Songbird Combines Best of Browsers With Music Player

Have you seen Songbird? It’s what happens when two of the best programs on the internet combine to form a new entity. In this case Winamp and Firefox are combined to for a music player/ browser similar to that in iTunes and Real Player. You’ve gotta take a look at the Songbird screenshots. Awesome job….

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Aspartame Found To Cause Cancer In Laboratory Rats

news @ nature.com: Italian researchers are challenging the safety of aspartame, the low-calorie sweetener found in NutraSweet, diet sodas and thousands of other food products. Rats that have been fed the sweetener can develop cancer, the researchers report, even at doses below the recommended limits for people. The findings contradict most other studies, which have…

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Call of Duty 2

Just picked up Call of Duty 2 from the guys at Infinity Ward and Activision. It’s 6 cd’s in what looks like an old plastic VHS box case. I have never seen a game this big on cd. Most often they come on DVD. Tags: gaming

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Xbox 360 Wait Begins

Even in this wildly little burg that I live in there are lines outside the major retailers, Bestbuy and Target, for the upcoming release of the Xbox 360. CompUSA, on the other hand, has already started taking money and issuing vouchers so you’re assured you get one of the boxes they’ll have in stock. Temps…

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Tell Me Why

Here’s a question I posed to a colleague this morning. You go to a doctor right. He says, “You’ve got cancer on your spleen. We’re going to remove your spleen.” You don’t say, “Let me see the xray…I don’t think that’s a cancer. I’m gonna prescribe myself 500mg daily of DrugX.” Right? So why do…

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Skulls Found Near Sutro Baths

Ok. This is kinda freaky. MercuryNews.com: Authorities on Saturday were investigating an odd discovery on National Park Service land near San Francisco. About 1 p.m., a park visitor found the remains of two human skulls near the Sutro Baths, a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area just north of Ocean Beach. The remains…

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Microsoft Releases Color Control Applet for WinXP

Microsoft: The Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet adds a new ‘Color’ item to the Windows control panel, providing a single place to view and edit color management settings in Windows XP. Using it, you can install and uninstall color profiles, change color profile associations for displays, printers and scanners, view detailed properties for color profiles…

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Windows Open to Attack Through Large Hole

TechWeb: Microsoft late Wednesday warned Windows users that proof-of-concept code was in circulation that could be remotely and anonymously exploited on Windows 2000 machines. Windows XP SP1 is somewhat less vulnerable, said Microsoft. The security advisory gave out few details of the vulnerability, only saying that it was a flaw in the RPC (Remote Procedure…

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