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It's crazy, the lengths people go to stay connected on the web, I guess at least this dude did not crash a full size bike whilst surfing on his laptop.

Tired of grainy YouTube Videos? Here's how to solve common encoding problems and make your YouTube videos look great.

Seventhson of XBH has managed to change the DVD key and region code of the Xbox 360. He claims all he did was reverse the plaintext keyvault signature to figure out how to modify and resign the KV contents.

Guy on death row based on witnesses, no material evidence. 20 years later, several witnesses have under oath recanted saying the prosecution coerced them. Also, a man legally swore that he heard a different man take credit for the killing and laugh that Troy was blamed. Google the name, and visit www.ncadp.org if you feel he deserves a retrial.

I am trying to stress test my server to see how much load it can take. I recently tried a decent amount of optimization through php-cache, mysql-cache, eaccelarator, apache optimization and so on and so forth. I wanted to generate a real-life stress scenario. If you think this is some kind of ploy to get some traffic, feel free not to click it.

We don't have a lot of details, but some "hackers" have found an exploit in the Wii Internet Channel's Flash player implementation. What does this mean to you? Well, if they take this exploit all the way to the end, it means you can possibly run unsigned, home-brew code on the Wii.

Devote a little of your time to tossing clutter from your life, and keeping things relatively clutter-free, and you'll be rewarded with much more pleasing living spaces, with a less stressful life, and with better organization and productivity.

LELYSTAD, Netherlands, July 17 (UPI) -- A Viking sailing ship, made in the Netherlands from 5 million recycled ice cream sticks with the help of 5,000 school children, is ready for the high seas.

According to reports, immigration officials across the country have been deluged in recent days by illegal aliens willing to plead guilty to perjury in exchange for a deal similar to Mr. Libby's.

A Georgia man spent 20 hours in jail this week after he was mistaken for a wanted man with whom he shares the same name and birthday.

Remember all those version 2 iPhone rumors rumbling about back in May. Well, they're back and running amuck in Taiwan. According to DigiTimes, Taiwan's Chinese-language Commercial Times says that Taiwan's Wintek has gained the touch-screen panel orders for the second-gen iPhone. The report claims that Wintek has already begun test production in sma

The FCC stopped accepting reply comments on network neutrality yesterday, and nearly 27,000 individuals and companies submitted their thoughts before the deadline. Some of these were quite crass.

Seems to be recently redesigned. This site is a great resource!

Nothing says summer better than the warm sun shining down and the cool waves washing over your toes. Let's show some COLOURlovin' to get us through those long, lazy summer days... Here are 40+ Summer Inspired Palettes.

I think all real Linux enthusiasts are being honest with potential users. But the truth is that the disinformation you see out there about Linux, not only in the blog I reference but in other places needs to be refuted.

"The results of the study show for the first time that APM, in our experimental conditions, causes an increased incidence of malignant-tumor-bearing animals"

They are the most remarkable pictures of one of the most hellish places on earth.

Gannon, whose real name is Jim Guckert, has worked as a male prostitute and advertised his own escort services over the internet. More than two dozen of his visits to the White House were made when there were no scheduled press conferences or briefings.

Believe it or not, July 15-21 is Sports Cliché Week. So after decades of overuse by second-rate sports commentators everywhere, here are the top 11 sport clichés of all time!

Dissident U.S. intelligence officers angry at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped a European probe uncover details of secret CIA prisons in Europe, the top investigator said on Tuesday.

WOW: Lily Allen revealed her third nipple live at a national British Television during a contest!

Monday night's televised mea culpa of Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, all started with a full-page $106,000 ad in the Washington Post last month -- offering a $1 million bounty to anyone who could document "a sexual encounter" with a high ranking government official or member of Congress. The ad was paid for by Larry Flynt, a hardcore pornographer.

When he interrupted a Republican meeting on Iraq strategy, Bush was described as “folksy, adamant and mildly profane" as he said "the policy on Iraq isn’t changing" and that "he is not backing down" to anything.

As a proposal to require full disclosure of all Senate earmarks languishes, senators have not claimed responsibility for at least $7.5 billion worth of projects approved by the Appropriations Committee, according to an analysis by a budget watchdog group.

he Atwoods' nightmare began when they learned in 2000 that their four-bedroom, two-bath home had been sold in 1997 through a tax sale for the $1.63 in unpaid taxes, plus 10 cents interest and $125 in costs associated with the sale.

A recent federal court decision raises the question of whether antivirus companies may intentionally overlook spyware that is secretly placed on computers by police.

Roy Singham argued that the iPhone is not the game changing device that most people claim it to be because his Nokia N95 smartphones can do more and better. The discussion was cut short due to scheduling pressure but it got me thinking, why do people lust after iPhone more than other smartphones?

Check out Faith Hill before and after photoshop...

DIY Life just launched and to celebrate is giving away tools (Dremmel, Makita, among others) and do-it-yourself supplies for the next 30 days. Each day has a different prize and the site already has a ton of good projects to check out too. Site covers tech, home improvement and other topics.

Portugal’s ISO says no room for IBM & Sun in the room ! ?

"Feast your eyes on the greatest pizza ever created! Forget cheese being the only ingredient in a stuffed-crust pizza, Pizza Hut’s new Double Roll sticks hot dog sausages in there too"

Yahoo describes Pipes as “an interactive data aggregator and manipulator that lets you mashup your favorite online data sources”. But what does that mean to the rest of us? This tutorial will take you through the steps to filter the content of one RSS feed (Techmeme) so that content you may have already read isn’t included in your Techmeme feed.

So how addicted are you?

TVease is at it again. They are going to put the worlds first commercially available UMPC built with 7.04 Ubuntu Linux on sale this week. Will come with Gimp, open office, even MythTV front end with MythWeb plug in so you can access your recordings from anywhere. Built with the samsung Q1.

The Pentagon apparently thinks the American people are stupid. Our top military commander, General Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now suddenly announcing, just in time for the Iraq debate in Congress, that Iraq has suddenly improved amazingly! Even Baghdad, according to Pace, is amazingly safer!

"Who hasn't felt like doing that?" said a police spokesman.

Prerollr, a new product that gives bloggers and other content site owners the ability to monetize embedded videos, launched today.

A tragic tale of stupidity.

If you're a billionaire running out of things to buy, consider a luxury submarine. There are 100 of them, including one owned by Paul Allen. Spending $80 million for a boat that goes underwater in a market where one that doesn't costs $150 million is a deal. The Phoenix 1000 is 4 stories tall, a 65-meter-long blend of a tourist and military sub.

"...after years of debate over whether we have the right olfactory equipment to process pheromonal cues, evidence is mounting that these scents are at work in people."