Monthly Archives: February 2008

New Clock: Most Accurate Ever, Maybe

There may be a new level of accuracy in telling time. The Tokyo-based research indicates that a new clock built on the idea of measuring mercury atoms would create the most accurate clock in the world. Current technology is over … Continue reading

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FTC Releases List of Top Consumer Fraud Complaints in 2007

The FTC today released the list of top consumer fraud complaints received by the agency in 2007. The list, contained in the publication “Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data January-December 2007,” showed that for the seventh year in a … Continue reading

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Starbucks, AT&T offer free Wi-Fi service

As I have recently started using AT&T’s U-verse service at the house this news could be good for me. AT&T (NYSE: T) and Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is making the wireless Internet service free to all qualified AT&T broadband and … Continue reading

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Cigarette After Valentine Snuggle Deadlier for Some

Found in a press release from Media-Newswire. “We’ve all heard the stories: Someone’s great-uncle has smoked three packs of cigarettes since he was 14, and now, at the age of 88, he’s living a fine, healthy life,” said Arthur Moss, … Continue reading

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Making XMMS your default playlist player in Firefox/Ubuntu

I have just installed Ampache as my remote music playing interface. it was working great for playing m3u playlist streams on all the windows machines in the house. However, when I tried to use Firefox on Ubuntu to play something … Continue reading

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The over 30 lament…..

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!! If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were … Continue reading

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VivaAerobus reveals $9.99 flights, launch date

Getting to Mexico may have just gotten a whole lot cheaper! Yeah, I have been reading the Austin-American Statesman business section a little today. VivaAerobus is a Mexico-based airline. They clam to be planning on offering daily flights to Monterrey … Continue reading

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Austin and Round Rock added as high-risk terrorist attack cities

They want us to be afraid, very afraid. Here is a news article from the Austin-American Statesman: The Homeland Security Department has added Austin and Round Rock to its list of cities at high risk of a terrorist attack, making … Continue reading

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