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Nirvana has the #1 song?

By Michael Palmer |  Jun 11, 2003  | #interesting-news | 1 min read
Ok, these guys are on crack! Check out the Top 10 song list of the past 25 years! NEW YORK, June 10 Here they are now, entertaining us or at least entertaining VH1, which named Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit the greatest song of the past quarter-century. The Seattle band’s groundbreaking grunge anthem is No. 1 on VH1’s list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years. Read More : Nirvana song tops VH1 list
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technology

PNG Format on the outs?

By Michael Palmer |  Jun 10, 2003  | #technology | 1 min read
By Paul Festa – CNET A patent underlying one of the Web’s most popular graphics formats is set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a rival, open format, created as a royalty-free alternative, will become obsolete. The situation has also rekindled debate about patents, innovation and the freedom of communication. In the United States, the patent for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, compression algorithm expires June 20. LZW forms the basis of the popular GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) design.
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CD Case Maker

By Michael Palmer |  Jun 10, 2003  | #technology | 1 min read
Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. For folding directions, see the about section. To add more tracks, a mailing address, or graphics to the case, use the advanced form. Mix CD cases created with the advanced form can be optionally added to our public mix CD database. To create a case for an existing CD, use our CD search engine to find the CD and it will fill in this form for you.
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photography

Fotolog.net

By Michael Palmer |  Jun 10, 2003  | #photography | 1 min read
Fotolog.net is a good site that hosts weblogs for photos only. They currently have 12,260 people using the service, with 172,036 photo’s. Pretty nead.Check it out : Fotolog.net
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The Pit Heads

By Michael Palmer |  Jun 9, 2003  | #interesting-news | 1 min read
The faces and objects pictured below are carved from the seeds of fruit such as peach, plum, apricot, olive, sweet cherry, wild cherry and even the seed from the dogwood tree. I hope that you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed carving them! Read More : Pit gallery
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High Tech Chicken Catcher

By Michael Palmer |  Jun 6, 2003  | #interesting-news | 1 min read
ELLIJAY, Ga. — One enduring frustration of the poultry industry is that chickens can’t be made to cross the road. Or even the chicken coop. It’s a snap to coax barnyard animals like pigs and cattle to go where you want them — but “you can’t herd chickens,” says Paul S. Berry of the British Silsoe Research Institute, an agricultural-research center that has studied the problem for decades. For that reason, poultry farmers have long relied on human catchers.
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