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New Ways of Working in VET Forum 3 This forum will showcase projects and programs from Reframing the Future 2006. It will highlight ways of building the capabilities of vocational education and training (VET) practitioners, showing new practices and professional development methodologies. From EdNA Online on July 11, 2006 at 10:30 p.m..


Revised National Protocols for Higher Education Approval Process The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA), has agreed to a new set of National Protocols for Higher Education Approval Processes which will allow high quality higher education providers to accredit their own courses, bypassing costly and time consuming reaccreditation processes run by State Governments. The revised edition of the National Protocols was approved by MCEETYA on 7 July 2006. This edition of the National Protocols will commence operation in December 2007, to allow time for legislation enacting the new protocols in each of the nine jurisd From EdNA Online on July 11, 2006 at 10:30 p.m..


Australian Directions in Indigenous Education 2005-2008 This paper provides recommendations to focus national effort in Indigenous education over the 2005–2008 quadrennium. The recommendations seek to accelerate the pace of change by engaging Indigenous children and young people in learning. They are systemic as engagement will not occur, or be sustained, unless Indigenous education is 'built in' to become an integral part of core business. The recommendations align with five domains in which engagement is critical: early childhood education; school and community educational partnerships; school leadership; quality teaching; and pathway From EdNA Online on July 11, 2006 at 10:30 p.m..


GreenFacts: State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture GreenFacts is an independent, non-advocacy, non-profit organization whose mission is to make complex scientific consensus reports on health and the environment accessible to non-specialists. This report is their summary of the key points of the Food and Agriculture's (FAO) 'State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture' (2004). From Recent Items on July 11, 2006 at 10:30 p.m..


Death in Big Dig Tunnel A series of 3 ton ceiling tiles in a section of the I-90 tunnel in Boston, MA collapsed on Monday, killing one person. How many problems can this project have? From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


Kill a gay person, get $5,000 Disturbing leaflets distributed in several neighborhoods in Jerusalem offered NIS 20,000 to anyone who kills participants in the International Gay Pride Parade scheduled to take place in Jerusalem next month. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


How to PWN in the original Pac-Man This guy has spent way too much time studying the workings of the original Namco classic. Here are strategic tips & patterns never to get eaten by that damn ghost again. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


Growing New Brain Cells While the adult brain was once thought to be a mostly static structure, scientists have discovered in recent years that some parts of the brain continually produce neurons, especially after injury.Recent studies have shown that many types of drugs - antidepressants, cholesterol-lowering drugs, even Viagra - spur growth of new neurons in the brain. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


Read this while it's still legal - the state of free speech I realize there are arguments for all these clampdowns. Still, it ought to give us pause that in one Fourth of July week we had two magazines banned in the state, one song muzzled in a school district and a slew of words outlawed in the military. Would a confident people do this to themselves? From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" early developer-release build reports Most interesting part so far seems to be confirmation of thread farming on multi-cpu machines. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


Worlds First Hybrid School Bus IC Corporation, North America’s largest school bus manufacturer, unveiled the nation’s first hybrid school bus today at the New York Association of Pupil Transportation (NYAPT) Show. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


Transforming KDE to look like Mac OSX Now-a-days a lot of development has been taking place in Linux on the usability front and some of the projects such as XGL are worth the efforts put into it. But for the die-hard Mac enthusiast who would settle for nothing less than a desktop which looks like the original, it is possible with some effort to make a Linux desktop look like Mac OSX. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 6:31 p.m..


ThurayDSL - Satellite Internet Access Would you like to sip cocktails on a secluded beach while checking the latest share prices and stock reports? This satellite solution enables you to surf the internet on your laptop from an isolated location with no access to a phone line. From Read laptop reviews and notebook news at the laptops weblog - Laptopical on July 11, 2006 at 5:30 p.m..


