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Multichannel audio specialist and futurist Fabienne Serriere is a Franco-American hardware, software and embedded interaction designer. She believes in a gorgeous technologically morphable future. Her interests include hardware hacking, wearable computing, and large scale music system design.

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Flickr censors Germany, suffers backlash

Do No Evil – From Flickr: "SafeSearch is a feature that allows you to control what turns up in your searches on Flickr, and it's on for everyone by default. Note: If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service so won't be able to turn SafeSearch off." A full revolt is going on at Flickr over this censorship.

View Story Discuss (48) (flickr.com) 401 days ago by Fabienne

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Secret CIA prisons confirmed by Polish and Romanian officials

Politics – Despite denials by their governments, senior security officials in Poland and Romania have confirmed to investigators for the Council of Europe that their countries were used to hold some of America's most important prisoners captured after 9/11 in secret.

View Story Discuss (895) (guardian.co.uk) 407 days ago by TechnologyExpert

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Food – This is a dream for anyone who thinks that chocolate and peanut butter is a great combination - chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting.

View Story Discuss (17) (teamsugar.com) 430 days ago by sarah

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Police Raid G8 Opponents Ahead of Meeting

Money – Police in northern Germany have raided 40 sites linked to opponents of the G8 club of rich nations ahead of the group's summit next month, the federal prosecutor's office said.

View Story Discuss (17) (english.aljazeera.net) 436 days ago by Wil

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Frozen in time: the fridge still going strong after 50 years

Gadgets & Tech – When Geraldine Rowarth bought her first refrigerator, it was the mod con at the top of every housewife's wish list.The year was 1957 and Mrs Rowarth paid 65 guineas for the appliance.

View Story Discuss (4) (dailymail.co.uk) 444 days ago by _kam0_

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Explosions rock Algerian capital

News – From the article: "Several blasts have hit the Algerian capital - one exploding near the prime minister's office, reports say. A car bomb rocked government buildings in Algiers city centre, injuring dozens of people, AFP news agency reported. Another explosion hit a police station in the east of Algiers, near the city's international airport."

View Story Discuss (62) (news.bbc.co.uk) 465 days ago by Fabienne

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Champagne makers in France plan to increase harvests

Food – French Champagne makers have agreed to harvest more grapes from 2007 and to plant new vines in the future to head off shortages, reflecting growing demand from outside Europe, a leading producer said Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (19) (iht.com) 471 days ago by Deidre

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MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence..

Science – Picture the flow of water over a rock. At very low speeds, the water looks like a smooth sheet skimming the rock's surface. As the water rushes faster, the flow turns into turbulent, roiling whitewater that can overturn your raft.

View Story Discuss (13) (web.mit.edu) 478 days ago by GregD

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How late could the GPLv3 be?

Gadgets & Tech – It's been over two years now since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) started seriously working on revising that key open-source license, the GPL (Gnu General Public License). On March 28, we're finally going to get... the next draft. How late could the final release of the GPLv3 be?

View Story Discuss (2) (linux-watch.com) 479 days ago by TheAttacks

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MTV to air all of new season of Punk'd in one day

Television – MTV is taking sneak previews to an unusual extreme, running the entire season of Punk'd ahead of its regular primetime slot. Viacom announced Monday that it will run all eight episodes of the upcoming season of "Punk'd" on the afternoon of April 7.

View Story Discuss (5) (variety.com) 480 days ago by corey.spring

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How to keep lettuce fresh longer

Food – You DO have to buy a salad spinner, but it's worth it. Squeeze the leaves between towels, and always store loosely

View Story Discuss (1) (dancingspoon.typepad.com) 480 days ago by sarah

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Netscape's New Orleans Voices: Margie Perez

Music – Netscape's New Orleans Voices continues with a tour of the new Musician's Village courtesy of local musician, Margie Perez.

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Sea sponge leads way to cheaper solar cells.

Science – Marine sponges are humble creatures, but some of them have a special talent. They can harvest silicon from seawater, and use it to build the spiky filaments that cover their body. Now this process has inspired the development of a cheap, low-energy method of manufacturing solar cells.

View Story Discuss (2) (newscientisttech.com) 484 days ago by GregD

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The ill effects of an overheating Flux Capacitor

Autos – This is what happens when you don't get those 1.21 Jigowatts of power flowing cleanly.

View Story Discuss (1) (autoblog.com) 484 days ago by JohnNeff

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Alternative Allergy Treatments

Health & Fitness – Every spring the clocks jump ahead, and our desires to shed the oppressive layers of winter takes hold. We breathe in the fresh spring air and it overtakes us, literally. It happens as soon as we fling open our windows.

View Story Discuss (10) (foxnews.com) 485 days ago by GregD

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