No wonder Sudoku puzzles give your brain a good work-out. Scientists say solving them depends on neural pathways that even the most powerful computers can't replicate. They say that by studying how people solve the puzzles, we might be able to develop more intelligent and brain-like computers.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Why Sudoku makes your brain ache
New IBM Technology: Encrypts SS numbers & Credit Card Info
IBM on Tuesday unveiled new technology it says will help curb the growing problem of businesses exposing sensitive consumer data, either through theft or carelessness, that's routinely stored on their computer networks.
read more | digg story filed under Technology, Security
Torrent Site Goes 2.0
Been a long time user of Snarf-It and now that they've gone to version 2.0 of their code thought I'd share it. It indexes virtually every other torrent site on the web, has no popups or scamware (rare these days) and is pretty fast considering all the graphics and goodies in there. Check it out.
read more | digg story filed under BitTorrent, Torrent Site
NYTimes: LonelyGirl Revealed
"The woman who plays lonelygirl15, whose first-person videos are among the most-viewed on the clip-sharing Web site YouTube, has been identified as Jessica Rose, a twentyish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy."
read more | digg story filed under LonelyGirl, YouTube, MySpace
Is Linux.org hurting Linux?
Linux.org is not the official Linux website, but millions of people believe it is. Is it a nice, modern, exciting page fostering Linux adoption? Hardly so. Even worse, far too many energies seem to be dedicated to raising money in a way that may even hurt the Linux image... I guess you have to turn adblock off for this one.
read more | digg story filed under Linux
XDrive Is Finally Offering 5GB Of Storage For Free
The competition for data storage has now begun because AOL has finally released a free 5GB to their users. Anyone can signup for the service on the Xdrive site but I am sure a lot of people are still going to be skeptical just because the name AOL is attached to it.
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Hack to Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional
Enable the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack.
read more | digg story filed under Hack, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro
Walkthrough: iTunes 7's big new features
Organizing, shopping, syncing - everything got a lot of attention from Apple's software engineers and, as you'll see throughout this walkthrough, a lot of polish has been applied to make this one of the most significant updates in recent iTunes history.
read more | digg story filed under iTunes
YouTube Gets Bandwidth Boost from Level 3
Level 3 will provide big-pipe 10GigE connectivity to help the the video portal YouTube keep up with its rapid growth.
read more | digg story filed under YouTube
eDonkey Gets Shut Down
According to court documents filed today MetaMachine, the company behind eDonkey, has agreed to pay a $30 million dollar settlement to the RIAA and cease distribution of its eDonkey, eDonkey 2000, Overnet and other software versions.
read more | digg story filed under RIAA, eDonkey
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Super-Fast Internet to Debut This Year
South Korea, the world's most wired nation, continues to push the envelope on the speed of the broadband Internet and looks set to make 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) a commercial possibility.
read more | digg story filed under Technology, Broadband, Internet
Convenient disposable email address
Next up is a brilliant resource for helping you to avoid the unwanted spam associated with registering your e-mail address on unreliable sites.
read more | digg story filed under EMail, E-Mail
Dark Energy and Dark Matter The Results of Flawed Physics
There are few scientific concepts as intriguing and mysterious as dark energy and dark matter, said to make up as much as 95% of all the energy and matter in the universe. Even though scientists don't know what either is and have little evidence to prove they exist, dark energy and dark matter are two of the biggest research problems in physics.
read more | digg story filed under Science, Dark Matter, Dark Energy
Bar Codes for the Web
A 2-dimensional barcode. These barcodes contain data that can be decoded using the Smartpox reader. You can create a Smartpox tag using a URL, an email address, a telephone number, or just plain text.
read more | digg story filed under Smartpox, Bar Codes
Crude Oil Prices Sink Below $66 a Barrel
"Light, sweet crude for October delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 60 cents to $65.65 a barrel in electronic trading by midday in Europe. The contract had fallen $1.07 Friday to settle at $66.25 a barrel -- the lowest closing price since finishing at $66.23 on April 6."
read more | digg story filed under Economy, Oil Prices
Samsung makes possible 32 and 64GB CompactFlash cards
Samsung announced today that it has developed the world's first 40-nanometer memory device, allowing for 32 and 64GB CompactFlash cards. According to the company's press release, the new design uses a Charge Trap Flash architecture, which "reduces inter-cell noise levels.
read more | digg story filed under Technology, Samsung, CompactFlash, Compact Flash
80 Percent of PS3s to be High End Sku
Sony told analysts last week that roughly 80 percent of the Playstation 3s they ship to stores will be of the premuim, 60GB, built-in WiFi, variety with the remaining 20 percent being the core, 20 GB version, Next-Gen is reporting.
read more | digg story filed under Sony, PS3
The Bible goes Web 2.0
eBible, a free web 2.0 site with "live" searching of the Bible, commentaries and references is out of beta and open to the public. Check out the link to take a tour and sign up if you're interested.
read more | digg story filed under Bible, Web 2.0
FineTune -Create your own Playlist, Listen and Share with Others!
