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1. In San Jose Mercury News, Downsizing Print with Dynamite, Increasing web content - FreePress.Net

   In an era of declining circulation and shrinking budgets, virtually every paper in America is trying to jazz up its product while beefing up its online presence. But the effort in San Jose, may be the most ambitious - or the most desperate.

2. Celebrities hit out in anti-bullying web campaign - PhysOrg.Com

   Actor Patrick Stewart, athlete Kelly Holmes, model Penny Lancaster, rapper Sean Kingston and pop stars Ronan Keating, Girls Aloud and Danni Minogue were among the celebrities going online for the British-based Beatbullying campaign.

3. Flickr to map the World’s latest Photo Hotspots - I4U.Com

   Starting on Monday, Flickr will unveil a way for Web users to browse photos from tens of millions of geographically located photos. The service, called “Places,” identifies on a global map the latest hot-spots for photo contributions.

4. Could a Billion TinyURLs Go 404? - MicroPersuasion.Com

   Twitter is far from the only company using the TinyURL API service. The thought of an evaporating TinyURL, especially considering its rising popularity is all more than a little bit frightening, yet fascinating.

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The ’80s are coming back, or at least the music videos are.

Andrew Sullivan from ‘The Atlantic’ is running a contest on his “The Daily Dish” blog to pick the ‘Best‘, ‘Worst‘ and ‘Best of the Worst‘ music videos from the ’80s.

Here are my selections

Worst ’80s Video Nominee

Yes this is just an excuse for me to be able to post a music video by Olivia Newton John.

Unfortunatly her video “Physical” is Nominated for Worst video.

Added:March 09, 2006
From: luker256

Best-Worst ’80s Video Nominee

Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart”

Added: May 07, 2007
From: blowmonkey

Best ’80s Video Nominee

Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film”, banned from TV in the ’80s

Added: June 14, 2007
From: MaddMatt410

Don’t forget to click on these links to vote in each Category:

Best - Worst - Best of the Worst

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1. Web Sites Go Fishing in TV’s Advertising Revenue Stream - New York Times - NYTimes.Com

   Video is proliferating on the Internet, and it is no longer limited to short clips of cats flushing toilets, breath mints reacting explosively with carbonated sodas and other user-generated content of the kind that captured the anarchic spirit of the earl

2. Was bank job a heist or a hoax? - 11/19/2007 - MiamiHerald.com

   Was it a horrific afternoon — or a horrible hoax? ”The only thing we know is he went in with a fake bomb, he took the money, and the money is missing,” police spokesman Capt. Tony Rode said. “But was his girlfriend held hostage with a gun?”

3. Teen ‘Freak Dancing’ Banned in Texas Suburb, Sparking Debate - FOXNews.Com

   A school superintendent in the Dallas suburb recently banned the sexually suggestive “freak dancing” or “grinding” popular with teens, the Wall Street Journal reports — causing a debate among parents and school officials.

4. Batman Returns: You can buy the Batmobile - CO-ED Magazine.Com

   Every single time you see the Batmobile in the movie, you are seeing a real, physical object, not a computer-generated graphic. Whether it is driving on city streets at 100 mph, landing in the Batcave, what you’re looking at is a real car.

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1. Flickr Hits Two Billion Photo Uploads - Mashable.com

   Two billion photo uploads on Flickr. That’s a lot of f****n’ photos. You’ll be glad to know that Flickr staffers have spent the past weeks placing bets on the exact date and time for passing the milestone, which went down sometime on Sunday.

2. FCC Rules Could Limit Comcast’s Growth - FreePress.Net

   Under the Federal Cable Communications Act of 1984, the FCC may enact “any additional rules necessary to provide diversity of information sources” if cable is available to 70% of households and 70% of those households subscribe.

3. Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo - AppleInsider.Com

   The system will represent the first Mac to utilize the solid-state memory in order to improve power efficiency and facilitate near instantaneous boot times, plus the adoption of a new breed of 13-inch LCD display panels.

4. Intel to Unveil Chips for Improving Video Quality on the Web - FreePress.Net

   Intel plans to announce a family of microprocessor chips on Monday that it says will speed the availability of high-definition video via the Internet, which would first be used in servers and high-end desktops that compress the video.

5. Orange Announce World’s First Solar Powered Bluetooth headset on Product Reviews Net

   Orange has just announced that it is selling the world’s first ever solar-powered Bluetooth headset. If the headset is fully charged, it will work in darkness for up to nine hours at a time, or be on standby for up to 200 hours.

6. BBC to launch music podcasts: with material from previous programs - ProductReviews.Net

   The BBC is to launch yet another new podcast service, this time they are setting up a music podcast and is to feature 30 sec clips of a range of compilations from Asian, dance, folk, hip hop, indie, jazz, pop, punk and rhythm and blues music.

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1. US Control Over Core Internet Systems Called Into Question - Gizmodo.Com

   Next week, in Rio, an international meeting will get underway concerning the Internet and its current status. The itinerary for the discussion includes spam, free speech and Internet access costs. However, American dominance in the governing of the Internet is more likely to be the unofficial topic for debate.

