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This ancient and intriguing book is known as the Voynich Manuscript. The textual content of this mysterious illustrated book is unknown because it is written in an unknown alphabet and unintelligible language, and despite the efforts of expert cryptographers over many decades, not a single word has been deciphered

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In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network.

"Yeah. I mean, you left out a bunch of things â€" spying on citizens without a warrant, going around FISA, on and on. Look, I have always said it should be on the table."

Via Citizens for Legitimate Government: The phone number for GOP political operative/conservative pundit, John (Jack) M. Burkman Jr. - Principal J.M. Burkman & Associates, Arlington, VA - appears in the database of phone records of the ‘DC Madam.’

MIT researchers are designing a "Digital Water Pavillion" for next year's Expo Zaragoza in Spain. The walls of the structure are sheets of water sprayed from suspended pipes. Software-controlled valves enable the valves to be opened and closed with high accuracy to create gaps at very specific locations, forming something like liquid pixels.

Mea culpa. Dell confesses it made a mistake with its pricing and is now offering the Inspiron 1420 laptop with Ubuntu and a full 2 gigabytes of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive for $50 less than the same system with Windows Vista and not $225 more as had been the case last week.

The team presented a proof-of-concept program for Unix-based systemsâ€"although it could theoretically be adopted for any modern multitasking operating systemâ€"that allows a specified task to "cheat" and take more CPU cycles than the OS would normally allow it to have.

Why Apple should include many of the non-phone features in the next gen iPod.

Francisco Rodriguez owes more than $10,000 in back child support payments in a paternity case involving a 15-year-old girl who, according to DNA results and the girl's mother, is not his daughter. Huh??

Sony says its PlayStation 3 is still a contender as Nintendo gleefully vowed on Wednesday to turn everyone into a "gamer" and proclaimed this year a turning point in the industry. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime (R) competes against legendary Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto in one of the many activities in Wii Fit,

Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, has been producing beat-heavy electronic music for more than a decade. From his early solo trip-hop efforts to his more recent collaborations with jazz giants, Spooky has always approached music from multiple angles at once. He has the chops of a musician, the genre-blending..........

I think the world now makes a little more sense.Over in the UK, McDonald's announced today that it will start using its own waste cooking oil to make biodiesel, which will be then used in its entire truck fleet of 155 vehicles.

The House of Representatives voted 223-201 Thursday to require most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by April 1, 2008.

Air pollution is on the minds of many athletes this summer, especially those who exercise outdoors.

Two new videos of Heavenly Sword directly from E3

FBI personnel who used misleading emergency letters to acquire thousands of Americans' phone records are the...

Scientists want you to help them sort through an unusual digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.

We started off with a $500/$600 PS3 sku combo. On Monday, Sony announced a drop in price and now we have a $500/$600 sku combo and people are going nuts. Did Sony pull a fast one on us?

Miyamoto talks retirement with Kotaku.

A sports car enthusiast who suffered a mini stroke while restoring a Lotus Espirit was amazed when online friends finished the work for him in secret.

Bush finally admitted that Administration leaked....says "It's been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House, and it's -- it's run its course, and now we're going to move on. No one in press asks about Bush's promise to fire anyone who leaked

A 75 year old woman from central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection. Sigbritt Löthberg's blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection means she can enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously or download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.

The new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has taken a record-breaking $12m (£6m) at midnight screenings in the US. The figure is the most made at the box office for a Wednesday opening midnight run, according to Daily Variety.

Today in his press conference, a reporter asked President Bush why he is “so resistant” to a “change of course in Iraq,” even though that’s what the American public is “clamoring for.” Bush dismissed the reporter’s question, saying the public's criticisms are merely “war fatigue.” "It’s affecting our psychology," he said.

Food is so connected to who we are and how we operate in this world. Think about the different patterns of food that cross cultures and social divides.

Michael Moore caught Sanjay Gupta in a lie on his report about Sicko.Details here.

About a month ago, Dennis Milligan, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, sounded pretty excited about the prospect of domestic terrorism. Yesterday, Rick Santorum echoed a similar sentiment, implying that terror attacks will occur inside America which will alter the body politic and lead to a reversal of the anti-war sentiment.

Prince is the man.

See the elaborate artwork on 36 NHL Goalie Masks.

Bad ass pics here... I don’t know what those folks at Retro studious did, but strafing, and run ‘n’ gun tactics have never felt so good or so natural before. Without even thinking about it, you become immersed in the game; running, jumping and rolling through levels like you were born to it. Oh, and the camera? Perfect.

Protesters interrupted the first-ever Hindu prayer in the US Senate. Officers removed the three and charged them.

Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos announced that Rock Band has some serious plans for delivering content to players. First off, Harmonix plans to release new music tracks every week. They can be released in singles, multi track bundles, or more deliciously, full albums.

Wow. We never thought about it this way before, but if the web still looked like this, you wouldn't need an iPhone with Safari to surf the web on your phone.

If we can figure out how to read and write data on the atomic scale, you could store the sum total of all the data we recorded in 2003 on a grain of sand.

An in-depth look at the roller coaster marketing of CAPTIVITY. The controversy began in March when some billboards that were not approved by the MPAA showed up in New York & LA. The Billboard [PIC] shows four images of the film's star, the gorgeous, Canadian vixen Elisha Cuthbert in various stages of captivity...

Global warming is killing cold water fish and may cause countries to impose bans on fishing. These warnings have been fired at fishermen for years, but how valid are they?

The page is scaled so that the smallest thing on it, the electron, is one pixel. That makes the proton thousand pixels across, and the distance between them is... yep, fifty million pixels. If your monitor displays 72 pixels to the inch, then that works out to eleven miles - making this possibly the biggest page you've ever seen.

Common but very dangerous hazards of climate change

If you thought that Sony was the only console manufacturer having a really bad day, guess again. After many months of public complaints and outcries, Microsoft has publically admitted that *ALL* (as in every single one ever sold) Xbox360's have a design defect that can lead to their failure.