Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors

Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It's a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion prescriptions written in the U.S. every year.

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The LCD webcam

The text you enter on the site pops up on the display in this guys office

[Send text to LCD]

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Stupid woman filling Gas

This woman tries to get some gas in her car, that can really be difficult...

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Apple iPhone commercial

The first commercial for the Apple iPhone

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If programmers built planes

They build your digital business even while you're up and running

Chocolate Bar Ad

The kid wanted a goalie to play with, so he went through the trouble of setting up a romantic night for his parents. 9 months later, the kid gets a little brother, and he gives him the soccer cleats. Nice Ad!

World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion

Alexander Overwijk draws a perfect freehand circle 1m in diameter in less than a second.

MiniLyrics

Have you ever wanted to read the lyrics to a song while you're listening to it?

I found this software online, it's called MiniLyrics, and it's free. You just download it, install it, and it pops up whenever you listen to music.

Compatibility with 15 players! No adware, spyware, or anything like that.

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Duplicate Cleaner

Duplicate cleaner is the latest tool to assist anyone in cleaning up the contents of their personal hard drive or corporate network. You'd be surprised just how many redundant files you could find forgotten in an obscure documents folder. Photos, music, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, videos - you name it, if it appears twice on your system then Duplicate Cleaner will find it.

• Cleaner hard drives means faster performance


• Fast Scanning and accurate duplicate comparison


• Deep scans music - mp3,wma,flac,ape,ogg formats


• Flexible search parameters


• Intelligent Selection Assistant


• Search home or networked drives


• Search multiple locations


• Export results in CSV format


• View Path,Size and Date of files


• Large, resizable list window


• Protection for Windows and system files


• Freeware

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Towers - An Addicting Flash Game

A Macromedia Flash based Warcraft TD game inspired by Elemental TD for Warcraft III. All programming has been done, from scratch, by David Scott. Graphics and sound effects have been made using the level editor that comes with Warcraft III and Adobe Photoshop.

The aim of the game is to kill the creeps before they reach the end of the maze, do this by building attacking towers on the grass around the maze.

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Download this MP3 to deter burglars

The idea is straightforward enough: you put this record (MP3) on in repeat mode while you're out of the house in order to fool potential burglars into thinking someone's home. Like those automatically light timers, except for sound. Of course, it would be far easier and more convincing just to leave the TV or radio on, but that wouldn't be nearly as much fun!! Plus, this is in STEREO so you're sure to get the extra added illusion that the voices are coming from different parts of the room!

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Funny Sorry Note

Remember not to park in two spaces.

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New search engine takes aim at Google and Yahoo

Tired of Google and Yahoo? Try Cranky.com

A media firm catering to people over the age of 50 has launched a new search engine on Tuesday geared to Baby Boomers and seniors. And the name says it all: Cranky.com

Eons, the media company behind Cranky.com, said that the new search engine will yield fewer search results and rank them based on their relevancy to older Web users.

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Apple Officially Launches iPhone

Apple finally took the wraps off its long-awaited iPhone on Tuesday, sharing a brand name with a competing Cisco product.

The iPhone—called the iPhone, and not any derivative, as had been speculated—will serve both as an iPod as well as 3G phone, somehow cramming a "3G" radio, iPod functionality, and even a version of OS X into the phone-size package.

The phone itself is dominated by a giant touchscreen, the patent Apple applied for in February.

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How does your website score?

Sitescore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible your website is.

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Student faces child porn charges

FALL RIVER - A college student who mistakenly submitted a compact disc loaded with child pornography images to his professor last week is now facing felony kiddie porn possession charges.

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Indian man sends 182,689 SMS messages in one month

Deepak Sharma went on record with the Guinness Book for having sent the most SMS messages in a single month: 182,689. That's about 6,100 messages a day, 253 an hour, 4.2 a minute, a new one every 14 seconds or a 1,411 page bill.

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Milk in tea 'blocks health gains'

Adding milk to a cup of tea can destroy its ability to protect against heart disease, according to research.

A small German study found drinking black tea significantly improved the ability of arteries to relax and expand to keep blood pressure healthy.

But the European Heart Journal paper also found proteins in milk, called caseins, blocked this effect.

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2007 predicted to be world's warmest year

LONDON (Reuters) - This year is set to be the hottest on record worldwide due to global warming and the El Nino weather phenomenon, Britain's Meteorological Office said on Thursday.

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Hungry baby goes after...statue!

The funniest picture you'll see today.

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Missile Game 3D

In this game you are piloting a missile through a large tunnel, and you must avoid crashing to make it to the end of each stage.

