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Military Personnel Giving More To Obama
This story has mostly positive ratings. 197 votes / 23 sinks

Military Personnel Giving More To Obama

Politics – Among people who have donated at least $200 to a presidential campaign this election cycle, Obama has collected more than $327,000 from those identifying themselves as military personnel, while McCain has collected $224,000, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by The Associated Press.

View Story Discuss (316) (huffingtonpost.com) 7 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on July 02, 2008 06:46pm

Inmate released after 22 years on death row
This story has mostly positive ratings. 70 votes / 1 sink

Inmate released after 22 years on death row

News – A former death row inmate was freed from a Nashville prison on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail. Paul House, 46, is set to be retried in October in the 1985 slaying of Carolyn Muncey.

View Story Discuss (23) (msnbc.msn.com) 6 days ago by JamesMarcus

Voted for on July 02, 2008 06:46pm

Fugitive hedge-fund swindler in federal custody
This story has mostly positive ratings. 127 votes / No sinks

Fugitive hedge-fund swindler in federal custody

News – A fugitive hedge-fund swindler who faked suicide on a Hudson River bridge and went on the run to avoid a prison sentence surrendered Wednesday in Massachusetts, the U.S. attorney's office said.

View Story Discuss (17) (breitbart.com) 6 days ago by MyWayOnNow

Voted for on July 02, 2008 06:46pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks

Ten Perfectly Pure Gadgets

Gadgets & Tech – Over at BB Gadgets, John posted their list of "perfectly pure gadget," which he describes as gizmos that don't need any additional technological advancement. From the entry on the mousetrap:

View Story Discuss (1) (boingboing.net) 6 days ago by bradchamp

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:06pm

High gas prices threaten to shut down rural towns
This story has mostly positive ratings. 180 votes / 2 sinks

High gas prices threaten to shut down rural towns

Money – This community may be an extreme example of how rising gas prices are hitting rural Americans particularly hard, but people in small towns from Maine to Alaska are in a similar bind as those here.

View Story Discuss (64) (usatoday.com) 6 days ago by STONERS

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:02pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 36 votes / No sinks

Starbucks closing 600 stores in the US

Money – Starbucks Corp. has announced it s closing 600 underperforming stores in the United States.

View Story Discuss (0) (biz.yahoo.com) 7 days ago by tcnt

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:01pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 30 votes / 1 sink

Liberty and Privacy: Connections

Politics – The right to privacy is essential to the preservation of freedom for the simplest of reasons. If no one knows what I do, when I do it, and with whom I do it, no one can possibly interfere with it.

View Story Discuss (0) (fee.org) 6 days ago by populist

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:00pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 24 votes / No sinks

Woman dies ignored on hospital waiting room floor

News – Surveillance video shows woman fall from chair, thrash on floor, then lie still People around ignore her for almost an hour, the video shows Several staffers fired at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, over the incident Lawyers are suing hospital, alleging neglect and abuse of patients

View Story Discuss (0) (cnn.com) 7 days ago by alphomega

Voted for on July 02, 2008 12:00pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks

SSDs Don't Reduce Power-consumption, they Increase it

Gadgets & Tech – And you thought your solid-state hard-drive (SSD) increased your laptop's battery life? Think again. In a new article, Tom's Hardware investigated the possibility that SSDs in fact increase power consumption of the system, and the results were astonishing.

View Story Discuss (0) (techpowerup.com) 6 days ago by TheAttacks

Voted for on July 02, 2008 11:56am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 14 votes / No sinks

45nm, Socket AM3 Phenoms to work in current sockets?

Gadgets & Tech – Yesterday, we spotted a couple of reports that hinted AMD would have 45nm Phenoms with both DDR2 and DDR3 memory support out before the end of this year. One of the reports, which was whipped up by Fudzilla, said DDR3 support in Phenoms would imply a new AM3 socket incompatible with current AM2/AM2 sockets.

View Story Discuss (0) (techreport.com) 6 days ago by TheAttacks

Voted for on July 02, 2008 11:50am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / No sinks

Use Microsoft to win Apple products

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft is dangling prizes made by arch-nemesis Apple to entice Australian web surfers to give its online search products a second chance.

View Story Discuss (0) (smh.com.au) 6 days ago by TheAttacks

Voted for on July 02, 2008 11:45am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Linspire getting swallowed by Xandros

Gadgets & Tech – Linspire, the Linux company started by Michael Robertson, is ready to fully assume its place as a footnote in operating system history. The company is being swallowed by another smaller Linux player, Xandros. The deal is expected to be officially announced on Wednesday.

View Story Discuss (0) (zdnet.com.au) 6 days ago by TheAttacks

Voted for on July 02, 2008 11:43am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 15 votes / No sinks

Mobile Web To Get Standards

Gadgets & Tech – A group of mobile operators have just unveiled a new initiative they're calling "BONDI" whose goal is to encourage development of new mobile web applications while not compromising customers' security.

View Story Discuss (0) (readwriteweb.com) 6 days ago by TheAttacks

Voted for on July 02, 2008 11:38am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us

Gadgets & Tech – Intel has bad news for software developers. It's been hinted at already, but now the company has stated explicitly: it's not enough for software developers to be targeting dual, quad, or eight cores.

View Story Discuss (0) (arstechnica.com) 6 days ago by TheAttacks

Voted for on July 02, 2008 11:03am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Apple Orders a Few Flash Chips...Like 50 Million of 'Em

Gadgets & Tech – Apple just placed a very large order of NAND flash chips from Samsung, which has in turn forced Samsung to tell other customers to wait. 50 million 8GB chips were reportedly ordered by Cuptertino primarily for use in Apple's iPhone (that's on top of the 25 million that were ordered in June).

View Story Discuss (0) (gizmodo.com) 6 days ago by TheAttacks

Voted for on July 02, 2008 10:59am

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