Phone Number Geolocator

This is a cool little web tool that uses the Google Maps API to plot the location of phone exchanges on a map. Could be useful for finding the general location of an unknown phone number.

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Redfin - Real Estate in Seattle and San Francisco

Redfin - Real Estate in Seattle and San Francisco

Will this be the best way to buy a home in the future?

Websites as graphs: Visualizing the DOM Structure of Websites

A fresh look a the tag structure of websites, in a visual way.

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Jaywalking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jaywalking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

so a jay is a rube. i didn't know that.

Study: Drinking daily can bring health benefits -- for men

I had to put my beer down to post this... drinking reduces the risk of heart disease but the beneficial effects seem to work differently in men and women. They found that for men drinking daily seems to have the biggest positive effect on health while in women the amount of alcohol consumed may have more of an impact.

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Big in Japan

How come scientists are famous in Asia, and we get Kevin Federline?

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The Mathematica Book Online: A Practical Introduction to Mathematica | Running Mathematica

The Mathematica Book Online: A Practical Introduction to Mathematica | Running Mathematica

Blast from the past. Huge collection of vintage "quest" games

This guy's got possibly one of the largest lots of pixel-limited 8bit DOS games ever offered on ebay! I remember playing these when I was a kid - no cell processors, no fancy Wiimotes, no 3D, no mouse!

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Amazing â?? Stolen Memory Stick: Honor Among Criminals

Matthew Ryan Hahn glared in disbelief at the digital photographs of a man molesting a girl. She was only a year old, maybe 2. The next thing to do would be obvious -- call police. But Hahn had been convicted of burglary more than once. And the memory card on which he discovered the photos came from a stolen safe.

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Great website showcasing visual effects techniques.

This company has a great website showcasing its effects techniques. Just click on one of the different special effect titles to get a cool example. The Universal Capture effect is interactive!

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New Google tool compiles Java to AJAX

When you deploy your application to production, the Google Web Toolkit compiler translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

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Nintendo Becomes the World's First to Offer Standard Bluetooth Wireless gam

Broadcom today announced a partnership to supply Nintendo's Wii console with the Bluetooth technology that enables the peripherals to interact with the system. According to an official release, Wii will be the first videogame console in history to use Bluetooth as the standard..

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Computer models may replace animal testing

The first realistic software models of human and animal organs are starting to emerge - potentially replacing some of the 50 to 100 million animals used each year for scientific research.

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Sun puts its weight behind Ubuntu Linux

"We will be aggressively supporting the fork that Ubuntu has been doing," Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz said at the conference.

"The ideals of that community are relatively familiar to us."

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Researcher: Macs not as expensive as thought | CNET News.com

Researcher: Macs not as expensive as thought | CNET News.com

Symantec CEO says: Go buy a Mac!

It doesn't appear that Symantec CEO John Thompson's next computer will run Windows. "We think more people ought to buy them," Thompson said of Apple's Macintosh computers. The "target-rich" environment created by Windows vulnerabilities means that virus writers and hackers have set their sights on Windows PCs, he said.

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SkypeOut now FREE for US & Canada!

Yes. It is really very, very free. Thereâ??s no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.

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IT is the Most Stressful Profession

IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress than any other professional, according to the survey.

A staggering 97 percent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis.

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darwin ports

everyone should install this [everyone with a mac that is]. i'm going to use it right now to install groovy. 

Wii Controller (Remote) showcases 'Doppler Effect'

The Wii controller will have build in speaker. This was demonstrated with Link firing an arrow. You could hear when your stretched your bow from little speaker on the Wiimote, and then when fired, the sound would â??travelâ?? from the Wiimote to your television.

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