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Eliot Phillips is a mechanical engineer who until recently was based in Nebraska. Growing up on a dairy farm he gained a strong mechanical aptitude; he dedicated time to more electronic pursuits as well. He is the lead hacker at Hack-A-Day and how-to editor emeritus for Engadget. Eliot stopped attempting to keep a regular sleep schedule years ago, finding it much more fun to go crawling through search results for new bizarre bits of knowledge. His personal blog is RobotSkirts.
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Big particle collider repairs to cost $21 million »
Posted by: Ousama 1 hour, 11 minutes ago in Science & Technology
GENEVA — Fixing the world's largest atom smasher will cost at least $21 million and may take until early summer, its operator said MondayAn electrical ...
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5 ****os Nixed by Cellphones »
Posted by: Ousama 1 hour, 21 minutes ago in Science & Technology
(Newser) – Cellphones have sent five once-hot gadgets to the techno graveyard, Wired reports: The PDA: Dating back to the Psion Organizer 24 years ago, PDAs ...
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Noncompete clauses can keep tech in check »
Posted by: Ousama 1 hour, 26 minutes ago in Science & Technology
Apple may have a real fight on its hands if it believes Mark Papermaster is the right man to nurture the iPhone.In an age ...
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International Space Station turns 10 »
Posted by: Ousama 1 hour, 36 minutes ago in Science & Technology
PhysOrg.com: The International Space Station, one of the most ambitious space projects ever and a key launching board for exploration of the solar system ...
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New 2010 Ford Mustang Revealed - AOL Autos »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 hour, 45 minutes ago in Style
When the 2005 Ford Mustang debuted, it thoroughly reinvigorated the pony car segment that it created four decades earlier. After 25 years of being assembled ...
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JavaFX RIA technology almost ready »
Posted by: Ousama 1 hour, 49 minutes ago in Science & Technology
San Francisco - JavaFX , Sun Microsystems' entrant in the rich Internet application (RIA) space, is nearly ready for prime time and, by the way, the company ...
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Ford To Slash Stake In Mazda To Raise Needed Cash »
Posted by: TimALoftis 2 hours, 58 minutes ago in Business & Finance
TOKYO -Ford Motor Co. is slashing its stake in Japan's Mazda Motor Corp. by nearly two-thirds, joining other struggling U.S. automakers in a ...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose In 2000-06 »
Posted by: TimALoftis 3 hours, 42 minutes ago in Science & Technology
The world's 40 leading industrialized nations produced 2.3 percent more greenhouse gases from 2000 to 2006 - showing that a new deal to curb ...
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Teens Cited For DUI After Passenger Crashes Car While Driver Texts »
Posted by: TimALoftis 3 hours, 51 minutes ago in Humor
TOWN OF RIETBROCK — Two teenagers were cited for operating a vehicle while intoxicated Saturday after their car crashed between Edgar and Athens while the driver ...
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Goodwill Finds, Returns $7500.00 In Old Shoebox »
Posted by: TimALoftis 4 hours, 3 minutes ago in News
GLEN CARBON, Illinois (AP) -- It took some fancy footwork, but a Goodwill store in Illinois has found the owner of $7,500 in cash who ...
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30 years after, the legacy of Jonestown »
Posted by: pagey 4 hours, 55 minutes ago in News
Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana.
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32,000 Ontario farm workers win right to unionize »
Posted by: pagey 4 hours, 58 minutes ago in News
Farm workers across the province are celebrating the fruits of a major legal victory after the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled they have the right ...
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Pirates hijack oil supertanker »
Posted by: pagey 5 hours ago in News
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates–Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker loaded with crude oil hundreds of kilometres off the coast of East Africa – defeating the ...
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Kangaroo genes close to humans »
Posted by: pagey 5 hours, 5 minutes ago in Science & Technology
Australia's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said Tuesday.
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Another day, another Microsoft lie »
Posted by: schestowitz 5 hours, 34 minutes ago in Science & Technology
This time around it's a study by ClickStream Technologies, which found Microsoft Office, to be far more popular than OpenOffice.org, which in turn ...
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