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For those of you with a Jesusphone, here's a great idea for making fun contact photos using a glass door or scanner.

Sure, you remember the stories of the baby who fell down the well, the kid from Nirvana's Nevermind, the boy who spelled "potato" right, and the girl from National Geographic. You might even be able to remember their names. But here’s the real question: do you know where these kids are right now?

If you haven't seen it yet, there was a press conference with Putin where an audience member jumped up and tossed some leaflets about the room. When he sat back down, the guy behind him was quite incredulous and showed it magnificently with his eyes..

A Congressional Democrat has been reined in for calling President George W. Bush a 'liar' during a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, according to the Monday edition of the newspaper Roll Call.

This would be 'aid' over the next five years as part of a "hearts and minds" campaign to win over the lawless region from Al Qaeda and Taliban militants. But even before the plan has been fully carried out, officials involved in the planning are warning of the dangers of distributing so much money in an area so hostile that oversight is impossible.

Zero Install is a way to run software without an explicit installation step. This is easier (install and run becomes just run) and safer (installation doesn't happen as root).

You've probably read about the first snow in Buenos Aires in the last 90 years. In this article, find out why it happened and its relation to climate change.

A new blog startup focusing on the merging of a "green" social climate with technology and internet startups.

A recent patent filed by Apple suggests the company is continuously looking for ways to improve user input devices. In this case, Apple describes an "improved feedback mechanism for touch pads", including "devices capable of illuminating the touch sensitive surface of the touch pad."

Finish Him!

Maddox update on the (in)famous iPhone.

this guy could totally kick Kermit's ass

MIT OpenCourseWare let's you pretty get an MIT eduction online for free.

Title is a good enough description.

Employers pose a bigger threat to your future success than governments when it comes to your personal information. It's interview time - you`re not invited because of a misprint from a database you`ve never heard of before. No-one will call, nobody will write you. Unfair? Here's what you need to know

BitTorrent users are facing a new enemy. A BitTorrent client named ZipTorrent, allegedly created by our friends from the anti-piracy organization Media Defender, leeches bandwith and spreads useless data chunks.

How does so much profanity get in the kernel? Well, at least lot of S**t went into 2.6.12.

"I could get out & run faster than this," said John.

A great way to reset

No Changes, no photoshop.

Coming from a recent interview with Phil Harrison, 1up was curious why Sony was letting exclusive downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV slip through their fingers. It seems that, perhaps, the PS3 will get their own content for the upcoming classic sandbox game.

Evolution of versions Windows. From 1.0 to Vista. (screenshots)

It was really difficult to not write "ever" at the end of this title but I held back

Two hours of sleep a day is plenty.

Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you.

Here's a handy little guide to point you in the right direction...

Just outside of Seattle, WA my roommate Ed recently took a photo of this . . . thing. We have no idea what animal this is but it was seemingly deaf and/or dumb as Ed got extremely close to it before it slunk away. There are two tufts of hair on it but, otherwise, it was completely bald. Any thoughts? Your help is appreciated!

A Fox News guest lit up a cigarette on air in order to protest taxing tobacco companies to grant health insurance to poor children.

While the trend has been tighter control on content released for console games online, Sony and Midway are allowing open access to new maps, skins, and mods from the PC version of the game: all for free.

The Denso SARD Supra HV-R, a retired 480-horsepower Super GT car converted to run as a hybrid with regenerative braking, in-wheel-motors in front, and a larger electric motor for the rear wheels, has won the Tokachi 24-hour race. It's the first win of its type for a hybrid vehicle. The Supra completed 616 laps -- 19 more than the second-place car.

Eating grapefruit every day could raise the risk of developing breast cancer by almost a third, US scientists say: A study of 50,000 post-menopausal women found eating just a quarter of a grapefruit daily raised the risk by up to 30%.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Dow Jones (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) board member who is also part of the family that controls the company has launched a last-ditch effort to block a takeover by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

You've heard about it and have seen a few pictures, but we wanted to share with you some higher res up close and personal shots of the Halo 3 Xbox 360. After digging around some press kits we stumbled upon the images in the gallery below of the Halo 3 Xbox 360, pretty green controller and headset and man are we enjoying the design.

Japan’s leading genetics researcher could be “a matter of months” from reaching the Holy Grail of biotechnology â€" producing an “ethical” human stem cell without using a human embryo.

Cybercrime, like every digital industry, is outsourcing. Though the U.S. still produces more malware, spam and viruses than any country in the world, illicit IT jobs are increasingly scattered across an anarchic and international Internet, where labor is cheap, legitimate IT jobs are scarce and scammers are insulated from the laws...

See Title.

On Friday July 13th, INCITS V1 met via teleconference for 3 hours but failed to reach a 2/3 consensus necessary to recommend an "Approval, with comments" position on Microsoft "Office Open XML" (OOXML) document specification.

For years, polls have shown that very large numbers of Americans continue to falsely believe that some of the 9/11 hijackers came from Iraq. In reality, the overwhelming number hailed from the land of a U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia.

The RIAA agrees to a judgment of $300 after suing a single mother in state-subsidized housing for file-sharing. It's a far cry from the $750 per song the record labels claimed was due them.

A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia has found that girls who talk very extensively about their problems with friends are likely to become more anxious and depressed.