Amazing ad from a bank you'll never use This is pretty impressive if it's actual people doing it. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Digg v3 Released To Public (beta period is over) "This morning we squashed the last of the major digg v3 bugs and pushed them live to the site. We want to thank all of the digg beta testers for your bugs reports and time spent testing. The beta flags have all been lifted and all containers are now released to the public." From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Rocky 6 Trailer exclusive rocky 6 trailer...back for one more fight? you've got to see it to believe it...realeases december 06. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


iPod FM Transmitter Sends Artist and Song Info to the Radio The $89.99 device transmits artist and song title information from the iPod to RDS-equipped car stereos. It’s expected to go on sale this month. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Jesus beer billboard causing quite a stir Someone covered up a billboard on La Branch at Winbern with a poster featuring a picture of Jesus Christ holding a Budweiser can From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


KDE and Distributions: Red Flag Interview Red Flag Desktop Linux is the leading distribution in China and surrounding regions. Its goal is to provide the most professional desktop product available. It has more than an 80% desktop share in the Chinese linux market... From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


iUseThis - Union between digg and MacUpdate "The more people using an OSX application, the higher up on the page it is. This lets visitors easily see the most popular software releases at a glance." From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Dan Rather Moves To Mark Cuban's HDNet Three weeks after his bitter departure from CBS News, veteran broadcast journalist Dan Rather has reached a deal to host a weekly news program starting this fall on premium high-definition channel HDNet. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Oracle talks smack about Red Hat "Red Hat is too small and does not do a very good job of supporting [its customers]. ... The great thing about open source, the most interesting thing to me is the intellectual property. ... We can just take Red Hat's intellectual property and make it ours, they just don't have it." Quote from Larry Ellison. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Weather Phobia Puts People Under A Dark Cloud If the prospect of bad weather causes you to obsessively monitor weather reports and makes your heart pound, head spin and palms sweat, you could be suffering from severe weather phobia, psychologists say. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


A challenge for Linux developers As I wrote last month, Ubuntu is one of the most user-friendly distributions of Linux I've used to date, installing painlessly from just one CD... Make networking and printing on Ubuntu easy and simple and more people will use it. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


IBM focuses on Drupal for new developerWorks series The popular IBM developerWorks site has started a new series entitled "Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site". After reviewing numerous open source packages such as Typo3, Mambo, and the ever-hyped Ruby on Rails, they "decided to use Drupal". Read more at Drupal.org. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


'Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays' Revealed Microsoft has confirmed 'Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays', a regular weekly launch schedule XBLA games, finally. The program will start on July 12th with Frogger, followed by Cloning Clyde, Galaga, Street Fighter II and Pac-Man. Finally, new XBLA goodness! From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Payments space heats up with mobile & person-to-person payments On the heels of the Google Checkout announcement, Business 2.0 reports on a different emerging payments market: the $24B mobile payments space. The article also discusses the big opportunities in person-to-person payments termed "social money", informal debts between friends such as splitting dinners & cabs, and estimates this market at $103B. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Alaska Decriminalizes Small Possession It's now legal to possess under an ounce of marijuana in your house in Alaska according to a Judge's ruling. Apparently the State is going to appeal the high court, but it's great to see some sensible legislation regarding marijuana. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Xfce 4.4 Beta 2 Released Xfce 4.4 beta 2 is now available for download. Besides Mousepad and Thunar, this release also includes the new Xfce archive manager Xarchiver. Other than that a large number of bugs were fixed, and several core components were improved. The Dev team asks us to help make Xfce 4.4 the BEST Xfce release ever. From on July 11, 2006 at 5:15 p.m..