Finetune is all about good music. It's a web based service that lets you create playlists that you like, listen to them online and share it with your friends. You can choose from 2 million sound tracks that already in Finetune library. I'm pretty sure that there is no change you won't find something that you like in a big music collection like that
read more | digg story filed under FineTune, Playlist
Gasoline prices take plunge as driving season comes to end
"Gasoline prices plunged more than 21 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to a national average of $2.66 amid an abundant supply of fuel at service stations, a national survey said Sunday."
read more | digg story filed under Economy, Gas Prices
GNU/Linux on Laptops
"Although most laptops nowadays tend to scare people off with an ugly 'Designed for Windows XP' mark, it does not mean that alternative OSes, like GNU/Linux cannot be installed and function equally well. In this article I would like to describe a few common issues with Linux on laptops and maybe bust a few myths about using GNU/Linux on laptops.
read more | digg story filed under Linux, Laptop
Microsoft Launches Desktop Feed Reader
Microsoft has added a desktop feed reader to its Max photo viewing and sharing software.
To use Max you must be on a Windows machine running the new Windows .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 (it will self install if you are on a previous version).
read more | digg story filed under Microsoft, RSS, Feed Reader
Blogmusik -- Listen to Music Online in a Virtual iPod
Check out this extremely beautiful Flash based application!
It will allow you to search for your favorite's song and listen to the music online. Plus you'll navigate through the sound tracks in a familiar way, Like a virtual iPod.
read more | digg story filed under Music, iPod
Konqueror: the Linux Killer App
This short article introduces some interesting features of Konqueror that may have escaped the casual user's notice.
read more | digg story filed under Konqueror, Linux, KDE
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Original Simpsons Cartoons Free for Download
The Simpsons began as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. You can download all 48 episodes here.
read more | digg story filed under Simpsons, Free Download
Hackers gain private information on all 642,720+ Second Life users
Linden Labs has forced a password reset for every one of its 642,720+ residents after it was revealed hackers gained access to the entire user database. Customer service will not begin to address password issues until Monday, September 11.
(the news story link is a "blog" because that is the "official" lines of communications from Linden Labs
read more | digg story filed under Hackers, Security, Second Life
Webwag - New Personalized Start Page
Webwag Is a new, very well designed, Ajax based start page.
Like Netvibes and Pageflakes, Webwag will allow you to gather all your personalized page and search in one place.
Webwag helps you to {{wag}} your web experience and to get the best use out of it.
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PC Magazine's Top 99 Undiscovered Web Sites
Think of us as the friends who are always forwarding you links to cool sites you'd never find on your own. That's who we aim to be with this list of 99 Undiscovered Web Sites, and that's who you'll be after reading it.
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The Best Web-Based Computer Applications
Welcome, boys and girls, to the computing world of tomorrow! Desktop programs are a thing of the past, replaced by free, simple, Web-based apps that do everything from spreadsheets to e-mail--and more!
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Programs that Grab, Convert, and Import Youtube videos into iTunes for free
The site presents two cool programs, iTube and PodTube (both free). One is for Windows users and the other is for Mac OS X users. So all iPod users are covered ... almost
read more | digg story filed under Technology, Software, iTunes, YouTube
Students get Linux in class room
To learn more about the recently reported migration of computers in 12,500 high schools in the southern Indian state of Kerela from Windows to GNU/Linux, prompted largely by the recent visit to India of free software guru Richard M. Stallman, DesktopLinux.com contacted Stallman for further details.
read more | digg story filed under Linux, Education
First Shots of Paris Hilton being dragged off in Handcuffs!
