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Polls Show Netizens Oppose Craigslist Censorship PC World Web-based polls and views express online show popular opinion is against the censoring of adult services ads on Craigslist. A poll at Mashable shows 71 percent of the respondents voted no to the question "Should Craigslist's Adult Services be censored? ... Is Craigslist bluffing over adult ads?CNET Craigslist's 'Adult Services' decision a blow to free speech?msnbc.com Adult services censored on CraigslistCNN Tom's Guide -New York Times -ABC News all 1,376 news articles »

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President Obama has announced plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a huge infrastructure project to create jobs and boost confidence in the American economy.

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The chairman of the Central Bank of Afghanistan promised Monday to lend the embattled Kabul Bank “as much as it wants” to stave off a collapse.

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With salaries down more than 12 percent over the past decade, young Japanese in an uncertain job market are increasingly making ends meet by working second or even third jobs.

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Case of condemned female 'adulterer' creating problems abroad for Iran

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President Obama, looking to jump-start the economy and create new jobs, called on Congress to approve a far-reaching plan to rebuild and modernize transportation networks over the next six years.

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Germany will extend the life spans of 17 plants while alternative energy sources are developed, which is likely to make money for power companies and the government.

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Seriously... All the new movies are getting the focus for the games, but don't you think their missing out on something here? submitted by KiDIcaruS to gaming [link] [139 comments]

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Labour MPs demand the police investigation into alleged phone-hacking by News of the World reporters is reopened, at an urgent Commons session.

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The talks precede a meeting of European finance ministers that could lead to creation of a system shielding taxpayers from paying for similar collapses in the future.

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The European Union's budget chief, Janusz Lewandowski, said Monday that farm aid should be reduced to about one third of all outlays so that funds could flow to research and innovation.

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France faces disruption in a strike over pension reform on Tuesday, when MPs will also debate a ban on full face veils and a new security bill.

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President Barack Obama announces a $50bn infrastructure plan as part of efforts to jump-start the faltering US economy.

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MedIndia

Stem-Cell Research Foes Urge US Judge to Keep Order in Force BusinessWeek Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- An order halting government support for any activity using cells taken from human embryos should be kept in force while the Obama administration appeals, opponents of such research argued. ... Stem-Cell Research Foes Urge Judge to Keep Order in Force During AppealBloomberg Federal Court Slams Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchUSANewsWeek.com Stem cell clinics: experts insist claims of cure-all are medically unprovenThe Guardian Memphis Commercial Appeal -American Medical News -TMCnet all 174 news articles »

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Union leaders warn BA faces fresh strike action by cabin crew unless a settlement is reached to end the long-running dispute.

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Charles Saatchi's plan to donate his gallery to the British public hits a stumbling block after talks with Arts Council England break down.

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The Age

Duke Nukem Returning in 2011? Digitaltrends.com It's been thirteen years in the making, but Gearbox says Duke Nukem Forever is coming to the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC in 2011. Back on April 28, 1997, something interesting happened in the video game world: George Broussard announced Duke Nukem Forever, ... Duke Nukem Forever Lives - Release in 2011Techtree.com Duke Nukem Forever returns in 2011 after a 13-year waitBBC News Gearbox New Owners of Duke Nukem IPVGChartz Comic Book Movie -I4U -CNBC all 344 news articles »

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Roma angry and disillusioned after being thrown out of France

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Mac Rumors

Apple spends $1M per month on Google AdWords - report Apple Insider By Slash Lane A leaked internal document from Google shows how much companies spend with the search giant on AdWords, and Apple is listed as investing nearly $1 million in a one-month span. The document, obtained by AdAge, gives a glimpse into the ... AdAge reveals secret Google Adwords big spendersFortune Apple Spent Nearly $1 Million on Google Search Advertising in JuneMac Rumors Here's How Much Big Companies Spend Advertising On Google SearchThe Business Insider Softpedia -Mashable (blog) -The Drum all 21 news articles »

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A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.

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Hundreds of thousands of people flee towns and villages threatened by fresh floods in Pakistan's deluged southern Sindh province.

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CBC.ca

Samsung Mobile Display to Boost 2011 Production Wall Street Journal Samsung Mobile Display, which has had difficulty meeting demand for ultra-thin screens for smartphones, expects its production capacity to increase sharply when its new facility opens in July. Capacity will go up to 30 million screens ... Will Samsung's Galaxy Tab be Pricey or Cheap? Maybe BothPC World Samsung Galaxy Tab price pinpointed to $200-$1000Fortune Vodafone preps Galaxy Tab for October launchInquirer Ars Technica -Reuters -PC Magazine all 1,590 news articles »

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Never before have so many governorships been up for grabs -- and with so much at stake.

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Maroon, After The Burial, The Agonist, and The Eyes Of A Traitor will tour Europe together this fall...

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Iran has launched a fresh crackdown on human rights activists by arresting an outspoken Iranian lawyer and charging a young activist with "waging war against God", a crime punishable by death in Iranian law.

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The BBC's Orla Guerin has returned to the Pakistan town of Nowshera, which was one of the first areas to be hit by the rising waters.

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South African trade unions suspend a nationwide strike which has paralysed schools and hospitals for 20 days.

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I rang the doorbell of my ex-husband Larry's house, a jar of gefilte fish in one hand, boxed coconut cake in the other. To date I'd been to the house on Thunder Lake only to drop off the kids. But today I was here with my husband, Eric, and two stepchildren, Luke and Jamie, for Seder dinner.

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The most famous prune in the world, the pruneau d'Agen, has been a celebrated product of southwest France since at least the 1500s, outliving -- and even thriving because of -- several nearly existential threats.

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The body of a prominent Afghan broadcast journalist is found near his home in the capital, Kabul, police say.

