Apple posts iPhone Human Interface Guidelines

Apple has released a new iPhone Human Interface Guideline document, offering developers more resources for getting their iPhone web apps just right. It also throws in some "interesting" language into the introduction.

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19 year old speed skater to appear in Playboy [NSFW-PIC]

Nicole Begg stripped off in an attempt to lift her international profile and that of her sport by undressing.

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7 Underground Wonders of the World [PICS]

What motivates humankind to burrow deep into the Earth? From London to Paris, Budapest to Moscow, the USA to Australia, the world is filled with strange underground wonders, some centuries old or older. Check out these amazing images of tunnels, caverns, labyrinths from major cities around the world. Some of them might be right under your feet

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[pic] The African iPod

I'm impressed with how the battery is ballanced as well.

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Worst book cover ever! [PIC]

You could arrange a boy holding a pile of wood, and a cowboy staring knowingly into his eyes all day long and not get a more suggestive pose than this.

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Study Links Diabetes and High Fructose Corn Syrup Found in Soda

A new study released Thursday suggests sodas sweetened with high fructose corn syrup may contribute to the development of diabetes. The study from researchers at Rutgers University, shows sodas sweetened with high fructose corn syrup contain high levels of compounds that previous research suggests may play a role in the development of diabetes.

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5 Hottest Celebrity Goths

The word “goth” has almost been phased out in popular culture, replaced with “scene,” “emo,” and the like. This is rather unfortunate, all things considered: for while many goth males are irritating, pretentious, and pathetic, goth women have the potential to embody a very special, very unusual sort of hotness.

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Google Earth Captures Blunt Message Aimed At Bush

A message that was mowed into a field in a Boston suburb lives on the Internet with Google Earth.

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Nintendo Necklace for Girl Gamers with Style [ Pic ]

A perfect gift for a gamer girl ...

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What Doctors Don't Say About Obesity

If there's one place where it's a good idea to come clean, it's the doctor's office. Patients with an ache, a symptom or a bad habit like smoking do no one any good if they keep it to themselves. Yet there's one time doctors are often less than forthcoming: when they have to tell patients they need to lose weight.

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World's Highest Escalator [Images]

The Umeda Sky Building is the seventh-tallest building in Osaka City, Japan, and one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. It consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with bridges and an escalator crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center.

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10 Reasons Why You Should Be Curious

Do you want a rewarding life? Then be curious. The more curious you are, the more possibilities you will open throughout your lifetime. Open your eyes and look around. How many blind assumptions have you made? What do you want to know more about?

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YouTube Implements New Comment System

And it's a hell of a lot like Digg's! Thumbs up and thumbs down system.

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YouTube Implements New Comment System

And it's a hell of a lot like Digg's! Thumbs up and thumbs down system.

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American Gladiators is Back!

NBC is getting into the ring with "American Gladiators," which has been revived by the Peacock for midseason.Could they possibly top the original?

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American Gladiators is Back!

NBC is getting into the ring with "American Gladiators," which has been revived by the Peacock for midseason.Could they possibly top the original?

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10 Habits of Highly Effective Brains

The LA Times just completed a wonderful 4-part series on how learning and memory work. The NYT re-emphasized the importance of physical exercise for neurogenesis (the creation of new neurons). To put this news in better perspective, let's review some good lifestyle options we can follow to maintain, and improve, our vibrant brains.

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Catching your boyfriend with porn on his computer: Guys should read this!!

Written from a woman's perspective, a very embarrassing tale of confronting the boyfriend after finding porn on his computer. "Every one does it. It is normal." Haha, you'll have to do better than that!

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5 Benefits of a Blog Redesign

With so many blogs getting face lifts lately, here's a look at 5 benefits of almost any redesign.

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Earth and Mars are Converging at 25 Miles per Sentence

By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars. Earth and Mars are converging, and right now the distance between the two planets is shrinking at a rate of 22,000 mph--or about 25 miles per sentence.

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Dell takes huge hit as Apple laptop sales soar

'Halo effect' generated by demand for iPhones has caused a transformation in Apple's laptop sales

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Show Soccer Skills on Youtube; Get Recruited by Manchester United!

