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		<title>Now You Can Make Multiple Phone Calls in Gmail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/now-you-can-make-multiple-phone-calls-in-gmail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for anyone who makes phone calls from inside Gmail &#8211; now you can make or receive multiple calls at once. Oh, wait. Excuse me. Hi Mum. Are you? That&#8217;s great. Well actually I&#8217;m trying to write something for Techland at the moment. Is that the dog barking? Well how did it get in there in the first place? Wait. Hold on, Mum. Hello? No I&#8217;m not interested, thanks. Because I already have a credit card. I don&#8217;t care what the interest rate is on yours. How did you get my contact details, anyway? Go away. (MORE: Google Officially Integrates Voice Calling into Gmail) The good news for Gmail users is that resuming one conversation will put the previous one on hold automatically. Oh, sorry Mum, I thought I was back on Techland there. Well have you tried enticing it out? No wonder it&#8217;s making such a lot of noise. I have to go now Mum. I&#8217;ll call you later. As I was saying, the good news for Gmail users is that &#8211; what? No! Dammit, I do not want your credit card, your insurance, or whatever else you&#8217;re selling. I&#8217;m trying to work here. Never contact me again. No, I said never. On the other hand, if you&#8217;re already on one call and a new one comes in, you&#8217;ll be shown a little alert that lets you decide whether or not to accept it. Google says the only restriction that you&#8217;re limited to two outgoing calls to physical phones simultaneously. But quite honestly, if you&#8217;re capable of handling more than two conversations at once on any kind of device, physical or metaphysical, you&#8217;re practically superhuman. No Mum, I wasn&#8217;t talking about you. MORE: Take a Gander at Gmail&#8217;s New Makeover (via Gmail blog)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91075&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Apps &amp; Software</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/apps-software/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Set Aside 571 Hours to Watch the Longest Video on YouTube</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/set-aside-571-hours-to-watch-the-longest-video-on-youtube/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never in the history of cinema have we seen a film that&#8217;s almost as long as the history of cinema. MoldytoasterMedia&#8217;s epic masterpiece, simply titled The Longest Video on YouTube, is an exquisite piece of work examining the essence of humanity contrasted with the fragility of life and the existential nothingness of un-being. It also has some great action sequences. All in just 571 hours. (MORE: YouTube Adds More Search Functionality, Makes Wasting Time Easier) Admire, if you will, the scene-setting of the first 12 and half hours. Note the complex character development that begins around the 17th hour (I can&#8217;t be completely certain because I&#8217;d fallen asleep), and continues all the way through the beginning of the third, devastating act. Watch out, if you can, for the dramatic set pieces in hours 344 and 501. Try not to laugh in hour 99, and if you&#8217;re squeamish, avoid hours 427-431. The twist at hour 568 is shocking, brutal, and tantalizing. In all, it&#8217;s a masterful piece of filmmaking. Like so many masterpieces, I don&#8217;t expect it to perform well at the box office. What worries me most is what we&#8217;re not seeing here. How much of the plot and character development has been lost on the cutting room floor? How many more amazing scenes have we missed? It&#8217;s a good film as it stands, but the cuts (imposed by studio bosses, no doubt) went too deep this time. I hear we might get a 2,644 hour director&#8217;s cut soon. All we can do is cross our fingers. And wait. And wait. Annnnnd wait. MORE: YouTube Launches Live Streaming Content<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91127&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Opens New App Store for Businesses</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/apple-opens-new-app-store-for-businesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the other Apple announcements of recent days is the opening of a new kind of App Store for corporate customers, allowing them access to a simple system for buying apps in bulk and distributing them among employees and devices. The Volume Purchase store was announced a couple of weeks ago, but finally went live yesterday alongside the launch of the Lion OS and various bits of new hardware. (MORE: Apple Rolls Out OS X Lion, Faster MacBook Airs, Kills MacBook) So now, if you&#8217;re in charge of IT in any organization, you can sign up for a special Apple ID. It has to have a unique email address assigned to it, but you&#8217;re the IT guy, right? You can set one up. Logged in with your ID, you&#8217;ll see a different view of the App Store. One that lets you find apps, then say exactly how many copies of each one you want to buy. There are no discounts for bulk: If an app costs $2.99, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll pay for each and every copy. That&#8217;s good news for the developers, who rely on getting their cut from every sale. And it&#8217;s good news for Apple, who get a fair bit from their cut, too. Another aspect to the business store is