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25 Websites to watch

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:36:43 GMT

clipped by: Yasir
clipper's remarks: See the Target article to read full list and descriptions.

What's tomorrow's YouTube? The Web's next breakout hit may be one these innovative, useful, and fun new sites.

Pageflakes

This super-customizable version of a home page enables you to pick the news and information feeds you want to read, and to specify the "flakes," or applets, you want to include

Spock

If you spend more time than you should googling folks, you need to check out Spock.com, a search engine designed to dig up information about people.

Swivel

Swivel, holds a mind-boggling array of charts and graphs-

Clipmarks

The Internet is the best research tool in existence. That's the good news--and the bad news. Though finding information online is easy, keeping track of it all can be tough. Most people end up copying and pasting information from Web sites, printing it out, or bookmarking pages--with no good way to keep it all organized or find what they want fast.

OpenDNS

Next page: Real Estate, Bookmarks, and Blogs

Tags: website, design, innovation

MAmmoth Skeleton auction

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:49:52 GMT

clipped by: Yasir

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Mammoth skeleton sets auction record

PARIS - If you were looking for the skeleton of a prehistoric mammoth, Monday was your day to buy. Christie's auction house sold one for $421,200 — a world record.

The unidentified buyer was a European who collects contemporary art and 19th century furniture, Christie's spokeswoman Capucine Milliot said.

The mammoth sale was one of a dozen world records set during Monday's auction of paleontological curiosities that brought in a total of more than $1.53 million, Christie's said.

The 10,000-year-old skeleton of a 13.5-foot-long rhinoceros sold for a record $162,000. That of a 7.5-foot-high prehistoric cave bear from the Russian Urals sold for $63,180.

Tags: skeleton, auction

Duck born with four legs.

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:44:50 GMT

clipped by: Yasir
clipper's remarks: I still can't believe it if it is true.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

An undated handout picture shows Stumpy the duck with four legs aged about three weeks at Warrawee Duck Farm near Southampton in southern England. Stumpy now only has three legs, after one was amputated after he caught it in a fence. REUTERS/Hand out (BRITAIN)

Tags: duck, animals, legs

Unbelievable

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:54:22 GMT

clipped by: Yasir
clipper's remarks: This is something really unbelievable. I don't have words for it.
Just thinking, had this teacher ever tried to purify himself and drove the evil away from his own body.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian teachers sprinkled cow urine on low-caste students to purify them and drive away evil, reports said on Saturday, in a country where millions of people remain oppressed at the bottom of the ancient Hindu caste system.

Upper-caste headteacher Sharad Kaithade ordered the ritual after taking over from a lower-caste predecessor at a school in a remote village in the western state of Maharashtra earlier this month, the Times of India reported.

He told an upper-caste colleague to spray cow urine in a cleansing ceremony as the students were taking an examination, wetting their faces and their answer sheets, the newspaper said.

In 2001, Hindu nationalists promoted cow's urine as a cure for ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer.

The newspaper said the two teachers were arrested after angry parents complained to police. They have been released on bail.

Tags: india

How Polygamy Causes Wars

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:05:20 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: The only defense Islam has been able to construct for itself is to recruit these unattached males, inculcate them into the religion, and convince them that if they turn their violence and sexual frustrations outward¸ they will be rewarded with "70 virgins in heaven." This is how the ranks of martyrs and suicide bombers are created.

When Muslim warriors proclaim, "We love death," they are not kidding. In a polygamous Islamic society, some men's lives have very little intrinsic value. They are literally better off seeking death.

Monogamy is the social contract that lies at the heart of the relatively peaceful societies of Europe and the Orient.

It is no accident that Islam has "bloody borders" with both these civilizations. We practice different social customs that give human life very different values. If the UN wanted to something really useful, it would declare reproductive equality a "human right" and ban polygamy throughout the world.

Clip Source: www.spectator.org

Islam is the only major world religion that sanctions polygamy.

When successful men can accumulate more than one wife, that means some other man gets none. As a result, the unavoidable outcome is a hard-core residue of unattached men who have little or no prospect of achieving a family life.

Women become a scarce resource that must be hoarded and veiled and banned from public places

Men who are denied access to these hoarded women have only one option -- they can band together and try to fight their way into the seats of power.

The entire history of Islam is a story of superfluous males going off into the desert (literally or figuratively) and deciding that the religion being practiced by the well-furnished elites of the cities is "not the true Islam." They then burst back upon the cities, violently attempting to overthrow the established authority.

The only defense Islam has been able to construct for itself is to recruit these unattached males,

rewarded with "70 virgins in heaven."

