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1. New Lithium-Ion Battery Rules for Travel Effective - MobileWhack.Com

   Effective January 1, 2008, the following rules apply to the spare lithium batteries you carry with you in case the battery in a device runs low: *Spare batteries are the batteries you carry separately from the devices they power.

2. Sony is preparing to launch laptops with Penryn processor - SlashGear.Com

   Sony is preparing to launch its Penryn based laptops. The VAIO AR7, FZ4, and SZ7 will feature Intel’s new Core 2 Duo mobile that uses 45nm-manufacturing process. The Santa Rosa Refresh platform will give laptop users longer battery life.

3. Fabulous! The greatest parties of all time - Independent.Co.Uk

   The great parties of yore were slightly more elaborate affairs. “The most spectacular dinner party to be held at the Savoy took place on 30 June 1905, when George A Kessler, the champagne millionaire, celebrated King Edward VII’s birthday.”

4. If you have 25 million views and only made $5k well…. - GeekNewsCentral.Com

   Perez Hilton says he had 25 million views on YouTube over the past three months and only made $5,000. To think he had 25 million views and only made $5k rocks me to the core. Whoever is managing his ad deals needs to be fired.

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1. Email Standards Project: Yahoo! Signs on 100%, GMail Bad - ReadWriteWeb.Com

   The group acknowledges that many designers condemn HTML emails all together but says that it’s clear they are here to stay. They are too effective for marketing purposes and too compelling for users for the practice to disappear.

2. TorrentSpy suit terminated in light of tampering - MacNN.Com

   reports say. Representatives from the MPAA sued TorrentSpy in 2006, claiming that the BitTorrent tracker provided illegal access to copyrighted video. Although TorrentSpy countersued, arguing that the MPAA hacked into its computers and e-mail accounts.

3. Shoppers get £1bn Christmas present after EU tells Mastercard to scrap illegal fees - DailyMail.Co.Uk

   Credit card companies have been told to slash the fees they charge shops for authorising sales. The EU ruling should mean a fall in prices of up to £1billion a year in the UK. Tesco alone pays £100million a year to the banks for processing credit and de

4. Firefox 3 beta 2 is out and about - CNET - News.com

   The new version sports a wide range of improvements over the first test version of the browser upgrade, most notably plugs for memory leaks, security fixes, and a download manager that includes improvements previously available only through plug-ins.

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1. Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone’s a Little Brad Pitt - Wired.Com

   Does the photographer look like one of those people who will immediately dash home and post all their candids to Flickr? “If I think it’s going to end up on the Web, I straighten up more, try to smile the right way,” Hirshberg says.

2. Top technolog trends in government for 2008 - InterGovWorld.Com

   The past year has been an exploratory phase for many technologies that have already hit the private sector. For government, 2008 will be about using new tools and technologies to change the way it interacts and collaborates with citizens.

3. Square Watermelon Problem Solving - DumbLittleMan.Com

   Stop the all-night brainstorming: Think of the worst thunderstorm you’ve ever witnessed. How long did it last, an hour or two. Well that is about your brain’s limit on brainstorming as well, take regular breaks. Go for a jog, play a video game.

4. Labels Concede That File-Sharing Isn’t So Bad After All - Techdirt.Com

   Imeem, a social networking site that was in the recording industry’s crosshairs earlier this year for allowing file-sharing on its network. This summer it settled its lawsuit with Warner Music, it’s signed similar deals with all four major labels.

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Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales

Found on TechCrunch.Com via the Podcasts commandN (Episode 114, Dec 6th, 2007) and Net@Nite (Episode 40, Dec 6th, 2007)

Added: December 03, 2007

From: TheRichterScales

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1. Dell to sell computers at Best Buy stores - Coolest-Gadgets.Com

   Dell will be adding a new way to market its computers by teaming up with Best Buy, making available a wide range of its award-winning XPS and Inspiron notebook and desktop computers, including the recently released XPS One.

2. New Miss California Crowned After Mix-Up - ABCNews.Go.Com

   It’s not just the contestants of Miss America that get things wrong - “Miss California USA organizers say they got that wrong, but corrected themselves by crowning Miss Barstow, Raquel Beezley, they said rightfully earned the title.”

3. Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google - SearchEngineLand.Com

   News flash from Las Vegas PubCon. Matt Cutts informed us that Google will very soon begin treating subdomains and subdirectories the same in this fashion: there will be only 2 total urls from a domain in any set of search results.

4. Andrew Thistleton accused of assault by snowball in US - Herald Sun - News.Com.Au

   WAS it good fun with a snowball or a malicious unprovoked attack with an iceball? A US jury is deciding the fate of Australian Andrew Thistleton who is accused of throwing a snowball at former co-worker Michelle Oehlert.

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1. Design students shoehorn 85cc engine into mental mountainbike - TheBikerGene.Com

   A couple of Industrial Design students from Colorado have come up with this little beastie, which combines the feisty Kwaka KX85 engine with the geometry, suspension and light weight of a mountainbike. It’s just under 57 kilos.

2. Peter Nalitch ‘Gitar’ video - Russia’s answer to Borat - SiberianLight.Net

   Filmed by a friend on a handheld camera, Gitar sat relatively un-noticed on Youtube until it spotted by Russia’s bloggers who couldn’t resist the catchy tune, cheesy lyrics and naked cartoon women scrawled across the screen.

3. LiveJournal sold to Russian company for million - SiberianLight.Net

   LiveJournal, the most popular blog platform in Russia has sold to a Russian company for $30 million. Although LiveJournal is a global brand, almost 30% of its users are based in Russia, which made it a natural choice for SUP.

4. Driver’s ed teacher sues ‘Borat’ producers, says they tricked him - Jerusalem Post - JPost.Com

   The lawsuit was brought by lawyers for Michael Psenicska, a Baltimore high school mathematics teacher who has owned a driving school in Perry Hall, Maryland. The suit, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, seeks $100,000.

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1. London’s Popular Electric Vehicle Gets an Upgrade: The G-Wiz i - TreeHugger.Com

   Importantly, the vehicle also features new and improved safety features including increased front and side impact protection (developed in collaboration with Lotus), a strengthened space frame, a collapsible steering column

2. Green buildings make employees see red - NetworkWorld.Com

   Operators of the nation’s greenest data centers say it takes time for employees to get used to working in environmentally friendly ways. Most green buildings don’t look like typical office buildings. They often have stark, modernistic designs.

3. Giant solar plants could power much of Europe - NZ Herald.Co.NZ

   More than a hundred of the generators, each fitted with thousands of huge mirrors, would generate electricity to be transmitted by undersea cable to Europe and then distributed across the continent to EU member nations.

4. Creative Zen to come in new 32GB and 2GB capacities - Crave.CNET.co.uk

   Apparently the SD-loving Zen is now getting its capacity upped to a whopping 32GB! And it’s flash, not a hard disk. Let us say that again: thirty-two gigabytes of flash memory. There’s also a 2GB version available on the UK site for £69.

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Link to Video’s posted in 2007

There’s no really comments here as I think this video says all that is need to be said.

Added: September 25, 2006
From: MakiProductions