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Slashdot

Oldest Planet Ever Discovered: Hubblesite reports on the discovery of a 13-billion-year-old planet. Imagine the candles on that cake!
TCP Interface for IIgs: GS/TCP is now available to provide standard TCP networking on your Apple IIgs (which runs at a zippy 2.8MHz).
Repel Bugs With Your Cell Phone: Only available in Korea.
Ask Slashdot: Soft Processors in FPGAs: Ever wanted to build your own microprocessor, but lacked a billion-dollar R&D facility? This is for you!

ZDNet

Reviewed: The Magicolor 2300DL colour laser printer. If you don't want a colour laser printer, it's because you've never had the chance to play with one. For speed, reliability and convenience they blow inkjets out of the water. Until recently, they've been too expensive for home use. ZDNet review one of the cheapest models available.

Madville

An interactive tour of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. What more could you ask for?
How about an in-depth discussion of how quicksand works complete with Flash animations?

Kuro5hin

(That's pronounced "corrosion", by the way.)

Copy-controlled CDs: Is the end in sight? I sure hope so. They certainly suck.
The Rise of Stupid Everything: Probably not what you'd expect from the title.

LinuxHardware

Linux on the XBox: All the details on how. Also why.

Designtechnica

Metallica Disses Apple iTunes: Metallica continue to whine. Discerning people continue to not listen to them anyway.

Neowin.net

MP3.com - Bye Bye?: Vivendi has closed the European arm of MP3.com, which they paid 265 million squid for not too long ago. Will the rest of the company follow?

Risks Digest

(The Risks Digest is the web archive of newsgroup comp.risks, the premier source of entertainment information about the risks (potential and actual) of computer systems and other advanced technology.)

Dead-pregnant-men software failure: No, the computer system didn't actually impregnate or kill them. Whatever happened to truth in advertising?
The risk of assuming things: The assumption in point being No-one can be that crazy...

Internetnews.com

The WiFi hotspot market ispicking up. Which can only mean that WiFi is set to go bye bye.

Wired News

Yet another bunch of wankers lawyers wankers claim to have an absurdly over-broad patent on basic internet functionality. Can't we just shoot these people?

(Thanks to freshnews.org for their automatic Geek News aggregator.)

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