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3rd Division Ss Totenkopf: Walmart’s Nazi Tshirts Found In Outlet Stores:

“Ever wonder what happened to all those shirts Walmart pulled off their shelves for containing a disgusting Nazi symbol? Well, some of them can be found in a Florida Beall’s Outlet store for…

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Watch HDTV on your Mac:

“Using a few simple tools provided free by Apple, a Firewire cable and your HD-capable set-top cable or satellite box, anyone with a Mac can watch beautiful HDTV (and standard def, too) on your stunning Apple display. No adapters or extra money is required, just use the free devel kit and VLC. Start streaming HDTV to your Mac right now. Here’s how.”

Mea Culpa: The Unpleasant Truth Behind Mattel’s Unexpected Apology:

“Mattel Executive Vice President for Worldwide Operations Thomas Debrowski recently surprised consumers and policy makers alike by offering an exceptional and expansive apology to Li Changjiang, the…

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Linux Tip: Use a Screensaver as Desktop Wallpaper:

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Linux users: You can embed a screensaver as the destop background with two terminal commands. Tech blogger Prashanth Ellina demonstrates how you can create a ‘video wallpaper’ by temporarily removing the nautilus desktop and replacing it with an xscreensaver. An embedded screensaver is light on memory usage, but won’t play nice with Compiz Fusion.

gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -root

Prashanth even demonstrates how to add a menu entry for turning this effect off and on. If you don’t like the Matrix look, you can substitute any listed screensaver instead of ‘glmatrix.’

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Lock Of Che Guevara’s To Be Sold:

“A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara’s hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.

Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara’s capture in the jungles of Bolivia, according to unclassified U.S. records and other documents. He plans to auction the hair and other items kept in a scrapbook since the joint CIA-Bolivian army mission 40 years ago.

‘It’s time for me to put the past behind and pass these on to someone else,’ said Villoldo, also a veteran of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

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Legendary Music Producer Says IPod Will Soon Be Obsolete:

“Rick Rubin, the pioneering music producer who worked with the Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, Run DMC and Jay-Z, predicts the future of online music will be subscription-based — and that the iPod, inexplicably, will be obsolete.”

Twitter: Don’t want up-to-the-second updates for all …:

“Don’t want up-to-the-second updates for all of your Twitter friends? Get all of your Twitter updates in a more manageable, once-daily Twitter digest.

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Online Morphing:

“MorphThing combines two faces into one. It’s fun, free, and no download is required!”

50 Forgotten Novels:

“50 forgotten and overlooked novels as chosen by 50 Anglophone writers, including Lionel Shriver, Hari Kunzru, Michael Chabon, Siri Hustvedt, A. S. Byatt and Philip Pullman (part two).”

Going after Gore:

“Going After Gore ‘Al Gore couldn’t believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes (’I invented the Internet’), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for Love Story), and strangely off-the-mark needling, while pundits such as Maureen Dowd appeared to be charmed by his rival, George W. Bush. For the first time, Gore and his family talk about the effect of the press attacks on his campaign—and about his future plans—to the author, who finds that many in the media are re-assessing their 2000 coverage.’”

Google: Search Newest Google Results from Firefox:

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You can create a Firefox keyword search bookmark to only return the newest search results from Google. Using Google’s advanced search feature to return only the freshest results, the Double Parity weblog explains how to create a bookmark and assign a keyword for faster searching. As shown in the screenshot, when the author performs a keyword search starting with ‘gw,’ he’ll get the latest results from Google. If keyword searches aren’t your cup of tea, you can use the Add to Search Bar extension for Firefox to add a search engine for Google’s freshest results to the Firefox search bar.

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New “Blade Runner” cut is “how it should have been”:

“Twenty-five years after ‘Blade Runner’ was panned by critics and pulled from theaters, British director Ridley Scott savors revenge with the final cut of the science-fiction film now considered a cult classic. Presenting the new version of what he considers his most accomplished movie.”

Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon:

“iFrated informs us of a successful penetration of US Defense Department computers by the Chinese military last June. From the article: ‘The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defense secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack. Current and former officials have told the Financial Times an internal investigation has revealed that the incursion came from the [Chinese] People’s Liberation Army. One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there was a ‘very high level of confidence… trending towards total certainty’ that the PLA was responsible.’ The PLA is also accused of breaking into German government computers, including a network in the office of the Chancellor.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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[Interesting] British spy agency spied on George Orwell for decades after fearing what he thought and said was a danger to the state. If only there was a word to describe such a concept:

“Guardian

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Why rock and roll stars die young:

“They say rock and pop stars live life in the fast lane - and now researchers say they have proved it.”

Should “open source” include open data?:

“Open source is increasingly meaningless if the data it manages isn’t open, too. Should the Open Source Definition be expanded to include data provisions?”

[Photoshop] Photoshop theme: Design a label for your own brand of microbrews:

“Fark

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Linux is inappropriate on XBOX Live:

“The word Linux is inappropriate according to XBOX Live. That’s the message I got when I included the word ‘LINUX’ in my motto on XBOX Live”