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Sex makes people healthy, cheerful, strong, beautiful and sleepy - PRAVDA.Ru
I wonder if my wife will buy this argument.

Summer Fading, Hollywood Sees Fizzle - New York Times
It is nice to see someone not blaming internet downloads as the reason why box office sales are so low. I wouldn’t mind paying $7 for a ticket if the movie is worth it. Most of the movies in the theatre suck. There are a few good ones that have done well but too many movies just aren’t good. That turns people off and many, like me, are willing to wait for Netflix to get the DVD.

Technology News Article | Reuters.com
I am curious to see how much they will retail for in the U.S.

BugMeNot Calling for an International Database Poisoning Day
Required registration is a big pet peeve of mine. I hate having to provide my personal information to view a sites content. That is why BugMeNot is so great. Help BugMenot by creating fake registrations to popular sites and giving them the login information.

» Best Hacking Tools and Tutorials
A good list of Hacking tools. Of course, I don’t encourage illegal activity, this is just a good place to learn about the tools that hackers might use.

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Looks like we aren’t far from those cool cars we saw on the Jetsons

U.S. gives OK for SpaceShipTwo dealings - Space.com - MSNBC.com
This paves the way for private space travel. I think a privately owned company can do space travel more safely and cost effectively than NASA.

Read this news article and I think it is easy to see that all of the outsourcing of call centers and help desks is going to have a major impact on our privacy and possibility of identity theft. Employees at this call center in India were selling customer’s Bank PINS, credit card numbers, passport numbers, etc. for $10 a pop. With as much outsourcing as we do to places like India we are ripe for the picking. I am worried that this will come back to haunt us in a big way.

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