Saturday, January 13, 2007
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Defying Bush, House OKs drug prices bill
The House approved legislation Friday requiring the government to negotiate with drug companies to lower the prices of medicines for Medicare patients.
Despite a veto threat from the president, Democrats used their majority status to push through another of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's priorities for the first 100 hours of the new Congress.
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Despite a veto threat from the president, Democrats used their majority status to push through another of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's priorities for the first 100 hours of the new Congress.
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Why is Marijuana Illegal?
America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law ORDERING farmers to grow Indian hempseed. You could be jailed for NOT growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767, and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- try that today!)
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
What is the Apple iPhone?
Howstuffworks' take on what the iPhone is and does. Easy read and well explained for beginners to all the hype.
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Moko! The Open Source, cheaper, alternative to iPhone!
For those of us that want something, a little easier on the wallet, with features we'll actually use to full potential; There is the Moko!
It's open source, allowing for great customizability and freedom to do what u want with it. Allowing u to add software and functionality for free.
You'll be one of the only cool guys in ur circle that has one.
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It's open source, allowing for great customizability and freedom to do what u want with it. Allowing u to add software and functionality for free.
You'll be one of the only cool guys in ur circle that has one.
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So neighbors steal your wi-fi net access, kill the connection or have fun
So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or...? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
Two new shows from the makers of Mythbusters
The first series, Prototype This, will look into the viability of gadgets and technology seen in science-fiction movies and the second, Cool Stuff: How It Works, is being planned as a four-part series looking at how modern marvels, from fireproof suits to robotic bomb detonators, actually work.
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'Irreversible' global warming claims its first victims of the New Year
A birdseed factory in Shropshire, a holy lake in China, Baltic Sea fish and new-born hedgehogs have emerged as the first tangible victims of climate change in the year which forecasters predicted this week would be the warmest on record.
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IP -Tracing...find anyone
Trace anyone with their IP address. Even gives you a Google Map satallite picture. Why not have "lunch" with your local spammer???
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PSP owner decides that you have to remove CD from UMD.
What if the Simpsons had been drawn like Anime?!
Guy Returns Original Xbox to Wal-Mart as a Xbox 360 and Gets Away With It..
A staffer at a Michigan Wal-Mart mailed in to let us know about a rather funny 'Xbox 360' which passed through their returns center. A guy returned an original Xbox spray painted in white and put it in an Xbox 360 box bundled with some official accessories but also a random power adapter and regular phone cord. Poor Wal-Mart...
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