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Monday Morning (7 Comments) (link)
 Monday, 6-October-2008  03:50:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg

So, it turns out nerds are sexy. That's what I've been saying all these years, ladies..

Xbit checked out two mainstream CPUs from Intel, the Core 2 Duo E7300 and Pentium Dual-Core E5200. These processors are priced very affordably at $133 and $84 respectively; therefore, they will most likely be of great interest to many users out there.

ArsTechnica have some interesting musings about reviews and promotion in the gaming industry. We asked Kain point blank if it was ethical for him to publish a game news and review site with his strong financial interest in the industry. "If the product is independent, then of course," he told Ars.

A Japanese organisation is keen on the space elevator idea, despite there not yet being suitable materials to build the cable from. Tsuchida said some possible locations for an elevator include the South China Sea, western Australia and the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. He said all of those locations usually avoided typhoons, which could pose a threat to the safety of an elevator.

Callan spotted this article about a man who prevented a nuclear war. If you were alive on September 26, 1983, when I was 12 years old, you almost didn't make it through the day. If you are too young to have lived that day, you were almost never born.

Timbot sent in this gallery of a huge datacentre. 1&1's five server rooms hold 860 racks and can accommodate at least 40,000 servers.



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