I bet it was much cleaner back then. :)

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This is a 5 cent tilt sensor. We know it cost more than 5 cents, but it is in fact a tilt sensor that utilizes a 5 cent coin. We’ve all done quick hacks to make quick sensors for various projects. We’ve seen tons of them, from stealing springs out of pens and shoving a [...]

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Authorities say the Metro Transit Assassins created the city’s largest tag — a three-story-high, half-mile-long scrawl of its moniker along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River.
In the macho, braggart, narcissistic world of Los Angeles tagging, no one can match the Metro Transit Assassins crew.
Authorities said the group is responsible for some of the [...]

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@ Omaha Steaks.
Seakittens.com

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DAVOS, Switzerland — Ever since Vladimir Putin rose to power in 2000, his political opponents and entire countries have learned to their cost that he has a tough, demeaning streak. Wednesday it was Michael Dell’s turn.
At the official opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Putin, now Russian Prime Minister, delivered a [...]

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By Carlos Miller — Seconds after BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant, police immediately began confiscating cell phones containing videos that have yet to see the light of day.
In fact, the only videos that have been seen by the public were filmed by people who managed to leave the scene before [...]

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Tullahassee Creek Indian Cemetery – Sand Springs, Oklahoma
Situated right between an ATM and a postal drop box, this Indian cemetery comprises about 1/4 acre of isolated turf in a parking lot outside Tulsa.
It was founded in 1883 and took less than a century to become the inadvertent centerpiece of a strip mall.
Read more about Tullahassee [...]

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A new bill is being introduced called, Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera’s phone. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone.
While its [...]

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Google Maps has a clear satellite view of the US vice president’s home available online in a development that curiously coincides with the departure of secret-prone Dick Cheney, pictured in 2007.

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Due to a vulnerability in the Linux kernel, a local attacker on a system with Linux kernel series 2.6 could crash the system to deny service to legitimate users or possibly obtain root privileges.
Security Lab say the vulnerability is in fs/ecryptfs/inode.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.1 allows local users to [...]

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A new cell phone music service that Microsoft launched in the UK is one of the most restrictive DRM-based music stores yet. Tracks can only be played on the phone and cannot be transferred to another device or even backed up on a PC. Oops.

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Clicky Clicky

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The online job site Monster.com has been attacked by hackers resulting in lost user data on the site. Monster said “we recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data.” The company is [...]

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The measurement of my finger from the tip to the first joint is 1 inch…depth for planting peas.
The measurement to the second joint is 2 inches…depth for corn.
Return borrowed things in better shape than when you borrowed them.
There are two types of trouble…one is the trouble you knowingly walk into, the other is trouble that [...]

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British man killed wife over “single” Facebook status
LONDON (AFP) – A British man who murdered his wife after becoming enraged when she changed her relationship status on Facebook to “single” was jailed for at least 18 years late Thursday.

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We’ve all seen them: on comes a commercial with a young, casually dressed,if somewhat unkempt, young man, and an older, portly man in a very middle-management-esque suit. The younger man announces “I’m a Mac” while the older responds “And I’m a PC,” and the two go on to lament some critical design failure facing the [...]

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President Barack Obama is a smart guy. Where others zig, he zags. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that he’s been asking around about the benefits of open source, according to Sun Chairman Scott McNealy, who has been asked by President Obama to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from [...]

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Cliffs: Microsoft allowed OEMs to label their PCs as Vista-capable even though they can’t run the premium versions of Vista. LOLsuit.

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