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All the Bush you'll ever need
A huge compilation of Photoshop-meets-Bush
1,058 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!
492 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.
478 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.
575 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.
730 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.
426 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.
599 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?
544 views | 14 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
George Bush says..
Another of the brainy quotes.
905 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).
14,671 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.
248,714 views | 10 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
When will they change?
China not reporting all SARS cases, says surgeon.
418 views | 10 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
End of Saddam.
And hopefully the end of war.
653 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
570 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.
422 views | 09 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail
Elementary, my dear Watson!
An interesting caption contest from BBC about Sherlock Holmes' statue in London.
378 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.
768 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).
513 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.
515 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.
9,584 views | 04 Apr 2003 | Email this using SiphsMail

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