Manchester United has recruited a 9-year-old soccer prodigy based on video footage featuring his skills. The length of the YouTube clip is 4 minutes and features Davis's dribbling, stepover and goal-scoring skills – been viewed more than 800,000 times on the site.

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Top 10 Worst Sci-Fi Shows Ever! (With Videos)

We present to you the 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows of all time. Complete with video of each horrible, horrible, television mistake.

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Is sugar more addictive than cocaine?

Although quantifying substance addiction is difficult, if the answer to this question turns out to be definitive and "yes," it's likely that few people will be surprised.

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5 Summer Sex Positions That Could Get You Hospitalized. Or Arrested.

"Some of these would challenge the acrobats of Cirque Du Soleil, let alone a 30-something couch jockey with a bum knee."

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Katrina Victims Screwed By Insurance Companies Because Of God

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday against Hurricane Katrina victims who argued their insurance policies should have covered flood damage caused by levee breaches that flooded 80 percent of New Orleans. policies did not distinguish between floods caused by an act of God — such as excessive rainfall — and floods caused by an act of man.

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Russia plants flag on North Pole seabed

Russia today planted a flag on the North Pole's seabed in an attempt to declare sovereignty of the unclaimed land. The journey to the bottom of the sea began at an ice hole near the North Pole and the two Russian submarines dived to more than 4200 metres, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.

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How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry

These two are the ones that i most admire. this article is an important stuff; knowing that entrepreneurial attitudes & methods to start even to grows are changing, as the world becomes flat. l-o-v-e-i-t!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again Guy Kawasaki for this great article & thanks Tim berry for your passion to teach entrepreneurs!

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Nude woman buys smokes in German gas station, leaves in Ferrari

Thank you, come again!

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Boys face sex trial for slapping girls' rear-ends

Two middle-school students in Oregon are facing possible time in a juvenile jail and could have to register as sex offenders for smacking girls on the rear end at school.

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Is a second black hole lurking in the Milky Way's heart?

Is a second black hole lurking in the heart of the Milky Way? The evidence to date is inconclusive, but astronomers say a relatively simple test could settle the matter: look for a pair of stars fleeing the galaxy at break-neck speed.

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Next major PC company to go Linux will be HP

HP will soon be joining Dell in offering at least one Linux desktop line in its SKU sales listing, at least in the opinion of this knowledgeable Linux columnist.

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Popular "Political News" site EXPOSED! Admits: "IT WAS DISHONEST."

Capitol Hill Blue’s “spectacularly hateful” hit pieces against Ron Paul are just the tip of the iceberg. An investigation into CHB uncovered plagiarism, bogus stories, fake sources, fictitious “sock puppet” reporters, and 300+ stories that had to be deleted/changed. Owner Doug Thompson even created fake employees to ax as scapegoats for his antics.

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How Many Europeans Believe in God? (picture)

You'll be quite surprised...

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Solar Powered WiFi Bionic Turtles Lurking in Swamp

scientists have built the turtlenet to track turtles in swamp

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World's Best Job? Condom Tester!

One of the lucky 200 testers will win a $1000 bonus. "With this job on your CV, it really will be a chance to brag to your mates about the special skills you possess, not to mention that your new role will work wonders with the opposite sex," - Durex.

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Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles Official Trailer

The trailer shows a lot of promise and it seems like this won’t be a simple romp in the Resident Evil world. All of the characters from the past Resident Evils make a brief cameo in the trailer, and they sure do love to shoot at barrels. Whatever happened to the good old days of popping a zombie in the head and being done with it?

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Can you see the hidden image part 2!

Each digg this story receives will add a moving ball which will eventually reveal (another) hidden image! Based of code by Gary Carstensen.



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$175 Fee If You Cancel iPhone, Even Though You Paid Full Price

You better frickin' like your full-price iPhone because if you don't, AT&T plans on charging you the full $175 early termination fee, even though the phone's cost isn't at all subsidized under a long-term-agreement.



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Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?

The growth of Youtube and it’s subsequent $1.65 billion buyout left behind a bevy of competing video sites. Since then competitors have been seeking to differentiate themselves by focusing on longer videos, higher (bitrate) quality videos, professional content, and paying their users.



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Top 5 Tiniest Tiny Houses

May we all live in one some day!



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USB Thumdrive from China

This is like the extension cord for the USB cut and put inside, how did they even think of doing this?



