80% of People Believe Gas Prices Are Being Manipulated

According to a recent poll, nearly four out of every five people believe that oil and gasoline companies have manipulated the supply of gas in order to cause prices to shoot through the roof. Is it still a conspiracy theory if seemingly everyone believes in it?



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Don't let people interupt you while you're busy!

Even been busy, yet this one annoying person keeps sending you messages through an IM or email? Send them a link to this page and it should shut them up!



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15 Worst iPhone Product Concepts

The 15 Worst iPhone Concepts from Apple fans who thankfully were NOT on the design team.



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Bill Gates & Steve Jobs Set For Historic Conversation

Although Gates made a famous phone call to Jobs in 1997 and the two shared a stage briefly at a 1983 Apple promotional event, the two industry icons have never had a public conversation.



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Toilet Terror: China prepares for Olympic Toilet Shortage

Toilets play a big role in China’s future. As the host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing is trying to improve the state of its commodes. Most public toilets there are squat-style pits that scare the daylights out of Westerners. Visitors are warned to expect a lack of running water and to bring their own toilet paper.



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Casio's 12 megapixel Exilim Zoom EX-Z1200

12 Megapixels plus Face detection and motion analysis technologies enable the camera to lock focus onto a subject's face and then track it as the person moves... Sounds like something out of James Bond lol...



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IOC: Scrap Olympic logo :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago 2016

With the design of a logo for Chicago's 2016 olympic bid, has VSA Partners simply broken client brand rules, or run into branding bureaucracy? Graphic designers...sound off!



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Double Standards

Recently Rebekka Guðleifsdóttira discovered that a gallery Only-Dreemin was ripping her off. They'd sold thousands of dollars worth of her images. So she did what anyone with a following on the internet might do and she posted about her frustration and plight on her flickrstream. What's yahoo do? Deletes the image & threatens to terminate account.



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Japan looking to establish wireless RFID island

Japan is planning to take RFID to the extreme by creating an island where there's just no escapin' it. The nation is looking to set up an "experimental landmass" where a smorgasbord of sensors will "allow doctors to remotely monitor the health of the elderly," and in another instance, "monitor the movement of pedestrians and notify nearby drivers."



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5 Techniques for Enhancing Contrast in Digital Photos

Extensive advice for increasing contrast in photos. Very good tips and tricks.



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China rolls out the big guns, aiming for a dry Olympics

When he's not tending cherry orchards outside Beijing, Yu Yonggang can be found behind the twin barrels of a 37mm anti-aircraft gun, blasting shells at passing clouds.Now Yu and the other rainmakers face their toughest challenge: making sure it stays dry for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.



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Sony enters Social Media space with Vaio Nation

But will their recent scandals let them build a community in peace? If Digg, with its stellar reputation had a revolt over a legal issue, will Sony manage to control people trying to post HD-DVD numbers and cleverly embed them into Videos etc?



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How do you become a Beta Tester for software or hardware?

The first question is “Why would anyone want to be a Beta tester?” If you do then here is the way how....A few examples are Windows Vista, the Drobo box and the Slingplayer for Palm. These products all did Beta testing before releasing them to the public.



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Audio Menus for iPods

"Researchers are testing ways to let people listen to gadget menu options instead of looking at them."



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Police use Cellphone Tracking to find Transplant Patient

Police asked Sprint Nextel to locate the mother of a boy waiting for a heart transplant when they couldn't contact him directly. He was found at a jazz concert, and got a standing ovation from the crowd as he left for hospital.



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Your iPods can make your pacemaker malfunction

According to student Jay Thaker, the findings of his study showed that of 100 installed pacemakers, electrical interference was detected 50% of the time when an iPod was held at a distance of 2-inches from the chest for 5-10 seconds.



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Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain

New York based SonicMountain, a new startup, has acquired Evan Williams’ Odeo. The price is not being disclosed but is in excess of $1 million, and the deal was all cash. Twitter is NOT part of the deal, it was spun off into a separate company earlier this month.



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Microsoft to pay out $180 million to Iowa individuals and businesses

A judge provided preliminary approval to a settlement between Microsoft and a class-action case in Iowa, accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive practices. The company has agreed to pay out up to $180 million to affected individuals and businesses.



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Microsoft Memories - Bill Gates in 1993

"Billg typically has his eyes closed and he’s rocking back and forth. He could be asleep; he could be thinking about something else; he could be listening intently to everything you’re saying. At some point in your presentation billg will say “that’s the dumbest fucking idea I’ve heard since I’ve been at Microsoft.” He looks like he means it.



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Windows Live Hotmail debuts

Microsoft has announced the launch of Windows Live Hotmail globally in 36 languages, complete with AJAX goodness.The new service has been built to be a vast improvement over the previous Hotmail offering, incorporating input from more than 20 million beta testers.



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Top 57 Wiki's By Rank

A comprehensive list of the top Wiki's by rank. Some of the best including: Heroes Wiki, WoW Wiki, WikiHow, and several others.



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Life without google

Could you do it? The story from a paranoid author who does it daily... How would you get by?



