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Should Thinner People Fly Cheaper?
via Freakonomics by Daniel Hamermesh on June 09, 2008
A story on Yahoo news mentions that the Philadelphia newspapers are running advertisements for a fake airline, Derrie-Air (get it?). The airline advertises that it is carbon-neutral, and that it charges per passenger pound -- $1.40 from Philadelphia to Chicago, $2.25 from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Screen shot from flyderrie-air.com.While quite mythical, this pricing [...]
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Seven Ohio Residents Charged with Health Care Fraud Offenses
via FBI in the News by (author unknown) on June 09, 2008
Shared by Robin Mathias Transportation fraud is rampant. Combine it with wheelchair fraud, and you can make even more. I don't know any details of this case, but I can see how a little collusion could go a long way. Fraud ring ingredients: one medical provider, one transportation provider, one DME provider, and as many Medicaid recipients you can find. 1) Prescribe the fanciest wheelchair...
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Giz Explains: What You Didn't Know About the iPhone's 3G [Giz Explains]
via Gizmodo by matt buchanan on June 11, 2008
Yeah, yeah, you get it: The new iPhone uses AT&T's best-in class (in NYC at least), 3G high-speed network, one that's getting faster and more spread out all the time. But there's a lot you probably didn't know about the technology involved: How fast can you really go on the thing? Why did AT&T feel the need to cap the iPhone's speed? If you want answers to these and other...
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How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive
via ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse on June 11, 2008
Today I want to share a technique that has increased my productivity levels incredibly.image byestherase“How do you fit so much in?”This is a question that I’m asked a lot.Yesterday I kept track of the work that I did. It included:Researched & Wrote 5 blog posts (2500 words) - Planned a future series - Edited 3 guest postsModerated 150 comments (Lara did the rest)Read 300 emails - replied...
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Why Facebook is now the number one social network in the world, and why this matters
via VentureBeat by Eric Eldon on June 13, 2008
“At first we were worried about MySpace, but then we realized that people use it differently from our site,” an employee at social network Facebook told me over a year ago. What he meant is that Facebook is a place for people to put their real lives online, providing factual information about themselves and having trusted interactions with their friends. Meanwhile, rival MySpace is more of a...
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Daily Dedroidify: The Pineal Gland / Third Eye / Ajna Chakra
via Dedroidify by dedroidify on April 03, 2008
Daily Dedroidify: The Pineal Gland / Third Eye / Ajna ChakraThe pineal gland is a small endocrine gland in the brain. It is located near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, close to the emotional centers.# René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the "Founder of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics and Science," called it the...
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Want IM Conglomeration? I Sure Don’t.
via Mashable! by Paul Glazowski on June 15, 2008
Want to open-source your communications platform, be it email or IM or some other option? Sounds good. Want to make it easier for third parties to develop cool applications that can integrate and expand upon that platform? Sure thing. That’s already happened to large degree. A number of services, including AOL’s AIM property and Skype have offered APIs to outside coders, and some of what’s...
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Causality and Moral Responsibility
via Overcoming Bias by Eliezer Yudkowsky on June 13, 2008
Followup to: Thou Art Physics, Timeless Control, Hand vs. Fingers, Explaining vs. Explaining AwayI know (or could readily rediscover) how to build a binary adder from logic gates. If I can figure out how to make individual logic gates from Legos or ant trails or rolling ping-pong balls, then I can add two 32-bit unsigned integers using Legos or ant trails or ping-pong balls.Someone who had no...
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Homemade Bubbles
via CRAFT Magazine by Natalie Zee Drieu on June 15, 2008
Amy at Mom advice made a batch of homemade bubbles for her kids. Amy mentions that this homemade version is easy to make particularly for smaller children.[Read this article] [Comment on this article]
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LightScribe - Simple Labeler Install in Ubuntu
via Ubuntu Geek by bri0 on June 15, 2008
LightScribe is an innovative technology that uses a special disc drive, special media, and label-making software to burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs.Because the labels are laser-etched—not printed—there’s no ink, no smudging, and no peeling.Your labels can be whatever you want them to be. Create one-of-a-kind designs with your own photos, text, and artwork using your label-making...
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