Reporting from Washington -- President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to lead a full-scale marketing blitz to pass the massive new stimulus package that he says is needed to revive the slumping economy and put the nation on the course he laid out during his campaign.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Obama plans to campaign for economic stimulus package
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Windows 7's PC Safeguard sandboxes user accounts
One of the first pieces I wrote when I joined Download Squad covered Microsoft SteadyState, a free application that caches changes to your operating system and can remove all traces of them on rebooting. Now it looks as though that functionality will be part of the Windows 7 core - with one major improvement.
Whereas SteadyState will lock down your entire system, PC Safeguard can be configured on a per-user basis. Making changes under SteadyState can be a bit cumbersome and usually requires at least one reboot. With PC Safeguard, you've got two options. First, you log off the protected user and log in with your administrative account.
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The World's View of Obama's Win
What seemed audacious and improbable before is now a reality. In Obama's victory are sown the seeds of great expectations that a truly new chapter will be written in the history of the world.
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Saturday, September 06, 2008
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Top 7 File Hosting Services
Excellent list of sites for File Hosting
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How Speculators Are Causing the Cost of Living to Skyrocket
After investing in high-tech stocks and real estate loans for years, legions of speculators have now discovered commodities like oil and gas, wheat and rice. Their huge investments are pushing prices up to unprecedented levels -- with serious consequences for ordinary people's quality of life and the global economy.
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How to Live With Just 100 Things
Excess consumption is practically an American religion. But as anyone with a filled-to-the-gills closet knows, the things we accumulate can become oppressive. Which is why people are so intrigued by the 100 Thing Challenge, a grass-roots movement in which otherwise seemingly normal folks are pledging to whittle down their possessions to 100 things
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Why Oil Price Is High - Fed Printed Way Too Many Dollars
The two biggest factors in oil’s high price are the weakness in the U.S. dollar’s exchange value and the liquidity that the Federal Reserve is pumping out. In an effort to forestall a serious recession and further crises in derivative instruments, the Federal Reserve is pouring out liquidity that is financing speculation in oil futures contracts.
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CNN: Get Used To High Prices.
The Fed has a mandate to keep inflation in check. But global forces and worries about the U.S. economy will keep prices high for the foreseeable future.
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Never Satisfied? Try These Six Negativity Busters
Try these things recommended by Divine Caroline . .
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Why Straight Women Dig Women
LADIES! Behold the splendor of the nude male form: sleek and powerful, a miracle of sculpted sinew, striding confidently across the sand or stretching out before you in ever-uncoiling glory. On second thought, perhaps you’d prefer not to. So say scientists at the frontiers of research on the eternal question of what women find erotic.
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Can Technology Improve Your Memory?
Technology provides us with answers to almost any question instantly. If we need reminders, we can program devices to prompt us to remember our appointments and to-do list. Yet, we continue to forget things. While technology saves us the burden of remembering endless details, it can also add to our memory problems. Here's Why.
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DTV DAY 2/17/2009 - Digital TV coupons tough to redeem
Millions of old people are gunna be staring at TV snow on 02/18/2009 - Lawmakers seek to extend life of government-issued vouchers for converter boxes, as consumers find the devices hard to obtain.
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The 20 Unhealthiest Drinks in America
Americans have a drinking problem, and not the type you might think. As the authors of the best-selling book Eat This, Not That!, David Zinczenko and co-author Matt Goulding get e-mails all the time from readers who claim they eat carefully, they work out consistently, but they still can't get the needle on the scale to budge. "What gives?" goes the collective, exasperated refrain from the stagnant dieter.
What most people don't know is that the biggest roadblock between you and the body you want isn't found at the end of a fork, but at the bottom of a glass. As a country we take in 21 percent of our daily calories from beverages and, according to the FDA, the average American takes in 82 grams of added sugars every day. That's 20 teaspoons, which contribute an empty 317 calories to our already calorie-saturated diets.
