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2009-04-22T10:38:00.001-06:00

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15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers

2009-01-30T20:07:00.001-06:00

In today’s post you will find 15 incredibly useful Mac Apps for freelance web designers to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took before and help them manage their project efficiently to get their job done.

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10 Websites To Make You A Photoshop Ninja

2009-01-30T20:06:00.001-06:00

Using the Web, you can learn how to do just about anything in Photoshop, and either become great at it or just get really good at faking it. Either way, you’re doing cool stuff.Here are ten sites to get you Photoshopping like a champion

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Digg Poaches New Head Of Sales From Yahoo

2009-01-27T18:55:00.001-06:00

After not being acquired by Google last year and announcing some cutbacks last week, Digg is rolling up its sleeves and getting to work. The company has hired Tom Shin as its new head of sales from Yahoo, where he was one of the top sales people and head of the Northwest sales region.

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Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers

2009-01-26T04:24:00.001-06:00

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and the cofounder of Revision3 and Pownce. Kevin gives 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers

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Official Google Blog: New search-by-style options for Google Image Search

2008-12-20T01:09:00.000-06:00

Official Google Blog: New search-by-style options for Google Image Search

Holiday Decorations

2008-11-23T20:13:00.000-06:00

Google Analytics Blog: More Enterprise-Class Features Added To Google Analytics

2008-10-22T20:44:00.000-06:00

Google Analytics Blog: More Enterprise-Class Features Added To Google Analytics

Mac Version of Filter Forge Announced, Preorders Available

2008-10-22T02:11:00.001-06:00

Filter Forge, Inc. announced today the upcoming beta release and preorder availability of the Mac OS X version of Filter Forge, a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects.

Filter Forge, Inc. announced today the upcoming beta release and preorder availability of the Mac OS X version of Filter Forge, a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames and more.

After over two successful years on the market with a Windows version, Filter Forge, Inc. is finally coming up with the Mac OS X version of Filter Forge. The public beta release is due before the end of the year 2008. For more information about the Mac version, visit http://www.filterforge.com/download/mac-version.html.

Starting October 14, Filter Forge for Mac OS X is available for preorder at a special price -- preorder customers can save up to $50. The offer is valid until the commercial release of the Mac OS X version. To preorder Filter Forge for Mac at a discount, click here: http://www.filterforge.com/buy/?mac.

Filter Forge is a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop allowing computer artists to build their own filters -- seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, frames and more. The key features of Filter Forge include a visual node-based editor and a free online library of user-created filters. At the moment, the filter library contains about 5500 filters, with new filters added every day. For more information about Filter Forge, visit http://www.filterforge.com.

About Filter Forge, Inc.

Based in Alexandria, VA, Filter Forge, Inc. is a one-product company solely focused on developing and improving Filter Forge, an innovative Photoshop plugin allowing computer artists to create their own filters. For more information, visit http://www.filterforge.com.

VC Presentation of Doom [SPOOF]

2008-10-15T08:32:00.001-06:00

Wanna know how we got into this mess? Search no further.

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78 Ways For Your Small Business to Save Money

2008-10-15T08:28:00.001-06:00

With the economy struggling, every business is trying to cut costs to make ends meet. Small businesses, which have fewer resources, are especially feeling the burn. Here's a mega-list of ways to trim the fat off your enterprise so you don’t become a casualty of the latest economic downturn.

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13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes

2008-10-14T08:19:00.001-06:00

This selection covers 13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but its an exclusive collection of free wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your need

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14 Awesome Google Tricks You May Not Be Using

2008-10-12T13:56:00.001-06:00

What many do not realize is that Google has some excellent functions that aren’t always easy to find. Here is a guide to 14 of the most innovative functions that many will find useful and most will find cool.

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Top 10 Web Tools for Election Season

2008-10-11T11:30:00.001-06:00

It's hard these days to imagine how elections happened before the web grew to popularity. With all the instant-access news, video, data, and social networking available in a few seconds' time, election season is a prime time to dig in. Read on for a roundup of ten tools to get politically savvy this this election season and beyond.

