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Monthly Archives: June 2006

World’s second richest man will give away 85% of his wealth!

Warren Buffet who is worth $44 billion will be giving away 85% of his fortune to charities – like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From Wikepedia – Mr. Buffet has indicated that he opposes the transfer of great fortunes … Continue reading

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Bill Gates To Leave Day-To-Day Operations Of Microsoft

Bill Gates plans to withdraw from day-to-day duties at Microsoft Corp., so he can focus on his charitable foundation while others run the company he co-founded and guided to industry dominance and vast personal wealth. Source: komo news | Gates … Continue reading

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Being Overweight Isn’t All Bad

A 440 pound German man barely had any injuries after being run over by a Volkswagen Polo. Hehe, kinda like the Blob in the X-Men. Source Have a nice day

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Meteorite Hits Norway

A meteorite that hit Norway has an impact comparable to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This is very exciting, I’ve always been interested how powerful a decent-sized meteorite could be. Though it would suck if it was several miles … Continue reading

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Intel To Cut Prices By 60%

This is very good news. Intel will cut the prices of its products by up to 60% to reclaim market share from AMD. Here are some interesting quotes from the article. Customers of Intel Corp. said the world’s biggest computer-chip … Continue reading

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The Lyrebird

A lyrebird is a ground dwelling bird in Australia. It is known for it’s amazing ability to imitate sounds it hears. It can imitate the calls of other birds. It can even imitate more “artificial” sounds, from camera shutters to … Continue reading

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Juan Animation

Found this on Blogger.com. Some nice drawings of stuff. Reminds me of those new Disney films Here are some samples: Click here to go to Juananimation Blog.

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SQL injection by example

I found this on digg.com. As quoted from the source: “SQL Injection” is subset of the an unverified/unsanitized user input vulnerability (“buffer overflows” are a different subset), and the idea is to convince the application to run SQL code that … Continue reading

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2Advanced Studios new design

2Advanced Studios just released a new design for their website. Very cool. It has some sort of step-pyramid, which looks very cool. Better navigation and kick-ass ambient background music. You must see to appreciate. Words are not enough to describe … Continue reading

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RIAA does not like Youtube and Google Video

The RIAA is targeting Youtube and Google Video. Noonebutme writes: In its ever-increasing battle against Internet piracy, the RIAA is always looking for new ways to prevent people from listening to music without authorization. The newest way to share music … Continue reading

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