Remember that “transformation” sound of the Autobots and Decepticons? well you can now download it here.

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg responded on the DiggBlog that they would now stand for the community:

But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.

If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.

Digg on,

Kevin

But that hasn’t been the case at all..

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In what i believe must be the first of it’s kind, the mayor of Sao Paulo (Brazil) has banned outdoor ads, he imposed the ban 4 months ago and now the city area is almost 100% free of ads.

Regarding the ban, one Sao Paulo columnist told IHT that the law is “a rare victory of the public interest over private, of order over disorder, aesthetics over ugliness, of cleanliness over trash.” However, advertisors and business groups are clearly feeling the pain.

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Internet billiard is a great site to learn some tips and strategy on 8-ball pool, 9-ball pool, snooker and other games that shares a cue sticks a table and a group of balls.

It’s also a good place to brush up on your knowledge, for example the 9-ball pool rules or the One pocket rule

Everything related to billiards can be found here including billiard games rules, strategy and tips; glossary with definitions of terms often used in the different types of billiard games and more.

Customers and friends continue to ask me more and more frequently “is it really that easy to bypass a lock? If it is that easy, should I be concerned and what can I do about it?”

I explain to them that lock bumping has been around for years. This technique was primarily known to people in the security industry and the information was not commonly shared. Criminals or would-be thieves weren’t really aware of this method for breaking into houses or businesses. However, as this technique becomes common knowledge, each individual faces the importance of increasing their security and staying one step ahead of the potential problem.

I have two major concerns regarding lock bumping. First, this technique for bypassing lock systems is becoming common knowledge, which allows a greater probability for the wrong people to use this information. The second concern is that with this method, it is more difficult to discover signs of forced entry into a home. This becomes an insurance issue. Are you covered for burglary or theft if there are no signs of forced entry? This is a vital question, and one most people have not asked, especially before a break in.

One of the most effective ways to protect against lock bumping is to install a high security cylinder lock that is bump proof. BiLock has a high security cylinder with a patented key and locking mechanism. This lock system is one of the most secure locks in the world. Most standard locks have five or six pins which are made up of top and bottom pins, allowing the bump key to bypass it. The Bilock cylinder has 12 bottom pins with no top pins and dual sidebars along with a trigger mechanism within the key, making this lock system virtually pick proof.

Installing a deadbolt with a BiLock cylinder will provide you with great security. A valuable feature is that there is no unauthorized key duplication. All the keys you receive with the locks are numbered. When you hand out a key to someone, you simply make a record of the key number and when it is returned to you, feel confident that no one has made a copy of the key for your house or business. This is extremely important when handing out keys to contractors or house sitters; you do not have to worry about changing the locks as long as you know that you have all of the keys back in your possession.

You might question whether it would be enough to have a BiLock cylinder in the door knob lock. It would give you more key control and security against lock bumping, but the door knob lock does not provide as much security as a deadbolt lock. For the best security, I recommend a deadbolt with a BiLock bump proof lock cylinder. It would also be a good idea to replace your locking door knob with a passage door knob. A passage door knob has no locking function, it simply latches the door like a bedroom or closet door. When you have installed your passage knob, you will be using the deadbolt to lock your door. You will need to have your key to lock the door, so you won’t be able to accidentally lock yourself out of your home.

A very important thing to remember when securing your house is that criminals commonly pick the easiest target. If you make your home tougher to access than your neighbors, chances are they’ll skip your house. After installing your new BiLock cylinders, you and your loved ones will sleep better knowing that somebody can’t break into your house as easily as they show on the Internet and TV.

Dave Jabas has 30 years experience in sales and installation of commercial and residential door hardware, lock boxes, panic bars and BiLock high security lock cylinders.

http://www.wholesalelocks.com

But according to Time it might just be referring to:

a subtle reference to the 16th century romantic poet Barnabe Googe, famous for the line, “I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.” Or maybe it was a secret shout out to Debbie Googe, bassist from a group called My Bloody Valentine?

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Here are some facts:

3.30 Jack and Jill went up the hill. Only Jack came down. Jill was a fucking terrorist.
3.29 Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours.
3.29 If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.
3.27 Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
3.26 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
3.22 The only reason you’re conscious right now is because Jack Bauer doesn’t want to carry you.
3.20 Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.
3.19 There were originally five horsemen of the apocalypse. Jack Bauer said he would travel by foot.
3.18 They say you can’t go a day without water, Jack Bauer has gone five seasons.
3.15 Jack Bauer sleeps with a gun under the pillow. But he could kill you with the pillow.
3.12 When Kim Bauer lost her virginity, Jack found it and put it back.
3.11 When Kim Bauer lost her virginity, Jack found it and put it back.
3.09 When life hands Jack Bauer Lemons, he kills Terrorists. Jack Bauer fuckin’ hates lemonade.
3.08 As a boy, Jack Bauer interrogated his parents on Easter until they revealed the location and contents of each hidden egg.
3.07 Jack Bauer doesn’t miss. If he didn’t hit you it’s because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.

