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Well, it looks like the folks over at digg have a little competition now! A new site, Shoutwire, went live in November. It runs under the same premise as digg, but contains news articles about many topics, not just tech-related ones. Basically, users submit stories, and the community votes them to the front page in the form of “shouts.”

There is a great interview with one of the site’s founders here. I actually found it through the story submitted to digg about Shoutwire. It was quite interesting to watch the thread grow, and the resulting effect over on Shoutwire. I wish I had taken a couple screenshots, because the users at digg basically spammed the article base with horrible accusations and useless junk. Fortunately, the Shoutwire admins got it under control and back to normal.

I’m looking forward to reading news from Shoutwire, and submitting stories to it!

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Bill Gates gets burned hard in this video….don’t know when the video was shot, but it’s damn funny.

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The creator of the Ctrl+Alt+Del keyboad shortcut explains how it came about, and also sneaks in a smack down on Bill Gates in a panel discussion. Bill Gates is present on the panel and doesn’t take kindly to the joke…

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Found some interesting templates for budgeting and keeping track of expenses. They follow the idea of the Hipster PDA from 43Folders. Don’t know if I’ll end up using them, but it should give me some ideas on how to integrate them into my newfound interest in budgeting.

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Testing out the blogging function over at digg.com…lets see how this works.

This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?

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