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Men have become so openly affectionate with each other using mobile technology they've taken to signing off text messages to male friends with a kiss (x), giving rise to a new generation dubbed "Metrotextuals."
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Back in the dark ages before Internet access, staying on top of the coolest new music required some work. You could read about new bands in magazines and newsletters--the more obscure the better--but most music fans had a few people they trusted to be their personal music experts. Record store clerks, friends in bands, and people in the local art scene all competed to be up on the latest new sounds coming out of Austin or Detroit or Seattle, and the rest of us reaped the benefits of this competition.
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Oliver Wahlstrom's shootout attempt in the Boston Bruins "TD Bank Mini 1-on-1" competition begins as expected: Deliberate skating to the puck before picking up speed into the zone. But once he gets between the faceoff circles ... well, let's just say we wouldn't have been shocked to see him pull a rabbit out of his helmet before sawing a woman in half. This is hockey magic.
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A new Wi-Fi specification will let Wi-Fi devices discover and connect to one another without a router.
The new specification called Wi-Fi Direct was announced Wednesday by the the Wi-Fi Alliance, the industry group that promotes the technology. Th...
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This is the premier do-it-yourself USB charging kit solution with over 5,000 sold in 12 months that has been featured in Popular Science Magazine, Make: Magazine, Boing Boing, the Make: Blog, DIYlive, Digg, and countless more websites. You heard me. Countless.
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Touting its latest mainframe in a February 2008 press release, IBM asserted that the System z10 incorporates quad-core processors designed to be 50 percent faster than its System z9 predecessor, and is the equivalent of approximately 1,500 x86 servers with an 85 percent smaller footprint and energy costs.
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"I think it's really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this," White House deputy policy director Heather Higginbottom said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"It's simply a plea to students to really take their learning serio...
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John Butler is the frontman of the John Butler Trio, a band that has achieved two platinum records in Australia with Three and Living 2001-2002. Their 2004 album Sunrise Over Sea debuted at number one on March 15, 2004 and shipped gold in its first week of release. Please note, all bracelets are custom made and take 2-3 weeks in production before shipping.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) – "Super poppy." "Just plain fun." "Surprisingly optimistic." "Catchy as hell." These are not phrases often used to describe Pearl Jam, the 30 million-selling purveyor of angst-ridden guitar rock now approaching its 19th year of existence.
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Pearl Jam ... 'What's so hard about being in a band?'
In the heart of Pearl Jam's Seattle HQ, their singer Eddie Vedder contemplates what it felt like to be one of the two people who were, to the wider public, the faces of grunge. The other was Ku...
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Davis Guggenheim's lively and affectionate documentary "It Might Get Loud" doesn't actually get that loud, considering it brings together three distinctive and generally quite noisy rock 'n' roll guitarists, Jimmy Page (the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), ...
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The statistics that surround COBOL attest to its huge influence upon the business world. There are over 220 billion lines of COBOL in existence, a figure which equates to around 80% of the world’s actively used code. There are estimated to be over a ...
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The Bose® mobile in-ear headset combines clean, natural sound with the ability to conveniently take calls from your music phone. Advanced Bose sound technology ensures that you'll enjoy your music with lifelike detail and surprisingly rich bass. Plus...
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Apple has released a minor software update for iPhone, patching a security flaw revealed just yesterday.
Security researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner on Thursday revealed a memory corruption bug that could be easily exploited by crashin...
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Here at DiS towers, there are three tribes of people: the prejudice-bound malcontents who don't like Pearl Jam, the good-looking geniuses who do, and Sean, who is still listening to the Friendly Fires album (JUST JOKING).
Anyway, Eddie and chums h...
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HOME / technology: The future and what to do about it.Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five MinutesA foolproof technique to secure your computer, e-mail, and bank account.By Farhad ManjooPosted Friday, July 24, 2009, at 7:05 AM ET
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NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.
In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said Thursday that it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so t...
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An on-demand printing company, Amazing Mail, which has integrated two iPhone apps, Postino (free) and PicCard (99 cents) into its service, will print your cards on high-quality paper, and send them worldwide.
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As Geeks we are expected to have a certain set of skills that the majority of the population does not possess. This list is by no means complete, but I think it is a good sample of the skills required to be a true geek. I won’t pretend to have all th...
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