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Posted: 19 Dec 2007 04:43 PM CST

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Posted: 19 Dec 2007 04:24 PM CST

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Posted: 19 Dec 2007 03:57 PM CST

Open Web Awards Final­ists: Social Book­mark­ing and Social News

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 03:04 PM CST

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Posted: 19 Dec 2007 02:20 PM CST

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Posted: 19 Dec 2007 01:03 PM CST

Adobe Labs — Adobe AIR Sam­ple Appli­ca­tions

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 12:43 PM CST

New York tries to edu­cate par­ents on games, fails to spot hoax

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:58 AM CST

Feds ready­ing for 2008 IPv6 dead­line, but not for actual use

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:57 AM CST

Devel­op­ing apps for Google Android: it’s a mixed bag

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:57 AM CST

Toshiba’s build­ing a “Micro Nuclear” reac­tor for your garage? — Engad­get

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:51 AM CST

Open Web Awards Final­ists: Wid­gets and Appli­ca­tions

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:50 AM CST

Google’s Kevin Marks Talks OpenSo­cial — Read­WriteWeb

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:50 AM CST

A Decade of Duke: The Brief Long His­tory of DNF — Shack­news — PC Games, PlaySta­tion, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, pre­views and down­loads

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:43 AM CST

Chuck Bald­win: join Ron Paul & vow to fight for free­dom [Digg]

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:27 AM CST

Chuck Bald­win writes another great col­umn. It can be summed up with Chuck’s state­ment, ” I join the Ron Paul rev­o­lu­tion and vow to fight for the rest of my life for the free­dom and inde­pen­dence of these United States.” Chuck is a strong ally for Dr. Paul!

Smart Design for Small Spaces [Digg]

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:27 AM CST

If space in your home comes at a pre­mium, design big with a few tricks from the pros. Bring style and the illu­sion of more space to your home with added color, expert light­ing, cre­ative fur­ni­ture place­ment plus much more…

From “The 4400″ cre­ator: the show is can­celled! [Digg]

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:27 AM CST

“The 4400″ cre­ator and exec­u­tive pro­ducer Scott Peters let fans know about the sad news in a post he made yes­ter­day on the show’s mes­sage board over at USANetwork.com. In his mes­sage, Peters thanks fans for their “tire­less devo­tion to the show” and reminds every­one that they (him­self, the cast and crew) are really proud of what they accomplished

iPhone will be Pri­mary Tar­get for Hack­ers in 2008 [Digg]

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:25 AM CST

Secu­rity pre­dic­tions released by Arbor Net­works reveals that the iPhone will be a major tar­get for cyber­crim­i­nals in 2008. The fore­cast also high­lights Chi­nese spe­cific crime as a major issue for the New Year.

New Duke Nukem For­ever Teaser Trailer Released! [Digg]

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 11:01 AM CST

As promised, first new Duke Nukem For­ever video in over six years has been released. “The release is still ‘when it’s done,’ but you can expect more fre­quent media releases and we’re not chang­ing engines again and we have con­sid­er­able work behind us,” Brous­sard told Shack­news. Orig­i­nal voice actor Jon St. John and com­poser Jeremy Soule involved.

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Posted: 19 Dec 2007 09:58 AM CST

Fire­fox 2 installer now avail­able on 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch flop­pies — Down­load Squad

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 09:58 AM CST

Scholar: At least six iden­ti­fi­able crimes in CIA tape affair [Digg]

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 09:36 AM CST

White House involve­ment in the CIA’s deci­sion to destroy video­tapes doc­u­ment­ing severe inter­ro­ga­tion tech­niques of sus­pected ter­ror­ists could con­sti­tute as many as six crimes, accord­ing to con­sti­tu­tional law expert and George Wash­ing­ton Law pro­fes­sor Jonathan Turley.

Pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates finally address impor­tant issue: their gad­gets — Engad­get

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 09:31 AM CST

Best of 2007: Viral Videos of the Year

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 09:11 AM CST

Online Doc­u­ments: Sync Office Doc­u­ments to Google Docs with Doc­Syncer

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 09:11 AM CST

Google Talk Gets One Step Closer To The Ulti­mate Babel Fish

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 09:07 AM CST

First look: Fire­fox 3 beta 2 offi­cially released [Digg]

Posted: 19 Dec 2007 08:28 AM CST

Mozilla has announced the offi­cial release of Fire­fox 3 beta 2, the tenth major devel­op­ment mile­stone for Mozilla’s next-generation web browser. Ars looks at what the sec­ond beta brings to the table.

The Fly­ing Con­cept Car [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 09:35 PM CST

Is it a car?…is it a plane?…Well, uhm, it’s actu­ally both. The fly­ing con­cept car is easy to han­dle and can do high speed hor­i­zon­tal flight and ver­ti­cal take off and landing.

