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1:05 PM ET, October 21, 2006

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Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Arcade: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3  —  Xbox Live Members can now download 'Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3' demo from the Xbox Live Arcade.  The full version of the game can be purchased for 800 points.  —  Here are some game details:  —  Enter the world of ULTIMATE Mortal Kombat 3 …
Discussion: You NEWB and Kotaku
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Scrybe: Online Organiser with true Offline support  —  Scrybe is an online organiser that looks t  —  oo good to be true, and some are dying to try.  —  Some core features are:  — Offline Support: Go to "work offline" and it just works?  It even synchronizers up when you get online again.
Wall Street Journal:
YouTube Removes 30,000 Files Amid Japanese Copyright Concerns  —  A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP  —  TOKYO — The popular U.S.-based video-sharing Web site YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files over copyright concerns after being asked by a group representing Japan's entertainment industry.
Discussion: Deep Jive Interests
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
Building a 'Googley' Workforce  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — To understand the corporate culture at Google Inc., take a look at the toilets.  —  Every bathroom stall on the company campus holds a Japanese high-tech commode with a heated seat.  If a flush is not enough, a wireless button on the door activates a bidet and drying.
Discussion: Texas Startup Blog and Rough Type
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Boy Scouts shill for MPAA with copyright merit badge  —  The Los Angeles Council of the Boy Scouts of America will offer rewards to Scouts who absorb a brainwashing regime written by the MPAA.  The merit badge patch in "respecting copyright" will almost certainly not include any training on fair use …
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Mike / Techdirt:   The Boy Scouts Now Have An MPAA Merit Badge In Misleading Arguments
Associated Press:
Be loyal, kind and don't steal movies
Discussion: Slashdot
SunbeltBLOG:
Walmart gets slammed for sneaky blogging...but this is only the tip of the icebeerg  —  There's revelations coming out that mega PR firm Edelman created three "independent" blogs for WalMart (called "flogs").  The first one that was outed was "Wal-Marting Across America" …
Ross / Zimbra - Blog:
IE 7 vs IE 6  —  Back in April I wrote an entry complaining about IE's performance as a Web 2.0 platform: … I am happy to say that I was wrong.  —  Microsoft's IE team has clearly been hard at work on improving their browser's memory management and JavaScript performance.
The Older Gamers Paradise:
Hands On The Zune  —  Today, I had an opportunity to listen to a few songs and a radio station on the Zune here at the Microsoft Campus in Seattle.  —  All Zune colors were present, brown, white (or off-white) and black.  The brown design was by far my favorite color of the three.
Smaran / Torrentfreak:
University to teach students to implement BitTorrent and Web 2.0 in business  —  With the help of IBM, the University of Arizona will put together a course designed to essentially teach people how to apply Web 2.0 services like BitTorrent, blogs, wiki's and social networks in a business setting.
Discussion: digg
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock  —  Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock.  Now because MIT's administration doesn't like it if you hack the door locks or the strike plates …
Discussion: digg
Lokeuei / MSDN Blogs:
No Photoshop?  No worry.  —  There's Paint.NET :) Yes that's right, almost 100% written in MANAGED CODE.  I remember using this application when it was released as version 1 on my Windows XP.  Although a novel idea at that time, the performance was very sluggish.  Perhaps written without optimizing the .NET code.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Loma Linda .... Fiber Town, USA  —  Loma Linda, a town of 20,000 residents wedged between Riverside and San Bernadino in Southern California, says it was the first city in the U.S. to mandate a building code for residential and commercial structures to include fiber optics.
Discussion: broadbandreports.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires SpaceShipOne?  —  Categorize this as another unsubstantiated Google rumor, but the word on the street is that Google has acquired SpaceShipOne and is putting it inside building 43 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.  No word on the purchase price …
Cesar Menendez / Zune Insider Blog:
BATTERY LIFE  —  Ok, I've got some battery life numbers to share:  —  Zune has a battery life of up to 13 hours, when listening to music.  Oh. . . and that's with the wireless turned on.  When you turn the wireless off, Zune has up to 14 hours of battery life when listening to music …
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and MSTechToday
David Pescovitz / Boing Boing:
Complete Works of Charles Darwin now online for free  —  Yesterday, the Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online officially launched, bringing 50,000 pages of searchable text and 40,000 images to the public for free.  Presented by the University of Cambridge and other collaborators …
Steve Hargreaves / CNN:
Security analysts: Mac attacks rare but may rise  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — Apple computers have long been prized for being relatively virus-free.  But as more people use Apple products, experts say the company is increasingly becoming a target for cyber pranksters and criminals writing viruses and other forms of malware.
Discussion: Techdirt and digg
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Intel's Santa Rosa platform officially dubbed Centrino Pro  —  While the Mac faithful are still twiddling their thumbs waiting for Apple to finally bump those sexy MacBook Pros to Merom status, Intel's not wasting any time officially dubbing its next generation notebook platform.
Discussion: TechSpot
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Internet video business challenges  —  I'm going to be going to see John Battelle this afternoon (he runs the blogging advertising network, Federated Media) and I'm going to ask him about the challenges of making an Internet content business work.  —  Here's the trouble.
 
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
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Kotaku:
360 100 GB HD Bogus, Says Germany's Herr Nelson
Discussion: Gizmodo, You NEWB and TechSpot
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Skype blocked, but to protect local economy
Official Google Blog:
The rebirth of cool  —  Posted by Silas Reyes, Webmaster, Mobile team
Discussion: MobileCrunch
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The Ask.com Blog:
Keep Ask.com As Your Steady with IE 7 and Firefox
Discussion: Security Fix and Tech Digest
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sony kicks out 007 Edition VAIO TX / DSC-T50B Cybershot
Discussion: Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Sam Kennedy / 1up.com:
Phil Harrison Talks Downloadable PS1 Games on PS3
Paul Miller / Engadget:
In2Games' "Fusion" controller spices up next-gen motion sensing
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy and CrunchGear