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Month: November 2005


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Homer Simpson was Right – Beer Really is Good For You

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Want to be healthier? Drink more beer, and the more hops the better. It turns out that beer hops contain a unique micronutrient that inhibits cancer-causing enzymes. Hops are plants used in beer to give it aroma, flavor and bitterness. “It clearly has some interesting chemo-preventive properties, and the only way people are getting any […]

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Excellent breakdown of why Google Print != Indexing Web Pages

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One of the arguments for Google Print is that it’s the same as crawling the web and making that index searchable. A comment on Slashdot nukes that theory very, very neatly. I’m going to quote the whole thing, but credit is due to Bulmakau. I am sure many will ask what the difference between books […]

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Tipping point

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WinZip 10.0 was released today. Hardly anyone noticed. WinZip is one of those eponymous applications that has outlived itself. It’s not that no one compresses data anymore, but WinZip has started the downward spiral into obscurity. At one point, one couldn’t get around without WinZip. In the days when hard drives were measured in megabytes […]