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This is the HD-DVD processing key used in most currently released movies. Sites are being nailed by the MPAA armed with the DMCA. Digg is complying to their demands. MPAA: This is a number. It cannot be copyrighted. Fuck you. Anyone reading this, please post this number wherever you can.

AMD names names: R600 now the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

AMD is losing the "X" prefix of its ATI graphics lineup, and slapping on "HD" to denote the changes and advancements in its R600-based DirectX 10 cards. Up top is the Radeon HD 2900 XT (the rumors were close), with 320 stream processors, double that of the GeForce 8800 GTX from NVIDIA.



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Hotdoll: The Sex Doll for Dogs

Is your dog in heat and humping anything it can wrap its horny little legs around? Are you constantly having to pry your promiscuous pooch off the legs of guests, parents, and members of your church? Protect your leg from a hump attack by getting Scruffy a Hotdoll. Yes, it's a sex doll for dogs. It's shaped like a dog



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MacHeist Heist 6 finally online

MacHeist's Heist 6, after months of waiting, is finally here and its live right now.



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Eye Exams Can Now Identify Serious Diseases

The windows to the soul can provide physicians with an extraordinary look at your overall health. Diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are all diseases that eye care specialists can detect from an eye exam.



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Adjustable Breast Implants for the Indecisive

Too big or too small breast implants getting you down? Cheer up, Sally or Jimmy (soon to be Jane). The adjustable breast augmentation will ensure that you and your loved ones are completely satisfied with your new chest addition. These breast implants have a port where a control pump can be plugged.



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A CSS Sticky Footer

" We've all tried to use a sticky footer one time or another, but they never seem to come out right, do they? Well, the days of a hard to understand CSS-based sticky footer are thankfully over. In just a few simple CSS classes with minimal extra HTML markup, I've fashioned a sticky footer that even beginners can get a handle on."



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MacHeist Heist 6 finally online

MacHeist's Heist 6, after months of waiting, is finally here and its live right now.



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Google Launches StumbleUpon Competitor

On the same day that the news breaks that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon for $40ish million, Google announces that they are building strikingly similar functionality into their Toolbar. Google (along with AOL) were reportedly in the running to acquire StumbleUpon until very recently.



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Lucky88

Lucky88 - Watch Movies Online



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Examining Islamic Ideology & Scriptures

Revealing true Islam.



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Hacking Ubuntu to Improve Performance

Various hacks to boost Ubuntu's performance, such as viewing running processes, identifying resources, finding process startups, tuning kernel parameters, and speeding up boot time.



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Shift to Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux, code named Feisty Fawn, makes its debut on April 19th. With cutting edge software, Ubuntu's version promises to be better than ever before by incorporating huge support for Wireless networking cards, on demand installation of codecs and Windows migration tools.



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Samsung thinks outside the box with new concept PCs

Samsung recently showed off three completely crazy concept PC designs, computers that have about a zero percent chance of ever hitting store shelves but show off the fact that Samsung has some creative designers on their payroll.



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Vonage: no workaround, we're pretty much screwed

Things just went from "really bad" to "oh man that sucks" for Vonage. The VoIP provider is requesting a permanent stay on Judge Claude Hilton's decision in the Verizon patent suite, which decrees that Vonage can't sign up any new customers until it figures out a way to provide them service that doesn't infringe upon Verizon's patents.



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Using Google as a Proxy (or HOW TO: View MySpace at School)

It's very interesting that Google, a host unlikely to end up on most blacklists, has a couple of tools that can essentially act as a web proxy!



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Free ride is over: IRS taxing online sales

As if there wasn't enough to complain about with the IRS, add this to the list. The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.



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The 5 Hottest Indie Women

There’s something about indie chicks that is both endearing and frustrating. They’re endearing because they write honest songs and they strive to progress musically. They’re frustrating because so many of them just don’t try to be attractive. We’ve chosen the 5 women who kick the mostass in both music and hotness.



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A Cool Hack of Google Webmaster Central for Additional Link Information

Did you notice the new Extended Link information at your Google Sitemap account? How it will be with some added information with the PageRank, AnchorText and NoFollows highlighted. With another useful must-have Firefox add-on for webmasters, two simple steps.



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GM to sell Saturn Aura hybrid for $22K, lowest-priced hybrid on the market!

General Motors just announced pricing on the 28 MPG city, 35 MPG highway hybrid model of their Saturn Aura Green Line hybrid at $22,695 -- the lowest price of any hybrid model currently on the market! The mid-size sedan also won the NorAm Car of the Year award, and looks poised as a serious Camry competitor.



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Woot sells $1 million dollar Bag of Crap for April Fool's Day

For April 1st, Woot has listed their deal of the day as a $1 million dollar Bag of Crap, which contains three "craps." Hilarious!



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Hot or Not Goes Free

Hot or Not, the online dating and rating site, is about to end its main revenue stream — subscriptions — and focus instead on online ads and transactions, like selling virtual flowers.



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April 17th is Ben & Jerry’s Free Ice Cream Cone Day!

"Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day is an annual event, held in late April or early May, in which Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops give out free ice cream cones all day. According to the Ben & Jerry’s web site, the free ice cream will be available from noon until 8pm. The site also has a handy tool to help you find a shop near you." [via Get Rich Slowly]



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The World's Most Dangerous Internet Sites

Online security is a nightmare these days, with all the viruses, phishing, drive-by downloads, pop-ups, and other malware out there. How bad is it? Researchers set out to chart the Internet's worst domains. Their report looked at 265 top level domains (TLDs) worldwide and came up with some telling numbers...



