6/01/2006 @ 23:11 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Monoculture and Flexibility
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6/01/2006 @ 23:10 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : Visualizing the Blogosphere
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Jeremy Zawodny : Pop-up Potpourri: Sixth Time is the Charm - Pop-up Potpourri: Sixth Time is the Charm: get your daily dose of WTF
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jkottke : Fans are fascinated by the drugs-and-drink-fuelled excesses of rock stars such as Pete Doherty... - "Fans are fascinated by the drugs-and-drink-fuelled excesses of rock stars such as Pete Doherty - but they don't see the heavy personal toll it takes, writes Caroline Butler, who spent years with an alcoholic star". (via tmn) [via]
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6/01/2006 @ 22:08 GMT
jkottke : The story of the Hindenburg disaster - The story of the Hindenburg disaster. Amazingly, 2/3 of the zeppelin's passengers survived the crash. Here's an audio recording of the famous Herbert Morrison radio broadcast ("oh, the humanity") of the disaster.
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6/01/2006 @ 21:12 GMT
Jon Hicks : IE rivals stride ahead in browser stakes - Safari usage doubles in the last year!
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6/01/2006 @ 21:11 GMT
WillPate : In Defense of Geeks or Ten Reasons Why You Should Date a Geek - Uber-geek Robert Scoble's lady makes a compelling case for dating geeks. There is some repetition in there, but you get the point.
kayodeok : In Defense of Geeks or Ten Reasons Why You Should Date a Geek - Here’s the deal, sweet and simple: Your geek will worship the ground you walk on. He’ll be so happy that a pretty girl like you paid attention to him that he’ll be at your feet. He’ll adore you as if you were his queen. In his
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6/01/2006 @ 21:09 GMT
gleuschk : iSlideshow Screensaver - incl. the "ken burns effect"
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6/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Yahoo! Go - A Portal That Spans Devices - Yahoo! Go - A Portal That Spans Devices: "It also worries me that the TV part is limited to Windows XP PCs and mobile will be limited in terms of handsets and presumably carriers."
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6/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Twelve Signs You're Taking This Too Seriously - Twelve Signs You're Taking This Too Seriously: "You replaced your posters of Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff with 5-megapixel glossies of Jeremy Zawodny and Matt Cutts from PubCon X." This is all a bad dream...
ricmac : sem | antics: Twelve Signs You're Taking This Too Seriously - "2. You were totally surprised that your suggested "mashup" between you, your spouse, and the babysitter was poorly received."
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6/01/2006 @ 21:08 GMT
jkottke : Rufus Griscom interviews Steven Johnson about television, video games, and Everything Bad is Good for You - Rufus Griscom interviews Steven Johnson about television, video games, and Everything Bad is Good for You for Nerve.
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6/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
merlinmann : Category:Autodidacts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Fascinating list of self-taught people.
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6/01/2006 @ 20:09 GMT
jimray : Macromedia - Flash TechNote : Problems using Flash across local area networks - "Use of Flash in such a scenario for project corroboration or content deployment is highly discouraged and may corrupt your source files." This is, in every sense of the word, retarded. If Flash doesn't want to work on the network, fine, but don't fuck up
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Andy Baio : Newsvine beta released - I've been playing with this, and it's very well-designed; the story-specific live chat is great
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6/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : The Del Monte Note - The Del Monte Note is a $20 bill with a Del Monte banana sticker that was affixed to it during the printing process so that the serial number and Treasury seal are partially printed on the sticker. "In the summer of 2004 a college student in Ohio received
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6/01/2006 @ 20:08 GMT
jkottke : An original Hitler painting recently went for 11,000 euros on eBay - An original painting by Adolf Hitler recently went for 11,000 euros on eBay.
