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Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. Check out the pics!
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“Global fraudsters need to know that we are determined to find and prosecute them,” U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf of the Eastern District of New York said in a statement. “Potential victims need to know that any e-mail offering millions of dollars that requires that they send money to receive this windfall is a scheme. Delete […]

Every now and then, its good to get away from the daily grind and head up to Truckee, stay in a house with great views and relax in a hot tub. Maybe even watch that movie you got from Netflix but never had the time to. Don’t worry. If the DVD player doesn’t work, Blue […]

This is for designers who are going to be working with Rails and is intended to give them a good starting point to jump into work with a Rails developer. This is all introductory material. Basics are covered (MVC, locations of files) as well as a code example and more advanced topics (partials, ActionView helpers).
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The compact audio cassette medium for audio storage was introduced by Philips in 1963. Its use in the West has declined as a result of more advanced technologies. However, it remains widespread, and is still the dominant medium for listening to music in many third world countries.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Check out this Han Solo switch parody I tracked down on Google today. Now I have to admit I am a Star Wars fan but this guy is kind of a dork. Although if you make it to the end of the video you will […]

Is it just me or did Apple intentionally make their Mighty Mouse shine out a mighty red mouse!
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Windows XP on an Intel Core Solo Mac Mini.
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You’ll want to hear newer songs more often than older ones, yet at the same time you’ll want to make sure that the old music doesn’t get lost. You want to hear your favourite songs slightly more often than everything else, but you don’t want to keep listening to the same old tracks over and […]