Tags: war, religion

Apple TV

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:57:13 GMT

clipped by: Yasir
clipper's remarks: Seems very cheap to me, and like the author in the original post I also think if all this is true, it may well take over x86 appliance market.

Clip Source: blogs.techrepublic.com.com

Apple TV might obsolete the x86 appliance market

The Apple TV - at least according to Apple Insider - is built on an Intel Pentium M 1 GHz with 2 MBs of L2 cache, 256 MBs of onboard DDR2 400 MHz memory, and a 40 GB internal Hard Drive for a total price of $299! Note that a Pentium M 1 GHz processor is roughly equivalent to a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 processor so it's plenty fast as a dedicated server appliance.

Linux-based IPCop plus CopFilter gateway anti-virus firewall *

Asterisk PBX telephony appliance **

Linux server

Microsoft SBS Small Business Server

Microsoft Home Server

Small branch office domain controller

Microsoft ISA firewall appliance *

A small/silent desktop PC (Windows XP, Linux, maybe even a hacked version Mac OS X for x86 computers) which is perfect for a car computer. Silent car computers easily cost more than $600 and this might be the perfect solution for an in-car entertainment system.

Tags: apple, mac, x86, linux, windows

Hidden pages within Firefox browser.

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:05:21 GMT

clipped by: Yasir
clipper's remarks: Although i knew about about:config but today found these pages.

Clip Source: www.our-picks.com

about: A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla “about” information.

about:buildconfig Obviously, it will show the build platform configuration and parameters

about:cache Will display info and statistics regarding your disk’s cache, including the name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries you can find there.

about:config Oh look, many many info. Indeed, it’s the most complex and meaningful of them all. Careful on what you plan to change here, your browser won’t run properly after if you play with the wrong things.

about:plugins

This option will display detailed information about all the plugins installed for Mozilla Firefox.

about:credits It’s time to give the credit to whoever deserves it. There’s an alphabetically sorted list of all the people that gave their contribution to the development of Firefox.

about:Mozilla This is a weird thing. It will display the so-called “Book of Mozilla”. Something similar was present in Netscape too.

Tags: firefox, browser

Policemen suspendid for attack on GEO TV

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:40:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.asiamedia.ucla.edu

Islamabad --- Pakistan government has suspended 14 policemen for their alleged involvement in the attack on journalists during the raid on the offices of the country's biggest private broadcaster Geo TV.

Police on Friday raided the offices of Geo TV, which had come under tremendous pressure from the establishment over its coverage of the suspended Chief Justice Iftikar Muhammad Chaudhry, and beat up journalists. Soon after the incident, President Pervez Musharraf condemned the raid as an act of "sabotage" against his government and apologised to the channel "It is a very regrettable incident. It is a very unfortunate incident, I condemn it in strongest terms," Musharraf said.

"Police have attacked our office, they are breaking windows. They are beating our staff. They have used tear gas shells. Even our female staff have been hurt. They are damaging our building," Geo's Islamabad bureau chief Hamid Mir said on air.

Tags: police, politics, attack, chanel

Will Google become the next Microsoft??

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:08:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.searchnewz.com

It would be easy for me to jump on the bandwagon, that's going to gain momentum today, from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's recent comments on Google.

"They are trying to double in a year," Ballmer told a crowd of Stanford Graduate School of Business students on Thursday. "That's insane in my opinion."

Focusing on that comment would be like shooting fish in a barrel. More interesting are Ballmer's back-handed compliments that appear to send a message to the media (and investors) that Microsoft was once like Google, and that the world's largest search engine may too become like the Redmond software company.

"They do a lot of cute things," Ballmer said, to huge laughs from the business students. "We do a lot of cute things too," he said. "We have a robotics effort."

"Google is in the part of the cycle where they are milking," Ballmer said, acknowledging that's a fun stage. "That was the 1990s for us or I would say the 1980s and 1990s."

Tags: microsoft, google

Microsoft finally acquires Tellme Networks

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:35:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.techspot.com

Microsoft acquires Tellme Networks

Did you ever watch that video where a Microsoft rep. demonstrates voice recognition for Windows Vista and everything goes wrong? While unrelated to this acquisition, speech recognition in general has always posed a challenge and interest to the software giant. Microsoft announced this week the acquisition of Tellme Networks, which specializes in directory assistance, enterprise customer service, voice-enabled mobile search and runs a popular mobile search service.

“Speech is universal, simple and holds incredible promise as a key interface for computing,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft. “Tellme brings to Microsoft the talent, technology and proven experience in speech that will enable us to deliver a new wave of products and revolutionize human-computer interaction.”

