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| Posted: 24 Aug 2009 12:27 AM PDT  10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. NASA May Outsource Amid Budget Woes For the first time since the advent of manned space exploration, the U.S. appears ready to outsource to private companies everything from transporting astronauts to ferrying cargo into orbit. More @ WSJ.com 2. Ending the War on Sharing When record companies make a fuss about the danger of "piracy", they're not talking about violent attacks on shipping. What they complain about is the sharing of copies of music, an activity in which millions of people participate in a spirit of cooperation. More @ Stallman.org 3. What Free Software, Linux and Microsoft Have Taught Us All in all, I think Free Software users know from practical experience how to question and why to question; we also have learned about freedom in a way that most people don't get to--as a practical reality, an experience, not just a slogan. More @ LinuxToday 4. Bottled Nixie clock 5. A new website for the rapid sharing of influenza research The successful development of open access publishing by organizations including the Public Library of Science (PLoS) in recent years is a dramatic illustration of how the Internet is revolutionizing scientific communication. Today, after several months of work, I'm delighted to announce that PLoS is launching PLoS Currents (Beta) — a new and experimental website for the rapid communication of research results and ideas. More @ Googleblog 6. Rumors of The Beatles Coming to iTunes Renewed Yet Again A recent report that Apple has scheduled a music-focused media event for September 9th has once again sparked speculation that The Beatles may finally be coming to iTunes. The speculation is primarily driven by the scheduling of several other Beatles-related events on the same day. More @ Macrumors 7. Does Dell's Primordial Smartphone Have an Android Inside? What Dell showed at a China Mobile event Monday was not a finalized smartphone, the computer maker said -- rather, it was a proof of concept mobile device. Still, reports from the event were enough kick speculation into high gear, and for now, it looks as though Dell could be going down the Android path in developing a mobile handheld. More @ LinuxInsider 8. Don't Use This Recycled Paper Camera in the Rain 9. Where Yahoo Leaves Google in the Dust GOOGLE has an outsize image as the deft master of information. Its superior technology seems to pitilessly grind up its rivals. But Google's domination in search has proved hard for it to match in some information domains. When serving financial news and information, for example, Yahoo draws 17.5 times the traffic of Google, according to comScore Media Metrix. More @ NYTimes.com 10. Virus Protection For The Mind We all know how destructive viruses on our computer can be and how important it is to have virus protection installed. However we're not so careful when it comes to protecting our own minds with the, often devastating, effects our own thoughts can have on it. More @ Zenhabits  |
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