HP Stable Now that Carly Fiorina is Gone

Holding the position of CEO with a company the size of Hewlett-Packard surely must be a daunting task. Since Mark Hurd took over after Carly Fiorina was replaced a year ago, things at HP have only gotten better, including the 47% improvement in stock value

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New reversible male contraceptive

Nonhormonal, reversible, 10 minutes procedure, last 10 years! Doctors inject a gel into the tube that sperm travel through. Fertility returns if you get another injection that dissolves the gel.

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The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever

Keyboards come in many shapes - from the simplest computer grey $9.99 standard 102-key keyboard to variants that seem to come straight out of a Star Trek episode. Hereâ??s a top 10 list of some really cool keyboards.

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Print from your laptop to your wall using a can of spraypaint and string

This is the coolest thing ever! Two electronics engineering students in Zurich made this simple but intriguing way of printing from their tiny laptop to a wall of just about any size using a can of spray paint, some string, and two tiny motors. It's hypnotic to watch!

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Free and Open Source Software at silverorange

Ever wonder what programs the designers of digg use? Steven Garrity of silverorange describes a few that they use.

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vonage mother fucker

who the hell reads all the fine print when you sign up for service? there is a clause that says that you will be assessed an early termination fee of 39.99 if your service is terminated for any reason after the money back guarantee period and within the first year following the activation of serivce. 

so unless you plan on sticking with vonage for at least a year.. DO NOT SIGN UP. 

at least the customer service dude was nice and offered to downgrade me to the 4.99 plan which includes no minutes. next month on the 13th, i can cancel without worrying about the early termination fee.

Apple Heroes and Villains

Every story has its heroes and villains, and the history of Apple Computer is no exception. The world's most lickable computer company has seen its share of good guys and bad guys during its 30-year history, and sometimes, the goodie is also the baddie.

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great read.

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Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Why Ruby on Rails Will Ultimately Dominate Software Development

The new 1.1 version of Ruby on Rails almost seems to drive the final nail into the coffin of .NET and J2EE. Enterprises will take their time but everyone else will start turning out great software. Includes rare video interview with Rails creator and detailed overview of Rails 1.1.

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Sushi Eating HOWTO

"How to eat sushi... that's what this document is all about. Its target audience are non-Japanese people who enjoy sushi but aren't familiar with the customs and traditions that make for an outstanding dining experience." Even though this is written by a white guy, it's quite good!

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Safely install and test software in a virtual layer

This step-by-step guide details how you can safely install software to a virtual layer without running a virtual machine using Altiris Software Virtualization Solution. The guide shows how to install Firefox Bon Echo Alpha to a virtual layer that snags all attempts that the program makes to write to your system.

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Accelerated Evolution Converts RNA Enzyme to DNA Enzyme In Vitro

"Scientists...have successfully converted an RNA enzyme into a DNA enzyme through a process of accelerated in vitro evolution. The molecular conversion...is exactly what many scientists believe occurred during the very earliest period of earth's existence."

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Wanna know how China intercepts and censors the internet?

This slide show presentation on CNN.com shows you how China can monitor emails and website visitation with a click of the mouse? Thank God the U.S can't do this. Right? Right?

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Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Microsoft

A detailed look by the NY Times into the problems of Microsoft with their recent setbacks with Vista and Office. The conclusion: The strategy of bundling software in the 90s has created too much baggage and bloat.

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iChat now has tabs.

Thanks to an update by iChax, iChat (an OS X instant messaging client) now has tabs. I think I speak on behalf of most OS X users when I say "Thank you!!!".


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DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS. IT IS BUGGY SO IT SUCKS.


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DIGG.com story on CNN

See this for a funny picture of Kevin Rose.

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01010281

01010281
Originally uploaded by Zerocool13.

apparently mac people are installing windows on their mac hardware in droves.

Beastie Boys buy 50 video cams for their movie - then return them!

"To make their new concert movie, the Beastie Boys distributed Hi8 video-cams to 50 fans at a 2004 show in New York City". When they were done, "We put them back in their boxes and returned them for a refund." Does this mean after watching their movie, viewers can get a refund?

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I wish they all were returned to the Best Buy store in Irvine!

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10 Emerging Technologies

Epigenetics, Cognitive Radio, Nuclear Reprogramming, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Universal Authentication, Nanobiomechanics, Pervasive Wireless, Stretchable Silicon, Comparative Interactomics, Nanomedicine.

