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Movie Review: Mr. Brooks
2007-06-02 00:28:00
Review: Mr. Brooks Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) is a pillar of the community in Portland, Oregon: An executive, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a family man. Still, he find time for his other interests: Hand-made pottery ... and murder. Mr. Brooks is also The Thumbprint Killer, known for creating crime scenes with the bodies of his victims in posed tableaus that have no evidence left behind. Mr. Brooks is careful -- and a bit regretful: He knows he shouldn't be killing, and discusses it at great length with Marshall (William Hurt), an imaginary friend who's not, in fact, very friendly -- and who simultaneously goads Mr. Brooks to action and cautions him against mistakes.But Mr. Brooks does make a mistake one night, and is approached by the twitchy, conniving Mr. Smith (Dane Cook) soon after. Mr. Smith saw Mr. Brooks kill. He has proof. He knows. And all Smith wants from Brooks in exchange for his silence is to come along and kill with him ... even though one of Portland's top c...
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Why Good Christian Girls are Naughty Girls Under The Covers
2007-06-01 06:22:00
80 percent of teenagers who identify as evangelical or born again think sex should be saved for marriage. But thinking is not the same as doing. Evangelical teens are actually more likely to have lost their virginity than either mainline Protestants or Catholics. Atheists, you can stick it to religion, by sticking it in the preacher's daughter.read more | digg story
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How Online Criminals Make Themselves Tough to Find, Near Impossible to Nab
2007-05-31 23:39:00
How Online Criminals Make Themselves Tough to Find , Near Impossible to NabRead the Full Article Here: http://www.cio.com/article/114550Forensic investigations start at the end. Think of it: You wouldn?t start using science and technology to establish facts (that?s the dictionary definition of forensics) unless you had some reason to establish facts in the first place. But by that time, the crime has already happened. So while requisite, forensics is ultimately unrewarding.A clear illustration of this fact comes from the field investigations manager for a major credit services company. Sometime last year, he noticed a clutch of fraudulent purchases on cards that all traced back to the same aquarium. He learned quite a bit through forensics. He learned, for example, that an aquarium employee had downloaded an audio file while eating a sandwich on her lunch break. He learned that when she played the song, a rootkit hidden inside the song installed itself on her computer. That rootkit a...
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The power of Photoshop
2007-05-28 00:58:00
Great :)read more | digg story
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Dick Cheney's Commencement Address
2007-05-27 06:31:00
Dick's Comm encement Address http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/ 26/165455/546Today, after four grueling years of academic study and military training, the graduating class of the U.S. Military Academy were forced to endure one more moment of hell...a commencement address by Dick Cheney. After a few minutes of acting like he remembers what it was like to be in the military, September 11th, September 11th, and September 11th, Cheney explained exactly how we're winning the war on terror:Our government has used every legitimate tool to counter the activities of an enemy that likely has cells inside our own country. We've improved our security arrangements [dug a deeper bunker for me], reorganized intelligence capabilities [repeatedly broke the law], surveilled and interrogated the enemy [tortured], and worked closely with friends [Great Britain] and allies [Great Britain] to track terrorist movements.Cheney then spent a few moments waxing poetic about the Republican party, sayin...
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Top 12 ways to overcome PC disaster
2007-05-27 06:26:00
Top 12 ways to overcome PC disasterhttp://www.downloadsquad.com/2007 /05/25/top-12-ways-to-overcome-pc-disaste r/PC World has put together a round-up of ideas to save you from the worst things that could happen to you. These end-game scenarios include:Your computer won't bootYou just told off the CEO in an e-mail and instantly regret itNo PCs show on the networkYour identity has been stolen!Your Net connection is deadYou're being sued by the RIAA/MPAAYour device just got doused with water--or worseYou're inundated with pop-ups when you boot your PC (adware/spyware infestation)You deleted a critical file--and have no backupYour hard drive has crashedYou forgot your Windows passwordYour presentation just croakedThese are some of the most frequent problems that an IT technician will be asked to deal with, but if you don't happen to have an IT person to beg and offer your life-savings, PC World has put together articles for each issue that may arise to help you out of your predicament...