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Qik Finally Comes to iPhone
demo client for the iPhone, bringing the popular video streaming service to the Apple platform. Much like the video apps from Sling and ..., Qik appears to be running an unnofficial app on a jailbroken iPhone.
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Intelligent people are 'less likely to believe in God'
Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average. A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed. But it may not be that simple...
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Oil and Food Push Consumer Prices Higher in May
Inflation hit hard in May as prices for a wide swath of consumer goods rose at their fastest pace since November, underscoring warnings from central bankers and adding to a growing consensus that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates by the end of the year.
The Consumer Price Index, which measures prices of a batch of common household products, rose 0.6 percent last month, with much of the increase coming from high fuel costs. The nationwide average for gasoline topped $4 a gallon last weekend as the price of oil reached record levels.
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Oil Prices Skyrocket, Taking Biggest Jump Ever
Oil prices had their biggest-ever jump on Friday, after a senior Israeli politician raised the specter of an attack on Iran and the dollar fell against the euro.
The gains on Friday capped a second day of strong gains on energy markets, and fueled suspicions that commodities might be caught in a speculative bubble.
OK, so heres my damn opinion of this mess. These damn people have us by the balls and they know it. Gas is something that we all need to get around for transportation. The rising cost of gas is affecting every aspect of our lives today. From prices in Food, to the Interest rates you are getting from the banks, to the Housing industry being in a slump. When people can barely afford to pay for the gas they need and the food they need to put on the table what is this damn world coming to. Congress needs to get off their ass and do something now, instead of letting these damn people rape us. Ok, enough of my rant. Thanks for hearing me.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
How to fit 1TB of data on one CD-sized disc - 1000GB = 20 times the size of a dual-layer Blu-ray disc
Blu-ray and HD DVD have pushed the limits of optical storage further than anyone thought possible. But a new technology has emerged which makes Blu-ray's 50GB capacity look tiny. Mempile in Israel says it's able to fit an incredible 1TB of data onto one "TeraDisc" which is the same size as CDs and DVDs. That's 20 times the capacity of a maxed-out dual-layer Blu-ray disc.
The incredible capacity achieved using this new technology is made possible by employing 200 5GB layers, each one only five microns apart. The discs are completely transparent to the red lasers which are used in the associated recorder.
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Scientists at Arizona State University have created a new kind of solid state memory that they say is much cheaper and more efficient than flash. And crucially, because it uses a new kind of nanotechnology, storage capacities will be much higher than anything we have today, for a tenth of the cost.
The new memory is called programmable metallization cell (PMC) and one terabyte (1TB) USB thumbdrives are said to be just a few years away. The largest commercially available flash drives today are only 32GB in size - 30 times smaller and very pricey.
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UN warns about rising food costs
Higher food prices may be here to stay as demand from developing countries and production costs rise, says the UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
It warned that the current spike in global food prices was higher than previous records, partly because bad weather had ruined crops.
Although high prices will ease off, other factors, such as rising biofuel demand, will keep future costs high.
The FAO said speculators were also to blame for volatile commodity markets.Read Full Story Sphere: Related Content
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The Price of Gas Around the World
Imagine Paying $18.00 for a gallon of Gas. I guess US is not doing that bad compared to some other countries, but we sure as hell are getting close.
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Flock social web browser adds Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail
Flock, the social web browser built from Firefox code keeps getting more social. Flock 1.2 beta adds Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail integration. Once you login to Digg for the first time from the Flock browser, you'll have the option of opening up a Digg sidebar which shows you all of your Digg contacts and their recent activity.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
101 Tips to Help You Make Money Doing What You Love
One hundred and one tips to help you make money doing what you love in life.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Teenager's Science Fair Project May Deliver Us From Plastic
I bought groceries at Trader Joe's the other day. As anyone who has ever shopped there knows, Trader Joe's is full of incredibly attractive, cheap food, which, if you manage to make it through all the plastic packaging it comes in, you can actually eat. Unfortunately, by the time I started cooking I had more or less lost my appetite, since every time I discarded one of those packages I felt like I dropped another circle in hell.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Add a Google Reader sidebar
Google has updated the iPhone version of Google Reader, its online web feed aggregator.
