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Weekend Web News

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This is an awesome photo guide through the fastest growing cities. Some of these pictures are absolutely amazing.

Pictures showing the progression of technology through the years. Pretty neat to see how far we have come. 

Open Source Database vendors work together to squash bugs. OSS versus Retail ;)  

Pictures from the Pirate Bay demonstration in which 1000s of people protested the RAID on Pirate Bay

Awesome video showing the latest Dapper Drake Ubunto linux distro using XGL (i.e. 3-D Aero like interface)
Somehow I feel this 3-D implementation is better than the Windows Vista one. Seems faster and cleaner to me. Who knows. 

This is why you DO NOT want a Motorola phone
Motorola phones dominate the top radiation list 

Saturday Distractions

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New Motorola Q phone is rated: Excellent
 

Firefox 2.0 Alpha 3 released, reviewed 

Interactive Flash Human history timeline 
This is DAMN cool. I highly suggest everyone take a look at this. 

Virtual Sphere Computer Interface 
You get inside a large sphere and walk around inside of it as you appear to be walking in the actual computer simulation. Very neat! 

Friday Roundup

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Open Source Databases are taking on Oracle

Cloaking device is in the works.. For real!

Sweet Domino effect with the game Oblivion

Why the NSA phone spying is bad — A former analyst looks at the agency’s current controversyVideo guided tour of Vista beta 2 by Vista programmers — Get a look at more detail

Conroe @ 2.93Ghz Core Duo 2 Extreme — This one SWEET lookin CPU

Thursday News

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Post an article on your blog about your school, get expelled. Crazy
"The district is going to take away the student's education for exercising his freedom of speech," said attorney Carl Buck.

NVIDIA to release fastest single card solution: 7950GX2 
the card contains two 7900 GTX GPUs each clocked at 500MHz. There's 1GB of GDDR 3 SDRAM - 512MB per core, presumably - on board clocked to 600MHz (1.2GHz effective). MORE DETAILS HERE
NVIDIA x86 and x64 drivers for Vista beta 2 and nforce drivers

No loyalty for teens for the sites they visit

Smackbook and MacSaber — uses for your Mac motion sensor 
Make your own Smackbook with these instructions 

Highlight: Reverse AJAX with DWR

Adium getting voice and video chat (thanks to Google summer of Code) 

Adobe offers a sneak peak into InDesign CS3 and here

NASA develops cool invisibile infrared light detector
 

Microsoft to make their own JPG competitor — WMP (Windows Media Photo)

Thursday News

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Da Vinci code gets yawn treatment at Cannes Film Festival

Spaceport race going global

Last human chromosome has been sequenced. The last one was the most complex and might contain the must usefulness toward curing diseases

Microsoft patches Windows XP SP2 Core Duo Battery Drain bug 

Web Outlook 2007 Screenshots — This looks VERY awesome. Can't wait for this

2010: The year of the techie
Any article on why being a technie is good for climbing the corporate ladder. 

Tech Bites

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Creative Labs X-FI popping: Sign the online petition now.
Help try to put a stop to the TERRIBLE support provided by Creative Labs

JAVA to go Open Source! - Just a matter of when

Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications easy. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

IO2 Technology creates floating touchable mid-air display

Great article that talks about the glossy versus matte laptop displays
Which do you think is better? Maybe it’s just me but on a laptop, I really do like the glossy but on a larger desktop LCD, I prefer the matte.

New Lexus LS-460 the most Techie car