UN warns about rising food costs

Higher food prices may be here to stay as demand from developing countries and production costs rise, says the UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

It warned that the current spike in global food prices was higher than previous records, partly because bad weather had ruined crops.

Although high prices will ease off, other factors, such as rising biofuel demand, will keep future costs high.

The FAO said speculators were also to blame for volatile commodity markets.

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Imagine Paying $18.00 for a gallon of Gas. I guess US is not doing that bad compared to some other countries, but we sure as hell are getting close.

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Flock, the social web browser built from Firefox code keeps getting more social. Flock 1.2 beta adds Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail integration. Once you login to Digg for the first time from the Flock browser, you'll have the option of opening up a Digg sidebar which shows you all of your Digg contacts and their recent activity.

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One hundred and one tips to help you make money doing what you love in life.

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I bought groceries at Trader Joe's the other day. As anyone who has ever shopped there knows, Trader Joe's is full of incredibly attractive, cheap food, which, if you manage to make it through all the plastic packaging it comes in, you can actually eat. Unfortunately, by the time I started cooking I had more or less lost my appetite, since every time I discarded one of those packages I felt like I dropped another circle in hell.

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Add a Google Reader sidebar

Google has updated the iPhone version of Google Reader, its online web feed aggregator.

This is good news even if you don’t have an iPhone. Like other web apps designed for the iPhone interface, it fits very well in Firefox (and other browsers) sidebar.

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Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive

This week's release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it, you can leave the data on your thumb drive untouched, and any files you create or settings you tweak remain in place the next time you boot up. After the jump, let's create a fully-functional desktop-to-go using a simple Windows program and a 1GB or larger thumb drive.

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Ever wondered how to get listed on Google and other major search engines? Follow this very simple guide and you could be listed in a matter of days.

Many bloggers and website owners find it hard to get their sites listed on major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and others. Having your content listed on search engines is very important because this is where people go to look for topics they find interesting. Even if your site doesn´t show up in the top search results, being listed is vital for building an internet presence around your content in the long run.

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Let's do some sleep math. You lost two hours of sleep every night last week because of a big project due on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, you slept in, getting four extra hours. Come Monday morning, you were feeling so bright-eyed, you only had one cup of coffee, instead of your usual two. But don't be duped by your apparent vim and vigor: You're still carrying around a heavy load of sleepiness, or what experts call "sleep debt"—in this case something like six hours, almost a full nights' sleep.

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Save The Internet . .

Ok . . so normally I'm not too political . . but when it comes to
Saving the Internet . . you bet Im gonna get involved . .
So . . No suprize her that Corporate America wants to control
the internet so they can profit from it. We need to stop corporations
like AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, Qwest, Time Warner & Turner from
having control over the internet. For them, control means regulating
how much internet you get, at what cost, and profits galore. Do we
really want to see them get filthy rich like the oil companys - Exxon Mobil,
Chevron & Conoco Philips. Didnt they rip us off enough, do we want to let
the Cable and Phone industries do the same to us. Well, if we sit back and do
nothing guess what will happen. They got money and lobbyist who sit in Congress and persuade our representatives that its a good idea to give control to them. In conclusion, I offer a couple website I found that give more information and offer a means of contacting your local Congressman on your behalf. Lets Fight the Good Fight and not sit back and let them take control.

1 - Save The Internet
2 - Open Internet Coalition

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These are applications I have come to find very useful over the years working on computers.
They are quite effective, try a few and see which ones you like best. They are not in any particular order of prefference, I just put them in the order that I thought of them.

Anti-Virus
1 - Free-AV
2 - AVG

Firewall
1 - PC Tools Firewall
2 - Zone Alarm
3 - Comodo Personal Firewall

SpyWare/MalWare Protection
1 - Lava Softs Ad Aware
2 - SpyBot Search & Destroy
3 - Tenebril's Spy Catcher Express
4 - Threat Fire
5 - Spyware Terminator

Other Useful Applications
1 - Fast Defrag
2 - Auslogics Disk Defrag
3 - Vasilios Freeware - Instant Memory Cleaner 7.12

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Walkthrough of Linux MCE install







Additional information available at



1 - LinuxMCE.org

2 - LinuxMCE Wiki

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In the last couple of years, desktop-friendly Linux distributions have taken enormous leaps -- they're easier to install, better maintained, and more powerful than ever before. There's also that many more of them -- which means that many more possibilities to sift through.