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Scientists one step closer to cancer vaccine

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have helped to identify a molecule that can be used as a vaccination agent against growing cancer tumours. Although the results are so far based on animal experiments, they point to new methods of treating metastases.

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Top Ten Tips on how to become a Rock Star Programmer

You will notice that there are no micro coding tips&tricks below. No info on how to make a fast for loop or such. The tips I post is what I think you should do to learn how to learn those tricks for yourself. In all, this list is a little softer around the edges and goes mostly for the background things.

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Apple MacBook Pro 'fastest Windows XP notebook'

Want the fastest Windows XP Core Duo notebook? Then buy a Mac.

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a weim family!

my brother, his fiancee and the posse
Originally uploaded by kel1.

i have 3 more to go apparently.

Secret to a long life- Don't repress your true emotions

Psychologists at Frankfurt University say the fake, enforced, friendliness common to service sector employees leads to depression, stress and a lowering of the immune system itself. Quite interesting.

--- so.. the next time someone asks me why their computer doesn't work, i should tell them: "go fuck yourself."

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weight

today i weighed in at 178 lbs. 
i didn't exercise today at all. 

last night i had pasta and some eggplant parm from cost co. not bad. i had  a glass of the pinot noir that i had opened the other night. 
 
 

vintage computer games

do people actually bid on this crap? :-)


my friend's ebay auction

get laid now

if anyone out there is offended by the "get laid now" text ads that have sprouted up on my sidebar, please let me know.  
 
i'm pretty sure i can get rid of them ;-)

Procrastination hack: %u201C(10 2)*5%u201D | 43 Folders

Oh, I'm going to try this one for sure.
I think I did a total of maybe 45 minutes of work today. The rest was spent reading digg.

Procrastination hack: %u201C(10 2)*5%u201D | 43 Folders

New Backbase AJAX Library

Watch out 37Signals! Another 3-year-old company has released a Community Edition of their framework that is now open-source.

Beyond great asynchronous capability, theyâ??ve got some pretty sweet objects demonstrated by their drag-and-drop shop, directory explorer, RSS reader, office locator, and more.

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CocoaLab

CocoaLab

weigh in

today i weighed in at 177 lbs. lets do a quick analysis of why this might be the case. 

on saturday i had soba noodles and some pork on rice. in the evening i had a huge huge steak and some hashbrowns, 2 pieces of bacon wrapped scallops and one asparagus stalk and a few bites of a chocolate souffle dessert. i also had only one glass of wine. 

on sunday, i had a sushi combo plate (8 pieces of sushi) and 2 beers. in the evening, i only had a small serving of fettucini alfredo with chicken and brocolli. for a late night snack i had some rice and 2 xiu long bao. 

i exercised on sunday by going to the gym and burning at least 1000 calories. i ran this morning for a good 30-45 minutes. 

Paraxel Offers Free Internet Access and Other Perks for Human Guinea Pigs

â??Free food . . . digital TV, pool table, video games, DVD player and now FREE internet access!â?? An invitation to one long holiday? No, this is how Parexel, the company at the heart of a medical disaster, recruits human guinea pigs to test new drugs and brave the frontiers of modern science.

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Be smarter at work, slack off

In a world of too much work and too much multitasking, the best way to beat the competition may be to do less.

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Google Directory - Computers > Artificial Intelligence > Neural Networks > Software

Google Directory - Computers > Artificial Intelligence > Neural Networks > Software

This Generation Living to Age 150

a biomedical gerontologist from Cambridge University, goes much further. He believes the first person to live to 1,000 has already been born and told the meeting that periodic repairs to the body using stem cells, gene therapy and other techniques could eventually stop the aging process entirely

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Rounded Corners for your webpage without images

using javascript.

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woe is me

i had a cavity in my tooth filled today. 

now i remembered why i hated dentists as a kid. i think i hated them more than going to the doctor. the discomfort of an immunization shot to the arm lasts only moments. the discomfort of having topical anesthetic applied to the inside of your mouth, then having lidocaine injected in your mouth in various places, and then hearing and feeling the drill and smell the ground up tooth.. that seems to last forever. 

oh a  side note: i found out last night that my local library has some good movies. there was run lola run and  sideways available (i've seen them both). i wonder if they have the marathon man. this is the movie where dustin hoffman is tortured with a dentists' drill. 

