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1. The Largest Swimming Pool On Earth - bored-bored.com

   The gigantic lagoon is located in the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city, on the southern coast of Chile. Over a kilometer long (3,323 feet), covering 20 acres and containing 250,000 cubic meters of water.

2. 10% of the Brain Myth - Neuroscience For Kids - Faculty.Washington.Edu

   The 10% statement may have been started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or Pierre Flourens in the 1800s, or William James’s “We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources” (from The Energies of Men, p. 12).

3. 8 Tools to Help You Travel Forever and Live Rent Free - Vagabondish.Com

   So you’ve decided to do it. You have a friend or family member who can store your belongings for an undetermined period of time, you’ve tied up loose ends, and your bags are packed. It’s time to start traveling long term!

4. ProPhotography - Illgy.Com

   how to become invisible The bottom three images, especially the one in front of the bookcase are really well done

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1. Happy 50th, LEGO Brick! - Gearlog.Com

   Born in Denmark on January 28, 1958, you’ve led a full life. You discovered electricity in the mid-60s, had a kids a year later, and moved to the States in 1973. “There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants”

2. Mole: 80GB PS3 dead, 120-160GB with Dual Shock 3 incoming - ArsTechnica.Com

   “The Spiderman 3 pack-in will disappear as well once the 80GB unit is gone. To maintain a similar value the 80GB/Spiderman 3 bundle, Poss. storage increase to 120 or 160GB at the same price point, plus the new Dual-Shock 3 controller.

3. Scientology website shielded against DDoS attack - TheRegister.Co.Uk

   The Church of Scientology has restored it website after a campaign of denial of service attacks prompted it to use DDoS mitigation service Prolexic. Web sites associated with the Church of Scientology were intermittently unavailable last week.

4. Technorati Founder Launches Web Hot or Not. It’s Geek Love. - Mashable.Com

   Technorati founder David Sifry has just launched a website with investor friend Martin Varsavsky that is, in so many words, a Hot or Not for websites. Actually, it’s called ‘Web Hot or Not’, so you get the point right away here.

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1. Big Delays for Small Laptops: OLPC Recipients Irate - PCWorld.Com

   Within two hours after the promotion began on Nov. 12 he snapped one up. Ruggiero says. Two and half months later, Ruggiero still has no XO, and he is furious about having to deal with a litany of problems associated with the purchase.

2. Hackers hit Scientology with online attack - ComputerWorld.Com

   The attack was launched Jan. 19 by Anonymous, which is seeking media attention to help “save people from Scientology by reversing the brainwashing,” This video was taken down Friday by Youtube, citing a “terms of use violation.”

3. Amazon MP3 Service Going Global; Epic iTunes Battle on the Horizon - Gizmodo.Com

   Amazon’s digital music catalogue is all set to go global, and although a launch date has not yet been settled, it shall hit sometime this year. Given Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free tracks, which are generally cheaper than iTunes.

4. ‘BusinessWeek’: Don’t link to us - CNET - News.com

   SmugMug CEO Don MacAskill, writes in his blog that after being interviewed for a feature story in BusinessWeek, he was expressly told not to link to the story. “an ad-driven publication doesn’t want us to drive traffic to them,”

5. Brits headbutting walls over broadband hell - TechRadar.Com

   O2 adds that over a million households are spending at least six hours setting up their broadband service. Of course, all these soundbitey stats come from one of those lovely surveys - this time of 1,500 broadband users.

6. UK Retailer, Dixons dumps analogue TVs, embraces digital - TechRadar.Com

   Dixons sold around two million TVs last year, but will only stock sets with built-in digital TV receivers/DVB-T tuners from now on. Dixons made a similar headline-grabbing move last year when it stopped selling VCRs in its stores.

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1. Chocolate bugs a fright and delight - JapanTimes.Co.JP

   Komatsuya Honten, the Akita-based confectioner that makes them, can’t keep up with demand since a news report about the tasty bugs — made of dark and white chocolate and orange peel

2. Plane crash after safety conference kills 20 in Poland - TaipeiTimes.Com

   A military plane carrying officers home from a flight-safety conference crashed in a forested area in northwestern Poland, killing all 20 people on board, the prime minister said early yesterday.

3. YouTube library open to mobiles - TaipeiTimes.Com

   The mobile site now allows owners of any wireless device that can handle video to view or post clips, just as they would from personal computers, YouTube product manager Hunter Walk said.

4. Starbucks hopes to reel in costumers with cheaper brew - TaipeiTimes.Com

   Faced with growing competition from cheaper rivals, Starbucks Corp is selling small cups of drip coffee for US$1 with free refills as part of a test in its hometown. That’s about US$0.50 less than the normal charges for a 2 deciliter cup of joe.

5. MySpace, BBC pair up to offer clips of selected programs - TaipeiTimes.Com

   The online community MySpace is partnering with the BBC to bring some of the British broadcaster’s programs to a worldwide audience in the site’s first global content deal involving a major network.

6. Heath Ledger’s death triggers net meltdown - AsiaMedia.UCLA.Edu

   Heath Ledger’s shock death caused one of the biggest internet meltdowns since the death of Steve Irwin in 2006. Unique browsers on smh.com.au rose almost 250%, total page impressions jumped 60%, according to Nielsen NetRatings.

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Link to Video’s posted in 2008

The Story Of Stuff will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.

