http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:52:02 EST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_1 f920bc1ae0ffc305ce92a8006afbe104 Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:45:59 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_2 b59801dfb26b73cabcc230293bfa30b4 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:41:09 PST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_3 54b66a6b2c95024ed8e8f3c3b26c3bdc I think we need to be clear about what questions the leaked emails raise. They don't put the entire phenomenon of global warming back in play. Forget all the fancy charts; a quick look at the temperature anomaly data makes it very clear that the planet has been warming by 0.2 deg. C per decade, even if the annual increases have more or less ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:23:17 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_4 b533d7fadf1c3fd7dda0d0c8d7343547 If you're not already at the airport trying to smash your way to the front of a ticket line, you're probably not visiting relatives this Thanksgiving. You need an excuse besides "they are annoying." The AP has a bunch! Those AP reporters must hate their relatives, since every other article they penned about Thanksgiving this year was actually ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:13:06 EST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_5 ee742ea3a20ea99a13aeae3861318388 More than half a million messages, released by whistleblower site Wikileaks, reveal the panic, horror and pain of September 11, 2001, in the words of those who lived it. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T05:11:09Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_6 44c2dd08bbe10b2c8837b5341f061834 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_7 ac21331a02f426d733f11b4b024eeec7 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_8 1b5b9b1465debda6771f176c082ce764 NASA has pioneered all kinds of irradiated, thermo-stabilized and freeze-dried Thanksgiving delights, like smoked turkey, candied yams and cornbread dressing. But this year, space shuttle Atlantis rocketed off without any special holiday fare because of a late schedule change. (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:58:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_9 93a346ae89f371f35348a36b601f4a03 I’d almost be happier if this turned out to be some kind of fake. But in the meantime, while you may think of it as a badly flawed and unfair pie chart, I prefer to see it as actually just an extreme version of a genuine pie chart. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:40:55 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_10 f7052ae90a22ad1959444445801b090f On the nation’s greatest food holiday, the culinary habits of millions can be analyzed like never before. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:32:55 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_11 59fb496e1eacab2b56164c2e1f1f7af6 NATO allies appear willing to send fewer than half that number of additional troops to Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s strategy for the region, officials said. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:32:55 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_12 7ec69e8e18206dd37a7eaaeaee95f4a7 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T20:16:45-08:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_13 e9d05e101c4f2ada3eabb7927d51cd53 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T03:42:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_14 8594d0e90a6fa980ef2687d2cae70d99 Angry tapir writes "Students at Tokyo's University of Science have developed a new version of their muscle suit, a wearable robotic suit that assists the muscles when carrying out strenuous tasks. The original version of the suit, which has been in production for several years, provides assistance to the arms and back but the new version provides ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T19:32:39-08:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_15 cc85aa66b0635190f840a19ae7582cb6 Centrifugal Force - By Randall Munroe : (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:07:54 EST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_16 bcebab37ecc35e3991f1f9fcd0724eba The tradition that is Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has spun off its own tradition -- on Thanksgiving eve, New Yorkers and tourists alike gather on the Upper West Side of New York City to watch their favorite characters come to life in the forms of giant balloons. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:04:27 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_17 d76ff166e3cfaeed033efb0aecd2a124 Phoronix: "In particular, when using the ATI kernel mode-setting driver in Fedora 12 (which is the default for pre-R600 hardware), there is a large performance discrepancy compared to using the traditional user-space mode-setting for ATI Radeon hardware. Today we are looking at what exactly the performance cost is for using ATI KMS in this new ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:43:25 PST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_18 fa5b13e40cbd6546941ed3e6908864fd Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:43:25 PST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_19 c235cf9f05969a237947153ec2e5089e Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:43:25 PST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/1#item_20 88d839cdd900576b7ea246c78925f728 We are easing into tagging, see some posts tagged: home, autos, technology, gadget, gifts, cell phone, design, games, bathroom, change, toys, art, iphone, lighting, kitchen, architecture, Rocky IV, travel, fashion, kids, tshirts, packaging, usb, furniture, office, nature, Obama, bags, shoes (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:03:53 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_1 9bf866988928458b4a057c9a699a0707 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:05:16 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_2 340b687a1831d702f48027254c00ba21 Automakers tend to agree that the electrification of the car is inevitable, but Nissan is leading the way by readying a mass-market, affordable electric car for production. The Leaf is a midsize hatchback with a range of a little more than 100 miles, according to Nissan. Although Nissan didn't let us drive it, the company brought the Leaf to CNET' ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T01:48:19Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_3 472d4e065571682a24e87014a1628527 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T01:48:19Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_4 8ed1f11358ec7e4a11efb0b51d5628ff A few weeks ago, I began pondering where