custom B2B apps designed for selling between businesses. Companies can now commission developers to make bespoke apps, then ask their partners to download via the Volume Purchase store. It&#8217;s still possible to make apps for in-house use without having to use the store, too. If you wanted proof that Apple was making serious inroads into corporate computing, this is it. It&#8217;s been via iPhones, and particularly iPads, that business types have discovered Apple products they can fall in love with. MORE: MacBook Air Review &#8211; Thin, Light, and Utterly Mainstream<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91070&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Website: It&#8217;s Probably Not Secure Enough</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/19/your-website-its-probably-not-secure-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest LulzSec hack upon the websites of scandal-struck News International and some of its U.K. newspapers is just another episode in the adventures of what the hackers themselves call &#8220;the Lulz Boat,&#8221; by which they mean the increasingly bizarre and illegal trip they&#8217;re taking through global media and politics. Lulz, of course, is slang for laughs. But not everyone knows that. Certainly not everyone at the U.K.&#8217;s Sky News channel (owned in part by Rupert Murdoch). When LulzSec took control of News International&#8217;s websites last night, they put in place an automatic redirect to the LulzSec Twitter feed. The Sky News presenter and her guests watched, bemused, as the redirect was demonstrated on a big screen above their heads. Then they wondered out loud, &#8220;Louise boat? Who is Louise Boat?&#8221; (MORE: LulzSec Hacks News of the World and The Sun, Plants Fake Murdoch Death Story) Excuse me, I think I have something in my eye. There. Meanwhile, the Louise Boat &#8211; sorry, the Lulz Boat &#8211; is still sailing stronger than ever before. LouiseSec says it has News International&#8217;s email archives in its possession. Quite what that might mean in terms of future lulz is anyone&#8217;s guess. LulzSec says it does what it does for fun, and treats the whole thing as an enormous joke, but there&#8217;s a serious lesson here for anyone and everyone who operates their own website: right now, your security is probably not good enough. (MORE: &#8216;We Do It for the Lulz&#8217;: What Makes LulzSec Tick?) Whoever crews the Lulz Boat has sufficient command of computers to compromise the security of some of the world&#8217;s biggest companies and most powerful agencies. If your small company or medium-sized agency has a website, or if there&#8217;s any way of accessing your company data from the outside, now is the time to wake up and start checking everything. Make sure everyone you employ is using a strong password. Make sure everyone understands what phishing is, and how to avoid being taken in by it. Make sure your networks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90660&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Say Hello to the Flying Sphere of Awesomeness</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/18/watch-say-hello-to-the-flying-sphere-of-awesomeness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the kind of gadget you&#8217;d see CGI&#8217;ed into a sci-fi show (in fact, similar CGI flying spheres did appear in Doctor Who not all that long ago). But this particular flying object is very real, very cool, and very coming to a battle zone near you in the not-too-distant future. This radio-controlled spherical flying drone is the work of Japanese Defense Ministry researcher Fumiyuki Sato. Built entirely using off-the-shelf parts and electronic components for a fraction over $1,300, the flyer could be put to all manner of uses: checking for survivors in disaster zones, keeping an eye on enemy movements, and scouting for missing persons. (PHOTOS: Cinema&#8217;s Most Memorable Robots) The device weighs practically nothing and can survive impacts with walls or the ground. If it gets stuck or damaged, it can just roll to a standstill. If the video above is a little too crazy for you, Reuters has a more straightforward, non-embeddable summary over here. The drone has an impressive maximum flying speed of 40 miles per hour, but that&#8217;s countered by a not-so-impressive eight-minute battery life, eaten up so quickly by the central fan that gives the whole thing thrust. The rest is simple air foils for steering, and a bunch of smart electronics including gyroscopes, so that it knows which way up is when flying. Even if the military don&#8217;t order hundreds of these once the design is final, Hollywood will be all over them. Imagine how much cheaper those overhead tracking shots will be. [via Reuters] VIDEO: The Creepiest Singing Robot Mouth of All Time<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90573&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Google+ Do It for You?