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The web's most interesting stories on Wed 14th May 2008 at 7pm GMT

These are the web's most talked about, buzziest URLs on Wed 14th May 2008 at 7pm GMT. The current winner is Food Portion Size, 20 Years Ago vs. Today - check back in a hour to see what's top and what's dropped. To get the permanent listing for the day you can use this permalink.

Food Portion Size, 20 Years Ago vs. Today
A visual representation of what sizes used to be (20 years ago) compared to what they are today.

When our parents ordered a coffee two decades ago, they weren’t given as many size options—a standard cup of joe was eight ounces, the size of a small coffee cup. Nowadays, most of us feel like we don’t get our money’s worth un…
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It is

Even more interesting is the first recommended story below the article: Five Foods That Cause Anal Leakage

Supersized.

I've heard before that portion sizes are getting bigger, but I had never thought about the size of plates.

My father is 5'10″, my mother is shorter.

you never report the good news, like how I can double the size of my beer at the airport for only $1

And we wonder why the population is so FAT.

Interesting comparison of the inflation of portion sizes

A visual representation of how food portion sizes have increased over the years. Or: This is why you're fat.

Portion Size, Then and Now

This article has visual representations of changes in portion size from 20 years ago to now.

Zero Punctuation: Grand Theft Auto IV
Its the event of the year…

Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn't talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and writes the back page column for PC Gamer, w…
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It's zero punctuation, but there's punctuation in the title. hahaha, im so original.

Well this is an interesting predicament.

yeah, that wasnt very nice

Hey! For the record I upmodded your submission and comment! I know not what you speak of mortal.

I love Wednesdays!
This wasn't as good as his previous ones, I think Yahtzee is slipping.
Suck suck suck.
There, that should take care of it all. God damn Digg comments.

submitter must have used the doc brown's delorean in gta to submit this week's zero punctuation prior to release….

Although it isn't a mission, you CAN write a letter to your mum.

[insert poor rick roll attempt here]

You submitted it 23 minutes before it came out? wtf

New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends
If you are still relying on Google to snoop on your friends, you are behind the curve.

Zaba Inc.'s ZabaSearch.com turns up public records such as criminal history and birthdates. Spock Networks Inc.'s Spock.com and Wink Technologies Inc.'s Wink.com are “people-search engines” that specialize in digging up personal pages, such …
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Does anyone else think this is really lame? Not the post, just the idea?

Sounds like you've got something to hide…

touche

Best to find out what secrets they have before you decide to keep them a secret though…just to be on the safe side.

That is true, maybe they are illuminati or some government spy coming after me? lol

I do my stalking through Facebook personally.

New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends

Some people have come across dirt on their loved ones without even looking for it….

Ain't nobody got spies like us.

Zaba Inc.'s ZabaSearch.com turns up public records such as criminal history and birthdates. Spock Networks Inc.'s Spock.com and Wink Technologies Inc.'s Wink.com are "people-search engines" that specialize in digging up personal pages, such as social-netw

Write up on nosey search engines that are digging up some very personal details.

Bush Administration Sued for Allowing Use of 4 Pesticides
Environmental & Farm Worker groups have now sued the Bush administration for allowing the continued use of four pesticides. They claim that the government brushed aside its own evidence that the chemicals are toxic to workers, children, and animals. The suit challenged the EPA’s 2006 decision to reauthorize the use four pesticides in California.

Read this special report now… “Seven Words That Can Change the World reveals the astonishing, simple truths that have the power to forever transform our world for the better while freeing our minds from the enslavement of limiting beliefs. This is not a text f…
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But you can smoke them in your home without fear of arrest and prosecution.

Bring back DDT, save millions of lives.

Uncontrolled greed, creates uncontrolled evil!

Imagine how bad it is in other countries that import crops to the U.S., but have little or no regulatory bodies to oversee use of pesticides.

sigh

I miss chlordane. One application, no bugs of any sort for years.

Keep piling on the lawsuits Americans… One of them is going to eventually stick…

We don't need no workers, children and animals, dammit!

Bush = nonstop entertainment on the internets!

Ah Mr. Bush… why do you hate yourself so?

How to Pack Everything You Own in One Bag : NPR
With more and more airlines charging extra to check a second piece of baggage, packing light has become a necessity.

