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Holocaust survivors reunited with Poles who hid them

Several Holocaust survivors were reunited with the brave families who hid them from the Nazis over 70 years ago. The Poles at this event were recipients of the Righteous Among the Nations award from the Holocaust memorial agency.

One Strange Week - Feb 3 - 9, 2007

Another week down and it was just as strange as I'd hoped. Here's some of the highlights

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Satire: Google buys the NSA for $2.1B

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Search engine giant Google, Inc. announced after the close of markets on Tuesday that it has struck a deal with the US Government to purchase the National Security Agency (NSA) for $2.1 Billion in stock.

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One Strange Week - Jan 28 - Feb 2 - 2006

That's right, boys and girls, One Strange Week is back, this time, with a vengeance. I do hope you'll pardon my extended hiatus, as I had some offline matters that needed attending. Please don't think my absence was due to any lack of strangeness in the world.

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One Strange Week - Dec 10-16 2006

Hello, you loyal few readers of One Strange Week. Well, how loyal can you really be by the second edition? I hope you didn't think that I was late because of a lack of weirdness this week.

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One Strange Week - Dec. 3-9 2006

Maybe you didn't see these news stories as they happened, but they're too good to miss. It's been one strange week.

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Want an iPhone? Be careful what you wish for!

For months, nay, years I've heard of the coming iPhone from Apple. For a long time, I thought it was exactly what I wanted. I could have all the niceness of an iPod and my mobile phone all wrapped up in the same device.

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Is DRM the answer to DRM?

Since its inception, Digital Rights Management (DRM) has caused a flurry of mixed emotions. The corporate conglomerates that control most content, at least in the US, have screamed that the restrictions aren't tight enough.

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Clean Atlantis Mission May Give Hubble New Hope

Thanks to a nearly perfect mission by the Space Shuttle Atlantis, NASA will be considering adding a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Splinter Cell Launching with Wii

Ubisoft has announced that they will be porting Splinter Cell: Double Agent, the latest edition of their wildly popular franchise, to the upcoming Nintendo Wii.

My Web 2.0 Identity Crisis

I wrote an article several months ago stating that the "Web 2.0" boom finally had me excited about the Internet again. All of the interactive goodness that we've been promised for years is finally becoming available...it's a new Internet again.

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Traditional Supercomputers Make A Return

As microprocessors become increasingly powerful, cluster-computing is facing new challenges. The challenge of building clusters that keep-pace with microprocessor improvements has led to a resurgance of more traditional supercomputers.

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Jeff is a reluctant techno-weenie. The son of a homebrew computer enthusiast, he has lived his entire life around computers.

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