The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007. Attrition.org estimates more than 162 million records compromised through Dec. 21 - both in the U.S. and overseas.
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Record Data Breaches in 2007
How to Party Like It's 2008 & Stay Healthy at the Same Time
We know that the holiday season is conducive to all kinds of excesses. Here are a few modest tips on how to party healthy, and still enter the New Year with a bang!
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10 Most Wanted Gmail Features
Gmail has been adding lots of features lately. However, there are still a few more we'd like to see. These are the 10 most wanted Gmail features right now.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs Selected CNBC's Face of Business '07
"This was a year of great business triumphs and headlines, and all of those nominated had significant impact on the world of business and, therefore, were worthy of consideration," said Jonathan Wald, Senior Vice President, Business News, CNBC. "But Steve Jobs is driving Apple to new heights, including a record stock price."
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Woman who tried to shoot Ford in 1975 out of Prison
Moore, 77, had served about 30 years of a life sentence when she was released from the federal prison in Dublin, east of San Francisco.She was 40 feet away from Ford outside a hotel in San Francisco when she fired a shot at him on Sept. 22, 1975.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Can a blue-collar group outnumber the dealers?
A team of card counters imitates Ben Mezrich's best seller Bringing Down the House. The team began visiting casinos in June, joining many others who came to card counting through the same route. The card-counters’ ranks will likely swell even more this spring with the release of “21,” a film based on Mezrich’s book.
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10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion
Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust was forged in the explosions of massive stars.
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Man Finds Fudge Maker's Lost Diamond Ring Inside Candy
A woman whose diamond ring vanished while she was making fudge for a bake sale was despondent after scouring her home and finding no sign of it.
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Homeland Insecurity
The Homeland Security Dept.'s over reliance on outside contractors and insufficient management of them could leave the U.S. vulnerable
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Awesome Happy New Year Video: Happy New Year 2008
Its really awesome. Have a look on this video I'm sure you will also say "Awesome".
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World's Oldest Orangutan Dies at Age 55
Nonja, who was born on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and lived in Miami since 1983, was found dead Saturday morning.
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Stranger than fiction: parallel universes beguile science
Is the universe -- correction: "our" universe -- no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds?
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Mars Impact Probability Increases to 4 Percent
The impact probability for a collision of asteroid 2007 WD5 with Mars on January 30 has increased from 1.3% to 3.9%.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
30 Must Read Tech Stories of 2007
Throughout the year there were some standout stories based on any number of criteria. This list is a sampling of 30+ of the stories that shaped the year behind us.
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Sketch a Human Body and Locate the Following...
I think this kid's on to a brilliant career in medicine.
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Gmail To Offer Friend Updates?
Google Operating System has found code that would suggest that GTalk within Gmail may soon offer friend updates, similar to what is offered by services such as Plaxo.
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Drug firms probed over Iraq cash
GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca have been asked to hand over papers as part of a probe into bribes allegedly paid to Saddam Hussein's deposed regime.
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SegaToys Brain Checker Flirts With Your Prefrontal Cortex
the Brain Checker asks how stupid are you ? the brain checker is a standalone mental acuity game, offering up a battery of mental fitness tests including math, pattern matching games and other puzzles to help figure out if your grey matter is in proper working order.
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Tools to Help Prospective College Students Compare Schools
Interested in the professor-student ratio? The racial breakdown on campus? A detailed picture of costs and financial aid? Just over a year ago, the report of the Education Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education sounded the call for more accountability and transparency for Colleges and universities.
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Top 25 Sexiest Female Athletes of 2007
These girls can out-run you, out-swim you; shut you down in a game of full-court b-ball, ski faster and jump higher than you ever will. They have physical prowess in their respective sport, and unlike 99% of the other girls in their league are incredibly nice to look at!
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Letterpress Cards Use 100 Year Old Printing Process
Remember cutting a shape into a potato as a kid, dipping it in paint and stamping it onto paper? Instead of using potatoes, letterpress cards are made into custom engraved magnesium plates and mounted on wood.
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Friday, December 28, 2007
The Best X-Mas Gift - Programmable Scrolling LED Sign Hat!
This hat was very easy to program and fun to play around with. My dog Fiona decided to return to modeling after taking a break from gigs with Taco Bell. The royalty checks started to run out.
