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Go to Google
Search for the following but click the “I’m feeling lucky button”:
google l33t
google gothic
google easter eggs
google loco
ewmew fudd
google linux
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From Photonhead.com to Cellswapper and FunnyorDie.com to Lastfm, we’ve chosen our favorite sites of the year. Now it’s your turn. Take the polls below and see where your choices rank on the list.
The chinese have done it again, here is their version of the new Apple iPhone.
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The death to social bookmarking? Probably not, but this is a very cool way to to store results from your search queries in Google.
Thumbs up to Google!
JUNEAU, Alaska – Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.
Always wanted to use tech & idiot for one post
To check if the stores are closing near you check your zip code here if your local store is not listed, it will be closed.
“CompUSA is closing 128 of 229 stores, a source familiar with the proceedings tells The Consumerist.
“A liquidator, the same used for Good Guys, will take over tomorrow, Wednesday 2/28, he says.
“A company insider also tells us that says the closed stores will be ones with a high monthly rent and will include locations on the East Coast, West Coast, and in the Chicago and Atlanta areas.
“Stores being closed were informed via conference call with headquarters around 3pm eastern time today.”
The doors are finally closing…
Have a rough night with some random chick? And now you have a itch below the belt and its Saturday afternoon? Well fire up your cell phone and ask it. Now you can watch health videos, review symptoms, etc straight from your cell phone. Find out if you need to visit the ER or if you can make that embarrassing STD check-up appointment on Mondays lunch hour.
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Nagging headache? Neck pain? Now you can check your symptoms along with stock prices on your cell phone.
The Mayo Clinic is rolling out a health information service today that soon will be available via most major cell-phone carriers. For $2.99 a month, subscribers who sign up for Mayo Clinic InTouch can get first-aid tips, watch health videos or find the closest emergency room on their cell-phone screens.
Mayo is taking its gold-plated name into an increasingly crowded field. In the past few years, the cell phone has become a conduit for a growing array of information from weather forecasts to sports scores and stock prices to even finding the closest apartments for rent. At Sprint Nextel, for example, such data services contribute about $10 of the average customer’s $60 to $65 monthly bill.
SEATTLE/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Computer hackers are off and running trying to find vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) new Windows Vista operating system, putting to test the software maker’s claim that it is the most secure Windows program ever.
The new version of Windows, the computer operating system that runs over 95 percent of the world’s computers, became available to consumers on Tuesday after five years of development and a number of delays to improve security.
A high-profile new product like Windows Vista draws interest from the entire spectrum of the computer security industry, ranging from hackers trying to exploit a breach for criminal means to researchers looking to make a name for themselves as security experts.
“For sure, people are hammering away on it,” said Jeff Moss, the organizer of Defcon, the world’s largest hacking convention. “If you are a bad guy and you find a problem, you have a way to spread your malware and spyware.”
DURHAM. N.C. – That cup of coffee just not getting it done anymore? How about a Buzz Donut or a Buzzed Bagel? That’s what Doctor Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, has come up with. Bohannon says he’s developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two cups of coffee.
CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) – An Australian man who for four years used a tiny camera hidden in the toe of his shoe to film up women’s skirts on commuter trams has been arrested by police.
The man used the device, hidden in a pair of black sneakers, to film women’s underwear, while a second camera disguised as a music player captured images of their faces to later match.
The man, in his 20s, was arrested after one woman became suspicious of his behavior on a commuter tram in Melbourne, a city of around 4 million, and spotted the hidden lens, Australian newspapers reported on Thursday.
Searching the man’s home, police later seized photographs and recording equipment showing the man had been secretly filming up female dresses for at least four years.
SINGAPORE – A Singaporean teenager who illegally tapped into a neighbor’s wireless Internet network — an offense the city-state deems punishable by jail — was placed on 18 months’ probation by a district court Tuesday.
The court also ordered Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, to carry out 80 hours of community service after he admitted linking his computer to his neighbor’s wireless router to access the Internet without permission.
Tan could have been jailed up to three years and fined 10,000 Singapore dollars (US$6,500).
Senior District Judge Bala Reddy cited a probation report as saying Tan had been addicted to Internet gaming at the time of the offense, adding the teenager had “few friends, if not none.”