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The crackdown has begun and according to sources the guilty party will have to forked out $1000 per picture!.

Getty is said to have employed the services of Israel based company – Picscout to track down sites that contain unauthorized images from Getty.

There’s a current discussion of this matter over at Sitepoint Forums.

Digital Love – Daft Punk

Last night I had a dream about you
In this dream I’m dancing right beside you
And it looked like everyone was having fun
The kind of feeling I’ve waited so long

Don’t stop come a little closer
As we jam the rhythm gets stronger
There’s nothing wrong with just a little little fun
We were dancing all night long

The time is right to put my arms around you
You’re feeling right
You wrap your arms around too
But suddenly I feel the shining sun
Before I knew it this dream was all gone

Ooh I don’t know what to do
About this dream and you
I wish this dream comes true

Ooh I don’t know what to do
About this dream and you
We’ll make this dream come true

Why don’t you play the game?
Why don’t you play the game?

This little baby will get you addicted to it for a long time to come and you might even find yourself taking it to work and playing with it in the office during your lunch break as the Micro Copter was intended for indoor use unless you have ZERO wind conditions.

Flying this mini copter takes some of those twitchy video game skillz you’ve been perfecting on FPS shooters. But once you get the knack of it you won’t be able to stop zooming it around your home or office.

Product Features:

* Amazingly small Infrared Remote control helicopter
* Flashing Blue LED for Night Flying
* Intended for indoor use. Outdoor flying only under ZERO wind conditions.
* Full Flight control with up/down and turn right/left
* Body is constructed from durable EPP foam
* Internal helicopter battery charges from remote control unit
* 15 minute charge time, 5 – 7 minute flight time
* Extra rotor included
* Uses 6AA Batteries (Not Included)

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I wouldn’t care much for the movie but the painful part of it all is that Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl was part of the movie, in fact she had a big role in the movie.

Zyzzyx Road is the latest film from Leo Grillo Productions, a company set up by actor Leo Grillo to give him movies in which he can star. In Zyzzyx Road, Leo plays Grant, who is having an affair with Katherine Heigl’s Marissa

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Don’t take it too seriously folks

Start >> Run >> telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

and press ok

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About the site:

Web2.0tshirts.com was created by Clear Function, a technology company based in Memphis, TN. Clear Function designs the way technology should work: easy, flowing interfaces with effortless functionality.

Clear Function mainly does website design and web application development, but we thought that it would be fun to try our hand at the clothing industry. Or, at least the T-shirt business. Web2.0tshirts.com is our little way of having a little fun and bringing a little satire to the Web 2.0 industry.

The other cool thing is that the site is powered by Shopify a free web service to create online shop, it’s a breeze to create an online store with Shopify, LiewCF posted a little about Shopify and you can find that post here.

Visit Web 2.0 T-Shirts

Gina Hughes over at Yahoo Tech recently had the opportunity to go over Tyra Banks’ Holiday Tech Wish List.

Tyra Banks of course is the host of the popular America’s Next Top Model and The Tyra Banks Show, if somehow you didn’t know that..i’m suprised!.Some people commented that Tyra may just be the next Oprah, but i don’t think it’s anytime soon.

Anywayz, let’s get back to Tyra’s wish list this holiday season:

“Like most iPod owners, Tyra takes her iPod everywhere she goes. A Red iPod Nano is the must-have music player this holiday season. Covered in a shiny red enclosure, the rail-thin Nano is flash-based and ready to withstand any rigorous use. Since Tyra takes her iPod to the gym, Gina Hughes also recommends the Nike + iPod Sports Kit to track her progress online after each workout.”

View the full wish list here

Enjoy!

Tech Support: “How much free space do you have on your hard drive?”

Customer: “Well, my wife likes to get up there on that Internet, and she downloaded ten hours of free space. Is that enough?”

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No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system.
- Bill Gates

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Customer: “My computer crashed!”
Tech Support: “It crashed?”
Customer: “Yeah, it won’t let me play my game.”
Tech Support: “All right, hit Control-Alt-Delete to reboot.”
Customer: “No, it didn’t crash-it crashed.”
Tech Support: “Huh?”
Customer: “I crashed my game. That’s what I said before. Now it doesn’t work.”
Turned out, the user was playing Lunar Lander and crashed his spaceship.
Tech Support: “Click on ‘File, ‘ then ‘New Game.’”
Customer: [pause] “Wow! How’d you learn how to do that?”