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The Spanish government says an Eta ceasefire is "insufficient" and calls on the Basque separatist group to renounce violence forever.

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Afterdawn.com

HTC Android GSM, CDMA Slider Info Leaked by FCC eWeek The FCC leaks photos of HTC's upcoming Google Android-powered smartphone, a slider featuring a QWERTY keyboard, a 4-in. touch screen, and dual 3G modems. Information and photos concerning mobile handset maker HTC's latest Google Android powered slider ... FCC info leaked about HTC Android GSM/CDMA SliderAfterdawn.com FCC approves HTC GSM/CDMA Android slider smartphone for VerizonMobile Burn New HTC Android Slider Offers Both GSM, CDMA 3GDailyTech USANewsWeek.com -Execte News -Inquirer all 43 news articles »

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Labor day is the 3rd most popular occasion to barbecue!

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Charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta, following the death of his son in the Bahamas, are dropped.

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Much of the buzz in smartphone circles in the last year or two -- at least the part that hasn't gone to Apple and the iPhone -- has focused on HTC, the Taiwanese manufacturer that makes some of the slickest mobile hardware around. It was HTC, for example, that Google chose to make its Nexus One, the model I have been carrying around since early this year.

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England manager Fabio Capello insists striker Wayne Rooney will play in the Euro 2012 qualifier away to Switzerland on Tuesday.

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American Pie actor Chris Klein pleaded no contest to drink-driving following and will serve four years probation.

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At least 17 people, including schoolchildren, are killed in a suicide bombing at a police station in north-west Pakistan - the latest in a spate of attacks.

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The great political failure of the 1960s was the New Left's inability to bring the labor movement into its great liberationist tent. There were lots of reasons for that, one of them being that most big union leaders didn't want to be in that stinky tent with a lot of hippies, feminists, dashiki-wearing black militants and "fags." (That last comes from AFL-CIO leader George Meany's description of the New York delegation to the disastrous 1972 Democratic convention: "They've got six open fags and only three AFL-CIO representatives!") Also, not a small matter: The New Left opposed the Vietnam War; again, most labor leaders supported it.

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By Richard Shepherd
I must be honest, I was pretty unimpressed with Twitter @Anywhere when it first launched earlier this year. Of course I hadn’t bothered to check it out, but it seemed like ‘Integration Lite’ – just a very simple way for bloggers to include Twitter on their site. As Wired reported back in March Twitter’s Evan [...]

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Caroline Wozniacki takes on Maria Sharapova at the US Open, following Svetlana Kuznetsova's shock exit with Roger Federer playing later.

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Tiger Woods will find out on Tuesday if he has made the United States Ryder Cup team to play Europe at Celtic Manor.

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France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says he will 'do anything' to help save an Iranian woman sentenced to death on an adultery conviction.

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Since blocking its “adult services” ads as the weekend began, Craigslist has refused to discuss its motivations.

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iPhone 4 is now set to launch in South Korea, 270k preorders so far, and new iOS 4.1 expected this week with new features like HDR photography

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Malaysian wildlife trafficker Anson Wong, nicknamed the "Lizard King", is jailed for trying to smuggle 95 boa constrictors in his luggage.

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Hurriyet Daily News

Hawking book explains creation of universe minus God USA Today Evan Agostini, AP By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Describing the creator as "not necessary" in his latest book is just another day at the office for that whimsical scamp Stephen Hawking, better known as "one of the foremost theoretical physicists of this ... Hawking: The Universe does not need a creatorNews Provider Stephen Hawking is Such a TroublemakerDiscovery News God and Stephen HawkingFOXNews Philadelphia Inquirer -Hurriyet Daily News -PR Newswire (press release) all 82 news articles »

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Princess of Persia makes the Prince unforgettable after you see this goddess.

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Germany's government agrees to extend the life span of the country's nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say.

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If your favorite diner's blue plate special is ever sauteed polar bear liver, you may want to stick with salad. This meal can cause symptoms far beyond indigestion.

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The first recorded murder in America was committed by someone who came over on the Mayflower. Who was it, and why did he do it?

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Public speaking makes a lot of people nervous, but there's no need to be if you're prepared. Start by reading our list of 18 tips for public speaking, which includes tips such as staying sober and knowing your material.

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During the dog days of summer, warm, winter meals just won't do. When the mercury starts to approach the red line, these hot season favorites will be a hit around the pool, out on the patio or under a beach umbrella.

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Summertime means being outside, and being outside means watching out for ticks. The bloodsucking parasites transmit illnesses like Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Jorge Ribas gets tips on how to avoid them.

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Universities across Europe are realizing that their dependence on government funding puts them at a disadvantage.

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There's no doubt that taking the lesser traveled DIY path usually saves a ton of money on household projects, whether they be small fixer-uppers or large retiling jobs. Sometimes, however, it's just better to call the damn plumber; they have the job for a reason.

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Jackie Selebi, the former South African police chief convicted of taking bribes from a drug dealer, is allowed to appeal against his 15-year jail sentence.

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Luke snatches defeat from the jaws of victory in this re-edit of "A New Hope"

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Here's a sad truth about TV: Despite the potential to evolve over the course of several seasons, most TV characters remain stagnant, doing little more than imitating themselves season after season. Likewise, most TV shows have one or two good seasons, and once the show's creator departs for a multimillion-dollar development deal elsewhere, the remaining writers try to replicate the show's best episodes over and over again.

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A Sussex vicar found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages is jailed for four years.

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Because of technological advances, newspapers can make more scientific decisions about allocating their resources.

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In the past ten years, the Internet has changed so drastically – so completely – that it’s hard to remember what a vastly different place it was in the 1990’s.