Geek the Vote ’08: PM’s Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy Elec­tion Guide [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 09:16 PM CST

Explore pro­pos­als from 11 can­di­dates on eight key issues. Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics com­piled these links to make it eas­ier to com­pare lead­ing pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates on sev­eral issues of inter­est to our read­ers, pri­mar­ily in areas of sci­ence and technology.

Offi­cial Fire­fox 3 Beta 2 [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 08:44 PM CST

Fire­fox 3 Beta 2 has been offi­cially released over at Mozilla.[Improved in Beta 2!] Fire­fox 3 Beta 2 includes approx­i­mately 900 improve­ments over the pre­vi­ous beta, includ­ing fixes for sta­bil­ity, per­for­mance, mem­ory usage, plat­form enhance­ments and user inter­face improvements.

BUSTED! Clin­ton links to funds in Cay­man Islands [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 08:10 PM CST

In his revi­sion­ism a few days ago, he com­plained that he wasn’t taxed enough to help the sol­diers in Iraq. Turns out Bill and Hillary Clin­ton are worth up to $53.7 mil­lion and funds in Cay­man Islands.

Dubai Build­ing $1 Bil­lion Juras­sic Park

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 07:15 PM CST

A new $1.1 bil­lion Juras­sic theme park called Rest­less Planet, is being built in Dubai. The park will fea­ture 109 ani­ma­tronic dinosaurs of over 40 dif­fer­ent species in a 500,000 square foot (46,000 square metre) space. The new park will be the star attrac­tion of a large Las Vegas-esque enter­tain­ment and busi­ness devel­op­ment called City of Arabia.

Who Killed the Elec­tric Car — Revis­ited [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 07:14 PM CST

Rather than pie-in-the-sky hydro­gen, elec­tric cars offer the poten­tial to dra­mat­i­cally reduce emis­sions right now — as well as improve air qual­ity, reduce vehi­cle main­te­nance costs for mil­lions of motorists and even offer the poten­tial for peo­ple to gen­er­ate their own fuel from solar power.

Ubuntu vs Vista Vul­ner­a­bil­ity Counts: Ubuntu Wins Hand­somely [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 06:44 PM CST

In order to expose the Microsoft FUD that Linux is more inse­cure than Vista, I did a study that com­pared just the OSes of Vista and Ubuntu Dap­per for 2007, leav­ing out the appli­ca­tions. In doing so, I found that Ubuntu had much lesser highly crit­i­cal remotely exploitable vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties (3 vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties to Vista’s 10), thus expos­ing Microsoft FUD

Switch­ing to Linux: Desk­top envi­ron­ments vs. Win­dow man­agers

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 06:21 PM CST

Tonight is the night you install Linux for the first time. Pretty easy until you are blind­sided by the ques­tion: Which default desk­top envi­ron­ment would you like to install? Do you know? Do you care? What in the blazes is a desk­top envi­ron­ment, any­way? How is that dif­fer­ent from a win­dow manager?

7 Aban­doned Won­ders of Amer­ica (+PICS)

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 05:13 PM CST

Ever see an impres­sive derelict struc­ture and won­der just how a build­ing so ele­gant, siz­able or cen­trally located could be aban­doned? There are amaz­ing aban­don­ments all over the world, but some may be closer than you think. Many are even located right in the heart of major cities like New York or Los Ange­les and are decades or even cen­turies old.

Dell now ship­ping Gutsy 7.10, DVD play­back capa­ble [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 05:08 PM CST

Many peo­ple don’t real­ize how young our con­sumer Linux client pro­gram is…we started in May this year. I’ve been along for the ride every step of the way — from the time we heard loud and clear that there was a need not being met by any other major PC man­u­fac­turer at the time. What started as a grass roots cam­paign in the Linux com­mu­nity was.…..

Texas Vot­ing Machines — Rig an Elec­tion with 1 Pass­word [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 03:51 PM CST

The Hart Inter­civic vot­ing sys­tem, used in at least 16 States, allows any­one with access and a pass­code to mod­ify vote totals from an elec­tion with­out leav­ing any record of the mod­i­fi­ca­tion. Even worse, the same pass­code resides on all machines and in every stor­age device, wait­ing to be extracted and exploited.

Most Expen­sive LEGAL Pets To Own [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 03:22 PM CST

Mon­keys, Lions and Chim­panzees are ani­mals we often see in the wild and these exotic ani­mals can be pur­chased legally within the United States. Liv­ing in an accept­able juris­dic­tion and acquir­ing the cor­rect per­mit could turn your home into a mod­ern day zoo. These ani­mals, how­ever do come with a heavy price tag and that is not includ­ing the upkeep.

FBI: Tor­tur­ing Gave Us Noth­ing But “Crap” [Digg]

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 03:15 PM CST

The for­mer CIA agent, John Kiri­akou, who launched some­thing like a PR blitz last week telling ABC News, Zubay­dah held out until water­boarded; after only 35 sec­onds of that, he gave in and “from that day on, he answered every ques­tion” is not quite right. Accord­ing to the F.B.I, much of the threat infor­ma­tion he pro­vided was “crap.”
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