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/18/does-google-do-it-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Google+ do it for you? Here&#8217;s the thing: Everyone expected Google+ to fail, because Buzz failed, Wave failed, and Orkut failed everywhere except Brazil. Google, the consensus believed, couldn&#8217;t do social. Wrong. Google+ is a huge hit, amassing 10 million users in just a few days. Phreeeow. (MORE: Could What Happened to MySpace Happen to Facebook?) That hit status isn&#8217;t just measured in terms of the number of users, though. People actually like it. They&#8217;re not just signing up, they&#8217;re throwing themselves into it. Those who were already on Facebook and Twitter are finding themselves facing a new #firstworldproblem: I have a nugget of something interesting to share. Should I share it on Twitter (where lots of people will see it), or on Facebook (where a strange mixture of friends, family and colleagues will see it), or on Google+ (where fewer people will see it, but they&#8217;re much more likely to respond with comments)? It&#8217;s that level of engagement that defines the G+ experience. If you want to hold a quick discussion, be it in public or just within one of your circles, Google+ turns out to be a really good way to do it. It&#8217;s flexible, adaptable, more conversation-oriented. Famous internet guy Robert Scoble says Google+ has made Twitter seem &#8220;boring&#8221;. He says: &#8220;Google+ has beautiful photos and videos. Twitter? Just page after page of mind-numbing 140 character items. Now, Flipboard demonstrated to all of us that photos and videos CAN be added into the display, and the new Twitter UI does do some of that, but it just isn’t enough. Google+ is blowing Twitter away here.&#8221; Google is benefiting from history, here. Twitter looks the way it does because it was invented as an SMS service for cell phones. Thing is, cell phones have gotten smarter since then. The need for the 140 character limit is fading away. Google&#8217;s jumped in to fill the gap. Does Google+ do it for you? And if you have accounts on multiple social networks, is it making you think twice about<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90475&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter-Style Animated Photo Tech Coming to Greeting Cards</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/15/harry-potter-style-animated-photo-tech-coming-to-greeting-cards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harry potter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Potter-style animated photos are closer than you might think. A U.K. company is working on technology that prints electronic circuits onto incredibly thin layers of plastic—so thin, they can be attached to paper and you&#8217;d hardly notice they were there. The team at PragmatIC have got together with a greeting card company to put their technology to work. Right now that means simple flashing lights and animations of messages like &#8220;Happy Birthday!&#8221; but in the future, the ideas could be put to use making animated images on paper, just like you see in the Harry Potter movies. (MORE:: This Paper-Thin Phone Will Soon Look Primitive) PragmatIC CEO Scott White told Techland, &#8220;You can already get greetings cards with flashing lights on them, but they&#8217;re expensive and bulky. As soon as you pull them out of the envelope, you can feel the tell-tale bulge of electronics inside. Our system is printed straight on to the card itself. It looks, feels and bends like a normal card.&#8221; So why hasn&#8217;t it reached the animated photograph stage yet? &#8220;The technology isn&#8217;t as mature as making electronic circuits in silicon, which has been going for 50 years. We&#8217;re still at the early stages,&#8221; said White. But it&#8217;s a possible future for this kind of technology? &#8220;Oh, definitely,&#8221; said White. &#8220;All the technology to achieve that already exists. There&#8217;s e-ink, which is what they use inside Kindles. There&#8217;s the drive electronics, which is what we make. And it&#8217;s possible to print batteries. It&#8217;s possible, but some way off yet.&#8221; In the meantime, PragmatIC is busy doing deals, seeking out paper and card products that could do with an interactive boost. Don&#8217;t be surprised if your cereal packet starts flashing jokes at you some time soon. MORE: E-Silk Makes Devices Literally More Flexible<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90321&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mozilla &#8216;BrowserID&#8217;: One Password to Rule Them All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/15/mozilla-browserid-one-password-to-rule-them-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing that unites everyone on the internet, it&#8217;s frustration with passwords. No-one likes having to remember them. People have poor memories and just get lazy. It&#8217;s so much easier to type mom&#8217;s dog&#8217;s name than to try and memorize a 16-character string of random letters and numbers. Especially if mom helpfully called her dog &#8220;1234.&#8221; VIDEO: How to Create Strong Online Passwords The team at Mozilla feel your pain, and want to do something about it. They&#8217;ve come up with a new idea called BrowserID. Here&#8217;s how it works. You sign up for a BrowserID and tell them your email address. They email you a link, which you have to click to prove that the email address you gave really does belong to you. While you&#8217;re signing up, you also have to pick a new password. But hopefully, it will replace lots of the other passwords you have to deal with every day. Hopefully. Think of it as a Master Password. One to rule all the others, and in the darkness bind them. Or something. Now, you go browsing around the web and decide to log in to some service that supports BrowserID. Instead of having to enter a different username and password, you click a button marked &#8220;Log in with