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I think they should do an English version, too… Chip Multi-Threading, Cooking and the Anatomy of a Viral Video – Constantin’s Blooog I first saw Ingo giving this presentation in February, during Sun Germany’s Partner University event. It was hilarious, the whole room was laughing and we knew he needed to do it again. So,

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Having blown past their £5,500 target in just 10 hours of accepting donations, the Atheist Bus Campaign in less than a week has raised over 16x that amount, some £93,000 (US$ 145,000) – and I think this is a good thing. It was covered on “Thought for the Day” on Radio4 a few days ago

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The Press Association: Probe into Madonna photo complaint “In such circumstances we would always try and reach a solution which both upholds the principles of freedom of artistic expression and also prevent any offence being caused.” Since when has causing offense – just that, no “hate crimes” and whatnot – been an offence ? Update:

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DVICE: OLO to turn your iPhone into a laptop – this is what I thought Apple would be coming out with yesterday; use the iPhone touchscreen in your touchpad, no button, and make it part of the experience/programmable…

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Sun Germany produces the best Sun corporate videos by far; if you don’t believe me then watch this one, especially if you don’t speak German. It’s charming, educational, and you’ll soon work out what’s going on… YouTube – CMT Kochstudio Apparently this video got so popular it was picked up by the German blogosphere and

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xkcd » Blog Archive » Youtube Audio Preview Wow. It seems someone at YouTUBE took this comic seriously and decided to add an “Audio Preview” feature. Now you can hear your comments read aloud to you.

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BBC NEWS | Magazine | When is a demo not a demo? When is a demonstration not a demonstration? That effectively is the intriguing question that the most senior judges in the country will have to decide next week, writes the BBC’s Clive Coleman. The case centres on the Critical Mass Cycle ride, a mass

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I am currently hammering my MacBook Air; it is doing a Final Cut render, and compiling gettext and GIMP; all of this is user-space intensive and there is a modest amount of I/O going on, so why is the kernel process eating 75% of one of my two cores? I have seen this before, when

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Digg – We Must Stop Daylight Savings! Digg – We Must Stop Daylight Savings!

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“National Windscreens” are replacing my car windscreen, which is cracked; arranged through my insurer I called them yesterday and booked in “as early as possible, please”… so this morning I get up early, hit the shower, get dressed ASAP, all so I can get this over with and get on with my life. I set

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revelaires-back.gif (GIF Image, 1000×883 pixels) revelaires-front.gif (GIF Image, 592×625 pixels) voice of harold chill bumps appear…

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To those who knew him, Buster was found dead this morning in the kitchen, apparently dying in his sleep from complications of liver cancer, thyroid cancer, heart murmurs and palpitations, a slight cold and gastrointenstinal problems, aged about 15.5 years. Not a bad run for a cat, especially in the face of such odds. He

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