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189-Year-Old Brides Traded For Food in Afghanistan 28Flash Physics Engine Box2DFlashAS3 2.0.0 Released 30Thinkpad X300 With SSD Performance Evaluation 23More than 100 construction companies have been accused of conspiring to rig thousands of public sector contracts. 26InfoQ: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications 12Judge in JK Rowling copyright trial brands Harry Potter 'gibberish' 20Grand Theft Auto IV Review: so good, it's criminal 15zachpoff.com - Software 31Drunk Russian sleeps off knifing 18How I work 8 hour days | Philosophical Geek 9Indenting Python with VIM 22BBC: Innocent folk taking photos are being stopped by police 25AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping 2Teflon Ted: Git for Idiots (and Java developers) 18Quick Vista Hack to Get You Browsing at High-Speed Again 27Yale abortion art 30US Army Furthers Development of Robotic Suits 18Catcha, the new Captcha 2Scientists Discover How to Extend Lifespans 50% without Starving Yourself 26The Best Free Software - Reviews by PC Magazine 3Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions 21Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed ... Is Stork Theory being left out? 23Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation « FoundRead 2BitTorrent Use Up 24% Since November 10Study says 300,000 U.S. troops suffer mental problems like depression and PTSD 3210Gb Ethernet Alliance is Formed 23DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested 20"It almost calls into question all legitimate research that's been conducted by the pharmaceutical industry..." 15Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers 19Skinny Elephants 6This is the front page of the BBC website. I'm not saying Mr Bush is disrespected, but... 9masuidrive on rails - ブログにはてブのコメントを表示するhatana_bookmark_anywhere.js 26Windows XP going off market in June: What it means : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech 3WiFi popular with the young people; backups, not so much 21Tank Simulator Game (with link to very impressive demo video) 20The Defect Black Market 32Sperm From Skin Becoming a Reality? 19Why everyone should write a framework and never use it 5一晩で覚えるjQueryの逆引き基礎サンプル７つ*ホームページを作る人のネタ帳 4宴の支度 (3) 小さな変化からすべては始まる。「プロ」と「アマ」の１３の違い | Lifehacking.jp 1On the Cheap: Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Solvent 3PayPal Plans To Ban Unsafe Browsers 18High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace 21The Stats Are In. YouTube Really Is A Turd 37Don't buy anything from one of ABC's sponsors until they air an apology to the American people for mishandling the debate 7Researchers have built the world's smallest transistor - one atom thick and 10 atoms wide - out of a material that could one day replace silicon! 33Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web? 27This ABCNews debate was the biggest sham I've ever seen 16If this goes on past Pennsylvania, why don't we call for a Democratic debate moderated by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? 3Tests show BMW's hydrogen car cleans the air 17Linux 2.6.25 Released 29New Ion Engine Enters Space Race 2Study Confirms ISPs Meddle With Web Traffic 12Police 'held back sex-slave photos' found at Natascha Kampusch kidnap house 7We're backing up death penalty and begging the pope to teach us to love life. [pic] 16Stephanopolous defense: "you’re going to find a wide range of opinions” NO.. its unanimous..you sucked! 19Stone: Dead-Simple Data Persistence 6Scientists are using wastewater to drug-test entire cities. 15FreeMyFeed - Free Your Feed From Authentication 25Linus Announces the 2.6.25 Linux Kernel 3PhotoShopのPSDファイルをXHTML＆CSSに一発変換できる「psd2css」:phpspot開発日誌 21Mr. Obama quipped, "Last night, I think we set a new record because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people." 14Some pictures. Enjoy. [pics]. 