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Meet Jenna Jameson's Sliced Boobs
2008-01-13 09:22:00
By: Monica GazaWhy, Lord, why? Why is there so much crazy in this world that even the things that are meant to be kept private are eventually exposed to the public? No, don't worry, I haven't gone completely crazy yet, nor have I taken up an acting job – I was just trying hard to see the funny side to something that's not very funny. We've all seen our fair share of celebrity exhibitionism so far, and yes, many of the famous people out there are infected with the bug of "let me show you everything I have". We live in the age of reality TV, in an age when people make their joys and sorrows public via personal web pages, the age of blogging, vlogging and whatever else we can think of in terms of user-generated Internet contents. And yes, in this day and age shame and privacy are two topics better left untouched, two words that frankly have lost much of their initial meanings.However, I can't help myself from pointing out a particular case, which I find particularly revealing. H...
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How Do Infants Learn to Speak?
2008-01-12 18:15:00
By: Stefan AniteiSpeech is perhaps what makes us different from apes. They can have some degree of logics, but this is boosted to astronomic values in humans by speech. Speech is made of two sets of symbols: words and grammar, rules through which words are combined in phrases expressing precise links between objects and events. "John hit Paul" has a different meaning from "Paul hit John". Words may be the same, but grammar changes the meaning.Crying is the first sonic message of the infant, resembling more animal communication than human speech. Mothers can make after a time the difference between hunger, rage or pain cries, by using clues at the beginning. Researches showed that if a mother is receptive to the manifestations of her infant, reacting rapidly and regularly to its crying, the infant cries less till the age of one year, compared to the children of mothers reacting differently. Besides crying less, infants communicate better through gestures and sounds. By the age of 4-5...
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Find Your Perfect Partner Based on Scent!
2008-01-12 18:10:00
By: Stefan AniteiYes, we know, he wants a sexy large-breasted blond, she wants a brunette large-shouldered stud. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but many researches have shown that it's in his/her nose, too.Most mammals have an olfactory formation called the Jacobson organ, on the top of their mouth, where the vomer bone is located. This organ detects all the pheromones in the female's urine, which inform on her hormonal load and, based on this, the male takes action or not. I'm sure that you saw, in many documentaries, the odd grimaces made by hot lions or bison bulls at the rear part of the females' body. They are just sniffing urine with their Jacobsons, in a behavior called flehmen.Even if the human Jacobson is not visible, many researchers say it reacts to human sweat. Maybe, that's why women are attracted by the macho man handling a pick-hammer, sweating in the sunlight. The scent of the man sweat can regulate the woman menstruation and favor fertilization. A wo...
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Nicole Richie and Christina Aguilera Gave Birth!
2008-01-12 18:06:00
By: Monica GazaRemember I've been telling you that there's an epidemics of sorts going round Hollywood? That's right – all the A-list ladies (and not only) have been getting pregnant, and in all the craze about who's pregnant with whom, how far along and whether it's been conformed or not, I sort of missed the joy (and relief) of announcing that finally someone has had a baby. Well, you know what they say - it never rains, it pours. Which means that today, the celebrity world welcomes not one, but two very eagerly expected babies. Socialite and reality TV star Nicole Richie and singer Christina Aguilera both gave birth at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – and I have a feeling there will be a lot of reasons for celebration tonight in L.A. I mean, it feels like Christina and Nicole have been pregnant for ever and ever – and I still remember those early days of speculations and doubts about whether or not these two ladies were really going the pregnant route.Today sure must ...
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Saliva Saving Boobs
2008-01-12 18:04:00
By: Stefan AniteiYour boobs can kill you. In fact, only in Britain, annually over 44,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and over 12,000 die because of it. This is the leading cancer amongst women in developed countries.Now, a simple and cheap ($ 20) saliva test could detect breast cancer in early stages by... visiting the dentist! Only two or three drops of saliva would be enough, states the research published in the journal "Cancer Investigation"."It could prove invaluable in picking up the disease in its earliest stages, when it easiest to treat", said co-author Dr Charles Streckfus, from the University of Texas Dental Branch, in Houston.The test would particularly be important in finding tumors that develop during the three-year gap between the mammograms routinely made by women over 50. Still, younger women make 20 % of the breast cancers, and this would be beneficial for them too, especially those who have already experienced the disease and the tumor could grow back.Th...