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6/01/2006 @ 19:11 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Wooster Collective: Invader Goes BIG in Paris
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6/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
gleuschk : How to Interview and Questions to Ask a Wedding DJ - damn, 39 of them
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6/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
gleuschk : That Money Show - Features - wedding insurance - what is it and why
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6/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
plasticbag : The Guardian reports on the attempts to work out the feline evolutionary family tree... - Cats appear to be everywhere - from the top of mountains to the toughest and hottest deserts on the planet. The first domestication? 12,000 years ago. The first identifiable breeds? Only a few hundred years...
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6/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
plasticbag : Podzinger makes podcasts searchable by performing speech recognition upon them... - Media analysis is only one of the three ways you can accrete metadata around a media object. Also worth considering - production metadata and post-release public annotation...
Linkorama : PODZINGER - PodZinger enables one to quickly, easily and reliably search the Web for podcasts and locate specific information at the exact location in the audio file and is based on 30 years of speech recognition research and development from BBN Technologies.
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6/01/2006 @ 19:09 GMT
plasticbag : Barbelith discuss "Brokeback Mountain" - And they do so with a characteristically entertaining title, "The Cowboy who went up a mountain and came down a gay man". Charming...
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6/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : HD TiVo - Hello, TiVo. Hurry the hell up and release your HD-compatible Series 3 machine already. Are you trying to make me angry?
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6/01/2006 @ 19:08 GMT
jkottke : This is no game - This is no game. "One day we'll just sit by the fire, chew some tobacky, toast some marshmackies, and maybe strum a tune on the ole guitacky."
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6/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : Tofu Dogs - Tofu Dogs: moden food cracks me up
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6/01/2006 @ 18:08 GMT
jkottke : Anil Dash offers a list of dos and don'ts for beating the iPod and iTunes - Anil Dash offers a list of dos and don'ts for beating the iPod and iTunes.
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6/01/2006 @ 17:08 GMT
gleuschk : Robert Fripp to compose system sounds for Windows Vista - as long as it's not Adrian Belew
Matthew M. Boedicker : Robert Fripp will compose sounds for Windows Vista
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6/01/2006 @ 15:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : CamiScript Alpha Release - Another treat for Camino users. From the developer of CamiTools, comes an alpha of a script menu for Camino, including the ability to save and restore the last browser session.
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6/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
deusx : The Brandon Sun: Bored teens planned ‘baby Jesus burning party’ - "Four teens stole 27 baby Jesus statues from nativity scenes outside churches and homes and planned to burn them, police said."
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6/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : Adam Greenfield ships Everyware, now available on Amazon pre-order... - I get a thanks on his post on the subject, which I'm not sure I deserve, but hey. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of this - albeit with that dread that it'll be great in which case I'll be jealous or that it'll be terrible in which case
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6/01/2006 @ 15:08 GMT
plasticbag : Best news in ages: Jon Stewart is to present this year's Oscars. He rocks. - It's just a shame it's always on in the middle of the bloody night in the UK. I always doze off at the wrong moments, ten minutes from the Best Picture gong...
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6/01/2006 @ 14:09 GMT
Milo Vermeulen : Coding Horror: Getting Back to Web Basics
Paul Hammond : Coding Horror: Getting Back to Web Basics - Clever JavaScript on your web page does not exempt you from good web design
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6/01/2006 @ 14:08 GMT
plasticbag : The Scotsman reports that the US Government are exploring an area of physics that could result in practical faster than light travel... - There's remarkably little about this news story on Google News or elsewhere, and I have to say that I'm not sure I trust The Scotsman as a source for science stories. But still, it's a fascinating story...
deusx : Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip - "AN EXTRAORDINARY "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government."
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6/01/2006 @ 12:10 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : FastCGI, SCGI, and Apache: Background and Future
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6/01/2006 @ 12:10 GMT
François Nonnenmacher : The Flip Side of Corporate Blogging - Sun Microsystems says blogging helped rebuild its reputation
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6/01/2006 @ 12:09 GMT
Jon Hicks : Bring back the Goodies! - I’m all for it!
