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Audit Finds U.S. Hid Actual Cost of Iraq Projects The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects in Iraq and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Linux, Love It Or Hate It Frank Ohlhorst's recent column, "A Linux OS For All," asked readers what needed to be done for Linux to gain more traction. And, boy, did they have a lot to say about Linux: the key players, where the open-source platform is now and where it should be headed. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Major environmental disaster in Lebanon due to oil spill caused by Israel A black coat of oil now covers the Lebanese capital's once-beautiful sandy Mediterranean shore, spilled from a power plant that was knocked down by Israeli warplanes two weeks ago. Fishermen say hundreds of oil-coated fish have been washed ashore in what is the country's worst ever environmental disaster. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Video of man with his dead twin "parasiting" on his stomach. An Indian man with a fetus in his stomach. This case called “Fetus in fetus” and the fetus is the man’s dead twin. As the man grown the “parasite” twin did to. Watch this incredible medicin video, but have in mind, there are some shocking scenes. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


An AJAX enhancement for WordPress blogs "This is cool. AjaxWp is a lightweight JavaScript enhancement that adds AJAX functionality to WordPress blogs speeding up load times, increasing the responsiveness of the user interface and giving the blog an overall cooler look." From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Opinion: 'Perfect Storm' of Mac Sales May Be On Horizon "A family in my neighborhood has been all PC since the PC XT. But the eldest son is going off to college and says he wants a Mac. It's the vanguard of a new generation gap. He's never owned a Mac but he's gotta have one — a good sign for Apple." From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


College students find ways to drink safely. A study by the National Social Norms Resource Center shows that 80% of college students drink and 73% of the drinkers do so responsibly. They also found the safest place to drink is on campus, but universities are doing more to force drinking off campus. Students drinking at private keg parties are at the highest risk. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Priest Holmes put on Chief's 'Unable-to-Perform' list, may retire "The Kansas City Chiefs placed tailback Priest Holmes on the NFL's physically unable to perform (PUP) list as the club awaits the results on the latest examination of his head and neck by a West Coast specialist." The move buys Holmes a little more time to meet with doctors before a decision is made, but it's not looking good for him. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Itching for Answers to a Mystery Condition Dr. Gregory Smith wants people to know it's not all in his head. White fibers have been burrowing into his skin for the past two years, making him feel like he's under constant bombardment from insects or cactus needles. Shine a black light on these fibers and they'll fluoresce blue, he says, just like something you'd see in The Twilight Zone. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Plant a phone call to yourself. You'll need it! Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Google Donates Search Appliance to Joel on Software Seth Godin persuaded Google to donate one of their new Google Mini appliances to power Joel on Software. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


How To: Make Ubuntu look like OSX A complete guide that makes Ubuntu Linux appear a lot like Mac OS 10.4 Tiger From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Top Gear, 800 miles The TopGear boys show us how to drive 800 miles on a single tank of gas From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


India plans free software for all India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


Digg.com 4th most linked to site on the web! Forget Alexa. Based on links Digg.com is the 4th most popular site on the web. Beating even AOL.com and cnet.com. Netscape.com, newsvine.com and reddit.com don't even come close. Digg on... From on July 29, 2006 at 8:16 p.m..


SC: 29/07 Social Networking sites have many vulnerabilities The Security company F-Secure has warned that popular Social Networking sites contain vulnerabilities and flaws which could lead to Trojan software being planted on user's computers; criminals are increasingly targeting social networking sites, such as MySpace.com, in their attempt to capitalize on user ignorance in order to extract personal information for the purpose of committing identity theft. MySpace.com was created in the Autumn of 2003 and quickly grew, now holding more than 75 million users ... From MCS Safe Computing Bulletins on July 29, 2006 at 5:31 p.m..


Open Source News A riot of Internet-based venues now poses a serious long-term challenge to the great organs of traditional mainstream journalism. How will quality journalism get produced if the news universe is dominated by amateurs? Where will the money come from to support serious journalism that necessarily costs real money? From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


How The Piratebay Raid Changed Sweden A lot of things happened after the Swedish police attempted to take down The Piratebay. It’s time to recap and look ahead. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


Drug Reverses Aging Effect on Memory A drug made to enhance memory appears to trigger a natural mechanism in the brain that fully reverses age-related memory loss, even after the drug itself has left the body. This is a significant discovery. Results indicate the exciting possibility that ampakines could be used to treat learning and memory loss associated with normal aging. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


a nice collection of high rez Mac OS icons Enjoy(: From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


iPhoto for your documents. It's Free Document Management Tool for Mac OS X using tagging, similar to iPhoto. It is excellent document organizer, with integrated scanning, tagging and thumbnail zoom. Every computer has loads of PDF files, probably scattered all over your hard disk. Use kip to search, view and manage all these documents in one convenient place. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