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook

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Customer: “So that’ll get me connected to the Internet, right?”
Tech Support: “Yeah.”
Customer: “And that’s the latest version of the Internet, right?”
Tech Support: “Uhh…uh…uh…yeah.”

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One Liners:

“Unix is user-friendly. It’s just very selective about who its friends are.”

“Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” — Michael Sinz

“There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – This is not humorous by itself; but in the context it’s a classic by Bill Gates in 1981

Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips.”

“Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.” – Erik Naggum

“Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell.”

“SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it.”

“Windows95: It’s like upgrading from Reagan to Bush.

“People say Microsoft paid 14M$ for using the Rolling Stones song ‘Start me up’ in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed 14M$ only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn’t use the line ‘You’ll make a grown man cry’.”

“I’m not anti-social; I’m just not user friendly”

“A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light”

“The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2.”

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila”

“1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d”

“To go forward, you must backup.”

“I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code”

“A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting.”

“My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.”

“Better to be a geek than an idiot.”

“Windows isn’t a virus, viruses do something.”

“Geek’s favorite pickup line: Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform? ”

“Be nice to geeks when you’re in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up.”

“Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail.”

“Evolution is God’s way of issuing upgrades.”

“The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.”

“It’s a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages.”

“The box said ‘Required Windows 95 or better’. So, I installed LINUX.”

“Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows.”

“once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary,
over many a strange and spurious site of ‘hot xxx galore’.
While i clicked my fav’rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
” ‘Tis not possible!”, i muttered, “give me back my free hardcore!”
quoth the server, 404.”

“Mac users swear by their Mac,
PC users swear at their PC.”

“Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error.”

“Dating a girl is just like writing software. Everything’s going to work just fine in the testing lab (dating), but as soon as you have contract with a customer (marriage), then your program (life) is going to be facing new situations you never expected. You’ll be forced to patch the code (admit you’re wrong) and then the code (wife) will just end up all bloated and unmaintainable in the end.”

“Real men don’t use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies.” – Linus Torvalds

“There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don’t, and those that confuse it with binary.”

“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.”

“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”

“I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: ‘Outlook not so good’. I said: ‘Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway’.”

“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.”
“The term reboot comes from the middle age (before computers). Horses who stopped in mid-stride required a boot to the rear to start again. Thus the term to rear-boot, later abbreviated into reboot.”

“Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.”

“The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.”

“Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn’t leave something that can be traced back to you.”

Have fun finding and downloading music with Google at g2p

g2p is a product of i-hacked

Mark Zuckerberg of course is the owner of the popular social network site – Facebook.In January this year Facebook received an offer of $750 million from Viacom but they duly rejected the offer and instead asked for a ernomous $2 billion which Viacom rebuffed.

To woo Mr. Zuckerberg, Yahoo has offered about $900 million for Facebook and says it will keep the company somewhat independent, with Mr. Zuckerberg in charge. This has been its model with other acquisitions like Flickr, a photo-sharing site, and Del.icio.us, a social bookmarking service that lets members share lists of their favorite Web sites.

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In the meantime, YouTube has announced to potential buyers that it will not sell for less than $1.5 billion….

Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been fired by her UK record label Island Records after she failed to travel to London for a planned promotional campaign for her album Speak.

Shocking..but yet not too shocking…

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Miss Puerto Rico – Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza is the new Miss Universe.

Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza shared a nervous emotional hug with first runner-up, Kurara Chibana of Japan, moments before the winner was announced, then clasped her hands to her mouth in amazement as her name was called.

She beamed as the crown was placed on her head but briefly fainted after a post-pageant news conference. She quickly recovered after being given liquids, said Miss Universe spokeswoman Esther Swan.

But there was more drama to come as the newly crowned Miss Universe passed out during a post-pageant news conference and was rushed off stage.

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The top five contestants (L-R) Miss Switzerland Lauriane Gillieron, Miss Paraguay Lourdes Arevalos, Miss Japan Kurara Chibana, Miss USA Tara Conner and Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera. Miss Puerto Rico was crowned Miss Universe 2006

via Yahoo

Most of the content i already know,believe and practice, but still it feels so good reading it.

The title of his post was “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job”:

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

I encourage you to read the article yourself click here – “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job”

It comes with a brand-spanking black color with a superb 4.1 megapixel camera “attached”.

It doesn’t get any better than this.

**ok..lame i know.

Back to your daily routine…

Congratulations to the Italians as they have now won the World Cup for the 4th time in their history,only Brazil can top that with 5 Cups to their name.
Zidane was the only blot in this game,receiving the red card for a headbutt on Marco Materazzi, a really aweful way to exit and retire from international football.

