Brett Putman is a young video production professional living in San Francisco. Lately, he’s been obsessed with post-production. Although, most of his background has been in studio and field video production, while currently falling in love with After Effects. Brett hopes his profile will serve as a good example of his abilities as a video [...]

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Mark Condon works as a Flash and Web Developer using PHP, and MySQL. Mark also does user interface work with JavaScript, and JavaScript libraries. He’s also developed a number of Facebook Applications in FBML, FBJS, and FBQL. Creating sites that follow the W3C Web standard while using XHTML and CSS to develop multiple sites in [...]

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Growing up on a working dirt farm in Michigan, I know a thing or two about agricultural farming.  So I get a little up in arms when my friends tell me things like “The way corn is raised depletes the land in 7-10 years”.  Bull-SH**.
My family has raised Corn, Wheat, and Oats on the same [...]

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Google is going to allow other ad networks to bid for your ad space.  The change will be automatically opted in for existing AdSense users.  In theory this will raise the price of AdWords, and increase the revenue from AdSense…
More likely I expect that CPM ads designed for impression rather than Clicks which run on [...]

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Jarques Pretorius is a User Interface Designer based in San Francisco, CA. Currently the Lead Front-End Designer/Developer at a startup called Academia.edu which helps academics answer the question 'Who's researching what?'. A recent graduate of The Art Institute of California – San Francisco where he received a Bachelors of Science in Web Design and Interactive [...]

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Raoul Ortega is 23 and currently a graphic design student at CSUS. His passions vary from design, typography, photography, music, and art. Raoul spends time doing photography and design for The New Humans an Indie band from Sacramento, CA.

1). Where did you grow up? What made it special?
I grew up in Broderick/West Sacramento, California. [...]

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Cara Marsh works with production tasks and duties that are creative, challenging and educational using the practical application of her knowledge and experience in design. While attending The Art Institute of California – San Francisco she majored with a Bachelors of Science in Web Design and Interactive Media. Along her interactive journey she’s worked with [...]

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Matt Allard works with graphic design and web design for both independent and professional clients. During that time he’s found a way to blend the arts and create a niche in the Interactive Design market, as well as gain experience in the professional arena with a highly regarded company. The work displayed in his portfolio [...]

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Tom Gurka is an Interactive Designer with experience building flash websites and applications. Emphasis on front end design, but has solid knowledge of basic and advanced programming methods using AS3. Tom dreams of becoming an Interactive Art Director, winning way to many awards, and using his turntables outside of the apartment. Under COG1 he has [...]

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Greg Mathews grew into technology and any part of it that he could get his hands on. Greg is going to San Jose State University and will be studying computer engineering. While creating a T-shirt business he has received a $5,000 dollar grant from SMUD to build a project he personally outlined.

1). Where did you [...]

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Joseph Schmidt is dedicated to the production of clean, functional code with creative, stylish graphics to form an effective user interface. Joseph has a broad range of Internet technologies under his belt working with new JavaScript libraries, AS3, and various development platforms. Working under DHAP Digital with clients like Adobe, Scion, Toyota and countless other [...]

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Demand for quality truck driver jobs has never been greater: 70% of the nation's economy is delivered by trucks. Drivers must be able to lift 35lbs-50lbs, deliver cases with a hand truck, have strong customer service, a valid Class C drivers license with an acceptable DMV report, basic knowledge of the freeways and cities in [...]

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Disney Channel.com ScavengerSweepStakes is kicking off and you could win!  The Disney Channel is combining Hannah Montana, Suite Life Ondeck, and Wizards of Waverly Place to create an awesome Scavenger Hunt Sweepstakes.  Just watch the Disney Channel Starting July 17th at 8 eastern time. and visit disneychannel.com/scavengersweepstakes for the full details.  Rules from the site [...]

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Do you want a high paying job while having fun at work. Ever consider being a digital artist. If this gets your creative juice going, motion graphics might be right for you.
The top in-demand careers of 2009 includes industries of Business, IT, and Law. Technology is used in each of these industries creating market definition [...]

