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An interview with several anonymous doctors who tell of mistakes they've made and deaths that they have caused.

This is the way around a guilty conscience for file sharing.

Do you have iTunes? Do you have an iPod? I have iTunes, I don’t have an iPod, but I wanted to be able to sync my MP3 player with iTunes, regardless of what brand it was… and so iTunes Sync was born. In just a few easy steps you can synchronize any iTunes playlist with any MP3 Player. It's like iTunes Agent on Steroids!

Analyst group Screen Digest has issued a report plotting the hardware futures of the Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP into the next decade. The group predicts, in their report republished at Gamasutra, that the Nintendo DS will reach sales of 112 million by 2011.

That's right -- it's the Jokermobile. The Joker has evidently chosen a hastily-painted purple 30's truck to cruise around in and it looks pretty damn cool, all things considered.

When Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., spoke at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the Googleplex, he didn't talk about Ubuntu, patents, or hardware vendor partnerships. Instead he devoted his keynote speech to the importance of collaboration in fixing bugs and getting timely patches out to Linux users.

Pity poor Pluto, the puny former planet is facing yet another indignity. Demoted from planethood a year ago into a new category of dwarf planet, it now turns out that it isn't even the biggest one of those.

Back on April 19, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified, under oath, that he had not spoken with “witnesses” in the U.S. Attorney scandal about the events surrounding the purge because it would have been inappropriate.

Given the recent rhetoric in Republican circles about immigration policy, I found this story spectacularly amusing.

GM is moving full speed ahead with bringing hydrogen fuel cell technology to the street by moving 500 of their engineers from research and development to production engineering. The engineers and scientists will be working on integrating fuel cells into future vehicles.

Farming up the side of a skyscraper.

There are a billion Bluetooth-enabled devices in the world -- cell phones, headsets, cameras, keyboards, printers. Another 13 million of them are being sold every week. But that's chump change compared with the growth that analysts expect to see once a new version of the short-range wireless technology makes its way into products later this year

Another corporation trying to silence the watchdogs.

Worldwide, 10% to 40% of children grow up in households with no father at all. In the U.S., more than half of divorced fathers lose contact with their kids within a few years. Even fathers in intact families spend a lot less time focused on their kids than they think. Anthropologists are trying to figure out why.

A federal judge in Los Angeles last week ruled that a computer server's RAM, or random-access memory, is a tangible document that can be stored and must be turned over in a lawsuit. This could force companies and individuals to store vast amounts of data in case they are involved in a civil suit.

Lifehacker and Gizmodo have taken steps to make it harder for its posts to appear on Digg, a popular news site fueled by readers’ votes. Under the new policy, the big fat yellow button that turns a mouse click into a Digg vote will be dropped from posts that simply link to other sites.

The campaign manager for Ron Paul advised reporters that the matter was reported to the White House and that Alberto Gonzales promised an immediate investigation right after the 2008 election.

Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google, made an educated guess that the Internet is a repository of more than 100 trillion words.

I've never seen anything like this, chances are that neither have you. These guys took their trash and set it up in such a way that when light is cast on it from certain angles, the shadows cast show something completely different. You have to see it to believe it.

What more can I say?

Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years) is now a mathmatician and is counting on girls to love numbers

Jessica Alba plays not only the Nintendo DS but the Wii as well

The Leoben Justice Centre, in Steiermark, Austria. Yes, it’s a prison. An Ikea prison.

Joomla! is moving to ensure the future of the project by committing to compliance with the GNU/GPL licence. This decision reflects a lengthy introspection combined with legal considerations to properly secure the project in the spirit of Open Source. For us, for everyone, Open Source does matter.

Silver Surfer replica makes its way onto the London Eye; gets darker, more mature feature spinoff.

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world’s first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.

The high priests of free software have congregated at Google Inc. headquarters this week to debate the future of the movement and face down recent patent threats by Microsoft Corp.

And to think, America's only been around for about 400 years.

BOSTON -- Massachusetts lawmakers blocked a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would have let voters decide whether to ban gay marriage in the only state that allows it.

I've noticed a wonderful trend happening at universities these past few years: projects that integrate sex and technology in innovative ways to improve human health and well-being.

Game will include new features such as perks and create-a-class, a new game engine with advanced physics, dynamic lighting, and other special effects. In game missions with heavy use of plot, cinematic full video load screens, and amazing cut scenes.

The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites.The agency said the zombies or bots were "a growing threat to national security".

Wil Wheaton talks about why he thinks that it is a good year to be a Trekkie

This is a very well written, and in my opinion very accurate, oped piece on the current state of these United States. Everyone needs a little reminder each day why they shouldn't be complacent.

If your looking to build a custom PC soon you should definitely check out arstechnicas' PC building guide. In it they'll help you build any level of hardware from a 'Budget Box' to a 'Hot Rod' or for those with the cash a 'GOD MACHINE'.

Viva Piñata's charmingly rendered online safety message, it's dual control (so a parent can help out a struggling youngster via a second pad), its colourful and characterful creatures - all seemed to be in place to ensure its success as Microsoft's trailblazing high definition kid-friendly Trojan horse.

Here it is. Many improvements of GUI and internals made their way into this build, so take a deep breath and chat with your frieands ;)

The engine works by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms and accelerating the resulting plasma in an electric field. Expelling the plasma out of the back of the engine generates thrust

8 Ghz using Liquid Nitrogen, Pentium 4 631 and an Asus motherboard. Great project with lots of pictures.

Over 10 years ago, during the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X (Rhapsody), Apple promised write-once, deploy everywhere functionality to developers in the then upcoming Mac OS X platform. Yellow Boxes for Intel and Mac OS would in theory make the Yellow Box the premiere choice for cross-platfor...