Magnitude 5.4 Earthquake in Illinois this morning at 4:36 CDT

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ReadBurner Relaunches

ReadBurner was an RSS aggregator service which displayed the most popular URLs at any given time based on how many people had shared them through Google Reader's Shared Items. To much disappointment, the site shut its doors last month, when the site's owner Alex Marktl could no longer make time to work on it.

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I SETI was an alien

In forty-seven years of signal-seeking, SETI twice detected signals of possibly intelligent origins– The "Wow!" signal in 1977, and Radio Source SHGb02+14a in 2004.

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Soldier to Home: Physics from the belly of a HUMVEE can be 'otherworldly'

Back on the base, I would take a cot outside at night and use my night-vision goggles to look at stars and constellations while listening to Professor Muller…

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San Diego Fires and Disaster Reporting 2.0

The San Diego fires this week have helped to demonstrate that social media communities such as Twitter are valued communication channels - especially so in extreme circumstances.

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Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief

Great idea of how we can tag posts in Twitter via the #hashtag convention, in a similar vein to how @username got started. Great example of this approach in practice following the San Diego Fires (#sandiegofire).

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'Thousands killed in Burma' - Burmese Intelligence Officer

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. "

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FireBall Lights Up the Sky Over New Mexico

Video sequence shows the fireball streaking across the sky.

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Chasing Major Hurricane Dean, Live Hurricane Chaser Updates From Jamaica

Hurricane chasing blog will be covering a current ongoing chase intercept expedition of major Hurricane Dean on the Island of Jamaica. Hurricane Chaser Jim Edds is on location in Kingston, Jamaica for the landfall of this strong category 4 hurricane on Sunday. This site will be updating with pictures and video throughout the event.

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Gigantic, Gorgeous Finale of Hubble Space Telescope's Photon-Hunting Trip

This is what happens when you turn NASA's Hubble Space Telescope loose for one year on a tiny slice of the sky above: A stunning view of 50,000 galaxies -- a massive 5600 x 9000 pixel, fully-high-resolution JPEG photo -- that'll leave you speechless. It's time to nominate NASA's Hubble Space Telescope for a Nobel Prize.

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Moon Images Available in High-Res Soon!

Hot on the heels of the remastering of the Apollo movie footage comes the news that every photograph taken above and on the surface of the Moon is being rescanned digitally and made available to the public!

The work is being done at Arizona State University, and is headed up by Mark Robinson, who is, not-so-coincidentally, the Principal Investigator for LROC, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, the workhorse camera on the next NASA lunar probe. Over the next three years he and his team will be scanning in the original lunar photographs at high resolution (some are 1.3 Gb per picture, at 100-200 pixels per film millimeter!) and high contrast.

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The Minority Report Interface is on the way (X windows style)

MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. (with video)

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Save $3966/year on electricity bills - annoy your neighbours in the process

A man on Long Beach Island has erected a windmill in his backyard to cut down on electricity bills (saving him $3966 a year). But in the process he has really pissed off his neighbours who are saying the sound, equivenlent to a noisy refrigerator, is too noisy and the structure itself is too big.

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Microsoft Admits *ALL* Xbox360's Are Defective

If you thought that Sony was the only console manufacturer having a really bad day, guess again. After many months of public complaints and outcries, Microsoft has publically admitted that *ALL* (as in every single one ever sold) Xbox360's have a design defect that can lead to their failure.

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This is what the web looked like in 1994

Wow. We never thought about it this way before, but if the web still looked like this, you wouldn't need an iPhone with Safari to surf the web on your phone.

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Interactive Sky Map - 500 million space objects

The main purpose of WIKISKY is to consolidate astronomical, astrophysical and other information about different space objects and astrophysical facts. The system can display about 500 millions the space objects of the star sky.

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Why Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

15 reasons why Mr. Rogers was, and always will be, the best neighbor, and one of televisions best entertainers, ever.



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Cool!!!! Check this out. TED!!!!!!!

This shows the future and current capabilities of computers today. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!:-)



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BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: The new Microsoft Surface

The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technolog



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Some of you may have heard about a new drug called DCA that has flooded the Internet with buzz, conspiracy theories and frantic blog posts. For those who haven't heard about it, it's a drug that was recently discovered to shrink tumors in rats and kill cancerous human cells (in a petri dish). Long story short- it isn't getting the funding it needs for real human testing and FDA approval. Because it's so cheap to make and not patentable, pharmaceutical companies won't touch it. This isn't a conspiracy; it's called capitalism. It's a poor investment. Is DCA the silver bullet? Maybe not. It might not end up passing human trials at all, but if the testing is never done will we ever know? DCA is one of the most promising leads we've had to date for a cancer cure. It's very possible that an inexpensive and effective cure for all or most cancers may fade into obscurity without ever even being properly tested.

We made this site based on an idea. The idea is simple... use the collective power of the Internet to empower us all to pick up where the pharmaceutical companies will not go. We will donate 100% of any and all revenue this site brings in to multiple cancer charities. All you have to do is visit often and tell others to check it out as well. We will provide as much unbiased information on the subject as we can to keep you updated on the progress of DCA research. If you really want to help, you can make a private donation to any of the charities listed on this site.

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