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Here’s a new advertising trick: check out theabout.comlogo for an example of creative product placement.

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It looks like penguinheads are more vocal than any other OS advocacy group, visit theOperating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meterfor stats.

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As kid, I used to read about these things in science fiction novels, never imagining some of them would actually become reality within my lifetime: Scientists have managed tomake a cloud disappearby sprinkling it with a polymer capable of absorbing 2000 times its own weight in moisture. Practical applications include breaking up hurricanes or getting rid of rain over open-air events.

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After a donation of $125,000 worth of “food” to Albanian refugee camps, Philip Morriscreated a 1 million dollar advertto increase public awareness of its goodwill gestures. Excuse me while I go and be sick.

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There’s an online shrine toWau Holland, one of the founders of the Chaos Computer Club, who passed away last Friday. I was really inspired as a teenager by the CCC which, at the time, seemed so far away in Berlin. He will be missed.

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SubSevenhits the macintosh world. Watch those executables you get in your email.

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