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Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2007-05-24 23:30:00
Review: Pirates of the Caribbean : At World's EndNote: This review was penned by an unapologetic Pirates of the Caribbean lunatic. (I expected the first movie to STINK, and I ended up adoring the thing. I expected Part 2 to be a tired rehash, and it was anything but.) While that certainly doesn't mean I walked into the flick INTENT on giving it a good review, the simple truth is that these movies speak directly to the ravenous 12-year-old movie geek who (fortunately) still holds residence inside my soul. The flick is far from perfect, indeed it's bottom-heavy and swollen to bursting with wriggling plot threads, but damn if I didn't have a good time tagging along on this third adventure with all my old Pirates pals. Having said that, let's move on...Sometimes the big-time franchise makers are damned if they do and damned if they don't: Churn out a skimpy "Part 3" that just rehashes what was offered in Parts 1 & 2 and you've got something vaguely entertaining but clearly inferio...
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Blog Search is Dead and Google Killed It
2007-05-24 23:29:00
Blog Search is Dead and Google Killed It POSTED: Wednesday, May 23, 2007FROM BLOG: Micro Persuasion - Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. The following blog post is from an independent writer and is not connected with Reuters News. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not endorsed by Reuters.com.Technorati today launched a new look and feel and under the hood improvements that are designed to help searchers find what they're looking for across the live web, not just blogs. David Sifry sums up the changes over on their corporate blog. TechCrunch has more.The improvements are nice, but I have to admit that I don't use Technorati nearly as much as I used to. Link authority was a good metric a year ago, but it's not nearly as worthwhile today when you consider all of the centers of influence one may wish to search and track. Link authority doesn't tell me who's an influencer on Facebook...
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Rejoice, The Hummer Is Dead
2007-05-24 23:07:00
Rejoice, The Hummer Is Dead It might be the end of the world's most phallically sad SUV. But has the damage been done?By Mark Morford, SF Gate ColumnistWednesday, May 23, 2007The late Rev. Jerry Falwell? He was exactly like a Hummer H2. Oh yes he was. Bloated, arrogant, offensive to millions and deeply wrong in a thousand ways and yet blindly worshipped by a shockingly large and happily uninformed throng of devout minions for no other reason than he was, well, bloated, arrogant and wrong.Is that too harsh? Lacking in prudent subtlety? I'm completely OK with that.See, it is time for much rejoicing. It is time for an upraising of hands and a hallelujah and a praise be to the heavens despite how, of course, the heavens don't really exist.No, not for the death of Falwell, for that would be pointless and in poor taste and besides, the ever-acerbic Christopher Hitchens did it much better over at Slate. And as I pointed out last week, Falwell's own collection of (in)famous quotes do a f...
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Travel: Get The Best Exchange Rates For Cash While Traveling Abroad
2007-05-24 22:52:00
According to MSNBC, the best way to get cash when you're traveling abroad is the same way you do it at home: from the ATM.The biggest advantage of exchanging money with your ATM card is that all cashwithdrawals, regardless of size, are exchanged based on the wholesale exchangerate, which is usually reserved only for very large interbank exchanges.If you're traveling from the States and your ATM card uses one of the common PLUS or Cirrus networks, you should be able to find an ATM that works for you no matter where you go. Handy. ? Adam PashUsing ATM's abroad [MSNBC]MasterCard/Cirrus/Maestro ATM LocatorVisa/PLUS ATM Locator
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FREE STUFF: Jangl your way to a private mobile phone number
2007-05-23 22:51:00
Jangl your way to a private mobile phone number Jangl lets you communicate with anyone, without revealing your mobile phone number, or exchanging it with anyone else. How it works is that your 10 digit phone number is masked by a Jangl ID number. It's as simple as letting someone know your easy to remember Jangl ID. No more remembering crazy 10 digit phone numbers when you don't have a pen lying around. The Jangl service provides two way privacy, whereas both numbers on the mobile call are kept private at all times. Jangl gives users a unique 10 digit number for each relationship you have. When calling a number, the phone number that the other side will see will be the unique Jangl number that they have for you, ensuring that your privacy is secure. When you give out your Jangl ID, users visit jangl.com and enter the ID. The ID will create a special unique number that they will call you on. That person calling will only know you by that number, and you will only know that person b...
