May 12, 2009

EcoSalon - The Green Gathering Remember the days when your metabolism was like a caffeinated mouse in a wheel? Yeah, me neither. If you aren’t one of those lucky gals who can eat whatever she wants and burn it off thanks to an annoyingly fast metabolism, look to these helpful foods for a metabolic boost. (Read More)

May 13, 2009

ScienceDaily: Mind & Brain News Kids always seem to be ahead of trends, and marketers realize the importance of new products and services taking off with the younger set. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research helps identify which children might be the trendsetters of their generation. (Read More)

May 13, 2009

Submitted by Andrewburnett from Digg: Being a guy, I know our tendencies whenever we need to do a Number #2 - we look for something to read as we let nature take its course. Most of the time, it ends up being the closest newspaper; in the not too distant future (when I can afford one) it could be a Amazon Kindle DX. Hence the reason, why I would never use anoth (Read More)

May 12, 2009

TechCrunch Loopt was the first location-based iPhone app to get a lot of buzz. It’s a social network that lets you keep track of where your friends are with the help of the iPhone’s GPS. Since it launched in the App Store on day 1 in July of last year, several other competitors have come along including Google with its Latitude servic (Read More)

May 12, 2009

TorrentFreak There are many school selection guides on the Internet, but none of them lists universities ranked by the number of recorded copyright infringements. Thanks to the copyright infringement “Trends & Insights” report published by BayTSP today, we can construct such a list.In the United States, MIT is leading the list for the s (Read More)

May 12, 2009

Submitted by Amabaie from Digg: Is there really the threat of a swine flu pandemic, or is it just a cash cow for big pharma? “There is no screening test for the disease! No culture protocols, no titer amounts, no incubation periods set, and what is most important, no specific pathogen has been identified. Without a specific pathogen, there is no epi (Read More)

May 13, 2009

Gas 2.0 Tonight at approximately 10:30 PM PST (1:30 AM EST), electric vehicle services provider Better Place will demonstrate key elements of their battery switching station technology. This is the first public exhibition of a battery switching station—which Better Place lauds as the final piece of a “total electric veh (Read More)

May 13, 2009

Submitted by Andrewburnett from Digg: H.R. 5244, more commonly dubbed as the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights, was passed by the House of Representatives by an overwhelming 357-70 vote on April 30th. The bill, yet to be voted on by the Senate, promises reform in the credit card industry by providing protection for credit cardholders. (Read More)

May 12, 2009

Digg The popular New Zealand musicians/comedians got rave reviews for the first of three sold out Seattle concerts. . (Read More)

May 12, 2009

Submitted by Andrewburnett from Digg: Somalia's worst drought in a decade is pushing growing numbers of children into near-famine conditions and deepening the humanitarian crisis caused by political violence. Roughly 45 percent of the (Somali) population is suffering from moderate malnutrition, and 24 percent of children under five suffer from acute malnutritio (Read More)

May 11, 2009

Submitted by Andrewburnett from Digg: The rock 'n' roll veteran talks about a life in the biz, his new book and the record company he just started. "Somebody has to do it.". (Read More)

May 11, 2009

TechCrunch Google can’t help itself. It just loves to brag about how green it is, even though its data centers use up a tremendous amount of energy. Still, on a per-search basis, it is less polluting than many alternatives.  In a greener-than-thou blog post touting how energy efficient its data centers are compared to the industry no (Read More)

May 12, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Where do you get your news from? While there's a lot of reasons to visit Twitter online, it's essentially a place to learn about what's going on in your world. For the first time last month, the site saw more unique visitors than the websites of both the New York Times and the Wall St. Journal. Tameka Kee noticed the num (Read More)

May 12, 2009

PC World Latest Technology News From their automated phone-support systems to their missed service appointments to their penchant for nickeling and diming us to death, service providers seem have an inexhaustable supply of habits that get our blood pressure up. (Read More)

May 12, 2009

Delicious hotlist Looking at these amazing 360° panoramic photos can draw one into the scene. It's almost like you're really there and taking it all in. (Read More)

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