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All the Bush you'll ever need
A huge compilation of Photoshop-meets-Bush
889 views | 16 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
The game of REAL intelligence
Have computers, in the form of Deep Blue for example, come close to matching the kind of real intelligence used by humans in playing strategy games? Here is a new game played on the standard chess board, but with new rules, that proves otherwise!
389 views | 16 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
More than 25% of Korean homeless have credit cards!
According to this survey the total loans given to the homeless in Korea amounted to 2.43 billion won (about US$ 1.98 million), among which 86.9 percent, or 2.12 billion won (about $1.725 million) is overdue.
377 views | 15 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
From palm computing to wrist
How fashion watchmaker Fossil teamed up with Microsoft and Palm to change the face of wearable computing.
479 views | 14 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
A, well, 'fucked-up' thesis?
This thesis presents and defends semantic explications for a number of swearwords commonly used in Australian English. Its focus is on different constructions which can be conveyed using the three lexical forms shit, fuck and cunt.
618 views | 14 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
A comprehensive website (at CIA.gov) with all the skinny on Iraq's clandestine affairs.
326 views | 14 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
On one of the bleakest days since the invasion began, US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday shrugged off turmoil and looting in Iraq as signs of the people's freedom. "It's untidy, and freedom's untidy," he said.
449 views | 14 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Is SARS a bioterrorism attempt?
Could SARS be an ingenious social experiment featuring institutionalized bioterrorism for widespread psycho-social control?
449 views | 14 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
George Bush says..
Another of the brainy quotes.
795 views | 13 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
The "rugged" notebooks
The war may have done something positive by creating a whole new "ruggedized" laptop market segment led by Panasonic's Toughbook (used by troops in Iraq).
14,577 views | 12 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Never too late to be a mom
A 65-year-old retired schoolteacher in India has given birth to a baby boy, and become the world's oldest mother, according to press reports.
248,611 views | 10 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
When will they change?
China not reporting all SARS cases, says surgeon.
335 views | 10 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
End of Saddam.
And hopefully the end of war.
534 views | 09 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
The dream machine
The NovaDreamer is a mask that senses when you drift into REM or deep sleep. Gentle lights and sounds from the mask provide subconscious cues that tell you you're dreaming without waking you up. You'll actually be able to control what happens to you durin
467 views | 09 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Computers that watch while you work
Canadian researchers have designed a computer that pays attention to the person using it.
330 views | 09 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Elementary, my dear Watson!
An interesting caption contest from BBC about Sherlock Holmes' statue in London.
284 views | 08 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Our innards -- gross, but that's real life
There are a million 'bugs' on every square centimetre of our skin. One need only swallow 10 of the bacteria to get sick.
579 views | 08 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
A very useful list of start-up programs in Windows
A comprehensive list of the programs you may find that run when you switch on your PC as typically identified by MSCONFIG or the registry "Run" keys - and whether you need them (Windows systems).
410 views | 08 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble
The light from a massive explosion 2 billion years ago just arrived March 29th on Earth, thus setting off a global flurry of robotic telescopes to track what turned out to be 100 times more intense than any previously studied supernova events.
403 views | 08 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Mosquito and roach repellent -- the PC!
A Thai computer programmer behind a wildly popular anti-mosquito software package has upgraded his program to also repel cockroaches and rats, the English language Nation newspaper reports.
8,569 views | 04 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail

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