Scout Jordan

Hi, I'm Jordan Running. By day I write about software for Tucows.com. By night I blog at swirlee.org (sometimes), do some programming, take some photos, and otherwise keep myself busy.

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Member Since: May 26, 2006

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Stone Age Art Caves May Have Been Concert Halls

Science – Prehistoric peoples chose places of natural resonant sound to draw their famed cave sketches, according to new analyses of paleolithic caves in France. In at least ten locations, drawings of horses, bison, and mammoths seem to match locations that focus, amplify, and transform the sounds of human voices and musical instruments.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 03, 2008 01:36pm

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Google wins YouTube source code ruling against Viacom

Gadgets & Tech – Google won a legal ruling that allows it to keep secret from Viacom the source code central to search functions on YouTube. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the search giant doesn't have to turn over the code to Viacom, which filed a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in 2007.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 03, 2008 01:03am

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The World's First Album Cover

Music – Alex Steinwess, a then 23 years old designer, convinced Columbia's suits to create the first true album cover. Until then, 78s were sold in generic sleeves.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 02, 2008 05:37pm

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Australians making odd choices for funeral songs

Music – Australia - Hymns are being replaced at funerals in one Australian city by popular rock classics like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," a cemetery manager said Wednesday. ... Leading the funeral chart is crooner Frank Sinatra's classic hit "My Way," followed by Louis Armstrong's version of "Wonderful World," a state

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Submitted and Voted for on July 02, 2008 04:09pm

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The King of Green Investing

Money – Vinod Khosla is pouring his own millions into science experiments to counter global warming -- and to prove he's the smartest guy in the Valley.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:23am

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Hands-free cellphone use isn't safer: Study

Autos – Scientists say that when mixing cellphones and driving, the number of hands available for the tasks is not the limiting factor. Instead, it's a driver's attention and processing capacity. These are often stretched beyond safe limits when someone juggles the complex tasks of negotiating traffic and conversing with another remotely.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:43pm

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Spectators see lion kill eagle at Greater Vancouver Zoo

News – A lion pounced on and killed a trained golden eagle in front of spectators at the Greater Vancouver Zoo. A zoo visitor who saw the incident, Pablo Su, said crows were harassing the eagle on Friday as it sat on a log. That attracted the attention of two approaching lions.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:42pm

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Truck hauling 12 million bees overturns

News – Beekeepers in New Brunswick had the unenviable task today of recovering 12 million honey bees from a truck that overturned on the Trans-Canada Highway in the northwest corner of the province. One beekeeper described the bees as "nasty" after their ordeal.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:41pm

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Dry times in venture-land: IPOs drop to zero in Q2

Gadgets & Tech – If you're wondering why we haven't been covering much IPO news recently, it's because there hasn't been any... This is the first quarter since 1978 that has gone by without a single venture-backed IPO, according to a new report from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:41pm

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Study Confirms: People Hate Fake Personalized Messages

News – A new study from the University of Illinois confirms what many of us may have suspected privately: "personalized" marketing communication online can often make us actively dislike the message's sender.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 04:08pm

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The Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria

News – Things supposedly started innocently enough. Kashasha, near Lake Victoria in Tanzania in 1962: One girl in a boarding school there told another girl a joke. But then things went dark, weird, and creepy: one girl laughed, but then so did another, and then another, and then another, and then another...

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 03:55pm

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It's a Done Deal: Microsoft To Acquire Powerset

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft will announce today that they have acquired San Francisco based semantic search engine Powerset. The acquisition price is not being disclosed, but our understanding from sources close to the deal is that the previously rumored $100 million is "roughly accurate."

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 03:31pm

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Jerry Yang And Sue Decker's Days Are Numbered At Yahoo

Gadgets & Tech – The board is considering replacing Jerry Yang and Sue Decker, who have lost the confidence of investors and employees. The "nice" way to do this (more likely) would be to allow Jerry to retire to non-executive Chairman. The harsh way (less likely) would be for the board to can him. Sue, meanwhile, is too linked to Jerry to survive.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 01:45am

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The Myth of Multitasking

Careers & Jobs – In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: "There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time."

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 01:44am

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Official Google Blog: Google learns to crawl Flash sites

Gadgets & Tech – Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 01:43am

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