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Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you to sign and encrypt not only email messages but also text snippets from any Web page.

"The youth craze for making and posting digitized audio and video on the Internet - their own creations and those of others, without regard to ownership - is driving a wedge between the traditional "commercial" economy and the upstart "sharing" market, analysts say."

"Wow. The things you can learn from Apple commercials. Notice anything about that map icon? It looked mighty familiar to me. Here are a bunch of other things I've noticed about iPhone maps."

During a segment about the London 2012 Olympics, BBC showed a fan submitted logo for the Olympics. Little did they realize what they were showing resembled everyone's favorite shock web page...

On Sunday's episode of The Sopranos, the Italians shoot a man they have mistaken for New York boss Phil Leotardo. Later, Bobby Bacala is killed at the model-train store. Both times, the killers drop their guns at the scene of the crime. As Clemenza says in The Godfather "Leave the gun, take the cannoli." How come mafia hit men always drop the guns?

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know about the latest collaboration project that Digg recently finished. I worked with the developers at Facebook and we launched a application that you can install to your Facebook Profile!

A practical tutorial for solving common high school and calculus problems with Maxima. It provides plenty of examples to get you started in no time.

"A note to the forgetful: be thankful you don’t remember everything. It means your brain is working properly.According to a new study, the brain only chooses to remember memories it thinks are most relevant, and actively suppresses those that are similar but less used, helping to lessen the cognitive load and prevent confusion."

This TV news consultant bought at $270ish digital camera from a CompUSA clearance -- but only gets an empty box. A staffer blamed the buyer! "It’s not just 'buyer beware,' it’s 'don’t be a buyer.'

Since August eyeOS has been completely rewritten and redesigned; however eyeOS is still an Open Source project, under the GPL license. Eduardo told Read/WriteWeb today that "the importance of eyeOS 1.0 isn't in its look or in its apps, but in its core."

Recording Industry vs The People, a new RIAA case in Tampa, Florida has some interesting counterclaims by the consumer, including extortion, conspiracy, and deceptive trade practices.

If there's ever a time when you don't want to be caught unorganized, it's in the middle of a health crisis. You need certain documents on hand and ready to go when you're in situations like these. Today I'll show you how I've gotten my procrastinating booty in gear (finally) and made my very own essential information kit.

"The [autopsy] documents show that detainees were hooded, gagged, strangled, beaten with blunt objects, subjected to sleep deprivation and to hot and cold environmental conditions."

Meet Jo, a sexy babe masquerading as a plumber at the Kohler websiteâ€"but we think she's a sultry little temptress. "Flushing is fun," she coos. "Pick an item." I got your item, right here. We're in love.

University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity.

NASA put up amazing pictures of Mars. Help them out by trying to identify possible interesting spots :)"On board NASA’s Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It’s the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth’s orbit."

The Central Intelligence Agency has received approval at least twice in the last several years to conduct an information war against several countries in the Middle East, including Iran, Lebanon and Syria. In addition, the Bush Administration has been running operations out of the Defense Department that are not subject to Congressional oversight.

Just Whatever take a look at the best of the tower defense games

TUAW: The iPhone ads demonstrate the phone, its features, and how its amazing interface works. Why not with Macs?

Some of the funniest moments we experience in real life are the unintentional ones â€" sometimes awkward, sometimes embarrassing. Those unique moments are nearly impossible to recreate, and often lost in translation when attempting to convey to another person. Under the wrong direction, Knocked Up could have easily degenerated into a...

Let the speculation begin in 3...2....1....GO!

Sensors on Huygens detected an extremely low frequency (ELF) radio wave during the descent. It was oscillating very slowly for a radio wave, just 36 times a second, and increased slightly in frequency as the probe reached lower altitudes.

Blizzard updated their BlizzCon 2007 page today revealing that all attendees will receive a "beta key for an upcoming Blizzard title." Hmm...which title could that be?

A Florida woman accused by the RIAA of file-sharing responds by throwing the book at the record labels. The charges she is making are becoming commonplace in the world of file-sharing litigation.

"The outdoorsman value light gear. It's part of his nature. It's enough work to carry oneself over rough portage; who would want to carry a hard wood boat?"

How high can Google count? Very high it turns out but there is a limit.

In this article we will be exposing what truly consists of the ATI/AMD driver development cycle and ultimately what they are really doing to improve their image in the Linux community. We have been granted unprecedented access to share with you their once unknown driver development model.

Another file-sharing defendant has prevailed against the RIAA, as the music industry has dismissed a copyright infringement brought against a disabled single mother in Oregon.

Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Monday a technical and legal collaboration, the latest step in the software giant's ongoing program to partner with open-source companies.

Last October, Netflix, the online movie rental service, announced that it would award $1 million to the first person or team who can devise a system that is 10 percent more accurate than the company’s current system for recommending movies that customers would like. The improvement level is now at 7.42%, still 2.58% short.

Guy Kawasaki shares the details and numbers of how he created Truemors.

Tyrone Brown was 17 when he committed a $2 robbery, and Dean put him on probation but changed it to life in prison when Brown shortly afterward tested positive for marijuana.

Looks like there could be another Microsoft-Linux patent deal in the offing. Signs point to Linux vendor Xandros signing a "patent-protection" deal with Microsoft akin to the one Novell inked last November.

The Chinese government has announced its latest futile attempt to hold back the tidal wave of free digital information that is bound to flood the country sooner or later, placing a ban on the licensing of new internet cafes for 2007 while officials investigate supposed breaches of their restrictive rules

A mobile phone company says brits drop 850,000 phones down the toilet, while only leaving 810,000 at pubs. Um... seriously brits, you should really think about investing in a bluetooth headset.

Last week, we were asking how police found themselves in the bedroom of a naked couple in Lancaster, Calif., in 2001, guns drawn.This led to a discussion of the problem with "no-knock" â€" or even "shout-once-and-storm-in" â€" search warrants.

he Hollywood sports movie has been analyzed to death. However, one of the most integral aspects of these films is frequently overlooked: that, my friends, is the role of the goon. Everybody loves a winner, but the truth of the matter is that if it weren’t for the goons we so love to hate, these sporting deities would have no reason to exist.

A U.S. astronomer has traced the origins of a set of ancient clay tablets made in Babylon around 687 BC. The tablets, showing constellations thought to be precursors of the present-day zodiac, are now confirmed to be based on much earlier observations made by Assyrian astronomers around 1,370 BC.

I finally want to get my issues with the "girl gamer" culture to rest. This will be my final rant on it all... finally. For those who know me, I don't like girl gaming leagues, clans, websites, or anything that really does out line female gamers. Why? It's 100% bullsh*t... Read on.

We just received word that Michael Moore will appear on Oprah on Tuesday June 5th where he will present scenes from his new film, Sicko. And get this â€" the theme of Oprah’s show is “The one film you must see this this summer”. Apparently, Oprah loved Michael’s film and wants to make health care for all one of her main missions this year.