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Fantastic Frilly Bits Typography [PICS]

2008-10-11T11:24:00.001-06:00

A few months ago Fabio had published a tutorial showing how to create a nice typography effect, the Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography. That effect was inspired by the work of other famous artists like Si Scott, Tom Lane, Marian Bantjes, and many others. So in this post I will list a huge Frilly Bits Typography Inspiration.

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15 Tools for Monitoring a Website’s Popularity

2008-10-11T11:01:00.001-06:00

As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites ie the competition to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective.

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Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom

2008-10-10T11:33:00.001-06:00

VentureBeat was able to track down the presentation Sequoia Capital gave to it’s portfolio company CEO’s earlier this week. It’s a long, 56 slide Powerpoint message of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley that we covered yesterday along with an email that angel investor Ron Conway sent to his 130 active portfolio companies.

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No more squinting - Google maps first hi-res satelite images

2008-10-09T13:29:00.001-06:00

With access to the GeoEye-1 imagery, Google can now begin providing images for Google Maps and Google Earth that will boast a resolution of 50 cm. (That's just shy of two feet for you non-metric types.)

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Blog Catalog Launches Social Search Engine

2008-10-09T10:36:00.001-06:00

BlogCatalog Launches First Comprehensive Search Engine of its Kind Developed by a Blogger Community

Meet the guy who designs Google's themed logos

2008-10-09T10:01:00.001-06:00

The world isn't always thrilled with Dennis Hwang's choice of themes. As Times reporter Google took some heat from conservatives for not being more patriotic when it comes to commemorating events -- such as its decision to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch but not Memorial Day or Veterans Day.

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Kevin Rose: "Digg traffic has grown by over 40% since July"

2008-10-09T08:48:00.001-06:00

Live from FOWA London: "Digg now plans to open up their taxonomy to allow dynamic grouping - the aim with this is to promote conversation amongst similar users. Digg also want to be a conduit to other places, like Twitter, Facebook etcetera. They are also developing and extending the recommendation API and tools for publishers."

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Top 10 Sarah Palin Look Alikes [PICS]

2008-10-07T15:51:00.001-06:00

Hair in a bun. Kawasaki clear-rim glasses. Fake midwestern-Alaskan accent. If you have all of these things, then you are ready to begin your career as a Sarah Palin look-alike.

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Best Buy Launches Mix Enterprise Microsharing

2008-10-07T08:32:00.001-06:00

I found this fascinating quote today:

IBM’s got BlueTwit. Oracle’s testing OraTweets. SAP’s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide.Best Buy’s “Mix”: Enterprise Microsharing Goes Big - Pistachio

You should read the whole article.

Mashable Gives Away FREE "Web 2.0 Coffee"

2008-10-07T04:13:00.001-06:00

This week, Joffrey's is debuting “Coffee 2.0,” a new flavor based specifically on the feedback of beta testers. Learn more about how to get 25 free pouches here.

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5 Trends of Popular WordPress Blogs

2008-10-07T01:00:00.001-06:00

5 WordPress trends for web developers: User Contributed Link Feed, Post Thumbnail, Tabbed Content and more.

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Google Has Changed Political Debate Forever

2008-10-07T00:42:00.001-06:00

Today Google released some information about what kinds of things viewers were searching for as that debate unfolded, minute by minute. It is amazing both that viewers were able to do such a thing, in real time, and that we're able to watch what people are searching for.

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EBay Cuts 10% of Work Force

2008-10-06T19:44:00.001-06:00

The move to cut about 1,000 jobs is an attempt by eBay to improve the performance of its core marketplace division, which has seen declining growth in the last few years.

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The 3 Q's for Great Experience Design

2008-10-06T16:56:00.003-06:00

Teams that create great user experiences tend to have 3 things in common: vision, feedback, and culture. This article teaches you how to ask the right questions and improve your own product design in the process.

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7 Online Blunders That Invite Identity Theft

2008-10-06T16:56:00.001-06:00

These common mistakes can ruin your computer or invite identity theft

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7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

2008-10-06T16:48:00.001-06:00

For a good corporate design, we need to be aware of two main elements, which can be further broken down into a total of seven “ingredients”.

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Is Google Using Chrome to Index Password Protected Web?

2008-10-06T16:47:00.001-06:00

An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web. Right now the Chrome Terms of Service prevents Google from indexing private data. But when you consider that Chrome was initially presented as a browser for applications, instead of just web pages, this theory begins to make more sense.

