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Slashdot

• An internet-controlled train set. Neat.
A falling window cover damages Discovery, as the mission status reports.
• Lenovo is going to sell blade desktops. Keep it up, and I hope to see more innovations.
• British classical labels are claiming that the BCC’s distributing free copies of Beethoven’s Symphonies constitutes unfair government competition.
• Someone hand-built 19″ mini-ITX server rack that now holds 28 hard drives. This type of project I should take up.
• The Internet Archive has been sued over stored pages. This is bad.
• An editorial about the end of the floppy era. And yet Dell still ships their desktops with floppy drives.
• A practical guide to a DIY LCD projector.
• The checkbox and radio button have finally been style-conquered using CSS.
• An article speculates that IBM’s losing Apple is not a large loss for them.
• Broadcasters have accepted the January 2009 deadline to stop analog TV broadcasts.
• Someone documents linux user management, over Windows’.
• NASA calls off the launch of Discovery due to a faulty fuel-tank sensor.
• The people a at TreeHugger have written an article on how to build a 17ft, 3KW+ output wind turbine. The parent site has other interesting projects too.
• http://wifi-hotspot.wirelessinternetcoverage.com/ using Google Maps’ API. Greasemap, a GPL firefox plugin to interface with Google Maps’ API.
• Intel Developer Macs outperforms G5s. Interesting.
• CNN reports that a study has found that 1/3 of all studies are nonsense. How circular.

Flexbeta

• An alleged hacker says that US defense sites are poorly secured.

Neowin

• Skype goes wireless, and will provide VoIP WiFi service.
• IBM has developed a new type of handwriting input method, Shark, Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding.

Slashdot

• A startup have devised a way to make hydrogen more efficiently using sodium.
• Amazon has been granted a patent for “Contextual presentation of information about related orders during browsing of an electronic catalog, after four years and five rejections.
• An Australian man has been found guilty of posting links to pirated music files on his site.
• marks the 10th anniversary of Netscape’s IPO.
• The Economist has an article about how Google uses amorphous positioning to gain investor interest.
• The UN may take over the governing of the Internet.
• This new keyboard uses OLED technology to show what the keys actually control at the moment (I’m guessing after all modifiers are taken into consideration).
• Here’s an article about 3D face cameras.

Flexbeta

• From polls, it seems that consumers prefer Blu-Ray over HD-DVD.
• It seems that Intel has given permission to OEMs to buy AMD processors.