to buy a turkey. Like all grocery shopping, this once straightforward domestic routine has lately changed for me into an ethical and economic quagmire. The calculus that now accompanies each trip to the supermarket is depressing; every decision feels wrong. If I buy the cheap milk, I'm bankrupting small ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T01:33:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_5 9ad0dd98642cd58324bf5d045b12d00f Zmaragdus writes "Facebook Inc. converted its existing stock holdings into different classes of stocks (Class A and Class B) designed to give certain shareholders more power than others. This has been typically done in an IPO of a company's stock to give important people (company founders, for instance) more clout in the actions of the company ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T01:21:43Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_6 06062aa35facf7dcb3b138470ffd3bdd Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T01:21:43Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_7 d4f62481c0acae7aadba94ed47c67e94 In Big Night, Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's 1996 drama about two chef brothers cooking a one-of-a-kind dinner at their struggling Italian restaurant, there's a moment where the siblings unveil their prize dish, timpano, a mix of meat, cheese, pasta, tomato sauce, and hardboiled eggs served inside a drum-shaped crust. The unveiling begins ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T01:21:43Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_8 507fe8a3ea1a4a1147e35d07c27956be In the week ending Nov. 21, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 466,000, a decrease of 35,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 501,000. The 4-week moving average was 496,500, a decrease of 16,500 from the previous week's revised average of 513,000. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-26T01:15:52Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_9 31f594a54153cdf8fa34cb1a796190ed Magazine publishers want an app store! Black Friday talk getting old. Google and Tivo going to dog viewers liker nothing before. Japanese man marries video game character. Xbox360 outselling PS3 by 3X. Great security predictions for 2010. Brought to you by e-Harmony. Check it out at www.eharmony.com using the code EHTECH for a fat discount. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:58:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_10 e0fd922a544dc5e0c7e1251fd1dbd7c9 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:58:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_11 749f22eff728e0f7c23458303c4e92a0 "The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so ... (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:26:12 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_12 83e9c39b15b860f293b9867c8369223a Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:09:56 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_13 53a5884dac846baa4260c9d5deca15c1 ComScore on Wednesday released October viewing statistics for online video. And although there weren't any surprises at the top, the figures did provide some interesting insight into how users are consuming video on the Web. (Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:11:48 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_14 154337ffaa1aab7a83ad49ffcbe7d360 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T18:03:00.000-05:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_15 af1f5106e87c7c818574d61a43bcecbe Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:11:48 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_16 01a99d8cae373617196210ca6a39fb3e Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:38 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_17 869032c522e9d66dcd4895ffbaa0bd03 Read on Source) ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:38 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_18 03b611c897684d5c35626d1bbab4397e Black Friday is almost upon us, and the steep hardware discounts mean new computers for many. To help you during these tough economic times, we've refreshed the Download.com Security Starter Kit for 2010. Although nothing can replace common-sense browsing, this collection of freeware security tools will help you protect new machines and old from ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:43:48 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_19 9104d67b60d524c3e029066b857c8d35 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:09:56 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/21#item_20 2d6e7ede914eeec01b6ab11df2d7bef0 [ If you're going to JFK International Airport today, you will see nothing like the pristine modernism from the TWA Terminal in 1962. It will be a complete mess jammed with lines and screaming travelers. Good luck!. Image via AP ] (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_1 3f8ed6510c8f41d87466e01bbaae9a68 Major CHP operation north of Winchester going on now. Units in median and on side with radar and visual aids. Ticketing for cell phone, speeding etc. (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:56:00 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_2 002111fe6dbab185e54ba7ec430ff438 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:33:53 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_3 2227925f294364b41fd0dec200f0fa28 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:33:53 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_4 9999829bdbf54e7bd0b94c29ee61d7a6 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:33:53 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_5 dae82577b16accf22e804cc8d8c7807f You know how House and Senate Republicans mock the Democrats for introducing the longest bill in the history of bills — health care reform — longer than the Torah, longer than a 1960s Robert Byrd speech, longer than the Reno phone book? (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:04 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_6 a469aeb2773e9b7d14b8ef2d0992c8d9 Tomàseen Foley’s "A Celtic Christmas" recreates the joy and innocence of a night before Christmas in an Ireland farmhouse, when neighbors gather around the fire to grace the long wintry night with the laughter of their stories and the joy of their music & dances. A must-experience show for the entire family – Kids 50% Off! 805.899.2222 (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:04 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_7 536747fca7c635855a79903a30450560 The future of Metasploit, the highly respected, open source penetration testing framework founded by renowned security expert H.D. Moore, was plunged into doubt last month following the announcement that the project had been