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5 Great Alternative Linux Music Players
makeuseof.com — Amarok, Rhythmbox and Banshee are a few of the popular music players in Linux. They are great in features and have received plenty of good reviews. But what is unknown to many is that there are a lot of other music players for Linux which are also great in features, but are hidden in some corners of the world.More… (Linux/Unix)
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Unknown Insect Discovered on eBay
telegraph.co.uk — A scientist has discovered a previously unknown insect - after buying it on eBay. More… (General Sciences)
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Using a Poison to Turn Sunlight into Food
sciam.com — Bacteria from a hot spring in California conduct photosynthesis with arsenic--and suggest a process that might have predated typical photosynthesisMore… (Environment)
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Spectacular Find: Dinosaurs May Be Older than First Thought
spiegel.de — Traces of a dinosaur found a German quarry suggest the creatures may have been 15 million years older than previously believed.More… (General Sciences)
MediaSightRobot tells human off for doing it wrong (Video)
newscientist.com — The video below shows a scenario that is likely to become real as industrial robots improve: a human and a robot work together to assemble an object from its parts. But in the clip from the University of Minho, Portugal, not everything is going to plan. The human gets a stern warning from the robot that they are doing it wrong.More… (Tech Industry News)
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The 11 Deadly Sins of Middle Seatmates
abcnews.go.com — There are worse things than being stuck in the middle seat on an airplane. How about being stuck next to a meddlesome middle seater? Your middle seatmate could be guilty of one or more of the "11 Deadly Sins."More… (Travel & Places)
Are you hiding secret messages in LOLCAT photos?
spectrum.ieee.org — Earlier this year, someone at the US Department of Justice smuggled sensitive financial data out of the agency by embedding the data in several image files. Defeating this exfiltration method, called steganography, has proved particularly tricky, but one engineering student has come up with a way to make espionage work against itself.More… (Security)
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Two Women Sentenced to ‘Re-education’ in China
nytimes.com — Here is some great Olympic News. The women were sentenced after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in an official Olympic protest area.More… (World News)
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Fake Restaurant Wins Award of Excellence
consumerist.com — He typed up a menu (”a fun amalgamation of somewhat bumbling nouvelle-Italian recipes”) and then put together a wine list, and submitted both to Wine Spectator–along with the $250 fee. The list was approved and given an Award of Excellence. More… (Food & Drink)
insaincain02The Three Kinds of Sex [PIC] view!
MakiMakiPatient dies after being left in chair for 22 hours
blogs.usatoday.com — A psychiatric patient died at a North Carolina mental hospital after nurses left him in a chair and didn't give him any food or water for nearly a day.More… (Health)
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Coal Power Plant Retrofit With Solar
ecoworldly.com — A coal plant in New South Wales, Australia is using solar energy to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Coal and solar generate electricity using the same turbines, under the same roof.More… (Environment)
sarafina42Dogs have a sense of right and wrong
telegraph.co.uk — Dogs have become more intelligent, and even learnt a sense of right and wrong, through spending time with humans, a study shows. Although still controversial, recent research is beginning to support the view that an owner is perfectly correct when they pat their pet and coo "who's a clever boy then?"More… (Pets & Animals)
vick3iiWould Linux help Adobe pummel Microsoft?
news.cnet.com — Columnist John Dvorak thinks that Adobe Systems has a Microsoft problem and that Linux provides a clear solution: Adobe could port its Creative Suite...to Linux as a shot across Redmond's bow. Then the company should race Linux in-house and develop a complete, optimized Linux OS...More… (Linux/Unix)
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