This is good news even if you don’t have an iPhone. Like other web apps designed for the iPhone interface, it fits very well in Firefox (and other browsers) sidebar.
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Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive
This week's release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it, you can leave the data on your thumb drive untouched, and any files you create or settings you tweak remain in place the next time you boot up. After the jump, let's create a fully-functional desktop-to-go using a simple Windows program and a 1GB or larger thumb drive.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
How to be Found on Google
Ever wondered how to get listed on Google and other major search engines? Follow this very simple guide and you could be listed in a matter of days.
Many bloggers and website owners find it hard to get their sites listed on major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and others. Having your content listed on search engines is very important because this is where people go to look for topics they find interesting. Even if your site doesn´t show up in the top search results, being listed is vital for building an internet presence around your content in the long run.
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Can You Catch Up on Lost Sleep?
Let's do some sleep math. You lost two hours of sleep every night last week because of a big project due on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, you slept in, getting four extra hours. Come Monday morning, you were feeling so bright-eyed, you only had one cup of coffee, instead of your usual two. But don't be duped by your apparent vim and vigor: You're still carrying around a heavy load of sleepiness, or what experts call "sleep debt"—in this case something like six hours, almost a full nights' sleep.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Save The Internet . .
Ok . . so normally I'm not too political . . but when it comes to
Saving the Internet . . you bet Im gonna get involved . .
So . . No suprize her that Corporate America wants to control
the internet so they can profit from it. We need to stop corporations
like AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, Qwest, Time Warner & Turner from
having control over the internet. For them, control means regulating
how much internet you get, at what cost, and profits galore. Do we
really want to see them get filthy rich like the oil companys - Exxon Mobil,
Chevron & Conoco Philips. Didnt they rip us off enough, do we want to let
the Cable and Phone industries do the same to us. Well, if we sit back and do
nothing guess what will happen. They got money and lobbyist who sit in Congress and persuade our representatives that its a good idea to give control to them. In conclusion, I offer a couple website I found that give more information and offer a means of contacting your local Congressman on your behalf. Lets Fight the Good Fight and not sit back and let them take control.
1 - Save The Internet
2 - Open Internet Coalition
List of Free Apps that I find Useful
These are applications I have come to find very useful over the years working on computers.
They are quite effective, try a few and see which ones you like best. They are not in any particular order of prefference, I just put them in the order that I thought of them.
Anti-Virus
1 - Free-AV
2 - AVG
Firewall
1 - PC Tools Firewall
2 - Zone Alarm
3 - Comodo Personal Firewall
SpyWare/MalWare Protection
1 - Lava Softs Ad Aware
2 - SpyBot Search & Destroy
3 - Tenebril's Spy Catcher Express
4 - Threat Fire
5 - Spyware Terminator
Other Useful Applications
1 - Fast Defrag
2 - Auslogics Disk Defrag
3 - Vasilios Freeware - Instant Memory Cleaner 7.12
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
LinuxMCE vs WindowsMCE
Walkthrough of Linux MCE install
Additional information available at
1 - LinuxMCE.org
2 - LinuxMCE Wiki
Monday, May 05, 2008
Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared
In the last couple of years, desktop-friendly Linux distributions have taken enormous leaps -- they're easier to install, better maintained, and more powerful than ever before. There's also that many more of them -- which means that many more possibilities to sift through.
In this roundup I've looked at seven Linux distributions, all mainly aimed at desktop users. Some ought to be household names; some are less widely sung but still worth looking at. All are meant to be top-of-the-line, "throw-and-go" distros for general use, so I paid careful attention to how they behaved on a fairly broad range of hardware -- how display, networking, or other default configurations were set to behave both out of the box and after an update (if one was available).
1 - openSUSE
2 - Ubuntu 8.4
3 - PCLinuxOS
4 - Mandriva Linux One
5 - Fedora
6 - SimplyMEPIS
7 - CentOS 5.1.
