Just the coolest thing. If you refresh, it will be completely different. The entire presentation is created from a pre-defined list of dictionary words which utlize randomizing algorhythms to create unique display each time.

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Convicted murderers, rapists and hardened criminals from the maximum security section of New Bilibid Prison, are having their heads shaved as part of a national drive to collect human hair to help sponge up more than 50,000 gallons of fuel leaked off the central coast of the Philippines.

”The prisoners had their hearts touched and they all sent me a message saying there were willing to give their hair as their own small contribution.”

The 15,000 inmates at a maximum security prison in southern Manila, including 1,000 on death row, began donating hair on Tuesday as health officials ordered the evacuation of residents of a fishing village on Guimaras due to health risks.

Prisoners don’t need their hair anyway, right? An interesting resolution to a natural problem.

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Sometimes, deals are just that – great deals! While I wil never understand the ‘travel mouse’ concept – I mean our hands do not shrink when we use a notebook remotely do they? Well, then why does the mouse shrink? Many, like a mini-IOGear USB Travel Mouse, were just tiny and disfunctional for use.

Now there’s a stylish mouse you can take everywhere for under 10 bucks. Microsoft Notebook Optical mouse features Microsoft Optical Technology for smooth, accurate performance. Contoured for comfort and scaled-down in size, Notebook Optical Mouse is always good to go.

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While most college freshmen will do strange jobs for cash to survive at college, Alex Tew had another idea – why sell off a million pixels at $1 each – netting $1 Million dollars. He never expected to make his goal, but was suddenly thrown into the media spotlight and talked about worldwide. [...]

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Hurricane Ernesto is already swinging it’s rainbands through KeyWest and is approaching the Miami area over the next few hours. Although anticipated to be about a Category 1 impact strength, the storm is still approaching. Live upates can be viewed here for your convenience through the storm.

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Four hundred years ago, the best legal minds in Western Europe devised a series of tests to determine whether or not accused persons were guilty of certain criminal acts. The charge: witchcraft. The evidence: any anomalous wart, or teat, or sunken spot in the flesh was considered “the devil’s mark,” gotten by the accused when she/he submitted to the foul will of Satan. Satan would then gash the miscreant, marking them as his own. When accused witches were brought in for examination, they were stripped and searched for unusual marks. Sharp pins were run through these welts, and if the examinee exhibited no signs of pain, they were judged guilty. The end result was a short ride to the scaffold for an auto da fe.

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Recently the EFF joined an amicus brief filed in support of Sima in its battle against DRM-vendor Macrovision. In essence, Macrovision is trying to leverage the DMCA into a technology mandate, forcing all digital video products in the future to respond to its analog-era DRM system.

Macrovision’s “Analog Copy Protection” (ACP) technology is intended to degrade the quality of video copies made on analog VCRs. It does this by intentionally adding noise to the vertical blanking interval of analog video signals. This noise confuses the automatic gain control (AGC) circuit used by analog VCRs. In short, Macrovision’s ACP is an exploit against a weakness in analog VCRs. Thanks to Section 1201(k) of the DMCA, VCR makers are now forbidden by law from fixing the weakness, which means that analog VCRs have remained vulnerable to ACP. In other words, Macrovision’s ACP is an antiquated DRM technology that owes its effectiveness in the analog world to a government mandate.

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The Internet continues to bring people together and provide information on a grand scale – internationally. The UK’s law which does not allow pre-convicted individuals to be tossed about the papers was respected and the NYT simply notified users from the UK that they could not read the article due to local law.”

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Drive-By-Downloads were a phrased coined during the insane times of getting Gator downloaded to your PC everytime you clicked nearly anywhere foreign. Well, at least those days are over, or so I thought. Tonight, I was on a new site, trying out their tools and features, and got to a wrong link, i think they had a typo, so I corrected it to the logical domain (businessblogs.com) and hit enter.

Wow! Next thing you know I’m on a “ibuytraffic.net” parking page which is trying to have me save some .DAT file and asking to protect me from spyware at the same time. Nice try guys. Got it all down. In the images here for all to see. So, who runs this lucrative business? Mr. Javon Lockley and/or David Harrison of Muskegon, Michigan.

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Ernesto is coming to dinner – well, maybe. Most recent National Hurricane Center updates say that Hurricane Ernesto has top winds of 75 mph at 8 a.m. ET, with higher gusts. This is the first tropical storm of the year to be upgraded to hurricane status, according to a Bloomberg report.
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