to $100 within six months, plunging the world into an unprecedented fuel crisis, controversial Texan oil analyst Matt Simmons has warned.
After crude surged through $60 a barrel last week, nervous investors were pinning their hopes on a build-up in US oil-stocks to depress prices in the coming ... | [
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False breasts betray exam cheats | Competition is tough for places at Moscow State University
Moscow University security guards first thought the applicant had an oversized bust because "she" was trying to take crib sheets into the exam.
A search unmasked the false bosom, the university told the BBC News website.
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Interaction Design Pattern Library | All patterns are listed here. It's quite a bunch of them, but I have tried to group them meaningfully.Patterns that meet a direct need of the user.Patterns that help the application, or you the designer, communicate better with the userThe context of the design
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Eco-car more efficient than light bulb | Eco-car more efficient than light bulb Kart racer Jack Dex, 13, will drive the Ech2o prototype at this week's Shell Eco Marathon. VISIONARIES YOUR SAY LONDON, England (CNN) -- An eco-car that can travel the world using a fraction of the electricity it takes to power a light bulb has been unveiled by its British creator... | [
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London beats Paris to 2012 Games | London won a two-way fight with Paris by 54 votes to 50 at the IOC meeting in Singapore, after bids from Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated.
Prime Minister Tony Blair called the win "a momentous day" for Britain.
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The diamond cartel - The cartel isn't for ever | HOW much turmoil can the diamond industry sustain without shattering? On July 13th in an Ohio court De Beers, the world's largest producer of rough stones, finally pleaded guilty to charges of price-fixing of industrial diamonds and agreed to pay a $10m fine, thereby ending a 60-year-long impasse. De Beers executives a... | [
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Internet History Sourcebooks | Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Editor: Paul Halsall
See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals.
Explanation of Sources of Material Here.
See the Help! page for all the help on research I can offer.
The Modern History Sourcebook works as follows:
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Rural US gripped by meth epidemic | Meth abuse is particularly bad in rural areas of the US
A survey of 500 county law enforcement agencies found meth-related arrests had gone up over the past three years.
More than half of the police, sheriff departments and other agencies polled said the highly addictive substance was their biggest drug problem.
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Google Maps Transparencies | Click and drag anywhere, just like normal Google Maps, and see how the Map View matches the Satellite View (or vice-versa). Control the level of transparency with the slider control at bottom.
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Circumcision may offer Africa AIDS hope / Procedure linked to much lower rate of new HIV infections | Circumcision may offer Africa AIDS hope / Procedure linked to much lower rate of new HIV infections
French and South African AIDS researchers have called an early halt to a study of adult male circumcision to reduce HIV infection after initial results reportedly showed that men who had the procedure dramatically lower... | [
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Contents | Welcome to the Crazy J- a guitar playing machine. This project was created as a part of the Georgia Tech graduate Mechatronics class (6405), by Jason Lawrence, Turner Howard and Susan Knueven. The various links listed to the left will connect you to pictures of the Crazy J, sound clips of the Crazy J actually playing, ... | [
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london explosions | The victims The stories of the 52 people who lost their lives in the London bombings of 7 July 2005. | [
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IBM announces dual-core and low-power G5s | Word first hit the wires yesterday that IBM had announced the long-awaited 970MP and 970FX processors at a forum in Japan. For those who don't follow the Apple scene obsessively, the 970MP is a dual-core G5 and the 970FX is a low-power G5 intended for use in portables. The Japanese press release was linked at Xlr8yourm... | [
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Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane | Eight RH-53D Sea Stallion transport helicopters lift off in twilight from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Gulf of Oman, bound for a makeshift airstrip 600 miles away in the middle of Iran's Dasht-e-Kavir desert. Their clandestine mission, Operation Eagle Claw, is to rescue 53 Americans held hosta... | [
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Olympics Drop Baseball and Softball | It was the first time the International Olympic Committee eliminated any sports in 69 years.