Biggest and weirdest computer hack- crash a PC with a cell phone (video) Tens of thousand of DELL business computers could crash IN THE VINCINITY OF A CELL PHONE!! Are your companies hit? Do you use any of these lines? This is the most bizarre and unexplainable computer bug ever. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


Farming The Sun: $600,000 A Year Here on Mr. Gärtner’s 200-acre pig farm, the fields are now covered with 10,050 solar panels, which soak up the sunshine and convert it into electricity. The ambient hum in the air is not the sound of insects but of transformers carrying a high-voltage current to the villages nearby. Mr. Gärtner makes more than $600,000 a year. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


Make your own buttons : Google style Custom Buttons are by far my favorite feature in the new Google Toolbar, which comes out of beta today. Clearly I’m not the only one, either -- we have over 600 buttons in the gallery, with new buttons being added every day. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


PCs Dream Of Electric Sheep 'Electric Sheep' software taps users' spare processing power to create ever-evolving art on your desktop. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


Team of Scientists successfully predicts earthquake in western India In what is being hailed as a rare success in earthquake prediction, scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad, India, report successfully forecasting a very special type of earthquake in western India in May. The achievement may help seismologists better predict such earthquakes in the future. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:30 p.m..


Sporadic MySpace outages make emo kids even more angry "Twenty years down the line, when emo music, the genre most intimately connected to MySpace, is experiencing its third or fourth revival, some band will likely record a song about the Great MySpace Outages of 2006." From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Young Coders Summer on Google The program, now in its second summer, pays 630 students to stay home and code over the summer, working under mentors that include more than a few rock stars of the open-source world. Some students admitted experiencing trepidation knowing their work would be viewed by big names in open source or even inventors of programming languages. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Online Game that will BLOW your mind Phosphor, an online FPS game built entirely in shockwave, has equivalent graphics of Quake, and allows for players to have multiplayer or bot battles online without any downloads. You gotta see this one. Digg! From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Sony Claims PS3 Costs to Be Recouped Within 5 Years Sony has assured investors that the firm will recoup its investment in the console just as quickly as it managed with PS2. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Coca-Cola Asks Users To Provide Site's Content Wal-Mart isn't the only company using user generate content. "The branded site was designed to establish a multimedia platform for the company's new "The Coke Side of Life" marketing campaign. It urges consumers to upload personal content including video clips and thumbnail images through a number of bi-weekly and monthly "challenges"." From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


California heat kills 25,000 cattle and 700,000 birds A heat wave baking California since mid July has killed 25,000 cattle and 700,000 fowl, prompting emergency measures and crippling the sector for months to come, analysts said. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Watergate whistle-blower John Dean knocks 'imperial presidency.' John Dean, the White House lawyer who helped blow the whistle on the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office, says the country has returned to an "imperial presidency" that is putting the United States and world at risk."I am not sure which is more frightening, another terror attack or the response of authoritarian conservatives" From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


The World's Most Photorealistic Vector Art If I didn't know it already, I wouldn't discern that the gallery is made up of drawings. Yes! They are NOT photographs. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth (Awesome!) Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through your digital photos in 3D or see what hundreds of other people shot at the same location? See Photosynth in action and hear how Live Labs is exploring new ways to change the way you think about the web. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


The Technology of War In their current conflict, both Israel and Hizbullah have employed a surprising array of weapons. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Activision Buys Mac Game Developer "Game publisher Activision Inc. on Wednesday announced it has acquired Beenox Inc., a game developer based in Quebec, Canada. Beenox is best known to Mac gamers as a developer of Mac game conversions -- a frequent collaborator with Aspyr Media Inc. that has also worked with MacSoft and THQ." From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Little-known APT utilities for Debian desktop users Most GNU/Linux users know it through the apt-get command, a utility that calls on the lower-level dpkg command. However, other APT-based utilities remain largely unknown to desktop users. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


