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- Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
- America now joins Russia, the U.K., and China as one of the world’s endemic surveillance societies. Still think Orwellian comparisons are hyperbole?
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- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads | Cracked.com
- So you’re an inventor, and you’ve just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it?
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- Ultimate Leopard Tweaking Guide at Appletell
- No matter how good Apple Mac OS X Leopard is, there will always be features that people dislike, and want to change. And while Apple may think they have the perfect recipe for a perfect OS, many power-users will want to tweak OS X to their liking. Appletell has compiled a list of several ways to tweak your Leopard.
AppleInsider says sources indicate that Apple will soon be one of the biggest supporter’s of Intel’s new “Menlow” platform for Mobile internet Devices. Apple specifically has been interested in the…
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- 20+ Wallpapers For Linux Lovers
- More than 20 wallpapers for linux lovers (and windows haters, might I add). Enjoy.
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- The great fall of China - Los Angeles Times
- Largely ignored by the media, the latest story to come out of Washington changes the world. The story’s unlikely source was the staid World Bank, which published updated statistics on the economic output of 146 countries. China’s economy, said the bank, is smaller than it thought. About 40% smaller.
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- OMGLists.com - When we list, the world listens- The Ultimate Pop Culture List Site!
- Most of you have been there (and those of you too young to drink will soon find out for yourselves): you’ve had too much to drink and suddenly, drunk-logic takes hold of your mind. This is when you see start to see things in a different light and things that normally wouldn’t make sense when you’re sober suddenly seem like a totally good idea…
If you are already have a login with GamePro.com, Gamerhelp.com, Games.net or GameProFamily.com, then use that login!
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- Ho-ho-horrible: album sales plunge 20 percent this Christmas
- Music sales tanked this Christmas, dropping 20 percent lower than last year’s level. Labels are looking to boost their digital sales numbers to compensate for the CD’s decline, even if that means dropping DRM.
Nokia’s media maven has invited Apple to sell its iTunes Store content on Nokia’s Ovi web portal. We’ll be sitting by the window watching the pigs fly when that happens.
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- Keira Knightley Finds Being Nude ‘Liberating’
- So that explains why she’s nude in everything she does!!
Last year she went nude for Vanity Fairs Hollywood Issue, she is topless on the cover of Januarys Interview magazine and she posed for a recent Chanel ad with only a strategically placed hat, just to name a few. Pics of all three.
Keira Knightley loves?being nude, so what, right?? There’s nothing to her, so there’s really nothing for her to be ashamed of.? If you’re comfortable enough in your own skin, then go for it, I guess!? She looks HOT in that top pic, she is workinR…
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- Archaeologists discover remains of 2500-year-old advanced civilization in Russia - Yahoo! India News
- Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia…The expedition resulted in sensational finds, including the discovery of major settlements, presently buried underwater. …ex 2,500 year-old ritual bronze cauldron …and MORE
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- Adobe, Omniture in hot water for snooping on CS3 users
- A suspiciously-crafted URL disguised as a local IP address has caused an outcry over how Adobe’s usage statistics are being gathered.
Nokia’s media maven has invited Apple to sell its iTunes Store content on Nokia’s Ovi web portal. We’ll be sitting by the window watching the pigs fly when that happens.
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- 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
- There are 250,000 centenarians (people 100 years and older) currently living in the world. In rare instances, people live to 110 years and beyond, inspiring a new demographic label: supercentenarian. The goal of this artist’s project is to photograph people who have lived in three centuries.
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- Black Box Voting - Welcome to www.BlackBoxVoting.org, Citizen center for elections oversight
- Political operatives have urged citizens NOT to ask too many questions and NOT to take photos or video of precinct caucus results, warning them that only “conspiracy theorists” would want to independently confirm the announced results.
Not taking photos or video could be a fatal mistake. If you are in Iowa make sure EVERYTHING gets recorded!!! -
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- Best Freeware Games of '07 - 30 Categories! - (UPDATE 12/26)
- A great list of the best free games to come out during 2007.
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- :: TheSouthern.com - New and Improved ::
- . The problem is that HDMI cables have become a popular way to scam customers. If you know about this scam, you will be able to save yourself a lot of money.
Andrew wrote on Dec 31, 2007 9:57 AM:” First of all, I agree overall with your post. I don’t recommend that people buy an expensive HDMI cable, as the less expensive models will likely work just fine. However, as an electronics expert and one that has studied th…
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- Totally Teapot, I Swear!
- This image is designed according to the Holographic Principle, a theory yet unproven which states that there is a maximum amount of information content held by regions adjacent to any surface. Beware, other people looking at the above image may not claim to see 3 x 1065 bits — they might claim to see a teapot.
