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Celebrity Kiss Stamps  

For Valentine’s Day, Zazzle has produced valid U.S. postage customized with a kiss from a number of popular celebrities including Loretta Swit (Hot Lips Houlihan), Carrie Underwood, Rachel Bilson, Gene Simmons, Gloria Estefan, Margaret Cho, Wendie Malick, Jason Mraz, Charlotte Ross, Kimora Lee Simmons, Amy Smart, Michael Sorvino, and Persia White.
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Posted at 31 Jan 06 in Interesting News

Microsoft Driver Bug Saps Core Duo Power  

In Tom’s Hardware Guide’s review early last week of a Core Duo-based notebook with Intel’s 945 PM chipset and ATI’s dedicated X1600 GPU, our test engineers reported stumbling across a mysterious power consumption issue. The unit tested showed abnormally high power consumption, which at first, they believed could be attributable to the Core Duo processor itself, with the high-performance graphics system being an alternate candidate.
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Posted at 30 Jan 06 in Computer

Ceramic Piston Head  

High-strength Sealed Power and Speed-Pro pistons from Federal-Mogul features a complex ceramic head coating technology that withstands combustion temperatures of up to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit and delivers three times the surface hardness of hard-anodized coatings.
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Posted at 30 Jan 06 in Technology

New Laptops  

It’s not your parent’s laptop: new models offer a wide range of different configurations for every need and taste. Laptop computer screens that flip around to become tablet PCs could be an increasingly common sight near future. Convertibles, as they are called, are the newest and hottest – but not the only - offering in the increasingly diverse laptop market.
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Posted at 29 Jan 06 in Computer

Boneless Chicken Wings  

Wingstop is adding the first new product to their menu since the restaurant’s inception: 100 percent all-white meat boneless chicken wings. The boneless wings began rolling out nationally November 2005 and will be available in Wingstop’s locations in 26 states by early 2006.
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Posted at 28 Jan 06 in Interesting News

Bring Your Gadgets Back to Action  

As all the other How To articles are very educational and useful, I’ll keep on doing that and add another nice one to the list.
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Posted at 28 Jan 06 in Electronics

New Year’s Eve 11999  

Shards, fragments, and ruins are all that remain from the earliest human civilizations ten thousand years ago. Nothing continues to function as it once did; the Earth has ruthlessly erased all that other humans did not destroy. But ten thousand years from now, in a cave in what is now Nevada, a single functional sign of human technological prowess may continue to tick, whether there are humans there to observe it or not. And no, it isn’t Yucca mountain.
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Posted at 26 Jan 06 in Uncategorized

Ice Painting  

British Columbia artist Gordon Halloran is displaying vast abstract paintings on large ice surfaces in an exhibit named Pitture Sotto Zero (Paintings Below Zero) in Italy at The Cultural Olympiad.
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Posted at 26 Jan 06 in Culture