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US Muslims are free but that's not enough, argues Michael Goldfarb

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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman vows his party will block any attempt to extend the partial freeze on settlements in the West Bank.

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They put their right feet in, they put their right feet out and broke the world Hokey Cokey record.

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I like to see well created colorful HDR images and when those images are showcasing some super-cool old locomotives then you just have to love them.

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A single question came to mind when I heard that Craigslist had taken down its "adult services" section on Saturday: Where will sex workers turn next? So far, the answer seems to be … Craigslist.

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DailyTech

Apple's iOS Dips in Internet Traffic Market Share, Android Soars DailyTech Quantcast's market research shows iOS devices to be plunging in market share, while Android is soaring upward. (Source: Quantcast) A new study from market research firm Quantcast offers some interesting insight into the state of the smartphone market. ... Android now controls a quarter of US web trafficAfterdawn.com Google Android Smartphones Race to Catch Apple iPhoneeWeek Android Extends Mobile Web Upswing In AugustMediapost.com PC Magazine -TechCrunch -Computerworld (blog) all 67 news articles »

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George Clooney's The American is top film at the North American box office over a lacklustre Labour Day weekend.

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The role of the gambling syndicates that can make millions from the outcome of a single game has been highlighted by the allegation that three Pakistani cricket players were involved in a betting scam.

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Tiffin carriers in the Indian city of Mumbai learn English and basic computer skills to improve their business prospects.

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Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists.

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Martin Hollis, the designer of the original GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, has spoken in a recent interview with Official Nintendo Magazine about his thoughts on the upcoming remake. What he has to say isn't particularly nice, however.

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A former boarding school head teacher is jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing and beating pupils.

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There are 3 items, all related to books, which I wanted to note for the holiday:

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The success of Iron Maiden's latest album and the continued loyalty of its fans offer the troubled music industry some tips on survival in the digital age.

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China is checking the qualifications of all its commercial pilots, after it emerged that more than 200 of them lied about their experience.

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The Spanish government says an Eta ceasefire is "insufficient" and calls on the Basque separatist group to renounce violence forever.

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What does Mad Men tell us about this most mythologised decade?

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Almost two-thirds of the 160,000 homes in and around Christchurch were damaged by Saturday's earthquake, New Zealand's prime minister says.

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Labor Day marks the official end of summer. Therefore, everyone secretly hates it.

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Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says he was wrong to accuse Syria of assassinating his father - former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.

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17 Geeky Star Wars The Imperial March Theme Remakes that were created using Tesla Coils, Musical Instruments, Hand Farts and more.

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I recently saw the new HTML5 Search input element and wondered what the heck it does: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <input name="s" type="search" />   Chris Coyier has posted an in-depth article going into this new HTML5 input type to appease your curiosity. The HTML5 spec actually says you don't have to do much with it, but Webkit actually has a [...]

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British Airways and Iberia draw up a shortlist of 12 airlines which the firms hope to buy or merge with.

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Guatemalan officials say they have given up hope for dozens buried by mud as they tried to rescue other trapped people.

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Google proposes paying $8.5m (£5.5m) to settle a class-action lawsuit brought over its Buzz social network, launched earlier this year.

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A 70cm (27-inch) tall Colombian is named the world's shortest living man by Guinness World Records.

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Swedish technical death metal band Aeon (Metal Blade Records) has announced the departure of drummer...

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By Keir Whitaker
In this video Nick gives you a brief introduction to web accessibility and talks about the organisations that set accessibility standards. You’ll also find out why accessibility is important to the health of the web. runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience593380655001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); For more videos be sure to check out Think Vitamin Membership, new video tutorials are added daily.

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North Korea says it will release the crew of a South Korean fishing boat seized in waters east of the Korean peninsula one month ago.

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A court in Japan gives one-year suspended jail sentences to two anti-whaling activists from Greenpeace for stealing whale meat in 2008.

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Exclusive video of Portal 2 co-op gameplay

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The secrets behind some of the UK’s newest inventions

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wwwery (blog)

Motorola Takes a Dig at Apple Yet Again Techtree.com Looks like Apple's competitors have caught up with it when it comes to taking a dig at competition. Apple, who is traditionally known for its cheeky advertising campaigns against its competitors (most often, ripping them to shreds, in a very subtle ... 5 ways to make Android 2.1 work like FroyoComputerworld Motorola Droid X ReviewinfoSync World Motorola Droid R2-D2 special edition gets a landing dockZDNet (blog) CNET (blog) all 150 news articles »

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Apple TV may be “an elementary effort” with little content available, but analysts point out that the iPod was also marginal when it was introduced.

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rubric: a title, heading, or the like, written or printed in red or otherwise distinguished from the rest of the text.

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A decline in bees and global warming are having a damaging effect on the pollination of plants, new research claims.

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The Advertising Standards Authority of Britain plans to extend its oversight to social media, company Web sites and other nontraditional digital marketing activities.

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Sometimes, there's a fine line between party trick and party foul, and sometimes you twist your legs right around that line.

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The United States has virtually no fast trains like those of China, Japan and Europe, but that could change. President Obama has said that rail transport is a priority.

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For Mark V. Hurd, landing a top position at Oracle would be a quick rebound after a tumultuous exit.

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A report found that credit extended to governments and the private sector in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain increased 4.3 percent compared with the previous quarter.

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Nick Thorpe has been visiting some of the families in western Romania, who were sent back from France.

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Survey results suggested a decline in the perceived status of the television set, as other devices edge into its territory.

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Spanish courts have not yet ruled on complaints against the movie, and the channel Telecinco showed the first part last week.

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Television, which was once the brain-dead part of the day, has become one more thing that requires time, attention and discernment.

