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OKDHS warns of phishing scam
via MuskogeePhoenix.com, Muskogee, OK--Local News by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
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Disable All Notification Balloons in Windows Vista
via the How-To Geek by The Geek on June 15, 2008
If you find the popup notification balloons in the Windows Vista system tray to be too annoying, you might be interested to know that you can completely disable them. This would be an extreme option, of course… typically you can just turn them off in any offending applications, but if you want to disable them across the board, this is the solution.Note: I'm not necessarily recommending that...
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Tipsy flower pot tower for your yard
via DIY Life by Maggie Vink on June 16, 2008
Filed under: gardening and plantsI don't know what it's like where you live, but every time the stores come out with something new for the garden, I start seeing the item popping up all over town. Soon enough, that unique new ornament is commonplace and a bit trite. I can honestly say that I've never seen a "tipsy" flower pot tower, though; it looks like something I want to try in my...
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Summize Fast Twitter Search [Twitter]
via Lifehacker by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by cdogzilla Kind of a fun way to check the buzz. People seem to be liking Kung Fu Panda, for instance.If you're wondering what Twitter users have to say about a certain topic—whether it's Sex and the City or Barack Obama—run a search for it on Summize Conversational Search, one of the fastest and most conveniently formatted Twitter search engines around. We've been...
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Big Buck Bunny: CC-licensed animated short made with free/open animation
tool Blendervia Boing Boing by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Chris Schrier I'm really impressed with how well this turned out.Mike sez, "To show off the open-source animation program Blender, a small team just finished a great ten-minute cartoon, 'Big Buck Bunny.' They were funded by foundation support and pre-orders of the DVD by the Blender community. What's more, the whole thing is Creative Commons-licensed, and all the files...
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Plant a chocolate lover's garden
via DIY Life by Debra McDuffee on May 22, 2008
Filed under: gardening and plants, landscaping, outdoorI admit it: I am a chocoholic. I probably eat a tiny bit of chocolate every day, usually a section or two of the super-dark organic Dagoba Eclipse.And eating it is not enough. I like to make Cocoa Patchouli Body Butter and slather it on my hands and body. I sniff cocoa absolute just for the fun of it. Heck, I just got immense pleasure from...
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FlixPulse Rates Movies by Twitter Consensus [Twitter]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 07, 2008
Web-based movie review index FlixPulse might not provide the voice of rationed wisdom on how good a movie is, but it's a nifty way to see what the uber-connected Twitter community has to say on it. Real humans scan through film mentions across the short-messaging community, then group them into good, bad, or indifferent piles to compile a percentage. Of course, most people aren't going to...
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Become a Lifehacker Tip Tester at Flickr [Announcements]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on June 07, 2008
We just love it when readers try out tricks and tips that we post here on Lifehacker, and now we want to see more of it—and hear how it turned out. We've just created the "Lifehacker Tip Testers" Flickr group, and we're looking for bold readers armed with cameras and hacks in action to join the group, submit photos of the tricks they've installed in their lives, and tell us how they...
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Steampunk Dalek!
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on June 07, 2008
Alex Holden made this stupendous steampunk* Dalek out of junk, shampoo bottles and paint.The main body is made from a plastic Dalek bubble-bath bottle I bought very cheaply at Woolworth's in the post-Christmas sales. At the time I had no idea what I could use it for, but it looked too cool to pass up. I disassembled it and spray-painted the parts with a can of gold Plastikote paint after...
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NuClear Waste Solution
via CURRY.COM by AC on June 07, 2008
Russia Today: “Russian geologists have discovered a new mineral which absorbs radiation from liquid nuclear waste. They are now striving to chemically clone it, in the hope it may help solve the problem of radioactive waste disposal.”Comment
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