acquired by Rapid7. (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:56:42 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_8 e10f1c8650e24b8734016d116498b482 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:33 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_9 eabc70dbd1d9d91a1a54f9e8a5fc8cab Shop the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History marketplace for whimsical, practical, and exotic holiday gifts from over 50 countries. Watch international dance and music performances, and enjoy a tantalizing ethnic lunch. FREE admission and parking. Proceeds benefit the Museum's exhibits and programs. (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:26:14 PST http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_10 093f6da47a6692511688875999e3b497 From the very, very funny 27b/6 blog, an imaginary (I hope) correspondence between a guy who wants a free logo designed and the designer he's hitting up. Warning, contains lots of f-words. From: Simon Edhouse Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm To: David Thorne Subject: Logo Design Hello David, I would like to catch up as I am working on a ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:22 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_11 762ec11e70a7c3eb6fa9f51d6b888f40 The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s Turkey Drive was a great success - All of our member agencies received the food and turkeys they requested. Thank you very much for the tremendous generosity from all the communities throughout Santa Barbara County, the many volunteers who donated their time and the wonderful contributors who gave us the ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:09 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_12 601ac7f6d56a3ae1c166c1d24a61c838 Here is a sampling of the crime handled by Santa Barbara Police during the past week. Officers seek suspect in indecent exposure incident. [pics] (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T20:58:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_13 fff99776f4f726ddc28f8e7635dcf2d3 Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that astronomers have invented a game to help uncover the basis of galactic collisions, showing players images of colliding galaxies and asking them to match those to simulations. These galactic mergers could be the key to why the Universe contains a mixture of different galaxies — some with trailing spiral ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:48:19 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_14 f0d329e0714bbca25b020f136d9f9b70 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T20:35:39+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_15 f5432c6fddd3951e88078f77151201b7 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:21:07 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_16 12528d5e6464e7a96addf90258b10f23 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T20:07:15+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_17 9b991a80b17d5ba8d08c0ded182f431d Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T20:05:31Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_18 0dca83a7e1104d7f2dbc126820a060eb From the CRU code file osborn-tree6/briffa_sep98_d.pro , used to prepare a graph purported to be of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and reconstructions. ; ; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!! ; yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904] valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,- 0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$ 2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T20:02:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_19 c08cc2f89397c7438c1f58d3eddfb6fc Itwbennett writes "Neil Felahy of Newport Coast, California, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and counterfeit-goods trafficking for his role in a chip-counterfeiting scam. Felahy, along with his wife and her brother, operated several microchip brokerage companies under a variety of names, including MVP Micro, Red Hat Distributors, Force-One ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T19:34:30Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/41#item_20 8777c64391ba146056c8460a6b322d0a Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T19:10:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_1 3dbbdb3c42d14803779b092930e48dc2 Michael J. Ross writes "The shopping cart systems that power online stores have evolved from simple homebrew solutions in the CGI era to far more powerful open source packages, such as osCommerce. But even the later systems are frequently criticized as suffering from poorly-written code and inadequate documentation — as well as for being ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T19:07:35+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_2 6c9ce11e494dbf014a12ad9f1e244d4b Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_3 8eef3cefc6739e8cb36683a6d7659767 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T18:22:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_4 b940a25043b3fd1aab4c4ab613fa5ffd CuteSteveJobs writes "Children who feel they are being bullied, harassed or groomed online could call for help instantly using a 'panic button' on their PCs under a plan by the Australian Government's cyber-safety working group. The button shall look like a 'friendly dolphin,' who will connect the child victim instantly to police or child ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:44:44 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_5 0b3d86f178da87eb3c04b4d304368187 Yesterday I got my LifeLiner tool working with Tumblr. Still some rough edges, but it's more or less doing the same stuff I have been doing with WordPress. The goal is to have a single feed that captures all my online writing. Moving toward what I call the Loosely-coupled 140 character message network. Yesterday I also spoke with the lead ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:46:40 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_6 8339a559d441d004c827da8e6c8a64d7 Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:40:22 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_7 0ef8ee1320f0d4668467babf792e4e30 I am sad that my five-year-old wrote on our door in permanent marker. She knows better. I’m proud that she is learning to write. And that she chose to write these two words—her name and mine. When she showed me her work, I had a choice: reprimand her for writing on the door. Or tell her [...] (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T17:32:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_8 80deb2d88c52a14c867fbaf404645f08 Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:12:29 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_9 2daf7dac2f63aa52b0034f2d8627dae9 I would like to congratulate Dana Perino on being the first conservative/Republican that I’ve seen in the media to acknowledge the years of propaganda from the right insisting that Bush kept America safe from terrorism, and thus transmuting the 9/11 attack either to the Clinton presidency or to some oddball moment in our history where [...] (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T16:49:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_10 857ed924ed81c7486dcee22e4e34ca2c Hugh Pickens writes "CNET reports that the volunteers who create Wikipedia's pages, check facts and adapt the site are abandoning Wikipedia in unprecedented numbers, with tens of thousands of editors going 'dead' — no longer actively contributing and updating the site — a trend many experts believe could threaten Wikipedia's future. