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I got a mention on the Slashdot Review podcast for adding myself onto the frappr map.

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How to rip a DVD: A Tutorial

All of us have a cool movie we download from torrents, and we try to rip that DVD into our CDS. This small tutorial shows you just how to do this without messing up.

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Microsoft Implemented AJAX in 1998

AJAX is not a new concept or even a single technology. It only gives a name to techniques that have been in use on the web for many years. Outlook Web Access is said to have been the first commercial AJAX based web application.

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Yahoo Mail Module on Google

Get your Yahoo! Mail on your personalized Google Home Page

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Bush OKs illegal wire taps...says he will continue to break the law.

Bush says he will continue breaking the law with illegal wiretaps. Also calls the Constitution just a "goddamned piece of paper" here: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml

OK, how would this not be impeachable compared to what Clinton did?
Clinton lied in a lawsuit, Bush lied to congress, the UN and the USA and its caused by his own admission over 30,000 Iraqi deaths and over 2,000 American solders and mercenaries/contractors.
I feel sorry I voted for him.


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Google Maps Mania: New Google Maps transit mashup: Chicago

Google Maps Mania: New Google Maps transit mashup: Chicago

Color Photos taken 96 years ago!

Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images

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Applebees Hanica

Applebees Hanica
Originally uploaded by bcbeatty.

Someone at Applebees doesn't know how to spell.
Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza, Merry Christmas and Cheerfull Festivus!

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First X-Men 3 Photos Revealed!

USA Today has your first look at photos from 20th Century Fox's X-Men 3, coming to theaters on May 26, 2006.

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No Xmas for Sony

Sony's been a bad boy this year, thanks to the rootkit issues and the coverups. Plus no PS3.

Boing Boing's Previous installments of the Sony Rootkit Roundup: Part I, Part II, Part III