Facebook in 50 Years - Pensionbook [Hilarious]

A vision of how Facebook will look in 50 years..."3 of your friends just got poked with a walking stick, poke back?"

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Google to ISO: Say no to OOXML

Google has called for ISO member bodies to reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format during the upcoming voting period. According to Google, OOXML is unnecessary and suffers from technical flaws.

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Get a Custom MP3 Horn for your Car

HornTones allows you to customize your car horn with a MP3 file. "Gotta Digg" anyone?

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Google to Store Patients' Health Records

For 18 months, Google has been working to come up with a product offering and a strategy in the promising field of consumer health information. Until now, the search giant hasn’t had anything to show for its labors other than bumps along the way—delays and a management change.

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Firefox hits 500,000,000 downloads

The Mozilla community is celebrating 500 million Firefox downloads by earning 500 million grains of donated rice, enough to feed 25,000 people.

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What the Social Web Looked Like in the 1990s

An interesting post which compares the current social media climate with life and technology in the 1990s. Before Digg, there was your local newspaper's "Top Stories of the Year" issue. ou used to have to wait until December to find out hottest story of the year. Now there's an infinite stream of uncensored content and entertainment online..

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First Look: The Smurf’s Movie

With Hollywood running short on ideas, Paramount greenlit a computer animated movie based on the classic trippy 80’s cartoon series The Smurfs (Truth is that the Smurfs are actually 50 years old, having first appeared in comic strips).

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9 Useful Websites You Should Know About, But Probably Don't

The following is Nine Websites You Should Know About, But Probably Don't. There were still some extremely useful websites that were left out, so I'm writing a continuation article to cover these sites.

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Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98

Pretty Interesting! Actually sounds good considering the source

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China bans horror movies, WTF?

According to an article on Reuters, the Chinese censors have decided that horror movies are verboten. 'Offending content included "wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror," the administration said. This is apparently a sort of Chinese version of the Jack Thompson effect, as the "mental health of adolescents" is cited as one of the reasons for the ban. Presumably, this ban — much like the spitting ban — is intended to improve China's image in the rest of the world before the Olympics open; but given the Streisand effect, would this ban perhaps unintentionally spur a surge of horror movie popularity in China?"

HD DVD deathwatch: we're making it official

HD DVD fans, we hate to do this to you, but it's time we called it. HD DVD is now officially on Engadget deathwatch. We haven't put anything important on deathwatch since TiVo in 2005 (which, as you may recall, still stands); but just as then, we have to step back from our personal preferences and investments in media and gear, ignore the rumors an

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Anatomy of a Slashdot Post -- NetQoS Netcosm

Ever wonder what a coveted Slashdot mention on a high profile Web site will do to your network? NetQoS's Netcosm network monitoring experiment can show you.Netcosm shows you what network traffic looks like in a new video game-like audiovisual paradigm.The data used for Netcosm is real and was compiled from NetQoS's application performanc...

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Company takes first $150,000 order to clone pet dog

South Korea's RNL Bio is cloning a California woman's pitbull. The work will be carried out by a team from Seoul National University, where the first dog was cloned in 2005.Think 150 grand is ridiculous to spend on a cloned dog? The woman's pit saved her life after she was attacked by another dog that "bit off her arm."

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Olbermann says Bush a fascist who uses terrorism

"You are a liar, Mr. Bush, and after showing some skill at it, you have ceased to even be a very good liar," he declared.

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Trace Email Senders and see their location on a google map

Is it possible to find the origin of an email? Yes, it is! This new amazing tool will pinpoint you the location of the senders IP address.

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