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23
May
2007
1.
reCAPTCHA: A new way to fight spam - it also helps to digitize old books
(bmaurer.blogspot.com)
736
points posted by
linuxer
2.
Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself
(scienceblogs.com)
707
points posted by
Aerik
3.
Groggy and weak after being sedated for a week, all terminally ill boy wants to do is play WoW. What does Blizzard do? Give him complete access to create his own uber character
(ocregister.com)
682
points posted by
tridium
4.
Google Announces Purge of Ad Heavy Sites That Lack Actual Content
(nypost.com)
607
points posted by
theMediatrix
5.
Trent Reznor's vision of music distribution: "...download it from my site at as high a bit-rate as you want, pay $4 through PayPal."
(news.com.au)
565
points posted by
mharriger
6.
The kind of personalized correspondence you can expect from Microsoft [pic]
(img.worsethanfailure.com)
548
points posted by
raldi
7.
The Monkeysphere: Why you don't care about 99.99999% of humanity
(pointlesswasteoftime.com)
480
points posted by
masklinn
8.
Your power supply is only 60–70% efficient. Google's are 90% efficient, which cuts energy loss by a factor of four, and they want you to have the same technology.
(codinghorror.com)
448
points posted by
boredzo
9.
The creator of the ctrl+alt+del shortcut talks about his reason for the creation, and accidentally pisses Mr Gates off. Big time.
(tgisfw.com)
420
points posted by
engram
10.
Mike Gravel: "What we need to do is to create a constitutional confrontation between the Congress and the president. Most people have forgotten the Congress is more powerful than the president."
(motherjones.com)
381
points posted by
tofocsend
11.
Star Wars Characters: Then and Now [photos]
(abcnews.go.com)
366
points posted by
digital
12.
Hack My Son's Computer, Please
(wired.com)
351
points posted by
Arve
13.
What Celebrities Really Look Like [Pre and Post-Photoshop]
(ellf.ru)
319
points posted by
Sako13
14.
Beautiful 'Ping-Pong' tree sponge (PIC)
(nytimes.com)
307
points posted by
keen75
15.
A nonprofit group is challenging the copyrights and restrictions on images being sold by the Smithsonian. But instead of going to court, the group downloaded all 6,288 photos online and posted them Wednesday night on flicker.com
(post-gazette.com)
306
points posted by
winstonsmith
16.
In Jena, Louisiana, three black schoolboys are about to go on trial for a playground fight that could see them jailed for between 30 and 50 years.
(observer.guardian.co.uk)
246
points posted by
ekal
17.
The iGasm: an iPod-powered sex toy. Jobs unamused.
(macworld.co.uk)
226
points posted by
uptime
18.
Programmers in Bangalore too Expensive - Indian company moves to Silicon Valley
(munjal.typepad.com)
222
points posted by
scylla
19.
A sticky theological question (comic)
(partiallyclips.com)
218
points posted by
PatternJuggler
20.
Keith Olbermann - Special Comment regarding the Democrats being pussies
(onegoodmove.org)
196
points posted by
Fedquip
21.
Rejoice, The Hummer Is Dead / It might be the end of the world's most phallically sad SUV. But has the damage been done?
(sfgate.com)
190
points posted by
idogcow
22.
Linux: Files as Directories
(kerneltrap.org)
188
points posted by
linuxer
23.
108 House Democrats co-sponsor Gonzales 'no confidence' motion
(rawstory.com)
126
points posted by
anonymgrl
24.
UK anti-war duo acquitted of sabotaging US bombers after arguing they acted to prevent war crimes
(pressesc.com)
106
points posted by
techtonix
25.
How an Obscure Law School Places its Grads at Top Firms
(online.wsj.com)
95
points posted by
Elle_Dee
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