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MacBook (New) vs. MacBook (Old) vs. MacBook Air
Even though the latest MacBook uses the same size display as the last-gen MacBook Air, the displays are not quite the same. The Air, being a more premium product, uses a display that's more similar to the MacBook Pro than the MacBook.
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Fed handing out money to Foreign Banks
"The Federal Reserve agreed to provide $30 billion each to the central banks of Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore..." And you thought money didn't grow on trees. Please tell me this is all a bad dream.
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5 Curious Coincidences Between the Phillies' WS Wins
When my father and I stood in the right field nosebleed seats at the old Vet Stadium in 1980, watching closer Tug McGraw strike out the Royals' Willie Wilson to capture the Phillies first and, until last night, only World Series title, we had no idea it would be 28 years before the team would taste such victory again.
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Obama Spent $44.5K on In-Game Advertising
For weeks now, Obama has been running in-game ads in games such as Burnout Paradise for the 360 across 10 battleground states. The full campaign started on October 6, runs through November 3, and spans a reported 18 games. According to the Obama campaign's pre-general-election filing with the Federal Election Commission, he spent $44,500 in games.
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23andMe: Time Magazine's Invention of the Year, 2008
"We are at the beginning of a personal-genomics revolution that will transform not only how we take care of ourselves but also what we mean by personal information."
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Lego Execution Fail (pic)

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Obama Not A Socialist, McCain Admits (VIDEO)
In an interview with Larry King that aired last night, John McCain admitted that he doesn't think Barack Obama is a socialist
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Zombie music: Top 10 songs from beyond the grave
In the spirit of Halloween here are 10 Frankensteined/posthumous songs (ie, songs based on a dead artist's recorded tracks, like all the posthumous 2pactracks).
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109-Year-Old Daughter of a Slave Casts Vote for Obama
Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee.
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Nice try, penguin! (PIC)

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Tina Fey Returns to Her Thursday Night Not-So-Live Show
'30 Rock' returns for its third season, most likely with an increased viewership due to Fey's Palin Impressions
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7 Incredible Bugs With Man Faces [Pics]
The insect world never ceases to amaze. These colorful bugs boast familiar patterns like faces or tribal masks on their shields. While potential predators waste prescious time wondering whether it's food, enemy or prey, the masked creatures plot their protection tactics or escape.
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What Went Into Pepsi's New Logo?
How long does it take to remake an icon? Try five months.
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Greenpeace Activists Invade and Occupy UK Power Plant
The crown jewel of Greenpeace's naval arm, the Rainbow Warrior, pulled in to the harbor alongside the Kingsnorth coal-fired power plant today before six activists stormed the facility to prepare to project video of impacts of global warming onto the plant's giant smokestack.
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Pictured: The 6ft giant lego man who washed up on the beach
Mystery today surrounded a giant Lego man which has washed up on a beach after apparently floating all the way from the Netherlands.
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Tell the FCC: Open White Spaces for Everyone
This Halloween, the powerful lobbyists at the National Association of Broadcasters are trying to scare Washington with horror stories about "white spaces" -- vacant TV channels that can be used to bring high-speed Internet connections to rural and low-income Americans across the country.
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7 Mind-Blowing Projects From Microsoft Research
Everyone knows Microsoft never invents anything. Everything is bought in, copied from Apple or built by the PC manufacturer. Right? Not so, according to Rick Rashid, who's been running Microsoft Research for 17 years. He coined the term NUMA - non-uniform memory access for handling cache in multi-processor systems - and popularized the idea of a...
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Eight Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update
One of the great things about the iPhone is the regular software updates. Free and automatic improvements are piped, hot and steaming, to your pocket computer.
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10 Songs That Resemble Other Songs
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Musicians are notorious for taking this old adage to heart, liberally "borrowing" (either intentionally or subconsciously) chords, melodies and/or lyrics from each other. Some say that it's, in fact, the essence of all forms of music, especially modern popular music.
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Apple Radically More Undervalued Than Other Tech Heavyweight
As the U.S. equity markets continue the long process of making a bottom in what is now consider to be one of the worst bear markets in history, tech investors should begin to shift their focus on a comparative valuation analysis of the leaders in the tech industry.
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13 Horror Scenes That Will Really Terrify You
Halloween rules. Not because of the candy or the parties or the fact that it allows full-grown men to act like preschoolers or women to dress like brazen sluts. No, Halloween rules because of the movies. This is the only time of year when Hollywood calls attention to all the bloodiest, grisliest, nastiest things in life and makes them... fun.
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The 8 Most Ridiculous Viral Videos of the 08 Election
Thanks to the internet, now anyone can stand up in support of their candidate, and have their voice heard by millions... no matter how totally insane they are.
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The Windows 7 GUI from a Linux user's perspective
Not many Linux users were impressed. The only significant feature Linux doesn't already include natively in its many free versions is multi-touch. But will these nifty new Windows 7 features be enough to keep Microsoft's user base happy? Or is it finally time for a change?
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Investigation: Hundreds accused wrongly of videogame piracy
Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed.
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Gene Scan of Alzheimer's Families Identifies Four New Genes
The first family-based genome-wide association study in Alzheimer's disease has identified the sites of four novel genes that may significantly influence risk for the most common late-onset form of the devastating neurological disorder. In their report in the November 7 American Journal of Human Genetics, being released online today.
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Firefox Themes: Ten Firefox Themes as Dark as Your Soul
With Halloween coming up, now's a fine time to dress up your copy of Firefox.
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Mario's 5 Weirdest Commercial Cameos [videos]
Stick Nintendo's famous plumber mascot in a videogame commercial, and it'll sell like hotcakes. Other products, not so much. Check out Mario in five commercials that probably didn't do Nintendo (or the other company) any justice.
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Tandem Cyclones Shot From NASA satellite
Great image, 2 cyclones in mid-to-high latitude over Iceland. [Pic can be enlarged to full-screen.]
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Current TV Election Night Party featuring Digg updates
Digg is partnering with Current TV and Twitter on election night to bring you real-time results and Digg headlines, aired live on Current. It's an election viewing party on TV, with the sounds of DJ Diplo as a soundtrack.
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Teenager Jailed For Making Grandmother Do Gangster Rap Video
A US teenager has been jailed after he coaxed his senile grandmother into holding a gun and threatening to shoot "all the pigs" for a home-made "gangster rap" video.
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A Rate of Zero Percent From the Fed? Some Analysts Say It Co
A growing number of analysts now predict that the economy is so weak that the Fed will have to reduce its official target to zero if it wants to jumpstart the stalled economy.
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Lawn PC Concept Uses 'Grass' Solar Cells to Power Itself
This green machine creates all the power it needs from solar cells that have been embedded in the grass like lawn that sits on top of the PC. The green grass is actually made from natural cotton fabric which carries inkjet printed solar cells. Hundreds of these blades generate all the power the system needs at the rate of about 60 watts per hour.
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You Haven't Seen Any Pan Flute Bands Have You?

