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During the current horrible economic conditions, many business leaders across the world are scratching their heads trying to survive and looking to find new income sources. Meanwhile, the new fad that’s taking the world wide web by storm is the usage of obscure TLDs (top level domains, that’s the few letters coming after the last dot in the web address), such as http://bit.ly, http://cli.gs/ etc. So, here at pashabitz.com, I will provide a way for existing companies, large and small, to transform their businesses and expand into new and exciting markets, using these obscure TLDs (ideas are free of charge, as usual):…

Amazon Elastic MapReduce _Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). _ 80 Legs (Still in private beta) 80legs is a platform for running web-scale applications, or any application that requires fast access to data from across the entire Internet.…

I grew up using the command line. And then with the Mac, Windows and the Internet - it was gone. But it’s been coming back slowly. I’ve been thinking about the “web command line” for a while. Yes, Google Search is a web command line for years now, doing conversions and calculations (to name a few) and not just search. And there’s been some attempts to take this further, like yubnub.…

So, this guy Glenn Beck is live on Fox, interviewing this guy Robert Gellately, author of Lenin, Stalin and Hitler. Glenn Beck: So, when Lenin came to power through the 1917 revolution, he had all the heads of factories and businessmen killed, right? Robert Gelatelly: Right. GB: And, this is sort of like what president Obama is doing to the AIG execs now, right? RG: Right. And it goes on.…

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Last night was Super Bowl 43. Alas, I am in a timezone that doesn’t allow me to even care. But I love a good movie trailer, and a big bunch of them was released during the commercial breaks last night. So here are four of them, in a biased order of ascending coolness: 1. G.I. Joe: 2. Terminator Salvation(sorry, no embed available) 3. Star Trek: 4. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(better quality here than in YouTube)…

Update: this is the Google explanation (thanks Ofer). While casually indulging in my favorite Saturday afternoon pass-time of Googling for… myself, I was rather surprised by the unusual results: What? pashabitz.com may harm my computer? *My* computer? How? Wait. Every single result there seems to hold the power of hurting my computer. Do you have something against Pasha Bitz, Google? Or are you just trying to protect me from a severe case of Narcissism?…

Left: Rembrandt, A Scholar, 1631, Oil on canvas. Right: Me, picture by Aviel Lazar, 2009.…

All I could think of for the first two minutes was…CSS! :)…