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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" new title

Author JK Rowling has revealed the title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book. It will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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OScar - Open Source Car

What do you get if you apply the open source model to the car industry?

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madbean » JarWars

For the Java fans out there, here comes a nicely produced JarWars, as found by Kirk.

Clicks: 952

Cisco owns iPhone, not Apple

Cisco is relaunching its Linksys VOIP range as iPhone, to capitalise on the trademarked name it owns, despite the rumors that Apple would be creating their own iPhone.

Clicks: 1084

Disco Dancing Santa Claus

My 6year son is now giving me links for compiledby! He found this great disco dancing santa that is very funny.

Clicks: 999

Skype users to get lie detectors

You better watch out; Skype will be offering lie detecting software to its users to measure stress levels. Hope it will filter out the stress of dropped connections and poor quality.

Clicks: 1085

What Can't Open Source Achieve in the Next 10 Years? | Linux Journal

Gly Moody writes a blog on what he sees could be the next 10 years after reviewing just how far it has come in the last.

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Festive return for singing sheep

Its the season of novelty records, and there is nothing more novel than a singing christmas sheep!

Clicks: 1083

Bush's daughter's phone on 'eBay'

We noted last week how the President's daughters phone was snatched. Well it has popped up on an auction site!

Clicks: 984

From the desk Santa

A very funny letter found by Joe illustrating just how the whole present giving system works.

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Five reasons to forget about C

Well, Joe found this article on why C should go the way of the dodo

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Open source Java presents world of opportunities

Now that Java is open source what can we do with it?

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Is IBM Happy Over Sun's Open Source Java?

An interesting piece on IBM's feelings about Sun's recent open sourcing of Java

Clicks: 1130

Golden Gate Bridge considers corporate sponsors

Come on Cisco, time to step up and offer some money to the very symbol that has inspired your corporate logo for years

Clicks: 1130

'Hairy Fairy' treats shoppers

A modern day fairy, albeit a middle aged man in a pink dress, is handing out free lunches and good deeds in Cornwall England

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Million Dollar Challenge

Need to earn $1M? Then simply prove the existence of the paranormal and you'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Come forth all soothsayers.

Clicks: 927

Rocky Balboa Trailer

Rocky is back! Trailer looks promising

Clicks: 955

Beyonce and Eva Longoria as lesbians next film

My wife found this news nugget - Sophia Coppola will be thanked by men worldwide if her next film gets the go-ahead. :)

Clicks: 1240

The Conference Community

Andy found this conference site where you can review and discover all about past and future conferences. Pretty neat idea.

Clicks: 963

Digging Deep into the Sun/GPL Announcement

James Turner writes a beautiful piece on the reality of the announcement that Java is now GPL. Well worth the read.

Clicks: 787

About the compiledby blog

How often has someone sent you a link with the message "you have to see this"?

If you are anything like us, then chances are this is quite common and every so often there is a gem that comes through that you just want to keep for later musing.

We decided to keep some of these and publish them in a blog; hence the reason this blog was born.

However, as with most things, this blog has grown to be much more as its popularity grew.

We keep an eye on the world around us posting 2 or 3 articles a day detailing some of the most interesting stories.

Our remit is to keep the fluff to a minimum and only bring you the stuff that we think is worth taking a note of.

So thank you for reading us, we know you have a ton of choices and appreciate your eyeballs.

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