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
7 ways to boost your metabolism
Your basal metabolic rate — the energy your body expends at rest — is generally determined by your genetics, but new research shows you can trick your body into burning calories more efficiently.
HEALTH magazine contributor Samantha Heller offers seven tips that can help boost your metabolism and lead to a stronger, healthier, leaner body.
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In Depth: Best Ways To Break Unhealthy Habits
Admit it--you probably have at least one unhealthy habit you'd like to break. Maybe you can't stop pulling in to fast-food drive-thrus, you waste your allotted gym time surfing the Web or you're still tanning. Whatever it is, it's likely costing you time, energy and money. (With a new tax hike, a pack of cigarettes in New York City could soon cost more than $9.)
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Is wireless power closer than we think?
A few years back, Marin Soljačić was driven from bed by the insistent beeping of his mobile phone. But it wasn’t beeping for him to answer it, it was beeping for him to plug it in. Since that night, the assistant professor of physics at MIT, has been thinking about ways to start his phone charging as soon as he enters his home.
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
AMD: 45nm, DDR3 and Socket AM3 in 2008
This summer, AMD will announce its first major architectural change since the introduction of the K8 architecture in 2003. This new architecture, dubbed K10, will first make an appearance in the server space, with the introduction of the Barcelona-family processors.
K10 features a native quad-core design that incorporates shared-L3 cache, HyperTransport-3 support and backwards functionality with AM2 motherboards. However, the original K10 desktop and server processors will debut on the 65nm architecture -- a process AMD only started mastering in December 2006 with the launch of the Brisbane desktop CPU family.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
Twenty of the World's Healthiest Foods
When it comes to eating healthy most people think of dull, boring food that's green in color. In reality, most of the world's healthiest foods not only taste great, they also come in a vast array of vibrant colors. Many require little, if any preparation, yet provide you with the energy and stamina to get through the day. They are the ultimate fast food!
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The Most Incredible Ways To Improve Thyself!
In recent years many has become self proclaimed expert on self-improvement such as Dr. Phil. Everybody is providing tips and techniques to quick fix bad habits, increase memory, deal with procastonation, laziness and a thousand other issues in a matter of a few days. For what it’s worth, I’ve put together a large list of user recommended self-improvement guides that you may find useful. Instead of just listing them all, I’ve organized it by category instead.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
6 Psychology Tricks That Will Make You More Successful
1. Get Better Deals: Barter Using Unusual Numbers
2. Perform Better: Manage Your Audience
3. Live Up To Your Full Potential: Think Of Yourself as an Individual
4. Stick To Your Goals: Reward Yourself
5. Get More From Your Friends — Expect More From Them
6. Improve Group Performance — Get Motivated
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Electronics' 'missing link' found
Details of an entirely new kind of electronic device, which could make chips smaller and far more efficient, have been outlined by scientists.
The new components, described by scientists at Hewlett-Packard, are known as "memristors".
The devices were proposed 40 years ago but have only recently been fabricated, the team wrote in the journal Nature.
Five Reasons Why Teens Take to Drug Abuse
I have listed here five Reasons Why Teens Take to Drug Abuse.
1 - Their role models are doing it.
2 - Addictive drugs are easily available.
3 - Not so ideal atmosphere at home.
4 - Everybody around me is into it, it cant be that bad.
5 - I have nothing else to do, so lets try it.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
14 Timeless Ways to Live a Happy Life
How we achieve happiness can be different for each one of us. Our passions, expectations, life experiences, and even our personalities all contribute to the level of happiness we experience in our lives. Some find happiness in their careers while others prefer the bliss found in their marriages or other intimate relationship.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Wal-Mart to cash rebate checks for free, shares rise
It's not clear what exactly is causing the boost in Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT) share price today, but shares started climbing right around the time Wal-Mart announced that it will cash rebate checks from Uncle Sam for free. As of 3:15, shares are up about $1.17 or 2% to $58.52.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Experts: We're 10 Years Away from Lowering Gas Prices
Energy experts have dismissed the candidates' plans for lowering gas prices, and say it'll be a decade before we can exert downward pressure on the price of gas.