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Duplicate CD/DVDs Without A Computer
The DVD Coach is a stand-alone CD/DVD duplicator that needs no computer in order to function. It burns at 8x for DVDs and 16x for CDs (half that for RW). Not bad for the budding little DVD pirate. It has Lightscribe functionality, but must be connected to a PC for the graphics work. The only catch is the price, which is between $340 and $460.
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65 Wonderful Tips For Improving Self Confidence
Self confidence is often the biggest obstacle that stands between success and failure. Here are 65 tips to help you remove that obstacle.
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Dear Facebook: Enough with the Applications
Enough! I do not want to be bitten by you Vampires, I do not want to write on your wall, or a Super Wall, or a super dooper wall, or a dooper super dooper poking smiling wall.
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The Year in Douchebaggery: The 10 Biggest D-Bags of 2007
If 2007 were a guy, it would have a $80 haircut, use the word "bro" unironically and listen to techno. CRACKED highlights the 10 people who helped the most.
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Five Women With Whom Your Girlfriend Would Have A Threesome
(We had our resident female writer, Sacha, prepare this article for you all. So you know it's legit) Women are fascinated by Paris Hilton, men are fascinated by Paris Hilton’s sex tape. But between Venus and Mars, there exist some very happy mediums
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Spellify 1.0 - An Automatic Text Field Spell Checker
Spellify is a script.aculo.us/prototype based spell checker for form fields that utilizes Google as its spell check engine. Spellify version 1.0 has been released, officially taking the application out of beta and bringing it to prime time.
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In Memory: Portraits of Bhutto Through the Years [Pics]
A photographic look back at the life of Benazir Bhutto.
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Deal or No Deal: Jay Adelson Discusses The Future of Digg
CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008
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9 Drawings: Stages of an Acid Trip
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's.
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With Free Sings: Top 10 Great Unknown Artists of 2007
In Second Stage's year-end Top 10 list, All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton shares the best of the great unknowns. These are the year's best outsider artists: musicians whose remarkable recordings went largely overlooked in 2007.
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5 Awesome Firefox Tab Managers
Take a look at these cool extensions that will help you to change the looks & functionality of tabs in Mozilla Firefox.
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Scientists discover drug that reverses liver damage!
A drug that reverses severe liver damage could be used to treat disease in heavy drinkers who find it impossible to give up alcohol. Scientists developed the drug after discovering a way to prevent the formation of excessive scar tissue caused by cirrhosis, hepatitis and other medical conditions.
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Miracle Foam Stronger than Steel--With a Shape Memory
NSF Program Director H. D. Chopra agrees. "It's the first material to exhibit magnetic shape memory - it has great potential for uses that require a large strain and light weight such as space applications" Imagine a structural material that thinks for you!. Sunstroke author, David Kagan, introduced the premise in his book, Doomwatch.
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Shopdropping: The Subversive Art of Reverse Shoplifting
Shopdropping, also known as droplifting, is the incredible act of reverse shoplifting: going into stores and putting things onto the shelves. Banksy is probably the best known shopdropper, famous for putting out his own subvertised versions of Paris Hilton’s CDs and hanging his subversive art in galleries.
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10 Types of Women You Need to Avoid
Here are the 10 Types of Women You Need to Stay Away From
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The 15 Richest Fictional Characters
Number 4: The future's wealthiest woman, Mom is known to her adoring public as the matronly CEO of MomCorp, a far-flung conglomerate with divisions ranging from Mom's Friendly Robot Co. to Mom's Friendly Advanced Weapon & Munition Co.
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Paris loses out: Hilton fortune pledged to charity
U.S. hotel heiress Paris Hilton's potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans on Wednesday to donate 97 percent of his $2.3 billion (1.16 billion pounds)...
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2008: The Year Digg and Stumble hit the Bridge Club Level
Social media in general is growing, but there is still a thin but clear gap between the point that Digg and StumbleUpon currently enjoy and that next level that would yield exponential growth in visitors, pageviews, and popularity. Call it the tipping point, and there are several points in a website’s life that can be called that, but this...
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Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007
"It's the end of the year and so time for 'best of' and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun." - Check out Richard MacManus's list of most used web apps of 2007.
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25 Awesome Online File Storage Solutions
Looking for a Place to Store and Share your Files? Here is a comprehensive list, and a cool video real, of a wide variety of online file storage solutions that should fit any need you have.
