Month: October 2005

Simple Blood Test Will Accurately Diagnose Anxiety

Simple Blood Test Will Accurately Diagnose Anxiety

A new technique that can accurately diagnose anxiety disorders by performing a simple blood test, was developed at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The researchers hope that the anxiety blood test will soon make its way into hospitals and E.R. rooms and give doctors and psychiatrists a quick and precise tool for examining, and eventually treating, these disorders. The team has recently started work on another common illness – depression.

As an individual with both of these (anxiety and depression) …this is freaking cool. Though, I guess I am not seeing how this could aid in the treatment, this only seems to help with the diagnosis of. Ah well, hopefully there will be more coming out about this soon.

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AIM Buddy Info

AIM Buddy Info

Here’s a new way to waste some more time in your life. Note: This requires that you have a working AIM account, when you follow the link it will ask you to sign in first. This reads in your buddy list and then displays a webpage of all of your buddies away messages and profiles (this is configurable). Pretty cool, but all pretty useless.  As if you needed more ways to procrastinate by reading away messages. smile

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CD Copy Protection Utilities/Tools For Burning A 1:1 Copy

CD Copy Protection Utilities/Tools For Burning A 1:1 Copy

This page contains CD-Game Copy Protection utilities and tools which you can use to manipulate the games protection and allow for a working backup copy of your game, keeping the original CD safe from damage.

Lots of useful links for making images of CD’s and ….uh, getting around things that stop you from doing that cool grin 

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www. is deprecated

www. is deprecated

No-www.org philosophy

No-www.org strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To that end, we make the modest proposal that website makers configure their main sites to be accessible by domain.com as well as www .domain.com.

Our ideal scene is one where non-specialized sites accept traffic on the www host name, but silently redirect it to the bare domain name. This is what no-www calls Class C. However, any site that takes in traffic one way or the other on both the www host and the bare domain are acceptable here.

A rather interesting idea that really does make sense in this stage of the internet. It is assumed your website is www., it’s not like there is www2, www3, etc. If someone doesn’t know to automatically include www in the address they are trying to reach…well, that is a bit sad. Also, it is a very simple configuration for web designers to put incoming www requests to the root domain without the user even having a clue what just happened.  Just a random thought, the www is only for the sake of appearance, to make extra sure that people know they are seeing a webpage though we could just include “http://” for that same purpose.

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Just In: Flock v0.5 Developer Preview

Flock v0.5 Developer Preview

The newest version of the Firefox based web browser is out. You needed to be subscribed to the newsletter to get it…

You’ve asked us to let you take a peek at what we’re working on.  Today,

we are pleased to invite you to try out the latest private preview of what will very soon become the public Flock Developer Preview.

Well, let’s put it this way. We know there are some good ideas already baked into Flock — inspired by the way we all already use the web. And we’ve been busting our butts to get the code out there so we can start getting feedback from the bleeding edge — and we’re almost there.

But we need you, dear readers, to help us identify the 2 or 3 bugs that annoy you the most before we show our code.

So there you have it, in the spirit of open source, here’s how to get the Flock Developer Preview.

I would never send you guys to the horrible Rapidshare website to download this like the author of that post did…here is a link for you to download and try this out:

Download Flock v0.5 Developer Preview

Check out a few quick screenshots I took:

*snip* …the images have been removed.

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Leo and Kate Look at what was State of the art in 98…

Leo and Kate Look at what was State of the art in 98

…God I feel old while watching this and trying to remember when all of that was going on. I still remember our first computer …it was a x386 intel…I eventually did my first hack on that computer and replaced the processor (which was an absolute huge beast I might add) with a pentium 1. lol…yeah, that was a glorious day. Ah well, watch and laugh rasberry

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Top 10 Bushisms of 2004

Top 10 Bushisms of 2004

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The Dumbest Things President Bush Said in 2004

10) “I want you to know. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.” —Nashville, Tenn., May 27, 2004

9) “Then you wake up at the high school level and find out that the illiteracy level of our children are appalling.” —Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

8) “Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.” —Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2004

7) “I want to thank the astronauts who are with us, the courageous spacial entrepreneurs who set such a wonderful example for the young of our country.” —Washington, D.C. Jan. 14, 2004

6) “We will make sure our troops have all that is necessary to complete their missions. That’s why I went to the Congress last September and proposed fundamental — supplemental funding, which is money for armor and body parts and ammunition and fuel.” —Erie, Pa., Sept. 4, 2004

5) “After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And yet, this week — we will have an all-volunteer army!” —Daytona Beach, Fla., Oct. 16, 2004 (Watch video)

4) “Tribal sovereignty means that; it’s sovereign. I mean, you’re a — you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.” —Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video)

3) “I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that we’re going to have a draft.” —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 (Watch video)

2) “Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video)

1) “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

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Windows Media Player 11 – Windows Vista

Well take a look at where the next version of Windows Media Player is as of right now. They are experimenting with ways of integrating the glass effect in and I must say ….this picture looks pretty freaking good. big surprise It’s important to note, this is NOT included in the October CTP (Community Technology Preview), this is in builds immediately after the build released. …Wow, I can’t wait for Vista Beta 2 now. tongue wink
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