BrowserID&#8221; &#8211; then you just choose the email address you want to log in with, and you&#8217;re done. You might have to enter your BrowserID password, but if you&#8217;re already logged into BrowserID, even that won&#8217;t always be necessary. Is that it then? Is that the end of the tyranny of passwords? Um, no, not quite. Services like this take a long time to spread around the net. Webmasters have to read up about them, decide whether or not to join in, and make changes to their websites if they do. What&#8217;s more, there are competing services &#8211; Facebook has been allowing people to use their Facebook account as a login ID for other sites for a while now. There are also desktop software packages that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90326&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man Hacks Neighbors&#8217; Wi-Fi to Frame Them for Child Porn (and More)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/14/man-hacks-into-neighbors-wi-fi-network-to-frame-them-for-child-porn-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Minnesota man just got sent down for 18 years for breaking into his neighbors&#8217; Wi-Fi network and trying to &#8220;frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds or professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mails to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden,&#8221; reports Wired. Angry with his neighbors, Matt and Bethany Kostolnik, after they reported him to police for allegedly kissing their young son, Barry Ardolf used password cracking software to break the security on their Wi-Fi router. Then, connected to the internet through it, he began setting up email accounts in their names and causing trouble. (MORE: Fired IT Guy Sticks Porn into CEO&#8217;s PowerPoint Presentation) The FBI got involved because he made the mistake of making death threats against Vice President Joe Biden, thinking it would get the Kostolniks into trouble. Investigators soon worked out that they weren&#8217;t the perpetrators. Wired&#8216;s Threat Level reports: &#8220;After the husband explained to his law office superiors that he had no idea what was happening, his bosses hired a law firm that examined his network and discovered that an &#8216;unknown&#8217; device had access to it. With Kostolnik’s permission, they installed a packet sniffer on his network to try and get to the bottom of the incidents.&#8221; If you end up with someone like Ardolf as your neighbor, there&#8217;s not much you can do to deter them from trying to hack into your Wi-Fi. His victims had, after all, taken the usual precaution of locking their network down and putting a password in front of it. That wasn&#8217;t enough to keep him out, though. Assuming your neighbors aren&#8217;t quite as determined, there are simple steps you can take to make people think twice before trying to connect to your network. One of those is to edit your Wi-Fi network&#8217;s name. The technical term for this is the &#8220;SSID&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s the name your network shows when other computers are seeking out networks to connect to. Most SSIDs are generic and dull, but if you change yours to something like &#8220;$10 Per<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90106&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Cool Websites for New Spotify Users</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/14/five-cool-websites-for-new-spotify-users/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotify is finally here in the U.S.! I&#8217;ve been using the service over here in Europe for quite a while and it&#8217;s packed with lots of cool stuff: more music than you can ever reasonably listen to, social network features, and more. But one of my favorite features is the way Spotify links out to the rest of the internet. (MORE: &#8216;Spotify&#8217; Free Music Service Launches Today in the U.S.) Every track, album and playlist has a unique address that you can share elsewhere on the net. Right-click on anything you see in Spotify, and you&#8217;ll see a menu with options including &#8220;Copy HTTP Link&#8221; and &#8220;Copy Spotify URI&#8221; &#8211; if you click the &#8220;HTTP Link&#8221; option, you&#8217;ll get a link you can paste anywhere. The other thing that&#8217;s cool about Spotify is its API for developers, which means people can build their own applications that link right into Spotify&#8217;s massive database. Put these two things together, and what do you get? Websites that let you do fun stuff, like these: Spotimy: Lets you find cool stuff, new stuff, hot stuff, and strange stuff. If you&#8217;re stuck for something to listen to, this is an excellent starting point. Try the Recommended list, or the best albums of recent weeks list. New releases on Spotify: Spotify&#8217;s music database gets updated in chunks on a weekly basis, so it&#8217;s hard to keep track of what&#8217;s new. This site shows it all to you in a list sorted by artist popularity. If you want to see the new stuff that people are enjoying, start here. Biblify: This one looks at the latest albums list, checks for reviews on matching albums, and shows you the best stuff. The reviews sites included are The Guardian, NME, Pitchfork, Uncut, Drowned In Sound, The Fly and the BBC. Pitchify, which we covered here previously, does a similar job. Hot Spotify has loads of good links too. Playlistify: Playlists are central to Spotify. You can make