Report: 81.5 percent of all e-mails sent in June were spam

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According to web security firm MessageLabs, spam accounted for 81.5 percent of all e-mail traffic in June.

How To Bump a Lock

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Bush Administration Tries to Redefine Contraception as Abortion

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The New York Times reports that the Bush Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is drafting a rule that would place new restrictions on domestic family planning programs. While current law allows health care providers and professionals to refuse to provide abortions based on their religious beliefs, this provision would threaten the funding of organizations and health facilities if they do not hire people who would refuse to provide birth control and defines abortion so broadly that it would include many types of birth control, including oral contraception.

World’s Greatest Dad – Yahoo News Photos

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This undated image provided by the Michigan attorney-generals office shows Daniel Allen Everett. The 33-year-old Clarkston, Mich. man faces two 20-year felonies after authorities say he arranged a meeting for sex with an online contact he believed was a 14-year-old girl and showed up wearing a T-shirt that read: Worlds Greatest Dad.

Hayden Panettiere at the 2008 ESPY awards

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Gaming Professional on the “Catch-Up” Rule

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I knew it! I have shut out the computer from time to time on Madden, but it’s not easy.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but sports simulations cheat. Straight out. Always have. Always will. Its as if Bill Belichick and Ernie Adams acquired a Rick Moranis shrink ray and decided to bunker down inside your PlayStation. But dont take our word for it. Ask Matthew Kato, a writer for Game Informer magazine who has been playing and reviewing games for more than a decade. “They all have catch-up AI,” he says. “The computer is down, and then all of the sudden it breaks eight tackles and rips off an 80-yard run to conveniently tie the game up. Ive run experiments to see if you can shut the computer out if you run the difficulty at the highest level. I know plenty of people who have tried this. And you just cant skunk the computer. Something always happens.” Does it ever.

The article also talks about the unblockable play. For my money, the best in football history was in Joe Montana Sportstalk Football II — the 839 Swing. HB toss around the right-tackle, take it to the house. Second was an FB short flare pass in a twins-WR I-formation that never failed to gain 6-10 yards. Sub in a WR and you’re set.

Boy, 11, Uses Toy Radar Gun to Slow Speeders

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Want people to slow down on your street? Sometimes you just have to do it yourself.

After numerous complaints about speeders, Metro Councilman Stuart Benson commissioned a traffic study for the area. “We probably get 10 calls for speeding there for every one in any other neighborhood,” said Angela Webster, Bensons legislative aide.

In the meantime, 11-year-old Landon Wilburn got an idea. He and his friends had often yelled at speeders to slow down, to no avail.Then last month, Landon began pointing a Hot Wheels-brand radar gun at them and charting their speeds. The orange radar gun, which costs $30 to $40 at toy stores — although Landon traded toys with a neighbor for his — can clock the speed of almost anything from baseballs to cars.

Defender of the Favicon

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DEFENDER of the favicon is a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis’ brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu ‘p01’ Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller’s experiment with generated favicons VU meter. The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.

Brilliant idea, and you can play it at work with minimal worry for getting caught.

Get Your Resume Ready: IT Jobs Aplenty

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According to the job-finding site, 35 percent of IT employers are planning to boost their ranks of full-time employees between now and December. The closest any other industry came was healthcare, at 26 percent, and sales excluding IT, at 25.9 percent.

CareerBuilder also reports that 45 percent of IT employers have open positions for which they cannot find qualified talent. Its that old skills-shortage problem again.

Left 4 Dead Impressions – Joystiq

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Left 4 Dead is a game I can’t wait for to come out, it’s you and 3 other people in a zombie apocalypse! The whole system is dynamic, sometimes the zombies will come from behind, sometimes they rush and sometimes it’s just quite until you enter a building. The whole thing is controlled by a menacing A.I. routine that keeps you on your toes and makes sure that every play through is nothing like the last. Every so often you and your buddies get to rearm and patch yourself up in a safe house and then step out into the mayhem once again. I say BRING IT!