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The Largest Swimming Pool On Earth – bored-bored.com
The gigantic lagoon is located in the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city, on the southern coast of Chile. Over a kilometer long (3,323 feet), covering 20 acres and containing 250,000 cubic meters of water.
10% of the Brain Myth – Neuroscience For [...]
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Happy 50th, LEGO Brick! – Gearlog.Com
Born in Denmark on January 28, 1958, you’ve led a full life. You discovered electricity in the mid-60s, had a kids a year later, and moved to the States in 1973. “There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants”
Mole: 80GB [...]
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Big Delays for Small Laptops: OLPC Recipients Irate – PCWorld.Com
Within two hours after the promotion began on Nov. 12 he snapped one up. Ruggiero says. Two and half months later, Ruggiero still has no XO, and he is furious about having to deal with a litany of problems associated with the purchase.
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Chocolate bugs a fright and delight – JapanTimes.Co.JP
Komatsuya Honten, the Akita-based confectioner that makes them, can’t keep up with demand since a news report about the tasty bugs — made of dark and white chocolate and orange peel
Plane crash after safety conference kills 20 in Poland – TaipeiTimes.Com
A military plane carrying officers [...]
The Story Of Stuff will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of our use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.
The movie is just the beginning of the story. Watch it, learn more and get involved here: StoryofStuff.com
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Select a host for your e-commerce site – ComputerWorld.Com
If you use DreamHost then you may want to read this article – “If you plan to set up an e-commerce site to sell products and services, choosing a service to host your site is one of your most important decisions.”
Panasonic Shows Long-Lived AA [...]
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Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor – NextEnergyNews.Com
Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008, marketing in Europe and America in 2009.
Wal-Mart scoffs at Google’s miniscule [...]
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Hacked MySpace page serves up fake Windows update – InfoWorld.Com
Using a hacked MySpace profile, online criminals are trying to trick victims into downloading a malicious Trojan Horse program by disguising it as a Microsoft update, according to researchers at security vendor McAfee. The attack is certainly not widespre
The World’s Coolest Solar Collecting [...]
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Intel and OLPC Partnership Ends – DevelopmentCrossing.Com
It was only a few months ago (last July in fact), that Intel and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) joined forces. Unfortunately, last week saw the partnership come to end, with Intel withdrawing from the arrangement. Or were they kicked out?
Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown. [...]
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