them out of individual tracks or entire albums. They can be as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90099&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: The Creepiest Singing Robot Mouth of All Time</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/13/watch-the-creepiest-singing-robot-mouth-of-all-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not what you think it is. It&#8217;s a talking robot, modeled on the human vocal system. And hey, check it out: it can sing! Kinda. Wait, you say. Robots can already talk. Hell, even my laptop can talk, and I got it at Walmart. (MORE: Cinema&#8217;s Most Memorable Robots) Yes, those things can talk, but only using software and speakers. This talking robot from Kagawa University in Japan is designed to reproduce the human voice the same way our bodies do—by pushing air through a series of tubes, and using the &#8220;mouth&#8221; at one end to adjust the shape of the tubes and therefore the sound that emerges. The metal box underneath is the air compressor, representing the lungs. It pushes air through the creepy plastic tubes and out through the mouth, which uses robotics to move the &#8220;lips&#8221; into the same shapes we use to speak. There&#8217;s a tongue inside the mouth too. Yeah. The weird glistening bulge on the top is more tubes, replicating the human nasal cavity, which has a part to play in the way our voices work too. Don&#8217;t ask me why it&#8217;s glistening. In the video above, the robot is giving its rendition of Japanese children&#8217;s song Kagome Kagome, which you can hear better here. Obviously the singing lessons are going to have to continue for a while yet. Nobody say anything about sex toys, OK? Just don&#8217;t. This is science. [via IEEE Automaton] MORE: WATCH: Robots Win World Cup (of Robot Soccer)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90072&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: A Search Engine Just for .XXX Domains</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/13/coming-soon-a-search-engine-just-for-xxx-domains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest news from the scantily-clad world of adult entertainment: websites under the new .xxx top-level domain will get a search engine all their own, at the disappointingly ordinary address of http://www.search.xxx. They could have gone with something more suggestive, like desperatefor.xxx. Or helpmegetmy.xxx. Or even xxx.xxx. But no, they&#8217;ve picked plain old search.xxx. MORE: Are You Ready for XXX Action? The site will index adult websites inside the .xxx domain and will probably carry ads. You don&#8217;t need to think too hard to imagine what sort of products and services they&#8217;ll be advertising. You might still be able to find the .xxx sites you&#8217;re looking for by using other search sites, but only this one will just search the porn, the whole porn, and nothing but the porn. The site will be run by ICM Registry, the company in charge of running the rollout of .xxx domains. That rollout starts in September, when there will be what&#8217;s called a &#8220;Sunrise&#8221; period. That&#8217;s followed in October by a &#8220;Landrush&#8221;, and finally in December registrations will be open to everyone. Well, almost everyone. Watching over the process will be a non-profit policy group called IFFOR, funded by a $10 cut taken from every .xxx registration. They have a set of strict rules governing who can and can&#8217;t apply. Not everyone is happy about this setup. Not even all the porn companies. Some of them think IFFOR will interfere with their businesses, while supporters say it&#8217;ll be good to have an &#8220;official&#8221; chunk of the internet reserved for porn—using a separate domain will help parents and schools ensure that kids don&#8217;t accidentally stumble across stuff they shouldn&#8217;t. MORE: Fired IT Guy Sticks Porn into CEO&#8217;s PowerPoint Presentation [via The Register]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90021&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did U.K. Journalists Use E-mail Viruses to Steal Personal Info?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/12/did-u-k-journalists-use-e-mail-viruses-to-steal-personal-info/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two sex-life bloggers believe they may have been victims of computer hacking attempts by journalists at newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. As the U.K. scandal enveloping politics, police corruption and journalism ethics grows wider and becomes ever more serious for media tycoon Murdoch, these latest accusations suggest that the hacking of private communications went way beyond simple interception of voicemail messages. (MORE: Embattled News of the World Publishes Final Issue) In a conversation on Twitter, the two bloggers &#8211; Zoe Margolis, author of Girl With a One Track Mind, and Brooke Magnanti, author of the infamous Belle de Jour blog &#8211; revealed that they had both received emails from journalists at the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times. Those emails arrived with brief messages and suspicious looking attachments, which the women suspect may have contained malware designed to reveal their identities and possibly gain access to their computers. In a blog post, Magnanti makes her feelings clear: &#8220;In the wake of accusations surrounding not only News of the World but other NI papers as well, it&#8217;s something to keep in mind. It&#8217;s not just a phone that can be hacked. Have other routes of invasion even been investigated at all? And it is, to my mind, probably likely to have happened to loads of people. People who may not have spotted an attempt to invade their computers. People whose personal information may have been at risk.