Archive for March 11th, 2006

Arenas, Butler lead Wizards to win over Pistons

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

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Exclusive: Google Payments Seller Reputation Screenshots

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

A few weeks ago here on Techcrunch we revealed more information about Google’s new payments system along with some screenshots of how it looks and works. One of the questions at the time was what Google would do about buyers being able to check a sellers reputation before making a purchase. We can now reveal […]

Alexa Junkies Rejoice

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

For those Alexa junkies out there, Ron Hornbaker emailed to tell me about his newly launched Alexaholic, a strikingly better front end for accessing Alexa data. It’s much faster than Alexa, allows for easy adding and removing of sites and has additional features such as “data smoothing”. Alexaholic also provides a code snippet to include […]

Bruins blast Cal for first Pac-10 tourney title since ‘87

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

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CALDWELL’S IMPACT REPORT 3/11: Ongoing “virtual time” coverage of show

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Douglas scored a nearfall on Harris. After a double team clothesline, the Naturals scored a very close nearfall. Gail Kim distracted the referee, allowing Team Canada to hit the ring. AMW and Canada cuffed Stevens to the guardrail on the outside. AMW hit the Death Sentence on Douglas in the ring for the easy win.

Forde: Where offenses go to die

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Offensive ineptitude? Or defensive fortitude? Either way, the Big Ten tournament hasn’t seen much scoring.

Fossil Rises From its Grave

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

gokulpod writes “Scientific American reports that a family of animals known as Diatomyidae thought to have been dead for 11 million years has been discovered in Laos. From the article: ‘Fossilized remnants of this group have been found throughout Asia with a distinctive jaw structure and molars. It represents a rare opportunity to compare assumptions derived from the fossil record and an actual living specimen to determine overall accuracy of the techniques involved. This discovery also provides a compelling argument for preservation efforts in Southeast Asia.’”

Newspaper Able to Track Covert CIA Employees on Internet

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

This would be just laughable if it weren’t so serious. The CIA is not very good at keeping its own secrets, according to a new investigation by The Chicago Tribune. The paper was able to track covert and other CIA employees using commercially available databases.

When the Tribune searched a commercial online data service, the result was a virtual directory of more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States.

Even though not all of the employees are covert, there is ample concern that those who are could become the targets of terrorists. Not only that:

Other potential targets include at least some of the two dozen CIA facilities uncovered by the Tribune search. Most are in northern Virginia, within a few miles of the agency’s headquarters. Several are in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and Washington state. There is one in Chicago. Some are heavily guarded. Others appear to be unguarded private residences that bear no outward indication of any affiliation with the CIA.

The CIA has been notified of their project. The article also contains a senior administration official’s reaction:

NEStation Mod - Upright NES With PS2 Style

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

The NES is definately one of the most popular consoles to mod. Over the last year we’ve seen a number of things like an NES turned into a PC, and NES DVD player, and much more. However kotami, one of France’s (if not one of the world’s) premier con…

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Torch columnist Bruce Mitchell, with host Wade Keller, discuss Saturday Night’s Main Event hype including the returns of Jim Ross and Steve Austin, the overall line-up, and where the WWE-NBC relationship could go from here, a look at the latest editions of Smackdown and Raw, Sherri being inducted into the Hall of Fame with stories from her career and analysis of her place among managers, and more…

Diggnation Episode #0036 - March 9, 2006

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Ask-a-ninja, Microsoft finally unveils its Origami, Silicon valley fight club, Google to acquire Writely, Quake3 on 24 monitor display, New Digg Comment System Released!, X3 Trailer, Real Google Calendar, Shotgun on shuttle.

Diggnation Episode #0036 - March 9, 2006

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Ask-a-ninja, Microsoft finally unveils its Origami, Silicon valley fight club, Google to acquire Writely, Quake3 on 24 monitor display, New Digg Comment System Released!, X3 Trailer, Real Google Calendar, Shotgun on shuttle.