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Recession Diet - Consumers Giving Up Meat and Name Brands
Stung by rising gasoline and food prices, Americans are finding creative ways to cut costs on routine items like groceries. “It hasn’t gotten to human food mixed with pet food yet, but it is certainly headed in that direction.”
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One Guy Who Has Seen It All Doesn't Like What He Sees Now
Peter Bernstein has witnessed just about every financial crisis of the past century. Mr. Bernstein says, is worse than he has seen since the Depression and threatens to roil markets into 2009 and beyond -- longer than many people expect.
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Where is your gas money going?
Another day, another high. The average price for gasoline on Long Island is at a record-setting $3.791 a gallon for regular, says the AAA. And diesel? Fuhgeddaboutit: It averaged $4.648 a gallon. But where is all that cash going?
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
The collapse of the United States is accelerating: Oil in Euros vs. US dollars
In the last eight years implementing the plans for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) designed "to promote American global leadership" has backfired.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Rising inflation: Could the United States have prevented it?
Inflation, public enemy No. 1 in the 1970s in the United States, appears to be regaining its former title in the first decade of the 21st century.
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The Fortune 500's biggest winners
It's no surprise that an oil company leads the list of 2007's top profit-makers.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Can We Feed The World?
The era of cheap food is over. In Britain, a standard white loaf costs more than £1, grocery bills are driving up inflation and land prices are going through the roof. But steep rises in the price of staples such as wheat and rice are having an even bigger impact on poor countries.
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Economics 101: The Price of Gas
Gas prices are up and oil executives are once again testifying before Congress. Clearly, many politicians, pundits, and consumers lament the rising cost of gas. Before we join them in their chorus, let us take a step back and ask this question: Are gas prices really all that high?
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The Top Medical Myths
The myths are: Having sex can cause a heart attack in men, high blood pressure causes headaches, diabetics crave sugar, women need to examine their breasts, diets cut cholesterol and etc.
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Eleven Ways The Internet Will Kill You [Webtards]
Wicked and thorough.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Central Bank to Bail-Out Every Bank in the UK
The Bank of England will announce Monday a scheme which will see it lend money to banks in return for collateral in a bid to help the troubled U.K. mortgage market, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said Sunday.
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Five Habits for Greener Computing
If you're reading this, it's a pretty safe bet you're using a computer, and computers generate waste in all kinds of ways. But by changing just a few habits, you can keep more stuff out of landfills, save energy, and even tuck a few extra dollars in your wallet. Here are five ideas to get you started.
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The 500,000 GB MP3 Player
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created a nanotechnology breakthrough that could increase storage capacity by 150,000 times. It could mean 500,000 GB on a single chip and inch square.
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The Dirty Truth About Plastic
Plastics are one of the most useful and ubiquitous products in modern society. Scientists are now working to find out if they're among the most dangerous, as well.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
10 Million computers to Shutdown on May 3rd
Shutdown Day is back with a bang! More than 1.6 million people worldwide participated in Shutdown Day last year ... and this year there's a crazy global Flash Mob too! A massive global experiment to spread awareness about the pitfalls of excessive use and abuse of computers and Internet.
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What will you do for Earth Day '08?
Will you take the train or bus to work? Start washing your laundry in cold water? Just turn off a few more lights? Put your plans on Google's Earth Day site and fill up their Map with green leaves for green deeds! Pass it on.
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Tax-free Internet shopping days could be numbered
If tax-hungry politicians get their way, the days of ordering items over the Internet and not paying sales tax may become just a fond memory.Pro-tax politicians want to change this.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users
Over here I compiled a list of 7 habits that I feel someone has told me when I started out. I believe that getting into these habits will make the Linux experience more secure, convenient, educational, and ultimately more enjoyable.
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World Population to Hit 6,666,666,666 in May
To many people, this means nothing. But of course 666 refers to the Beast in the Bible. Heaven knows what ten sixes means.