Epigenetics: We control our genes far more than we know

Scientists are rewriting the laws of heredity as they learn more about a mysterious second genetic code that turns our genes on and off.

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How To Improve Your Study Habits and Remember Better

If you're a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up.If you're like most students, you put off studying until the very last minute

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Cool Flickr Hack

Try it out! I dare you to find a boring photo. A new site called Flickr Leech allows you to search massive quantities of thumbs all singled out for their "Interestingness." Even a year ago today was interesting.

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More Evidence That Google Is Buying Sun?

A recent e-mail from a Sun exec states "Possibly True" over Google buyout of Sun.

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someone else's Self Portrait in black latex #004

Self Portrait in black latex #004
Originally uploaded by .Baloumba, John B..

ooh. creepy.

Sunscreen? Zinc?

Sunscreen? Zinc?
Originally uploaded by waferbaby.

see... other weims get into trouble and eat stuff off the counter. bowie isn't THAT bad... is he?

Google to acquire Writely

Google is going headlong into Microsoft's backyard by potentially acquiring web-based productivity suite provided by Writely. Is the big G biting off more than it can chew?

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A sneak peak at Intel's mini computers - Webcasts - IT Library - ZDNet Asia

A sneak peak at Intel's mini computers - Webcasts - IT Library - ZDNet Asia

An Algorithm to Solve All Sudoku Puzzles

A scientist working an an algorithm to help develop images for microscopy accidentally found a universal solution to the Japanese brainteaser.

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Mice with glowing hearts shed light on how hearts develop

Many people have heard of a heart of gold, but what about a heart that glows? Cornell researchers have genetically engineered mice whose hearts fluoresce as they beat. The development gives researchers insights into how hearts develop in living mouse embryos and could improve our understanding of irregular heartbeats.

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Tree Climbing Robot

Awesome. They look like bugs.

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In Storage, Apple is Shining

Apple is growing tremendously in the storage market, and they even know it ...

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Neural Java Index

Neural Java Index

$100,000 mice - No Joke!!

A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.

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Guardian Unlimited | Science | Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer

Steph's mum does Sudoku puzzles! Maybe I'll take that up as well.

Guardian Unlimited | Science | Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer

Pixoh

Edit pictures online easily.

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Re: REQ: Timbuktu 8.6 - Newsguy's Direct Read News (tm)

Re: REQ: Timbuktu 8.6 - Newsguy's Direct Read News (tm)

Artificial neural network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Artificial neural network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Artificial Neural networks

Artificial Neural networks

1983 Apple T-Shirt Ad showing a Stylin' "Apple Family"

Check out the Cool Haircut on the Boy and that Big Brass Apple Logo Belt Buckle.....Yaaaahooooo....

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DNA Computer

Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.

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How to peel a potato in one step

These japanese people are astonishing :p first they teach us how to fold a t-shirt and now how to peel a potato :p

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Mathtools.net : Java/Neural Networks

Mathtools.net : Java/Neural Networks

UCI Machine Learning Repository

data to use to test the neural network
UCI Machine Learning Repository

Introduction to Neural Networks with Java

Introduction to Neural Networks with Java

Windows Setup from Appendix C. Compiling Examples under Windows

Windows Setup from Appendix C. Compiling Examples under Windows

How the warez scene works

An article from 2600 that seems to be one of the most well-rounded and informative article's about how the Scene works & How warez/other files get spread through the p2p networks.

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MTCS Tutorial 1

MTCS Tutorial 1

"Make a Mess, Clean it Up!" - How the original Mac team approached tough situations

"Make a Mess, Clean it Up!" - How the original Mac team approached tough situations
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Make_a_Mess,_Clean_it_Up!.txt

The new Macmini is the perfect HDTV HTPC

The new Macmini is everything I hoped it would be. Here is why it is perfect as a HTPC. It has more than enough power, support HDTV outputs and SPDIF outputs. Not to mention a remote!

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Photos -- Digg's New Offices and Digg Employees.

Kevin's Flickr account shows the new empty offices as well as other Digg employees.

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Schools banning Myspace because its "everybody's nightmare"

Schools say Myspace has become a "everybody's nightmare" Is it a virtual hangout for millions of American teenagers, like a sprawling electronic shopping plaza, or a magnet for sexual predators and pornographers?

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The Dock Downtown

Good quality mod home furnishings for cheap? Impossible!

The Dock Downtown