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Yahoo! Brings New Search Engine Up Front!
2008-01-12 17:59:00
By: Vlad ConstandesThe recent acquisition that Kayak made of Sidestep, valued at 200 million dollars, forced Yahoo ! Travel to step up its game and stop lingering about. The first move they made was to drag the FareChase tab from the shelving and put it front and center on their page. It shows the default search engine for pricing flights, hotels, cars and vacations.The deal I've mentioned earlier was very dangerous for Yahoo, because the combined traffic to the Kayak and Sidestep networks in December, in the United States, was 6.3 million individuals, according to comScore.com, bringing then within striking distance of Yahoo Travel’s 7.3 million.Yan Lee, the former manager of Y!T noticed the change and offered his analysis on his blog: "It seems like just yesterday that the travel sector crowned Kayak the undisputed heavyweight champion of price comparison search following their acquisition of SideStep. But wait! It looks like Yahoo has (finally!) unveiled FareChase, the price se...
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Top 4 Eating Diseases
2008-01-12 17:52:00
By: Stefan AniteiAny person has an ideal weight depending on sex, age, and the general shape of the body. Bit food disorders can affect severely this, and also the emotional state. An adult consumes on average 14 kg (30 pounds) of food per week. We need food to ensure the function of our organs (like heart and liver) development and remaking of tissues and fight infections.The adult body needs about 2000-3000 calories daily, a woman about 2200 and a man 2700, but the necessities differ from individual to individual, this depends on metabolism, physical effort, body type (endomorph, ectomorph or mesomorph). The amount of energy consumed by a person making physical work or by an athlete is double compared to a person working on an office.A newborn has a double necessity of food compared to an adult, related to its size, because it grows rapidly. The newborn needs more vitamins and minerals for combating infections menacing its life.1. Obesity. If we consume food (energy) in excess, th...
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7 Environmental Factors Killing People
2008-01-12 09:35:00
By: Stefan AniteiDiseases can be genetic or (most often) determined by the environmental factors. World Health Organization says that annually 25 million adults and children die of causes that could be prevented.1. Clime. Too hot or too cold is bad. In warm climes, hot weather makes people experience "tiredness", fainting, lack of energy and sometimes weight loss. In cold areas, body functions are stimulated and accelerated by the low temperatures. Prolonged exposure to cold can cause tiredness, frostbites and hypothermia (the body temperature decreases under 37o C). Hypothermia can cause a slow death if heat losses are not impeded. This can happen to mountaineers and elders.2. Soil. The soil's composition in some minerals found in small amounts can cause some diseases. Too much cadmium, lead, mercury and selenium in the soil are transmitted to plants and animals consuming them, and from both in human food, menacing health. The high concentrations can be natural, but sometimes due ...
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Free Tools to Monitor Google Robots
2008-01-11 18:44:00
By: Catalin BocanuSearch engines have the hard mission to maintain a "fresh" index that reflects the latest changes in the World Wide Web. In search engine optimization of websites the search engines robots crawl rate plays an important role, because it determines the immediately availability of your new content for general audience.Due to the fact that SEO (search engine optimization) is directly related with the various marketing strategies, the robots crawling rate will directly influence your marketing campaigns at all levels.Generally speaking, the website crawl rate or indexing rate is influenced by many factors. Based on pre-established criteria the search engine robots will decide the crawling priority for an entire website or parts of it. The main factors that influence the search engine robots crawling rate are: the number of one way links (or backlinks that point out to one or more of your website pages, without the presence of a reciprocal link), the number of internal l...
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Microsoft Mocks Open Source
2008-01-11 18:39:00
By: Marius OiagaIs it time to forget about security altogether and throw the antivirus out the window just because of open source? Well, Microsoft says not yet. Michael Howard, Senior Security Program Manager in the Security Engineering group at Microsoft, reacted with a chuckle to the news associated with a collaboration between Coverity, a company dealing with improving security and software quality, and US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Coverity claims that via the new version of Coverity Prevent it has identified and "resolved quality issues and potential security vulnerabilities in 11 major open-source projects", including Amanda, NTP, Open PAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL.As a direct result, the 11 open source projects were permitted access to Advanced New Static Analysis Capabilities. "All of these projects eliminated multiple classes of potential security vulnerabilities and quality defects from their code at the Coverity Scan site. B...
