Archive for February, 2007
February 23, 2007
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“Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007″
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All the classic Slashdot comment clichés in one thread.
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“Tallulah’s is a unique combination of art and vintage images, with an extensive focus on interests for artists including classical art techniques and pose images taken from the La Belle Epoch period.”
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“Here is the most extensive collection of images and information on Victorian-era robots to be found in the whole World Wide Web.”
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“Police have yet to establish how a tape dispenser which caused a security alert in Ballymena came to be left on a bollard outside a PSNI station. [...] The Army carried out a controlled explosion on the object which was declared safe.”
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“I could see the Earth coming – wow, like Apollo 13 – I can see the Earth,” … “I was shaking all the time. The last thing I remember it was dark, I could hear lightning all around me,” she told Australia’s national broadcaster, ABC.
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An… interesting video
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February 22, 2007
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“It would take many weeks of intensive work to examine all of the Hatto recordings, but it seems clear that at least some of these great performances are identical to other performances available from other recording companies.”
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“IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Egypt — Three ultra-endurance athletes have just done something most would consider insane: They ran the equivalent of two marathons a day for 111 days to become the first modern runners to cross the Sahara Desert’s grueling 4,000
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February 21, 2007
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February 18, 2007
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“Donald Davis was commissioned to do paintings for NASA in the 1970s and is now offering them to the public domain. The ‘toroidal shaped space colony’ above is an incredible piece of paleo-futuristic art from 1975.”
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“GLORIFYING TERRORISM (Rackstraw Press) is, technically, illegal – because every SF/F story in this anthology breaks the current UK law that bans the glorification of terrorism. Whatever that is, of course.”
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“The city started a pilot LED lighting program last year in a downtown parking deck. As a result, a 40% reduction in power has been recorded as well as substantial increases in light output, according to Progress Energy.”
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“B’owl is perfect for throwing away!”
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“Nora began playing the piano on her own. She plays even when she is alone in the room. She really enjoys playing duets with a student playing on the second piano.”
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“This commercial is for real. I mean it happened for real. He really made a rap video for his furniture store.”
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“VirtuSphere advantages: User can move in any direction; walk, jump, roll, crawl, run over virtually unlimited distances, Life-like movements inside cyberspace.”
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“This weekend, you can learn a few strategies for keeping an egg safe when thrown off a 4 story building.”
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“A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.” Not as you’d expect.
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“Ahiida® produces new and dynamic Swimwear and Sportwear for today’s Muslim Female.”
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“Laptop Battling at it’s finest.”
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“The hardest thing I have to do every day is to decide what to ignore.”
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“International Drinking Rules may be used during any drinking game, or social gathering whose participants are aware of the rules. … The rules are intentionally complex, and may be made more complex at will, such being the delightful benefit of arbitrar
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February 17, 2007
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“You know if you click on someone’s name on IM, give them a torrent of mundane, boring shit about your mundane, boring life for five minutes, ask them how they are, then ignore that and return to bitching about your miserable existence?”
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“Beatboxing Flute player Greg Pattillo inspector gadget with a twist like nothing you’ve heard.”
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February 16, 2007
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“I will stand up and say a few words during the evening and I know that’s when the emotion will really kick in. I can’t imagine looking people in the eye knowing it is the last time I will see many of them.”
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“Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think removing digital locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks, finds a survey.”
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February 15, 2007
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“Getting frisky in the plane toilet could be a criminal offence, says travel lawyer Philip Banks, from the firm Irwin Mitchell. A person has committed an offence if they have sex in a lavatory to which the public has access, under section 71 of the Sexual
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“7. Skateboarding while recording vocals. … I can’t use a skateboard to save my life and no, the doppler effect doesn’t work on short distances which was a real bummer.”
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“An episcope is an optical device for projecting flat opaque images, like postcards, prints, photographs, pages of books, but also three-dimensional objects like coins, insects and leaves, on to a screen.”
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“You need to lose twenty or gain thirty because where you are right now, I can’t do anything with you.”
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New video of a multi-touch screen with menus and selection methods being demoed.
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February 14, 2007
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External Firewire, 24-bit/192kHz, 8 XLR/line, 2 ADAT lightpipes, 8 outs.
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February 13, 2007
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Neophiliacs rejoice!
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Techcakes!
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“Still, what would happen if a 100-meter tall ‘dinosaur’ stepped out of the sea and went on a rampage? I predict it would be a very short rampage. Short as in milliseconds.”
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Breakcore netlabel with some sweet releases.
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Nathan, looking for trouble; “Who do you not want to see at InFest this year or ever?!”
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February 12, 2007
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“When advertising became about image rather than facts, adverts for the most part ceased to make truth-claims at all.”
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“In fact, there are over a quarter of a million [shelters] in Switzerland, because, 17 years after the end of the Cold War, the policy of providing them for the entire population still stands.”
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“By comparing modern man with our ancestors of 37,000 years ago, the Chicago team discovered big changes in two genes linked to brain size. One of the new variants emerged only 5,800 years ago yet is present in 30% of today’s humans, they believe.”
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“Thousands of volunteers have been out on the streets trying to persuade people to wait in line in order to present a better image to visitors. The campaign was launched under the slogan: ‘It’s civilised to queue, it’s glorious to be polite.’”
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“New research from Dundee University suggests learning philosophy raises children’s IQ by up to 6.5 points and improves their emotional intelligence. … He said: ‘The critical thing about it is that it allows the youngster to move to a level where inform
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“To sum up … But for now, the world turns, and EVE will survive with fewer developers in BoB, though their jobs are presumably safe. But the damage to CCP’s credibility may be felt for years to come.”
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“The original shoe size chart demonstrated a point with respect to globalizing products: shoe sizes are not measured in the same units around the world. However, this created interest in another relationship, which I have now documented.”
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“The DishMaker is a new kind of appliance that can replace dishes altogether by making cups, bowls and plates on demand and recycling them when you’re done. the device uses up the same room and energy as a dishwasher, while it replaces all the cabinets
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“A typical dystopian film is one which is set, usually in the future, in a society where the government is corrupt or ineffectual, but by no means all such films are dystopias. The world within the film often has nightmare-like qualities, though it also u
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