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The Vice Guide To North Korea

A breakthrough in science may save the bluefin tuna?

High bandwidth websites lose money in developing countries

How To Wash Your Hands

  • Wash your hands before and after preparing food, after using the toilet, and any time they are grossly contaminated. Here’s how:

    1) Turn on the water and get it to a temperature you like.
    2) Lather up using soap. (Soap does not kill germs in the time that the germs are exposed during hand washing. There’s stuff that grows fine on a bar of soap. The surfactant action of soap helps the running water flush the germs away. That’s how it works. It’s purely mechanical. Antibacterial soap is a waste of time and money, and just helps breed antibiotic-resistant bugs.)
    3) Rub your hands vigorously together, paying special attention to the fingernails, getting up onto the wrists, for as long as it takes you to sing one stanza of The Star Spangled Banner or two verses of Little Mattie Groves.
    4) Rinse off the soap with the running water.
    5) Dry your hands with a paper towel.
    6) Use the expended paper towel to turn off the water.

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Moulin Richard de Bas – Berceau de la Papeterie Française

  • Dans un site dont certains bâtiments remontent au XVième siècle, découvrez le dernier témoin de ce que fut le berceau de la papeterie française. Une restauration exemplaire justifia le classement "Monument Historique" pour ses éléments majeurs. Le moulin Richard de Bas est encore en activité. La feuille de papier y naît sous vos yeux, comme au premier temps de cette industrie. Moulin Richard de Bas – 63600 Ambert, France – Tel: +33 (0)4 73820311

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Phil Borges Photography – People of Indigenous Cultures

The Pac-Man Dossier

Precision Hacking – 4chan users hack Time 100 poll

Barista Exchange – the world's premiere online community for the specialty coffee industry

Chambres d'hotes de charme, chambres d'hotes de luxe et de prestige, demeures.

MSK – From your computer to your Moleskine

Google uncloaks once-secret server

  • Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency. Most companies buy servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, or Sun Microsystems. But Google, which has hundreds of thousands of servers and considers running them part of its core expertise, designs and builds its own. Ben Jai, who designed many of Google's servers, unveiled a modern Google server before the hungry eyes of a technically sophisticated audience. Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers–each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts.

I Invented … the Apple Logo

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