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Honoring Rosa Parks

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I know quoting The Onion is low-level slogging, but this is so damn funny, I laughed out loud. Alabama State Senator Hank Erwin, one of the hundreds of emotional guests at Bush’s $5,000-a-plate dinner, proposed a toast, saying, “If I may paraphrase the words of Dr. Martin Luther King… ‘I am free at last, free […]

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How It Should Have Ended

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These guys make alternate endings to blockbuster movies. What should Han have done at the end of Episode 4? Why do all the Smith’s just stand there in Matrix Revolutions? Just what the hell is going on in Blair Witch? Download the movies and find out. (Help the site out and use BitTorrent; I highly […]

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CVS camera: Hacked

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I hacked the CVS disposable camera tonight. It was kind of fun, aside from the fact that I totally suck at soldering. I used the instructions at Make and Hack a Day. Instructions are all over the place to hack this camera, so it’s not like I was doing any actual exploration, but I’ve never […]

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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 […]