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20+ Photoshop Natural Resources and Green Inspiration

2008-10-06T16:32:00.001-06:00

For graphic designers, nature is often an excellent source of inspiration. Sometimes those things not created by man showcase more beauty and style than we would have imagined. In modern web and graphic design, the natural elements of trees, leaves, and grass are a recurring theme.

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27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers

2008-10-06T16:13:00.001-06:00

Every designer & developer loves handy tools that simplify frequent tasks. And, even if you’ve a complicated software that does the same thing, usually it is much more effective to run a tiny, fast-loading application that does the job.This is a list of 27 functional Adobe AIR applications that can help a web designer to design & develop.

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16 Web Based Handy Web Designer Tools

2008-10-06T15:59:00.005-06:00

While designing and developing a website a web designer need several tools to maximizing the effectiveness of the website. There are a wide range of different tools which is been presented here. Each of these tools is so important for a web designer.

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30+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tips, Tricks and Hacks

2008-10-06T15:59:00.003-06:00

Most of the Wordpress blogs look more or less similar these days, to stand uniquely out from the rest, you have got to tweak it. And by tweaking, we mean really getting your hands dirty down on the blog theme and PHP codes.

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30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs

2008-10-06T15:59:00.001-06:00

Blue is one of the most used colors in web design, therefore it’s hard to stand out from the sea of competition out there. This collection showcases some of the best, unique, creative designs that utilize shades of blue as a primary color and theme.

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16 Web Based Handy Web Designer Tools

2008-10-05T22:48:00.001-06:00

Choose the Right Graphic Design Format

2008-09-28T21:20:00.003-06:00

If you are truly interested in becoming an overall complete graphic designer, you are going to have to work in multiple graphic design formats when you create your different graphic designs. There are different formats for different types of design and for most of these formats there are specialized skill sets and experiences that you need to have

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20+ Beautiful Posters - 20+ reasons to hire a graphic design

2008-09-28T21:20:00.001-06:00

Creative poster designs from all over the net.

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60+ Free Textures from SXC.hu

2008-09-28T21:19:00.003-06:00

Last week I posted a collection of Photoshop brushes for creating your own textured graphics. In addition to using brushes, you can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available. One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng. Below you’ll find

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7 Most Overused Techniques & Elements Used In Graphic Design

2008-09-28T21:19:00.001-06:00

Is all design looking the same too you? Are you following graphic design trends subconsciously?

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Entourage Season Premiere

2008-09-04T15:53:00.001-06:00

Entourage Season Premiere
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They're Back ! and Adrian is looking hot as ever!

14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs

2008-08-10T13:58:00.001-06:00

There is definitely not a shortage of web design blogs floating around the web, and it’s easy to understand why. Web designers possess all of the skills necessary to easily create a blog based on our niche. We can create the design for the blog because it’s what we do. We can code the blog because it’s what we do. And for the content…we just write

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Creative Business Card Designs [PICS]

2008-08-10T13:56:00.001-06:00

Collection of creative business card designs that everyone should see.

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Little Gray Box in Gmail Makes TechCrunch Cower In Fear!

2008-08-10T13:55:00.003-06:00

Why is that little box there? Why is it an iFrame? What does it do? Does it belong this this universe? Are we nuts?

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Help build dead simple tablet PC!

2008-08-10T13:55:00.001-06:00

Michael Arrington from Techcrunch have cool idea. Simple tablet for browsing the web. Allmost all open source, with Linux and Firefox sugar. And it could be under 300 bucks.

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Websites You Shouldn’t Have Missed In May 2008

2008-08-10T13:54:00.001-06:00

Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in May that is worth your time.

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15 helpful WordPress plugins for the savvy user

2008-08-10T13:53:00.003-06:00

15 WordPress plugins to enhance the blogging experience of advanced users, especially web developers and designers. Most are tested using a default installation of Wordpress 2.3.1

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DIGG's Kevin Rose #5 - 15 People Who Enhanced the Internet

2008-08-10T13:53:00.001-06:00

A list of 15 people who have made the internet what it is today. This list includes the starters of Digg, Google, Ebay, Craiglist, Facebook, Napster, Wordpress, BitTorrent, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Youtube, and more.....

