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Time-wasting is not just an irritating habit. According to new research, one person in five now suffers from the problem so badly that their careers, relationships and health are threatened.

When Mars was still young, more than four billion years ago, a large asteroid sailed out of the sky and slammed into an area known today as western Arabia Terra.

Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza’s Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.

the scientific explosion taking place in astrobiology, the multi-disciplined search for extreme forms of life on Earth and for possibly similar, or more advanced, life elsewhere in the solar system and in distant galaxies.

this poster says it all for me:) linux is my 127.0.0.1!

a friend of mine is adding to my penguin collection with his inspiration, and i love it:) thanks mate!!!!

It’s really hard to come up with a list of just 10 WordPress plugins that are social media related; there’s so many available now.

Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system that can be utilized to hack just about any electronic hardware device. To prove it, I have here a list of popular gadgets that are already known to run Linux.

Little did Bucknell University geology professors Craig Kochel and Jeffrey Trop know, as they were working in Alaska, that they would soon predict one of the most important planetary observations ever made.

Music streaming and social community Last.fm has redesigned for a more mature experience, adding more integration and ubiquity across a variety of devices. Ars Technica put on some headphones and rocked out with some of the new features.

Times critics present the 20 worst endings in film. From the absurd to the underwhelming, these are the closing scenes that have ruined memorable films.

With memories of rancid portable toilets and primitive outhouses dancing through our minds, we first want to know, how green is this toilet? Actually, I have friends with them, they rock:)

Ever wanted to master the keyboard shortcuts and get more productive on the web? Here is everything you need - 7 quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web. Download, print and stick them somewhere near your desk.

let’s take a look at 10 of the more common gripes amongst computer users and our humble suggestions for fixing them.

3rd party Android developers, increasingly frustrated with the lack of SDK updates, were shocked to discover that Google has been secretly making new versions of the SDK available to the Android Developer Challenge finalists under nondisclosure agreements

the GNOME release team announced a proposal for developing the next major iteration of the open source desktop environment. The plan offers a long-term strategy for moving GNOME development forward and defining future goals for the desktop.

The Internet is constantly changing. BusinessWeek.com spoke to a bevy of experts and distilled the must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008

WattOS is a new Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware.

Many NASA projects now have twitter accounts, so you can get up-to-the-minute updates from mission specialists themselves. Here’s a list of NASA’s twitter usernames, and what they’re about.

Get a taste of the forthcoming Ubuntu Netbook Remix distribution by installing the applications on your Asus Eee running Ubuntu.

“The Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop has become my perfect desktop. It has all the functionality I could ask for, and I have added applications to supplement that effect.”

when you just have to have that special program that is only available for Windows and no other will do… here is How To Install A Windows Program In Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

The current Standard Model of particle physics begins to unravel when probed much beyond the range of current particle accelerators. So no matter what the Large Hadron Collider finds, it is going to take physics into new territory

The premise is as follows: a Windows style installation that popped an entry in the Windows boot menu that allowed you to fire up Ubuntu without ever having to do disk partitioning or other similar rough play.

One of the oldest arguments against anarchism is that it is impractical. Yet the open source software movement provides modern day proof that anarchism works, even when not conducted by anarchists.

This program automatically looks at what Wi-Fi card you have, it disables any wireless driver currently installed, fetches the correct Windows driver from the Internet and installs it with NDISwrapper.

Wikipedia, with over 10 million articles in 253 languages can be viewed offline in your Linux box anytime, anywhere.

Here is the latest OpenSolaris video we did on the subject of virtualization.

Here’s also a chance to meet Ashok Raj, one of the Intel senior kernel guys working on OpenSolaris.

A group of secretive rocket designers spend their evenings designing a moon rocket they think will work far better for less money then NASA’s current moon rocket, Ares.

The Cassini spacecraft has found what may be the strongest evidence yet that Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus has an ocean beneath its icy surface.

The initial surge of Linux in the server market has settled down in recent years. But in embedded applications, particularly mobile devices, the open source operating system is soaring.

Rick Vanover describes his positive experience with the open source Untangle Gateway Platform, an Internet-facing device for the home or small office. Untangle also provides DHCP, DNS, and port-forwarding services.

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 2.6.26 yesterday on the Linux kernel mailing list. This release, which has been under development for about 3 months, comes after 9 release candidates.

A new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has arrived, aimed at both Linux newbies and content creators. Boasting “out of the box” multimedia codecs, lightweight XFCE desktop, and is said to offer a similar layout to the groundbreaking BeOS.

hate the slideshow format, love the list.

