Human Rights Sites Censored in China

China’s “Golden Shield Project”, the massive ‘Great Firewall of China’ can now be tested as to whether your website is censored or not. Tests reveal that while most normal sites are available, Human Rights advocacy sites are most assuredly BLOCKED. The Youth for Human Rights site, home to simple videos on Human Rights, [...]

What!? 3DS Max 9 doesn’t work on Vista!

3D Studio Max does not run on Windows Vista. That’s what it says on the Autodesk site, that’s what it says on Maxforums, and that’s what I’m seeing in real life. How is it that the new WunderOS with all its 3D ’support’ doesn’t support the top 3D app on the planet?
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Man invents Fridge with built-in beer catapult - 20′ range

It never ends. 

From the “this-will-be-the-next-top-item-on-Digg-dept”, comes a beer-tossing fridge, with a range of 20′.  The video of this thing is here.

One more reason we need to give Americans something more constructive to do, like go out and be a Volunteer Minister on the weekends, etc. 

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An engineering graduate has built a contraption [...]

Another Slick Use for Google Maps: Platial WebKit

New WordPress plugin announced which will let you put a dynamic Google map or Yahoo! map into the sidebar of your blog, and then let bloggers type their own locations and comments and such all over it. Frivolous? Perhaps.
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Sun “Raptor” Cluster at Mississippi State - 2,048 Opterons, 10 Teraflops

A new high-performance compute cluster was recently set up at Mississippi State University, which is now the fastest all-Sun cluster in the world. It has 2048 AMD Opteron 2218 compute cores and has a total of 4 terabytes of memory. It has a peak performance of over 10 trillion calculations per second (10 TFLOPS).
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New Digg-Like Web 2.0 App for Blog Voting

As if there weren
’t already enough me-too Digg clones! Now there’s a Digg clone specifically for blogs called “wagg.it“. Works the same way as Digg, and has the same icon look as ShoutWire, and integrates in some of the screen-capping, baby-icon-displaying techniques that WordPress is currently using.
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The Technology of Keeping a Marriage Together

Media pundits are spouting off these data like “after 3 years, married couples don’t have sex with each other”. I think it’s garbage, and there is an actual way of keeping a marriage together so that it lasts. There’s a technology to it, and anyone can do it. It’s not ‘luck’.
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Multi-Language Magazine Publishing with Flash Interface

If you’re the Church of Scientology, you’ve got a problem that many other more localised organizations don’t have: languages. The various entities within the Church of Scientology have recently solved this with a flash-based magazine publishing system, that takes magazines and such and puts them in a nifty flash-based interface…
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