links for 2007-02-23
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I’m not one of those curmudgeons who freaks out every time that Bradgelina moves the war off the front page of the Post, or Katie Couric decides to usher in a whole new era of network news with photos of the imbecile demon-spawn of Tom Cruise and Katie Ho
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Imaginary places in detail: Start with a wonderful overview of megastructures in science fiction and examine a dictionary of 76 locations from recent fantasy novels. Then move on to the interactive maps: Mordor, Narnia, the Simpson’s Springfield, England
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U.S. entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. has lost a court battle over the rights to the Winnie the Pooh characters held by Stephen Slesinger Inc.
A U.S. district court judge in Los Angeles ruled Disney had no grounds to challenge a licensing agreement
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My goal with this project was to build a retro keyboard that was fully functional and of a sufficient quality that it could be used everyday by a touch typist. In order to achieve this I chose a high quality (though widely available) keyboard as my start
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New Zealand fishermen have caught what is expected to be a world-record-breaking colossal squid.
Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said the squid, weighing an estimated 450kg (990lb),took two hours to land in Antarctic waters.
Local news said the Mesony -
Yesterday I downloaded something called Second Life. It is like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, except you can’t shoot anyone, and you can’t hit people. You just walk around. There are no prostitutes, and everything costs real money, and you can’t rob anyo
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This week’s data on the sagging real estate market leaves no doubt that the housing bubble is quickly crashing to earth and that hard times are on the way. “The slump in home prices from the end of 2005 to the end of 2006 was the biggest year over year dr
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Way back last May (yes, I realize I’m coming very late to this party, but bear with me here), Barbara at Mahablog wrote a post on Protesting 101 that was so plangent it’s still being discussed here and there, even now. In it, she provided six basic rules
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So hey, guys: If you care so much about justice, if you care so much about not rushing to judgment, why don’t you talk about those who can’t rush to judgment because they died from bullets to the head after being gang-raped while listening to their lo
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Capt. Christopher Heathscott, a spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, said the state’s 39th Brigade Combat Team was 600 rifles short for its 3,500 soldiers and also lacked its full arsenal of mortars and howitzers.
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The LapDawg portable laptop stand is a new laptop accessory designed to change the way our body interacts with laptop computers by simply holding our laptops to a more comfortable, natural angle. It will eliminate your laptop’s weight, heat and discomfort
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Here’s our roundup of the seven best ways to trick out IE7. You can find even more extensions at the Windows Marketplace.
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A new IPTV service from the developers of Skype and the filesharing service Kazaa is set to force the issue. Joost is a peer-to-peer-based television-over-IP system that streams (relatively) high-quality video to users’ computers over their Internet con
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Now that you’ve been going to town adding music and movies to your iTunes library, your hard drive’s pretty crowded – and all those space-hogging media files might have a better home on that empty external hard drive you’ve got set up.
iTunes has a (dese -
(AP) — After years of delays and billions in development and marketing efforts, it would seem that Microsoft Corp. would want anyone who possibly can to buy its new Windows Vista operating system. Yet Microsoft is making it hard for Mac owners and other
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As presidential aspirants announce their candidacies in an already mind-numbing procession, the “Sliming Bowl” is well under way. No candidate has been smeared more than Barack Obama, and no smearer more relentless than Fox News, as the short video (right
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The United States on Tuesday dismissed an Iranian offer to suspend uranium enrichment work if Western countries did the same, as a second US aircraft carrier took up position in the region. The offer came ahead of a Friday report by the UN nuclear watchdo
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An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years’ prison for insulting Islam and the president.
Abdel Kareem Soliman’s trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt.
He had used his web log to criticise the country’s top -
It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Travelers mistakenly placed on a US no-fly list of people deemed a threat to aviation can file complaints through a new government program, the US Homeland Security Department said Wednesday.
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Four Iraqi soldiers have been charged with raping a Sunni Muslim woman in Talafar, northern Iraq, officials say.
Brig Gen Nijm Abdullah, who acts as mayor, said the men had confessed.
It is the second time this week that members of Iraq’s security for -
Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence that Taliban fighters are now in effective control of large parts of a key province in southwest Afghanistan, despite recent claims by Nato that their bases had been destroyed.
James Bays spent two days with the Taliba
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Annoyed – and alarmed that someone could delete the screenplays and novels that his wife, Melinda Kimberly, was writing – Melin monitored the SETI(at)home database to see if the stolen laptop would “talk” to the Berkeley servers. Indeed, the laptop checke
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