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Cool New Car Ideas Part Two: Tilt and glide

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I recently mentioned a Yahoo group devited to titling cars in the Gyro Car blog . Here are two examples. The first is Carver . This vehicle-...

Have Banks Screwed the Pouch in the Affordable (Sub-Prime) Housing Market?

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Of course, I am using "screw the pouch" in the technical sense of "really made a rotten mess of." Here's the Washing...

Clickcaster Works: A real sign that broadband and streaming are taking us to the next level

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Lately I've been playing with ClickCaster, a site that offers free pod-casting and video-casting facilities. So far I am very impressed...

Security Issues? Head to scobbs.blogspot.com

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Right now I am trying to keep my security insights separate from my technology rants and raves. So if you are looking for security postings ...

Oh So Wrong: Palettes of money shipped to Iraq

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Yes folks, those are bricks of US cash stacked on palettes headed to Iraq. How did Paul Bremer manage to lose $12 billion in cash in Iraq? ...

The Airport Gate Number Rule

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I've been doing quite a bit of flying lately and ran into a somewhat trivial but sometimes vexing rule that I first formulated many year...

Hogfather DVD Draws Near: How American Discworld fans can see Pratchett's masterpiece

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Sadly, so far no American networks have picked up the movie based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel The Hogfather . But the film will...

New Daylight Saving Time: Differences from US to EU and back

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As you probably know by now, there will be a significant number of days this year in which the normal time differences between the US and th...

Right Up Front: 01-20-09 and a cool online sign service

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I've been getting a lot of compliments lately on my license plate, my fake front license plate, as permitted under Florida law which onl...

Cool New Car Ideas: Compressed air power

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Compressed air car? Yep, this vehicle is designed to tootle around town using a compressed air engine . Which means the emissions are? Cool ...