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Interactive Media Designer, David Carmona is famously known on Twitter as @david_carmona.
David Carmoan started his career in interactive development, social media and then Business/Marketing Coordination, Search Engine Optimization, for Revision3. After Business Development and Marketing Coordinator he decided to take on a start-up and start designing and developing as his career 2.0. He was Co-Founder [...]

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An easy way to get fired, seems to be put the stupid thing you did on your myspace page.  Some girls posed for sexy pics of them taking a bath at a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Redding, CA.
The three girls were fired. "KFC has zero tolerance for violations of our operating standards, and our [...]

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Kimberly Bryant or Jo De La Rosa was born in Lima, Peru and moved to Tustin, California when she was young. After winning the California Lottery she and her family moved to Mission Viejo.
Graduated from UC Irvine with degree in hand. Afterward she was introduced to the Coto life. During the first season she lived [...]

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The most spectacular casinos, resorts and Vegas shows are situated along the Southern end of Las Vegas Boulevard, also dubbed "the strip." Each hotel-resort-casino has a different theme and they are all marvelous sights to behold. Inside you'll find restaurants, retail shops, entertainment venues, spas, wedding chapels, golf courses, casinos, stages and nightclubs.
It's [...]

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Recently lost your job, having financial problems, short on rent and your car or just in need of support. Family Giving Tree gives you a helping hand and renews your holiday spirit while keeping food on the table, presents, and puts that smile on your children's face. FGT charity offers 60,000 children in the Bay [...]

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Environmental Engineers:
Discussion Info:
What is an Environmental Engineer:
Can anyone, by looking around the classroom, give a one-word guess as to what this class, Environmental Engineers, is concerned about? (The Environment. Basically everything that is outside!) An Environmental Engineer is a person who specializes in the study of pollution in the environment, and who seeks to find [...]

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We have learned that Cameron Diaz's father died Tuesday morning. The 58 year old Emilio Diaz was a resident of South Beach, CA. Emilio recently had the flu, then it turned to pneumonia. According to our source Emilio was in excellent health, so this is a terrible shock for the family.
Cameron was currently working [...]

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I did a brief experiment where I outsourced the writing of posts to India through a service called Rentablogger.com.  For $5 a post a woman in India would write posts about the topics I gave her.
Using my Google Trend Tool to discover trends that were probable to rank well for I put her to work.
The [...]

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Salvia Divinorum an inexpensive and currently legal hallucinogenic herb which is Native to Mexico, is the new Marijuana.
Called nicknames like Sally-D, Magic Mint and Diviner's Sage, salvia is a hallucinogen that gives users an out-of-body sense of traveling through time and space or merging with inanimate objects. Unlike hallucinogens like LSD or PCP, however, salvia's [...]

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The F117 will hold a place in American Memory, for years it was an icon of our advanced air superiority in America.  When ever a movie wanted to imply something big was going down, the rolled out the F117 with its unmistakable Black V-Shape, and sharp angles.

The Lockheed Martin F22 Raptor looks less distinct, [...]

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WEAPON MASTER CHARACTER CREATION GUIDEfor NEVERWINTER NIGHTS + HORDES OF THE UNDERDARK(c)2004 Barry Scott Will Author's Web site: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visithttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/or send a letter toCreative Commons559 Nathan Abbott WayStanford, California 94305, USA.________________________________________________________________________| || TABLE OF CONTENTS ||________________________________________________________________________|[1] Version History[2] Definitions[3] [...]

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It is quite shocking to see how the yesteryear stars who lived in the limelight in their prime time fall prey to the paws of time and misfortune. Not only the stars have to suffer in these cases, but it takes a toll on their spouse and family as well. People who love dancing consider [...]

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Sammy Knight is a well known football player of NFL. He was born on 10th September in the year 1975. He is n American football player who plays for New York Giant team of National Football league. Before this he was signed by the New Orleans Saint team in the year 1997. But later he [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) March 3, 2008 — Today Zannel (zannel.com) announced that it is launching an open API (www.zannel.com/developers) that will allow developers to leverage the power and functionality of Zannel’s Instant Media Messaging™ (IMM) platform to create media-rich mobile applications, widgets and mashups. With access to the IMM™ platform, developers can [...]

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World of Warcraft meets ESPN in Cal Ripken's Play Real Baseball.com  The site is a MMO for sports fans.