5Tools For Your Video Career 30Rocket Racing to Take Off This Summer 31Growing Plants on the Moon May Be Feasible 2Amazing photographs of the Korowai "Tree People" [pics] 18Users fight to save Windows XP no matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista 19'Expelled' Filmmakers Did Not Get Permission to Use 'Imagine', Yoko Ono Exploring All Legal Options 19Three teenagers confess to 21 murders 24Forced to leave combat as the sole surviving son, the army now denied him family health care, stopped his G.I. educational subsidies and wanted him to repay his sign-up bonus. WTF! 30Japan's Cyborg Research Enters the Skull 20Young Me vs Now Me [pics] 17Quake Live beta now accepting applications! Just insert ur email! YEAAH BITCH 1Op-Ed Columnist: Divided They Fall 24Guitar - oddities 18"We don't want to give away free sandwiches if you didn't buy your sandwiches here. We have a different colored stamp than all the other restaurants so we can tell." 351st time Darwin's Papers Online 4 Free 28beautiful simplicity 31TIME: Ridiculous 'Debate' Vindicates Obama: "What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics" 13The Twitter/FriendFeed Desktop Client Arms Race Continues 18Newfoundland gets Big Oil to pay its fair share, creating economic boom. Why hasn't this happened in the US? 23During debate, ABC's Gibson suggested middle-class families would be hurt by rollback of Bush tax cuts. Says $200,000 is "middle class". 29Rare Photos Of Isolated Korowai "Tree People" 18AWS Service Health Dashboard - Apr 17, 2008 1What’s for Dinner? The Pollster Wants to Know 10101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers | Free Geekery 255000 years old "Mini Stonehenge" discovered in Manchester 17Forbidden Fruit - Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children 24StackOverflow.com : Jeff Atwood + Joel Spolsky 11Bear Stearns Buy-Out..... 100% Fraud 3Videogame Sales For March 2008 From NPD Group 17First Afro Samurai Screenshots 29D&D 4th Edition Game System License Announced 34Thirty six minutes into the debate, my wife says I can turn on the Red Sox game. "They are not asking them anything about anything that matters," she says...Amen. 1Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays 8An open letter to Charlie Gibson and George Stephanapoulos 27Senator Proposes To Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files 5BREAKING: Barack Obama and John Edwards to Join Hillary Clinton on The Colbert Report TONIGHT 12Top 10 Security and Protection Plugins for Wordpress 20Virgin Media's chief executive Neil Berkett described net neutrality as "a load of b*llocks" ... FUCK YOU VIRGIN! 3ke-tai.org > Blog Archive > 端末IDを設定でき、ケータイサイトの開発に便利なFirefoxアドオン「Modify Headers」 17MySQL, new features closed source. Time to make the switch to a real RDBMS anyway. 1One Cook, Thousands of Seders 13Merrill Posts $2 Billion Loss, Cuts 4,000 Jobs, "Remains Well Capitalized" 17Winner of 'most fucked up true story on the web today'............. 18Twisted interface to Erlang OTP in Launchpad 1Op-Ed Columnist: Race and American Memory 1An Image Is a Mystery for Photo Detectives 21What Makes a Great Developer? - Development - ILoveJackDaniels.com 3SourceForge.net: Project Info - BananaSplitter 5Soundproof a Room - Wired How-To Wiki 7Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm 16Don't Make Garbage Man Angry (Pics.) 5Yale Perfomance Art Student Story A Hoax 3George Steinmetz - Tree People 31TED | Talks | Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics (video) 6Atheists [pic] 1Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise—And Twhirl Isn’t Helping 21Light-emitting wallpaper set to wow 7http://plawa.cyber.cz/img/dmnc/list2.html 24A Peek at AT&T's New Browser, Pogo 31Darwin's Private Papers Get Released To The Internet 19LLRX -- Do You Give Good Google? 