Naming Your Kid to Enchance Google Ranking

LowCommotion FTW! (Internet, Kids)

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http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/05/10/a-google-wrinkle-in-the-name-game/

The Wall Street Journal reports that new parents may be choosing more “unique” names for their children in the interest of making them more prominent in Google searches. While a name like “Jason Smith” is easily swallowed up in the search-engine depths, a first name like “Kohler” or “Stella” is more likely to land your kid on the front search page.

Shredded Secret Police Files Being Reassembled

LowCommotion FTW! (Music, PC Tech, War)

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http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/05/10/0024233.shtml

German researchers at the Frauenhofer Institute said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms. The files were shredded as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and it became clear that the East German regime was finished. Panicking officials of the Stasi secret police attempted to destroy the vast volumes of material they had kept on everyone from their own citizens to foreign leaders.

yes, thats frauenhofer… the same folks who brought you mp3 compression. germans ftw!

HBO’s Zitter Says DRM Is Misnomer

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http://avid.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=138192

Speaking at a panel session at the NCTA show in Las Vegas Tuesday, Zitter suggested that “DCE,” or Digital Consumer Enablement, would more accurately describe technology that allows consumers “to use content in ways they haven’t before,” such as enjoying TV shows and movies on portable video players like iPods.

wow, talk about spin!

Man killed on death row: Homeless people eat pizza!

Chromium FTW! (Food)

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If I’m ever executed, I want some homeless people to get some trim.

New Terminator Trilogy – not big hopes for this one

Zombie16 FTW! (Movies)

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New Terminator Trilogy Planned by T3 writers – Dark Horizons

The Halcyon Co. has acquired the franchise rights to the popular “The
Terminator” movie series and intend to make a new trilogy that would
anchor their movie company.

“Terminator 4” will be based on a script by John Brancato and Michael
Ferris (“Terminator 3”), and Halcyon plans to immediately begin
preproduction on the film with the hope of a Summer 2009 release.

PS3 ain’t top dawg BluRay player anymore

Zombie16 FTW! (Movies, Nerdy, Tech)

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Does the PS3 really have HDMI 1.3? – Format War Central

When the PS3 hit the street it was recognized as one of the most full featured Blu-ray players
to date, but it seem now that PS3 owners aren’t getting everything they
thought they were. It has recently been uncovered that although the PS3
does have an HDMI 1.3 port,
the software does not support bit stream audio. What this means for
Blu-ray fans is that when they finally pick up one of those new Onkyo receivers with HDMI 1.3, that they still can’t enjoy Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD
because there is no way to get the bits out of the PS3. Of course the
DTS track can still be down mixed and PCM audio is supported, but so
much for being the most capable Blu-ray player available.

Lintrack – OpenVPN solution tutorial

Zombie16 FTW! (Internet)

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Lintrack As A LAN Gateway And An OpenVPN Bridge – HowtoForge

This tutorial will guide you through installation and configuration of Lintrack, a GNU/Linux distribution specialized in networking tasks. We will give two LANs access to the internet along with DHCP and DNS cache servers, and then we will connect our networks using OpenVPN in bridging mode. You should be running all these in well under an hour, thanks to the unified configuration interface of Lintrack.

5 Ways to Tag Videos

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Comparing 5 Ways to Tag Videos – splashcast media

There’s a crazy number of videos flying around online these days and
both the sheer number and impact of those videos are only going to
increase with time.  How’s a person watching videos supposed to keep
track of their favorites, share with friends and do all of the other
things we’re used to doing in the online-text world with social
bookmarking tools?  Well, now you can tag videos – and there are a
variety of different options.

10 all time historic video games

Zombie16 FTW! (Video Games)

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10 most important games of all time – CNET News.com

Video games, like movies, are worth preserving and studying as cultural artifacts. So says Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University, who together with game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky; academic researcher Matteo Bittanti; and game journalist Christopher Grant came up with a list of the 10 most important video games of all time. Lowood presented the list at the Game Developers Conference in early March.

ThinkGeek has the HD-DVD Code on a t-shirt, or do they?

Zombie16 FTW! (Fashion, Internet, Movies, Nerdy)

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Magic Censored Numbers – ThinkGeek

Only true geeks will get this and at that probably only the most hardcore A/V guys, like the ones on AVSForm or Zombie16.