The web's most interesting stories on Wed 20th Feb 2008
These are the web's most talked about, buzziest URLs on Wed 20th Feb 2008 . The current winner is Airport Security ftw! en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos! - 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.
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- Airport Security ftw! en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos!
- Apparently, even the security consultants are strip searching 95 year-old women at the airport to avoid terrorist attacks.
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- Photo Basement » 41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments
- We should all pity the science teacher, for this is what they deal with on a daily basis.
Thanks, hilarious. Some schools make science fairs optional, some make them optional but prod students into doing a science fair project, and some *require* kids to do one whether they want to or not. Which is terrible. And which results in terrible, uninspired scien…
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- ABC News: Autism Breakthrough: Girl's Writings Provide 'Remarkable Insight' on Disorder
- Carly Fleischman has severe autism and is unable to speak a word. But thanks to years of expensive and intensive therapy, this 13-year-old has made a remarkable breakthrough… (Also, check out the very moving video linked in the article.)
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- Do you dress like a douchebag? [flowchart]
- Well, do ya?
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- 30 Photos That Inspired Me to Learn Photography
- A selection of 10 great photographers, 3 pieces of their work, and an inspiration to learn to shoot great photos for yourself. In a world where everyone can take photos, these are some reasons to take the time to do it right.
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- A4 PAPER CUT
- “My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality.”
Big wave moving towards a small castle made of sand, 2005
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- Wealth and Religiosity en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos!
- Religiosity is measured using a three-item index ranging from 0-3, with 3 representing the maximum religious position. Respondents were given a +1 if they believe faith in God is necessary for morality; and +1 if they say religion is very important in their lives; and +1 if they pray at least once a day.
Crea una cuenta gratuita, o inicia sesi?n (si ya eres miembro).
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- Is Marijuana Safer Than Alcohol?
- The short answer is yes. There is no lethal dose of Marijuana as there is Alcohol, and no significant changes to brain structure. However, alcohol can severely damage brain function. Many Universities across the country including both Colorado State Universities and Appalachian State University have brought arguments before their schools in an atte
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- Dingbats Roundup: 16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts | BittBox
- I love dingbats because (most of the time) I convert them to vectors in Illustrator and use them as very large elements in some cases. All you have to do is use the font in Illustrator and then go to Type > Create Outlines, and Bam. You got yourself a vector to work with. Here are some dingbat fonts that I thought you might enjoy.
16 diferentes tipos de fuentes para usarlos libremente en cualquiera de nuestros dise?os: mapas, siluetas de chicas, rboles, pjaros, salpicaduras, esqueletos ……
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- Castro resigns as Cuban president: official media - Yahoo! News
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An Afghan child bride gets help from Hot Zone readers.
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- Life On Other Planets: A Second Earth in Our Solar System
- It could be that there are objects of Earth-mass in the Oort cloud (a band of debris surrounding our planetary system) but they would be frozen at these distances. They would look like a frozen Earth.
So all we need to do is haul one of those babies into our orbit, defrost it, and start populating. Earth 2, here I come!
NASA’s Alan Stern said these planets are so far away from the sun that we haven’t seen them yet: Our old view, that the Solar System had nine planets will be supplanted by a view that there are hundreds if not thousands of planets in our Solar System. It could be tha…
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- YouTube - Hillary Clinton says "Yes we will!"
- Hillary was at an Ohio rally and began to chant “yes we will!” while the crowd looks on in horror..
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- Time paradoxes are funny!
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- Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
- There are still plenty of general guidelines for application UIs. Here’s my list of 10 usability violations that are both particularly egregious and often seen in a wide variety of applications.
8. Dumping Users into the App
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- Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) - Joel on Software
- A normal programmer would conclude that Offices binary file formats:
are deliberately obfuscated; are the product of a demented Borg mind; were created by insanely bad programmers; and are impossible to read or create correctly. Youd be wrong on all four counts.
The Excel file format specification is remarkably obscure about this. It just says that the 1904 record indicates if the 1904 date system is used.? Ah. A classic piece of useless specification. If you were a developer working with the Excel file format, and you found…
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- reality based community - scott pilutik: Scientology abuses eBay's VeRO program to practice religious, price discrimination
- The CoS can delete auctions from eBay with no supervision, and has used this to delete all resale of the e-meters Scientologists use. This is to stop members from buying used units instead of buying from the official (and very expensive) source. Given Scientology’s record of fraud and abuse, should eBay give them this level of trust?
Scientology abuses eBay’s VeRO program to practice religious, price discrimination
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- BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Red ring of death returns
- Microsoft wants consumers to believe that its problems with the Xbox 360 console in terms of hardware failure are over.
But wandering through the Game Developers Conference halls and it’s clear that the problem persists.
On Microsoft’s own stand at the show one of the demo consoles has a rather familiar problem - the red ring of death.
Wow that really is sad!! They better hope they don’t have there press conference going and are demonstrating a crucial game like Fable 2 and all of the sudden it RRoD’s on them. If that happened that would truly be Imbarrassing. I can only hope that they annouce new …
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- Our life sentence as husband and father is brain-damaged for life but the yob who kicked him in the head is already free | the Daily Mail
- I think that capital punishment should be re-introduced in Britain for cases like this one.
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- Wisconsin - State Results- msnbc.com
- Just projected…
getCSS(”5562744″)Results are based on NBC News projections and unofficial returns, and are updated every five minutes. Refresh your browser to see the latest results. Candidate in red indicates the projected winner. To learn more about how NBC News projects winners a…
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- Crooks and Liars » Thousands of Students March 7 Miles To Vote
- Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.
