Archive for July, 2008

Bits: Outsource Your Chores — And Feel Good While You&

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Serebra Connect is an auction site for services that steers the work to students in developing countries.

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Find an Undervalued Web Site. Fix It Up. Flip It.

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

A wave of entrepreneurs are using free software to buy niche Web sites and fix them up with the hope of reselling them.

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10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

A list of 10 things not to worry about on your vacation.

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Drunk British women attempt to open plane door at 33,000ft

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after two British women tried to open a cabin door mid-flight, police have said.
The women, aged 26 and 27, were drinking heavily and had to be held in their seats by security staff until the plane landed in Frankfurt.

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Blogging’s Glass Ceiling

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Although women and men are creating blogs in roughly equal numbers, many women believe that they are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts.

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Robocars (Robot Cars) How Geeks can save the planet

Friday, July 25th, 2008

A series of essays about the possible future of autonomous robot cars, and how building them can save millions of lives, trillions of dollars and enable the electric car or other experimental fuels to save the planet and wean the USA off of foreign oil.

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‘Last Lecture’ Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose “Last Lecture” became an Internet sensation and bestselling book, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 47.

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Private social network Facebook to go Web wide

Friday, July 25th, 2008

By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web,…

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Obama wants more from Germany

Friday, July 25th, 2008

By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - If Europeans had a vote, polls suggest Democratic candidate Barack Obama would be a shoo-in for U.S. president, but his speech to a huge crowd in Berlin showed he would be a more demanding partner than many…

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In Tijuana, a Market for Death in a Bottle

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

One contraband product trumps all others: a drug popular with people seeking a painless way to end their lives.

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