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Boston-based architecture firm Choi + Shine designs giant electric transmission towers with lifelike features! Nothing spoils a peaceful drive or bike ride through nature more than passing by a series of ugly manmade transmission towers...

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How the BBC learned that Eta was calling a ceasefire

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The inadequacy of the Obama administration’s initial economic stimulus has landed it — and the nation — in a political trap.

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Is Katniss Everdeen the antidote to Bella Swan? That's a question guaranteed to irk fans of "The Hunger Games," Suzanne Collins' trilogy of dystopian young-adult novels, the latest of which, "Mockingjay," has currently captured the No. 1 spot on the nation's bestseller lists. "Hunger Games" fans don't appreciate seeing Collins' far more sober and ambitious books likened to "Twilight," Stephenie Meyer's swoony vampire romances. Too bad, because so much about "The Hunger Games," from its crossover success with adults to the crowds who packed bookstores when "Mockingjay" went on sale at midnight on Aug. 24 to its teenage narrator with her tangled love life, prompts the comparison.

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Relatives of 33 trapped miners in Chile hold a ceremony to mark their first month underground.

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Face The Nation on CBS: Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections - Say Dems Are Distancing Themselves From Obama, Angry Over Economy, Health Care Fallout

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Emergency services in Guatemala say up to 100 people are feared to have been buried by landslides on the main highway linking it with Mexico.

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This Labor Day weekend, we take a look at the characters with the worst sense of work ethic in video games. These are characters that, despite their "occupation" spend all their time trying to save people or taking lavish vacations, or even just causing the end of the world. Think about it: when have you ever seen Mario do any plumbing? Here are the worst workers in video game history.

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Our collective animal passion has never seemed greater. Studies show we spend as much on our pets in a recession than when not in one, animal welfare laws continue to strengthen, and acts of animal cruelty caught on film and uploaded to the Web create global furor and condemnation. Animals, their furry forebears would surely say, have never had it so good.

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(UPDATED) To an audience of about 50 people -- fully half of whom were members of the press -- Pastor Bill Keller launched his 9-11 Christian Center at ground zero this morning with a fiery sermon targeting Muslims and Mormons as hell-bound followers of false faiths. Keller took aim in particular at Glenn Beck, a Mormon, and Imam Rauf, the organizer of the Park51 Islamic community center.

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Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.

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Built by robotics students at Carnegie Mellon, Uncle Sam the Snakebot is simultaneously horribly awesome, and awesomely creepy. Uncle Sam is programmed with a variety of different "gaits", or types of movement patterns, which are based on the real-life behavior of real-life snakes. The goal is to create a modular—and, thus, relatively simple to produce and scale—robot that can get to and through places where people, and less-willies-inducing robots, can't maneuver. Via Switched The snakebots are coming Modular Snake Robot Robotic snake takes a swim

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In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It's the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate.

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With the fight over Congress intensifying and President Obama’s agenda hanging in the balance, coverage of this fall's governor’s races has largely fallen by the wayside. But the outcomes of some of these races will have significant consequences -- none more so than the contest in Texas, between Republican incumbent Rick Perry and Democrat Bill White, the former mayor of Houston.

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Dragon*Con" an event with more costumed people per square yard than anywhere in the world that I know of, including Halloween

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Dates have begun to surface for Darkest Hour's fall tour with Veil Of Maya. It also appears that Per...

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The group of miners in Chile trapped underground for a month have been talking to their families on a video link.

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After a new blowout preventer was latched to the wellhead, BP prepared to conduct tests that should allow the company to finish plugging the well.

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Air fares have marched steadily upward in recent months and are now close to pre-recession levels — and that’s not even counting all the new fees that airlines have introduced lately.

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J. Craig Venter wants to create creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants — to carry out industrial tasks and displace fossil fuels.

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The official in charge of cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says the well which caused the damage is no longer a risk to the environment.

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Tropical Storm Earl reaches Nova Scotia, on the eastern Canadian coast, with hundreds of thousands of people experiencing power cuts.

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It's tough not to greet certain bits of news with preemptive disappointment. When I learned that the CW would be remaking Luc Besson's "La Femme Nikita" for the small screen, I filed it right next to reports that Lady Gaga would rather "die young and a legend" than grow old and that David Hasselhoff will be appearing on "Dancing With the Stars" this fall. Hoping for a CW version of Nikita that doesn't feature lip-glossed teenagers in matchstick jeans karate-chopping each other ineffectually feels roughly as masochistic as daring to dream that Lady Gaga might one day keep her many, many thoughts about herself to herself, or that David Hasselhoff might finally disappear into the void, never to be seen or heard from again.

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When I surf the Internet, I found about Ruby Programming Language.. I’m very Interest about that.. So I just want to share about this to everyone who didn’t know yet about Ruby.. Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) [...]

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Some parents are gentle in their love. When I was at my friends' houses, one child or another would complain, "We're bored," and without thinking, a mother might suggest various board games, offer to rent a video, recommend we play house or go swimming. If anyone mistakenly piped up around my father, he'd say, "Aw, go play in the street," kick up his recliner, and dismiss us with a wave of his hand.

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Rules of writing code are crucial because of the estimated SUN, from the whole business of writing code, 20% effort was made to make and conduct testing, and 80% effort to do maintenance and repair of code. by making the standard of writing will help to reduce the effort for testing, maintenance and repair some [...]

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If Last I share about Compression file zip via Java, now I just Want to Share The COde for Decompression file .Zip via Java Languange… I hope this is usefull for you to help you doing your task or project. I just want to share this script for sharing the knowledge.. A Zip file is a compressed [...]

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This is I just Want to Share The COde for Compression file .Zip via Java Languange… I hope this is usefull for you to help you doing your task or project. I just want to share this script for sharing the knowledge.. A Zip file is a compressed format file and takes less space then the original [...]