1Larger Prey Are Targets of Phishing 1Stronger, Faster, Higher: Changing Speeds to Go the Distance 14Germany discovers new export -- its jobless 1Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions - life - 16 April 2008 - New Scientist 22Vacant Homes in U.K. Prove Speculator Nightmare as Losses Mount 30Azariah Southworth, Popular Christian TV Host, Announces He Is Gay 12Interaction Museum — iMuseum 17Bloxorz: The best puzzle game I've played in ages. I'd happily pay for 500+ levels on my DS. [Flash] 1Everyone’s a Critic 1Economic Scene: Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All 12Use the YouTube API with PHP 1Op-Ed Columnist: Eggheads and Cheese Balls 19You think the housing bust is bad in America? See what will happen in Europe. 15Pro Theme Design » Circular Icons 21Multilevel Drop Down Navigation Menus: Examples and Tutorials 13Handicap People Are Faster [ PIC ] 8Why AMD Could Win The Coming Visual Computing Battle 4第1回 Tracをオススメする，これだけの理由：ITpro 22Storm Dismantled at USENIX LEET Workshop 17Another Do-It-Yourself Framework 2"Torrent Freedom"; an anonymous, net-neutral ISP ! Let's hope these and others stick around after we inevitably lose the net neutrality battle. 33Innocent photographer or terrorist? 2Merck Wrote Drug Studies for Doctors 25Hive Five: Five Best DVD Ripping Tools 7http://arch.kimag.es/share/16989272.jpg 3SEOチェックツールをざっくり集めてみました | ☆|M|e|t|a|M|i|x|＋ 18No CSS Reset 21Strawberry Panzanella Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org 27Innocent photographer or terrorist? 2Chinese Student in U.S. Is Caught in Confrontation 34If I Call You Cortana, Can I Be Your Masterchief? 15Small Memory Software 33Shocker: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has Boobs! 29Bubok.es 17"Kids Who Don't Play Video Games Are At Risk" 22Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine 27Intelligence and rhythmic accuracy go hand in hand 14The World's Most Unwanted Music 5Bill introduced in Congress to decriminalize marijuana 22Dramatic footage of golden eagles hunting mountain goats. - warning for gruesomeness 13Paperclip: Attaching Files in Rails | Jim Neath 19Pope says clergy sex abuse was 'very badly handled' - and then blames secularism and the media 30Flash Physics Engine Box2DFlashAS3 1.4.3 18Canadian Cops Taser Transit Riders for Not Paying Fares 22The power of forgiveness.. 2Amazing in-depth image processing and photo analysis of what was really in Dick Cheney's sunglasses. 26Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough 2Video of Obama, Hillary, and John Edwards on Colbert Report 2UT LOOP! 18DVICE: Miraculous Direct Note Access can completely change music 13フォント・マネージメント 日本語フォント 欧文フォント - DesignWalker 14Mad Mimi : Email Campaign 27macosxhints.com - A better Gmail IMAP to Mail.app sync 7www.step3profit.com 3Chief police investigator in Pirate Bay trial employed by the copyright industry 15Can you be held for 55 years without any charge? 27Free Alternatives to the MacHeist Bundle 2Website Optimizer 22India and China are investing not only in Nigeria's oil, but in their infrastructure. But don't worry, we're busier pointing fingers at China than we are searching for alternative energy. 29List of CSS Frameworks | WebTecker the latest Web Tech, Resources and News. 27Google Earth 4.3 Offers a Number of New Features 23The-One-Year-$1-Million-Challenge: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance 27Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi Scientists Discover How to Extend Lifespans without Starving Yourself 27Amusing interview with Wes Cherry: Creator of Solitaire for Windows 132/3 of Gen X Doesn't Think Retirement Will Be Possible: Survey 29NBC Exec: Apple must address piracy before NBC returns to iTunes 14Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Download VS. Blu-ray Disc: Why Download version takes less hard drive space (1.9GB vs. 5.3GB) 16Is your ISP modifying the HTML you view? 3MyOpenID for Your Domain - The Easiest Way to Use Your URL as an OpenID - ReadWriteWeb 15Adobe TV 10the complete work of charles darwin [university of cambridge] Web3.0はノイズを減らすもの － Twhirlじゃあだめなんだ 24No CSS Reset - Snook.ca 36Why we may overlook extra-terrestrial life