Amazing Woman can change her Clothes in a Blink of an eye!!!! This woman can literally change her clothes in like 2 secs. And she does it about 8-10 times! From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


Users asked to help plan the future of Opera Opera is planning to turn to its users as it attempts to determine which features should be prioritized for the next major release of its flagship product. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


AOL to end subscription service and use of "retention specialits" AOL's much ballyhooed plan to dismantle its subscription service and put all its content on AOL.com, as well as discontinue to the use of "retention consultants" to "save" people from cancelling, is far from set in stone. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


SanDisk U3 Cruzer Drives Are Skype Compatible "the new SanDisk U3 Cruzer Smart Drives have Skype loaded in. You can keep all your contacts, account info, and the Skype program on the disk and use it on any old computer you visit—provided that computer has a mic and speakers." From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


Black Hole Findings Yield New Mysteries "(SPACE.com) -- Until recently, black holes have remained hidden beneath invisibility cloaks. Whereas a lot has been known about the existence and properties of black holes from Einstein's theory of general relativity, tangible evidence has been a recent phenomenon." From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


New Homes at their lowest point in 20 months New home contracts were negatively impacted by a combination of factors, including reduced traffic, softening demand, increased cancellation rates and higher unsold inventory levels From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


New Atari 2600 Game Released The game, called "A-VCS-Tec Challenge", fits into 8K, graphics, sound and all. It is being released as a limited-edition cartridge for 2600 enthusiasts who still have working consoles. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


Online wagering under attack in Congress Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won't like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for paying online bets and could padlock gambling Web sites. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


Bit Torrent signs deal with studios to release movies over the Internet We've all heard the rumors about movie studios potentially releasing films over the Internet, now it's about to become reality with the help of bittorrent. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


General Breaks Down While Speaking of Immigrant Father A hush fell over the auditorium at Miami Dade College as Pace, a Marine who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., was overcome with emotion and struggled to continue reading from his statement as the opening witness at the field hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 2:30 p.m..


Bacterial Nanowires When Yuri Gorby discovered that a microbe which transforms toxic metals can sprout tiny electrically conductive wires from its cell membrane, he reasoned this anatomical oddity and its metal-changing physiology must be related. Bacteria will, under particular environmental conditions sprout nanowires that can shuttle electricity to other cells. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Sun shines a light on open source The company has open sourced its Solaris Unix operating system, and chief executive Jonathan Schwartz — a software man himself — said Sun intends to eventually open source its entire software product line, even the Java programming package, something outsiders have long urged Sun to do. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Needle-free avian flu vaccine - new genetic technology British vaccine maker PowderMed Ltd. could soon become the first company to sell a needle-free H5N1 vaccine for humans. The new vaccine is made using a technology that is entirely different from the conventional flu vaccines. PowderMed chose instead a genetic technology where fragments of the deadly H5N1 virus are enclosed in tiny gold particles. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Breaking News: Blasts rock Mumbai rail network At least 20 people have been killed in at least seven blasts on trains in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay), police say. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Chemical Warfare: Inside Britain's Toxic House of Horrors Servicemen were deliberately subjected to lethal doses of poison in secret tests at Porton Down, an official report will admit this week. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Gnome Dock (like OSX dock) With Physics Engine for Ubuntu/Linux! Akamaru is a simple, but fun, physics engine prototype. It is amazing to use, and easy to install. The best eye candy since Xgl/Compiz ;p From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Concept BMW 7 Series Parks by Itself Using a windshield-mounted digital camera and a reflective strip installed in the parking space, the concept 7 series is able to automatically park itself after the owner has gotten out of the vehicle and told it to do so by remote control. (Video included) From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Breaking News: Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60 Syd Barrett, one of the original members of legendary rock group Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 60, the band's spokesman has confirmed. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Why Mice Drink... Alcohol In a study led by Susan Bergeson, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, researchers compared gene expression in the brains of two groups of mice, one averse to alcohol and the other preferring a 10 percent ethanol solution in their water bottles. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


