Sorting through the Linux lie: What it really can do

As a user-level operating system, Linux is a cruel and tawdry lie. Bigfoot will fly to your house and personally deliver a $30,000 tax refund before there’s a Linux that can challenge Windows or MacOS in terms of usability.
None of that matters. Linux is still one of the best and most important OS’s on the landscape…

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What Political Party Are You?

The old one-dimensional categories of ‘right’ and ‘left’ are overly simplistic for today’s complex political landscape. Find out where you stand compared to your friends, family, and historic political figures such as George Bush and Stalin.

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The Search Engine Landscape

Which search engine appeals most to U.S. searchers? Which service is the most popular elsewhere in the world? It depends on who you ask, and how they’re measuring.

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The Search Engine Landscape

Which search engine appeals most to U.S. searchers? Which service is the most popular elsewhere in the world? It depends on who you ask, and how they’re measuring.

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DELL 24 Inch Wide Screen LCD – Portrait or Landscape!

The new 24″ Widescreen UltraSharp 2405FPW Flat Panel Monitor offers customers the ultimate display experience. Targeted for computing enthusiast and graphics professionals, the 2405FPW has the highest available resolution1 and large viewable screen size providing exceptional image detail. The 2405 can be used in portrait or landscape mode.

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Middle-class Prefab Homes

In Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
’s night photos of suburban Tokyo, familiar landscapes of densely arranged middle-class prefab homes, tightly parked cars, small gardens and anonymous street corners are somehow rendered strangely unfamiliar under the artificial glow of street lights.

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Oracle buys PeopleSoft for $10 billion

Ending a bitter battle, PeopleSoft’s board approves a deal that reshapes the business software landscape.

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An Apple-Google Friendship, and a Common Enemy

The old social networks in Silicon Valley run very deep. One need not name the enemy in mind: Microsoft, the leading rival to both Mr. Jobs and Mr. Schmidt through most of their careers. Now, with the Internet era remaking the competitive landscape, their prospects for outdueling Microsoftâ??s Windows empire may be better than ever.

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Walk This Way: Path Embedded Solar LED Lighting

TreeHugger recently reviewed a new solar LED lighting product for architectural and landscape design. These units are absolutely beautiful and trump your traditional solar lights! No battery, clean product design, 10 year warranty, 25+ year expected lifetime and the solar panels are hidden from view. Sounds like a winner!

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“Ghost Forests” Reappear on Oregon Beaches

Some 300 hundred years ago – so the prevailing theory goes – a massive tsunami hit what would become the Oregon coast, changing the landscape and leveling entire forests. The eerie remnants of this event are now visible again along central Oregon coast beaches – giant octopus-like structures, the leftovers of massive root systems.

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