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Top 20 Magic Trick Tutorials Of All Time

Be the life of the part, or get the interest of that girl. These are the 20 most amazing magic tricks tutorial videos that you will find anywhere.



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We should be able to take our friends with us

The future of social networking is an open standards based decentralized networks in the People Agrregator mould, with something like OpenID being the single point of entry. Dave Winer says a centralized system like Facebook or Linked-In will result in explosive unbundling of (decentralized) services.



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Deleted Emails: "Most Serious Breach of the Presidential Records Act"

"The Committee has obtained evidence of potentially extensive violations of the Presidential Records Act by senior White House officials... These violations could be the most serious breach of the Presidential Records Act in the 30-year history of the law."



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iPhone Application List

iPhone Application List With Live Previews!



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Awkward Friendships

Touching photos of unusual animal friendships.



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No Sex Tonight?

Not getting any tonight? Well if you do what this guy did, you just might increase your chances significantly...



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Norton AntiVirus is A Virus

The most precompiled program in all new computers IS a virus to anyone who knows anything about computers.



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A Program That Can Fix Dead Pixels On Your LCD Screen

I found this two programs to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels ...



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The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes

Learn how to take better photos by reading about the 10 most common mistakes most people make. Some are obvious some aren't.



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Do You know Self-effacing People are Secretly Confident? Study reveals

No matter how meek they might appear, most people are endowed with the same self-confidence, new research reveals. For some, however, that confidence is buried deep inside. “A given person with high implicit [or inner] self-esteem may be outwardly self-promoting or may be outwardly very modest,” said study team member Anthony Greenwald



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Prisons Of The World

An article about the most interesting prisons on earth - smallest, most valuable, strangest, most secure etc - with photos, videos, links.



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How children lost the right to roam in four generations

When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favorite fishing haunt without adult supervision. Fast forward to 2007 and Mr Thomas's eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom.



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Call of Duty 4 Developer Disses LIVE Anywhere

Grant Collier and the team over at Infinity Ward are hard at work on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. At one point along the way they were contacted by Microsoft, who attempted to spur the inclusion of LIVE Anywhere support in the multi-platform title. Infinity Ward "actively rejected" this offer. Grant Collier tells the story:



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25 Alternative Uses for Olive Oil

Olive oil also has plenty of uses around your home, outside of the sauté pan. There’s no need to waste your expensive Greek or Spanish Extra Virgin for these tasks, just grab a bottle of inexpensive, domestic olive oil for around-the-house use and start using it to shave, lubricate, and stop snoring.



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5 Year Old Thinks Heroin is Candy, Passes It Out At Daycare

Earlier this week, a Daycare Center in Buffalo was closed because six children at a local daycare center were given heroin by another student who thought it was candy. Teachers quickly learned the child was actually doling out heroin and called police immediately.



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Air breathing rocket reaches Mach 10 in tests

Scientists hope the engine will ultimately propel the next generation of supersonic planes, with predictions a flight between Sydney and London could take just two hours.



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Facebook Hammers MySpace on Almost All Key Features

When you think of social networks you probably think of MySpace. But recently, Facebook has been gaining popularity - since it opened up beyond college users, it has enjoyed a flood of new users, boosted further by the launch of Facebook apps. It’s time these two social networks fought it out.



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How did corporations get so much control over us?

The truth should make you mad. They used the 14th amendment, which was added to free slaves, to say that corporations were entitled to the same rights under the Constitution that individuals were.



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"30 Days Of Night" Trailer Hits The Net

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction.



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RIAA and MPAA Fund Anti-Piracy Politicians

Over the last month or two, we have seen congressional investigations started and bills proposed to deal with file sharing. Not surprisingly, these politicians receive a fair amount of money from the RIAA and MPAA. Doesn’t it make you wonder – Are these politicians for hire?



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The Lost Arcade Games of the Soviet Union

A group of Moscow geeks have opened a museum of Soviet-era arcade games. The physical design of these things is incredible -- heroically ugly, radiating un-fun like a potato studded with razor-blade splinters. I want a laptop that looks like this.



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A Brutal Review of a Brutal Movie-Hostel II

Geek on the scene Dr. Royce Clemens gives us the lowdown on Eli Roth’s latest torture-fest Hostel II. Be warned, this review is almost as brutal as the movie itself.



