Google's new "Good to Know" website is a resource for everyone to learn more about online security—"whether you're a new Internet user or an old hand," Google says. The site covers a broad range of privacy and security topics.

Good to Know, for example, offers tips for creating secure passwords, reveals how Google uses your location in Google Maps, describes phishing and malware detection, and more. It's a good starter guide to refer family or friends learning about online security or to find out more about Google's privacy and security policies.

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I’ve done multiple versions of the “my process” post over the years. It’s constantly evolving and changing so lots of details will be different 6 months from now. First step is writing. I set aside at least 1 hour everyday for writing. Depending on what my family is doing I sit in a chair or [...]

Alright, you primitive screwheads, listen up: Evil Dead 4 is on the way.

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Remember the old feature in old Netscape browsers that prefetched links on a page so that when you clicked on it, the page would load from your cache instantly? Google's Instant Pages seems like that.

Here's how it works: You do a Google search. When you click a search result (usually the first one, because Google guesses you want the most relevant link), the resulting page loads almost instantly. So Google takes the time you use to choose a search result and uses that to prefetch a result into your browser's cache, so when you do click it, you'll load it really fast (from local storage).

Google says it only does this when they're very confident that you'll click the result, and then downloads and "pre-renders" it in Google Chrome (executes the Javascript), to save even more time.

It's very, very fast when it's in action, and Google says Instant Pages saves 2-5 seconds for every search. This is on top of the Google Instant feature, which already saved you about 2-5 seconds.

Instant Pages will be available this week in Chrome Beta, but today in Chrome's developer version. The stable version of Chrome will get it in the next few weeks. They're also working on Instant Pages for mobile in the near future.

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Thanks to the New York Post article we noticed that this project Pionen White Mountain, which we featured November 24, 2008, is indeed the WikiLeaks Headquarters.   Pionen – White Mountain designed by Albert France-Lanord Architects is housed in a former 1,200 sqm  Cold War bunker (originally built as a World War II bunker); an amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm.
One of the original founders of WikiLeaks is architect John Young. Sections and more photographs following the break.

Architects: Albert France-Lanord Architects Location:Stockholm, Sweden Program: Datacenter Collaborators: Frida Öster and Jonatan Blomgren Geology Consultant: Geosigma AB Construction: Albert France-Lanord Architects Client: Bahnhof AB Construction Area: 1,200 sqm Project year: 2008 Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman

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Architecture of WikiLeaks originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 10 Dec 2010.
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The president’s deficit panel says the best way to cut the deficit is to curb increases in Social Security, cut defense spending and do away with a bunch of tax breaks currently in effect. That loud mooing sound is “When hell freezes over, pal!” in Sacred Cow.

Up in Alaska, they’re trying to decide whether write-in votes for Morkowski, Murkrowski, or Mascousci should count for Susan Murkowski. See, your second-grade teacher told you spelling would be important later in life.

A woman may have been fired for being “too sexy”.  We’re just glad people can’t be fired for being “not nearly sexy, like, at all.”

A drive-thru sex shop has opened in Alabama.  Pretty much everything is super-sized.

A girls’ soccer team has acted inappropriately in one of the first signs that soccer may finally be moving up to par with football.

Alcoholic energy drinks are being banned because folks who drink them are apparently too dumb to know you could get the same effect by alternating beers and cups of coffee.

Brad Paisley and Miranda Lambert were the big winners in last night’s County Music Association Tribute to Plastic Surgery and Pitch Correction.

Hillary Clinton was kinda funny during a radio interview. On purpose.

Protesting at funerals may be banned.  May?  Might?  Could be?  Seriously?

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