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:42:11 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_11 15d34507d044788d1f245fe3092dd70f Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T16:08:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_12 37cbd7a26641abb3ab04d655969b4d2b Westtxfun writes "The STEREO satellites recently confirmed the existence of solar mega-tsunamis when they captured height data after a sunspot recently erupted. The scale of this tsunami literally dwarfs the Earth's diameter — it was 62,000 miles high and raced across the surface at 560,000 mph! STEREO A and B orbit 90 degrees apart and ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T16:08:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_13 dcc16d7ddfa8023040c52c6ebf71fc35 Since 1996, Nova has been working with journalists and scientists around the world to put original content online. Today we have more than 30,000 Web pages covering everything from string theory to the evolution of flight to how the pyramids were built. (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:45:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_14 0bfc968d8e0953746fd2d3030b104cce Weeping Green Lantern, Mattoon, Ill. From x-ray delta one’s photostream on Flickr. Short URL: zeldman.com/?p=3090 (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:27:09 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_15 aea96594afeb66e9f6c9df495356cbbf At work, I have two monitors hooked up to my workstation, which gives me about 4300x1600 combined screen real estate (one of them had to come out of my own pocket, but that's a separate story.) When I switched from a single monitor set up, my behavior changed a bit. It used to be that I have most of the applications maximized, and used Alt+Tab ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:27:09 +0000 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_16 9c4799252b7f571f7c704a291a7dd31e Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T15:18:48+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_17 bec0ff4eebd1360c052a93ccc8de3c2a Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T15:13:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_18 3462b1b69a0812c7c13453e008c5eb8a Mario.m7 writes "Poste Italiane, the Italian postal service, suffered yesterday from an abnormal computation in ATM and credit card operations, since the decimal comma was not taken into account. The whole sum was therefore multiplied by 100, resulting in a 115,00 Euro transaction being debited as 11.500 Euro! Thousands of accounts are deep in ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T15:13:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_19 27590450ccdb089e08294fd9b93d2ed4 HTML basics, PHP and MySQL tips, design discussions, Webmaster tool reviews, topical discussions, and a forum spotlight. Perfect for the novice or expert! (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T14:39:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/61#item_20 4720428c7678099d5f7fff339e7ef5fc An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks is preparing to release 500,000 intercepted pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11 terrorist attacks. The messages show emergency services springing into action and computer systems sending automated messages as buildings collapse. Wikileaks implies this data came from an organised ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T14:27:13Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_1 915e36ae09c540244d7603ae507d9e17 Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T13:55:00+00:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_2 cd9e6c1740114a5172dbc92308343666 Destinyland writes "'We already see a future in which the humble contact lens becomes a real platform, like the iPhone is today,' argues researcher Babak Parvis, 'with lots of developers contributing their ideas and inventions.' He provides an update on the contact lens with transparent circuitry that's being developed at the University of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:19:45 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_3 8def495c980c142f80fd6516d81711f5 Like everyone else, I'm peripherally following the fur flying about Murdoch thinking about whether or not to block Google from searching his news sites. In the background I keep wondering if this isn't all a misunderstanding. I mean, do a lot of people get their news on Google? That's a question. Okay I know I'm not average, so I don't mean to ... (Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:19:45 GMT http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_4 a5d8389d5a9018033b4be1ece22ce06a Read on Source) ]]> Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:10:54 -0500 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_5 f96319215b737a17161ed784bfa04e21 To make this full screen, click the box to the left of the triangle, under the "ou T" in YouTube. The audio is quiet crackling. It should loop indefinitely. Source Happy Thanksgiving, let's hope it's a good one. Thanks for coming by. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-24T21:12:00.000-05:00 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_6 b491c98047bc17e8a115055da4528f8c Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-25T00:44:47Z http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_7 269e1f6fe63673968c1a7b035e984d8e Read on Source) ]]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:39:05 -0700 http://www.megite.com/docsearls/1259216434/81#item_8 4624b3c38739aaf28172c8b97f5963b2 We released Build 353 of the Kynetx Rules Engine (KRE) this morning. Actually, I should point out that Wade Billings released it and I watched over his shoulder. This is the first time in the history of Kynetx that someone besides me released KRE code. Yeah!! This is an exciting thing in and of itself. Wade's job is to build a continuous ... (Read on Source) ]]>