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Hi, I'm Jordan Running. By day I write about software for Tucows.com. By night I blog at swirlee.org (sometimes), do some programming, take some photos, and otherwise keep myself busy.
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News – "Resorts that cater to nudists are big business in Osceola and Pasco counties. Now, the au natural tourists are stocking up on two dollar bills to prove how important they are to Florida's bottom line. 'We just want to show the merchants that, yes, we're still here and stronger than ever,' said Chuck Foster, Caliente Resort."
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(wftv.com)
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Voted for on May 05, 2007 12:17pm
Gadgets & Tech – In his latest podcast Jason Calacanis interviews Digg's Jay Adelson and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann about the recent HD-DVD key debacle.
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(calacanis.com)
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Voted for on May 04, 2007 06:08pm
Do-It-Yourself – "We geeks spend a lot of time tinkering with our PCs, but the greatest computer you'll ever use is your body. Today's Top 10 takes a break from circuits, software and chips to take a look at how to power use that hot bod of yours. You might be surprised what you can do as a bag of mostly water."
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(lifehacker.com)
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Voted for on May 04, 2007 12:41pm
Gadgets & Tech – These 10 videos all helped contribute to YouTube's success and changed the way we consume our media.
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(forbes.com)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 12:11pm
Gadgets & Tech – Intel will roll out Vista internally only once the first service pack of the operating system has been released, and Dell is likely to do the same. Speaking to ZDNet UK at a Dell event in Paris on Thursday, Intel Europe's director of IT, Martin Mueller, said that the company's Vista deployment would only commence in the second half of 2007.
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(news.zdnet.co.uk)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 11:56am
Science – "A pocket-sized device that runs on two AA batteries and copies DNA as accurately as expensive lab equipment has been developed by researchers in the US. The device has no moving parts and costs just $10 to make"
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(newscientist.com)
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Voted for on May 04, 2007 11:24am
Gadgets & Tech – "I'm not an avid Pandora user. ... But it angers me when I see that such a great service will now be unavailable for users outside of the US. In any case, this is the Internet, and it's easy to be a hacker nowadays, so here's a couple of services you can use to access Pandora from wherever you are."
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(franticindustries.com)
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Voted for on May 04, 2007 10:44am
Humor – The decommissioned 737 aircraft was being driven through Mumbai at the weekend when the driver got lost and then abandoned the plane! It's now a tourist attraction!
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(ekjut.com)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 10:24am
Gadgets & Tech – "Brad Garlinghouse (Yahoo SVP Communications & Communities) and Stewart Butterfield (Cofounder Flickr)... told me that they will announce the closure of Yahoo Photos tomorrow. The actual closure will occur over the next few months, they say."
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(techcrunch.com)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 10:14am
Do No Evil – The Australian of the year 2007, environmentalist Tim Flannery, once predicted that Perth in Western Australia could become the world's first ghost metropolis, its population forced to abandon the city due to lack of water.
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(news.bbc.co.uk)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 10:10am
Politics – White House hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday urged that copyright rules be waived so that video from Democratic presidential debates is publicly available "for free and without restriction."
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(huffingtonpost.com)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 10:05am
Television – A first look at the Robot Chicken: Star Wars special that premieres on June 17 on Adult Swim.
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(starwars.com)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 10:03am
Video Games – "I keep my PS3 and my Xbox 360 in an entertainment unit in the living room. It's a big wooden thing with glass doors, and while it looks cool, I guess it's not exactly what I'd call well ventilated."
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(1up.com)
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Voted for on May 04, 2007 10:00am
Humor – Many of us are stuck in a cube for most of the day. Why not have some fun with your co-workers. They annoy you day in and day out. Here are 101 ways for you to slowly drive them crazy.
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(jasonbartholme.com)
Voted for on May 04, 2007 09:48am
Gadgets & Tech – "Scores of the leased laptops break down each month, and every other morning, when the entire school has study hall, the network inevitably freezes because of the sheer number of students roaming the Internet ... So the Liverpool Central School District, just outside Syracuse, has decided to phase out laptops starting this fall..."
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(nytimes.com)
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Voted for on May 04, 2007 09:20am