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We're number 1! We're number 1!(In charitable giving)
Americans lead the world in charitable contributions, giving $300 billion a year to charities. Sounds like a lot right? But this is just a drop in the bucket compared to the over On...
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I'd forgotten about the Google blacklisting of Cnet's reporters from a few years back!I love hypocrisy in action!
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says privacy isn't important, and if you want to keep something private, "maybe you shouldn't be ...
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Want!
I'm trying hard to be jaded and skeptical about this, but, well, EEEEEEEEEEEEE!
And here's the official synopsis:
TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the bi...
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Holy smokes!FIRSTers: We've been doing it wrong.For all others, this is the most fearsome beirut playing robot ever!
Jesusrollerbladinginspandexchrist-alive. I've watched this video of a robot jedi—making all kinds of objects flo...
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"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - Google CEO Eric SchmidtReally?Sigh.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn...
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I've never listen-watched a commentary for a music video before but I like!
Music vid for OK Go's WTF? is a lot of fun, but even more so is their making-of video, HTF?
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Money section:If you're curious how an agency like the FCC says something like "total failure," take a look at yesterday's innocuously titled document, "Comment sought on video device innovation." Buried inside that document are these ...
"Science doesn't work because we're all nice. Newton may have been an ass, but the theory of gravity still works."
- GAVIN A. SCHMIDT, a NASA climatologist whose e-mail messages were hacked by global warming skeptics, contending the ...
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MikeD, remember that time that you walked into the house and said that something I was making smelled delicious and it turned out to be butter?Now you can too!
Have you ever browned butter? It's an easy way to take a recipe that relies...
How electricity became a right, and what it means for broadband
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File under: History Repeats Itself. Yes, Again.Short version: Broadband Internet in the 2000s is Electricity in the 1900s.
Glenn Fleishman's "The Killer App of 1900" draws striking parallels between the present-day debate over the nece...