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5 Reasons Why You Might Not Want to be a Top Stumbler | SU Comments
A year or so ago, I was totally focused on becoming Top Stumbler. I was in the third position, behind two veteran stumblers, Wiggy (who has since left StumbleUpon) and Starspirit (who has been one of the very top stumblers as long as I have been on SU).
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Mashable's 2008 Predictions
Mashable's list of predictions for 2008... including Google and their mobile plans, NBC's video strategy, Social Networking, and Bloggers.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Michael Klein and Daughter Killed in Panama Plane Crash
Michael Klein, 37, who sold his e-Groups e-mail communication service to Yahoo, was killed in an airplane crash in Panama. Also killed were his 13 year old daughter Talia, and the pilot Edwin Lasso.
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2007 In Numbers: More People Using Yahoo Mail Than Gmail
Suprising but True .... at least according to this research.....
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Every Christmas Top 10 from the last 20 years
After all, it's the one time of the year when financial frivolity is king, when partners, friends and gene-pool sharing associates rush out to purchase the software-based gift that their gaming loved-one has been dropping unsubtle hints about since November.
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Shareaza.com Hijacked and Turned Into a Scam Site
Shareaza.com, the home of the hugely popular Shareaza multi-network sharing application, has been hijacked by scammers. Unsuspected visitors to the site will be completely unaware that they will be tricked into downloading something that isn’t Shareaza at all, but subscription-based malware infected software instead.
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16 Killer Apps to Put On Your Brand New Christmas Mac
It’s Christmas day and you’ve just unwrapped your shiny new piece of Apple goodness from your new favorite family member. You’ve installed the beautiful Leopard operating system, and are ready to conquer the world. Here are 12 must-have applications for your new mac. Trust me, you’ll be glad you installed these first.
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15 Useful Firefox Tweaks
This ComputerWorld article says they are "must haves". I don't know about that, but the pipelining one is a big help to me.
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24 Unusually Hilarious Versions of the Nativity Scene (Pics)
I don't know that much about religion, but I can definitely appreciate creativity in all of its forms. The pictures here are fine examples of free thinking and a fresh approach that symbolize this classic scene in a much less traditional light. Some of them are very funny and others take this iconic image to places we couldn't have even imagined...
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Digg MC 1.0 (Digg Rap Song You Gotta Hear)
Awesome short rap song by fellow digg users Neal Rodriguez aka numberneal.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007
Is 2008 the Year of the Niche Social Networks?
There are social networks popping up for everyone from 8-year-olds to 80-year-olds. Websites like Boomj (social network for baby boomer), Whyville (”a virtual world where boys and girls from all over the real world come to chat, play, learn, and have fun together”)
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Man Loses 400 Pounds Without Surgery But Help from a Friend
Four and half years ago, David Smith weighed more than 630 pounds. He had spent nearly a decade on the couch in his parents' house eating pizza, raiding the fridge, and drinking soda. For much of his life he said he "felt like the elephant man." Eventually he lose 400 pounds through 2 years of hard work with a friend. This is an inspirational read.
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'Drilling Up' Into Space for Energy
While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy.
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Digg MC 1.0 (Digg Rap Song You Gotta Hear)
Awesome short rap song by fellow digg users Neal Rodriguez aka numberneal.
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Is 2008 the Year of the Niche Social Networks?
There are social networks popping up for everyone from 8-year-olds to 80-year-olds. Websites like Boomj (social network for baby boomer), Whyville (”a virtual world where boys and girls from all over the real world come to chat, play, learn, and have fun together”)
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A Brutally Honest Cracked Round Up
We tell you the truth because we love you. Or, because the Cracked Christmas party was last night and we're still a little drunk.
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White House tour omits rare 1963 Christmas card
In this year's popular White House tour of holiday decorations is the collection of Christmas cards from previous presidents and first ladies. But noticeably missing is the card from 1963. It is the rarest and most tragic of the presidential cards because it was not sent out after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov 22
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White House tour omits rare 1963 Christmas card
In this year's popular White House tour of holiday decorations is the collection of Christmas cards from previous presidents and first ladies. But noticeably missing is the card from 1963. It is the rarest and most tragic of the presidential cards because it was not sent out after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov 22
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Darkroom: Jets that Fly to be released by Puddlegum
Puddlegum's first release as a label/blog.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Ron Paul on Facebook
Become a fan of his and make his presence known on facebook!
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The most incredible laugh of a baby!
