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Rubiks Cube Solution - Easy to follow printable instructions

http://www.scaredcat.demon.co.uk/rubikscube/the_solution.html From Memory I've started to play lots of online games involving memory. It seems the common perception of our brains is they're muscles.

Welcome to the TiLP web site

TiLP stands for 'Tilp is a Linking Program' (GNU recursive acronyms). Supported platforms are : Linux, Windows, Mac OS-X, FreeBSD. Supported link cables are : GrayLink, BlackLink, SilverLink, DirectLink ParallelLink, VTi (virtual) and TiEmu (virtual). Supported hand-helds are : TI73, TI82, TI83, TI83+, TI84+, TI85, TI86, TI89, Titanium, TI92, TI92+, V200, NSpire, NSpire-CAS. Capabilities : silent link, screendump, directory listing, send/recv of vars, send/Recv of backups, send/recv of FLASH apps, send of OS, ROM dumping, ID LIST, clock, create folder, delete var/app, ... LIMITATIONS http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/features.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_reconnaissance_office/index.html Administration Trying for Spy Satellites Again By ERIC LIPTON The Bush administration is trying to put a new set of government eyes in space through a $1.7 billion project whose goal is to have two new satellites in orbit by 2012.

National Reconnaissance Office News

http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/United_States_Free_Public_Records_by_State/Georgia_Public_Records/ The Georgia Open Records Act, found in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, sections 50-18-70 through 50-18-76, ensures that citizens may inspect public records. These are defined as all documents, letters, papers, books, maps, computer files, or other recordings received by a public office in the course of public business. Here on the Georgia state page you will find popular databases at the statewide level. Scroll down to find those, or use the tools on the side to get to other levels of government records.

Georgia Public Records Free Search

http://themave.com/Noir/Noir.html

MGM Film Noir

Film noir, that dark and cynical genre that found its niche in Hollywood films of the 40's...black rainy streets, criminal treachery, victimized anti-heros and femme fatales...Warner Bros., RKO, and Columbia gave us some of the best. Here, the Mave spotlights three movies from a studio known more for its colorful musicals than film noir: MGM. Even though all three films have the lush production values so characteristic of that studio, they are still disturbing and sinister enough to be considered noir ...MGM Style. Onward to Ravin' Maven home
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/eol-wls050507.php

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

Public release date: 8-May-2007 [ Print | E-mail | Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Terry Collins terrycollins@rogers.com 416-538-8712 Encyclopedia of Life Many of the world’s leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens would have multi-media access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris Crypt of the Sepulchral Lamp in the Catacombs of Paris The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris is a underground ossuary in Paris , France . Located south of the former city gate (the "Barrière d'Enfer" at today's Place Denfert-Rochereau ), the ossuary holds the remains of about six million people [ 1 ] and fills a renovated section of caverns and tunnels that are the remains of Paris's stone mines .

Catacombs of Paris

IBM and the Holocaust

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust IBM and the Holocaust is a book by investigative journalist Edwin Black which details the business dealings of the American-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries with the government of Adolf Hitler during the 1930s and the years of World War II . In the book, Black outlines the way in which IBM's technology helped facilitate Nazi genocide through generation and tabulation of punch cards based upon national census data. [ 1 ] [ edit ] Synopsis [ edit ] Thesis

Return Infinity - BareMetal OS

BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers. The OS is written entirely in Assembly, while applications can be written in Assembly or C/C++. Development of the Operating System is guided by its 3 target segments: High Performance Computing - Act as the base OS for a HPC cluster node. Running advanced computation workloads is ideal for a mono-tasking Operating System. Embedded Applications - Provide a platform for embedded applications running on commodity x86-64 hardware. http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html
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New Chinese Ballistic Missile Submarine Spotted » FAS Strategic Security Blog

Jul 05 By Hans M. Kristensen A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China’s new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The new class, known as the Jin-class or Type 094, is expected to replace the unsuccessful Xia-class (Type 092) of a single boat built in the early 1980s. The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth web site .
Security Power Tools was out in August 2007. I wrote a complete chapter on Scapy Scapy trainings at CanSecWest, EuSecWest, PacSec. NEXT SESSION: CanSecWest march 7th and 8th, 2011 I can give trainings on many subjects ( Scapy , networks, shellcoding, exploit writing, etc.). Contact me directly: phil @ secdev . org About Scapy

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November 15, 2010 I have redone the Google Ultimate Interface , a long-time favourite of many. It now includes tons of options on all current Google services. Searching by date has been taken off that page and split into a separate Search by Date page which includes other tools as well as Google.

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10 best (unknown) open source projects

July 14, 2011, 7:52 AM — That's right folks, another ten best! But this time I'll wager you're not familiar with any of them, or at best one or two. The free/open source software world is vast and full of excellent applications for all occasions. An interesting trend is the growth of large distributed projects such as OpenTox and AMEE. FOSS presents a natural platform for building large distributed projects because of the low barrier to entry-- open code, open standards, and freely-available robust, high-quality high-performance software. And now I shall cease nattering, and invite you to enjoy the following best unknown open source software projects.

Kids Will Love Google's Easter Eggs: Secret Searches Full of Fun | Strollerderby

By Stephanie Precourt | Google’s hidden Easter eggs and interactive doodles are fun for the whole family. The “Do a Barrel Roll” search was the first time I’d heard about Google’s hidden Easter eggs — secret search terms that are just plain fun. Go ahead and try it: go to Google and search “do a barrel roll” and see what I mean! (But no worries- it’s not permanent.) Gather the fam around your laptop this morning and check out 16 more awesome secret searches below.