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Sri Lanks Tops Ireland: World Cup Super 8

UPDATE: Ireland must now bow out of World Cup contention..."Ireland's World Cup came to a sorry end as Sri Lanka thrashed them by eight wickets with 40 overs to spare in their Super 8 clash in Grenada. The Irish were bowled out for 77, mainly thanks to Farveez Maharoof (4-25)...

Symbology Development Growth Gets MSM Attention :: Symblogogy

"Yes, that’s right, the Main Stream Media (MSM) here in North America is finally taking notice that cellphones and symbologies make good bedfellows (New York Times – “New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your...

Homeland Security revives supersnoop

"Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have...

Unmanned helicopter rescue service for Mount Everest

"Unmanned helicopter rescue service for Mount Everest February 7, 2007 One of the many problems of climbing a mountain as tall as Mount Everest, is that once you’re up there, there’s not much help available if things go wrong. Most helicopters are not designed to operate...

Is 17 the "most random" number?

I love freakonomic-type stuff that takes conventional wisdom and subjects it to some kind of emprical test. Recently I came across a study into randomness. Totally cosmic man."The poll was inspired by this post...

Follow-ups on birth control drugs urged

"Government advisers recommended against setting specific requirements for the reliability of new hormonal contraceptives on Wednesday, saying that might keep useful approaches off the market. The panel did recommend, however, that the Food and Drug Administration ask drug...

Western Downwinders Conference - January 27th

"Fallout Compensation Expansion Conference Set For Boise Idaho Downwinders, based in Emmett, Idaho, is organizing a conference open to the public, Saturday, January 27 in Boise, Idaho on expanding compensation to victims of radioactive fallout from past nuclear weapons...

Linux hard drive benchmark & bottleneck testing software suite

The stress test of hardware (hard drive benchmarks) is a simplistic test. There are a number of benchmarking applications software that can be used as hard disk (storage) stress testing. My favorite is Bonnie++ software. Bonnie++ is a benchmark suite that is aimed at...

FireFox 3 is now avalable for beta testing

"Thanks for the tip Rutilus Mozilla has officially released the first public alpha build of Firefox 3.0. Codenamed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which leverages the open-source Cairo rendering framework and features heavily refactored...

Taco Bell pulls onions as E. coli outbreak grows

Taco Bell pulls onions, next? Taco Bell pulls Taco Bell (we should be so lucky!)

Today's Vista launch is just the beginning

"After years of coding, bug-testing and a few early skirmishes with rivals and regulators, Microsoft's next operating system will finally launch "to businesses" on Thursday. The question now is, who will want...

Yahoo! Launches Group Texting Site

"Yahoo! is getting in on the group text messaging biz with the launch of their new site, Mixd. TechCrunch was tipped off to the site'€™s existence today but we have not been able to determine how long it has been live. Mixd allows users to set up groups and text or share...

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