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Google Bans ASCII Art from AdWords?
2008-01-11 16:36:00
By: Vlad ConstandesThe repetitive way that Google ads run on the side of the search result, all link and description plus sites, is dull and bores many to hell and back. That’s why a German car rental client of the BannerBlog decided to ask for something different, something to make the person searching now at a glance what their company is offering and why it should be the one being used instead of the competition.The result is ASCII Art, as you can see in the picture on the left. But, whether this is actually something that went online and worked for a while, or it was just a publicity stunt from Sixt, the respective client that asked for this to happen, it’s not clear yet. The BannerBlog says that the ads were up and running, but at some point, a Google filter for repetitive punctuation kicked in and decided to ban them. Meanwhile, under the post relating it, people have begun talking that this never ran with the Mountain View based company and claim to have spoken to people ...
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Property Search Engine Out
2008-01-11 16:32:00
By: Vlad ConstandesI was thinking a while back whether a search engine for any kind of product in the world would be something beneficial and I came to the idea that it’s most likely not a good idea, as at some point there would be needed a search engine that would search for the search engine that would help you most, and that’s just a waste of time and resources.The Search Engine launched today for helping house-hunters find their ideal property. Globrix claims to have listed so far hundreds of thousands of properties in the United Kingdom and that it updates its database by searching all the estate agents’ websites for new properties automatically and on a regular basis. Not bad for a startup, to go in strong from the beginning!Daniel Lee, the Chief Executive Officer of Globrix, said that "If you're looking for a home you want to know you're seeing all of the places available that fit your criteria." It doesn’t charge estate agents a fee for listing the properties on th...
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How Does Being Homeless Impact Sexual Life?
2008-01-11 16:28:00
By: Stefan AniteiYoung people tend to defy social rules in any way. And new young homeless people, living in friends' homes, abandoned buildings or the streets, have just got rid of supervision and social support, fact that turns them more prone to risky sexual behavior, as revealed by a new UCLA AIDS Institute research, published on-line in the "Journal of Adolescent Health". Drug use was found to boost this behavior.Newly homeless youth were considered those away from family setting, for one day to six months. The team investigated the importance of elements like sociodemographics, depression and substance abuse, and living situations in this behavior."The reason these findings are so important is that interventions in the past have focused on addressing individual risk behavior and not on addressing structural factors, such as living situations, that might have an impact on their behavior. When we look at homeless youth, we want to consider these structural factors if we want th...
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Keep Your Desired New Domain Name a Secret!
2008-01-11 15:06:00
By: Vlad ConstandesThe domain names industry, if I may call it that, has been revolutionized a couple of years ago when real competition was allowed and besides Network Solutions, the monopolistic figure at that time, many other lower-priced competitors entered the market. Today, the once proud and all too costly Network Solutions is a distant third when it comes to size.They have come up with a questionable way to try and claw their way back to the top, and I’m sure that you’ll agree with the adjective I used to describe it: if a user searches on the site for a domain name, the company immediately registers that domain under its own name, so if the user then goes to a different registrar to buy it, it shows as unavailable, leaving him with two options, either give it up or buy it from Network Solutions and pay 35 bucks per year for it. Just for comparison, the other big names like GoDaddy and eNorm charge users as little as 8 dollars for the same thing.This scheme that they cam...
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Where Did David Beckham's Penis Disappear???
2008-01-10 14:37:00
By: Monica GazaDavid Beckham is the kind of celebrity that could pull off just about anything – and the world would still stare in adoration at him and fall at his feet. But when the soccer stud and husband to 2007's worst-dressed woman, Victoria Beckham, decided to show his crotch and pretty much leave little to the imagination in a racy new Armani underwear campaign, no one imagined things would get as hot as they did. The first ultra-large promotional posted for the said campaign, however, came to rock our worlds and make us see David Beckham as we never saw him before: lying on his back, wearing a pair of shorts that barely seemed to hide what looked like a huge penis. Now, as outrageous as that may be, the media was immediately on fire and speculations started pouring as to whether Becks really is so well-endowed or he just stuffed a sock in his pants.Enter wife Victoria (also known as the sometimes ridiculously dressed Posh Spice), who obviously felt very proud of the contr...