“If it's not on your list, it shouldn't be in your bag,” Dyment tells NPR's Michele Norris. “What happens with people is that they pack before their trip, and that packing activity consists mostly of talking to yourself and saying, 'Wel…
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I roll everything up - keeps it from wrinkling and lets you fit a lot more in as well.

re than two pairs of shoes," Dyment says. "In lots of business situations these days, you can buy shoes that are quite dressy looki

"Dyment has two big tricks for packing a bag correctly: Don't let any space go unused, and wrap your clothes in bundles. "

Good tips for packing everything in one bag

Now that many airlines are charging for a second checked bag, one packing expert reveals tricks travelers can use to pack everything they need in one checked bag. He says the key is to draw up a list and bundle wrap clothes.

"the key is to make a list in advance of what to pack and stick with it (…) well before a trip" + "bundle wrapping" techniques + "Never take more than two pairs of shoes,"

Vatican: It's OK to Believe in Aliens
The Vatican’s chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

The Bible “is not a science book,” Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most “reasonable” explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single…
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So.. I'm confused, did the aliens live with us when we were tromping around on dinosaurs?

The Vatican does not claim that humans coexisted with dinosaurs. In fact, the Vatican has no quarrel with evolution.

Vatican information is free, but scientology charges hundreds of thousands of dollars to allow alien beliefs…

Thanks for telling me what to think.

This made me think of Richard Feynman's quote:
Some years ago I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers ' because I am scientific I know all about flying saucers! I said “I don't think there are flying saucers'. So my antagonist said, “Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?” “No”, I said, “I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely”. At that he said, “You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?” But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. To define what I mean, I might have said to him, “Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.” It is just more likely. That is all. - Feynman
Though it is reasonable to think that there's other life, but having outer life visit us is extremely unreasonable.

IMO believing that there is no life anywhere in the universe apart from on earth, regardless of your religious beliefs, is crazy.
When people ask me if I believe in aliens the answer is I do, I cannot believe that in all that space there is no life anywhere. Whether aliens have ever come to earth is another thing altogether though…

I, for one, welcome our new alien saviors.

Whew! what a relief! < please note sarcasm> I could have almost/maybe swallowed that aliens might exist. But why did he have to add that part about "extraterrestial brothers". whatever. Also,how can someone believe in the big bang theory and that God crea

Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom, he said.

VATICAN CITY - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.
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The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican

Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.

Whoa, Catholics now cleared to believe in aliens? Whoa

RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates - Chronicle.com
The Chronicle of Higher Ed got a briefing at RIAA headquarters on how the group catches pirates. They just use LimeWire and other software that pirates use, except that they’ve set up scripts to search for songs, grab IP numbers, and send out notices to college officials. They claim they don’t target specific colleges, though many feel that they do

The LimeWire software allows users who right-click on any song entry and choose “browse host” to see all of the songs that a given file sharer is offering to others for download. The software also lists the IP address of active file sharers. (An IP …
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Try using PeerGuardian. It supposedly blocks IP addresses, and thus connections, from suspect computers on the internet, such as RIAA. I guess it works, if PeerGuardian keeps their banned IP address list current.

It'd be awesome to share a bunch of self-made MP3's with names of RIAA-owned artists plastered on them. Just shit to waste their time. It'd be even better if thousands of people did it.

were in ur internetzz watching u download our moviez

One music pirate down, 42,457,798 to go….

The RIAA just scares me, there's no two ways about it. I learned to avoid the RIAA the hard way, so now i am just on nutsie.com a lot.
Take a peek:
http://www.nutsie.com/member/view_member/121747?pl …
Free, streaming and LEGAL.

Here's how the process works: The RIAA maintains a list of songs whose distribution rights are owned by the RIAA's member organizations. It has given that list to Media Sentry, a company it hired to search for online pirates. That company runs copies of t

To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle at the organization's offices during a privat

damn, the RIAA is still using Limewire?
(damn, other people are still using it too?)

Chronicle of Higher Education article explaining how the RIAA catches alleged music pirates

The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students.

List of commercial games released as freeware
Big list of around 70 games that were at one time commercial games but are now freeware. Includes games such as Ground Control, Hidden and Dangerous, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 2 and One Must Fall: 2097.
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I wish Carmageddon would appear in that list.