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1 Year After Rampage, Va. Tech Remembers
The darkness was broken by the flickering of a white candle, lit at the stroke of midnight. Soft weeping and the solemn strains of "Taps" were all that broke the silence of more than a thousand people gathered around the 32 memorial stones honoring the dead.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Madness of Ben Bernanke
The dollar is in a tailspin, the trade deficit is growing and a recession is on the horizon. The American way of life is in serious danger. But the head of the Federal Reserve keeps on pumping easy credit into the system -- a crazy policy that will worsen the crisis.
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World food prices hit record levels.
Grain prices are up %120. The UN has decided that it needs $500million (1/200th annual cost of Iraq war) to assist the worlds starving poor. Us donates $10 million. Too bad people can't eat bombs or bullets!
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Mathematical Proof of Murphy's Law
"Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way." You thought it was just a funny saying... Well there is truth behind it. Now Murphy's law can be mathematically proven!
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12 Ways To Prepare For The Next Great Depression
Our economic future could be even bleaker than you expect — and last year was the moment to unleash your inner survivalist. If the financial system suffers any more crises of confidence, credit gets even tighter, and the fed falls into a liquidity trap, we could be in for several hardscrabbling dystopian years.
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Masters of the World - England > America > China?
An absolutely excellent article on what is happening, and why, in the high stakes game of world dominance. From several centuries of egalitarian, high-principled values and concern for others, towards a country that is still abusing their own people, are unreliable business partners, and absolutely unscrupulous. Does a disaster await?
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Very Cool: Real Time "Map" of CO2 Emissions All Over World
Breathing Earth. Real-time tracker of carbon dioxide emissions in countries all over world; also births/deaths, constantly updating real-time tracking while you're on the site. E.g; US (1000 tons CO2 every 5.4 seconds); China (1000 tons CO2 every 9.2 seconds); Chad (1000 tons CO2 every 66.4 hours). [FYI...click on "Enter" on site to get to map]
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The Economy of Fear
Why this recession is going to hit particularly hard--and last longer than you think.
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The Wal-Mart Weekly: Does Wal-Mart save you $2,500 per year?
This week's Wal-Mart Weekly will be focusing in one a rather high-stakes claim Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is now advertising into the mainstream media. The claim? The retailer saves the average American family $2,500 per year. To coin a phrase, them's fightin' words, yes?
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Friday, April 11, 2008
GE Profit Drops, Shares Fall the Most Since Crash of '87
April 11 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. dropped the most since the 1987 stock market crash after reporting an unexpected decline in profit just a month after Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt assured investors 2008 earnings would be met.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Sugar-powered cars 'in 10 years'
Sugar-powered cars could be the sweet solution to traffic pollution, say scientists.Researchers have found a way to generate hydrogen directly from plant sugar. They expect the breakthrough to provide a cheap and efficient source of green transport fuel.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Is the Era of Cheap Chinese Products Over ??
Slate Magazine - The Last Days of Cheap Chinese First it is good to get off the farm. Next, why not a car, a TV set, dinner out. Gulp! Walmart Costco... all of corporate America.... The dream you crushed at home for the American worker is raising its ugly little head in the Middle Kingdom.
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Save money by switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs
I was just about to write a blog post about compact fluorescent bulbs and how I put them all over my house to save energy. I WAS, until I took a look around my house and realized the job was only 1/2 done.
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Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US
Over the past few years, we have watched Apple climb the music sales chart courtesy of the iTunes. Last month we learned that Apple passed Best Buy to become the number two retailer in the the US. Now, Apple has ascended to the top of the charts, surpassing Wal-Mart for the first time ever, according to the NPD MusicWatch Survey.
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Redemption rate of TV converter box vouchers just OK
Have you switched over to digital TV yet? Well, you probably did, since you read tech blogs, but the average American? Not so much.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth
BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite efforts from anti-piracy outfits such as the MPAA and IFPI, torrent sites continue to grow traffic wise, and there is no sign that this trend will be brought to a halt anytime soon.
