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This story has mostly positive ratings. 55 votes / 1 sink

Google at the gas pump translates to happy motorists, retailers

Autos – The Internet-connected pumps, made by Gilbarco Veeder-Root Inc., will come fitted with a color screen and allow travelers to find local landmarks, restaurants, hotels, and more. Drivers will be able to print out directions to their selected destinations using the receipt printer.

Voted for on November 09, 2007 10:10am

Porsche goes green...100 years ago - Electric drive
This story has mostly positive ratings. 53 votes / 2 sinks

Porsche goes green...100 years ago - Electric drive

Autos – At this month's Los Angeles Auto Show, the German performance automaker will unveil its green plan for a new century - the last one.

Voted for on November 09, 2007 10:08am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 71 votes / 1 sink

Dumb Crimes And The Dumb People Who commit Them

Humor – 45 year old Amy Brasher was arrested in San Antonio, Texas after a mechanic reported to police that 18 packages of marijuana were packed in the engine

Voted for on October 09, 2007 02:06pm

Bin Laden may be in city, not cave: ex-spy chief
This story has mostly positive ratings. 94 votes / 2 sinks

Bin Laden may be in city, not cave: ex-spy chief

News – Osama bin Laden could hide more easily in a city than a remote tribal region, a former Pakistani intelligence chief said on Tuesday, challenging the notion that the al Qaeda leader is probably holed up in a mountain cave.

Voted for on October 09, 2007 02:00pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 31 votes / No sinks

OpenOffice Moves to OS X

Gadgets & Tech – A version of the free OpenOffice.org productivity suite that will work natively on the OS X operating system may finally be ready in September 2008.

Voted for on September 19, 2007 01:26pm

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

The real thing. Or is it? - DIY Coke Cola

Travel – Tired of paying high rates for Coke products from the distributer, this duo recreated the original coke recipe and are now offering it in a GNU license for anyone to replicate.

Voted for on June 01, 2007 11:11am

CEO Pay Up 298%, Average Worker's? 4.3% (1995-2005)
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CEO Pay Up 298%, Average Worker's? 4.3% (1995-2005)

Careers & Jobs – There's been a lot of ballyhoo lately about ballooning executive pay, so here's a look at how CEO incomes rose over the years in relation to Joe Blow's paycheck. It looks like while CEO pay rose 298.2% by 2005, and corporate profits by 106.7%, the average worker pay has only risen by 4.3%

Voted for on April 11, 2007 11:13am

Big Rocks First: Double Your Productivity This Week
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Big Rocks First: Double Your Productivity This Week

Careers & Jobs – If your week is seven buckets, and you go into each bucket without planning ahead, and you fill it up with little pebbles and grains of sand and whatever other debris comes your way ... soon there will be no room for the Big Rocks.

Voted for on April 11, 2007 11:12am

The America Haters Strike Again
This story has mostly positive ratings. 295 votes / 68 sinks

The America Haters Strike Again

Do No Evil – For them, the military IS America. War is America. The president is America. The NSA is America. Every politician that they love and worship is America. And, if you don't like it, you obviously hate America. You must be some kind of terrorist, or communist; and you'd rather be living in some foreign dictatorship.

Voted for on April 06, 2007 11:15am

Rosie O'Donnell 9/11 Conspiracy Comments: Popular Mechanics Responds
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Rosie O'Donnell 9/11 Conspiracy Comments: Popular Mechanics Responds

News – For those interested in what physicist and demolition experts have said regarding WTC 7's collapse, as detailed in our book Debunking 9/11 Myths, Popular Mechanics offers these notes:

Voted for on April 04, 2007 10:16am

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

Missing Boy Scout found alive

Do No Evil – MCGRADY, N.C. - Park rangers escorted a weak and dehydrated 12-year-old Boy Scout out of the rugged North Carolina mountains on Tuesday, four days after he wandered away from his troop's camp site.

Voted for on March 20, 2007 03:19pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 48 votes / No sinks

Laws on open government often fall short

Politics – Though laws in every state say government records and meetings must be open to all, reality often falls far short: Laws are sporadically enforced, penalties for failure to comply are mild and violators almost always walk away with nothing more than a reprimand, an Associated Press survey of all 50 states has found.

Voted for on March 12, 2007 12:31pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 48 votes / No sinks

The Glove: Pentagon's human enhancement project

Gadgets & Tech – Heat-resistant. Cold-proof. Tireless. Tomorrow's soldiers are just like today's - only better. Inside the Pentagon's human enhancement project.

Voted for on March 12, 2007 12:30pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 42 votes / 1 sink

Israel recalls 'naked ambassador'

News – Israel is replacing its ambassador in El Salvador after the current envoy was found in a street, drunk, wearing only bondage gear, officials said. "Our ambassador has been recalled immediately," a foreign ministry official told AFP news agency. San Salvador was Tzuriel Refael's first post as ambassador, after promotion in 2006 from

Voted for on March 12, 2007 12:27pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 33 votes / 1 sink

Responsibility for Walter Reed at the top

Do No Evil – The revelations about malfeasance at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are making Americans angry, and for a number of very good reasons.

Voted for on March 12, 2007 12:26pm