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Name imaginary genius – KimNotKim (follow . . . )
Location Seattle
Bio bitter. eccentric. misanthropic. curmudgeon.
Sample Tweet: “One of the best things about being an adult is eating a salad with beer and a brownie and calling it dinner.”
Facts of the Day
The greatest distance run by a relay team is the “The Gillette Phenomenal Tour” in Romania covering 3,091 km (1,920 miles) over 14 days and finishing on Oct 5th 2009.
Quote of the Day
â’Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.” Cher
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Website Pick
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and is one of the highest-selling books under copyright of all time with more than 3 million copies sold annually across the globe. Guinness World Records celebrated its 50th anniversary edition in 2004, a year after the sale of its 100 millionth copy. (link to page . . .)
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Tech Video
Um . . . She is using an Apple – that is like putting a Ford engine in a Prius – waste of time and stupid.
Weekly Raffle
Tech & Science News
Not A Pimp
A federal judge has thrown out a local sheriff’s lawsuit accusing the online classified group Craigslist of facilitating prostitution.. (tech dirt . . .)
Prototype Pretty
Raindrop, an exploration in messaging innovation to explore new ways to use web technologies to create useful and compelling messaging experiences. (mozilla . . .)
Announce It! New Medical Practice Software
Gnumed is developed by doctors and programmers from around the globe and is gaining plenty of traction. Gnumed is broken into a client and a backend server and is released for both the Linux platform and the Windows platform. If you are paying money for your medical practice software and tech support, you are already paying too much. You should be only paying for tech support, not the actual software. Duh! (linux today . . .)
Already Issues
Windows 7 is already not working for the Student Edition. Not anyone see that coming? Wait a year before buying, upgrading (if you computer can handle not only the processing power and the amount of space) or downloading torrent. Let other poor old saps deal with the issues. If anything, wait for Windows 7 Service Patch 1. (engadget . . .)
Speaking of Windows 7
Hungry? Japan Burger King selling Windows 7 Burgers. The fat Microsoft groupie sitting behind the keyboard doesn’t need a seven patty burger, get him a rice cake. (engadget . . .)
You Don’t Have to Pay For an Operating System, Seriously
The fourth update in the CentOS Linux 5 family is released. Highlights of the new release include a kernel-based virtual machine virtualization, alongside of Xen virtualization technology. Free (centos . . .)
Download Beta 9.10
Do you have an old computer sitting around with at least 4MB HD and 256 MB memory? You can install this OS, which is Free. (ubuntu . . .)
Facebook, Twitter and Bing Oh My!
Facebook and Twitter will partner with Microsoft’s search engine Bing to offer real-time search function. Somethings you just don’t want in a search engine. (telegraph . . .)
You Can Find It All
YouTube will allow comment search. How many times can you find stupid, dumb, LOL or idiot? (media week . . .)
Reasons Not to Buy Windows 7
A public charity dedicated to promoting critical thinking, created the new explore the core stupid question “Are social networking sites good for our society?” (extremetech . . .)
Internet Rules and Laws
#7 â’A person’s mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be from having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.â’ (telegraph . . .)
Nanotechnology Risky or Dangerous?
Yes, but it’s extremely small. (spon . . .)
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Not Tech News
Signs That You Are Not Paying Your Teachers Enough
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, police have charged teacher Angela M. Strube with stealing lunch money from her third-grade students. Punishment: Strube has been suspended without pay. Better punishment, Janitor for a year at another school for one year. Which will not only keep her working, but allow precious minds to forget who is the big bully.(tmpost . . .)
Playground Off Limits To Kids
City officials in Kensington, Maryland, have banned children older than five from Reinhardt Park from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The private school, across the street, is using for their student who pay $8800- $10000 year. Last time I look, that is allot of money. I smell miss management. Nothing will bring the vampires and rapist out in like children playing in a park after dark. (channel 7 . . .)
Don’t Watch This At Work — You Will Laugh Too Loud
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Website Pick
Amazon Book
This is Why You’re Fat
A visual gallery of over the top “junk food porn” from the site that pulled in over ten million views in its first month. Food was once the providence of celebrated chefs and critical connoisseurs. Cooking shows featured all gourmet creations and web sites displayed artfully photographed delights.
But then something changed. Perhaps it was the desensitizing of web culture or perhaps it was a cry for help from the food-loving public. But by God – there came a day when fancy vegetable towers came crashing down and $50 mushrooms were no longer acceptable. (link to site . . .)
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