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- Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo - U.S. business- msnbc.com
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Microsoft has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion, seeking to join forces against Google in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger in 2001.
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- Drought could close nuclear power plants - Weather- msnbc.com
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  Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
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- Sun: MoD has Bond/Potter/Klingon cloaking device
  Posted by Kaerast from The Register UK
  The quality press is awash with invisible-tank stories this morning, as the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Ananova news wire et al pile into an exclusive scoop by the Sun. It would seem that the Currant Bun scribes have spoken to a squaddie from the Royal Engineers, who claims to have been involved in trials last week featuring a (take your pick) James Bond Die Another Day Aston-Martin / Klingon Bird-of-Prey / Harry Potter's cloak -style tank which can become invisible.
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- Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with BitTorrent
  Posted by Damianmann from Tuscaloosa News
  While a class action lawsuit is definitely one way to get Comcast to behave, another perhaps more productive way to do so is to have politicians step in and regulate. On Tuesday, I discussed the issue of Comcast's anti-BitTorrent "network management" with Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., who is a strong supporter of consumer rights and has led the battle to undo the damage caused by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.
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- Office printers 'are health risk'
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  It turns out that the tiny toner particles emitted by laser printers have a similar effect on lungs as second-hand smoke.
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- Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  Fascinating, life imitates William Gibson novels. Again. That always sends a certain frission up my spine.
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- Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  “After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said Mark Lawson, the school board president here in Liverpool, one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with putting technology directly into students’ hands. “The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process.”
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Jon comments on:
New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

Marshall Kirkpatrick had an insightful, skeptical take on this.

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7:24 pm 5/13/08
Damianmann comments on:
New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

Ya…but it’s GOOGLE !!!???!!!

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12:19 am 5/13/08
Jeff comments on:
New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

This seems fairly limited and lame to me. Facebook is still way ahead.

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10:47 pm 5/12/08
matt2 comments on:
Seattle company aims to 'fix the ticketing industry'

I have a hard time seeing Ticketmaster going away, though.

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11:01 am 5/08/08
carley comments on:
Seattle company aims to 'fix the ticketing industry'

I’m not used to being referred to as "Borgen". Heh.

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10:02 am 5/08/08
Jeff comments on:
Seattle company aims to 'fix the ticketing industry'

Woo hoo BPT! RIP Ticketmaster.

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11:26 pm 5/07/08
Jwgardner comments on:
The plea of a dying breed: Don't kill the bike messengers

I am reminded of the video for Nada Surf’s “Whose Authority”, featuring a bike messenger on the streets of New York City. On some of the sites on which it was previewed, there’s a lot of negativity from user comments being spewed about how out of touch the band must be to have chosen such an “irrelevant” symbol.

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Damian is a former campaign worker for Ralph Nader and current delegate/precinct captain for Barack Obama . He is also a registered Independent voter. He's written columns for "Tabula Rasa" magazine as well as many music magazines around the globe. Whatever you do, don't offer him alcohol.
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