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At least they have the bulldozer right there to clean it up!

(YouTube Link) This video is from the scene of a highway accident in Chile three weeks ago. A recovery crew managed to flip the overturned tractor trailer back upright, but didn’t think about what would happen to the truck afterward. via reddit Found via...

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This is an awesome idea except for the part where i need to buy new laptops. Are there other options for my existing hardware? i think Sling has something.

Intel® Wireless Display. Now it is easy to wirelessly share laptop content on your TV. Found via...

I hope no one was seriously injured in this nightmarish highway accident.

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so... use a stylus? love it.

According to this Korean news site, shilly Koreans have figured out how to use their iPhones and other electrostatic touchscreen devices without removing their gloves: instead, they use miniature sausages, which are close enough to a human finger in composition to trick the screen into responding. ... Found via...

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File this under STUPIDLY GREAT!
It's giving my chills to listen to! I think its also the idea of 8-bit NPH/Dr.Horrible..

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Rising tide definitely lifts all!
Bing already has the following features and so it'll be nice when i use gmaps:
1. Drag 'n' Zoom -Cause neither the word "and" or an ampersand properly explained how cool this is. On Bing Maps, you Ctrl-Left click to get the zoom box.
2. Aerial Imagery - Bing calls it Bird's Eye
3. What's Around here - Bing calls it "what's nearby"

Here’s a nice surprise from Google’s Maps team: just like Gmail, Google Maps now also have the Labs feature (it’s the little green vial in the top right menu), which brings experimental new features for you to try out. Right now, you can try out nine new features (all disabled by default): Drag ... Found via...

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Indoors is eh, the next step. Adding the geotagged imagery from Flickr and allowing you to superimpose it onto street view, awesome. Adding geotagged video and superimposing it?! Badass.
Watch the second video to see what i mean!

LONG BEACH, California -- Microsoft one-upped Google's Street View application on Thursday when the software giant debuted some new features for its revamped Bing Maps application, taking panoramic views indoors. Found via...

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I wonder how they came to the conclusion that people have "no reasonable expectation of privacy".
If this was the case, then why has cell phone 911 sucked for so long?
That's right, it wouldn't have!

If we didn't have a "reasonable expectation of privacy", then 911 could know where we were even if we were on a cell phone and send help.

It's difficult to tell just where this falls on invasion-of-privacy continuum, but the Obama Administration claims that the warrantless tracking of cell phones—or at least cell phone whereabouts—is permitted because Americans enjoy "no reasonable expectation of privacy" when making or receiving call... Found via...

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I don't care what your political lean is, listen to Bill Nye. He is the science guy after all!

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Yeah, that's lightning. On an exploding volcano. It's enough to make me want to bring back the original umlaut in "Körth".

Where's the lightning coming from? APoD says:

Why lightning occurs even in common thunderstorms remains a topic of research, and the cause of volcanic lightning is even less clear. Surely, lightning bolts help quench areas of opposite but separated electric charges. One hypothesis holds that catapulting magma bubbles or volcanic ash are themselves electrically charged, and by their motion create these separated areas. Other volcanic lightning episodes may be facilitated by charge-inducing collisions in volcanic dust.

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