&#8221; Her post, she stresses, isn&#8217;t a complaint, but a warning to others. Mr. Murdoch&#8217;s media empire has already suffered enormous damage following a week of unbelievable revelations, and every day there are more. But if the bloggers&#8217; suspicions are proven correct, and the hacking attempts involved the sort of techniques used by criminals to gain access to ordinary people&#8217;s bank accounts, the additional damage will be an order of magnitude greater. If there&#8217;s one good thing to emerge from the phone hacking scandal and from wider coverage of other security alerts, particularly the antics of groups like Anonymous and LulzSec, it&#8217;ll be wider public awareness of online<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89800&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Hacks U.S. Military Contractors Booz Allen Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/12/anonymous-attacks-u-s-military-contractors-booz-allen-hamilton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The masked crusaders at Anonymous have struck again—this time against the American military. They didn&#8217;t manage to break into the Pentagon itself, but instead took aim at an easier target: private company Booz Allen Hamilton, which does a lot of contract work for the armed forces and other government departments. (MORE: Why LulzSec&#8217;s Disbanding Doesn&#8217;t Really Mean Much at All) Anonymous took a typically irreverent tone in announcing a successful hack into one of Booz Allen Hamilton&#8217;s servers, saying on Twitter, &#8221;Attention intelligence community! Your contractors have failed you!&#8221;. The group posted links to a torrent file containing around 90,000 military email addresses and passwords. The same Twitter feed went on to taunt the authorities further, saying that the release of the Booz Allen data was &#8220;just the beginning.&#8221; Around the same time, the Anonymous Twitter poster was carrying out an extraordinary conversation with Al Jazeera journalist Yasmine Ryan, negotiating access to what Anonymous claims are &#8220;gigs of emails&#8221; from Middle Eastern Royal Families. It included this statement from Anonymous: &#8220;If Al Jazeera reports our exposure of the Royal Families we will give you free reign with data research one day before we dump.&#8221; Meanwhile, Booz Allen responded to the news with a stony non-comment. Oh yes, that thumping sound you can hear is heads rolling. Lots of them. MORE: Is Cyberwar Real or Just Hype?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89770&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ Is &#8216;Growing Like Crazy&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/11/google-growing-like-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re desperate to get on to Google+ but are still awaiting your invite, stay calm: Google&#8217;s new social network is growing incredibly fast, according to one unofficial study. So your chance to join in the Circle-dancing fun on G+ can&#8217;t be far off. According to G+ user Paul Allen (not the Paul Allen that co-founded Microsoft, though), Google+ is &#8220;growing like crazy&#8221;. In a post published over the weekend, he estimated it had 4.5 million users, and had grown nearly three times in a single week. Allen said he&#8217;s post a more detailed report, with up-to-date figures, later today. (MORE:: Five Failed Social Networks Even Worse Than MySpace) Plus is getting a lot of attention because &#8211; finally &#8211; Google seems to have done a social network right. All right, I know Orkut was big in Brazil. I&#8217;m talking about a social network for everyone who isn&#8217;t in Brazil. It&#8217;s true, much of the discussion on Plus is about features of Plus, and how neat Plus is for sharing stuff. But generally speaking, the tone of those comments is very positive. People like using Plus. It has a lot of features people like, and lacks a lot of features that people find annoying on rival services. The use of Circles to divide up friends is particularly popular, despite the initial work required to create Circles and put people into them. Internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose likes Plus so much, he&#8217;s decided that his personal domain kevinrose.com will point to his Google+ profile from now on. Not everyone is convinced of the wisdom of that idea. Danny Sullivan, an expert on search engines, criticized the idea, saying, &#8220;Your own domain is for life. Google+ is not.