I found my answer on the talk page. The game data is unreleased so it's not being added.

You can just check out The Underdogs for a more expansive archive of old school, mostly freeware games.

subspace (supposedly the first ever MMO) is still quite active (300-1000 people online throughout the day) - try it out, the gameplay is solid and only gets more fun as you get better. whole range of skill levels from the one week beginner to the 10 year veteran. there's a variety of zones (different servers with different ship settings), the most popular of which is “trench wars” - it's easy to pick up, there's plenty of different events being hosted every day, a variety of different arenas with different competitions within. there's a good clan system (squads) and chat system such that there's a relatively tight knit community of players.

Anyone tried that “Gametap” thing?

"Freeware games are games that are released as freeware and can be downloaded and played, free of charge, for an unlimited amount of time and may be redistributed. See List of open source games for such games, which are not included in this list."

games re-released as open source

Commercial games released as freeware are games that, in their original license, were not considered freeware, but were re-released at a later date with a freeware license, sometimes as publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release. For games

Commercial games released as freeware are games that, in their original license, were not considered freeware, but were re-released at a later date with a freeware license, sometimes as publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release.

Ahhhhh, this takes me back.

Surreal paintings of Jacek Yerka [Pics]
Jacek Yerka famous Polish painter of fantasy world and landscapes. Yerka studied art for a short time at University, but then learnt from direct study of Northern European masters, the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte.

U are a great artist! For sure! Great artists know the value of the subconscious to the art. Just as Dali did know. True art is never simply naturalistic or banal if you ‘d like to put it that way. Realism and naturalism is merely journalism and journalism …
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Did he do any covers for OMNI magazine?

Yerka did a select few of the Theodore Sturgeon Anthology covers. Hurray.

Reminds me of Otto Frello.

Normally I'm not very interested in surreal art, but for some reason, this work is completely enthralling.

I'll have what he's having.

More surreal, thought-provoking art from Jacek Yerka. I love the swan one

Inspired and fantastical. I think the blog (Zuzafun) is worth checking out too.

Cool paintings, very …. Surreal

A Dali fan I presume. Via - MaoXian.

surrealist in the beksinsky fasion

Rumors: Xbox 360 Spring Updates"Motion Sensor"& Game install
Perhaps the most interesting additions are “Calibration options for motion sensor devices” for the Dashboard and “Support for titles to store installation data on Storage Device for faster loading” for Games. If true, the former would lend further credibility to frequent rumors that Microsoft is planning to introduce a motion controller for Xbox

Dashboard/Miscellaneous 1. Option to navigate quickly out of several menus back to respective blade home (applies to Games, Media, System). 2. New blade trim styles added. 3. Introduce expanded Inside Xbox as a portal to news, weather, entertainment, help and…
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This is update adds MANY often request features as well as some useful surprises. I couldn't be more exited for its release which will hopefully be within the next week or two. I'm sure Major Nelson will make it official in the very near future anyway. Hats off to the Xbox team for vastly improving what is already the best online service on any console! XBL FTW!!!

Seems plausible. Is it true?

18 of the Craziest, Creepiest, Kinkiest Hotel Rooms [PICS]
Ever want to sleep suspended in mid-air, stay in a barn loft or live out some other strange fantasy youre afraid to tell anyone? If you can think of it, chances are someone has created it.
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Creepy? Eh…Kinky? Sure. Expensive? Oh yeah!

woah this is something out of the ordinary alright!

I wonder how much they charge for short stays? In the Bronx they got a great quickie motel for like 30 bucks for 4 hours with mirrors galore!

Who visits a hotel for a good time?

Nothing like a kinky hotel room with your hot, kinky girlfriend in bed with you.

Chinas Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Heres why its so effective anyway.
This is a great article from the March 2008 issue of The Atlantic by James Fellows. It's the most in-depth look at the Chinese web access issue that I've seen.

Next is the perilous “connect” phase. If the DNS has looked up and provided the right IP address, your computer sends a signal requesting a connection with that remote site. While your signal is going out, and as the other system is sending a repl…
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“Partly it is because even electrons take a detectable period of time to travel beneath the Pacific Ocean to servers in America…”

No, they use electrons over copper wire like the rest of us.