How to make ice that sinks Ice is supposed to float, but with a little heavy water, you can make cubes that sink. You won't want to make much (it costs about $15 a cube), but you can probably make your costs back with the bets you will win. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Classic War Movies are Enlisted by Call of Duty 3 Call of Duty 3 takes some cues from 1962's The Longest Day and 1977's A Bridge Too Far. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Sony Ericsson Flip Phone Patent Desribed Instead of having two separate screens on a flip phone—one larger inside and one smaller outside—this patent allows one larger screen to rotate to be displayed both on the inside and outside. Drawing shows how it works. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Guy finds keylogger in his new Dell I was opening up my almost brand new Dell 600m laptop, to replace a broken PCMCIA slot riser on the motherboard. As soon as I got the keyboard off, I noticed a small cable running from the keyboard connection underneath a piece of metal protecting the motherboard. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Theater Producers heavily utilizing the Internet to bring back audiences More and more producers of plays both on and off-Broadway are using the Internet as a way to draw in fans through promotions, discounts, special downloads, emails, social websites, even text-messages. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Breaking News: US detainees to get Geneva rights All US military detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay, are to be treated in line with the minimum standards of the Geneva Conventions. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m..


Taking the Segway Off Road Ah, hiking in the great outdoors will never be the same. Segways are becoming popular with rural tour operators and tourists alike. They are an ideal option for rural tours because they're easy on trails and non-polluting. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US The open source browser commands a 15.82 percent usage share in the United States, and a whopping 39.02 percent in Germany. Australians are also big Firefox users, with the browser holding 24.23 percent of the market down under. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


WHORYOU - Give your Email a Face! A simple application that lets you upload a photo or other image to the service under the mail that you use. They call it an Email Buddy Image. Other users can now enter an email address and see the Email Buddy Image that has been uploaded by the email address owner. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


JUST IN: Microsoft Argo's Final Name: The Zune? Gizmodo has gotten "word that the final product name that's been flying around is the "Zune"!" From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


CIA vs Congress vs White House: Who To Root For? House intelligence committee chair Peter Hoekstra blasts Bush for being too secretive--but he still believes there were WMDs in Iraq. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Don't Cyber in Holland A good reason why you shouldn't engage in cyber sex if you live in Holland ;). From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Photos: The 10 worst technologies in Quarter 2 2006 There's also a side of us that takes delight in seeing the other end of the technological spectrum. We love to hate something about these unlucky 13 products and downloadable duds from the past three months. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Insight Into The North: Why The Missile Tests Worked For Kim Jong Il Mr. Kim's thoughts and strategy are a mystery. But, longtime Pyongyang watchers say, it is clear that Kim does not want integration into the liberal, global order. Rather, his role is as a divinely mandated leader whose people live to serve him. In that role, Kim has much to be upbeat about in the past week after his missile test. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


The Cure for "I'm terrible with names..." "I'm terrible with names..." Well get un-terrible with Merlin Mann's collection of helpful hints! From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Judge declines to rule on Google plane complaint "A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge declined to issue an immediate ruling Monday on a request by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to bar an aircraft designer from talking about the famous duo's Boeing 767." From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


The WiFi Wars Raise your hand: who here has ever booth-squatted for hours in a Panera, nursing that bottomless cup of coffee, using the restaurant's free WiFi connection the entire time? It's a common enough scenario that cafe and coffee shop owners, long used to offering free WiFi as a way to get customers in the door, are fighting back. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Mario Kart DS Hacked - Unfinished Course - bizarre video Hackers uncover an unfinished course in Mario Kart DS. It appears to be the Mario Circuit course from Mario Kart Double Dash...The video is bizarre, everything is white and blocky. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Americans read food labels, then eat what they want, poll finds It's not surprising, even a bit obvious, but why read them in the first place if it isn't going to affect your decision? From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Skype Announces Free International Calls for a limited time How hard it must be to work at Vonage right now! What a good deal if you have family or friends or just want to see if they have running fridges in the UK! From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


