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- 2006: Actually, his name rhymes with "gainer".
- 2007: Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave
Marty Graham, Wired News - 2007: Inconviencing the Truth -- Bill Hobbs
- 2007: Global warming debate spurs Oregon title tiff
Vince Patton, KGW - 2007: Scientists develop portable generator that turns trash into electricity -- Purdue University
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FULL SPECTRUM CULTURE
By the grace of God, seeing life in color since 2003.
Internal Struggle
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Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times
This is a fun one. Check it out.
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Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says — CNN.com
This is a very interesting article, in that it substantiates the biblical narrative, but gives no basis for the numbers that it uses. Granted, that may be because the assumptions they use yield the numbers they get, and statistically speaking they can’t get any closer to reality with the tools and assumptions they use. I’ll [...]
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In Age of High-Tech, Are Americans Losing Touch with DIY Skills?
— Glenn Reynolds, Popular Mechanics
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A brilliant defense against liberal charges of “hypocrisy”.
James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today column for July 11th contains such a brilliant insight from a reader, which I can’t link to directly. So I simply must quote it here in full: “Hypocrisy does not mean saying one thing and doing the opposite. It means saying something that one does not believe. Let’s [...]
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Researchers fight resistant bugs
— Jim Nesbitt, The News & Observer
“…Most antibiotics attack infectious bugs by breaking down the cell wall that holds bacteria together or knocking out the “protein factory” necessary for growth and survival. But if Lujan’s discovery works on other stubborn bacteria, the long-term result could be a new family of antibiotics based on a type of drug already approved for use [...]
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The Exorcist: An Indonesian man seeks “to create an Islam that will make people smile.”
Bret Stephens, OpinionJournal
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A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Executive Summary Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not [...]
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Reuters admits altering Beirut photo
Yaakov Lappin, YNet News
See Also: Reuters admits to more image manipulation – Yaakov Lappin, YNet News Reuters Dismisses Photog Over Doctored Pictures – Editor & Publisher Reuters on the Run – Litte Green Footballs More Photo Fraud by Reuters – Little Green Footballs Reuters has been busted and can’t be trusted. Definitely not for the Battle of Lebanon, [...]