My mother and step-father had four more children together in the space of nine years after I was born, and we grew up together in a middle-class household in white america where the subject of “race” was never discussed. My earliest recollections of havin…
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- YouTube - Extras - Daniel Radcliffe
- Daniel Radcliff (Harry Potter) on the TV show “Extras.”
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- Foodsel - Welcome
- Getting nutrition information from labels and fact sheets is a good start to any diet plan, but getting a handle on those abstract numbers isn’t always easy. Foodsel, a free food analysis web site, offers a visual take on a wide variety of store-bought and fast foods.
Welcome to Foodsel
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- Make Yourself Stick With These First Impression Tips | The Art of Manliness
- The goal of every first impression is to stick to a persons brain. You want them to instantly like you and to keep thinking about you hours or even days after your first met them. Here are few things we can all do go give a killer first impression.
Let the person know youre listening. If it looks like youre not listening, people will be turned off. Give subtle hints that youre listening such as looking the person in the eye, nodding, and saying an occasional I see.? Also , ask questions about what someone had j…
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- Gdc08: Gears of War 2 Coming In November
- Announcement from GDC about the release of Gears of War 2 in November.
Gears isn’t first person. As for the speed in which you go down, well I guess that depends on the difficulty level you play on. I actually like when it only takes a few shots to take the player down. Power armor or not, getting shot a few times will take just about a…
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- The Big Picture with Colin Boyd
- Oh God, what would women do with themselves if Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds got into a posedown at the end of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’? Word is the ‘Definitely, Maybe’ star will throw on the spandex in next year’s Marvel comic book franchise spinoff.
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- Chez Pazienza: Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career) - Media on The Huffington Post
- Ever wondered what CNN was really like? Check it out.
During my last couple of years as a television news producer, I watched the networks try to recover from a six year failure to bring truth to power (the political party in power being irrelevant incidentally; the job of the press is to maintain an adversarial relatio…
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- HD DVD casualty report: over 1m players, recorders, and drives lost to the format war - Engadget
- HD DVD casualty report
class action lawsuit… FOR WHAT???!??yeah, sucks they lost but get real. did toshiba make you buy the player? no. did early adopters know there was a format war? probably, but if you didn’t that’s really your own fault (or best buy’s - god i love blaming them). did …
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- Networks Interrupt Clinton Speech For Obama - Politics on The Huffington Post
- Sen. Hillary Clinton began giving a speech on Tuesday night shortly after Wisconsin’s results came in. But within minutes, Sen. Barack Obama appeared in Texas to give his victory speech, and the networks cut Clinton off. Ouch. Watch it:
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- CIA Operation Similar To Tactic Obama Advocated, Bush Criticized - Politics on The Huffington Post
- “In August, Sen. Barack Obama had made the argument that, as president, he would target Al Qaeda officials in Pakistan even without the country’s acquiescence — the type of attack that, six months later, proved to be successful.” The White House had earlier criticized his position. Naive/inexperienced indeed…
To be sure, not everything is known about the extent and execution of the CIA’s operation. But, on the surface, it carries similarities to Obama’s stated approach towards Pakistan’s terrorism problem, the same approach Bush trivialized.
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- NBA Halftime Proposal - CollegeHumor video
- I’ll leave the digg community to do the name calling…
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- Video: "How to Speak"
- larnin’ to talk real good
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- Norwegian Police Deal Massive Blow to MPAA Lawyer | TorrentFreak
- Pirate-chasing lawyer Espen T?ndel has been told by the police that they will not spend their valuable resources chasing file-sharers. Undeterred, T?ndel wrote to the Department of Justice demanding a meeting about the polices decision. They responded all right - and denied him a meeting.
The industry just doesn’t want to understand, that there is no way that (file)sharing can be stoped. It’s in human’s nature. Ever since first printing mashine was invented “piretes” copied the works of Shakespeare, Goethe etc. - thanks t…
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- YouTube - Prodigy Of Mobb Deep Speaks On Ron Paul And Obama
- Recent interview with Prodigy of Mobb Deep about the candidates.
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- Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements
- Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.
Considering the high value (and correspondingly-high price), Apple held its own pretty well among US mobile phone competition last year. And we’re not just talking smartphones, either.
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- » Mysterious Ads for “Obay” » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century : Joey deVilla’s Personal Blog
- Its obvious that the product doesnt actually exist and that its some sort of viral marketing. As for what it’s meant to promote, most people with whom Ive spoken to about the ads think that its some kind of jab at parents who are following the disturbing trend of medicating their teenage kids out of normal teenage behavior.
Look at how well the adds have worked already, I don’t seam to be the only one to have gone on line searching for what the adds are for, or if they are real, or to find out what they are really selling. Everyone I know is talking about them,they have created a …
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- You've Been Had! The Government Is Wasting Your Tax Dollars!: You've Been Had! | Your Tax Dollars | Reader's Digest
- “Almost a decade ago, the federal government dropped $100 million for an Earth-monitoring satellite that never made it into space. Today it sits in a closet in Maryland. Cost to taxpayers for storing it: $1 million a year.” - That’s just one expense… You’ll want to read more.
How Uncle Sam spends nearly $1 trillion of your money each year.
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by sirbrett84″
this is at least as old as it says it is on the flickr page, but ive definitely seen it in several other places before