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"It Just Works"
2007-07-20 14:35:00
A commenter on Slashdot replies to this article , about Microsoft patenting the ability to insert adware and spyware directly into the Windows kernel. (no , i'm not kidding) cheros writes: I wonder if Microsoft is busy abandoning the software business. First we get Vista, with a reported 20+ services phoning home with enough detail to make what Redmond get personally identifiable, not to
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New York Times review of Harry Potter
2007-07-20 11:02:00
Contains spoilers - you can read the review here
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The very last sentence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2007-07-18 17:17:00
All was well.
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YouTubed Brady Bunch
2007-07-18 13:10:00
This has to be the oddest thing I've seen in ages. Nine You Tube videos on a single page , arranged to look like the Brady Bunch intro. (Via Boing Boing)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2007-07-18 12:36:00
As Boing Boing explains electronic copies of the latest Harry Potter book , not due out until Saturday, have leaked online. They aren't proper e-copies but rather photographs of each page of the book. Piratebay has the torrents to download.
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Linkdump
2007-07-17 11:45:00
Facebook is the new AOL according to Kottke. He has a point. Fake book covers, to hide the fact that you are reading Harry Potter. (NSFW) Photos of a 7-11 set up as a Kwik E-Mart to promo the new Simpsons Film. (via Kottke echochrome gameplay demo - escher like weirdness.

Screen tutorial
2007-07-17 11:30:00
A Quick Tutorial on screen Screen power tips
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The new Prince album - Planet Earth
2007-07-16 23:15:00
Prince's new album "Planet Earth " was given away free by the Mail On Sunday newspaper here in the UK today. Since he wants to get his music out to as many people as possible, I ripped the CD and uploaded it. You can download it from here - its a 60 meg zip file of 10 mp3 tracks. Track listing: 1.Planet Earth 2. Guitar 3. Somewhere here on Earth 4. The One U Wanna C 5. Future Baby Mama 6. Mr
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BBC quotes me but doesnt give me a backlink
2007-07-16 21:25:00
In this BBC article entitled Prince album set free on the internet, the BBC quotes my blog without giving me a backlink , nor even mentioning my blog's name. The quotes above were taken from my blogpost offering the new Prince album to download. In spite of that, it is kind of cool seeing your writing on such a megasite as the BBC's.
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Nova - Monster of the Milky Way
2007-07-14 16:59:00
Nova's Mons ter of the Milky Way documentary is about the supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy. You can watch it online - and it's in seven segments (real, quicktime, win media formats).
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clipmarks test 1
2007-07-13 14:30:00
just trying out the clipmarks extension for firefox. <!-- BEGIN_CLIP_CONTENT ID:69ACC46C-8670-4A3E-9C38-5254B80BCEB6:0 CLIPMARKS.COM -->clipped from www.spaceflightnow.comAstronomers claim to find the most distant known galaxies CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NEWS RELEASEPosted: July 12, 2007 PASADENA, Calif. - Using natural "gravitational lenses," an international team of astronomers claim
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Friday the 13th
2007-07-13 14:06:00
A Frida y occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece or Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. Via Wikipedia
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When NOT to hyphenate your name - the sequel [PICS]
2007-07-12 15:55:00
Following on from the highly popular When not to hyphenate your name, which was Dugg to death, here's the sequel.
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The Digg Effect
2007-07-12 10:25:00
That's me at no.2 Update #1: checked my Google Analytics stats this morning and this is what I see:
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Streamy - a Digg killer?
2007-07-11 16:14:00
Link: Streamy - invite only at the moment
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Monitoring changes to a directory tree in Linux
2007-07-10 21:29:00
If you are managing a multi-user Linux box , as a sysadmin you'd like to be informed of changes in certain directory trees. Inotify is often suggested as a solution. But that might be overkill if you aren't concerned about file changes and just want to monitor a directory tree - have any dirs been updated, any created, or have any dirs been deleted. The solution is surprisingly simple. It's
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When not to hyphenate your name
2007-07-10 17:33:00
update: Hello Reddit!. Thanks for upmodding this. update 2: Hello Diggers. Over 1,500 diggs and rising. Thanks!
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The 11 mile wide web page
2007-07-10 17:23:00
It's incredible just how much empty space exists in an atom. The Hydrogen atom "as you can see here, (atoms) contain so little actual material that they can barely be said to exist. We are all phantoms. " absolutely mind boggling.
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Bourne Ultimatum trailer
2007-07-09 11:52:00
The Bourne Ultimatum Uploaded by cinencuentro And here's one of the best car chases ever , from "Bourne Supremacy":
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List directories only in Linux
2007-07-08 12:45:00
the command ls -d */ will output only the directories below your current position in the filesystem. So, if you are currently in /home/linus , and below that are three directories called images, docs, and code , the output will look like this images/ docs/ code/
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