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• Dell Mini 3iX shown off in Brazil, works on tan, leaves Android Market in the dust?

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
    Hey, Dell: looking for the absolute quickest way to screw up your first entry into the dog-eat-dog smartphone industry? Read more from the original source: Dell Mini 3iX shown off in Brazil, works on tan, leaves Android Market in the dust?
  8 hours ago

• Thermally-Activated Roof Tiles Change Color to Conserve Energy [Saving Energy]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
    Since black roof tiles absorb heat and white ones reflect it, we should all just plain re-do our roofs biannually to save energy as the seasons change. Or maybe just get roof tiles that change color on their own. A bunch of MIT students came up with this funky-looking roofing material, dubbed Thermeleon, which ...
  8 hours ago

• Microsoft shifting internal focus to Windows 8 in July 2010

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
    Ah, the tormented life of a Microsoft employee. You spend a few years of your life nurturing a product, teaching it some new tricks, and before you know it you have to release it into the wild and start all over again. Coincidentally, Microsoft also seems to do a lot of hiring during that tumultuous switchover ...
  10 hours ago

• The Eve of Destruction

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 129
  The Eve of Destruction – of all of the pretentious crap songs from the sixties, that one was the worst of them . It was offered to The Byrds – but they rejected it. Pretentious posturing just isn’t cool – that’s what rock ‘n’ roll was trying to defeat, after all. They passed on it. But Barry McGuire ...
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• Cambridge Consultants Suma sensor is designed to add ‘3D’ input to traditional control schemes

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
  They’re short on details, but the folks at Cambridge Consultants might just be onto something with this new “Suma sensor system” of theirs. Basically it translates the deformation of its soft material into 3D data that can be used in a video game to “unleash the full capabilities of both the human hand and the ...
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• From the “You Can’t Be Serious” File

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 131
  Obama’s Brilliant First Year By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt. Or, making the most of a bad situation… story here Wonder how much Jacob Weisberg of Slate is getting paid for this propaganda. _____ Next we have this gem: Canada’s ...
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• If You Could See What I See

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 513
  There is a little known phenomenon hardcore gamers tend to experience but never talk about.  This experience occurs when a person plays a game for so long that when they attempt to fall asleep at night all they can see is little pictures of 8 bit wonderment behind their closed peepers. You may think to yourself, ...
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• Media madness #1 – their lies and ignorance make us stupid

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  Critics (like me) have railed about the flaws of the old media.  Media experts, such as Clay Shirky, have warned that the new news media might be worse.  Today we look at evidence supporting their fears.Here we see the essence of making us stupid Internet websites, 21st century propaganda machines.  It’s not ...
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• Elizabeth Banks Doesnt Read Vogue On The Toilet [Tweetbeat]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 812
  Today in Tweetbeat, Sarah Silverman relates to Precious , writer Sloane Crosley decides whats gross, Elizabeth Banks makes rules about bathroom reading material, and Audrina Patridge tries to be more Christ-like. Plus: Donnie Wahlberg thinks judging other people is so 1989.
  1 day ago

• Culture Warrior: Liberal Guilt

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 667
  Warning: This article contains major spoilers on the film Precious. On a recent episode of Slate’s Culture Gabfest (direct link), the hosts of the podcast addressed the much-debated over issues surrounding the Sundance sleeper-hit/potential awards contender Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire ...
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• The “Botax” is a Regressive Tax

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 482
  Although it would supposedly rake in $60 billion over 10 years, the Senate health reform bill’s proposed 5% tax on cosmetic procedures is hardly a tax on the wealthy. On a survey of people planning on having cosmetic surgery: One-third make less than $30,000 a year. More than two-thirds (70 percent) of clients ...
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• Obama: Transformational, Consequential And Catastrophic

  
  QandO — Authority: 142
  I definitely lean toward defining his presidency as “catastrophic” in more than a general sense. I read a piece by Jacob Weisberg in Salon that managed to inadvertantly define the idelogocial rift between the right and left very well (not that it is any secret, but it is interesting to see it laid out so ...
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• Meme Alert: Is The Media About To Decide Obama Has Actually Done A Lot?

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 796
  With every big Barack Obama speech — and there have be a number of them since last January! — comes days of media speculation revolving around whatever the current Obama narrative is, and how the upcoming speech might fit into it. Or what Obama has to do in said speech to change the narrative. Or a ...
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• The Lehman Bros. of the Persian Gulf

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 707
  Dubai was supposed to be a new model for economic development in the Persian Gulf, and in the world. And like so many recent "new models," Dubai is proving to be a lemon. The theory was that Dubai would be a competitive, free oasis in a region generally hostile to the open market. Lacking oil resources of its own, it ...
  1 day ago

• Dear Prudence: Salsa-Dancing Fool

  
  Slate Magazine — Authority: 719
  A daily video from Slate V. [ more ... ] Dance - Salsa - Performing Arts - Arts - Latin
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• ASUS shows off Congo / Ion-based Eee PC 1201T netbook

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
      ASUS’ Eee PC 1201HA just went on sale here in the States earlier today, but already it seems that the debatable father of netbooks is looking to one-up its own with the 1201T. Shown off recently at an event overseas, this 12.1-inch netbook gets powered by AMD’s Congo platform and NVIDIA’s heralded Ion ...
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• Copeland BNP Announces its Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  The British National Party’s North West regional organiser, Clive Jefferson, has been nominated as the party’s parliamentary candidate in its key Cumbria target seat of Copeland. The announcement was made in a press release issued by the BNP in Cumbria. “The first-ever entrance of the BNP in a general election ...
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• Two Views on Who Created Major Hasan?

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 438
  Interesting debate here between Robert Wrights Who Created Major Hasan? and Christopher Hitchens Multicultural Masochism : The "war on terrorism" didnt cause the Fort Hood shootings . To be fair, Wright wrote first and Hitchens has replied. It would be nice if Wright addressed Hitchens concerns in another ...
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• New ASUS Eee PC T91MT Netbook to Go Multi-touch

  
  Desinformado.com — Authority: 440
  ASUS launched the Eee PC T91MT, the world’s first convertible tablet netbook to feature a multi-touch screen that supports Windows 7 Multi-Touch gestures. Particularly handy for students and professionals who need to take notes and make one-to-one presentations on a frequent basis, the slim and light Eee PC ...
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• Nook begins shipping, in select Barnes & Noble stores on December 7th

  
  F-Default — Authority: 468
    If you missed getting in your Nook pre-order there’s still hope to nab the dual-display Barnes & Noble reader in time for the holidays. Read more here: Nook begins shipping, in select Barnes & Noble stores on December 7th
  2 days ago

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