Both baseball and softball suffered from low international support because they are not widely played, despite their Olympic inclusion, and remained dominated by North American teams. Cuba won three of the four baseball gold m... | [
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Trackback | The Science of Consistency
"The official Star Wars Web site touts an 'opaque window' theory to explain why some versions of Star Wars reality, such as the spinoff comic books and videogames, do not seem to capture the main Star Wars reality as accurately as the films do. UPN has adopted an even easier way of preventin... | [
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Opinion | If It's a Muslim Problem, It Needs a Muslim Solution | So this is a critical moment. We must do all we can to limit the civilizational fallout from this bombing. But this is not going to be easy. Why? Because unlike after 9/11, there is no obvious, easy target to retaliate against for bombings like those in London. There are no obvious terrorist headquarters and training c... | [
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Fundraising Ideas | Fundraising Ideas And Online Fundraising Help
Fundable.org is born again with the same concept but a new focus and management team. Our goal is to provide funding for every type of group, activity or project from funding senior living to helping raise funds for disaster relief. In addition to compiling an extensive li... | [
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Jim Heid's Mac iLife 09 Site: iTunes, iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iWeb | Posted Friday, July 08, 2005
How to Make a Life Poster, the Tiger Edition
Updated November 4, 2005
Back in January, software developer Mike Matas published instructions on how to use iPhoto to create what he called a "life poster"�a large print comprising a collage of 98 smaller images.
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Students refuse to buy a single song from Napster | Napster has put a new twist on the notion of being a loss leader. It has actually managed to sell more songs for rival online music services than for its own product, according to a survey conducted by a university customer.
Not a single University of Rochester student admitted to buying a song via Napster during the ... | [
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Why Do You Work So Hard? / Is it maybe time to quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment? | Why Do You Work So Hard? / Is it maybe time to quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment?
T here remains this enormous and wicked sociocultural myth. It is this: Hard work is all there is.
Work hard and the world respects you. Work hard and you can have anything you want. Work really ext... | [
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Hob's zeitgeist | "To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the Devil his due." | [
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A step-by-step guide to charisma | By Tom Geoghegan
BBC News Magazine
Scientists claim to have found the secret to that magical quality, charisma, and they say it can be learnt. But before you enrol for classes, don't think it will get you the job of your dreams. Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is deluded in believing that charisma,... | [
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How do I take/edit great photographs? | How do I take/edit great photographs?
6:30 AM Subscribe July 9, 2005
Okay, so everyone loves DaShiv's photographs of SF Meetups, and for good reason. They are incredible. I can take decent photos, but they're obviously amateurish. Here's my question: How do I take it to the next level? How can I get the colors to loo... | [
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Jeremy Ruston’s absolutely fabulous TiddlyWiki triggered quite a few interventions recently. Here is a list of wikis I stumbled upon that adapt/extend/enhance/build upon it:
ZiddlyWiki [timmorgan.org/ZiddlyWiki/] by Tim Morgan
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Spontaneous 1-on-1 Voice Chat | ODEO is a new social app for college students to connect through guided 1-on-1 voice chats. Select questions you’d like to discuss, get matched with someone on your wavelength, and jump into the conversation – just without the usual small talk. | [
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If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache? | In the port city of Yokohama, south of Tokyo, there is a museum devoted entirely to noodle soup. It may be Japan's favourite foodie day out: one and a half million ramen fans visit the museum every year, and even on the wintry morning that I went the queue wound 50 yards down the street - young couples, mainly: cold, h... | [
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We're Not Afraid | One important function every good attorney undertakes early on, is to ascertain the types and amounts of available coverage. This is vital and should be done as early on as possible. This issue can be re-visited often, and your information and strategy updated, as more information is developed. It is obviously useful t... | [
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Debunking 8 Anti-War Myths About The Conflict In Iraq | Debunking 8 Anti-War Myths About The Conflict In Iraq
1) George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.: This is a charge that has been repeated ad nauseum by opponents of the war, but the claim that Bush “lied” about stockpiles of WMDs doesn’t hold up to the least bit of scrutiny.
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