More evidence the gov't is afraid of the Libertarian Party Topeka — What started out as a fundraising weekend for the Kansas Libertarian Party turned into a showdown with the law. A wall of Shawnee County Sheriff’s Officers met party members as they tried to enter the Lake Edun facility, where their event was scheduled to take place. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Yahoo! to make Internet travel site more social "Over the weekend, the Internet company said it's adding some new features to its Yahoo! Trip Planner that might help harness some of the Internet's socially connected elements to its advantage." "Yahoo! Trip Planner will now let users share their travel journals with others, and view interactive maps of other people's trips. " From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


How the "Microsoft iPod" Might Succeed Apple may have an 80 percent share of the mobile media-player market, but that doesn't mean the iPod is unassailable. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Xboy's iPod murder plot exposed, will involve major online media service Microsoft is indeed developing a digital-media player to compete with Apple's iPod, and there's much more to the story. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Sony To Offer 100 Films Via Guba's Online Store Video-sharing site Guba has signed its second distribution deal with a major studio in less than a month, another sign the little-known company is quickly becoming a hot property in Hollywood. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


World of Warcraft on Linux? It looks like it's going to get easier and easier to run WoW on Linux. Now, if we could only get a native version... From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


U.S. focus on biofuels is foolish There's been a lot of talk lately about the promise of biofuels (such as ethanol and bio-diesel made from plants) to reduce our dependence on oil. However, to produce enough corn-based ethanol to meet current U.S. demand for gasoline, we would need to nearly double the land used for harvested crops, plant all of it in corn, and not eat any of it. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Phishers Defeat 2-Factor Authentication Phishers have now started phishing for the two-factor token ID from victims. The most interesting part is that these tokens only give you one minute to log in to the bank until that key will expire. The phishers employ a man-in-the-middle attack against the victim and Citibank to log in via php and conduct money transfers immediately when From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


"You're the son of a terrorist whore" - Materazzi to Zidane ZINEDINE Zidane headbutted an Italian in the World Cup Final over a vile slur on his ill mother Malika, it was claimed last night. Personally speaking I don't blame him for retaliating. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Hollywood Wins Legal Fight Against Sanitized DVDs A federal judge in Colorado has order movie sanitation companies to stop creating and selling new "clean" versions of films. Cleanflicks and other companies that take the curses and "objectionable" content out of Hollywood films and sell the new copies to consumers and movie rental stores can no longer continue their practices. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Art is Alive A famous paiting by Seurat is re-created in a Wisconsin town. A really creative idea that was executed very well. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


PirateBay, MiniNova Refute TargetPoint Rumors ThePirateBay, MiniNova, deny TargetPoint has a financial or ownership claim; while TargetPoint denies they bought Empornium. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Biometric Tool Works By Measuring Blood Vessel Patterns Snowflake Technologies plans to bring to market next year a device to verify an individual's identity by reading vein patterns in the palms of people's hands. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Google Building Huge Research Center in Michigan At an 11 a.m. news conference in Lansing Tuesday, Google will unveil plans to create a headquarters facility for its Google AdWords unit. AdWords offers "pay-per-click" ads that are triggered when Google users search for certain words. It is the company's bread and butter advertising product and its primary source of revenue From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


High Altitude Blimps to Replace Cell Phone Towers "Not only would the technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems (Haps), make the current 1,000 earth-bound antennas redundant, it would drastically reduce radiation." From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


The Gravity Tractors Sooner or later, say astronomers, an asteroid will be discovered on a collision course with Earth. Humanity will then begin all-out planning to prevent an impact. But while there are already plenty of ideas about how to shove asteroids out of Earth's way, nobody knows whether any of them would work. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Racetrack Simulator Give Chevy Corvette the Edge for the Utah Grand Prix Chevrolet's factory team has already completed hundreds of virtual laps around the immense 4.5-mile circuit. Sophisticated computer simulation software helps the team plan and tune before the race. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Funny old TV commercial for Atari Pole Position "The obnoxious announcer makes it. I began to laugh uncontrollably after the first line, which should be the beginning of EVERY commercial." From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


