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Song made from annoying Windows sounds
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on February 17, 2008
Filed under: Audio, Video, WindowsYou know those annoying sounds Windows makes when an error message pops up? You know, the "you cannot delete this file, so please stop trying, and oh yeah, quick, put your fingers in your ears!" noise. While that might not be the most pleasant sound associated with Windows, it turns out that when you mix the system sounds that come with Windows 98 and XP...
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Evelyn Waugh
via Quotes of the Day by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
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Search4Significance - Every human being deserves to feel loved...
via www.search4significance.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Dear Friend,Thanks for taking the time to visit our Search4Significance blog! It was our first time to try anything like this so it was a bit of an experiment. We had 524 ‘unique’ (first time) hits and over 1,350 total visits. Those are pretty ‘significant’ numbers. We are undecided as to whether we will continue the site but we would like your help in gathering information that will...
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Norman Mailer
via Quotes of the Day by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
"There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you."
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 11, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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How to Make Facebook Useful Again
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 19, 2008
Oh the heels of some of Facebook's missteps (ahem, Beacon) and the proliferation of a myriad of useless, silly, and time-wasting apps, someformer Facebook users decided to quit the site for good this year. However, a handful of early adopter angst doesn't have Facebook worried. Why is that? Because Facebook has a whole generation of users who grew up using their site for everything social...
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Jealousy
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
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How Two Teenage High School Dropouts Hacked Comcast [Comcast]
via Gizmodo by (author unknown) on May 30, 2008
Shared by WindPower PwnageA couple days ago, a pair of teenagers brought down Comcast's homepage and mail service. They haven't been arrested (yet), so they gave the full story to Wired. Like most nuclear-level hacks, they didn't intend to hijack the website and mail hosting of the biggest cable company in the country. They say they even tried to warn Comcast. But, "once we were in,"...
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Hollywood's On Fire!
via Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton by Perez Hilton on May 31, 2008
Universal Studios is ablaze!A big fire broke out early Sunday morning in the backlot and destroyed the iconic courthouse square set from Back to the Future, the King Kong exhibit and a video vault containing more than 40,000 videos and reels.Almost 300 fire fighters worked to extinguish the flames.A commercial shoot was going on in the backlot when the fire broke out. The fire is under...
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FireNes Brings 2000 NES Games to Your Browser [Featured Firefox Extension]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on June 07, 2008
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The FireNes Firefox extension integrates over 2000 old-school NES games with your favorite browser. Once you install FireNes and fire it up (either through the Tools menu or the optional toolbar button), you can browse the enormous library of games in your Firefox sidebar and play any one of your 8-bit favorites at the click of your mouse. Alternately, if...
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