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No more googling for your college thesis
2007-05-23 22:48:00
Apparently, Googl e is quite the valuable research tool for college students.The problem of students buying prewritten theses on the Internet that they then submit under their name in their classes is so prevalent that Google is banning ads on its search site for such paper-writing services. The BBC reports that Google is blocking search ads for essay-writing services because higher-education institutions have complained that plagiarism is "threatening the integrity of university degrees."Google representatives did not immediately respond to e-mails seeking comment. Essay-writing services now join the list of other banned Google ad topics, including drugs, weapons, prostitution, tobacco, fake documents and miracle cures," the BBC said.http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-972 2220-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=25 47-1_3-0-20
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10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life
2007-05-23 08:42:00
10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your lifehttp://www.lifehack.org/articles/life hack/10-simple-ways-to-save-yourself-from -messing-up-your-life.htmlStop taking so much notice of how you feel. How you feel is how you feel. It?ll pass soon. What you?re thinking is what you?re thinking. It?ll go too. Tell yourself that whatever you feel, you feel; whatever you think, you think. Since you can?t stop yourself thinking, or prevent emotions from arising in your mind, it makes no sense to be proud or ashamed of either. You didn?t cause them. Only your actions are directly under your control. They?re the only proper cause of pleasure or shame.Let go of worrying. It often makes things worse. The more you think about something bad, the more likely it is to happen. When you?re hair-trigger primed to notice the first sign of trouble, you?ll surely find something close enough to convince yourself it?s come.Ease up on the internal life commentary. If you want to be happy, stop telling...
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Optimize your Buzz: How to Stay Where you Want to be
2007-05-15 06:46:00
Drinking alcohol can make you feel great, but it can also make you feel terrible, sick or even dead. This article shows you how to drink the right amount to stay where you want to be.read more | digg story
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Barack Obama: Candidate Kumbaya
2007-05-15 06:30:00
Obama's Kumbaya Source: http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view. php?id=25580It wasn't nearly as contentious as the Edwards interview. No Republican talkingpoints from George Stephanopoulos yesterday, you know, like when he accusedEdwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: "Do you think theDemocrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off fundingfor the troops?" Or this one: "You know, a lot of Democratsstill in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater."This week, George and Barack had just a nice, polite littlechat. Likely because Edwards is more of a fire breather when it comes to gettingout of Iraq. Obama is not. He is also not an ideologue, which is an understatementwith frightening ramifications."I think that I have the capacity to get people to recognize themselvesin each other. I think that I have the ability to make people get beyond someof the divisions that plague our society and to focus on common sense andreason an...
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How To Replace Destroyed or Lost Important Documents
2007-05-13 08:28:00
How To Replace Destroyed or Lost Important Document s http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/how -to-replace-destroyed-or-lost-important-d ocuments.htmlWhen I started my new job, I went through a process familiar to anyone who has ever worked - filling out a W-2 W-4 (you know what I meant!). If you have a passport, filling out a W-4 is easy because you only need that one document. If you don?t have a passport then you?ll need two documents - like a birth certificate and a driver?s license. Well, for about two days I couldn?t find my passport or my birth certificate (I found them after all) but I started to wonder what I would need to do if I had to actually replace them - so, off to the internet I go to find the sources.One thing to consider doing is photocopy all of your important documents. While they won?t carry as much legal weight, having them is infinitely better than not having them and starting from scratch. At least with a photocopy of the document, you know what organization t...
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How to Crack a Master Combination Lock
2007-05-13 08:15:00
How to Crack a Master Combination Lockhttp://www.wikihow.com/Crack-a-Master -Combination-LockIf you?ve forgotten the combination to a Master Lock combination lock you have a few options. If the lock isn?t locked onto anything, you can make a photocopy of the serial number and send that into Master Lock for the combination . If, however, your lock is attached to something, you can break the lock, call a locksmith, use a shim, or figure out the combination. Of these options, only the last will leave you with a usable lock without lightening your wallet. Unfortunately, there are 64,000 possible combinations on a standard 40-number Master Lock. With this method, however, you can quickly narrow that down to 100 combinations, a workable number to try if you?ve got a few minutes.Steps Make sure you have a Master Lock and check the lock?s serial number on the back. This method only works with Master Lock combination locks, and may not work with all of them .Turn the lock?s dial clockwise to ...