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Computer World is an equipment that can not be categorized as a strange object but the real world where all people can connect with each other, even World Computers is now used as a tool that should be owned by a company even almost all the work now can dealt with using a computer, and [...]

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Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section.

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Forecasters say Tropical Storm Earl has made landfall near Western Head, Nova Scotia.

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Here I explain a little of my personal opinion, why. Net is much better than Java. 1. In. NET you can use any language supported by. Net (C + +, C #, VB.NET, Java, Cobol, Forth, Fortran, Pascal, RPG, Boo, Python, etc.), produce the same compiled code while I hear a new Java Jython. Anyone can say [...]

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Visual Basic is a program has a user friendly interface with the system object oriented programming, programming language is widely used because of the ease and speed in creating programs that are supported by many OCX component that loads, making it easier for a programmer to create such a complex program. Visual Basic itself runs on [...]

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Here are some reasons why ASP.Net Better Than PHP 1. Speed Such applications. Net in general, ASP.NET applications are compiled code. This makes it faster than PHP ASP.Net, PHP, where applications are Interpreted. To match the speed is usually to be installed PHP Zend or PHP accelerator on the server. Also for ASP.NET Object Orientation faster than [...]

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Official press release: British thrashers Evile have revealed that they are currently hard at wor...

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American businesses added more jobs in the last three months than originally estimated, calming fears of a double-dip recession.

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A better report on job creation was the latest piece of good news on the economy, and pushed shares higher.

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New regulatory agencies will not end disputes among nations over economic policy, and some of their powers may take time to win acceptance.

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The bid is 2 percent higher than an all-share offer from Eldorado Gold.

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Don't look for Adobe Flash on Apple's iPads, iPhones soon Washington Post I was traveling last week to cover Apple's iPod and Apple TV event Wednesday (and writing an extra column based on that). So this week, I offer questions taken from Friday's Web chat. The iPad's future Concerning the iPad, ... 38 Per Cent Of iOS Devices Are iPod TouchITProPortal Why does Steve Jobs play fast and loose with iPod touch sales numbers?Fortune iPod Touch Features Vibrating Motor for FaceTime NotificationsSlashGear (blog) Telegraph.co.uk -PC World -I4U all 233 news articles »

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The announcement by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization followed Russia’s decision to extend its ban on wheat exports.

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East Of The Wall will kick off a European tour later this month in Germany. The following dates have...

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Dimmu Borgir will tour North America in November and December with support from Enslaved, Blood Red ...

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Cincinnati, Ohio deathcore band Rose Funeral has apparently called it quits. The following statement...

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By Ryan Carson
.bbpBox22885968975 {background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/91221239/ryan2.png) #022330;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:8px;padding-top:12px;height:40px;border-top:1px solid #fff;border-top:1px solid #e6e6e6} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author{line-height:19px} p.bbpTweet span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 7px 0 0px;width:38px;height:38px} p.bbpTweet a:hover{text-decoration:underline}p.bbpTweet span.timestamp{font-size:12px;display:block} ‘UX Professional’ is a bullshit job title. It’s just a way to over-charge naive clients. All web designers should be UX prosless than a minute ago via Twitter [...]

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Several kinds of insurance can come into play and it behooves travelers to seek information on driving rules and road conditions in the countries they plan to visit.

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What's that, you say? We should have an entire Error'd dedicated to CAPTCHA images? Sure, why not!

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Alex van Herwijnen spotted this interesting problem presented...

 

... which, of course Dan Ferrante noticed that ESPN provided a solution for.

 

You're right though, spousal abuse is not funny. But I know what is! Bathroom humor, like what Scott Lewis found at Ticketmaster!

 

See? Even Avast! anti-virus software is getting a peece of that action (from Viront).

 

"Really?" Justin Self wrote, "I have to type this? I just needed some help with Java!"

 

Well Justin, help was out there... but not for your Java. Matt found this combo, which seems to help with the previous pain in the butt.

 

I guess I'll take the advice that Tim Gourley saw, at keep it clean from now on.

 

Moving on, Andy wondered if Bloglines really wanted their CAPTCHA to be linked to the KKK.

 

"Admittedly, this took me a lot longer to solve than usual," wrote Dan Thompson, "but when I finally got to upload my image, I felt a real sense of achievement."

 

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The Yahoo! YUI is an incredibly feature-rich JavaScript library with a LOT of functionality but getting your head around all of those features can be tough. The YUI team wants to help developers get up and running more quickly and announced yesterday the release of SimpleYUI; a basic and more streamlined version of the YUI [...]

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Josh Duck has put together a fun and useful list of the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft but organized like a periodic table of elements: When you click on one of the tags more information appears: Who says chemistry can't be fun? [via Jackson Harper]

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Styria, a province in southeastern Austria, is enjoying an economic boom generated in part by a project by 79 municipalities to promote local, green, self-sustaining businesses.

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Roots of Human Violence (PDF)

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Is DMT produced in the human brain?

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By Dion Almaer webOS 2.0 SDK has just launched, and it has node.js built in (and more). The following is taken from my personal blog At our last Palm Developer Day, Ben and I discussed future APIs for webOS including "JavaScript services" as a way to write code that runs on the other side of the device [...]

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Deaths

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N2Oily: Nitrous Oxide Chargers - Residue and Usage Surveys

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Myron Stolaroff and Albert Hofmann: Perspectives on Psychedelics

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Health

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Directly following their Canadian tour this month, Emmure will enter the studio to begin recording t...

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To Speak Of Wolves and My Epic will team up for a brief tour of the Southeast this month. Dates ...

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Cocoa memory management is fairly straightforward, so I shouldn't have to post this. But I will, if only to prevent someone else from doing so. Only longer. And wronger.