2. Beyond cute and cuddly - TheAustralian.News.Com.Au

   HOW is this for a new conservation mantra? Eat the panda. Let the tiger die out. And let’s admit that species such as the condor have had their day and let them quietly fade away instead of spending limited conservation resources.

3. Petrol £1 a litre: blame City’s oil kings - TimesOnline.Co.Uk

   The “super-spike” in oil prices has delighted the big banks and hedge fund traders, but has meant misery at the petrol pumps. “There is definitely no shortage of crude oil. The market is well supplied.” At some stations, the price is £1.09 a litre.

4. Burning the daylights out of energy - JapanTimes.Co.Jp

   A walkway lined with sunny windows, left and right, leading from the station to the shopping center has nine overhead, energy-sucking lamps of 300 watts each running its length, burning day and night. That’s another 2,700 watts of waste.

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1. Death on wheels: The suicide service that comes to your door - DailyMail.Co.Uk

   In Switzerland it is legal to assist a suicide, but only Dignitas will take clients from abroad. Some 753 foreigners visited its offices and ended their lives with an overdose after paying £3,000.

2. Keeping up with a wired clientele - Seattle’s Hotel 1000 really “geeks out” - SeattleTimes.nwsource.Com

   The $133 billion lodging industry’s cutting edge sees a business opportunity in traveling lawyers pining for high-speed Internet access, 20-somethings looking for a place to plug their iPods and vacationers preferring YouTube over the boob tube.

3. Teen killer posted YouTube warning - TheStar.com

   The posting on YouTube of a clip announcing a school shooting in Finland before it happened shows how self-shot videos have become the favoured means for modern killers wanting to get their message across.

4. Facebook’s New Ad Platform Illegal? - TechCrunch.Com

   Facebook’s Social Ad platform may be illegal in New York under a 100 year old privacy law that states that “any person whose name, portrait, picture, or voice is used within this state for advertising purposes.

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Amber, One of my online friends parents have just launched a new online store, at BestofPEI.Com, for the already succesful real world store that they own and run in Charlottetown on the Prince Edward Island (PEI), that’s in the north east part of Canada.

They asked Amber for help in getting the site known to the online community, so she posted a blog about it, and now I’m doing the same.

I like the idea of this store because as the name states, everything that they sell was produced on PEI, in a world full of 24 hour Tesco’s and Walmart’s in nearly every town it’s great to see a store that still supports the local producers.

In there own words -

About bestofpei

Located on the historic Victoria Row of Canada’s most beautiful Island province, Prince Edward Island, the bestofpei store is home to a host of works by more than 100 of Prince Edward Island’s finest artisans.

We continue to seek out talented Island artists, musicians, craftspeople and specialty chefs who have reflected the great contrast of our Island’s lifestyle in their work.

The smell of salt air, the rolling red sand dunes and the crystal clear beaches that surround this unique Island echo in the work found at bestofpei.

The lifestyle of Prince Edward Island’s people, far from the stresses of city life can be the greatest attraction for those visiting the Island. We have done our best to assist you in finding that unique gift for yourself or to share, that will awaken the unforgettable memories our Island will leave you with.

We encourage you to stop by our store and see what the bestofpei has to offer.

So Please support this site in supporting it’s local artists, musicians, craftspeople and specialty chefs, and yes they do ship to most of the world.

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1. ”Office” Workers join striking Writers - I4U.Com

   Writers were already beginning to feel the financial impact from the walkout. Most studios Monday sent out suspension letters to scribes with production deals. Some writers were seen packing up their stuff.

2. Most Fans Paid $0 for Radiohead Album - Physorg.Com

   Some 62 percent of the people who downloaded “In Rainbows” in a four-week period last month opted not to pay the British alt-rockers a cent. But the remaining 38 percent voluntarily paid an average of $6, according to the study by comScore Inc.

3. Jehovah Witness mum - Husband speaks of grief at funeral - efused blood transfusion - TheSun.Co.Uk

   Emma Gough, 22, died hours after having the healthy babies. She had signed a form forbidding a transfusion because her faith banned it. Her husband could not bring himself to overturn her decision, despite pleas by medics.

4. Russian spy plane re-purposed as cellphone tower - Guru3d.Com

   The idea is to use the plane to provide telecom coverage in areas where satellite coverage is spotty, or for emergency relief following disasters which take out landline and cellular networks on the ground.

5. Fibre Channel over Ethernet over iSCSI - ComputerWorld.Com

   a.k.a. FCoE. The major network vendors including Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, and QLogic are all on board. Additionally a new start-up called Nuova Systems has appeared in this space, headed up by at least one former Andamio executive.

6. Mission Impossible: EU to ban bomb-making info and terror incitement online - Aarstechnica.Com

   A new EU anti-terrorism proposal that will allow European courts to sentence individuals for “inciting terrorism” over the web. ISPs will be forced to take down any such sites that incite such violence, offer bomb-making instructions, or disseminate “terror attacks”

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The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software.

These coils were constructed by Steve Ward and Jeff Larson. Video was captured by Terry Blake.

What is not obvious is how loud the coils are. They are well over 110dB If you look at another You Tube video which is from a different angle, you can hear the echo off the building and get a better idea of how loud it is.

For info on how this works check out the following video.

Found via Makezine.Com

Added: October 11, 2007
From: megavoltmeister