The movie is just the beginning of the story. Watch it, learn more and get involved here: StoryofStuff.com

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1. Select a host for your e-commerce site - ComputerWorld.Com

   If you use DreamHost then you may want to read this article - “If you plan to set up an e-commerce site to sell products and services, choosing a service to host your site is one of your most important decisions.”

2. Panasonic Shows Long-Lived AA Battery - PhysOrg.Com

   Japan’s Panasonic is introducing a double-A household battery that will keep gadgets running 20 percent longer than rivals do, so long that Guinness World Records has dubbed it the world’s longest-lasting alkaline battery.

3. Web hosting provider uses Homer Simpson to notify livid customers of $7.6M overcharge - ComputerWorld.Com

   If it weren’t bad enough that Web hosting company DreamHost overcharged its customers by $7.6 million, the company seemed to have compounded that error by joking about it with an apology delivered by cartoon character Homer Simpson.

4. Facebook urged to scrap Scrabulous - Telegraph.Co.UK

   A statement released by Mattel UK tonight said: “Letters have been sent to Facebook in the US regarding the Scrabulous application. Mattel values its intellectual property and actively protects its brands and trademarks.

5. Dual-Link DVI KVMP & multimedia switch debuts - Macworld.Com

   Iogear new 2-port Dual-Link DVI KVMP & MultiMedia Switch. The device is intended to allow gamers and audio/video mavens to share a dual-link DVI display, USB keyboard, mouse and surround-sound system between two computers.

6. Sonnet debuts 640GB portable RAID storage - MacNN.Com

   Using FireWire for power only, the Fusion F2 features two eSATA data connections and is designed for use with the Sonnet Tempo SATA ExpressCard/34 adapter (MacBook Pro). By connecting via SATA interface.

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1. Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor - NextEnergyNews.Com

   Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008, marketing in Europe and America in 2009.

2. Wal-Mart scoffs at Google’s miniscule 1.6 megawatts of solar, starts installing 20,000 megawatts - PracticalEnvironmentalist.Com

   Google announced the planned installation of 1.6 megawatts of solar power for their corporate campus. Wal-Mart is starting with installation of solar power for 22 stores that will generate up to 20,000 megawatts of electricity per year.

3. Killer Free Service That You’re Probably Not Using - OpenDNS - ItDoesCompute.Com

   Faster Web Browsing Your browsing experience will be faster and more reliable because OpenDNS will automatically route your DNS queries to the closest available server. This is something your ISP does not do.

4. Schoolboy hacks into city’s tram system - Telegraph.Co.UK

   The 14-year-old Polish boy, described by his teachers as a model pupil and an electronics “genius”, adapted a television remote control so it could change track points in the city of Lodz.

5. Russia in Miniature to Rise from the Black Sea - InventorSpot.Com

   Dubai’s artificial islands are about to get a little competition: a miniature “Russia” in the Black Sea off Sochi, Russia, that will house athletes for the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

6. The Fisker Karma and 150mpg XH-150 hybrids revealed at Detroit Auto Show - CarzPage.Com

   Fisker is the namesake of Danish-born Henrik Fisker (CEO at BWM and Aston Martin designer). This model can go up to 50 miles before the gas engine kicks in to charge the lithium-ion batteries. A 150mph top speed, 0-60 mph in 5.8s.

7. Customised Alimak Hoist On World’s Biggest Wheel - DesignBuild-Network.Com

   Reaching a height of 165m – the equivalent of a 42-storey tower – the wheel features 28 air-conditioned cars each designed to carry up to 30 passengers. A complete rotation of the wheel is expected to take an estimated 37 minutes.

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1. Hacked MySpace page serves up fake Windows update - InfoWorld.Com

   Using a hacked MySpace profile, online criminals are trying to trick victims into downloading a malicious Trojan Horse program by disguising it as a Microsoft update, according to researchers at security vendor McAfee. The attack is certainly not widespre

2. The World’s Coolest Solar Collecting Building? - Ecoble.Com

   Sanyo in Japan has constructed an amazing solar-collecting building that embodies both clean-energy ideals and awesome architectural design strategies. Solar Ark has over 5,000 active solar panels generating over 500,000 KWh of energy.

3. The Swedes Come Down Hard On The Pirate Bay - TechCrunch.Com

   Nearly two years after Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay prosecutors are finally ready to bring the site’s founders to court. But the Pirate Bay founders are not even hiring their own lawyers. Letting the Swedish government pay their legal fees.

4. New Data Confirms Growing Influence of Internet on Politics, But Not Quite Yet the Deciding Factor - TechCrunch.Com

   Nearly a quarter of the population say they “regularly” learn something about the presidential campaigns from the Internet, up from 13 percent in 2004. the Internet is still trailing TV news and daily newspapers, but beating morning TV shows and radio

5. Hasbro Tries To Shut Down Scrabulous - TechCrunch.Com

   Hasbro, the toy company that owns Scrabble, is trying to shut down Scrabulous, one of the most popular Facebook apps. Scrabulous lets you play an online version of Scrabble with your Facebook friends, 569,000 daily active user.

6. Dell to present 30-inch UltraSharp 3008WFP monitor - AVING.Net

   It features 30-inch display with amazing 2560 x 1600 native resolution. The fast 8 ms response time (grey-to-grey), and incredible 3000:1 dynamic contrast ratio lets you view images, documents, graphics and video with extreme detail, vivid color and fluid

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