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How to Open a Door With a Credit Card
2007-05-13 08:05:00
How to Open a Door With a Credit Card http://www.wikihow.com/Open-a-Door-Wi th-a-Credit-CardIf you want to get into a locked door using only a credit card, then here's how. Note that this is not a universal lock pick technique: Credit cards will only work on some locks.Steps Take out your credit card and slide it into the vertical crack between the door and the frame as far as it will go at a perpendicular angle with the door.Tilt the card so the side that's closest to you is almost or is touching the doorknob. Push it again until you feel it slide in more.Bend the card the opposite way, forcing the lock to go back. Quickly open the door. You've got it! Tips If You are on the side of the door that the lock is not slanted towards you have to push the card above the lock and then spin it upward to push it in from the opposite side. It will take a few tries to master this but it is not hard. contrary to popular belief you do not have to be on any certain side of the door.This method w...
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John Stewart is not bleeped
2007-05-12 08:15:00
John Stewart on 8th May Daily Show describes Bill Clinton is a f****ing robot. No bleep!read more | digg story
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Finance: Where to invest $5,000 now to become rich or at least a little mor
2007-05-12 07:59:00
"Do you want to retire rich? Build wealth? Money Magazine's ideas for five grand can help you reach your goals." I think #1 is great: Best return with no risk: Pay off your highest-interest credit-card debt.read more | digg story
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Movie Review: 28 Weeks Later
2007-05-12 00:33:00
Review: 28 Weeks Late rhttp://www.cinematical.com/2007/05/1 1/review-28-weeks-later/We had a good look at the first 28 minutes of this movie a few weeks ago, and it definitely held up to our expectations. There's certainly a lot more gore here than in the first film (and the rest of the movie is a lot bloodier than the first 28 minutes), and there were quite a few pop-out-of-your-seat moments throughout, as evidenced by the number of times that my rear end left the seat. Just to prove I'm not particularly susceptible, the people around me all leapt at the appropriate moments as well.28 Weeks Later isn't so much a sequel in action as it is in spirit. It is literally 28 weeks after the breakout of the rage virus, and the population of mainland Britain has been wiped out and the country has been declared safe and an America led NATO force is responsible for repopulating the city of London. They've re-established water and power, have operating public transportation, and apparently ev...
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The Simpsons vs. Family Guy
2007-05-11 08:45:00
Pound for Pound, clip for clip, character-driven comparison of the Simpsons and the Griffins. I don't know if I totally agree with the judges but the clips are entertaining and it's way more fun than the 'who copied who' threads from the purists.read more | digg story
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"Protect America, Not George Bush"
2007-05-11 08:36:00
"Protect America , Not George Bush " by mcjoanWed May 09, 2007 at 09:22:12 AM EDThttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007 /5/9/23433/90300One of the favorite GOP talking points is that Congress shouldn't be making decisions for troops on the ground, that Bush listens to his generals and that they determine the course of action in Iraq. Three retired generals, John Batiste, Paul Eaton, and Wesley Clark, and a veteran of Afghanistan are taking to the airwaves to dispute that claim in a new series of ads sponsored by VoteVets. The ads are intended to force Congress, and particularly GOP members who have continually rubberstamped this war, to do its job and end this war.The ads will run on broadcast and cable in markets targeting Senators Susan Collins, John Sununu, John Warner, and Norm Coleman, and Representatives Mary Bono, Phil English, Randy Kuhl, Jim Walsh, Heather Wilson, Jo Ann Emerson, Tim Johnson, Mike Rogers, Fred Upton, and Mike Castle in their home districts. From the VoteVets ...
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Spying in the Death Star: The AT&T Whistle-Blower Tells His Story
2007-05-11 00:26:00
Spying in the Death Star : The AT&T Whistle -Blower Tells His Story Ryan Singel 05.10.07 2:00 AMhttp://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerig hts/news/2007/05/kleininterviewMark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, sits quietly at the center of a high-profile legal storm hitting the nation's largest telecommunications companies for allegedly helping the government spy on American citizens' phone and internet communications without court approval.In 2006, Klein stepped forward and handed sensitive AT&T documents to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group that was preparing a class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications giant. That case and more than 50 similar suits have been consolidated into five master complaints that are now proceeding in a federal court in San Francisco. This summer, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear AT&T's appeal of a key ruling that rejected the government's national security concerns and allowed the suit to continue.Se...
