Angry BellSouth Withdrew City Donation because of free Wifi

From Boing Boing: "Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday."

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CNN "Pipeline" Live Feeds Now Online

Did you cancel your cable to rely exclusively on Bittorrent? Now you can get CNN's live feeds via the web, too.
This is their big entree into live net distribution. They will reportedly offer four live feeds of various news events, with one weekday feed featuring a live news anchor exclusively on the web.

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Coloring Black and White Photos

This is horrendously cool. You draw a bit of color on objects, and it colors them for you.

NEAT.

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A Man With Only a 7 Second Memory

"It's like being dead . . . one long night with no thoughts, no dreams. There's no difference between day and night, I haven't been conscious in 20 years."

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A Man With Only a 7 Second Memory

"It's like being dead . . . one long night with no thoughts, no dreams. There�s no difference between day and night, I haven�t been conscious in 20 years."

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GMail anti-virus coming very very soon....

Google is very close to introducing anti-virus to it's GMail service.

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RIAA Sues Woman Who Has No Computer For Sharing Music

This is getting out of hand.

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Xbox vs. Xbox 360: Do You Really Need HD?

Just like the title says, do you really need HD, yet? Great comparison showing the difference between games that are on the Xbox, and Xbox360, just put your cursor over the image to see the difference.

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Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

"Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report."

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WoW! "Yahoo China" makes downloading pirated music so easy!

There has been plenty of diggs about the chinese search engine baidu.com and how to download free music on it. Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com.cn/) not only duped this site. But also made it easy to download free pirated music.

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Mr. T from your dashboard: 'Turn left, fool'

LOL. Companies are offering some surprising voices for you car's navigation system. Make room for Mr. T.

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Ubuntu / Windows Dual Boot Video Tutorial

Installing a dual-boot system using Windows XP and Ubuntu . The video details the entire process, from partitioning the harddrive to walking through the install procedure.

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Scratches no match for Nissan's new car paint

Nissan Motor said Friday it had created a paint that repairs scratches on its own, restoring a car's surface to normal within a week.

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Apple's cheap laptop plans released.

Apple is preparing to launch a range of budget Intel laptops next month, designed to take on cheaper rivals such as those produced by Dell and HP.

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Top fifteen richest fictional people according to Forbes

Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne made the list. Guess who's number one...

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The best Xbox360 Review

HardOCP gives their customary excellent run-down review of the Xbox 360.The best I have seen.

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eBay stands for "Echo Bay, California"

An old article which explains that eBay would have originally been echobay.com, had the domain not already been taken.

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Symantec Officially Discontinues SyGate Products

Three months after Symantec bought SyGate Technologies, they have announced that they are discontinuing all SyGate products and support as of November 30, 2005.

There goes one of the great, free software firewalls for Windows :(

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Mininova.org TV Torrents organized for you!

Basically a frontend for mininova.org. It organizes all the TV show torrents into different series with links to that episode database listings, newest show and much more. Check it out!

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Windows Vista OS may ship earlier then expected

With speculation of a ship date for Windows Vista ranging in the second part of 2006, word has surprisingly surfaced that it can be expected much earlier. BusinessWeek has received a copy of the internal blog of Chris Jones, who is a top Windows executive. The blog states that the code for Windows Vista will be completed by August 31.

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