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DesignYourDorm Brings College Move-In Day Online With 3-D Modeling

Now students can lay out 3D décor and furniture long before they step through the door of their college dorm.

For the nervous new freshmen heading to college this fall (and some bitter 25 year olds looking to travel back in time) a new website, DesignYourDorm offers the chance to make design decisions ahead of time in a 3-D replica of the room they’ve been dealt.

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Nerd on Nerd Cyber-Violence

Hackers attack LHC network. Is computer geeks/physicists the new Jets/Sharks?

Last Wednesday, after years of construction and months of planning, the Large Hadron Collider, which you just might have heard about, turned on its proton beam for the first time. At the same time, a team of Greek hackers was planning to break through the security of the world’s largest experiments. First reported by the British newspaper the Telegraph, the attack targeted a project website, defacing the website with a long message in Greek.

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