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news: Convert people to Firefox and get a dollar

(By leandro on 2008-11-21 08:29:58) IE Destroyer is a script that auto-detects someone surfing your site with Internet Explorer and shows a screen inviting them to switch to Firefox. Each time someone does, Google's Ad Sense gives you a dollar.

news: Explain this one to the Creationists

(By leandro on 2008-11-20 09:23:28) ''A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.''

news: Is Detroit worth saving?

(By leandro on 2008-11-19 08:43:21) ''The tragedy of Detroit is that for years it simply refused to listen to those of us who begged them to build fuel-efficient cars. Indeed, before we hand them more money, let's reflect on a little history.'' Don't get discouraged by Salon's annoying advertising tactics.

news: 9 ESRB Ratings That Should Exist

(By leandro on 2008-11-18 09:36:03) ''With some games, ESRB ratings can be either too damning, or not restrictive enough. [...] Mass Effect gets an M rating for fictional alien violence, but Call of Duty (which is based on actual military events) doesn't? What's wrong with this picture?''

news: It's a little girl's car

(By leandro on 2008-11-17 08:28:32) ''The 21-year-old Broadview woman owns the 2000 Dodge Neon that once belonged to the president-elect. Illinois secretary of state records show Obama briefly owned the four-door car and sold it to a suburban dealership in January 2005, just a few weeks before being sworn in as a U.S. senator.''

news: The Eight Phases of Dating

(By Colin on 2008-11-16 23:22:43) Which stage are you at?

news: Super Mario Bros

(By jake the snake on 2008-11-12 13:46:31) Little did we know about Mario.

news: why don't girls fart

(By jake the snake on 2008-11-12 13:42:18) An experiment in google suggest.

news: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Now Offline

(By leandro on 2008-11-12 08:37:44) Washington Post's Brian Krebs, from Security Fix spent the last four months collecting evidence on McColo, a California based web host, proving to its upstream providers the spams, scams and child-porn (among many other things) their now-former client handled. Judging from the sudden dive in spam being tracked by SpamCop it looks like it worked--for now, at least.

news: Woman's Oversized Purse Stops Robber's Bullet

(By leandro on 2008-11-11 13:52:59) The moral of the story here is to walk quietly and carry a large bag. Possibly full of stuff.