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6/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Jon Hicks : Graphic design plays a minor role on the Web: October 24, 2005: New Thinking by Gerry McGovern - Gerry thinks the poor use of Flash is what Graphic Design is all about. [via]
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6/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Windows rootkits of 2005, part two - In our previous article, we discussed current rootkit development techniques. In this article, we take it a step further and focus upon upcoming, cutting edge trends in rootkit technologies
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6/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
kayodeok : Windows rootkits of 2005, part three - The third and final article in this series explores five different rootkit detection techniques used to discover Windows rootkit deployments. Additionally, nine different tools designed for administrators are discussed
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6/01/2006 @ 11:08 GMT
Richard Rutter : Ten Bills - . [via T-Shirts! Some really good ones too.]
jimray : Ten Bills: T-Shirts! - Gorgeous shirts, ten bucks each. Get 'em now before they get Threadlessed
Cameron Moll : Ten Bills Tees - Ten Bills tees @ $10/ea.
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6/01/2006 @ 10:09 GMT
Linkorama : Conferenza Becoming a Blog - An operator will be standing by.
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6/01/2006 @ 10:08 GMT
Andy Baio : 3D Japanese Google Maps - tech demo, only works in Firefox 1.5 [via]
Simon Willison : 3D Maps BETA - Firefox 1.5 only; uses SVG.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Someday my prince will come. Or not. - Someday my prince will come. Or not.: an interesting twist on an age-old question
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Linkorama : Notes on Social Software - I disagree with all four identified patterns, permission to participate and keeping things implicit is more common and successful
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6/01/2006 @ 07:08 GMT
Rod Begbie : b3ta: Who you gonna call? - Ghostbusters as a small animated GIF. #
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - CLIFFORD PICKOVER - We are all virtual - "If this ratio of one real life to ten simulated lives turned out to be representative of human experience, this means that right now, you only have a one in ten chance of being alive on the actual date of today."
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - DAVID LYKKEN - Laws requiring parental licensure - "I believe that, during my grandchildren's lifetimes, the U.S. Supreme Court will find a way to approve laws requiring parental licensure."
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - SUSAN BLACKMORE - Everything is pointless - "We humans can, and do, make up our own purposes, but ultimately the universe has none."
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - Clay Shirky - Free will is going away. Time to redesign society to take that into account. - "In the coming decades, our concept of free will, based as it is on ignorance of its actual mechanisms, will be destroyed by what we learn about the actual workings of the brain."
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - KEITH DEVLIN - We are entirely alone - "The fact that our existence has no purpose outside that existence is completely irrelevant to the way we live our lives, since we are inside our existence."
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
deusx : THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006 - ALUN ANDERSON - Brains cannot become minds without bodies - "A far more dangerous idea is that brains cannot become minds without bodies, that two-way interactions between mind and body are crucial to thought and health, and the brain may partly think in terms of the motor actions it encodes for the body's muscles
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
veen : Measure Map Library for .net - "I put together a simple c# library that you can use from your .net based blog if you have written a custom application like I have."
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6/01/2006 @ 06:08 GMT
Andy Baio : Mike Elgan on the Push Music project - automatic wireless sharing of music with strangers based on recommendations
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6/01/2006 @ 05:08 GMT
deusx : Rands In Repose: Swear A Bit - "It is a constant awareness that the people who are reading what you write are just like you. It's a tone that reminds your readers that you are just another human being."
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6/01/2006 @ 04:11 GMT
joshua : Automatically updating SMTP servers with location on Mac OS X - run a script on location change
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6/01/2006 @ 04:11 GMT
Linkorama : Google Pack - video upgrade and big ole software bundle
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Steve Cook : Baltimore - 'Home of 1,000 slogans' - Mobtown, represent!