Recent changes to the software are preventing Player Enhancements from Software hacks.  It would appear even online baseball is not immune to Steroid use.
The game looks nice enough, but for as slow of a game as [...]

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24th February 2008 saw the hosting of the Oscar ceremony for this year in Los Angeles, California. The nominees in the category of best supporting actresses were Ruby Dee of the movie “American Gangster”, Cate Blanchett for her astounding performance in “I’m Not There”, Saoirse Ronan of the movie “Atonement”, Tilda Swinton for her performance [...]

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It is not quite often that you come across an ace actor who has adorned the silver screen and the television alike and has some memorable achievements in his portfolio. Such a personality is Robert William "Dabbs" Greer. He is an actor who had essayed several character roles to perfection all through his career spanning [...]

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It is not quite often that you come across an actress who has a number of memorable performances in her portfolio. One such talented lady is Quinn Cummings. She is a versatile talented woman who has donned many hats to perfection in her professional career. She has made her marks in the sphere of business [...]

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Christopher Allport is a renowned TV personality. I find his roles in the mad men, and the X files extremely interesting. The characters portrayed by him and his acting became very popular. Allport managed to write a story, in which he explained the joy of skiing backcountry. His remarks were published in the year 2004 [...]

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In a Kirkwood Shooting, (MO)A gunman (Charles Lee Thonton) killed five and wounded two others in a city council meeting near St Louis, Missouri, before being shot dead by police.
St Louis County Police spokeswoman Tracy Panus told AFP that the shooting took place around 7pm local time (CST) on Thursday night, and that [...]

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CES is beginning to look a little Green. Let me start by introducing you to www.Solio.com. In short this Berkeley, CA and London based company has created – "Solio™, the Universal (Solar Power) "Hybrid" Charger is powerful enough to charge all of your handheld electronic products at home or on the move, anywhere under the [...]

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Now that the 43rd Bake-Off® Contest 100 finalists' recipes are posted on the contest website, you can check them out yourself and vote for your favorite! By voting for your favorite recipe, you will also be entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win [...]

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I have two cats, neither glow in the dark, except for that time that Macy walked in the paint I used on My Halo 3 Dance Pad .  South Korean scientists tinkering with fluorescence protein genes say they have bred white Turkish Angora cats to glow red under ultraviolet light. This doesn't seem all that [...]

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Robert Pattinson joins Kristen Stewart in the cast of Twilight www.stepheniemeyer.com
Los Angeles, CA December 11, 2007 – Summit Entertainment announced today that Robert Pattinson will star as "Edward" in the highly anticipated feature film production TWILIGHT opposite Kristen Stewart. The thriller-romance, based on Stephenie Meyer's publishing phenomenon, is slated to begin production in February [...]

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Make your own sale – even on general merchandise that never goes on sale! Redeem Santa Bucks coupons at Meijer stores and get up to $20 off per item! More than $100 in savings. santabucks.meijer.com  You can't beat the over $100 in savings on any item in the store, from Dish Soap to Tires. 
There [...]

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Make your own sale – even on general merchandise that never goes on sale! Redeem Santa Bucks coupons at Meijer stores and get up to $20 off per item! More than $100 in savings. santabucks.meijer.com  You can't beat the over $100 in savings on any item in the store, from Dish Soap to Tires. 
There [...]

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Schoolsout.com offers alerts for parents to let them know when there are County School Closings, or Snow Days.  If you Register with Schools Out.com they will send you e-mails or Text messages to let you know when school won't be in session.  So if you are affected by the recent West Virginia School Closings, or [...]

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Schoolsout.com offers alerts for parents to let them know when there are County School Closings, or Snow Days.  If you Register with Schools Out.com they will send you e-mails or Text messages to let you know when school won't be in session.  So if you are affected by the recent West Virginia School Closings, or [...]

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Rapper Pimp C ( Chad Butler ) was found dead in a Mondian hotel room on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. 
The rapper was found dead in his bed in a sixth floor hotel room.
Details are still emerging.
A representative of Pimp C confirmed his death and asked that,  "Everyone please respect his [...]

