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Nikon D3S is officially official, bringing its ISO extremes in late November

by Ross Miller

posted Oct 14th 2009 at 12:01AM

via engadget.com

Oh my... I want one! And it's cheaper than the Leica M9! (Kidding... $5,000 ain't chump change).

Earlier this week we wrote about an experimental new homepage that Google has been rolling out to a small subset of users that takes the search giant’s obsession with minimalism to the extreme. The page features exactly two elements: Google’s famous logo, and its search box. That is, until you move your mouse, when a nifty fade effect reveals with rest of Google’s standard navigation options. Alas, most people don’t have the option enabled, and are forced to endure Google.com’s beefy 30+ words at all times.

This morning Google Blogoscoped posted a special snippit of code that you can copy and paste into your browser to enable the new minimalist design. But that version falls short of greatness: it includes the “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons. For those looking for the ultimate in austere, these buttons are little more than ugly blemishes marring an otherwise perfect design. Fortunately, we’ve gotten our hands on the code for the version of the homepage that excludes the buttons. Note that this may not work for all browsers (I couldn’t get it to work with Safari, but it worked fine in my nightly build of Chromium).

To set the cookie, do the following:

1. Head to google.com
2. Paste the following code into the address bar of your browser:

javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=2602f2ce49362929:U=7b6893b1882d5a94:TM=1239881060:LM=1254195610:L=0qXJlAA:GM=1:S=CwDGQD20E8U14zDg;path=/;
domain=.google.com");

3. Hit enter or ‘go’ to run it (you have to be on google.com at the time). It will not give you any feedback, it will just run and set the cookie.
4. Refresh the page.

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Over the weekend, we reported on Drew Carey’s bid of up to $100,000 (if he reaches 100,000 followers by Nov. 9th) for the Twitter name @drew. The name is currently up for auction by Drew Olanoff, who was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, to raise money for LIVESTRONG as an extension of the #blamedrewscancer campaign.

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of Carey’s bid has been spreading like wildfire across TwitterTwitter

, as he’s already passed 50,000 followers on his current account (@drewfromtv), up from just 13,000 or so at the start of the month. Now, Carey has upped the ante significantly, telling Shira Lazar of CBS News that he’s willing to donate up to $1 million if he can reach 1 million followers by year end.

In the interview, Carey says he’ll “pro rate” the donation, so if he only gets to 500,000 followers, he’ll donate $500,000. We certainly hope to see it go all the way though, and definitely expect it to given what @drew and @drewfromtv have already been able to accomplish in just a few short days.

Here’s Lazar’s interview with Carey:

please follow @drewfromtv and help raise up to $1 million for cancer research (Livestrong, the Lance Armstrong Foundation)