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 Weekend Project: Build a Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeder for Under $10 (October 13, 2007)Source: Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com) | Build a bird feeder that those pesky squirrels will not be able to get into with Instructables' step by step tutorial. Materials are all available at your local hardware store for less than $10 (your... |
Utility's UV treatment plan comes under fire (November 17, 2006)Source: Latest Business News from Times Online () | THE beach bum's dilemma: good surf or the green planet. Northumbrian Water has chosen this winter to end the carbon-costly ultra-violet treatment for sewage it discharges into the sea.... |
Matt York : Under the Streetlights (September 2, 2006)Source: Le blog d'Eric Boisson (http://ericboisson.typepad.com/le_blog_deric_boisson/) | Je vous l'ai dit, cet été j'ai pu découvrir pas mal d'excellents artistes en devenir.. Matt York est un de ceux la et je ne suis pas seul à le penser puisque le petit gars commence à se faire un... |
Iranian "Pizzas" Now Called "Elastic Loaves" Under New Foreign Word Ban... (July 29, 2006)Source: The Huffington Post | Full News Feed (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
The presidential decree, issued earlier this week, orders all governmental agencies, newspapers and publications to use words deemed more appropriate by the official language watchdog, the Farhangestan Zaban e Farsi, or Persian Academy, the Irna official news agency reported.
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The consumer data? It's under the passenger seat in my car. Why? (June 22, 2006)Source: GMSV (http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv) | The Federal Trade Commission typically asks companies that lose consumer data to subject themselves to an independent security audit biennially for 20 years. I wonder if it will ask the same to itself now that it too has exposed sensitive... |
 Security updates for Office, PowerPoint under Mac OS X (June 14, 2006)Source: Mac Net Journal (http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/) Via MacInTouch: Microsoft Security Updates - "This update fixes vulnerabilities in Office 2004 for Mac that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code." A similar PowerPoint X Security Update is also available. [MacInTouch] |
Baker - Under Wires (March 17, 2006)Source: DiscoBlog (http://discoblog.houste.info) | Un des premiers CDs (rares) du groupe français Under Wires, l’album Under Wires (enregistré sous le nom de Baker) est une oeuvre principalement accoustique.
Parfois à la limite du progressif, cet album regroupe neuf morceaux, joués simplement au piano ou arrangés de manière plus sophistiquée… Ce qui est certain, c’est la qualité des mélodies de chaque [...] |
 Mac OS X Hacked Under 30 Minutes (March 6, 2006)Source: OSNews (http://www.osnews.com/) | Gaining root access to a Mac is 'easy pickings', according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. On February 22, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and folders or install applications. Within hours of going live, the 'rm-my-mac' competition was over. The challenger posted this message on his Web site: "This sucks. Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced". |
 Tori Amos - Under The Pink (March 2, 2006)Source: DiscoBlog (http://discoblog.houste.info) | Under The Pink a d’abord été un objet de curiosité pour moi. A une époque où j’écumais les bacs de la médiathèque de Valenciennes. C’est comme ça que j’ai rencontré Autour de Lucie, que j’ai complété ma discothèque The Cure et que j’ai apprécié l’intégrale de Barbara.
Tori Amos fait donc partie de cette période intense [...] |
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