I hope Zidane doesn’t win the Golden Ball…it should rightly go to Cannavaro.

Once again congrats to the Italians…Forza Italy!

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There’s girls at Google and they are brainy in their respective roles at Google Management.

They help keep the Google running

Here’s some of them in no particular order :

Shona Brown
Senior Vice President, Business Operations

Shona Brown took on responsibilities for Google’s business operations in 2003, following almost a decade consulting with technology clients in Toronto and Los Angeles for McKinsey and Company. As a partner at McKinsey, she was a leader of the Global Strategy Practice and worked with a wide range of firms on strategy development, business model transformation and operational issues. Her experience includes extensive work in consumer software and hardware technology, online consumer services, and Internet media markets.

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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Vice President, Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is Google’s Vice President for Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations. In this role, she is responsible for all of Google’s sales operations in these regions. Sukhinder also oversees the company’s local search and channel initiatives globally.

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Marissa Mayer
Vice President, Search Products & User Experience

Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google’s search products – web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design. In her spare time, Marissa also organizes Google Movies – outings a few times a year to see the latest blockbusters – for 6,000+ people (employees plus family members and friends).

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Miriam Rivera
Vice President & Deputy General Counsel

Miriam leads the legal teams for Google’s corporate, commercial, Asia Pacific/Latin America, employment, real estate and technical operations. Previously, she served as associate general counsel, managing the commercial and strategic alliance practice for the company. Miriam has also closed a number of strategic partnerships for Google, including AOL and AOL Europe, as well as earlier partnerships for Yahoo! and Yahoo Japan, while overseeing the completion of thousands of revenue and strategic alliances.

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For The Full Google Management Team -both guys and gals – click here

The move has angered it’s neighbour-Japan who has slapped economic sanction on N.Korea and has closed it’s border to any North Korean.

The US is also particularly angered and outraged by North Korea’s tests,especially the testing of
the long-range Taepodong-2 potentially capable of hitting targets on the U.S. West Coast,although it appeared the test had failed on its first test flight after only 35 seconds and before it entered the second of two-stages and landed in the sea of Japan, dealing a blow to the North Korean missile program, Japanese and U.S. officials said.

North Korea has said it wants a non-aggression treaty with Washington before it makes any move. For its part, the United States is keen to see the standoff resolved but is standing firm amid concerns expressed by top officials that the nation is a “rogue state” holding the world hostage to nuclear blackmail.

CNN Special Report

BBC

Are you a serial video uploader?..do you upload your homemade videos on such site as YouTube,Google Video or MetaCafe?

Wait..hold on, the next time you upload your video,you might just be able to profit from it,yes the time has come,you can now make $$ with or without any filming skills.

Crazy you say? maybe,but that’s what is happening right now at eefoof.

Kinda wierd name for a video upload site ya?

All the same they are offering you a share of revenue,so if your video hits it big time than you might just have a wonderful Christmas this year

check out eefoof for more details.

Researchers have found something intresting slitthering in the jungles of Borneo, a venomous species of snake that can change its skin color – chameleon snake?

One of the research team member,Mark Auliya said “I put the reddish-brown snake in a dark bucket,When I retrieved it a few minutes later, it was almost entirely white.”

Indonesia and Malaysia have territory on Borneo, which is also home to the sultanate of Brunei.

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The new Honda Civic has really caught my eye and i’m really thinking of buying that piece of beauty,believe me,it’s beautiful,i saw one on the road the other day,black with silver trimmings…ooo baby.

But naturally since this will be my first ever car, i want to choose wisely and have done some research here and there,viewed some websites,did some test drives,annoyed some salesman,etc…

And today a friend of mine pointed me to a ‘Ford Escort’ site, i immediately told him i was not interested,i afterall had an escort before (family car some 16 years ago).,but he said this was not just an ordinary site,it was a site that featured 3D Renderings of escorts,and it did looked pretty cool

Before

After

With the escort being a very afforable $1000 and with some modifications..who knows,i might just fall for it..:P

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No..no…this blog is NOT turning into an entertainment blog, but i thought it would be cool for to post this video of the ever beautiful Nicole Kidman.

This advert is a little old (2004) and was done by Baz Luhrmann who also directed Moulin Rouge in which Nicole Kidman was the co-star.The advert caused a stunning £18 million and Kidman’s fees alone was £2 million!.

About the Advert:

As one of the world’s most celebrated actresses, Kidman, plays the role of the “most famous woman in the world”. Young and charming Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro plays a struggling writer who falls in love with Kidman.

The story is set in a mythical metropolis where a mysterious and beautiful woman runs out of her limousine and into the traffic of the imaginary Times Square. She escapes the paparazzi and the screaming fans, and plunges into the heart of neon and noise.

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