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Fix Mom's Computer Without Leaving Your Desk

CrossLoop is a FREE secure screen sharing utility designed for people of all technical skill levels. CrossLoop extends the boundaries of traditional screen sharing by enabling non-technical users to get connected from anywhere on the Internet in seconds without changing any firewall or router settings. It only takes a few minutes to setup and no signup is required.

• Connect Any Two PCs on Earth


• Simple, Easy-To-Use Interface


• Fully Encrypted Help Sessions


• Works through Firewalls and NAT


• Secure Screen Sharing in under Sixty Seconds

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Remove Wrinkles in Photoshop

A video tutorial shows us how to remove wrinkles from any photo in just 8 easy steps, using Photoshop.

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Cite Bite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages

Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.

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Love Poem Generator

Using this poem generator you can easily make the most beautiful love or Valentine poems.

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Instant noodle inventor dies at 96

Momofuku Ando, the founder-chairman of Nissin Food Products Co, who was widely known as the inventor of instant noodles, died of a heart failure this evening at a hospital in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, his family said. He was 96.

Born on March 5, 1910 in Taiwan, Ando initially ran clothing companies in Taipei and Osaka while he was a student at Ritsumeikan University. In 1948, he founded the precursor of Nissin, before introducing Chicken Ramen, the world's first instant noodle product, in 1958.

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Amazing Dice Stacking Skills

Look at what this guy can do with the some cups and some dices. Totally Speechless...

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Coffee with a "drop" of milk

It took a LOT of images and about 5 hours of drip, drip, dripping milk into coffee with a pipette to get this one but it’s been worth it in the end. For the lighting I used a Nikon SB 800 on one side of the coffee and a Metz slave flash on the other. The biggest problem I had (apart from getting the splash in the first place) was getting the coffee colour bright enough without blowing the white of the milk. --IreneM

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A Bank With A Life Of Its Own

Here’s a piggy bank with a twist: The Bank of Life has an LCD on the front displaying a little tiny digital person whose quality of life depends on how much money you’ve saved. At first, he’s living out of a shoebox without a cent to his name. As you add money to the bank, he upgrades to better and better housing. When the bank’s full, he’s living in a luxury apartment! If that doesn’t get across the value of saving money, what can?

Sadly, the bank is designed to accept only Japanese 500-yen coins, and is only available in Japan right now, at a price of about $40 USD.

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Learn Chinese Online

Each lesson includes a brief transcript of the lesson as part of the audio file itself! You can view them on newer generation iPODS by clicking the center wheel a couple of times till it shows up. Or you can view them on any MP3 player that supports the viewing lyrics or descriptions.

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BitTyrant: A selfish BitTorrent client that improves performance

BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. BitTyrant is...

Fast – During evaluation testing on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase when compared to the existing Azureus 2.5 implementation, with some downloads finishing more than three times as quickly.

Fair – BitTorrent was designed with incentives in mind: if a user is downloading at 30 KBps, they should upload at 30 KBps. However, due to the unique workload properties of many real-world swarms, this is not always enforced. BitTyrant is designed to make efficient use of your scarce upload bandwidth, rewarding those users whose upload allocations are fair and only allocating excess capacity to other users.

Familiar – BitTyrant is based on modifications to Azureus 2.5, currently the most popular BitTorrent client. All of our changes are under the hood. You’ll find the GUI identical to Azureus, with optional additions to display statistics relevant to BitTyrant’s operation.

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Here comes the terabyte hard drive

Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days.

The Deskstar 7K1000 will cost $399 when it comes out. That comes to about 40 cents a gigabyte.

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Celebrities and their Mercedes Benz

It's a well known fact that wealthy people like to spend a large portion of their money on cars. But what are the stars' favourite cars?

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Take the English Proficiency Test

Transparent Language has provided this English test as a way for English language learners to evaluate their English proficiency. They have based this test on the standard American English vocabulary and English grammar that you would find in any English language learning material, so that this proficiency test can measure your command of the English language regardless of your English language learning background. So if you've been learning English, see how well you do!

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Web Trend Map 2007

The iA Trend Map shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected.

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Colorize B&W Images in Photoshop

“Shoks” shows us how to colorize black and white images in Photoshop.

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Microsoft’s First Windows XP Commercial

Back in 2001, Microsoft released the first commercial for Windows XP. This commercial featured Madonna's song "Ray Of Light".

Snakes can predict earthquakes

Chinese experts believe snakes could sense earthquakes from 120 km, or 70 miles, three to five days before it occurs.

