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LimeWire, Changing With the Times
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LimeWire, Changing With the Times

Music – Often accused of being a leading supporter of pirated music LimeWire is now set to become music store owners. Limewire is changing with the times by opening a on demand music download store. Music will be offered on a by song/album basis and on monthly subscriptions.

Voted for on August 16, 2007 05:21am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 23 votes / No sinks

WaterWorld and Oil?

Do No Evil – Has the world gone totally stark raving mad? A CNN story the other day revealed two things. First, that CNN anchors are idiots and secondly that our leaders care more about oil than global catastrophe. This may be a case where do no evil is equal to do no idiocy.

Voted for on August 16, 2007 05:20am

My Boyfriend is Having an Affair With an Avatar?
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My Boyfriend is Having an Affair With an Avatar?

Love & Personals – Virtual Social Networks are becoming increasingly popular. . . and so is the virtual affair.

Voted for on August 13, 2007 01:46pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks

Aiken for an argument

Celebrities – I just finished my review of the Clay Aiken concert a few minutes ago, and I was trying to talk myself out of writing more about it on the Dish before going home, but my stubborn side won. There just wasn't room or time to say everything in the review that I wanted to, and apparently I'm itching to stir up a fight with Claymaniacs, so here goes.

Voted for on August 13, 2007 01:46pm

20 Surefire Ways To Beat Writer's Block
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20 Surefire Ways To Beat Writer's Block

Do-It-Yourself – If you're a blogger, a business owner, or a writer of any type, I don't have to explain to you what writer's block is. You've almost certainly had it. I know I have. And Daphne Gray-Grant's suggestions have helped me work through the blocks when they come.

Voted for on August 13, 2007 01:46pm

Hynix Developed the Fastest and Smallest DRAM Chip
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Hynix Developed the Fastest and Smallest DRAM Chip

Gadgets & Tech – On Sunday, Hynix Semiconductor, a big semiconductor manufacturer from South Korea, whose main activity is the production of DRAM and NAND Flash, announced the smallest and fastest 1GB Dynamic Random Access Memory chip for mobile phones built on Hynix 66 nm process technology.

Voted for on August 13, 2007 01:45pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 41 votes / No sinks

How To Be a Pick-Up Artist (hint: dress like an ass)

Television – If a guy wearing a big furry hat, black nail polish, and eyeliner thicker than yours walked up to you in a bar and threw insults your way, would you suddenly become weak-kneed and fall into his arms? Me either.But apparently, a lot of women do. Which is why there's a new show on VH1 called The Pick-Up Artist

Voted for on August 12, 2007 08:25pm

Astronauts zoom in on shuttle's gash
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Astronauts zoom in on shuttle's gash

News – Maneuvering a laser-tipped boom designed for the job, astronauts closely inspected a gash to shuttle Endeavour's belly Sunday, providing 3-D images that NASA hopes will rule out the need for risky spacewalk repairs.

Voted for on August 12, 2007 06:14pm

Motorola Announces MOTORAZR2 V9, V9m and V8
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Motorola Announces MOTORAZR2 V9, V9m and V8

Gadgets & Tech – In May, Motorola announced that the new three mobile phone models will be launched in US starting in August, referring to V9, V9m and V8, all being from MOTORAZR2 generation.

Voted for on August 12, 2007 06:14pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Food That Travels Well

Food – There are many good reasons for eating local -- freshness, purity, taste, community cohesion and preserving open space -- but none of these benefits compares to the much-touted claim that eating local reduces fossil fuel consumption.

Voted for on August 12, 2007 01:20pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 32 votes / No sinks

Bush May Try to Cut Corporate Tax Rates

Politics – President Bush said yesterday that he is considering a fresh plan to cut tax rates for U.S. corporations to make them more competitive around the world, an initiative that could further inflame a battle with the Democratic Congress over spending and taxes and help define the remainder of his tenure.

Voted for on August 12, 2007 01:20pm

Gays more likely to vote than straights
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Gays more likely to vote than straights

Gay & Lesbian – Gays and lesbians turned out to vote in the 2004 national election at a rate nearly double that of the national electorate in certain cases, according to a study released by San Francisco-based Community Marketing.

Voted for on August 12, 2007 01:19pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

First benchmarks of the ext4 file system

Gadgets & Tech – The ext4 file system promises improved data integrity and performance, together with less limitations, and is definitely the step in the right way.

Voted for on August 12, 2007 12:43pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / No sinks

Linux: ext4 Development Status

Gadgets & Tech – The whole point of having ext4 in the kernel is to do development upstream, in the public view, getting new stuff in ASAP (even if that means changing or pulling some stuff later).

Voted for on August 12, 2007 12:38pm

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Ext4 Filesystem Released

Gadgets & Tech – Now in the Mm tree (unstable) of the Linux kernel

Voted for on August 12, 2007 12:38pm