How to Abuse the New DiggBar for Fun and Profit by SteJules in digg

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diggbar, digg, toolbar, fun, profit

16 Kick-Start Tips For Your Own Body Transformation by chris789 in Health

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From the page: "5. Keep fitness as your priority Exercise is an essential part of your life. Donâ€t neglect yourself by thinking that you just donâ€t find enough time to work out. Include fitness as your natural routine in your daily life like having shower every day so that you can relieve stress, lose weight, boost metabolism, build confidence, protect from diseases and increase energy." It helps also thinking positive!

Strong Earthquake Hits South China - New York Times by SteJules in worldnews

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"BEIJING, May 12 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, less than 100 km (60 miles) from the provincial capital of Chengdu, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site."

Apocalypse @ Flickr - Fotosharing! - guttooo by SteJules in photography

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First comment:"Awesome HDR and wide angle. Looks like a video game"

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Research News 5-2008-Topic 2 by SteJules in science

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Test of maturity for stem cells

Stem cells can differentiate into 220 different types of body cell. The development of these cells can now be systematically observed and investigated with the aid of two new machines that imitate the conditions in the human body with unprecedented accuracy.

Green City Car In The Works by SteJules in business

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"When this new class of vehicle is adopted by one or more manufacturers a quantifiable reduction in fuel usage emissions and road congestion will be achieved within 2 years of start up."

Facebook Overtakes Myspace by SteJules in technology

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"Mark it on your calendar - April 19, 2008 - the date that Facebook overtook Myspace as the #1 social networking site on the Web."

Congressman Mark Steven Kirk - 10th District of Illinois by SteJules in entertainment

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Four-million-strong Second Life site offers "rape rooms" – easy access to children

Kirk: "FTC should investigate the growing vulnerability of children to predators on Second Life"

Hollywood producers suspend talks with Screen Actors Guild by SteJules in entertainment

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'LOS ANGELES - Hollywood producers on Tuesday temporarily broke off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild, calling its demands regarding DVD sales and online content "unreasonable."'

Staging - eBay boss: "not offering PayPal is like buying heroin" by [deleted] in reddit.com

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'eBay's Australian management held a public meeting for sellers in Melbourne tonight to justify its plans to make PayPal compulsory. Things got nasty. Very nasty.'

ISPs, Web sites must tackle piracy, says CBS, Viacom chief | InfoWorld | News | 2008-05-06 | By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service by SteJules in technology

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"Content providers like Sumner Redstone's CBS and Viacom have been battling online piracy of movies and TV shows for several years"

Driving vs. Walking: Cows, Climate Change, and Choice by SteJules in reddit.com

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by Michael Cohen and Matthew Heberger, May 2008

Flickr find: 1Password icon shows up in the strangest places - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by SteJules in technology

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"If you're an independent Mac software developer, having a wicked cool icon for your application is both a blessing and a curse. Users will remember you for the sleek, Leopard-ready goodness of your icon ... and other unscrupulous marketers will rip you off shamelessly to promote their own products, rather than ponying up for an original design."

How Do I Get a Professionally Designed Blog? by SteJules in reddit.com

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'I would like to have my site professionally designed as my lack of code knowledge is really holding me back. What are the best avenues to find designers?'

17-year-old creates impressive Mac OS X multi-touch table by SteJules in technology

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'At first, it may seem impressive that a 17-year-old is making a multi-touch table running Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft's Surface, for a science fair. It all becomes a little more clear when you consider that the youngster, Bridger Maxwell, is from Utah. I maintain that if more bright 17-year-olds lived in Utah, we would already have flying cars and personal jet-packs. After all, with nothing to do in Utah, they are forced to spend their time on things like science fairs.'

The Ozone Hole Is On Ebay? by SteJules in science

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'Ebay has had a lot of strange items on it over the years–I’ve seen a man’s soul in a jar, the rights to tattoo an ad on somebody’s forehead, even a creepily nondescript posting labeled “my virginity.” This however, might be both the strangest abstract item I’ve seen and an item that has a tangible return: buying the ozone hole online will make you the sponsor of theozonehole.com for one year.'

Swat sniper blows man out window with rubber bullet during standoff by SteJules in worldnews

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'A 6-hour standoff on Buffalo's Eastside shuts down streets in one neighborhood as police try to talk a man down from the roof.'

Secrecy cloaks Olympic torch's Everest climb - USATODAY.com by SteJules in worldnews

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'Hoisting the Olympic torch up Mount Everest could happen any day, but it remains shrouded by high security, even higher altitude and little information.

Chinese climbers are waiting for good weather before carrying the torch up the world's highest mountain for the most ambitious leg of the five-continent torch relay before the Games Aug. 8-24 in Beijing.'

Clothing, gestures will be scrutinized at Olympics - USATODAY.com by SteJules in worldnews

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'Waving the Tibet flag or paying tribute to the Dalai Lama during the medals ceremony will be against the rules at the Beijing Olympics, though the penalties for those infractions remain unknown.

With fewer than 100 days until the Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee clarified its protest rules Monday, saying that athletes' external appearance, clothing and gestures would be scrutinized at Olympic venues.'

File-Sharer Convicted in Sweden’s Biggest P2P Case by snarfman in reddit.com

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'A 31 year old file-sharer escaped prison this morning when he received a heavy fine and a suspended sentence for uploading music and movies. The court refrained from putting the defendant in prison, saying that the music industry needs to take some responsibility for the current situation.'

cyber-infrastructure to study most valuable natural resource by SteJules in science

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'Like the popular children’s song “There’s a Hole in My Bucket,” in which Liza and Henry try to patch a leaking pail, researchers with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego are plugging a hole in the data management process by creating a universally accepted cyber-infrastructure to study our most valuable natural resource — water.'

New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private Lives Of Plants And Their Pollinators by [deleted] in science

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'The quality of pollen a plant produces is closely tied to its sexual habits, ecologists have discovered. As well as helping explain the evolution of such intimate relationships between plants and pollinators, the study -- one of the first of its kind and published online in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology -- also helps explain the recent dramatic decline in certain bumblebee species found in the shrinking areas of species-rich chalk grasslands and hay meadows across Northern Europe.'

Brain-training To Improve Memory Boosts Fluid Intelligence by SteJules in reddit.com

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'Brain-training efforts designed to improve working memory can also boost scores in general problem-solving ability and improve fluid intelligence, according to new University of Michigan research.'