This should explain what I am on about

Got a 500 server error

I'm consistently amazed by the degree that Chinese people don't know they are oppressed. It's because they've got in place invisible handcuffs like these.

chinese firewall during the olympics great firewall

The Atlantic Monthly on the GFW

Amazing article about The Great Firewall of China

Discussion on China's "Great Firewall", its vulnerabilities, and its effectiveness.

The Great Firewall of China

100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Mans Library
There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our perspective on politics, religion, money and love. Some will even become a source of inspiration for the rest of your life. From a seemingly infinite list of books of anecdotal or literal merit, we have narrowed..
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Not programming…

I know.

What no Dianetics?

surprisingly good list, although I would just add that only the Old Testament is worth reading. There are some good stories of epic battles, venomous rage, deceit and revenge in there. The New Testament should have been dropped by the editors all together. It's totally repetitive and keeps going on about a guy named Jesus who always told unfunny stories and ultimately got himself thrown in prison, which is where I stopped reading.

I would have also included The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey.

I would have included Cat's Cradle instead of Slaughterhouse Five - to me it's a better choice from Vonnegut.

This is actually a pretty good list, and taking the time to photo the book covers brings it to life. I will avoid a 'dont judge a book by it's cover' joke at this point. Dharma Bums is great.

Only 1/5 of the way there. If I spent as much time reading as I did on Digg I'd probably be done by now.

Sumo Car Wash..!
Great article on the hilarious new commercial featuring a Sumo carwash featuring the classic track “Danger! High Voltage” Electirc Six.

Agency: DDB Canada, Toronto Creative Director: Andrew Simon Copywriter: Matt Antonello Art Director: Paul Riss Producer: Andrew Schulze Production Company: The Corner Store, Toronto Director: Jorn Haagen DP: Doug Koch Executive Producer: Jennie Montford Steadicam: Be…
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Thank you for that post! That was funny ass hell! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9bEtJsa0A
Music: Electric 6 “Danger! High Voltage”
Fuck your blog spam.

I could use one of those!!

This beats the Paris Hilton burger advertisement video.

Hilarious video : )

NASA to announce result of 50 year galactic search
NASA has scheduled a media teleconference to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. Hmm, I wonder what it is?

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Not far now.

Then I assume the earth is powered by Windows server, because we're practically destroying it.

Brown star twin of the sun? What would that imply? That our sun does not acknowledge his black brother and has been hiding him for the past 50 years? Is our sun racist?

Hm. Sounds like a place where nothing ever happens.

Woohoo! What's my prize?

This could be huge. What have they been searching for the entire time NASA has existed?

NASA - NASA News Audio Live Streaming

Lies We Tell Kids
Some parents feel a strong adherence to an ethnic or religious group and want their kids to feel it too. This usually requires two different kinds of lying: the first is to tell the child that he or she is an X, and the second is whatever specific lies Xe
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Wow.

This really makes sense when you consider the FLDS issues in the news recently, and how many of the women insist they've chosen this way of life. In all honesty, they never knew any different and at this point choosing anything else would mean admitting that for their entire life they were wrong, and they were lied to by people who claim to care about them. Convincing themselves that they've made this choice is a way around admitting they've been brain washed into it.

We'll probably start off with the Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde. Although I do remember constantly crying whenever I read that book. At the moment he's got some Roddy Doyle kid's book which is going down well, and as soon as he hits six or seven the excellent Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer should come into their own.

was doubtful first few pages, but then it gets excellent

You know, I never thought I'd find myself thinking of PG and Violent Acres as being alike in any way…

Some parents feel a strong adherence to an ethnic or religious group and want their kids to feel it too. This usually requires two different kinds of lying: the first is to tell the child that he or she is an X, and the second is whatever specific lies Xe

Much recent history consists of spin. It would probably be better just to teach them metafacts like that.

"It's not enough to consider your mind a blank slate. You have to consciously erase it."

The truth is common property. You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people, you have to do things that are arbitrary, and believe things that ar

"Adults lie constantly to kids. I'm not saying we should stop, but I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why."