Paris being shoved in the back of a cop car, handcuffed by a swarm of male officers. No, it's not her new porno... it's her getting arrested for her DUI.
read more | digg story filed under Paris Hilton
Amazon Unbox Launches - Download Movies and TV
Amazon's movie download site, called Unbox, appears to have gone live today. There's no link yet on the front page of Amazon, but the direct link at unbox.com works. There is heavy DRM and the videos must be watched from a Windows PC.
read more | digg story filed under Amazon, UnBox, Movie Downloads
234 Free Vintage DOS Games and Playable Demos
It's amazing how far computer games have progressed. But have you ever felt the urge to take a trip back in time and relive the games of the eighties and nineties? Well now you can
read more | digg story filed under DOS Games, Games
Why Is America 1.5 Years Behind Asia with Cellphones?
Culture is surely a part, as are the U.S. wireless carriers themselves. Consumers here tend to be multi-device users. They like a phone in their pocket, but there's also a laptop or desktop involved in daily computing...
read more | digg story filed under Technology, Cell Phones, Cellphones
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Become a del.icio.us Power User
"Del.icio.us can be used as a place to store bookmarks, share bookmarks, and discover web sites, blogs, downloads, and more, that would otherwise largely go unnoticed. Here are some of the ways to really harness the power of del.icio.us."
read more | digg story filed under Del.icio.us
Gaming Generation Have Different Approach to Learning
There's an old anthropologist's quote that goes along the lines of -- show me how the children played and I'll tell you how the society worked. The point being that play is a form of learning and the forms that play takes are intertwined closely with the way society/culture functions.
read more | digg story filed under Gaming, Learning
Don't Keep All Your Data in One Stash
What happens to those beloved family photos or your extensive music collection if something should happen to your PC and your backup? Seagate is trying to solve the off-premises backup problem.
read more | digg story filed under Computer, BackUp, Back Up
Revealed: Face of Austrian Girl Held for 8 Years
The young Austrian woman imprisoned for 8 1/2 years in an underground cell "thought only of escape" during her entire ordeal, and once tried to jump out of her captor's car, she told a magazine and a newspaper in interviews published Wednesday.
read more | digg story filed under Natascha Kampusch
Anheuser-Busch to launch Web-based Bud.TV
Brewer Anheuser-Busch (Charts) announced Wednesday that it will launch a Web-based video network, named Bud.TV, in February. The company says it will feature new humorous webisodes, sporting events, consumer-generated content, field news reports, celebrity interviews, music downloads and comedian vignettes.
read more | digg story filed under Beer, Anheuser Busch, Bud.TV
Trojan utilizes Encrypting File System (EFS) to Protect Itself
Recently a trojan was seen to take advantage of EFS to protect itself and execute with administrative privileges. The trojan creates an administrator login account with a random name and random password. Using this login key pair it then encrypts the downloader component that it drops. It then creates a service that points to the encrypted file.
read more | digg story filed under Computers, Trogan, Encrypted File System
Wanted: Assistant for Stephen Hawking
Renowned astrophysicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking has announced he is looking for a graduate student to work for him one to two years. The candidate can earn about £23,500 and would likely join Hawking on his many travels abroad, according to a job posting on the university's Web site.
read more | digg story filed under Steven Hawking
Kids and Tech: How Much Is Too Much?
As technology creeps into more and more areas of consumers' everyday lives, risk of overexposure to gadgets, content, games and high-tech services rises. How much is too much? This first article in a three-part series on the potential dangers of substantial exposure to technology focuses on the risk to infants and children.
read more | digg story
ALARM ONLINE CLOCK - one word: BOOKMARK!
Get up on time was never that easy. software out, Web based applications, IN!
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Global Project Builds Sharpest Eye on Universe
High on the driest desert on the planet, an army of international scientists is assembling Earth's most powerful observatory to search for the answers of the universe. When completed -- around 2011 -- ALMA's will be the largest and most capable eye on the sky, expected to wield a resolution 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.
read more | digg story filed under Science, Astronomy
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Students & Moms Make Ends Meet As Strippers
"20/20' Goes Inside the World of 'Gentlemen's Clubs" "But as we listened to them talk about competing against other women and avoiding abuse and exploitation, we realized their stories were echoed not just by other dancers, but by women throughout the work force."