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Search Engine CEO Shuffling
2008-01-10 14:34:00
By: Vlad ConstandesThe reported move of Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Ask.com, out of his office and the entering of Jim Safka in his place may look puzzling to the outside world, but not to the IAC, the parent company of the search engine. Letting go of the person who turned your business around and made your company get noticed, and even polled against the giants of the market, just doesn’t sound like such a good idea to me, but hey, I’m not in a position to judge.Barry Diller, CEO of AIC (a lot of capital letters in such a short space), said that "Jim Lanzone was the principal executive responsible for Ask.com's turnaround over the last two years. His passion for innovation and his every day dedication to the business and its people have been everything anyone could ask for. He is a superb executive and leader and I'm hopeful we can be associated in the future."So, why would you let the move take place? In the statement, Diller also said that "These changes are intended to streng...
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Are We Heading for Some "Britney Hijacks Plane" Drama?
2008-01-10 14:29:00
By: Monica GazaIt's Britney mania taken to a whole new level! Have a look at this nice compilation put together by one of my favorite gossip sites out there, and you'll see what I mean. If media attention was what Britney was after, then she sure got what she asked for – and then some. Saying that she is the talk of the day is a grave understatement, and frankly, I feel pretty much powerless when confronted with this avalanche of media attention all directed at the popwreck. We are promised first-hand stories about everything from what her kids saw during the already famous police stand-off, to the truth about her mental illness, to new, extra-spicy details of that night and a shower of predictions about what will happen next – needless to say, something bad. I bet you anything that wherever she is right now, Britney is having a laugh and toasting a frappuccino to all the news editors who made her America's ultimate tragic heroine.The fact is, Britney better be enjoying that ...
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Heidi Montag Poses in a Bikini, Fakes Orgasm
2008-01-10 14:17:00
By: Monica GazaHeidi Montag is soooo funny. I mean really, this lady sure has one well-established New Year resolution and is holding onto it like crazy. She desperately wants the world to know that she looks good in a bikini, and is probably pissed off that she spent all that money on enhancing her boobs ( and not only, but thankfully her nose job and plumped-up lips are not too visible in these shots) and no one is taking notice. And before you believe there's some deja-vu involved here, no, this is a new "Heidi Montag is naked" post, and this is not the "sexy" photo spread Heidi did for Maxim. No, this is your plain, run of the mill, staged "Heidi goes to the beach" photo session. And if you take a look at these photos, you'll probably end up rolling on the floor laughing at just how fake this whole "here, snap my boobs" trip to the beach is.I mean yes, I admit Heidi is hot – I mean, her body is hot and she'd probably be getting much better press if she just kept her mouth s...
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Facebook's Secret Crush Gets Banned
2008-01-10 09:21:00
By: Bogdan PopaThe famous social network Facebook made another step to protect its users, by banning the 'Secret Crush ' widget that apparently attempted to deploy some adware software on users' computers. The report came out a few days ago and, according to figures provided by several security companies, approximately four percent of the total number of Facebook users have already installed the widget. But according to "The Register", Zango, the widget creator, mentioned that its Facebook application was clean and no software was deployed on people's computers."At no point in adding the Secret Crush widget to a Facebook profile does the widget install either spyware or Zango software, or even attempt to do so. Any suggestion that Zango software is being 'secretly installed' is simply not true. Moreover, our general security monitoring of the Zango network has shown no abnormal increase in installations – something we would have seen based on the reported usage numbers of the...
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10 Facts About Exercising
2008-01-10 09:16:00
By: Stefan AniteiIn other times, people had to hunt animals and gather plant food for a living. At the same time, they had to avoid predators, while sheltering in caves or miserable huts. Our bodies had to be fit and strong in order to survive. But in the last millennium, and especially last centuries, technology reversed this. Our comfort is total: warm clothes, cars and buses, and machines that make anything, from washing to cooking.1. Exercising is more than fighting weight and building muscles: it eliminates stress. It distracts out attention and occupies it with less stressful thoughts than daily activities, like knowing your body and developing physical skills, easing relaxation and eliminating routine. The endorphins released by the exercising muscles gives you the "feel good" feeling after making sport.2. Compared to our mind, our body evolved less. Our body is built for life in the wild, for running and hunting. In our technological world, it does not experience the life fo...
