Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Store and manage music with all those extra gigabytes in your Gmail account.
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
COMPLETE STEROID LIST: Clemens, Pujols, among others
Newschannel 4's Jonathan Dienst has obtained the expected list of current and former major league players linked to steroids, according to George Mitchell's investigation. The list includes former MVP's Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols, Jason Giambi, Ken Caminitti and Albert Belle. The list contains two sets of brothers: Jose and Ozzie Canseco and...
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Army pays $725 to WWII vet for unfair trial, imprisonment
Yeah that's $725 for 15 months in prison after an unfair trial. No zeros missing there. Oh and it was 63 years later that he finally got that check...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Merriam-Webster Add w00t to Dictionary - Teachers Weep
Congratulations World of WarCraft addicts. Give yourselves a pat on the back, Halo’ers. You and all the other gamers and internet fans out there have collectively legitimized 1337 speak.
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Jessica Simpson ready to strip naked for Hollywood
Jessica Simpson is ready to strip naked in a Hollywood movie. The blonde beauty wants to be taken seriously as an actress and believes baring all is the best way to earn the respect of Tinseltown, even if it goes against her family's wishes.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Use a Wiimote to Make Whiteboards Out of Anything
Johnny Lee's description of "Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote" may sound boring, but it's actually a very cool and very innovative use of the Wiimote.With Johnny's app, you can in turn use a cheap DIY IR pen as an input device and make your own whiteboard/input tablet.
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Downgrade Wii Photo Channel To 1.0 To Keep MP3 Playback
For most people this isn't an issue but some may be annoyed that the latest Wii update removes MP3 playback through the Photo Channel and puts AAC playback in its place. If you need MP3 playback you can easily get it back by downgrading to 1.0 (if your Wii was built before December 2007) by following these instructions by the Big N themselves.
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The 33 Best Beer Pong Tables Ever Created [w/PICS]
A comprehensive look at the art of the beer pong table, showcasing 33 of the best beer pong tables ever made. The tables were ranked based on creativity, overall time spent, and the finished product. These will put your haphazard closet door on two sawhorses to shame.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
psp fw 4.00 to be released soon!!!
After talking to some psp people who work closely with team C+D and DAX i have heard that the PSP Firmware 4.00 may be coming out shortly.
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8 Blatant Loading Screen Cover-ups in Games
Back in the early days of disc-based gaming, companies weren't afraid of sticking a "Now Loading" screen in your face every two minutes. Now, companies employ stupid tricks to avoid them. Here's the worst ones
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A doctor's take on the plagues
Posted By A. Chris Gajilan, Senior Producer, Medical News: 9:19 AM ET
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/04/doctors-take-on-plagues.html
Monday, April 09, 2007
Yesterday was Easter Sunday. In between conversations about the Resurrection and the sugar highs induced by chocolate bunnies and multi-colored marshmallow Peeps, I managed to make my way to the movies. I went to see, "The Reaping." I guess I hadn't had enough religion in church, so I had to turn to Hollywood for a little bit more. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. The movie placed No. 5 at the box office this weekend.
It's about a minister-turned-scientist, played by Hilary Swank, who investigates divine mysteries. She's called to a small fictional town in Louisiana that appears to be revisiting the 10 biblical plagues of the book of Exodus.
I've always found the plagues fascinating. The gory story is more than 4,000 years old. God, angry at Pharaoh and the Egyptians for keeping the Hebrews as slaves, unleashed 10 plagues: rivers of blood, frogs, lice, flies, murrain or disease affecting only the cattle, boils, hail, locusts, three days of darkness and death of the firstborn.
Over the years, archaeologists and doctors alike have tried to gain insight on the mystery. Dr. John Marr, an epidemiologist at the Medical College of Virginia, and many other scientists have come up with a "domino theory of natural causes" to explain the plagues. Some estimate that about a month passed between each one of the plagues.
First plague - bloody rivers: possibly caused by red algae sucking out all the oxygen in the water, producing noxious toxins and killing the fish. In addition to the dead fish, the algae itself turns the water color red.
Second plague - frogs: The death of the fish allowed for the unhindered breeding of tadpoles. But once the algae levels rose high enough to affect the amphibians, they were driven out of the water and forced to live on land. They could not survive out of the water for long and died.
Third plague - gnats;
Fourth plague - flies: Without any frogs or toads to eat them, the population of gnats and flies flourished amongst their dead bodies.