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There.com is a 3d Virtual World from Makena Technologies.  There.com has partnered with Toyota Motors to allow users to "redefine" its Scion Brand.  Hop in game with your Avatar, and using the development tools you can customize your own in game Scion.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Makena Technologies, creator of the popular [...]

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There.com is a 3d Virtual World from Makena Technologies.  There.com has partnered with Toyota Motors to allow users to "redefine" its Scion Brand.  Hop in game with your Avatar, and using the development tools you can customize your own in game Scion.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Makena Technologies, creator of the popular [...]

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Getting found is not only about having the right stuff on your page, but also having the right people to link to you.  So if you want to really boost your own page rank you need to get one of these guys to link to you.  Good luck, with very few exceptions these sites don't [...]

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To address critical processing steps in manufacturing crystalline silicon solar cells that impact efficiency and yield as well as allowing the use of ultrathin silicon wafers, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor and solar cell equipment supplier is acquiring Treviso, Italy-based c-Si photovoltaic cell metallization and test system supplier, Baccini S.p.A., for $330 million in cash. [...]

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A federal court in California yesterday rejected the Bush administration's new fuel economy standards for light trucks including SUVs, ruling that the government failed to take into account the effects of carbon emissions and their possible link to global warming. Full Story

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc.'s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones. Full Story

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profits jumped 67 percent to cap a year that saw unprecedented momentum in its Macintosh computer business, continued demand for iPods and the successful launch of the iPhone, Apple said Monday. Full Story

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SAN FRANCISCO At the Web 2.0 conference here in 2005 — back before Google had paid $1.65 billion for YouTube and people were talking about valuations for Facebook of $15 billion — Zach Coelius, a precocious 25-year-old who had snuck into the hall without paying, stepped up to the microphone and… Full Story

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — In an apparent about-face, Apple Inc. will allow third-party applications to work directly on the iPhone, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a posting on the company's Web site Wednesday. Full Story

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SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Online video leader YouTube on Monday rolled out long-awaited technology to automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to placate movie and television studios fed up with the Web site's persistent piracy problems. Full Story

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — IPhone owners who have unlocked their handsets so they could use carriers other than AT&T may end up with a phone that doesn't work after the company's next software update, Apple Inc. warned Monday. Full Story

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A team of university researchers from Dartmouth and the University of California ported to Cell processors on a network of Sony Playstation3s a new vision algorithm derived from brain research as part of an effort to enable machine vision in robots. Full Story

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General Motors Corp. said it will add one of the largest solar powerinstallations in corporate use at a warehouse in California, generating half the electricity needed to run the 300,000-square-foot facility. Full Story

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin building servers with one-time foe Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system installed directly inside of them, instead of forcing customers to install the ubiquitous software on their own or defect to a competitor for one-stop shopping. Full Story

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WASHINGTON — A group of states led by California asked a federal judge Tuesday to extend court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s business practices for five more years. Full Story

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Expanding its portfolio of solutions to help solar customers reduce manufacturing costs for photovoltaic (PV) cells, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment giant completed its acquisition of Swiss precision wafering systems supplier HCT Shaping Systems SA, whose tools are used to manufacture crystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates for the solar industry. Full Story

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Expanding its portfolio of solutions to help solar customers reduce manufacturing costs for photovoltaic (PV) cells, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment giant completed its acquisition of Swiss precision wafering systems supplier HCT Shaping Systems SA, whose tools are used to manufacture crystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates for the solar industry. Full Story

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Solar Semiconductor Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has said it has signed a supply contract with Q-Cells AG (Thalheim, Germany) worth $170 million. Full Story

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Expanding its portfolio of solutions to help solar customers reduce manufacturing costs for photovoltaic (PV) cells, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment giant completed its acquisition of Swiss precision wafering systems supplier HCT Shaping Systems SA, whose tools are used to manufacture crystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates for the solar industry. Full Story

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Solar Semiconductor Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has said it has signed a supply contract with Q-Cells AG (Thalheim, Germany) worth $170 million. Full Story

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Asperger's Syndrome has a lot of names, but the symptoms are the same, bright and intelligent children with social anxiety bordering on anti-social behavior that amaze and astound in so many math, spatial relations, or music fields but have trouble playing with other kids, focusing on things that are not their strong suit, and often [...]

