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Extra birthday parties

This calculator finds useless dates related to your birthday. I discovered that soon I'll be ten thousand days old using this. Sounds more impressive than becoming twenty-something!

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Tone deaf?

Take the musical abilities test to find out how well you can tell the difference between pairs of musical phrases.

Aussie cricketers 'rude' on podium

"The Australian cricket team has been labelled "rude and arrogant" by the Indian media for allegedly pushing aside the Indian board president on the Champions Trophy victory podium."

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Tags: Australia, cricket, Champions Trophy

A Wii bit exciting

Here's a video showing The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess on starting up on the soon to be released Nintendo Wii.

Related: Nintendo, Wii, Zelda, Twilight Princess, video

Remember, remember the what of November?

I guess what happened to this fireworks factory was the kind of effect Guy Fawkes wanted for the Houses of Parliament 400 years ago...

See also: Guy Fawkes, firework, factory, video, history

ID fraud

There's a good article on the BBC website today about how ID thieves have moved on from just raiding your rubbish to find personal info (and apply for a mortgage or credit card) to finding your digital ID online. One of the services it links to is Garlik (which has a free trial) and is supposed to be able to find any places where your private data is listed publicly.

Tags: ID fraud, Garlik, mortgage

Screen Recording Software

Ever needed to demonstrate how to do something to a person not able to see your monitor? One method would be to record the display on the PC into a video and then email it. What's the easiest way to do that, short of having to prop up a camcorder up to point at the screen? A free and easy to use solution is CamStudio.

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