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Stalkers Go High Tech to Intimidate Victims

"Cases from across the country have shown that stalkers with little more than cursory computer knowledge have been able to track the e-mail and Web activity of current or recently divorced spouses. In other cases, some cellphones, outfitted with GPS chips, are secretly attached to cars, and the signals are then followed online."



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Don't try this at home

Crazy things people do with books



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Top 10 Coolest Doormats

Whether you're a geek, an @$$#ole, or simply want to make a unique impression on anyone entering your place, this list of awesome doormats has you covered.



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25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer | BittBox

It's shameful how true these are..



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A Digg Request: Digg Widgets!

As Digg grows more with each new day, many users, including myself, are looking for ways to better network with friends and content. I propose the Digg Widget to help do just that.



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Five reasons to turn down a potential client

Here’s some situations I suggest I’ve been faced with that I suggest you try to avoid.



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Adult Swim's Low Bandwith Site

Possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen!



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Why you should be using HTML 4.01 instead of XHTML

If you're a web developer, you've probably heard about XHTML, the markup language developed in 1999 to implement HTML as an XML format. Most people who use and promote XHTML do so because they think it's the newest and hottest thing, and they may have heard of some (usually false) benefits here and there. But there is a lot more to it than ...



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New US Passport Design is, um, Incredible?

The new U.S. e-passport will incorporate updated security features and a new design. This design will reflect the varied landscapes of our country and each page will include a quote reflecting the hope and success that is the United States of America. They sure crammed in as much imagery as they could. Pretty incredible.



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A Gallery of Brands in Second Life

Inspired by Nic Mitham's map of brands in Second Life, ZDNet have put together an image galley of screen shots of the various companies' efforts to setup shop in-world.



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Google & Control - Four Reasons it is getting too far

As in most things in life, there is black, there is white, and there is a ton of gray in between. Matt’s previous post on hidden links was quite slam-dunk, But the recent post on reporting paid links really ground my bones. Here are 4 reasons, in the eye's of one blogger, that outline why Matt Cutts' call-to-action goes too far.



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Intel to launch Linux-powered mobile Internet device

Intel is developing its own take on the mini-tablet, with a new ultra-mobile PC platform to be announced at this week’s Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The big surprise? It’s based on Linux.



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New Algorithms Improve Image Search

At the core of this Supervised Multiclass Labeling system is a set of simple yet powerful algorithms developed at UCSD. Once you train the system (the 'supervised' part), you can set it loose on a database of unlabeled images. The system calculates the probability that various objects it has been trained to recognize are present...



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All I Need To Know To Be A Better Programmer I Learned In Kindergarten

Programming is complicated stuff, but a lot of what makes a good programmer isn't all that different from the earliest learning we did in school. 1. Share everything: Use open source where possible, and contribute to it when you are able. The collective wisdom of the entire community is better than the limited vision of a few large companies....



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How to Write a Spelling Corrector: Learn from Google's Director of Research

Type in a search like [speling] and Google comes back in 0.1 seconds or so with Did you mean: spelling. Are you amazed at how Google does spelling correction so well and quickly? Peter Norvig gives you the complete spelling corrector, in 20 lines of Python 2.5 code.



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How to make 'related articles' for your blog

If you operate or post for a blog of any kind (and chances are, you do), it's very useful to add a "Related articles" section to your blog so when somebody finds your article, the related articles will keep them on your site while keeping their interest in specific topics.



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10 Tips for Optimizing MySQL Queries (That don’t suck)

When I read the last list of 10 tips for optimizing MySQL queries I wanted to scream. They were really bad. So, I spent an hour or so and wrote up my own list. I think it fares much better. What do you think?



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Similarity searches accelerate P2P downloads by 30-70 percent

Computer researchers report dramatic accelerations in P2P file sharing using a protocol that hunts down similar files and grabs the pieces that are identical.



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Wordpress Digg Widget

Ask, and ye shall receive! WP digg widget that let's you put your friends diggs in your sidebar.



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74 Top Open Source VoIP Apps & Resources

Here are 74 open source VoIP applications tucked into categories that you can use "as is" or change to fit your specific needs. They are categorized by SIP, H.323, IAX, and RTP protocols and include clients, libraries, gatekeepers, and any other open source resource available for those specific protocols plus PBX and IVR platforms.



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Make Internet TV - A Massive Resource for Learning How to Make Videos

Amazing guide to creating online video. If you've ever wanted to do online video, begin here. Make Internet TV (MITV) is a massive resource full of step-by-step instructions for shooting and creating internet video. The site features screencasts, tutorials, illustrations, and more! It was built by the folks behind Democracy Player.



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How To: Build Your Own WiFi Signal Booster

"The parabolic Asian cooking (dumpling) strainer is the perfect candidate for this project. I was able to pick up 20 more access points in the city and connect to a network a few blocks away! This is BY-FAR the most simple of all Wifi extensions!"



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Wordpress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours

People everywhere complain that Wordpress is slow, or that they can’t survive a digg. They die if they get more than 10,000 visitors a day, their hosting providers ban them for using too many resources, and they cry because they have to purchase expensive hosting plans. If this describes your plight, before you run over to Survive Digg hosting and



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Massacre at Virginia Tech: 25 Confirmed Dead

At least 25 people are dead in what may be the biggest mass killing on a college campus in American history — and the death toll may rise. Police at Virginia Tech say that the shootings happened at a dormitory and a classroom on opposite sides of the university campus in Blacksburg, Va.



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