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from the GeekSugar.Com page – “Courtesy of Muppet creator Jim Henson, who created the “computer monster” sketch in the early 1960s. The skit was allegedly developed for IBM and was such a hit that Henson redid it later. Word is the computer-eating-monster is a predecessor of the infamous Cookie Monster, who you might remember is more blue than green. ”
I remember the Cookie Monster, talking of which, I now have to go out and buy some cookies. I do like 24 hour supermarkets, but please support your local farmers market during day light hours. Thanks
Added June 28, 2006
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Lacing Shoes – Are all of your shoes, sneakers and boots still laced up the way they were when you bought them? Why not take the plunge? Whip out those laces and re-do them to suit your needs or personality. How do you lace yours?
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A source said: “The hours we were losing to people using Facebook were getting ludicrous.” Now even the 84 elected councillors cannot use the authority’s network to access the site, also banned by the Met police and Transport for London.
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UK property Bebo.com became the most visited social networking site from within the UK in July, attracting 10.6 million unique visitors. The fastest growing social networking was Facebook.com, which grew 366 percent since the start of the year.
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The number of Britons online reached its highest ever level in July with 31.8 million unique visitors flocking to the net. The summer season usually sees a lull in net usage. Not so in 2007, the year summer never arrived.
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America said Russia couldn’t accede to the WTO without ditching the site. The Russians pulled it down – only to find that since they hadn’t actually acceded to the WTO yet, their copyright laws still meant that the site was legal, and a judge ruled as suc
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Kliegerman is asking the Court to award a judgement barring Apple from selling locked iPhones, requiring Apple to provide unlock codes to all iPhone owners and disclose the fees charged for using the data features while traveling internationally.
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The company’s VentureOne is a 3-wheel, tilting, plug-in Hybrid vehicle. The two-passenger flex-fuel Hybrid will achieve 100mpg. Accelerate from 0-60 in 6 seconds with a top speed of over 100 mph. Retail price of under $20,000.
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Only videos from content owners that have registered for InVideo, the new advertising program on YouTube, will display ads. This will leave the majority of YouTube clips ad-free, which should make a lot of users happy again.
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The view from 117,597 feet, taken on August 11, 2007 by a camera hanging from a helium balloon launched by a group of guys in Alberta, Canada. Called the SABLE-3 (Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3)
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Renugopalakrishnan says the new protein-based DVD will have advantages over current optical storage devices. It will be able to store at least 20 times more than the Blue-ray and eventually even up to 50,000 gigabytes (about 50 terabytes).
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To be sure, the idea is new and some people could get used to it over time. But the overall tenor of the responses was negative, and indicate most YouTube users would rather find another video sharing Web site than be forced to watch advertisements.
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This group, and all you wonderful people, was the result of a practical joke at about 9am on a normal monday morning in sunny Adelaide, Australia. I am web developer with a web company (Good Dog Design) Yes. This is a parody.
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Type: Just for Fun – Facebook Classics Description: For we believe Spider-Pig unites us in a way nothing else ever has
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Vesikko, who took the video of his teacher singing karaoke at a school party on April 30, admitted posting the video on the popular video-sharing site YouTube a day later. He said he did it as a prank and had not intended to insult the teacher.
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The underseat batteries can be recharged on the fly by the engine or through regenerative braking. Riders can choose between three different hybrid modes – optimizing performance, mileage and battery charge, fully electric or reverse.
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A nifty trick with 12V batteries; you simply split them open to reveal eight 1.5V button-cell batteries; these can cost up to $5 if purchased singly. A two pack of the 12 Volters cost $1.66, which will produce 16 new button batteries worth around $80.
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Whether or not bandwidth is the primary issue for services like Joost, IPTV will fill an important void in the marketplace by delivering video quality and services never seen before. This article is from Daily IPTV.
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Overlay ads that fill the bottom 20% of the screen and appear 15 secs after a user begins watching a video clip. The user can ignore the ad, which will vanish after around 10 secs. Ad revenue will be split between the media partner and YouTube.
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Natalie Portman, Kyra Sedgwick, Chloe Sevigny and others explain how changing one lightbulb can help the whole world, as featured on National Geographic’s Green page. Featuring music by Aimee Mann and footage from National Geographic.