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Orgasm Dictionary: Over 100 Types of Female Orgasm
2008-01-10 09:13:00
By: Stefan AniteiWhat? An orgasm is just an orgasm? That's so simplistic... Listen to the British Karen Manning, 41, from Brixham, Devon, mother of two children, who has just come with a sex dictionary describing over a hundred different types of female orgasms! And when you think there are women not experiencing an orgasm during their whole life...She has classified orgasms from A to Z with entries like the Quickie, the Oh My God, the Ceiling Scraper, Jitter, Tidal Wave and the Totally Tasty and described the feminine reactions during the sexual act and the situations in which they occur. "It seemed silly just to have one word to cover everything. There are so many types of orgasm and no-one's tried to define all of them. The explanations in the past tend to be very basic and don't even begin to describe the true meaning of an event enjoyed by millions. Every one is different and I started taking notes and describing them in detail. I must say, the research has been a lot of fun...
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A New Free Web Development Environment for Windows
2008-01-10 09:09:00
By: Catalin BocanuCurrently, there are many free distributions of web development related software that provides various types of server side programming languages and other applications,such as servers, web traffic analysis applications, database management tools and more. Regarding the web server configuration, a few free software distributions allow the server management actions to be performed in a visual manner using a graphical user interface.WampServer is a distribution of Apache, PHP and MySQL that is available only for Windows platform. It comes bundled with the latest versions of Apache web server, PHP (a server side programming language) and MySQL (a relational database). It is suited for beginner (as well as advanced) webmasters due to the fact that the server or PHP settings can be specified in a visual manner using a GUI. As a consequence, you will not have to manually edit the configuration files.The installation is automatically performed by an installer. Another int...
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Linus Torvalds Says "No" to GPLv3
2008-01-10 09:00:00
By: Daniel VoicuLinus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has no plans to license it under GPLv3 anytime soon.Torvalds criticized the third version of the GNU General Public License from the time it was just a draft, and, in an interview for Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, he said that he preferred GPLv2. The interview is a part of a first series of podcasts called "Open Voices", featuring the top ten open source and Linux leaders.Torvalds says that GPLv3 actually reflects the goals of the Free Software Foundation, while GPLv2 is much closer to what he thinks a license should do. That's why he will remain at the second version.GPL v3 also meant that there was no longer just one license for Linux and other open-source code. Linus Torvalds said about the issues that might appear using GPLv3: "That means that now, suddenly, you maybe can't share code simply because of license issues. But that's not something new; we've always had that with other licen...

Google Changes AdSense Referral Units
2008-01-10 08:52:00
By: Vlad ConstandesThe last week of January will bring some changes in the referral program going on, so you’d better take notes. It won’t do you any good, though, as it has an awfully weird structure and, eh, I think I’ll just let you read and perhaps you’ll be able to understand it. If you do, please tell me what you make of it."If you're in North America, Latin America, or Japan, the pricing structure for AdSense referrals is changing", they say. What the deal is with the location I cannot understand. Why would a publisher’s location matter, when it comes to the potential success of a referral unit? Were they thinking about the visitors and their hand slipped on the keyboard to write a completely different thing? The visitors’ location could have some importance, but still it wouldn’t be that great to justify this.The way they explained this change is by reminding users about the experiment they started one year ago, with the change in pricing structure for AdSense...
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DesktopBSD 1.6 Available Now
2008-01-09 16:28:00
By: Marius NestorThe DesktopBSD development team proudly presents the final release of DesktopBSD 1.6. This version comes with a great number of new features and improvements over previous releases. It is based on the FreeBSD 6.3 RC2 and provides an enhanced KDE 3.5.8 desktop environment. Here are the major changes:· FreeBSD 6 as a modern and reliable base system· X.Org release 7.3, improving support for modern graphics hardware· Live CD/DVD feature for testing the system without installation to a hard drive· Revised installer supporting upgrades from 1.0 and previous 1.6 release candidates· Improved package manager usability and performance· Many enhancements and bugfixes for the DesktopBSD tools· Support for multiple processors and multi-core CPUs· Inclusion of the NVIDIA graphics driver for hardware 3D rendering· DesktopBSD build servers as an up-to-date source for precompiled packagesLet's have a look now at the included software that can be found in both the CD and DV...