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Official press release: On Monday, Trap Them will convene in Salem, Mass. at Godcity studio with ...

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The Best (from Chris)
A while back, I helped interview for a programmer position on the web team. After talking to a number of candidates, we finally settled on an older gentlemen, probably in his late 50s. It wasn't an easy decision. Not only were his salary requirements above what we planned to pay, he had a few personality quirks. For example, a large part of his interview entailed him describing how he was a master composer of music, and had published songs in nearly every genre, including country, rap, pop, etc. But no matter, his experience and technical skills were top-notch.

After making an offer that met his salary requirements, the candidate made a counter offer: fifteen-thousand dollars more annually plus a signing bonus. Unfortunately, our budget couldn't accommodate that, and we declined. Negotiations after that failed, so we formally rescinded the offer for employment so we could talk to more candidates.

Later that day, the CEO of company received a rather childish email from the gentleman. He rambled on about age discrimination, made other accusations, and stated that he "knew" that we were hiring the "other" man that he had met when leaving his interview. His closing words were: "you could have had the best, now you'll just have the rest!"

The "other" man he referred to was in his early 30s, and was interviewing for an entirely different position (business analyst) in an entirely different department. Looking back, we were all pretty happy that he didn't accept the position.

The TDWTF Interview (from Christian Riesen)
Two years ago, I was on the job hunt, and one company that looked interesting was a university spinoff. At the interview, I learned that they dealt with some specialization software that had to talk to a few different systems. Most of the code was in PHP, but there also were some .NET and Java components that were used to interface with the hardware's proprietary drivers.

One thing they were particularly proud of was the fact that the system was recently rewritten from Perl into PHP. Their pride came from the fact that none of them had coded PHP before that, but they had a strong theoretical knowledge, being university guys and all.

Next, they told me about the environment that they work in. As it turned out, the five-man crew worked all in the same room we were interviewing in: a factory attic converted loft style, with one wall made of glass in it so the conference "room" we sat in wouldn't disturb the others. Each employee had their own desk that was about twenty feet from another, which meant there was a lot of yelling going on. In addition, everyone used whatever the hell they wanted to code on whatever operating system they wanted: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and one even swore on FreeBSD.

Then came the general technical part of the interview: how I would setup a class, what I would do with a certain language construct, how I would solve a certain problem or assess a situation, all the fun things. Then they showed me two half pages of code in PHP. They told me to look at the code carefully and, if I wanted to change anything, write on the paper what I would change and why. As that would take some time, they left me to it for about twenty minutes. I was certain that they had set me up with a TDWTF-style interview, where they'd pick out a fun code WTF (actually, it looked like this one) and have me turn a convoluted two-page mess into a two lines of code.

When they came back, I complimented them on the clever examples of bad code and presented them with my rewrite. One of interviewers — the chattier of the two — didn't say another word; he was clearly upset, and I was half-concerned it might get physical. The other guy was a bit better, but he also wore a rather large frown on his face. "This is from our production code", was the reply.

I left the interview shortly after that, with a short bye from the one guy, and just a short nod with some nasty stares from the once-chatty guy.

 

The Storm-out (from Joshua Armstrong)
I've always dreamed of storming out of an interview, but I've never actually realized that goal. That is, until my interview with a certain "tech recruiting" firm.

First things first, I was lured in under the guise that I'd be actually interviewing for a job, not being primped for another interview. The firm's client was, as the technical recruiter put it, "an ISP like Yahoo! or Google." I thought to myself, neither of those companies are ISPs, but I didn't say anything.

When we moved on to the technical portion of the interview, his first question was "do you had any experience working at a server." And just to be extra clear, those were his actual words: "working at a server."

"Well, yeah of course," I diplomatically responded, "I am a network admin, after all... and I'm physically at servers all the time. That's what you meant, right?"

"No no," he clarified, "were any of the businesses you've worked at servers? That is, would you consider them to be a server?"

I said, "Err, uhh.... I don't know," and things went downhill from there.

"Have you ever connected to the database?" he asked next.

"Huh? Do you mean in code? Admin tools? Which database platform do you mean?"

He paused for a moment and said, "sounds good to me. Do you have experience working at an ISP?"

"I think you're using a different definition of ISP than me," I responded, "what I mean is... I wouldn't have considered Google to be an ISP, but a search engine. Can you clarify?"

"No, no. They're actually both ISPs, as they allow people to access websites. Would you consider any of the companies you worked at to be an ISP?"

"Uhh... I guess not."

He scribbled something down on his paper mumbling something about how a bank is probably an ISP and added, "have you troubleshot IIS?"

"Not, but I have maintained several Apache servers."

"Oh good, then you have since Apache is IIS. Moving on, what's the diff—"

"Err," I cut him off, "they're both web servers, but Apache is not IIS."

"No, no. It is. Apache is actually a kind of IIS, so yes, you have troubleshot IIS. Anyway, what's the difference between layer 7 routing and layer 4 routing?"

Finally, an answer I was prepared for. "Layer 7 is the Application Layer, and routing focuses on requests to resources that will be fulfilled in the shortest time. Layer 4, the Transport Layer, routing focuses on ensuring that all paths to a host are utilized proportionally to their bandwidth and response"

"Actually," he gave a confused look, "I was looking for an answer involving, uh, DNS pools and host headers. Shall we just say that was your answer?"

I was pretty frustrated by that point, as I knew this interview was going nowhere, and the "technical recruiter" was grasping at straws and hoping to get me in front of thier "ISP" client. I said, "actually, I was just looking for the door," and got up and left.

Later that day, I just got an e-mail from him thanking me for his time, and asking me to forward two references from each job. He also said that he'd taken the liberty of rewriting my resume to include a couple of things about my experience troubleshooting IIS, and that he was planning on submitting it to his client as soon as I got the references. I ignored the email.

