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Order Pharmacy Online

http://www.Orderpharmacyonline.ca

It's not everyday that you come across a web-based drugstore that looks after their customer's need for quality and affordable prices.

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American Adults Flunk Basic Science

http://www.sciencedaily.com

A new national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences and conducted by Harris Interactive® reveals that the U.S. public is unable to pass even a basic scientific literacy test.

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Calif. Bill Would Blur Online Mapping Programs

http://www.pcmag.com

A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require all virtual mapping programs to blur out schools, places of worship, government or medical buildings or face hefty fines and possible jail time.

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New law to give police access to online exchanges

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

The Conservative government is preparing sweeping new eavesdropping legislation that will force Internet service providers to let police tap exchanges on their systems - but will likely reignite fear that Big Brother will be monitoring the private conversations of Canadians.

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Canadian judge: No warrant needed to see ISP logs

http://arstechnica.com

A Superior Court in Ontario, Canada has ruled that IP addresses are akin to your home address, and therefore people have no expectation of privacy when it comes to their online activities being accessed by law enforcement. This means that, in Canada, police can potentially request information from your ISP about online activities, and can do so without a warrant.

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Ken Block Gymkhana Practice

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This dude can fuckin' drive.  Unbelieveable skills.

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MIT OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.mit.edu

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

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How-to: Read a FedEx Kinko’s smart card (SLE4442)

http://hackaday.com

Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information. Using our latest project, the Bus Pirate universal serial interface, we can dump the memory from many common smart cards. In today’s How-to, we show you how to interface common smart cards, and walk you through the data stored on a FedEx Kinko’s prepaid value card.

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Electricity from Waste Heat

http://www.technologyreview.com

Factories, data centers, power plants--even your clothes dryer--throw off waste heat that could be a useful source of energy. But most existing heat-harvesting technologies are efficient only at temperatures above 150 °C, and much waste heat just isn't that hot.

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The Truth About Semi-Auto Firearms

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Here's an excellent video explaining the differences between automatic and semi-automatic firearms and how they have been misrepresented in the media.

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How Dean Kamen's Magical Water Machine Could Save the World

http://www.esquire.com

The inventor of the Segway and more now has an idea worth tens of millions of lives. But no one cares. Tracking Lord Dumpling's genius on his seceded island of geekery.

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Ars Technica reviews Fallout 3

http://arstechnica.com

The only thing more pronounced than the hand-wringing over this title was the hope that it would actually live up to its name. We're happy to report that the humor, violence, and open-ended nature of the original games arrived intact. While most $60 games only last eight hours or less, we put 50 hours into the game before writing this review. Come with us to see what we found.

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How To Think About Science

http://www.cbc.ca

If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years.

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Boston Dynamics Big Dog

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Video of the Big Dog from Boston Dynamics.  Pretty cool.

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Somali pirates seize another ship

http://english.aljazeera.net

Somali pirates have struck again in the Gulf of Aden, hijacking another ship a day after seizing a Saudi oil supertanker with a cargo worth $100m.

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Created by ZerodB 1 year 16 weeks ago – Made popular 1 year 16 weeks ago
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Supercomputers Break Petaflop Barrier, Transforming Science

http://blog.wired.com

A new crop of supercomputers is breaking down the petaflop speed barrier, pushing high-performance computing into a new realm that could revolutionize science more profoundly than at any time since Galileo, leading researchers say.

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Generate Stripes NOW!

http://www.stripegenerator.com

Check out this cool AJAX stripe gererator.  Good customization.

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