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Earlier this year I mentioned how cool it would be if Netflix would have a feature stating if/when I had a movie sent to me from them before.
Well they’ve got that feature now. Obviously this is a rather derivative idea, so I’m not taking credit at all. I’m just damn happy they’ve […]

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If you live in Seattle or San Francisco, you can get street level views at http://preview.local.live.com
We had a brainstorm that could help flesh this out. What if you paid people on a per image basis to drive/walk/bike/bus around taking images every 10 seconds or whatever.
Microsoft, what if you paid people 10 […]

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Even the famous Tanjung Puting national park in Kalimantan is being ripped apart by oil planters. The orangutan is likely to become extinct in the wild. Sumatran rhinos, tigers, gibbons, tapirs, proboscis monkeys and thousands of other species could go the same way. Thousands of indigenous people have been evicted from their lands, and some […]

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The invention is a battery comprised of an electrical current collector constructed of carbon or lightweight graphite foam. This foam exhibits a sizeable increase in surface area for chemical reactions to take place and eliminates the need for heavy lead plates found in traditional batteries. The graphite material resists corrosion and sulfation build-up, thus contributing […]

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I heard from a friend who recently came from London, saying they were phasing out the double-deckers for the longer articulating variety.
I’m totally bummed. I mean, you think of Red, double-decker bus, and you think London. Everyone has the bendy busses, not so many have the double-decker ones.

After half a […]

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Don’t try to get all multilingual in Kansas.

“This is not the first time we have [asked] Zach and others to not speak Spanish at school.”

Spanish at school translates to suspension

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I find that being a regular Daily Show viewer is something that I’d like to be but just isn’t going to happen.
To help with this though, there is a handy RSS feed of the most recent show clips. This is cool because, generally speaking they’re the best of each show.
The next step in this […]

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Out of curiousity, I thought I’d see if you could buy caffeine in powder form. Turns out you most definitely can.
“100% Pure White Crystalline Powder Caffeine. This Caffeine is a cut above the rest being of absolute pure quality. Directions: Add 1/16 Teaspoon (105 mg.) caffeine powder to juice or soft drinks. Our […]

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It’s being said that Google is going to be releasing a general purpose online storage service sometime very shortly.
A screenshot has it saying

Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free.

This rings of what would happen if […]

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When Mark crunched the data, a picture of 21st-century office work emerged that was, she says, “far worse than I could ever have imagined.” Each employee spent only 11 minutes on any given project before being interrupted and whisked off to do something else. What’s more, each 11-minute project was itself fragmented into even shorter […]

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