The Open Source Advantage in Secure Application Development The views of proponents of the Open Source model are typified by Eric Raymond's argument that Open Source software is intrinsically more secure since its open nature lets a greater number of programmers view the source code and uncover potential security threats before they're released to the wild. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Revealed: G8 Plan For Global Nuclear Expansion World leaders are planning a massive expansion of nuclear power in their own countries and across the developing world. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


First Human Tests of Avian Flu Vaccine Coming in Britain During the trial, which will aim to find the right dose of the vaccine to produce an immune response to protect against the H5N1 virus, the vaccine will be administered using a needle-free system. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Spyware to MySpace users: Thanks for the add! Users of MySpace who find a link to a video and press the Play button may have just agreed to install adware from 180solutions' Zango division. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


End to Win98 support may boost desktop Linux From today, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates or provide support for Windows 98 and Windows ME, which could lead users to trying alternative operating systems such as Linux. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


France and Italy newspapers covers comparison The frontpage design of the most popular newspapers in France and Italy, this morning. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


Dave Chappelle's take on the INTERNET Dave Chappelles's journey through the internet. VERY FUNNY! From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


The Cult of Leia's Metal Bikini There's no doubt that the sight of Carrie Fisher in the gold sci-fi swimsuit was burned into the sweaty subconscious of a generation of fanboys hitting puberty in the spring of 1983. But, remarkably, it's women for whom the costume holds the most enduring meaning today. From on July 11, 2006 at 10:36 a.m..


CONFIRMED: Free Game With Wii We called three Toys'R'Us stores in Australia and all reported the same thing. They are now taking pre-orders for the Wii at US$249, and that will include an unspecified free game! Could Nintendo be including Wii Sports as so many have speculated? At least we now know a free game is included in the package - the question is, which one will it be? From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


EU to up future Microsoft fines up to 3 mln euros The European Commission will raise the ceiling of any future fines on Microsoft to 3 million euros ($3.84 million) if it continues not to comply with an antitrust decision, a diplomatic source said on Monday. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Insane Comedy Stunt on Television Here's a man who catches a bowling ball laced with knives set on fire with his head on live television. I won't give it all away but there's more :) From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Matsushita to sell giant 103-inch plasma TVs The photo in the article gives you a better idea of the real girth of this 473 lb behemoth, but it looks absolutely amazing... Time to add one to your holiday list... From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


TorrentSpy, IsoHunt, Mininova, and PirateBay all in one! A very intuitive torrent search engine that cleanly displays search results from TorrentSpy, IsoHunt, MiniNova, and PirateBay all in 1 page. One stop shopping for that torrent you've been looking for. While it is only in beta stages, it works great. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Worst Cover of Nirvana ever.... After browsing google video for a while, I came across a pretty interesting version of It Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana which started out pretty good until she began to sing. See for yourself. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


The 25 Greatest Calvin & Hobbes Comic Strips Calvin & Hobbes ran from 1985 to 1995. Bill Watterson drew thousands of strips, and while I wish like hell that he would come back and draw more, it's probably best to reflect and be thankful for what he's done. Below we have showcased, in no particular order, some of our favorite Calvin & Hobbes strips of all time. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


A super easy way to backup your protected DVDs! "Recently released DVDs are now very often equipped with stronger copy protections - such as ARccOS� and RipGuard DVD - that programs like DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter have problems handling". "With the help of RipIt4Me, ripping these DVDs will be a very easy task" From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


How Many People Really have a Mac? Only 3.9% the U.S and 2% World Wide When I look around fellow students I begin to think that nearly a quarter of users have those shiny white or silver apples. Also I would have thought with all those Mac stores around the world that their market share would be higher. This statistical comparison definitely is an eye opener! From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


