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Weekly Ten (5-31-2010)

Posted: 31 May 2010 03:15 AM PDT

10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. New Ebola Drug 100 Percent Effective In Monkeys
The Ebola virus first emerged in 1976, striking fear with the uncontrollable bleeding it causes and mortality rates up to 90 percent. Ever since then, scientists have been struggling to find a way to treat the infection or protect against it.
More @ NPR

2. First 4G Android Phone Feels Like the Future
The new Sprint HTC EVO sports some of the nicest hardware you can find on any mobile device on the market and boasts some of the burliest specs we've ever seen in a phone (4G finally!). What's more, it's just drop-dead gorgeous; the kind of thing that compels others to ask about it when you take it out of your pocket.
More @ Wired

3. Google Targets Reader in Latest Phase of 'Kill IE6' Plan
Google expanded its anti-Internet Explorer 6 campaign Thursday by announcing that it will phase out support for the nine-year-old browser for its Google Reader service June 1.
More @ PCWorld

4. BAMF2010: Look sir, droids!

More @ HackaDay

5. Facebook Open Graph: A new take on semantic web
A few weeks ago, Facebook announced an Open Graph initiative -- a move considered to be a turning point not just for the social networking giant, but for the web at large. The company's new vision is no longer to just connect people. Facebook now wants to connect people around and across the web through concepts they are interested in.
More @ OreillyRadar

6. OLPC to Shoot For $100 XO Tablet
After meeting a significant number of setbacks with its original attempt to offer a $100 laptop to children in developing nations, the OLPC project will take another shot with a new tablet. The design will be provided by semiconductor manufacturer Marvell.
More @ LinuxInsider

7. Microsoft offers developers new Outlook tools under Apache open-source license

On May 24, Microsoft took a step along that path by making available for download two .PST interoperability tools. The pair — a .PST Data Structure View Tool and a .PST File Format Software Development Kit (along with the related technical documentation) –are available under the Apache open-source license.
More @ ZDNet

8. CTA Digital's Inflatable Kart for the Wii: at last you can be the coolest kid on your block

More @ Engadget

9. The Perfect Server - Fedora 13 x86_64
This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 13 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable) with PHP5/Ruby/Python, Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of Fedora 13, but should apply to the 32-bit version with very little modifications as well.
More @ HowtoForge

10. 11 Brain-Twisting Paradoxes
Paradoxes have been around since the time of Ancient Greeks & the credit of popularizing them goes to recent logicians. Using logic you can usually find a fatal flaw in the paradox which shows why the seemingly impossible is either possible or the entire paradox is built on flawed thinking. Can you all work out the problems in each of the 11 paradoxes shown here?
More @ Listverse