It brings joy now when the Christmas is getting closer.
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Think Secret Publisher Nick Ciarelli Speaks Out
Speaking by phone Wednesday morning Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret's publisher, refused to say whether he was angry or not that Apple is forcing him to shut down his website but he did have a lot of other things to say.
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Top 10 Highest Paid College Football Coaches
Head coaches at big-name schools have seven-figure incomes, often making more money each year than the athletic directors and college presidents for whom they work. Here, we’re taking a look at what the top 10 highest-paid college football coaches, are receiving each year, in terms of dollars and perks.
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Paul leads pack in Web 2.0 campaign efforts
Compete study measures time spent viewing videos or reading about candidates on social networks. Paul led all the candidates in what Compete called "FaceTime," or the total time users spent viewing content about him on the Web 2.0 sites, with 167,760 total hours in October, according to Compete.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Number of conflicts in the world no longer declining
Since the most conflict-ridden years in the early 1990s, a continuous decline was registered up to 2002. Since that time the number has held steady at around 30 active armed conflicts per year. This is probably also the case for 2007.
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It is ILLEGAL for animals to have SEX in PUBLIC [SFW]
A woman received two tickets after her goats were caught mating and relieving themselves on her own yard.
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Top 10 Chandra Pictures: Four Years of X-ray Imaging
X-rays do not penetrate Earth's atmosphere, so it has only been since 1962 that astronomers have had a glimpse of this form of radiation coming from beyond our solar system.While not the only space-based X-ray observatory, Chandra is the finest machine of its class.
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Sam Raimi Directing a Low Budget Horror, Then The Hobbit?
Spider-Man director and mega-geek Sam Raimi has chimed in with an update on his full schedule. Up first is a horror flick titled Drag Me to Hell which will take Raimi back to his Evil Dead roots. But after that, Raimi is possibly going to direct The Hobbit.
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10 Places NOT to Talk on Your Cell Phone
"There are many places out there where the use of a cell phone works very effectively in pointing out a pompous, low class asshole. These are all places that, by default, you should NOT talk on a cell phone. Here’s a list of 10 of those places (in no specific order)…"
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Sexy Librarians and online video content
This post doesn't really have anything to with sexy librarians but about the future of online video content and how we might actually come to consume more content as the ecosystem keeps developing
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6 Completely Crappy Christmas Cash-Ins
So with Christmas almost here, why not set your desktop to a picture of an open fire, start up your Holiday iTunes playlist and enjoy this list of holiday leeches and their attempts to turn Christmas joy into revenue. And also a cheap joke about rednecks.
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David Hasselhoff’s 20 Most Embarrassing Photos on the Web
In the 80’s and 90’s David Hasselhoff was the king of cool. Well, not so much anymore.
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10 Ways to Make Your iPod an Awesome Learning Gadget
The iPod can supercharge your learning. But it’s often a matter of finding the right software and content. Below, we’ve listed several new pieces of software that will let you suck more educational media (DVDs, web videos, audio files, etc.) into your iPod. And we’ve also listed some important pieces of content along with that.
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8 Popular Images Owned By... You!
Here are some of the most amazing pictures that belong to everyone… or no one.
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7 Smallest Hotels in the World (Pictures)
Think your last apartment or hotel room was small? Believe it or not, there are a lot of contenders for the dubious title of smallest hotel on the planet. Some claim it by number of rooms, others by size and all are quick to defend their position.
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Jamie Lynn Spears' Boyfriend: 10 Years for Statutory Rape
The boyfriend of Jamie Lynn Spears could face statutory rape charges after getting Britney Spears' sister pregnant at 16, it has been revealed.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Death Cab for Cutie: website 3.0, new album in May
Death Cab for Cutie has launched a new website, “website 3.0″ which is “just in time for you to explore during the holidays.” Death Cab for Cutie have spent 44 days in three studios in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, tracking to tape. The new Death Cab for Cutie album will be released in May, 2008.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Fun with Yahoo News Photos
Rarely a day goes by that I don’t get some form of entertainment or edification out of a visit to their pages, whether it’s adorable pictures of an eight-limbed superbaby, or fashion show highlights where you can sort of see somebody’s hoo-hah. But today had such a bumper crop of quality items that I just had to share them with you.