The Perils of Project Planning The single biggest mistake I see planners make it to assume some aspect of "perfection" in their conversion of an estimate into a plan. Our estimates are not perfect; they need to encompass uncertainty. People are not peripherals: their performance is uneven and they can be distracted by many kinds of unplanned events. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Snakes hunt their prey blindfolded. How? PIT vipers and boid snakes strike at prey with uncanny accuracy even when blindfolded, a feat that's been hard to explain given the rudimentary nature of their heat-sensing organs. It seems that some rather spectacular image processing may be the key. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Crash Landing on the Moon In 1959, a spaceship fell out of the lunar sky and hit the ground near the Sea of Serenity. The ship itself was shattered, but its mission was a success. Luna 2 from the Soviet Union had became the first manmade object to "land" on the Moon. Luna 2 started a trend: Crash landing on the Moon, on purpose. Dozens of spaceships have done it. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Agent Orange 'caused gene damage' New Zealand troops who served in the Vietnam War suffered significant genetic damage from exposure to Agent Orange, a study suggests. The study by New Zealand's scientists could have a big effect on campaigners' efforts to sue major chemical firms and the US government, correspondents say. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Developers cry foul over Windows kernel security "Nobody knows if Microsoft has done this intentionally, but we can't avoid the suspicion that this move may have been designed to force users to rely on Microsoft and only Microsoft for Windows security" From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Angry German Kid...In English! "After seeing so many stupid (or rather wrong) translations of what the Angry German Kid is saying, I felt it has to be my duty as a German dude to translate it properly. I'm sorry for the bad quality. I hope you can read it all. ... (more) " Wow. This kid seriously needs help, and not the kind you get with THE ESCAPE KEY. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Republican Says We Need A Dem Congress In a letter from former Republican Congressman and Presidential candidate Pete McCloskey, he proclaims the need for a Democrat-controlled congress. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Lindsay Lohan Gets Slammed by Hollywood BigWig! “You have acted like a spoiled child and in doing so have alienated many of your coworkers and endangered the quality of this picture,” said CEO of Morgan Creek, the production company behind Lohan's upcoming movie "Georgia Rule". Basically, Lohan's been missing work and making up lame excuses. Kind of cool the way this CEO rips Lohan. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Digg.com Works - Warner Brothers To Cut Link With Adware Firm Zango My recently featured article only received attention after being featured on digg. Almost 3 months after it was written, it finally gained traction - only after being featured on digg.com. So thanks to everyone at digg, you won one today. From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Sergeant Tells of Plot to Kill Iraqi Detainees For more than a month after the killings, Sgt. Lemuel Lemus stuck to his story. Then June 15, in a sworn statement, he said he had witnessed a deliberate plot by his fellow soldiers to kill the three handcuffed Iraqis and a cover-up in which one soldier cut another to bolster their story. The squad leader threatened to kill anyone who talked From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


RUMOR: Nintendo Surprising Small Game Studios with Free Wii Dev Kits? It seems that Nintendo is giving Wii development kits to smaller studios. A developer in a big coastal American city apparently received a mysterious package from Nintendo. Office staff, programmers, and even the president weren't aware what was inside... From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Pentagon Watching Youtube Closely The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on what its troops post online, with special attention being paid to videos that show the aftermath of comba From on July 29, 2006 at 2:13 p.m..


Mangabey invitation This gorgeous Cercocebus torquatus welcomes you at the Primate Info Net. Animal sciences facts, images, primates From Golden Swamp on July 29, 2006 at 10:30 a.m..


A Day in the Life of a Digg An interesting article on just what happens when an article is submitted to digg and how the number of diggs doesn't necessarily indicate the amount of traffic driven to a site. From on July 29, 2006 at 8:03 a.m..


Nintendo DS to Offer Classic Games over Wi-Fi Nintendo has announced the release of 42 All-Time Classics for Nintento DS, a collection of 42 classic parlor, bar and table games that use the touch screen for control and can be set up as multiplayer games over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. PictoChat allows players to send messages to each other -- and to lie about the cards they're holding... From on July 29, 2006 at 8:03 a.m..


When good demos go (very, very) bad At Micrsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday, Vista product manager Shanen Boettcher set out to show just how easy to use the speech recognition technology built into upcoming Windows Vista software will be. But something went very wrong... From digg on July 29, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Risks & Rewards For AMD's Deal For ATI Originally I was in the camp that thought that the AMD-ATI deal was a bad idea. It was too expensive and seemed pointless. I've since changed my mind about the acquisition, thinking that if Intel was indeed trying to queer the deal then it must have indeed been a good thing for AMD somehow. But how? From digg on July 29, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


In oil business record profits still disappoint Chevron Corp. said Friday its second-quarter earnings soared to a new high, but that wasn't enough to satisfy investors whose expectations have been raised by the oil industry's recent run of eye-popping profit. The company's shares tumbled 3.5 percent. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 5:32 a.m..


