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Free Wi-Fi at 17,000 AT&T Hotspots Official [Free Wi-Fi]
via RSSmeme by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by Jack Free Wi-Fi for everyone. Like water. Put it into my taxes.Shared 19 times TaggedFree Wi-Fi (4)How To (958)iPhone (2525)MacRumors is reporting that AT&T's web site has officially confirmed free access to over 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for iPhone users, including Starbucks and Barnes and Noble. That means that with a little know-how, anyone can get free Wi-Fi access at any...
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 12, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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Houston being overrun by electronics-killing ants (21)
via RSSmeme by Nilay Patel on May 15, 2008
Shared 21 times Taggedants (8)crazy raspberry ants (1)CrazyRaspberryAnts (1)houston (14)infestation (1)Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe'll let you read the hed again -- nope, it's not a joke. Apparently millions of tiny swarming ants called "crazy raspberry ants" are causing quite a ruckus down in Houston after they accidentally arrived on board a cargo ship and started busily invading...
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Is driving better than cycling?
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 14, 2008
Tomorrow, May 15, is Bike To Work Day in the San Francisco Bay Area. A persistent rumor claims that riding a bike is actually less efficient than driving a car if you account for the energy that goes into producing the food/drink that "fuels" a cyclist. The Sierra Club's "Mr. Green" calls bullshit on that. (Photo of BB pal Jess Hemerly from aGreatNotion's Flickr stream.) From the Sierra...
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via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on April 16, 2008
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Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 14, 2008
Sometimes you stumble across something that really makes you say "wow" and reminds you that there's so much more to this internet thing than just the latest web app. Case in point is this article describing some of the visual resources available on the web. The deep web. These images won't show up in search engines' image searches or on Flickr (save one exception), but instead can...
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Pope Says It's OK To Believe In Aliens [Space Catholics]
via io9 by Meredith Woerner on May 14, 2008
The Vatican has know given the all-clear for Catholics to believe in life beyond our planet. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, Jesuit Director of the Vatican Observatory stated in an interview that our universe is too big to rule out "additional forms of life even, intelligent ones."In an interview called "The Extraterrestrial Is My Brother" published in the Vatican newspaper (L'Osservatore...
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Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 14, 2008
Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac that make it super useful and fun. We've covered dozens of Mac tips over the years in these pages, but today we're highlighting 10 lesser-known Mac tricks that come baked into Leopard. From pure eye candy to outright productivity-boosters,...
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Google.org announces investment in BrightSource Energy
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on May 14, 2008
... the research and development of enabling technologies to help the solar thermal industry achieve larger scale and lower costs. We believe that by supporting researchers and entrepreneurs taking different, ambitious approaches and risks to generate clean energy, we can help to accelerate progress and increase the collective economic value of these new clean energy industries.We are also loo...
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Best Online File Sharing Services [Hive Five]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 08, 2008
Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite file-sharing service, and over 200 nominations later, we've rounded up the five most popular services. Hit the jump for a look at the top five, and then cast your vote...
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