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Beer-coated CDs offer new sounds (Dec 16 2003 16:21 GMT) - A Melbourne DJ and scientist has come up with a new way to update CD collections - dip them in beer and let them dry before playing them. The discovery, known as an "optical biocomputer", is the brainchild of Cameron Jones. |
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Blogging for Dollars (Dec 16 2003 16:21 GMT) - Will blogging produce millionaires? Can blogging financially provide people with a full time earning capacity? Will we see more and more professional bloggers? Can and should blogs earn money? |
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Immersive Quake superimposed over meatspace (Dec 16 2003 16:21 GMT) - Augmented Reality Quake is an Australian academic project to integrate the open-source Quake code with VR goggles and plastic guns. Basically, you put on a headset and the game superimposes enemy characters, geographic elements, and power-ups over your field of vision, so that as you run around the parking lot or football field, you play a Quake that only you can see. Check out the movies from the project. via boing boing |
The Review
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Ender's a little PO'd (Dec 16 2003 16:19 GMT) - (Review) Orson Scott Card, whose novel Ender's Game is widely regarded as one of the finest science fiction novels ever published, is taking his fellow Democrats to task. Many of them, he essentially says are traitors. And the most vile... |
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One sequel to rule them all: Sean reviews "Return of the King" (Dec 16 2003 16:19 GMT) - “We’ve come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” This lofty proclamation, delivered with reverence by Ian McKellen’s mighty Gandalf, puts into perspective the fevered anticipation and subsequent delivery of Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” a massive conclusion to one of the most beloved cinematic trilogies in our lifetime. |
pakistani perspective
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Soft drinks are hot - and getting hotter - Beverage Daily (Dec 16 2003 16:19 GMT) - "Soft drinks are set to become the biggest beverage sector in the world, overtaking hot drinks, with consumption rising by around 5 per cent a year ... Asia, along with the Middle East and eastern Europe, accounted for all of the top five fastest growing countries over the past five years, with the highest growth achieved by Pakistan, with volume up by 146 per cent since 1997." |
LivingRoom >> A space for Life
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Blogging for Dollars (Dec 16 2003 16:18 GMT) - Will blogging produce millionaires? Can blogging financially provide people with a full time earning capacity? Will we see more and more professional bloggers? Can and should blogs earn money? An increasing amount of people are writing about making money from... |
PuntBarra - Allò que t'interessa
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Programari lliure a l'Acord de Govern (Dec 16 2003 16:18 GMT) - A l'acord que han arribat ERC, ICV-EUiA i PSC, hi ha l'apartat Societat de la informació (pà g. 30). Entre els punts que té, hi destaco el següents: 3.3 Fer accessibles tots els lloc web finançats amb fons públic (respectant els està ndars establerts per World Wide Web Consortium). |
Movies from KTLA5 FeedRoom
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The Lord of the Rings (Dec 16 2003 16:18 GMT) - While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth. |
Movies from KTLA5 FeedRoom
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Mona Lisa Smile (Dec 16 2003 16:18 GMT) - 1953 was a time ripe for change for women and when Katherine Ann Willis arrives to teach at Wellesley College, she finds the institution drowning in outdated mores. |
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Calendar Girls (Dec 16 2003 16:18 GMT) - This film tells the story of 11 middle-aged women from the small village England who posed naked for the annual calendar to raise money for medical research. |
InfoWorld: Top News
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Win 98's demise leaves questions about security (Dec 16 2003 16:18 GMT) - Days after software giant Microsoft Corp. announced that it will stop distributing the Windows 98 operating system, and weeks ahead of the scheduled end of support, industry experts warn that the OS (operating system), though long in the tooth, is still widely used within organizations. |
Prints the Chaff
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'Why I Hate Weblogs' (Dec 16 2003 16:18 GMT) - An irate rant against blogs. Caution: F-bombs abound (for those who know me in person: not that there's anything wrong with that.) Found via Weblog Hype, a new blog about the hype about blogs. |
DiVERSiONZ
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Don't Mess With Texas (Dec 16 2003 16:17 GMT) - Don't sell sex toys in Texas...you might get put in the electric chair. Ok, it's true they lead the nation... |
The Camelot Herald
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The Proposed Midgard Frontier (Dec 16 2003 16:17 GMT) - The designers behind our free-to-subscribers expansion are excited to unveil the concept sketch of the new Midgard Frontier Layout! This sketch is intended to display the overall concepts included in the new consolidated frontier layout and redesign - and is accompanied by a description of each feature. We anticipate reviewing feedback from the community and revising the design accordingly, so of course, this sketch may not represent the final design. Check over our sketch and our map key, and when you're done, feel free to hit the Herald Feedback Form link there at the top left of our front page. Be sure to choose the category "RVR Expansion. |
Pandemia.info
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Mediaset chiede pieta' per Rete4 (Dec 16 2003 16:17 GMT) - Comincia il conto alla rovescia allo slittamento sul satellite (vedi chiusura, secondo Mediaset) di Rete4. Mancano 8 giorni lavorativi. Mediaset tenta la carta della moral suasion. A mio modesto parere sono senza pudore. Già il Sig. |
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