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Why We Love Tina Fey

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:22:57 +0000

Because she is so familiar on-screen, it
?s easy to forget that Tina Fey is first and foremost a writer… She is beauty, brains and dead-pan humor all rolled into one.

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Airplanes of the future could be self-healing

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:22:36 +0000

Airplane, heal thyself. A new technology inspired by the self-healing powers of plants and animals may allow damaged planes to fix themselves on the fly and point out even miniscule holes to mechanics upon landing. If the technique pans out, then aircraft, wind turbines and perhaps even spaceships of the future…

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5 Reasons SciFi Does Better In Movies Than In TV

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:22:21 +0000

Why is science fiction so much hotter at the movies than on television? People have wondered for a while. Recently, the universally panned Jumper and the blah I Am Legend and Cloverfield have hit big. But the well-received Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on the brink of cancellation. We explain this strange phenomenon.

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The Whole Internet on One Page

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:22:09 +0000

It’s a map of the entire Internet. At the moment we’re displaying the owner of each IP address (grey boxes), and which IP addresses are listed on the Spamhaus XBL blacklist (red dots), but we should be able to show other things in the future. Yes, we map all 4,294,967,296 IP addresses onto a huge image and let you zoom into it and pan around.

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Daily Show host pans Chris Matthews’ new book

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:21:56 +0000

“What you are saying is, people can use what politicians do in political campaigns to help their lives. … That strikes me as fundamentally wrong,” Stewart told Chris Matthews, who just wrote a book about politics. “It strikes me as a self-hurt book, if you will. Aren’t campaigns fundamentally contrivances?”

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‘Catch Me If You Can’, Frank Abagnale Talks About Identity Theft

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:21:34 +0000

Between the ages of 19 and 21, Abagnale cashed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in every state and 26 foreign countries. He posed as a Pan Am airline pilot, an attorney, a college professor and a pediatrician. Abagnale is now a legitimate multi-millionaire through his legal fraud detection and avoidance consulting business.

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HOWTO: Pan Roast Coffee

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:21:05 +0000

Let’s say you wake up one morning to find that your coffee machine has taken a dive on your. No need to worry as long as you have a pan and some coffee beans you can make your own hot cup of java over a fire!

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Peter Pan & Great Value Peanut Butter Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:20:37 +0000

I actually have a jar of this. It goes back today.

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Holy Crap! Buick Riviera Concept Pictures

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:20:24 +0000

General Motors this week revealed the Buick Riviera concept at the Shanghai auto show. Designed at the GM Pan Asia Technical Center, the car is yet another stylish Buick designed by GM’s China design team.

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Man devotes life to making guitars out of 10,000 matchsticks in 400 Hours

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:20:03 +0000

Construction was completed in four hundred hours…working five hours per day. Matchsticks for the curved portions of the ukulele were pre-soaked and bent, and the glued-together sections were weighted into shape with the aid of flat-irons, fire bricks and pans of water.

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