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How to update wordpress blog automatically?

2008-08-10T13:52:00.001-06:00

Manually updating a wordpress blog to a new version is pain and if you have multiple blogs then it is serious problem. Wordpress releases so many versions of the project so I was looking for a plugin that can help me out seriously. I decided to go for Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. I have successfully updated by CG blog within one minute.

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Top 5 “top 5 seo wordpress plugins” from Google

2008-08-10T13:51:00.001-06:00

An interesting up to date list of the top 5 “top 5 seo wordpress plugins” from Google.

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New Google GUI for iPhone

2008-08-10T13:40:00.003-06:00

Today Google launched a new graphical user interface for their services when you access them via an iPhone or an iPod touch. I have tried it briefly and it works much better than before - especially if you use several G-services like I do. The search engine, Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Reader can all be accessed by just tapping the top menu.

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Minisite Template Makes Site Creation Easy

2008-08-10T13:40:00.001-06:00

Pulling your hair out ’cause you can’t find decent sales page templates and graphics for your projects and you can’t afford those high graphic designer fees?

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New SpringWidget

2008-08-09T09:35:00.001-06:00

Get this widget!

Visit the Widget Gallery

Keeping up with the Summer Games

2008-08-09T09:30:00.000-06:00

Official Google Blog: Keeping up with the Summer Games

How to Choose the Right Color Printer - 6 Easy Questions to help you Choose the Right Printer

2008-07-20T17:19:00.002-06:00

clr_plng_guide - Get more Business Plans

The Meaning of Colors - Color Chart of Each Color and It's Meaning

2008-07-20T17:16:00.001-06:00

meaning_of_color - Get more Business Plans

CSS Cheat Sheet - Free Download Instantly

2008-07-10T07:18:00.001-06:00

The Complete CSS Cheat Sheet - Get more Information Technology

Weebly Instant Web Site Creator Adds New Features

2008-06-28T22:28:00.003-06:00

Make Money on your site with Google AdSense

We've integrated with Google AdSense to let you easily place advertising on your Weebly site and earn money from your website traffic. The ads displayed are automatically targeted to your website's topic and audience. You get paid when website visitors click on one of your ads, ranging from a few cents to over a dollar per click.

Over 150 Changes and Fixes

We've been working really hard to fix the bugs you may have encountered in the past. Our latest release included over 150 changes from the previous version to make the site run smoother and faster!
Tons of New Features Available with a Weebly Pro Account

Our new Weebly Pro Account option starts at just $3.99 a month and includes many nice features:

Password Protection: Stop unauthorized visitors from seeing your private content. You can protect your whole site or just individual pages.

Remove Weebly's Branding: If you don't want the "Create a free website with Weebly" link at the bottom of your site, you can easily remove it or replace it with a footer message of your own.

100 MB file uploads: The 5MB file size limit is removed to enable 100MB file uploads! There is no limit to the number of files, so your storage capacity is virtually unlimited.

10 sites per account: Now create up to 10 sites in your account, all of which have the pro features enabled.

Embedded audio player: Weebly's audio player makes it really easy to add music, podcasts, or other audio files directly into your website.

Premium support: Pro users receive the fastest response from our most qualified support staff.

Free Mothers Day Printable Coupons Download Instantly

2008-05-09T02:48:00.001-06:00

Coupons for Mom Mothers Day 2008 - Get more documents

Twitter: Why Some People Shouldn't be Allowed To Use It

2008-05-04T14:19:00.001-06:00

Be careful on who you follow.

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Does Ballmer Need To Go?

2008-05-04T14:12:00.001-06:00

Microsoft’s dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo’s shares so that Microsoft can go hostile with a lower offer? does ballmer need to go?

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Is Yogurt Really Good for You

2008-05-04T14:01:00.001-06:00

The yogurt section in the grocery store has gotten pretty complicated. Instead of just choosing between regular and light, or fruit on the bottom versus premixed varieties, customers can now select what kind of bacteria they wish to devour with each cold spoonful. Yogurt manufacturers have long marketed the live, active cultures in their products

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10% of U.S. Kids Using Cough Medicine Every Week

2008-05-04T07:10:00.001-06:00

Approximately one in 10 U.S. children uses one or more cough and cold medications during a given week, according to new research from Boston University. While cough and cold medications for children are widely marketed in the United States, how frequently they are used had not been scientifically studied.