 

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Official press release: Massachusetts-based Defeater has been making waves in the heavy music sce...

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Long-time Swedish death band Entombed has announced the permanent addition of bass player Victor Bra...

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By Nick Pellant
TextMate has become an essential part of my development arsenal over the last few years. When you first open up the application, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about- at first glance it looks like any other text editor. The true beauty of TextMate is the plethora of bundles, add-ons, keyboard shortcuts [...]

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By Ryan Carson
Feb 7-9th 2011 Get ready for the best event you’ve ever experienced. Sign up to get notified when Early Bird tickets go on sale.

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I stumbled on the Mozilla Foundation's Drumbeat project recently: Drumbeat gathers smart, creative people like you around big ideas, practical projects and local events that improve the open web. It's very well done combination of projects + community. There's a whole slew of cool projects already one here. A small sample:

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Energy efficiency has taken a back seat in the debate on how to reduce use of fossil fuels, partly because of the difficulty of talking about efficiency concretely.

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By Chrissie Brodigan
Hey there! It’s Wednesday, so this mid-week roundup is devoted to all things business and development. Some links are newsworthy, some retweeted across Twitter, and others just meet our “awesomeness” requirement, and regardless we hope you’ll enjoy them. Without further delay: How do you measure your customer happiness levels? 37 Signals built a little app [...]

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'Orange Sunshine' reviewed by Jonathan Taylor

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Attack Attack! will embark upon a UK tour next month with support from Hopes Die Last and While She ...

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Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce the signing of New Haven, CT black metal band Ipsissimus....

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Coca-Cola, a leading soft drink companies from the United States, has introduced its newest beverage packaging materials, made from plant parts. Coca-Cola bottle is the latest first-generation eco-friendly plastic bottles. Coca-Cola was first introduced these new plastic bottles at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Danish, last month. And will again be introduced next month, when [...]

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UK hardcore/punk outfit Your Demise has joined the Rise Records roster. Rise will release the group'...

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Ever felt on waking AGENCY, back, neck feels PAIN? It is caused by many factors. Between the lack of nutrient intake to bone, the mattress is too soft or firm who, pillow or sleeping position and can also sleep quality itself. Here I would love to give some tips from the side of the Pillow position as [...]

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By Keir Whitaker
In this video Jim looks at some of the tools that are essential in any JavaScript programmer’s toolkit. We also introduce some of the basic types in JavaScript, and how to create them. runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience593380655001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); For more videos be sure to check out Think Vitamin Membership, new video tutorials are added daily.

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"I was recently assigned to work on a team that maintains a fairly large product," writes Aaron, "at first, I was a bit overwhelmed by the complexity of the architecture. There were countless layers of abstraction, thousands and thousands of classes, and design patterns galore. Since it was such a large project – and my first large project – I figured that the architectural complexity was simply par for the course."

“Then I started looking at the code a little more closely. If I had two words to describe it, they’d be ‘unnecessary complexity.’ And if I had one snippet to describe it, it would be this.”

private void SetAccount(RequisitionData.RequisitionItem requisitionItem, 
                        AccountData.Account account, bool automation)
{
    bool allowSetAccount = false;

    if(account != null)
    {
        // if the account entry is being set by automation, ensure that 
	// the user hasn't already set a value
        if (automation)
        {
            if (!requisitionItem.IsAccountCodeNull())
            {
                if (requisitionItem.AccountCode == string.Empty)
                    allowSetAccount = true;
                else
                    allowSetAccount = true;
            }
            else
                allowSetAccount = true;
        }
        else
            allowSetAccount = true;

        if (allowSetAccount)
        {
            requisitionItem.AccountID = account.ID;
            requisitionItem.AccountCode = account.Code;
        }
    }
}

Aaron continued, "the beauty of it is that the method is private within the class, and has an 'automation' boolean parameter. This parameter is always passed as true."

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Google Rich Snippet Oli Studholme has an excellent new article on HTML5 Doctor on the different ways HTML5 can be extended with things like microformats, the link tag, and more. Why would you want to do this? While HTML5 has a bunch of semantic elements, including new ones like <article> and <nav>, sometimes there just isn’t an element with the [...]

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By Ryan Carson
I’d like to share six very important things you should be measuring in your recurring revenue web app. We launched TVM several months ago and it’s going (thankfully) amazingly well. After launch, the biggest challenge became the ability to identify, track, digest and act upon key metrics. After a lot of discussion with old pros [...]

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'Of Limited Recreational Value' by Forgive ( MDPV )

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The Entheogenic Evolution (2008)

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All New Experience Reports reviewed on Aug 31 2010

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Erythroxylum coca Leaves

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Dangerous Art

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By Keir Whitaker
As discussed on the most recent episode of Think Vitamin Radio we have been working hard on the redesign of this site and have been looking at how the site reacts when rendered on the iPhone using media queries (if these are new to you then Brian Suda’s most recent article will get you started). [...]

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"Do you think it's wise to have consultants running our IT department?" Holger asked. It was an honest question, worded as diplomatically as possible. Holger's company had more consultants on hand than actual IT staff.

"Holger, these folks are experts," his manager replied. "It isn't cost effective to hire-on this level of expertise full time. We may pay a little more up front, but when we don't need the consultants anymore, we can hand it off to our internal people."

Holger left that discussion pretty sure he had just been called incompetent. Maybe I should ask the consultants if they're hiring, Holger wondered to himself, thinking of the big money they pulled down relative to his salary. The thought was still percolating in his head when he sat down with the two newest consultants, Zack and Jack for their status meeting.

