Month: December 2006
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HP R927
While playing with my new HP Photosmart R927 camera, I noticed some that it had some interesting built-in effects, such as the comparison of original to result below. Other effects include watercolor, borders, color adjustments, retro, vintage, and even a slimming control. But the coolest feature is the built in photo adviser, which analyzes your…
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Something's not right here…
From the Center for Consumer Freedom:
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Medical Refugees Flee to India
Wired writes about Americans who “outsource” their medical procedures to India. Luxurious treatment abroad used to be only available to the rich – now ordinary Americans can save 2/3 of the cost of operations by going abroad. Besides the difference in wage rates, why do you think medical procedures are so much cheaper in India?…
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Sweden's "soft dictatorship"
Bruce Bawer writes in the New York Sun about Sweden’s “soft dictatorship:” . …the official view was neatly captured in a post-September 11 editorial in the nation’s largest newspaper, Aftonbladet, which assured readers that the terrorists who attacked New York and Washington weren’t Sweden’s enemies but simply hated ” U.S. imperialism,” a reasonable position given…
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My Windows Vista Experience
I installed Windows Vista and Office 2007 last week. If you’re also eager to try out a next gen OS, my experience might be useful: Office 2007 looks great. The new Ribbon UI is very intuitive. My favorite new features were the PDF export and Outlook’s ability to auto-magically configure your mail based on your…
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Ahh, the Wonders of Socialized Healthcare
The UK’s Tony Collins holds the Guinness World Record for the longest wait on a hospital trolley after spending 77 hours and 30 minutes stuck outside the toilets in the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon, UK, between February 24 and 27, 2001. “I’d contracted a virus,” said Tony about his record-breaking experience, “and although I was…
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Windows Vista: the world's largest engineering project
According to some sources, Windows Vista took 10,000 engineers 5 years to write, costing Microsoft about $10 billion dollars. That makes it one of the biggest engineering projects in history. Chances are very good that you’ll be using Vista on a daily basis within a few years. The development process was not without its setbacks…
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Earth 2020: three outcomes to global warming
Let’s assume that “global warming” is the hoax that I think it is. What happens when, sometime around 2020, no evidence of global warming (as a historically unique trend) is found? The following scenarios are three plausible outcomes to the “global warming” crisis. A) The Fraud Discredited Politicians and the scientific community admit their error.…