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China orders nationwide fight against fatal virus

2008-05-04T06:25:00.001-06:00

China ordered authorities across the nation on Saturday to fight hand, foot and mouth disease, after a rapidly spreading outbreak killed at least 23 children and infected nearly 4,000. ''Our doctors will leave...

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Prepping Robots for the O.R

2008-05-04T03:18:00.001-06:00

A robot’s ability to deftly handle small tools may lead to a less invasive procedure and faster recovery for a patient. Robots also can protect surgeons from physical stress and exposure to X-rays that may force them into premature retirement.

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Is Horse Racing Cruel? | THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

2008-05-03T20:53:00.001-06:00

I will start about by stating that I am not a member of PETA. I am a member of the SPCA. I do not consider myself on any type of "lunatic fringe" when it comes to animal rights.

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The Military Experience of Every US President.

2008-05-03T17:10:00.001-06:00

Washington to Bush.

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Favorite BIG BROWN wins with strong stretch drive

2008-05-03T16:36:00.001-06:00

Big Brown, a horse that had such knocks on him that he only had three races under his belt heading into the Kentucky Derby, delivered one of the most stunning victories by a favorite in the Run for the Roses. Emerging from the pack, the 5-2 choice moved past a tiring bunch of long shots and cruised to a masterful victory in 2:01.82.

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World's Largest Foosball Table:You Don't Have This Much Game

2008-05-03T14:16:00.001-06:00

Think you are a foosball champion? How about stepping your game up to the Table Football XXL? There is no information about how long this table actually is, but sufficed to say— you are going to need to bring some friends.

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Tree-Lined Streets Lead To Lower Childhood Asthma Rates

2008-05-03T05:52:00.001-06:00

Young children who live in neighborhoods with lots of trees have lower rates of asthma than children who reside in areas with fewer trees, a new study finds. Researchers looked at asthma rates among children aged 4 to 5, and asthma-related hospital admissions for children up to age 15, in 42 service districts of New York City.

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College Graduation No Random Act For 15 Yr Old Philip Bauer

2008-05-03T02:55:00.001-06:00

Boy genius, Philip Bauer is now a college grad at age 15. Philip uses these words to describe himself, in this order: Random. Skeptic. Minimalist. I'll come back to that. One of his favorite websites is xkcd.com. His dad suspected Philip wasn't going to be a typical baby when they noticed him kicking in time to songs while in the womb.

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Virgle.com - how Google and Virgin forgot a domain

2008-05-02T12:58:00.001-06:00

Virgle, the name of the joint project, took applications for the first Mars mission on its site, under Google.com/virgle. And there was even a YouTube competition and official video channel. However, the entire stunt was the day before April Fool’s day, and sure enough that’s what it turned out to be.

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snake eats hippo

2008-05-02T12:51:00.001-06:00

warning; Gross

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Creative Stairs

2008-05-02T12:33:00.001-06:00

11 oddest staircases you will ever see

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Behind a Derby favorite, tragedy and redemption

2008-05-02T05:32:00.001-06:00

"We're live, babe!"That's horse trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.'s stable-speak, his way of telling friends he expects his colt Big Brown to win the 134th Kentucky Derby on Saturday. For Big Brown, undefeated but having raced only three times, the Derby (4 p.m. ET, NBC; post time 6:04) is a chance to validate the hype

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The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg

2008-05-02T03:02:00.001-06:00

An extensive study on how quality has started to decline over the years/months on DIGG

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Iran complains to U.N. about Clinton comment

2008-05-01T22:16:00.001-06:00

Iran complained to the United Nations on Wednesday about U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's comment the United States could ''totally obliterate'' Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike...

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snake eats hippo

2008-05-01T21:50:00.001-06:00

warning; Gross

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Crazy cat, loves water

2008-05-01T21:45:00.001-06:00

unfortunately this cat and movie are not mine :)

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The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg

2008-05-01T21:44:00.001-06:00

As you can see there is a huge disparity in the number of stories promoted and how viral those stories go. Ultimately, what's happening is that people whose stories almost always get 1200+ Diggs are getting throttled (for whatever reason) whereas people whose stories are routinely getting under 1000 Diggs once promoted, are being favored.