The Hyanide: Your Very Own Personal Tank You may not have room in your garage (or budget) for a dirt bike and a snowmobile and a four-wheeler. But what if one vehicle could take the place of all three? That’s the idea behind the Hyanide, a wild concept vehicle created by German designers Oliver Keller and Tillman Schlootz for the 2006 Michelin Challenge Design. Top speed: 75–85 mph From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Revealed: The disgusting abuse that sparked Zidane's fury "First Marco Matterazzi called the French star the Italian equivalent of 'n*****', and then insulted both his mother and his Muslim background by saying he is the 'son of a terrorist whore. " It had been revealed that earlier in the day that Zidane's Mother is seriously ill From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Lemmings!!!! its the Lemmings, nough said! From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Gmail Sends Out Email "On Behalf of", Not "as" a Personal Email Address When you send email via Gmail as me@mydomain.com, recipients see "me@gmail.com On Behalf of me@mydomain.com". Joel of Joel On Software discovered this "feature" only after sending out work-related email and learning that recipients are seeing a non-public Gmail address right in the header of every email. Not good. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Organic beer sales grow, Anheuser-Busch enters market. With such a large corporation taking notice of the growing demand for organic beer some are concerned that industrialization will lower quality across the board. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Could Batman Begins 2 really be titled ‘The Joker?’ Michael Caine (who played Alfred) seems to think so. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Balance - A Stop-Motion Short An interesting stop-motion video by the Lauenstein brothers that has won various awards, including an Oscar in 1990 for Best Animated Short Movie. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


University gets grant to figure out Rubik's Cube Dr. Gene Cooperman just got $200,000 for 20TB of storage so he can play with Rubik's Cubes. Cooperman, director of the Institute for Complex Scientific Software at Northeastern University, in Boston, is studying Rubik's Cubes as a way of setting up machines to study combinatorial problems in science and operations research. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Dave Chappelle gets his revenge Hilarious skit from Chappelle's new season. Chappelle gets back at everybody who didn't believe in him before he was famous. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Abortion drug could rapidly treat depression RU486, a hormone treatment used as a "morning-after" drug to induce abortion could provide a rapid-acting treatment for depression. Most antidepressants take several weeks to take effect. The new treatments could be effective within days or even hours. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Researchers Enlist Proteins to 'Switch On' Heart Tissue Repair Researchers are utilizing a protein to “switch on” the ability to repair damaged heart tissue. By triggering the cell-cycle signal, researchers can manipulate cells in animal models to regenerate damaged heart tissue. If this research is someday successfully translated to humans, it could change the approach to treating heart disease. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


UFO Research: Findings vs. Facts "For decades now, eyes and sky have met to witness the buzzing of our world by Unidentified Flying Objects, termed UFOs or simply flying saucers. Extraterrestrials have come a long way to purportedly share the friendly skies with us." Here are some facts. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Earth's Population in Pixels! To give you a clue about how many people there are on our earth this site has created a picture where every pixel represents a person. It's a pretty wide picture! From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Will Ferrell IPod Commercial A very funny I pod add. "I sell I pods at Dodgers games" lol From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Washington Post on the Last Great Congressman Paul, 70, has earned the nickname Dr. No for his habit of voting against just about anything that he sees as government overreach or that interferes with the free market (or anything not intended by Constitution). Wow, a Congressman who actually does what he swears to do -- uphold the Constitution. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Rove: Bush's First Veto Would Be Stem-Cell Bill President Bush likely will cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove said Monday. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Al Gore: Hypocrite and Busybody An interesting editorial response from the Toronto Sun about Al Gore's contention that oil companies bought the Canadian election and installed an “ultra-conservative” leader. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Learn to tie the fastest shoelace in the west (or east, south and north) The "Ian Knot" is a damn fast way to tie your shoelace. Its pretty handy when let's say you're being chased through the alleys by a bunch of homies and your snickers become untied :D Now there's a solution, Ian presents you with the most scientifically aerodynamic way to tie your lace. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Maxim's list of the most played out horror cliches From screeching violins to crappy twist endings, Maxim is calling horror movie makers out on their bloody laziness. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Why do we drive on the side we drive? If you have ever wondered why some countries drive on the right, and others on the left ... you will wonder no more. Unbelievable amount of info on this subject, including a listing of which countries drive on what side. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Are Tape Backup systems obsolete? Conventional IT wisdom has always dictated that Tape Backup is the only way to economically backup large amounts of data, but does this still hold true in the age of ultra-cheap hot-swappable Hard Drives? From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Why your HDTV doesn't look as good as it should HDTVs are capable of spectacular video quality--but they aren't always perfect. You laid down serious cash for your new set, then you turned it on and tuned into a whole new era of disappointment. What went wrong and how do you fix it? This Popular Mechanics article should help. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