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3 million iPhones waiting on stock for 29th of June

29th of June will be a historical day for every Apple fan and it seems Apple is trying hard to have full warehouses for the first shipping day.



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Top 10 Drunk Multiplayer Games

So, the only real choice when it comes to drunk gaming is to invite some buddies over, crack open a few cans and get your system of choice going! Here is a list of top games to play drunk with friends. Feel free to try these out.



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Google Maps Street View: Invading Your Privacy? Not Anymore!

The picture of the girl whose underwear showed up on Google Maps Street View has been removed. It turns out that you can report inappropriate images to Google. Awww...



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5 Women Who Make Timeouts OK

Educated and hot, these ladies are not only easy on the eyes, but they usually seem to know something about the sports they are covering. We like to think of them as the second best thing to happen to sport -- after cheerleaders, of course. So, without further ado: over to you, ladies!



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'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' deluxe artwork released

Scholastic, the US publisher of the Harry Potter books, has released the cover art for the deluxe edition of the American "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." According to Scholastic, it is "set during a highly dramatic sunset, Harry, Hermione, and Ron--clothes in tatters--cling atop a flying dragon."



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The biggest digger in the world (Pic)

Please no "I digg it" jokes.



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First look: Firefox 3 alpha 5

The fifth public alpha build of Firefox 3 has been officially released. The new alpha build, which is codenamed Gran Paradiso, features early components of the revamped Places system, a cohesive storage framework that will unify bookmark and history storage.



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Paris Hilton ordered to return to court

Hours after Paris Hilton was sent home under house arrest Thursday, the judge who put her in jail for violating her reckless-driving probation ordered her into court to determine whether she should be put back behind bars.



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Scientists attempt to grow meat in a lab

What do you think — meat grows on trees? Maybe not, but how about in Petri dishes? Scientists in the Netherlands and the United States are working (separately) to create edible meat in the lab from animal stem cells.



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WIRELESS Electricity from MIT - WiTricity

We always knew Tesla was right: MIT physics professor Marin Soljacic and his team of researchers behind the latest wireless electricity scheme have reportedly demoed their magnetically coupled resonator technology on a 60-watt lightbulb that wasn't plugged in.



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Windows Vista: under the hood

Windows Vista has seen significant changes to its security model, networking capabilities, storage support, and more. In our continuing technical exploration of Vista, we explain and assess these improvements, plus we look at what didn't make the cut, and why.



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RPG Style Map of America [PIC]

How Japan Sees the USA ...



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Why HD DVD combo format discs suck

The HD DVD combo disc may look like an innovative and interesting idea at first glance, but in reality, it simply adds more cost to an already higher priced HD DVD movie title. The worst part of this deal is that most combo format titles are not available as a ’standard’ HD DVD, which means that you are forced to cough up the extra $5-$10.



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"There's a problem. It's called Net Neutrality"

AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre to step down, but it is still business as usual. Net Neutrality will continue to be assaulted under the guise of deregulation.



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$189 laptop

Asus chairman Jonney Shih sprang a surprise during Intel's Computex keynote today with the announcement of a $189 laptop.



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Man sues over permanent erection

A New York man has sued the makers of a health drink, saying it has given him a permanent erection for the last two years



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XP vs. Vista - A Tale of Framerates: Part II

[H] recently ran an article showing a significant framerate discrepancy on popular gaming titles between the two Microsoft operating systems on NVIDIA hardware. They've since gone back and done the same thing with ATI hardware and the new 158.xx NVIDIA drivers. While ATI did better than NVIDIA, there's still a disturbing overall trend.



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Giant Geoglyph Ad Visible From Space - The World’s Longest Geoglyph

"Next time you float past Hokkaido, look down upon the town of Urahoro. There in a field you will see a giant geoglyph that spells out the words “Smart Loop.” This crop circle message is the work of a highly advanced race of aliens Pioneer, which has taken shears to grass to promote its latest Smart Loop car navigation system. "



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Map: Science’s Family Tree

The bigger a node is, the more papers it contains. Heavily cited papers appear in more than one node. Black lines connect any nodes that contain the same papers; the darker a link is, the more papers the connected nodes have in common. These links create the structure of the map and tend to pull similar scientific disciplines closer to one another.