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World's Worst Spy: Cops Bust 'CIA Agent'
A San Bernadino man was arrested Saturday after he told a deputy who pulled him over for a broken taillight found a stack of license plates in his car. The man alleged that he was a CIA agent.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Golden Globes and Oscars Won't Have WGA Writers
The awards season is in dire trouble now. The WGA is refusing to allows its members to write for the Academy Awards or Golden Globe presentations and has denied waiver requests from both the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (for the Globes) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (for the Oscars).
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Why morons win at economics
"What happens when you get out of college during a recession? This: no one’s had the time to prove who’s better so they’re hired completely randomly. Soon the inept have long job histories & are in charge. (The smart retire or do something with their lives.)"
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Five Web 2.0 Startups to Increase Work Productivity
Title pretty much describes this but these new sites do offer very useful services...
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Five Web 2.0 Startups to Increase Work Productivity
Title pretty much describes this but these new sites do offer very useful services...
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Why Do Whales Get the Bends?
Shallow dives in response to naval sonar testing may harm cetaceans.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
The Ultimate iPhone vs Blackberry Roundup
When the iPhone came out there were reviews aplenty and no shortage of comparison reviews contrasting the Blackberry and Apple’s Offering. So we’ve compiled some of the best reviews into one big list and tallied up the score
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24 Karat Gold with Diamonds MacBook Pro
For that special someone who has it all!! Well, I would venture to say they don't have one of these!!!
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Zero Punctuation: Zelda Phantom Hourglass
This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee travels to Hyrule to save a princess, etc.
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Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...
AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable.
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Lincoln $5 Bill Gets A Makeover
The bill, like the current one, will have a portrait of Lincoln on one side and the memorial named after him on the other. But it will also have purple and gray colors to make it harder to counterfeit.
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Wii nentendo fatality funny video
this is so funny, this is why I like to watch people play rather than play wii myself.
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The Weiner Mobile Busted!
A copy with waaaay too much time on his hands; psssst! gossip will get you fired and other very odd stories.
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10 Tips for Creating a Great Presentation
A clear concise way to improve your presentations and their effectiveness by thinking outside of the box.
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Procrastinate
We’ve seen it a thousand times and you know what it’s called: procrastination. Unfortunately, friends, we’re pretty much sabotaging ourselves. Why? Two procrastination experts – yes, they study our laziness for a living – came up with a Top 10 list on why we procrastinate.
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Procrastinate
We’ve seen it a thousand times and you know what it’s called: procrastination. Unfortunately, friends, we’re pretty much sabotaging ourselves. Why? Two procrastination experts – yes, they study our laziness for a living – came up with a Top 10 list on why we procrastinate.
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Procrastinate
We’ve seen it a thousand times and you know what it’s called: procrastination. Unfortunately, friends, we’re pretty much sabotaging ourselves. Why? Two procrastination experts – yes, they study our laziness for a living – came up with a Top 10 list on why we procrastinate.
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Santa's got a new Sleigh
Driving back from Super Car Sunday heading south on the 101
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Best Technology Quotes of 2007
Even we’re not immune to a bit of hyperbole at Mashable when talking about exciting new technologies, but some quotes in the technology filed have turned out to be real humdingers. This is a collection of seven that really made you go “hmm” when you thought of them later.
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30 Amazing Nature Pictures
A collection a amazing photos for all seasons to remind us why we should appreciate all the beauty around us this holiday season.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Finding Secret Amazon Discounts with DealLocker
Search for and locate incredible Amazon discounts with DealLocker's secret Amazon Discount service. Input an optional keyword and then choose the range of desired discount—anywhere from 10% off to 99% off.
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10 Hot All-In-One Computers on the Market Today
These new PCs are hardly any thicker than the average LCD monitor, yet they incorporate nearly every part of your computer in a slim and sleek package. Just add a mouse and keyboard to the equation and you’re ready to roll.
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Building a platform (and thinking about Google's Knol)
Google’s Knol makes the space pioneered by Squidoo a lot more attractive. Apparently, the best thing that can happen to you if you pick Google as a platform is that they mimic you.
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Yahoo Launches Dashboard For 2008 Elections
Dashboard, which contains basic polling and funding stats for each candidate in one easy to read screen.
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
Why We Love Animals
Check out these 40 incredible animal photos and judge for yourself.
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Michael Vick Letter to Judge Hudson
Copy of Actual letter to Judge Hudson from Michael Vick asking for a 2nd chance and/or lighter sentence.
