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Match.com sued for sending its employees out as fake dates
April 27, 2008, 8:48 am
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Match.com is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy…(filed under “bad” deals)

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President Bush signs bill setting hard date for analog cut-off
April 27, 2008, 8:48 am
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“With today
’s action, President Bush has set a hard finish line for the nation’s transition to DTV. CEA has long supported a hard cut-off date for analog broadcasts. This deadline will provide certainty to manufacturers, retailers, consumers and all others with a stake in the transition.”

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Windows Vista will be released December 1st
April 27, 2008, 8:48 am
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Or maybe November 30th. Microsoft EMEA has put up a contest website to guess the Vista launch date. After you submit a date, it loads a “hint” video. A look at the page source shows that until Nov 30 the video comes from an “early” directory; this switches over to “late” on Dec 1. You can guess the rest.

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PS3 PAL launch delayed to March 2007
April 27, 2008, 8:48 am
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SCEE have announced that the PS3 release date has slipped from November 17th 2006 to March 2007 – fun, anyone?

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Revealed: world’s oldest computer
April 27, 2008, 8:48 am
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Machine found on ocean floor, dating back to 80BC has been declared the world’s oldest computer, used to map the motions of the sun, moon and planets.

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Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHP
April 27, 2008, 8:48 am
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Who wants to use Excel to make a new graph each week? Using CSS and PHP you can create attractive bar graphs (yes, even the stacked kind) that are always up to date.

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Preview of the upcoming Firefox 2 browser
April 27, 2008, 8:47 am
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Here’s a preview of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 2 browser including the new features/components and the release roadmap.

2006/06/27 is the release date for Firefox 2

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Planned features for Firefox 3 unveiled
April 27, 2008, 8:47 am
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In today
’s Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) meeting, developers released a preliminary list of requirements for Firefox 3. The new target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year.

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Simpsons’ movie revealed in trailer…2007 release date!!
April 27, 2008, 8:47 am
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I just returned from the theatre where I saw a “trailer” for the Simpson’s Movie. Here is the first info I have been able to find on it…enjoy kidies.

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Huge Collection of Programming and Computer Cheatsheets!
April 27, 2008, 8:47 am
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This website contains a large collection of quick reference materials ranging from HTML and CSS to Python and Perl. All of the links are up to date and all of the cheatsheets are free to download.

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