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PS3 PAL launch delayed to March 2007
SCEE have announced that the PS3 release date has slipped from November 17th 2006 to March 2007 - fun, anyone?
read more | digg story filed under PS3, Sony, SCEE
Sony: PSP to get classic game download service
According to Kawanishi, the new service will work either through a PC with a broadband connection, or through the PlayStation 3 itself. The user will be able to download games designed for the original PlayStation 1, which according to the Sony head works well.
read more | digg story filed under Sony, PSP
Wireless HDMI Coming In November
The companies' first wireless HDMI setup is a standards-based system, predicated on the standards set forth by Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony in July of 2003. Other wireless HDMI technologies introduced to date have been proprietary, both Tzero and Analog Devices alleged.
read more | digg story filed under Technology, HDMI
What It Means for the US Hit 300 Million Residents
Sometime in October the U.S. will join China and India in the very small club of countries with at least 300 million residents. This really is a big deal, like hitting 700 home runs in baseball. No other country is expected to reach the 300 million mark for at least 30 more years.
read more | digg story filed under Economy, Business, Politics
Effects of Substance Use Spans Generations
In a long-term study conducted across three generations, researchers found that substance use in one generation was associated with problem behaviors and later substance use in the following generation. In turn, the substance use in the second generation was related to problem behaviors in the third generation.
read more | digg story filed under Science, Psychology
Play A Dozen Retro Video Games Online
Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Duck Hunt, Frogger, Moon Patrol, Pac Man, Pong, Simon, Space Invaders, Star Castle, Tetris, and Tic Tac Toe. *Quarters not required.
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Attention, Shoplifters
With $30 billion in theft, there's a revolution in surveillance systems.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Mining Black Gold Off The Gulf Coast
(CBS) Chevron announced on Tuesday a record-breaking strike in the Gulf of Mexico. But it's not the only oil company looking for oil closer to home.
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Katie Couric's Big News Day Arrives
Tuesday is Katie Couric's good news day, with the 15-year Today show veteran set to make her bow as the new host of CBS Evening News, and TV's first-ever solo female anchor for a major broadcast network.
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Torrents, piracy and beyond: will the film industry survive?
"So the guys who started this business all cheated somebody to get there, and now they're being cheated, perhaps, by all these crazy, geeky people all over the internet. I must say, my anguish level is not great."
Richard Dreyfus
read more | digg story filed under BitTorrent, Privacy, RIAA, MPAA
The end of the American dream?
The US economy has been generating strong economic growth over the past few years as it has come out of recession. So far, though, little of that growth has translated into the hands of the average worker, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
read more | digg story filed under Economy
Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory
Psychologists have long known that memories of disturbing emotional events - such as an act of violence or the unexpected death of a loved one - are more vivid and deeply imprinted in the brain than mundane recollections of everyday matters.
read more | digg story filed under Science
And The Best Antivirus Is�
Virus.gr tested quite a few different software companies to see how they would stack up against each other. How did the 147,000+ virus test pan out? Here are the results
read more | digg story filed under AntiVirus, Anti Virus,Anti-Virus
Hiring jump helps ease economic slump fears
WASHINGTON - It wasn't exactly a national jobs fair, but more employers hung out -- Help Wanted -- signs in August. The hiring revival was sufficient to ease fears of an economic slump.
read more | digg story filed under Economy
Want change? Target leaders, not Wal-Mart
The folks worried about the middle-class squeeze should be picketing Congress and the White House, not Wal-Mart.
read more | digg story filed under Politics, Congress, Economy, Wal-Mart, Wal Mart
It's time for a modern Boston Tea Party.
Unlike our patriot forbears, we do not have to resort to extreme measures. But we do need an uprising of the American public demanding that our elected representatives do their jobs. By e-mail, letters, phone calls or speaking out at town meetings, we must make our voices heard.
read more | digg story
160Mbps down / 120Mbps up cable speeds coming
Cable modem speed freaks, be patient. One analyst predicts that by 2011, only 40 percent of consumers will be able to take advantage of the higher speeds offered by DOCSIS 3.0. DOCSIS 3.0 achieves its speed boost in part through "channel bonding" (using more than one channel to transmit data) for both up- and downstream transmission.
read more | digg story
The computer spy that steals your passwords and credit details
ABOUT three weeks ago, Cheryl Lambert bought a £179 surfboard on eBay for her daughter. Soon after, she noticed her computer started to behave erratically and within a few days it had ground to a halt. A few days after her desktop machine was unplugged from the internet, Lambert�s personal details appeared on a Russian website.
read more | digg story
Monday, September 04, 2006
How BitTorrent Works
BitTorrent is a protocol that enables fast downloading of large files using minimum Internet bandwidth. It costs nothing to use and includes no spyware or pop-up advertising. This article examines how BitTorrent works and how it is different from other file-distribution methods. It also discusses BitTorrent's future on the Internet.
read more | digg story filed under BitTorrent
Gmail as an MP3 jukebox
"I tend to email myself a lot of MP3s. Today, I did it for the first time using my Gmail account, and was pleasantly surprised to find an embedded play button directly in the mail item. Clicking on it brings up a Google Video style player that streams your MP3 from Gmail�s server."