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Simon Cowell's First Kiss

2008-05-01T21:43:00.001-06:00

This is your (love) life, Simon Cowell! The acerbic American Idol judge got the surprise of his career during the show's Q&A sessions Wednesday, when a British woman – identified only as Tara, 46, from Petaluma, CA – called in and announced to the nationwide audience that she had been Cowell's first kiss.

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Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes expected to be out until July

2008-05-01T18:23:00.001-06:00

Guess who just joined Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada on the disabled list?

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Mukesh Ambani's $2 bn home world's most expensive

2008-05-01T17:25:00.001-06:00

The 27-storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, could be the world's largest and costliest home with a price- tag nearing two billion dollar, according to Forbes magazine.

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Things other People accomplished when they were your age

2008-05-01T17:23:00.001-06:00

Enter your age and get a list instantly of things other people accomplished at your age. There are some funny answers =)

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10 steps to keep skin safe in and out of the sun

2008-05-01T05:46:00.001-06:00

Follow these guidelines to protect yourself and your family from skin cancer

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Things other People accomplished when they were your age

2008-05-01T05:43:00.001-06:00

Enter your age and get a list instantly of things other people accomplished at your age. There are some funny answers =)

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BSG Vs. Skynet Comic (Featuring Diggnation) is out!

2008-05-01T04:59:00.001-06:00

You will need a comic book reader you read the comic.

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Consumer may get benefits from a Fed rate pause

2008-05-01T04:32:00.001-06:00

While the Federal Reserve's aggressive drive to lower interest rates appears to be over, there could be benefits for consumers in other places - like some relief from soaring gasoline and food costs. "With the Fed on hold and the dollar firming, oil and gasoline and food prices may all top out some time in the next few months,"

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Over 100 Maine homes flooded as river spills its banks

2008-05-01T03:47:00.001-06:00

The raging St. John River spilled its banks, flooding more than 100 homes as emergency management officials feared the region could face its worst flooding in modern history Thursday.

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Self promotion Blog Post from Seth Godin

2008-04-30T21:38:00.001-06:00

Mr. Godin has very interesting thoughts on "me" marketing. He never fails to impress me.

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Google Logo by Jeff Koons

2008-04-30T02:51:00.001-06:00

Google Logo by Jeff Koons

2008-04-30T02:38:00.001-06:00

planet dundas square

2008-04-29T23:00:00.001-06:00

A reverse of the image posted two days ago, a panoramic view of Dundas Square in Toronto.

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Workers' health insurance costs soar - Los Angeles Times

2008-04-29T22:55:00.001-06:00

From 2001 to 2005, employees' incomes rose 3% but their coverage costs jumped 30%.

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The Presidential Candidates In 4 Years: Photoshop'd

2008-04-29T21:18:00.001-06:00

The Huffington Post has an interesting photoshop piece up about how Obama, Clinton and McCain would look after 4 years as president. I think they age Obama a bit more than they needed to, but still pretty cool.

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The fibula and the safety pin

2008-04-29T16:25:00.001-06:00

Walter Hunt patented the safety pin almost exactly 160 years ago. It looks an awful lot like a fibula, which, of course, is used to hold your toga shut.

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Report: Social Media Challenging Traditional Media

2008-04-29T16:10:00.001-06:00

Universal McCann has released a new report on the impact of social media on the media landscape. It surveyed 17,000 Internet users worldwide in March 2008. The report found that social media, in particular blogs, are "becoming a more important part of global media consumption for internet users than some traditional media channels."

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Newlyweds jailed after brawl at Pittsburgh hotel

2008-04-29T16:04:00.001-06:00

The fight started Saturday night after a reception when the groom knocked the bride to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor hallway of a Holiday Inn - and escalated when she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her aid, police said.

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Is the Death of Email Attachments Near?

2008-04-29T14:46:00.001-06:00

Docstoc, a service for embedding documents in web pages, has raised $3.25 million in fresh capital from Rustic Canyon Partners, following an angel round of $750,000 that we reported on late last year.

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