Archive of del.icio.us links

1. To Gain Muscle And Lose Fat, Drink Milk – ScienceDaily.Com

   “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.

2. UK government stops Facebook ads – IOLTechnology.Co.Za

   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.

3. Seeking ‘thinspiration’ – BBC.Co.UK (The not so nice side of Social Networks)

   “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,”

4. New Pump-And-Dump Scheme Fuels 30% Hike In Spam — Spam — InformationWeek.Com

   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.

12 more articles after the Jump

1. Presidential Candidates Web Search Results Opening To The Public — Election 2008 – InformationWeek.Com

   The data will be updated every Tuesday with RSS feeds. It covers the top candidates’ Web sites, and breakdowns according to party affiliation. It shows which candidate are most popular and which political Web sites draw the most visitors.

2. Yet more firms line up to sue YouTube – Tech.Co.UK

   The ball was originally set rolling by the English Premier League and music publisher Bourne & Co. Eight more have now joined, including National Music Publishers’ Association, Rugby Football League and, bizarrely, Finnish Football League Association.

3. Google News Gets Comments – With a Big Twist – Mashable.Com

   Here’s how it works: if you search for your company or name and find stories, you can send an email to news-comments@google.com. Include your comment and contact details, plus a way to verify that you’re from that company.

4. Popular File Host Selling for $3 Million+ – Mashable.Com

   DoubleClick Industries, owners of FileFactory.com, are looking to sell the site. FileFactory is in the Alexa Top 500 and has over 1 million registered users and 35 million pageviews/month. A Facebook app is in development, as is a Flash photo slideshow to

5. New iMacs feature DirectX 10-compatible ATI Radeon GPUs – Joystiq.Com

   Each of the three new models feature graphics cards from ATI’s Radeon R600 series that support Microsoft’s DirectX 10, which is sure to bring a smile to the handful of Mac users who see dual-booting Windows Vista a viable gaming solution.

6. Baby Steps: Wii Update Adds Primitive Keyboard Support – Kotaku.Com

   Seems Nintendo have quietly added USB keyboard support for the Wii. I say quietly because first, it’s unannounced, and second, because so far we’ve found it only works in the Shop Channel, Settings Menu and the Message Board, not the Internet Channel. Yet

7. Warning:New wii firmware “may” Brick Modded Wii’s – Gamers-Creed.Com

   During the process, there is an update after the initial 3.0U that warns people about using modchips and that you will be disconnected from online and the Wii will brick. This has been confirmed with some mod-chips.

8. DIY’er puts the Wiimote on your Xbox 360 – Engadget.Com

   A Wiimote and Nunchuk, a 360, a PC, a MagicBox XFPS, custom drivers, a “black box” consisting of a hard coded microcontroller and spliced PS2 cable. Equals a fully compatible, reticule-smoothing, Halo 2-ready Wii control system for your 360.

9. Overcompensation: Fujitsu’s 231-inch TV Sports About 10 Pixels Per Square Inch, Not Quite HD – Gizmodo.Com

   Fujitsu’s Super Frontech Vision LD 231-inch TV, and as we all know, the bigger the TV, the less empty you’ll feel inside. But, the thing only has a resolution of 512×288 plus they have the audacity to charge about $500,000. But great for Football stadiums

10. Xbox-Scene News: Canadian Price Drops: Pro 400, Core 300, Elite 500, Halo3LE 450 – Mexico Too!

    From the Canadian press release:- “Microsoft Corp. today kicked off the greatest holiday lineup in video game history by announcing it will reduce the Canadian retail price of Xbox 360â„¢ by $100 (CDN) beginning Aug. 8 at Canadian retailers nationwide.”

11. Microsoft Lowers Xbox 360 Price – Xbox.Com

    Microsoft today announced it will reduce the retail price of Xbox 360â„¢ by $50 beginning August 8 at United States retailers nationwide. Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) will release Madden NFL 08 on August 14, top-selling franchise of the past 10 years.

12. Microsoft faces big Xbox repair bill – Games – Technology – TheAge.Com.Au

    Microsoft expects to spend more than $US1 billion to repair widespread hardware problems in its Xbox 360 video game console. Warranties are being extended to 3 year which will also cover postage covers. (found via Pownce)