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'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin killed by stingray
CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
read more filed under Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Stingray
One Watt Light Bulbs!
LED light bulb replacements are here! LEDison lamps are being used to replace 10 to 60w incandescent bulbs in commercial applications (like shopping malls). The LED lamps have ten times the service life of the incandescents they replace, and use only 1 watt!
read more | digg story filed under Technology
PC to Linux via USB OS, what to do when you need to borrow a friends PC
The experience is never pleasant - foreign desktop settings, grimy keyboards, crazy font sizes and odd wallpaper - it's liken to borrowing someone's swim trunks. If you're a Linux desktop user and are forced to use someone's Windows machine, the experience may be more on par with borrowing a toothbrush.
read more | digg story
Rock Music Boosts Your Brain Power
LONG suffering parents of adolescents might not agree, but scientists claim that listening to rock music can boost your brain power. Researchers at a Scottish university believe that contrary to received wisdom, children who listen to loud rock or pop music while swotting for exams are probably improving their chances of success.
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Want to Improve Education? Let Kids Sleep
This controversy over early school start times is raging in hundreds of communities today, pitting parents against unbending school bureaucracies. Surveys of teen's parents in school districts with early start times find that as many as 90% favor a later starting bell. Research confirms that lack of sleep in adolescents has become a problem.
read more | digg story
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Grappling Over Minimum Wage Builds
Some Republican lawmakers, particularly those facing tough re-election fights, want another chance to back an increase from the current $5.15 an hour, a move that would deprive Democrats of a major campaign talking point. "After 10 years, good grief, it's not like we're increasing it in a way that would cause unemployment."
read more | digg story
MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands
The goal is to be one of the biggest digital music stores out there," MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe told Reuters. "Everyone we've spoken to definitely wants an alternative to iTunes and the iPod. MySpace could be that alternative.
read more | digg story filed underMySpace
Going For Broke: How Ordinary Families Wind Up Bankrupt
Last year, the number of personal bankruptcies ballooned to two million as people rushed to beat last deadline for a new law that made it harder and more expensive for consumers to declare themselves broke. 90% of the families who file for bankruptcy do so following a job loss, a medical problem or a family torn apart by death or divorce.
read more | digg story
Partystrands aims to be Last.fm + Digg for the jukebox
Partystrands is a music service launching next month that aims to bring together aggregated recommendations, voting and photos synchronized on location by mobile phone. Created by the Corvallis, Oregon and Barcellona, Spain based company MyStrands, PartyStrands is targeting bars and clubs. The site will go live on September 14th.
read more | digg story
There's nothing to celebrate this Labor Day.
Even though the economy generally is strong, as the White House proclaims, new data illustrates why President Bush's polls are low: Wages haven't been rising and workers are losing health coverage.
Surging productivity and corporate profits aren't making it to the working man like they have in the past.
read more | digg story
MySpace Not So Social Anymore
MySpace is no longer a social site, corporate spam-peddlers have taken over. Fake celebrity profiles, corporations posing as 13 yr-old girls to sell products, and a growing flood of ads is too much even for undemanding, noobish MySpace users. If something isn't done, it's only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL.
read more | digg story filed under MySpace
Pioneer planning BDR-103 HD DVD/Blu-ray combo drive
"Pioneer announced plans at Berlin's IFA to manufacture the BDR-103 combo drive (followup to its BDR-101 and upcoming, CD-writing BDR-102 Blu-ray-only burners)."
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How Geniuses Work
According to conventional wisdom, geniuses are different from everyone else. They can think faster and better than other people. In addition, many people think that all that extra brainpower leads to eccentric or quirky behavior. And although geniuses are fairly easy to spot, defining exactly what makes one person a genius is a little trickier.
read more | digg story
New secure browser Browzar is fake and full of adware
Social news rave about Browzar - they claim it a new secure browser leaving no footprints. After looking at it closer, I found out that it's not a browser at all, and moreover, this software thrusts search via it's own PPC-SE full of ads on user.