Fifth plague - disease;
Sixth Plague - boils: "May have been outbreaks of anthrax in cattle and humans, respectively," according to a 1999 CDC article in "Emerging Infectious Diseases."
Seventh plague - hail: "Hail isn't that uncommon, even in Egypt." says Dr. Marr.
Eighth plague - locusts: Arrived in time to eat up the crops destroyed by the hail storm.
Ninth plague - three days of darkness: Sandstorms are very common in Egypt.
Tenth plague - death of the firstborn: Deadly airborne mycotoxins grow rapidly in top layers of poorly stored grain. Starving Egyptians, out of fish and beef, dig out after a sandstorm and rush to the granaries for food. The first to enter would be blasted with mycotoxins and the first to eat, usually the eldest family members, ate the top, most contaminated portions of the grain.
To be clear, the biblical story of the plagues is not about how it happened physically or whether it happened it all. It has carried messages of overcoming oppression for generations. Even with scientific evaluation, it remains a mystery.
"The order of the plagues had to be in that order. The crescendo of terror culminated in the Pharaoh letting Moses' people go. Statistically, that in and of itself, is a miracle," concludes Dr. Marr.
What do you think about the 10 biblical plagues of Exodus? Do you think a scientific basis for the plagues bears any importance? How does this analysis affect your view of the plagues? Do you think there are modern-day plagues?
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/04/doctors-take-on-plagues.html
Monday, April 09, 2007
Yesterday was Easter Sunday. In between conversations about the Resurrection and the sugar highs induced by chocolate bunnies and multi-colored marshmallow Peeps, I managed to make my way to the movies. I went to see, "The Reaping." I guess I hadn't had enough religion in church, so I had to turn to Hollywood for a little bit more. Apparently, I wasn't the only one. The movie placed No. 5 at the box office this weekend.
It's about a minister-turned-scientist, played by Hilary Swank, who investigates divine mysteries. She's called to a small fictional town in Louisiana that appears to be revisiting the 10 biblical plagues of the book of Exodus.
I've always found the plagues fascinating. The gory story is more than 4,000 years old. God, angry at Pharaoh and the Egyptians for keeping the Hebrews as slaves, unleashed 10 plagues: rivers of blood, frogs, lice, flies, murrain or disease affecting only the cattle, boils, hail, locusts, three days of darkness and death of the firstborn.
Over the years, archaeologists and doctors alike have tried to gain insight on the mystery. Dr. John Marr, an epidemiologist at the Medical College of Virginia, and many other scientists have come up with a "domino theory of natural causes" to explain the plagues. Some estimate that about a month passed between each one of the plagues.
First plague - bloody rivers: possibly caused by red algae sucking out all the oxygen in the water, producing noxious toxins and killing the fish. In addition to the dead fish, the algae itself turns the water color red.
Second plague - frogs: The death of the fish allowed for the unhindered breeding of tadpoles. But once the algae levels rose high enough to affect the amphibians, they were driven out of the water and forced to live on land. They could not survive out of the water for long and died.
Third plague - gnats;
Fourth plague - flies: Without any frogs or toads to eat them, the population of gnats and flies flourished amongst their dead bodies.
Fifth plague - disease;
Sixth Plague - boils: "May have been outbreaks of anthrax in cattle and humans, respectively," according to a 1999 CDC article in "Emerging Infectious Diseases."
Seventh plague - hail: "Hail isn't that uncommon, even in Egypt." says Dr. Marr.
Eighth plague - locusts: Arrived in time to eat up the crops destroyed by the hail storm.
Ninth plague - three days of darkness: Sandstorms are very common in Egypt.
Tenth plague - death of the firstborn: Deadly airborne mycotoxins grow rapidly in top layers of poorly stored grain. Starving Egyptians, out of fish and beef, dig out after a sandstorm and rush to the granaries for food. The first to enter would be blasted with mycotoxins and the first to eat, usually the eldest family members, ate the top, most contaminated portions of the grain.
To be clear, the biblical story of the plagues is not about how it happened physically or whether it happened it all. It has carried messages of overcoming oppression for generations. Even with scientific evaluation, it remains a mystery.
"The order of the plagues had to be in that order. The crescendo of terror culminated in the Pharaoh letting Moses' people go. Statistically, that in and of itself, is a miracle," concludes Dr. Marr.
What do you think about the 10 biblical plagues of Exodus? Do you think a scientific basis for the plagues bears any importance? How does this analysis affect your view of the plagues? Do you think there are modern-day plagues?
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