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10 Geeky Movies That Should've Been Terrible, but Weren't
Ever heard about a movie and thought it sounded terrible, but then when it came out it turned out to be pretty good, or even great? Back in August, fellow GeekDad Ken Denmead listed ten geeky movies that should've been great, but weren't
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Who Exactly Is the NFL's Dirtiest Player?
Last week, an era came to a close in the NFL when Patriots safety Rodney Harrison shredded his left calf muscle making an open-field tackle against the Broncos. The injury ended his season and quite possibly his stellar 15-year career. It also brought to a completion Harrison's long, nasty reign as the NFL's dirtiest player. Now who's next?
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Stephen Colbert Endorses Barack Obama!
Finally, the most prominent conservative in America has chosen his pick for president, and it's liberal Democrat, Barack Obama
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Hubble Re-Opens An Eye
The telescope's main camera is back on after being dormant for a month – two other cameras may soon restart their observations.
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McCain Shocked Obama Campaign Would 'Boycott' Hostile Media
Yesterday in an interview with Fox News's Sean Hannity, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was incredulous that the Obama campaign would "boycott" WFTV: "And of course, if anybody in the media, much less Joe the Plumber asks a tough question, then they're boycotted. McCain should know all about boycotting the media.
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How to Make A Inexpensive Light Tent - DIY
The following tutorial on constructing an Inexpensive Light Tent was Submitted by Jeffrey Bail over at our Forums. I thought it was well worth highlighting here on the main blog too! See Jeffrey's Flickr Account here.
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Is stealth kissed goodbye when the P-G Singularity kicks in?
What a beautiful photo of the made-in-the-U-S-of-A, super-advanced, U.S. Air Force F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jet flying just below Mach 1 (subsonic in the transonic flight regime)! The Prandtl-Glauert (P-G) Singularity, an amazing phenomenon of fluid mechanics, is the mechanism responsible for creating the P-G Cloud. Photographer: Bill Shemley
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