The best "Free" disk partitioning tool-non destructive-FAT, NTFS, HFS/+ GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


On Space Station, Droids Get A Workout 'Smart' orbs, now being tested on the space station, may become NASA's worker bees in space. Each orb weighs nearly 9 pounds. Twelve thrusters use gentle puffs of carbon dioxide to change the orb's orientation and location. Each orb can figure out where it is by using 24 tiny microphones to listen for chirps from pager-size ultrasonic beacons. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


FBI Warns Job Hunters Of Online Scams Be extra careful when looking for work in cyberspace. The FBI is investigating some cases that involve fake job interviews or offers of employment that are actually ways to lure people into helping crime rings. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Statistical Fallacy of Terrorist-Hunting Surveillance Here's a neat statistical explanation of why NSA-style indiscriminate surveillance is useless for catching terrorists. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Windows-Friendly Macs To Boost Apple: Report Apple's Boot Camp software, which enables Windows software to run on Mac computers, should positively impact Mac market share as early as the third quarter of this year, according to a new Piper Jaffray research report. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Satire is now officially dead A pro-life blogger rants about a horrific article written by a girl who is thrilled to be having an abortion. That sounds really horrible until you see the story is from The Onion. That the article was satire was missed by the blogger. Some of the comments posted are hilarious. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Rogue Giants At Sea Off the coast of Georgia, early on Saturday, April 16, 2005, a giant, seven-story wave appeared out of nowhere. It crashed into the bow, sent deck chairs flying, smashed windows, raced as high as the 10th deck, flooded 62 cabins, injured 4 passengers and sowed widespread fear and panic. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Rugby players and their handbags The All Blacks players (the New Zealand rugby team), perform a haka, a traditional indigenous Maori war dance, before every test match. An Australian television ad shows the New Zealand All Blacks doing the war dance with digitally enhanced hand bags ahead of a rugby game between New Zealand and Australia. Funny, but the All Blacks are pissed. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Is Rocketboom still Rocketboom without Amanda Congdon as host? Take the Fast Company poll. From digg on July 11, 2006 at 4:31 a.m..


Randall's English as a Second Language (ESL) Cyber Listening Lab This page provides listening comprehension activities at various levels of difficulty, for English as a second language (ESL) students. Activities include quizzes for general and academic purposes, vocabulary lessons, and general tips. From EdNA Online on July 11, 2006 at 4:30 a.m..


Pathways to Extractive Industries Qualifications This pdf wall chart provides an overview of the qualifications at Certificate and Diploma levels, which lead to careers in extractive industries. From EdNA Online on July 11, 2006 at 2:27 a.m..


RIISC National Conference 2006 The Resources and Infrastructure Industry Skills Council (RIISC) National Conference for 2006 will focus on future strategic directions for the industries' workforces. The theme is 'Grow and Maintain the Workforce'. From EdNA Online on July 11, 2006 at 1:31 a.m..


Peter's Online Typing Course This free, interactive typing course teaches touch typing techniques and provides typing exercises. The course requires Macromedia Flash Player, which can be downloaded for free. From EdNA Online on July 11, 2006 at 1:31 a.m..


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