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Anchor Commentary now in the Tracker
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Anchor Commentary now in the Tracker

Gadgets & Tech – Great new feature added today: Anchor Commentary now shows up in the tracker!

Voted for on September 11, 2006 06:30pm

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the future is yesterday - Flickr Interestingness RSS Feed

Gadgets & Tech – Using some magic sauce, Flickr determines the most interesting photos posted to the site each day. These photos are addictive to look at. Oddly, Flickr doesn�t provide an RSS feed for them. Flickr user steeev wrote a screen scraper to generate a feed, but it seems to be broken. So I just created one using the Flickr API.

Voted for on August 29, 2006 12:25pm

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Ferris Research Weblog: RSS replacing email for some tasks?

News – As we noted last month, some uses for email will give way to blogs and RSS feeds. People are just starting to replace email newsletters with RSS or Atom feeds. They "pull" updated content via HTTP and XML, rather than have it "pushed" to them by SMTP. They read it in RSS readers or aggregators, rather than in traditional mail clients.

Voted for on August 29, 2006 12:25pm

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Public Interest Declassification Board -- Terrorism Prevention Act

News – Pursuant to section 1102 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 which extended and modified the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) as established by the Public Interest Declassification Act of 2000

Submitted and Voted for on August 11, 2006 10:55am Commented on 1 time: 1

Top 10 Websites for Students
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Top 10 Websites for Students

Gadgets & Tech – "You've checked the course schedules, bought your sheets and towels, shopped for a laptop, gotten in touch with your new roommate--you're all ready for college, right? Wrong. Your campus orientation isn't complete until you get a little Internet orientation, too."

Voted for on August 02, 2006 11:23pm

My Spore Creature! - a photoset on Flickr
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My Spore Creature! - a photoset on Flickr

Video Games – I designed a Spore creature while I was at E3, and the nice people at EA were kind enough to make it into a little 3-D figurine like the ones they had sitting around their booth and ship it to me. It has two heads, one bird-like and the other more like a moose, with large fighting arms. Check out these Flickr pics.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

Is Bush Considering Sending US Troops To Lebanon?
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Is Bush Considering Sending US Troops To Lebanon?

News – A "well-connected former CIA officer" has told Harper's Magazine Washington bureau chief that the Bush Administration is considering deploying US troops to Lebanon, according to a post at the magazine's website

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

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Al-Qaida Vows 'We Will Attack Everywhere'

News – Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call in a new videotape released Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq."

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

Exxon Mobil Profit Surges On High Oil Prices
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Exxon Mobil Profit Surges On High Oil Prices

News – Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday it earned $10.36 billion in the second quarter, the second largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a publicly traded U.S. company.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 10 votes / 1 sink

FAA clearing the way for mini jets

Gadgets & Tech – A new light, cheap and fast kind of jet is expected to be certified for flight Thursday. Eclipse Aviation's E500 will be the first "very light jet," or VLJ, to receive a provisional certification by the Federal Aviation Administration. Thousands more are expected to take wing over the next decade.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

iTrain - your own personal trainer
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iTrain - your own personal trainer

Health & Fitness – Always wanted a personal trainer but just couldn’t shell out the extra $50 per workout? What if getting a personal trainer was as easy as making a new playlist in iTunes? A new addition to the iPod craze has spawned - the iTrain, it allows users to download personalized workout information straight to their MP3 player.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

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Why Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and AOL Are Tanking.

Money – rom the ashes of the 2001-2002 crash there emerged four horsemen of the dot-com apocalypse: Amazon.com, Yahoo!, eBay, and AOL. This quartet of iconic companies, wounded but not destroyed in the crash, survived the plague years and flourished when the market recovered.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

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My Space Now “The Target” for Criminals

Gadgets & Tech – Silicon.Com reveals that social networking portal MySpace is now becoming a major target for cyber criminals. The popularity of the site which has created an environmeny with multiple opportunities for criminals, according to Message Lab’s, Mark Sunner.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

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

A little piece of Mars in Moscow

Science – Six Russian volunteers are to get a taste of travelling to Mars, without ever leaving Moscow.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / 1 sink

Slate Reddit Released

Gadgets & Tech – The cobranded site is autopopulated (via RSS feeds) with stories from Slate, the online magazine owned by the Washington Post.

Voted for on July 27, 2006 02:31pm