"Get In On Google's Holiday Giveaway""The holidays are almost here, and Google's got some freebies for you -- if you sign up soon. The Gmail team is giving away sets of Gmail-themed stickers right now. Some are...
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My vote counted today at 7:00 a.m. Remembering the 2000 and 2004 elections, and the primaries of 2008, the question now is whether my vote will be counted tonight once the polls close.It is not that we must doubt...
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By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com It is the oldest trick in the book. Some printing company prints up bumper stickers with one of the vetted candidates and the world goes wild. Obama /...
"The picture postcard was sent in 1929 from Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, and intended for Mr and Mrs Richardson in East Dulwich, London. However it was not delivered until a week ago when it finally dropped through the letter box of Arthur Davies and June Nicolopoulos...
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"A Finnish library-goer moved to avoid 100 years of ten-pennies-a-week fines when he or she quietly returned a book that was on loan for more than a century.
The item was a bound copy of a 1902 volume of Vartija, an active religious monthly periodical at the time.
The library...
"What is the background of the Graffiti Report Card? It’s a project I started a couple of months ago after seeing my neighborhood (The Mission District of San Francisco) receive an amazing amount of ugly,...
created by jackv | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 495 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Steven Levitt (freakonomics) recounts this humorous 'first-day of class' anecdote..."As I stood in front of the room looking over my notes as the last few students filed into class, one of the students approached me and pulled me aside, looking quite serious. Usually this...
"Some of the "milblogs" mentioned in the Wired News item and NPR report are organizing a fund drive to buy voice-operated laptops for Iraq war veterans and other servicemen/women recovering from amputations or injuries to arm or hands. They load these notebooks up with copies...
"A woman who was ticketed for having an obscene anti-Bush bumper sticker filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against a county in the state of Georgia and its officials."
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" 16 minutes ago TUCSON, Ariz. - A University of Arizona professor has invented a sticker that can tell consumers if a fruit or vegetable is ripe. The stickers will be available to growers next year and should make their way to supermarkets within two to three years, said...
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"EXCLUSIVE: Lieberman Ad Uses Fake Lamont Sticker — A TV ad, with a message approved by Sen. Joe Lieberman, uses a phony Ned Lamont bumper sticker to falsely claim that all Lamont has to say is "No More Joe." — The ad ran today on...
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"A sticker on a bicycle that said "this bike is a pipe bomb" caused a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock band, a university spokesman said."via Sucka...