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- There Is A Scent Of Revolution In The Air : unAmerican Revolution
- Keith Olbermann Buries Rudy Giuliani With Truth
Mr. Giuliani stated that “The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us”. Do the Republicans understand it more because they had a hand in the planning and execution of the events that brought it about? ItR…
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- Calling It: The Xbox 360 Won 2007
- The Xbox 360 won 2007. The console might not have sold the most units or captured the attention of the mass media, but as a platform, it’s provided the most complete experience of the year while executing titles with the most successful track record.
Great Year for the 360 and I couldnt agree more about it having the best year.Although the list of games mentioned are far from my favorites for the year on the 360. Titles like Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata(US releases), Lost Odyssey, Shikigami no Shiro 3, etc….) ha…
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- Looking at America - New York Times
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In the years since 9/11, we have seen American soldiers abuse, sexually humiliate, torment and murder prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. A few have been punished, but their leaders have never been called to account. We have seen mercenaries gun down Iraqi civilians w…
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- Error
- The UN, supposedly the great defender of human rights, has passed a resolution making it illegal for anyone, anywhere, to criticize Islam, let alone Islamic human rights abuses!
We need to get out of the UN NOW!!!
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- Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 - Lifehack.org
- Lots of tips and tricks on many important matters like writing, health, blog etc.
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- When Other Blondes Think You're Stupid...
- …it’s time to give up cheerleading.
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- How YouTube scales MySQL for its large databases
- In mid 2006, YouTube served approximately 100 million videos in a single day. To maintain a website of that scale, one would imagine YouTube has hundreds of DBAs. But in fact, there are just three people that make it all work.
Like most research labs, we rely on MySQL whenever we need a database. And like most (I’m guessing, here), it’s common to overhear something like the following in our lab — “We really need to replace MySQL with Oracle or DB2 in X so it can han…
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- The rudest SC or PERSON I have ever met... - Customers Suck!
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- BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Scores dead in Kenya poll clashes
- “At least 43 people have been killed in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu after violence blamed on the disputed presidential election. Witnesses say the police fired live bullets after protesters threw stones, claiming fraud in last week’s poll.”
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- LiveLeak.com - Giant UFO
- Looks good quality but too cgi looking to be real and must have taken along time to do.
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- jazarah.net
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- Naughty News Blooper
- Got to love this news anchors answer to this guys question.
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- EPIC Nintendo Memorabilia Collection [PICS]
- The most epic collection of Nintendo memorabilia you will ever see.
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- QDB: Quote #833499
- nerds new years
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- YouTube - Ron Paul Fox Covers Fox Censorship New Hampshire Forum Jan 6
- Story by Fox affiliate station KPTM in Omaha, NE.
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- Gothamist: Roughed-Up Reveler Sues Club Over 3 Bottle Shakedown
- An NYU graduate was beaten up by a NYC nightclub’s bouncers after he refused to pay an extra $700 (he already spent $350 on ONE bottle) because of the three-bottle minimum.
Anyone who’s been around NYC for while knows how shady the nightclub industry actually is. The whole things is funded by the mob and drug money. That’s why clubs close and re-open as something else every two years. I’m not certain why anyone would drop thousands of d…
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- Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful
- It was 2 oclock in the morning but in the subterranean retailing mecca in Midtown Manhattan, otherwise known as the Apple store, it might as well have been midafternoon.
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- The Associated Press: Bush Gives Pocket Veto to Defense Bill
- “Bush announced he would scuttle the bill with a ‘pocket veto’ . . . But that can happen only when Congress is not in session . . . And the Senate maintains it is in session because it has held brief . . . meetings every two or three days with only one senator present. The White House’s view is that Congress has adjourned.”
But that can happen only when Congress is not in session; otherwise, the bill becomes law without a formal veto in 10 days. And the Senate maintains it is in session because it has held brief — sometimes only seconds long — meetings every two or three d…
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- Year in Review: The Ten Best Movie Posters of ‘07! | FilmSchoolRejects.com - Giving Hollywood The Business - Movie News, Reviews and Opinions
- As we begin our look back at 2007 at the movies, we start where most people usually start their movie experience ? with the posters. Here we take a look back at the best of 07, one teaser at a time.
Not too many people saw this small release that played well at Sundance, but it certainly has an interesting premise: A girl’s vagina grows some teeth and starts terrorizing her lovers (and for that matter, her va-jay-jay doctor.) The poster doesn’t tell …
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- 50 Things Men Wish Women Knew
- #8: No question need ever be asked through a closed bathroom door if I’m inside. I love you less with each syllable you utter.
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- Britain Drops 'War on Terror' Label
- The words “war on terror” will no longer be used by the British government to describe attacks on the public, the country’s chief prosecutor said Dec. 27.
Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless “death cult.”
“The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers,” Macdonald said. “They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way.”
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Bullshit.
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