So how many light bulbs can you change in your own home and at work?
Orignal found via GreenThinkers.Org
Added August 18, 2007
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Great semi real life art installations with links to more photos and videos of each installation under the main photo
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This is hardly surprising when you consider that it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all†repeated a few times and then renamed as an .exe. The PAD file contains the description “This program does nothing at allâ€.
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“The sense of disbelief at TripAdvisor’s reported $3 million acquisition of the Facebook app ‘Where I’ve Been’ may be well founded. We just got an official statement forwarded to us, “This is untrue. Beyond that, we do not have any comment.†“
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“I missed my family. I hadn’t been home in three years. So I went home.” By Harvey’s calculation, one such flight every four years is at the very outer limits of acceptable, based on the premise that everyone in the world has an equal right to pollute.
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A car inspired by a caravan? Designers are always telling us that their ideas for the latest vehicles have come from the unlikeliest of places, but an old caravan?
Perhaps the most serious part of this car is the power source. Just like the Ford Edge we have already driven it features the firm’s electric- hydrogen fuel cell HySeries Drive.
The lithium ion battery is charged up from the mains supply. When this runs down to 40 per cent of its power, the hydrogen fuel cell seamlessly steps in to recharge it. This gives the vehicle a range of about 225 miles, until both the batteries and hydrogen are exhausted.
The system works remarkably well, with instant power delivery, thanks to the Airstream’s two electric motors – one over either axle, offering all their available torque in one lump. It’s quiet, too.
I just hope that they start to build something similar to this using the drive train and power soucres from the Airstream soon.
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FireFox 1, del.icio.us 2, WordPress =5, Blogger =9, Facebook =25, IE7 =39, twitter =45, TypePad =52, Flock =63, PageFlakes =90. It’s funny that MySpace or Jaiku didn’t make the top 100 (actually 132 are listed)
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Up to 1,800 extra officers will be drafted in to prevent an estimated 1,500 people disrupting the airport over the period of the camp for climate change, begin on Tuesday. Protesters pledged to take direct action on Aug 18-19 but not to endanger life.
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Japan is a heavily-urbanized country. Over 35 million people live in the Greater Tokyo Area, making it the most populous metropolitan area in the world. As one can imagine, this huge concentration of people requires a massive amount of infrastructure.
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The underground waterway is the largest in the world and sports five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos which are connected by 64 kilometers of tunnel sitting 50 meters beneath the surface
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Each collector is mounted on a 4 inch schedule 40 pipe that penetrates the building roof, and is preferably centered above the 8 to 10 light fixtures to which it supplies light.
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Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them. Since 2005, qualified candidates have been applying for great opportunties.
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Simply by plugging in the cable to the passenger seat headset jack, the cable converts the audio output into regulated USB power. Our new version adds an optional battery BOOST to increase the power supplied and offer continuous power. (via Wired.Com)
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The novelty of this skin is what Lynch calls “distributed sensing technology.” Engineers have used sensors to check for damage on a point-to-point basis before. But they’ve never been able to get such a complete picture of a large area.
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Thousands of tracks will be available for purchase on the recording artists’ Web sites and through several established online music retailers, although Universal is excluding Apple’s iTunes store., but tracks will still play on iPods.
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“Polyamory,” which literally means “many loves” is a new name for an old practice. “There were a few studies on open marriage in the early ’60s and ’70s, but the phenomenon seemed to die out and it was just called cheating after that.
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“Researchers found that the milk drinking group had lost nearly twice as much fat – two pounds – while the carbohydrate beverage group lost one pound of fat. Those drinking soy lost no fat.” – So thats why I’m heavy, my dad was a Milkman.
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Six major British companies, including mobile phone giant Vodafone, also pulled their ads from Facebook last week because they were appearing on the profile page of the far-right British National Party. Ads pop up on Facebook on a rotating basis.
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“When you are actively in your eating disorder, you desperately want someone to understand, and a lot of time you find groups like the pro groups on Facebook that are supportive of you continuing your eating disorder,”
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Pump-and-dump is potentially fraudulent spam that hypes small company stocks. The spammers invest in low-cost stocks before the spam campaign begins. Once people are duped into buying stocks, prices go up and the spammers sell and cash in.
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