Republicans tie minimum wage to tax cut Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it's coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


Gas Pump Prank! Pumpcast news gas pump prank. Funniest I seen and I long time From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


Programmer reveals that PS3 have less room for textures than XBOX 360 In a GameInformer Interview with Starbreeze, the technical director Magnus Högdahl revealed that the only difference in games between the two platforms will be in the textures amount and resolution. Is the 256+256 MB memory architecture of the PS3 worse than the unified 512 MB memory architecture of the XBOX 360? From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


Oakland Police infiltrated, led anti-war protests... Two Oakland police officers working undercover at an anti-war protest in May 2003 got themselves elected to leadership positions in an effort to influence the demonstration, documents released Thursday show. The department assigned the officers to join activists protesting the US war in Iraq... From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


CNET Has No Idea What "Vaporware" Means Recently CNET released a questionable list of the top eleven vaporware titles, claiming the PS3 and Zelda: Twilight Princess are vaporware. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


Nintendo DS Lite Selling More Than All Other Consoles Combined The Japanese hardware sales for the week ending July 23 show the DS Lite sold 262,000 units, while all other consoles made combined sales of under 100,000. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually sharing files. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


Torvalds critical of new GPL draft The second draft of a revised General Public License has been released, but Linus Torvalds--founder and leader of the best-known software project governed by the GPL, remains unconvinced of its merits. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 4:58 a.m..


Floyd Landis Bails on "Tonight Show" After Doping Accusations Floyd Landis will not be making his triumphant post-Tour de France appearance on the "Tonight Show." He bailed after the doping accusations surfaced. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


25 Products That Defined 25 Years of Personal Computing In full knowledge that what we omit will spur as much comment as what we include, eWEEK Labs puts forward this list of the 25 most influential products of the first 25 years of enterprise personal computing—not only as a look back, but also as a spur to innovators to continue to come up with products that make things work better. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


Why doesn't a hangover occur the night before? Alcohol ingestion can alter the normal daily rhythm of various body functions. After the assault upon the body from too much alcohol occurs, it takes time for the body to respond to the stress and eventually get back to normal. Thus a hangover is not immediate. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


No longer 'Top Gun': the F-14 Tomcat executing final mission today The 36-year-old F-14 Tomcat jet fighter is scheduled to make its final launch from an aircraft carrier off Virginia today. "Most civilians know the Tomcat simply as the plane flown by Tom Cruise in the 1986 movie “Top Gun"." "But many veterans see it as an icon of the Navy's greatest capabilities." From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


Alefox, The Alex Albrecht internet browser, mod now available for download For Mac OS X only, but its available, the Alefox mod, BUT ! i only have 2500mb bandwith, when 2000 gets used up i will pull the file and page so somebody else host it or mirror it, please From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


Spectacular Use of Stop Motion Video This must have taken forever to do but the end result is amazing. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


Girls Pregnant at Highschools Because of Video Games -- WTF?!? "Yes, it is a very sad thing that so many young girls in that school are becoming pregnant. But, what I want to know is how someone can even claim that the pregnancies are caused by electronic media." From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


Cash strapped schools looking for corporate sponsors. The current sponsors say they are looking to groom future employees. I can see it going very wrong. We can have the McDonald's Cafeteria with barrista by Starbucks, The Walmart Economy class, and the BP school of environmental science. They haven't gone that far yet, but it is a slippery slope they tread. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


Digg Labs: A Glimpse of Real-Time Possibilites on The Web After I received an email from Kendall of The Wharton School I looked at the new services on Digg Labs. He described them as offering a glimpse at the possibilities to deliver a real-time experience to the web. As I look at both stack and swarm I think he's right. it could be a very big 1st step in the evolution of how we interact on the web. From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


Ninety-nine Nights demo Demo for Ninety-nine Nights is available on XBox Live Marketplace From digg on July 29, 2006 at 1:46 a.m..


VoroGlide VoroGlide allow to watch how the structure of the Voronoi diagram/Delaunay triangulation/convex hull changes as individual poitns are dragged across the plane. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


Convex Hull Demo This is a demo for computing convex hull of a given set of points. The algorithm used here is Graham Scan. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


Breadth First Search Breadth-first search animation. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


LR(1) Parser Animation of LR(1) Parser. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


PrologInJava Prolog interpreter in Java, but no User Interface. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


Shellsort Animations Animation of ShellSort. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


SPLAY-trees N/A From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


Java-Graph-Editor Lets you edit a graph interactively. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


Depth First Search Simulates a depth first search algorithm on a tree. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


JAWAA ...easy-to-use, architecture independent method for bringing computer algorithms to life through animation. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on July 29, 2006 at 1:30 a.m..


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