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Expanding its portfolio of solutions to help solar customers reduce manufacturing costs for photovoltaic (PV) cells, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment giant completed its acquisition of Swiss precision wafering systems supplier HCT Shaping Systems SA, whose tools are used to manufacture crystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates for the solar industry. Full Story

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Cory Doctorow:
Samuel sez, "Hey guys. Several months ago, I bought an episode of Star Trek on Google Video, just out of curiosity to see how it worked. Today I got an email letting me know my videos would stop working in five days."

Hello,

As a valued Google user, we're contacting you with some important
information about the [...]

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People search engine Spock launches  —  Spock, the Redwood City, Calif. search engine for people, launches tomorrow after a year of suspense.  —  It has remained secretive for months (see our original coverage), testing its engine, adding some 100,000 profiles and inserting other social networking features.

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Matt Marshall
Link:   http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/07/people-search…
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Full [...]

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People search engine Spock launches  —  Spock, the Redwood City, Calif. search engine for people, launches tomorrow after a year of suspense.  —  It has remained secretive for months (see our original coverage), testing its engine, adding some 100,000 profiles and inserting other social networking features.

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Matt Marshall
Link:   http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/07/people-search…
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Full [...]

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Microsoft wins reversal of MP3 patent decision  —  Microsoft has won a reversal of a $1.5 billion jury verdict against it for infringing on a patent for MP3 technology held by Alcatel-Lucent.  —  Judge Rudi Brewster of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California tossed …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Tom [...]

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Dan Simpson is a scared old man who after years in Government has forgotten what the Government was formed to protect us from.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.-Bill Of Rights, 1791
Some of you may [...]

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Dr. May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois recently did an interview with the Smithsonian Magazine, which talks about the various things leading to the near extinction of the honey bee in North America.
While he jokingly purports that he thinks Aliens may have decided the Honey Bee is the most intelligent species on the planet [...]

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Groundbreaking New Videogame Engine Previewed on a Mac
WWDC, San Francisco, June 11, 2007 – Today, id Software unveiled their never-before-seen next-generation game engine technology, id Tech 5?, running on a Mac at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. This revolutionary new technology will power the studio's internally created new game property and will be available for [...]

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Saints Row for the PlayStation 3 is no more. During a conference call with analysts after THQ's earnings report today, CFO Edward Zinser revealed the port, which was originally slated for release during this quarter, has been canceled. He said that as a result the California-based publisher is revising its guidance for the April-June quarter, [...]

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Man Competes with Stephen Colbert for Greatest American Title
April 27, 2007 – Mountain View, CA. Brandon Wirtz–a Microsoft employee in Mountain View, California–is competing with comedy legend Stephen Colbert for the title of “Greatest Living American.”
Wirtz was previously ranked as the “Greatest Living American” according to the popular search engines Yahoo and Google. [...]

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Comparing the candidates for Greatest Living American: A completely biased look at Brandon Wirtz and Stephen Colbert.
Stance on Bears:
Stephen Colbert has announced on multiple occasions that he is a Hater of Bears, all Bears, but especially Polar Bears.
Brandon loves bears, and as a Native of Michigan, and Resident of [...]

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This is an open letter from Jack Thompson to Bill Gates.  All I can say is Jack Thompson is the worst sort of person, pushing his agenda using a tragedy.
After no games violent or otherwise were found in Cho Seung Hui's possession, the Washington Post edited the story to remove references to video Games.
Counter Strike is [...]

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100-YEAR-OLDS POLLED ON SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL AGING;
STAYING ENGAGED AND IN TUNE WITH THE TIMES ARE KEY THEMES OF SECOND ANNUAL 'EVERCARE 100 @ 100 SURVEY'

Reality TV, MTV, Video Games and iPods Make the List
Healthy Lifestyles Include Better Diets and No Cigarettes; Starbucks and Fast Food are Okay
Memory Ranks as More Important Than [...]

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At an event this week I managed to snap a shot with my cell phone (I will likely not get invited again…)of the soon to be announced White PS3.  Jokingly called the "Brute" by the guys in the Sony booth, officially "Gloss White" , this is Sony's answer to the Xbox Elite, this new version of the PS3 sports a [...]

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