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Lost: The Movie? [Lost] 
Annalee Newitz via io9 on Fri, 17 Oct. 2008
Now that ABC has agreed to let Lost end after a six-year run — meaning no more Dharma bums after 2010 — show helmer J.J. Abrams is finally contemplating a Lost movie. He says that's mainly because the show will be able to end well, and not
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China to impose control on Internet cafe customers
Dominic Rivera via The Inquisitr on Fri, 17 Oct. 2008
Now that the Olympics is over, it’s back to imposing controls on the Internet in China. This time, even Internet cafes will be under watch. As part of a new rule that will take effect by the
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Multi-Computer F1 Racing Screensaver Wins Office Coolness Pole Position [Best Screensaver Ever]
Jesus Diaz via Gizmodo on Fri, 17 Oct. 2008
Intel Brazil has created what's probably the best office screensaver in the history of office screensavers: a Formula 1 racing course that spans across multiple computers and monitors to offer one seamless view competition all across the office. Once you start them up, the Formula 1 car will go fr
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Mimo 7-Inch USB Displays Make Your Desktop Look Like a Battleoid Cockpit [Displays]
Jesus Diaz via Gizmodo on Thu, 16 Oct. 2008
These 7-inch Mimo monitors from Korean manufacturer Nanovision look like the perfect mini-displays to set up widgets, chat windows, and other software that doesn't require too much real state—perfect to make your
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Computer Nearly Passes Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence [It's Alive!]
Jack Loftus via Gizmodo on Sun, 12 Oct. 2008
Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. The experiment is called the Turing Test, after mathematician Alan Turing,
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5 Ways To Make Star Trek More Like Star Wars
Graeme McMillan via io9: Top on Sun, 12 Oct. 2008
So we've been told that the writers of next year's Star Trek reboot want to "bring more Star Wars" to Gene Rodenberry's
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Fallout 3 Leaked to Torrents
gamepolitics via GamePolitics News on Fri, 10 Oct. 2008
Following in the wake of GTA IV, Spore and other high-profile releases, the much-anticipated Fallout 3 was apparently cracked and leaked to torrent sites yesterday, nearly three weeks ahead of its scheduled October 28th U.S. retail release.gamesindustry.biz reports t
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Scientists Find Gene That Makes You Good at Halo Also Makes You a Premature Ejaculator [Bad News]
Adam Frucci via Gizmodo on Wed, 08 Oct. 2008
After a study of 200 Dutch men, scientists found that those with a premature ejaculation problem all had a version of a gene that controls the release of serotonin. And, unfortunately for all of you awesome Call of Dut
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ExtractNow Is a Lightening Fast Bulk Extraction Tool [Featured Windows Download]
Jason Fitzpatrick via Lifehacker on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
Windows only: ExtractNow is a free application with a singular focus: extracting your files lightening fast. Sometimes it's worth eschewing all the bells and whistles of more robust program for a feature that work
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Linux is 17 Years Old [Linux]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Linux Journal has a nice, short retrospective on Sunday's 17th anniversary of the Linux kernel, which started as an attempt by Linus Torvalds to replicate the
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Alert Thingy Looks To Be All-In-One Social Desktop Tool
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
For those nuts out there like us that use just about every social website there is, the upcoming version 2 of Alert Thingy’s AIR desktop application may be just what you need. The current version of the service supports Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed. But version 2, wh
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Will Google Use Chrome to Index Password Protected Web?
Richard MacManus via ReadWriteWeb on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
It's now over a month since Google released its open source web browser, Chrome. An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web - a.k.a. the 'dark web'.
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How Many Futures Does Heroes Actually Need, Anyway? [Heroes]
Graeme McMillan via io9 on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
I'm sure you all remember the heart-wrenching first season of episode of Heroes where Hiro realized that, even though he could travel back in time, he still couldn't prevent the death of his girlfriend Charlie, because somethings are just destined to hap
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Five Best Media Converters [Hive Five]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
We've all been there: you've downloaded an episode of your favorite TV show to watch on your commute or stream to your living room, but the file you downloaded isn't supported on the device you want to use it w
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Warning: The Holy Bible is a Work of Fiction
(unknown author) via Living the Scientific Life (Sc on Sun, 05 Oct. 2008
tags: Holy Bible fiction, religion, religious fundamentalism, religious wingnuttery,
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The Force Is Strong(ish) With Clone Wars' Opener [Clone Wars Review]
Graeme McMillan via io9 on Sat, 04 Oct. 2008
Star Wars may have taken place a long time ago and a galaxy far, far away, but the first two episodes of The Clone Wars managed to take us back to the feelings of possibility, excitement and, yes, mild embarrassment over the corny jokes, more
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New Details On Deus Ex 3
Dawdle via GayGamer.net on Sat, 04 Oct. 2008
CVG is reporting that the next issue of PC Zone will reveal new details about Eidos Montreal's upcoming Deus Ex 3. So far, minus a few concept shots and news of its existence, information about the title has been pretty nonexistent, so I'm sure fans of
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Impressive Right Whale Photography [Zooillogix]
ableiman none@example.com via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
Zooillogix has a lot of Belgian readers. This makes us uncomfortable. One such pale reader, Thomas Cordie, pointed us to some beautiful photos of right whales on National Geographic. Despite my temptation to just copy them all for you to enjoy, I'm posting o
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The Launch of FriendFeedChat.com
Mark Krynsky via Lifestream Blog on Thu, 02 Oct. 2008
A while back I posted a message on FriendFeed asking if anybody hung out on any IRC channels. Not too surprisingly I got a decent amount of feedback, and many folks still were communicating using that method.
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