&#8221; His point is that web services don&#8217;t last forever. Remember Geocities?Remember TheGlobe.com, which was the Facebook of its day back in the late 1990s? Both of them gone. Google+ is growing fast because people are very keen to see what it&#8217;s like there. Whether they stay for the long term, like they did at Facebook,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89608&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: Robots Win World Cup (of Robot Soccer)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/11/robots-win-world-cup-of-robot-soccer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robots can do many things. They can vacuum our homes. They can assemble our automobiles in huge factories. And, of course, they can play soccer. Over the last week, teams from all over the world have been competing in the Robot World Cup in Istanbul, Turkey. A team from Virginia Tech&#8217;s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory won two divisions of the contest, with their DARwin and CHARLI robots. The score in the final match of the adult size division was, appropriately, 1-0. (MORE: The Amazing Spelling Dancing Robots) The contest pitches robot teams of varying sizes against one another, playing as-close-to-the-real-thing-as-possible soccer matches. There are goals at each end of the pitch, there&#8217;s a ball, and the aim of the game is the same: Put the ball in the back of the net. Of course, everything happens at a slightly slower pace than the human version of the game, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it can&#8217;t get pretty thrilling. Some of these robots can even haul themselves back onto their feet if they fall over, and they do so without complaining about injury, claiming they&#8217;ve been fouled, or making accusatory gestures at the referee while his back is turned. Something a few human soccer players could learn from, there. There&#8217;s a serious side to all of this, too. The Robot World Cup has been a regular fixture in the robot world calendar since 1997, and brings together a variety of technical disciplines, including sensing of the environment, motion tracking, artificial intelligence, wireless communication, and precision movement control. Just as in a real soccer match, there are rules to follow. And a great deal of work goes into building every robot player, so what the scientists learn can be ploughed back into other aspects of robot research. Just imagine: If we can build robots that play soccer pretty well, we&#8217;ll also have robots that make excellent B-list celebrities when their soccer-playing days are over—just like in the U.K. Bonus! MORE: Obama: We Can Rebuild Economy With Robots (Via BBC News)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89623&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Is YouTube&#8217;s &#8216;Panda&#8217; Project All About?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/08/what-is-youtubes-secret-panda-project-all-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s been busy recently. The launch of Google+ has also brought about a long-overdue revamp of the branding and styling found on other Google sites, giving all of them a unified new look. YouTube is no exception. The new YouTube goes under the name &#8220;Cosmic Panda&#8221;, and you can get to it just by visiting youtube.com/cosmicpanda. (MORE: Google Is Adding New Inbox Sorting Styles to Gmail) What&#8217;s different? Quite a lot. The video player now sits on a dark background, which makes videos themselves pop a little more. It also provides more space for advertising, which sometimes appears to one side of the player, shunting the video across to other other side to make room. Playlists and channel lists have been moved to a bar immediately below the player, where you&#8217;ll also find the video size widget, which lets you view larger versions or flip to full screen. Below that, the page hasn&#8217;t changed much &#8211; that&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll find the comments, assuming you can stand reading them. Cosmic Panda also means more control for channel owners, who will get new page designs and customization options. Reports that YouTube&#8217;s panda is related to Flickr&#8217;s panda that vomits rainbows remain unconfirmed at this time. Either way, it&#8217;s clear that pandas are highly valued web dev assets among the San Francisco tech community. What do you think of Cosmic Panda? Does it do the job? Or do you prefer the old style YouTube? MORE: YouTube&#8217;s Big Hollywood Push Goes Live [via TechCrunch]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89438&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Strengthen Your Twitter Security in Four Clicks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/08/how-to-strengthen-your-twitter-security-in-four-clicks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the team at Fox News discovered—to its chagrin—earlier this week, security lapses on social networks can have wide-ranging consequences. As we reported, persons unknown took control of the Fox News Politics Twitter feed in the early hours of July 4th, and started trying to spread rumors that the president had been assassinated. (MORE: Obama Dead Hoax Sweeps Twitter After Fox News Feed Hack) Luckily most people saw through the ruse, but it didn&#8217;t stop the #obamadead hashtag from spreading across the face of Twitter for many hours. Today, security experts have declared Twitter less secure than some of its rivals, saying the lack of what&#8217;s called &#8220;two-factor&#8221; or &#8220;two-step&#8221; authentication is a glaring error on Twitter&#8217;s part. If you&#8217;re worried about losing control of your account, here are some things you can do to prevent it: First, make sure you have a strong password and that it is different from your passwords on other services. (WATCH: Two Minute Video: How to Create Strong Online Passwords) Second, switch on the additional security that&#8217;s available, but not active by default. Doing this is extremely easy: Click 1: On your Twitter home page, click your