What year is this again? [Pic]
i don't get it….seriously. The first thing that came into my mind, was oh! it's curious george, he's so cute. And then i thought, oh, i get it, it's like the opposite of our george. And then told me it was supposed to be an insult. I didn't see …
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can we get some black people in on this debate because as far as i know “monkey” isn't an exclusively racist term and furthermore not specifically reserved for black people and FFS IT'S CURIOUS GEORGE

I think I heard about that: http://youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Yeah, there really is a resemblence… Kind of funny. George bush looks like a evil chimp… Obama looks like a nice one, kind of appropriate? I think we'll have progressed further when something like this doesn't carry racial connotations.

well said

I would say at its lowest.

100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library | The Art of Manliness
the site that keeps on giving

Exploring the “virtue” of living for ourselves, this monster of a book (1,084 pages in my version) is certainly worth plowing through as it is simply a great story. The fundamental concept is that our world falls apart when individuals sto…
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Not programming…

I know.

What no Dianetics?

the site that keeps on giving

Written by: Jason Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay Photo by the nonist There are the books you read, and then there are the books that

hen taken outside the order of civilization.

Llista dels 100 llibres que tothom hauria de llegir. Jo ja en porto uns quants

There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our perspective on politics, religion, money, and love. Some will even become a source of inspiration for the rest of your

Beautiful explanation of how the AES block cipher works!
wonderfull explanation how the AES algorith works
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Yeah, if encrypted data is discernable from random noise then if can also be compressed.

Most other common block ciphers (DES, IDEA, Blowfish, etc) use a construction known as a Feistel Network to create a reversible function from a function that messes things up nicely but is not reversible by itself (a hash function).

Fucking google refused to tell me the real spelling and kept suggesting that. I know it's wrong, ah well.

Where does the S-Box come from?

That was so awesome. Thanks for the link.

wonderfull explanation how the AES algorith works

detailed explanation of how AES (rijndael encryption) works

Very nicely done animation/visualization of aes algorithm.

A inspection of the Rjjndael encryption algorithm

How the Rijndael/AES algorithm works.

'NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years.', any ideas?
WASHINGTON — NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. Hmm, SETI program started 50 years ago, could we have FINALLY found aliens?

NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending a blank e-mail message to hqnews-subscribe@mediaservices.nasa.gov. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a blank e-mail message to hqnews-unsubscribe@mediaservices….
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Heh heh. She said “Galactic Hunt”

I'd be surprised if we got 4+ years notice of something like that.

“you cannot see the mushrooms in the center of the pizza because of all that cheese”

A supernova. I suppose it gives us, or will give us, a better understanding of how the universe works. I still don't know if I should be super excited, or a bit… I dunno, disappointed? Granted, new cosmological discoveries are all exciting, but this is slightly anticlimactic.

17:00 GMT

"NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years."

"NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years."
This could be either 1.) the exact location of our black hole, or

Now that's an enigmatic press release if ever there was one

NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observ

NASA to Announce Success of Long Galactic Hunt WASHINGTON — NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This findin

Torrent2exe
Convierte el archivo .torrent en un .exe

2. Add extra functionality to your torrent-related site. You can put direct links to these downloads together with links to the torrent files or use special script that will automatically do it.
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Convierte el archivo .torrent en un .exe

You usually have to install a client on your PC to download files shared with BitTorrent. You'll do perfectly well without the client if you use Torrent2exe.com.

pasar de un torrent a un ejecutable

Convierte archivos .torrent en .exe para descargar sin necesidad de un programa externo.

downloading torrent without any client, just inside .exe file.

'The Corporation': The Best Documentary Out There On The Corporation As A Legal Construction
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I think it's funny that people who want to reign in corporate power are said to “hate corporations,” “hate business,” and “hate capitalism.”

No resources in Africa?…

There is actually an official torrent of this movie:

I think it's far more poetic as it is.

live and let live man. I didn't glean all that from just a couple sentences.

Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money
Fedora 9 is a significant upgrade and packs in a number of new features. Perhaps the best part of Fedora 9 is the new live USB options. After playing with the release candidate for a week or so Im happy to report that Fedora 9 has made some significant strides and gives Ubuntu a serious run for its money when it comes ot user-friendliness.

Fedora is also free. “Run for it's money is just a saying”. However, Fedora is a fast paced rpm based distribution. If you've ever gone through dependancy hell, you've probably quit using Fedora several releases ago. Every 6 months, a new versio…
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Leap of faith is right. I've played with KDE4, it's nice but I think it's still too raw for being the default KDE flavor. Maybe by the time they get to KDE4.1…

A run for its money?

