Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Extreme (Photoshop) Makeover - Before/After Retouch Of Model

Watch it for the technical aspect, or the message. This ad from Dove and their Campaign for Real Beauty does a great job of revealing how photos of models and celebrities are unrealistically modified.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Monday, December 18, 2006

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Book a room at the world's first $500 million dollar underwater hotel

"A group of commercial developers is hyping the creation of the $500-million Hydropolis Undersea Resort. A sprawling 1.1-million-square-foot complex
—with lavish suites, a ballroom, a shopping mall and a missile-defense system to ward off terrorists." from, Popular Science. Check out the virtual video tour, pretty amazing.

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Top Gear's back, with Hammond, airing Jan28

The Hamster's back! We're pleased to report that after a miraculously brief recovery period following his mishap with a 300-mph jet-powered dragster, Richard Hammond is back in action, and so is Top Gear.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

The NEW "MacBook Thin" Revealed - SPECS INCLUDED

We've been talking about a "MacBook Thin" since before Apple transitioned its laptops to the Intel platform -- and it looks like the long-awaited Macintel ultra-thin, ultra-portable speed king is heading to market at last!

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Florida Sues AOL And Wins

The Florida Attorney General has successfully sued America Online for their abusive customer billing practices. The State's Attorney office received over 1,000 consumer complaints about cancellation requests being ignored, erroneous charges and unauthorized account reactivations.

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Default Password List

Updated today :) Enjoy

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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Get me out of this job!!!

If this post reaches the homepage of digg, I will tell my boss what I honestly think about her and that I quit
…how she looks, sounds and laughs like a man... and go to the pub.

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Get me out of this job!!!

If this post reaches the homepage of digg, I will tell my boss what I honestly think about her and that I quit
…how she looks, sounds and laughs like a man... and go to the pub.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Stokke Gravity Chair - The Coolest Chair In The Office

Further proving you don't have to be in orbit to be weightless, the Gravity Chair from Norwegian baby products maker Stokke can sit upright as an office chair, function as a rocker, and lean way back for that serious contemplation your boss told you to stop doing. See it in its variety of unusual permutations, after the jump.

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Monday, November 27, 2006

Google.org Begins Hiring to Save the Planet

Google's philanthropic arm has started hiring employees to help make the world a better place in several key areas — including global poverty, climate change and global public health. Today, a link was posted on the Google.org website to a list of job openings they are looking to fill.

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Most accurate ip-tracing.. amazing.

i knew for ages you could trace an ip back to its Country, ISP, but this site locates your town and shows it on google earth.. Pretty amazing.

Another trick.. you can now find where the emails you get come from by looking at the header and tracing the ip.

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Monday, November 13, 2006

Friday, November 10, 2006

The war is over and Linux won

IBM sponsored study shows: At least in the server world, Linux has won. Web servers and database servers remain the dominant applications, but development environments are now among the most popular systems in production, meaning the trend toward Linux and open source applications should accelerate.

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Microsoft lets your make your own Blue Screen of Death

Here's the best utility to come out of Microsoft TechNet in a while. A screensaver accurately creating simulated blue screens using the actual kernel to provide proper output.
As TechNet describes it: "Use Bluescreen to amaze your friends and scare your enemies!"

RIP Sysinternals.

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Survey Trickery!! Are 58% of iPod owners REALLY thinking of a Zune switch?

The specific mention of an iPod is not in the language. Tell you what, show me a picture of a Zune next to a turd and I'll be 100% likely to indicate a Zune preference, but it doesn't mean I'm going to buy one. We'd like to see a little more detail about the survey in question before panicking just yet

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Survey Trickery!! Are 58% of iPod owners REALLY thinking of a Zune switch?

The specific mention of an iPod is not in the language. Tell you what, show me a picture of a Zune next to a turd and I'll be 100% likely to indicate a Zune preference, but it doesn't mean I'm going to buy one. We'd like to see a little more detail about the survey in question before panicking just yet

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006