Thursday, January 05, 2006
WalMart website compares African American leaders to Apes
WalMart online shoppers who buy the Planet of the Apes DVD set are shown similar items available for purchase. Among these are documentaries on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., boxer Jack Johnson, and Tina Turner. I am not sure how these items are similar, but it sure is offensive.
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Spammer lands $11 billion fine
A SMALL ISP in the town of Clinton, Iowa, has just won one of the largest payouts ever extracted from a spammer.
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Google to Offer TV Show Downloads and Software package at CES
Google plans to announce Friday that it will begin allowing consumers to buy videos from major content partners through the Google site & will also roll out a new downloadable bundle of software for consumers that could heighten Google's competition with Microsoft Corp.
Watch out M$ and Apple, Google's making the first move of the year.
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Watch out M$ and Apple, Google's making the first move of the year.
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The GMC PAD
The GMC PAD was the winner in the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show's Design Challenge. (picture)
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Toshiba 16-Gigabit NAND Flash Component
The new flash memmory part is ideal for solid-state file storage applications including audio players, USB drives, memory cards, streaming audio/video equipment and other applications requiring high-density embedded memory.
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Playboy Radio
'Playboy Radio Morning Show' Features 'Ask Hef Anything' with Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner Answering Listeners' Questions
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Lego Church, All I can say is WOW!
How many pieces of LEGO to build it? more than 75,000
How big is it? About 7 feet by 5 ½ feet by 30 inches (2.2 m x ! 17 m x . 76 m)
How many lego people does it seat? 1372
How many windows? 3976
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How big is it? About 7 feet by 5 ½ feet by 30 inches (2.2 m x ! 17 m x . 76 m)
How many lego people does it seat? 1372
How many windows? 3976
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A Moment Frozen in Time
On May 19, 2005, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of the Gusev crater on Mars. This image mosaic was taken around 6:07 on the evening of the rover's 489 Martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to stay awake briefly after sending that sol's data to the Mars Odyssey orbiter just before sunset.
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Convergence of Digg + Slashdot + del.icio.us users
There's a point of convergence in the Jan 2006 Alexa Traffic Rankings of Digg.com, Slashdot.org and del.icio.us. Remember that each of them originated at different points in time, notable by the diverse traffic rankings at the start of 2005. Have we reached a saturation point in the number of social web users?
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Why you shouldn't trust MySpace
An article on the background of the CEO, president, and ownership of MySpace. Very informative and detailed. A good read. Maybe you'll think twice about signing up.
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Build Your own MMO Game!
Wouldn't it be great if anybody could make there own MMO game of any type or genere with little programming. Well you can Kaneva has a game engine that allows you to build. The engine seems very easy to use and supports all major graphics packages.
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New Windows Media Player 11
Seamless integration of Windows Media Player 11 and URGE delivers complete music experience and redefines music discovery for fans.
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Canadians The Worst Pirates in the World?
Who would've guessed it? Polite, politically correct, peacekeeping Canada, a nation of thieves.
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Chickens sing different tunes after a transplant with bits of quail brain
A Canadian researcher found, while mapping neural circuits to identify which cause specific behaviors, that chickens with bits of quail brain transplanted into their head sing a different tune.
"We made a chicken sound like a quail, proving that the way the birds vocalize is not affected by learning. They are born with a song in their head."
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"We made a chicken sound like a quail, proving that the way the birds vocalize is not affected by learning. They are born with a song in their head."
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Final Cut 6 to usher in new video editing era for Apple
Think Secret rumor about Final Cut Pro 6. Apple also to release high end version of Final Cut, dubbed Final Cut Extreme. Combined with a new infiniband based XServe RAID and SLI QuadroFX it would be a 4k editing/grading system. This would presumably allow Apple to move in to Avid's last remaining high ground.
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