Upvoted for correctly omitting the apostrophe from its.

KDE 4 is the shit. RPM is a dinosaur, why hasn't it gone extinct yet

kinda sad the only way a fedora article can be dugg up is if it mentions how it stacks up to ubuntu in the article.

NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world
likes safari, but not firefox
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likes safari, but not firefox

connect insane webs of billionares, masons, elitists, and rockstars!

Wow, I could spend hours here

Sort of like theyrule beyond the members of the board.

A place that tracks connections between people and power.

The Constitution recognizes only three federal crimes - treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. The federal government has no Constitutional authority to wage the War on Drugs.
The government can no longer tolerate your privacy. Government agents routinely rummage through your bank records, without your knowledge, looking for suspicious transactions. Politicians continually lower the standards for warrants to search your mail or tap your ph…
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Yeah, I tend to defer to John Marshall over “pastanoose” and “gbacon” when it comes to constitutional law. You know, him being somewhat instrumental in the ratification of the Constitution and whatnot. I guess that makes me a bad person.

the truth is inconvenient for some people, ah well.

It would make a small difference. State police would no longer be able to arrest you for drug possession. But Federal police could still arrest you. Also, several federal agencies have regulatory power over businesses in your state, so no one would sell the weed even if it were legal under state law.

Just a note.

they can't have their weed back until they clean their room.

Cross Compare of SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL - Postgres OnLine Journal
Cross Compare of SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL

The below is by no means an exhaustive comparison of these 3 databases and functionality may not be necessarily ordered in order of importance. These are just our experiences with using these 3 databases. These are the databases we use most often. If we left your fav…
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Seemed like a pretty well-thought-out article, though I'm not sure the query-external-DB part is quite right.

SQLyog also has a free version which is pretty great.

Not the free edition.

MSSQL is number three amongst the commercial databases. Obviously most business want oracle or DB/2. Less than 1/3d of the businesses who are willing to pay for databases buy MSSQL server.

Pussy!

Cross Compare of SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL

The below is by no means an exhaustive comparison of these 3 databases and functionality may not be necessarily ordered in order of importance. These are just our experiences with using these 3 databases.

The below is by no means an exhaustive comparison of these 3 databases and functionality may not be necessarily ordered in order of importance. These are just our experiences with using these 3 databases. These are the databases we use most often. If we l

Comparison of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5, and PostgreSQL 8.3

PC Club / Club IT Closed?
Our sources tell us that some/all of the top management has left PC Club / Club IT as of today without giving prior notice to employees. Today during business hours, PC Clubs HQ store had its doors locked and the closed sign out.

As a huge fan of Hardocp and a recently (today) laid off employee of PC Club, I just want to let you know that the rumors are confirmed. As of 5:00 all PC Club employees will be laid off and PC Club will be filing for bankruptcy tomorrow morning at 8:00 pacif…
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Why is it every comment in this thread is getting dugg down?

I used to work at PC Club as well for 1 year. I enjoyed it until management became shrewd and tried to enforce us to implement policies that forced us to cheat and lie to the customers. The internal workings of the company also violated several laws and prohibited any sort of positive internal growth. This isn't even mentioning the inventories that were so inefficient that they often times lasted until 2 or 3 in the morning, most of the time in vain.
I'll miss my coworkers and the deals, but that's about it.
“To focus on customer values by offering quality computer products and services in the most effective and innovative way to computer professionals.” … lol.

http://www.clubit.com/ - We are sad to announce that PC Club and Club IT are now closed. We apologize to our customers. If you have any pending orders or concerns please contact us at customerinfo@pcclub.com. Thanks you for all your years of support.

Are all the people with rebates pending from either store, pretty much screwed?

I quit the LASA (Santa Clarita) location almost a year ago and never looked back. For a company that routinely treated its employees with complete disrespect and irregard along with a failing business model (Comp USA anyone) it was only a matter of time.

Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
Weve amassed a collection of podcasts that are either directly about web design, or would be helpful to a web designer. If youre interested in more podcasts try searching through Odeo or iTunes. There are quite a few web development podcasts, and a few niche topic web design podcasts, not covered in this roundup.