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6/01/2006 @ 03:10 GMT
joshua : Tapir - turns a script or whatever into a global menu item
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6/01/2006 @ 03:10 GMT
Linkorama : Making Wikipedia better, Part II - I meant strangle as a complement
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6/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
deusx : blue.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels) - It's a painting by my very good friend Chetwah
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6/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
veen : Christian Cantrell: Flash and Ajax: Happy Together - "Adaptive Path recently released their Flash/JavaScript Date Slider under a Creative Commons License."
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6/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
veen : O'Reilly Radar > Slide into 2006... - "The Measure Map Date Slider is a nifty flash component for meandering time."
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6/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Jeremy Zawodny : web economy bullshit generator - web economy bullshit generator: heh
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6/01/2006 @ 03:08 GMT
Andy Baio : TiVo adds transcoding video to PSP, iPod - and TiVo Central gets Ajaxified
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6/01/2006 @ 02:09 GMT
Linkorama : Conferenza: The Weblog - Their premium reports as an email newsletter have provided fantastic coverage of the conference scene, really reccommend subscribing now that it is opened up.
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6/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Jason Shellen : Overheard in the Bookstore - Overheard in NY is one of my favorite daily reads. Perfect content for compilation as a book. Nice work! #
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Jon Hicks : IE 7 to have thumbnail tabs - Omniweb
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6/01/2006 @ 02:08 GMT
Simon Willison : Lego mindstorms NXT - Lego announce a new mindstorms Robot, Mac compatible, with bluetooth.
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WillPate : Small Biz 101: Tips for Increasing Sales - Very practical advice for people starting their own small service business.
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6/01/2006 @ 01:12 GMT
Steve Cook : A Wellman Bestiary - The critters of old-school horror writer Manly Wade Wellman. "They are an ancient race, an aboriginal 'people of the land' who went into hiding with the advent of man."
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6/01/2006 @ 01:12 GMT
Philippe Janvier : expialidocio.us - "...fun to watch, once !" [via] #
plasticbag : expialidocio.us is a flash interface for viewing your personal del.icio.us tagcloud for any given period of time - It kind of choked on the sheer number of tags I have, but still pretty cool. What I really want to see is a Flickr-style top 50 tags but animated over time, so I can see new words appearing and disappearing in response to news stories and my interests...
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6/01/2006 @ 01:10 GMT
erikbenson : A great post on the some interesting, if extreme, alternatives for our future - "We don't seek reproductive success directly; we seek tasty foods that tended to promote survival and luscious mates who tended to produce bright, healthy babies. Modern results: fast food and pornography."
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6/01/2006 @ 01:09 GMT
erikbenson : Dangerous thoughts: ban schools, the evolution of evil, we are bacteria - I like the idea of running with dangerous thoughts. I thought some of these were a bit too science vs. religiony, but liked the more obscure ones.
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6/01/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
kayodeok : Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-001: Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (912919) - Patching Time!
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6/01/2006 @ 00:10 GMT
Philippe Janvier : Scroll to Bottom of a Div - Comment descendre au bas d'une div avec Javascript. [via] #
deusx : Eric's weblog - JavaScript: Scroll to Bottom of a Div - "Now if you have not noticed, the div below has been updating the time and it scroll position is at the bottom."
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6/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
Philippe Janvier : ajchat - #craowiki - Un chat simplié version Ajax. Torture test assuré par Xtof et son gang :) [via] #
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ricmac : Pew Internet & American Life Project Report: Women and Men Online
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6/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
ricmac : WeBreakStuff » Building web-applications - del.icio.us warning: non-utf8 string! (sorry)
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6/01/2006 @ 00:09 GMT
ricmac : Yahoo! Tenthouse on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Ye gads, why didn't they have cheerleaders at Web 2.0 Conference?
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6/01/2006 @ 00:08 GMT
ricmac : Open Gardens: Mobile web 2.0: AJAX for mobile devices – why mobile AJAX will replace both J2ME and XHTML as the preferred platform for mobile applications development
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Andy Baio : Crazy Del.icio.us - it's like a web geek litmus test; if you get it, you're a lost cause
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