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15 Breathtaking Scenes from Nature (PICS)
Here are 15 breathtaking scenes from nature that are sure to awe and inspire and make any computer screen seem a bit closer to nature.
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Social Networks to top $1.2 billion in advertising
According to eMarketer, 37% of the US internet adults used Social Networking at least once a month and by 2011 that figure will be more like 49%. That might just be some of the fastest growth we've seen even for the internet.
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New Joker Posters for The Dark Knight!
Even more posters for The Dark Knight! This time featuring Heath Ledger's The Joker. Allocine.com premiered the following international poster:
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Comedian Hofstetter experiments with pay-what-you-want
One frustrating aspect of the Radiohead pay-what-you-want experiment is the lack of definitive numbers — yet. ComScore says this, Radiohead says that, the record industry says this, the artists say that. Mr. Hofstetter is talking...
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Comedian Hofstetter experiments with pay-what-you-want
One frustrating aspect of the Radiohead pay-what-you-want experiment is the lack of definitive numbers — yet. ComScore says this, Radiohead says that, the record industry says this, the artists say that. Mr. Hofstetter is talking...
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Comedian Hofstetter experiments with pay-what-you-want
One frustrating aspect of the Radiohead pay-what-you-want experiment is the lack of definitive numbers — yet. ComScore says this, Radiohead says that, the record industry says this, the artists say that. Mr. Hofstetter is talking...
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Comedian Hofstetter experiments with pay-what-you-want
One frustrating aspect of the Radiohead pay-what-you-want experiment is the lack of definitive numbers — yet. ComScore says this, Radiohead says that, the record industry says this, the artists say that. Mr. Hofstetter is talking...
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Christmas Card Arrives 93 Years Late
A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
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Mapped! Most Dangerous Roads for International Travel
Google map of the most dangerous roads to travel according to the Association of Safe International International Road Travel
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This cancer - inducing machine was once commonplace
The shoe fitting fluoroscope was a common fixture in shoe stores during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. When you looked through one of the viewing ports, you would see a fluorescent image of the bones of the feet and the outline of the shoes.
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Improving Interface Design
Tips and tools for the absolute best interface for any design project or passion.
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YouTube Adds Visual Search Tool
YouTube has quietly added a visual "related videos" feature that, while not as efficient as smart text searching, does help you find videos in the same realm as the one you're watching.
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Ingredient In Human Semen May Enhance HIV Infection
Scientists discovered that naturally occurring prostatic acidic phosphatase (PAP), an enzyme produced by the prostate, can form tiny fibers called amyloid fibrils that can capture bits of the human immunodeficiency virus and usher it into cells. PAP is the guilty ingredient that enhances the transmission of HIV.
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Nintendo Losing Out on $1 Billion from Holiday Wii Shortage?
We knew Nintendo had screwed up, we had no clue just how much this mistake cost them in real, speculated dollars. James Lin, senior analyst at the MDB Capital Group, puts the estimated lost sales at $1.3 billion stating that, "They could easily sell double what they are selling."
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Nintendo Losing Out on $1 Billion from Holiday Wii Shortage?
We knew Nintendo had screwed up, we had no clue just how much this mistake cost them in real, speculated dollars. James Lin, senior analyst at the MDB Capital Group, puts the estimated lost sales at $1.3 billion stating that, "They could easily sell double what they are selling."
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Digg Tools Directory
For the Digg connoisseur… these are tools you need to keep your addiction fresh. Enjoy!
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Help solve a mystery that has puzzled mankind for years...
How far can you go after the gas light in your car has gone on?
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Path Monitors foot traffic in retail stores by pinging cell
Path Intelligence can ping your cell phone then map these signals and track anonymous customers as they move around and answer questions about the store’s layout through online reports. Where are the bottle necks? Where do customer’s spend the most time. How many customers browse and go? See Demo!
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10 Drinks Men Should Never Order PICS
List of top 10 Drinks men should never order!
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Compete overtakes Alexa (according to compete.com)
Alexa has taken a reputation hit on social networks, search forums, and webmaster forums over the last few years because their data has been flawed and in some cases deemed meaningless. Compete.com actually has the same issues with inaccuracies, but because they have never been vaulted to an authority status, they have gained the same glamour...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Shocking Baseball Report Breaking News (Downloadable)
Breaking News - Download entire 409 page report
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Ferrari Goes Green: Increasing Mileage by 40%
One of the most famous car brands in the world has committed to reducing its fuel consumption by 40% over the next five years. Why get excited about it at all? Well, let's look at this from a couple different angles.
