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[Technology] —
Apple today announced several changes to the iTunes Store. Beginning today, all four major music labels—Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thousands of independent labels, are now offering their music in iTunes Plus, Apple’s DRM-free format with higher-quality 2
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[Technology] —
Mark January 15 in your calendar: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft peg that as the day the bad news will come. The latest to report on the possibility of layoffs at the software giant is the blog Fudzilla, which puts the number of job cuts at 15,000, or nearly 17 percent of Microsoft's worldwide ope
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[News/Politics] —
The Israeli military struck near a United Nations school in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people among hundreds who had sought refuge at the school from the fighting in the beleaguered territory.
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[Lifestyle] —
Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can be. New York tells you, above all: you should make more money.
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[Technology] —
Brendan Gregg of Sun's Fishworks lab has an interesting video demo up at YouTube demonstrating just how bad vibes, if expressed with sufficient volume in front of a rack full of disks, can cause a spike in disk latency. White noise, evidently, doesn't do them much harm.
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[Sports] —
Playing golf without a powerful swing is like a dish served without required salt and pepper. In fact, the golf minus perfect golf swing takes away the charm and enjoyment associated with this most reputed game in the world. The execution of golf swing is the art and thus, some tips and tracks are
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[News/Politics] —
Treehuggers electric car wrap up post for 2008. I really would love to get my hands on the 4 passenger Toyota.
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[Offbeat] —
A really good resource post for promotion of not only a blog but any site in general.
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[News/Politics] —
In a surprise to no one, Time magazine named President-elect Barack Obama its "Person of the Year" for 2008. The magazine said Obama "has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago."
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[Offbeat] —
Hasbro Inc. has dropped its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game Scrabble. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Hasbro dropped the lawsuit Friday. Hasbro, which owns the North American rights to the word game, sued Jayant and Rajat Agarwal
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[Technology] —
Emmanuel Florac and the rest of his officemates had a bit of a problem: while they could freely leave the office as they pleased, none of them could get back in. Undoubtedly, it had something to do with the new ironclad door and accompanying electronic locking mechanism that was recently installed.
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