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3-D Printing: Holy Crap, It Sounds Cool

Until now, 3D printers have been large, expensive machines confined to the shops and design departments of major corporations and elite design firms. With the introduction of the Desktop Factory 3D printer, priced disruptively lower than the nearest competitive offering, Desktop Factory becomes the leader in high performance low-cost 3D printing



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Kittens

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Video-Boeing 757-200's engine backfires during take-off, inflight emergency

New video (May 2) of a Boeing 757's engine (Rolls-Royce RB211) catching on fire during takeoff. Includes Air Traffic Control so you can hear what is going on. Slow-motion of the engine at the very end in case you get bored by the middle.



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Kevin Rose: Walmart is Great for Wife Beaters

From Diggnation 96. Kevin Rose explains that Walmart is great for wife beaters, then asks for a rave loop to be made.



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Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles - Free Download

Photoshop Layer Styles are the easiest way to speed up the design process. I found a lot of styles on the Web to download but none of them were of the today’s trend of Web 2.0. So here is a set of 131 Photoshop Layer Styles I created in .ASL ( Photoshop Layer Style ) format.



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Spiderman 4 Villains Revealed? And prospective choices.

Some websites are claiming to have the inside word on what villains will be included in Spider-Man 3. FreezeDriedMovies claims that The Lizard, Carnage, and Black Cat will be featured in the upcoming fourth film. Call me a little skeptical, but I think this is bogus. From what I’ve heard, no development has even begun on the fourth film



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The 25 Most Exquisitely Sad Songs in the Whole World

There's no shortage of sad songs about rainy days and lovers who don't bring flowers. And then there are songs that truly bring the pain -- songs so despairing they can make us wonder why we even bother. Here are 25 little ditties so crushing, they could knock Dick Cheney to his knees.



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TORNADO DESTRUCTION in GREENSBURG, KANSAS

This aerial photograph and the ones that follow show the devastation that occurred when a large tornado struck Greensburg Friday night.



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How life has changed: 1973 vs. 2007

A funny yet sad look at how our way of thinking has changed.



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What EVERY workplace is missing

The coolest thing i've seen in a long time. Giant slides from the rooftop to the ground in an Atrium lobby.



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Brian Shaler: "Writing Tools for Digg Users: The Inevitable Digg Effect"

"Digg.com is an ideal target for creating instant gratification content. You can come out of nowhere and have tens of thousands of new users in 24 hours. An inevitable woe is the Digg Effect -- a sign of success and often the key to server failure." Sharing a programmer's experiences with and advice about avoiding the Digg Effect.



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Bill Gates and Warren Buffet poses with Hooters girls (Photo)

The 1st and 2nd richest man in the world are now Hooters VIPs. Check out the hilarious photo.



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Vista sales propel Microsoft's profits to almost $5 BILLION

Microsoft's profit soared 65% to $4.93 billion, boosted by deferred income from coupons for the new Vista operating system. Revenue rose 32% to $14.4 billion, exceeding the company's forecast.



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Best Buy Vista Demo Station gets Blue Screened! [Pic]

"Stunning. Breakthrough. Entertaining." Right on the ball, Microsoft.



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I, Cringely - Is IBM about to layoff 100,000 employees in the US?

IBM about to layoff 100,000 US employees?



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Forbes: Why Yahoo! Can't Fix Microsoft

Microsoft and Yahoo! have a problem. Online ads are booming, and they're not. Microsoft's money-losing online business posted sales growth of just 10.9% last quarter. Yahoo! does make money, but last quarter its sales rose a mere 9%, excluding traffic acquisition costs.



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Google Testing New Search Results Layout?

"The screen shot purports to show Google testing a new layout for their search results. Of note is the introduction of a left navigation bar that directly links to related Google search options, with aesthetically pleasing gradient dividers breaking up the search results from the search box and newly listed options."



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Protecting Digg From Getting Shut Down

A law professor explains how Digg could get out of legal trouble from the HD-DVD Key business.



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Protecting Digg From Getting Shut Down

A law professor explains how Digg could get out of legal trouble from the HD-DVD Key business.



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100+ Ubuntu Tutorials and Growing Fast!

We know how much you love Ubuntu - now figure out how to do practically anything with it. As one of our most popular sections, you can expect this number to continue to grow every day.



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Technology row over 2012 Olympics @ reviewLAB.net

It was sparked by comments made by Derek Wyatt, the chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Olympic group. At a security conference in London, he said that potential technology suppliers had been overlooked in favour of games sponsor Visa...



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How to REALLY erase a hard drive

You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data?



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Flash Memory Oddity reveals Jesus

Now that we've got our own CNC hot-air gun to draw images of Jesus and Mary to our heart's content, we're not so very surprised to see those revered images popping up in odder places, like this here flash memory. Revealed by transmission electron microscopy, the folks at Chipworks found this familiar image of the Messiah on a 4GB Samsung flash memory chip. Dick James explains: "We often get dark fringe lines in the silicon, and in this case it looks like there was some holy influence." However, we're not so sure this is a dead-ringer for Jesus. As some staff at El Reg have pointed out, he dude also bears a striking resemblance to Gandalf, and we're seeing more of a long-haired, bearded Strongbad at play here.

 

Army Forbids Troops From Blogging

The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer.



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World's Fastest Secretary

Meet the worlds fastest secretary who can stamp documents faster than anyone else in the world. Shes like a robot and shockingly shes Japanese.



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MILFs Gone Wild + The Demi Moore Effect

They're calling it the Demi Moore effect. According to a study done in April of this year by the dating site PlentyofFish.com, more and more women aged thirty and over are looking to date guys five and ten years their junior.<