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I would like to wish Dumas a very very happy birthday. Hope you have an awesome day Dumas.

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China will be sending ‘pig sperm’ on board the Shenzhou VI spacecraft in October. Some of the sperm will be kept outside the biological capsule and some inside and the experiment is being carried out to study the effect of cosmic rays on pig sperm. China became the third country behind U.S and Russia [...]

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Move over Linux, here comes ‘Vores Øl’. ‘Vores Øl’ is the world’s first open source beer and Version 1.0 is a medium strong beer (6% vol) which is deep golden red in color. Here is the good thing about open source, people are free to use the recipe to make beer and sell it [...]

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Those of you who interpreted the headline in a way it was not meant to be interpreted, shame on you. An ‘Edeka’ store in the German town of Ruelzheim has introduced a paying system by which a customer needs to place his/her finger on a scanner in order to pay for their merchandise. All [...]

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The beta version of my new blog space is made active today. Please visit the site and let me know what you think. Although ‘all’ the suggestions may not be accommodated but they will definitely be appreciated. There are many reasons that made me turn to Wordpress and backups of the blog was [...]

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The nemesis of the music industry, the MP3, turned 10 years old yesterday. This file format which instigated the birth of the peer to peer file sharing network was named on the 14th of July, 1995 by researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. The researchers agreed to use MP3 as the file extension [...]

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