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Large Hadron Collider Activated And The World Didn’t End

In France the other day the much debated Large Hadron Collider was finally activated and contrary to the beliefs of those who feared that it would create micro black holes which would then destroy the Earth, It didn’t and we’re all still here.

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IE8 Beta 2 Eats Memory Like Candy

I just read a very illuminating article on Exo.blog that details the results of testing Microsoft’s latest offering; the Beta 2 version of IE8 and even if you allow for a Beta version having extra debugging code it still comes out not only a loser but a prime example of Microsoft Bloat in action.

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Is Voter’s Knowledge of Science Enough?

USA Today has an article that asks if the average voter has enough accurate knowledge about science to be able to intelligently vote on issues that require such knowledge in order to know what you’re voting about?

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FireFox 3: Not Quite Ready For Prime Time

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Well, Firefox 3 is officially released and they’ve managed to achieve a record breaking 8 million plus downloads on the first day. I’ve loaded up the Portable Apps version of Firefox 3 to give it [...]

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Austrailian Govt Considering UK Style ISP Snooping

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You can tell the music & movie industries and the Australian equivalent of the RIAA and MPAA have their filthy little mitts all over the government there. How? Because the Australian government is now looking at (and seriously thinking about copying) the latest insanity that the UK is thinking [...]

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Quick Look at www.officialpethotels.com

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Having traveled a littel (ok, very little) with a pet and heard stories from others, I’m glad to see a site like officialpethotels.com come along. While it’s true that there are a pretty good number of hotels that will accommodate guests with pets, there’s a lot more that won’t. [...]

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Bad Results for Memory Test

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In area of “this is just too disgusting for words”, I just saw this little gem on slashdot:
AP’s Malcolm Ritter reports that young chimpanzees were better at
[0]remembering a series of numbers flashed on a screen, than the Japanese
college students used as a control group. Scientists plan to repeat the
experiment using [...]

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How Do You Handle Search engine marketing?

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SEO. It’s a term that you see quite a bit these days, another one is “Search engine marketing”. It’s basically the methods… types of campaigns that are used to market a website on the major search engines.
Some of the campaigns include things like search engine optimization to make sure [...]

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