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Road House - Secretly a Brilliant Film

While many view the 1989 Patrick Swayze-starrer as a laughable joke of an action film, Road House is in fact, secretly, a brilliant film. Don't agree? Read on, you skeptical son of a…



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Maybe a contract-free iPhone is NOT out of the question

Something is missing from the latest iPhone commercial--namely the bit about "2 Year Activation Required". And today AT&T launched new pay as you go Feature Packages. Could this be leading up to the pre-paid contract-free iPhone that we all gave up on when the iPhone commercials debuted this week?



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[PIC] Where does mario go when he dies?

Couldn't be more obvious.



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Easiest Clock to Read EVER.

Very cool clock that I can't wait to use with the new widget feature in Leopard.



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Some VERY Interesting iPhone Developments

- iChat WON'T make it to the launch build- there is no way to access the sim card or the battery :(- it WILL have a vibrate mode- it WILL support tabbed browsing- You will be able to interact with it thru iPhoto....click on for more



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Apple’s iPhone ad slip up reveals mystery app (Screenshots)

...there is an odd shot in the “How- To” ad, where the screen goes from the traditional 11 icon view, to a new 12 icon view. Apparently some mystery app has pushed the icons down 1 slot, but we cannot see what it is. This brings us to 2 questions. First, what is the mystery app that has bumped all these apps down one spot? And second...



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"Have you had sex with a member of Congress?"

A full-page advertisement taken out by Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine in Sunday's Washington Post $1 million to Congressional mistresses who come forward.



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Why Are There So Many Suicides in Japan?

Japan's agriculture minister hanged himself Monday amid allegations of bid-rigging and padding government expenses. The following day, an executive linked to one of the scams leapt to his death. In 2005, 32,552 people killed themselves in Japan—one of the highest suicide rates among industrialized nations. Why are there so many suicides in Japan?



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Mass Effect Does for Games What Star Wars Did for Films

Now BioWare, based in Edmonton, is ditching George's franchise for its own epic space opera, which will have episodic interludes available for download in between the three major releases. Mass Effect, the first title in this ambitious new trilogy, is due to arrive as early as June. The game casts players in the role of Commander Shepard........



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Hi-5: Five Women With Expiration Dates

Some women are like wine...they get better with age. Sofia Loren, for example. Call me? But some hotties like, say, Britney Spears, were once fresh but now have gone more rotten than a case of year old eggs. Well who are the top five hotties who will one day in the near future become sour? Check it out...



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The next-generation Mars rover (Video and Pictures)

"Go to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory website and check out the newest video showing the Mars Science Laboratory mission, and you'll see the latest and greatest design for a roving mission to Mars. I've clipped and posted a few screen caps below. "



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Another bio-fuel plant discovered: more oil, less efforts

Another plant, which can be used to get bio-fuel, has been discovered. It provides more oil and requires less fertilizers, etc to grow. So far, only farmers only growing it have expressed interest.



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India's richest man builds 60-storey home

The building, named Antilla after a mythical island, will have a total floor area greater than Versailles and be home for Mr Ambani, his mother, wife, three children and 600 full-time staff.



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The 10 Best 'Head Wounds' in Movie History

Head injuries will always get a wince out of your audience because it’s the most visceral injury a human being can watch. So whip out the Band Aids and wear an extra thick helmet because here are the movies’ 10 best cranium crackers…



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How to: Do A Background Check On Yourself

Companies can order all sorts of reports on you and make judgments about you, from banks, to landlords to employers. Here's how you can see the data they're seeing and make sure the record is right.



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Top 25 Video Game Heroes of All Time

Longer lists are definitely better than shorter lists - especially when it comes to video games! Here is our list of Top Video Game Heroes of All Time - with enough spots on it to ensure at least a few surprises. Think we gave too much credit or committed some grave injustices? Speak and be heard!



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Why you should always obey clearance signs

It was just six inches. That was what made the difference at 4:40 a.m. yesterday as Gilberto Cantu, a truck driver from Texas, approached the New Jersey entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel in his big rig, loaded with bathtubs, toilets and plumbing fixtures. The truck was 13 feet 6 inches high. The tunnel has a height limit of 13 feet...



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