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6 College Pranks (I Wish I Had Thought of)
What is it about the collegiate atmosphere that inspires pranks? Whatever the reason, colleges (and to a lesser extent, boarding schools) are a breeding ground for awe-inspiring pranks — and here are some of our favorites.
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Madonna to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Madonna: Like a hall-of-famer. That's right, the controversial pop icon will be inducted into the illustrious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its 2008 class, which was announced today in New York. The inductees, which also include performers Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five, the Ventures, and John Mellencamp, were chosen by the 600 voters
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Madonna to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Madonna: Like a hall-of-famer. That's right, the controversial pop icon will be inducted into the illustrious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its 2008 class, which was announced today in New York. The inductees, which also include performers Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five, the Ventures, and John Mellencamp, were chosen by the 600 voters
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Madonna to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Madonna: Like a hall-of-famer. That's right, the controversial pop icon will be inducted into the illustrious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its 2008 class, which was announced today in New York. The inductees, which also include performers Leonard Cohen, the Dave Clark Five, the Ventures, and John Mellencamp, were chosen by the 600 voters
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20 Awesome Offbeat Ads ?
20 ads that push the envelope of taste and subvert convention. Who says advertising has to be boring?
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20 Awesome Offbeat Ads ?
20 ads that push the envelope of taste and subvert convention. Who says advertising has to be boring?
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20 Awesome Offbeat Ads ?
20 ads that push the envelope of taste and subvert convention. Who says advertising has to be boring?
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20 Awesome Offbeat Ads ?
20 ads that push the envelope of taste and subvert convention. Who says advertising has to be boring?
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Did You Know?
For instance...... the number of text msgs sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet.... and lots more facts like that in this cool presentation.
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Keira Knightley Can't Keep Her Clothes On
When asked why she likes posing nude - she says ... "People ask - I just say YES!In recent times, Knightley bared her (very thin) body for a full nude scene in "Atonement," as well as Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue, Interview magazine and an upcoming Chanel ad.
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For the man who has everything, $12,000 whiskey
Looking for a Christmas gift for someone with rich taste? You might want to consider a bottle of super-expensive Scotch whiskey. Macallan, one of the world's leading brands of whiskey, is selling a...
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Homemade Greeting Card with Bonus (VIDEO)
A special greeting card for Christmas you can do yourself. Merry Xmas
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Bebo Snubs Google With Facebook Platform Clone
Let’s call a spade a spade here. When the third largest social network in the U.S. announces a platform for social applications that mirrors Facebook’s and appeals to Facebook developers, it is a snub to Google.
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12 Lessons from Top Business Masters
Warren Buffet, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey and many more share their wisdom with you.
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12 Lessons from Top Business Masters
Warren Buffet, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey and many more share their wisdom with you.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Sasha Baron Cohen's Enlarged Penis
We’ve already been subjected to Borat dressed in that barely there fluorescent-green banana-hammock bathing suit. In the new movie, Sweeney Todd, it was Cohen's idea to enlarge his manhood for the flick. Cohen’s body-hugging pants were stuffed with “a little quilted thing.”
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Sasha Baron Cohen's Enlarged Penis
We’ve already been subjected to Borat dressed in that barely there fluorescent-green banana-hammock bathing suit. In the new movie, Sweeney Todd, it was Cohen's idea to enlarge his manhood for the flick. Cohen’s body-hugging pants were stuffed with “a little quilted thing.”
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Hurricanes Cause Mental Health Problems In Children
A new study found that about 163,000 children were displaced by the hurricanes and that about 81,000 to 95,000 children have returned to Louisiana and Mississippi. Researchers estimate that 46,600 to 64,900 children are experiencing serious poststorm problems.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Office Lip Dub and the Responses Funny Videos
First posted to the Web for friends and family, but its appeal went far beyond that, fostering a friendly competition of office lip dub videos submitted from workplaces around the world (you can see some of the best of them here).
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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Friday, December 7, 2007
AMC Theaters to Add 100 New IMAX Screens!
IMAX has inked a deal with AMC theaters to install 100 digital IMAX screens over the next three years. The screens will be installed in the company’s top-performing theaters in 33 top U.S. markets. The first 50 screens will be installed next year, 25 more in 2009, and 29 more in 2010.
