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Courses – Open Yale Courses (tags: education courses yale free) Abandoned Sun Microsystems building photo-tour – Boing Boing Sigh – I used to work here on occasions… PAL01. (tags: sun sunmicrosystems abandoned) Buy n Large This has got to be the most advanced viral-marketing website I have ever seen, all in support / backplot for

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This is ludicrous to anyone who knows a jot about computing: A website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case. TorrentSpy was taken to court by the Motion Picture Association of America. A judge made a default ruling in favour of the MPAA

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Time Cube The primary purpose for Education is not Subject matter, but subservience to accept any crap taught without opposing thought, destroying opposite brain to be submissive android. You’re taught to be stupid. (tags: philosophy conspiracy funny science) NASA – killer death star roasting planets (tags: astronomy photography science) What I’ve Learned: Michael J. Fox

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Sinfest – Surveillance Cameras “They spy on us because we are BEAUTIFUL!” (tags: sinfest comic Security) BBC NEWS | Politics | Probe into missing driver details A US information technology company is investigating how a hard drive from the Driving Standards Agency went missing in its premises. (tags: Security privacy) The Great Firewall: China’s Misguided

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viewership stats for alecmuffett.blip.tv ; doing pretty good. 🙂 1055 views: IT Futurology (& the Terabyte iPod): What could happen to the web by 2012 ? 743 views: What’s It Like To Ride A Recumbent Trike 575 views: Muffett On Web2.0 Security 453 views: Hacking A Topbox 328 views: What’s It Like To Ride A

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Twine. Yay: Making sense of an ever-increasing number of emails, web pages, feeds, and social networking contacts is a tough job for even the most organised person. But now a new website can organise your life like a personal assistant, say its developers. Hmm: Its website called Twine, which is currently in beta testing, harnesses

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Left-Hand-Turn Elimination – New York Times Last year, according to Heather Robinson, a U.P.S. spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas (tags: technology) Brits! Petition for mandatory notification following data hemorrhages – Boing Boing The petition

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24-Hour Michael Bolton Station Declares Bankruptcy | The Austin Probe – Austin News what i can’t believe is that this is for real (tags: news radio) Review: Windows XP – Coding Sanity I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I

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Coudal Partners The coolest secondhand store on the planet? (tags: documentary video technology science) Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka i really ought to read danny more often Data File Metaformats ESR on metaformats, microformats, CSV, and the stuff which people take all too seriously nowadays (tags: programming microformats metaformats) Dogwash: A thin veneer another link to dad’s

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sometimes you see something which should have been invented years ago.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Hi-tech tools divide social sites Finally, Facebook has announced plans to license its development system to other sites. Since it was announced in May 2007 more than 7,000 applications have been written for Facebook. (tags: Facebook web2.0 opensocial) Marantz PMD620 Need? (tags: toys technology) Podcasting News (tags: podcasting toys) The

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blackbag » AXA: A new phase in security There is a trick to open some of these locks in seconds, causing no damage to the lock. In the article, Dutch police advises to always use two locks to secure your bike (and better lock your bike to solid objects too). (tags: cycle Lockpicking Security) Google-Specific

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