In this roundup I've looked at seven Linux distributions, all mainly aimed at desktop users. Some ought to be household names; some are less widely sung but still worth looking at. All are meant to be top-of-the-line, "throw-and-go" distros for general use, so I paid careful attention to how they behaved on a fairly broad range of hardware -- how display, networking, or other default configurations were set to behave both out of the box and after an update (if one was available).

1 - openSUSE
2 - Ubuntu 8.4
3 - PCLinuxOS
4 - Mandriva Linux One
5 - Fedora
6 - SimplyMEPIS
7 - CentOS 5.1.

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Your basal metabolic rate — the energy your body expends at rest — is generally determined by your genetics, but new research shows you can trick your body into burning calories more efficiently.

HEALTH magazine contributor Samantha Heller offers seven tips that can help boost your metabolism and lead to a stronger, healthier, leaner body.

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Admit it--you probably have at least one unhealthy habit you'd like to break.

Maybe you can't stop pulling in to fast-food drive-thrus, you waste your allotted gym time surfing the Web or you're still tanning. Whatever it is, it's likely costing you time, energy and money. (With a new tax hike, a pack of cigarettes in New York City could soon cost more than $9.)

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A few years back, Marin Soljačić was driven from bed by the insistent beeping of his mobile phone. But it wasn’t beeping for him to answer it, it was beeping for him to plug it in. Since that night, the assistant professor of physics at MIT, has been thinking about ways to start his phone charging as soon as he enters his home.

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AMD: 45nm, DDR3 and Socket AM3 in 2008

This summer, AMD will announce its first major architectural change since the introduction of the K8 architecture in 2003. This new architecture, dubbed K10, will first make an appearance in the server space, with the introduction of the Barcelona-family processors.

K10 features a native quad-core design that incorporates shared-L3 cache, HyperTransport-3 support and backwards functionality with AM2 motherboards. However, the original K10 desktop and server processors will debut on the 65nm architecture -- a process AMD only started mastering in December 2006 with the launch of the Brisbane desktop CPU family.

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When it comes to eating healthy most people think of dull, boring food that's green in color. In reality, most of the world's healthiest foods not only taste great, they also come in a vast array of vibrant colors. Many require little, if any preparation, yet provide you with the energy and stamina to get through the day. They are the ultimate fast food!

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The Most Incredible Ways To Improve Thyself!

In recent years many has become self proclaimed expert on self-improvement such as Dr. Phil. Everybody is providing tips and techniques to quick fix bad habits, increase memory, deal with procastonation, laziness and a thousand other issues in a matter of a few days. For what it’s worth, I’ve put together a large list of user recommended self-improvement guides that you may find useful. Instead of just listing them all, I’ve organized it by category instead.


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1. Get Better Deals: Barter Using Unusual Numbers
2. Perform Better: Manage Your Audience
3. Live Up To Your Full Potential: Think Of Yourself as an Individual
4. Stick To Your Goals: Reward Yourself
5. Get More From Your Friends — Expect More From Them
6. Improve Group Performance — Get Motivated

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Electronics' 'missing link' found

Details of an entirely new kind of electronic device, which could make chips smaller and far more efficient, have been outlined by scientists.

The new components, described by scientists at Hewlett-Packard, are known as "memristors".
The devices were proposed 40 years ago but have only recently been fabricated, the team wrote in the journal Nature.

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Five Reasons Why Teens Take to Drug Abuse

I have listed here five Reasons Why Teens Take to Drug Abuse.

1 - Their role models are doing it.
2 - Addictive drugs are easily available.
3 - Not so ideal atmosphere at home.
4 - Everybody around me is into it, it cant be that bad.
5 - I have nothing else to do, so lets try it.


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