Jan
23
2009
About 3,800 years ago, residents of Supe Valley in Peru’s coastal desert, 120 miles north of Lima, had just created a flourishing society complete with tall pyramids (thousands of years before the Maya). They were fishing and growing cotton and vegetables, when disaster struck and the forces of nature wiped them out. Just like that.


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Jan
23
2009
Though no one ever said the reptile look was going to snag any dates, it’s just one of the six most bizarre ways people are altering their appearance for better or worse… I’d say for worse.


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Jan
23
2009
Another week brings yet another BlackBerry Storm OS leak. This time the version is 4.7.0.90 for the 9530 and 9500—a version CrackBerry claims is “a step in the right direction.”


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Jan
23
2009
Unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn’t have to convince users to buy its operating system; that happens automatically when they purchase a new PC. Microsoft only has to keep users from removing Windows 7 and backing down to Windows XP, which typically runs faster on the same hardware due to a variety of factors.


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Jan
23
2009
Right now it is a mystery, but given the widespread nature of the same symptom that started today it is looking like AT&T may be filtering out the Orb traffic. It could be a technical glitch, but I can find no announcement of technical issues or server problems with AT&T to explain it.


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Jan
23
2009
In a revealing example of what she says the average homeowner faces, a California Congresswoman spent more than two hours on the phone trying, without success, to find someone at the Bank of America who could help a struggling constituent modify his mortgage payments. ABC News “Nightline” cameras were rolling as Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Ca.)


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Jan
23
2009
Behind the scenes with the special effects team. Benjamin Button has swept the Oscar nominations. And while we may not agree with all of the noms, Button should be a lock for Visual Effects. Check out this new behind-the-scenes video.


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Jan
23
2009
FeedBurner has recently been trying to move its feeds over to Google. This prompted other bloggers and me to finally get around to moving our feeds onto Google. What myself and others did not know was that Google FeedBurner had us bloggers losing 100’s if not 1000’s of subscribers overnight.


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Jan
23
2009
If you’re not tattooed, here is a short guide to some mistakes to avoid. Before you go under the needle, have a look to see what the following might say about you.


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Jan
23
2009
TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?


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