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Being a bit of a news junky I know all the good spots to find great articles. The main problem that I have found so far with the large news outlets is that you have to take the good with the bad.
By that I mean I don’t like a lot of sports news for example. [...]

For the past god knows how many years now, a site’s popularity has been ranked by the amount of hits or visits it receives. It is a bit unfair of course, since you can generate massive amounts of traffic, but saying that your site receives five million hits a day doesn’t mean five million people [...]

I always thought that the anonymity services you find online might not be so anonymous (i.e., Tor). Sure, a lot of them are good, and sure, a lot of people use some of them. But just because a million people believe a lie, they don’t make it true. Just because millions use anonymity services doesn’t [...]

I found an interesting article today on New Scientist, dealing with a new development in robotics. As the inventor points out, most robots either use multiple legs, or multiple balls, to get around.
His invention, the Ballbot, uses just one ball. Obviously computers work out the balancing act, and then use small balls on the bottom [...]

Want to see a bit of fantastic bit of art? And all done with a finger and lots of dust… There are ten dust art pictures there, all done by Scott Wade in the rear window of his Mini Cooper (good car there Scott!).
Quite talented, I’d say

Cos you never know when a jar of pennies can save your life!
A campaigner against drug dealers in her neighbourhood had a penny jar, Brenda Scott, president of the Ebbets Field Houses Tenants Organization in Brooklyn, heard a smash on Saturday night and found the bullet hole in her front door.
The bullet lodged itself inside [...]

So I won’t talk about one thing, just a few things I’ve found on my browsing tonight. I spent all day on my feet (working, mind you) and my back hurts, I could use a good masseuse. I sat down on my couch, had some stew, watched some footie, drank some gin and tonic and [...]

Although I’m of the opinion that violence should be suitably rewarded with time in prison or a death sentence for killers, I’m not quite sure I would go as far as the Chinese. They have recently sentenced someone to death for tattooing his girlfriend’s legs.
Now, that being said, when you learn what Zhou Jingzhi did, [...]

I found this today and thought I would post about it. It’s something that you don’t see at all. The odd explosion on the news, our media basically “cleans” up anything to make sure we don’t see anything bad. God forbid we see people dying in a *gasp* war…
Vehicles destroyed in Iraq. Actually, it makes [...]

I had to do a double-take when I first saw the headline, then I followed the link. Simply amazing! I wonder what made this laptop explode out of the blue? Sure, there’s lots of reasons, lots of nasty chemicals and manufactured goods inside laptops that could react badly with one another, but they’re usually separated [...]