You Suck at Web Design PodcastThis is a comedic podcast put out by freelance web designer Matthew D. Jordan. He creates fictional stories related to web design. He describes the podcast as an attempt to deal with web acronyms, such as Web 2.0, WYSIWYG, and Ajax. His …
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list of tons of tutorials and podcasts on web design, Adobe products, and web technologies

I'll have to check these out.

Useful Podcasts For Designers And Developers

Podcasting is an engaging medium that is available in both audio and video formats. Podcasts often refer to audiocasts, but now with iPods and other media players being able to play video, videocasts are just as popular. A handful of web design podcasters

podcasts on variety of topics

Rather than telling girls that IT is trendy we should be telling girls and boys that focusing on being trendy or fashionable is hollow and irrelevant, and a career in IT is interesting and challenging
The percentage of women in IT is low and shrinking, dropping from 42 percent in 1996 to 32.4 percent in 2004 worldwide. In some countries, including in the United States, its below 30 percent. But pressuring girls into careers they won't like isn't helping anyone. Dangling false motives - such as better “role models” won't help either.

IT Management : Career/Staffing: Are There Too Many Women in IT? - ITSMWatch Newsletter - Tech Focus: Security Cybersecurity: Laws Only Go So Far Mozilla Firefox vs. Internet Explorer: Which is Safer? Is Your Blog Leaking Trade Secrets? The Las Vegas Counterf…
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Question: With all the free programming tools, information and ideas available nowadays online, what kind of person makes it to the age of 18 without ever doing any programming?

Count me, I'm in IT. I love programming. Except for when I'm driving home and all I can see in my head is script, it's like the bloody matrix.

Former IT woman here… dropped out years ago, just shy of 6 figures, on Sept. 11, 2001. Figured life was too short to live it in a cube. Did a lot of sailing.

with more and more women getting involved with IT you would think that the number of Geeks getting laid would be on the rise as well but I fear that isn't the case as nerd girls like powerful males as well.

The way the current mentality in IT is to work like unemotional machines in order to act as midwives between people and machines. So how does an emotionally crippled industry cope with real live human beings? Ask people to either become emotional cripples themselves or use psychologist to translate the problem into machine terms. Oh! Or we could start back in on making it easier for women to relate to computers.

"Rather than telling girls that IT is trendy and fashionable, we should be telling both girls and boys what we really believe to be true: that focusing on being trendy and fashionable is hollow and irrelevant, and that a career in IT is interesting and ch

Holy crap, this guy's a genius.

Jesus Catches A Dude Watching Porno
Courtesy of the fine Christians over at GodTube.

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Look at the actor. Living proof Jesus lived until the age of 55.

i remember when he caught me skipping class in HS. embarrassing….

He should have just jerked it!

dugg for funniest title i've seen in a while

how to build a maintainable site using cushycms and twitter
A great tutorial on nettuts.com

<div id=”about” class=”content_box”> <a href=”/images/collis.tif”><img src=”images/photo_sm.jpg” class=”photo” alt=”Collis”/></a> <div class=”about_text&qu…
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Enjoyed this - looking forward to trying it out.

In this tutorial we're going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content.

In this tutorial we're going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven't seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple

How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter

How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter, Spoonfed Web Tutorials

A nice introduction to CushyCMS (simple, web-based CMS) and an always-welcome HTML/CSS tutorial

In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday.
Last night, Childers, a conservative Democrat, again outperformed Davis in many rural counties. Childers did better than in April in eighteen out of twenty four counties, while he underperformed in just two counties. Childers held steady in three of the remaining cou…
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was that the 'a vote for a democrat is a vote for obama is a vote for jeremiah wright is a vote for black liberation theology is a vote for white slavery' argument? With the videos showing wright's sermons? Was that this election? If so i'm very glad it didn't work.

Here is parts of the ad in a news piece about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1oN4bYjyg

It's actually a good sign that party doesn't trump everything and regional differences between party members exist.

Oh, I'm sure to the residents of the area they find there is quite a difference between them. A healthy system should have lots of diversity within each party, but regional competitions should typically have differences that appear subtle on the national stage.

Was he a nigger or just a niggerlover?

I feel so much safer knowing a 53-year-old housewife is going back behind bars for the pittance of drugs her friend sold when she was a youngster.
Lefevre In Jailhouse Interview: 'I Just Needed To Get Out Of There'
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