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"Power Shift" -How to Boost Your Memory
A recent study suggests that merely glancing from left to right (the traditional “shifty look” of spies and sneaks) can boost memory power and help people differentiate between real and imagined memories. Moving the eyes up and down had no such effect.
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Super Mario explains parallel universes
Quantum mechanics got you down? Let Mario guide you through one of physics' most tantalizing theories: parallel universes. In this video, you'll find a fairly succinct explanation of the many-worlds hypothesis, as illustrated by a modified version of that classic Nintendo game.
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Light From Halfway to the Beginning of the Univer
How far can you see with your own eyes on a clear night? Would you believe seven billion light years?
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Ball lightning bamboozles physicist
Scientific theories and experiments have failed to convince a physicist what's behind the mysterious natural phenomenon of ball lightning.
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Key to Happiness: Give Away Money
New research reveals that when individuals dole out money for gifts for friends or charitable donations, they get a boost in happiness while those who spend on themselves get no such cheery lift.
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Foreign Investors Systematically Dumping US Treasuries
As feared, foreign bond holders have begun to exercise a collective vote of no confidence in the devaluation policies of the US government. The Federal Reserve faces a potential veto of its rescue measures. Asian, Mid East and European investors stood aside at last week’s auction of 10-year US Treasury notes. “It was a disaster,” said Ray
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Michio Kaku: Mr Parallel Universe
Our universe is doomed, says Professor Michio Kaku. Fortunately, he's working on several escape routes: time travel, wormholes, and another universe entirely. There really is a childish wonder to his expressive face. And take this line he has on the future of the planet: it has no future. In five billion years' time the sun will
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The UFO Phenomena - Religion or Science?
Is the world’s fascination with the possibility of UFO's and more a religion or a natural intuitive sense that life is “out there,” based on current scientific research and recent planet-search discoveries? How do the belief's in UFO's clash with religious beliefs??
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The lightbulb of the future?
Luxim's tiny plasma lightbulb outshines LEDs. The plasma bulb uses 250 watts, and achieves around 140 lumens/watt, making it very bright and highly efficient. By comparison, conventional lightbulbs and high-end LEDs get around 15 and 70 lumens/watt, respectively.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Gold, Silver, Oil at Record Highs as Dollar Hits Record Low
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Gold rose to records in London and New York and silver gained to a 27-year high as the dollar's all- time low spurred demand for precious metals as a hedge against inflation. Palladium rose to the highest since 2001. Gold is up 15 percent this year as a US housing slump and turmoil in credit markets led the Federal Reserve
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Dollar Falls to Record Low of $1.50 per Euro
The dollar fell to an all-time low of $1.50 per euro on speculation Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke today will indicate the U.S. central bank is prepared to keep lowering interest rates. The currency is headed for its second straight monthly decline versus the euro on expectations a government report today will show a drop in U.S. home...
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Sprint Posts $29.5 Billion Loss on Nextel Writedown
eb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- biggest U.S. wireless carrier, posted a $29.5 billion loss and scrapped its dividend after writing down the value of Nextel Communications Inc. and losing 683,000 customers.
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Economy Skids to Near Halt in Final Quarter of 2007
WASHINGTON — The economy skidded to a near halt in the final quarter of last year, clobbered by dual slumps in housing and credit that caused people and businesses to spend and invest more sparingly.
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New Data Show Rising Inflation and Slumping Home Values
The data provided fresh evidence that the housing market is mired in a prolonged slump even as the broader economy is squeezed by higher prices.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Why is Wal-Mart Thriving in an American Recession?
The nation's largest retailer, which caters to working-class customers, seems to have something of a sweet spot. The stock closed Tuesday at $51.40—its highest close since March 2005. Given the economic headwinds, one would think that a retailer catering to lower-end consumers would be doubly slammed.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
We have a broadband strategy? Bush administration says yes
A new report from the NTIA talks in glowing terms about the success of our national broadband strategy. Wait, we have one? That's news to the FCC.
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