According to the China Daily Newspaper, the earthquake bureau in Nanning, Guangxi’s capital, developed a system combining natural instinct and modern technology. Bureau experts run a 24-hour video feed to monitor snakes at snakes farms in their localities.

Jiang Weisong, bureau director said snakes are the most sensitive animals on earth when it comes to earthquakes.

When quakes are about to happen, snakes will come out of their nests even during winter. If it is a big one, they will bang walls in order to go escape, he said.

China is often struck by earthquakes. After what happened to Taiwan on Tuesday, Chinese experts believe that with the help of snakes, they will be able to prevent any untoward mishaps brought about by quakes.

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Taiwan telecom won't build additional backup

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's largest telecom company said Friday it will not invest more in backup lines to protect against disasters like the recent earthquake that snarled telephone and Internet service across Asia, affecting service as far away as the United States.

The quake, which damaged undersea cables off Taiwan on Tuesday, was so rare that there is no need to spend money on extra lines, said Wu Chih-ming, a senior official at Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest telecommunications company.

Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau measured the quake at magnitude 6.7 while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.1.

"We won't consider laying more backup cables for now because such an incident might not happen in another 100 years," Wu said.

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DivShare - free file hosting service

DivShare is a free file hosting service for everyone. No registration required!

It's easy:
1. Upload a file
2. Get your download link
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Features:
Upload unlimited files
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Files stay online forever! NEW!
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Girl gets RM9.8 mil award

PAHANG, Malaysia - A Kuantan Sessions Court awarded RM9.8mil to a 10-year-old Sophia Isabel paralysed from the waist down because of a road accident. She was only two years and three months old when the car she was in, which was driven by her mother, was involved in a head-on collision with a lorry at the 67th kilometre of Kuantan-Maran road on Jan 3, 1999.

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Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) - A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

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Cheat sheet for typing odd characters

Alt Key + Calculator Number = Symbol

Hold the ALT key & type the number next to the symbol you want on the CALCULATOR part of the keyboard, then release Alt Key. Symbol will appear.

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Please Stop Giving Me Tickets

"Will you have a little mercy on me, Sir?"

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Help!!! I'm an Idiot

Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop".

Customer: "OK" .

Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No" .

Tech Support: "OK. Right-Click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No" .

Tech Support: "OK. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"

Customer: "Sure. You told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'".

Tech Support: "OK. In the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you see the 'OK' button displayed?"

Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"

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Anonymous donated $286,800 to Wikipedia

One contribution was by An anonymous friend on 2006-12-27 at 22:17:00 for the amount of $286,800. Wow!!!

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Taiwan Quakes Disrupt My Internet

Two quakes measuring 6.7 and 7.1 on the Richter scale on Tuesday that struck off the coast of Taiwan damaged undersea cables carrying Internet traffic, causing slowdowns in Internet access throughout the Asian continent and wreaking havoc on the financial markets. Damage was bringing down data transfer by as much as half in some cases, and it could take weeks before service is fully restored.

Undersea cables that carry both voice and data run throughout the Pacific, many of which are routed through Taiwan. As of early morning Wednesday, only about 10 percent of international calls were completed. The worst of the disruptions seemed to be in Taiwan itself, where only half of the normal telecommunications capacity was available after two out of the four lines were cut.

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Using "No to all" while replacing files in Windows

This dialogue box is displayed each time a file with a similar name already exists in the destination directory.

Noticed there is a 'Yes to All' button but it doesn't have the 'No to All' button?
But do you know you can still use 'No to All' function from here?

Just Press and Hold the Shift key while you click the No button.

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Flash-based Photoshop-like image editor

Anyone familiar with Photoshop should find Fauxto's very similar Layers tool easily accessible. Pretty impressive stuff for a web-based app.

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You park like an asshole

Sick of a car taking up two spaces on the street? How about a car too close to yours? What about the car at the mall parked diagonally? Now you can do something about it. Simply download a notice and place it on the car's windshield. The owner of the vehicle will be informed of their asshole staus as well as the proper tips to improve their poor parking techniques. It's time to put an end to asshole parking, or at least to make fun of it.

Download Notice 1 | Notice 2

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Get Firefox Ad

Using IE is like having sex without a condom? LOL

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The penguin who goes shopping

Japanese penguin who likes to carry his Penguin Backpack to the fish market. The cutest part is when the old lady at the fish store says: "See you again tomorrow, Lala-chan!" and the penguin nods furiously.

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Lamest 11:00 News Hook Ever

A Sacramento News Channel Broadcasts a Cat stuck in a tree as a hook to watch the 11:00 News. Huh, Media these days..

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Mountain Bike Trickster

Crazy bike trials skills.. a must watch!!

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