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Massive Hypernova Reported
2007-05-08 23:05:00
Massive Hype rnova Repo rtedSource: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/ 8/7615/70697Content from DailyKos.comAstronomers have reported an enormously powerful supernova which may signal the demise of an ultra-massive star as much as 100-200 times heavier than the sun. Such stars are thought to be extraordinarily rare. Our own galaxy may contain only a few hundred such stars out of the estimated 400 billion that comprise the Milky Way.In a cascade of superlatives that belies the traditional cerebral reserve of their profession, astronomers say they had seen the brightest and most powerful stellar explosion ever recorded. ... Astronomers have been following the star since last September, when it was discovered in a galaxy 240 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The discovery was made by Robert Quimby, a University of Texas graduate student who was using a small robotic telescope at McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas, to troll for supernovas.Despite the ma...
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Cooking with marijuana
2007-05-08 08:54:00
Amazing tips on marijuana cooking that you can't imagine. Even if you are not a stoner, it shows you this plant's versatilityread more | digg story
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Video: Educational Video shows us how to find the G-Spot (NSFW!!)
2007-05-08 08:44:00
This video shows us how to find the mythical G-spot. (Very NSFW, be warned)read more | digg story
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WHAT TYPE OF TECH USER ARE YOU?
2007-05-08 00:43:00
WHAT TYPE OF TECH USER ARE YOU?Source: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/05/what_typ e_of_te.htmlAre you ?Connected but Hassled?? How about ?Light but Satisfied? An ?Inexperienced Experimenter?? Or maybe you just can?t get enough, and you?re an ?Omnivore.?Tech nology analysts often break consumers into simple categories like this: Early adopters (geeks); followers (most of us); and Luddites (still without cell phones). But to some researchers, those descriptions always seemed too general. Plenty of Red Tape readers, for example, have loads of technology in their lives but find it often does more harm than good. So a little more than a year ago, the Pew Internet & American Life Project set out to come up with more descriptive categories to represent the full spectrum of tech consumers. ?To do this, we asked people what you have, what you do with it, and what you think about it,? said John Horrigan, who authored the study.The survey results indicate there?s no straight-line continuum be...
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Keira Knightley is Ready to Move On from Pirates -- Will Acting Follow?
2007-05-08 00:10:00
Keira Knightley is Ready to Move On from Pirates -- Will Acting Follow?Source: http://www.cinematical.com/2007/05/07/kei ra-knightley-is-ready-to-move-on-from-pir ates-will-acting/The soccer player turned swashbuckler, Keira Knightley, is getting run down. While Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End gets ready to knock us away in theaters, it looks like its star is ready to knock away not only any chance for sequels, but her part in the whole industry. In an interview with the Guardian, which was released yesterday, Keira says that the film series has run its course: "It's definitely time. I think everyone's glad to move on to different things." Johnny Depp has previously shared an interest in more, so there's a chance the series can go on, but I'm not sure that Disney could convince Knightley to go back.While the actress seemed full-steam-ahead before the film, now she seems weary, edgy and cautious -- mainly due to the stories claiming she has an eating disorder after some p...
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Tribeca Review: Rise: Blood Hunter
2007-05-07 23:12:00
Tribeca Review : Rise: Blood Hunter Source: http://www.cinematical.com/2007/05/07/tri beca-review-rise-blood-hunter/You've got to like a movie that gives us a nude Lucy Liu, shot high and from behind, and then moves her slowly over to a full-length mirror where all will be revealed ... but she's a vampire, so no reflection! Rise: Blood Hunter, from director Sebastian Gutierrez, is a cheap and dirty mash-up of the vampire and revenge genres, following L.A. reporter Sadie Blake (Liu) as her quest to find out who murdered a goth vampire wanna-be lands her on the menu of the real vampires behind the crime. Unfortunately for them, some potent blend of reporter moxie and girl power prevents her from staying dead like they planned -- she ends up kicking open and crawling out of the morgue drawer she was stuffed into, pissed off and shaking like a heroin addict for want of blood. Soon enough, she'll adjust to her new lifestyle and even acquire two must-have accessories: a girly little cross...
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