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14 Ludicrous Clauses in Baseball Contracts
These deals aren’t just about the money, though; they’re also about bonus clauses and sweet, sweet perks. Here’s a list of some of the more ludicrous ones players have received.
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14 Ludicrous Clauses in Baseball Contracts
These deals aren’t just about the money, though; they’re also about bonus clauses and sweet, sweet perks. Here’s a list of some of the more ludicrous ones players have received.
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Human History - The 60-Second Lecture
University of Pennsylvania history professor Alan Charles Kors has summed up human history in 100 words.
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Web 2.0 companies getting in on the holiday spirit
Christmas is finally rolling around, and we’ve noticed Web 2.0 companies are getting in on the holiday spirit. Remember though folks, even though America is the land of opportunity, in good American fashion you gotta work for it. Here are three contests you can enter to take a shot at having a little extra under the tree this year.
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How To Install IE7 And Window Media Player 10 [Easy Way]
It's Easy way to install IE7 and WMP10 on non Genuin XP without changing dll files. I hope it will be helpful for users. It's 100% working. Other links are also on digg when you search on digg but it's simple way
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Associated Press CEO: ‘The Mother of all Battles'
In a speech last month, AP CEO Tom Curley declared that news is a growth industry and that it was high time to kick ‘despair’ to the curb. At the same time, he seemingly despaired about the balance of power that exists online, between the portals and the creators of original content. The solution....
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The Future of Print Publishing and Paid Content
Print is dead and all content wants to be free — two bogeymen of the digital age, with some edge of truth, but based on current visibility, still unlikely at those extremes.
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My Virtual Model Lets You Play Dress Up or Use Someone Else!
"Upload a photo and dress her up", says My Virtual Model. From weight to figure, everything is customizable and now you can add a face from a photo to your model. See what Lindsay might look like in a red nightie! Once you are done - get a widget and share it with your friends. LOLZ.
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Boxing Kangaroo Beats TV. Host - Mayweather Wouldn't Last
The Kangaroo is thinking Bring it on Bitch! Floyd Mayweather your next. I'll TKO you in the first round.
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Hackers say they can steal 'Second Life' currency
are they just now figuring this out?
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Caution * Alert * Did u know your kids are Smoking Smarties?
what once was just a favorite candy ..... now has serious dangers.Schools are banning kids from having any on them. Watch and See why!
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Top 10 Wii Games I Want for Christmas
When I was a kid, I always looked for that familiar rectangular package underneath the tree. I was lucky to get one video games each year, so I had to make it count. Today, I can afford a few more. My wife said that I've been good this year, so I made her this Christmas list. Hope you'll find something for yourself on the list too.
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Mixx, a Gorgeous Digg Competitor, Gets in Bed With LA Times
Social news site Digg is a love-it or hate-it phenomenon. Here at ReadWriteWeb, we love Digg, but I've got to admit that new competitor Mixx is worth a real close look.
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You're Not In The USSR Estonia Opens Embassy In Second Life
Eastern European nation Estonia has opened an official embassy in Second Life. Estonia for those not aware of the country is a former Soviet Republic that this year is celebrating 90th anniversary of its initial independence, before it was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Featured: 9 New Internet Startups out of LA
The Los Angeles venture community continues to grow at a rapid pace. An industry that used to be dominated by Silicon Valley, tech startups are becoming prevalent in LA. Here's a look at 9 promising new ventures.
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Monday, December 3, 2007
Google leaks info on future of online applications
A Google executive recently let out previously unknown information about upcoming changes to the company's Google Apps suite of productivity and communication tools. The biggest news is that online apps will be capable of GOING OFFLINE as desktop apps. When they're moved back "online," changes are folded into the normal online "versions" system.
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
Feeling Heat: Why Facebook Changed Controversial Ad Program to Opt-In Only
Despite future controversy over other issues, this will be the last major change for a while, and here’s why…
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News Niblets: Social Media's Best and Worst Quality
...We get to nibble on the news, taking it in bits and pieces, served to us through headlines that are often sensationalized or pointed. While some people take the nibble and move on the main course by reading the full story, a good portion of us live on the appetizers...
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
Scobles Whiteboard Video Plague Spreads
here are two main differences between Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan and Robert Scoble: ego and talent. Scoble's got the ego, and Sullivan's got the talent.
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The 10 Best Books of 2007
The Book Review picks the best works from the last year.
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