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The Price Is Hella Right! [Short Ends]

newVideoPlayer("/Price_Exact.flv", undefined, NaN,""); · Whose job is it to stick up that Double Showcase Winner overlay? They've been waiting for this moment for decades, and they did not let...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 12-16-2008
Film review: Special People

Could there be a vein of autobiography to this low-budget British comedy about low-budget British film-making? Certainly the details ring true. Justin Edgar's tale focuses on a failed thirtysomething film director (Dominic Coleman), onetime star of the "Walsall film festival", who takes...

Posted to Film News by Anonymous on 11-20-2008
Obama White House will have an Office of Urban Policy.

Valerie Jarrett, transition co-chair for President-elect Barack Obama, announced that the Obama administration would create a White House chief of urban policy. Since there are “so many different agencies that really can impact urban America,” Jarrett said, “to have one person whose...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 11-10-2008
Lawn mowers, lizards, & longitudinal cross-sections [bioephemera]

Images from a Thai ad campaign for Black & Decker lawnmowers! Yikes. While I appreciate the sharpness of any blade that could slice such a clean, anatomically elegant cross-section through a living snake, I have to also say "eeeuw." Poor critters! Unfortunately, industrial harvesters do...

Posted to Biology by Anonymous on 10-25-2008
So, you need a job? Man, do resumes suck

Since the economy is slowing down, I’m hearing of lots of you who are getting laid off and looking for jobs. Here’s my experience on the other side of that — being someone who is trying to hire someone. Fast Company TV is hiring an administrative assistant. We advertised the job Friday...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-05-2008
ThinkFast: September 19, 2008

Homeless advocacy groups and city agencies across the country are “reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation.” These tent cities — reminiscent of Hoovervilles during the Great Depression — continue to grow with “with foreclosures mounting, gas...

Posted to General World News by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs

FnH writes "Researchers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have created a new supercomputer with standard gaming hardware. The system uses four NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards, costs less than €4,000 to build, and delivers roughly the same performance as a supercomputer cluster...

Posted to Hardware by Anonymous on 05-31-2008
Job Openings Working on the .NET Framework Product Team

The single biggest factor for success on any project I have been apart of in the last 10 years at Microsoft is the people. In a business like ours where intellectual capital is the biggest asset, hiring and growing people is an extremely important task. I have gathered some details on a few...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 04-30-2008
Mix 08 Sessions Published

The great folks here running Mix have done a excellent job getting the videos for the Mix session up already! Check them out at : http://sessions.visitmix.com/ Check out my session on Building an Ajax Application from scratch .. It was an all demo, no slides sort...

Posted to Programming by Anonymous on 03-07-2008

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