May
6
2009
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May
6
2009
Pierced glasses are a pair of prescription eyeglasses that stay affixed to your ugly mug via a piercing through the nose. Pretty clever.



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May
6
2009
Today we’re rolling out the long-awaited release of Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect allows Facebook’s 200+ million members to login and start Digging and commenting right away.-Kevin



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May
6
2009
The weird wonders of Google Earth just keep on coming. A few weeks ago, ABCNews.com went to the ends of Google Earth (and Google Maps, too) to explore some of the most interesting images left behind by pranksters, artists, Mother Nature and everyday people.



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May
6
2009
Proposed congressional legislation would demand up to two years in prison for those whose electronic speech is meant to “coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person.” Instead of prison, perhaps we should say gulag.



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May
6
2009
Support for the Swedish Pirate Party surged following the Pirate Bay verdict and today it became the third largest political party in the country. When they are elected for the European Parliament next month, the party hopes to end the abuse of copyright by multi-billion dollar corporations.



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May
6
2009
The truth is no one knows exactly how many desktop Linux users there are. But, here are some of the ways we can use try to get to accurate numbers.



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May
6
2009
Just a few days before their court appearance, Mininova, the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, has started to filter content. The site is using a third party content recognition system that will detect and remove torrent files that link to copyright infringing files.



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May
6
2009
Web design has come a very long way since the days of tables and spacer .gifs, and when CSS finally got support from most browsers, a whole new world of options opened for web developers and designers



Comments Off on 20 CSS Short Hands You’ll Love | tags: developer, web | posted in technical news
May
6
2009
Here it is, the moment many of you have been waiting for: the U.S. Trustee’s office has filed a motion in the SCO bankruptcy proceeding to convert the SCO’s Chapter 11 to Chapter 7.



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