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One foot in the hustle and bustle of the wonderful Twin Cities and the other foot deeply planted in the woods of Northern Wisconsin. I suppose "urban lumberjack" might be the appropriate term. I am a recent Computer Science and Art graduate from The University of Minnesota. By day I am a web developer for this here site, and by night I am the Executive Director of TC based Adamantine Arts as well as an aspiring artist, musician, and experimental cook. I am working on being involved more in the community here, so please consider me to be just another member. I usually am interested in art, music, politics, and humor stories. Yup, so that is me in a nutshell. Word.

Website: http://blainegarrett.com/

| Member Since: September 26, 2006

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Virgin Galactic Unveils Design For SpaceShipTwo

Gadgets & Tech – This morning, Richard Branson's spaceship startup Virgin Galactic unveiled the second design of its suborbital vehicles... Branson suggests that if Virgin Galactic can prove the commercial viability of space flight, it will unlock a "wall of investment that could rival the amount invested in mobile or the Internet."

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Because Now it Really Hurts! - Anti-Smoking Blog

Do-It-Yourself – I want to quit for my health. I have no pulse in my legs and my doctor says I'm going to need surgery. But he won't even consider operating until I quit smoking. Besides this, I have had throat polyps removed and all of my doctors say I have to stop smoking.

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'Futurama' Is Back! Grab a Can of Slurm and Settle In

Television – Set in the year 3000, Futurama's interstellar sci-fi future isn't a shiny utopia like The Jetsons or a dark dystopia like Blade Runner. It's a time that seems wonderful or awful depending on how you look at it -- just like the present.

View Story Discuss (7) (wired.com) 171 days ago by corey.spring

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MD5 My Passwords, for f*ck's sake

Gadgets & Tech – A quick note on proper online password securities using MD5 hashes. Those who do not use this are idiots.

View Story Discuss (1) (blog.jeffkee.com) 422 days ago by jeffkee

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Google as a Password Cracker?

Gadgets & Tech – While doing forensics, I thought it would be interesting to find out the account password. Wordpress stores raw MD5 hashes in the user database (despite my recommendation to use salting). As with any respectable hash function, it is believed to be computationally infeasible to discover the input of MD5 from an output.

View Story Discuss (12) (lightbluetouchpaper.org) 178 days ago by tdrapeau

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Netscape Messenger 9 Alpha Released

Gadgets & Tech – We are pleased to announce the availability of the first public alpha of Netscape Messenger 9, a mail and news client, to complement the Netscape Navigator Web browser.

View Story Discuss (4) (blog.netscape.com) 183 days ago by cfinke

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U.S. sets record in sexual disease cases

Health & Fitness – More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year, the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. The count broke the single-year record for reported cases of a sexually transmitted disease, which was 1,013,436 cases of gonorrhea, set in 1978.

View Story Discuss (128) (news.yahoo.com) 185 days ago by Aidenag

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Why do people still play Halo 1?

Video Games – What makes Halo's multiplayer so popular and enduring? Ever since Halo debuted as a launch title for the Xbox in 2001, the series has consistently been the most popular multiplayer title in the first-person shooter genre.

View Story Discuss (4) (advancedmn.com) 229 days ago by TheVisionary

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Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in 'Halo 3'

Video Games – "A lot of teenage kids out there play dozens of hours of multiplayer Halo a week. They thus become insanely good at the game: They can kill me with a single head shot from halfway across a map. I can't do those things. So after a few weeks of this ritual humiliation, I got sick of it. And I devised a simple technique for revenge..." [via

View Story Discuss (17) (wired.com) 193 days ago by Neophile

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Landfill alternative to generate energy

Science – A Michigan company could become the first in the nation to generate electricity by incinerating waste, thereby reducing the need for landfills. SunCrest Energy, based in southwest Michigan, wants to build a facility that would incinerate trash at more than 10,000 degrees, converting it to synthetic gas that would power...turbines.

View Story Discuss (26) (upi.com) 208 days ago by Debbie

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Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize

News – - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract it.

View Story Discuss (694) (news.yahoo.com) 217 days ago by Aidenag

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The Stripper's Secret - Make The Most Of Your Menstrual Cycle

Science – Unlike their sisters in the animal kingdom, human females don't openly advertise their ovulation. But even without a human version of the baboon's bright pink behind, signs of fertility sneak out. Strippers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility, versus about $35 while menstruating and $50 in between.

View Story Discuss (2) (psychologytoday.com) 225 days ago by _kam0_

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Top 10 Time Savers You Shouldn't Do...

Humor – In reply to Little Dumb Man's great 35 Spectacular and Time Saving Tips article, I was thinking that, just in the same way making money shouldn't be the bottom line for businesses, saving time shouldn't be the bottom line for busy people. Here are some things that will defiantly save you time, but you shouldn't probably doÃ¢â;¬Â¦

View Story Discuss (2) (blainegarrett.com) 239 days ago by blainegarrett

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Burning Man Set on Fire Early, Arson To Blame

News – At around 3 am Tuesday morning at Burning Man 2007, during a rare lunar eclipse, the Burning Man sculpture was set on fire prematurely (it is normally burned on Saturday). The early burn is being investigated as arson. [via boingboing]

View Story Discuss (1) (laughingsquid.com) 262 days ago by Wil

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