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  • darth-map

    Getting directions from Darth Vader

    In the morning of my last day of my visit to New Hampshire, I was driving to the labs where I had been working for the past week and listening to one of the local radio stations. At the time, on air was some local [...]

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  • nerd

    You might be a nerd if…

    You might be a nerd if you find this comic funny: Dating is rough at the transport layer

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  • linux_pirate

    Have you used Linux? You are a criminal!

    Reading through this story got me so upset that I had to post about it. Apparently, there are people in the US who want to equate using Open Source Software to piracy. That is just ridiculus. The two concepts are completely unrelated to each other. Open [...]

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  • twitter_rob

    Twitter knows where you are!

    It figures that sooner or later someone would have done something like this! Someone has created a website which scrubs twitter for post which include location information about where you are and when you left your home. The Please Rob Me website shows a list of [...]

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  • candy_thumbnail

    What geeks do after Valentines day

    While, I am pleased to say that this year I had the BEST Valentines day ever, some men might have not been so lucky. Wired has an funny article on what to do with all those chocolates that did not get accepted as warmly as [...]

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  • dna_thumbnail

    Organic material from Outer Space

    I found a pretty interesting article on Slashdot today talking about the fact that “[previously] unknown organic molecules have been discovered in a 100 kg meteorite that hit Australia in 1969″. The article continues saying that the meteorite (or meteorites like this) could have contributed [...]

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  • f-22-thumbnail

    First Russian stealth fighter takes flight

    There are news circulating the Internet that the first Russian stealth fighter had it’s first test flight. I have been a long time fan of Russian aviation (that is where my college username came fromĀ  – Fulcrum – codename for the Russian MiG-29). I know that [...]

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  • mars_thumbnail

    NASA planning on MARS trip

    An article on nasaspaceflight.com talks about NASA making plans to go to Mars in the near future. While things still sound pretty uncertain, I am really happy to read that, at least, there are plans to go to the Red Planet soon. Previously, NASA had [...]

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  • Comcast is messing with my TV again

    Comcast is messing with my TV again

    Yesterday, I was all set and excited about watching my recording of the winter season premier of Burn Notice. I sat in my favourite spot, grabbed the remote, and pushed play. To my surprise, the picture that popped up when the recording started was horrible. [...]

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