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Exercise your mind with the challenging problem sets at Project Euler. Designed to provide a fun way to introduce new concepts , the frequently asked questions section of Project Euler has this to say about the nature of the project: Project Euler is a...
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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video The oh so humble, Mr. Person Familiar with the Matter is back with knowledge that Dell has postponed its Zing-based MP3 player... indefinitely. This, according to the Wall Street Journal -- the very source of...
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Some guy named Paul Krugman has a column in Monday's The New York Times, where he writes: Franklin Delano Obama? Suddenly, everything old is New Deal again. Reagan is out; F.D.R. is in. Still, how much guidance does the Roosevelt era really offer for...
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Spontaneous singing at the first Second Line in New Orleans since the presidential election, November 9, 2008: Shine the Light on Obama (shot by AnorexicRapper). Related videos: Sudan Social Aid and Pleasure Club 2008, also shot today in New Orleans (shot...
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Photo courtesy of World Cities Summit When we last checked in on Singapore’s island landfill Semaku in 2005, plans were in motion to retool it as a destination for eco-tourism. We’ll believe it when we see it, we said. Well, looks like we’re about...
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At a time when its peers are running scared, cellphone navigation services provider TeleNav is getting into the GPS device business. The company has launched a new GPS-based personal navigation device (PND) for the first time, which will compete with...
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Jeff Wilson submits:Wind power generating capacity has been growing quickly in the U.S. In 2007, wind capacity grew by 46%, adding 16 million megawatt-hours of electricity to our annual production. The wind turbines were manufactured by seven companies....
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On FBC's Cavuto show, Neil Cavuto lambasted John McCain over his economic policies, or lack thereof. It's a searing commentary on McCain's nonsensical approach and...
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Filed under: GPS It doesn't seem like the connected GPS market is the best place to be at the moment -- Dash just dropped hardware sales in a radical restructuring and Magellan's halted development of the 5340 -- but Telenav isn't shying away, throwing...
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Tonight's Rescue Rangers are dadanation, watercarrier4diogenes, a synthetic cubist, vcmvo2, sunspark says and jlms qkw, with claude as editor. The Rescue Rangers checked out 337 diaries posted between 3pm Saturday and 3pm Sunday (PST) to bring you, in no...
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From UK Vogue, "Tales of the Unexpected," starring Tim Burton, Helena Bonham Carter, assorted models, and various others in a strange, surreal reenactment of some of Roald Dahl's greatest hits, James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate...
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Image from jderuna There is no doubt that the Bushies will go down in history as the administration with the least environmentally-friendly record (among other dubious distinctions). Having already gutted the Endangered Species Act, denied the existence...
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In today's review, Jackson Lynch takes a look at the Twist Freedom DX electric bike. These contraptions are interesting, mostly becuase they don't quite fall into the bike column (electric motor) but they don't have enough power to warrant that...
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Michael Fitzsimmons submits:Last week, US automakers went to Congress with their hat in hand. The auto executives were all smiles, as was Nancy Pelosi and others. As a US taxpayer, I can tell you that I was not smiling, and I resented their happy...
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There were hundreds of people at the early voting station in Hollywood, Florida, and the wait was ninety minutes. I was with Benji from The...