If you have Windows Vista or Windows XP and you’ve been having problems like not being able to run games or get updates, it’s because the Windows Genuine Advantage server is down and won’t be back up until Tuesday. This is causing every Windows install that happens to check in to be marked as counterfeit.

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Programmable Web has announced the availability of a new API for automating queries to Wikipedia. That may not sound very exciting, but stay with me - it gets better.

The API can be used to query Wikipedia using SQL-like queries. OK, so what can it do?

The docs page lists many new possibilities. For instance, you can [...]

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#6. Independence Day - Deserves special mention for (a) having Jeff Goldblum as a geek in it - arrest him now before he does it again! - and (b) the aforementioned Jeff makes a computer virus on his Hack - oops, his MACintosh and uploads it to the alien’s computers. Sure, in [...]