Eating Radiation: A New Form of Energy?
Here’s a possible solution to both the energy crisis and what to do with highly radioactive waste from nuclear reactors: use the radiation as food.
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Barker Fans Come On Down … and Wait and Wait
Filed under: TV , Wacky and Weird TMZ.com : After 35 years, Bob Barker is stepping down from hosting “The Price Is Right,” and that has some of his most loyal fans camping out [...]
(From the last 24 hours) - San Jose Mercury News
(From the last 24 hours)San Jose Mercury News, CA -9 minutes agoIndeed, the Associated Press had complained to Google about how the search engine used AP's content before securing a deal with the Mountain View Internet …
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How do you find new articles?
How do you find new articles on NV? This has been a question I find myself asking ever since I’ve joined - and still bounces around in my head.
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DreamHost Site of The Month Contest
Every month a contest called DHSOTM is held for the highest rated website on DreamHost. By winning the contest your site gets SEO and traffic benefits, which I hope to measure soon.
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The New RealPlayer: Ripping a YouTube Video Near You
RealNetworks have annonuced a new version of RealPlayer that includes one-click video ripping.
The ability to rip online videos is not new. A number of programs are already available that provide a similar service yet this is the first time this level of functionailty has been offered in a high user base product.
The new RealPlayer will [...]
Discover your socio-economic status - even you can fill this out
The NY Times shows you how to fill out a few simple questions and learn how inferior you are.
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Which freedoms do we want online? How Free are We?
My colleague, Chinese journalist and blogger Michael Anti, pointed out that although political expression is tightly controlled in China the government is not really interested in other aspects of people’s lives, while here in the UK we can talk about democracy but other forms of …
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PetLynx Unleashes the Fastest Recovery System in the World - CCNMatthews (press release)
PetLynx Unleashes the Fastest Recovery System in the WorldCCNMatthews (press release), Canada -1 hour agoHundreds of times a day, the PetLynx AutoMatch TM search engine automatically finds matches for the lost and found pets admitted to shelters, clinics, …
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Invention Awards: The Flying Belt - Amazing Powered Ascender
How do you prevent insurgents from shooting down choppers? How do you keep a cast from itching? How do you reinvent the brick? You sketch. And then you work: nights, weekends—for years, if you have to. You blow all your money, then beg for more.
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Caught in the Web 2.0 - The Financial Standard
Caught in the Web 2.0The Financial Standard, Australia -29 minutes agoBut today, internet technology called Web 2.0 has allowed people to network online, set up their own web identity and specify what products they prefer …
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Hispanic blog network launches Feedtwister; Do we even need it?
Got email from #2 hispanic blog network InicioGlobal that they have launched a new feed-mashup service - Feedtwister. Nothing to do with the original story - InicioGlobal claims to have 3 million monthly unique visitors. Coming back to Feedtwister.com, the service allows you to mix up to 50 feeds to generate a new list, with the [...]
Dell laying off 10% of its workforce
Filed under: Desktops, Displays, Laptops
It’s no secret that Dell’s been struggling lately — after years as the alpha dog of the PC market they’ve recently slipped to number two behind arch-rival HP — and now today they’re officially tightening the corporate belt with announcement that they’re planning to layoff nearly ten percent of the company’s [...]
Google to Microsoft: let staff innovate - Ninemsn
Google to Microsoft: let staff innovateNinemsn, Australia -17 minutes agoThe web search engine's Australian engineering director, Alan Noble, who heads a growing local team, was responding to comments made by Microsoft chief …
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Wii will rock you - Fortune’s Jeffrey M. O’Brien explains … (Jeffrey M. O’Brien/Fortune)
Wii will rock you — Fortune’s Jeffrey M. O’Brien explains how Nintendo’s new game machine won over the world - and beat the pants off Sony and Microsoft. — (Fortune Magazine) — Nintendo’s legendary videogame designer Shigeru Miyamoto is lying face down on the floor in Kyoto, Japan …
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Author: Jeffrey M. O’Brien
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