Archives for April 2008
Spiral Galaxies in Collision
21 April 2008 | Interesting | No Comments
Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars.
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5 IT Skills That Won’t Boost Your Salary
21 April 2008 | Interesting | No Comments
Clean up your resume and get rid of these if yo have them. Technical skills may never die, but areas of expertise wane in importance as technology advances force companies to evolve and IT staff to forsake yesterday’s craft in favor of tomorrow’s must-have talent.
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1 Strawberry + Baking Powder = Whiter Teeth
21 April 2008 | Interesting | No Comments
The secret to this inexpensive home whitening method is malic acid, which acts as an astringent to remove surface discoloration. Combined with baking soda, strawberries become a natural tooth-cleanser, buffing away stains from coffee, red wine, and dark sodas.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Vista is ‘a Work in Progress’
20 April 2008 | Interesting | No Comments
While Microsoft recently extended the date when the XP software will be available for low-cost PCs, it doesn’t plan to listen to some other complaints, including that Vista is too big. “Vista is bigger than XP and it’s gonna stay bigger than XP,” Ballmer said. “We have to make sure it doesn’t get bigger still.”
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Google tweaked search 450 times in 2007
20 April 2008 | Interesting | No Comments
Google is typically tight-lipped about it the inner workings of its search business, but there are a few nuggets worth looking at in a Popular Mechanics interview with Udi Manber, the Google vice president who oversees search quality. A
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