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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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Laughter paves the way for romance

 Studies suggest humour signals big brain and good partner-potential. If love is blind, then maybe humour is the attention-grabber. That’s the conclusion of two recent studies that confirm a long-standing stereotype of flirting: that women like joky men, while men like women who laugh at their jokes. The idea that funny people are attractive may seem obvious. But there have

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The Million Dollar Homepage is back online

Looks like the Million Dollar Homepage is now back online!  Hi Darren, I’m pleased to report that The Million Dollar Homepage is back online after almost 6 days of downtime due to a malicious attack by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from me. I’m pleased to say that I did not pay a penny, and worked closely with my

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Gamer Commits Suicide on Forums

Very very sad, but true, poor guy! SOFIA (AFP) – A 21-year-old American online gaming fan broadcast his suicide on a Bulgarian Internet forum.   Named as Mitchell S., the gamer switched on his web cam and swallowed a large amount of motor antifreeze and pills after complaining about family problems and a lack of money, forum administrator Boyan Georgiev

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5 Years of Wikipedia!

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, turned 5 years old January 15, 2006. The English Wikipedia alone now has more than 920,000 articles, with over 340,000,000 words. The millionth article is expected to appear in late February or early March. The combined Wikipedias for all languages have an estimated total of over 3,100,000 articles in some two hundred languages. Eighty-four of the

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Steve Mallette vs. Digg controversy

Here’s some great news, Steve Mallette is out in the clear! Earlier today, O’Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com. Steve Mallett, O’Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg’s CSS pages. The story was voted up rapidly and made the homepage, acquiring thousands of diggs

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O’Reilly writer Steve Mallett has stolen digg’s code

Now this is interesting and after checking it my self it seems like it’s for real, but then again did he just use the source from somewhere else like pligg.com which is an open source version of digg basically! Steve Mallett from O’Reilly has stolen digg’s code It seems Steve Mallett, (writer for O’Reilly) has copy-and-pasted digg’s CSS and HTML directly into