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Will Obama give $1.4 million Nobel Prize to GOP so they can afford Web site?
When President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, many noted that it came with a $1.4 million prize. What would Obama do with it? Well, while a variety of charities will likely get the money, it’s apparent that the GOP could use some of the mo...
Everything bought since 2001 recalled; everyone's personal data lost
WASHINGTON — In a press conference by the nation’s business leaders and a smattering of government officials, it was announced that everything bought over the past seven years has been immediately recalled, and that all personal information held ...
Quantum Corner: Introduction
I'm hoping to start a fairly regular set of postings on Quantum Mechanics and/or other weird science that fascinates me. However, if there's no interest (after all, it's outside the normal scope of all things dagblog), I'll drop it. With that in mind...
Is the US Postal Service obsolete? And what does it mean for health care?
So apparently, the U.S. Postal Service is in a peck of trouble. Despite raising postage fees numerous times during the past couple of years, the USPS announced earlier this week that it had lost $2.4 billion between April and June and would be $7 bil...
Yahoo, Microsoft, and Home Page Upgrades: Smalls Steps to Oblivion
Call me a loyal customer. Yahoo has been my home page for a decade, which is about two thirds of the life of the web itself. Whenever I bought a new computer or installed a new browser, I dutifully found my way through the preferences to set my defau...
We have liftoff. Now look up
We finally have liftoff. Congratulations, NASA, sixth time's the charm. Now we wait for the shuttle to catch up and dock with the International Space Station, which should happen around midday Friday. Here'a site that lets you follow the choreographe...
MOLFT: Episode 2 (Cell phone taxes, fees and surcharges)
I'll get back to the regularly scheduled My One Favorite Things soon enough, but right now I got a bone to pick with my cell phone company, T-Mobile. I mostly have positive vibes toward T-Mobile as their customer service has been very helpful and the...
Google vs Microsoft: Attack of the Chrome
The NYT reports that Google is planning the most direct challenge to Microsoft to date: an operating system. The software, called the Google Chrome Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as net...
Virtual world government weighs bailing out virtual bank to avert virtual economic meltdown
I don't actually know how the folks who manage Eve Online plan to deal with this, except that they've booted the virtual fraudster out of the game. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/07/03/science-online-bank-heist.html The scary part is that h...
Lame or Awesome: MLK Autotuned
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