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The Bender Podcast – Lego Rock is bad, Arkham Asylum is terrible, Raychul Moore is coo

Listen live/stream with iTunes @ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=287404133 or Download the... more

PacoDG
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BitTorrent’s Future? DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained

This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet... more

atomiclegion
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video Google Chrome OS First Look Review

Educational Tutorial style Review Video of Google Chrome OS, the new Netbook Operating System. The OS only has a web browser,... more

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PICASSO SUPERHEROES

Artwork So Awesome It will Melt Your Face Off PICASSO SUPERHEROES Inspired by Pablo Picasso. Currently on display at The Bijou in... more

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Celebrate Geekiness: Geeks Go Nude (Partly) To Support A Charity In India

What comes to your mind when you think of a geek? Specs, badly dressed, beard, messy hair…in short not so cool and... more

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Do top 10 lists matter?

~y2009m11d19-Do-top-10-lists-matter When top 10 lists are set in stone, they cease being any fun.

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Dad speaks only in Klingon to son

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/11/dinkytown_dad_s.php Is this taking the whole Star Trek thing a teensie weensie bit... more

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First Programmable Quantum Computer Created

Quantum processing units are fundamentally different in a number of ways. First, where a regular bit can be only 1 or 0, a quantum... more

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Nintendo Wii Homebrew Channel video review

I show you a quick demonstration of the Homebrew Channel free software for the Nintendo Wii. I also show Genesis Plus which is a... more

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Gifts for Bookworms Who Live for Lazy Weekend Reads

Bookworms are creatures of comfort who crave for little more than a peaceful corner and a good read. Here are some gifts ideas for... more

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Ultimate Pocket Camcorder Comparison

Pocket camcorders (AKA mini cams or budget cams, or sometimes Flip cams after the pioneer of the category) are simple gadgets.... more

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What we know about Doctor Who: The End Of Time - big spoilers!!!

Beware: there are spoilers here for the Doctor Who Christmas specials, as we look ahead to David Tennant's last two... more

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The Secret War Against Afghanistan's Space Invaders

Adam Richardson has added pixelated alien invaders to actual war photos from Iraq and Afghanistan. And when the Space Invaders... more

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This Is Not a Photoshop

This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with this. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant tapes. They are... more

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Author Goes To Japan Seeking Enlightenment, Ends Up Writing About Organized Crime

Author Jake Adelstein was on Jon Stewart last night talking about his new book, "Tokyo Vice," and the... more

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Video Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Unboxing and some news

I received the official Ubuntu Linux 9.10 CD-ROM Disk in the mail today free from Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu. I... more

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"Time Traveling" Web Browser Let's You Search Like It's 1999

Los Alamos National Labs' Memento browsing tech lets you search up Web pages from the past, though it's unlikely that it can go all the way back to 1955.

While the rest of the Web-savvy world fawns over breakthroughs in real-time search and pontificates on the future of social networking, Los Alamos National Labs is looking to the past. A team there is developing a "time traveling" Web browsing technology, dubbed Memento, that will allow users to find old versions of Web pages without trolling old archives.

Current archival resources, like the Wayback Machine, can search for old, cached pages of Web sites, but a search for a particular URL brings up little more than a list of cached dates the user must sort through to (maybe) find what he or she is looking for. Like an online gull-winged Delorean, Memento will take you directly to the web page you want at the historical time and date you specify, by harnessing the content negotiation feature of Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP -- the system that serves as the infrastructure for the entire Web.

One of HTTP's central functions is content negotiation, during which a URL can send various types of data to a browser depending on what the browser asks for (this is why a Web server will often send a Spanish version of a site to someone in Spain and an English version to someone in the UK). Memento simply adds a new query layer to the its request from a server, asking it to call up a specific time and date as well.

Using a server with built-in Memento -- so far the Los Alamos team has developed a plug-in for Firefox as well as a version with Memento built-in -- users simply select a date and time from a drop-down box and go to the URL as they normally would. The browser goes straight to the archived page for the date and time specified, no archive wandering required. Naturally, for Memento to be most effective, site-owners will need to keep more detailed archives with more time-stamped pages. But the Los Alamos team thinks that a better way to find archived information will encourage site managers to archive more pages.

Honestly, we just want to have one last dance with GeoCities.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-11/time-traveling-web-browser-lets-you-search-its-1999Los Alamos National Labs' Memento browsing tech lets you search up Web pages from the past, though it's unlikely that it... more