Second Life vendor Linden Lab has been dabbling in open source for quite a whilel. But now the company is facing a potential upheaval to its business model, as alternative compatible virtual worlds are maturing. Can they cope with the challenge?

What a long, strange, enlightening trip it’s been for NASA’s Voyager 2. Oh solar system, we thought we knew you, but Voyager 2’s findings make us revise our visions

One thing that I would probably have on my “50 Things I Should Do Before I Die” list (remind me to compile that), is create my own distro.For us mere mortals, a project called NimbleX 2 works as a procrastination pill!

Mars has been getting a lot of attention recently. But a global team of scientists is already planning an even more awesome mission - getting there and back again.

A few oddments from the Tea Miscellany file, to be mused over - perhaps - while drinking a cup of tea.

for the two princesses in my life who are addicted:)

Testing Intrepid Alpha - like i am, but with a gaming slant, links also to some super cool game savailable now in the repos..

Best Buy will be selling commercially supported versions of Ubuntu, the Desktop Linux onslaught begins. Our ultimate goal of Total World Domination will soon be within our grasp, now that yet another mondo-huge retailer has jumped on the Linux bandwagon.

The Guardian compiled an excellent list of ways to shop smarter so you end up buying what you need, and eating what you buy.

Virtualisation is a technology that can work wonders: provide a testing environment, enhance your processing power, consolidate your computing resources, decrease running costs, preserve legacy apps and more!

Common indoor plants in your office or home are not only decorative, but NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings.

How do you plan to prevent your novel from disappearing under this landslide of novels?

With this month being green month here at Apartment Therapy, we thought we’d share some tips on how to make all your home’s gizmos and appliances run a bit more on the eco-friendly side…

Rarely in political history can there have been such a rapid and dramatic reversal of a received wisdom as we have seen in the past 18 months over biofuels – the cropping of living plants, such as soya beans, wheat and sugar cane, to generate energy.

Many people hope that after starting their website off it will eventually sell itself. This is possible, but can be a bit difficult for webmasters to grasp. Then, even after the concept is grasped the goal is still pretty hard to achieve.

And with a small window seemingly open for Australia’s FOSS community to push for the use of free and open source software in schools, the question arises - how does one go about making the first inroads?

was it the victim of spoticide by brs?? in the library, with the candlestick???

A pain treatment advocacy group filed suit Wednesday in federal court to challenge the restrictions Washington state officials have put on prescription pain medication.
Interesting for me, as someone with chronic pain, who faces the same battles in Aus.

Codenamed Malina, the final version of Amarok 2.0 is expected to have “new SVG-based scalable theme, advanced scripting, dynamic collections, usability improvements, improved media devices handling, new podcast manager, support for more software platforms

While very much community software & not yet at the level of polish for end-user adoption that many of the latest Linux distributions are now enjoying,shows promise & enormous potential as an enterprise-class UNIX desktop & server with Ubuntu-like flavor.

Welcome to Intrepid Ibex Alpha-2, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.10

The latest version of the Phoenix’s mission success panorama (a.k.a. the Peter Pan, in honor of Phoenix principal investigator Peter Smith

According to Top500, More then 85% of world’s supercomputers run on Linux operating system.

new study has revealed that many of the genes associated with autism are — luckily — ones whose functioning can be modified in early childhood.

U.S. intel: Worsening global warming may ignite political instability

an American scholar believes that the markings on the Phaistos Disc, one of archaeology’s most famous unsolved mysteries, mean nothing at all — because the disc is a hoax.

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

In this article, you’ll find 12 wonderful websites that’s worth a bookmark if you’re looking into sharpening your Flash development skills. For each entry, you’ll find three tutorials from the website so that you can see what’s in store for you.

brilliant, tasty - in a hurry sushi. the rest of the site is great too!!!

In Stained-Glass Awe, the NYT finds fit to print NASA’s Lunar Lab, Marks Moon’s move to Mainstream.

In a move that’s a first for Australia, a coal-fired facility located in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, has captured CO2 directly from the flue gases in what is being called a PCC, a post-combustion-capture device, which is being tested as a pilot project

How much information should Internet companies be able to collect about your Web activity in order to serve you more relevant and targeted advertising? An IP address? Search queries? Your system settings and browser of choice?

This tutorial will teach you the basics of variables, how they make everything easier for you, and why you should use them! Next, Perl regexp! (Kidding!!)

Hi! I am KC Kelly, Ph.D., LMHC and I was invited to introduce myself. I’d like to share with you what online counseling or psychotherapy (also called E-therapy) is all about and what I have to offer at DOCintheBiz.com.

Rapleaf conducted a study on 49.3 million people in our database (aged 14-74), looking at social graph information across social networks such as Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Flickr.