A post on strange maps has an interesting map that replaces US states with countries that have a similar GDP, so for example California is labeled France, Ohio as Australia, New York as Brazil. (Some of the comments, which are numerous, point out that the author is possibly way off on some of these so [...]
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Well the house in this story isn’t really energy free, its just that it gathers all the energy from the sun and earth without solar panels or other electronics. So how does it work? Well I can’t say I fully understand but after watching a video on it on youtube and reading about it, I’ll [...]
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If your not familiar with it, Safari is the browser that Apple has included with it Mac OS operating system for a while now, and will include on the upcoming iPhone. Just as they have done with iTunes, Apple has decided to release Safari out into the world of Windows. I for one was pretty [...]
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Antitrust law has many goals, but mainly to ensure competition by preventing unfair monopolization as well as other uncompetitive practices such as collusion among business and price fixing. Under the federal antitrust laws mergers get scrutinized to see if too much of a particular market is going away, but as part of this analysis is [...]
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If you really like rice and have a spare 100,000 yen ( US$ 830) to spend you are now in luck as Toshiba’s rice cooking R&D unit has brought us a machine that utilizing vacuum pressure cooking, diamonds, silver and all kinds of electronics is able to produce, well rice. ” More than four years [...]
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I enjoyed reading Ed’s last post so much, I had to add my own follow-up being a native Clevelander myself. I don’t want to say too much because I fear jinxing us. Yes, that’s the kind of skittishness we Clevelanders all feel when our sports teams tug at our hearts–and sometimes break them. What I [...]
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When the Cavaliers were up by a seemingly insurmountable 18 points with a few minutes left in game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals against Detroit, I, along with probably countless Clevelanders began thinking of how it would be possible to blow it. Its not that were pessimists, its that years of horrors, the drive, [...]
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For the first time in a long time home sizes in America have stopped growing and some people long relegated to the suburbs are considering moving into smaller, inner suburb or city locations. Why the change? Well for one with family sizes shrinking, an aging population that is living longer and the traffic and commutes [...]
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Last night I was lucky enough to see Lebron James (& the Cavaliers) beat almost single handedly the Detroit Pistons in a double overtime game that was one for the ages. LeBron has faced criticism early in the series for every decision of his that led to the opening losses, but last night, scoring 25 [...]
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