Holger hooked his laptop up to the projector and ran through a few recent changes in the configuration database, discussed the implications, and then moved onto other topics. He stopped paying attention to the computer, and it eventually dropped to its screensaver. Moments later, there was some snickering from Zack.

"Having some computer trouble?" Jack asked, mockery in his tone.

Holger glanced at the projection screen and saw that his screensaver was was running merrily. It merrily painted a BSOD to the screen, with plausible driver dumps, merrily churned the disk a little, like it was saving the contents of RAM, and merrily ran through a simulated reboot sequence. After which, the process repeated itself, merrily. "Oh," Holger said, "that happens sometimes. I've got it under control. No worries."

"Yeah, whatever," Jack said. The meeting continued.

The product of the meeting, like too many other meetings with consultants, resulted in the need for another meeting. "Let's see what my calendar looks like," Holger said. He grabbed the mouse, killed the screensaver, and called up his email client.

Zack gasped. "How did you do that?" Jack marveled.

"Oh, that?" Holger said. With his best deadpan, he said, "I got tired of waiting for the reboots to complete. I put together a tool that does an automatic fix and restart, letting me just continue right from where I left off."

Holger waited a beat. After a moment, he was certain that these consultants would realize he was pulling their leg.

Zack was up in a flash and quietly closed the door. Jack leaned across the table towards Holger and asked, "Did you make that on company time? And does anyone here know if you did? Because before we go back into that hallway, I want to buy this off of you."

"You don't have that kind of cash," Holger said.

"No, but I can put it on the expense account and then pay it off when I get VC funding," Jack said.

Holger spent the next fifteen minutes declining their offers to buy his tool. In the process, he discovered that the consultants had creative and unethical ideas about how to quickly get funding, and that one of them had a trophy wife that would do anything for the kinds of profits they were talking about. "And I do mean anything," Zack said with a leer.

Finally, Holger "confessed". "Look, you guys are generous and all, but I've already signed a contract with another company. Even if you could beat their offer, I can't break a contract."

"Sure you can!"

Holger left the meeting without any interest in finding out if their company had any openings.

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Dmitry Baranovskiy and team have released another version of Raphaël, an excellent drawing and animation library backed by SVG (VML on Internet Explorer). New features in Raphaël 1.5 include custom attributes and keyframes. Keyframes can be defined similar to CSS3 Animations: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: el.animate({     "20%": {cy: 200, easing: ">"},     "40%": {cy: 100},     "60%": {cy: [...]

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“ The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Anémic Cinéma – Marcel Duchamp

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The Acid Diaries (2009/2010)

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The SVG Web team has announced a new release. SVG Web is a drop in JavaScript library that makes it easy to display SVG graphics on Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 using Flash. The new SVG Web release, like all of their releases, is named after especially silly D&D monsters. The new release is code [...]

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Think of all those old applications you’ve had to maintain. You know the type: the ones written by long-forgotten developers in long-lost languages. The ones that, after spending days searching for that one line of code that needs to be changed, you frustratingly decree “this f%*#@ thing needs to be rewritten.” And, naturally, the ones that never are, nor never will be rewritten.

Call it luck or persistence, but after dozens and dozens of maintenance requests over the years, Israel Brewster finally was given the opportunity to rewrite an application. From scratch. And the right way, this time. No shoddy VB6 front-end; no horribly-designed SQL Server 2000 (only) database; and certainly no Microsoft Access-based administration tool.

Though, after his third straight week of digging through form validation logic requirements – many of which were quadruplicated (or more), inconsistent, and often incorrect –he’s started to question if a rewrite is even possible. Consider, for example, Command 696: a method named that simply because Command1 through Command695 were already taken.

Private Sub Command696_Click()

  On Error GoTo Err_Command696_Click

  Dim stDocName As String
  Dim Response As Integer

  If Frame500 = 1 And pax > 37 Then
     MsgBox "CHECK PAX DASH 8 LIMIT 37 SEATS", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If Frame500 = 2 And pax > 29 Then
     MsgBox "CHECK PAX DASH 8 LIMIT 29 SEATS", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If totalload1 > 2000 Then
     MsgBox "OVERWEIGHT Fwd Shelf ", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If ttshelf > 1000 Then
     MsgBox "OVERWEIGHT Aft Shelf ", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If totalload1 + ttshelf > 2000 Then
     MsgBox "OVERWEIGHT Aft Compartment max 2000 lbs ", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If Frame500 = 1 And totalloadsecd > 0 Then
     MsgBox "DASH 8 WITHOUT SECTION D ", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If Frame500 = 2 And totalloadsecd > 2150 Then
     MsgBox "OVERWEIGHT SECTION D ", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If Remaining < 0 Then
    MsgBox "DASH 8 OVERWEIGHT REDUCE LOAD !!!!", vbOKOnly
  Else
  End If
  If ttload <= 0 Then
    Response = MsgBox("ARE YOU SURE AFT CARGO COMPARTMENT IS EMPTY!!!!", vbYesNo)
  Else
   Response = 6
  End If
  If Frame500 = 1 And pax <= 37 And totalload1 <= 2000 And _
     ttshelf <= 1000 And totalloadsecd = 0 And _
     Remaining >= 0 And totalload1 + ttshelf <= 2000 And Response = 6 Then
    stDocName = "csaprintinfo37seats"
    DoCmd.OpenReport stDocName, acPreview
  Else
  End If
  If Frame500 = 2 And pax <= 29 And totalload1 <= 2000 And _
     ttshelf <= 1000 And totalloadsecd <= 2150 And _
     Remaining >= 0 And totalload1 + ttshelf <= 2000 And Response = 6 Then
    stDocName = "csaprintinfo29seats"
    DoCmd.OpenReport stDocName, acPreview

  Else
  End If

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