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Friday, November 03, 2006

The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites you've Forgotten, part 3

Design Inspiration, especially for the upcoming CSS/Standards Reboots. The third edition of the biannual 35-sexiest list, this time with 23 CSS-based and 12 Flash-based designs. Hope you enjoy!

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29.8% of Windows XP users consider a move to Linux over Vista

A recent poll shows a good percentage of *tech-savvy* XP users considering a move to Linux over an upgrade to Vista. It seems Microsoft are pushing users away with more looking at using Linux than legally upgrading.

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14 year old crashes his dad's new 50 grand car minutes after its bought

Some kid's dad just got a brand new 2007 Mustang "Eleanor"....of course his son who is 14 is way too excited and with the car in the driveway for 5 minutes asks for the keys, gets in, and proceeds to plow it through the garage wall. Watch dad and friends' reaction.

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Kevin launched digg on a $99-per-month server + $700 for development cost

"I was sitting around thinking about how this would play out," Rose says. "My background in school is in computer science. I wrote a scoping document to a friend, who is a developer. The friend said it would take two or three weeks to create and cost 700 bucks, so I said, 'Let's go for it.'"

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eBay building bombed: exclusive IMs from worker inside the building

Firefighters rushed to eBay's San Jose headquarters last night after an explosion in a four-story eBay building. First thought to be a transformer, the cause is now being reported as a bomb. A live TV report from last night is available at KRON 4. A reader sends the following IM conversation they had with an eBay employee in the building.

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61" HDTV for $1? Thanks Woot.com!

Woot.com is famous for the enormously popular "Random Bag of Crap" which sells for $1 + $5 shipping. In the most reason BOC sold, though, some received their shipped crap with a note telling that their last crap wouldn't fit in the shipping box....probably because it was a 61" HDTV! "Tech Deals" is an understatement.

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