Tags: microsoft, speech recognition

Microsoft to acquire speech-recognition developer Tellme

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:24:40 GMT

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Clip Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

Microsoft officially announced Wednesday its intentions to acquire Tellme Networks and that it plans to integrate the Mountain View, Calif., company's speech-recognition technology into some of Microsoft's best-known applications.

"Tellme brings to Microsoft the talent, technology and proven experience in speech that will enable us to deliver a new wave of products and revolutionize human-computer interaction," said Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft declined to say how much it paid for Tellme, but sources close to the deal peg it at about $800 million, putting it at the high-end for Microsoft acquisitions.

The privately held Tellme has raised $230 million in venture capital since it was founded in 1999. It says more than 40 million people use its services every month and one in three Americans use it every year.

Tags: microsoft, speech

How do fish drink water?

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:52:44 GMT

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Clip Source: ask.yahoo.com

Some fish drink the water they swim in, while others absorb it through osmosis. It just depends on whether the fish lives in freshwater or saltwater.

fish need to keep a certain concentration of salt in their bodies. Marine fish need to worry about preventing water loss, because they already get plenty of salt. They drink sea water, and their gills process the water but remove the salt. In fact, some saltwater fish lack properly functioning kidneys, in order to help avoid losing too much water.

Freshwater fish have the opposite problem: They need more salt. They absorb water through their skin and have effective ways of excreting excess liquid to maintain the salt they need.

Some fish have developed the ability to exist comfortably in both freshwater and saltwater -- the salmon and bull shark are notable examples. Bull sharks have been found far up the Mississippi and Amazon rivers, much to the surprise of people who believe sharks are found only in the salty, salty sea.

Tags: fish, water

"Dont trust Goolge with copyright", said Microsoft - NEWS

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:59:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Read full news article, I m still unable to figure out if Google is doing right thing or not. What is your opinion.

Clip Source: tech.blorge.com

Speaking at the Association of American Publishers Annual Meeting in New York, Thomas C. Rubin, Associate General Counsel for Copyright, Trademark and Trade Secrets at Microsoft, questioned Google’s longer term business model for Google Book Search.

“The stated goal of Google’s Book Search project is to make a copy of every book ever published and bring it within Google’s vast database of indexed content. While Google says that it doesn’t currently intend to place ads next to book search results, Google’s broader business model is straightforward – attract as many users as possible to its site by providing what it considers to be ‘free’ content, then monetize that content by selling ads. I think Pat Schroeder put it best when she said Google has ‘a hell of a business model – they’re going to take everything you create, for free, and sell advertising around it.’”

Tags: microsoft, google, books, literature

Microsoft chairman on US Immigration policies on skilled workers.

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:42:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.hardbeatnews.com

Gates this week appeared before the Senate’s committee on health, education, labor and pensions and insisted that the policy cap on skilled workers allowed into the country annually was "driving away the world's best and brightest precisely when we need them most."

Gates, whose company employs many foreign skilled programmers, insisted that the US technology industry is suffering from a lack of skilled workers while demand for them is on the rise. "It makes no sense to tell well-trained, highly skilled individuals, many of whom are educated at our top colleges and universities, that the United States does not welcome or value them," he told the Senate committee. "America will find it infinitely more difficult to maintain its technological leadership if it shuts out the very people who are most able to help us compete."

Current immigration policy limits US visas for skilled foreign workers to 65,000 annually.

Tags: microsoft, bill gates, policy, programming, work

What do we miss in real life?

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:11:55 GMT

clipped by: Yasir

Clip Source: playsafeus.blogspot.com

What do we miss in life?

1. **5 minutes ago you were traveling to office at 80 mph. in your brand new car. Now you are traveling to hospital at double the speed in an ambulance, you wish there was 'undo (ctrl + Z)' in life!

2. **You are already late, and your key is missing, you wish there was 'find tool (ctrl+F)' in life!

3. **You are a bankrupt, after investing in some weird business, you wish there was 'rebuild all' in life!

4. **The train is so crowded that you cannot get anywhere near that nice girl at the other end, You wish there was 'zoom & view full screen' in life!

5. **After marriage you realize that there is bound to be a mismatch, you wish there was an valuation period' or at least a 'sample download' or a 'demo version'!

6. **One day you realize that you are turning bald, you wish there was 'cut and paste (ctrl + X)/(ctrl + C)' in life!

And the best one is ..........

7. **The best part of the keyboard is U & I are together which is not always there in life......

Tags: computer, technology