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AD.2006.Jan.31.Tue.01:08:06.UTC

vietnamese blogs

Filed under: , work, coms, vn, web x.x, media

I ripped a couple lists of Vietnamese blogs, one from NoodlePie.com, the other from GlobalVoices Wiki, then splice them together and extended them a bit (via vim). The result is here (vietnamese blogs), where it can be updated as needs be.

AD.2006.Jan.30.Mon.20:33:44.UTC

Band sells 120,000 copies of album via online distro

Filed under: news, audi, flo, is/it, web x.x, media

the album

The Arctic Monkeys sold 120,000 copies of their first album, making it the fastest selling album in Britain thanks to their Internet saavy. They promoted sites illegally playing their music and gave out demo copies which quickly fanned out across the Net. Take that RIAA.

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Girl undresses in 3D (The Digg Experiment)

Filed under: , work, news, funny, media

A blogger put Digg to the test, a test which caused more than 11,000 Diggers to visit the blog within 3 hours, made its web server tremble, and which made the blogger wisely question the so-called “future of journalism and media”.

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IBM DB2 Express-C Open-sourced, Viper Bits Coming

Filed under: work, flo, is/it

IBM DB2 database released as a “light” open-source version, Express-C, along with free community training and support. Limited to 2 processor cores but no database size limit, it will run on Linux or Windows and include venom from DB2’s upcoming relational native-XML release, Viper.

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Malaysians seek jungle Big Foot

Filed under: , news, sci

Malaysia confirmed it will mount an expedition hunting 3m-tall furry black jungle giants known locally as Hantu Jarang Gigi, meaning “ghosts with widely-spaced teeth”. So El Reg says the BBC said.

Venezualan ApeMan HOAX
From MuseumOfHoaxes.Com


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Amuse Yourself with a Missing Webpage

Filed under: work, tools, is/it, cool

Dugg up at digg.com: Error + Game = 404 Fun

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Historicial Hoax Pix

Filed under: refs, art, pix

A century before Photoshop, they managed to falsify pictures, with some brilliant concepts.

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Get Flashed by Iconique Flash

Filed under: work, vidi, art, cool, fem

some of the best Flash-work i’ve seen so far; certainly the best tunez i’ve ever heard from Flash to date.

iconique action freezed

that’s a screen cap from my SuSE 9.3 box

Sunset for Japanese chip makers?

Filed under: news, is/it

Japan, Jan 27, 2006, By Hisane Masaki, Asia Times

“TOKYO - Japan has decided to levy punitive import tariffs on computer memory chips made by South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductors Inc, providing the latest - and most symbolic - illustration of how life is getting difficult for once-dominant Japanese chips.

Acting on cries for help from domestic companies struggling with increasingly tough foreign competition, Japan has decided to slap countervailing tariffs of 27.2% on Hynix’s dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips… to become effective on Friday and remain in place for five years…

Japanese semiconductors once dominated the world market, grabbing a combined global market share of more than 50% in the second half of the 1980s… But today, their global market share has plunged to about 20%…”

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slick tunez 09 and rippin rad net

Filed under: , audi, flo

funky hot mix
the latest slick tune comes from funky hot mix radio in france (i think), c/o the gnu/gpl streamtuner: MOUSSE T VS THE DANDY WARHOLS - Horny As Dandy






















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