Turn your toilet flushes into free electricity

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"Every time a toilet flushes, water rushes downwards thanks to gravity and an opportunity is lost. But with the HighDro system, those flushes can be converted into energy to power whatever building they're in."

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Tags: electricity, flush, toilet, via dvice

Great, even our beds could be causing cancer

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"Swedish study is trying to nail down the reason that cancer is 10% more likely to occur in the left breast over the right, on top of the steadily increasing risk of cancer over last 30 years. One theory? Your box spring could be a giant, radiation-emitting antenna."

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Tags: atenna, bed, box, cancer, radiation, spring, via dvice

Website Search Results

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The result links on the search webpage for your website are more specific. Previously they returned links that pointed to the discussion messages for the content. The result links now point to the weblog archive, relative url, or discussion message; depending on message settings.

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Tags: added, feature, hosting, result, results, search, search results, tom's, tom's web hosting, web, weblog

Weblog Sub-title

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Your websites now have a sub-title for the title of your weblog. The sub-title is the topic of your latest weblog entry.

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Tags: added, feature, hosting, sub-title, tom's, tom's web hosting, web, weblog

WatchOCR

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Here is something I want to check out...

"Then I stumbled upon WatchOCR. This is a Live CD distro that can easily create a server on your network that provides an OCR service using watched folders. Now all my scanners scan to a watched folder, WatchOCR picks up those files and OCRs them, and then spits them out into another folder."

And some related links...

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Tags: ocr, scan, via slashdot

Security researcher demos autofill exploit in Apple Safari

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"The autofill feature found in Apple's Safari Web browser could be used by a hacker to illegally obtain a user's personal information, including their name and e-mail address, a security researcher has discovered."

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Tags: apple, autofill, data, form, hack, safari, security, theft

Bionic feet for amputee cat

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Check out the video in the article! Fascinating. Skin bonded to metal and the little guy can get around more easily now.

Here is another video from YouTube...

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Tags: amputee, bionic, cat, feet

Recursive Grep

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Every now and then you need to know which files contain a string starting from the current directory and all files below. One way to do this on some Unix-like systems is to use something like...

find . -exec grep -l 'phrase to find in your files' {} \;

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Tags: *nix, code, find, grep, recurse, reference, software, unix-like

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