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That’s the nocturnal Kakapo in the photograph on the right. The Kakapo probably recognizes the fruit it eats according to the fruit’s aroma. The Kakapo was one of the birds that was part of a recent research project that determined that birds likely have a much more developed sense of smell than was previously thought.

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Google moderator is another useful tool which makes it way out of Google Internal Offices into the public domain. Nicknamed internally as Dory, the tool now called  Google moderator will make the most useful and top voted questions get answered at conferences and forums.
How it works is quite simple - It would allow anyone attending […]

In this article we will look at how to start a project while considering its related security issues. We will focus on form validation as well as other topics such as site structures. To demonstrate the topics that we will be discussing we will create a site that will enable a user to log […]

Microsoft recently unveiled the details of BrowseRank its new browsing algorithm meant to compete with and eventually outperform Google s PageRank. Instead of measuring the links to and from a specific page BrowseRank calculates how often users visit the site and for how long. Microsoft feels this will give Internet users and […]

Dr. Edgar Mitchell is a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission and he was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. Dr. Mitchell also insists that aliens have visited Earth and that governments are actively covering it up.

“I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been […]

Google has launched the Project 10100 (”Project 10 to the 100th”) to mark their 10th birthday; a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
You simply fill out the submission form with your idea (maybe add a 30-second video too), then voting starts on January 27th, they post a […]

The National Weather Service out of Brownsville, Texas and South Padre Island, Texas is reporting news of extensive damage. Damage includes downed trees and powerlines and roofs ripped off homes and hotels. These reports are significant but it may end up being the immense rain totals that end up causing the most damage and loss […]

How can you add a photo slideshow widget to display the latest pictures from your photoblog, such that each photo clickthroughs to the image post. Wowzio is a cool service which lets you add multiple widgets displaying slideshows of your blog images.
Simply enter the RSS feed url of your photoblog and Wowzio will create […]

The National Hurricane Center is very bullish on a wave that hasn’t even exited Africa. The vigorous wave could quickly become the next tropical depression. The season is already off to a quick start with three storms this month - Bertha, Cristobal and Dolly. Dolly could become a hurricane and threaten the Texas or Mexico […]

I was surprised to see some top Twitter users display cool symbols in their tweets and impress their followers. Here is the little secret about how to insert those special characters and unicode symbols into your twitter posts too.
The guys at the Next Web created a simple tool called TwitterKeys, available as  this bookmarklet (which […]