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Burgermeister
I like burgers, and try to keep fit. But burgers and health are not very compatible. As part of my ongoing ambition to get fit, I have set up my own health, fitness and relaxation website, where I have articles on most aspects of fitness, plus video tutorial clips on the community pages.
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Netscape is closing down social news. Really this time.
Gadgets & Tech – Last month, I reported a response to TechCrunch's uncited source that Netscape social news was going away. When a valid source could not be reported, many of us dismissed it. I was wrong. Digg, you win.
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 95 votes / No sinks
Renewable Energy: a Better Bribe
News – Bribing and Pressuring Fissile Regimes On July 25th, France offered to build a nuclear reactor for Libya to power a water desalinization plant. Russia is delaying the delivery of nuclear fuel for Iran's nearly completed Bushehr to help pressure them to comply with UN Security council demands for less secrecy.
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Voted for on September 10, 2007 04:58am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 69 votes / 2 sinks
Navigating Your Way Through the Foreclosures Process
Real Estate – Foreclosure properties can be a terrific investment, or give home buyers a much more affordable option than traditional properties in this time of escalating prices. But, before you jump in assuming this is "real-estate for dummies" or the next get-rich-quick scheme, think again! You really need to know your stuff when it comes to navigat
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Voted for on September 10, 2007 04:57am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 156 votes / 6 sinks
Next Generation Liquid Fuels
News – cellulosic ethanol and biodiesel or renewable diesel from algae. But those fuels will increasingly be sharing the roads with the long term transportation fuel of the future: electricity from renewable sources, especially wind.
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Voted for on September 10, 2007 04:57am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 199 votes / 23 sinks
Karl Rove Summoned Back To Hell
Humor – Administration officials saddened by Rove's departure expressed pleasure at the career move, saying "if anyone belongs in hell, it's Karl."
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Voted for on September 10, 2007 04:57am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 103 votes / No sinks
Mattel Exec: American Kids Are "Soft"
Humor – "It is unbelievable, really. These kids are soft!" CEO Bob Eckert said of the recent toy recall. "No wonder the terrorists are winning."
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Voted for on September 10, 2007 04:56am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 104 votes / 3 sinks
Citizen Journalism: Scary to the Establishment?
Do No Evil – Seems that some in the established media are using fear tactics to convince people that citizen journalism is not a good choice for the future. One insider claims that people could get in "dangerous" situations, there's scams & fraudsters out there, the media is just better, and the like. Sounds like he's just protecting his job.
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Voted for on September 10, 2007 04:56am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks
Standard Push & Pull Split Routine
Health & Fitness – Once you start weight trianing more intensively it becomes essential to split your routines into more than one session per week. This is to avoid overtraining, which occurs when repeatedly exercise your muscles before they have fully recovered.
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:43am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks
Boxing Workout for Speed, Power and Strength
Health & Fitness – Weight training for boxing should benefit the whole body, so cut out isolation reps, and choose free weights over machines. You want strength, so aim for two to three sets with six reps, explosive on concentric phase and slow on the eccentric phase.
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:42am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks
Ibuprofen can slow cystic fibrosis in kids
Health & Fitness – The results of a clinical trial, published in late August in the Journal of Pediatrics, indicates that, when used as part of routine therapy, high-dose ibuprofen is safe, and effective in slowing down lung disease in children with cystic fibrosis (CF).
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:39am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 17 votes / No sinks
What Is Wikipedia, and What Is It Good For?
Gadgets & Tech – While that ultimate goal imagined by Wales for Wikipedia has not yet come to fruition, there is no questioning the breadth and usefulness of Wikipedia. Those who refused to believe that a user-generated encyclopedia could compete with the monolithic, traditional encyclopedia written by experts and organized by professional editors, were no doubt sh
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:39am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 17 votes / No sinks
Networks create "instant world telescope"
Science – For the first time, a CSIRO radio telescope has been linked to others in China and Europe in real-time, demonstrating the power of high-speed global networks and effectively creating a telescope almost as big as the Earth.
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:39am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks
Apple's iPod Touch gets official
Gadgets & Tech – Well, what do you know. Turns out the iPod Touch is a reality after all. While we initially assumed that Mr. Jobs wouldn't be so kind as to bless us all with two new full-fledged iPods in a single day, we're elated that he had other ideas.
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:39am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 26 votes / 2 sinks
Online shopping growth to slow in next decade
Shopping – n the next five to 10 years, those who are already comfortable shopping online are likely to grow even more so, funneling more and more dollars to Web sites as they continue to increase the number and amount of products they buy online, experts say.
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:39am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 17 votes / No sinks
Bush 'Still Believed Saddam Possessed WMD' In April 2006
News – Though it was not the sort of thing one could say publicly anymore, the president still believed that Saddam had possessed weapons of mass destruction. He repeated this conviction to Andy Card all the way up until Card's departure in April 2006
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Voted for on September 07, 2007 09:39am
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