username, shown in the top-right corner. Click 2: In the menu that appears, click Settings. Click 3: On the page that appears, scroll all the way to the bottom and look for a checkbox marked &#8220;Always use HTTPS&#8221; &#8211; make sure this is checked. Click 4: Click the Save button at the bottom of the page. That&#8217;s it, you&#8217;re done. From now on, your connection to Twitter will be encrypted, adding a mighty useful extra layer of security between you and the service itself. In response to today&#8217;s accusations, Twitter did say that it intends to make this encrypted connection the default one day. But until that day comes, switching it on manually is the next best thing. [via Reuters] MORE: Secret Service Investigates Fake Obama Dead Fox News Tweets<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89444&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Offers Unlimited Cloud Music Storage for $20 per Year</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/07/amazon-offers-unlimited-cloud-music-storage-for-20-per-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that&#8217;s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service. Cloud Drive, you&#8217;ll remember, is Amazon&#8217;s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon&#8217;s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a play button in a web browser. When it first launched, there were grumblings of iDiscontent because the player wasn&#8217;t officially supported on Apple&#8217;s mobile devices, but that&#8217;s one of the things Amazon&#8217;s just fixed. From now on, the Cloud Player works just fine on an iPad. (MORE: Amazon&#8217;s 99-cent Lady Gaga Album Heralds Cloud Music Wars) The other slice of new is a time-limited special offer, clearly designed to lure in new customers: free music storage with all paid file storage plans. That means you can sign up for the basic 20GB storage offer, and you&#8217;ll be allowed to upload your entire 200GB music collection without making a dent in your allowance. You&#8217;ll still have 20GB free for, you know, all your other stuff. Whatever that is. The entry-level free service, offering 5GB of file storage, is not included in the special offer. So the deal&#8217;s pretty clear: if you want to put your entire music collection the cloud, you can, for a minimum spend of $20 per year. There&#8217;s no need to pay out for storage that matches the size of your music library. Amazon will also now store any and all MP3 purchases from its store for free—purchased tracks won&#8217;t count against your storage quota. Why is Amazon doing this? It might be a preemptive strike, designed to prevent people moving their files to rival services from Google and Apple. It might simply be because paid storage services haven&#8217;t been as popular as hoped. Either way it&#8217;s good news for the rest of us. As the big brands fight ever dirtier battles to win the cloud music wars (told you it was a thing), prices are going<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89286&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peak Science Reached with 3D Chocolate Printer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/07/peak-science-reached-with-3d-chocolate-printer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last, 3D chocolate printing has arrived. We can switch off the internet, shut down CERN, and turn our universities into campuses of poetry. Our species has reached the pinnacle of science. Researchers at the U.K.&#8217;s University of Exeter have developed a 3D fabricating machine that manufactures chocolate objects to your chosen design. So if you want your loved one&#8217;s name, or a special message, or an unusually tasty insult carved out of the purest chocolate, all you have to do is pick a font and a flavor. The machine can do the rest. Project leader Dr. Liang Hao says, &#8220;What makes this technology special is that users will be able to design and make their own products. In the long term it could be developed to help consumers custom-design many products from different materials but we&#8217;ve started with chocolate as it is readily available, low cost and non-hazardous. &#8220;There is also no wastage as any unused or spoiled material can be eaten, of course!&#8221; he added, wiping his lips with the back of his hand. (MORE: Which has the shorter shelf-life, e-books or chocolate syrup?) But wait, what&#8217;s this? It turns out that 3D chocolate printing isn&#8217;t a new idea after all. Take a look at the Fab@Home site and you&#8217;ll find photos of edible chocolate structures built back in 2007. I wouldn&#8217;t eat them now if I were you, though. What the Exeter team has achieved is a step forward from those initial chocolatey experiments. The latest prototype is suitable for use by food manufacturers and catering companies, who are quivering with the thought of the profits they could make from custom food designs for special occasions. Either that or they&#8217;re having some sort of sugar rush or something. The ultimate destiny of 3D printers, of course, is as an all-purpose kitchen appliance that eats trash and spits out anything you ask it to: underwear, utensils, screwdrivers, you name it. No reason why any of those can&#8217;t be made out of chocolate. No reason at all. [via BBC<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89267&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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