read more | digg story
Friday, September 01, 2006
Buchanan: The US Used To Be "89 or 90 Percent White. I Like That Country"
Last night on Fox, Buchanan told Alan Colmes: "What I would like is -- I'd like the country I grew up in. It was a good country. I lived in Washington, D.C., 400,000 black folks, 400,000 white folks, in a country 89 or 90 percent white. I like that country." (Video)
read more | digg story filed under Politics
New no-installation browser enables cookie-free and history-free browsing
Browzar does not require any installation or registration and does not save information from any websites visited while using it. Cache, history, cookies and auto-complete forms are all automatically deleted, protecting your privacy while online.
read more | digg story filed under Anonymous, Anonymizer
New phones run Skype without PC
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype Ltd.'s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs.
read more | digg story filed under Technology
Evangelist Drowns Trying to Walk on Water
An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus' miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa."He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus," an eyewitness told the Glasgow Daily Record.
read more | digg story filed under Religion
Tracking the Web with Single Page Aggregators
A comprehensive round up of services that aggregate popular social services and websites such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Flickr, and more, or that let you build your own aggregations.
read more | digg story
How to host a website on an old computer
Many people laughed at me when I expressed my desire to host websites from this old desktop. Not even a single person agreed that this old machine can be put to good use.
And the result is this page! This page is being hosted from the same old desktop machine that you see in the pic above, and it confirms that even ancient computers are capable
read more | digg story filed under DIY, Tutorial, HowTo
Spintronics: A New Spin on Computing
A growing effort is underway among researchers to find a way to make spintronics, the manipulation of electrons' "spin" to do computing, practical. The promise is clear: spintronics could lead to computers that turn on instantly and electronics that use far less battery power, and also overcome the looming limits to Moore's Law.
read more | digg story filed under Technology
RIAA copyright education contradictory
The music industry's educational video about copyright law is full of baloney, according to several trade and public interest groups.
read more | digg story filed under RIAA
ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads
BitTorrent clients such as Azureus added a feature that encrypted torrent traffic to try and get around ISP roadblocks. Now, a company called Allot Communications is claiming that their new hardware product, the NetEnforcer, is the first device that will seek out and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.
read more | digg story filed under BitTorrent
Bartender gets $10,000 tip on $26 tab
Two weeks ago, one of Cindy Kienow's regular customers left her a $100 tip on a tab that wasn't even half that. This week, he added a couple of zeros. Kienow, a bartender at Applebee's, got a $10,000 tip from the man, for a $26 meal on Sunday.
read more | digg story filed under US News
Did the Earth Flip Over in the Past?
Scientists have found evidence that the Earth might have flipped over in the past, completely shifting the orientation of its poles. The theory has been around for years; that a large mountain range or supervolcano might unbalance the spinning Earth. Over the course of millions of years, the Earth would change the orientation of its axis.
read more | digg story filed under Science
16GB USB drive that fits in your pocket and weighs 12 grams!
When do we stop... How much space do we really need on a thumb drive?
read more | digg story filed under Technology
5 Ways To Boost Your WiFi Signal
"here's a roundup of some gear that'll turn your hotspot into a data blast zone"
read more | digg story
Cards That Hurt Your Credit Rating
A no-limit credit card can damage you, even if you pay it off in full every month, because the most commonly used method of determining risk is flawed. The problem is something called credit utilization. If the card has no limit, the credit-scoring company can't make the credit-utilization calculation, and that has an effect on credit scores.
read more | digg story filed under Financial Tips, Financial Advise, Credit Cards
How Much System Memory Is Really Enough?
When it comes to adding memory, we all have to deal with the cost vs. speed equation. So how much memory do you really need? Our tester got some surprising results.
read more | digg story filed under Technolog, Computers, PCs, Memory
Wal-Mart and Apple Battle for Turf
The retail behemoth isn't happy about the iPod maker's plans to offer movie downloads through iTunes. Has Wal-Mart met its match?
read more | digg story filed under Wal-Mart, Apple
An alternative to string theory
One of the subjects we keep coming back to here at Nobel Intent is the unification of gravity and quantum mechanics. One of the main contenders for this has to be string theory, in which all observable properties can be simply described as vibrations on a string or more complex structure.
read more | digg story filed under Science, String Theory
Dad kills man who molested his two year old daughter
A lawyer climbed through a neighbor's bedroom window and stabbed him to death after being told by a family member that the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, authorities say.
read more | digg story filed under US News
RadioShack lays off 403 via e-mail
Imagine getting your pink slip via email. Radioshack lays off their employees online, that has to suck.
read more | digg story
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